skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this article incredibly ignorant right from the start. The basic assumption is "people are doing incredible things inside of video games, why aren't they doing this outside?". And then the next portion reads:

> Why are you building a graphics card inside minecraft instead of inside nvidia?

Minecraft is more enjoyable
Minecraft is more addictive
Minecraft found them first
They don’t know the latter option exists, or how they would do it, or think they’d fail at it

Not that interviews are impossibly hard even if you have the necessary ungodly expensive college degrees and certificates to prove your prowess, have your life entirely together, have plenty of cash lying around to risk relocating to a job where you might fail etc.

This idea where "why don't you just overcome all the stuff in your reality that is holding you back to be like all the people who don't struggle with these things" is just such a fundamentally idiotic brainspace.

Then they bring up names like Carnegie, Ford and John Rockefeller and how early they got started working and comparing that to themselves how they would "have killed for a tech internship at 14". Carnegie born 1888, John Ford born 1894, John Rockefeller born 1839. They weren't even born in the CENTURY that our concepts of work and education come from let alone the millenial shift in technology that changed literally everything about how we evaluate and view people.

But sure, an internship at 14 at FAANG is feasible if your own parents know someone in that space, you have a school that looks at that as an opportunity and you have enough pre-existing access to technology and knowledge to do ANYTHING at one of these companies than fetch coffee or whatever the equivalent of stacking paper is these days. UGH!
Ego is a killer, as they say.
Doctors get surprisingly cranky when you have an issue that doesn't match their internal flowchart.
Your usual reminder that there was a guy at Google who was so impressed by their LLM that he considered it sentient. And this was two years ago when the AI was presumably far less developed than the current abonination.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/12/google-en...
No need for perusal, just a good memory for usernames.

Apple hate? Me? I’ve got an iPhone, Watch, and a house full of Macs. Apple is by far my preferred tech company out of the big ones. I hate Apple about as much as George Floyd was killed by black supremacists.

I’m not sure how three years of CNN coverage of the Floyd murder left you thinking he was offed by black supremacists instead of a visibly white cop.
Zero-emission 'electric cement' is an 'absolute miracle'
id imagine most traffic on american servers is american
We Used to Think Everybody Heard a Voice Inside Their Heads – But We Were Wrong
That is a good point. Distro package managers have somehow screwed this up too.
For general usage mint or manjaro make a lot of sense (I use manjaro personally). For writing software, nix on top of the above (and integrating with direnv) is really smooth experience, especially after writing a few flakes for your projects.
That’s not a situation I’ve encountered but “race condition” is an extremely broad category.
When I was a kid, nerds were bookish and into math and the arts and liked seeing how different ideas and disciplines worked together. Auto mechanic who's into 18th century literature and likes to explain how the cars are "just like" those books? That's a nerd.

Geeks were more monomaniacal. There were Star Trek geeks (two opposing groups of them!), computer geeks (clustered around their chosen systems), gamer geeks, etc. Geeks did not accept the nerds. I wonder if part of the reason for that is that the geeks tended to be tribal and conflict-seeking and nerds were typically not "joiners" and tended to avoid conflict.

I'm a bit offended by calling computer geeks "nerds" because it robs nerds of identity.
I do think trusting an LLM is less firm ground for knowledge than other ways of learning.

Say I have a model that I know is 98% accurate. And it tells me a fact.

I am now justified in adjusting my priors and weighting the fact quite heavily at .98. But that’s as far as I can get.

If I learned a fact from an online anonymously edited encyclopedia, I might also weight that a 0.98 to start with. But that’s a strictly better case because I can dig more. I can look up the cited sources, look at the edit history, or message the author. I can use that as an entry point to end up with significantly more than 98% conviction.

That’s a pretty important difference with respect to knowledge. It isn’t just about accuracy percentage.
The on-ramps for fulfilling activity (not even necessarily jobs) are disappearing. If you want to learn something new, you're not looking at a nominal fee at a local community college; maybe the suggestion is to watch (flawed, unfinished) tutorials on YouTube, or to buy a creative influencer's course pack. Maybe that gets you basic skills, maybe you waste your time. But let's assume you picked up [skill]. Someone's probably not going to hire you for it. Do you try to make something by yourself? Here's the list of other skills you should probably pick up in order to compete (yes, you're competing) with the wunderkids who can produce [project], and also the associated devlog and Patreon and streaming schedule. Or, maybe you try to join an existing project that needs your [skill]. That's going to be a decent amount of time lurking the Discord, trying to keep up with a group of people who might not even like you because you're the weird new guy. If the goal is prosocial socialization outside of the house, this might be counterproductive.

Did I mention that the increasing focus on "problem-solving," driven by the tech Cult of Productivity, seems to have predisposed people to the kind of skepticism and pessimism that makes finding problems to solve easier?

Or, you could just... not.

