skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if this is a German thing or specific to my bubble, but I feel like at least my friends and I have a different interpretation of "kafkaesque" than the author of this article.

Usually kafkaesque situations have something to do with bureaucracy, politics or law. They contain some element of someone sticking to rules or procedures no matter how uncomfortable and useless they might be in the specific situation. You also don't know the procedure, you just try to follow along but keep getting it wrong while everyone else seems to assume that everyone would know how this works.

Peak Kafka is reached if these rules or procedures end up in a deadlock with other procedures or if you have two or more people sticking to the official process but they all have different versions of the process that don't work together. And you are just standing right in the middle, wondering how on earth you ended up here, you just wanted to get a license renewed.
Wasn’t there an open source software (called “Rem”) that someone posted about here not that long ago? It was basically the same thing as this Windows feature but it was for Mac.
> What did Nixon do that was good so he wouldn't have to go down in history as a complete failure?

Government agency graphic design sensibilities, and the EPA.

But the list doesn't get much longer than that.
There is a stand-off between the end of the waveguide and the bottom of the hole which prevents damage to the waveguide. It also causes the beam to spread out so the hole is made wider than the waveguide.
Crap, I always get that wrong. Thanks for the reminder!

ETA: like I told my kids, if we don't police each other, the LLMs will never learn. ;)
We take it a step further since sqlite is a file based system we can duplicate and manage consistency across storage instances using R2 and S3 instances
A lot of doomers work on AI. While frowning, and shaking their heads very gravely, so you know they don't approve.
It’s not talking about an unchanging clock. It’s saying that change depends on something that runs like a clock, that “ticks”, that alternates sequentially and in cycles

An alternative analogy would be: imagine space and time as opposites of a spectrum. If you had just 1 moment in time, with no alternation, no change, then it would be akin to having all the space together at once, nothing moving. In the other extreme, if you had as many moments in time as possible, it would be non-stop change, in a seemingly infinite space that could never be fully explored, “unknowably large”.

In a way they are saying that the universe is a sort of superposition of these extremes, and there isn’t any physical difference between them. At least in the models and experiments
I’m not at all a “year of the Linux desktop guy”… at all… but seriously, I’m so very glad I dropped Microsoft last year. Even the idea here was a bridge too far.
Rather famously, the cotton gin really jumpstarted slavery in the US south when it had been in a slow decline.

I don't think that slavery is as much a barrier to automation as people think it is. We're biased by the main exposure to slavery being the US experience, where there's a noticeable difference between (free) mercantile north and (slave) agrarian south. Agriculture isn't particularly amenable to automation--not in the early 19th century at any rate--and it's not like the postbellum south suddenly found a renaissance in manufacturing.
This feels like some crazy joke taken from a fictional alternate universe. Or that I am dreaming. Slapped myself and checked - nope this is true reality.
Yes. You should use the lowest number of "technologies" possible. Also, I'd say that frameworks are harder to learn than languages, so they should be adopted with the same level of caution.
>"The [Maxwell's] equations in their original format amounted to 20 equations, not the 4 elegant ones we have familiarity with today."

>"What exactly are fields?

Well, fields can be thought of as a function acting throughout space and time. The predominant thinking at the time tried to account for such fields through mechanical structures composed of ‘wheels’ and ‘vortices’ which carried the mechanical

stresses

that the these fields propagated. Of course, such thinking made it difficult to grasp the beauty and meaning of the equations. Maxwell’s theory only becomes simple and elegant once we start to think of the fields (mathematical functions) as being primary and the electromagnetic

stresses

and mechanical forces as being a consequence of such fields, and not vice-versa."

Question:

Is stress -- the cause or the effect -- of electromagnetic fields?

?
Neverwinter Nights was a PC game. I don't believe it ever had a console release. I thought the radial menu worked well in that game.
One note: having the numpad activate the radial menu is very useful (assuming it's not a game that requires constant hand-on-mouse), but this leads to different numbering than the otherwise-more-common angle-based numbering. Probably fortunately, phone upside-down number pads are obsolete as controls.

As a result, actions can gain keybindings like 1379, while remaining fully discoverable.
A friend of mine was a Program Manager on Xbox that worked on some HCI projects like the original Kinect.

