skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a post on HN about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38968619

Essentially, they aren't lying. In fact, they're responding rationally because:

1. Anyone can construct a logical sequence of arguments (see: Everyone thinks they are logical)

2. Blindly accepting logical sequence of arguments will get you a lot of incorrect results

3. Therefore, being initially skeptical of even logical-seeming things that contradict what you "know" is rational.

"Words? Anyone can say anything with those - why should I believe those?"
Yes, I've read the little notes and tidbits. But trivia is not a story. If your defining, plot-pushing characters are cardboard, no amount of trivia will make up for this, for me.
If he believes what he's saying, sounds like something congress should investigate. Maybe he should testify under oath.
For "security" reasons banking apps generally disagree running on anything rooted. Is there a way to circumvent that?
What customer service? this is Comcast we are talking about. Consistantly ranked in the top ten worst companies in custom service nation wide. And maintaince already showed up only if the felt like when they felt and blamed your equipment when they do.
Today's Disney.

If you looked at the video from the studio showing off tech decades ago, you could hear, see and feel the passion.
i built one a bit ago using an event (onselect or onchange?) handler on a regular dropdown that, when you click on an item, the handler removes that element from the dropdown options, and adds it to another ul/li list under the dropdown, with a little X to reverse the process

select2 does something similar but yea it's weird this isn't a built-in

maybe a dropdown with checklists?
A hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges
I was excited because I generally like Withings, use many of their other products and hadn't even thought to check if they made watches.

I'm ready to ditch Fitbit as Google seems to be doing everything they can to kill it. They bricked a bunch of devices and told everyone to just buy a new one.

But it's frustrating that so many companies insist on the huge traditional size watch faces. I don't need or want the time or apps on my wrist, just the health features. All the competitors to Fitbit, especially Garmin, seem to be having their own competition of who can make the ugliest device that they can convince people to buy.
I don’t think anybody is upset by what you wrote, it just sounds like a nutty theory with no evidence, which doesn’t contribute to an informative discussion.
No Apple Watch? Cmon. That’s gotta be the most common one out there.
Low performers are low performers no matter where they work.
fish stinks from the top, doesn't it?
I’ve learned “slow is smooth and smooth is fast” from shooting sports, but I find it applies equally well to most (all?) areas of life.

When I started driving, I used to speed to the next stop light, change lanes frequently. I stopped doing this when I got older, partially because I see people that zip around at the same stop lights anyway.
Nutjobs are literally everywhere
I think Google is gradually steering the Android ecosystem in the direction of Apple, especially with their flagship phones which are increasingly locked down every software update.

I do appreciate the ability to control the software on my devices but I'm worried that soon you won't be able to do banking without an official fully locked down device.
So, what do you do between words?

Note: the ink doesn’t ”spill out”, if you cut the quill correctly, and it certainly doesn’t spill out of a metal nib.
I think the reason why it seems improbable is that we conceptualize interstellar travel with a mental model of travel and exploration based on our human history of exploration and travel on Earth. So we think-- if there were a civilization a thousand light years away of course they would come visit and study us.

What if the time it takes to travel between stars is longer than most civilizations exist? What if we aren't that interesting to alien species or aren't worth the time and energy to discover? We've never sent a functioning probe to any other star and probably won't in my lifetime. And life may not be at the nearest star, it may be thousands of light years away. We may never have the resources available to do it.
> I don’t understand why everyone doesn’t just live in the hills since it’s better for the environment.

Because billions of people can’t just live in the hills.
BBC Horizon, thinks the microchip is going to be a big deal

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_the_Chips_Are_Down
https://www.hover.com/domains/results?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=icann... alleges it is $219,999.99 and renews at $2599.99/yr due to "This is a tiered price domain."

Also, yeah, they almost had me with those .99 figures :-/
This is what is commonly known in the cybersecurity industry as a "whoopsie"
To apple, there are 2 customers. Device owners and developers. If device owners choose to buy ios, developers are forced to build for ios. There is no "just don't buy from apple" from the developers pov. A quick google says there are about 1.4 billion iphones. It is unrealistic to expect developers to just "not choose apple" on such a large market. Thus the digital markets act.

Walmart doesn't own the distribution channel of a platform with a double digit percentage of the world population on it.
I was about to say that (likelihood does not increase just because it hasn't happened), but then I realized that stresses along the faults DO increase, so maybe it does get more likely. I'm not a geologist.
I can't stop watching...
You are misreading the Phosh page. It says it uses a custom wlroots compositor on that page. You can see the source yourself: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phoc

Yes it uses the GTK toolkit but that has nothing to do withe GNOME-Shell or its performance problems.

