skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plenty of employers build apartments for their staff. For example a little bed and kitchen so the on-site security guard can sleep overnight but still be on site. Many jobs require a human nearby all the time, but there is no need for them to be actively working.

If someone else was on duty at that site next week, then that person would be staying in the apartment.

I suspect that is what these were.

So the only real crime is violation of zoning laws.
While these guys were taking a few grand for a kitchenette, Caltrain top management gave away $150 MILLION to some well-connected friends for the failed CBOSS signal system project. CBOSS was an complete sham, but of course nobody will go to jail for that.
Honestly I don’t think anything could extinguish all life on earth short of maybe 20 comets hitting earth at the same time or something.
Maybe we need an international NGO/co-op to provide essential services for small, essential FOSS projects such as security comms, security audits, build infrastructure, testing, best practices, background investigations, and so forth.

The "one guy's little piece of code holding up the world" is a SPOF and much easier to attack than if they had some help and automation.
I haven’t read the article but my first question would be “what problem is this accelerator solving?” and if the answer is simply “you can AI without Nvidia”, that’s not good enough, because that’s the pot calling the kettle black. None of these companies is “altruistic” but between the three of them I expect AMD to be the nicest to its customers. Nvidia will squeeze the most money out of theirs, and Intel will leave theirs out to dry when corporate leadership decides it’s a failure.
What is existentialcrisis.sh? :D
I don't know why my tax dollars are being used to change winter tires of company electric vehicles but here we are.
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Unlikely, this model has a max sequence length of 65k, while mistral large is 32k.
This is all very true for Machine-Learning research tasks, were yes, if you want that latest PyTorch library function to work you need to be on the latest ML code.

But my work/fun is in CFD. One of the main codes I use for work was written to be supported primarily at the time of Pascal. Other HPC stuff too that can be run via OpenCL, and is still plenty compatible. Things compiled back then will still run today; It's not a moving target like ML has been.
The West is truly asleep. The Russian economy has been on a war footing for months, the Russian leader, and others, say they see themselves as at war with the West, and Ukraine, in an existential conflict, are criticised for effective strikes on their enemy's energy infrastrucure.

Bloody shortsighted, insular cretins.
There are significantly more drawbacks to Shadow DOM than this stub of an article suggests.

To the point that even the people working on Web Components finally admitted that in 2022: https://w3c.github.io/webcomponents-cg/2022.html

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It's worth noting that many of these pain points are directly related to Shadow DOM's encapsulation. While there are many benefits to some types of widely shared components to strong encapsulation, the friction of strong encapsulation has prevented most developers from adopting Shadow DOM, to the point of there being alternate proposals for style scoping that don't use Shadow DOM. We urge browser vendors to recognize these barriers and work to make Shadow DOM more usable by more developers.

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Itanium only failed because AMD was allowed to come up with AMD64, Intel would have managed to push Itanium no matter what, if there were no alternatives to a 64bit compatible x86 CPU.
It was used when you wanted to compress the system drive (C:) with DriveSpace. it would reboot into something that looked like Windows 3.1 and do the compression. Just a single window with a progress bar and a cancel button, but the button and the title bar gave it away. I'm assuming it was loaded entirely into ram so it could safely meddle with the system partition. I always wondered if there was a way to boot into a working 3.1 environment as that stuff had to live somewhere in your install.
The old quote is, "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.".

It feels like whatever -ism you want to organize society under, you have to have checks and balances, in order to prevent things like grift causing 900k apartments...
Regrettably, Windows (MSVC) includes _exec functions, but with the behavior that it seems to rejoin arguments into a single string, which then gets split again.

> Spaces embedded in strings may cause unexpected behavior; for example, passing _exec the string "hi there" will result in the new process getting two arguments, "hi" and "there".

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/exec...
> It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in some sense “Left”. Perhaps the last right-wing intellectual was TE Lawrence.

written in 1935.

Since then they've had William Buckley, we've had Roger Scruton and Christopher Hitchens. I am sure there are others.
> Like others here though I had a soft spot for Windows 2000, everything felt slightly more refined in win2k.

I really like all the UI changes introduced in 2000. Especially the color palette: that subtle change from strong gray in 9x to lighter one worked pretty well. With all the gradients on icons, preview pane in Explorer, Tahoma as default UI font and introduction of transparency/fade elements I forget 98 SE quickly. And of course there was the stability of the NT - back then the price was lack of compatibility with games.
I've been using a Xylitol based toothpaste for 3 years now, which my dentist highly recommended, it works better than fluoride with my teeth too.
> It's like how people write SQL with uppercase keywords, but not any other language.

