skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not a therapist or the like. I opened the article bc I really think I should be a better listener (specifically with my tendency to interrupt, which I even do unconscuously, not bc I want to not listen, just my mind accumulates information like very fast and things pop up quickly).

However, I think I found a kind of "be super sensitive", let things come out article... unfortunately that behavior, in my experience, does not help the other part.

Sometimes we should tell the truth or give good advice or warn of the consequences of a bad decision. Yes we should listen, but not fooling the other part with "fake-positive" stuff, I am not sure I am expressing myself well. What I kean is, stay positive as much as possible, do not create unnecessary negativity, but keep it honest.

But according to this article, it seems that those should be disregarded.

Everything looks so soft in the article, at least from the point of view of my culture.

I must also say I was often classified as aggressive in the sense of being too direct. But if you are listening to someone and have a cinversation, I'd rather take the truth of what's wrong better than having compliments from the other side when they are not actually thinking that even themselves. That would just be being fake.

Also, dealing with children, which are still forming their personality, should be treated a bit differently and I can agree with the tips given in the article.

However, if someone comes and tells she is sad, my most likely reaction would be to ask why, do an analysis, try to stay positive BUT not lying about it so that it ends up genuinely helping that person. Same for many other situations.
We've been made accustomed to fast feedback. Technology moves rapidly and therefore gives us quick feedback (dopamine). Peace processes move slowly and therefore gives less dopamine for those involved. Now, what would the junkie in you choose to pursue?
Same with GPUs - reducing the power budget on a 3080Ti down to like 75% reduced the performance by maybe 5-10% but dramatically reduces noise and heat produced.
And ideally, have a thread for that that you spawn in the beginning, then block signals on the main thread before spawning any other thread or initializing any library that might potentially do so.
One thing to consider is energy independence. It’s maybe more relevant in Asia and Europe, but not having your cars depend on imports is a huge win if you can manage it. For CA, the whole PG&E thing is a mess, I’m in the PNW and my EV is insignificant to fill while our gas prices best CA.
I’m reading your thoughts through a very usable brain-computer interface. It consists of a high resolution display which optically couples your thoughts into my visual processing system.

This is probably not what you meant, but instead you are looking for a direct brain-computer interface? Why do you think that would be a good thing?
You could additionally store more water in the soil. Dig some basic water harvesting earthworks in the mountains, maybe plant a few select species and within a few years all the mountain streams will flow for much longer during a drought. As a bonus it will leave a lot more trees alive when the wildfires come through. Of course this is impossible in California, even if it didn't violate environmental laws (it does), a project like this would be sued and propositioned to oblivion.
Since this was well received, here is a full translation of The Song of Hyundai Heavy Industries' Labor Union, done by ChatGPT and reviewed by me:

The Song of Hyundai Heavy Industries Union

Brothers of Hyundai, standing tall,
Piercing violence and suppression's call!

Forward! Forward! Let us rush on through!
Towards the liberation of workers, true!

Even if the power's violence is widespread,
We'll fight with our lives, ahead we'll tread!

Liberation! For liberation we fight!
Struggle! For struggle we unite!

At the vanguard of the workers' liberation call,
Hyundai Heavy Industries Union, standing tall!

The Sun is rising over the Mipo bay,
The hot tears of our mothers, they say

Forward! Forward! Let us rush on through!
Towards the liberation of people, true!

Comrades! Don't you remember the spring of '89?
We'll fight with our lives, our destinies entwine!

Liberation! For liberation we fight!
Struggle! For struggle we unite!

At the vanguard of the people's liberation call,
Hyundai Heavy Industries Union, above all!
Maybe the new surge of interest in Dune is a sign in this direction. It's the only major sci-fi that mainly focuses on futuristic advances in social and self-development "technologies" rather than engineering (the Bene Gesserit being the most representative group - both in how they practice social engineering, and in how they train themselves to control their own bodies).
One of these shows an electric train. That's interesting because the first electric train was demonstrated in 1879.
I’m glad there’s finally some cases setting precedent for the GPL.

I am personally not a fan of GPL family licenses BUT I am sick of fellow OSS developers who keep telling me not to worry about the minutiae of the license. (Usually some form of “Oh don’t worry because we aren’t litigious right now, as long as you stick with our incorrect interpretation of the license”)

My team is responsible for a lot of corporate contributions to open source (some GPL) and I have to pay extra attention to the license terms as a result.

There’s a lot of GPL software that operates in the grey (and many OSS devs who don’t understand their license choices), and I very much like my licenses to be as black and white as possible so I can avoid any risk.

