skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the well documented Russian tendency to wage nation hostile whisper campaigns and app algorithms natural tendencies to promote such speech we are in place where every country both democratic and not have CIA levels of disorder, new mental health issues, and general productivity drain introduced by social apps. I think every country should take a hard look at what is happening and should consider banning or time limiting some U.S. apps.

I believe the underlying narrative of TikTok was with government control the algorithms would be purposefully tuned to promote disorder elsewhere which is a level of control the U.S. government does not have over U.S. companies and they were jealous (although with the level of information control during Desert Storm I am not 100% certain on that). However, I think this law was very premature and should have required evidence of tuning or actual war. While soldiers may have apps they should not the spies should know better.

The China side where they have banned encryption apps also seems to be war preparation. A digital iron curtain while depressing for the population behind it is not something that can be torn down from the outside. A per app legal war seems an unfeasible use of congressional time when many Chinese smart device control apps require location to function and are on many phones. This also appears to be an opening shot by congress for putting up a U.S. national firewall if TikTok just leaves all US offices and continues business through web based offerings.
It's very strange how these types of nice UX things seem to be lacking in big modern apps nowadays. I think we all know why, they aren't revenue drivers. But, surely this wouldn't be that hard for Spotify to do themselves.

Shout out to this project and all the others mentioned in this thread that are adding the niceties that seem to be missing.
Pretty sure everything they wrote is true even with fragmentation.

But, also, if your point is that defragmentation is a selling point... I mean, the last time I saw someone who moved from RC to GC because of defragmentation was... never? Probably because you can just solve it by throwing money at it and buying more memory to permanently solve the problem. Whereas people go in the other direction all the time... probably because you can't just perpetually throw more money at the problem and make compute time go N times faster.
I think you’re probably right, and to those who share that anti-US government sentiment here, I’d like to say: “wake up”! If you think the US is bad, wait till you try Russia or China. I have three refugees in my house. They may never now return home.
Or of the old mailing list concept from even longer ago.
The author of this article seems like an asshole
Source Code with Emoji
Definitly, one hardned lesson from my Tcl days, on the startup that used a AOLServer like product, was to never again use dynamic languages without any sort of JIT/AOT toolchains for production delivery of products, only scripting stuff.

Apparently it took Microsoft and Facebook to actually change the minds of CPython core team, however what is coming on 3.13 is only the start.
Just spotted this link. Just to clarify, I (not the original poster, although everyone's welcome to share this link, it's a public doc) maintain this list (and the rest of the sheet) manually. While I keep the foundation models that I'm interested in fairly up to date, obviously there are too many fine-tunes/datasets to track now. I started this when LLaMA was first released and I was getting myself up to speed on the LLM landscape.

A group at the CRFM maintains a bigger list of models (their goal is stated for cataloguing foundation models, but it looks like they have some tunes mixed in these days): https://crfm.stanford.edu/ecosystem-graphs/

This site also seems to keep track of models, with more closed/announced models that I don't bother to track: https://lifearchitect.ai/models-table/
> Could depression, or other mental illnesses, be the outcome of one's bad decisions (or failure to make decisions)?

Sometimes, the outcome of one's decisions (bad is an unnecessary value statement here. Was it a "bad" idea to start a restaurant that failed and made you sad? Cmon).

However, a huge swath of mental illness, including depression, is the result of environmental and genetic factors utterly outside your control. Your mom smoked crack when you were in her womb and somehow that's "the outcome of your bad decision?"
The reason I ask is that it’s going to perform better if the language you use is well-represented in the training set.

Much of the value of Copilot is that it helps you navigate new things that you are not familiar with. For example, I use scipy/numpy a few times a month, so I am competent but not an expert by any means. Copilot is incredibly useful to suggest ways of doing things that are more idiomatic than what I was planning to write.

Another way that it is useful is that it massively reduces logical bugs such as off-by-one errors that aren’t caught by typechecking, since it’s unlikely that both me and copilot will make the same off-by-one error at the same time. If only copilot makes an off-by-one error then I will catch it because the suggestion will be different to what I expected. If I am about to make an off-by-one error then copilot will suggest something contrary to my expectation and that forces me to reconsider what I was about to write.
No I meant what I wrote. But I meant it about the CCP not the average Chinese person.

China wants to replace the US and the west as the global power. This will lead to upheaval and likely a war. When that finally comes to pass it behooves the west and the US to protect itself from anything that could undermine its own protection. In order to win a war you need hearts and minds. Not a populace that is being programmed to think despotic neo-communist-capitalist-when-it-suits-them rulers in China are somehow paper tigers.

