skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't naive, and isn't dismissive.

The problem is the CCP.

The only fix is for the people to rise up against them.

This doesn't even have to be violent. Most of the former Soviet Block governments fell without any bloodshed.

What's the alternative? Wait for Xi to "make his mark on history" in the same way that Putin is doing in Ukraine because it's "naive and dismissive" to even talk about unseating him?
Saying Louis Rossmann is fighting for the right to repair while trying to keep individuals from repairing their own devices is like saying Linus Torvalds created Linux to keep people from getting the idea to build their own operating system.

Rossmann is fighting the good fight and also often doing videos showing how a repair actually works.
Most famously a video where he showed that a certain type of common Macbook screen repair is just a simple bent pin that he even repaired for free while the official Apple repair would have cost hundreds of dollars
I don't think it's a good implementation. Takes up lots of space of the screen.

Also:

"With your permission, we will use AT internet and Hotjar cookies to produce aggregated, anonymous data about our visitors' browsing and behaviour on our website."

They could use something like plausible and that won't even need any cookie notices.
As a self-proclaimed genius, I agree with this advice.

People say my work is shit nowadays, but it's only because I'm trying to give them a chance to shine.
Oh they absolutely do.

https://www.caionline.org/pages/default.aspx
Someone always scoffs, but I think it is usually a sign that they don’t really understand freedom. In particular, the freedom of association. Many countries recognize it, so I don't need to get in to the exact legal justifications for it.

Put plainly, this is the freedom to form groups that govern the behavior of their members. A group could be a dinner party, a study group, a book club, a circle of friends. It can also be much more serious. It could be a corporation, a union, a church, a political party, or a religion. Or it could be an HOA, or a town, or a state. If you like one or more of those types of groups then it is important to protect the freedom of association, even if you don’t like any of the others.

Every group has rules, even the most informal. When you invite your friends out to dinner you probably don’t sit down and vote on the exact rules your dinner party will follow, but your party has rules regardless. And every group punishes violations of the rules somehow. If you get drunk and dance naked on top of a table, then you will suffer some form of sanction by the other members of the dinner party. At the very least you probably won’t be invited back. More formal groups like HOAs, corporations, and towns tend to have written rules and proscribed punishments for violations. They also have built–in ways of changing those rules.

Ultimately some HOAs are useful while others are petty and run by vindictive idiots. An HOA that was useful for 50 years and never created any drama could turn bad next year when they elect some new board members. An HOA that is bad today _could_ elect new board members and then become drama–free and stay that way for 50 years, even if it seems unlikely. People who end up in a petty HOA usually regret it, and come to see joining any HOA as a big mistake. People in a sane HOA often wonder what the fuss is about.

But here’s the truth: true freedom includes the freedom to make mistakes, even big mistakes.

The freedom of association allows us to join any group we want, but sometimes joining will be a mistake. You can’t prevent people from making those mistakes without limiting their freedom. You can’t even reliably predict which mistakes they’re going to make, so you would end up preventing them from doing things that wouldn’t be mistakes too.
The problem is that you have little control into when one of those people infiltrate the board. Most HOAs start with no issue. It is only after someone new joins that the rule enforcement becomes insane or the big pot of money vanishes.
> but lacks focus on when to apply them

The gap between theory and practice - tacit knowledge - is probably a factor here. It seems quite likely that a lot of really good managers in software have theories about why they are good managers. Those theories could all easily be wrong and they are actually experts at communication or weird technical details that happen to make great managers. A manager's theoretical base is always built on a large tacit "I know how to X, Y, Z in a social setting".

If we look at this article through a very abstract lens, software managing advice fits the pattern of "at the appropriate moment, do the appropriate thing". Obviously the advice he gives is heavily tinged by the managers ability to identify the appropriate moment to do something unusual. He's pointing out some times where the appropriate action seemed to be the counter-intuitive one, which is fair and interesting. But I wouldn't ever trust a random manager to be able to pick the moment to do a counter-intuitive action; unless they were mentored with extreme care.
I worked this schedule for many years (not in tech, "skilled" labour) and it's amazing. This was a 7 day a week operation and it worked quite well in terms of crossover here too. Each person had a fixed schedule but the day of the week for each person would vary so there'd never be a full "shift change over", so to speak, but always some overlap between the shifts and it helped with information exchange greatly. The guy working Monday-Thursday would overlap with people starting their weeks from Tuesday to Thursday, for example, so there was always a "working knowledge" of what was going on.