He told me there was once an experimental keyboard that used the two thumbsticks on an Xbox controller like a dual radial menu to input text - the left thumbstick would select a character group, and the right thumbstick would input a character from that group.

The learning curve was deemed too steep for the average customer, but apparently those who spent enough time using the prototype were able to type an order of magnitude faster than with traditional on-screen keyboards.

The memory sticks out as an amusing idea, and potentially a really cool "power-user" input modality for game controllers.
It does view RAW when compiled with the right flags. JXL too, interestingly. Managed to save a bunch of space on old photos (converting with cjxl, but which I wouldn't have done if I weren't able to see them somehow).
Pyatv – a client library for Apple TV and AirPlay devices
> The talk of a light frugal battery is only a marketing spin.

I've literally never seen any such marketing. All I've done is look at the spec sheet.

> MX-30 is heavier than Leaf, Kona, and even Tesla Model 3 SR/RWD.

Not the Kona. Marginally heavier than the lowest trim of the Leaf.

But by having a smaller battery, the impression to me is that the weight goes to something useful, rather than battery, so I'm getting more car for the weight. (The base MX-30 is notably more featurful than the base Leaf.) Plus more car for the price, as I've previously mentioned.
I don't have so much of a problem there. I can solve this by simply not eating fast food.

The problem is that I can't opt out of housing since these same assholes bought all of it up.
I am once again amazed at the inability for anyone within Microsoft to prevent or halt the development of things that nobody wants, needs, or could reasonably expect to be a good idea.
Squeak's Morphic has "halos" which look like an alternative to vertical context menus and indeed I always found it interesting but odd.

https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3546
bear in mind he is a CEO.. His subordinates are most likely SVPs, so his relation with his subordinates is not the same as employees down at the bottom of the hierarchy with their managers..

so i hardly thing he is discussing personal mistakes in those meetings, he is more likely discussing policies that affect entire departments or even the whole company..

Other then that i believe that any person in any position and at any level, should praise in public and criticize in private, always..

But note that he never said he does not have private meetings with his subordinates when needed, he only said he does not think he should have a scheduled time every week to have this kind of discussions..

and honestly i agree with him.. 90% of what i discuss with my manager in our 1:1s could be discussed in front of the whole team.. the other 10% is not something i need to discuss ever other week it is usually stuff about my personal career that i need to discuss just a few times per year.. so for those when the need arise i just reach out to my manager and discuss with him..

also a managers is not always the best person to be coaching someone.. where i work we have managers and we have mentors and those are separated roles that may be taken by different people..
It's not a good idea, but I don't see how security is a big part of the problem. In particular crying foul about the data being stored in the clear seems silly. How would encrypting it help, when the key has to be right there anyway? Is it that much worse than all the other sensitive data also sitting in the clear in, you know, regular files?

What's the plan, encrypt the data a public key where the private key is locked most of the time? Require a passphrase any time you want to read or process it? Does anyone think that UX will fly? Maybe there's some TPM magic that makes it work without also making it trivial to steal for an attacker who already has arbitrary code execution, but no one is citing that so far. I don't see the better design that everyone seems to think is obviously there. (Besides the obvious Just Don't, which is fair as far as it goes but has nothing to do with crypto)
No, China literally has multiple dialect continuums[0]. It is the case of "a language is..." saying but the "other" way around.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialect_continuum#Chinese
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Intel fully using TSMC for this generation is quite something!
Is thunderbird really a brand name you want to take over? Maybe Thunderbird desktop should become K9 mail desktop.
it's like a keystroke logger on steroids
Apple is working on something like this too I bet but with Siri + OpenAI
Dang, your website looks amazing. Wish you had some room for TypeScript developers or people looking to break into Rust.

Best of luck!
Plus primary spoken language (Austrian-style German) and size of domestic market explains a lot.
Thanks for the open invitation!

My reaction to this, and all other discussions on the topic, is that it rings hollow.

Here’s why & I’m very curious for your response:

Conflict of interest is a fact of life in elite, cutting edge work.

“No conflict, no interest” is as old as SV and VC for that reason. It’s a small pool of people who create great companies and invest.

How someone structures themselves around that conflict is the signal. Disclosing potential conflicts of interest is the ethical bar and that has been done.

