skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cutting down trees to save the environment. Great idea.
Back in the day the Consuls were in charge of the calendar, and some of them paid more attention to that particular job than others.

Precise time really started with the railroads. Before that, well, you got there when you got there.
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I never understood how something like individual journalists, writers, reviews, etc on Substack or on their own blogs haven't formed something like a journalist cooperative.

It's owned and operated by the journalists themselves, and they all maintain their independent and individual reporting. But now with the added support of 20-30 other journalists to work together for the really big stories.

And it's easy enough to have the overarching cooperative submit for grants, donations, or other revenue-generating activities to support the journalism.
A thermometer, a barometer and a radio.
>Malfunctioning

No, it's behaving exactly how the training data and training procedures instructed it to behave, ie what Google's employees instructed it to do.

It's not malfunctioning because you made it like this purposefully.
> your comment seems to misunderstand the analogy

You're mistaking misunderstanding for disagreement.

We understand each other perfectly well, we simply disagree.
Gemini does too, not sure that's all too surprising
I've wondered about this for a long time - can't a 501(c)3 non-profit hire open-source developers as employees, or easier, employ or fund them as contractors and pay them through a 1099?

I'm sure that non-profits hire for-profit companies or contract out work in some way, wouldn't that model apply to supporting open source projects through a non-profit?
> I’m not sure Apple is purposefully making things unrepairable.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Apple obviously has a perverse incentive here. If people can't repair it then they buy a new one. They can always come up with an excuse but it doesn't carry much weight when they're so weak. You can't replace the SSD or easily replace the battery in a Macbook Pro on the theory that it would make it heavier or thicker. Framework proves this is bullocks by making laptops where you can and they aren't meaningfully heavier or thicker.

They make them unrepairable because they intend to.
It brought this to mind: Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracki...
> There are also skills that, you cannot develop

I believe we've never met? That would make this presumptuous, or more likely, projection.
Doctors are paid by the patients that they treat. As an emergency physician, I treat 20-25 patients per shift on average and I am paid by approximately half of them due to not having insurance or money to pay for my services. I am paid roughly $120 per patient. Is that excessive in your opinion?

I would say that doctors in other countries are not paid accordingly and are UNDER-paid. See the UK NHS strikes as an example.

You should be complaining about is the excessive charges and reimbursement that hospitals receive for the care that they give. It gives me pause that despite having multiple physicians in your family that you do not understand the difficulty of their practice or work environment.

Most white collars jobs including doctors, engineers, and administrators make multiples of our European counterparts. I would say that Europe underpays its workers.

Again, I am a highly paid worker just like the rest of you. If I don’t work and treat patients then I am not paid anything whatsoever.

I would be further much ahead financially if I had stuck to being an engineer 18 years ago and not have put off earning an income for 7 years and going into massive debt. This was a risk because I come from a blue collar, lower middle class background without a safety net.

What is the point of your diatribe?
Yeah! Modern games are mostly unmoddable. We have to rely on the good old games.

I still play Blood mods everyday. If you like the game I would recommend the Eviction mod.
Reminds me of Ethernet over HDMI.
This idea that "media" has always owned "news" is frustrating. Would be akin to lamenting the death of almanacs and how facts are now out of reach for people that read them.

There is certainly a shift happening. But the idea that most people benefit from knowing world news is dubious. To that end, what I regret is how out of touch with local news we all seem to have become.
wow, hdmi really wants to die that badly ?
I don't think his recent work video was good at all, namely that he falls into the same trap of idolizing days of yore while thinking about the current day realistically, a form of recency bias known as rosy retrospection. In short, serfs' (and other pre-Industrial peoples') "free time" was not free at all, it was spent doing other sorts of manual labor that wasn't their primary work but nevertheless needed to be done, similar to the chores we have today but much more strenuous. I'll add these comments on reddit that serve as much more of a realistic view of work back then [0] [1] [2].

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/16vgh2l/the_history...

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2b8ovr/ive_s...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/28q7l5/how_m...
GitHub besieged by malicious repositories in ongoing attack
There is an ancient thing called the Akashick Records - and the Vedics believed that it was the stratorsphere and it stored sounds and images that could be accessed by enlightened Humans.

Humans used to hack it with DMT, and meditation.
Before Rust, most features had to be built on top of nginx, and had to carefully balance performance overhead of Lua (openresty) vs risks and maintenance costs of C modules or patching nginx itself.

