skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many people suggest ranked choice, but it has the significant problem that you might have little idea who won or who is leading until the very last vote is in. One vote in a close race could kick off a chain of events that changes everything. And for a Federal election, a stupid and stubborn state (like the one I'm living in) could stall and delay submitting their results for weeks.

Approval voting doesn't have this problem. When there's a clear winner, it's obvious and you can get back to business.
I was also not-much-satisfied user of Brave but ever since I found Librewolf I never looked back.
It absolutely is not. Google has been downranking 'outdated' formats for years, and there is a dearth of independent communities to draw members from. Discovery is harder now than it has been at any point in the past.
Hah, I just started reading The Story of Diva and Flea[1] to my 5-year-old and "Flea" describes himself as a Flâneur. Still trying to figure out the right way to pronounce it...

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Diva_and_Flea
I read "Trust me I'm lying" and it reaffirmed a lot of my theories about how modern marketing works. (This isn't a sly paid plug for the book. Trust me ;)

Now I assume everything is marketing by default. A couple that come to mind:

the ugly sonic design when the movie came out. You get a whole wave of promotion from the outrage, then another when the design is fixed.

An innocuous "my girlfriend's shirt matched her coffee mug" post but there are some brand name cookies in the edge of the frame.

If I worked in marketing, these are the sorts of things I'd be trying to come up with. It gets even more fun when you apply these concepts to political propaganda.
I feel Robot Unions will have to make backflipping as part of collective bargain agreement.
I see what you're saying, but remember the "Nice Guy" trope is sarcastic. "Nice Guys" are not actually nice guys. There's nothing wrong with being genuinely nice.
4000 Jahre Zahlentheorie (4000 Years of Number Theory)
The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple's App Store
Because if you dont know about the public record then it is further proof that they were hiding the truth from you all along.
> Seems a bit of a strawman to me, because I don't think you can realistically stay in one place this way without taking on anything new or extra over time

Yes, this (and the rest of what you said about this) is true for an individual. Certainly, individuals should expect their real wages to rise over time, as they gain experience and seniority, or take on new roles at new organizations.

But that's not what is tracked by aggregate wage / income data. In aggregate, as one person is getting raises based on growing experience and seniority, other people are filling in behind them, all the way down the line until you get to new entry level people coming in. So absent any other effects, that would all balance out to no real growth.

But you're right that the missing variable is productivity growth. (Which is also what drives real gdp growth.)

So yeah, that's the answer to my question about what makes sense to anchor expectations for real wage growth on. But, to out myself as a capitalist monster, I think it is actually reasonable for a larger portion of those gains from productivity growth to accrue more heavily toward the top of the income range. But, to remind you of my comment above about how I think inequality is very bad, I do think those gains have been and have a tendency to be way too concentrated toward the top.

So I guess the upshot of all of this for me is that I am actually sympathetic to people who hold the view that "the economy" has always (or at least, for generations) been "bad" because of this problem of inequality. But I'm not so sympathetic to the view that the economy of 2024 is comparatively bad. I think it is, and has been for a little over a year, quite good relative to any recent period.
I don't get it, I thought an EU court decided that encrypted chat was a human right a few weeks ago.
Untethered Ultra-Wideband-Based Real-Time Locating System for Road-Worker Safety
That's what it seems like to me too, and let me tell you, i am right there with you on that last point ragebol, that stuff I also find really really amazing, because it's so thoughtful I guess, and I wish my brain was good enough to hack physics like that. People get real hyped up about GenAI etc, but I'm like a kid waiting for christmas when it comes to robotics, i sense their industry in a positive feedback loop and going to get better and better quicker and quicker. Cool time to be alive for sure. :)
This is the specific emulator that people have been waiting for.
My official and sincere apologies!

I think I was tired and I might even have heavily misunderstood
China's Stock Market Struggles
I use ChatGPT and similar tools like Grammarly to improve my writing and expand on ideas. It’s important to review any output from the models and consider how closely it matches my intentions. Likewise, I’ll usually revise the output rather than using it verbatim. Additionally, these tools can be helpful when writing in a language that is not our mother tongue or in situations we are unfamiliar with.

So, I think it’s legitimate to use these tools in personal and professional communications, with the caveat that we should review and revise the output.
I've seen this in React where an autofill doesn't do anything in terms of invoking the changed callbacks. As such, adding 1 character invokes the callback, and sets the value for React. You obviously remove it.
> Someone has to get your work done.

What makes it "my work"? That is for management to decide, is it not?
I don't know if this is related, but growing up there were certain values instilled in me that went something like "don't toot your own horn," "it's better to be seen and not heard," "keep your head down," etc. The main gist being that I should just do my job quietly, competently, and stay out of the way.

