skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title format "What We Talk About When We Talk About X," which today perhaps would be called a meme started with a famous short story by Raymond Carver, part of his short story collection published in 1981 with the same title (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_We_Talk_About_When_We_Tal...). It's a great story, strongly recommend it.

This format is now very widely used in blogs and other pieces, almost to the point of being overdone. TIL from (https://lithub.com/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-thi...) that Murakami "asked Tess Gallagher, Carver’s widow, for permission to use the title form." for his memoir published in 2009. He's probably an important factor in the resurgence of the format.
A shortage of doctors is quite likely as many jurisdictions place price ceilings on doctor services.

In fact, where I live, it is quite illegal for a doctor to accept any amount of payment from a patient. We as a society believe that people, no matter how rich or poor, should have equal access to healthcare, so a doctor giving priority to a billionaire who can offer a handsome reward to get his common cold looked at over someone suffering something much worse is considered abhorrent. As such, we rely on a mixture of first-come, first-serve and needs-based priority instead of a price-based mechanism.

Never heard of any attempts to place similar restrictions on truckers, though. If you want to try and charge a billion dollars per mile, go nuts!
I'm not saying that the way you deal with untrustworthy people is wrong. I think it is a perfectly fine way to go about it.

My point is that these lying assholes are not doing something "harmless".
Depending on the model, it's a ~400-500hp car. Most are AWD. They're heavy-ish. People drive them hard because it's fun. All things that accelerate tire wear.

Go hoon around in an RS3 and tell me how long your tires last. This is silly.
How 'naked greed' caused best friends to go to war
They mean it was established by the CEO's experience with him as an engineer.

To the company it was never, and as high a recommendation as the CEO would be; most people would agree they did the right thing. Unless you're hired before a hiring manager or whomever is doing the hiring you should follow the process. If you treat it like a joke because you feel entitled by your connections then be willing to accept the outcome.
>Should we make it illegal for a porn star to say, dress up as a famous actor or actress?

And what about unflattering but non-pornographic impersonation?
This seems like it's mostly about retail situations. I just say no in the situations. It's always surprising how taken aback cashiers and such are when you just refuse to provide your phone number or zip code or whatever else they ask for. I'm pretty non-confrontational, but I have no problem just answering no when asked for unnecessary personal information.
I hope so too since my simple definition was downvoted into invisibility.
My company tried using this a few years ago to build a cross platform app (and hopefully share a lot of code with our svelte web interface). We made a lot of progress in 3-4 months of trying, but we ended up running into too many odd bugs and edge cases that were difficult to debug. We eventually switched to Flutter for the mobile codebase.

No doubt this and nativescript have improved since then, but from my early impressions, I wouldn't have recommended nativescript for anything other than the simplest of interface needs.
I've tried to convince the fledgling GUI toolkit world of rust to take a look at XAML. I'm not going to rehash my latest round of comments [0] just yet, but suffice to say that XAML gives application developers and end users such freedom and enables very nice architectural splits that other options do not.
*hare-brained. Nice eggcorn! :)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eggcorn
But you can't send patches to closed source projects by definition. So I see it as the scope of this discussion, not as singling something out.
Close. Performance is also part of your "a", there. And you have to adjust implementation accordingly.

Is why nobody says that old "3d" games like Doom were poorly implemented. Even if they were not fully 3d.
with pytorch (& so many open publications), Meta has had a unimaginably strong contribution to ai for a while
Model available, not open source. These models aren't open source because we don't have access to the data sets,
nor the full code to train them, so we can't recreate the models even if we had the GPU time available to recreate them.
I subscribed to Prime as soon as it became available and it was always fast, but trouble started during the pandemic they would say I would get it in 2 days but it might be 2 weeks. In that case I could ask for a credit but not long after that they started claiming it would take 5 days.

I got numerous long winded emails about the "benefits" of Prime after I canceled and they hardly said anything about shipping as a benefit.

