skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an awful take.

At no point in the last several decades has any Canadian government come close to being totalitarian, authoritarian, or otherwise. The most recent example in living memory (which I don't intend to downplay) would've been residential schools, which were run by churches with supportive policies coming from the federal (and lower) governments. The last residential school closed in 1997.

Canada is absolutely, beyond-a-shadow-of-a-doubt, a representative democracy falling under the broad umbrella of "Western (Neo)liberal democracies". There are legitimate criticisms of neoliberalism just as there are of neoconservativism, but totalitarian aspirations are exceptionally rarely a valid accusation.

If anything, the biggest threat to Canadian democracy might be a decline in political literacy. We don't have an election where we vote for PMs, but many people still do. We don't have a two-party system; in practice, we have a multi-party system to the extent that minority governments are possible (we have one now!), but many people vote as though we're in a two-party system with a handful of "joke parties" that amount to wasting your vote. We have a bicameral parliament, but one of our chambers is made up purely of elected members who have so far mostly stayed level-headed through more or less sheer force of good will (which I don't consider a good enough protection in the long term, but that's another topic).

How laws are introduced into parliament and passed is something most Canadians probably couldn't answer off the top of their heads in more detail than saying that there there are a few readings, and most of us aren't following what our MP or MPP is doing for your riding, because in real terms, most of us vote based on a party leader and their at-large actions in office.
Wouldn't it get cooked to remove any bacteria/viruses first?
I spent the majority of my life outdoors until my mid 20’s and have quite bad myopia. So perhaps helpful at a population level, but not a magic fix for everyone.
what the heck is this for, if you can't use it for commercial work?
“Properly annotated data” has nothing to do with the original context.

We were discussing about the current state of affairs. Of course I am not stupid to think what I said in my original reply if we are taking about an LLM trained on “perfect data”

But that was not the premise.
You may not have hearing loss, but you might actually benefit from modern hearing aids which can attenuate background noise better than consumer noise cancelling headphones. My partner has APD and hearing aids were a life-changer for them.

Consumer stuff is also getting better really quickly though
> …while government MPs maintained that their intent is not to expand surveillance capabilities,

So…what’s their official rationale for including it?

>MPs pushed the bill out of committee without this critical amendment last month. In doing so, the government has set itself up to be the sole arbiter of when, and on what conditions, Canadians deserve security for their most confidential communications – personal, business, religious, or otherwise.

Not just the Canadian government! Let’s not forget the criminals and foreign adversaries who compromise their systems!
Anecdata, but watching the Waymo cars compared to Cruise (preban) was night and day. Before Cruise was banned in SF, I would often see them violate traffic laws and fail to navigate basic intersections. Waymo isn't perfect, but its better than Cruise and the average SF driver, which is good enough for me.
One of the common misdirections propagated by these articles is arguing that inflation dropped from 10% to 4%, so things must be better, why aren't people happy about that?

but wait that 4% is on top of the 10%,

the thing that matters is whether the income went up 10% before hitting the 4% inflation, only then would the 4% be a positive number.

the inflation does indeed slow when people run out of money, but that's not going to make put them in good mood
There is good tooling available, but it tends to be vendor-specific and sometimes quite expensive. Here is Arm's tool:
https://developer.arm.com/Tools%20and%20Software/Graphics%20...
Congratulations on your sale Michael. I've been following your blog over the years and have learned a lot. Really happy for you that you could find a buyer and wrap things up with TinyPilot. Looking forward to seeing what you work on in the future!
Yeah, the LSP situation remains a sore point, which is deeply unfortunate. One of the big reasons I like Gleam! Luckily, there are new contenders popping up to hopefully solve the issues with elixir-ls: try https://github.com/elixir-tools/next-ls or https://github.com/lexical-lsp/lexical. They might give a better experience. In fact, the creator of Elixir recently started directly sponsoring next-ls, so it's probably a safe enough bet.

> By the way, the official Elixir website recommends using Homebrew to install it. But almost everyone in the Github issues and comments says ASDF is the way to go.

The Elixir website is right. Just use Homebrew until you find a real need for asdf or similar tools. It's far simpler.

asdf (or mise[0]) is merely a way to manage different runtime versions between various projects, you would use it the same way as one might use rbenv/rvm, nvm/n, pyenv, or even Docker/nix, and so on. You don't need it until you have several ongoing projects requiring different runtime versions. If you reach that point, great! It'll be worth the effort then, and it isn't difficult.

