skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instead of admitting blame failures are used to increase budgets.

The simple arguments of "we didn't have enough funding" or "we weren't allowed to collect more data" will be used. More tax payer money is then spent to cement power through mass surveillance and the cycle repeats.
> You're producing a movie, and want to tweak certain lines of dialogue; with the consent of the talent.

The latest agreement to end the last round of strikes was to prevent this very thing.

Of your list, the medical condition to give someone their real voice instead of a Hawking voice would be the most legit reason. Everything else is a skewed sense of morally acceptable as I think they are shady
This is why you keep a paper trail of who you've hired and have them keep a paper trail of what they've done. You can show what you've done and what you haven't!

You could engineer some sort of conspiracy to keep specific misbehavior off the paper trail, but that's difficult. Increasing the difficulty of cheating is a good thing.
Default text file encoding being platform-dependent always drove me nuts. This is a welcome change.

I also appreciate that they did not attempt to tackle filesystem encoding here, which is a separate issue that drives me nuts, but separately.
> But it's not this shit in the name of youth and beauty.

Yeah its shit in the name of a bigger biceps and a bigger junk, I don't see how that is any better?
Mostly accurate. Big expensive C suite mandated consulting group can make things happen when the org is so shibari’d in its own red tape that it can’t do anything. That is the number one reason to hire a consulting team.

The projecting thing is, imo, not about optics. It’s just a different product. Accenture is a body shop. McKinsey is mostly just getting a strategy done. It’s transparent in both firms marketing and proposals.
Sure. It still doesn't make the claim to which I replied more correct.
> The internet is weakening and fracturing at intense speed - faster than it grew.

The writing was on the wall a decade ago. You'll get Cable TV 2.0 and you'll like it. An army of sycophants and chumps are working to ensure it.
For 6 months before it's banned!
insane, and childlike in its binary vision of what humanity is. it's like YA fiction. The notion that grown adults in 2024 in San Francisco, of all places, would be down with wearing a uniform in daily life, is so out to lunch I am presuming/hoping he means it as some kind of joke.
It's pretty clearly tongue in cheek

> “Grays should embrace the police, okay? All-in on the police,” said Srinivasan. “What does that mean? That’s, as I said, banquets. That means every policeman’s son, daughter, wife, cousin, you know, sibling, whatever, should get a job at a tech company in security.”

Politicians do this today. Deep blue politicians in New York have the police in their pocket just as much as in any red state.

> “A huge win would be a Gray Pride Parade with 50,000 Grays,” said Srinivasan. “That would start to say: ‘Whose streets? Our streets!’ You have the AI Flying Spaghetti Monster. You have the Bitcoin parade. You have the drones flying overhead in formation ... You have bubbling genetic experiments on beakers … You have the police at the Gray Pride Parade. They’re flying the Anduril drones…”

> Everyone would be welcome at the Gray Pride march—everyone, that is, except the Blues. Srinivasan defines the Blue political tribe as the liberal voters he implies are responsible for the city’s problems. Blues will be banned from the Gray-controlled zones, said Balaji, unlike Republicans (“Reds”).

This is literally what a gay pride march is.

> While the Blues would be excluded, they would not be forgotten. Srinivasan imagines public screenings of anti-Blue propaganda films: “In addition to celebrating Gray and celebrating Red, you should have movies shown about Blue abuses … There should be lots of stories about what Blues are doing that is bad.”

Ever watch a Michael Moore film?
Cost plus contracts are a mistake. If you get paid to do something, it should be for a fixed price not a variable number that encourages you to waste as much taxpayer money as you want. If you can’t do it for that price you need to increase your estimate until you can.
Didn't Microsoft use HumanEval as the basis for developing Phi? If so I'd say it works well enough! (At least Phi 3, haven't tested the others much.)

Though their training set is proprietary, it can be leaked by talking with Phi 1_5 about pretty much anything. It just randomly starts outputting the proprietary training data.
> "RAW inputs improve prior methods, but our system outperforms them."

I understand why RAW is useful in general and why all methods would benefit (i.e. higher dynamic range, >8bpc color depth), but I don't understand how this system disproportionately benefits from that.

Is it because the models used in this system are trained from RAW, where they're not in other systems?
To be fair, that's only in part because Apple doesn't seem to have the level of device management Windows offers.

Many of the solutions I've seen in the corp environment try to make up for this with some frankly janky solutions. Apple seems to be slowly improving that, but give it time.

But at the end of the day, the crappy performance hits I've seen on both kinds kf devices are generally shitty monitoring solutions and restrictions that neither support natively.
Do you have any stats to support this is some “huge movement” relative to whatever is considered standard practice? I ask this as an honest question since I’d never heard of the phenomenon, but am not steeped in OSS dev work by any means.
I have a hard time accepting some of the points in this article.

