skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Preface: I’m into soto Zen Buddhism stuff but by no means any sort of expert. Still probably a rank amateur tbh compared to others. Massive grains of salt required. Brad Warner is a good person to look up on YouTube to find out more.

> That's useless if those "mystical practices" don't consist of precise, actionable instructions, whose outcome can be measured in a way that eliminates expectation bias.

They do and they can.

Instructions:

1. Sit on a cushion in a specific posture.

2. Think the thought of not thinking.

3. Do it every day.

I harm people around me when I don’t do this. I am being asshole.

When I do it, I’m less of an asshole. I am being not-asshole.

People say so. Even when I start practicing and don’t tell anyone (I’m a serial relapser when it comes to the cushion).

My expectation of “being not asshole” is always wildly different to the reality of it too.

That’s also part of the exercise/work. Learning to not pay attention to my own expectations.

Usually they’re wrong.

> The standard approach seems to be to give relatively vague guidelines for what to do, then if following those doesn't lead to any positive result, claim that the student either misapplied them, or didn't try hard enough, or tried too hard, or it wasn't their time, etc. etc.

Yeah. The vague guidelines are the point. It is part of the practice.

It’s not the student’s fault. Sometimes people just need to practice longer than others.

So teachers say things like: that’s just the content of your zazen.

Which basically means: Keep sitting on the cushion. Keep doing the work.

The work is never finished. Phrases like that are meant to be a form of encouragement or reminder.

> Which is factually indistinguishable from "there's nothing to it but smoke and mirrors".

“Magic” is just stuff people don't understand yet.

Whether that’s a good or a bad thing depends on individual perspective.
The unrealistic part is the 2030 and I agree with them

A semiconductor factory takes time to build and to ramp up
> Original video, which provides a better look at the plate (鄂F1573警),indicates that the video was shot in Hubei, China

This means there was yet another update since I looked. The previous note at least made the user suspect that there was an attempt to point fingers at some other country. Now it merely corrects the location in China. It is good to link to a higher quality video, but I don’t rule out that the note will with time drift to suit the agenda of the government.

> Many here are biased against Elon and Twitter for political reasons so they are too quick to pass judgement

He killed the feature that labeled accounts associated with governments though.

I think community notes are not his invention so I don’t blame him for them, but they are very poorly implemented and are strictly worse than tweets themselves.

If they applied the same algo to weighing tweets and replies, they could’ve gotten the same results but without making people trust blindly. But of course this defeats the point of paying for Elon’s blue checkmarks.
I'm not sure if I missed it, but why do they call using ChatGPT "cheating"? It's only "cheating" if you are explicitly asked not to use ChatGTP. (Also, not sure if it really counts as cheating, wouldn't it be more like fraud?)

Some interviewers wouldn't mind, or would even encourage, using all available tools to solve problems.
I don't mind matplotlib at all but I just find it annoying in one of my most important use cases which is to update the plot during a long calculation.

You gave to call fig.canvas.draw but it doesn't always work and sometimes plt.pause works but sometimes it only partially updates the display and you have to call it multiple times. (At least this in is my experience with TkAgg backend.)

Meanwhile you can't interact with it.

I would love a version of matplotlib which lives in a separate process and gets updated via nonblocking communication.
I've been waiting 25 years for this
On the need to run a node, i have a little project to wrap the static site content with an IPFS node in JS.

E.g there is already helia.

https://github.com/ipfs/helia

Just waiting for running a node on the browser tab to become insignificant, resource wise.
If you have a system that relies on voting, and people vote against some things appearing, that's not called censoring! That's just the system working as intended.
All that matters is the comparison between debt to GDP ratio, interest rates, deficit and nominal GDP growth (that is: “real” growth + inflation) see:

Let R be the debt/GDP ratio, g the “real” GDP growth, i the inflation rate, and r the interest rate, the deficit that stabilizes the debt/GDP ratio is the following: R(g+i-r).

