skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We now know based on his numerous biographies and documentaries made about him that he overpromised because else his companies would not get the badly needed funds/support/customers. Is this fraud? Probably but he got away with it because he delivered enough tangible results to get people to back off. Otherwise he'd probably be in jail now.

Why does he still overpromise when he does not need to? Well the latest biography sorta explained it: He can't help himself, he needs the thrill of an ever more difficult problem to solve. (ie. he's psycho)
Dragons: A History – Ronald Hutton (Gresham College) [video]
The problem I have with forgiveness is it is antithetical to creating a disincentive for the behavior or action being forgiven. What incentive does a maligned person have to change their behavior if they don't have any consequences?
Not only do NUCs sip power but they're embarrassingly fast for most "I want to play with servers" jobs. RAM is cheap and 32GB goes a long ways.
Or a better way to navigate the gazillion posts in his site. There are no categories, not even a way to list all posts by title only that I could find.
The longest cargo train in the US was 5.5km long: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_trains#General_cargo
> But for the majority of people living in the US, what changed?

Everyone of a certain age knows at least one of their schoolmates or college friends that died in the war.

The US government used the occasion to assassinate American citizens abroad with drones with no due process.

Everything you say or do on the Internet is tracked not only by advertisers but by the US government itself.

Trillions of dollars spent and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Afghani civilians are dead thanks to the war and sanctions conducted by the US. This ended up being a complete waste in Afghanistan due to the Taliban immediately retaking the country.

If you can't see these as impacts then it's because your separation from them is a privilege.
I recently went looking for a new keyboard for my PC and there are two things that are instant showstoppers for me.

- no tenkey
- arrow keys not laid out in a T configuration

A close 3rd is trying to cram more than just ctrl/meta(window)/alt keys to the left of the spacebar.

preference is a hell of a drug :)
Then go back and answer the questions to which you copy and paste- spammed your email all over this thread.
Yuka – App that scans food and cosmetics
I like the new-ish expression for holding a grudge as letting the person "live rent-free in your head." They have wronged you in the past, but it's rarely worth regularly spending mental energy ruminating about it. Easier said than done of course.
>The real question is: what would it take for the healthcare industry to restructure itself to actually function?

Strike the words "over 65" from the medicare bill.
The users' fingers don't jump between locations instantly. That already provides the motion cue. UI animations are additional motion added after the natural motion has already completed.

And I already agreed that animation can be beneficial to spectators, who don't have access to the natural motion cue, but that's a small fraction of total use.
Every time the topic gets of healthcare comes up I always wonder how many doctors have tried themselves to interact with their own clinic (has to be their own)

Trying to do simple things like:

- Setting or getting an appointment.

- Calling to sort out their office’s coding error that resulted in me getting an erroneous bill

- Trying to get access to their portal or getting results for tests transferred in a realiable manner to another doctor’s office.

I truly think that they would be mortified beyond words and wouldn’t believe their name is on the sign up front.
Do you think I’m a Facebook employee…?

Because no one else can answer your questions.
Militarization of the police was a pretty big change.

It's less noticeable in most rural areas, but some places the police have unexpected access to hardware. Think of towns of ~1000 people that have anti-riot vehicles. That kind of access came after increased security spending after 9/11. A lot of police departments saw it as money from the heavens and were worried that if they didn't spend it, they wouldn't get more of it.

There has also been an increase in police officers carrying gear that used to be restricted to SWAT teams. I've worked in a couple major cities where every day I had to walk past cops that were basically just standing around with an M4A1 strapped across their chest and their hand resting on the grip.

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The mortgage crisis around 2008 completely changed the way that homes are bought and sold. If you bought a home before that time you had to do way less paperwork and way less work to prove that you can afford the McMansion you just bought.

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The dot-com crash in the 90's fundamentally changed how startups are funded and valued. Before that crash startups didn't need to have any plan to profitability. VC decks were basically:

1. Steal underpants

2. ???

