skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> YYYY-03-14, which is de rigueur for political correctness

I like it just because I can use it in filenames and sort by name and I'm guaranteed to get it in chronological order.
Any details? We have people work on a dead moon lander…why not a live v1/2. If sadly one is dead, the other still has some life left ?
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Yep.. and grocery stores
I spent much of 2020 trying to find things like bread in US supermarkets. It's funny how people harken back to Russia 40 years ago as if I was not walking through empty supermarkets four years ago.
Capital has vastly more leverage than any individual laborer. If lunchbreaks weren't mandated, I can assure you most companies would develop cultures where stopping to eat was considered "slacking".
I got an IKEA couch about 9 years ago. It was like... $700? The construction is definitely very cheap and you can tell if you flip it on its back, but it's very comfortable and sturdy enough that it still feels solid in normal use.

I don't think "cheap" construction is necessarily a bad thing, honestly. There's ways to do cheap construction such that it works just fine.
Exactly. This is a damned if you do damned if you don't situation. LLMs don't have predictable responses, elections can change very quickly, and it's important for Google's brand that Gemini doesn't just start making things up or speak with authority on outdated information. This is a completely reasonable safeguard against a completely foreseeable headline "Gemini agrees that [ELECTION CONSPIRACY THEORY] is true".
Love this video

> self-operating-computer
This is quite different than https://github.com/OthersideAI/self-operating-computer

Self-operating-computer uses pixel mapping to control your computer. This is a very good approach, but it's extremely unreliable. GPT-4V frequently hallucinates pixel outputs, causing it to miss interactions, or enter fail-loops

>The approach by AI Jason

AI Jason is using image-only methods to interact with the browser. This is a great first step, but this approach tends to be rife with hallucinations or errors. We do dom parsing in addition to image anaylsis to help GPT-4V correlate information in the image to the interactable elements within the DOM. This dramatically boosts its ability to perform the same task over and over again reliably (which proved impossible with the image-only approach)
I agree and would add the following criteria to identify the few rare cases where it is worth it to meet a hard deadline and where cutting scope is not an option.

Specifically, if meeting the deadline is so important that it justifies unplanned overtime or a death march, then leadership should be happy to pay the team a one-time special bonus equal to 2-5x the time spent or even more.

If faced with this choice leadership balks at the idea that’s a very good sign that a death march is unwarranted.
App stores are a huge blunder for developers and users. They often fail at security but they rarely fail as a monetization choke point.
Maybe. I don't trust Glassdoor to be honest though.
Made the mistake of buying a couch off Wayfair for a little nook in my office. It lasted a year before I got rid of it. Never again. Couches really are one of those areas where you get what you pay for. With the possible exception of Ikea. Got an Ikea couch for my 10 year old's room and its holding up remarkably well.
That article (http://helenofdestroy.com/index.php/exposing-wikipedia/49-wi...) is a perfect example of radicalizing material.

It starts off gentle, "OMG guys, look at the sketchy things this person who is typically portrayed as "One of the good ones" has been doing!"

And then it ramps up, "they claim to have 100,000 editors, but it actually only has 30,000. What is up with that?"

Insert picture of Wikipedia icon colored red with devil horns, pitchfork and tail.

Then: Big Oil has been paying people to edit its articles! There are companies who exist to edit Wikipedia articles and they work for the bag guys! Wikipedia makes millions of dollars a year! The CIA edits Wikipedia! BIG PHARMA! And another bad guy ALSO PAID TO HAVE WIKIPEDIA EDITED OMG!

(trust me, here's a reference number to a link below that we all know you will definitely read and verify the authenticity of ;) )

Then Washington! The "Phillip Cross Affair"! Dictators!

And once you are sufficiently outraged, also, here's this poor little guy, just a little guy, an everyman, just like you, being picked on by the big bad evil wikipedia editors because he's right and they're wrong and they don't like that.

How can you tolerate this injustice!?!

___________________________________________________________________________

And it all makes sense, inside of its bubble. Outside of verification, this is terrible.

But then you look at the rest of the website:

http://helenofdestroy.com (no ssl certificate because?)

And the rest of the webpage is pure distilled "covid, conspiracies, bill gates, commoncore, newspeak, prince andrew, coronapocalypse, biden, New world order, China blah blah blah blah" insanity.

And you see exactly where being radicalized leads you. Desperately searching for the truth at the core of every lie, ultimately burying yourself under a mountain of bullshit in hopes of finding a pearl.

You're not gonna find a pearl. At best, it's going to be an undigested piece of corn.

Caveat Emptor, don't buy the bullshit.
"Do they have 17 years of experience, or have they been repeating year one 17 times?"
What just happened in San Francisco politics?
I think even showy luxury brands like RH do better than West Elm. CB2 as well, which is a slight step up from Crate and Barrel.

