skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A renter should not be any more grateful to the landlord than a worker should be grateful to the shareholder for paying their salary. It is an exchange.

All true, but there can be a lot of "quality of life" variance in how that exchange is implemented in practice. I've been a tenant a couple of times and now had a couple of tenants myself. Landlords can make things more or less difficult while offering the same agreement, and tenants can make things more or less difficult while complying fully with the same agreement.

I'm grateful whenever someone chooses to do better than the bare minimum required by the agreement. If anyone reading this takes good faith for granted, I urge you to at least read horror stories on reddit.
I wish Sam Altman himself weren't on the board.

To make an analogy: when I worked in application security, my company had a CTO, and a separate CISO (Chief Information Security Officer). One of the senior engineers told me that the CTO's job is to say "faster, faster!" And the CISO's job is to say "slow down, be more careful." You can't have the same person doing both jobs.

Altman is clearly on the "faster, faster!" side. And that's OK, but he shouldn't also be on the "slow down, be more careful" committee.
"You follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. But you start to follow the money, and you don't know where it's gonna take you"
Ask HN: Different ways to reduce information to noise ratio on internet.
Ranging from extensions in browsers to relevancy and authenticity of sources.
And they are entitled to do so. Who's to tell them otherwise?
Back in the day, Microsoft shipped a figurative ton of documentation. I remember my dad coming home with this monstrosity:

https://www.pcworld.com/article/917478/microsofts-biggest-so...
> do you really think that advanced civilizations like the Chinese or Japanese don't have the exact same concept as "terroir"?

No, they do not. But they do have other concepts which in turn cannot be translated into European languages. The great thing about human consciousness, culture, and language is that not everybody is working off the same epistemological map. There really are concepts which don't translate 1:1 from one language to another. That doesn't mean they can't be understood across cultures -- just that they may take many paragraphs of text to convey the meaning accurately, whereas in their original cultural context that meaning is embedded in the shared experience of how that word is used.

Think about Greek words for "Love" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love). With a short paragraph of text you can at least the gist of their meaning (but there are definitely shades of meaning which will nevertheless be missed, barring greater immersion in its use). Suffice it to say, simply mapping those words onto "Love" will lose a huge amount of meaning.

Agreed that it's annoying to present words that aren't directly translatable as incomprehensible mysteries, which could never be understood by the non-French mind. Of course it can be understood, it just takes a bit of work to understand this. But equally, I don't think it's appropriate to go the other direction and think that there's a straightforward 1:1 mapping, when there definitely isn't.
It's not "poor man's", it's simply a completely different thing and as such not comparable and irrelevant to this topic. It's not run at runtime, it's not run at build time, it's run at development time before commit. It's like saying a house is a poor man's apple.
I like these best for low cost plugs.
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The US is different as it has a strong national identity around freedom and independence. Immigrants to US mostly would want to adopt that. A relatively young nation full of possibilities. That is what drew the initial waves of immigration.

I don't see something similar in Japan or Germany, where a lot of that identity comes from tradition and culture dating back centuries. I like the Japanese but I will never be one. And that is totally fine, I don't want them to vanish.

Many liberal intellectuals belittle the sometimes pronounced US nationalism and there is reason to do so if it gets too extreme or silly. But on the other hand it is something that unifies people and something they can rally behind.

It is more difficult to summon enthusiasm for that instead of being an economic necessity to pay pensions.
It's worth the effort, I just wouldn't use the descriptor of it being "fun". It's busywork equivalent to pointing nginx at your PHP socket. It's not fun, you're just wrangling a config file until it does what you want and the modern browsing landscape disproportionately demands HTTPS everywhere even for sites that arguably aren't really helped by it.
I feel like you are still exaggerating the difficulty.

Costco has sold them for at least 10 years. You just need to make an appointment and they take care of the rest.
Id say the word "regional" is a closer fit to capturing the original meaning.
Purchasing a single piece of land with the expectation that it will increase in value, is similar in many ways as to do so with single stocks.

Land and stock tend to go up in value. But land also sometimes go to 0, just like stocks.

With the booming American car industry in the 50's and 60's, who would have thought that houses in Detroit could go from having a premium price in 1970 to be sold for $1 40 years later?

Who's to say SF isn't going to be next?
> In my experience, the number of seniors who complain sbout RTO and don't hoard knowledge is tiny.

"Hoarding knowledge" makes it sound like they're intentionally trying to keep knowledge to themselves. I don't think the problem with remote leveling is due to seniors intentionally holding onto knowledge. I do see some senior employees try to hold ownership of a specific area of their work for apparently selfish reasons, but they're a minority.