For the US in 2023 you have:

g=3.3%
r=2.9%
R=120%
i=3.4%

Which means that the stabilizing deficit level is 4.5%. So the current deficit is 2% higher than it should. And at this deficit level, the debt/GDP ratio would stabilize around 170%, it won't “spiral out of control”.

That being said, even though the death spiral narrative is BS, the fact that governments of developed countries stopped taxing the rich and started borrowing from them instead is indeed a problem…
I'd prefer we dispensed with tribalism and use of the genetic fallacy[0] first.

Besides, it can't be complete trash as it was instrumental in bringing some smidgen of justice to the family of Stephen Lawrence[1] and reforms to a corrupt police force.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_fallacy

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Lawrence
Used it recently to create a neuropsychology cram set. I liked it overall.

Some things need work.

The import function is very fickle. Took me a long time to find a format that worked.

By default it will update existing cards when you import a new card with the same front-side text, even when they are in different sets. I feel the default there should be just creating the new card and leave the existing untouched, or else promt for an explicit disambiguating contextualization on both cards.
Those salaries seem quite low compared to the Randstad. If these are true, then the answer is "Yes"...
Why? Maybe you just use good programming languages instead.
It works. After 6 years, I’m stuck in the Netherlands with a 50% tax rate and I love it.
Note that doing proper/full code reviews requires know-how in the code's problem domain and the specific project's background and needs. "Outsiders" reviewing code can comment on programming-language-specific issues, suggest alternative algorithms, and that sort of thing, but they will largely lack the project-specific know-how to determine whether the code actually achieves its goals in the larger constellation of the whole project. Very few random passers-by are going to be willing to dive into another random person's project to get to know the problem at that sort of level. i guess what i'm saying is that random people superficially poking at your code cannot be considered a full-fledged review.
> Oxide has to come in a lot cheaper to even compete with AWS

Which should be pretty easy. I don't know the exact costs but in a previous Oxide discussion the number 1M was thrown around. If that's roughly correct, that is comfortably less than a single year of AWS bills at most startups I've been in (except the very tiny ones < 15 people).

Haven't seen any performance numbers either so admittely estimating here, but from what I know about building racks of 1U servers and knowing that Oxide is more efficient, I can believe an Oxide rack should handily outperform the AWS VMs we (the startups) were paying >>>100K/mo for.

If these numbers are anywhere in the ballpark, an Oxide rack should easily be saving quite a bit of money already by year two.
You really put into words something I've experienced but couldn't articulate. Every time I've used a headset I've gotten not fatigued but just a general feeling of malaise and had to put it down and take a break. I would imagine with repetition you get used to it but yeah its definitely a factor.

Although I think part of the bleh feeling is just having to subconsciously adapt to the imperfections of a headset. For example, you can't just glance at anything and expect to see it, you have to shift your head for some things. Or like the headset itself moving ever so slightly on the face and your eye moving out of the way of the center of the lens. It gets exhausting and you don't know you're doing it unless you're actively paying attention.

I will say most of the advertising shows people interacting with 2D interfaces in 3D space so maybe this is how they're getting around it combined with just better build quality, better thought out straps, etc.
#(please summarize and share possible use cases)
I'll take your word for it, but I would say there is a point, which is that the symbol was declared.

And I'm not talking about a default value, this doesn't imply a default value even though assigning an address will come with some value. But I do get that defining the name and type are a seperate thing that don't necessarily require assigning an address any more than assigning an a value.

The difference is, any default value would be arbitrary. 0 is just a value that has a meaning that the compiler can't know. It's almost as arbitrary as 37.

But picking the next available address to attach to the symbol is not like that.