Having legal precedence to point to will help make concerns concrete.
Californians are uniquely bad at handling wildfires. Fire is perhaps man’s oldest enemy. We know how to handle it through preemptive controlled burns. California just refuses to implement them.
This visualisation is super useful. Thanks.
https://www.theatlantic.com/facebook-instant/article/677546/

Never noticed "Facebook Instant Article" URLs before, TBH. In the text-only browser I use, this "simpler HTML" reminds me of Google's AMP (which I rarely see anymore). Like AMP, it looks good in this no JS, no CSS, no auto-loading of resources, 1.2 MiB static binary web browser.
And "2-adic eval" is

The 2-adic valuation of a number is the largest number of times you can divide it by 2 and still get an integer.

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/434931/elementary-q...
Hey chatGPT what would a ceo do in this situation? And this one? Thanks you're the new CEO now.

Yread says: "CEOs is a dying profession. AI will make sure noone has to make decisions"
This is very much “You are holding it wrong” territory.

There is nothing wrong with wanting the same ease of use and integration that iCloud affords, but extended to other clouds. Requiring additional steps (back up to machine, then upload to cloud) are, technically, nonsense, and is simply Apple flexing its’ anti-competitive muscle.
Don I was never there, but the ITS page mentions the robot, I think?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incompatible_Timesharing_Syste...
> a conservative base rate

Do you use windows?

I find that with windows the fan is always spinning, even if at low speed. While with linux most of the times it is not spinning at all.
I really enjoyed Terry Pratchett’s YA books with Dodger and Nation being favourites. Maybe see if you can get access to the librarian at your kid’s school? They’ll be experts
Iraq has a lot of oil. A lot.
This comment is textbook presentism.

4-6 years became "the new normal" 4-6 years ago.
> But according to this article, it seems that those should be disregarded.

Depending on the context, yes.

You are coming into this from a perspective of "listening to fix" and not "listening to understand" which are two different things.

Even if your intent is to help people by listening, you first might want to get the entire picture and understand the entire context. Because if you don't, what change do you really have of meaningfully helping someone?
I recently setup a label printer where the labels get printed from a full page app to a Brother label printer that takes rolls of 62mm wide and 30 meters long. The printer cuts after each page break. It's a regular usb printer but with a funny page size. Also, Brother's website for finding the mac drivers is a bit of a maze of misdirection that tries to get you to install their extremely shitty application. In the end I found a 3rd party website with a working printer driver for this thing.

After a bit of tinkering, I was able to print 6.2x12.4cm labels with a QR code. Really fun to watch it spit out these stickers. Each sticker has a unique QR code with the printed code in text form below it.

Some gotchas:

- you have to use margin 0 to hide the ugly browser headers that get added in the margin otherwise.

- Firefox has no print preview. This makes testing a bit hard. I used Chrome for testing this in the end.

- To print, you replace the dom tree with your print page, invoke print, and then copy back the app's root node from javascript. This is ugly as it shows the print page below your print dialog while that is open. I've not found a better way to do this. I guess I can do some non page layout that shows while that happens. Hacky but it works.

- I've yet to make this work in landscape mode where the page is vertical 62x31 layout to print small stickers.

@page {
margin: 0mm;
size: 124mm 62mm;
size: portrait;
.sticker {
padding: 4mm;
page-break-after: always;
}
}

The rest is just usual html layout. I used a simple flex row with two elements. Print quality is surprisingly good. Cost per sticker is around 0.3 cents per sticker. Amazing value.
Just set my code on one project from MIT to GPL, since it's a personal project without public funding. I was expecting this kind of consequences if someone breaches the license, I'm glad it's the case.
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Also, that is the net energy expenditure of the body, but not the input required. We use a relatively antiquated form of the internal combustion engine to turn food into energy, which seems to be around 25% efficient, at best. It's also built on chains of other fairly inefficient biological entities, so it's hard to say what the overall efficiency is, but suffice to say that we're prevented from using the most efficient energy sources.
When did we go from pre- to post- truth, when monkeys evolved speech / Eve took a bite from the apple and picked up the concept of lying?
Italian. I finished high school in 2003 and I never touched a computer while in school.

We did have one at home, since as back as I can remember, but it was uncommon to have one. Towards the end of the 90s it had become somewhat common.
I'm getting flooded with your backend template posts. I get posting something two times or so, but this is getting out of hand.
> There’s a lot of GPL software that operates in the grey (and many OSS devs who don’t understand their license choices),

Do you have examples? What kinds of misunderstanding are there? And what gets clarified by this case that wasn’t clear before?
> during which it doesn't do much

I know this was in jest, but if sleep was not a critical biological process we would have evolved to not do it already
It's not their money.
Why are you anti reclaiming privacy?
>Is it because we can just yeet waste substances towards the sun?

It is actually quite expensive to get to the sun.
You can try TagSpaces as well, it works also directly with your file system and do not use a database.
Turning Taiwan into another Ukraine? After a few years, the U.S. might lose interest in Taiwan, and the Taiwanese would pay with their lives. Most Taiwanese just want to go on with their lives and maintain the status quo.
In order to listen to fix first you must understand...