In practice, this resulted in me being effectively invisible to management, even when I was out-performing everyone else on the team. The guys who were loud and boisterous and constantly cawing about their achievements got all the raises and promotions, even though I was consistently doing more and better work. This came to a head when someone with far less seniority was promoted over me. I brought it up with my boss who said something like "I don't even know what you do all day. I never hear from you." The guy who was promoted would literally spend twice as much time boasting about what he was doing that actually doing it. I was objectively more productive, as in, there were metrics showing my productivity was significantly higher, but since I wasn't talking about what I was doing, I was unseen.
200 million trees
Posted by Apple this week (but requires Apple ID login and a scary EULA)
I enjoyed this. Reminded me of Asimov. Three experts arguing politely.
It’s something I care about enough to make a phone call, even though it was exceedingly uncomfortable for me!
Consuming raw fruits and veggies do that to you for two simple reasons: fiber and improved gut micro biome.
The Psychology of Value
I agree there's some smoke holding up the AI companies; but it's not industry scale smoke.

There's a significant difference between a industry scale bubble busting and AI which is breaking out right now which could theoretically become a bubble but it's far from it. Obviously its possible later next year we see the bubble burst but I expect something rather extreme would need to expand to get there today.

When I look at this index for example, https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AIQ/

They had a steady decline for all of 2022. Then a big climb, but I estimate they probably have a 25-30% drop coming soon. Just looking at the holdings, they dont scream AI exactly.

Nvidia/cuda obviously being a huge part of AI and they have a pe ratio of 70? There's certainly an nvidia bubble there unless they show some serious profits soon to avoid crash. Though if they do, we'll be kicking ourselves for not buying now.

Moreover, what's important to note. Just because there's some serious smoke going on there, that bears no witness on the future. If these startups showing up can bring a game breaking product to market, then valuations today are imaginary. You want to get in on them now or asap.

I'm not a gambler investor so I never touch anything like this; but I also don't see any dotcom scale bubble that's going to pop.
Things that make my mac more usable for me in no particular order:

visidata - https://www.visidata.org
just - https://github.com/casey/just
ripgrep - https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
macports - https://www.macports.org
sloth - https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Sloth
Keypoint Action Tokens Enable In-Context Imitation Learning in Robotics
I doubt they're even decisions, but rather a side effect of the only visual design being considered without any awareness of functional/usable design factors.
Charging customers full price, including a monthly subscription, for a product that he admits is "not where it needs to be — full stop" seems more techno-dystopian than techno-utopian to me.
I still can't search the word "hydroaccumunoid" on Google, that appeared once in one of their promo reels, and still am wondering if the word was literal corporate secret.
College coursework != vacation. That much should be obvious.
I don't even think Pragmatists are "smart", or if they are it shows it self in the non-book ways. I'd be more inclined to describe them as "clever". If you've heard the "Smart, and gets stuff done" ideal, they're more of the latter.
AI Eval Feedback Loops
Not even close. Someone without programming or domain knowledge would take at least a year (more likely two or three) to learn to do my job. Seasoned devs with domain knowledge typically take 3-6 months to become productive.

Make that five or more years for someone coming cold to do the jobs of a couple of my teammates.
If you were a teacher, you would also have received mandatory-reporter training, so there would be even less gray area as to what to do next.

But your intuition is pretty much spot-on with the training I have received.
AskDoc: AI Document Processing Tool Powered by ChatGPT
AskDoc simplifies the daunting task of handling PDF and Docx files by allowing you to upload them directly onto the platform. Once uploaded, you can easily select the questions you need answers to, making studying and completing assignments a breeze.

With three default AI commands at your disposal, AskDoc streamlines the process of extracting information from your documents. Additionally, the software empowers you to create and integrate your own commands.
I assumed software but couldn’t work out why that would have had a long hidden issue or suddenly started.