3. Go public

4. Profit

VCs still invest in bubbles, but you need a much clearer picture of how you'll become profitable one day. Amazon is a notable hold-over from those days. They've never technically turned a profit, and have no real plans to.
You appear to have dropped a t from the end of the URL: https://graphite.dev/blog/why-facebook-doesnt-use-git
Agreed on principle, but the “not secure” warning in the url bar is an annoyance I cannot stand.
> Dr. Lauren Oshman, a family physician and associate professor at the University of Michigan Medical School, says she initially experienced some patient resistance and anger about the prospect of being billed for emails.

> Now, she says, patients are typically pleased that they are able to get a direct response from her through a portal message.

> “They’re thrilled when they get me directly,” she says.

Geez, this could make corporate PR people blush.
I was the same age. The military police with fully automatic weapons that to this day patrol Penn station still give me the creeps.
It's a reconstruction filter, the simplest DAC you could build.

Most of the digital parts of DAC chips are not there for conversion, but getting data ready for conversion through a reconstruction filter. You don't need that if you're driving a PWM signal through a cap to integrate it.
Yes and:

Coconut oil, coconut cream, ginger (w/ dash of pepper), cinnamon, hemp seeds. Something different every day, to avoid boredom.

Sometimes I go savory, swapping meat for fruit.

Which peanut powder do you use?
These are the excuses culture makes available. I take the commenter just to be reporting them.
Midjourney Accuses Stability AI of Image Theft, Bans Its Employees
I've been working remotely since I was 19 (32 right now), and hopefully, that won't change anytime soon. I can't imagine myself working at an office.
Talk to me when you get a $4000 bill for 2 hours in ER where the actual doc saw you for 5 mins and then the nurses did band-aid and over the counter burn ointment. This with Insurance (biggest mafia). AMerican Healthcare system baby!!
Yeah, I thought "art" first, but perhaps PR is a better word.
The reason why people write all the source files in a list in a cmake file is that it means that when one developer adds a new file, everyone else's build system automatically regenerates the next time they try to build the project. When you use globs (which cmake does support), it means that the CMakeLists.txt file doesn't get modified when adding a new file, so the cmake generated makefiles/ninjafiles/whatever have no way of knowing that the build was modified. Instead of having the build system regenerate and then the build go through, they get a linker error and have to manually run "cmake -B build" or whatever to fix it.
It's been too long and I don't clearly remember, but I think I had to use login.gov to establish an account for mumble. There was an option to print out a onetime pad (for 2FA); I chose it just for kicks. Haven't used it but I have it on file "against the day" I lose my normal second factor.
This blog post felt unsatisfying. I’m not sure I’ve talked to anyone in the last decade about distributed systems where:

- CAP came up

- all parties immediately agreed that CA was impossible

I still think it’s a useful model for forcing people to think about their failure modes though. Systems, largely, tend to fall into either CP or AP or be horrendously expensive.

You have to choose your trade offs.

I wish the author had expounded a little further on better options. I’ll read the paper linked, but there’d be more punch with more inline content.
You are likely being downvoted just as much for the inaccurate implication that US Imperialism only started after 9-11 as the explicit accusation of US imperialism at all.
> Is there something inherently insecure about remote desktops, or is MS software here known to be particularly insecure...

Exposing RDP to the Internet directly has been frowned-upon because of the attack surface being presented, there's no two factor "story" out-of-the-box, and you're opened up to brute force attempts on cruddy user passwords.

Older versions of the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol had a much larger attack surface than current versions. The current versions with Network Level Authentication (starting in Windows Vista/Server 2008) present a smaller attacks surface. Older versions used "homegrown" Microsoft crypto, whereas current versions use TLS.

Disclosure: I made a FLOSS fail2ban-like tool for RDP many years ago[0]. I had a situation where I was forced to expose RDP to the Internet and I didn't like having it open w/o some protection against brute force attacks. This tool happens to still work in Server 2022 and will slow the velocity of brute force attacks. I still highly recommend not exposing RDP directly to the Internet anyway.