Let’s compromise here: they are adversaries now but I think they are preparing to become enemies in every sense of the word. If they invade Taiwan, shed blood in the conflict over the breached rusting ship in the Phillipines, continue supporting Putin in his illegal attempt to annex Ukraine then yes they will eventually become enemies.
Or upscale every 4th frame for consistency. Upscaling in between frames should be much easier.
The question is what to replace it with?

There doesn't seem to be enough forces to create a MPL fork but at the same time we have a gap between "Docker Compose is enough" and running Kubernetes. Because there are many situations where going Kubernetes (or even lighter k0s, k3s type setups) does not make any sense.

My guess is no organisation which can afford to dedicate resources to contribute or create a fork need Nomad. So we end up with a big gap in the ecosystem.
I have a question for the author or anyone smart enough to understand the whole post:

what's the difference here between state and data? Isn't data more generic, and we can have the title 'make invalid data unrepresentable'?

Because I have this instinct to do what I call in my mind and to my friend 'ddd', for 'data driven programming'. It translate by first thinking on my global inputs, outputs, and transformations, then writing the data structure (I learned with C), then prototyping the core functions (basically I write the .h before the .c).

Is it the same thing? Let the data write the code (or state, and they're the same thing here?) or did I miss something important?
> What doesn't work is taking an existing car-centric city and making it more annoying for cars. That doesn't shrink the distances for bikes or encourage growth around a focal point. Paris wasn't built around cars, though.

Amsterdam was very car-centric in the 70s [0][1][2] even if the city was not built for cars. Over the decades it was reclaimed from cars and back into a pedestrian-friendly city, taking space/lanes away from cars to build cycling infrastructure, better separation between traffic (enlarged sidewalks in major streets, separate bike lanes, raised sidewalks for pedestrians on intersections, etc.).

American cities have a lot more space to be taken away from cars, instead of stroads you could have bike lanes with pedestrian boulevards with vegetation/trees as separation from traffic, better public transportation with trams and busses on the same streets as cars to lower the speed, better connection to the transportation network for people coming from suburbs so they could switch to the cities' mass transportation; it's, to me, a very low hanging fruit on how to improve American cities urbanism but it takes political will and a change of culture, unfortunately I feel that the change of culture is the hardest part in the USA with its hyper-individualism.

[0] https://i.pinimg.com/736x/09/d4/9f/09d49fbe98e46797d45e8c177...

[1] https://international.fhwa.dot.gov/pubs/pl18004/index_files/...

[2] https://i.redd.it/vujg495x71l61.jpg
The problem you have, dear Americans is called MIC.
Just quoting one of your presidents:
>“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”

So many wars for profit. History knows best that there is no free lunch.
But I suppose consuming propaganda without a critical thinking and effort for facts is good for the business.
By the way Zala Aero is the current leader in this space.
That's why Ukrainian counteroffensive was a failure.
Yeah, it’s on Private LLM.

https://privatellm.app/blog/phi-3-now-available-on-iphone-an...
You already posted this complete misreading of the text you quoted in a different reply. At least read it once if you are going to quote it twice.
That doesn't solve the "use after free" problem, so not memory safe (as long as not combined with something else).
Ask HN: Is moving to Luxembourg from India for salary of €87k a wise decision?
Hi HN,

I'm a full-stack developer in an IC4 role at a US company in Bangalore, India. In the past, I've attempted to relocate to the US through H1B visas, but my company has shifted its strategy to outsourcing to India instead. Recently, I received a job offer from Luxembourg with a salary range of €80k-90k, and HR hinted they might approve €87k, plus a relocation package (details to be shared later).

I earn the equivalent of €50k a year here in Bangalore. I've never worked outside my country before, and while personal reasons are prompting me to consider this move, I'm trying to figure out if it will be financially worthwhile. Given the higher cost of living in Luxembourg, I'm particularly interested in understanding potential savings. My wife, who also works in IT, also plans to join me after a year.

Would appreciate insights on the following:

The cost of living in Luxembourg vs. Bangalore.

Realistic savings potential on an €87k salary.

Experiences of others who have made similar moves.

Are there ample job opportunities for developers in Luxembourg?

Thanks for any advice or personal experiences you can share!
Did airhelp talk to aviation ADR do you know? We've Just essentially lost based on what we provided but still think we're owed compensation really. Just absolutely exhausted doing all the admin. Originally went with resolver but they did nothing. I think aviation ADR is our last course of action unless we actually sued them, do you know if you did that?
Exactly this. The strongest case that the government can make in keeping this bill from being overturned in the courts is the national security one.
It's about safety and having a tomorrow. A lot of places where you won't live long without housing. You could live your whole life without strong connections to other people even if a miserable one.