The switch to Rust has been very positive overall, because it allowed Cloudflare to tackle much more ambitious projects, and own its entire stack.
More precisely /bin /sbin /usr/sbin all links pointing to /usr/bin yes but /usr/local is still of relevance and /opt although it really feels like opt (which doesn't have a great semantic meaning and would be better suited for something under /usr/local

similarly /lib and /lib64 are pointers to /usr/lib

It might be interesting in a vm to remove those symlinks and see what breaks. Presumably a lot.
Gumroad might work for you. They take a flat 10% fee.
There were different standards in Europe during the middle ages and early modern period. Some places retained a date closer to the Roman New Year around the vernal equinox. These places used the Feast of the Annunciation (March 25). Other places (usually in the north) inherited a date closer to the winter solstice and so they used the Feast of the Circumcision (January 1).

As trade between countries grew during the early modern period countries began to standardize on the Feast of the Circumcision. England was a holdout, though and if you look at record from the first half of the 18th century, they will often include both years for dates between Jan 1 and March 25. The British Parliament formally adopted "Circumcision dates" to come into agreement with the continent in 1751.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_(New_Style)_Act_1750
Seems like something the NSA should be in charge of, maintaining a custom Android ROM or even a fully custom built OS/device.
That is the same query plan for any contemporary query planner.

(Just like any C compiler will produce the same output for `x += 2` and `x += 1 + 1`.)

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A notable exception was PostgreSQL prior to version 12, which treated CTEs as an optimization fences.
The hardest (technical) problem for that flow is the fixed cost of transactions making such small payments unappealing. To even make such a flow appealing, we need to first find a way to not lose 15% (or more) of a $1 transaction to payment processing.
Not used it myself but https://gumroad.com springs to mind
not sure. however, my best guess would be to have the best mic(s) on the market for a wearable, so that it can pick up on voice crisply, and then just go on about your day and see what context the AI extracts throughout the day.
I think it's that few people can see its potential. When I first started using immutable infra like 10 years ago, and saw how many problems it solved, my mind was blown. Until I saw the difference myself, it just looked like some trivial CS concept.

It's not apparent that problems X, Y and Z will be solved by immutability. Once it's applied everywhere, whole classes of problems just disappear. But until people see the problems disappear, they won't implement it. Catch-22.
The reason Google has about 100 DEI employees with their hands on the controls of this thing is because they believe anything else is unacceptable.

Gemini wasn't shocking because it showed racist and historically inaccurate material, it was shocking because it showed the world through Google's lens.

As others have pointed out, even Google search has the same issue. Image search will highlight minorities even when the search term suggests none should appear.

It was 100% deliberate, and they spent countless hours refining, polishing and testing the model. They were happy with it.
If the costs of carbon and climate change were fully internalized with appropriately set carbon taxes, I would agree with you. In the absence of that, it's entirely possible that these top down efforts are doing too much, too fast (although they could also be doing too little too slowly). But it's absolutely certain that in the absence of such taxes, the market itself will do it far too slowly.

Now, as for what the "appropriately set carbon taxes are" (and therefore how fast is fast enough), that's an entirely political question that depends on the preferences and values of the society enacting the taxes.
Yep right up there. It was a demo of some hardware/software combos for scheduling large numbers of things in situ.
You're not as one small European country. If only they formed a union of sorts...
Aww man would be so cool to meet aliens and they show us around their stuff, and it all seems really dumb and convoluted, and they hate it too, but it would be too expensive to rip it all out and start over...
ive been trying to hack the XB1 for a year now and only have two potential exploits of only one i will release because it cant be patched, maybe spoof your device family. im researching and just stumble apon 100 posts like this
i genuinely believe its the world we're heading into. privacy is practically dead, and i think if the device has enough utility, people won't give a shit about it listening to you (look at TikTok). plus, with proper marketing, you can show that the recordings aren't being stored.
It would be ironic if because every other business has higher wages, they lose all their employees and can only hire the otherwise unemployable or lowest performing employees, and it ends up hurting them more than paying the new minimum wage.
I have to agree with you. This whole thing is bananas - it’s not like you have some good ol’ boys jacklighting deer and shooting them. It just sounds like some guy who was excited to have a little drone business and was happy to help some folks out with his toy.

As a sheriff friend of mine would put it, busting a guy like that really isn’t in the “spirit of the law.” Maybe there was some bad blood or something between this guy and the wardens.

Don’t get me wrong - wardens can be pretty strict and I’ve known a few who have actually ticketed themselves for making a mistake, but this wasn’t a warden just coming up on a scene and issuing a citation, and saying “sorry boys, I wish I didn’t have to write you up but here we are…” this was a calculated setup and seems like a pretty cheap shot.
You’d have to unwrap, usually with convenient mechanism for it —pattern matching

The problem is that id = id is fundamentally incorrect for a nullable column. You should have done id is not null and id = id. And you shouldn’t have been allowed to do the first anyways, because nothing good can come of it (there is no sane semantics to stuffing a trinary logic into a boolean algebra, and SQL chooses one of the many insane options, leading to both false positive and false negative matches depending.) the only correct answer is not to do that.
I remember when markets were considered through the will of consumers. I miss those days.
Thanks, so that does seem to confirm that when the Romans added Jan/Feb, they put them at the beginning of the year right from the start. Unfortunately it still doesn't really have an answer to why they didn't put them at the end, except that it fits with the chosen name (Janus = God of all beginnings. But of course you could name something before or after deciding where to put it).
Because the shift operations are arithmetically defined, and the situations that are undefined correspond to overflow. v << 1 means the same thing as v * 2 and is undefined if v * 2 is undefined.
You know what really causes a strobing effect in my living space? Road Traffic.

