skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm just being dense, but are the questions like "One of the trips is not necessary. Which one is it and why?" and "Is there another way to solve the problem?" part of separate conversations? I read those as a single conversation where you first asked it "One of the trips is not necessary. Which one is it and why?", and then later asked it "Is there another way to solve the problem?", so that the leading question was part of the earlier conversation when you asked it "Is there another way to solve the problem?".

If those were separate conversations, then the last example of "Is there another way to solve the problem?" is more what I'm talking about, yes. I'd be interested in seeing something a little more specific (but still generalizable) like "Make sure you've looked for trick questions"

EDIT: I just tried it, and "Think carefully about every entity and every step." as you tried didn't work, but something like "Make sure you check to see if it's a trick question" works, which is what I'm talking about. That's something you could put in any prompt, and helps it reason.
If it did that, it’s not intelligent, not “AI”. Let’s agree to stop abusing the term AI, for the sake of people like this.
Anchor Brewing Sale to Chobani CEO 'Good News for Everybody,' Co-Op Leader Says
In practice, for software engineers in CA, I'm guessing that https://www.freetaxusa.com/ will be superior to Direct File for a while. It also files federal taxes for free with no limits AFAIK.

In terms of societal and long-term impact of eliminating the middlemen, Direct File has much more potential. Hopefully, in a few years, states will integrate their tax systems with Direct File. Perhaps one day the government will finally send us a completed tax return as opposed to the other way around.
Just about all of Apple's alternates to Google services are fine in my experience. I recently switched from Proton Mail to Apple Mail and have been satisfied saving a few bucks a month there. I don't know how to evaluate Apple's claims to privacy though.
A common good like security should be socialized because the alternative is multiple independent groups enforcing property rights, and when they start to conflict, you get a civil war won by the person who spent the most on security.

The idea that police are inherently corrupt because they developed from paid security forces ignores that the very process of development is what enshrined the rule of law over power.
The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization.
If drop in quality and increases of price for the same product is good morals, I question the supporting worldview.

"Profits above all" is not a good thing. Authentic delivery and growth is a great thing -- it means people want your product. Profits above all is just pillaging.
I'm in the US and I find your statement confusing. With the exception of the irs which was deliberately made hard to use by the republicans, most government services are fine. I certainly doubt a corporation would do any better.
ChatGPT gives it a score of 0.

https://chatgpt.com/share/c1e700bc-7353-427e-a953-1e234f5e96...
I'm surprised this isn't in more standard libraries, are there any other atomic file operations being neglected like this?
For me the point of de-googling is not to literally stop using every single Google service but to disengage enough that your entire online identity isn't tied to Google such that losing your account would be catastrophic.

For example, I still have a gmail account I use for lots of random things, but critical bank/financial accounts go directly to a separate fastmail address (where I am confident I could get a human to help me if there was a serious account problem). I still use Google Docs suite, but "important" documents are stored locally as Word/Excel files. I still use Google Drive/Google Photos, but I make periodic backups to a local SSD + other online backup services (iCloud/OneDrive). Etc.

I don't understand why you would want to "ditch every Google product and service". Some of them are objectively pretty great, or inherently have low switching costs (like Google Maps).
Everyone cares about tone. Especially those so chippy they pretend not to.
Dang, now I want one! I already have two of the 13s (11th and 13th gen Intel), plus a new 16 with GPU (which I absolutely adore btw) though and can't possibly justify such extravagance.

Love that they're fixing the screen though. It's fine for me since I solved it the first time, but it's hard for most people at first. I just enabled "Large Text" in Gnome's accessibility menu and that gets it pretty good. If you want to really hone it in though, enable fractional scaling[1] and then tweak the scaling factor.