I mean that the kind of "I hear you", "yes, blabla" seems nice but it is the same thing anyone would tell you. Someone that does not know you maybe would react the same.

For me it is better (as in valuable) to get a: "because you fail to see you are doing it wrong? Don't you see that..." or something that tells you why you are being dumb and you should not be sad. For example: I am sad bc... the reason is important. If it is bc your father passed away there is nothing I can help with but if you just lost your job or did not get the marks you wanted, there is good advice to make people feel better and try to suggest to analyze what went wrong instead of saying: "oh poor you, I feel you" which does not help except to make that person feel better at that very moment and nothing else.

That "negative" information is more valuable to correct something.

If ehat you have is always people who just listen and let it go, you will end up without any helpful information and maybe even thinking that the problem is elsewhere.
> Pretty different from nowadays when new technology is met with fear, skepticism, cynicism, nihilism, and paranoia.

Could that be because initially they were products, and now we are the product?
It is perhaps an opinion more than a fact, but an opinion that is likely widely shared by people who have done both. Computer assembly languages are not conceptually complex in the same way that higher level math is. The difficulty of assembly comes from its relative obscurity, the proliferation of instructions and architecture variants, and the process of analyzing a problem into the required steps. These are things that can be overcome with patience and reference manuals. At its heart, assembly instructions are doing simple things.

At the risk of an analogy, I would describe assembly programming as memory-intensive, and math as compute-intensive.
Software doesn’t have to be open source in order to provide good “customer support” with tracking and responding to issues.

However, most non-source available projects don’t make it possible to publicly track issues at a code level.
That is basically the B2C version of Zara. The start-up doesn't exist anymore, the Zara founder is one of the richest people on earth now.

This particular problem is bot about production of clothing, it is about everything else: design, sourcing of rae materials, distribution. The standard start-up approach of applying "tech" to that doesn't work.
They'd just do the test at uni and forget about it 2 weeks later.
And we still aren’t quite there where it comes to freeing people from hard manual labor. A bit depressing if you ask me. Nobody can even make a decent house cleaning robot which knows how to clean around cables and won’t paint your entire apartment in dog diarrhea if your dog poops where it shouldn’t have.
Agreed, but the market of people that are not tech, care about their photos not being mined, and are willing to pay 4x the price I think is miniscule
Amazing, that's a great data point, thanks! Would you be able to give me the name of the company you bought from, if your experience was pretty good with them?
In Switzerland at least, it's very common to arrive very early in the morning (~6am), and then leave at 3pm. As long as you do your hours
Over 16? Wow.. that's.. way too late :P
Looks pretty good! I've been looking for something that I can use both my local Ollama and my gpt api key in the same place and it looks like this could be it.
A problem Im noticing on safari, trying to fetch the local Ollama api endpoint results in this error: [Error] Fetch API cannot load http://localhost:11434/api/tags due to access control checks.

Works well on chrome though.
What you say is true, and relevant to the discussion, but... it doesn't answer anything. A very long and dragged out process takes away the justness of it all, and the fact that the supreme court was involved does not change that in any way. If you're a victim, the courts are supposed to provide a remedy. Even the supreme court. That's at least part of their reason for existing. If you have to wait 14 years for a remedy, they're not doing their job right, no matter how supreme they are.

The fact that it goes the same in other countries also doesn't help. The system is broken everywhere, that's all.
I guess it's not as easy to do polls in an authoritarian country.
Tom Scott did a video about it: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL4xc5bsSUU>
People pick ads, it is true. They do not explicitly pick "track you everywhere to build a hyper-accurate profile of you that can then push precisely tuned ads at you", though. That part is buried in the EULAs.
Thank you for the insights. I would like to add that native compilation with GraalVM sounds excellent in theory, but in all the real-world Java codebases that I have tested for native compilation, it wasn't possible due to some limitations in the code or some dependency (it is not a drop-in replacement).
I’m on a Mac - and for the first time a computer I can’t hear (it’s a model with a fan).
AREXX sounds very similar to AppleScript/AppleEvents which came with System 7 and exists in macOS to this day

Apple Events even worked over a network so you could trivially make scripts that remotely controlled other Macs over AppleTalk. This was great for making HyperCard stacks (HyperCard had native AppleScript support of course) that worked as remote control panels and such.

Apple Events were also emitted by applications when you were running them, so you could make an AppleScript simply by hitting "record", acting out what you wanted to do, and then edit the script to add any kind of interactivity/customization you wanted to do.