The compiler always picks that itself and the programmer always has to ask what it is when they want to know it. The compiler can safely do that much right at declare time without making any assumptions. The value is still random, which is fine because 0 is almost the same as random, in that it's random if 0 would actually be the best default value for this particular item vs 1, -1, size, -size, size/2, etc.
Both Europe and Asia have their own problems with authoritarian, strongman-type fascists.
The website the "Institute for the Study of the Neurologically Typical" existed back in the 90s. Back in those days, it just meant "not on the autism spectrum". People parodied how other people acted to express pride in themselves and of course mock the weakness of others, so as to prove they are the best.

Autistics have been using "Neurotypical" to describe the out-group for decades and won't stop anytime soon. It serves a social purpose due to social failures elsewhere that cause autistics to be rather stigmatised.
I feel like you're arguing against me, but I could also take your comment verbatim and feel like it backs up my side. Favoring consumers means everybody gets their fair share.
If someone has a server and there are no humans interacting with it the the computer should realize that it is a good time to sacrifice latency.
No need to actually do KS, just organize it as a group buy: If enough people commit and put down a deposit, the run is funded and it happens. If not just unwind it.
Very well researched!

I'd add the MR review use case.

I have limited success with feeding a LLM (dolphin finetune of mixtral) a content of a merge request coming from my team. It was few thousand lines of added integration test code and I just couldn't be bothered/had little time to really delve.

I slapped the diff and used about 10 prompt strategies to get anything meaningful. So my first initial impressions were: clearly it was finetuned on too short responses. It kept putting in "etc.", "and other input parameters", "and other relevant information". At one point I was ready to give up; it clearly hallucinated.

Or that's what I thought: turned out there was some new edge case of a existing functionality added that was added, without ever me noticing (despite being on the same meetings).

I think it actually saved me a lot of hours or pestering other team members.
Don't know why you're being down voted, it's widely accepted that it only really works for currencies that are reserve currency status. It could also work if you were entirely self-sufficient with no exports/imports.
All on the proviso that humans are quick to react to inflation, using perfect information, which we're not and which we don't have.
For love, or if they have autistic children and a way to emigrate.
FAT.
Romania is 10E a month for 10gbit with ~60E install charge

Netherlands is unlikely, cheapest is ~80e/month for 10gbit and 45e/month for gigabit

> because they basically skipped over an entire generation (DSL) of telecom so there were no incumbents to cause trouble.

Oh we had that (romtelecom) and people werent willing to use it, they used cheaper local ISPs that just ran copper wires everywhere.

Now a company (RDS) bought up most of those and kept upgrading and keeping prices low and basically are eating the competition. They're basically so far ahead you have construction companies that ask them to put fiber in new builds so its ready when apartments are being sold.

It's mostly competition that drove this from a very competitive company, the rest kind of suck and would go comcast route if they could afford it.
You can absolutely zoom in on the images: You hold the book closer to your face.

Also, fundamentally printed images just look different than displayed ones.
A highly configurable switch component using modern CSS techniques
Long story short: the original tweet makes a confusion between PDF (the file format) and adobe acrobat (the PDF reader) : the 381km2 is an acrobat limit, not a PDF limit

Funny document, still
There could be a sysctl to control this even.
Reading this I realise an unconscious rule I've followed for years - Cron is for running jobs pertaining to that box, and that box alone. It _can_ be used to schedule anything, but that doesn't mean it should, especially business logic.

"I wrote a CRM system in ksh script, it works great!"
I built Photoshift over a weekend. It's V2 live today
How you write the tests that you're testing with mutatation does not matter. Or, to rephrase, you need both if you want to do mutatation testing (which is really slow).
Thank you. Point taken. I was mistaken assuming that this summary goes not as a comment but as summary of the submission.
ASML is well known for it's exceptionally high pay compared to other Dutch tech companies.
The second screen stuff has commercial applications.
I agree with you. It would be good to find someone with similar interests to review the code and for future collaboration as well. It would open up new ways of doing things.
Isn't it a LMMM large mutli modal model?
Again, breakground solution. Within 20 days.