It worked well on the management side of things too, but with an actual "changeover", as you'd have a Monday-Thursday supervisor and another Thursday-Sunday supervisor, with one day a week of overlap however that Sunday-Monday changeover didn't have an overlap (although there was a lot of OT on this job so it did frequently happen).
Show HN: GPTs – A GPT-2 Output Detector to Identify AI-Generated Texts
In early 2023, while working as a data analyst at a tech company, I noticed an increasing concern among content creators and website administrators: how to distinguish between human-written and AI-generated content, specifically texts produced by models like GPT-2. This need stemmed from a growing focus on the authenticity and reliability of content. I delved into the technology behind AI text generation and understood the industry's apprehension about potential abuses.

Motivated by this, I set out to develop a tool capable of automatically detecting outputs from the GPT-2 model. It took about eight months of tackling various technical and resource challenges, such as differentiating between human and machine text nuances and managing real-time analysis of large data volumes. Through persistent effort and multiple iterations, I successfully developed "gpts" – a detector designed specifically to identify texts generated by GPT-2.

Key features of "gpts" include:
1. *Real-time Detection*: Capable of analyzing text immediately after input to determine if it's generated by GPT.
2. *High Precision Identification*: Utilizes advanced machine learning algorithms to ensure the accuracy of detection results.
3. *User-Friendly Interface*: A clean and intuitive interface that allows non-technical users to easily navigate.
4. *API Support*: Provides an API for developers, making it easy to integrate gpts into other applications.

I invite everyone to use gpts and share your valuable feedback to help us continue to improve the product and better serve the community. You can try it by visiting our website https://chatgpt.com/g/g-bNRrULrGk-gpt-2-output-detector. Looking forward to your feedback and suggestions!
Please stop with the cheap ageism. Whatever generation[1] you're in will be doing something out of your control that the next generation will look down on too.

1. ...and no, I'm not a Baby Boomer either.
The Framework laptop seems to be a counter example to your theory, the company seems to be just under 50 people which isn't all that big even for a startup, and repairability is one of their main selling points.
This site is great but it's only an approximation.

We've used this website for years for checking the sun in various potential homes and holiday rentals. It's a half decent approximation but it doesn't really have proper height data (I think it's using standard building classification from Open Street Map data?) so it's only a guide.
I read that as prodcast tour and was intrigued
First of all, don't be too hard on yourself, allow yourself some time to reflect on the things you have accomplished and be proud of them.

Also, if you are in Europe use the GDPR as a starting point to ask them to provide any information they have on you including interview feedback, they must comply.

And third and don't get this in the wrong way but you mention several times in this post that you are "a weak candidate from my CV", are you sure you are not giving this vibe to your potential employers?

Honestly, interviewing is hard and there is a lot of asymmetry between candidates and companies specially on this market conditions, my suggestion is (I know it will sound cheesy) but fake it until you make it.
You say that, but I bet you already live in a village, town, or city that has quite a lot of rules about what you can and cannot do. Noise ordinances, building codes, safety rules, fire codes, historical preservation, it goes on and on and on.
You kind of scuttled your own argument there by pointing to the exact opposite of what's being described upthread.
As a 8yo kid's parent, I hope it have no game, no pay function. Just locate and video call, message, long battery life.
I was in a similar situation last month. Not quite 1000s of pages but close to 100. Just enough to make typing them out seem like too much work.

I found an app online (I wont even name it) which promised incredibly accurate handwriting transcription. Signed up and found it was true, but they were just sending images directly to chatGPT and returning the result and then charging a fee on top.

I started working on an open source version. It took me only a few hours and I'm sure anyone else could pull it together. used chatGPT example code to connect to API and send an image with a prompt along the lines of "please transcribe the text in this image and return only that, nothing else". even with that instruction it still sometimes prefaces with "sure! I can do that.", which I think is the AI equivalent of Homer Simpson writing "ok" in the "please leave this section blank" part of the form. Anyhoo, I had a basic job queue written, pull in images in order of file creation date and fire them off, append the text to a text file after. There was some cleanup of the file required (weird line breaks) but it saved me days of typing.

You still need a chatGPT API key for it but it does take a good bit of the work out.

At the moment I'm investigating using a free local model. LLava is just as accurate but takes longer than sending it to ChatGPT. but if you were worried about burning credits it would be the way to go.
Perfectionism is usually a cause for procrastination. In my experience the long and rich history of procrastination, half-assing and missing deadlines is usually caused by over-thinking, pre-mature optimization, wrong abstractions and analysis paralysis combined with deadlines.

I would suggest to try to finish tasks with the bare minimum. Not half-assed but without bells and whistles. Important bells and whistles will come back anyway as their own tasks. Drive by sight and don't prepare too much for the final destination. The latter will change anyway and you will waste your time worrying about ifs.
Just use rain sensors. Why would you make it like this for any reason.
This kind of pedantry build on nothing than personal definitions is the worst.
They'll have had mortgages at 10% or higher, and tied to endowment policies that were often missold. Mortgages weren't easy for boomers, even if house prices were lower.
Ask questions where you can verify whether the answer is correct. Then it becomes a very useful tool.
"there's an app for that"
Umm sorry but that's nonsense - externalities of your property impacts your neighborhood and having rules upfront about what's acceptable is a good way to deal with conflicts and setting expectations. Laws have to be defined for the entire country.