I have a 5K, 34" ultra-wide LG (https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2021/08/21/1600) and a somewhat-4K-like tall 28" LG (https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2023/05/31/0845) in front of me most of the day, alternating with a 15" Surface HIDPI plus a 14" 4K external monitor for calls on my standing desk.

On the Mac, apps open on the same displays and locations most of the time. Granted that Stage Manager is a cluster...flow of confusion, but I actually appreciate the way I can get sets of windows "back" in the same positions when I switch tasks.

Full screen games work the same way on both platforms (three if you count my Ideapad Flex, which runs Fedora and is occasionally plugged into one of those monitors)

Side docks are... well, an affectation, really, but let's call it _deeply ingrained personal choice_. As a former NeXT user and long-term WindowMaker refugee, I liked them until I realised that hiding the dock and having it back on-demand did wonders for my sanity (esp. regarding notifications). So now the docks stay off-screen, at the bottom (like GNOME).

The menu bar... Is the last bastion of nice, usable UX in a world of Electron. So I like having it everywhere (although it is always dimmed in inactive displays screen), because Fitts' Law ensures I have something I can hit with my mouse in a hurry.

Having windows on the "wrong" display is... highly dependent on the type of window and where your focus is, but largely consistent (system alerts always show up in the right display, etc.)

The ergonomics of multiple displays are a highly personal thing, but in my "left-tall, centre-wide" setup (where bezels are all <1cm) turning my head to look at my tall display (where I keep reference materials) also makes it pretty natural to look out a window and rest my eyesight.

The right-hand side of my desk is where I keep the "distracting" stuff like my phone, mug, pencils, electronics parts, etc., and that's comfortable for me. But it's not a Mac-specific issue.

So yeah, there are a lot of first-world considerations in this piece, but I wouldn't consider it representative of any real issues.
> you get what you pay for

that's not always the case -- there are plenty of places where the prices are rocket-level but services dismal

you can hide a lot using marketing...
> I've grown to hate several advertisers

Their currency is your attention. They got it, your feelings don't matter.
Yes, I realize that. He admits to steroid use.

He also apparently has a heart condition that might have killed him had he not been a fitness nut. Instead, he had heart surgery and called someone in Hollywood from his hospital bed to be emotionally supportive when their movie was doing poorly which just made the guy go something like "Oh. He's hospitalized and calling me to cheer me up. It's worse than I feared!"
Have you ever considered there may be legitimate use cases for such technology? Like normal Americans maintaining financial privacy?

Cash was a private, p2p currency before it was basically replaced with corporate, permissioned and surveilled credit.

Bitcoin is pseudonymous p2p money but the ledger is public. Obfuscating bitcoin to prevent 3rd parties from seeing your balance is not money laundering.
Philosophy encompasses all arts. In both sense of the verb.
I had a same experience with you but there was no algebra at art school. I learned why math was interesting from trying to figure out how a computer works. I know I have huge gaping blind spots but I can use math for what I need. I'm now trying to avoid math and only using the shapes of math.
> When you just want to look smart, you don’t care whether you know something because you thought of it or because you read it in a book. You just care that you can show off what you know and solve problems easily. So you voraciously read and memorize and try to accumulate a massive mental database of facts to show off. Then at the end you find you’re actually good at the thing.

What should one do instead, in order to avoid merely “looking”/“sounding” smart?
> Feeding them meat is abhorrent.

"Meat" is a relative term though.

If I dry carcasses with some muscle and tissue still on them, grind it up into a powder, and add that powder to grain, is that meat?

"For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return," etc.
This includes

- making donation to ukraine if you're russian

- not have your asset frozen if you protest and the canada government disagree

- protecting yourself against false accusation

- protecting again a country that would turn communist in an election (closer than you think in some european ones)

- getting an additional veil of anonymity if you have to do something illegal in your state such as abortion or defending gay rights.

so yeah this is 'against the law' but sometime the law is not on the good side.
CC0 is “a tool for relinquishing copyright and releasing material into the public domain”, and the official icon for it says “public domain” [1] mainly created because actual public domain is problematic across different countries, I believe. Actual public domain really is ‘copyright-free’, and it makes sense to describe CC0 as making things ‘copyright-free’ to a general audience that may not be familiar with the subtle intricacies of copyright law. It is true that only the original copyright holder has the authority to release their works into the public domain, but once they’ve done that, copyrights are no longer held, and the work is no longer subject to protection under copyright law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_license#Zero_...

https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/cc0/
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The UK government seems hell-bent on the control and micromanagement of its own population.

Their recent smoking ban -- which is sure to make cigarette smoking cool again with young people -- was a joke. This hyper-surveillance measure is a lot less funny.
There's a chance that the author isn't the person responsible for the title. I searched for rewire on the page and the only instance is in the title.

