skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the calls have spoofed caller ID so I would consider them all to be fraudulent and scammy.
I edited my comment to clarify, however to do so here:

what I mean is they didn't adopt the touchscreen paradigms, such as onscreen keyboards. The Pre required you to use the hardware keyboard, and had no virtual keyboard functionality built in. It lead to some odd interaction patterns.

My recollection - which could be wrong - is that Palm did pivot to pure multi-touch interactions but it was never released, as HP largely gave up on the phone market by that time.
Patents are a stronger signal of a company focused on financial engineering than a company focused on innovation.
What I've seen is that where it used to be quite worth connecting to the grid and "feeding back" because you'd get paid the current retail price, now it is complicated enough and paid little enough that many people just don't bother feeding back at all.
"The ${technological development} Is Crushing ${thing that is unaffected by the technological development}"

The AI revolution is not doing a damned thing to languages. Resources are finite, technology makes them more abundant, the more resources we have, the easier it is to spend more resources on doing things like maintaining endangered languages.

By any reasonable measure, people who care about maintaining endangered languages should be ecstatic about every development that makes resources more abundant, but they are never, which makes me doubt that they care about the endangered languages.

It's really the same with nuclear energy. Nuclear energy provides a solution we can use today to solve our carbon emission problem, but nuclear energy allows technological development to continue apace, which is why groups like Extinction Rebellion would rather vandalize art and economic activity than advocate for nuclear energy.
The fillers and other ingredients used to form a street pressed pill are often unknown.
Yes, it successfully wrote significant portions of an open source Go project I maintain.
Do you believe that analysis to be without flaw, and potential for flaw?
With web or other searching, every 'platform has a large audience'.

One of the worst censor/suppressor of free speech is also the largest web search.
downing a drone doesn't require the kind of response that killing a pilot does. It's easier to deescalate from a bunch of drones being shot down vs coffins coming home to families.
It's not. It's resistance to the idea that their demands to be lavished with praise should be acceded to because their single minded focus on profit aligned with a good thing once or twice.

They're supposed to do good things all the time without praise. That's why society grants them the right to profit.
If Mamba really was as capable as a Transformer on tasks requiring accurate attending to long context, then there'd be no need for Jamba (Mamba+Transformer hybrid).

Your argument of "if we train a Mamba SSM to be as good as a Transformer, then it'll be as good as a Transformer", seems a tad circular...
Believe it or not, there are a lot of opportunity to solve a lot of these challenges with software.

https://smartcar.com/blog/electric-vehicles-power-grid

https://smartcar.com/blog/what-increasing-power-outages-tell...

Disclosure: I work for Smartcar and my company has a small role in the greater efforts solving these challenges with APIs.
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UX-wise, what is the difference between Usenet and PhpBB? Both offer threaded topics, chronologically ordered. There are no "likes" or other gamification features. You can subscribe to topics via email and respond via email with both.
And on Firefox for Mac. Noticed dropped frames pretty consistently in party.js. No such problem with Canvas Confetti, even when there are significantly more particles on screen. I had to increase the count to a point where I couldn't see gaps between them before I saw any lag whatsoever.
An idea which works for me: the 5 close contacts are set to buzzing, everything else is on silent thus has to wait for when I feel like looking at the phone. I also have the answering robot on for those who really have something to tell me (the few). This makes for a quiet day.
The Canadian and Californian governments don’t seem too concerned about increasing the cost of power.
Joke: Did you know a ton of Ubuntu folks work at Home Depot? They like replacing windows.
Or just allow "limit unlimited" for those cases where you are working with lots of rows.
> I think "our network eliminated spam calls" would be a major, major selling point for a mobile network.

If you genuinely had free choice of multiple otherwise similar quality options, which is not the case in all markets/areas.

Also, I wouldn't put it past the networks to promise to try to eliminate cold calls (to make it look like they are on your side), make a perfunctory amount of effort (the minimum to be able to say they are making an attempt), and still make the money they can from the other side.
Maybe you didn't engage seriously enough with the meme. Memes are very tricky!
Could you describe the features would you add to a data query language that would eliminate the need for an ORM?
Where are you? I'm in London.

100% agree on the mood right now. I don't think it's imaginary.
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Cool stuff but I found hard to have to waddle through all the cutesy story telling (techie? really?) to get to the point. Poetic wordplay based on meaning vs sound is quite interesting but not that deep.
It's so frustrating and time consuming replying to non-rebuttals like these. I'm going to have to cut it off after this one.