People have syntax coloring in other languages.
> I’m actually pro union in most other contexts, especially when workers are underdogs. But in CA there are some unions which are quite powerful, exclusionary, and have negative effects on society.

The premise of unions is "bargaining power". Bargaining power comes from having alternatives. Nobody can make you take a deal worse than your next best alternative, so the way to get a good deal is to have a lot of alternatives. The best way to get it for labor is to have lots of prospective employers for people with your skill set, i.e. for your industry not to be a monopoly.

Unions nominally do this the other way around. Instead of giving employees more options, they try to give employers less. But most of the time that doesn't work. You can unionize some baristas or something, but then you go on strike and the company hires different baristas and doesn't care.

By contrast, if the employer is a monopoly, then they often have to hire most of the people with that skill set. If they're all in the union, the employer can't just replace them because there are no more. This is when unions can behave like a monopoly themselves and dictate terms.

But monopolies are bad. When a union has a monopoly, they do exactly the sort of things which are happening in this case, which is terrible for society and especially anyone who needs the product the union makes.

The correct solution isn't unions, it's to break up monopolistic employers so that individual workers -- and customers -- have bargaining power. Which is to say, alternatives, not their own adversarial monopoly.
Everyone has the ability to exercise personal accountability for how much they gamble, smoke, eat junk food, play video games, use social media etc. However, if these consumer products become so addictive, or are designed to be so engaging and as a result people are by and large struggling to exercise personal accountability and it is causing adverse health outcomes.

Then the government should step in, either should forceful action or through promoting healthier alternatives or shining a light on its damaging effects.
If there is a Creator with an inordinate fondness for beetles, their fondness for prokaryotes remains obviously superordinate.
Another thing I have noticed is that if you use ChatGPT and it at some points uses Bing to look up something, it becomes super lazy afterwards, going from page long responses on average to a single paragraph.
A good proportion of people will take the chance rather than get into a long debate with a libertarian bore.
Conversations around new regulations on the internet are eerily similar to conversations about regulations on firearms in the US.

"It won't fix anything or address the issue"

"The cure is worse than the disease"

"Doing it half-assed is worse"

"Its not even possible to implement ___"

"The real cause is something else"

"Its against freedom"

"Its too late to do anything because ___"

etc.
Indeed, and Bosch did not reenter the market with a Reaxx because they believe that people will not spend the extra money. For me this is a very strong argument for a mandate.
You missed an oppotunity to decry Scammers Live in Vain ;)

Seriously though, it was a decent read with material on Linebarger I hadn't seen before, the various photos and his life in China were new to me despite having skimmed other bio's in the past and having real life book copies of his work under several of his names.
https://archive.ph/rJjOE
Very tactical guide, which I appreciate. This is basically our experience as well. Output can be wonky, but can also be pretty easily validated and honed.
The P100 has amazing double precision (FP64) flops (due to a 1:2 FP ratio that got nixed on all other cards) and a higher memory bandwidth which made it a really standout GPU for scientific computing applications. Computational Fluid Dynamics, etc.

The P40 was aimed at the image and video cloud processing market I think, and thus the GDDR ram instead of HBM, so it got more VRAM but at much less bandwidth.
> A 10x fall in solar and at least a 5x fall in the cost of batteries is baked in at this point, even if the tech curves started to slow today.

I'm sorry, what does this mean? Yes, solar and batteries got much, much cheaper, and I agree, it might continue in that path, but to assume it will... I just don't see the rationale, not in general and not in your post.
That's an interesting list that shows today's understanding of the word "modern".

"Modern" today means "recently changed". Not better, not less bugs, just that it's recently changed. It can even have more bugs, but it still will be "modern", and people will be OK with that, because since it's recently changed, it has to have bugs, right?

Examples:

- "in some programs, double-clicking program icon on top-left window will close the program. it's a same actions as Win3.1 even Win1.0, where the close button is placed on top-left window until Win95." quote Rizki Fauzan (not counting this as a Windows 1.0 remnant because it was still useful in 3.1)

Why is it a problem? Why removing this feature is desirable? I often doubleclick the icon to close the window (because my Linux desktop has X in the top left corner instead of top right). Why it's desirable to not have this feature?

- pifmgr.dll and moricons.dll (ancient icon libraries) - left since Windows 3.1

Those icons are often superior to their "modern" counterparts, even though they’re not vector graphics. Why would anyone want to remove them?

- ODBC Data Sources - unchanged since Windows 3.1

I wonder if the author even knows what ODBC is?

Some of the entries are also wrong (msconfig has been updated since Win98).

This list in the center of why I am depressed by today's software design.
Show me that law, because as far as I can tell, that's complete nonsense.