West Elm and the whole Pottery Barn set of brands are just worse versions of Crate and Barrel, with terrible customer service to go with it. They had some of the most mean and rude customer service agents I’ve ever talked to. They acted like the store was an entirely different company, then the store acted like I needed to call the national call line. Plus, they outsource deliveries in a very annoying blame-shifting way.

At least at RH you get a single human point of contact who can handle everything like a concierge experience.
Is Honest Writing the Next New Thing in Journalism?
Next time you stay at a mid-range or better hotel, notice the furniture. They don't but junk because in the long run it never lasts, and whose going to pay for a nice hotel room with tacky furniture?

A couple of months ago, we stayed in a newer Holiday Inn Express. The bed and cabinets were very nice and well built.
In what way have they failed you? I use Enpass and have been happy with it on Android and iOS.
This is Vancouver -- NIMBYs got super upset and managed to successfully downsize a tower despite it being located off a major transit hub (Commercial & Broadway station) and was not historic anything (just a grocery store and associated parking lot).

I'm not saying there's no racism involved with the Kits project, I'm sure there is. But folks here are pretty eager to deny housing to everyone regardless of race. Kits people are also aggressively opposed to low-income housing, any any density in their neighbourhood and are typically accustomed to being successful in this.
I imagine it only gets you so far. What do you do about customers like Walmart or Oracle? Hundreds, if not thousands, of users all leaving hundreds of comments on Figma files every day. If you want good latency without giving up strong consistency (which the article says they want) you'll need to keep sharding.
But it's the same problem all over again, spammers would get an id, auth, then spam.

Anti spams are about detecting whether activities are spam.

Binding an identity, is the naive mechanism that makes us think spam wouldn't happen. All it does is say ok we know it's pug35372 that teared the linens apart.

We can put all measures to authenticate users, won't makes them not potentially bots running havoc right after a manual authentication.

There are even farms, manually created accounts by gig seekers who would fill forms, email and phone number verification for less than a dollar.
Search-Based Optimization of LLM Learning Shots for Story Point Estimation
Improvement to story point estimation using LLMs. We're not too far from a world where an AI, starting with a simple ticket, can estimate how difficult that ticket is and then immediately solve and PR-it.
Foam[0], memo[1], Markdown Memo[2], md-graph[3]

file/directory display plugin [4]

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https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-vscode-editor-elevate-y...

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/vs-code-plugin-the-best-of-both-...

https://jukkaniiranen.com/2022/01/canvas-app-source-code-edi...

https://github.com/cubewise-code/canvas-vscode

https://github.com/sunxvming/obsidian-vscode-editor

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[4] : https://github.com/NomarCub/obsidian-open-vscode
same for japan. ju hyaku sen man
how "massive" is massive in your case?
I mean you're making a bad bet: today companies are using modern AI to help with NPCs like voices.

I expect AI will be used to scale dialogue options, NPC model assortments, NPC voices, etc. to an amazing degree too at build time.

But realtime "Large Transformer Models", to generate how NPCs act is almost a "duh no one will want that", when you can get 99% of the benefits by baking the output of gen AI in the game with none of the drawbacks like losing the shared experience of a game or playing roulette with the quality of someone's experience.

AI would let you bake in insanely intricate dialogue trees today
I think a better mental model is that managers want _control_. If you are known for keeping your word and being frank in your goals, you are forecastable in how you will act and management steps back from trying to control and maybe even trusts you. If you aren't this way (and most folks aren't), then you become a pawn in a lot of manager headgames.

Some managers are just a--holes, granted.
Lonely people will seek attention and affection, we shouldn't blame them for being human. IMHO if we want to talk about this issue let's start by examining the causes and conditions for loneliness becoming so prevalent that it became a market for OF and the like to serve. Most people with an OF subscription would likely rather keep their money, and instead have a loving partner at home. As such they are (IMHO) victims of societal and cultural conditions beyond their control, and deserve compassion.
But trying to minimize the opportunities for such crimes is a good idea, in my opinion
Even the 4 being available through some kind of weird but official third party is kind of off to me. I really don’t understand how they haven’t prioritized the US market by now. It is probably the market that spends the most on phones.
We know very little about this space, except that the entire process is a little bit crazy.

We've talked to a few companies now that would use a product like Skyvern to just automate billing information gathering to make sure patients don't get screwed in the billing process

Are you open to chatting? I'd love to pick your brain about what's behind the kimono

suchintan@skyvern.com or https://meetings.hubspot.com/suchintan
In vanilla KSP1 with a reasonable orbital launcher, fly up to 1000m altitude and tap D on your keyboard 1 to 10 times. Then hands off until 2nd stage and then throttle down to avoid overshooting the apoapsis.

Finding the correct number of key taps to get the right pitch angle is the key. The throttle can only help so much.
South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Ivory Coast hit by major internet outages
The problem - conceptually - is made much simpler this way; we make use of this at work.