> if you have a million objects and need to release all of them except 1

That literally only happens at most 1 time for each allocation during its lifetime. But the GC can still waste its time traversing that object a billion times before then, despite nobody adding or removing references to it. Whereas RC would only touch each allocation when you're actually doing something to the object.

It's like arguing for wasting several decades of your life, just to make sure your funeral is quick...
Very cool graphic. However emphasizing the juxtaposition between pictures of wood joints on the internet and actual real-life wood joints with the phrase "digital" is a bit perplexing.
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I built Statusnook for my own projects, but I soon began incorporating bits of feedback from friends & colleagues.

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There's some version of it anywhere you go, for every social and political leaning. I tend to be somewhere between liberal and leftist, but I used to be a lot more extreme and absolutist in my views, and I can pin it directly to mindlessly taking in memes and messages targeted straight at my biases and preconceptions. Even having "good praxis" is no vaccine: someone somewhere is looking for a way to radicalize or profit from your perspective.

You probably get this, but every so often I meet someone who thinks they're a good person because they live in the right state or follow the right media. And that could be Fox News and Texas as easily as it could be MSNBC and New York.
Interestingly, its open source projects that are largely led by corporate entities which I find the most beautiful.
To quickly get up to speed you suggest I watch a 26-minute video?

We have different definitions of the word “quickly.”
Passing the Postgres 65535 parameter limit at 120x speed
The difference in impact between

DELETE * FROM tbl

and

DELETE * FROM tbl WHERE id > 1

isn't enough to warrant a change to the standard in my opinion.

Data loss and corruption risks need other forms of mitigation and they'll cover the unconstrained cases as well.
My Handspring Visor from the year 2000 also had a touchscreen (with a stylus)
An "unmanned" drone still has a pilot. That pilot is on the ground, flying the drone remotely. An "autonomous" drone is one that has no pilot anywhere. In neither case is anyone in harm's way.
Why do you think anyone else thinks that eliminating the job is the valuable thing bere? I have always heard the benefits to be things like less risk to life (vs piloted), quicker reaction (vs piloted and remote), can’t be jammed (vs remote). Literally never heard anyone mentioned salary saved ever, and indeed everyone expects it to be more expensive.
A lot of the support staff on those airbases exist to support training flights by human pilots (both in the cockpit and remote). If training flight hours can be cut then that will tremendously reduce ground personnel requirements. The autonomous flight software only has to be "trained" once; new copies don't have to spend years in the pilot training pipeline.

(I am aware that current autonomous piloting technology is very limited and can only accomplish a small subset of Air Force missions.)
Yeah, I should really try to improve it... But it was just 3 days hacking to put a frontend on the opencv Stitch class and produce an exe that my dad could use.
Windows Phone had the best UX of any of the mobile operating systems, it was something I could hand to a user who'd never had a smart phone before, and it was much more intuitive for them - they could figure it out without help.

Sadly they never got enough market share (or perhaps investment by MS to pay for third party apps to get developed) to get the pool of Applications needed to attract users, which is unfortunate.

The one side effect of the 'easy to newcomers' UX, was experienced users had to forget a bit about what they knew about how a mobile device was supposed to work to use it - thats not a huge barrier, but I suspect it also made adoption by existing power users a little slower.
Offenbach also hosts a relatively large Japan festival (in Germany). Wood joinery, at least in my mind, is a very Japanese craft. I wonder if this is by accident.
It's like taking out a 10 year lease, but leaving early. If you leave early, I think it's fair that you're on the hook until a new renter can come in -- or at least some reasonable amount of time to give the facility to find a new renter.
Only problem I see is that now that everyone is ignoring calls and focusing on text messages, there's now a lot of spam text messages and that is only going to grow.
Nothing really bad, no...

What happened to you?
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Nice product, all the best
If you had one that was character based (instead of the weird encoding they tend to use), you could directly sample without e.

Though I'm not sure its output would make much sense, and you might have to use beam search (or something like backtracking).

I wonder how you would train a model to directly speak without e. Perhaps you use the general model like above with beamsearch, and then train a new model to directly predict the first models beamsearched-predictions.
And multiple reboots on the SDK requiring throwing away perfectly working code, broken promises on which devices would get 8.1, broken yet again for 10, eventually driving away even the more hardcore advocates among us.