Personally, I just use Homebrew Elixir for easy ad-hoc access to iex/livebook. If I truly need reproducible environments, devbox[1] (a sort of nix wrapper) is nice and extremely straightforward.

Tl;dr: Just use Homebrew. If your requirements expand beyond that, you probably have far more challenging problems than installing asdf (or whatever).

[0] https://mise.jdx.dev/dev-tools/comparison-to-asdf.html

[1] https://www.jetify.com/devbox
There is something truly strange about the idea than people "trust" a website operator and can rely on it to provide them with useful information when that same operator is well-known to be secretive, deceptive and dishonest in order to protect its own interests. It's like imagining that a fact witness who tells the truth on some occasions and lies on others is credible.

https://ipullrank.com/google-algo-leak
That would be an extreme departure from their current lineup:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jeep_vehicles#Current_...
Correct me if I'm wrong but, FKs are rarely created for existing columns.

You usually create the column and the FK in the same script. And usually starting with a NULL value for existing rows.

And if it's a new table then there's no rows anyway.

So the most common operations when creating FK's aren't expensive as far as I know.

You know what's expensive? Creating an index on a large table because you or your RDMS forgot to create the index when the FK was created and now JOINS are crawling to halt.
And to add… most cafes in Australia (at least the ones I’ve ever been to) all use e61. Maybe something to do with La Marzocco having an almost-monopoly here
Let's park 100 trucks outside your house for 'a few short days' and blast their horns. Then you can tell me if those days are short or not.

I have friends who live downtown Ottawa. I know exactly what went on. I know what flags were on display.

People need to stop down playing what happened.
The economics don't work. Some people are willing to pay extra for a car in perfect condition. Some people will happily save money by using a beat up car. By selling a car they get their money now from a high priced car. If they try to be the taxi they need to figure out who will demand (and pay for) the perfect car, vs who will demand the cheapest car. This is one more way that cars are not interchangeable.
>Is it your suggestion that the power lines and local power (e.g. Alameda Municipal Power) be taken over by the state itself and be made responsible for their maintenance and funding?

Yes.
Is the excessive focus the same as hyperfocus?
The horn usage did not go on for weeks on end. It was an early concession to stop
I've always loved the Lotus Esprit- sounds like a really fun car!
That was the perfect trinity for me. Not sure I see it as a tragedy, but I do hate the feeling of nostalgia and knowing I can never get back to that time and place. I was down there semi-regularly from my mid-teens to early twenties. Overall great time in my life and I think for Toronto at large. Even if they still existed I could never get back to that point in time.
When I upgrade my iPhone I will buy this immediately.

It's unclear if you already support this, but I would love an option to automatically bake graded footage back down to HEVC. I will never edit most of the video I take, I just want to dial in the look I want.
Works where archive.is is blocked:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240529103000/https://www.nytim...
You can be infected by undercooked pork.

If you own a cat, the litter box will be the primary vector.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii#Preventing...
Anyone ineterested in more wetware projects should check out the series from The Thought Emporium on youtube: https://youtu.be/bEXefdbQDjw

They are attempting to train a (literal) neural network to play DOOM. And yes, it os as fascinating and horrifying as it sounds.

It's hard not to extrapolate 50 years down the line with this tech. Stuff gets complicated quick. How many human neurons do you have to use before you get an actual human consiousness?
Well, my TDI got 60 mpg+ on the highway, which was better than the EPA estimate, but then everybody got mad at VW.
I dislike overweight behemoths as much as any cyclist of pedestrian would, but neither masculinity or individualism have much to do with it. Arguably cycling is more individualistic than driving an automobile. As for masculinity, if you were saying that about muscle cars, yeah, ok; maybe -afterall men get accused of buying those to compensate for lost masculinity. But anyway women like SUVs as much as men (women buy more SUVs, men buy more light trucks). No surprise they’re called hausfrauenpanzer.
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A new Civic, Elantra, or Corolla all have MSRPs under $25k.
Ask HN: How many of the HN "Who is Hiring" jobs are evergreen?
I keep seeing the same jobs for quite a few of the months. They tend to be somewhat generic. An example would be Jobs with "Philadelphia" in the title or body.Are these real jobs, or have the corporate scum begun polluting our job thread?
Right, it's EU parents or refugee parents. Nobody else lives here like actual, highly qualified people that countries like Germany are begging to import before all the "natives" retire.
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I am not sure how much experience you have in this area of research, but maybe I can shed some light on the background here. The "Attention is all you need" paper is now almost 7 years old. Those 7 years have seen a flood of proposals on improving transformers, only very few have been retained.

