skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While lobbying in some form has always existed, professional lobbying has exploded in the recent decades. Same goes for dark money which is a term to mean that the funding behind the lobbying is kept secret.

For example, in 2006 there was ~$5.2M spent on it vs ~$1B in 2020. While the total number of lobbyists has stayed roughly the same since 1998, the amount of money spent on lobbying has skyrocketed.

The truth is that we used to have better controls over money's influence on politics and it used to be criminalized and prosecuted better.
You’re telling me god didn’t cut corners? /s

Yeah, reacting to so much perceived information being represented in such little code. Versus billions/trillions of weights in LLMs…
I bought Rectangle Pro because I liked Rectangle. The Pro came with the added benefit of assigning multiple custom window sizes easily without tinkering with the obscure Keys mapping.
I think what's meant here is windowing (partitioning the query) not partitioning the table per se. Though even with this strategy, you must manually create new partitions all the time.

This also isn't typical time-series data, which generally stores numbers. Supposing you had a column "value INTEGER" as well, how do you do something like the following (pseudo-SQL)?

SELECT AVG(value) AS avg_value FROM logs GROUP BY INTERVAL '5m'

Which should output rows like the following, even if the data were reported much more frequently than every 5 minutes:

log_time | avg_value
2024-05-20T00:00:00Z | 10.3
2024-05-20T00:05:00Z | 7.8
2024-05-20T00:10:00Z | 16.1
pens too
https://archive.is/AM4HS
Sorry, this was a long time ago when I was in middle school to high school. As a kid, who would know to keep that? That was all I could remember. My family and I thought it was essentially magic. Even if the black spots on my hand were unpleasant looking for a while. (Knock on wood) They never came back since.
Are you contending trickle-down works and were too far to the right on the Laffer Curve? If so, I’d live to see the science.
What happens nowadays is that the big screens suffer and get a design made for mobile phones, with giant buttons and a lot of empty space.
We were still using 5 1/4”, but the school CS teacher had a special press that cut a notch into the 360K (?) ones to trick the Apple II’s into using them in 720K mode.

She also had a utility to copy original software disks onto the “high density” disks, then read back the data.

From what I could tell, it worked like a charm. 10% of the copies failed, but whatever.

(Coursework was stored on unmodified disks, of course.)
Generally that's my experience as well.

Business apps that my customers want, crazy dense. Some of these I look at and I'm "man this is a lot of stuff" but ... then you get used to it and it works.
I think this is pretty obvious to anyone who has been following this space closely.
It is not only about the smartphone but social media too, to be precise.
You are less attractive, "odd" or "strange" if you are not there. There is huge social pressure.
I'm not sure that'd be enough to shift the blame from all members of the state of Israel to only the PM. There's just way too many videos floating around the social media of IDF soldiers actively and happily celebrating the genocide in a playful and careless manner, and Israeli civilians wishing only more starvation and pain upon the already starving residents of Gaza.
Now it makes sense why they always ask you to remain seated with your seatbelt fastened.
Or them giving you the answer to questions you give them in an ambiguous manner.
> When I plug it into the car, it automatically starts playing the same song on Apple Music

My car (maybe most?) helpfully sends a "play" command when my phone connects via Bluetooth. iOS devices play what was last playing, or pass the event to your music app if you've played something else in the meantime.

The fix in my case was a Shorcuts automation that gets triggered when the phone connects to your car. I set the volume to max and tell my favorite podcasts app to "Play".

If I just wanted an app to always be considered the "last played" app, I'd do something like add a one second delay and then pause. If I used Spotify, I'd also delete Apple Music.
Our "oldschool" Windows B2B application is quite UI dense. Without looking overly busy, we've got information that can be viewed at a glance that other web-based systems use 6+ pages to contain.

I've seen users struggle to flip between many views in some SPA to figure out if things are right or not in their other system, then come to our system to correlate and looking at one or two windows they see all the same data.