Whatever the real reason for the original OpenAI’s board to ouster Sam, the current board has found no wrongdoing on Sam’s part and crucially made no request for him to cease investment activity.

My hypothesis: that’s because Sam’s investment is a powerful signal and one the AI startup community greatly benefits from.

I do think Sam’s virtue signaling before Congress has painted Sam into a corner here, but we keep shining the flashlight on it and coming out with the same conclusion: Sam is studious about governance and an astute risk taker. Even the latest ScarJo incident shows that. I don’t see how OpenAI could do better for CEO.

It is possible for Sam to take both positions.

1. Not taking financial gains from OpenAI so that his decisions are guided by building safe AGI

2. Investing in companies that are betting on trends he has the most conviction and knowledge about

Perhaps a simple test is- is the moral hazard here worse than owning stock in OpenAI?

If we don’t expect luminaires to be anything other than people, the OpenAI team’s convergence to bring Sam back is the clearest signal anyone could have on who they believe the best leader to bet on is.

It’s human nature to find fault and we all have our faults. My concern with making this the hill to die on in critiquing Sam & OpenAI is we feed a narrative that has little explanatory power and perpetuates unrealistic expectations on how life in a position of power works.
Thank you! This is fascinating

I guess if we consider ourselves, or our perception, as a quantum system, then we can be included as the clock that “drives the time” of the entangled system (the reality that we perceive)
You essentially created a hack that replicates Kagi.

I don’t understand why Google doesn’t let you block certain domains and boost others like Kagi. It’s such an obvious and basic feature and it ads so much usability.
Nvidia's small GPU initiative will keep graphics cards large
why dose entropy (and time) have a direction, though?

This is famously referred to as "The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov
Given that the EU has already taken its licks for the ineffective "cookie law" and used that experience to draft the GDPR, I'm inclined to think that length is quite necessary. I'm sure it's possible to express the spirit in a much shorter law, but such a law would be likely to facilitate legitimate activity by simply creating loopholes that severely neuter or even nullify the whole thing (which is one of the common failure modes of US legislation).

Specifically, the EU's teasing out an effective definition of consent is paramount, otherwise the only thing a US privacy law would mean is a few more paragraphs in the bullshit legalese "terms" that nobody reads. Frankly I think Congress should just import the text of the GDPR wholesale and let the courts sort it out. I doubt the outcome could be any worse than what surveillance industry lobbyists end up doing to domestically crafted legislation.
Hold on there friend. I use Thunderbird on desktop and have used it for nearly two decades across Windows, Mac, and Linux. I love it! It's extensible, has excellent plugins that Outlook will never have, and I can synchronize my settings across computers and it Just Works. Also using Outlook on my work machine takes a second to delete emails and it does all sort of weird behaviors like deleting emails when I accept a calendar invitation.

I've used K-9 on Android and while I liked it, I choose to not receive email on my phone. I do recommend it to non-technical family and friends, and it "Just Works" for them.

The idea that K-9 is "transforming into Thunderbird" sounds utterly fine and dandy to me.

How about we count our blessings and celebrate that FOSS software continues to give us options. Remember how the future of the project was looking uncertain a few years ago? Free Software is a community effort, consider contributing to the effort [0]!

[0]: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/participate/
Can you give one sample of your questions? (Go ahead and change it up a bit first, of course.)
4P4E and no HT? Hard pass.
Scroll back far enough on the X timelines of a few AI evangelists/specialists/advisers: oop, there they are. NFTs, Ethereum, altcoins.
Maya's had radial menus as a major chunk of its UI for ages, and there are people who use them as a major chunk of their mouse-and-keyboard interaction with it. Blender's got 'em too.

Wacom's tablet drivers let you build radial menus for your programs. I've never bothered as I'm a "five thousand keyboard shortcuts" kind of artist but there are artists who love 'em.
Cassandra stop being such a worrywart.
> Unlike previous stock sales by Tesla insiders, however, these were not the result of a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, which removes discretion over timing from an insider and hands them to a third-party broker.
People totally blind from birth taking hallucinogens don't see entities which strongly suggests they're not real.
You can also prove things by deriving it mathematically, without need for any observation.

