skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my earliest vivid memories is specifically of my 2nd birthday party, so I'm confident I wasn't actually 3 or 4. I might not quite have been 2, or I might have been a few days older than 2, but I can pinpoint my age within a couple weeks on either side. I remember details other people didn't notice or care about, like my disappointment that the teal color of the frosting on my cake was only on the surface, not all the way through (which I discovered by shoving my hands into it), and that the water was too hot when my grandma took me to wash the frosting off my hands. I remember it the same way I remember anything else.

It's probable I encoded my memories verbally much earlier than most children, though. My mom made a list in my baby book of the hundred words I could use correctly on my first birthday, and I was conversational and fluent well before my second.

The theory that "childhood amnesia" happens because we start encoding memories verbally and forget how to access the nonverbal ones would track with my experience. I just encoded mine verbally much earlier than most children.

Most people do not have memories of being two. But some of us certainly do.
This, I fully agree with. My point is only, sad as it is, I don't see America's disengagement as in flagrant violation to it's pre-2022 commitments.

The sad counterpart to the great institution that is NATO is that NATO countries won't go out of their way to defend non-NATO countries. NATO already is a stretch of capabilities and goodwill, and I think it's telling that the fractures that show go along cultural boundaries: the "loosest" parts of NATO right now are US and Turkey.

Again, I think NATO and US would be stupid to not continue supporting Ukraine, just not because they are reneging on an alliance.
> LLVM is not great at JITs

That seems like a generalisation. It's true LLVM will never be a lightweight toolkit, but if you want to generate highly optimised code it seems like a solid choice, assuming you're doing relatively 'vanilla' code-gen work.
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Not sure what you are implying but Tailscale lets you sign in with Google, Microsoft, Apple, Github or a custom OIDC server on every plan.
> Democrats of the time, when making the decision, knew they would lose the South.

But they didn’t—the 1976 map looked like the “solid south” with Carter winning every southern state except Virginia. In 1980, Reagan won Alabama like he did New York. But Carter won most of the rural parts of the state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_United_States_presidentia.... Carter did better in Alabama in 1980 than he did in New York.

> That’s a weird way of framing
It's not weird; it's conventional political history retold over and over.

Told by who to who? It’s a self-serving narrative told by liberals to liberals that doesn’t work timing-wise and ignores the much more important effect of economic changes.
It has too many of the wrong features and not enough of the right features. This is the problem with bolting stuff onto old languages - a lack of cohesiveness.
I think the emphasis is not "don't create for others" but more on "don't let people-pleasing get in front of the actual joy of whatever you are supposed to enjoy", which I'd personally agree with.

For photo example: If creating a style on Instagram for more presence and likes etc. does NOT negatively impact your photographic process and decisions, but solely build on top of the hobby that you already enjoy without social media, then go ahead.
I'm amazed that people still depend on "influencers" to make decisions. After all we've seen over the last 10 years of sponsored posts, and "influencers" people still blindly follow their lead.
Why? now the employee has a large taxable embedded gain on their gold bar when they sell it.
More specifically, it's not below market value if the market offers it for that amount. If a restaurant has a "buy one, get one free" deal, that's the market settings its market value. If a restaurant sells you specifically two for the price of one outside their standard offer, that's a gift.

I think the better question is how what most companies do with "enterprise pricing" fits in where there is no official price (i.e. nothing that obviously establishes a market price) and all offers are specific to each inquiry. What happens if the company decides to sell the same thing to one company at the fraction of the usual price but the prices aren't public. What if the company buying it is a one-person company?
>Personally I am no perfectionist at all, but I don’t see the fun in making stuff myself that I could otherwise buy.

That's ok, but then there are things that are not available to buy. I want a 500-850 degrees C 3D printing hotend, which can only be built of ceramics. I'm a hacker. Gotta make it.

https://voxleone.com/2024/03/05/3d-printing-im-making-a-500c...
The true problem started with the promise of western lifestyle with a planet that can not support such a lifestyle, and it cant be taken back. And due to the assymetric destabilizing effects of advanced technology, we can not science our way out of this trap. So, we walk the middle road, augmenting society to better the angles of our nature with panopticons etc. while the planet still can carry us.
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One possibility: You are allowed to have such discussions because these will be ineffective and forgotten within half a day while bringing about zero policy change. Most of us around the world do not know how to bring about a change in policy. Intellectual exchanges over such forums are certainly not the way.
When it comes to language itself, I don't see there being any good reason to pick java over c# these days.

If you compare ecosystems then maybe, but it terms of language features I don't know why would any1 ever pick java from scratch in this day and age.
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The good thing about all this is that a lot of things also combined into single languages and that you can still spool up everything you need to run on a cheap VPS or even a small computer at home.

