skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dropped the two BBC podcasts i'd been interested in (News Cast and In Our Time) for this reason, it's such a weird tack to take in order to chase views.
All his endings are weak. He builds momentum and reaches a climactic moment, and then…fizzle.
Total federal civil asset forfeiture passed losses from burglary in 2014.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-...
As a moral matter, there are no limits. Anything that satisfies the monkey impulse to punish.

As a practical matter, there are some limits. Don't want to create perverse incentives. If the punishment, for instance, would cause criminals to become even more harsh to victims, then that's off limits.

My objection to slavery is that it's just punishing the innocent. Your objection is "it's slavery!!!!!!". Your objection is irrational and counter-productive.

I would like to thank you very sincerely. For a very long time it has been impossible for me to comprehend what leftists were thinking when they came up with all sorts of bizarre reforms they wanted to see implemented in the justice system. I could not make sense of it until yesterday. But now I understand you and the others better than I did, and that breakthrough came while talking with you. You have my gratitude, whatever that's worth.
Don't shake that feeling. He has a whole line of supplements that he has endorsed, and you better believe there's money in what he's doing.
We don't need more people in the world, there's enough.

People like Elon that are raising some fake concerns about fertility always have something in common: are hysterical.

We need to bring rationality in this debate. Why the hell do we need humans in every corner in the earth, and possibly universe?

Procreation isn't a real need like food and water, nobody dies if they don't fuck.

Humans need to stop this need of controlling the fate of the universe, it's really sickening.

Mind your life and your own business, stop thinking that you need to save humanity.

I bet this "heroism" behaviour will be diagnosed as a disease in a few decades and are deeply rooted in child development issues or just genetics.
https://GitHub.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues
I don't know how/why you even thought to interject race into this discussion.
Queen seeks to sell their catalog for $1.2B
Source: https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform...
Not when you're talking about tolerances below nanometres.
The laws of physics are measurable constants that if the measurement is executed anywhere in the universe [1] will yield the same results[2].

[1] that's in the same phase state as us, inside a black hole or microseconds after the big bang may derive a different answer.

[2] up to the uncertainty limit
Thanks! Really happy with the feedback so far.
Make your own destiny. You seem like a very ambitious and intelligent person. Don’t give up the job search but start thinking of how you can contribute to society without permission.
Yes. What is going on in their minds?

My cat would sometimes sit close and directly facing the wall, eyes open, for many minutes at a time.
I have heard this, but it seems more like laziness to me. Thanks for the perspective.
Not so!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_hysteria
If it doesn't use RSS (or similar) and I can't download it and play it through any player I choose, it's not really a podcast to me.
Great! Let us know what you think good and bad. We'll be iterating very quickly.
imagine for a moment, a firetruck driving down a street at 12 miles per hour; next to the truck is a dog from the firehouse, running along side.

What you describe is similar to "the dog decided to turn left at the corner, so things are better now"

The sheer number of people involved in fire response, and the deadly and immediate nature of their work, has natural links to military style leadership and organizational behavior.

No way, at all.. is "more controlled burning recently" the driving factor in the new stats.

The budgets and the size of the destruction, are hard for a person to think of.. in California

Real devastation was caused by "catastrophic" fires, burning at higher temperatures than previously recorded. Extensive forest die-off preceded these events in California. This is not over in one or two rainy years, since recent shrub growth is subject to die-off in a dry year and will burn.
nobody I know gives too much of their real personality at work

i don't believe that. are you claiming that they are all faking it?

i would not want to work in a place where people fake their personality just to fit in.

my experience from working on FOSS projects suggests that the stereotypical behavior we see in some engineers is in fact real. not as exaggerated as people claim, but the signs are there.

more importantly however is that among engineers i feel there is less expectation to conform to some kind of normalized behavior or personality. at best, certain aspects of someones personality don't get an opportunity to show. say for example how someone cares for their family or animals, or volunteers in non-tech areas.