I corrected the Wikipedia article.
You can hack your Switch: https://switch.homebrew.guide/index.html

That same website has a guide to setting up a development environment for homebrew Switch software, as well:

https://switch.homebrew.guide/homebrew_dev/introduction.html

https://switch.homebrew.guide/homebrew_dev/app_dev.html
that's part of what i am disputing. the frontend logic is moved to the frontend framework, and the backend is dramatically simplified. the overall complexity is not much greater than having everything in the backend framework. so i am only adding another project in terms of dealing with two frameworks instead of one, but at least on the backend i am only using 50% of that framework now.

what's more, this simplifies the backend so much that in most cases it is reduced to CRUD in such a way that i can reuse it more easily. since using frontend frameworks i haven't in face needed to do any backend coding anymore because i could just reuse the backend i already had unchanged. so in my case, i only ever had to deal with one project, except for the first time where i wrote the REST API into the backend. every other website after that was a frontend project only.

for dozens of projects i can now maintain a single backend implementation (with multiple instances as needed, that all share 100% of the code). that alone makes using a frontend framework worth it even just for a few simple client-side effects.
What we need is to minimize or eliminate the adversarial relationships between nations globally. The only winners of the present status quo are the elites in every nation.
Conspiracy theories are a political tool that Democrats and Republicans use on an uniformed audience. It's not just a right-wing phenomenon.
One process programming notes (2018)
You’re not wrong, but I’m not talking about the highest end of the spectrum. I’m saying that as a whole I believe the employees will benefit. There are many that are underpaid right now because of wages scaled to the employees location. California and New York workers will lose out, I think the rest of us will see an increase when this normalization occurs.
Perhaps headsets that manipulate the vestibular system via ultrasonic are in our future.

(a entirely uneducated conjecture)
Apple's EU App Store changes are extortion, says Spotify
No they're on the surface they're just invisible. Also they drive invisible cars. Oh and they are made out of a different kind of matter that just passes through normal matter.

If you don't believe me it means I'm right!
That's a pretty fun theory, you should write scifi
The subtle parts are harder than the flashy parts
iPhone apps won't be cheaper in the EU now that you can sideload them
I didn't pretend to be believed.

It's not that cryptography is "weak" or "broken", but people should be aware that (except from God Himself), there is also a purely human instance you cannot hide from...

Remember the "We have it all", pronounced by "45"? Maybe he simply told a FACT?
> What electrical goods did you buy new

If buying new is a requirement, then it is my digital multimeter which I have bought maybe 20 years ago for $15. It has survived roughly 5-10 batteries mostly because it has no auto-off option and turning on is as simple as to press one button. Everything plastic is already broken - standing support, latches and standard probes. I am planning to replace it as soon as I start anything serious because the display flickers sometimes, probably due to careless usage.
Unrelated, can we stop using the term "gaslight" so much? It hit out collective lexicon so hard and has been rubbed of any meaning. Just use lie, mislead, or any other more accurate but less trendy words.
Or will those services/businesses pop up in new areas due to the shifting population?
I guess something doesn’t make sense there though. The fact that these artists are there, still making new music, suggests to me that they are making it work one way or another. Maybe they just on average have other jobs. I feel that’s not obviously worse than them trying to make ends meet playing at bars.
I love hearing other people talk about me like I have magic super powers, or fuck men to get political capital. I swear to god.
Fortunately, since you are dead you don't care how long the trip took.
Microsoft

Selling a gaming OS as a tool for companies.
And "free markets" are the results of showing up with a Navy to help negotiate a trade deal.
are the code for chapter 4 through 8 missing?
mDNS was announced after the Windows 2000 RTM date, so it would be unfair to blame Microsoft with regards to mDNS functionality.

Not that Microsoft should have made that recommendation, but hindsight and all that.
Why? Up until now I was entitled to choose a strong platform that forced the developers to play nicely. Now I lost that so indeed as you're saying, not using the app is my only choice.

But that's bad, I want the strong platform back. I left Android just few years ago precisely because I liked the guarantees of the iOS platform - now it's going to be just another shitty privacy nightmare like the hellscape of Android I left.

I don't understand why people can't just buy an Android if that's what they like.
When out backpacking its nice to have a GPS that is attached to your arm and always works, as opposed to fighting for signal with your phone.
Mastodon Prometheus Exporter
Hello ! I've worked on a small prometheus exporter for my Mastodon instance (https://h4.io) and I've decided to share it on Github.
Crosswalk is American English. In the UK they are always pedestrian crossings.
Spending money to try and stop homes from being built in the midst of a severe housing shortage is, to put it bluntly, gross.

The infrastructure is just an excuse. The roads they're talking about are some of the least busy in town.