>Have problem

>Don't care.

>Don't have problem anymore.
S3 Video on the Daylight Computer (120fps e-ink)
Whats’ blursed mean?
At a 1.5% fertility rate [0], what's the alternative?

It's fair to gripe about the effects of immigration, and policies to handle those, but it's disingenuous to gripe about immigration as a policy in a <2+ country.

Demographics is a zero sum game. Either you have a growing population and smooth age brackets or Very Bad Things happen.

[0] https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/CAN/can...
Why does the demo title within the image say "Gigabit Ethernet"? Is that a marketing lie of what they had hoped to eventually achieve, with the actual demo running 100mbit? Or was the same demo repeated for (what would become) 1000Base-T?
It's not just the syntax. Powershell is just ridiculously slow for doing things like iterating through text files.

Don't get me wrong... powershell is really nice for some kinds of IT work, but I've had lots of trouble with it. I love the succinct nature, but it takes a lot of effort to get a line of code to do what you need it to do...even after you've spent a LOT of time with the language.
Maybe it's the settings I have enabled but typically Plexamp will move from one album to the next. Maybe because I typically play an album at a time?
I imagined that this article was going to be about the emergence of a social network on Gemini which in some way resembled the one Google developed years ago, but instead it is about a completely unrelated thing Google has recently developed which also happens to be called Gemini!
The Fall of the House of Etsy
An alternative: `zellij` is better is better. With `tmux` I never get the sense that I have "mastered" it. I simply don't know all the controls - I only have a few of my most commonly used ones. Stepping into `zellij`, I feel like I've mastered it within a few hours of using it.
Local details in this article: https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/two-b-c-companies-o...
When did Reagan take Carter's solar panels off the White House roof, again?
The only reason you can't verify a server side LLM is you can't see the model. It is possible to look at its activations if you have the model.
Simultaneously blessed and cursed.
If it can detect type of compiler, I would think it can pass the correct flags to it. If that is all it is.
Oh man, err, person, that reminds me that I need to fix my SparcStation Voyager, whose 2.5" SCSI drive broke. I do have a 2.5" SCSI2SD already, and I also have install media, but it always seems like too much effort. Lovely machine, though.

Anyhow, in the late 90s I was given an SS10 (?) clone made by Axil, which was my main driver for a year or so, running RedHat for Sparc.
I have a job and I don't live alone, so I don't think I fall into the hikikomri definition in any real sense of the word, but I will say that remote work kind of made me adjacent to it. I sort of have a strong distaste to leave my house a lot of the time since 2020.

I still do leave my house, I have a job that requires me to be in the office for two days a week, but it's something I dread every single week for a variety of reasons. There's something bizarrely comforting about just staying in your bedroom all day and pretending the rest of the world doesn't exist, and it's kind of addictive.

Going outside and having a social life is usually worth it, but it's also kind of intimidating; I have to take a shower, get on the train with a bunch of strangers and not do anything too weird because of course I care a tiny bit what these strangers think about me for whatever reason, go into an office with people who are not-quite-strangers and work extra hard to not be too weird or say anything that might upset someone and keep my desk clean and have meetings with managers who could fire you immediately for any reason they want...it's all exhausting.

I still try and make an effort to leave my house sometimes, but I kind of get why hikikomori do it.
For those who aren't Wall Street Journal subscribers here is a link:

https://archive.is/mC2RQ
It was a long time ago, but it was probably having to switch from major feature work to emergency bug fixes that finally became painful enough for me to acknowledge that manual backups weren’t going to cut it.
The Big Bang Theory was incredibly offensive anti-intellectualism.

Laughing at nerds does not make one a nerd.
Nice. After five minutes: 95.6% with a mouse; 96.2% with a Wacom tablet; trackpad (Apple Magic 2), hopeless.

As for opportunistically relevant posting: see the first chapter of Felix Klein's Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint: Geometry[1] for a bit on the geometric theory behind the planimeter.

[1] https://archive.org/details/elementary_mathematics_geometry/
Evaluation of the Programming Skills of Large Language Models
In my 20s, I had a Kafkaesque interaction at Vancouver customs about whether my visit was for business or pleasure.

I explained that my father was at a conference, and that I was there to both help and be a tourist.

Did not parse with Mr. Papers Please. "Which one is it?" in increasingly aggressive tones.

Finally I just picked one, he gave me my stamp, and I went through.
> Heat pumps are becoming more common but almost every home or apartment I have lived in used Natural gas for heating and maybe a wall mounted or central A/C unit.

A/C units are heat pumps. Are you saying yours can’t do heating as well?

