skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mediaeval France was just an example. What I said was true of them was true of just about everywhere and everywhen else too. Rarely in human history have rulers displayed any great care for what goes on in a family behind closed doors; to the extent they ever have, it is predominantly a feature of modernity, not pre-modernity.
The problem is that to work, those need a monopoly.

This isn't true and we can see it by the fact that lots of places have multiple wires run to them from ATT and multiple cable companies. Most of the time with cable a neighborhood is wired up but a cable isn't ran to a house until it is needed.

ISPs make so much profit they don't need everyone to sign up. A lot of times there is nothing to dig and it is run off a pole. They aren't giving a metered commodity like electricity, gas or water with their lines. Once a line is run to someone's house it's wildly profitable since the bandwidth per person is so cheap.
PACs let companies nearly bypass that.
Do you tell your wife to get to the gym and stop complaining when you go off to exercise without her at 10pm?
I'm sure someone named some "law" after themselves for this. But it is true that the fastest way to get an answer to a question online is not to ask a question; post the wrong answer.
The only reason it is disappearing is the government keeps mandating surveillance. Anti-money laundering and know your customer are just the financial arm of global mass surveillance. They just say "terrorists" and suddenly everything is justified. Everyone just accepts it. Just an fact of life that you have to do all this bookkeeping when you have a business. In fact, such things should be literally illegal. This is just some loophole the government uses to illegally surveil its citizens. It's illegal to warrantlessly wiretap everyone so they get the private sector to do it for them. Then all they need to do is gently ask the corporations. The CEOs are only too happy to get in bed with them.

The bitter pill to swallow is society needs to learn to tolerate some amount of crime in order to maintain their freedom. They want the government to be all powerful so that it can stop crime before it even happens. They don't want the responsibility for themselves. The responsibility that freedom requires, the responsibility to personally defend themselves when the bad guys come knocking. No, they want to delegate it all to some authorities. They better hope they don't end up as serfs in somebody's fiefdom.
So stop trying to pay the same amount for every student and instead explicitly allocate more money to students who are legally required to be provided with more services. If you're paying for it either way you might as well have an accurate line item in the budget and mitigate the perverse incentive.
>Your comment adds nothing to the discussion,

and yours did? This comment, Christian?

>>I swear, this feels like people get paid to write positive stuff about him?

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>you're just snarky and nothing else

Please re-read your own comment. See above.

>So get off my back

Absolutely not. You said something that was decidedly ignorant(how dare people praise x good thing done by omg horrible y people!), and I called you out on it. I expect better discussion and people skills from someone who holds position of a CTO rather than just "haha you're all paid shills!"
No I wouldn’t because I’m good at what I do (at least reasonably so) and I have an emergency fund. There is no safety net in the US for those between 18-65 for the most part.
I'm not sure that would work all that well to be honest.

Seems to me, the whole reason ID cards have photos on is because they get lost/stolen/borrowed all the time.

Even if the government had the inclination to run a big national IT project so I could use zero knowledge proofs to verify my age for pornhub by scanning my driving license NFC chip, they'd still end up needing a webcam face check to make sure I wasn't some kid using dad's driving license. At which point the privacy angle becomes a joke anyway.
Even Chinese companies are moving their manufacturing out to countries like Mexico and Vietnam. Samsung has moved all their manufacturing out of China.

China themselves do not want to get stuck just doing manufacturing. Though I suspect in their attempt to move up the value chain they’re just shooting themselves in the foot.
Middle management is a plague.

I am convinced that hierarchical structures and strong leadership are necessary, but some layers are often superfluous.
> remember the 1000 Indians that were watching people shop at the Amazon Go stores?

> Amazon told us it was all "sensors" because it fit their company narrative to do so.

I think you, like many others, fell into the trap of just looking at the headline. The 1k people were labeling training data, not watching you shop like a puppet master..
If something is standing in the way of my OS being usable and using it as intended, then I will disable it, simple as that.

I dont need any hand holding or babysitting thank you very much.

Same with the useless UAC warning dialogs on Windows.
I like that idea, we're currently in Turtle Dynasty XLV.

Or a repeatedly self-destructing/self-re-assembling turtle (whose peak looks like intelligence on planets)

Could also be a turtle that always was!
You fell afoul of Poe's law [1]. People do read intent, but I think you're overestimating how clearly you communicated your intent. You say the /s was implied, but implied by what? It's a crazy statement for sure, but people come make matter of fact crazy statements on here all the time.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
> cushy jobs

Compared to what? Coal mining? Sewer maintenance?

> well-above-average remuneration

No. Below average remuneration.

Median Public School Teacher Salary in the United States:
$57,947 [0]

Average salary in the U.S. in 2024:
$59,384 [1]

[0] https://www.salary.com/research/salary/benchmark/public-scho...