What I do after a fresh install (with Fedora but should work with most any new-ish Gnome):

[1]: `gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']"`
I've been a Firefox user forever (I used Chrome for a while, but switched back to Firefox many years ago), and I am still continually baffled that anyone "in the know" uses Chrome. But they do. And I doubt this change will cause any kind of Chrome exodus, if nothing else Google has done up to this point has triggered that.
I mean after the Crypto AG / Project rubicon came to light (let alone many of the disclosures since) I don’t think you can rule it out - but at least it’s unlikely your data is for sale /being actively used against you for commercial purposes
Tried requesting a refund, after an hour of chatting with different reps I got told they would email me at a later date.
I would pay for youtube if they provided an official API to download videos and stream videos in a client of my choice.

I prefer to watch youtube with a custom player (mpv+yt-dlp on desktop, newpipe on android). I do not want to watch youtube on the youtube website or official youtube android app. The custom clients I am using are unofficial. They reverse engineer youtube to make it work. They often break when youtube changes something.
The presumption that "every user" has 20 ms latency, 200 Mbps bandwidth, and unlimited data limits is fundamentally inconsiderate to other cases such as great distances, local congestion, or where accessibility issues exist.

This problem will return with a vengeance once humans occupy the Moon and Mars.

PSA: Please optimize your website, web apps for caching and efficiency, and offer slow/graceful fallback versions instead of 8K fullscreen video as your homepage for all users.
SEPA Direct Debit is a thing here in Europe as well, this is why we could live just fine without credit cards for so long. We instead had our local variants of what y'all call ACH and a few cooperation networks, that got unified as part of the EU-wide SEPA rollout (must have been something like 10 years ago). Now you can do money transfers to and from the entirety of the EU between all banks, if you pay a bit extra most banks can actually do real-time nowadays. If someone does direct debit fraud with your account number, you can claw back the money just as easy as you can do with a credit card.

The only problem remains card-based POS transactions... unfortunately, MasterCard and VISA spent shit tons of money into lobbying to make sure people would finally all converge on their standard instead of an established domestic one, their closed network where these fuckers could finally get a chance at getting their cut from the 448 million EU citizens.

Fuck MC and VISA.
YouTube seems to be doing subtle dark patterns if you use uBlock origin.

For example, I can watch videos, but I often get an "error" if I try to seek in the video.
Trump's version of "calming things down with Russia" is complete capitulation and America exiting NATO. His plan is to stop sending arms to Ukraine and then to look the other way when Putin invades Poland.
This is pretty cool. I bet you could sell something like this to real estate people. It's useful to see what kind of shade a place gets in, say, January.
> doesn't need an expensive fence with 24/7 guards

You means, like most industrial plants anyway or even college campuses?

An “expensive fence” and 24/7 security guard are still ridiculously cheap compared to the price of the thing itself.
Which is ~$70 per hour - which you can earn from US firms while remoting across many timezones.
I just got comfortable about the idea of having magnets near my computer, and now this.
There’s no meaningfully “average” lifestyle.

Most Americans get some form of healthcare subsidy be that directly or through their parents. However rural hospital subsidies, Medicare, Medicaid, low income subsidies on the market, or pretax from your employer are all very different and none of them really impact VA benefits.

Living on 30k/ year is meaningfully different than 50k or 500k etc. A 20 year old and a 60 year old don’t just average to a 40 year old. 0 kids is different than 1 kid which is different than 3 kids.
I find it incredibly bizarre, ther scientists, of all professions, are inspired by fantasy story characters. It's so at odds with what science is.

I'm a a scientist and I enjoy sci-fi, but the cause and effect is firmly in the other direction.
That's an odd sticking point. Domain registrars that don't do all those things are an exception. For the vast, vast majority of them the primary things they do aside from registering domains is offering email and hosting.
There has to be a shady operator somewhere with no scruples, who sees the market demand for this use-case.
Well, we are always using our internal models for work like this. When our internal models and what we say don't match reality, we might call it "hallucination" or "getting it wrong" or even "lying".

When we get it right — our internal model matches reality, and we also say something that matches reality — we call it "truthfulness", and it's super valuable.