Need to build a backend? JavaScript and NodeJS.
Need to query a database or store data? JavaScript and an ORM of your choice.
Need to build a frontend? JavaScript and a frontend library of your choice.

My point is the only thing you actually need to know is a single language and you can build anything you want. This extends to PHP with Laravel, C# and Python as well.
Getting into developing things got a lot easier because you don‘t need to get into the nitty gritty of how a web or database server functions.

Obviously there‘s stuff like CI/CD, logging and error tracking that‘s a lot harder to do without PaaS solutions, not to speak of scalability.
But these are things that should be left to the professionals, which should absolutely learn about the core concepts of the software they‘re building and deploying. But that’s what they‘re (read: we’re) being paid for.
The USA sir.
> Trump is a racist and should be punished

Being a racist and having racist beliefs is not a crime that should be punished by law. You'd be fully in the territory of thought crime at that point.

To my knowledge, Trump has not actually taken discriminatory actions nor proposed any legislature to systematically oppress people again.

the term racism is getting thrown around so much nowadays it hardly has any meaning anymore...
What did they do to support WizardLM 2? It seems to work with an earlier llama.cpp version. (I have an app in production that uses a llama.cpp version before WizardLM 2 release)
Still books/ study material are of extreme importance.

No one could be living in more extreme poverty than Michael Faraday did. Still he managed to be one of the greatest minds of all times. He read a book called "The improvements of the mind" by Isaac Watts and applied it on himself literally. The book was written for poor people who can not afford themselves books and means to conduct chemistry/electricity/mechanical and biology experiments.

Michael Faraday had to draw and write down everything he learned and imagined meticulously in a military and highly disciplined way where testosterone was expressed in its noble manner: discipline and high focus, no distraction. He wrote himself an extremely dense and technical voluminous book like notes of things he read and noticed while he was still a boy.

The success story of Michael Faraday started only because he was accepted to work for a man selling books. There, Faraday read every single book he saw.

I hope the study mentioned in this article will not be taken seriously by people of modest environments. The victimization mindset is a gatekeeper to success.
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I would take those benchmarks with a grain of salt, given that it shows a 96 core epyc loosing in multi thread to a 64 core epyc and a 32 core xeon.
I can do a variation on bolognese sauce with ground beef, a few bits of thin sliced onions and finally a dab of tomato pasta sauce. 15 minutes top and done while the pasta cooks.

Cooking at home is just stupendously cheaper. I don't understand how anyone can claim otherwise. I made the switch 3 years ago and the impact on budget was phenomenal.
I just wanted to make sure that this individual is an example of "intellectual, non-partisan conservatism" in the US.
OLAP is a very common use case for PostgreSQL as well.
I suspect it’s somewhat dependent on the starting mental state. ie might benefit someone who is tense more than someone that is relaxed.

I could totally see the relaxing effect outweighing the impairment for someone tense
Your comment certainly fits that bill. Generalizing negativity sure is constructive…
I'm interested in your experience finding 3.5 better than 4. Could you elaborate? Thanks
Oh dang … Star Control 2 was such a great game. Fun fact, I worked on SC3 which was shelved.
> What are those cases preventing a 2-year-old remembering something from a week ago, thus strengthening the memory, rinse and repeat?

I don't see how that is relevant to "we have all these examples of two-year-olds not remembering recent signficant events". I mean, we have observation that $X doesn't happen, but you know want to know what the mechanism is? Why is the mechanism at all important to the observation? With or without a plausible mechanism, the observation still stands.

> I'm kind of confused that on one hand you say that you don't know if it was a dream or reality, and on the other hand completely discount the possibility of having such an early memory.

Well, it's the same reason I am an atheist - as there's literally no evidence for any religions' specific story of a god, I discount the possibility of there being a god at all. People's subjective experience isn't "evidence".

> You keep mentioning the odds. How do you calculate them?

Because there's too many much more likely explanations, many of which I mentioned already, than a non-falsifiable belief in the memory of a two-year old.

Unless you want to dismiss the suggestibility of children, that's basically the most likely explanation.
"Limited generalisation" in the real world means you're dead in the water. Like the Greek philosopher Heraclitus pointed out 2000+ years go, the real world is never the same environment and any task you want to carry out is not the same task the second time you attempt it (I'm paraphrasing). The systems in the videos can't deal with that. They work very similar to industrial robots: everything has to be placed just so with only centimeters of tolerance in the initial placement of objects, and tiny variations in the initial setup throw the system out of whack. As the OP points out, you're only seeing the successful attempts in carefully selected videos.