We just installed an air-air heat pump at the cottage up in northern Norway. 4kW of heating (or cooling) for 800W of power, all on an off-grid solar system. :)
The LLM does a summary of web search results. It's quoting what you can see, not pretrained knowledge, afaik.
Building things on your own time for fun is completely different than building things while being beholden to a manager, having to attend daily scrums, having to take direction from Product people, UI designers, UX experts, filling out Jira tickets, arguing with your coworkers about what a variable should be called, what an endpoint route should be, being asked to point your work, logging your time, thinking about how things will be compatible with the other systems, getting two PR reviews and approval from architecture, being asked to attend the town hall, being questioned about why you used an abstract class instead of an interface. The list goes on and on.

It's like night and day.
Reworded; is it clearer now?

(I guess if I'm implying anything, it's that supernational arrangements are not only difficult from the normal entropic point of view; they've also proven difficult because some people are hostile to them: at times even violently hostile)
Exploring the NEC V20 CPU
AI-Assisted Assessment of Coding Practices in Modern Code Review
FYI You can set your default Chrome search engine to be a site search, including one that searches https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=%s
I hope there’s more meat to the reason than a nebulous and unfalsifiable "rigorous scrutiny by Canada's national security and intelligence community".

A country can set whatever rules of engagement they want, but they ought to be transparent.
My heart says absolutely not.
Nothing of the sort. I'm trying to understand why anyone cares about formal verifiability in this context, since it's not something we rely on when asking humans to answer questions for us. We evaluate any answer we get without such mathematical proofs, and instead simply judge the answer we're given on its fit and usefulness.

Anyone who doubts the usefulness of even these nascent LLMs is fooling themselves. The proof is in the pudding, they already do a great job, even with all their obvious limitations.
1) You need to foster a culture where those improvements are allowed in

2) Codify norms of how a shared goal is worked on

2a) refactor tests as part of separate PR

2b) realign code with refactoring in mind (this is the begin transaction portion)

3) commit work

4) merge everything into main

It might take 3x longer, but it is more controlled.

The larger the team, or the more consumers, the more important it is to get the interfaces right. And if you can refactor the interface ahead of the code itself, the refactor isn't even noticed.
I think you’ve hit the nail on the head on why I would rather “waste” time in Factorio than program at my enterprise SWE job. Because it’s closer to being a historian than a builder.
They should be working on adtech, like good little drones.

The stuff that really needs to be worked on doesn't pay that well and isn't appreciated. Fast factory automation. Security for the power grid and Internet backbone. Non-AI systems to monitor AI systems to keep them from doing something dangerous.

"We wanted self-driving cars. We got retracting door handles." - me.
The article mentions the ‘traditional’ way in which magnetic surveys are carried out on the ground in archaeology. When it comes to helicopter surveys, the examples are only from geology. My question was meant to refer to helicopter surveys. I would therefore like to rephrase it: Have helicopters indeed already been used for magnetic surveys in archaeology?
Lazarus? Tcl/Tk (no, really, it's great)? PyWin32?
> It's important to note that this study doesn't prove that cannabis directly causes these changes or causes health problems.

Well okay then.
Do the activations tell you anything more than what the LLM delivers in plain text? Other than for trivial bugs in the LLM code, I don't think so.
Looking at google maps, the mountain view location seems right off the street and does not seem to have a fence, so you can probably go into the front door or ring the bell and ask for an interview.

However are you actually asking if anyone will interview you if you just walk in off the street? I would be extremely surprised if anyone would be granted an interview without an appointment. I certainly would not.
Archaeologists Found an 'Anomaly' Near the Pyramids – May Reveal Ancient Portal
Kids are far less knowledgeable about how modern software works because they don't know of an Internet that didn't have algorithmic recommendations. They have to be taught to do things like click "Not Interested/Don't recommend channel" to improve their feed. Dark pattern designs make this harder by hiding these options behind tiny 3-dot buttons.
One major missing element on the GUI page is some kind of table widget that can display tabular data. A lot of GUI needs involve needing to display data, but many widget toolkits just have things like buttons, radio buttons, message boxes, and tree/hierarchy things.

Besides that...I really like this project.
A JavaScript library
LattePanda Mu crams x86 PC into SoM form factor
Beijing should not be involved in security tech. Seems sufficient to me
> hope there’s more meat to the reason than a nebulous and unfalsifiable

"...ministry spokeswoman said it cannot provide more details citing confidentiality provisions in the Investment Canada Act, the legislation that allows for a national security review of any foreign investment into the Canada, regardless of its value" [1].

Presumably the companies can disclose. But "Bluevec has not yet responded to a request for comment about the federal order of dissolution."

[1] https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/two-b-c-companies-o...
The actual purpose of DRS shares is to make it psychologically more difficult for low-information retail traders to sell shares.
Pretty much. There were some good information, and even book worthy ones. But they were the ones that bubble to the top in helpful and knowledgeable communities. The rest is junk.
This article is much more informative than the current OP (Reuters); one vote for me that mods put up this one instead.
You don't need "hypercapitalist surveillance" to show someone ads for a PS5 when they search for "buy PS5".