There is very little theoretic about transformer-style architectures. Fundamentally, the proof is in the pudding, not in "mathematical comparisons". A proposed change needs to scale better, it is all that matters. And the datasets mentioned are simply unsuitable for showing any scaling. I think the biggest dataset in this list, is 160MB compressed.

I am not sure why this article was posted here on hackernews. I would estimate even just today, there have probably been about 3 papers posted on arXiv with proposed transformer architecture changes, tested on larger datasets than the ones mentioned here.
>They are now in competition for transmission with the private entity PacifiCorp that jointly owns some substations with PG&E and spans six states.

Then they can also acquire the PacifiCorp substations. Even better, make it a public utility thing, and forbid (with some transition plan) private companies handling this infrastructure entirely.

>unless you are also wishing to have CalPower be a department within the state government that rivals CalTrans for quality and timeliness of service.

Since other countries manage to have public infrastructure like trains and power grids and have it work well, perhaps it's not some unobtainable magical goal, but just a specific failure because of the way CalTrans was managed - and can thus change if there's the political will?
I wrote a sci-fi novella based on this.

Scientists develop bioprocessor organoids, then develop cDNA that lives in the germ line that develops this organoid with pre-programmed in weights of all human knowledge.

This solves the alignment problem because now every human has an efficient NN biologically embodied inside them (and for free to all progeny).

The AI is just a new multimodal neuron mini-brain with just a few billion weights holding all knowledge whispering conclusions into your ear.

This survives all civilization-ending catastrophes.

My friend added, then scientists discovered that this mini brain and axonal connection already exists in the gut and develops a way to reactivate it. Lol
Yeah, I may be stupid, but I initially thought it's a camera that I can buy, kind of like GoPro, but for cinematic effects, and I was trying to understand what the price is.
I mean, Canada is the only country in the west that has used emergency powers not once but twice in 50 years. Either our country is unstable (it's not) or the federal government clearly doesn't give a shit about precedent and due process.

It also doesn't help that the same government has admitted to a current genocide without basically doing anything about it. So yes, when you combine those two things criticism will happen.
Dacia is Renault. Not Citroen.
From my collection of Soviet-era Russian fiction I've accrued over the decades. One of these days I'll get to reading it instead of dusting it off every few months.
> The government puts most of its effort into protecting friendly companies and industries from competition and even funneling taxpayer money to them.

Somehow, the people rushing to use that "faccism" label tend to ignore this one property of the original ones.
As an American that has gone up to Canada thousands of times in my life, you have to be completely delusional to say this.

The change in Canada from 20 years ago is just shocking. If you can't see this, it is because you don't want to see it.

Canadians like you are why I think your country is utterly doomed.
Loosely related: https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-invent-an...
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seems like a relevant place to promote my tech hiring company: https://polyfill.work
And don't forget that a buyer spends a decent amount on their own lawyers, CPA etc during due diligence. I recently spent 10K on a deal.
> People are greedy af.

Putting on my Older Person hat for a moment, software from indie publishers used to cost in the ballpark of $40 in the late 1980s (that's ~$100 in 2024 dollars after adjusting for inflation). $100 for a single version of a single app. When the next point release comes out, the publisher might give you a discount of 50%, so it might only cost you $50. A major release was often required for compatibility with a new OS version.

All the software we used back in the day? We spent significant money on it.

Do you think apps like these pomodoro apps would sell in sustainable quantities if it were $100 for major releases and $50 for point releases? What if it were $100 to get the current version every time iOS did a major version upgrade?

Or is it more likely that these apps would simply not exist?

People say they want one-time purchases, but the small $ subscriptions are more consumer-friendly than is immediately apparent. And they support a vastly more comprehensive software ecosystem.
We’re definitely in a recession, after a good 15 or so years of money siphoning upwards. Economists will give answers that are apologetic to the supply side, and people off the street will basically blame Obama or Biden but mysteriously think Trump’s economy was any better (even though, policy and enforcement wise, there was little difference between the three)
My understanding (correct me if I'm wrong) is that the tariffs are based on the source location of the battery components. Assembly doesn't matter unless you start mining lithium in NAFTA? That's why it's gonna hit some ebikes and the like.
If they can make agreements with arbitrary terms, why can't we? [0]

[0] https://o565.com/content-ownership-and-licensing-agreement/
Ancient Egyptians Were First to Treat Cancer. Skulls Show Evidence of Surgery.
> Most companies have no economic incentive to spend this energy, therefore most software becomes poorly built over time. It's not because the engineers were bad or because they had bad culture, it's simply because we live in a capitalist world.