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/money/blueprint/business/hr-payroll...
That's not what "resume multiple times" is referring to here. You can typically only resume a coroutine once per yield, while a continuation generally allows you to return to the same place multiple times.
An increase in fees wouldn't increase the probability of success it would increase the reward when there was success which is still an extremely low probability event.
Right, you exercise in your bedtime instead.
It's epic how well that works. Even with Whisper locally, most of what I throw at it becomes readable.
It must be tied to person's biological features, i don't see any other way. Some kind of crypto-bio hash
How I learned:

Step #1: read the arch manual for some CPU. Read most if not all of it. It’s a lot of reading but it’s worth it. My first was PowerPC and my second was x86. By the time I got to arm, I only needed to use the manual as a reference. These days I would start with x86 because the manuals are well written and easily available. And the HW is easily available.

Step #2: compile small programs for that arch using GCC, clang, whatever and then dump disassembly and try to understand the correspondence between your code and the instructions.
Next they'll want cameras in all our houses. Much of their argument would apply to privacy anywhere?
Author of Penzai here! In idiomatic Penzai usage, you should always discharge all effects before running your model. While it's true you can't do `discharge_effect(jax.grad(your_model_here))`, you can still do `jax.grad(discharge_effect(your_model_here))`, which is probably what you meant to do anyway in most cases. Once you've wrapped your model in a handler layer, it has a pure interface again, which makes it fully compatible with all arbitrary JAX transformations. The intended use of effects is as an internal helper to simplify plumbing of values into and out of layers, not as something that affects the top-level interface of using the model!

(As an example of this, the GemmaTransformer example model uses the SideInput effect internally to do attention masking. But it exposes a pure functional interface by using a handler internally, so you can call it anywhere you could call an Equinox model, and you shouldn't have to think about the effect system at all as a user of the model.)

It's not clear to me what the semantics of ordinary JAX transformations like `lax.scan` should be if the model has side effects. But if you don't have any effects in your model, or if you've explicitly handled them already, then it's perfectly fine to use `lax.scan`. This is similar to how it works in ordinary JAX; if you try to do a `lax.scan` over a function that mutates Python state, you'll probably hit an error or get something unexpected. But if you mutate Python state internally inside `lax.scan`, it works fine.

I'll also note that adding support for higher-order layer combinators (like "layer scan") is something that's on the roadmap! The goal would be to support some of the fancier features of libraries like Flax when you need them, while still admitting a simple purely-functional mental model when you don't.
> In the USA, non-citizens (legal permanent residents aka “green card” holders) can’t get passports.

Yes, but legal permanent residents (and some other legally resident aliens) also have federally-issued ID, and its not optional the way passports are for citizens. (For LPRs, the Permanent Resident Card, for others the Employment Authorization Document or Immigrant Visa.)
Someone please lmk if you know how to control the order of the choices, seems random on refresh
Nobody's talking about the author's point at the end of the article, that we need better tools to reason about biology, and that the biology as a subject has a particular gap between reality and content that perhaps other subjects do not.

I couldn't agree more. Right now we're sipping the natural world's most complex ideas through the straws of simple language and static diagrams, and the constraints of all of these mediums (including school itself) in aggregate naturally lean toward making biology a rote memorization subject. Reasoning about biology in the way that it appears in nature is, in these mediums, going against the grain. It happens, but it's not the default. Your story about having a good biology teacher is this exception, not the default.

Complex things requires easy to use systems that reflect that complexity. That's the subject here - how do we build these methods of communication and understanding?
The opposite, actually. Nothing leaves the computer you install it on, unless you specifically pay for their cloud service or stand up your own server. This is one of the reasons I chose it for myself over using timely or toggl.
A single reader hasn't popped up. Many have. There's Feedly and feedbin, inoreader (which I use), newsblur, and many others
No I communicate with my wife and tell her things
Well, they probably didn’t do so with a valid US ID, and certainly not with a valid US passport.
> Most of the criticisms against Web 3.0 still apply to DID. It can be impossible to revoke, as the article stated. Which means if grandma’s wallet is hacked, she can be impersonated forever by the hacker, and not even the government can help her with this.

VCs have credentialStatus, the id property of which is supposed to be a URI resolving to an RDF defined object dictating the status.

This means the issuer can just update the entity living behind that URI to revoke bad credentials.

https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model-2.0/#status
> It's interesting how renewables have suddenly made time-of-day critical in energy consumption.

I remember people being upset about potential time of use meters around 2000. Of course then we wanted to move consumption away from daytime when peak loads were higher than supply. Now we want to move consumption towards daytime when peak supply is higher than demand.
Not just cars.

Have you looked at your grocery dockets recently?

