skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd imagine that people living in lower-income neighborhoods generally pay for lower-tier services, which lowers profitability for any given provider, and also lowers the incentive for other providers to come in and compete, which would lower prices for everyone.
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The idea that academic work should be grounded in "applicability" is a lazy canard. Nobody was much convinced that decades of work in number theory was worth much of anything until applications in cryptography were discovered. We just don't know what we'll find.

Academic research in every field is undertaken for its own sake. If you want to work on "applicability", go get a job in industry. Finance is still hiring quants, for example.
The fact that you have to actually say this out loud, with a metaphorical straight-face, is a near perfect example of the immaturity of UX/UI.

There is fashion and there is usability, and sometimes the difference is far clearer than this industry wants to make it out to be.
This old thread has former Y! folks chiming in as to why.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10558288

> I think the justifications were better support for running on Linux (storage drivers, Java, MySQL, oracle), better support for virtualization (although bsd jails are better than virtualization in my opinion, and a better fit for Y!), and it would be easier to support one os instead of two and acquisitions (including inktomi) really wanted to run on Linux.
What I don't get is the complaint about clickable text without outlines to make them look like buttons on a blog that has tons of hyperlinks for text not embedded into paragraphs. If an outline is required to understand those things can be clicked, why do they drop them on their own blog? Those are just as much buttons as the "Agree" example.

And then the top of their blog has an image that is clickable to go to the home. No information that the image is clickable, no information about where it would go.
You could either branch your Neovim configuration on `vim.g.neovide` [0] or start Neovide (and the underlying Neovim instance) with a different config file by setting XDG_CONFIG_HOME.

https://neovide.dev/configuration.html#hello-is-this-neovide
Ultimately, the problem is self-interested people, misaligned incentives, and insufficient legal recourse for victims.

What's the motivation to do anything right in security if most of the time you don't have a breach and you can get away cutting corners? When something does go wrong, you can blame it on underlings, claim it was a "sophisicated attack from nation-state actors", and rely on the public to not care?

I don't know that security is comparable to project management, health care services, or marketing. Inefficiencies in those have visible costs and reasonably good incentives for improving them.
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Generally, I agree, if you can get access to the underlying structure/source, then you should use that. But I've been making UI test automation tools for 20 years. There are some cases where adding annotations is not possible or not feasible at low-cost, but the feature still needs to be automated.
Yeah, I mean, it's kind of true, but only because no method is going to help you if you don't have some automated way of reassuring yourself that you're doing the right thing.
I would've said the gears of violence (though French is a second language for me).
I was thinking about this too. Could it be these neighborhoods have older infrarstructure with slower speeds and when companies price products its standardized on pricing across a region based on tiering and not the actual throughput? Like Tier 1 in new infrarstructure is faster than Tier 1 on old infrarstructure. Along those lines, maybe it just costs the same amount to support an old DSL connection as it does to support a modern fiber/cable hookup?

I don't have an answer to the problem but I am not sure forcing pricing standards is the answer. Seems like it would be better to just handle it locally and build city owned internet as well.
Please stop calling this “cracking down on password sharing”. That’s spin that frames it as an improper act and enforcement against it, making readers think “I may not like it but I guess it’s what’s right”. The truth is these companies sold access to a certain number of simultaneously active “screens”, and now they’re changing the offering to a single household only. The true version of this headline is “Hulu limits plans to one household, just like Disney Plus and Netflix”. It’s a new limitation, not a crackdown. It’s on location, not password sharing - there are still profiles to select who you are when you log in.

As it always does, stripping spin makes the rest of the story easier to spot: that this has strong parallels with cable, and that this is a gym-like business model of keeping people utilizing only some slim fraction of the capacity they think they’ve bought.

(This isn’t a callout to OP, I know the guidelines require the website’s title. But, tangentially, I strongly disagree with the guidelines on this point: sticking with the website’s title doesn’t reduce editorialization, it just shifts control of it from HN users to propagandists.)
The Pantheon is one of the greatest and most important buildings in the world today. That its doors are original only adds to that.