Not having a major disruption to your whole life beyond your control is a meaningful thing, and a basic need. It could be reliable, predictable, stable source of income or saving, which allows you to rent without such concerns. It could be owning place to sleep, to eat, to invite friends.
The US navy could glass Yemen in an afternoon.

What people don’t realize is that the US hasn’t actually fought under LSCO conditions since early Vietnam, as regardless of the scale of the deployment the ROI and thus the tactics that can be employed were mostly limited to LIC/PKO.
Black and White is such a revolutionary PC game, I can agree to that!
From asking around (I had a loooot of time to waste in IST), TK routinely strands hundreds of people everyday at IST. That’s just how they operate and the treatment we received isn’t unusual.

It was seriously the worst experience I’ve ever had. Rude staff, no explanations, outright lies, condescending tone, hours long queues for meal vouchers that arent accepted annywhere or to get a crappy hotel for a few hours only, and just plain incompetence. I will never fly TK again, that’s how bad it was.
I have a ton of freelancing in my resume, which many people admitted look like gaps. Which is why I also have a heavy portfolio that matches up with the number of years.

I think if you just work on enough stuff, you can just slap "freelancer" over all those gaps. Freelancing maybe a gap too - there are many times when you're just doing sales or ops work and no coding.
Mostly this - McKinsey isn't hired to bring in a unique perspective, they're hired to paper up a decision that the person hiring McKinsey wants to make. They charge a pound of flesh and give you a pile of research saying this is how to accomplish your goal, not here are the goals you should have considered.
A companion piece to this idea (previously at Oleb’s “making illegal states unrepresentable: https://oleb.net/blog/2018/03/making-illegal-states-unrepres...) is “parse, don’t validate”: https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-va...

A third piece / concept I often circle back to is a lot more subtle and difficult to grok: “Names are not type safety” (https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2020/11/01/names-are-not-...)
They sound bitter
There are enough business of similar scale being powered by J2EE (or whatever you want to call it today), Spring and ASP.NET.

And a well known fruity brand used to have all their online services on Web Objects for several years.
And it's even easier to displace or misplace blame when you control the state-funded media in Canada - like CBC getting $1.6 billion annually, and the other popular channels getting $600 million annually distributed amongst them.
UT protest – LE response was excessive and shocking
The main problem were:

1. DPS, Texas' state police, wearing camouflage uniforms. [a]

2. The disproportionate use of antagonizing force used against peaceful protestors without provocation. The protestors were young, semi-untrained, and largely more or less harmless.

Notes:

a. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/20/mark-hertling-police-portland/
> It just sounds so dated, maybe because I listened to it too much?

Something like that happened to me, again and again.

Overlistening things I love (not necessarily because of me, sometimes it's third parties piling upon my own listening), then at some point I start to not like it anymore to a point ranging from "I have no interest in it anymore" to "it makes me cringe".

Then if I manage to avoid it for some time, often I end up rediscovering it (often by accident) and like it again, but the reason I re-like it is usually deeply different from the original one, and certainly far removed from nostalgia.
> my gig has a hard time _actually finding people to hire

lots of ppl have a hard time finding a gainful employment; seems there is something wrong with expectations (probably on both sides)
How about a nice game of Go?
Desktop apps can use HTTP(/grpc/rest/graphql) for communication just fine, that's not really problem.
It totally depends on the usecase, but I find that esp32 is so powerful, it's not power efficient. Al lot of IoT application run on batteries with a single task usually, and this where ESP8266 shines.
I'm sympathetic to this concept, and it's one I employ from time to time in the various codebases I own, but the type of person to advocate for this kind of thing is also the kind of person to write stuff like

> Types delineate the set of legally representable states |ℝ| in your application

and

> |ℝ|≥|ℙ|

Which sets off my "math" alarm. The less out-and-out math used to make a point about programming, the better, I think. This article is actually fairly good and doesn't get very mathy beyond the intro, but it still jumps out at me and made me wary to continue.
I'd have to do a few a day. Especially if they're cold, via job sites and such.

I think the LinkedIn stats match up with my experience too -- if you exclude referrals. I think 90%+ of our hires were via referral. The rest were mostly LinkedIn.
This may have been why Descartes preferred the French formulation of the cogito Je Suis, Je Exist.
> Should other countries do the same with US companies?

Absolutely.
15 years is completely realistic, I only started having problems with my 2007 Ford Escape Hybrid after 17 years of heavy use and 260k miles. Keep in mind that 2007 was when the 1st generation hybrids were just coming out, too, so technology is much better today.