Now what is left is an anemic team trying to push WinUI/WinAppSDK, while pretending all of that didn't happen, and that the developer community is still willing to put up with it.
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Yeah it's terrible optics. Actually $20B over a decade is reasonably cheap for such a massive energy usage transition. (Consider the estimated $88 billion and $128 billion for the SFO <--> LA high speed rail.) And as a costal state, California will feel some the most intense financial impact from climate change. I wish it was easier to put a number on that cost.
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There was even an external GPS module that you could get for the Palm (using offline maps that you could sync). I felt so cyberpunkish carrying the combo around and navigating cities on foot with directions -- basically what anyone can do today with Google Maps on their phone, but this was over twenty years ago!
You should look into which-key, which is a popup showing active key bindings in the active context. And maybe start with a configuration-pack like doom-emacs or spacemacs, as they have good support for the vim-bindings, as also come with which-key pre-configured. And as I remember, they also allow deactivating vim-bindings if you want the pure Emacs-experience.
As the climate changes, cities scramble to find trees that will survive
> as evidenced by various similar events in human history

The issue is that people are jumping to the conclusion that the present conditions are analogous to the “false” panics of the past, while discounting “real” panics that turned out to be justified.

Global warming, thalidomide, lead, the growing surveillance state, sex abuse in the Catholic church, etc. were all dismissed as panics until they turned out to be real issues.

The problem is that we look back and no longer categorize these as “moral panics”, because in the end they turned out to be real and few people remember them that way. Only the “false” panics remain, which leads to some fallacious conclusions IMO.

I don’t think panic is ever a good default stance on anything. But this is an issue orthogonal to the true underlying danger of whatever people are panicking about.
Or double your GC burden by using a wrapper class.
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Under the current rules, yeah, but the rules and how we think about this need to change too. For example in my state the process for selling energy back to the grid from a residential account is extremely limited and had a capped number of users.

Batteries aren’t resilient enough today but they have grown leaps and bounds over the last few years. New chemistries and ways of controlling them are making all kind of new possibilities.

As much as I don’t like some of the rules in CA the requirement for solar on new builds is brilliant. The hardware has become so cheap and rolling the labor and design into the initial construction means a short pay back period.
What is the "use after free" problem? A function leaves the computed result on the stack or modifies data higher in the stack. There are no pointers, nothing to free.
I think you've hit on a lot of good reasons that resonate with me in a fairly short comment; well done there. One point I'd elucidate on a bit:

> A lot of times you're just chasing nostalgia from that one really good game you've played. Hoping to recapture the same feeling.

I also think back to the 90's - the 8-bit NES was still kicking just about to be replaced by the SNES and by the close of the decade we had the Dreamcast and the N64 was already showing its age; it was a really incredible time of advancement (and I don't think that's all nostalgia from me as a kid at that time). That continued somewhat into the 00's, but really felt like it petered out since. I remember the sense of wonder at what could come next, and I just don't have that anymore.
Unfortunately it’s also the coolest job of those you lost that got killed
Well, there is the bit where the interviewee responds to a question that utilizes SAT words by saying he does not recognize one of them. That tends to imply it's real-time, unless the interviewee is too lazy to look up the meaning before responding to an email or wants to underscore the pretentious use of language by the interviewer, who nevertheless keeps at it.
To me the real national security threat is that Americans don't know how to use social media safely.

> The potential for abuse from the CCP on the minds of US users exists

The exact same way Facebook and other U.S. social networks abuse the minds of US users.[1]

> as does the tracking the app could do and every data point that is generated is stored and potentially useful for blackmail or otherwise on members of Congress or others.

Yep, and in a similar way every large US player hoards as much data about its users as it can get away with, even if it doesn't know what it'll do with it, and eventually loses said data in a giant breach, which can lead to blackmail, etc.[2]

And here we sit, either toothlessly regulating the U.S. actors or attempting to ban the foreign ones instead of teaching people how to actually use social media in a way that helps them instead of melting their brains and exposing their deepest secrets to malicious actors.

I'm not much of a capitalist or a social darwinist but I'd say the best thing to do is let people learn the hard way. We seem cool to do that with junk food,[3][4] and the similarities in social engineering between the social media and junk food are striking.

[1] https://www.chicagotribune.com/2023/08/11/waukegan-district-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_data_breaches

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinar...