However you will still have shared resource problems - some rogue query destroys IOPS in one tenant now ends up bringing down all tenants etc. There are in theory databases that solve this as well, but my experience has been that at that point what you buy into is a bad version of resource sharing - ie what an operating system does - and you’re better off using OS mechanisms

In other words: yes, but you still have noisy neighbours, and may be better off running lots of small fully separated DBMSes than a big logically separated one
I thought The Guardian was against fascism, yet here they are pushing for corporations to act like the police. Or even more like the police, beyond keeping IP logs, message histories, transaction histories, and employing 15,000 workers to monitor their users.
How is research and development a loss. If anything it positioned themselves as the top VR/AR company right when Apple entered the market. SMH
Mostly C++ and Python. Using some home-built stuff for now...
> (You can build a globally consistent map on a torus.)

No, you can not, there is no global map on the torus.
Wow, in the EU one email to the local data protection office would set them on fire for this.
Yeah. Even at the time we knew West Elm wasn't high end, but we were at least expecting decent.

We know more now (and could afford better) whenever we have to finally replace this, but $2000 is a not-insignificant investment that shouldn't be a complete piece of crap.
Consider for a moment that HR both identifies the rules by which a person's value to an organization is decided, and that they also must demonstrate their own value to an organization and you can see that a lot of this arises from a conflict of interest. HR really wants 2 to be true because many companies have drunk the "metrics" kool-aid and believe that the only things that matter are measurable.

Metrics are a technical solution, and as organizations are social constructs HR is making the classic software engineer mistake and trying to solve a social problem(how do we identify high performers) with a technical solution(generate numbers and use those to identify high performers). The reality is that team performance doesn't yield to analytic techniques because it's so markedly a result of all of the people together and not specific individuals that it's not even funny.
It’s even worse with carpet and carpet install. Thieves.
As far as I know, this is pretty much the gold standard.

Note that you need to send First Class to get a postmark in the US - not standard Priority Mail.
how long until Gemini is killed off and replaced by another AI tool with a new name?

They did it with Bard. Why not again?
The video game console question is very interesting. I think a lot of right-to-repair advocates, right now, are fine with carving out an exception, for a few reasons.

One, video game consoles have no pretense to being generalized computing devices. They are more similar to appliances, and while that appliance status is arguable, they are definitely closer to that right now than smartphones.

Two, people have nostalgia for video game consoles. They like the packaged nature of it and generally have more good will towards console manufacturers than computer manufacturers (although that part is arguable and may be changing).

Three is politics. It's already hard enough to go up against companies like Apple to get these bills passed. You do not want Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo lining up to oppose you as well.

With all that said though, there is no reason I can see that the arguments used for right to repair -- that users should have full control over the devices they own -- should not also apply to video game consoles. But doing so would mean that consoles are no different than PCs, and would have huge implications for the industry.

Those lines are being blurred already with things like the Steam Deck and I think we're just a few years away from that upheaval, but it hasn't quite happened yet -- hence you see these carve-outs.

edit: Upon rereading what I wrote I realize that I may be conflating right-to-repair with regulations around app stores and walled gardens. They're not exactly the same thing, but I do think they touch on the same issues of the meaning of ownership, which is what set me off.
Everyone who is using a phone knows that what you are saying is not true. Otherwise we would not experience dropped calls, connection resets and mobile data being unavailable. Mobile networks are unreliable and you can't paper it over with some magic on TCP or HTTP2/3 level.
EDIT: better yet, anyone can just use network tools on their smartphone to see for themselves that mobile networks do drop TCP packets, UDP packets and ICMP packets very freely. Just check yourself!
I wrote medium-to-high density, which means anything between city and "walkable town with a core". This doesn't preclude detached homes. It does preclude sprawling car-centric suburbia, which is similar to rural isolation in terms of the effects it has on the most people's mental health.
I’ve had multiple fancy chairs, purchased from a famous high end brand with a very high end showroom in a very high end design center, fail very quickly. The failure was due to their vendor (fancy, in France) using nice solid finger jointed hardwood, well finished, in a place where that construction was completely inappropriate.

High quality Scandinavian-style plywood probably would have lasted decades.

Nice materials + pretty design does not necessarily result in a good product.
Yup, we've had the same IKEA furniture for 16 years now, it's still going strong.
For some reason people hate IKEA in the US. Was trying to sell a standing desk I bought there for 750$ and nobody wanted it. Ended up selling it for 150$. I also had a Jarvis and it was gone in an instant, even though the IKEA one was much much better.