an alternative interpretation of your statement would be that people do not show all of their personality at work, but only those aspects that are relevant for the work. and that is just what is needed. showing someones full personality at work is not what is expected here.

a more negative side of this is that in some places certain aspects of a personality are being actively suppressed. say, calling out problems that hurt the company, or trying to be helpful to others (and possibly hurting your own performance because of it)
One genuine performance edge Firefox has is that it can handle giant YouTube comments sections better than Chromium browsers in part because it accepts larger maximum page size.
Guy Used ChatGPT to Talk to 5k Women on Tinder and Met His Wife
When Aleksandr Zhadan got out of his last relationship in 2021, he started looking for a girlfriend in Moscow the old-fashioned way: swiping through Tinder. He sank hours into sending out likes, messaging, and going on dates which all went nowhere. So he decided to program OpenAI’s GPT-2 to be his dating assistant. His program conversed with 5,239 women on Tinder, scheduling him over 100 dates, and ultimately finding his wife.
It's more of a double-take on the inhale. 1) Inhale 2) Microscopic pause 3) Inhale some more 4) Exhale longer than inhaling.

From what I've noticed, more than two inhales is fine, it still works. It just shouldn't be an uncomfortable amount of air in the lungs.

I've also noticed that my dog does this when he's about to go to sleep.
My strategy is a deep cycle car battery and harbor freight inverter to run the blower motor. You get a long enough extension cord and you can use your car as an emergency generator.
The Diamond age was my favorite Stephenson novel, but I'd like to highlight a personal favorite Neal Stephenson premonition, the extent of which is not fully realized, but seems likely. This one (circa 2019) is less ambitious, and less well-known: There are parts of Fall, or Dodge in Hell that describe a phenomenon called apes. These are bots, generally chatbots and similar. Commanded by state and non-state actor, they dominate the internet, and can be used to manipulate public opinion, or what people think they know in general.

More generally, he discusses the creation of a post truth world, describing a brief period in history between the scientific revolution, and now, where people could agree on a cohesive world view. In the novel, the internet has now ended this; everyone is siloed into their own information bubbles, and can't agree on a common reality. Look up "MOAB" or "apes" in conjunction with this book for more information. I should note that these are some of the smaller ideas in that book...
Glad it's useful! Let us know if there are any other features you'd like to see :)
I support a few podcasts on patreon. They have regular open RSS feeds and then a locked down patreon feed, containing special episodes, extra material etc. One podcast only charges for each locked episode, so if they don't make any for a while I'm not charged. They are all pretty niche and I don't know how much they earn from it, but from a user perspective it's working fine.
Man, I sincerely hope you had a jenny-throws-rocks-at-the-house moment later. Parents being shitty to their kids is the worst.
> I really like questions with maximalist qualifiers like "tell me about your best X.” If it's not good, you know that their best isn't good enough.

Note that this approach, when not supplemented by other questions, favors outlier great results over consistent good results. E.g.:

Distribution A: 3, 2, 3, 2, 2, 1, 100, 2, 1, 3; MAX(A) = 100

Distribution B: 72, 73, 78, 79, 44, 75, 78, 79, 78, 79; MAX(B) = 79
Ignoring that Prius is a hybrid and not an EV:

Toyota sold 30k in 2023, the lowest number ever.

Tesla sold 400k of Model Y and 210k of Model 3 and 31k of Model X in 2024.

So Model Y outsold Prius by 13x in US in 2023.

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https://carfigures.com/us-market-brand/toyota/prius-family

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/01/29/tesla-model-ys-huge-gro...
"But that's naive."

Or perhaps we realize that company "culture" or "fit" are often used to discriminate.
The problem of focus is a problem of motivation, you could band aid it by doing this but if you can’t solve why you are not drawn to the task you will always have this issue.