Some things can even be counter intuitive like relativity and quantum physics.
I've used K-9 for over a decade, and it's the best email client I've ever used, mobile or desktop. I personally have much more fondness for the K-9 brand than the Thunderbird brand, so I appreciate the decision to keep the K-9 branding around, even though I know there's no practical difference.
According to the complaint, he used 10b5-1 plans for previous sales but not for this one:

"100. Musk previously disclosed his planned sales of Tesla stock via the
execution of 10b-5-1 plans but admitted that he had no 10b5-1 plan for the November and December 2022 sales."

https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rvS0T5sG...
I can't even eat dog testicles anymore!

Tell me that's not somehow disturbing . . .
No, this isn't on recruiters. Blame the hiring committees and the standards for hiring set from technical leadership.
Most HN users who are coders should be able to read and write Korean within a few hours...

Good luck with any other language. Japanese is tougher since you have to memorize thousands of what are basically hieroglyphics and learn two separate alphabets (one for native Japanese, another for foreign).

With Korean you can express many sounds phonetically (with some abstractions for non-korean sounds)
You should demand a refund. Or, archive mail by year so the underlying SQLite database file is smaller and make sure it's not your mail provider that's slow.
Previously [0] (13 points, 8 hours ago, 4 comments) [1] (9 points, 3 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40566821
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40567951
I was a huge fan of Rubios, to the point that I’ve sent letters to their mgmt via feedback form telling them their prices are too low and they should be focused on quality even if it means more expensive products.

Meanwhile across the street from my local rubios, a smaller baja mexican style place charges 50% more per item, but the quality is so much better it is packed.

Hell i’d even pay double if I could get the same plump, lightly battered cod tacos they used to serve in the early 2000s.

Instead now it’s some sad sliver of massively breaded, double fried mystery fish…
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It is a computationally clever application of the chain rule to minimize the amount of computation needed to compute gradients for all parameters in the network.
yes.. but they often concern more then one people...

discussing it public does not necessary means in front of all 60 people but in front of the people relevant to the discussion..

It very well could be a discussing with just one or two subordinates and their teams..

Also he never said he does not have individual meetings to discuss individual concerns.. but those should happen seldomly as needed and not by a mandated weekly schedule..
Lunar Lake, Intel's AI laptop chip that ditches memory sticks
It's what's annoying about NIST and DFARS: you can be fully compliant despite having made stupid decisions as long as you have documented that you are in fact making this stupid decision.
Thanks for the suggestion. I might have a logic about how the extension should work.
It's not about extraneous garbage between the header and main content but rather a way to jump focus directly to the main content for keyboard-navigated browsing.

Consider a large navigation menu appearing before the content in the DOM and having to tab all the way through it to follow a link on every page.
Which is why I said you changed the topic to something more defensible than the original comment. That isn't "devil's advocacy" but arguing for the sake of arguing.

We see alcohol is used for business and social purposes, including Friday beer and pizza paid by the company, and conferences with beer and wine during receptions.

If we accept the premise that "legitimate use cases" that "people will end up wanting .. later in life" justifies it being taught or allowed at school then when will we teach high schoolers to drink alcohol?
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This seems like a good opportunity for an invention: a stroller that detects its own speed and applies brakes automatically.
I don't think we actually disagree.

I'm saying that because China has one single army and navy and at the same time a huge narrative wrapped up in the idea that it's all one China, those "dialects" don't get to be languages because the army and the navy say otherwise.

"A language is a dialect with an army and a navy" implies its corollary, which is that "a dialect is a language without an army or a navy".

(In fact, that's likely what was originally meant by the person who coined the phrase—he was a specialist in Yiddish linguistics writing during WW2.)
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I can feel a sort of a double translation shims hiding in that example. Chinese "改进" would work as a verb on its own but dictionary wise it will tend to mentally map to noun form "improvement" than the verb form "[to]improve", and that necessitates a "do" verb, which plausibly results in bloated forms such as "进行改进"(forward going [with] improving forward).

Common claims are often common for reasons...
Lee Smolin wrote a good book defending the idea that time is not emergent: https://www.amazon.com/Time-Reborn-Crisis-Physics-Universe/d...

He came up with a framework where time is real (assumed), and then the laws of physics evolve with time, and then goes on to develop an evolutionary theory of universes, where universes reproduce by producing black holes, which spawn baby universes, with slightly different laws of physics. He then predicts that it should tend to produce universes that are optimized to produce black holes.