The issue was they upgraded the software and it went wrong somehow, and Alaska airlines requested the ground stop be issued. ie the FAA didn’t find something wrong, rather AA did (no obvious details - was the upgrade taking longer than expected or was the result going wrong somehow?). Anyway I assume there’s contract rules that make delaying due to a “ground stop” from the FAA better than just a 100% internally driven delay?
AltStore Pal
The roomba isn't the only possible form of robot vacuum. There may be other options for a design that isn't general purpose but eliminates those issues. Perhaps we should just install elevators or dumb waiters in houses (dumb waiter may be cheaper because it doesn't have to be human rates for safety, while elevators are also useful for humans in wheel chairs which at some point in your life is likely to be someone you are close enough to that you would want to invite them into your house). Likewise doors that can open themself are an option that can solve other problems (think star trek - not current technology)
Beepers with text were peak technology.
Python Tutorial: Use TensorFlow to Generate Predictive Text
I'm recording this, because this could be the last thing I'll ever say

The city I once knew as home is teetering on the edge of radioactive oblivion

A three-hundred thousand degree baptism by nuclear fire

I'm not sorry, we had it coming

A surge of white-hot atonement will be our wake-up call

Hope for our future is now a stillborn dream

The bombs begin to fall and I'm rushing to meet my love

Please, remember me

There is no more
> Phrased like this, it sounds like 'the monad abstraction' and 'good syntax for monads' are what helps, which is slightly off the mark.

> But particular monads do help:

The part the language needs to provide are merely the abstraction and the good syntax which uses it, not the particular monads: you can then implement them as required.
I mean, I'm out here saying college should be a public service that everyone gets and we all fund because it's a net good for our society for young adults. I don't think it should require debt at all.
As someone with over five years of experience in Python serialization and the Django framework, I've been heavily involved in the development and maintenance of Tiger, a function store that provides isolated storage, auto-documentation, usage tracking, and version control.

Tiger was born out of the need to solve the difficulties associated with library creation and storage in Python. It serves as a GitHub repository and On-Premises service, storing functions as tools for various large language model (LLM) agent frameworks such as crewAI, LangChain, Autogen, and OpenInterpreter. These AI agents, when integrated with Tiger, become capable of executing codes, searching through stored data, reading Telegram messages, and much more.

Tiger is a two-part system. The first part is a Docker container that provides a dashboard and storage. The second part is a Python client library that I've designed to serialize the functions. This client sends the serialized functions to the Docker container for storage, triggers the auto-documentation process, and keeps usage records.

In the development of Tiger, I've utilized various technologies including Flask, Django, Dill, and Cloudpickle. Notably, I've used the Upsonic Serializer for serializing some functions.

Our goal is to establish a strong community and use case that offers tools for AI agents. This allows all AI agents to easily access modern applications and skills without additional effort. Additionally, companies can easily use Tiger to perform their unique functions. You can provide up-to-date tools for any type of AI agent. Imagine your research agents recommending documents to your team members for reading. This is the high level of usability and standardization we promise.

Tiger can enhance any agent with well-designed tools. Therefore, you can use it to impart search capabilities, the ability to run various programs, and communication skills to all your agents.
I wonder if this was at all inspired by question 25 of the latest Advent of code.
Only positive? What a fascinating optimism you have.

There are a sizable percentage of people out there that would love to use this for subjugation and control. Will we let them win?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40064105.
Wrong.

> Humane’s website and other promotional material have a series of fake still images (“Photoshopped” images overlayed on hands). While even these pictures are pretty low-resolution (much less than a true 720p image), they turn out to be much better than what is seen in the videos of the Humane projector.
There is no way 80% of people care about craft and impact. There are books on creating impact even when employees don't care about impact.

It's hard to find people who care about their craft.
I strongly buy the premise of this article, and it goes beyond people who try to fly under the radar and blend in because of toxic politics. Even in companies without toxic politics, a lot of managers subconsciously overestimate the abilities of engineers who regularly propose ambitious, complex solutions, and underestimate the abilities of engineers who are more leery of complexity. This not only leads to unnecessary boondoggle projects, it also results in managers not assigning challenging work to engineers who are quite capable of doing it, which is the waste the article describes.

I was fortunate early in my career to have managers who had strong technical judgment themselves and rewarded it in their engineers, managers who spent their innovation tokens but spent them very carefully, so later in my career I was able to recognize when I had managers who relied on crude heuristics like assuming the engineers who proposed the most complex projects had the best judgment and the best ability to execute.

One simple hack I use all the time, regardless of my manager's personality, is to say, "It would be fun." As in, "It would be fun to handle this with an event-driven system using Kafka. We could build an incredibly scalable and resilient system that way. I'd love to tackle a project like that, but I don't think we can justify it, because it would take more time and more engineers to build and be more expensive to operate, and I think our existing system only needs a few tweaks to what we need, even if we execute on our entire product roadmap and exceed our sales goals. I think we should take a careful look at tweaking the existing system, and if that won't get us what we need, we might have to build the more expensive solution."

