skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got thoroughly frustrated with Deno on a side project for similar reasons (leaky node compat abstractions, kludgey interop between code that does IO the Deno way and Node modules, immature Deno stdlib, undermaintained Deno libraries, spooky bugs). I lost a lot of time to figuring out how to make things work the Deno way.

Then I spent a day switching my codebase back to Node. I was struck by how much worse my code got. The Deno code made use of niceties like top level await and import maps. I needed to resort to a bundler to dedup instances of Y.js between my backend and Lexical. The Deno libraries tended have cleaner APIs (e.g. Oak vs. Koa).

After I took a step back, I scrapped the Node rework and accepted my misgivings with Deno, for now. Going back to Node was kind of like playing an older game; the graphics were great at the time but now that I've seen what a 2023 backend Typescript codebase looks like, I don't want to go back.
Another option is affiliate marketing. If you already lead your customers to a reasonable and justified purchase, you can get a cut of the sale.

This is how I can afford to spend so much time on free and useful things. A few pages on my website fund everything else.
Post-Growth Enterpreneurship
Hmmm... Idk if this is overkill or not. I see the value in including more complex data types to a json-like structure but the js language wouldn't really consume them that way, which is why i guess they created the ion-js lib and other server side implementations.
Italian exoskeleton gets disabled users walking and standing
C++20 Idioms for Parameter Packs
Car dealership in US are in their own league. Coming from Europe it is difficult to appreciate at first. But when you see headlines like:
"Roma was purchased last month by Texas car dealership magnate Dan Friedkin, who is worth $4.1 billion."

Yes, that a Texan car dealership buying the AS Roma (soccer team, Italian capital).

When I came in US, I had no car, I saved money, went to dealership (Toyota) and pointed a used Matrix, test drive it, and said, I will buy it. The guy started to show me a long form (like 3 letter pages long form)... I said I do not want to make a loan. He looked at me like I came from another planet. I want to buy the car. He said that he can only accept a bank check. It was close to noon on Saturday, I asked if he could drive me with the Matrix to the nearest bank quickly, he reluctantly said yes. Maybe he thought I was going to scam him or something. He did stay in the car, while I asked for a bank check. He drove me back to the dealership. Unfortunately I had to leave the car, so they do a final inspection and prepare some papers. I came a week later to pick up the car.

Clearly the sales guy seemed a bit puzzled by the transaction. But there was no way I was going to drag a car purchase process like describe in https://github.com/kutinden/buyingacar/blob/main/README.md (13 steps !?)

Now I see the why Tesla sells online. US dealerships have been fat cats for too long.
Ethics are more universal, if anything - don’t kill, don’t steal, don’t play anything by Creed or Kenny G over loudspeakers, that kind of thing. Things everyone can get behind.

Morality tends to be an implementation of ethics, like respecting the dead by leaving them to be eaten by vultures, or burying them instead.
Pre-warned inspections aren't inspections. The government or investigator should just show up at the door.
> I'm trying to point out that Stephenson's reputation on endings is largely undeserved, pretty much just a self-perpetuating myth

The first time I read Snow Crash, the first time I'd even heard of Stephenson, I loved the action leading up to the end but thought it ended with a disappointing thud. Same with Diamond Age, same with Cryptonomicon... I read all of these before I had any connection to the internet memeplex around Stephenson. Anathem was a notable exception, with a nice proper denouement, and that was after I'd found out that lots of other people found Stephenson endings unsatisfying. I also didn't find fault with Zodiac or The Big U, although these were of course somewhat more conventional than his later works.