For ecological purpose, just go nuclear.
I agree with you regarding Ectoplasm, but one could choose a different mystical example. The ancient notion that thunder and lightning were the Gods getting angry or fighting. Lightning is real enough, but ancient people didn't know what it was, so had a story to explain to themselves what was happening. People like stories. I used to know an atmospheric physicist whose project launched small rockets into thunderstorms to try and trigger a lightning bolt discharge. He would joke that he was tempting the Gods' anger.
Yes, but using quick is just a PITA, I'd recommend using Rapid https://github.com/flyingmutant/rapid instead
Yes, it'd be better if you could just tap two items, and they filled the useless central pane instead.
TL;DR: They're close enough to make people argue and publish papers about similarities to the human hippocampus

I have a hunch these models are approximating an important subset of what we call reasoning. In dangerously reductive terms, it's a question of how closely and how much of a function's output we can approximate.

There was at least one paper[1] showing similarities between AI models and the hippocampus. That lines up with another part of human neuroscience: at least part of human reasoning appears to take place inside the hippocampus itself [2].

From my neuroscience background, the takeaways seem to be:

* Carmack is right: we're missing some important bridging concepts for AGI.

* Whether current LLMs can reason depends on how you define reasoning

I'm unsure whether finding answers in those areas would be good thing. Instead of alignment issues or misuse, I'm more worried about how quickly people would overreact to it. We might already be seeing that in business.

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.07356

2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3312239
Aah this makes sense to put it under one umbrella of spatial computing.
Ye, best part is when I am dragging file from one explorer window to another and accidentally drag it over offline network drive. Whole explorer freezes for like 30 seconds.

But so glad the development effort went into this Weather widget showing me "For you" news about what _current celebrity_ did at _recent event_, that just hits the sweet spot.
> If someone has a server and there are no humans interacting with it the the computer should realize that it is a good time to sacrifice latency.

I think this is kinda the problem. Box: "Now is a good time to sleep for 1 ms." User: "Here I am and not so fast! This is supposed to be a rt kernel with a granularity of less than .002 ms."
Minimum wage in the Netherlands is about 26k a year so i sure hope it skews to "and up", you can make 40k at a helpdesk resetting people's passwords.
Can you name me 3 tech companies in the Randstad that aren't consultancy that pay more than that?

I don't think these numbers are exceptionally high but they're not low either.

Source: Former SWE, current PM in the Randstad.
Yep, that's the (lesser in my opinion) issue - it adds lag to othe submenus.

Also the diagional move (at least in how Chrome does it) selects other items on hover, so you have visual noise while moving your mouse

That's what I mean by "tricky dynamic guesswork isn't great UI"
I'm fond of taking this a step further and actually offloading the test cases to a separate language-agnostic file, then have implementations' test harnesses read cases from that file. The Ruby gem for Base32H¹ does exactly this to test the encoder/decoder logic, pulling the test cases from CSV files in a separate repo² included as a Git submodule. One of these days I need to port the other reference implementations over to using the tests repo, but once that's done I'll be able to update the test cases in one place and they'll automatically work everywhere.

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¹ https://github.com/Base32H/base32h.rb/tree/master/spec

² https://github.com/Base32H/base32h-tests
> The infrastructure is basically all in place for Europe to foster its own Silicon Valley, with homegrown production to boot!, but it will come down to politics to make it a reality.

This x1000. Germany, for example, created the worldwide market for solar in the first place with the EEG subsidies, and German companies were technology and market leaders for a long time.
Germany: the lunatic man of the Europe
Downvoted because talking about a downvote is counterproductive. I expect this to be downvoted.
I’ve recently started using property based testing in C# using FsCheck. The FsCheck docs are already pretty unclear with poor examples, and the C# snippets are tiny and barely explained.

I want to use it more but it’s actually quite painful to even understand how to achieve the thing I want. I briefly looked at Hedgehog which seems to have even less documentation let alone anything helpful for C#.