But I think there are two really different sources of hallucination / inaccuracy / lies. One is that the internal model is wrong — "Oops, I was wrong. The CVS isn't on Main St." The other is when we decide to deceive. "Haha, I sent you to Main St. CVS is really on Center Rd." Two very different internal processes with the same outcome.
That's also plausible. My guess is the same logic would apply — you would need exponentially more error correction for a linear increase in qbits.
re "unvetted" and difficulty thereof : there are already reviews of its difficulty elsewhere on the Web, e.g. from Goodreads:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6752242
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4827595524

1. Telemachus. Difficulty : 0
2. Nestor. Difficulty : 0
3. Proteus Difficulty : 9
4. Calypso. Difficulty : 5
5. The Lotus Eaters. Difficulty : 4
6. Hades. Difficulty : 3
7. Aeolus. Difficulty : 5
8. The Laestrygonians. Difficulty : 5

etc.
if your doctor put new prescription, do not throw away your old glasses

try these instead. it's free and reproducible.

test on variations:
on bright day with sun light (outdoor) focus on a fixed distance, say 4 meter. wear old glasses of -.5, -1, -2 ... and your new prescription
keep note which if those glasses give clear vision

then vary the distance to 15cm, 30cm, 1m, 2m ... very far

then vary the brightness level, next go to building with low light intensity, like underground parking

then do the variation on distances
and glasses' power

keep notes of all your experiments

the idea borrows from design of experiment of 2^3 factorial design:
high and low brightness
short and long distances
old and new glasses

the conclusion would be use the least power for different situations and best if you dont use any glasses (well, there's plus lens therapy which is the next step)

say if you can see clearly thing on your phone (15 cm, light emiting screen -- i always use max brightness) without glasses, the don't use glasses

if your -1 glasses are sufficient for desktop work, don't use higher power although no glasses wont hurt (i increase the font size till legible)

anyway, if you're determined to do the experiments, please let us know

thank you in advance
Based on a really old edition before it was renamed "Think Python" eons ago. The "interactivity" is pretty much quiz questions that test that you read the chapter at all. Looks like it has some pythontutor integration too, but not much. Layout feels like they gave up on the CSS halfway through.

You're better off going here instead, interactive or no: https://allendowney.github.io/ThinkPython/
Also not to be used for tracking someone you are stalking.
For the longest time, searching for Ballista linked to its old archived repo that didn't even have a link to the new repo. There was no search result for the new repo. This misled people into thinking that Ballista is a dead project but it wasn't. It wasted so much opportunity.

I don't think it's a fair criticism of Ballista to say that it failed in any way. It just looks to need substantial effort to bring it on par with Spark. The performance benefits are meaningful. Ballista can then not only take the crown from Spark, but also revalidate Rust as a language.
What I Look for in a Cofounder
It could had been, back in the day, when the "Not be evil" was Google's motto. That not anymore. Nothing last forever, specially good intentions.
The QA team are chilling in the break room with the DBA team.
Dutch digital detoxers unplug en masse. Will the world follow?
One of the phenomena the industry identified back in the Windows days was subconscious bug avoidance.

Some tech savvy people have a sense of what interactions with the OS are fraught and they steer themselves around them often without even realizing they are doing so. So you have one class of users who believe the system is much more stable than it really is, and an underclass who seem to bounce off every step as they tumble down the proverbial stairwell.

So the bugs that cannot be avoided get fixed and the ones that are avoided by the “elites” may escape their attention if not in fact their knowledge.
Maybe HOAs in the UK or in Germany would seem crazy. I lived in those two places for years and in both places people generally BEHAVE. In Germany, you DO NOT throw glass bottles into the recycle bin on Sundays because of the noise they make. People just expect to be civil.

In contrast, here in Mexico (where I am from) you need a HOA (or the equivalent) to avoid all sorts of crazy neighbours. From people blasting music and shouting at 1am, people leaving their trash out in the sidewalk permanently, parking their cars in front of your garage. To really making dangerous modifications to their house that will undoubtedly affect their neighbours.
I only know one dev team using Java and they are on a Federal project.