I know of a bunch of people who legally purchased and installed aircon in their homes.
Current LLMs also do nothing but reflect your own culture back to you. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude are American products and reflect an establishment American worldview. Specifically an American culture worldview that's a mix between Silicon Valley, the anxiety prone middle class, and the CIA.
Only for CUDA kernels that happen to be C++, good luck with C, Fortran and the PTX toolchains for Java, .NET, Haskell, Julia, Python JITs,...

Althought at least for Python JITs, Intel seems to also be doing something.

And then there is the graphical debugging experience for GPGPU on CUDA, that feels like doing CPU debugging.
Some forms of reversible birth control exist, but not all of them are.

Also, I don't think people who are torn between affording food and fuel can afford to thinking about, much less afford, permanent birth control.

Might be worth mentioning my grandmother was intentionally, involuntarily sterilized by a US Navy surgeon in the late 1950's without informed consent during a "routine" hernia repair operation.

I think it's a personal choice. I like kids so I'm on the side of more reproduction by people who can afford them and who would be good parents. The net fertility rate is cratering in most countries in the global north.
Exactly, or the billion+ spent on “feasibility” studies for building a rail line between SF and LA.

What a joke.
> (...) it's literally a little like letting someone screw you with no commitment, then you being upset they don't feel the same way as you do.

I strongly disagree with this take. Contributing your time to a non-profit is not "letting someone screw you with no commitment". Moreso if you're an intern in a non-profit that explicitly set forth to offer unpaid internships to anyone who applied. Volunteers are there to contribute without expecting a salary, but that is not consent for abuse. Quite the opposite.

Also, you're talking about completely distinct things. Volunteering for an organization is not a green card to be treated poorly or abused by current staff. In fact, organizations who open internships understand well how it is in their best interests to create a good environment and a good experience. They know they are opening their inner workings to the outside world and creating experiences for those whose main deliverable for the organization is not work but PR in the form of testimonies and first-hand accounts.
China is still ruled by communism, the goverment has a majority share in every company.

That's bad for entrepreneurs, but also means that they can have the entire power of CCP behind them. There are tons of example where a small company started by stealing from western competitors then suddenly produced a huge pile of cash out of nowhere to bought those competitors and took over their marketshare in the west.
I refer to the article's contents
Not inherently. Whole IP blocks seem more or less black-listed by Google and Microsoft. So if you happen to get a server in that block, you can't send email.
Meta used monolithic architecture to ship Threads in only five months
Which high fluoride toothpaste do you use? My dentist recommended that I use one, but none of the options seem to give an indication of how much fluoride they actually contain.
Once upon a time, ran scaled, HA Zimbra instances as a commercial service.

Is there anything approaching "Microsoft Exchange" today without the Microsoft or commercial pseudo-FOSS?
Contrary to rumour, the Parisiennes and Parisiens are not obligate monoglots?
They mention few-shot prompting in the prompt engineering section, which I think is what you mean.
Interesting. I recently built a non stop drag system for someone who uses it to communicate. The system uses either a dwell or angular detection system to figure out the letters. I wonder though if some path analysis would be better. I wonder if you can reverse this - so from an image of the path (and with time stamp along the path) you can go path -> text.

https://github.com/AceCentre/DragToSpeak see video of it in action https://willwa.de/2024/03/26/iterative-rapid-development.htm...
Gentoo Linux becomes an SPI associated project
> But these are communications platforms.

While technically true, this is a gross misrepresentation. Calling these sites and apps "communications platforms" makes them sound like they're just a mail service or a telephone. This is akin to referring to a casino as "the town square".

> That's a freedom you and everyone else can take advantage of also.

This "can" is only true in a strict legal sense, of course.
My practical experience with vendor negotiations is you ask for a discount and talk to them honestly and make the sales person have a good time with you and you don't need to play hardball, say you have some secret information or other crap. I have seen many contracts negotiated by a regular engineering manager and by "proper" procurement people, and the outcome is clear that hardball negotiations end up in worse outcomes than just being a nice person and speaking plainly.
The last blurb in the article is the most damning part.

"Ma spends much of his time abroad, especially in Japan where he is a visiting professor at Tokyo College, a research institute run by the University of Tokyo"

Jack Ma has no hope for China, as evident by his action. The long internal post may have been requested by the Chinese government, or his staff, to somehow rally Alibaba's failing image. But Jack sees the real pictures on the ground in China. And he chooses Japan.

And the young in China knows it too. That's why the young are laying flat. and sneaking through Mexico into US. and fleeing to Cambodia and Myanmar for work.
Working fine for me and many coworkers here in Australia.
Sorbet Leopard
You seem to know thing or two about BART's rail infrastructure. I want to pick your brain on something.

