skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good heuristic for whether a popular idea is worth paying attention to is whether you know more about the idea and why one might think it's true than you do about the person or people who are pushing it. If you know more about the people than the idea, there's a good chance that it's all marketing.

Atheism, I know what that is and why one might subscribe to it. "New Atheism"? The main thing I know about that is the names of the "Four Horsemen". I've read way too many articles in high-minded glossy magazines about it, that were mostly presented as profiles of people. I still have no idea how it's supposed to be different from atheism in substantive content.
Congrats! Bootstrapping a HW business to good profitability and acquisition is a remarkable achievement, particularly outside of China.
Certainly:

> False alarms triggered by the marijuana smoke might disrupt their calm

>removing batteries and being in a perpetual cloudy-headed state could lead to batteries not getting back in.

> if they're smoking from bed, they'll probably need more protection than most people, for detecting smoldering bed sheets

These are all very condescending points. They assume that a Cannabis smoker requires a certain level of calm and cant handle anything more, that they are unable to do something as simple as changing batteries, and that they are likely to burn themselves alive in bed. I am assuming you are insinuating that cannabis makes people 'stupid', and if I am wrong this is what your point comes across as.

Perhaps next time you might not immediately make such negative statements against a large group of people, even in a sarcastic or jokey way. This is also assuming your last post was serious and you are genuinely interested in how you are putting people down unnecessarily.
Plus it doesn't help that the only way regular end users are able to interact with them is through a chat interface that abstracts away the information being used to prompt a response.
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It's probably because the actual payment/donation is not directly connected to the podcast production, but rather you perform the work elsewhere, and then ask people to go tip you. Other than in your head(s), there's no actual connections between the work and the payment.

You can't reasonably expect Stripe to just take your word for it, at the scale that they operate.
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It was hard to get your blog discovered 15 years ago, too. Recall "blogrolls", where blogs would link to other blogs — networking to securing such links would be the analogue to making yourself visible on social media today.

I wonder — in absolute terms, is the number of people you can reach smaller today? It's surely proportionally smaller because the internet is much bigger.
> This reminds me of the Computer Literacy Bookshops […]

Toronto used to have Toronto Computer Books up until the mid-2000s (on Yonge, a few blocks up the street from the WBB of this article):

* https://www.profilecanada.com/companydetail.cfm?company=2524...

Bought a bunch of Perl stuff as well as the Sendmail 'bat book' there, back in the day.
Humans are born the same, blank slate but raised differently.
Any samples not behind a reg wall?
I wonder if it's time for democracies to constitutionally enshrine encryption into our systems of due process (or whatever the correct legal term is).

It would seem to align well with the concept of checks and balances, at least.
> CEOs dont do work

It takes a very convoluted definition of "work" to be able to say that CEOs aren't doing any work.

Being a CEO (a real one of a real company of more than a few people that has real customers) is a huge amount of work.
"AI" had no issue pirating books (books3 and all that).

If your blog is readable by and interesting to humans, it will be exploitable by leeches.
Thanks for the feedback.

> But I would suggest that you get them there by the shortest reasoning that you can. With minimal detours.

Yeah, well, that's the challenge, isn't it. The target audience is so far away from QM that it's hard to fathom. These are people who believe (or at least seriously consider the possibility) that Jesus rose from the dead, the earth is 6000 years old, demons are literally real...

> Now you're telling them what to believe.

Am I? That is actually something I was trying very hard to avoid. Can you point out where I'm doing that?
Don't forget the fee payment processing fee.
Furthermore, Canada doesn't have a (real) constitution since the TP they have since 1982 has a "not withstanding" clause, meaning parliament can just ignore their equivalent of the Bill of Rights
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Everything an NFL Photographer Does on Game Day – LA Chargers [video]
Sure, they pay $2 for a "digital sticker" or something.

> bank connected to this account has zero issues with what I do

Stripe is an intermediary and I would guess this has to do with anti-laundering rules. Your bank doesn't need to engage in this because they have access to everything you do with your money and has more ways to catch/stop you.
If we define 'healthy market' as one in which there are abundant buyers and sellers, and in which prices on the lower end are consistently within the middle class's grasp, is inequality still bad in and of itself?
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> All he said was that the smoke alarm going off while you’re high might be disturbing to that person

No he didnt, he made fun of people who smoke cannabis for being stupid and more likely to kill themselves in an idiotic way. I would have happily engaged in an intelligent comment talking about the dangers of smoking in bed, or even statistics about how smokers are moere likely to die aslepp in fires, but his comment was definitely not these things.

>All he did is speculate and he’s not that far off from reality!