I've spent a lot of time talking with other seniors (and juniors!) about ways to make sure we're spending time working with mixes of skill levels, but it's a hard problem. Just advertising that you're available to help if anyone needs anything does basically nothing to encourage most juniors to ask. It takes a lot of juniors a long time to lose inhibitions for asking for help, and I think people can often make it to senior levels without learning how to be proactive about offering help.

It does seem easier for most people to ask for help in person. I think one of the causes of this is because even in this field, most people don't grow up doing so much communication and socialization purely using crude text and video calling which have remained mostly unchanged since the 80s or 90s. Most people handle in-person socialization much better, and can read and express cues more naturally there, especially in a work environment. Also, those communication methods have a degree of formality attached to them which feels like a barrier.

Personally, I think it might help a bit if telework software would take more cues from video games (proximity-based chat and virtual environments with rooms and doors). There are some programs for this, but the few I've tried haven't been polished enough to use. The few I've used though did seem to make impromptu collaboration easier, but of course there could have been many reasons for that (e.g. novelty).
Thanks @eatonphil for posting this! OP here: I'd love to (try to) answer any questions you might have :)
I am not trying to educate anyone. I am just asking questions. If you think I am trying to educate you that's your ego again trying to make you miss the point being conveyed here.
The markdown to presentation approach is great. You can manage your slide (or slips) as code giving you history, offline collaboration, pull requests, etc. I don't think you can do that with most other presentation tools. I've used Marp [1] for traditional slides, and wrote a GitHub template repo that outputs the Marp HTML to GitHub Pages [2]. Similar workflows should be possible for Slipshow.

[1] https://marp.app/

[2] https://github.com/ralexander-phi/marp-to-pages
Yeah I get what it is, I was just making an observation of how the api appears.
The same reason as to why you couldn't forbid military usage or commercial usage while still remaining Free Software.

"The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose" also applies to entities such as the EU. If you forbid it from using the software, you compromise this freedom, and thus aren't Free Software.
Ok, so maybe Toyota miscalculated because of the Chinese price dumps?

But note that I was not refering to the luxury case in my original post.
Because writing a linked list by hand for the 1000th time is definitely safer than importing it from a crate with many collections already implemented... Not
You got “verge of a breakdown” from that? Is it that disturbing to you that your preferred working arrangements don’t work for others?

Getting out into the outside world and seeing people prevents under-stimulation, and separating my work environment lets me switch off at home. Spending my every waking hour in my apartment doesn’t do it for me.

It’s not about “doing some work at home” - it’s about spending 5 days a week working in the same space I’m supposed to eat, relax, and sleep.
Google's multiple public facing apps that do the same thing are a unique issue. What's not unusual is for a company to have multiple internal tools, vendors, processes that are duplicative.
juniors are getting hired in this market?
I guess that's why uBO Lite exists :) I started using it a couple of months ago instead of Ublock Origin, and still haven't seen any ads since.

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home
I find it a great improvement. Secure by default.

To me the hate started when Java went from a statically compiled languages, to a half way dynamic language that does a fair bit of compilation at application startup, based on a bunch of annotations. Suddenly many Java projects introduced Ruby-on-Rails level "magic" (yes looking at you Spring(Boot)).

I'm not totally against annotations, but it's easier to over use them just to remove a bit of boiler plate.

To me Kotlin's approach makes more sense: reduce boilerplate by making the language more expressive, adding KClass and KFunction (https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.reflect) while mostly avoiding annotations and exceptions.

Kotlin also has a nice story for immutability.
That's a very valid point. I suppose I'm not really criticizing the author of the tool as much as I am expressing discomfort with the impersonal nature of all this modern technology—AI in everything, even resumes, video interview screenings, etc.
What I gathered from this is that not the INR is full of oracles or people who have the magic skill to foresee the future but rather really smart people who based on past experience can see patterns of behavior and infer future state from that. Then, they are so small they are required to innovate and iterate on intelligence.
The article is great but should have covered some of the other universities across the subcontinent: Nalanda, Vikramshila, Takshila etc were the ancient world's equivalent of Oxford, Cambridge, MIT, Harvard.
First you were talking about what is "allowed".

Now you're talking about what is "recommended".

But it seems like what is really going on is that you believe that there is some kind of conspiracy to use MAiD to eliminate the poor and you are unable to have a discussion that doesn't take that conspiracy theory as fact.
> i always make it very clear that anyone can reach me asynchronously whenever they want, and i will always strive to give a clear answer when i'm able to

This is good, but in my experience being proactive in reaching out to juniors is critical in a remote environment, especially if your company or team doesn't have an obviously healthy culture
I've gone to those meetings. It was a mix of younger and older people, a diverse crowd. Felt representative of the neighborhood. Maybe it's just my neighborhood.
Because two key parts of the open source definition[0] are that the license "must not discriminate against any person or group of persons" (criterion 5) and that the license "must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavour" (criterion 6).