If they're doing surveillance they're not doing a good job of it, I make no effort to hide from them and approximately none of their ads are personalized to me. They are instead personalized to the search results instead of what they know from my history.

Meta is the one with highly personalized ads.
They should spell out what they did or do.
Rails effectively muddied the waters of what is possible with Ruby, leading to its neglect (in awareness at least). Rails has become synonymous with run-for-the-hills in tech (from what ive seen).

Personally having worked with Rails, it was great in the early days, now its mired in tech debt and my-way-or-build-it-yourself mentality such that I havent touched it with my disposable 10 foot pole in 7+ years.

The short answer, is flavor and fashion over effectiveness; a strong rebellion against high performance languages who require a deeper understanding than simple copypasta.

/2c
> and the meat did not enter the food supply, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The department continued to stress that the commercial food supply remained safe.

> So once again the assurances from government agencies, before the science is in to confirm or deny the assumptions, continue to undermine the confidence by the public.

Cooool. This shit again.
>> just send them to /dev/null instead

I wish. But 'regulatory compliance'. And 'we might need them' - just not sure for what - but we'll try another data analyst next quarter. Thankfully because of the GDPR (and maybe other reasons) there is a healthy pressure to also cleanse us from the logs we've collected.

That said, I agree, based on my trials (and mostly errors), Splunk seems one of the better ones. Not considering the cost anyway. My trouble is that I am not a data analyst, but I get asked more than I would like about these things.
I read that as Weird Al as well, and was very much confused.
> {The ice cream analogy} was stupid, that’s what I think.

Replace the token above with mandatory masking, and you have your answer. Unfortunately, if you do not like the answer (perhaps you think it is stupid) your mind may not be able to accept it.

Most of reality works this way as far as I can tell.
Would be nice to see some data behind these assertions. Welp, at least the AI art is pleasant--finger glitches notwithstanding.
Oh you mean one that can sleep reliably and has battery life of more than 2 hours?
One can easily guess those metrics.
For a bit of context: people who were hit by the New Year's earthquake in Japan were living on small rice ball rations until aid could get to them. This is partly because Japan's 2.5 decades of economic consternation has forced the country to make hard choices about where investment goes - mostly to the dense major metropolitan areas, with their higher ROI, and not to the more rural ones that were affected by the natural disaster (hence, also, the long remediation process in Fukushima).

By way of comparison, much-less-dense America will find itself in trouble if it turns out that we're facing anything remotely similar in our weird will-it-won't-it stagflation.

The Strong Towns project has a ton of information about the looming insolvency of many American municipalities, and how infrastructure and aid - as in, water pipes and food access - are in the crosshairs just so that the whole shebang doesn't blow. Ironically, starvation may be back on the menu.
We have an HP bw laserjet at home with PostScript and crucially a duplexer. I bought it used about 10 years ago for £200. We don’t print much, around 15,000pp so far. Generally I print:
- in the last month, a lot of past papers as my son prepares for Summer exams
- PDF articles for reading on the train
- multiple drafts of documents I write to scribble edits on ( could I do that on the iPad? Sort of.)
- address labels
- bookplates
- online recipes ( easier with messy fingers than the iPad!)

I’d guess we print something every week, sometimes more frequently. Printing 2-up duplex for the most part has saved a lot of paper. Replaced the toner for the second time in feb ‘22 ( the printer tells me) - with an off brand cartridge; print quality noticeably but not disastrously worse, but the cartridge was £30 rather than £130. Amazon Basics 80gsm paper better and cheaper than the HP or Canon versions.
I don't know about bikewrench but AskHistorians is a useful source of knowledge because it is strongly moderated and curated. It's not just a bunch of random assholes spouting off on topics. Top level replies are unceremoniously removed if they lack sourcing or make unsourced/unsubstantiated claims. Top level posters also try to self-correct by clearly indicating when they're making claims of fact that are disputed or have unclear evidence.

OpenAI, Google, and the other LLMs-are-smart boosters seem to think because the Internet is large it must be smart. They're applying the infinite monkey theorem[0] incorrectly.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
> Apple, Google, and Microsoft Can Help Parents Protect Children

Of course. Protect children from (some) porn. But violence is ok. The child must learn from an early age how to kill someone without reason.
Data mining is ok. Children must learn that they their Mother (Apple, Google, and Microsoft) always takes care of them.
Ads are ok. How else will those reactionary human beings become part of the economy ?
And the children do not need to own anything. Yes, capitalism is about private property, but we (Apple, Google, and Microsoft) can assure you that we will take good care of your private property (which, BTW, is ours after accepting the TOS). /s

So, Microsoft, why is Edge allowed to run while i have to update my Family Safety settings to be able to run Firefox ?
A Prefrontal Cortex-Inspired Architecture for Planning in Large Language Models