This lets me advertise my awareness of a fancier architectural solution, as well as my ability and willingness to execute on it, without actually saying that it's a good idea.
LLM’s are first trained to predict the next most likely word (or token if you want to be accurate) from web crawls. These models are basically great at continuing unfinished text but can’t really be used for instructions e.g. Q&A or chatting - this is the “non-instructed” version. These models are then fine tuned for instructions using additional data from human interaction - these are the “instructed” versions which are what end users (e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.) see.
All I seem to hear is crickets from the many people who endlessly wailed about the need to kill crypto because "energy waste". It doesn't apply when it comes to the pumping out of reams of AI-rendered sludge while rampantly scraping and copying every possible digitally connected human being's text and visual and now video creations from the web to generate said sludge, spam and other assorted garbage?
How is it Tailwind component if it's half custom CSS?
It's terrible that absolute comments in one direction stay, and well cited (in thoroughness - quality of citations are just personal references in this case) ones that counter an unqualified absolute statement are routinely flagged out as bad behavior on topics like this
SLA prints don't have the same layer shear issues as FDM prints, but you have to spend on engineering resin to match the same strength as a cheap ABS filament.
PR can only do so much.
Temu has been advertising hard in the US. But it doesn't have to be temu specifically, any Chinese retailer will have all the crap you can imagine for next to nothing with the caveat of long shipping times.

They also all seem to have an orange colored website.
I read "How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the title?" and thought "people name bathrooms?"
Related links (from merged threads):

Farewell to HD Atlas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9EM5_VFlt8

Boston Dynamics retires its legendary humanoid robot https://spectrum.ieee.org/boston-dynamics-atlas-retires

All New Atlas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29ECwExc-_M
Much (most?) of the entire biosphere of earth comes from billions of years of life forms killing and eating other life forms.

The universe is a rough place. Beautiful in many ways, but quite gnarly.
Yes, I'd like to not have to modify the asset names. That requires a build step for assets.
Very true, to take his advice further would be no audience at all. A blog post is a journal entry, a photograph goes into a binder/ folder. What is the benefit of the audience if it’s for personal growth?
> people who are pioneering the front lines of any technology understand risk better than people who write about it

That's far from guaranteed, and we have a long history of lessons written in blood that says otherwise. The people pioneering a technology are going to be self-selected to be the most optimistic about its potential and the most dismissive of its negative impacts.
That's because being a criminal is seen as a bad thing in Asia.
>Lets be realistic though, we're past the marxist peak. It's time for Marxism to become a religion. Move out of the politics field and operate probably pretty successfully as a religion.

it already is a religion, essentially, isn't it? it's just an atheist one -- aka, an ideology. Is there really any difference between a religion and an ideology that claims to explain every detail of the world, other than a deity? I mean, just take a look at r/latestagecapitalism -- even the term Late Stage Capitalism comes directly from Marx, except he was talking about the 19th century and the impending collapse of capitalism then. Doesn't that sound like an apocalypse myth? The people on that subreddit remind me very strongly of the rapture evangelicals. They'll be proven right.. any day now... they're sure of it...
You can always selectively enable JS for specific websites that you trust. With something like NoScript it's just two clicks to whitelist a domain you want to authorize to be able to run random code on your machine.

At work I run a hardened browser that disables a hell of a lot more than JS and not only do most pages work just fine as far as providing the content I wanted from them, but they load faster and look cleaner. There are still some annoying cases when a website can't even manage to display text or images without JS enabled, but even as easy as it is to enable JS if a website is that broken I often just close that tab and move on with my life anyway. I don't use that browser for things like online shopping but for 90% of what I need it works while also being far better for security and privacy
> Senator Ronald Rice passed away in 2023 - the New Jersey Pager ban still in place - months later The Washington Post editorial board would call on schools to ban cellphones entirely - part of a new moral panic about kids and digital devices, many of whose parents were once prohibited from bringing pagers to school.

I was waiting for the author to point to cellphones in the same breath. Obviously, there is a substantial difference between a one-way receive-only device and cellphones.
Last time I got a new Mac, I restored my old user account from Time Machine / Migration Assistant on the new Mac but with a different user name, something like „me_old“. Then copy files between user accounts on the new Mac. You might have to change file permissions.
Because TikTok and social media brainwashed them to do it. Note these protests are for very specific topic - Israel. Plenty of countries and their militaries/agencies deal with US companies, dictatorships and authoritarian governments.
You get the work done that the position requires. If you can do that in a couple of hours, I see no incentive whatsoever for most employees to increase productivity beyond the requirement for the position plus maybe some minor stuff that won’t be enough to encourage additional responsibilities.

If they want more than that, employers should pay significantly more than their competitors for those services, or significant stock bonuses tied to departmental efficiency, or some other add-on compensation that incentivises increased productivity.