It makes a big difference when compared with alternatives because of this: if I absolutely have to get something right away I can drop what I am doing and drive to the store and get it sooner than AMZN. That's a hassle though. If it takes 5 days then it is not hard to get to the store because I am probably going somewhere close. 2 days is roughly the crossover where shopping online is more convenient to going to the store.

Since AMZN doesn't care if I have a smile on my face I'm going to shop at a store that invests in my community whenever I can.

In principle AMZN has the advantage of having a bigger catalog but in practice that bigger catalog is mostly spam product listings that I don't want to waste my time looking at.

My biggest behavior change since ditching Prime is that I am much less likely to order used books on AMZN but I am more likely to buy e-Books from platforms other than Amazon like Kobo (e.g. they had a Humble Bundle last week where you could get almost all of the Discworld books for $25) or get books through the fast interlibrary loan service at my uni.
If you go by what Zuck says, he calls this out in previous earnings reports and interviews[1]. It mainly boils down to 2 things:

1. Similar to other initiatives (mainly opencompute but also PyTorch, React etc), community improvements help them improve their own infra and helps attract talent.

2. Helping people create better content ultimately improves quality of content on their platforms (Both FoA & RL)

Sources:

[1]Interview with verge: https://www.theverge.com/23889057/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai-el...
. Search for "regulatory capture right now with AI"

> Zuck: ... And we believe that it’s generally positive to open-source a lot of our infrastructure for a few reasons. One is that we don’t have a cloud business, right? So it’s not like we’re selling access to the infrastructure, so giving it away is fine. And then, when we do give it away, we generally benefit from innovation from the ecosystem, and when other people adopt the stuff, it increases volume and drives down prices.

> Interviewer: Like PyTorch, for example?

> Zuck: When I was talking about driving down prices, I was thinking about stuff like Open Compute, where we open-sourced our server designs, and now the factories that are making those kinds of servers can generate way more of them because other companies like Amazon and others are ordering the same designs, that drives down the price for everyone, which is good.
>Will we have new versions become public domain every couple years, corresponding to every individually released Movie or TV Cartoon/Short?

Yes, copyright protects artistic works, not individual characters. That means you can use the aspects of characters that appear in works that have entered the public domain, but not the parts that are still protected.

There was a period when anyone could make a Sherlock Holmes story, but you couldn't have Watson get married because that later book was still under copyright. The Wizard of Oz books have been in the public domain for a while, but Dorothy has to stick to the original diamond shoes because the ruby slippers originated in the MGM movie. The same thing will continue to happen with Mickey Mouse and every other character that appeared in multiple works.
Python's type hints are great as machine-checkable statements about constraints on the behavior of your code. It's not strictly true that they're unavailable at runtime.

> Don't count on them at runtime here either

If you're adventurous enough, you can reflect on the type hints and check things yourself at runtime, but you have to understand that the type hints aren't meant for this and they could well blow up in your face. Still, I've had some success constructing dataclass instances from JSON objects based on what fields() tells me about the attribute types. Whether you want to do this yourself in production depends on your tolerance for hilarious edge cases and interpreters that get to do things differently because nobody promised you anything.
Agreed—I hope Meta studied Deepseek's approach. The idea of a Deepseek Coder at 70B would be exciting.
If the maintenance of life boats is so dangerous and even costs more lives than it is expected to save, then in my eyes it would be the right reaction to invest into safety procedures for life boat maintenance, not getting rid of life boats.
It's hard to call it mismanaged when they did the playbook that is expected by prevailing finance and economic views since the mid 70s: paring down to one thing and increasing what you give to shareholders over time. Or perhaps that is the structural problem.
Signs of 'transmissible' Alzheimer's seen in people who received growth hormone
> which means that the setting is not necessarily in the same world as us

