skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Two Generals Problem is mentioned a lot in databases and networking, and you can take some liberties to extend it to human orgs.

In fact, the name probably already gives some hint as to what sorts of human orgs this sort of principle would be applicable in.

And, well, the vast majority of orgs require some sort of coordination.
How is the battery performance?
Having a lot of experience commuting on underground public transport (intermittent, congested), and living/working in Australia (remote), I can safely say that most services are terrible for people without "ideal" network conditions.

On the London Underground it's particularly noticeable that most apps are terrible at handling network that comes and goes every ~2 minutes (between stops), and which takes ~15s to connect to each AP as a train with 500 people on it all try to connect at the same time.

In Australia you're just 200ms from everything most of the time. That might not seem like much, but it really highlights which apps trip up on the N+1 request problem.

The only app that I am always impressed with is WhatsApp. It's always the first app to start working after a reconnect, the last to get any traffic through before a disconnect, and even with the latency, calls feel pretty fast.
hello,

imho. (!)

* if you have a lot of "uniform" pages - read something like A4 -, get yourself a scanner with an automatic sheet-feeder

or throw some rainy-weekend afternoons on it & scan your notes with some decent SOHO scanner

* don't get too excessive with resolution, 400+ pixels/inch are enough for OCR ...

i always scan with 1200 and reduce the images to 600 px via simple batch-processing / for example imagemagick "convert".

* get yourself a decent OCR software, which is able to read your notes ...

i'm a big fan of abbyys "finereader", but sadly its prohibitively expensive ... ;)

idk how well FOSS OCR software a la tesseract works for hand-written notes.

* create pdfs with automatically detected text in the background for search and the scanned image of the notes.

it additionally generates XML-metadata & from there: whatever you want (web frontend ... :)

just my 0.02€
Richard Nixon was hyping the 4 day work week in 1956!
Transmission? I mean, in the history of mental illness there have been many instances of psychiatric contagion. E.g. the laughing plague of 1962, the sleep sickness of 2010 in Kazakhstan, and I suppose you could say that 'suggestibility' is a form of transmission (the most famous case for multiple personality disorder has been said to be based on the suggestions of the treating physicians.) It's known that when there are celebrity deaths (caused by their own hands) an uptick in the average rate in the population follows media coverage.

The mind can make you ill. This much is uncontroversial in psychiatry. The flip-side is the mind can make you better. There is the classic concept of placebos. A story I recall comes from war times when doctors ran out of pain killers and administered saline instead. Just the presence of the doctors reassuring treatment was enough to bring about relief in the patient. This is in an instance where someone had a gun shot wound. So the placebo effect (and our belief) is strong enough that it can be on par with drugs like morphine. I'd say that this explains many cases of faith healers. They really are 'healing' the patient but not via any magical means.

The placebo effect is pretty fascinating but it gets even more twisted. It would seem that the effect can be observed even if the doctor tells the patient they're receiving a placebo. The doctor says 'I'm giving you nothing.' And the patient hears: well, you're the doctor, you know what's best. They feel relived in some way from that more than nothing. Effectively, the mind makes it real. Then you have things like classical conditioning being used to reduce highly toxic drug side effects. A toxic (but beneficial drug) can be conditioned with a stimulus (like a bell.) Then the dosage of the drug is reduced while the bell is sounded. The body responds as if it were given the full dose but without all the side effects. Really neat research.

I do think many unexplained illnesses could be the result of negative ingrained conditioning. I think a perfect example of physical effects caused by psychiatric symptoms is anxiety. People who have anxiety usually don't describe it all with emotional terms. They say things like 'my heart is racing', 'im breathing too fast', 'my muscles are twitching.' A person could go to a doctor for a digestive issue only to find out that they're just 'anxious.' If psychiatric contagion exists and psychiatric illness can cause physical symptoms. Then (what appears to be) physical illness is transferable. That's really intense if you think about it.
You have a very poor notion of intelligence. Mimicry does not require comprehension. Without comprehension (or, if you prefer self-awareness), you don't have intelligence. This distinction is as old as Eliza (look it up).

