skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made a conscious decision to cut all social out of my life during the 2016 election. Since then I have done more and more to curtail my use, including setting aside time for non-electronic time: vinyl music listening, real book reading (I have never been an ebook fan), tabletop/card games, and/or puzzles.

I set specific times of day when I will allow electronics and I have disabled notifications from work-necessary apps outside of work hours and silenced notifications from all apps except from those folks I’ve explicitly allowed (my elderly parents and kids). I have silenced notifications from everyone else, always.

You have to be diligent and find alternatives to fill your time. I recently started seeing someone new after a divorce. She is amazed at how “disconnected” and “relaxed” my lifestyle is compared to others. We don’t fill our days with ‘stuff’, outside the home or electronic in nature, opting for purposeful downtime that allows for quiet, creativity, and relaxation from the mandatory parts of our lives.

You can get there. Just think of the life you would prefer and make time and take meaningful and small, incremental steps toward it.

Good luck.
Yeah I have had to make that call myself many times in the past. Never with FirstNet but definitely with AT&T and Verizon. It would be awesome if the carriers could put out a reliable announcement to the affected accounts that there is an outage - it would definitely simplify the pre-support call triage an 1AM.
I always appear offline, and only open it a few times a day, or when needed to send a message or start real-time collaboration. Ideally I'd always appear online, but there is no way to do that with Slack. Basically I don't want my perceived presence to be a signal for others to message or avoid messaging me. I've explained my usage to my team, and expressed a preference for scheduled synchronous communication over asynchronous communication.
USearch SQLite Extensions for Vector and Text Search
That's been on the table e.g. [0][1].

But since this work depends on strong pre-trained model to extend from, I think it's open whether a training a byte-level model from scratch with similar tricks would result in the same performance (and whether any organization in the world has the GPUs and chutzpah to do pre-training at the long context lengths...)

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07185
[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13660
This is a good question. I think it would be best for them to give some sort of signal, which would mean "We're doing this because we have to. We are willing to change if you offer us an alternative." If enough companies/people did this, at some point change would become possible.
Clickbait Remover extension may help you https://github.com/pietervanheijningen/clickbait-remover-for...

Or you can write a userscript / custom CSS to hide thumbnails altogether.

Or you can browse YouTube through RSS feeds (which afaik still work).
The burial detail needs to do a more thorough job. The vetoed ceasefire was in The New York Times and The Washington Post, and on NPR. I didn't hear anything about Adiivka on NPR--we don't listen to it that much, but it absolutely made the papers.
Oooo... The functionality isn't unique but the implementation is awesome. I love the big red leds and hardware power switch etc... Very clean.

Now I want one that fits in a USR Courier case.
The boglehead philosophy involves slow accumulation of an index portfolio over time. Not many people had a huge windfall in 1989 and put it all in the Nikkei at once. The money you invested in 1980 is up 500% before dividends.
Great post and parts really resonate with me. I got addicted to World of Warcraft. It was contrary to my own self image that my brain could do something to me that I didn't endorse, but post WoW I recognized that it did exactly that.

I started sliding down that slope with No Man's Sky but have since corrected (fortunately NMS isn't as well put together as WoW or it might have been worse).

The key for me is running away from something you feel you have no control over feels like a better solution than dealing with the pain. Escaping into a world that has expected behaviors that you can understand is, for me, less painful than a world with people advancing bad agendas for self serving reasons.

The pain is real, the fight doesn't stop, every day you shoot for "well I didn't give in to my fears today, on to tomorrow."
Managing your to-do list as a staff+ engineer
>But they all feared Microsoft Copilot is not beatable. So they don't even try.

The thing is, you don't need to beat copilot. Copilot may well be the worse system and Microsoft can still win because they offer the most enterprise-y solution. I wouldn't be worried about competing with them on functionality. But I also would never even try to outdo them on a business level.
> They need to be accurate

It would be nice if the FTC mandated this. It is exhausting when the status page is taken over by the marketing department (the infamous green check with the little "i").
I definitely have my "ok I need no sound to focus" moments which is probably a good 20-40% of my day.