I don't think you understand why thousands of people find most of Stephenson's endings unsatisfying. That's fine for you. It does not mean that the rest of us are just making it up for the memes.
I mean, Control Theory has been part of engineering cirricula for a lot longer than that. But the internet wasn't nearly as pervasive then, and Wikipedia wouldn't be founded until the next year.
Strongly agree that you should put them on GitHub with a decent README and try to get a job in the industry. Most applications seem to ask for a GitHub link. To be frank it’s hard to imagine the utilities to be worth any money if you have 0 professional experience. Maybe I’m wrong but compare them to some coding boot camp graduates GitHubs. They always have a very similar set of toy projects
> So the question is, how good are you at selling your website as something that people might have warm feelings about?

streamers and online content creators have already solved this problem - parasocialism is the answer.

Not sure if it works in the tech world, but in the onlyfans/GFE world, it works amazingly well.
A dynamic gate is a pretty distinct feature from previous SSM architectures in my opinion. In a sense, the overall fundamental architecture of mamba is still that of the transformer but with attention replaced by an SSM with dynamic gating. All of deep learning uses closely related ideas, but the SSM class of models took advantage of stability guarantees from integrators in control theory and created a class of RNN that don’t have to worry about exploding gradients. Mamba is one of the ways to make these SSM models much more expressive.
Citation needed?

Here's the 2023 report from Roche, which owns Genentech.

https://assets.roche.com/f/176343/x/0ef2047502/ar23-roche-ho...

Page 17 shows that R&D costs for pharma is 10-20x larger than equity-based compensation. That's all stock-based compensation, for execs and regular people. Your claim is that it's the opposite.
You make it sound like:

a. Open sourced software is immediately found and used

b. Getting money from software is as easy as placing it online

Neither one is true, nobody will give you money without you putting it some effort, whether it’s through advertising or if you already have a sizable following ready to buy your products. If you’re neither, feel free to open source it and expect zero user and zero income, just have it as a showcase if you’d like.
There are 3 narratives required. As the late great copywriter Gary Halbert taught: star, story, and solution.

Who are you. Why do you do what you do. How are you different.

Answer these 3 narratives and bonding with clients becomes easier.
Do you have further information on this?
UDP and Me
Online CSS Quality Analyzer
>In countries like South Korea and Japan they still very much focus on protecting the likeness and so cameras are banned

They're not completely banned in Japan; it depends on the concert. At one concert I attended recently, cameras were not allowed during the concert, except during one song: they made an announcement that camera use was permitted during this time (while the musicians were walking around the arena during the song), so people pulled out their phones to take close-up photos of the musicians if they could. Afterwards, they announced that phones/cameras should be put away, and they were.

It's actually pretty nice: you can see much better without everyone holding their phone up, and then everyone still got a little time to use them for their photo collection.
I've lived in both, I just don't have the blinders towards the homeless population that native Europeans seem to.

Amsterdam has basically the same population as San Francisco (~820K) but 10K homeless people as opposed to 7K.

Berlin is of course much larger (3.6m), but is literally called "the capital of homelessness" in NGO circles because the homeless population is so absurdly large, 10K rough sleepers (which is the only population the city bothers to count) and another 30K homeless by the US definition.
https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=4562913498059604&w=5kswekQ...

Alternatively, for text-only, simple HTML:

cat > 1.sh;chmod +x 1.sh
#!/bin/sh
read x;
x=${x##*-};
exec curl -si40A "" https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/$x \
|grep -Eo "\"body\":\".+\"readTimeMin\"" \
|(echo "<meta charset=utf-8>";sed 's/\"body\":\"//;s/\",\"readTimeMin\"//')
^D

echo https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/a-recipe-for-disaster-insiders-warned-meta-s-privacy-push-would-shield-child-predators/ar-AA1lTvjW \
|1.sh > 1.htm
firefox ./1.htm
links 1.htm
links -dump 1.htm
If people typically get 10s of errors on a single form, it might well be better to split it up into several sub forms.
A few years back, on a limb, as a quick experiment a coworker of mine (github.com/jkirsteins) wrote `twofa`.