I guess it's just the designers, though it seems CSS and HTML lends itself very well to information-sparse pages.

As we're transitioning to the web, due to customer demand, this is one aspect which I very strongly want to keep. We'll see how it goes.
> Once Alexander was gone, the successes also stopped.

While true, this doesn't necessarily preclude the hypothesis that Alexander's generals were the real power behind the throne. The successes stopped around the time that the Macedonian armies started fighting each other and trying to actually rule the areas that they conquered. This could easily be explained by the generals being all roughly equally competent at commanding soldiers and also simultaneously being distracted by affairs of state and so drawn away from expansion into non-Macedonian territory.
Taiwan doesn’t fully drop the legal pretence of being China because the /mainland authorities/ would complain. Otherwise, they would do it immediately.

(Compare the CPG’s vetoing of democratisation in Hong Kong prior to in the 50s and 60s.)
I read The City & the City by China Miéville. If I were to recommend it, it would be because the author's English vocabulary is so much fuller than my own. I had to keep a dictionary handy to get through most of it and I appreciated the challenge.
It's easy to miss in the article, but the reason most regex engines exhibit Perl's behavior is due to features like back referencing. (And I assume look behinds and look aheads.)

PCRE and theoretically pure regular expressions are different things.
Self-Driving Tesla Nearly Hits Oncoming Train
OpenAI launched gpt3 on June 11, 2020. That's probably the biggest lead they'll ever have over the competition. Over the past several months, I've gotten to the point where OpenAI could vanish tomorrow and I honestly wouldn't miss it. Claude 3 Opus, DBRX, and Llama 3 are at least as good at the tasks that I spend most of my time doing. And if Google can get itself figured out, Gemini Pro has a lot of potential.
Yeah, but they were building images for bit block transformations in a defined screen resolution...which was quite low by today's standards.

Building assets like this is unthinkable today since games are run on a variety of resolutions...all of which are enormous compared to EGA/VGA.
TL;DR
Designer at Google who, by their own admission, had no-to-limited visibility into any plans, says leadership doesn't know what they're doing. Lazy media outlets driven by clickbait headlines passes this on as proof of assumed broader industry trends.
Above was about people who care about privacy though. It's not that surprising, but most people don't care about it to the degree that would make them use OSes that respect it. People who actually care tend to use Linux since they have an obvious reason.
> If you are a beginner composer creating a hit, it is an extreme fluke.

You're punching too high. Music is a passion for many people. Same as game dev. I would expect >95% of game devs to be perfectly happy if they can make a living creating indie games. Of course it's nice to make a hit that makes you tens of millions of dollars, but most game devs would be happy to make enough to pay themselves a salary to live on.

Now, if we're not looking to make a hit, but we're looking to make a living, there are a lot of composers out there who can consistently achieve that (e.g. beatmaking for rappers advertising on youtube and such).

> I'd honestly struggle to find any good games (right for their time and audience) that failed because of a lack of suitable marketing.

I'll offer Flappy Bird as an example.
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I recently created a little webapp when searching for a job on hackernews. Couldn't find a solution that allows for filtering based on multiple tags or similar, so I created one myself here: https://grburst.github.io/hnjobs

Note that there are multiple limitations (firebase live only, only current month, not really mobile friendly, ...), little to no optimizations and potential bugs, but it was already a great help for me, so I am sharing it with you. I will however improve it a bit more, because it is a fun experience and I am trying out new frameworks I haven't worked with before as well.
As always: All feedback is welcome :-)
Enjoy
Telling a pollster you support Israel isn't political suicide, and Americans consistently do that. It's political suicide for a politician to oppose Israel, because Americans like Israel.
You could think of a lens as a "Fourier transformer," not in the LLM sense directly but in the sense of something that executes a Fourier transform. See the excellent videos by Huygens Optics including this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9FZ4igNxNA entitled "Fourier optics used for optical pattern recognition."