Just another indicator of the decline in purchasing power of the US Dollar. (Also of the Australian Dollar, the Canadian Dollar, the GB Pound, and the Euro.)
> I recall feeling like it was mostly a guide on manipulating people, and it didn't make a great impression on me, personally.

Any action will affect other people in some way. What matters is how you choose to utilize that capability.
That's a fine perspective but the way you worded your comment was evocative of the typical "X is objectively better than Y" tech comment. Are you aware that Ruby includes a lot of functional programming features (including pattern matching)?
There are also millions of people who think that Earth's flat.
The fossil fuel industry requires massive continued investment. So it's not clear that renewables would be more affected by high interest rates than fossil fuel investment would be.
People also denied the holocaust back in 1944. I’m sure there were people telling Schindler that he shouldn’t be messing with politics and just do his job well. Those were differing opinions for sure, but the genocide deniers were both morally wrong and factually wrong.

BTW. Hamas does not have the annihilation of Israel in their charter anymore, only the annihilation of the Apartheid system which discriminates Palestinians, and denies displaced Palestinians the right of return. One can demand the destruction of a state without any harm to the people, that was the case for the ANC who worked successfully to destroy the state of Apartheid South Africa.
The bad kind of middle managers want to hire more people to increase its power, regardless of the true interest of the company he is working for.

Apply this logic recursively, if there is enough cash, and you can easily imagine where it goes.

And it is also extremely difficult to unwind, they usually are pretty smart and cunning individuals who know how to make it look like all of this is necessary.
> Leftpad is an entirely pure, non-diverging function.

`leftpad(string, int) -> string` needs to allocate so not fully pure that way. You could pass in the resulting string but then it would have to mutate, which is not really pure either.
Recent PBS Nature shows are even better than what I remember from childhood. The series on primates shows a group of monkeys using rocks as tools to get food. The recent one on raptors shows an eagle knocking a sheep down a mountain. None of this is surprising if you pay attention to other animals, and it's so cool to see reminders of our similarities.
Isn't this what we're all betting massive Transformer architectures are going to give us? Tools to explore and handle complex concepts. Reasoning may still be left to us, though.
It wasn't empathy, but it did generate reframings that human reviewers scored higher on the metric "this rethinking is empathic". So it was better at generating the impression of empathy. Which is the same standard we generally apply to humans when judging their empathy, even if it is subtly wrong.
Manchester has the same house price issues as London these days. Leeds or something could be appropriate though.

The problem is the Tories were re-elected on the basis of 'leveling up' the regions but f-all has actually happened so the metaphorical well has been poisoned.
It’s not really “OIDC”, though, because there’s so many options possible that the standard itself is basically useless: you have to implement Google, Microsoft, Okta, etc. separately anyways
> Still can't figure out why they didn't follow through with Cortana being the OS copilot name and retired it.

I can't figure out why they didn't use it as an opportunity to bring back Clippy.
Thanks! This is one of the more experimental design choices I made in designing Penzai, but so far I've found it to be quite useful.

The effect system does come with a few sharp edges at the moment if you want to use JAX transformations inside the forward pass of your model (see my reply to Patrick), but I'm hoping to make it more flexible as time goes on. (Figuring out how effect systems should compose with function transformations is a bit nontrivial!)

Please let me know if you run into any issues using Penzai for your model! (Also, most of Penzai's visualization and patching utilities should work with Equinox too, so you shouldn't necessarily need to fully commit to either one.)
Play through the game Turing Complete, by the end you'll have built your own ISA and solved some puzzles with it. Keep playing for to get on the high scores list and you'll turn those assembly routines into ASICs.
>I’ve been fortunate to have some very good managers.

Every time I've seen this sentiment and asked for something concrete on what made them good managers I get answered with platitudes or "nice-isms."

At this point in my career, the emperor has no clothes. There are no good managers, only good peers.
Deterministic storage/retrieval of telecom light from quantumdot 1-photon source
Thank, Dan. Some further context: this was posted in another thread yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40102956. I liked it so much I yoinked it and submitted to main.
I'm reading the article as essentially saying "decentralised ID's dosen't solve anything".

If you have them "backed" with governmentally issued ID's, they allow the government ID monopoly to continue (with all its claimed faults). If they are instead completely separate they will not be considered "valid" in most situations where ID's are required.

Then the author warn against the whole idea of having one, single, strong identifier connected to your person at all, and urges for the option of creating multiple identities.

In almost all circumstances where identification is required, the whole point of requiring ID falls apart of you can create a new one whenever you want. We can of course argue that the whole surveillance society is wrong. KYC requirements, no fly lists, credit scores etc, but any proposed system need to have these in consideration or forever only be applicable in niche environments.