Can you focus hours playing a good game? Yes? Then why is this game innately making you focus and your task isn’t? Maybe it can be looked at differently? Can it be fixed?
But the Apple Gargoyle Pro is cool, right? It has an outward-facing display that shows your eyes.
If I were so motivated, I would start with the principles outlined in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THE_multiprogramming_system.

Using Windows NT or Window 95 as an inspiration would make the task much harder. NT is an absolutely massive, full features, in some sense, and extension of Vax VMS, which itself is extremely feature rich.

I would take the challenge to build something that is the simplest thing that could possibly work.
Try out the pythonmldaily YouTube channel
I hate timed controlled breathing exercises like that. The circle doesn't know the current oxygen needs of my body.
They didn't print brain tissue, they kinda printed scaffolds for it to grow.

"The researchers aimed to construct layered neural tissue in which neural progenitor cells (NPCs) mature ..."

Don't trust this kind of source for titles.

About cartilage. That is a very specific configuration of materials in not a random shape. Also, it must want to attach to the bone by itself, and source its nutrients from synovial liquid.
Sounds too complicated for what I know we can do.

About human cells growing in a petri dish. Thats pretty much cancer right there. In such an alien environment, healthy cells expect something to kill them, and if enough changes happen without that, they will suicide.

Growing hearts in pigs is much closer to something viable.
Thats not the point, but what about people that have vision impairments? Isnt the whole point about accessibility?
The first is a subsidy by another name. The second has a lot of knock-on effects unless you own the whole supply chain, and nobody does anymore.
Inflation reduction act
If you're counting mammograms as routine chest X-rays, AI has been able to outperform and do this substantially cheaper since 2019.

Yet this is not an option for patients, and likely won't be in the next 10 years.
Sometimes you just don't have the cash to hire for experience.

IMO: It's important to hire all levels of experience. If you hire too many noobs, you get too many mistakes of inexperience. If you only hire experienced employees, you get too many people who are stuck in their ways.
If podcasting is truly distributed, then by definition it should be able to survive Apple podcasts going away. It's an interesting thought experiment.

In what way does the ecosystem rely on Apple's infrastructure? Do listeners on Android, or even a third-party apps on iOS, use Apple's podcasts directory for search and discoverability?

The fact that Apple haven't attempted to squeeze podcasting is perhaps an indicator that the ecosystem doesn't really depend on Apple (and they know it).
Still good news given all the recent farmers protests in the EU.
You don't seem to be using the WAL or any other SQLite optimizations.

https://github.com/ente-io/edge-db-benchmarks/blob/main/lib/...

Any reason for that?
Not to mention, distort real-world probabilities because of Woke Mob. A short Woman is as likely to be a firefighter as a Tall Man
Maybe make the circle complete as time expire could make people stop wondering when it will be done.
Microsoft Copilot is available to anyone, anywhere, on any device
2022 US Trans Survery Early Insights
On the other hand sometimes it can make you commit something to someone. It really depends.
Early insights from this 2022 survey have just been released.
I was looking for a new car and recently and gave serious thought to an EV. I found out that there aren't really that many EV sedans, but lots of SUVs and whatever you call the in-between-sized vehicles. I wasn't too impressed with the selection, and they were pricey (like the Hyundai Ioniq).

On the other hand, there's some nice hybrids that generally look like any other sedan out there, and not much more expensive than ICE.
The fly in the ointment is that Millenials are turning out to be just as materialistic as the Boomers.

2017: https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/millennials-are-most-derided-gen...

2022: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/02191...
This reminds me of an interview I have had in the past that made me very uncomfortable.

They asked me the same question and I paused for a moment and replied "excuse me, but this question makes me feel uncomfortable; I'm here for an interview not for a date!".

They realized they overdid it and asked me actual questions.

Eventually decided I was the right candidate for them, but until they decided to reply back, I already had found job elsewhere.