[0] https://opensource.org/osd
I think you have the wrong mental model for tools that you need to use for work. If you purchase a one-off license for a tool, you are entering an endless undefined relationship with the vendor. What support model are you expecting? You haven't paid for any. If iOS updates tomorrow and your software becomes unusable, does the vendor owe you a fix? What about in 6 months? 12? What if it isn't iOS changing but just something you specifically find buggy? You've paid your money, do you expect the developer to work for free from then on?

By purchasing a subscription what you are doing is committing to a revenue stream so that you know the product is being maintained, updated, and supported. If they don't keep the software supported, up to date, bugfixed? Cancel your subscription. Especially for tools like this - which generally are aimed at people using it for their job - you should be valuing those things. You should be avoiding buying tools from companies who don't have a clear model to continue to support your use over time.
Making a living by writing is as rare as being a billionaire
I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business
Anything in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc gets executed in sequence, so at the bottom of it I have

/home/keeb/code/projects/login/motd.sh

And the contents of that file is...

#!/usr/bin/env zsh

values=("bubbles" "slide" "beams" "rain" "pour" "synthgrid" "unstable" "poop")
len=${#values[@]}
index=$(( (RANDOM % (len - 1)) + 1 ))
selected=${values[$index]}
cat /home/keeb/code/projects/login/motd | tte $selected
Apple doesn’t precisely hate FOSS, but it loves its income sources and the sweet revenue coming from them.
Obviously it will protect them, duh.
Good point.

I guess this might depend a little on the implementation. In some cases the http endpoint may exist but may only be accessible to a sidecar container via localhost. For example, if the sidecar terminates https.
Also because Y>>X.
it's probably correct to think of functionally all ML models as being stateless. even something like twitter/fb feed - the models themselves remain the same (usually updated 1-2x per month IIRC) - only the data and the systems change.

an illustrative example: say you open twitter, load some posts, then refresh. the model's view of you is basically the same, even the data is basically the same. you get different posts, however, because there is a system (read: bloom filter) on top of the model that chooses which posts go into ranking and that system removes posts that you've already seen. similarly, if you view some posts or like them, that updates a signal (e.g. time on user X profile) but not the actual model.

what's weird about LLM's is that they're modeling the entire universe of written language, which does not actually change that frequently! now, it is completely reasonable to instead consider the problem to be modeling 'a given users' preference for written language' - which is personalized and can change. this is a different feedback to really gather and model towards. recall the ranking signals - most people don't 'like' posts even if they do like them, hence reliance on implicit signals like 'time spent.'

one approach I've considered is using user feedback to steer different activation vectors towards user-preferred responses. that is much closer to the traditional ML paradigm - user feedback updates a signal, which is used at inference time to alter the output of a frozen model. this certainly feels doable (and honestly kinda fun) but challenging without tons of users and scale :)
Ottawa wants the power to create secret backdoors in networks for surveillance
I think you're overestimating the number of people who 1) care and 2) use adblocking extensions or any extension for that matter.

Google knows what will likely happen, and pays people lots of money to know.
Hehe, I'm very sorry, but there must be some kind of cultural barrier here. My smiley was intended as a way to intentionally show OP that I wasn't trying to be mean or anything, but sincerely asking the question :)

Anyway, it's my post. I just pulled down a Jekyll theme that I thought looked nice and tried it on my laptop and phone (where it worked fine). But thanks, I'll try to look into how and why it's broken.

Thanks!
Author here.

I'm happy to answer any questions about this post, the sale process, or my time running TinyPilot.
Just googled it... yikes not the cryptography joke I was expecting...
If I want to roll it by hand and not use a minifier, is there a code golf dictionary of patterns for javascript?
OP here. I hadn't seen this before, but I'll definitely give it a look. Thanks!
The rise of the disposable car
Tip for anyone trying to communicate in noisy room:

1. Don't speak fast. Speak slow. Enunciate and articulate all the consonants. And do it very slowly. Give the vowels lots of room to be noticed.

2. Don't speak lightly.

3. Don't mumble.

Aayyeee hHHaaaVVE TTOOO GOOO NNAAAoooUUU
It was an extremely bold move to do an arena tour when their last significant album release was just over 10 years ago. It’s too soon to pack a stadium for “nostalgia” to play their hits, and they just put out a new album. So it’s not like that was the plan anyway. In the time since that last popular album, the only instances of them coming up in popular culture was for one of the members repeatedly cheating on his spouses over the years.