The author, Barbara Oakley, has a free Coursera course that is pretty good:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
I went to the launch party they had during defcon, it was a lot of fun. I like that Veild is oriented toward being an application framework. In the same way that we have things like libsodium to use cryptography in our apps without being a master of it, we need frameworks/libraries to help build privacy oriented apps as well.
>We had man-portable ATGMs for decades, they didn't "lower the value of a tank".

Of course they did, arguing anything else is complete lunacy, especially since you later advocate for the usage of Javelins, which, if effective and available, obviously reduce the value of tank. They also have the imense drawback of exposing the soldier to enemy fire.

I don't even get your other points. Why would drone operators be hunted more than Javelin operators? Why would Javelin operators not have to worry about giving away their position? Why don't Javelin operators need infantry cover?
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OK, the article convinced me that repetition intentionally focused on the full range how to use and not use each small component such as a word, formula term, or concept is the key.

Great. So where are some books, programs, or apps that will help us do exactly this? Not impressed that the article focused more on their personal journey and provided no recommendations on how to follow it.

Anyone here have recommendations on apps that might help? One HNer a few years ago posted a great little web app to practice rapid addition/subtraction, etc. which I used daily to noticeable benefit until it disappeared. Of course something working up in complexity from there would be good too.
Thank you, Google and YouTube engineers!
> one true use case for crypto: Making it easier to skirt the law

And gambling. That's a $580bn market on its own [1]. Add to that the $2 to 5tn of money laundering that occurs globally [2][3], assume a 15% take rate, and on the upper bound you have another $580bn market. Curiously, adding those together one gets 91% of the current "market cap" of Bitcoin [4].

Really, all Bitcoin has to do is displace every casino and every cartel and it would be worth over 90% of its current price.

[1] https://www.thebusinessresearchcompany.com/report/gambling-g...

[2] https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2015/09/28/04/53/sp0210...

[3] https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/NGDPD@WEO/OEMDC/ADVE...

[4] https://coinmarketcap.com
This sounds like what Roku had patented, except it injects ads when it detects that a HDMI-connected device has paused:
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/17/roku_tv_ad_patent/
> There is only one true use case for crypto:

Same with the second amendmend: the only one true use case for firearms is

> Making it easier to skirt the law

...if (not if, when) the Government goes nuts.
Oh like the pension that United airlines pilots had?
> Unfortunately, despite our efforts to find a new home for EU Voice and EU Video in other EUIs, we have been unable to secure new ownership to maintain the servers and sustain operations at the high standards that EUIs and our users deserve

What does that mean? The server/host they were using shut down? Was it outsourced to like a 'masto.host' or in-house?
If I had any illusions that big tech could run the world better than anybody else, I'd be more sympathetic to this position. I'd love to see a tech company try to function in a world where they can't just lay people off, or pivot in another direction, or sell off assets. In the real world, governments need stability, continuity, and at least some level of concern for people rather than OKRs. Tech companies are successful at making money—some of them, some of the time—but there is absolutely no evidence that they'd be good at doing anything else. They're optimized around a different set of rules, and a different game than governments are. It's just hubris and ignorance that would lead them to think they can apply their ridiculous systems to the world outside their gates.
There’s a ton to like in this release. Inference of type guards is going to be a huge improvement, and probably make a big dent in that aspect of complaints about TypeScript requiring unidiomatic boilerplate.
You are not their customer - advertisers are. This is a good change for the advertisers.
The context of the post you replied to is effect on culture in the US. Were you looking for someone to go off on, or did you sincerely miss it?
Apparently there are a lot of communists around here... Judging by all the down votes. HN is a very toxic place these days
The part where you discuss Radicle on Hacker News. The commentators here are not always open minded, and they often love to bash everything which they think is cryptocurrency related.
Number of world wars or countries invaded?
If you miss some specific Windows behaviour, I might have listed an app that implements it: https://taoofmac.com/space/apps/window_managers

(I switch between Windows and Mac throughout the day, so window tiling and Fancy Zones were things I missed)
There are more benchmarks and quite a bit more detail here: https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/8111
Not remembering window placement is why I’ve been exploring switching back to Linux. But on Linux, I’m kinda shocked at the lack of per-monitor workspaces / virtual desktops and the lack of good gestures. I feel like for my workflow, workspace management > window placement because that forgetting only happens once per day. Any Linux DE suggestions that have the same type of multi-monitor workspace support and good gestures?
Interesting link. I specifically noticed this part:

And the argument could be made that this is nothing to do with genes but instead a response to handicaps placed on our people since time immemorial by those who want us to fail.

This is interesting, because it's precisely such handicaps that could explain a genetic component to Jewish performance. And the Ashkenazi in particular.

