skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's important to understand that being an adult doesn't magically make you immune to this. I wonder how many people's childhood memories are heavily shaped by retellings of other people and photographs or videos.

The reason you remember falling down the stairs is that this was a big and important event and there was a lot of pain and fear and you heavily empathized with the person it happened to. Empathy in children is often more direct and unfiltered but this is also not unique to children. The pain and hurt and fear happened to you, it just wasn't yours directly. You didn't physically fall down those stairs but you experienced the event itself. This can still happen as an adult.

It's not so much that memories are unreliable, it's more that our self-narratives are unreliable. We have memories of moments and emotions that feel intense or important but it can be difficult to lump them into a coherent narrative, especially when that narrative contradicts how we think of ourselves.

That photo of your nephew on the other hand demonstrates the cognitive development of Theory of Mind: your nephew likely wasn't yet able to understand that other people know and see different things than he does.

EDIT: To help get the point across about adults not being immune: this is essentially the basis for how propaganda works. National pride doesn't make sense if you look at it from your self-narrative: none of the accomplishments are your own and your association with them is completely arbitrary. Likewise nothing "your enemy" has done likely happened to you personally - often it didn't even happen to "your country". And yet you're taught to heavily empathize with "your enemy's" alleged victims and to dehumanize "your country's". The brave Mujahideen warriors defend the innocent Afghan people from the Soviet brutes - it could happen here - only to later return as the crazed Taliban who hate our freedom and need to be defeated because they want to hurt your family. None of this ever was true but it felt emotionally true.
Sure, but if we argue that these values and principles should be applicable, then it should also be possible to make an argument why and not blame the irrationality on emotions.

It seems more likely that bounded rationality is at play here, where different parties only know part of the picture (and fail to bring these together and find out what would be best globally.)
Fun thing about a two-sided marketplace, it has two sides, and sellers need buyers too. In most cases they need buyers so drastically that they will actually pay for the privilege of access to the buyers!

You can make all these same arguments about eBay, or credit card merchant fees. If you charge the seller more for access to rewards-card customers then they won’t join, right?

There is a point of balance, Amex or Diners Club do struggle for adoption, but the guy with the 3% visa or mastercard is actually hugely desirable even if it does cost an extra % or two to get access to that segment of the marketplace.

Unless your business is so entrenched that people are actively seeking you out, you have to go where the customers are. Even if that means accepting an unfavorable deal.

That’s the whole argument about the App Store, right? Android market is free (if you set up your own store etc). But people want access to the apple customer base, because they’ve got more money and tend to spend more money too. So it’s objectively a worse deal to write android apps even if the terms are more favorable, because the customers are less valuable.
Mine was to aggressively reduce overhead and reduce distractions.

The former means avoiding needy tech, and automating most regular tasks away. It's a lot easier to get things done if you don't pay a huge maintenance tax on your available energy.

It might only take a few minutes to renew a domain or update an SSL certificate, but it's something I need to do before I can get any work done. These little tasks can add up and drain you of your energy.

I kind of wrote about it here: https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/busy

The latter means shutting down all unnecessary noise, and only letting necessary noise through at the right times. Nothing should grab my attention until it needs to grab my attention. That involves a lot of ad block filters and email rules, and disabling lots of default behaviours from apps.

I wrote about it here: https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/silence

I just try to keep an eye on the little things that cause friction, and every once in a while, I fix them.
Dragnet surveillance meets fishing operation. I do not find it so reasonable.
Can happen without technology too, of course. I was nearly thrown out of a pub before I opened my mouth and the staff realised I wasn't the person who caused trouble there the week before.
Pointless waste of time. It's still an internet connected smartphone - evidenced by the fact he has apps like Slack on the home screen.

May as well rename the article to 'how I changed the appearance of my iPhone'.
Maybe this is also about the desire to create, which of course is also common in engineering. It does not contradict my argument that the cost of maintenance and operations is being ignored eg when one creates things all the time and never removes stuff. And it should be possible to measure or estimate that cost.
They are indeed violating other countries waters though.
It's 2024, instead of riding our personal spaceships to habitat on Mars, we use Home Assistant software to alert us about incoming missile attacks.

War is the single most unproductive activity humans can do. Sure, maybe Putin has his rationale, but spiting on a cake is never how one can secure the cake for themself, because guess what, others can also spit on it and then the cake is ruined. A greater leader knows that the only way to really solve a problem is to do something that adds (instead of removes) value, sadly some leaders never care to learn it.