Don’t forget that there are other parts of a car that degrades as well with time. Eventually most well used cars will have an engine or powertrain issue if they even make it to 15 years to use without being totaled in an accident or simply sold second hand or misused.
The Runaways? Ford and Jett both started their careers there, and while I don't know if Ford ever anchored herself in the literature, Jett covered "I Love Rock&Roll" and had it covered in turn by Parton, which then leads to a fair chunk of that century.
Which did not improve his public image in Oz
I am aware that the US is not one monolithic block. To assume otherwise is a very US-thing to do. The rest of the world literally drowns in news about the US internal conflicts.

But maybe I sould give an example: guns. I grew up in an European region where the percentage of gun owners is close to US levels, yet our last school rampage was a decade ago. The rural town I grew up in is famous for it's traditional gunsmiths and home of a Glock factory, so not what some in the US would call big city liberals.
The reason gun crime is low here is because we have commons sense gun laws of the type most gun owners in the US supporr as well. Yet you have US politicians claiming "it is a slippery slope" and it "can't possibly work".

Yeah, look at the numbers, it works, it also works in comparable regions to mine with totally different social and cultural circumstances. Of course if you'd like to you could also implement it in a way so it doesn't work, but that would be evil on a comic book villain level right?

The problem in the US is that corporations are really damn effective there to trick a sizable amount of the population into believing all kind of excuses that fall apart the second you look elsewhere.

E.g. given our gun laws many US citizens would say our freedom has been taken away, yet somehow 10 year old me managed to go shooting on empty cans with my hunter grandfather. We had a god damn shooting range in the cellar of our school. It is just that our guns are stored safely and people who shouldn't have guns don't have them. E.g. because they issue threats, have a history of violence, drug abuse, mental illness, or showed otherwise that they act irresponsible with the lives of their neighbours.

But maybe you know more about why the world I live in can't work and have a good explaination that for some reason keeps benefiting certain corporations, while it kills the kids of your population.
As a concrete example, feedback controllers for attitude control (ie, pointing something) are imo easier to develop in quarternions than with 3x3 matrices. For one, the quaternion formulation isn’t over-constrained by the extra parameters.

This is essentially because quaternions are a remarkably good representation of rotations.
1 per 3 people? We're at like 2.8 per 10 in Taiwan. If Taiwan had 1 car per 3 people the country would be in permanent gridlock, there's absolutely not enough road infrastructure to handle that. Taipei already experiences near gridlock every single rushhour.

We handle traffic with busses, MRT, docked bicycle rental system, and also the fact that our cities are very dense, with lots of small businesses like restaurants easily accessible from your house within a five minute walk.

I'm arguing to get rid of the cars. Taiwan should do the same, for the record. I mean, the classic image illustrates the point perfectly https://danielbowen.com/2012/09/19/road-space-photo/ there's just no way to justify private cars in a modern era with cities having multi-millions of people.
It's the classic "off by half" index bug.
I take a slightly different perspective (while sharing a similar final perspective) on the community issue. Rather I think individual choice drives people to communities that they, at least broadly, align with. So you end up with communities that are not only overly permissive towards their own, but also overly critical of those outside of it. But then as those communities grow large enough divisions start to form even within the like-minded community itself, and eventually you get a division there (that often ends in an internal conflict), and that community divides again, almost like a cell splitting into two new cells. And then the process starts to repeat once again in these new cells.

Add in cells merging every once in a while, and you have the abbreviated history of humanity in one paragraph.
Oh. You are, of course, right.

Damn pattern recognition, the logo looks almost the same if you squint!
As much as I'd love you to be wrong, you're not. There's this common saying among executives: "no one ever got fired for hiring IBM". Here IBM can be replaced by any of the big five and it'll still work.
This was the kind of thing we added to our desktops 20 years ago. When people posted screenshots there would always be a now playing that was probably signalling something, like "Deep Black Heart - My Emotions are Real".
Are you moving for the salary?
You are precisely the continuous difference of everything else.
Memgraph's Deep Path Traversal Capabilities
This is how I've solved this problem for myself: by using monthly playlists as a forcing function to motivate myself to find new music every month, where the whole ends up being greater than the sum of it's parts: https://transitivebullsh.it/my-10-year-music-diary
I prefer Logos personally.
On average, music is big for people during the teenage years, then other things in life take over and that same music continues the biggest music for them.

This is very different if music is a lifelong hobby for you. I'm in my forties and some of the artists I most listen to today I discovered during recent years. Still I find articles like this interesting because I can learn something about a larger demographic while being different myself.
I was able to view it smoothly on my phone, so I'm not too fussed, but that might be a better experience for anyone else that has the same issue in future.
Nah, they are now Accenture
I call what you are describing "informational" advertisement, and indeed it is totally fine. However most modern advertisement is not trying to inform but rather to convince, using a variety of psychological tricks to manipulate viewers into a specific position. This is totally not okay.