If a population is banned, for hundreds of years, from owning land and working as farmers, that creates a very significant selection pressure for finding other ways to survive. Those not able to do so either died off or converted to Christianity.

And it just happened to be that most other livelihoods available to them required more mental capacity than farming.

Also, as you say, this is at the population level. It's perfectly possible for Jews to have average or below intelligence. It's simply a lot more likely for an Ashkenazi Jew to have an IQ of 160 than for other Europeans (or other Jewish groups).
Nice to hear I'm not the only one. Part of the problem is that it's always presented post-login when I'm already in the middle of doing something. And my password manager works well, so I don't see a clear benefit and I'm not really motivated to investigate vague claims.
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Maybe they will eventually, but the macOS app is a cross-platform Electron app, isn't it? I'm guessing none of the code is shared.
Not yet. But rest assured, they are just getting started. I know of one theory that suggests ATT was really just Apple preparing to launch its own Ads network.

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-is-an-ad-company-now/
I get better organic search results on yandex.com and use LLMs for all other knowledge related discovery tasks. I resort to Google, Bing, and Yahoo for maybe one of a thousand queries these days.
Thank you for your view and for the civilized debate. Still, you are steering it to extremes with arguments such as: " And you're potentially exploiting people in very difficult situations and with limited financial options."

I have to disagree with you on that, you are basically comparing my product with gambling, which is unfair.

That being said, these kinds of discussions, in general, have a net benefit in the world.
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Sorry for the long delay, but: Defining the grocery market as just supermarkets is the foolish thing I disagree with. Walmart, Target, Amazon, even Dollar General — along with Blue Apron and their ilk - and ethnic grocers - are all competitors of the supermarket. Kroger and Albertsons, even as a single unit, can’t simply jack prices up because Walmart and Target would LOVE to take all their customers, and easily will if they aren’t price-competitive. We already have competition and the notion that we wouldn’t if 2 supermarkets merged is lunacy. Honestly, I have a choice of either of the supermarket chains in question and I primarily frequent the one closest to me. I don’t cross-shop them against each other, but there are some things I buy at Walmart because I’ve learned it’s a better deal.

And yes, when regulators are so ham-fisted as to literally destroy many neighborhoods’ only grocery store with their dumb divestiture demands, yes, that was bad for consumers!
>I've had this done.

without really any supporting evidence for efficacy, why? not snark, curiosity.

>there is NO reason the people getting this should have had to worry if not for the complete and other negligence and callousness of th clinic.

this is true of tattoo parlors, too -- but they are a common and repeated disease vector even under regulation.

Someone gets sick, they close and re-hire under a new proprietor. The practices clean up for awhile, until they aren't.
seems you got hugged
i see plenty of patagonia uniforms in SF :)
In what way is it not pragmatic?

I don't know Pharo at all, but "not pragmatic" often means just "too different from what I'm used to"...
When Americans talk about freedom, they are almost exclusively talking about the freedoms granted to American citizens by the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. They are not talking about the sovereignty of other nations, that doesn't factor in at all. Frankly, I think you're doing some robust mental gymnastics by equating those freedoms with a freedom from the long arm of Pax Americana.

> The history of the United States is not only steeped in oppression

The history of the entire world is steeped in oppression.
> Cash was a private, p2p currency

Cash is still currency.

> Obfuscating bitcoin to prevent 3rd parties from seeing your balance is not money laundering

No, but it's reasonably suspicious. And if whatever service you use to "mix" your money is connected to crime, it's not unreasonable for you to have costs involved with defending yourself.
Phi 3 Q4 spazzes out on some inputs (emits a stream of garbage), while the FP16 version doesn't (at least for the cases I could find). Maybe they just botched the quantization (I have good results with other Q4 models), but it is an interesting data point.
oops, had parsed as "that (advice exists) in", not "(that advice) exists in" ... nvm
You seem to have the right gears in the brain so for you, it's a matter of using the right pronouns and names. The rest fits in naturally.

That isn't the case for everyone, tho.
Mostly for dumb historical reasons, currently justified as slightly protecting them from the government cutting their funding.

Objectively European TV licenses are just a terrible wasteful idea, basically creating an entire parallel tax collection system. Of all the important, vital things a government funds, I'm not sure why a public broadcaster should have any special insulation from the usual democratic decision making.
It's funny that an article complaining about ads is itself riddled with ads.
I have zero Apple displays out of the three or four I have in the office. They all work amazingly well -- often better than on Windows or Linux.
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Local RAM may see a comeback with local/private LLMs.
Well that's ok, I guess they don't have to report on it anymore.
Consider turbulent systems, or systems which are affected by random processes. Such things exist in the world. The sorts of things I'm talking about as being beyond cause and effect or our ability to consider analytically are not merely the "big questions" but are real physical processes!