skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a great recent book on the Roman Empire's unique role in European history and why no other power in the region could matching it after "the fall" was, eventually, something that worked out in Europe's favour.

It's called: "Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity"

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172187/es...
Useless bureaucracy "It proposes to require that all
broadband providers develop plans for implementing BGP security measures, and that a select
number of the largest broadband providers would file those plans with the Commission as well as
file quarterly data reports."

No need to file any nonsense. NIST measures that data since forever.
I know that HN/reddit loves the 'new' FCC and such, but no, we don't need FCC involved in routing protocols.

Also world is over 50% RPKI enabled, and traffic wise that correspond to over 80%.
Source https://rpki-monitor.antd.nist.gov/
For laughs I one time combine frames from some really old footage. I upscale the frames so that each pixel becomes a cube of same color pixels. Then I stack them and shift them to line up properly. The resolution goes up and more detail is revealed. Not sure what the limit is of that approach but if there is only one frame that has them you can remove it's grain and correct bends (wobbles? distortions? wrinkles? waves? what is the word?)
The compilation process is roughly equivalent to what Python does when it makes a .pyc file from .py file, right?

If that's so I'm kind of surprised they ever adopted the dumper approach (aeons ago) versus just compiling and saving the bytecode.

I'm probably missing something fundamental here.
Weekly 1:1s are fantastic if you have a TLM or are a TLM, iff the TLM is competent enough to sketch out the coding work to be done

Weekly 1:1s with EMs at big corps who don’t code are less useful because usually there’s nothing to report
As pointed out in my other comment, you can add vast amounts of extra functionality for very little cost, up to a Linux-running board with 64 MB RAM for $5.

But that's not the point. The point is: what is the cheapest stand-alone usable computer you can make?

"Usable" in the same sense as a ZX80 or Altair 8800 or Apple I of course, not in the sense of a modern computer.

If you pay 50c for the CPU instead of 10c then you just increased the total cost by 50%.
> Myself I quit carrying a desktop replacement laptop and I use an iPad as my “on the go” computer.

When I am at my desk, I use my MacBook. If I am going on a work trip, it will come with me. If I need to stay connected to work when running errands, my iPad Pro/cellular with Logitech’s keyboard combo is usually close by and I can do everything I need to do on it (but I am not a dev). For portability, it’s unmatched for me.
Not the hardware side, but the software side. Implementing all the various behaviours and security models for the eye tracking and baking it into SwiftUI, means that it translates over easier once they figure out the hardware aspect. But the iPads and iPhones with FaceID have had eye tracking capabilities for a while, just not useful in UI.
llava-mistral v1.6 is apache, my friend :)
There’s even a song about how the internet is for porn
Fun fact, there are more slaves today than any other time in history, simply by virtue of there being more people; that doesn't lessen each's suffering however.
Strongly disagree - brainstorming isn’t about asking someone to give you creative answers, it’s a team sport about triggering unique thoughts that neither person would have had on their own.

Although I might be biased, I love using AI for brainstorming and started building a tool for it https://youtu.be/t5gfETbUzy0
Guidelines don't dictate what an app is, they're just fucking GUIDELINES
Yeah for sure, lists of generalized questions is one of ChatGPTs strongest abilities, in my experience.
Is it ok that some people do care?
I track it and it's rarely over 100 or 200MB, which is nothing to a 32GB machine.
I'm familiar with chaos theory, and not rejecting issues related to chaotic systems. But this part doesn't really seem well formed:

> It means "5 * the thermal mass of the earth's biosphere" worth of extra energy

Here it seems that the units were missing, at best. The extra energy would be "5K * the heat capacity of the biosphere (in J/K)"

> in an extremely chaotic system that is currently in a local stable point, but doesn't have to stay there.

First of all, I don't think the current state is THAT stable. And when it comes to any disturbance to the stability caused by the extra energy, that's what we have climate scientists for. Specifically, those are the ones that need to assign specific probabilities to the varous scenarios available.

For instance, while it is POSSIBLE that a result of the chaotic dynamics of the system would be that the Gulf Stream got reversed, it seems that the curren consensus is that this is highly unlikely.

However, there are a lot of other effects that would be highly likely, such as an increased rate of hurricanes for instance. But hurricanes is not a state of the whole system, it's basically just a type of weather that gets more common.

So, maybe "gibberish" was not the perfect word to describe it, as I was able to parse it. It's just that it didn't say anything specific. It was more at the level "It's getting chaotic, and chaos is scary", without making any specific predictions or producing references.
I mean... It seems really logical to me that one of the worst "staples of management" is simply that so many practices are applied without much thought in general. I don't disagree with the intent here... but I also am a bit surprised at trying to instead say quarterly is likely to be better?