That's not quite true, interestingly! Yes, there are alternate timelines available through the portal stones, but they are explicitly described as only sort of secondary reverberations, inherently not quite fully real, but just pale echoes of the true timeline that most of the books take place in. So it's pretty unlikely that, according to the metaphysical rules of the wheel of time, we are not living in the main timeline. In fact, it's later explained that Tel'aran'rhiod (spelled it first try!) Is the sort of semi-real limbo it is because it's a similar phenomenon to the portal stone worlds, just cross-secting all alternate realities instead of parallel to them. Maybe you're talking about the world's through the Twisted door frames, where the snakes and foxes live, but it's unclear exactly what relation they have to our world, and I'm inclined to suspect that we aren't intended to think that our world might be one of those, since those worlds seem to operate by very different laws even regarding basic spacetime.
I know Anki uses a modified version of SM2 so I can't say for certain, but if I recall correctly they are still using a linear algorithm. Most forgetting curves are, well, curved. More logarithmic.

Once you go too far away from the 'due date', the algorithms decent quickly to "0% chance of recall", where in actual memory it's more similar to a half-life.

It's been a couple years though since I've worked with that algorithm
People who want to host the models presumably, AWS bedrock will def include it.
Just turn it off
Would be a really bad idea to train on internal code I would think. Besides, there is no shortage of open source code (even open source created by Meta) out there.
>it seemed that Chinese robot vacuums were light years ahead.

They are. Xiaomi owned Roborock is years ahead of the big western competition (iRobot and Neato) in terms of cleaning chops and value for money.

Privacy though, is another matter that never gets benchmarked, but there's also no guarantee yet that the lesser western brands will pinky promise to keep your data private and not sell it to advertisers for money or leave it in some insecure S3 bucket for hackers to steal because they outsourced the SW dev work to the cheapest body shop, which is the norm in SW development for consumer electronics.

At least on most Roborock models you can root them and run them locally via Valetudo insted of their proprietary cloud, so you get the best of all worlds: cleaning, value, privacy.
Because I am speaking from my experience and I have prime.
> I think your last statement really tells it all. "makes it dangerous to be Jewish" tells us that the problem really is antisemitism. Israels' critics are the ones "conflating" things

The cynical conflation of Judaism/Jewish ethnicity with Israeli Zionism is absolutely driven by the Zionist regime and their hasbara appendages like ADL. Do you know what the "ADL definition of antisemitism" is and why that is significant? It explicitly equates "criticism of Israel/Zionism" with antisemitism. They have literally legalized this conflation in many respects.

It is totally disingenuous to imply that antisemites are the ones driving this confusion. They certainly benefit from it, but so does the Zionist regime, both at the expense of Jewish people of all backgrounds.
Some of us are old enough to remember when you couldn’t use 2000 as a fake birth year due to minimum age restrictions.
Really? Try glancing the sorts of wages and earnings that literally 99% of the world's population makes on downwards and you'll quickly see that it's far, far from "paltry" for the vast majority of people.
> They spread tons and tons of myths and outright lies that permeated WW2 discussions for like 70 years now. Slowly we are starting to see that disappear but for the most part, allied narratives have taken a back seat in comparison. Especially on anything related to equipment, performance, troop competence etc.

Do you have examples? Does that include whole memeplex about the Nazis being somehow far better at advanced technology than the Allies?
There is a bait and switch going on, and sam altman or mark zuckerberg are the first to tell you.

“No one can compete with us, but it’s cute to try! Make applications though” —almost direct quote from Sam Altman.

I have 64gb and an RTX 3090 and a macbook M3, and I already can’t run a lot of the newest models even in their quantized form.