I recall lying on my back on the floor of the Pantheon looking up at the oculus and thinking how the hell did the Romans built that and how has that dome survived two millennia.

Having the chance to marvel at that remarkable building is something I'll never forget.
The bulk of the people affected by the exclusion - English only - has nothing to do with regulation…
Brains are not computers, they work fundamentally differently.
Our brains are have fuzzy inputs and outputs, and are probably closer to quantum computers.

You cant plug into its fabric and somehow have a sidebus that does something
I remember when, in our high-school english class, the teacher asked us to reflect on Chapter 21 of A Clockwork Orange and a girl in the back of the class interjected "but there's only 20 chapters in my book!". Turns out the school had both the English and American editions co-mingled.

The omission of that chapter in the American book and Kubrick's adaption undercuts the whole point of the story in my opinion. When the film ended, I felt like my time had been wasted and that I'd been dragged back to the beginning all over again.
Someone wrote a Markov chaining bot back on LambdaMOO in the early 90s, that would pretend to participate in conversation in the room, and I remember being blown away by it. Especially in the context of the limited computation power on that platform and the machine it was hosted on.
You make it sounds like he choose to be insecure about it.

It's social conditioning and ego doing it's thing to create pointless suffering/insecurity as usual. Nothing new. It will keep creating suffering for pointless things. The dna % just one of the mere labels it uses.
20 years ago is 2004, not the 90s. I don't know, but it's certainly possible that one of them was in the lead in 1995, a different one in 2005, and a different one in 2015. This is especially plausible because Linux was only created in the mid 90s, so those first few years seem likely to have been disproportionately rough.
I feel like it could be as simple as people poorer neighborhoods trying to buy the cheapest data/tv plan. In some countries this would be considered a necessity like electricity/sewer/water so from that perspective LA perhaps should force the ISPs to provide the same service all over the city.
It's kind of astounding that Google built many of the tools that a lot of ai are built off of and yet are so miserably behind most of their competitors in this space. Bard is abysmal in comparison to just about every other ai out there. How did google fumble the bag so hard here?
One would assume that one would understand one's context of one's link and that one meant taking one's link seriously instead of one looking at one's link to see what one's link was.
FWIW with the Assistants API you can instruct GPT to do anything you want and it won't have any "safety" denial messages.
I had a terrible time when someone used "smart quotes" (beautified Office quotation marks) in a configuration file. I believe this was only possible because they copied it from Outlook.
I used to think this too, and to some extent there are things children do that you probably can attribute to parenting. But kids are also their own people and make their own decisions, the younger they are the stupider the decisions it seems. I'm long past blaming parents for the actions of their children.
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I switched my vpn to Japan, S.Korea, Singapore, still no image generation. So I guess it's only available in part of US.
Win2k is pretty good, fixing the one big problem with Win9x, which was its dreary darkish gray base color.

Personally I’m a bit more fond of the Platinum theme from Mac OS 8 up through 9.x, though. Similar color scheme and principles, but it uses rounded corners and soft shading in a few places Win9x/2k doesn’t which makes it feel a bit more warm and accommodating without negatively impacting usability.
Test how it makes sense for your use case. Table driven tests are fine, and I use them for cases that call for it.
I had a copy of DSL on one of those!
As a 0th gen immigrant from a low income country (Slovenia), I have been told many times that DEI is not for me. My minority is too small so I just count as white. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Probably not, DNA degrades relatively quickly in uncontrolled conditions, so the unique markers of an individual human would probably be hard to grab from a dust particle suspended on a spider web. This works for detecting different species, not necessarily individuals.