What is really missing, is this isn't a one way street. Please, please ask your directs, say what your intent is, what you want out of the time, what they want out of the time, and figure out the cadence that works. If they like the weekly because it turns into a moan session where they can complain, address it! It may not be the most effective... But it might it be what is needed to care for that relationship.

I have a strong believe that the most you can ever get from a management book/trainer/etc is ideas and techniques you can try,(some of which are really really good!), but you can never give someone a checklist or a flowchart and expect them to be a stellar manager and any business that does believe that is likely a place where you are unlikely to want to be a manager or be managed.
Good on them. They are using the same tactics ISP's have used to screw the general public but instead they are at least providing the services they promise.
The scale, ease, and low cost of running these disinformation campaigns is unprecedented. Coupled with the ability target people susceptible to believing the disinformation and we are in a new era. Our institutions don’t appear to be strong enough to withstand these attacks.
> Capitalist societies are capitalist. I don't get what point you try to make with saying they also have slavery.

You literally said:

> Slave holding society -> feudalism -> capitalism

You're saying that slave holding societies stop holding slaves, become feudal and become capitalist. I'm saying they didn't. Slavery didn't stop through that progression. Your underlying argument is wrong.

Your argument that "The Roman empire was based on slavery and had to die so that humanity could progress." doesn't make any sense in that slavery didn't stop. Your two points, that Rome was based upon slavery, and that it had to die, seem totally unrelated to that.

This point: "That allowed producing more food with less workforce so many people were free to do other things and bigger cities could develop which in turn would set the foundation for making the industrial revolution possible." is also incorrect as that was not a result of Rome's fall. Europe was still massively agrarian for a millennia after, so that doesn't have any connection with Rome either.

You're drawing strained connections between disconnected facts and trying to wrap it all in some sort of logical and obvious progression that doesn't exist.

It's clear that no one is going to change your mind on this subject even though many have tried, so that's my final word on the matter.
I think it strongly depends on the model.

I found that og gpt4 is better for brainstorming than gpt4 turbo, which in tern is better than gtp4o.

If you're just using the web based portal you don't get much of a choice which model to use or it's temperature.
Thanks for elaborating! I remembered hearing something to that extent back in 2017, but after I couldn't find any primary sources on it online, I'd dismissed it as a rumor. Absolute duration would still be the primary factor, in any case.

Luckily I've never had any eye problems myself, but not for lack of trying. Back in elementary school, I would occasionally stare at the outdoor sun for 30 seconds or longer, just to see what could possibly be so bad about it.

Yet my eyes remain undamaged, at least as far as any optometrist has told me. Hence why I was skeptical about the supposed danger of eclipses. But perhaps the interval before damage can be much shorter, depending on age and other factors.
When I took Huffman's Cybernetics course as an undergrad, his tests were full of multiplication and you couldn't use a calculator, so he provided a table of exponents and logarithms, and you'd look up in one table, sum the values, then look up the result in another table. I was not a fan.
> or open it and remove the battery.

Having just changed out the battery on my trusty Note 20 Ultra yesterday, this made me smile as I imagined a thief evenly applying heat to the back edges of the phone, carefully prying the phone open with suction cups and a series of plastic picks, gently dislodging six fragile micro-connectors, removing 11 different nano-sized screws, removing the wireless charging antenna, peeling back layers of ribbon connectors, removing the speaker module, dripping solvent into the battery compartment and then waiting ten minutes for it to soften the battery glue so they can start prying the battery out.

Maybe somewhere during that painstakingly onerous process, they'll pause and ponder their life choices. I know I certainly did! :-).
From a report's perspective, success of a 1:1 is if you feel like your manager is an ally or not. If your manager is willing to give you information, listen to your problems, say things a bit too spicy for public settings, and escalate issues, then 1:1s are great. If you feel like your manager may use things said in confidence against you, makes empty promises, and go overs topics covered elsewhere, then 1:1s are a waste.

Like all relationships, its a two way street. But if you can't get your employees to talk to you in a 1:1 besides performative platitudes, then they might not trust you. Someone people are more trusting than others, and I definitely think people play a more strategic game the higher they get in management.
Confused about GPT-4o
Sam tweeted today: “ also for clarity: the new voice mode hasn't shipped yet (though the text mode of GPT-4o has). what you can currently use in the app is the old version.

the new one is very much worth the wait!”

Can any practitioners explain how this works for a natively multi-modal model that works with text, voice, and vision? How do you only ship part of that? In my testing of GPT-4o, it insists that it uses Dall-e 2 to generate images and the images have similar artifacts to those that I’ve seen when using Dall-e 2. My browser is also hitting an ab.chatgpt.com endpoint during conversations. Am I part of an experiment or just under-informed on this subject?
Covid-19 May Damage Vision
Disagree.