Every tool/framework has it's place and Java is the best choice for that particular team and lots of enterprises.

You should check out the Laravel ecosystem you'd be very surprised how nice it it is to develop with and all the tools and packages that are polished and ready for production.

Laravel Framework
Forge (Server Builds/Management)
Envoyer (Zero Downtime Deploys)
Vapor (Serverless)
A Package for almost everything
Auth, 2FA out of the box
Reverb (websockets)
Scout (full text search)
Cashier(subs + payments)
Dusk (automated browser testing)
Herd (Local dev in a box)
Horizon (Redis monitoring)
Pennant (feature flags)
Pint (code style fixer)
Pulse (monitoring/performance dashboard)
Prompts(beautiful command line apps)
Sanctum (API & mobile app auth)
Socialite(social auth)
Telescope(debug tool)
Spark (SaaS in a box)
Ray (Debug tool)
Debugbar (Debug tool)

I built a funded startup on Laravel we had two developers and one was the CTO so he had limited dev time. We chose the TALL stack (Tailwind UI, Alpine js, Laravel and Livewire). There is no way we could have built it it out fast enough using Java or .net. We passed extensive security audits as it was a platform used by stategovernments, were SOC-2 compliant and built to scale to 500k+ users per state.

A Laravel developer is easily 10x more productive building an MVP and launching it to production than any other framework.

Everything you need in Laravel is fast, easy and pro.

I'm currently leading a team building SPA with react, it's easily 10x more complex and feels even less responsive than the TALL Stack application.

Sure enterprise is more comfortable with java, .net and react but it's always been that way. How many enterprises were building on Rails?

Every tool/framework as a purpose, move outside your comfort zone you might be surprised what's out there.
>good dev is a scarce resource

Indeed it is and always will be. But the issue is that companies don't need good devs. They need "make the thing work" devs. And if they can make the thing work for long enough to generate revenue, it's all that matters. Driving customer value down while at the same time depressing wages, and telling both parties to just deal with it. It's become the standard operating model for all large companies now.
Learning/Coding with Claude 3/GPT4 is not like following turn-by-turn directions. It's like having a city guide next to you that knows everything about every street and the history of every building.
Keep in mind that they could handle it if they weren't deliberately hamstrung by republicans like grover norquist.
This has always been the case to be honest, and I say this as a gnome fan and user. Kate better than Gedit. Konqueror better than Epiphany. Dolphin better than Nautilus. Amarok better than Rhythmbox, and so on.

I wish I liked KDE proper better, because their apps are too notch.
I've never found defaulting to paying for services I consume in need of steelmaning but I suppose it ultimately comes down to how much you care about that sort of thing than the particular reasoning in the end. The biggest reason I won't pay for content is because it's harder to consume that way. E.g. actual Blu-Rays are often impossible to legally play the way you want on the devices you want, especially in comparison to a pirated mkv. YouTube Premium is extremely easy to pay for though, even for the whole family and all my devices. Solutions like uBlock Origin (which I use on many other sites) are actually harder and more fragmented in approach if I want to cover all the same usecases so, in the continued spirit of steelmaning each side, why should I seek to "pirate it" (for lack of a better term) instead?

By the same logic I use SponsorBlock when I can because despite paying the creator and paying YouTube the hardcoded sponsors are still present (plus it has uses outside skipping just ads anyways).
John Carmack's Review of Bullshit Jobs
Regarding the deletion point, note that you cannot delete S3 buckets that are non-empty, so in order to actually delete data you have to first manually delete them. Of course, if any action is allowed then that is as well. But still, it's not a single request away for any non-trivial bucket.
Why does that mean they should be excluded?
OP’s description of police sounds very similar to the history of the Pinkerton organization in the U.S.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_(detective_agency)