Just started reading that link and I agree, I’ve found it confusing how FsCheck has Arbritary and Gen. Are there any other differences?
If this becomes a common thing in the US I'd be worried about stoking the flames of class warfare between white collar and blue collar workers. Many of those blue collar jobs (public facing especially) cannot be compressed into a 4 day work week. Lots of blue collar workers are already furious about things like working from home, 'email jobs', flexible schedules, etc. On top of that many white collar workers already enjoy an unofficial 4 day work week with offices being ghost towns on Friday afternoons. So are we talking about realistically a 3 day work week with an extra 'will respond to e-mail emergencies' on the 4th day?
They probably don’t seed by default for a good reason. While torrents aren’t inherently political unlike signal and others, their culture is close to “legal ussues”. As a seeder I respect that and that’s why I’m seeding to high ratios. For every seeder of a specific piece of content there are 10x (20x? 50x?) more people who cannot share it back.

But if you want to fence them off, you can use private trackers with ul/dl ratio accounting.
It's they stay that short, how much do they tend to rely on taxable benefits?

Someone who stays a few years at the peak of above average earnings might well be highly economically beneficial even at a steep tax discount.

I don't think governments ought to compete on tax in general, but this is one where it might both be a net benefit and there is the arguable case that most tax systems are geared towards people in working age overpaying to compensate for the cost of caring for children and the elderly.

Someone who comes temporarily during working age without a discount will get the downside without the benefit.

This will be a bigger problem for the competitive ability in places with comprehensive social support mechanisms.

Given dropping birth rates, trying to offset that to be an attractive place to immigrate to may well be worth it even if most leave again - especially as long as it's profitable too.

But if your concern is that it doesn't attract people who will stay, maybe there are ways to incentivise that too. E.g. let people earn a discount where a portion does not pay out unless they stay longer.
At this point it is more accurate to call ORMs the Afghanistan of Computer Science, you where warned that it was going to be like Vietnam and somehow you managed stayed there even longer.
Having a foreigner stay in the long term could be worse, economically. Five years of taxation on highly-paid individuals - who are presumably producing far more than their salary to the companies paying them - is essentially free money for the country. You did not spend tax money on their education so far and are reaping all the benefits.

Now, if they stay permanently, you will have to pay their pensions and healthcare, which are very expensive.
Do you and op mean tactile?
It looks like your area will be getting fiber around April: https://ftth.init7.net/?x=963376.03977&y=6004593.74257&z=15....
If weavers are allowed to charge whatever they want for clothes, farmers must be allowed to charge whatever they want for food (no tractors allowed), etc. We would still have switch-board operators, and everything would be more expensive for everyone and half the people would be stuck doing busy work they don't actually need to do because their job could be automated.

It's not about convenience vs compassion. Luddism is not convenient nor compassionate for anybody
This post reminds me of Umberto Eco's intellectual divertissements. More specifically, this fantastic piece, "On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a Scale of 1 to 1."

https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/881694/cb6119367b...
I find it funny.
Matplotlib isn't very friendly to casual users.

For even the simplest possible plot, I have to create a subplot and axis.

Sometimes I'd like to just plot a function. I don't want to initialize arrays for that.

It's easy to forget that I have to `import matplotlib.pyplot`

I don't need to plot things often, but whenever I use matplotlib, I always have to spend a few minutes to look up how to use it.
> driving up the cost of living for locals.

That means they are spending a lot of money they earn on the local economy itself no? So even if their taxes are higher, if they are creating value in the economy, the locals do end up seeing those benefits imo.

From the perspective of a someone in country that loses a lot of talented/educated citizens to brain drain, If i were in charge of a country to which high skilled immigrants flock to - even if it is for a limited time, I'd try to see what I can do to convert them to permanent residents. It is a tricky thing to balance because the locals shouldn't feel like second class citizens in their own lands. But at the same time, if skilled people are migrating away - that's a lot of missed potential/opportunity.