(The ts_block tool is missing some fairly essential functionality that I never got around to implementing. It works fine and is really easy to install but some things are sub-optimal.)

[0] https://github.com/EvanAnderson/ts_block
Interestingly, Rhode Island tried something like that. They had toll roads where only semis had to pay.

I thought the solution was a great idea. The cost is centered on the vehicles causing 95-99% of road wear in the state, by only charging a small fraction of drivers it reduces the overhead of the system from RI's perspective, and by only charging people who would have large bills it reduces the overhead from the perspective of the drivers being charged as well (if you pay a $3 toll and spend 5min handling the broken online billing portal after a billing letter was sent via a $0.63 stamp then that's a bit wasteful, but if you have a $100 toll the billing doesn't magically cost more, allowing the aggregate tolls across the state to be lower since they have a higher take rate). Plus, if it makes shipping more expensive, it transitively affects the people causing the most shipping instead of externalizing that to the other citizens, ideally causing a small downward pressure in aggregate shipping volume.

Anywho, it was struck down as unconstitutional. We'll see what happens in other places and times, but I don't have high hopes. At best we'll get a patchwork of special cases and exemptions that protect incumbants, don't fix the problem, and _hopefully_ don't inadvertently encourage even bigger vehicles.
The Money Is in All the Wrong Places (2022)
$750 dollar office visit for a GP for 20 minutes no procedures performed ($2250 per hr) sounds even better. Welcome to US healthcare.
What could regulation have done about stanley cups?
+1, Proxmox is awesome. I set up a cluster with two machines I wasn't using (one almost 10 years old, one fairly modern with a 5950X) and now I don't have to worry about that single Debian box with all my services on it shitting the bed and leaving me with nothing. VMs are useful on their own, but the tools Proxmox gives you for migrating them between machines and doing centralized backup/restore are incredibly freeing. It all works really well, too.

Most recently I set up a Windows VM with PCIe GPU passthrough for streaming (Moonlight/Sunshine) games to the various less-capable machines in my house, and it works so well that my actual gaming PC is sitting in the corner gathering dust.

My only complaint is I wish there was a cheaper paid license. I would love to give back to them for what I'm getting, but > $100/yr/cpu is just too much for what amounts to hobbyist usage. I appreciate the free tier (which is not at all obnoxious about the fact that you aren't paying), but I wish there could be a middle ground.
A awesome project !!!
My only wish was that C had a package manager, and maybe a dynamic analyzer to could catch bugs that a static analyzer would miss.

Also, being able to cross-compile would be cool. But I guess cosmopolitan solves this.
The down side to the old enterprise servers is the power draw. I had 2 Dell blade server chassis and 1 HP blade server chassis that used Xeon based blades. The electric bill was UNREAL with 10+ blades running at once.

I do use Dell PowerConnect manged switches from EBay, but tbh for what I do, TP Link switches work really well and are cheap. They support VLANs, MAC Lans, SNMP, SSH/Web configuration, etc etc - basically fully managed switches. And they have been rock solid as 'edge' switches for each room in the house. The powerconnects basically work as top-of-rack switches for pulling all the different rooms/rack into 1 feed to the cable modem.
that's a poor excuse. We can provide much better care for the elderly. the bulk of the operating cost growth in the past generation has been from administration.
Well the flip side of spending all tax revenue of city like Mumbai locally instead of statewide or nation wide there will be even more lopsided development which turns to ever more people coming to Mumbai making infrastructure, pollution and so many other problems worse.
2017 was my best, and last normal year. Things were "normal" in job market, no crazy over hiring and runaway inflation, local housing market ice hockey curve didn't happen yet where I am. I want to go back.
Microsoft confirms Russian spies stole source code, accessed internal systems
Ah yes, of course, https://bitworking.org/news/2008/01/the-free-market-fairy/
Digital Dilemmas Around Sustainability: Why Bitcoin Not GenAI
The digital revolution has failed
I went back to my old efficient habit. I went back to the office as soon as I was allowed. I'm more productive there, and I prefer it.
There’s like 1000 reasons why the domain could be used. (For example you wouldn’t want 1M phones destroying a website because it became viral on WhatsApp, hence a caching layer is probably needed)

I don’t work at Facebook on this specific system that handles link previews so I have no idea of the details.