Feels like DID is just keybase.com (pre coin-spam and zoom acquisition) or pgp.mit.edu wrapped in a pyramid scheme.
And yet they still regularly hold Bandcamp Fridays (0% commission) and haven't shown any signs of reducing or locking down functionality. The acquisitions are certainly worrying in theory, and it's worth keeping a close eye on their operations, but for practical purposes they're still one of the best distribution venues for artists in terms of 'bang for buck' (buck being your fans' attention).
Yes but having a fake card is an entirely different animal to deal with.
Would you mind sharing your math?

I had concluded the opposite if you compound over 5-ish years.

With two tech incomes, you'll make approximately 4-5 million in the US counting equity, versus about 1 mil everywhere else except maybe Zurich. US expenses over 5 years would be about 800k-1mil excluding a home which you are likely going to sell for far more than you pay for.
There was this app, I don't remember the name, that was similar I think for MacOS. It would record the entire timeline, and you could just "scroll back in time - in real time btw-" to a specific date/time and see the open windows you had and what not.

I distinctly remember seeing it somewhere (I think it was here), but I can't find what the app was called, despite all teh gooling.
Welcome to the 1% who ship.

Congrats

Keep shipping small updates from what you’re learning from feedback, it will shed the light on your path and uncover what this becomes.
Or, as Haldane wrote in “On being the right size” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Being_the_Right_Size:

“You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes. For the resistance presented to movement by the air is proportional to the surface of the moving object. Divide an animal’s length, breadth, and height each by ten; its weight is reduced to a thousandth, but its surface only to a hundredth. So the resistance to falling in the case of the small animal is relatively ten times greater than the driving force”
But the resolution doesn't fail, it just returns an incorrect A record. Have you tried it on a Windows PC?
Forgive my ignorance, but isn't the green card already a federally issued, nationally recognised photo ID?
I like Rust and Go, but I haven't seen any data which suggests widespread adoption in the "software industry" at large. Python is bigger than ever, C# is huge, C and C++ have many many years ahead even as newer languages slowly eat away at their niches.
I don't see it as "Black Mirror" but rather as a feature. I pretty much record everything about myself anyway (locally, selfhosted) - so this alone wouldn't add any other obstacles than storage.

a local model that can analyze the videostream/files and answer questions would be great.
I had a very similar experience. I spent so much time searching for answers, early-adopted atom, etc, only to find that vim was the answer the whole time.
Absolutely! Super exciting! But how precisely will it work?

Right now I don't know of an AI tool that can make a halfway decent biology diagram, let alone a complex 3d animation of a biological process you can talk to and ask questions of. The article was a call to action for this type of tooling.

I'd love to see this thread move from 'my experience in school was good/bad' to 'what if we made something that did X' or 'have you seen Y' :)
Probably rewind.ai
> will naturally prefer to try to fix things themselves

That's precisely my point. They aren't "fixing" anything. They're creating blind workarounds that simply let them continue developing.

> And you have every tool necessary to try to do so.

So containers are an entirely inappropriate mechanism to containerize things? Thus we have to patch software that runs in the container to be container aware to avoid problems /created/ by developers "fixing" things?

Very natural indeed. What benefit that brings just happens to be entirely beyond me.
Your kids are artificial general intelligence?
Unless I've been imagining it we have been desperately trying to reduce immigration since around 2016, it was what most of Brexit was about, after all. I literally can't turn on the news without some politician crowing about how they are stopping the boats, or sending 'them' all to Ruanda.

What has happened to house prices since 2016 for example?

(I actually don't agree that legal immigration is bad, if folks want to come from wherever to buy our houses, work in our cities and so on that's actually great for our economy. However we do need to build new housing in line with that, not just pretend it's not happening)
> The charging network and vehicle platform are exceptional. The “self driving” is driver assist and only an assist.

Agreed, and I'd add that while I agree the underlying platform and charging network are exceptional, the finished vehicles themselves are often lacking in polish and are in no way what I would call exceptional. Panel gaps, cheap feeling materials, lack of carplay/android auto (seriously?), lack of a directional signal stalk on recent models, very few physical buttons, all controls and displays in the center of the dash out of the direct line of sight of the driver (at least on the 3/Y/truck), and wildly under-delivering on performance/range/price of the cybertruck vs. the announced specs are all examples I've seen.

I'm betting that open access to NACS and the supercharger network by other brands' EVs is going to be detrimental to Tesla in the long term, because that's one of their biggest advantages at the moment.
That’s terrible for your sleep.
Even “Don’t mess with Texas” started as an anti-littering campaign in the mid-80’s into the 90’s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Mess_with_Texas
> I made this app on Windows. The major inspiration from the early concept of Mac app Rewind and Black Mirror S1E3 "The Entire History of You"
Valve most likely doesn't use that handbook in full any longer. Lots of things changed.

For instance, they have a round table where everyone would judge everyone else. So if too many people don't like you, the axe is coming. Sounds miserable.