LLM might be mostly bad at it, but that doesn't make them unsuitable. They don't have a career to worry about. They don't care what peers or the boss thinks. Etc.

They can spit out ideas - LOTS of them - that real humans then use as a starting point to carry on with.

For more details see "Co-intelligence" by Ethan Mollick.
Fifteen million merits is maybe the least about the future of any Black Mirror episode. It reads best as entirely a comment on the society we already have.

A big clue is that the world in it doesn’t make a ton of internal sense and the episode makes absolutely no effort to smooth that over. The questions it raises and leaves open without even attempting an answer are on purpose. You’re supposed to go “god, bicycling to make little pellets? Just to buy useless trash? God, why? It’s so pointless,” or, “they truly look down on and are mean to the people who get demoted, even though they’re basically guaranteed to end up that way someday, when their health or good fortune run out? Just cruelty for no reason that’s highly likely to hit them some day, too? That’s insane!”

… because actually it’s about now (or, the year it came out) and the point is to get you to connect the dots and realize we’re doing the same crap and just don’t notice. It’s only “sci fi” as some sleight of hand to give you an alien’s eye view of our own actual society as a way to prompt reflection. The core story of the corruption of a “revolutionary” to serve the purposes of the system is some bog-standard media studies stuff pertaining to today, not sci fi. The reveal that they could just fucking stop all this and go outside, it’s not some alien world or a post apocalypse after all is yet another thing that’s supposed to make you go “what’s wrong with them? Oh. Right. It’s us.”[1]

Long winded way to say: we can’t “end up” at Fifteen Million Merits future-world, because it’s just our own world we’re already in.

[1] Some read the final scene as depicting yet another viewscreen, but this is such a wildly weaker reading as far as the how effective the scene is that I can’t believe it’s intended that way.
Disregard the last part about 'I was able to make only 10 or so jams'. I still can create jams, but I haven't hit 25 jams limit yet.
> Similarly that aggressive invasive student exam monitoring software in use makes me thankful I studied in more classic times.

Fun fact: That aggressive invasive student exam monitoring software is a YC W'21 company: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/autoproctor
for the country of canada or even in general i have an extremely hard time believing this
Correction - 1000Mhz or 1200Mhz, depending on binning.
Yeah I did actually try a few flux-like libraries early on. I actually used redux for state management in an Angular 2 app. It worked better than I would have expected, but async was always a problem - at the time thunk and sagas were the solution and both were painful IMO.

That's reall interesting though, I run into plenty of problems with shared state but don't actually remember having any real issues with local state. I haven't seen too much of a problem with components changing local state as long as nothing else can change it. Even if that local state is passed down to child components, changes would only happen in the one place and it should only cause a single re-render cascade.

Where sate in react has really bitten me is when multiple components all try to read/write the same state, especially when some of it is async. Patterns can be used to hide or try to isolate it, but I've never seem it done in a way that feels cleaner or more fool proof than the idea of a state machine running entirely outside of react's component tree.
Nothing in this sentence

> One of my credit unions gives out (randomized) five digit pins (although they say if you use an atm that only accepts four digit pins, the first four is enough).

says that the PIN on that card can't be changed.
LLM4ED: Large Language Models for Automatic Equation Discovery
If you put it in a locked suitcase Japan has very safe luggage storage.
Context-aware security incident response with Dynatrace Automations and Tetragon
you are a child
If I was teaching kids I would reach for CircuitPython and one the many many RP2040/ESP32 boards.

It's just so much fun.
Stares aggressively at Protonmail.

Yeah you at Proton. I'm talking to you.

Stop doing this.

No touchy the email.
For the record, I'm not "calling out your privilege".

In the stronger tone you've consistently led me to believe you appreciate: I have absolutely no idea what your first mac app being in 2011 has anything to do with what I said, that you might have a slightly skewed perspective on the ability to build a sustainable product on just iOS. I guess that's your way of saying you didn't think you were even getting started / well-known until 13 years ago.

Take it for what it is: someone who benefited greatly from your and a select few others is saying you seem bizarrely myopic when you handwave about "normal people" and "as a consumer". "Prototyping in SwiftUI" made me absolutely cringe. Please try a modern web dev flow, Flutter, probably React Native. Then bizarrely combative coupled with "well if you need web build web" -- oh okay! Good to know an iOS app is enough and rest is irrelevant, unless it isn't.
There's more to a connection than speed, there might be data limits, there might be latency differences and it might just be unavailable or expensive.

I'm not from the US, but if it's somewhat economically viable, go for the underdog.
Because in most cases you already use your card interchangeably across a wide variety of (hopefully sealed and certified) terminal devices.

Meanwhile your password is very specific to one website, and never entering it elsewhere is key to phising prevention.