This comment just shows you have the same condesceding viewpoint, which explains why you are agreeing with him. He is in fact very very far from reality, and if you had an open mind and explored this with other people with different viewpoints from yourself you would realise that pretty quickly.
Tried to blog before, but never got into it until last year.

https://blog.sapico.me/

Ofc I blogged about the setup ;) https://blog.sapico.me/posts/setting-up-a-blog-on-cloudflare...

It's Hugo on Cloudflare pages fyi. Auto deployed after committing.
It made the front page of Reddit when Fup the cat died at the age of 19. In those days, Reddit was for Hackernews types and not... what it is now.
Supermaven, but you don’t get model choice.
>AI cannot bear responsibility, so who is going to take a blame if AI does a very bad job?

Didn't seem to be a question any AI proponent asked when they said that AI can do the job of a lawyer. Not that I disagree with you.
Thanks for replying but I think you might be confused a little. There's no comparing a FAANG engineer with a CEO. The former won't be able to live comfortably for the rest of their lives with an engineer's severance package. The latter absolutely can.
Is open source dying? Some think so
They're absolutely right! Open source feels like it's hitting a turning point, BUT I do not believe it is a dead end. It's like that awkward teenage growth spurt – things are shifting, and it can be a little messy.
Here's the thing: open source has been amazing for innovation and collaboration. But as it matures, the landscape is bound to change. We might see some big companies pulling back on pure open source models, which can be frustrating.
But hey, that doesn't mean it's all doom and gloom! This could be a chance for the core open source community to really shine. We can focus on building sustainable projects with strong communities, and maybe even develop new ways to support open source developers.
Think of it this way: open source is like a plant. It needs the right environment to flourish. Maybe the current setup requires some tweaking to keep things healthy. It's an exciting time to be involved, a chance to shape the future of open source!
I stopped blogging on my own website and completely moved to medium, result? comments + reactions > 0
https://www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com
At this point I assume this is a troll comment, as nobody could hold views THAT extreme and be THAT snidey in real life (I assume/hope :O )
I wince at the implications of this question.

I often accuse landlords of being financial vampires, sucking as much money from their tenants as they can. This is just more evidence of it.
See my updated comment above. I just tested a bunch of phones, and all of the cameras front and back could see the IR light.

I acknowledge that I may be the only person in the world that is this interested in this fact.
I show this video to anyone who makes the mistake of giving me their time. Such a great buildup.

Extempore is a joy to work with. Haven't touched it in two years, but I hear the call.
You don't need to empathize. You simply need to respect privacy. People have lost privacy, and that's an issue to address directly rather than take privacy away from others.
In standard usage, "the average member of the group" simply refers to the hypothetical member whose relevant attributes are those of the group's average.
Is open source dying? Some might think so
They're absolutely right! Open source feels like it's hitting a turning point, BUT I do not believe it is a dead end. It's like that awkward teenage growth spurt – things are shifting, and it can be a little messy.
i think the point is that it's one of those words misused so widely that dictionaries updated the definition to include the incorrect use.

dampen means to make something wet, or at least originally that's what it meant
How do you imagine somebody like Taylor Swift or Elon Musk could actually travel?

I, for one, would not want to be anywhere near any airport or train station that they were at. The insane security required, crowds of psycho fans and overall disruption to everybody else would cause massive headaches.

Cars and ships work I guess, but they're extremely slow, not that much more efficient on a per-mile basis, and organizing the security for somebody like that would still be a logistical nightmare.
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TechEmpower: Most best-performing frameworks do not handle db connection issues
I think you’re safe assuming a disruptive player will eventually discover why what they disrupted was such a pain in the ass in the first place
We already feed them plastic trash - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp0NSIrbu3Y
Computational Fabrication and Assembly for in Situ Manufacturing
You're right in that the developer ought to have control over the kind of index that gets created.

Having an ability to lint a DB and check for missing indexes would be useful, that could even be useful in a vanilla Postgres (however you want to provide it). Perhaps auto-creating them is a step too far.

Note that your statement: "you just don't know what you are doing" comes off as unnecessarily arrogant and off-putting.
> I'm jealous of the simplicity of web development described at the beginning of the post.

All the simple old stuff still works. I recently set up a blog [1] that is just:

* Each post is a plain HTML file, served as-is.

* I make new posts by copying a template HTML file which has a small amount of basic structure and includes an external CSS file.

* When I write a new post, I run a script that scans the HTML files and makes an index.

If at some point I want something fancier I can extend it, which I've done over the years for my main blog, but for now it does what I need it to do.

[1] https://data.securebio.org/jefftk-notebook/
> 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.

Do you have good working habits? E.g. clean separation for working/non-working hours?

Do you have friends on Discord that you can engage with in activities post-work?

> 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.