Day AND night.
not a fan of the pin form factor, and i think ear buds are cool but i personally would rather have another form factor
Conspiracy Theorists Aren't Ignorant. They're Bad at Epistemology
It often fails at basic 3-4 digit arithmetic. If you're stretching that definition far enough to claim that GPT4 can "do math" then I should be able to call myself a commercial pilot because I can land a plane in a sim 20% of the time.

I'm not moving goalposts, the original claim was that LLMs can "do math". Primary school arithmetic is math.

GPT-4 can't do math and that's okay, I don't understand why so many of you are so touchy and defensive about this. It's a limitation that exists, nothing more, nothing less.
from the link:

> PS. Note that I am using // instead of / -- this is Python 3 syntax
Yeah - also: tailpipe emissions are a thing. Not emitting byproducts of hydrocarbon combustion around humans seems like it might be a good idea.

Strong smell of Toyota’s famously outsized lobbying dollars on this article.
yeah maybe. although i think of WHOOP and i see that they designed a beautiful wristband. wonder what the hardware is beneath it...
That is quite a hyperbolic statement and I have to disagree with you. I've used SQL on a variety of databases over 15 years, and yes while some like MySQL have poorly implemented anything other than basic SQL/RDBMS features, most are very similar in feature sets. There are vendors-specific additional features like how Oracle supports hierarchical queries with CONNECT, but you don't have to use them.

- CTEs are very close if not the same across Oracle, PostgreSQL, DB2, Hive, Snowflake, and MS SQL Server - I believe even Sybase too but it's been a while. - Joins work all largely the same even though a couple of those support additional join types, especially when you want to join on functions that return data sets.
- Window functions are supported by every major DB with similar or the same syntax too. Any differences take 5sec to lookup in documentation.

My only complaint is loading data is highly vendor specific.
Children need risk, fear, and excitement in play
You know, some of the countries didn't really exist 50 years ago...
The R {dbplyr} package is also a very good way in practice to pipe SQL.
they even re-hired the Cuil founder and she worked in Gradient Ventures for a few years.
That home router botnet the Feds took down? Moscow's probably going to try again
Only for black body radiation do we have a perfect correspondance between spectrum and intensity. But there can be other ways of radiating. Non-black bodies. Antennas. Lasers.
Not sure if I'm missing your intentional irony, but NIST was one of the best places to send folks who think user password rotations are a good idea.

I said "was" because pretty much everyone has now caught up, but NIST updated guidance shortly after big breaches were able to be studied.

> Verifiers SHOULD NOT impose other composition rules (e.g., requiring mixtures of different character types or prohibiting consecutively repeated characters) for memorized secrets. Verifiers SHOULD NOT require memorized secrets to be changed arbitrarily (e.g., periodically). However, verifiers SHALL force a change if there is evidence of compromise of the authenticator

https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.S...
There's tons of stuff out there. The ATEM Mini Pro can do keying and a bunch more for $300.

In general, audio and video production have never been cheaper or more accessible. There's no conspiracy of The Man keeping people down.
Had me with LotR, lost me on The Hobbit
I haven't read it yet, but I have "Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State" by Byron Tau in my cart and that feels related so.. maybe look it up.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706321/means-of-con...
I've sung a lot of Sacred Harp and Christian Harmony that use four-shape and seven-shape shapenote notation respectively. I've never sung roundnote notation so a bit hard for me to compare but I know lots of people who've done a lot of both.

A couple of things you gain with shapenote notation…

You don't have to learn key signatures to sing from shapenote notation. So it's less work to pick it up.

Sightsinging is easier with shapenote notation. After a while, you internalise the intervals between the shapes – you just know what a fa up to a sol feels and sounds like.
> And on top of that, it seems like there are quite a few doctors who will go even farther into denial, and default to assuming a patient's pain isn't real, when their usual diagnostic tools fail to find a problem.

100%. I had a neurologist tell me (while my wife was in a hospital bed, unable to move) that the tests he had done proved that there was nothing wrong with her. I said "you mean the tests don't show any possible issues?" and he said "no, they prove that nothing's wrong. I don't know why she's choosing to act like this".

After that, we never went back to hospital no matter how bad her symptoms got - we just dealt with it at home, which was terrifying. At one point she almost drowned in the bath.