Surprisingly usable for a few day's worth of hacking around!

https://github.com/sqreen/twofa
Maybe we shouldn't focus so much on predictions made in 1920. Surely living in the future, allows us to have a better understanding than Aldous Huxley ever could?
Just found this. It analyzes your CSS code and gives scores for maintainability, complexity, and performance. Good, detailed analytics. I like it.
On a rock flying through space in a solar system flying around a black hole that is moving towards some other larger part of space - what is belonging?

"belonging", to me, is a human phenomenon that doesn't need much. We want to have our human experience shared, for our existence to be validated. It's so tied to nature that people have bars they frequent as they drown in alcoholism.

The interesting part about it is that many feel this way, especially in a modern world that is at odds with the old one. How can so many be disconnected yet wanting to connect?

I have found that all of society is based on the premise of building it when it didn't exist yet. Just the same we can create our belonging, and that's the scary part.
A better way to cover this is to make the product free for personal use but require a license for commercial and institutional usage.
It doesn't need to be one or the other. People should be able to give a good start to their kids, but not to make them as rich as countries when their children didn't do anything to deserve those resources.
>> The simple fact is, work for survival sake is often mind-numbing and soul destroying.

This would be the government work. It isnt there to satisfy, it's there to keep a roof over your head. IF it was fun they would not PAY you would they?

>> In place of the old pleasures demanding intelligence and personal initiative, we have vast organizations that provide us with ready-made distractions - distractions which demand from pleasure-seekers no personal participation and no intellectual effort of any sort. To the interminable democracies of the world a million cinemas bring the same stale balderdash. There have always been fourth-rate writers and dramatists; but their works, in the past, quickly died without getting beyond the boundaries of the city or the country in which they appeared. To-day, the inventions of the scenario-writer go out from Los Angeles across the whole world.

The point he's making is to find that passion elsewhere, make music, play sports ... DO rather than CONSUME. And that everyone should do this in all things. These are the "pleasures" and they should be enriching you via your participation not your passivity.

>> Finding work you have a passion for that creates a positive impact in the world is something everyone should strive for

No one wants to work at the DMV, no one dreamed that in their child hood. But we need people to do it... he's speaking out against them going home and sucking down film, tv, tiktok rather than DOING things that enrich their minds and bodies.

>> So he's playing both sides, like a true philosopher.

So no this is not what he's doing at all!
Who else other than government has the power to tax, regulate, and subsidize tho? I don't think it's much of a leap that it's a negative criticism on government bureaucracy.
2000 is the population of the city's shelters; the rough sleeping population was about 10K the last time they counted (right before the pandemic). And remember that's a much narrower definition of "homeless" than the US uses.
Multimodal models use embeddings as well, the difference there is that they've been trained to associate the same position in latent space to text and to the image that text describes, that way it can turn a textual response into an image and vice versa. A lot of models use CLIP, an embedding method from openAI.
> Unless you can explain further how the right of return is somehow a political party, or a "stigma" that people are trying to "disentangle" themselves from?

I guess I assumed you had some basic knowledge of the situation there.

Explaining properly would take too long, but in short part of the reason there is no political solution to the conflict, is that the Palestinians insist on the right of return to decedents of former Palestinians into Israel proper. Israel would obviously never agree to that. (They could return to the newly created Palestine, but apparently that's not an option for them - they only want Israel.)

So that's your political party connection. And as for stigma anyone who is listed on that register is basically permanently excluded from citizenship in their country of birth.

Former Palestinians who were born in Lebanon would prefer to be Lebanese citizens and work there, but they can't, because of that registry. etc, etc, etc, for all the other Arab countries in the area (Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, etc). No one wants Palestinians, so I'm sure a ton of them would prefer to shed that label and live like other Arabs in those states, but they can't.
> The military’s rationale for offering us access seemed clear. The brass, apparently, wanted to help get Americans accustomed to the increasingly real prospect of conflict with a genuinely powerful opponent. They wanted to humanize the otherwise inhuman—some would say inhumane—reality of nuclear deterrence. And, finally, they wanted to convey a message to China and Russia about US forces and their strategic capabilities, resolve, and, for the moment at least, superiority.