I sit in quiet a lot so I'm not distracted like you mentioned. It made working in an open office awful for me because I HAD to have headphones on with noise playing so I wouldn't hear other people and get distracted by THAT, and I DON'T want to sit there forced to have music on.

But if I'm not doing anything complex, hopping around social media or just relaxing yeah I've probably got 20 different things going on at once. Music, youtube, 350 tabs spread across 3 monitors. Can't sleep without audiobooks/tv on, etc.

I absolutely hate the ultra silence it gives me anxiety.
My kids love Khanmigo (we homeschool/virtual school), totally worth the cost.
That is significantly lower price than ChatGPT Plus; and since 90% of my value from ChatGPT is learning/tutoring, this seems exceptionally good value, for my specific use case. I wonder how economics work out for them...
It should reflect the user's preference of what kinds of images they want to see. Useless images are a waste of compute and a waste of time to review.
The current focus on "safety" (I would prefer a less gracious term) are based as much on fear as on morality. Fear of government intervention and woke morality. The progress in technology is astounding, the focus on sabotaging then publicly available versions of the technology to promote (and deny) narratives is despicable.
In 2015 or so I quit Facebook. I had also quit smoking and drinking about 3 months earlier.

The feelings and withdrawal I went through were exactly the same.

Ever since I’ve been convinced that social media are not passive or even active sources of content. They’re much better viewed as addictions like smoking or drinking.

And just like smoking or drinking some people may be able to use social media responsibly, but many others are gonna be badly addicted and even the ones who do it responsibly will largely be worse off for it.
The idea that MK is deprived, decaying, and hated is certainly not universally held, least of all by the people who live there and say they are happy. You can quibble about its nontraditional layout but for the work-from-home era it seems almost prescient. If I had to nuke one of MK or Poundbury it would be the latter.
Covid and work-from-home normalized screen time.

The same thing has happened in the past (an old Wodehouse school-story has a kid being yelled at for reading "trash" (David Copperfield) during class instead of the Latin he was supposed to be working on.
> then wait a while

Yeah, that was underselling it a little, it took over an hour to download all 60,000 emails.

Time will tell as to whether it happens again, but regardless, thanks for the pointers.
Yeah, no way am I beta-testing a product for free then risking my job to give feedback.
Why do so many white men continue to work at companies that dislike white men?
The core problem is centralization of control. If everyone uses their own desktop computer, then everyone is responsible for their own behavior.

If everyone uses Hosting Service F, then at some point people will blur the lines and expect "Hosting Service F" to remove vulgar or offensive content. The lines themselves will be a zeitgeist of sorts with inevitable decisions that are acceptable to some but not all.

Can you even blame them? There are lots of ways for this to go wrong and noone wants to be on the wrong side of a PR blast.

So heavy guardrails are effectively inevitable.
Coming Soon to PS VR2
Visa situation is a bit easier since they don’t require an invitation letter for Americans anymore. I’m not sure about the biometrics and surveillance now, but it should be limited to a finger print and…China probably has little interest in monitoring you while in the country, they would rather have more tourists than less, as long as you aren’t unlucky enough to be picked for retaliation (or naive enough to snap pictures of navy ships in tourist areas).
Jack Krawczyk has many twitter rants about "whites" almost like this guy shouldn't be involved because he is undoubtedly injecting too much bias.. too much? yep current situation speaks for itself
I bought a kindle and read programming books on it. I have to stay away from thrillers, fiction, etc., they're almost as bad as screens for driving my heartrate up. But I've really enjoyed the 10-30 minutes making myself smarter while actively helping me sleep that Kindle provides.
IMO the quality of Google Search has been circling the drain for over a decade.

And I am thankful that the rest of Google is following.

Once I would have been super excited to even get an interview. When I got one I was the one who didn't really want.