Why do they ask such type of questions anyway?!
Found an MBA.
Agreed. From the look at it, a few things: WAL is not enabled, insertion is not wrapped in transactions. I did a benchmark a while ago and if everything done right it is much faster: https://dflat.io/benchmark/

Also, even if it is done right, inserting 100,000 of 512 byte objects will be around 50MiB, which will be the point to trigger checkpointing WAL file into the main db, which can further slow down SQLite.
I wish IronPython ever gets over the Python 3.x hump. It's been "dead" for a while. Every now and then rumors that some developer has started up on it again, but never seems to get to a release state.

To be fair, F# filled most of its niche after it "died" so it's not a need in any way, just a wish for nice things because there were a few years where IronPython was a very nice thing to have.
Yeah, I'm annoyed by writers equating "any computer that speaks like a real person" to "predicting ChatGPT". My four year old wanted a robot to clean up her LEGOs. Did she predict iRobot/Roomba?

I would be more impressed by a scenario where, e.g., a writer predicts email, and then the side effects that (1) you have to have an email to create accounts for things, and (2) mail is constantly clogged by junk mail.
OP continuing to drive a 20-year-old car (of any kind, not just a hybrid) is likely more environmentally friendly than buying a new car every few years. They're doing the reduce part of "reduce, reuse, recycle." A long-lasting, low-maintenance hybrid has a good argument for being very environmentally friendly.
> “Tell me about you. If your life was a book, give me the chapter titles from your birth till now.” Once you’ve gotten the overview, dive into each “chapter” and plumb the depths for their real stories. Go back to their childhood! I learn a lot about their grit and commitment to excellence from their basketball obsession or maybe their experience caring for a dying parent.

I actually have some great example recordings of just such interviews as described in the article if anybody wants some actionable pointers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwRg5PiovHQ
The idea of low friction and similar environments and someone being productive always trigger me a little. In the sense that I think MANY people get a lot of things done in a low friction environment... BECAUSE it is a low friction environment. And once you have a few people who have to deal with the results that come out of nowhere, that other person is the friction for everyone else.

I've worked a lot of places where there's that special someone who gets to cowboy everything because they're "really good" and of course they look really good, because the rules or structure don't apply to them and they can move faster than anyone else by design. It's a never ending cycle.

Meanwhile everyone else or people who come later have to deal with everything the special someone did / didn't think of and so on.

I don't disagree with the premise, but there's consequences and a sort of inescapable feedback loop sometimes too.
Raspberry Pi Pico cracks BitLocker in under a minute
I also noticed people don't get impressed when I talk about my ideas, but they are impressed when I show screenshots
More than writes, reads is what we struggled with.

Within reads the most expensive part was the re-construction of models from the rows returned by SQLite.

While deserialization is not the responsibility of the database, the overall throughput with SQLite was too low for it to serve our usecase.
The New York Times Wants ChatGPT Gone
Keep in mind that the correctional officers are often underpaid, overworked, and constantly traumatized. Some of the stories that they tell are enough to curdle your blood. It's not surprising that the less scrupulous ones are happy to make extra money importing illicit substances. There is also the fact that most of the prison is run by prisoners themselves. This provides tons of opportunity for bringing in contraband.
I implied nothing. I’m on a lease, I didn’t spend 5 figures at 0 miles. Comparative ICE vehicles were around the same price to lease.

5 figures seems to shock you but in the UK it isn’t a lot for cars. Here a Ford Focus starts at £28k.

As for maintenance I sold my last diesel for £7k because it was costing me £1,200/year to keep it running.
This article doesn't describe any of their methods.

> It was clear that serialization was the culprit, so we switched to Protobuf instead of stringifying the embeddings. This resulted in considerable gains. For 100,000 embeddings, writing took 6.2 seconds, reading 12.6 seconds and the disk space consumed dropped to 440 MB.

Doing what though? What was their schema like? What are their indices? Primary keys? Column types? Query structure?