Having established that, well, it's not hard to imagine that something that's good at running Fourier transforms is probably good for other situations where you need to run a lot of dot products in parallel. That, in turn, should sound like an awfully familiar problem...
When Europeans can buy 500W+ Trina panels for $150 shipped, something tells me this one-time investment isn't going to be too insurmountable.
In addition to varying over time, UI density also varies across cultures. Currently, East Asian websites tend to have higher UI density than Western websites. See, for example, Rakuten’s home page in Japan vs. its home page in the US:

https://www.rakuten.co.jp/

https://www.rakuten.com/
Somehow mobile-first became mobile-only.
Engineer Guy drips content so infrequently that he looks visibly older with each new video. Everytime the channel drops a new video I become aware of how old I'm getting.
I wonder what route existing Windows power users should take after Windows 10 support ends next year.

I no longer think of myself as a power user and that seems to make my life easier and more productive.

I think about it like cars on the road. Getting from A to B is the point. Sure sometimes the complexity of an alternate route is more efficient but oftentimes sitting in the slow down is the fastest way.

That's different from making a hobby of driving backroads. There's nothing wrong with making computers a hobby "also." It's also ok to choose other hobbies and just treat computers as tools.

As cattle not pets. Have a cow that doesn't connect to the itnernet. Have a cow that runs Linus. Have one that doesn't pretend it can outgun Microsoft. You'll have more surfaces to put stickers on for aesthetics.

If I gamed, I'd buy a console. But that's me. YMMV.
What they describe is literally the definition of dark money.

Oxford Languages: "funds raised for the purpose of influencing elections by nonprofit organizations that are not required to disclose the identities of their donors."

Wikipedia: "In politics, particularly the politics of the United States, dark money refers to spending to influence elections, public policy, and political discourse, where the source of the money is not disclosed to the public.

In the United States, some types of nonprofit organizations may spend money on campaigns without disclosing who their donors are. The most common type of dark money group is the 501(c)(4) (often called social welfare organizations)."

The article: "One prominent recent example is the "NoGovInternet" campaign run by the 501(c)(4) Domestic Policy Caucus. NoGovInternet has been fighting the UTOPIA (Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency) fiber collective in Utah in what seems to be an attempt to dissuade other cities and towns from joining the multi-community network. The group's effort included TV ads as part of a campaign that reportedly cost $1 million.

Nonprofits registered as 501(c)(4) "social welfare organizations" are allowed to engage in some political activity. Public broadband advocates suspect that 501(c)(4) groups fighting municipal networks are funded by private ISPs. There's evidence to support this belief: Even though 501(c)(4) groups don't have to reveal donors, they sometimes list ISPs as "partners" or as sponsors of a conference."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YivUOqd91Nk I just couldn't resist.
Is this any easier or harder than socially engineering the same logs out of a commercial ISP? Or just buying them outright because the commercial ISP has no legal obligations to keep the customer data private and already sells the data to brokers?
> "This myopia is NOT something driven by a user need,"

I think this has become pretty clear across the board at this point, personally. Broader AI aside, the LLMs/GPTs of the world are settling into some fairly narrow use cases relative to the extremely broad, borderline "everything", use cases they are sold as. The zeitgeist is already starting to cool, I think.
Just get some popular streamers/channels to do a review/let's play and if they like it you'll get tons of free exposure. I've spent probably hundreds of dollars on indie games in the last year or so from first seeing them on a gaming channel and then pulling it up in steam.

Channels like Splattercat are a great resource for indie gamers & studios alike: https://youtube.com/@splattercatgaming
Well, even if this is extremely lazy businessinsider linkedin journalism, it does align with this small anecdotal experience I had. Google came over to pitch their generative ai stuff.