It really is though. There shouldn't be much difference if at all between working 8 hours in a home office vs regular office + wasting 1-2 hours on commute. Commute helps some people separate work/leisure, but it shouldn't be a necessity or "drive you up a wall" like you said.
It seems theres multiple things by the name ARC. There is one by AI2 which is a text based science questions/word problems. The one Im referring to is this https://lab42.global/arc/

https://lab42.global/arcathon/leaderboard/

https://openreview.net/forum?id=E8m8oySvPJ

As to the study, I have the same objection as the radiology one. This isnt about object recognition and certainly not spatial reasoning, its the ability to predict cancer based on presence of visual features.

The "object recognition" part of this is super simple. Its a single, mostly 2D object in more or less the same angle, and the AI is trained on detecting just this.
Perhaps the coolest part of this update is a new 2.8k 120hz screen.

This will be the first time I've upgraded a screen (myself) on my main laptop, although it ships in August.

I wonder if 120hz will drain the battery a lot faster as OEMs claim they do on smartphones, or if there's VRR support.
23 years so far, using my own blogging engine [1]. It's nice to see others have been doing this for over 20 years.

[1] https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog
That was my first thought seeing the headline, but they are really clever. My first thought looking through the examples was that I wouldn't mind a progress bar that uses the swarm effect.

https://chrisbuilds.github.io/terminaltexteffects/img/effect...
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Just this morning, a colleague of mine in Toronto forwarded me a link to a very recent video showing the current state of Yonge in that area:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0onFRIQrGQ

That video starts just slightly north of where this bookstore and the stores you mentioned were, and goes up past Bloor.

It is sad to see how sterile, and how deserted (in terms of people and businesses), that area has since become, especially as somebody who had experienced it decades ago.
The top floor also has a rare books room that is a joy to browse. Last time I went there was only two items they wouldn't let me take out and peruse: the Lewis and Clark journals worth half a million that they kept off site and a 600 year old Italian manuscript.
BYD made the world's first plug-in hybrid in 2008, so they've been at this a while too.
Don’t think I’ve ever encountered this on either AX200 or AX210 cards.
False. Clean slate is fallacious.
So many big tech companies are like this - suspending users for violating some term of a contract, but without saying what. Ostensibly this is hurt scammers but for more of the burden seems to fall on legitimate to users to the point that the companies themselves appear to be scamming their own userbase. It's long past time that regulators forced public-facing businesses to provide candor and allow for remedy when alleging contract violations. My whole adult life I've been hearing of or occasionally encountering companies using 'computer says no' as a way of ducking personal and professional responsibility toward customers.

Edit: A lot of people responding are missing OP's point. It's not that Stripe has made a decision about what kind of business they want to deal with (wholly legitimate), it's that they won't tell OP what part of their agreement Stripe considers to have been violated.

Mindlessly repeating that 'Stripe has the choice of with whom they do business' (which OP has never disputed) is just reflex behavior at best and shilling at worst. Either address the actual question raised by OP or don't comment.
The aurora really surprised me that way: I had only seen pictures before, and never guessed so little of it would be visible in real life. The effect is definitely better seen through a camera!
Rex Computing
> Could you provide a few examples of CEOs bearing responsibility in practice?

Two of the companies I've worked for have had their CEOs fired/replaced for poor performance.

One of them was also mismanaging finances and spending for his own gain. It became common knowledge in the local investor community. He was never able to return to being a CEO again, except for some unknown company in Europe where he was briefly a remote CEO.

If you want more public examples: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elizabeth Holmes, etc. are literally in jail. Many public companies also ditch their CEOs publicly, and most don't recover to the same career level. You just don't hear about those stories much because they don't generate rage-clicks the same way another dozen articles about Jeff Bezos or Sam Altman will.
Obviously people should be made aware that RISC-V is just a specification, and people all around the world already have it including China. Next up is the fact that the US seems to want to keep China behind on capability, so the existing bans on sending advanced lithography equipment to China already prevent them from making the most advanced processors - RISC-V or otherwise. That just leaves the possibility of China importing advanced processors from outside the country. For that it might be sensible to ban RISC-V physical hardware above some capability level from being sent there - just like AMD and nVidia aren't allowed to sell their best GPUs to China. That's really the only option that would hinder them in any way. Do we already have a GFLOPS limit on what can be sold to the Chinese? If so, the whole discussion is redundant.
Slides from a talk in 2022: https://indico.dns-oarc.net/event/44/contributions/949/attac...
Yeah, the problem is hard. But it is the hardest problem and cannot be solved quickly. But through constant and deliberate exposure to the right kinds of BS, we can inoculate and strengthen those that might succumb to its effects.