The fact is that if they send a request containing the link I previewed which is tied to my IP which connects to my Facebook account then they can 100% correlate that information and figure it out.

Are they doing that? Maybe, maybe not. I don’t work there. But they can if they want to so it all comes down to trust. Do you trust Meta?
Passkeys in Practice: A Dive into Passkey Implementation
Nature and Science are kind like the tabloids of scientific publishing. Legitimate news mixed with unsubstantiated gossip; all with a high “sexiness” factor that draws attention and moves copy.
Yeah me too, I did a bit over a year of WFH during Covid times, it was OK for a bit... but then I started feeling quite odd about the idea of just staying home all day and not seeing people at all...

To be honest, I don't even fit all that good with my colleagues, but I still feel like I can benefit from being near other humans.
If this was a Douglas Adams novel I'd interpret this as strong foreshadowing that the AI will inevitably destroy the world due to a person misgendering somone
Example: you use a large plotting library, but it's only needed on some pages. Chunking allows you to selectively load that code only where it's needed.
Aider currently uses 3 different editing formats. The SEARCH/REPLACE blocks ("diff") that look like merge conflict resolutions, unified diffs ("udiff") and whole file ("whole") where the model has to return an updated copy of the entire file.

Only the weakest models like GPT-3.5 and Sonnet currently rely on the "whole" editing format. Most local LLMs struggle even with the whole format, although some do ok (but far worse than GPT-3.5/Sonnet).

The original gpt-4-0613 uses the search/replace "diff" format. The new Opus model works best with this format too.

The GPT-4 Turbo models work best with the unified diff "udiff" format. This format was created because it discourages GPT-4 Turbo from being "lazy" when coding.

Being able to handle diff or udiff is a big advantage -- they save a lot of tokens, money and time. I don't think it would be wise to use whole with any model than can handle one of the diff formats.

All that said, Opus' score climbs from 68.4->70.7% if you switch from diff->whole. I don't think that gain is worth the pragmatic downsides of the whole edit format. But you're welcome to run aider with `--edit-format whole` if you'd like!
There was TED Talk from person who tried to teach some African people to grow tomatoes. When tomatoes were almost-reap there were a large herd of hippos and eat all tomatoes, completely, fruits and foliage.

At least, this person (sorry, I can not recall name) acknowledge, that it was naive and hubris!

UPDATE: I was not first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39640882 need to read whole thread before answering!
Police in the US have been drastically more militarized since 9/11/01. Also, we now live in a surveillance state to a degree inconceivable prior to the passage of the PATRIOT Act, which was rammed through in the days following that event, without scrutiny or debate.

We are all subjected to drastically more surveillance, and militarized policing, as a result of the events that day, even those of us lucky enough to be insulated from the direct kinetic impacts of the war we started as a result of it. To say nothing of extraordinary rendition, extrajudicial killings, and the trillions of our tax dollars wasted on a war against a regime that had nothing to do with the event itself. We could have made a much better world, for that money.

edit: "We" meaning citizens of the US, although to a large degree these impacts are not only felt by US citizens.
According to my search: carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales. Hope that helped.
I LOVE heavy cream. But it's gotten so expensive and perishes faster than I like.

FWIW, I've mostly switched to coconut cream. My local restaurant supply has a few different brands. So I mix it up. I go thru a box of 12 cans every 2 months are so.
"Wonder Material" Graphene Verified Safe in Groundbreaking Human Study
> esbuild is essentially a one-man show and everything is bespoke and written for esbuild. Not saying this as a bad thing

Not being glib: you didn’t mention why you brought that up.
The fuel NHSTA has over 1200 pages on just the new fuel economy rules. And there are dozens of agencies car manufacturers have to contend with to design a vehicle.