That's not something that you can solve with learning from data, alone. A real-world autonomous system must be able to deal with situations that it has no experience with, it has to be able to deal with them as they unfold, and it has to learn from them general strategies that it can apply to more novel situations. That is a problem that, by definition, cannot be solved by any approach that must be trained offline on many examples of specific situations.
> Also, if you multiplex events onto a single thread, though you get some better guarantees about execution order than you do under preemptive threads, it is still chaotic.

The combination is even worse. There's an impedance mismatch when you have both multiple threads and something that involves callback/async logic. I just discovered that the Rust graphics stack of Rend3/WGPU/Vulkan/GPU has this problem. The goal is that you're busy rendering the scene in one thread, and in other threads you're loading assets into the GPU for stuff you're going to be near soon as you walk or drive around the scene. Down at the Vulkan/GPU level, the model is that you put commands on a command queue, and you get completions back, not necessarily in order. You can have more than one command queue, and the usual setup is a "graphics" queue, which can ask for anything the GPU can do, and a "transfer" queue, which can only move data from CPU memory to GPU memory.

On top of this, there's a constraint that, while adding a command to a queue is cheap, "submitting" a queue and starting it up is expensive. So having only one command on the queue per asset-loading thread is apparently inefficient. This means that you have to reply to transfer requests with something like a future, one that blocks when you actually need the data.

Other than the Unreal Engine people, nobody seems to actually implement all this. Everybody else just has one queue and gives up a sizable amount of performance.
It's pretty insidious. People form parasocial relationships with these social media personas. When they recommend blueberries, or a brand of lip gloss, or invasive surgery, it's like a recommendation from a friend.

I doubt it's a new phenomenon -- presumably in the past people bought sneakers because some celebrity wore them or recommended them. But it's probably more ubiquitous? And I think it's easier to fool yourself you have a relationship or kinship with a Instagram microcelebrity than with Micheal Jordan.
Calling it a “scam” is disingenuous, the product may be a bit crap for a v1 but their intention is to release people from the over-reliance on smartphones which is to be commended
I love this take on Humane as a s̶c̶a̶m̶ business reselling the last decade laser projection b̶u̶l̶l̶s̶h̶i̶t̶ dreams with adding AI (edited, the question of scam/not scam is not the point).

And probably poisoning the well for other, simpler and laser-less personal AI devices as a side effect.

Btw, you can buy a 60g wearable device whose hardware is prepared for 24/7 microphone listening, has ML accelerator, 24h battery life, and has, for some reason, kept free 16GB of storage that the user can't access and the OS doesn't use.

It is called Apple Watch.
this is nothing new. Companies have being paying models to go to bars and tourist site and use their products.

Pharmaceutical companies have paid doctors (in hotels, spas and what not) to prescribe their pipeline medications to patients. Then US government passed a law to make it illegal for pharmas to do that. It just spawned some 'medical education' company that is hired by the big pharams to do it on their behave.

Consumer capitalism is kinda like democracy. The consumer/voter need to be well informed/educated, and information needs to be 100% transparent.
> There apparently were steep steps to another floor which I wasn’t allowed to go and which didn’t exist in my memory.

Surely, if that had been a memory, you'd have remembered steps, even if you never went down them.

Like remembering a table in the middle of the room even if you never ate at it.
Yeah but there a lot of non-mutable values for default arguments besides None, so I don’t really get GP.
I'd recommend reading Bessel van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score.

The conscious mind is far from the only place the body stores memory that can impact us later in life.
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This seems crazy to me, is it possible that if the parents aren’t functioning, then there is no one else the school can notify to get the kid treated? No social services?
You can't add payment methods if you're in the EU.
Yep, on the spectrum of shilling for nukes, cigarettes, sugar and blueberries, blueberry shills are relative saints.
OpenAI cookbook: https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook

Btw, the Claude API might be available even if the chatbot is not.
If you had an infection of the upper airway that made it hard to breathe, you had croup.

If there was a massive steel foundry pushing down on your chest, it was probably Krupp.
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> Americans aged between 15 and 24 spend just 38 minutes a day socialising in person on average, down from almost an hour in the 2000s

I’m definitely on the introverted side, but I (Gen X) feel like I socialized in-person way, way more than 7 hours per week in my teens and early 20s and feel that was entirely typical.

By the 2000s, was under an hour per day typical? Most of that was pre-smartphone.
I wanted to comment something on that same vein: you probably won't be famous, but someone will definitely read your blog when considering whether to hire and/or date you.