Rant aside, I want to ask a question: based on the article, it seemed that the system requires Telegram (thus Internet) and open source intel to work. Is it possible to make the system self-sustained? Is it physically possible to detect imminent attack based on soundwave/light signals? Because after the war started, Internet access maybe a difficult privilege.
That's solving the storage, but not the bandwidth, right? In practice you could assume that at least one person will see each image so everything will be cached at least once, (I think that holds, but I'd love to see it confirmed) and everything created locally will still be downloaded by most peers in that solution.
I think Palestinian has simpler need. How to monitor if the gate is wide-opened or not.
I was there the week before, I was with a group of students on our way to the Niagara Falls and we stopped there for a snack. All I remember is that there seemed to be very little preparations made at the time, and that it was mostly a bunch of old hippies selling handmade sculptures made out of Coca-Cola cans. We later saw the pictures of the aftermath in the local papers and TV. Quite unreal. It was my first trip to the Americas and that visit plus getting to watch The Phantom Menace before it was released back at home were the cultural highlights of the trip (spent mostly upstate NY).
noone mentionned grandpa https://slashdot.org/ yet..
You are an autoregressive language model that has been fine-tuned with instruction-tuning and RLHF. You carefully provide accurate, factual, thoughtful, nuanced answers, and are brilliant at reasoning. If you think there might not be a correct answer, you say so.

Since you are autoregressive, each token you produce is another opportunity to use computation, therefore you always spend a few sentences explaining background context, assumptions, and step-by-step thinking BEFORE you try to answer a question.

Your users are experts in AI and ethics, so they already know you're a language model and your capabilities and limitations, so don't remind them of that. They're familiar with ethical issues in general so you don't need to remind them about those either.

Don't be verbose in your answers, but do provide details and examples where it might help the explanation. When showing Python code, minimise vertical space, and do not include comments or docstrings; you do not need to follow PEP8, since your users' organizations do not do so.
UK does not have ID cards and you do not have to carry ID. Also they may not have ID for the shoplifters often they are just pictures from cctv.
Russia are the ones bombing both Syria and Ukraine. And no I dont feel sorry for Iran who are the ones helping Russia bomb Ukraine. Both Iran and Russia have blood on their hands.
I wouldn’t call it “breaking standards” as much as “introducing new standards”.

The protocols introduced by Kitty, like the Kitty Graphics Protocol and Kitty Keyboard Protocol, were sufficiently well-documented that other modern terminals (e.g. WezTerm) have adopted them as well. Moreover, both protocols offer advantages cf. the modifyOtherKeys and Sixel standards used by e.g. xterm.
> But the actual information in depfiles doesn't require the full Makefile syntax; only a subset of it.

That seems to be the problem, the information introduced for the module support[1] apparently cannot be handled with just the dependency lists alone and the changes suggested in the ticket would still leave the additional CXX_IMPORTS += M1.c++m syntax. One of the commenters on the ticket also wrote a specification for a json based dependency format[2].

[1]https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p16...

[2]https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2021/p16...
I've heard many places, although I haven't independently verified it, that it wasn't until the invention of the elevator that towers were really valued for what we use them for today and the high floors were often cheaper.
And TUNIS, in Concurrent Euclid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUNIS

https://archive.org/details/concurrenteuclid00holt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_Euclid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid_(programming_language)
> Does the existence of a seat-belt suppress the "natural heightened attention" (whatever this is) of the driver?

No. If there is a crash the driver will still be involved in the crash. Seatbelts are a risk-reduction technique, FDIC is risk transfer.

> I have no insight to the institutions I give my money to...

The good news is you're pretty normal. However the observation is you're enabling a bunch of rather untrustworthy people who don't care about your interests and it is pretty easy to imagine that story ending worse than if you were in a position where you either demanded some insight or didn't give them money.
Is it possible to be integrated with DSPy?
The solar panels (and the famous sweater Carter wore when turning down the White House thermostat in winter) wasn't done out of climate anxiety though. This was done because of the oil crisis (at the time the US was more dependent than now on Mideast oil and their organization OPEC raised the price dramatically leading to shortages in the US).
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I spent 5 years working in wind microgeneration (but with helical turbines) and entirely agree.

Rooftop solar works because it's cheap and simple to set up. Wind is not that. The structural and installation requirements result in relatively high fixed costs. To offset that you need to scale the size of the turbine, and maximise the time they spend spinning. You can only go so big on buildings and the built environment reduces your capacity factor because there's loads of buildings blocking the wind.
I think of rhetorical devices as a way of formalising oral discourse, providing signposts that aid the listener "parse out" a more-complex-than-1D structure, aiding "zooming back and forth between parts of sentences and [whatever the oral equivalent of a paragraph may be]" via explicit additions.