Not a paragraph I normally see in military reporting.
These gifs are meant to go along side web content in the 90s. They aren't sufficient to stand by itself as a social media post, so they have no plane on the modern web and so we don't see them anymore.
This argument boils down to "the government is too powerful and you shouldn't provoke it" while attempting to vouchsafe the legitimacy of metadata driven watch lists in the first place.

In my eyes this just strengthens the case.
> how does Nuclear Harold handle the waste?

Neighbor's backyard.

> where does he get the fuel and for how long?

From the Libyans, until they find him.
> I currently use nikwax.
Yes, Nikwax is much better for the environment, it is some kind of mineral wax, right?
> Wax is not breathable and will make you drown in your own sweat after a few hours of spending time in it.
Thats the thing, a membrane is just breathable under the right conditions. In heavy rain the membranes will be covered with water and can't breathe. If it is warmer outside of the jacket than inside of it, it won't breathe at all. And even if conditions are perfect, the breathability of membranes are just a marketing gag because hot wet air needs a lot of pressure to get outside of your jacket / boots / with membrane. There are tests about it all over youtube that debunk the breathability of membranes like Goretex.
> I still wear a goretex rain jacket and rain pants from the 90s, they work terrific. The membranes are still fine.
I don't know about your jacket but stuff was made more sturdy back in the 90s. I'm just relying on my experience and stuff I've read by others. It depends on how often you use your stuff.
> I realize some people just had a perfect storm of a large monthly bill, but seems like that could be solved by more regulation on the pricing cap side while still leaving the production to be a more open system.

Adding price cap regulation will necessarily raise the average prices to pay for the occasions that the price goes 180x, or even 30x. There's no free lunch.
> I don't think I"m ever gonna complain about my job in America again.

Voilá, this is how those in power are kept in power.
US Air Force DevOps Engineer Sets Himself on Fire in Protest War in Gaza
Apparently you have a higher standard for "get along" than I do. I think not being actively at war for decades qualifies.
The untapped health and climate potential of cycling in France: about €1/km
Can you give us some evidence that Galaxus warehouse workers are somehow less "exploited" than Amazon's Swiss warehouse workers?

Or is this a deal like complaining about Apple supposedly using slave labor, while blithely ignoring the fact that every other computer and cell phone comes out of essentially the same Chinese factories? If anything, the people who crank out low-end Android phones probably get paid less than Apple's workers. I'm nearly 100% certain they don't get paid more.

I'm skeptical that Galaxus warehouses are worker's paradises, because I did a few stints at warehouse work as a youngster.

You know what? Warehouse work sucks, and it sucked long before Amazon came along.
The user interface of the current ChatGPT strikingly reminds me of the classic teleprinter interface. It's fascinating to think that, with a bit of ingenuity, one could potentially retrofit a 1960s teleprinter to interface with the ChatGPT API.

This thought leads me to ponder whether there are ongoing projects aimed at evolving this user interface into something more dynamic and interactive with LLMs. Specifically, I'm curious about initiatives that not only automatically better visualize results beyond Markdown but also "generates" innovative UI components and layouts. These would ideally support richer user interactions, such as touch, clicks, scrolling, and zooming for the input requests. Enhancing the interface in such a manner could revolutionize the way we interact with AI, making it more intuitive and engaging.
Lenovo's Project Crystal is first laptop with a transparent MicroLED display
That seems like an incredibly stupid idea if you know that Intel themselves messed up their leadership position in this field and you can't just magically steal the secrets to success here.
"a 3d scammer app"
this one sounds like the real money maker :p
"We’d been told that the number of civilians who had been given this level of access (carrying cameras, no less) was roughly the same as that who have walked on the moon."

Dang, they're still having retention problems in the sub force?