Also you're never going to "just one more lane, bro" your way out of traffic. You need:

* To put more things people need day to day closer to where they live, so they can walk, bike, or still drive, just not so far. Zoning prevents this in much of the US.

* To build alternatives for the people who are able to use them, like bike infrastructure, transit and so on.

But you have to start somewhere, and you can't wait until everything is 'just right' before you build homes. The real world doesn't line up like that, it works in fits and starts and you do what you can where you can.
I'm on team "it should be up to the employee to decide".

I like the flexibility that remote work gives me, but at the same time I also enjoy going to the office because it forces me to get out of the house, and interact with people at the office.

Admittedly, if I were full remote, I'd probably rent a desk at a co-working space, so I could get that office-like feeling.
Folks also complain about modern movies being bad while only being aware of like 1% of fairly major ones that came out in the most recent year. There are so many likely-to-be-good movies every year that I can’t keep up, personally. Or they have very narrow tastes, and it’s like… ok yes since you dismiss 95% of all film for one reason or another (“I don’t like subtitles”, “I don’t like horror”, “this is too artsy”, et c), that only left a couple good movies for you this year.
China is not good at engineering. China is good at manufacturing. Those are two very different things.
Excellent point, and I agree entirely.

My experience is generally in environments where project managers are expected to also manage the people working on the project, at least to some extent, and so I didn't think to make this important distinction.
Big tech is thriving despite the layoffs
In all honesty, in person workshops are also not very good...
The weird thing about UFO lore is the idea that a super-advanced civ would be roaming between the stars in large spinning hubcaps. Or weird glowing orbs.

I'm willing to believe it's a big galaxy and we have NFI what's going on out there.

But UFO mythology seems very human-scale and not so alien at all.
> the UFO phenomenon is real

What do you mean by this? Recordings of shit in the sky doesn't mean aliens. In that sense, it's obvious that the phenomenon is real.
Useful tradeoffs are multi-dimensional
>and not long from now

That's not quite how I'd describe the terms of patents
> 2. You are not there to be taught. You are there to learn on your own, near people who will tell you an effective way to get through the syllabus (ie grabbing a text book on your own require huge amounts of effort and is probably impossible in say chemistry or most sciences. This is the other part of the fees - paying for buildings, explosive glowing stuff etc etc

This just sounds like lazy professors trying to shirk the aspects of their jobs that they hate so they can do the parts they like. I don't buy this argument because, in fact, most people who pay lots of money to go to several lectures a week expect instruction. To say that you have to teach yourself is to say there's no point in paying the professor other than the generate research.

> 3. Other students - 50% of the experience of university is meeting people not from your walk of life, getting to work with them, have sex with them etc. see point 1. It’s not about educating one person - it’s about building a new generation

Yes, I think a large factor of why people go to college is because they've been marketed a lifestyle to them by these gigantic franchised institutions. Universities have wormed their way into the American psyche as a necessary stage of (very very late, post-adolescent) development and so students are willing to shell out tens of thousands on what has effectively become an all expenses paid sex resort with occasional and minimally competent instruction. I think anyone who goes to college mostly because they bought into this is a sucker
> For instance, ancient Jews (not westerners) pioneered the idea of a "a truly all-inclusive" god

I don't know about. I've read that in ancient Judaism, Yahweh began as one god among many and he was theirs ("I'm your God / have no gods before me"). He evolved into the monotheistic entity of today, but even today my perception is that Judaism doesn't focus on proselytization and considers him theirs more or less. I'd chalk the more universal, inclusive God up to early Christians, though I suppose you could call them Jews, and they weren't "western" anyway.

Edit: and "universal" and "inclusive" could also mean at the point of a sword for most of the Church's history.
From what I'm reading, collisions are far more common on regulars roads/streets, but injuries and fatalities are much more common on freeways. This is relating to motorists/passengers. Pedestrians and bicyclists are obviously at significant risk whenever they are around cars, and they are almost never around cars on freeways.

One exception is motorcycles, which are apparently at less risk on highways than other streets.
These folks are not 'the little guy' - they are the lawyers and wealthy and people who have profited from big business, living in million dollar homes, trying to stop renters (actual "little guys") from moving into their neighborhood.
Cool. so happy for the shareholders while I struggle to find a job
You would have deliberately slowed down testing to ensure your numbers look good? Really?
Per my other comment, we could define LAN to be the abbreviation for interNAL, because INT was already taken.
Which Yi 34B finetunes are you using that have a 75,000 token length?
I have a conjecture, that we understand language primarily through proprioception. So when we see and hear someone talking, we mirror and model their muscle movements, and we understand it fundamentally, in terms of our own body moving. I suspect proprioception plays a role in abstract thinking, too. Conceptual metaphors are movement based, as if our hands were manipulating thoughts. We pick ideas apart, reassemble them, sort through them, toss them out.
You're being downvoted because you're making bold claims without the proportionally bold and rigorous evidence.