(my "security domain" comment was probably worded a bit poorly with the reference to your wallet, the relevant point is that most people consider card terminals interchangeable.)
Barneyscan was a 35mm slide scanner.
https://petapixel.com/2018/05/25/the-story-of-how-photoshop-...
I moved the rest of my machines to proxmox as well. I had left one ESXI just for the hell of it but I just can't leave it running even with the free Workstation pro (i'll still use it on my workstations).
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i haven't found in xylitol gum that doesn't taste like ass. My nanohydroxyapatite toothpaste does use some in its formula tho, so I guess there's that.
Or we can listen to Socrates and the fact that civilization eats up the soil it depends to grow its food on:

https://web2.qatar.cmu.edu/~breilly2/world/Lucretuis.htm

Civilization can easily survive a mortality rate that we'd consider impossible, viz. the colonies in the new world, it can't survive hunger.
And now we're back to the Blame The Russians narrative?

Disinformation is effectively because real, solid and tangible information is slim to none. Joe has done barely ok. The poles prove this. Most Dems aren't thrilled with the paat four yrs. Non Dems even less. The Russians aren't in the WH.

Gawd I miss the day when you could read the NYT and not think "Is this the Onion?"
There is a saying "high risk, high reward." This makes sense.

The problem with modern C-suite culture is that it's no risk, all reward. This does not make sense, and seems unsustainable in the long term.
What's going well, what's annoying you? How are you feeling? How's life? What can I do to make your job easier? Are you heading in the direction you want for your career?

Showing and taking genuine interest in your team is the mark of a true leader and will help you retain A players. Don't wait for any issues to grow and fester - get your team to talk about them so you can resolve them.

Weekly is maybe too often, every other seemed to work best for me.
I already never carry my debit cards. Forgot the PIN immediately, don't have any reason to go to the ATM. No credit protection, no rewards, no extended warranties; why do other people use debit cards at all?
I'm pretty sure the girls in skimpy outfits thing in BDO is because that's how Korea and Japan rolls with their character designs, and men want to play skimpy dressed lady characters. I don't think it's a DEI thing for women that want to play big tiddy women lol.
U.S. Inflation Data Was Accidentally Released 30 Minutes Early
In Singapore there's a telco intending to launch 10 Gbps fiber for 30 SGD (~22.35 USD) per month. likely to be asymmetric though, since their 2.5 Gbps service at ~16.24 USD per month is advertised as 2.5 Gbps down and 1.25 Gbps up.
> Using 1:1s to track what someone is working on is also archaic. There are plenty of modern methods to assess output across a range of functions. Wasting time on status updates is inefficient.

That is exactly what the 1:1 is NOT. Use status sync/dailies for this, these updates should not be directed to the manager (unless you hate collaboration, giving your team visibility, or want to consolidate everything in you).

The quality of the 1:1 depends on the manager, I've been on both sides in this. Some managers want to fill all the 1:1 time into "keeping in check" because they hate any moment of silence, but the 1:1 is the reports meeting, not the manager.

If the manager talks more than 25% in the 1:1 then they are doing it wrong

The 1:1 is a safe space for the report to bring things that most of the time they might not prefer to give in public or to measure the current project feeling. Engineers can sense things way before the manager does, with a good rapport, you can get a lot of things fast and change course early, for example:

- Are we well equipped to deliver things, are we drowning in meetings or useless processes?

- If what we are doing is important/worth it. This is important for retention, and also if they feel disconnected from the product.

- Feelings about codebase health, system health, and pipeline health.

Generally, I ask broad questions and it does not take long for the person to bring up things they are passionate about.

Also, managing is caring and liking to talk with people, if the IC wants to take the time to talk about something like their trip or their cat it is their meeting to do so, let them drive the agenda. Some people call this good for "rapport" but it is just "making friendship". People last way more than companies and projects.

Also, not everyone needs to have weekly 1:1s, if the 1:1 ends fast, increase the time in between. Same if they are taking the full 30 mins, increase the frequency/time.

Some people are also way more outspoken and opinionated than others.
Some people take more time to be talkative, and that's okay. But you need to know them first.
Nice, will start using that.

… it is still a little weird that the default is, like, psychotic levels of positivity, though.
But object in Python is the metaobject, right? Classes are instances of type, type is an instance of object.

Is the difference that one draws a line between classes and instances? So like in JS an object is a "subclass" of its parent in addition to being an instance of it because the line between them doesn't exist.

If in JS every object had .prototypes plural it seems like it could work with C3 linearization in exactly the same way.
Ah, yes, Everything that can be invented has been invented. - apocryphally attributed to Charles H. Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office way back in 1889.

This is a myth. Just because you don't really see blinding insight every day doesn't mean it doesn't exist (and it's more spectacular when you do see it!)

Another reason that this seems to happen is that innovation and invention tend to happen in more esoteric and technical realms today, and so they're only really fully understood by experts in that field.