My frustration is that there is economic incentive, but it's diffuse and difficult to measure. And in today's culture across a broad swath of contexts, benefits that can't be measured are benefits that aren't valued.

This isn't unique to software development, but it is something that seems to be plaguing American thinking as a whole these days. Public education is extremely valuable, but it's a large cost and increasing numbers of people are skeptical of the benefits. Fixing potholes is expensive but it's surely less than the diffuse cost of fixing flat tires and broken axles. Public transit is expensive but the reduction in traffic and QOL benefits are large and widespread. Money spent on at-risk youth typically pays for itself many times over, but years later and in a difficult-to correlate reduction in policing and prison needs.

More and more we narrow our focus on short-term expenses at our of long-term detriment and it's becoming more and more apparent as a long, slow-moving rot growing from within.
Cool, but we want hybrids.
But why should people do apps for free?
> Future CEOs may be like constitutional monarchs. They will be figureheads with some responsibility, but not day to day operational duties.

"They will be figureheads with some responsibility, but not day to day operational duties" sounds like the job description of a politician in a democracy. They get hired (sorry, elected) by a mob who knows stuff all about the day to day running of the place and so vote on other issues. As a consequence the people they elect are rarely good at anything other than getting elected. Nonetheless they stand up and proudly claim they will fix everything now they are are in charge, and consequently get blamed for whatever goes wrong during their tenure, and then we fire 'em.

The main danger is when nothing goes wrong. That lets them stay for a while, and if they are actually competent they may start running things, which lets them re-arrange the laws, the police and the judiciary so they are hard to boot out.

If that happens we tend to introduce term limits. We can't have competent managers running the place - that's far too dangerous.

/s
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Car part prices are a scam... on most cheap cars, a small crash, broken bumper, lights and the radiator (+ all the sensors) means the car is totalled, because just the parts cost more than a new car. How the hell can a single headlight for a cheap car... so just some plastic, not even LEDs yet, cost 800euros?

Sadly, until something (culture, new player on the market, regulation....) changes, that car will be totalled and scrapped.
>Cars more than about 10-15 years old just aren't as safe as newer ones.

Can you give some examples? The only safety innovation I can think of recently the side airbags. The backup camera, which is a huge improvement to backing up accidents was probably over 15 years ago.
I respectfully disagree.

I can tell about bad development habits from using the software it because code smell (and process smell) stinks.

Besides, I was telling not about car repair per se, but about the process around car repairing, which is visible when you visit car workshop and talk to the guys, and is even more visible when you use the software.

Concrete examples:

- installation/upgrade process involving interactive scripts means that somebody thought dumbing down such process for a tiny percent of less-tech users is ok, disregarding the majority who automate everything (and interactive scripts are obviously harder to automate); it also can be a sign that vendor's decision maker (product owner) is disconnected from reality

- poor documentation; a distinct case here is when part of the product is an API and of course "there is" documentation, generated by Swagger - but the crucial part of it are some subtleties of arguments passed which are themselves undocumented, making the whole API simply unusable. The vendor has an excuse "but we have documentation" - heck yes, it's because your employees hate their superiors so they gave them something to f*ck off; and this is given to the customer. Very common practice actually, I can give you a list of vendors who notoriously do that

- painfully slow webapps are a sign of a process smell that no one thinks about the real world operations; sometimes it's not even about scalability, but bad choice/usage of libraries; i need to give here names, in rot13 so it's not googlable: Argfhvgr has a HR product for corporations where every single damn click on any active field in the browser - and you click it a lot because it is fscking calendar - triggers a series of round trips to the server, each taking over 2 seconds. The usability of this product is so braindead at so many levels that I can see a whole bunch of teams failing to stop this sh*t from being released & sold.
Long story but a good example that just by using the product you can see how rotten the vendor must be
Ghostscript: OPVP device arbitrary code execution via custom Driver library
I think with that threejs' TSL approach there is an opportunity to simulate computations in JS instead of translating it to GLSL. Just need to write an eagerly-evaluating runtime for those EDSL expressions.

Once it's done, you'll be able to use the regular Chrome's Devtools debugger to step through TSL logic.

A nice thing is that would also allow you to unit-test your shading code using regular JS frameworks for testing.
If the target itself is the City itself, then no arguments at all. This is however assuming we're at the "Counter-Value" stage of conflict and past "Counter-Force", so ostensibly you shouldn't be taken by surprise by nuclear bombs falling anyway.

I appreciate your comments, it's always refreshing to have an actual discussion about these topics rather than uninformed fearmongering.
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