Frankfurt, Harry. "On Bullshit" (1986) A Reading by AristotleWalks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH-xzi6xBgs

All the books from https://almossawi.com/

An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments
https://bookofbadarguments.com/?view=flipbook

An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language
https://bookofbadarguments.com/loaded-language/

https://www.amazon.com/Books-Ali-Almossawi/s?rh=n%3A283155%2...
I've witnessed companies react with delight at the results after spending millions on consultants when all the consultants did was a few hours of explain query and create index.

Not my problem when I see it, way to go consultants charging millions, but it's amazing how poorly big companies are run that this seriously happens.

You use a database? You have someone who knows how to add indexes right? Right?!
> Google knows how long people stay on pages and whether they click and back out immediately.

What if I <ctrl><click> to keep the search page open and open the "found" page in another tab?
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/constraint-foreign-k...

Documentation for 5.7 says it does create indexes for FKs automatically if one isn't created.

> MySQL requires that foreign key columns be indexed; if you create a table with a foreign key constraint but no index on a given column, an index is created.
> Wouldn't have thought that I, the dude who almost dropped out of HS because of his bad English, would work as a writer one day.

Well done mate! Love hearing underdog success stories. What was your secret to success in effective communication?
Indeed, that was not a criticism.
Tons of people use teams/zoom/other to make calls on their PCs. Also emails and chats..
Relationship with your car radio will evolve in the future
Why would you make a definitive statement about a product without doing the research to make sure you know what you're talking about?
planes pose significantly more public safety risk, and therefore higher levels of accountability in their operation are appropriate. I can't accidentally blow up a building with my toyota camry, but a pilot with poor training or decision making can do it with a large enough private jet. if a pilot is piloting inappropriately, we need the tools to quickly figure out which aircraft it is and report it.
Yes, but consider the marketing, uh… I mean, messaging coming from the NoSQL and DBaaS (CosmosDb, DynamoDb, etc) and Firebase crowd: “databases are hard, let us manage it all for you” - and they’ve got a point: it’s 2024 now, we arguably shouldn’t need to handle those kinds of non-functional requirements by ourselves: a DB engine should be able to automatically infer the necessary indexes from the schema design, and automatically rebuild them asynchronously - if Google can search the web in under a second, then your RDBMS should have no problem querying your data in a fraction of the time.

…which I imagine is the impression made to a lot of (even most?) people who got started writing software-that-uses-a-database within the past decade. If you’re using NodeJS then using a KV-store library feels far more natural than writing SQL in a string. At least the kids are using parameters now, so it’s not like how every PHP+MySQL site was vulnerable to injection attacks…

(I know that recently RDBMS now do implement automatic indexes based on runtime query-profiling, which is great, but it isn’t pre-emptive, and often gets it wrong too)

———-

Also, who calls themselves a “DBA” anymore? That word makes me think of a pipe-and-suspenders type, still employed well-past retirement age because they’re the only ones who knows how to keep the company’s Big Iron (…or AS/400) database from keeling over. Thesedays it’s all “Ops” - “DevOps”, “SysOps”, …”DatabaseOps”?
Google needs a step function change in capability for it to be at the lead of the pack. It's often not in the conversation for innovative tech in the space right now. I consider that to be an also-ran.
Keras 3 for R
OpenAI signs 100K PwC workers to ChatGPT's enterprise tier as PwC becomes its fi
Tom's great. Ask Tom taught me LOADS about Oracle back in the day, and I still have the book you reference.
Mistral releases Codestral, its first generative AI model for code
NCTUE was new to me... I love that they're apparently gathering all this data to sell, but if you don't want your data to be sold, you have to snail mail them or call them...
Do you remember IE exodus to Firefox pre-2010? Yeah Google better watch its hyperback.
> we had (and still have today) all the technology required to build genuinely secure systems.

True, but if we actually did that, it would make those systems very unpleasant to use. The age-old tradeoff of security vs convenience is still as much a force today as is always has been.

Having technically the tightest possible security is not always the right answer. The right answer is whatever balance people are willing to work with for a particular use case. There's a reason that most people don't secure their houses by removing all windows and installing vault doors.
I was really hoping for some kind of sources/statistics, rather than some subjective moralizing of what makes a good partner.

> I may be misunderstanding what you're saying here, but relationships should be way deeper than just being kind to each other.

Yes, but being kind is the cornerstone of a good relationship. In my observed experience, most relationships don't even have that, so it's a good ideal to strive towards (as a first step)

> Disagreements are only as bad as the way they're handled.

No. If there are fundamental disagreements on relationship goals, then your relationship is a ticking time bomb. You can't "handle" your way out of that.
Should be unshadowed for posterity
Would be ironic if someone else bought it and sold it to Ticketmaster at a significant markup
Kudos to you.