It's lacking so little information I find this article not useful and not interesting to me. Which is a bit disappointing since I was hoping to learn something relevant.
I'd be curious to know the results you get if you forgo serialization entirely and save the embeddings on a table with 512 columns, one for each embeddings. Some rough calculation, assuming you store doubles, seem to show that the total db size should be less than 500 MB.
People's intuitions around hiring aren't Bayesian enough. I think a good process reduces down to something like:

- Are they smart? (understands quickly + communicates effectively)

- Are they cool? (won't put poison in the keurig + pleasant to be around)

- Are they high energy? (initiative + action bias)

- Do they have the experience needed to be successful in the role?

Those are pretty strong priors for success. If you find someone with all the above, you've got an ~80% chance of a hit. No need to over-complicate.

In my experience, adding more boxes tends to index towards box-checkers who grew up wealthy. That's how you miss the hyper-smart/diligent state school kids who happened to spend their summers working instead of doing model UN.
It says the switch won't have immediate CO2 impacts due to the Indian grid being coal heavy currently, but I've seen worked examples suggesting that like for like EV comparisons on the Indian grid are already showing savings. And obviously it only gets better as the grid gets cleaner.

I can't see any reason for the calculations not to apply to diesel trains too.

Diesel electrics might be slightly more efficient than diesel cars, but electrified trains don't need to carry their own batteries.
They explicitly said so, phrasing it as "laziness", on their blog post.

"""Today, we are releasing an updated GPT-4 Turbo preview model, gpt-4-0125-preview. This model completes tasks like code generation more thoroughly than the previous preview model and is intended to reduce cases of “laziness” where the model doesn’t complete a task. The new model also includes the fix for the bug impacting non-English UTF-8 generations.""" - https://openai.com/blog/new-embedding-models-and-api-updates
Considering the use-cases, multi-tasking operating systems are not necessarily going to escape the trend toward information appliances.

In my opinion, if the workstation does survive, than a posix style OS similar to the abandoned HeliOS will become necessary again at some point... as Moore's law is effectively dead, and a 15% context-switching overhead on existing threading and mailbox models is silly.

Would I want to write one from scratch?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lITBGjNEp08

Have a great day, and remember to have fun =)
This, so much.

I do like SPA also, but some of the nicest projects I've worked with could be run locally by launching `python3 -m http.server 8008' on the right folder.

I'm happier when I can do something without a processing step, or the need for a package.json. Need a third-party script? Vendor it, and never have to worry about supply-chain attacks.
The most responsible AI model
I'm not sure what your point is, but I think we're basically agreeing? RSS and decentralized hosting used to be normal until the bigcorps got greedy and started manipulating the masses (by removing features from browsers and such) into believing walled gardens are the only way.
"dance monkey dance!!"

was hoping for something insightful...

we are truly in the worst timeline.
"working on ambiguous organizational problems" is pretty much what I do. What's that gotta do with my childhood?

I hate personal interview questions with passion, because I had an unusual upbringing, and I don't want to make it my entire personality. So with questions that personal you are either going to be forcing me to lie (and yes, I have had to make up a version of my life story that's not traumatizing to the listener) or you are coming out of that interview with an opinion about me that has very little to do with how I operate professionally.

You can absolutely get a read on one's potential to do a job xyz without asking personal questions.
Deleting apps will not cure your phone addiction
Sadly I never saw it coming, but should have.

First place, was bought buy a major corporation. They clearly told us they bought us just for our client base. The place had 2000 people at that building when I started. 10 years, and annual layoffs later, I thought I was essential. They had a layoff, woot I am safe this year. Then they laid me off as well as about 100 others, they decided they did not cut enough on prior layoff. This brought the location down to 100, a year later it closed.

Second layoff, was a company I had only been at a year. Biggest sign I had was the new director and my boss did not get along. She and everyone under her was laid off.

Oh well I am better now :-)
I think it needs a pause at the end of each animation cycle. Like, I breathe in and then wait half a second before breathing back out. Same for the other way around.