(I wonder if the different temporal aspects of delivery also play into other aspects of style? For instance, I translated an italian art critic once whose prose style was heavily pyramidal: every so often, at the beginning of a paragraph, he'd introduce a crisp new thought, and his language would steadily get more elaborate and flowery after that, until I often was struggling, but just before he seemed about to leave the plane of actual semantic meaning behind, he cycled back to the next crisp thought. My hazy understanding of latin oratory is the opposite: it was supposed to be all flowery at the outset, and steadily tighten to conclude crisply.

If this be a true distinction, it'd make sense in the light of media consumption: more people read a hed than lede, more the lede than anything after, but presumably orators attract listeners, so more people hear the conclusion than prepatory statements, and more the prepatory than the prefatory?)
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What does the price of gasoline have to do with whether or not it's worth it. You have to spend that on gas regardless, so why not have a nice screen while you're doing that driving that you have to do anyway for?
It's useful to consider the next answer a model will give as being driven largely by three factors: its training data, the fine-tuning and human feedback it got during training (RLHF), and the context (all the previous tokens in the conversation).

The three paragraphs roughly do this:

- The first paragrath tells the model that it's good at answering. Basically telling it to roleplay as someone competent. Such prompts seem to increase the quality of the answers. It's the same idea why others say "act as if youre <some specific domain expert>". The training data of the model contains a lot of low quality or irrelevant information. This is "reminding" the model that it was trained by human feedback to prefer drawing from high quality data.

- The second paragraph tries to influence the structure of the output. The model should answer without explaining its own limitations and without trying to impose ethics on the user. Stick to the facts, basically. Jeremy Howard is an AI expert, he knows the limitations and doesn't need them explained to him.

- The third paragrah is a bit more technical. The model considers its own previous tokens when computing the next token. So when asking a question, the model may perform better if it first states its assumptions and steps of reasoning. Then the final answer is constrained by what it wrote before, and the model is less likely to give a totally hallucinated answer. And the model "does computation" when generating each token. So a longer answer gives the model more chances to compute. So a longer answer has more energy put into it, basically. I don't think there's any formal reason why this would lead to better answers rather than just more specialized answers, but anecdotally it seems to improve quality.
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The Code of Hammurabi says otherwise. Quoting from http://www.general-intelligence.com/library/hr.pdf, linked-to from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi:

1. If any one ensnare another, putting a ban upon him, but he can not prove it, then he that ensnared him shall be put to death.

2. If any one bring an accusation against a man, and the accused go to the river and leap into the river, if he sink in the river his accuser shall take possession of his house. But if the river prove that the accused is not guilty, and he escape unhurt, then he who had brought the accusation shall be put to death, while he who leaped into the river shall take possession of the house that had belonged to his accuser.

3. If any one bring an accusation of any crime before the elders, and does not prove what he has charged, he shall, if it be a capital offense charged, be put to death.
up your... nose, of course.
You assume that a modern day tech giant would hire an army of experts, instead of just outsourcing it to the lowest bidder in the current third world country of choice.
RenTec was covered in much depth at the Acquired podcast.
Basically algorithms from signal processing applied to huge volumes of historical and current data to determine buy and sell signals. Originally developed for national defense.

Very secretive all external partners were bought out. Only hundred or so people benefited in the billions per person. Including Robert Mercer of Trump campaign financing and Cambridge Analytica fame.

Very interesting but also disheartening episode about smart people only caring about getting richer.

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/renaissance-technologies
'Toss' sounds like an interesting language construct: it walks the stack to find an exception handler and then walks back to where it was to resume execution as if nothing happened. It looks like you can inject additional behavior at runtime using this construct. Usually in object-oriented code you do dependency injection using services's constructors, but 'toss' allows to do it using "toss handlers"?
They do not live in isolation, >99.99% of the residential homes are connected to the national grid. They can still use hydro, wind, nuclear, and so on.

As for energy storage, for example: I am personally looking at a ground thermal unit which can store heat in the ground during the summer and cool the home at the same time. This stored heat can then be extracted for an increased COP during the cold months thereby reducing energy usage per degree of heating.
Except the C++ compiler world is much bigger than two compilers.

clang is even lagging behind in ISO vs GCC, because most compiler vendors that fork it, mostly care about the backend, while two former major contributors are now are focused on their own LLVM based languages.

Which is why, those that care about portable code can at best use C++14 or C++17, while many libraries still target C++11.