I have some sympathy for him (in hindsight - at the time I was full of white-hot rage). He can't know the sort of person my wife is, and how ludicrous the idea of her faking an illness is.
Shameless plug, but for anyone interested in learning more, I do a podcast on the history of astronomy and did an episode on the Roman calendar:

https://songofurania.com/episode/024

One of the interesting things about their calendar is that because the role of weekdays was much weaker in Roman society, they could actually reuse calendars from year to year. Wealthy people would paint a calendar on the wall of their home and there were calendars literally etched into stone in public places.
Wait until they hear about Clarence Thomas...
You can also do terrible, probably wrong napkin math, it was way too low:

- $4MM sale [1]

- ~7000 posts/pages [2]

- So DO buying at ~$600 an article

- Assuming writers were paid like $200-300 a post, DO basically paid double market rate for each article from CSS-Tricks. Or, at a +$300 gain to CSS-Tricks.

- Except they get his brand, their already edited and vetted for quality, they have established search PageRank, existing traffic, the blog pots had huge engagement (near impossible to build community aspect), established revenue streams, and much-much more.

Coyier is an absolute legend. Hate to see it end up this way. A cleaner break would have been probably double the sale price. I don't fault him. We all have regrets.

In retrospect, the biggest L though is a high traffic and respected blog like this is a perfect vehicle for onboarding of new technologies / ideas.

So like a new JS library, new CSS thing, new SaaS business, to absolutely take off. Not something like Digital Ocean.

[1] https://theygotacquired.com/content/css-tricks-acquired-by-d...

[2] https://css-tricks.com/?s=
Wood grows, aluminium doesn't.
The main point is here: https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2021/01/context-redux-diff...

Context updates all components while Redux and similar state management tools, because they live outside of React, do not. That's the main reason to use true state management tools over context. If you have a relatively small application or you don't care about that, continue using context. The article is also by a Redux core maintainer so you might call that biased but they know what they're talking about, since they're privy to React design decisions much more than regular users.
Love the idea and developer/hacker-centric UI/UX;
Very clever approach with authentication via SSH keys, hope you will find a way to provide account recovery; IMHO prompting email verification as second factor and recovery option is something users used to (just don't send short-code/pin asking to enter it, old-school links would always work; or leave it as an option receive link or code)
> 27 years is a pretty long time.

Even longer than you think, since 1987 was 37 years ago.
I don't know if it's just me or what, but even the vanilla version of FireFox feels slow in responding my mouse clicks. Occasionally FireFox stopped being responsive but didn't freeze. I'd have to kill the FireFox process. I ran into such bug often when using Netscape and the bug was never fixed, so it was quite surprising to me that I got to see exactly the same scenario on FireFox.
You can vote out your union representatives.
I really don't see how western countries reducing CO2 production is going to have a net effect globally.

Are we really naïve enough to think that African and Asian countries won't just replace our consumption of fossil fuels?

Pretty sure none of these countries have emissions targets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_air_pollu...
U.S. and 9 nations unveil 6G principles for global adoption
I definitely feel it. I'm sure some people do not, and they are lucky. My recent perception has been distorted by the pandemic years and resulting working-from-home. WFH created a monotony I never realized was possible. Time had sped up, in general, though some days (especially Mondays) drag on forever...
> Shared on Monday, the six principles are focused on securing global telecommunications infrastructure and will help inform relevant policy adoption. They include *installing technology systems that protect national security*; secure individual communications and privacy; work with industry partners to set inclusive international standards; cooperate to enable interoperability and innovation; ensure global connectivity is both affordable and sustainable; and manage spectrum allocations.

I think I am sticking with 5G for now...
Yeah sorry, grabbed the wrong link initially.
Sam Bankman-Fried Asks for 6 Year Prison Term
If _someone_ released an unofficial patch for the official OSS driver it might get by, it might get "DMCA'ed", though DMCA might not be the correct takedown method for patent violations (I'm just presuming this _someone_ released only their own code and nothing from AMD, so AMD wouldn't have a copyright claim over the code itself), but hey thats never stopped companies mis-using the DMCA in the past! To file a valid counter notice to a DMCA, that _someone_ would have to give details which the forum could then use to sue the publisher of the patch.

But yeah even if the patch some how was made public, and it wasn't nuked out of orbit, ongoing support and bug fixes would be a pain in the ass. (Because as an example, no one from AMD would be allowed to touch the "patch code")

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If AMD's planned patch was leaked for example, as AMD had not officially released it, its not yet "open source" and because of that, not yet public, and I'm sure there will be a clause in the terms that state that AMD would have to go on the offensive to get their code removed from any public repos.
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When it comes to lawfare, The Forum wouldn't even have to be in the right (in a legal sense), just have a big enough war chest to make everyone else's life a pain in the ass!