The Turing test still applies. Every time someone shows obvious nonsense from the LLMs, they fail Turing, again. You might get some mileage out of, "but people spout nonsense too," which leads to a legitimate claim for Artificial Stupidity if that makes you feel better.

Yes, if the LLMs could do everything I can do, they would be intelligent, but they can't, for any meaningful definition of 'everything'.
I think your understanding of what the objective of an Academic debate is wrong. What you're referring too isn't a debate it is the Socratic method. The purpose of the Socratic method is to reach a (mutual) understanding and intellectual discovery. The purpose a debate is to persuade and win the argument. They differ significantly in their objectives, methodologies, and atmospheres.
US enhances banking and internet access for Cuban companies
Querying an exact match of a few strings on Google shows me that Slack is the very first example given in the blog post. For additional confirmation, the "6-byte message" screenshot lists an xoxc token and rich_text object, both of which you will frequently encounter in the Slack API. To be honest, I was expecting it to be Jira at first since I was unaware of Slack's size.

Searching for an exact match of "PRL_ERR_WEB_PORTAL_UNEXPECTED" gives away Parallels as the first example of a hard-coded HTTPS timeout.

So on, so forth.
This is the best answer.

Any techie will desperately try to come up with a tech solution to this problem.

A few months of development later, you might have something that yields trustworthy output.

But 16 hours? No tech solution will be done faster than that.

Don't build a factory for a one-off.
Kde3 was a great desktop environment.
Sometimes i missing konqi with all resource hungry browsers these days.
> The question seems to be whether being transgender, or being a mountain biker, is something that can exist purely in the mind, in the absence of the ability to realise it.

Agreed. And we don't generally refer to mountain bikers like that, but we do for trans people. Equalizing the analogy, it would be "person who would enjoy mountain biking" and "person who would enjoy gender transition". I think this framing makes it easier to see as something that could already exist within a person.

Of course the truth is that whether someone would enjoy mountain biking or whether someone would enjoy transition is related to both social factors and pre-existing personality traits.

The real problem comes when we stigmatize people for having these traits or for deciding to do something about it.
Bah, we just have to wait for the next batch of GPU they get so that giant datacenters can be equipped to give us 0.2% more accurate results about how to eat rocks..

Cant wait for the next-gen ads !
This seems saying that the 1bit model is a bit better than GPTQ Q2. However, I find there are few situations where you would want to use GPTQ Q2 in the first places. You would want to run the F16 version if you want quality, and if you want to have a sweet spot, you usually find something like Q5_K_M of the biggest model you can run.
There’s a diner in SF I frequent. I usually sit 15 feet from the door, on a busy retail corridor, with Verizon premium network access. My iPhone XS reports two bars of LTE but there’s never enough throughout for DNS to resolve. Same at my dentist’s office. I hope to live in a post slow internet world one day, but that is still many years away.

(The XS does have an Intel modem, known to be inferior to the Qualcomm flagship of the era)
I wonder what you mean by "accumulates". If I change the tires, the slight difference due to the previous brand and the slight difference due to the new brand do not compound. I only get the last one. And if the older ones were worn, the new ones will have less error, as they are less worn.

If the errors really accumulated, once in a while we would need to recalibrate the speed sensor, else we would be doing 90 and showing 10. In fact the error is limited to some reasonable amount.
But at the same time, many people also asks for performance improvements, and sometimes extra few USB A ports too. Plenty people makes hyperbolic claims such as which Apple Mx CPUs has x times more computation than which NVIDIA GPUs, superficially focusing on raw CPU performances.

I know deep down that thinnest laptops with brightest displays sells the most in reality, marketing wise, but it just sounds a bit hypocritical to me.
Would you also recommend parents not sell or give away strollers or toys, lest they be sued in the event of an injury? I've been on both sides of these transactions (and am a lawyer), and it never occurred to me that a lawsuit might occur.