The sales guy almost yelled "people tell us Google is missing the boat on AI?! People, we BUILT the boat". While referencing "attention is all you need". (An admittedly seminal 2017 paper written by academics that were on googles payroll back then)

Extremely cringe and unconvincing.
Maintain civility.
How robust is the system to fix bugs? Can you just point at a thing and say "fix this bug"? How does that side of it work?
I've started doing anki for geography for myself and with my 9yo daughter.

We've been doing it for a few weeks and she now knows ~100% of all countries and their flags. Just absolutely domination level learning.

I think it's a matter of finding things that fit Anki, and not trying to fit Anki to the thing you want to learn. Geography is a perfect application: we all would be a bit more informed by knowing all countries, seas, etc; and it's something that Anki is very well suited for.

I've also added:

- the numerical value for letters (A=1, B=2, C=3, etc) which I think will give me greater powers of lexical sorting. We'll see.

- NATO phonetic alphabet

- multiplication up to 12x12. I neglected/avoided automating that stuff as a kid and my confidence in doing mental arithmetic is still low. Not sure this is a good case for Anki yet...we'll see.

- A custom deck with the faces and names of everyone at my work. This feels like a slam dunk. I am terrible with names, so I think this can up my game a lot.

In my experience it's hard to find things that feel marginally useful/fun to learn and that works with Anki. But when it does, it's amazing.
Yeah, I think some headsets issue Play when connecting. I had a frustrating moment yesterday on a Macbook:

- I was connected to a video call with Bluetooth headphones.

- It turns out the headphones were also connected to my phone at the same time, because it started ringing via the headphones and I couldn't hear anything on the video call.

- I rejected the call.

- The headphones attempted to resume what I was doing by sending the Play command to the Macbook.

- iTunes then opened covering up my video call window.

- I tried to close with CMD+W, iTunes didn't let me because I wasn't logged in and apparently the login window isn't allowed to be closed by itself.

- I manage to close the iTunes window and try to remember what I was saying on the call.

This was all due to terrible decisions by both Apple and Sennheiser imo.
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I'm happy other people can see what has been obvious to me from day one.

It's not just schadenfreude (which I admit is unattractive, if beguiling.)

It also gives me hope that ordinary people are beginning to get to grips with the idea that they don't have to accept or be excited for new technologies just because they are new technologies, and that the people bringing new technologies don't have to be good people just because they are capable people. Seemingly smart people can be intellectually and morally lazy.

I have no obligation as a techie person to be excited about AI, or to be default-positive about the "leading firm", or to give the benefit of the doubt, or anything like that. There's no moral rule that one should be positive about new technology until it's proved bad. This is a classic tech industry false belief.

OK so the fall is not happening as quickly as Juicero. But it's a start.

What's your case for why should I not be happy?
You have to miniaturize the components and be able to cram billions on a die of a few square centimeters at most. The industry has lots of experience doing that with electronics. Almost none with photonics.

The silver lining is that one might need massively less photonic components to get the job done than electronic components due to the former's theoretically magnitudes higher switching frequency. And we might reserve them for graphics and AI at first.
Have you seen this video [1] - which appears to show just that. A Modos prototype in a framework 13 shell.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=480xteW2wq4
We have had things like buzz bombs for quite a while. But, as I mentioned in another comment, suddenly the proliferation of cheap kamikaze UAVs allowed the poor-as-heck Houthis to shut down Western marine traffic in the Red Sea, even though we threw part of our multi-trillion dollar navy at the issue.

So, what is happening? I would argue that it's the proliferation of these cheap solutions, so even "the poors" have them.
Well, it's not like private companies aren't already selling your data: https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/09/30/theres-a-multibilli...
I enjoy his energy so much, but it might be because we’ve both got ADHD and his pace, unnecessary divergences from the topic, alliteration, and absurdist humour gratifies my attention span and keeps me focused. That might seem counter intuitive.
He's a UI strategist, from a UI perspective some of these AI things are a mess.

But Google says that their mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. A technology that understands and generates human language, with all its idiosyncrasies and connotations, is probably pretty important to that mission. And OpenAI stole a march on Google in commercializing it.