I think we've been lucky that they crashed before destroying every other software company.
You might like Guile, a form of Scheme. It lets you have define calls inside a begin call (progn equivalent) exactly as you ask.
Huh. William Gibson's novel suddenly makes much more sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_Recognition_%28novel%2... (Although I still find it a bit strange that the protagonist is not triggered by devices in the Apple ecosystem.)
> Also, are there any agricultural billionaires?

Many. But maybe you mean only those getting their hands dirty in the field? Howard Buffet, perhaps. Some sources claim he is a billionaire.
Okay. But denominating in gold is a weird thing to do and only looks this way when you pick specific dates. Pick 1987 and 2000 as your dates and things look very different.
That’s been an issue for a lot longer than that, at least in dense metro areas. Even back in the 3G days I’d have 5 bars and no data due to tower congestion.
That style of bullet use is recommended by the Plain English campaign:

https://www.plainenglish.co.uk/how-to-write-in-plain-english...
That is an example of adjusting generative output to mitigate bias in the training data.

To you and I, it is obviously stupid to apply that prompt to a request for an image of the U.S. founding fathers, because we already know what they looked like.

But generative AI systems only work one way. And they don’t know anything. They generate, which is not the same thing as knowing.

One could update the quoted prompt to include “except when requested to produce an image of the U.S. founding fathers.” But I hope you can appreciate the scaling problem with that approach to improvements.
congrats on launching and putting something out there. I know it isn't easy and I'm sure you've worked long and hard on the product and on the page

so I thought I'd offer some (solicited?) feedback:

* $169 for "starter projects" down from $369 feels like something I don't even want to try out. I don't know if you're trying to make the upsell to $199 easier to digest, but I got sticker shock from a 3 digit number for a starter project. I can host stuff online today for $0 on starter plans and you're charging nearly $200. then you say "The average senior React Native developer charges $120/hour." in relatively small print which I only read after I started proofreading this comment. as a solo founder, I don't pay any react native developers. I'm a full-stack company on my own, so I'm saving wherever I can

* exactly how is this better than just using Expo or something like Flutter or SwiftUI? the fact that you can "fetch from an API" shouldn't be a selling point on your one screenshot -- that's a given these days

* I don't even know what this does other than for some vague marketing words on the page. if you're expecting users to take your word for it and sign up, I think that's going to be tough. at a minimum you ought to show a video of what this does

you're claiming the experience with HyperFast is better than alternatives. prove it. then prove to me that it is better by $169 dollars, because SwiftUI, Flutter, and regular React Native are all free
One of my best friends is definitely addicted to YouTube. I am starting to suspect my wife is too. YouTube is great for music and educational videos, but let's be honest the bulk of content is not that.

In the early days of YouTube I would say I was addicted, or spent a lot of time on there. At one point I realized how much of a waste of time it was and now only look up car repair videos.

I hope everyone can get out of the YT rut.
I've noticed this too, which I'd previously chalked up to "I guess left-wing commentators/vloggers/whatever have left for other platforms"

For a week or two, I was presented with tons of Jordan Peterson talks, which I've never clicked on because of my tendency to consciously ignore <pseudo-celebrity everyone is raving/ranting about>.

After clicking on everything except Peterson-adjacent videos, my feed is now filled with "Bill Maher owns the libs!" shorts. I don't get it.
Apple Updates iMessage with a New 'Post-Quantum' Encryption Protocol
on General Magic:

> But despite all the talent, clear obsession, technical prowess, and a lot of money, the infrastructure just wasn’t there to make it work.

Almost everyone was trying to make a handheld device then, and by the time Palm came along, the category was cursed as far as VC's were concerned.

The infrastructure WAS there, as Palm proved. You just had to scale down your expectations and find a set of functionality people actually wanted. You also needed to give up on cursive recognition and trust that the users would learn a simpler method of entering text.

The monster egos in General Magic just refused to do that, as did their big corporate partners, and all the other failed startups.
> I got diagnosed and medicated for ADHD.