If I buy a house in a nice neighborhood and I pay extra because it's a nice neighborhood - I want to know that everyone has some standard of maintenance.
From my experience, no, training is done in real interviews, as the last stage of the training.

But could be different in your case. Did you already search for interview experiences for that specific company?
I thought tiktok already had a different algo for the domestic and international version?
I'm kind of an overthinker and as a result sometimes a procrastinator. I recently took a long break from work and ended up working on "my dream software platform".

I'm still processing what I've learned from that experience but perhaps one of the important things I've learned is that even when I think things through I make similar mistakes to the ones I do when I'm stressed out. And I think that has made me more efficient because I can kind of shrug a bit at things I know are hard to get right on the first try.
As far as I can tell, this directive mainly mandates that producers offer to repair certain categories of products, for a price or for free and that independent professional repair shops/services can access tools, parts and information needed to do so.

> Producers shall ensure that >independent [professional] repairers< have access to spare parts and
repair-related information and tools (From Art. 5)

Unless I'm missing something, there is nothing here granting the right or feasibility of repairing things yourself.

If I understand the directive correctly, producers can void all of this in a EULA. I may be wrong.
> What am I missing?

Well one thing is you can walk around the house and see what it's like yourself; and you can hire a professional surveyor to catch all the things you wouldn't catch. But you can't tell what the HOA is going to be like -- how much their ideas of what goes and what doesn't go will match your own (and how strict the rules are going to be enforced). A mismatch either way (minutely enforcing tiny rules you don't care about, or refusing to enforce major rules you do care about) is likely to be the source of friction.

Actually reading through the article, it doesn't look like the guy thought the rules were stupid -- mostly he thought it would be a fun way to comply.
You made my day. It's obviously an awesome approach!

Documented here: https://notes.dsebastien.net/30+Areas/33+Permanent+notes/33....
Private Synthetic Data for Generative AI
Mobime (Raivo Authenticator) paywalls/deletes all users' 2FA/OTP data
I disagree: you can optimise for resilience. It means trading off efficiency, for sure, but it's very possible. Have 2 or 3 failover servers, redundant people, backup after every transaction. Mirror your infrastructure to a provider in another hemisphere. It's not cheap, but you can do it.

I think the author means "against efficiency" rather than "against optimisation". And then I'd totally agree.
Aside from resolution of paths to some canonical version (e.g. collapsing redundant /'s in your example), what actually is an "actual directory" other than a prefix?
Can it possibly be true that 60+% (she writes "nearly two-thirds") of women in STEM have this character as an influence? I'm only barely aware of this media property and here in Europe I feel our Media is fairly "American" still, does this show have such a global reach? I found, for instance, that the X-Files movie only had 4.2% of its revenue internationally, so I think its not such a popular property outside the US. How would even 10% of chinese female STEM workers hear of this character?

I believe she is citing the PDF she links, where only an archived version is available right now. It seems to be a US-only study, although I don't see any explanation of where participants were from.
Some reflections on the Bitcoin block size war
> considering how much more simpler ASCII was to work with compared to Unicode.

And elemental algebra is more simple than differential calculus.

ASCII being simpler just means it is not adequate to represent innate complexity that human languages have. Unicode is not complex because of "diversity politics", whatever that means. It is because languages are complex.

The same story with time zones: they are as complex as time is.
ChatGPT's free tier just got an upgrade – so stop paying for ChatGPT Plus
"About this Project

This interactive book is a product of the Runestone Interactive Project at Luther College, led by Brad Miller and David Ranum. There have been many contributors to the project"
This is what it looks like for me: https://imgur.com/2eFW3Ef

Two big clearly labeled buttons.
"This will be followed gradually in the coming months by the disabling of those extensions. Users will be directed to the Chrome Web Store, where they will be recommended Manifest V3 alternatives for their disabled extension."

Soon, more than 50 million users of uBlock Origin will have their extension deactivated and directed to "alternatives" chosen by Google. This will be the end of an era where users still had control.

gorhill, probably understandably, refuses to update uBlock Origin to comply with V3, as a result he will use the majority of the userbase. The name of his new extension, "uBlock Origin Lite", will also not help with adoption.