Maybe they justifiably panicked a little because they were starting to miss the boat.

It's a fine line between running around with your head cut off, and entering terminal decline due to too little too late.
Why would one use an untraceable pseudonym if there was a chance they'd want to come back and claim it was them all along?
>"End-to-end encryption does exist today (and it is deployed at scale). There is no going back."

It is useless if the spyware can scrape screen, log your keyboard / etc
Someone gifted me a MacBook a few years ago, I was floored at the usability nightmare the OOTB MacOS experience is. Especially after being inundated with nonstop articles about how superior Macs are by every single tech reporter/blogger my entire childhood. I assumed MacOS was the pinnacle of OS UX, a very big letdown to learn it was far behind Windows in countless ways.
Yes, been doing so since I bought my personal domain circa 1999.

Stack: named - on Slackware (various versions over the years as the computer was upgraded).
> But that might put the EU at an economic disadvantage; it's hubris to believe the rest of the world will bend backwards to meet EU's rules.

Actually, it will. RoHS and the push for standardizing phone connectors ended up influencing the whole world and making it a better place for everyone.

The EU is a sizable market, and unlike the US with its constant elections and government shutdowns, it's politically relatively stable. No one, as said not even Apple, can ignore the demands of the European Union.
In some countries (e.g. Italy, France) you are required by law to keep records of transactions and other data for 10y. But I agree with the data tiering part. Anything older than X months should go to storage (parquet files in some cloud storage).
MA has a flat income tax. Despite the name, this tax is not on millionaires, but people with incomes over $1M, which is hugely different.

As someone who is within the top 5% of household incomes, feels very wealthy for any practical needs, and is not even at half the threshold required to pay this tax, I am a huge supporter.

I’m a bit confused how they failed to accurately predict the amount of revenue this would generate though. Why isn’t this an easy task given they already have income numbers for regular flat taxes?
I wonder if he laid on his back and kicked his heels on the ground like a two year old having a tantrum. Interesting look for the richest man in the world. This might be more a sign of failed late stage capitalism than anything else.
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To me it's more like photocopying the contents of a thousand public libraries and then charging people to access to your private library. AI is different because you're creating a permanent, hard copy of the copyrighted works in your model vs. someone reading a bunch of material and struggling to recall the material.
By definition you can't pinpoint (but I think it's a fair assumption) the many great games that don't gain traction on Reddit and Twitch, and silently sink without notice. You've just picked a single anecdote.
Thanks, I've been eyeing that. Edited by Romm, author of the absolutely brilliant "Ghost on the Throne" about the succession fight after Alexander died.
Tasks are not processes, and that would be a wrong thing to do, and so would be "isolated heaps" given performance requirements faced by .NET - you do want to share memory through concurrent data structures (which e.g. channels are despite what go apologists say), and easily await them when you want to.

CSP, while is nice on paper, has the same issues as e.g. partitioning in Kafka, just at a much lower level where it becomes critical bottleneck - you can't trivially "fork" and "join" the flows of execution, which well-implemented async model enables.

It's not "what about x" but rather how you end up applying the concurrent model in practice, and C# tasks allow you to idiomatically mix in concurrency and/or parallelism in otherwise regular code (as you can see in the example).

I'm just clarifying on the parent comment that concurrency in .NET is not like in Java/C++/Python (even if the latter does share similarities, there are constraints of Python itself).
I love Qt. But they should focus MORE on fixing bugs rather than adding new features. Just in the last 7 months, I found and filled 4 bugs[1] - two of which assigned as Critical. There are many other bugs that I bumped into (that have already been reported) yet still aren't fixed.

EDIT: If any Qt developer sees this, why is there no option to disable flicking of QML Flickable by mouse click yet keep letting users scroll via mouse wheel/touchpad? Setting `interactive` to false disables both. Or am I missing something?

[1] https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-122658

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-124572

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-123133

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-124814