Also Boomer life is like the Waldorf Astoria in comparison to a fast attack's Motel 6.
The Domain of Failure
This BS is why I bought a Tesla.
Why isn't it scalable? This could be a $19.95 device that you buy and just plug into your router. Instead of "Totally not the FBI VPN" why not "Noisy Gateway Service?"

I don't believe there's any worthwhile way to regulate this technology nor is there any particular reason to. The imbalance comes about because of spare electricity, which is truly the crux here, that we have so much to waste on dippy language models while also having so little to spare that some people have none... or possibly worse... electricity with random availability.

This you could actually regulate. I think the game is clear.
> Instead it's used to make money.

Most people find having more money to be helpful.
While I agree the difference is vast, GPT4 still goes down the garden path a lot. If you're critical you can usually spot it's reason errors and challenge them, but it still also has enough issues that conversely I think in some areas there's a risk it'll be better at convincing people about the wrong things.
> Bushnell, who was wearing fatigues on Sunday in Washington, was a DevOps engineer based in San Antonio, Texas, according to his LinkedIn profile.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-bushnell-875897280

> I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” the airman repeated, in footage reviewed by TIME, as he walked toward the driveway of the Israeli embassy. “But compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.

Video https://twitter.com/taliaotg/status/1761944158636331247
Doesn't this project weakness? Is there any reason to believe China or Russia have had doubts about US capabilities that this would now... resolve?
Post was sent through a SpaceX Direct to Cell satellite in space
> But you only need a single example to show it doesn't understand.

Implying that the average person can solve every riddle, algebra problem, and trick question.

> Because it isn't alive.

The sanest straw-man argument.

> It's a tool. It isn't sentient. It isn't thinking.

So are you. It doesn't need to be. Yes, it is.

> It is an incredibly complex statistical system.

Yes?
And here I was thinking emacs had excellent documentation, unlike VimL (neovim not counted)
> It's not a permanent fix, and a once or twice monthly injection for the rest of my life is not something I'd like to sign up for.

Seems better than dying of anaphylaxis but what do I know.
Is that still true today? I know in years past it was, but used car prices are so high right now. I've seen many 2 year old cars selling for nearly as much as new lately.
Some people aren't undergrads who took Control Engineering courses.
I should elaborate more about why I believe this is a bad idea to use DNS as storage / content.

First, because of a distributed nature of the DNS, clients do not directly fetch this data. Instead, resolvers and DNS forwarders do the work and cache it.

Secondly, because displaying or converting this data to html requires a special website or a dedicated client, at which point this dedicated component should use a different storage than DNS. Whatever that may be, p2p, etc.

Third, as the impact on the DNS ecosystem is problematic here. I will say something controversial by stating this: DNS had been designed in one goal, for you or your program to connect "to a string" that you or a string owner control and manage, as opose to connecting to a network address (IP) that you usually do not own, that can change at any time, and that it is meaningless and hard to remember. Over the years, this basic principle extend a bit with introduction of some policies being stored in the DNS that is meant to help the domain owner setting up some boundaries or policies, like SPF or CAA records.

Storing website data is not something I would recommend. Again, you can argue that this "client" only prints TXT data to users that would not normally be able to access it (average internet browser user) but clearly it goes far beyond this, encouraging storing domain content (data) into a DNS.

Fourth, security. Very few domains implements dnssec or curvedns and clients do not use DoH en masse. A mitm is a serious threat to the client rendering this data.

Fifth, if this gains wide adoption (doubt it), resolvers will stop caching TXT records as a policy to save resources for crucial data, and the crucial data is A(dress) record(s).

Because the purpose of the DNS on a high level view, is too make a connection between two programs or users. I know that's a simplification, but this is the core idea. Sure, it has reverse DNS mapings to assing a string onto a network address, but 99.99% of the time DNS job is to make connect() possible. So you connect() to Amazon using DNS, Amazon contacts payment processor using DNS, they connect() to Visa which connect() to your Bank and every connection in this payment processing chain use DNS to maka it possible and reliable.