I'm also unaware of any possible criminal liability — this seems even more farfetched than the notion of a civil lawsuit.
Yeah, the problem is when the "auto" setting isn't good enough.

Same for the AC, sure you can have it set to "auto", but mine tends to slow the fan down in auto mode when the car reaches the preset temperature. I find that annoying, because it means less fresh air in the cabin.
I’m not kidding when I say I’ve filled it with great things. I’ve always wanted to dive deeper into robotics but “never had the time”. Well, a couple hours a day is a lot. I’ve made huge strides in learning and I’m actually building practical things with that recovered time.

If someone told me this two years ago I’d think I knew better and they didn’t understand my situation or something. I didn’t realize this was happening until it occurred to me that I was finally learning and building all the stuff I’d intended to. I wondered what changed.

Prior to this I’d built a hydroponics automation and monitoring system, and all said I think it took me ten years. I’m pretty sure I could have quartered that if I wasn’t glued to my phone so much.
There is a standard, it's called GraphQL: https://spec.graphql.org/October2021/#sec-Schema-Introspecti...

I'm not saying the service isn't a true Scotsman, but a service that calls its API "GraphQL" but doesn't respond to introspection queries isn't really serving GraphQL.
It's impossible to get it right: it's not search anymore, it's editorialising. And for computers to do it while adding value will take time, and probably more than applied statistics. Like maybe they should experience it themselves, go against the flow sometimes, have an actual, political even, opinion. A desire, an agenda.

I see people asking the stuff for opinions, like "what should I do when X": you think it's search? You think it's "hard"? It's just insane and there will be a huge hangover once the limits have been properly understood. Puts on Nvidia.

Google is whining that their billions of dollars invested in a thinking machine, an artificial "intelligence" in their own words, is unable to guess when it s been made a fool of, and gets a beautiful F on the Turing test, sigh: but at least it's more interesting than the "metaverse" virtual real estate grift I guess that their main advertising competitor attempted.
No, we're not going to reach that point outside of sci-fi utopias. I don't believe even the 4-day workweek is going to become a thing. Any increase in productivity will be captured by the owners, it makes no sense to give it back to the workers in the form of free time.
Yes, turned out not to be the "Steam" I was thinking of.
well how long ago was the 5 day work week established as the standard?

how long do you reckon it'll be before a 4 day work week is standard?

do you think an additional day off takes less time than the prior one took to get? the same time as the prior one? more time than the prior one?

i feel like you're getting way ahead of yourself and remarking on events that have only taken place in your mind.
I’m curious what the logical extreme of this is. Why 4 days? Why not 3 days? 2 days? 1 day? No days? When do we hit the equilibrium level between less work resulting in meaningfully less output? Were these jobs ever needed?
awesome. for the other 6 continents, check out: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/how-to-build-a-low...
Great cars! :)
>Jetpack Compose is Android’s recommended modern toolkit for building native UI. It simplifies and accelerates UI development on Android. Quickly bring your app to life with less code, powerful tools, and intuitive Kotlin APIs.

https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/compose

Calling Jetpack Compose immature is amusing considering all of the apps that have been built with it. Additionally, it's been one of the primary pillars of Google I/O for the past 5 years.

>I guess maybe that's improved a bit but we're talking about existing apps here. They don't magically move to Jetpack Compose.

You don't need to. With Jetpack Compose there's no need to completely rewrite your entire UI. If you want to convert an old UI to Jetpack Compose you can gradually update parts of it and have both co-exist.

>How much would you bet that MotionCam Pro uses Jetpack Compose?

Judging from the UI I don't see any Jetpack Compose UI elements.
If only this were true always in reality.

In some cases, you were only hired because the previous person "was doing a bad job" and they need someone "to do a good job" but in reality, the previous person wasn't even able to make any decisions, and was in fact just being strung along with the top-down direction, leading to bad results, and that person got fed up and left.
Ok, thanks for the clarification.