This is a huge factor. I find myself slipping into a pattern of non-stop YouTube or social media scrolling when I haven't been taking my meds. I've had several friends who also have ADHD tell me similar stories.

I wish ADHD was more well understood by the public. I blame two decades of jokes about the disability just being hyper kids through the '90s and '00s. Many people don't even realize that ADHD often persists into adulthood, where it is arguably more disruptive to the patient's lifestyle.
> Very glad you found something that helped, but this is a good place to warn people that everyone is different. In some people, stimulant treatment can actually kindle problematic behaviors like the one you escaped. For some, they enhance focus but that results in more focusing on the hobbies, distractions, and side projects.

Certainly. On dexamfetamine, focus has a distinctive sticky quality to it. I need to be very careful where I direct it. Opening HN mid-morning means a productive session of commenting and getting into Internet arguments.

It's a negative side effect that can be overcome with a good routine and schedule. I take my meds, sit at my desk and open Emacs at 9am every day, 7 days a week. Distractions are blocked, so the path of least-resistance is just doing work. But then again, good routine and schedule are relatively easy to set up once medicated.
Measuring Patterns to Boost Productivity
Many people do use D as a scripting language, replacing their use of bash. D programs can be compiled and run in one step.

#!/usr/bin/env rdmd
import std.stdio;
void main()
{
writeln("Hello, world with automated script running!");
}

> ./myprog.d
Hello, world with automated script running!

https://dlang.org/rdmd.html
Yeah, github OAuth doesnt support a web client only flow, so you at least need a backend to forward along the response to the client.

It's pretty much just that cross site requests are disabled.
I definitely see what you mean. They also have advantages in bundling co-pilot with their other offerings. This will in no means be an easy battle for us, but we have hope that we'll be able to build something people love and end up using!
My favorite question is "Show the percentage of tweets mentioning "y'all" or "yall" per state." Thank you, Louisiana :)
Oh the big one would be models weights being released for anyone to use or fine tune themselves.

Sure, the safety people lost that battle for Stable diffusion and LLama. And because they lost, entire industries were created by startups that could now use models themselves, without it being locked behind someone else's AI.

But it wasn't guaranteed to go that way. Maybe the safetyists could have won.

I don't we'd be having our current AI revolution if facebook or SD weren't the first to release models, for anyone to use.
I wish I could block shorts. Christ sake I’m already paying for premium. Let me block it, and not just from the mobile client - everywhere.
I think the GGP is referring to how, in this new interface, the prompt is always pinned to the bottom even if you scroll the terminal - so you can scroll back through the output of, say, `rsync --help` to find what you need, without losing sight of the prompt pinned to the bottom.
This might be controversial, but I've found that micro-dosing psilocybin removes the urge of such distractions, and allows me to focus on what needs to be done.

I've been told I might have undiagnosed ADHD tho, not sure if relevant. Anyway, YMMV, but it could be worth a shot!

Probably a good idea to combine with exercise and/or mindfulness exercises.
7a-7p is a very long window to get slack notifications. I'd tell an eng to cut it to 9a-430pm or something if I heard they did that (assuming a usual 8-5 / 9-5ish).

I never acknowledge any slack message before 9am my time. I did that at one company and realized how absolutely miserable it would make me when I was getting dressed in the morning to see some fire going on or request or anything work related before I was "on," even if I wasn't really involved.

Gotta keep my mornings pure and innocent now.
A vital part is implied, but not stated - these companies own the novel solutions to training and running the models and they likely own or will own the hardware it runs on.

Without these things the rest of the world, even large corporations, will not be able to compete.
The Ludites do not account for all of humanity, but they sure tried very hard to say "no" to a new disruptive technology. In the end, they were not successful.

The Amish, on the other hand, have successfully staved off most new technology since the 1600s. They also do not account for all of humanity.