I wonder whether it would be a wise decision by gorhill to replace uBlock Origin with a V3-compliant version when V2 is phased out.
Do you even live in the US? If so, where exactly? Schools are one of the few places you are almost universally not allowed to bring guns.
To put it as bluntly as possible I don't give a flying fuck at a rolling donut what you or others likeminded think is nonsense here. I live on 20 wooded acres surrounded by undeveloped forest lots ranging in size from 40 to 200 acres, the closest neighbor is half a mile away, and I couldn't pick anyone that lives there out of a police lineup if my life depended on it. I chose my location precidely to avoid this creeping horseshit notion that you've got rights over the things I own.
Apache Kafka is obviously named after Kafka himself.
May I ask you what this company has to do with EU? If you could open the website you would find this information:
Company: Framework Computer Inc
Headquarters
Address: 447 Sutter St, PMB 135, San Francisco, CA, 94108-4618, United States
I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure that statistics like that only apply to newly–built housing. Older houses are far less likely to be in an HOA, because HOAs were simply not popular when they were built.
America runs on the principle of localism, which basically means that laws should be passed at a local level to deal with their own specific issues. Hence the United "States". This is compatible with some areas having stricter HOAs or laws.
If it turns out the Nasca were, in fact, cohabitating with a three-fingered and toed (but with 4 joints on each finger and toe) intelligent humanoid, but not human, species a little over 1700 years ago, I will, with every sign of joy, eat my hat.
Freedom of association is missing the point when it comes to HOAs.

There's some very significant differences between freedom to associate in a book club and freedom to associate in an HOA. If you don't like a book club, there is no scenario in which you are contractually obligated to join it and pay membership fees indefinitely. And the bookclub doesn't have broad legal authority, backed by the courts, to dictate how you maintain, use, and sell your personal property or even aspects of your lifestyle.
Court Denies Filmmakers' Renewed Attempt to Get Redditors' IP Addresses
If you're behind an overloaded geosynchronous satellite then no JS at all just moves the pain around. At least once it's loaded a JS-heavy app will respond to most mouse clicks and scrolls quickly. If there's no JS then every single click will go back to the server and reload the entire page, even if all that's needed is to open a small popup or reload a single word of text.
Anything other than Brave? I tried it for a couple of days and went back to Chrome. Brave is so bloated with random crap.
I missed this transition phase and don't know what the changes are.

Why does Google mention only ad related addons in their blog post?

Another comment here posted some previous headlines like "Manifest V3 Is Deceitful and Threatening" which give a clue to the direction I guess.

What are Google's intenions with Manifest v3?
This is why I do not use any chromium based browsers. Firefox is a solid browser with none of this interferance by a monopolistic advertising company.
There's quite a bit of difference between building codes and empowering my neighbors to bitch about the color of my mailbox...
I remember working on a KDE 4 desktop. I had like 3-4 applications with icons in the status bar. Every couple of seconds they got redrawn... i believe they recalculated the spacing between them when each icon was updated, because they simply ... moved around a few pixels on every update.

I couldn't help but notice the movement which did wonders for my concentration on work.

I already had an Apple laptop, so when I got a new desktop I built it to be a hassle free hackintosh. As much as a hackintosh could be hassle free.

In the mean time I've switched my desktops to Apple as well so now I'm complaining when Cook doesn't take his dried frog pills in time.
Steam is not an element; I don't get the joke.
Sorry, I missed this.

>> Unless i'm misunderstanding what you mean by hidden variables, it's very clear a transformer is regularly learning not just the sequences themselves but what might produce them.

That's what I mean, but I don't think that's happening regulary, or at all. I don't see where the transformer architecture allows for this. Of course we can claim that any model of a process from examples is implicitly modelling the underlying sub-processes, for example we can claim that a multivariate regression that predicts the age at death from demographic data is somehow learning to represent human behaviour, say, but that's one of those big claims that need big evidence.

On the two works you link to, I know the one on mechanistic interpretabiity. As the author says:

Epistemic status: I feel pretty confident that I have fully reverse engineered this network, and have enough different lines of evidence that I am confident in how it works.

But I don't feel that confident at all that the author's confidence should instill confidence in myself. A clear, direct proof is needed, although of course we can discuss what a proof even means and how much it is a social construct etc.

The other paper, I haven't read. I'm going to bet it's basically data leakage which is a pervasive problem with most deep learning work that suffices to invalidate many big claims about big results. I'll have to read the paper a bit more carefully.

But, again, what is in the transformer architecture that can predict hidden variables?
It depends how comfortable you are with mathematics. Statistics by David Freedman is a great starting point and does an excellent job of developing intuition without delving deep into the mathematical aspects. Although it may leave you wanting more details on the math side. Another great book for beginners is Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data by Agresti and Franklin.

In any case, I would recommend skimming a lot of books and finding one that contains enough practice questions (with solutions) and is suitable for your level.
s3 is not optimized to directly serve websites, but to durably store and retrieve ~unlimited data.