Wonder who convinced them it was a good idea in the first place? or who tired but was unable to persuade them out of it?
https://archive.ph/1A1mv
The Least Common Multiple (LCM) of two numbers is the smallest number that is a multiple of both numbers. Finding the LCM is a common task in mathematics and has various applications in number theory, cryptography, and algorithm design. In this article, we will explore three different Kotlin Program to Find LCM of Two Numbers with complete code examples and outputs.
It can also happen with ADHD. I seem to have difficulty integrating sensory information and thinking at the same time. If it’s noisy, it causes a series of buffer overflows at every level of cognition.
The economic incentives are too stacked. You see companies like reddit signing contracts to sell their user generated data to AI companies[1]. If OpenAI is willing to pay (probably a large sum) for reddit's data, why would they refrain from exploiting data they're already getting for "free"? This also feels like a rerun of the advertising economy's development and how tracking and data collection became more invasive and more common over time.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/openai-strikes-deal-br...
Yes, but the effects of that abuse are observable and easily fixable. If suddenly a whole site goes offline for a bunch of people a change like that is likely to get reversed very quickly.
Aren't there some cheap ways to muffle sound?

Wood floors, rugs, curtains, artwork, acoustic panels, etc.
I do see people already creating this new niche, as we have airport security and unnecessary bureaucracy (Germany as an example) we will probably have something like "AI supervisors" who basically chat with an llm for a few minutes a day for the state or local municipality and make a career out of that.
> LLM providers don’t want random low-quality text [...] making it into their training data

Don't they though? Most the training data is somewhat contentious, between the accusation of purely stealing it and the issues around copyright. While it's not text organized directly as knowledge the way Wikipedia is, it's still got some value, and at least that data is much more arguably "theirs" (even if it's not, it's their users').

Short of a pure "we won't train our stuff on your data" in their conditions, I would assume they do.
Great idea! I think this is a really great way to handle especially mathematical expositions.
Just shy of 1% of people die each year (~389,000 people) but the birth rate is just over 1%. That means all immigration counts towards the pop increase
Switching to Windows Live Writer from Microsoft Word (2024)
I'm not sure one can contract one's services to academia like that
Seawater based lithium extraction is very cost inefficient as it's basically just electrolysis.

This means the only options long term are Hydrogen and Sodium Solid State.

I'd recommend reading the Japanese government docs and presentations I linked above as they explain why Japan and it's companies are doing what they are doing.
Spotify connect on most devices is buggy as hell.
The Principle of Immediate Feedback
>They're not hoarding wealth. They don't have any Scrooge McDuck cash faults. Their money is all invested, i.e. put to work creating things that people want.

The Panama Papers showed this to be a myth. The ultra rich are in fact extracting wealth and hoarding it in tax havens.
there is an entire section in the paper sub-titled: Comparison with uBlock Origin..
Thanks for the link, and the idea! Definitely a github action to automatically publish your Slipshow presentation on push would be a great workflow! (I'll open an issue for that!)
I'm guessing the purpose of the CIA is to produce information which leads to political actions that yield financial benefits for the country while the purpose of INR is to produce accurate information without concern for financial benefits. The fact that the government thought it needed 2 organizations to do what is supposed to be the same job shows that neither organization is doing the full job properly. It's almost like they need 2 versions of the 'truth' so that they can weigh up convenient half-truths against inconvenient whole truths.
Do Shit You Hate: A Guide for the Comfortable
> Now, scaling it down to where you can't hear it anymore may make it harder to believe, but the same code will pick it up.

That's where you're wrong. FFT frequency bands are surprisingly wide. You can make them narrower but with the tradeoff of losing temporal resolution. And it gets worse the lower the frequency gets.

There is absolutely no way you're going to detect a near-0.555 hZ effect from a few seconds of audio and determine whether it's off the frequency by 0.1% or even 1%.

Like I said, sure if you're dealing with a pure sine wave. But not a complex signal using FFT.

Or to put it another way -- a 1,000 hZ signal? Absolutely. But a 0.5 hZ signal? Absolutely not.
And those books you're reading. They came from where?
Ok so what's the INR take on China-Taiwan?
Column: News business needs help in California. Is government the answer?
I have some of these https://www.loopearplugs.com/

They're super comfortable and they don't look weird like the neon yellow foam ones :) Before I always disliked wearing earplugs when I have to at concerts, but the ones from Loop I just wear anywhere I like that is too loud
might be an unpopular opinion, but I find the new safety committee reasonable. While "AI Safety" has often seemed like a grift to me, I do see value in addressing immediate concerns like bias evaluation and model alignment. Issues like racial bias in data are real and harmful, and it's crucial to work on improving these outcomes. However, the broader field of AI Safety often feels like fear-mongering over non-issues. If AGI is on the horizon, I’m not particularly worried about OpenAI's "superalignment" team. If one group achieves superalignment, it's likely that other global actors will soon have similar capabilities, so I don't see it as a major concern.
Yes!

I was hoping to illustrate the the grandparent post where more entropy can come from.
Where do you live? The county or city should have codes for the foundation construction. If those are not sufficient I’d start there.
What a curious article... I wonder who the intended audience is.