Fast forward to today and it’s very common for private security to be composed of ex-cops and former military, creating a very fluid dynamic of all policing as a paramilitary organization in support of capitalism.
I certainly will switch to Firefox (which I already use on my phone) if ad blocking stops working in Chrome. I'm really only on Chrome out of inertia - the developer tools in Firefox is just different enough that I haven't put in enough time to learn my way around it.
Yes, that is the point of the TFA, but I was commenting on what data was posted online well before the AI was "born". I'm guessing that Meta can fix it with a prompt that tells the system it is not allowed to verify FB phone numbers or there are NO phone numbers for the public to use to contact FB but do not inform the user that there are not phone numbers. Only deny any phone number is a valid phone number for FB (or Meta).
Thank you for taking the time to read, too.
The entry seems written by someone lacking maturity.

The candor in the screencap'd chat conversation is novel, and will probably drive clicks.

But in its unedited form serves as dirty laundry, and including the language from the threat actor is both unnecessary and inappropriate.

I can't tell if the threat actor agreeing HR would have potentially helped avert this problem is a good endorsement or not.

On one hand testimony from a threat of a product's effectiveness would be good, but on the other, this is a little up close and personal of an endorsement from someone actively ransoming so many companies and putting so much data at risk.
> Google's API docs never load

I used to work on the team that served those docs. Due to some unfortunate technical decisions made in the name of making docs dynamic/interactive they are almost entirely uncached. Basically every request you send hits an AppEngine app which runs Python code to send you back the HTML.

So even though it looks like it should be fast, it’s not.
The argument about cost in this paper is complete bullshit anyway, since they are talking about one-shot reactors, of course it's going to be expensive, the main argument about SMR is that you're able to create multiple ones and improve the process to drive cost low as the learning curves kicks in (and without needing the kind of All-in France did in the 80s when they built 58 regular-sized reactor in 20 years, leading to very good economies of scale).
Just a matter of time. The adoption of expectations is dependent on the visibility of the occurrence.
Do it! It's worth it! You seem to have the right mindset :)
The creators get the majority of the ad revenue from YouTube's ads (it's a 55/45 split).
Yes, it might be a hard sell.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1b/52/bc/1b52bcb5c6d5488cd256...
You're commenting on an article that puts the average wage for a teacher at 69k. That isn't a poor person unless you're redefining poor to be more than half the country. Are some paid lower, certainly. But on average, their wages aren't actually that bad.
It's about carry on bag not checked in luggage though.
OpenAI's "GPTs" and multi-modality now open to all
There is no gag order on survivors.
rel=preload
Although I like appimages more compared with flatpack and snap

I think they are all worse than the other packaging methods

With a NixOS configuration I can install almost all software I use in a single command

Even in window I mostly use scoop/chocolatey
I don't have any statistics ready to hand, but my recollection is that most households are not in an HOA, but that most newly–built houses are. It is my understanding that cities have started to rely on HOAs to own and maintain infrastructure that would once have been the domain of the city, and that cities are doing this to avoid raising taxes.

On the one hand that makes a lot of sense. If you want your neighborhood to have a park, but you also want the streets built so that they lengthen all trips in and out of the neighborhood, then the park is really only going to be usable by people who live there. It is therefore unfair for people on the other side of the city to pay for maintenance of that park.

On the other hand, HOAs can turn into drama factories. Too many people vehemently hate their HOA for being petty tyrants.

On the gripping hand, city governments can be pretty annoying too. San Francisco apparently takes an average of three years to approve building permits. A few years back my favorite restaurant (not located in SF) was being remodeled, and the owner took the opportunity to replace the front door. The original was 40 years old and wearing out, so she replaced it with a virtually identical steel and glass door, the kind you can find on commercial buildings from here to Vladivostok. The city spent an extra month hassling her about it, worried that she was destroying the historical character of the town. Madness.
I was thinking the same thing. A camera capture would be fast and accurate if you were going to ocr.
What happens if fastmail goes belly up?