Let me also clarify: I am absolutely not denying that Kagi uses Googles index.

I am just pointing out that for some reason when I search with Google I get lots and lots of results for things I didn't search for. For a while I kept them away by sprinkling doublequotes everywhere but the last few years, no amount of double quotes or even the verbatim operator works anymore.

With Kagi however not only does doublequotes work (for now at least), - I usually don't even need to apply them, my queries work just like they used to do in "old" Google back in 2009.

That is what I pay Kagi for.

I can be totally open that for what I know the reason might be as simple as the fact that Kagis API access gets results directly from Googles search API without passing through what I think of as a "search broadening" function and without applying A/B testing experiments to the results that come back.

I don't care. I get my results.

And if someone come along and present a better alternative that uses only their own independent index, I'll be inclined to pay even more just because I'd love to see it. (I was a marginalia supporter for months and might become again in the future.)
That's not entrapment.
The key there is official acts.

Falsely testifying about Clinton's relations with a subordinate (Monica Lewinsky) was not an official act, and he didn't have immunity.

He was granted immunity by the Republican investigating him, Robert Ray, for reasons that AFAIK were never made clear.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/white_house-jan-june01...

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/20/politics/exiting-job-clin...
I think top-comment was trying to save people a click?
Hmmm so Paul blocked me on X for calling out his effective support for Hamas. And then this double-talk nonsense. He’s really quite something of a fragile little narcissist who can never be wrong.
This is why I find it dreadful that evangelists here are heavily promoting live$whatever technology where every local state change requires at least one server roundtrip, or “browsers support esm now, bundling is a thing of the past!” etc. You don’t need to be at Antarctica to feel the latencies caused by the waterfall of roundtrips, or roundtrip on every click, as long as you’re a mere 200ms from the server, or in a heavily congested place.
it’s unfair but hey, Google chose to compete.

https://cdn.some.pics/snekoil/665955fb22618.jpg
When will Firefox will support webrtc encoding/ decoding offload on Linux?
Also, for example, Republican special prosecutor Robert Ray granting criminal immunity to Bill Clinton at the end of his term.

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/20/politics/exiting-job-clin...

Or, going waaaaaay back, Andrew ~Jackson~ (I mean Johnson, thank you) granting pardons to all Confederates after the Civil War.
An example of a program that's atrocious about unreliable connectivity is `git` -- it has no way to resume downloads, and will abort all progress if it fails mid-transfer.

The only way I've found to reliably check out a git repository over an unreliable link is to check it out somewhere reliable and `rsync` the .git directory over.
My wife - she's a future developer, I'm a lawyer - has had enough of me explaining some of these details in the form of concerns. I am somewhat satisfied to know that my perplexities are not imaginary.
What ship were you on and was it the northwest passage? We haven't had good luck north of 80 degrees with starlink.
The main benefit of abstraction isn't to reduce keystrokes; it's to break a program into comprehensible chunks of operation.

Routines that are conceptually identical should share an abstraction. A concept might benefit from an abstraction even if it is only used once. It is never too early to add more intuitive abstractions to your code.

On the other hand, code that is only coincidentally similar in execution should never be forced to share an abstraction.
Database Answers Provides Advice on Best Practice in Data Modelling
I’m waiting for the first section 230 case where they blame AI for the summary and argue it’s user generated content.
Except Russia, China, and Israel*
who said we didn't? we just haven't observed them yet

(this is a bad relativity joke)
That bit on failed multipart uploads invisibly sticking around (and incurring storage cost, unless you explicitly specify some lifecycle magic)... just ugh.

And I thought one of the S-es was for 'simple'.
If folks are interested in this kind of story (law enforcement vs cybercriminals), one of the best examples is the book Crack99:

https://icdt.osu.edu/crack99-takedown-100-million-chinese-so...

https://www.amazon.com/CRACK99-Takedown-Million-Chinese-Soft...
If you read the article it mentions that US implemented an OA mandate in 2022.