The business model requires this to be a subscription service. At least as of today…
Or like at a railway crossing. The flashing lights indicate danger, and the barriers drop. According to GP, the lights should flash when the barrier is not dropped, because now it's unsafe, FFS.
Chernobyl seems like an odd target for such overwrought criticism. It's not like it was dramatizing a nuclear reactor accident that didn't happen. By general consensus, it was pretty true to life as far as the main points were concerned.
The original dragons were fought to release the rain. The hero who fought the dragon was always named "Third" in the local language; he came after King and Priest, who got actual names. In later versions, the dragon had rustled cattle and the hero retrieved them. Those became princesses only very, very recently.
They probably aren't actively monitoring it. However, if they bust a provider of illegal streams, they can just take their access logs and/or payment information to identify watchers.
Europe, where the largest business is a luxury handbag company, has now essentially declared acquisitions illegal, and is eagerly regulating American tech companies after completely failing in developing their own tech sector.
I completely understand and agree with your point. Just wanted to be clear. Not disagreeing at all.
Databases Are Falling Apart: Database Disassembly and Its Implications
It's not surprising that so many people are pirating sports streams. My understanding is that many sports require paying multiple different parties just to watch all of a team's games. Maybe the service providers are too greedy.

The mention of UFOs is amusing. I'll admit that every time I hear about some UFO related story part of me really wishes it was real, just because it would be exciting to interact with aliens in our lifetime. Sadly it seems like UFO claims are usually hoaxes of some kind. Can you imagine actually having a UFO encounter and later having nobody else believe you? That would be quite devastating, I would imagine.
it's weird to me that you're taking for Apple here. the issue is more that big corps are able to impose their will into countries than the reverse
Nicely said. It seems like you're familiar with Krashen's Comprehensible Input Hypothesis? My daughter speaks German and Swedish very proficiently just from watching hours and hours over a few years of ZDF/ARD/usw (German tv networks) and Barnakalan (Swedish kids network) on the iPad. I can't say it was a wise to let her be on the iPad for that many hours a day, but it did work, she did acquire the languages.
It's not surprising that they don't want to make it confusing and useless for their viewers as anyone sees all the time, but it's possible to describe it in a way that most people can understand, like the person I replied to.
In BigTech companies that don't want you to go to competitors HR will grill you to disclose where exactly you are leaving, at least that's what I heard from others.
Yeah, the iPhone was the first phone where it felt like it was actually possible to browse the web on it. The Symbians I had previously didn't feel like usable browsers.
Nectar is especially bad here. I signed up because Sainsbury’s have ‘special’ prices for nectar card users on many items (presumably they increase the price and then reduce it back down for cardholders). But there was no way to opt out of marketing and tracking.

By contrast when I signed up for Tesco clubcard, even pre gdpr, I was easily able to opt out of tracking. I don’t get targeted vouchers, or any discount coupons, but I still get points and clubcard prices.
No, I think that's exactly the point.

I've heard this many of times: "I want to use X but it is subscription-only! .. What about Y, it does the same? ... Y is not polished enough for me, it is missing (some totally optional feature)"

I am sure there are some cases where subscription is the only options, but I bet those are super rare. A lot of times when people complain about subscriptions, they are themselves subscribing to totally optional things like games and weather app and text editors.
If this was like Wyoming I could understand it but I think it's got nothing to do with cost or distance but instead has to do with how much competition there is in your town. I think places that are close to a Cheesecake Factory get good shipping because that's a tracer for having better retail options.
a fitness app with a $99/month subscription fee.
I imagine their goal is to simultaneously show that Meta is still SotA when it comes to AI and at the same time feed a community of people who will work for free to essentially undermine OpenAI's competitive advantage and make life worse for Google since at the very least LLMs tend to be a better search engine for most topics.

There's far more risk if Meta were to try to directly compete with OpenAI and Microsoft on this. They'd have to manage the infra, work to acquire customers, etc, etc on top of building these massive models. If it's not a space they really want to be in, it's a space they can easily disrupt.