The new BART fleet is much nicer than the old fleet in many respects, except for one very big issue: when a few drops of water fall onto the track, they have to slow down all the trains traveling through affected parts of the system. Worst case in my experience, this increases my travel time by 33%, which really adds up on the longer distance rides. My understanding is that in the rain, the new trains are just too good at applying brakes to all the wheels when they detect the wheels slipping on the tracks, and as a result, the wheels grind against the track to create flat spots. The current mitigation is to slow down the train, and it doesn't sound like they've figured out a long term solution yet.[0]

Your point about the system having a "nonstandard wheel profile and corresponding rail profile" stood out to me here. So I'm wondering, just how nonstandard is that? And is this wheel flat problem something exclusive to BART (and, perhaps a result of this nonstandard wheel profile)?

[0] https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/bart-wet-weather-b...
You can/should make a custom GPT that isn't allowed to use Bing. Works much better that way
The River of Bytes: Elasticsearch Data Transfer Cost Optimization
Some business owmer on reddit put it succinctly: "I feel like I'm spending 75% on my time on bureaucracy, and that the rest is just a side business".

This is not exactly my experience, but it certainly feels that way, especially in the first year.

Settings up the business, getting the permits, bookkeeping, taxes, setting up the website, GDPR, immigration office requirements.

I just run a website. If I had to rent a place, hire people or serve food, it would be worse.
> The top-left corner of the program was reserved for a 'system' menu used to move/resize the window, or quickly exit with a double-click

Pretty sure that's already a standard across all Windows version, plus Xfce and KDE have similar menus and the double-click to close feature
The simply binary of government or individual choice eliminates the middle ground where almost all change happens: the collective aggregate result of cultural change within the community. We don’t have to pick one extreme to change the world!
"We support Ukraine in its fight for it's existence as long as it does not affect oil prices."
"Social skills practice with AI" is another word for brainwashing, basically. Brainwashing often rotates around ethics, specifically ethics as depicted by social models ("influencers"). And it uses social anxiety as a primary lever (e.g. "assertiveness training" courses, women's deodorant ads). AI "social skills" practice would brainwash susceptible people into mimicking the behavior patterns desired by the creators of the AI, i.e. the ethics desired by the creators. In the case of our current AI's, that behavior pattern/ethic seems to be an amalgamation of performative Silicon Valley "look at how CURIOUS I am!" theatrics and a big business/big government/blob "teamwork with people you don't like" thing.
Do you have examples of such companies? I'm curious to see which industries they were in.
Use ChatGPT Classic.
The Apple Journal app is really really limited, and probably good enough for anyone who isn’t a serious journaler.

The only “innovative” feature the Apple Journal app has is access to private data that other apps don’t, to be able to come up with ML-based journalling recommendations. However, this feature is also exposed via an API, for other journalling apps to implement too.

So… if you’re not actually a journaler, the Apple Journal app is probably good enough for you.

If you actually journal, you’ll probably use Day One, because the set of compromises it makes best aligns with the majority of active journalers.

It upset me when they turned off iCloud sync in favour of their proprietary server sync, because they’re effectively asking me to trust them with my data. They finally implemented E2EE though, and it looks like it’s been implemented properly, so it’s less bothersome again.

It’s just a shame that Diarium refuses to implement high resolution images, or they’d actually be a viable competitor with the ability to self-host your E2EE DB sync.
I explain to our kids that it is normal for them to have difficulties with stopping playing or looking at a stream from a social media platform.

My explanation is that they are fighting against a team of PhDs optimizing everything to make them addicted.

Luckily they all do a lot of sport and have this way disconnected time everyday.
I don’t see your point, in most European cities (and I don’t know Tokyo but I believe it’s the same), mass transit is much faster than driving, including walking, escalators, and elevators.

Yes, you have to walk a little, but we are not talking about a hike. In fact for most people, it’s not even enough walking to compensate for their sedentariness.

Also you are talking about subway stations but I doubt that there isn’t a denser bus network in Tokyo to get you to the subway stations fast and dry.

It’s also SO MUCH LESS stress than traffic jams.
Are you fitting the Gaussian curve or is it fitting you?
IMO, this tool is way simpler than SQL. Once setup is done it is very easy to use for non-tech people, In SQL you have to be 100% correct with the syntax which is not the case here.
I find it kind of ironic of how we have come full circle to timesharing ways of working.

Every time I launch VSCode or any other Web IDE, I have flashbacks of running X Windows over the network, or telnet into my Emacs session.
> How about we instead simply make the giants liable for what gets posted on their platforms?

Because social media is a tool for global social influence and global intelligence that the powers that be do not want to give up. Because those same powers are often invested in social media companies or don’t want to get on their list of enemies. Because it might look bad politically if it proved unpopular. Because they are all social media addicts. Take your pick.