> The plan follows in the footsteps of the influential Plan S, introduced six years ago by a group of research funders in the United States and Europe known as cOAlition S, to accelerate the move to OA publishing. The United States also implemented an OA mandate in 2022 that requires all research funded by US taxpayers to be freely available from 2026.
When you press that button, a wiper control pops up on the screen, and allows you to keep the wipers on by pressing one of the four speed buttons. You can also use move the left thumb wheel on the steering wheel left and right to switch between those options while the pop-up is visible on the screen.
i see, thanks! i still think 'combustion engine' is incorrect terminology. maybe your blog will turn out to be so popular that everyone will adopt your terminology, and it'll just be a pet peeve for the olds like me, like using 'literally' as a figurative intensifier. until then, though, it will make people familiar with the field cringe when they read your posts

i think there were a lot of things that were obviously true to people about motorcars in 01903 that turned out to be false; to mention a few, the ridiculous level of danger involved in traveling over fifteen miles an hour, the impossibility of them ever becoming as widespread as horses (due to their overwhelming mechanical complexity), and the utter impracticality of electric cars, though that one took quite a while to change. hindsight is 20:20

maybe if henry ford had still been building steam cars in 01899 when he founded the company that eventually became cadillac (acquired by gm in 01909), the first decade of the twentieth century would have seen the kinds of advances in low-thermal-mass heat exchangers and flash boilers that ford instead had to make in areas such as transmissions and the engine block. but maybe that wouldn't have been enough, or maybe ford's mind was better suited to mechanical and industrial engineering than to thermodynamics. maybe the inherently larger thermal mass of a steam engine doomed it for this application in a non-path-dependent way, much as there are no diesel motorcycles

you probably know more than i do about the relevant history, so you're more likely to be right
Equilibrium is where people are most productive. Otherwise we can go to 6 days and no vacations. It may work for some jobs and short term.
Accidentally left auto wipers on at the car wash.

Never enabled them again.
The US is a large place. Espresso in the US has likely had some of the most innovation in the world over the last 20 years. If you didn't find excellent coffee in the US then you were either in the middle of nowhere, or you didn't try.

Similar with Sweden. Stockholm has many excellent coffee shops. Maybe you need to put more effort in.
They understand just fine. It’s just they see the potential of running the equivalent of the world oracle where every monkey goes and receives the instructions from Gemini, the most powerful of AI deities as a native ad surface.

They chose this. “Let them eat rocks” was a choice.

After all they promised to do better after the racially diverse SS division dreamed up by Gemini a few months ago.
KDE 3 was already old when I got into tech well over a decade ago. It was snappy and efficient though. KDE 4 was beautiful and had fancy widgets but was resource hungry. Glad to see KDE 3 still has love.
It depends on the functionality of the app. I'd choose Flutter so that I could port to multiple platforms with one code base. But, if it was a camera app like Kino then, of course, I would pick 1 platform.
I agree! They call out Apple, Samsung and a few others, but not app vendors.
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And at least according to De Mesquita if the US slips farther from being a "flawed democracy" then they can expect an uptick of violence as the country slips farther into authoritarianism.

De Mesquita, B. B., Smith, A., Siverson, R. M., & Morrow, J. D. (2005). The logic of political survival. MIT press.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2024/03/21/why-amer...
Domain knowledge is just as important when programming as the craft itself, this is why I have to have a great relationship with subject matter expert and develop domain knowledge fast. So abstractions can be a better fit
I blocked a few things with my pihole. Did one time waster at a time. Worked really well. Hacker news is next.
Ha! my dad celebrated my announcement by inviting me to a good restaurant. I would never have thought about hiding that from my parents and I had their full support to bring my girlfriend back to my room (and later for the night)
Anything water based on top of the light emitter will have the same effect. You just need to use a formula describing its refractive index with temperature and density inputs. The temperature is known by the car, the density can use a look up table for various states the water could be in.