[4] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21999689/
Can we verify this independently?

I don’t know why people trust stats from any social media company without independent verification. Stats can be massaged and there are large incentives to do it.

We know that the former Twitter board certainly did this, for example.
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Slashem, Asylum, interactive fiction, sokoban, super star trek, some MUDs...

I might not play the former ones I played 15 years ago, but I've got far better stories and gameplay.
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That happened to me from around 2003 to 2008. Games became too repetitive and uninteresting. I got back into them for a while but it wasn't until Dark Souls that I truly rekindled (sorry for the pun) my love of what games could be.
That was a game that perfectly recaptured my imagination and made it feel like I was a kid in the 1980s playing the original Legend of Zelda again. It was everything the modern Zelda games, which have always been my favorite series, had forgot about. I think Zelda regained its footing with Breath of the Wild which I thought was fantastic, but Dark Souls taught me that there is still great games out there if you look around. I started getting more and more into smaller, independently developed games and although I might not have as much free time, I love to discover new games that aren't just bog-standard shooters or annoying multiplayer games or AAA produced dribble.
>> never heard anyone mentioned salary saved ever

When it comes to fighter pilots, salary is irrelevant. The few pennies paid in salary is absolutely nothing compared to the millions of dollars a year it takes to train and maintain an active combat pilot. Those costs are at the center of nearly every discussion re military drone tech. An autonomous pilot, a computer program, doesn't need check rides. It doesn't need to re-qual its AAR ticket every month. And it doesn't retire or get promoted out after five years.
Enron tried to trade natural gas futures; it only caused massive price swing and economic disaster for anyone buying those contracts. They tried to privatize water systems, and that was another disaster:

https://www.citizen.org/news/enrons-failure-in-water-venture...

Overall, Enron is a good example for why critical infrastructure like water and energy should be nationalized and stabilized - the opposite of investment capitalism's casino approach - not because it would form the basis of a communist utopia, but because every other competitive market industry relies on those basic services to thrive and grow.
> People typically ask LLMs about things they DON‘T know about or understand. So they are not qualified to assess the validity of their answers.

Eh, you can still often (!) figure out whether what the LLM says makes sense.

Just like you can often figure out whether a human is bullshitting, by fact checking with other sources, or going over their reasoning.
Oh speaking of which....

A few month ago I was told that I should remove a wisdom tooth. The waiting list on the NHS is 6 to 9 months...
These are all designed for CNC cutting, and appear to be intended as one-sided jobs worked with the face of the board down. That is generally the simplest way to hold a board on a CNC.

I would caution anyone thinking of doing joinery this way to consider whether it's actually suitable for the application. I was at a coffee shop once where absolutely every chair in the place was starting to fall apart. The reason was that the joinery was all some variation of half-lap, which doesn't constrain the movement of the pieces in all of the directions that matter. Once the glue failed, the chairs started coming apart.

I would also add that the corner joints meant to replace dovetails or a box/beehive joint are unsightly with all the required dogboning and will not improve aesthetically with the addition of glue. I would further point out that there are already quick ways to cut dovetails or box joints with a router quickly and efficiently. It would be hard to convince me that there's a truly useful role for cutting an uglier version of a box joint on a CNC.

Source: am a furniture maker who does some CNC work.
If the movie "the Cube" has taught us anything (and I guess it hasn't) it is that it's possible work on something without knowing what it's actually for. With some misdirection, an AI could probably run in a data center that is on paper doing something completely different. Do most people maintaining cloud servers today even know what they are running?
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Isn't this something that explicit transactions (BEGIN/COMMIT/ROLLBACK) do? Many DB clients can be configured to have autocommit disabled, so that you're forced to either COMMIT or ROLLBACK each transaction.
This is cool and impressive.

At the same time I don't want to see it running on any website that I use. And especially - I wouldn't want to see confetti accompany newsletter popups or adding products to basket.
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> A lot of times you're just chasing nostalgia from that one really good game you've played.

I've just kept playing those really good games I found decades ago. For instance, I still play Master of Orion I and II on a regular basis.

The ability to continue to play games I purchased a lifetime ago is so important to me that I won't buy new games that rely on any external service to work. When I buy a game now, I want to reasonably expect that I can still play it 50 years from now.
All those features sound simple to do by hand, so if it doesn’t exist already, you should make it.