Downvotes are a bit crude, but people can't be expected to make detailed responses to statements that aren't rigorous.
Then Apple can fuck off
I see this book is the final book in a trilogy.

Would you recommend someone to read this book, or do the whole 3?
That's pretty gnarly. So the discs are basically doing little inchworming steps back and forth but never has to break contact by modulating the friction? Very much a bit of cleverness turned magic.

The one thing that I notice is item 726/Fig 7./PDF pg 10, it has "with the soles and attached/embedded ultrasonic transducers". Is that maybe a different or older envisioning of this system? His shoes seemed totally normal.

Just trying to wrap my head around how much the friction can be changed by vibration, like a solid-ish state fluidized bed. Don't know it both contact surfaces need to be vibrating.
The article explained that there are two roughly equal drivers: (1) Water is a better heat reserve than land, and winds tend to blow eastwards, so Europe gets air warmed by the sea and the US east coat gets colder air that's come from the land. (2) The joint effect of the altitude of the Rockies and the angular rotation of the earth mean that air currents are southeast over the Rockies and then northeast, so arctic air gets pulled down and then pushed back up over the US east coast.
> Can you provide a source for this? It would directly conflict with updates costing money.

Sure:

https://developer.apple.com/support/dma-and-apps-in-the-eu/#...

And from the FAQ:

"What is Apple doing to prevent ‘install bombing’ — efforts from bad actors to increase install numbers to increase the Core Technology Fees developers owe to Apple?

Already, Apple takes a number of steps to prevent fraud and scams and protect developers’ intellectual property. Apple is implementing additional measures to monitor, detect, and prevent install abuse, including:

An install verification mechanism to ensure all installs come from real Apple devices

Limits on the number of first annual installs that can come from a single device
Investigating, and potentially terminating, user or developer accounts that engage in suspicious behavior"
> In general, people want to be _less_ physically absorbed by technology, not more.

I’ve found this to not be true. If you were to give people the ability to get mantis blades, they would probably get mantis blades
Excalidraw, for example, does an amazing job keeping your information locally without needing to log in. However, saving data to their cloud requires log in. There is another option: generate a shareable link, which does not require a log in. I wonder how they defend against DDoS attacks or spam when it's so easy for a non-authenticated user to generate a shareable link (which involves securing a couple megabytes of data and creating an endpoint). How do you prevent bad actors from consuming the resources of a central server without a log in? Honestly curious, not trying to start a flame war :)
They technically form the same shape, but orientation matters. Triangles pointing up are major, those pointing down are minor. Minor and major chords from the same base note, C
in this case, will have both major and minor tonalities clashing.
Certainly my cursive is harder to read.

Growing up in US public schools cursive was mandatory in ~5th grade in my district. Then shortly after (6th grade? 7th?) it became optional and the vast majority of my peers quit writing it

I persisted because I actually preferred it, only to be actively encouraged by teachers collecting longer written assignments to write _normally_ on account of my cursive being harder to read

It didn't end up mattering - computers and printed assignments were rapidly becoming the norm. I always thought teaching cursive was a strange choice

It may be worth noting that the legibility of my penmanship is generally poor. I wonder if perhaps emphasizing legibility has similar positive effects on developing brains...
I work with a lot of DoD analysts. The vast majority are ex-military, having spent time at the Pentagon doing basically the same job they do at our company now. And they are all, to the last one, some version of nutty.
I love a good bullshit analysis. Yes speed kills the average driver (the one with one ovary and one testicle) so you shouldn't do it. In fact, you'll get there sooner by going under the speed limit. Your mileage does not vary.
i started picking up cassettes because it's a much faster way to 'just listen to some music':

take cassette, place in deck, press play

contrast the 'user experience' from streaming players: open app, swipe away notifications you dont care about, scroll past artists and albums you never had any intention of listening to, try to search for something like what you wanted, mis-spell and fix your query a couple times, scroll past 'recommendations' that have nothing to do with your original query, tap the same playlist you've been listening to which is at the bottom of the list even though its an exact match for the query you entered, find out that half of the songs are gone because of a licensing dispute, and now that you're finally ready to hit Play.... you haven't even begun fixing your bluetooth setup

also vaporwave sounds fantastic on tape
It's in progress still. I have most of the code working, but it's not organized into the chapter structure, yet. I am planning to add a new chapter every ~month (I wish I could do this faster, but I also have some other commitments). Chapter 4 will be either uploaded by the end of this weekend or by the end of next weekend.