I applaud those that bad-mouth their previous employers because it makes my daily reading more interesting, but I can't in good conscience suggest that people should do it more.
At a beach near my place, 3 young athletic men went swimming after soccer training at a fairly elite level. Got stuck in a tidal rip on a fairly calm day. 2 died. Hard to believe.
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Quite possible that llama.cpp already supports WizardLM 2: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/6691
> she tells me, surprised,

Your mother has a perfect memory of all conversations she had with you or in your presence?

That's probably even more unlikely than retaining a memory from age 2 to age 12.
I agree with the top comment but it's not for lack of understanding but for a lamentation of how this place is similar to any other social network like internet place overwhelmed with solipsistic banality.

Just look at how many comments around the site are personal anecdotes tangentially related to whatever the post is.
> We at NetBSD of course do not believe the OpenBSD tale about their security focus and consider NetBSD at least as secure

Why is this so obvious (the first half)?
Rip currents aren't just a hazard on the ocean, for that matter. Seiches on Lake Michigan can produce both rip currents and rogue waves, and people have been killed by them.
What is the "wealth" they have? I'm not clear on this: is it the fact that wages are rising and the workforce age is favoring Gen Z population? What is the richness?
> Most child abuse is committed by family and friends

Yes, a father in this case.
I remember a time when Amazon was a first class reference example for facetted search. These days I find it hard to set any meaningful filters on most of my searches. Even common ones like color and size are often absent. I guess there is no ROI in helping you find the specific thing you're searching for when you can instead spray and pray with "sponsored results" and keyword stuffing.
Seems a bit much calling it a scam. That to me implies malicious intent which I don’t think is in place here. Bad/imperfect products happen even to well meaning companies.

Must admit I’m surprised by the aggressiveness of it all. It’s almost like an echo chamber where people have decided it’s ok to pile on
It's funny that you mention Snowden, a person who exposed a whole lot of anti-democratic stuff going on in his own country and became a widely celebrated patriotic hero for his courageous work. I guess the people guilty of anti-democratic behavior went to justice, while Snowden himself was offered protection and a well-deserved respectable position to continue his fight for human rights. Just like other notorious human-rights activists like Manning, Swartz or Assange.
As a parent of two teenage boys, I would definitely prefer to be able to occasionally tune into whats going on with my kids screens. Definitely.

And, I would definitely have caught things sooner if I'd had that ability. (Disclaimer: yes, we have been victims of these kinds of scams.)
Push forward doesn't mean help in some special way.

It means only that they will never let a kid to stay the same level with younger kids, you always move with your peers to next class - even if you won't have any passing grades.

Maybe on high school level they will kick you out but in primary school I don't think they have any real grades even anymore.
Yup, especially vim mode pretty much everywhere.

Dunno how people edit code without vim.
WireViz creator here!

Be the change you want to see in the world :-) Having WireViz integrated into KiCad, with a dedicated GUI, would be amazing!
I was surprised that the article talks about employment.

I expected it to be about the assets they hold.

The Nasdaq increased more than 5 fold over the last 10 years and more than 10 fold over the last 20 years.

If parents of Gen Z gave their children $100k and taught them portfolio management, most of them could probably consider retiring without ever working for somebody else.
Obviously, this is about creating the infrastructure for a continent-wide surveillance program, using children pornography as a troy horse.

The problem is that EU institutions are so far and detached from the member states that most citizens are completely unaware of their doing, at least until said European laws get implemented locally.
For the free space, you can actually sync music on Apple Watch and then connect AirPods to it when exercising so you can avoid taking your phone.
It isn't though, but both intelligence and concentration are necessary for actual performance. Intelligence is only a potential.
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Those finger aint gonna lick themselves.
That sounds very much like the Chinese model where any citizen can be compelled to help the state.

Kinda problematic given how key the US is to internet infra. Plus ofc five eyes so yeah snowdens take as “the internet” seems pretty credible
people trade time for money. Cooking yourself is often a family affair and so a cheap use of the little free time and money a poor person has, it pays back well because a boor person isn't then looking for something else toespendmoney on for entertainment.
If its not worth getting a judge out of bed, it's not an emergency.
Or you could work hard and gain respect and become invaluable to the company.
I was going to say something similar, but the blog is tagged with something like 'notes for myself' which is fair.

I do enjoy writing and editing.
To add to the fact, these are teenagers. They already aren't well known for rational thought or low levels of horniness.
You can be racist and also not able to create large scale racist policy change due to incompetence.
Hot take: AR via brain-implants will succeed before we get decent small laser projectors.
Yes, that is bit much but the main point being this projection technology is nowhere novel, I have been playing with pico projectors and modern ones comes with Android OS so it's just a mini projector. However the only thing innovative here is natural voice interaction powered by modern AI but that also seems to be very slow for any practical purpose.