Meta's late game realization was that Google owned the web via search and Apple took over a lot of the mobile space with their walled garden. I suspect Meta's view now is that it's much easier to just prevent something like this from happening with AI early on.
See also El Faro.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/el-faro-freighter-ship-hurrican...
And polish. With X you can sometimes feel the “layers” separating and slip-sliding around a bit in places that you don’t with a Wayland DE or in macOS. This was especially true in the late 00s when there was less computing power available to brute-force these issues into being less apparent.
No spare tire in the trunk, like nearly all newish cars.
FreeTDS: Libraries for Unix and Linux for Talking to Microsoft SQL
That depends, in order to answer that we need to know the Demographics and immutable characteristics of the author(s)
As counterpoint, consider Kirill Yeskov's account of the events post-war:
https://archive.org/details/TheLastRingbearerSecondEdition
Business town -- What value-creating winners do all day
In a surprise twist, when they explore it in detail, it turns out to be MH 370.
r/fuckcars has members who deflate and slash car tires that belong to vehicles they deem "too big". Do you support that methodology?
You can do better with a Corsi–Rosenthal Box:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsi%E2%80%93Rosenthal_Box
You're also going to get figurative translations instead of literal ones.
How feasible would it be too fine tune using internal code and have an enterprise copilot.
>I think this conflates conspiracy and conspiracy theory: there was a concerted post-reconstruction effort to distort the facts of the civil war. You could even call that a conspiracy. But it lacks the “hidden” narrative of a conspiracy theory: both the Lost Cause and actual civil war history were taught in the open.

This just exposes your perspective bias. Black families would tell you that it was an obvious lie that was hidden from white America, which was increasingly made up of people with no familial memory of the antebellum period (and even fewer with direct contact to either slavery or the Civil War). To characterize (perhaps liberally): you had white people of influence and a longer-lived ancestral presence in the country, colluding to distort facts about an event that the families of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th generation immigrants were not here to witness. It was not just a Big Lie, it was a Grand Lie, spanning decades and becoming so normalized that its influence on political sentiment remains even after the lie itself has been largely (though not completely) dispelled. You also see echoes, bolstered by the preceding lie, in the "race riots" (more correctly termed "massacres") of the early 1920s.

>1950s America is none of these things: it’s a collective fantasy based on distorted and politicized memories. It’s also not taught as a normative history (although that may unfortunately change).

I don't think this is correct. It was a view of America that was propagandized at the time. It was inconceivable (particularly to industrialists who were relying on a "return to normalcy" to shore up national morale after the nightmare of total war) that America could emerge from WWII, get the Good End, and yet still have all of these problems. So, as instructed by our elites, we pretended they didn't exist, slowly building the powderkeg that exploded in the 60s and 70s. It's a testament to its strength as a Big Lie that it still lives past its nominal reconciliation.

I'll add climate change denial (energy companies) and public health concerns about smoking (cigarette companies) to the list.

>But the closest thing we’ve had in living memory to a Big Lie is the lie of a stolen 2020 election.

Iraq, as it turns out, does not have WMDs, though I imagine that the proportion of American flag kitsch-to-population remains higher than pre-2003.

I'm a little concerned that you're so adamant that we've not experienced this seemingly common phenomenon. Perhaps we need to discuss "American Exceptionalism"?
Often it is illegal streams in pubs etc that are "monitored" (I.e. someone from a rights holder goes in and checks the watermarks on the screen). So not someone in their house, but a pub or bar streaming something that people want to watch without paying the normal fees.
Wow thank you! Ive been partial to lump but eager to try out a snake method with briquettes.
I think I will skip that now.
Yeah, iRobot seems to have entered mega-corp death spiral, terrible year on year "improvements". Looking at their $1400 option it appears about on par with $900 Roborock.

My Roborock S7 is light years ahead of my girlfriends iRobot, which just drives around running into everything, gets stuck pretty much every time it runs.

Meanwhile the Roborock maps my whole home and plans a route. I trust it enough to have it set to run every week automatically without intervention. The only work I do is to empty it and add water to the mop tank.