Plus, there are infinitely easier ways of surveilling humans, like just watching where their GPS tracked phones go.
> incentivizing non-tax-paying churches is a really bad idea

what you're missing is that the federal law allows non-profits to receive direct pay benefits. it is not possible for the federal government to distinguish between types of non-profits, or congress simply didn't even attempt to this time. the entire 500-section tax code is eligible, 501(c)3, 4, 5, 6, 7, private operating foundations, private non-operating/grantmaking foundations, public charities, labor groups, fraternities, religious institutions everything

how we got here: the prior "tax credit" approach was not useful for builders and producers, because organizations in the renewables energy spend so much on operations that there typically isn't a net profit any given year to reduce by a tax credit. simultaneously, Congress and the IRS do a lot to try to reduce fungibility of tax credits. So now the tax credits are useless and the behavior they are intended to incentivize is not done.

so finally, they've come to the conclusion that fungibility is okay but to non-profits, but non-profits also don't have any tax liability to reduce, so they are just going to pay them cash equivalents at rates set by the department of energy.

but churches! okay. we're about to have the greenest megachurches the world has ever seen. and the CPUC? state level predilections aren't really a factor here
Those are the best kinds of books. Epubs haven't evolved since 2010 because it's done it's job. It's provided a scaffolding for selling .epub files for $9.99.

I prefer physical books for this reason. If I'm paying $10, I'll buy a used copy over a DRM file.
> Perhaps we’ll look back in 50 years and laugh how we treated once impressive levels of computing power as threatening.

Who's laughing at the original 1979 restrictions in their original context?
> https://i.imgur.com/kEa0z4y.png

The one on the left can definitely be called a cute cat. But the one on the right - well...
Thanks for that link. I'd love to see how the author factors in inflation with the thought experiment. Reviews on Amazon don't mention this at all unfortunately.
One I'm willing to guess is the monopoly / duopoly of ISP providers in nearly all US neighborhoods means its less profitable to provide better service when there aren't alternatives to begin with
Whereas you can fuel your tanks with unrefined oil that's half a mile under the ground?
Plus just earning the money to buy the new hardware is bad enough.
One thing I disagree with is:

> I wouldn’t expect all commits (especially ones of this size) to have this level of detail.

(emphasis added) - actually in my experience it's often the little ones, innocuous looking things that might really need a relatively longer explanation.

Yesterday I wrote three paragraphs on why I added `--limit=999` to a `gh pr list` because it's confusing: there's already a `limit(` in the `--jq` argument, and the higher it is (given say infinite PRs in total) the lower the end result will actually be. (Yes I wrote a comment too. And probably spent even longer thinking about and working it up than writing about it; hopefully I'll recall it as an example the next time someone implies the job is about churning out code!)
So, just so we're on the same page, you are saying that users of "news.ycombinator.com" wanted to purposefully hide a story about the CEO of Y Combinator wishing the death of San Francisco politicians, as well as the actual death threats that have surfaced as a result.

You can call it censorship or not, but it's not a good look either way.
I mean, I work full time remotely at home (company is in a different state, family is here where I live). If you watch the FaceTime section of MKBHD’s review, that would be a phenomenal improvement over Teams chat with web cams.

While I wouldn’t move back just to go into the office, I absolutely miss the ability to look at a specific person while talking in meetings, and for other to have the context about who you’re looking at with head turning or gestures etc…

In a Teams group chat, I’m always talking to the whole wall of faces essentially. Only by context of the conversation can you figure out who someone is talking to, and even then their webcam might be off center or on a separate monitor from where they’re looking and you don’t even pretend to make eye contact. There is no way to break out into an isolated side conversation or select your gaze and there’s a lot of value there.

There’s also the concept of sharing a virtual room with a person I’m collaborating with. Drawing on a whiteboard, walking around pointing at things on the monitor and such. The feeling of a shared physical space is powerful for collaboration.

Anyways, what I’m trying to say is this: The thought of replacing all human interaction with tech is of course depressing, but I don’t view this like that. This is technology that can meet people where they are and improve an existing experience. I’m not moving away from my family, esp. as my parents get older, and I will remain working remotely for the company because I very much enjoy what I work on, my team, and the way the company treats me.