It seems that saying no to a disruptive technology requires the naysayers to split off into a whole new society.
US health tech giant Change Healthcare hit by cyberattack
I believe this to be a symptom of a much, much deeper problem than "DEI gone too far". I'm sure that without whatever systems is preventing Gemini from producing pictures of white people, it would be extremely biased towards generating pictures of white people, presumably due to an incredibly biased training data set.

I don't remember which one, but there was some image generation AI which was caught pretty much just appending the names of random races to the prompt, to the point that prompts like "picture of a person holding up a sign which says" would show pictures of people holding signs with the words "black" or "white" or "asian" on them. This was also a hacky workaround for the fact that the data set was biased.
"it becomes more and more difficult to distinguish what's real and what's not" - Is literally what they said.
200 people died there, 1000+ were injured, and 100k left homeless. This art is a monument and tombstone. This is perfectly respectful. I think most communities wouldn't build a supermarket or park over a recent human disaster site like this.

Its really a memorial, not modern art:

"I told him immediately, ‘let’s go see the old town’. It was almost 20 km away and I was just shocked. I almost felt like crying and then this idea came to me: here I could do something… This is what I would do: we compact the ruins — which are a problem for everyone — we reinforce them well, and with concrete, we create an immense white crack as a permanent symbol of what happened here,” Burri described on first seeing the ruins of Gibellina.
> I just always imagined the GSM spec was so resilient that you could always make a 9-1-1 call if a working network was available but this outage proved that wrong. Surprising to learn in 2022.

The X is broken but claims it isn't stops failover pattern is strong all over networking. It's not unusual to see it in telco root cause analysis.
It'd be a lot less suspicious if the product lead and PR face of Gemini had not publicly written things on Twitter in the past like "this is America, where racism is the #1 value our populace seeks to uphold above all." This suggests something top-down being imposed on unwilling employees, not a "virus."

Like, if I were on that team, it'd be pretty risky to question this, and it'd probably not lead to change. So they let the public do it instead.
Wow, rare I find a sans serif font that feels so good at first impression. Might give this a shot on my desktop where I normally use OpenSans. Lovely.
Also, just in case someone thinks this is an exaggeration, Meta is actively working to realize this with the Aria glasses. They just released another large dataset with such daily activities.

https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1760502294016036986

Privacy concerns will not stop it, just like it didn't stop social media (and other) tracking. People have been taught the mantra that "if you have nothing to hide, ...", and everyone accepts it.
U.S. Senator Accuses Google AI of Pandering to CCP
First there is the experience of watching the darkness descend on you. It's like you can see a wall of it coming at you from a distance.

But viewing the corona of the sun... wow! I cannot begin to describe how cool that is. You don't get to see it in 99% totality. Only when the sun is completely blocked from space. It's remarkable and beautiful and impossible to capture the light on camera and you only get to see if for maybe a couple of minutes in your life.
Concrete Math Companion (2002) [pdf]
Seven. Exactly 7%
Falstad circuit simulator, the app(let) that carried thousands of EE students through college, when they should have been writing Spice. (I'm guilty as charged)

I have no idea who this Paul Falstad fella is, but I do owe a big thank you to him!
I've been planning on building some of this for an internal tool, but now it looks like I don't have to. I'm impressed by the demo, it looks really polished.

I'm particularly surprised by the speed considering all of the pre and post processing. I am doing some similar things and that is one bottlenecks. I'll dig in, but I'm curious what models you are using for each of these steps.
I have to work with SQL Server and use DataGrip wherever possible, using SQL Server Management Studio only for the pieces DataGrip doesn't support (mostly running SSIS packages). My productivity really did jump when I switched to DataGrip.
The best example is The Great Replacement "Theory", which is widely celebrated by the left (including the president) unless someone on the right objects or even uses the above name for it. Then it does not exist and certainly didn't become Federal policy in 1965.
PoS devices are usually networked. If you don't validate transactions in realtime you would later validate in batch, but that has more risk than validating at the time of transaction.