In unrelated news, average new car prices in the US climb to 48k while China has a new car under 10k

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a39617404/nhtsa-fuel-econo...
Multiple people saying taxes should be proportional to vehicle weight. So should registration/inspection fees, insurance rates, and most of all fines. You need it for your business? Cool, then the business should cover the cost just like it should any other, or else the business doesn't deserve to continue. Nobody should get to dump their costs on other people, and that's what the vast majority of huge-vehicle drivers are doing.
If one discovers that a brand of tshirt is being manufactured using slave labor, a reasonable response is to buy another brand of tshirt. Clearly more is needed to solve the problem, but the slave labor doesn't "rub off" on the other tshirt, it's obviously silly to say "don't wear tshirts, some of them are made by slaves".

It's no different with beef. Most beef in the USA comes from the USA, and you might raise various objections about the treatment of cattle, pollution from runoff, and so on, but it isn't contributing to rainforest deforestation, so that isn't a good reason to not eat it.
Typically, when you are talking to a lawyer, you have signed a contract, paid a retainer, and have an explicit hourly rate negotiated for interactions with that specific firm.
that's an interesting option. does it boot into cmd.exe by default?
I'll add a #protip about UPS. Instead of getting Cyberpower or APC, I recently picked up a EcoFlow River 2 Pro[1] (portable power station). It has 768Wh capacity and 800W output and pass through charging. Crucially, it switches fast enough to not cause any outage to any of my gear (Ubiquiti, HP Proliant, Raspberry Pi, Synology). As a bonus, you also get the ability to do solar charging and USB power outlets.

[1] https://us.ecoflow.com/products/river-2-pro-portable-power-s...
The problem is that the country is dug too deep in a hole where driving is cheap, communities are sprawling, and public transport is a luxury. If a state actually mandated $10m liability, we'd probably see skyrocketing rates of uninsured drivers as a result. Or at least, skyrocketing more than they already are.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/blog/2020/08/27/small-tow...

> Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, with under 7,000 residents, received 10 helicopters, a mine-resistant armored vehicle, two Humvees, and other equipment worth over $6.5 million. Officials claim these transfers help with “counterterrorism” operations, but it seems unlikely that Winthrop Harbor has a terrorism problem that requires 10 helicopters to address.
This seems overly cynical.

If sharks are purposefully being killed like this then thats one thing. But that’s not being alleged.

If sharks are accidentally killed then it’s good that they’re making use of them to some extent. Hopefully they can make even more use of them.
From what I understand, using (-1, 0, 1) removes multiplications in GPUs. Ie assume you have a weight matrix and multiply it by some activations

[-1, 0, 1]

[0, 1, -1]

[10, 20, 30] x [1, 1, 0]

Instead of doing 10(-1) + 20(0) + 30(1) + 10(0) + ..., since we know beforehand the weights are simply (-1, 0, 1), we easily flip the sign and do addition, or force the hardware to do addition ie if (-1) do subtraction. If (0) do addition. If (1) do addition.

Floating point multiplication does addition of the exponents and multiplying of the mantissa. So just simplifying:

Float16 has E=5, M=10. Ie around 5 + 10^2 space needed = 105.

Bfloat16 has E=8, M=7. So 8 + 7^2 = 57 space.

Float8(143) E=4, M=3. So 4 + 3^2 = 13 space.

1.58(16bit) E=5, M=10. Addition only, so shift E say 5 + 10 addition = 15.

1.58(8bit) E=4, M=3. Addition only, so shift E say 4 + 3 addition = 7.

Obviously I'm simplifying, but with only additions, 1.58 uses say 7 space, whilst FP8 uses 13 space, so in theory 2x more transistors can be crammed, ie 2x more FLOPs than FP8.
Respectfully save me the Ayn Rand. Some of us live in the real world and not the political utopias of our minds.