This tech is a step towards making the shortcomings of remote work less impactful. It’s stupid expensive and the first iteration so it’ll have problems, but I’m much more excited by Apple’s approach to this than Facebook’s nonsense. Excited to see where it develops and how it’s adopted as it becomes cheaper.
Yea, I'm not saying he didn't incite it. I'm saying the article didn't try very hard to make it clear he didn't write the letters.
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Yocto, Linux From Scratch (LFS) and buildroot for embedded systems come to mind.

https://www.yoctoproject.org/

https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

https://buildroot.org/
A LLM is a Markov chain with billions of associations and weights. A Makov chain is an LLM of maybe a few dozen associations and weights (so an LM, without the first L).

The difference is in the data structure and the size of the atoms/n-grams. The data structure Markov chain implementations use is not efficient for billions of parameters, either in storage or in processing. But the idea is the same: give a likely next token given the last n tokens. The value for n is a narrow window for Markov chains and an extremely wide window for LLM. LLM are able to maintain massive amounts of state compared to a Markov chain implementation.
Ahh, my blind spot - tactile feedback. My hands aren't very sensitive to touch.
It does not add lag to the submenus when I just tested on Firefox. I have two add-ons that install submenus to the context menu, and if I move off of one and click the other one, the submenu immediately opens. Same for non-submenus (I can click to activate).

It does, necessarily, add lag if I want the submenu to open on hover, but I suppose I've used enough UIs where submenus don't open on hover that clicking is muscle memory for me.
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I certainly did not mean to be obnoxious to and I offer my apologies for annoying you.

You seem open to the discussion of aesthetic concerns, but perhaps not the premise that these concerns only seem to matter for solar? Or was it merely the way I made my point? I didn't mean this comment to target you, but the idea of aesthetic concerns being a blocker for buildings, but rereading I could see that it might be ambiguous.
East Asians apparently have a higher percentage of Neanderthal dna than Europeans, with it going as high as 4%. It's hard to believe that at 2% it's greater than 99% of people, since 2% seems rather average for the average East Asian and the East Asian population being 1.7B or so. East Asians also have Denisovans dna as well.
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I do appreciate them but they’re just a pain to write sometimes
There's also inferno, which is more or less a full unix-like that can run on the pico ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37393993 ) and on the Teensy and some other microcontrollers ( https://dboddie.gitlab.io/inferno-diary/index.html )
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Or the google hype man blogger is ahead of his skis in terms of rollout.
Off-topic: is anyone aware of good tutorials / howtos / books / videos on the NN developments of last few years? (Attention, SD, LLM,...)
I have felt that pride in writing a great commit message, but I am less sure of the value to others. I don’t think most people search commit messages when they encounter an unusual error message, or when adding a new feature, or really almost ever.

It’s a bit sad, but I have a growing suspicion that beautiful commit messages are a bit of vanity by the programmer. The person primarily impressed is often the author; others will walk on by without noticing.

There is room sometimes for those aesthetic flourishes but I am not convinced they have much practical value, and I have stopped really being bothered by commit messages of “fix whitespace issue” from others. I think I am a better colleague for that.

Things might be different on a project like Git or Linux with huge distributed teams and tons of commits, versus the projects I am used to which have between 1 and 100 contributors, mostly from the same organization.
So you believe someone is a racist unless they can prove otherwise?
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Interest rates are not the only way of controlling inflation.

GP's post is just a rather convoluted way of saying the US needs to increase taxes.

Not sure whether they actually intended this, but it seemed the only logical conclusion. Unless they really were advocating for a zero interest rate environment... to which I agree with your points.
I have yet to find cases where ppl outside of translation/content/marketing area were fired because were replaced by ai, especially software devs...
Imo it's just interest rates. With low rate you can just invest in the market, get guaranteed return and afford experiments&overhiring to be competitive, on high interest, free money are gone/too risky, ao must cut everywhere