I Often hear people saying that IKEA furnitures don’t travel well or don’t last long. It’s like we’re not going to the same IKEA.
It worked for me on the first try, but here's an archive link in case it goes down again: https://archive.is/xusR7
I can answer #3. HNSW will allow for incremental index rebuilding. So each additional insert is a sublinear, but greater than constant time, operation.
On one hand, fast fashion has made trendy and affordable clothing accessible to a wide range of consumers... On the other hand it leads to exploitative labor practices in developing countries, where workers are often underpaid and subjected to unsafe working conditions
> "Most important piece of furniture" is a heavily loaded ideological claim. It points to the rampant American culture surrounding media consumption.

My family doesn't watch TV. I purchased my sofa when I didn't even have a TV.

The most important aspect of my living room arrangement is how well it facilitates long, deep, conversations with friends who come over for visits.

I have 3 pieces of seating in my living room, a chair for reading placed next to a book case (large enough that a couple small kids can sit in the lap of an adult who is reading with them if so desired), a smaller 2 person sofa, and a larger 6ft long sofa.

I know plenty of other families who have similar arrangements with sofas so placed as to emphasize socialization with friends.

Now if we are talking about the 90s and early 2000s, yeah, it was all about amazing TV watching experiences.

> The only time I'm on my couch is when I have a few people over. And even then we're usually doing other things than just lazing about.

The couch is where you retire to after dinner has been finished and everything cleaned away. Board games may occur in other rooms (depending on one's coffee table situation) the of course a room that is laid out for conversation is going to see the most use when there are people over to have a conversation with.

FWIW now that I have a kid, I am hosting social events more often than ever before (watching children has a negative co-efficient for small values of n > 1, 3 kids are easier to watch than 1!), but even in my DINK life (at which point I didn't even own a TV), my couch got plenty of use.
Yeah, their price point is totally baffling given the quality, service, and delivery issues.
Conservatively, only takes about 15%.

Some findings show as low as 3.5%

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35...
IKEA is better then almost everything by Ashley home furnishings.
I'm sorry but that's just a fairytale. Nobody is going to go through a 10 step process that hinges on someone's phone being stolen and returned without their knowledge while successfully pulling off a DDoS attack against one of the most powerful corporations on the planet that's already facing constant cyber threats.

Extremely relevant: https://xkcd.com/538/

They'll just use a 0-day exploit or a $5 wrench.
A Brief History of Zork
I don't know how people do it. I have been blogging for like 20+ years now sometimes regularly, sometimes with gaps. I am lucky if I get 5 visits per day.
Wayfair is absolute trash.

Pictures look good but it always disappoints.
It’s the one online furniture store I will never buy from again.
The root problem here is that technology is being sequestered and locked down to large centralized entities that can be blamed, and it doesn't help that they're intrinsically risk adverse. Information provided by web services is the company doing something, and said companies obviously don't want to be found responsible for illegal acts. So, can't say anything that might influence elections, can't say anything that might help or induce someone to kill themselves, can't say anything that might help someone avoid suffering the medical cartel or attorneys' guild, and so on. Whereas if this were software being sold/provided at an arms length, the creator would no longer be a party to its use and there would be very few theories of liability to hold its creator liable for illegal uses (without the creator explicitly warranting or encouraging it for those uses).
The official SpaceX hosts often don't mention when something goes wrong or looks bad. For example, they didn't comment on the ongoing tumbling of the ship. Of course they want to present themselves in the best possible light. Other streamers are more independent, they do point out those things.
Correct. According to this 1975 catalog https://ikeamuseum.com/en/explore/ikea-catalogue/1975-ikea-c..., Ikea sofas could be bought for the equivalent of $1000 today.

Higher-end sofas would have logically cost much more...
for comparison, building the ISS took 40 assembly flights [0] (36 of them from the Space Shuttle)

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_of_the_Internationa...
I've bought a lot from Amazon Warehouse and never had this. I have had products that don't work though.

I'm guessing they break after a while and people buy a new one, then return the broken one. This is a bit pointless though as Amazon's guarantee is really good (in Europe at least).

A few years ago I got my wife an iPhone SE and after 1 and a half years it stopped working. I took it to an Apple repair center, and they said if I bought it there they would replace it - but as it was bought from another retailer I needed to return it to them. I contacted Amazon and they said as that model was no longer sold, they would refund the full amount I paid. Not bad.
Someone at Westbank is a genius: fund the building of a massive skyscraper project on land that was recently returned to indigenous tribes because of a lawsuit, a project that would never be normally approved because of zoning laws. Then, declare any criticism of the project as racist, thus guaranteeing it will be built. I wonder how much of the money the tribe is actually getting out of this?
Computer Associates, Symantec - lots of companies that liked to buy up and kill whole market segments :/
Yeah, the correct choices for furniture these days are basically: used (cheap if you’re not buying something trendy like mid century modern), IKEA, or super-expensive really-good stuff. Anything new that’s cheaper than that last category’s usually just gonna be as bad or worse than IKEA, plus 1.2x-5x the price. And likely uglier.