Apple Events was supported by a whole scripting subsystem in System 7 called the Open Scripting Architecture, so you didn't need to use AppleScript's own language, you could plug in other languages. Third party companies made Python and JavaScript language plugins so you could write (or record) scripts in those languages, and any app that wanted to add macro features would instantly support it. AppleScript itself was even ported to other human languages - Apple made a French version to demonstrate the capability
PDF is really a family of formats. There is the "good" (=sane) PDF, PDF/A-2, and then bunch of less good stuff (all the rest). PDF/A-2 doesn't have any interactive stuff, like forms or JS, and is a ISO standard that is not going to change under your feet. Because it is such mature and limited format, most readers should have no problem with PDF/A-2 files.
What a smart idea! I immediately sent it to my mom who has such a weird way of typing can't wait to see if the AI can reproduce it!
This idea is outdated now more than ever. I don't want to commute across the city to sit in a dark windowless room by myself all day and then commute back home. I already have the best possible private office at home. On the days where I do go in, I want to sit around coworkers and collaborate rather than do focused solo work.
I admire Daniel Lemire’s work on SIMD implementations. [Lemire]

[Lemire] https://lemire.me/en/#publications

I learn a lot by reading my compiler’s and profiler’s documentation.

For Rust, the Rust Performance Book by Nicholas Nethercote et al. [Nethercote] seems like a nice place to start after reading the Cargo and rustc books.

[Nethercote] https://nnethercote.github.io/perf-book/

Algorithms for Modern Hardware by Sergey Slotin [Slotin] is a dense and approachable overview.

[Slotin] https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/

Quantitative understanding of the underlying implementations and computer architecture has been invaluable for me. Computer architecture: a quantitative approach by John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson [H&P] and Computer organization and design: the hardware/software interface by Patterson and Hennessy [P&H ARM, P&H RISC] are two introductory books I like the best. There are three editions of the second book: the ARM, MIPS and RISC-V editions.

[H&P] https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/cM8mDwAAQBAJ

[P&H ARM] https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/jxHajgEACAAJ

[P&H RISC] https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/e8DvDwAAQBAJ

Compiler Explorer by Matt Godbolt [Godbolt] can help better understand what code a compiler generates under different circumstances.

[Godbolt] https://godbolt.org

The official CPU architecture manuals from CPU vendors are surprisingly readable and information-rich. I only read the fragments that I need or that I am interested in and move on. Here is the Intel’s one [Intel]. I use the Combined Volume Set, which is a huge PDF comprising all the ten volumes. It is easier to search in when it’s all in one file. I can open several copies on different pages to make navigation easier.

Intel also has a whole optimization reference manual [Intel] (scroll down, it’s all on the same page). The manual helps understand what exactly the CPU is doing.

[Intel] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...

Personally, I believe in automated benchmarks that measure end-to-end what is actually important and notify you when a change impacts performance for the worse.
All while Pichai rakes in $260M/yr for running Google into the ground and failing to retain top talent. As a Xoogler, I know for a fact most googlers wouldn’t be too miffed about slightly lower raise every once in a while, but not when the CEO and SVPs avail themselves of such lavish, and ever increasing, compensation packages
Heh. Then they don't actually understand what it implies.

Which makes sense I suppose.
That is amazing serendipity since I was thinking of buying PDP10 replica, which runs ITS...thank you!
In that case it doesn't matter if the ORM is "slow".

Anyway, I disagree. Sometimes the conversion of raw data from the db to Python objects can be the bottleneck for a view. Of course, almost always when this happens it's not really a problem per se as the view is plenty fast enough.
Please, take a look at a map will you? Taiwan is tiny compared to the Ukraine, China could bomb the island into oblivion in a day. With all the problems China currently has, I have little faith they'd just sit there and do nothing if Taiwan declared independence. In fact this can easily be used to unite the population because you have an external problem, common enemy, and suddenly the economy tanking isn't that important anymore. It would be the end for Taiwan and suck hard for the rest of the world. And with the Russian invasion still going on at the same time, it could very well bring us another step closer to nukes being used. I just watched Dr. Strangelove again and it felt very different that time.
> those animals are killed for sustenance

Even if we accepted that this somehow makes the ethical conundrum of killing beings that can feel all the pain, horror, fear, terror and dispair thus inflicted, despite having more than enough alternative food sources available to us, magically disappear...

...different studies indicate that western households waste ~1/5th of the food they buy. So, simplifying of course, this would mean that ~16 Billion creatures, who feel pain just as much as humans do, are killed every year ... just so we can throw their rotten carcasses in the garbage.

> hopefully we at least agree that there's a meaningful difference there

Oh, absolutely, only I guess not in the sense that you think we do.

Because these vat-grown lumps of neurons don't feel. They are not conscious. They don't experience pain. Even simple E.Coli bacteria grown on an Agar-Medium have more resemblance to life than they do, because the bacteria at least are beings fully capable of existing outside of a lab-provided growth medium.

So yes, there is a difference: Probing around in lab grown lumps is research, and killing billions of conscious beings so they can then rot in our garbage bins is morally indefensible.