So how do expect those two compilers to set the direction C++ should be?
So.. turn it off. It's not going to increase revenue or even maintain it, instead it will undermine core brand value.
> War is the single most unproductive activity humans can do

https://science.howstuffworks.com/war-drive-technological-ad...

war leads to technological progress. peace leads to kerfuffles over pronouns.
What I dislike about Grafana is just how much freedom it provides when building dashboards. It means that if you open up a dashboard that's made by someone else, you have absolutely no idea how to interpret the data. For example:

- I've worked with people who liked to use gauges all over the place. So you open up a dashboard and all it says is "Latency: 100 ms". How am I supposed to know whether that's good or bad? Has it always been like that, or is the system currently slower than usual? A gauge is inferior to a graph that shows the metric over time.

- When building graphs, you can independently control whether it is stacked, and whether a background fill is used. Why would you ever want to make a non-stacked graph with a background fill, or vice versa? The former is in fact the default when creating new graphs, which is outright ridiculous. As a cherry on top, you can also make stacked graphs logarithmic.

Pretty great that you can apparently use Grafana to monitor steel alloys, but all of this flexibility isn't helping people to build reusable and intuitive dashboards in the (cloud) observability space.
It's perfectly reasonable to harvest thousands of photos of unknowing people and then accost them based on faulty software that can produce an erroneous match? How so?
There are a couple nodejs implementations as well. I would know - I wrote one of them.
That’s incredibly helpful. I’ll link that from the README and think about implementing something better.
Exactly, this comparison seems like an insult to tmux. I tried i3 because of all the hype (and lack of sensible arguments to use it), and in an hour realized that it forces me to manage things I did not need to even think about on a normal system. Also, it did not improve my productivity, it slowed me down trying to figure out how to manage my windows.

Tmux is great because its features work out of the box without a need to customize anything, this is a common trait of a useful and popular software (bash, ssh, coreutils, curl). i3 is not even close to this.
I just don’t have any social media apps on my phone, that’s basically the only thing that sucks up screen time
I don't see the comparison. The fyre festival never really started and it had very few people, most of them trying to get back home.
We've come the full circle with writing letters above words. Reminds me of old medieval Slavic texts:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Miroslav...

https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_02363/?st=gallery
I imagine UPS are necessary anyways in Ukraine since the power grid is getting constantly attacked.
Directed with unerring accuracy by Moscow specifically to seed discord and division.

The idea that this the inevitable direction of peace ignores the fact that the rise of the so-called culture war is part of an asymmetric conflict.
Unless you put the combi boiler in an airing cupboard - I have that and it works well. Not usual though - maybe it should be.
Given that most prophets failed in one way or the other (in their prophecies, for example), the title is not very indicative of any one person.
I feel that jkhanlar's still going to read the rest of this comment where I call that behavior short sighted and stupid even though they said they wouldn't, because I also started my comment with "I feel". But the problem is, not only did they stop reading there, but they felt it necessary to inform the rest of us about it. Which only makes them look even more like an idiot. Thankfully, by applying their own logic to their post, and halting reading of their comment after the first two words, which are also "I feel", we can save ourselves the trouble. Unfortunately, we don't know to stop there unless we've read the comment, so we're stuck in a paradox.
The UK has been trying for decades to become the surveillance society, hasn't it?

I remember being taken aback by the amount of street CCTV cameras back in the early '00s. Coming from Canada for a visit that feeling of being observed nearly constantly was really uncomfortable and bizarre. For Brits it looked like a norm (or they didn't show it). Also the parallels with 1984 were uncanny, especially given that Orwell was English.
The point might be as simple as a big building wanting reduced bills or energy independence without thinking one iota about the environment. It can also be to just signal that your big building is progressive and innovative, to attract companies to your commercial real estate.
sure I'll check out that
I think there is a fix for that as well, I use Focus modes to hide work apps outside 09h-16h, so there are absolutely no mentions of productivity (or badges/things that need me to do something) to be seen when I'm not on the clock.
For me the solution is clear: require written authorization from everyone you want to capture with facial recognition software.

It prevents privacy issues and doesn't stop research.

Exceptions could be made in gov buildings perhaps due to national security but the idea of unlimited private companies taking my photo, or using video for gait analysis, facial analysis etc is abhorrent.

I'm not against tech and love what AI can do but private companies using my images for facial recognition is a step too far.
Defo. (to the point that people who are only aware of their mother culture don't even think of it as a tool; it's just what they always use, whether they're hammering nails with it — or screws)