skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed this is a shill.

What are the financials of bank of dave? How many of his loans have defaulted? How does he analyze the risk he is undertaking?

What happens to Dave if 10% of his friends cannot or decide not to pay him back?

Why does Dave, an individual, have so many resources that he can support thousands of his friends schemes they couldn't afford? Maybe we look at the top down redistribution of wealth. There are so few people controlling so much money and influence.
It's a lot but Java is still king. The SV bubble seems to forget just how dominant Java is in backend software (well until they get a job at FANG and realise Java never left the building).
I'm expecting that we will be hearing a lot of correlations about microplastics in the coming years. I am not necessarily expecting that they will hold up under scrutiny. I don't think present day academia is incentivized to be accurate, representative of the truth, or helpful in any way to the public, and the fact that this study is paywalled is reinforcing that belief.
Very interesting here is the charges against a pair of specific executives who are _not_ at all C-Suite level. Makes me wonder why them, specifically. E.g. could it have been something like emails between them suggesting the illegal activity, but no evidence they told anyone above them?
All the big studios run on Linux.

https://vfxplatform.com/linux/
The effect is that the US loses its competitive edge in international markets. Is another country going to buy Tesla or BYD? Are they going to buy a DJI or an overpriced US drone? It might protect companies locally but for how long?
I'm asking if it works well for reading SICP, i.e. the solutiins are the same.
Wasted heat.
There is a reason zombie fungus isn't and hasn't been a mammal problem. Fungi don't like the heat. I think we're good as long as that's true.
How to minimize your exposure to microplastics
Hell, a lot of the 3rd party companies who are contracted to build the cookie consent forms are even following the spirit of the law (barely) by including a one click "reject all" button or link in the pop ups. They are often somewhat downplayed, like being in a smaller font or slightly hidden, because fuck you, but are you really so damn lazy that clicking "reject all" once every hour is such an objectionable activity that you'd rather just dump any and all consumer protections of data?
Wouldn't that be ironic, if after years of doubting and mocking the proliferation of food sensitivities it turned out it was because there was literal plastic in us.
I didn't mean to imply said local community has never existed, only that it no longer does. I'm not convinced that the cloistered, middle class, older, and predominantly white communities that exist in every medium to large city are capable of creating art of any substance. And the art they may create certainly could not be said to represent anyone in any general way.
Thank you. htmx has me (a c++ dev) back in the web game. I can finally build entire web frontends without a single line of explicit js.
Also people just hate China and will accept anything that confirms their preconceived beliefs.

I am no fan of the Chinese government but failing to acknowledge that they do some things right and learn from it, is how we fall behind as a people and let them take over the global world order.

If the western world wants to claim it’s better, it needs to actually be better.
Sounds like you're the kind of person who likes to build on on hypotheticals.

I'm not that kind of person. That said you can go on thinking that people who don't share your appetite for rank speculation are blithering idiots, as suits your fancy.

I'm fully aware of what he might have done. I just don't find it useful to pretend that I therefore know what he did.
Thank you kind sir or ma'am or alien!

I missed the controller... had an old version on an old desktop then downloaded the latest on new machines and it insisted on an UI account back then.

Unifi devices are still pretty good since I haven't needed the controller in years. This new one says I have an AP AC v2.

In this case Unifi is going to make some more money off me next week since i want to try positioning the AP somewhere else (new wire, holes etc).

I do swear there were older versions of the controller (newer than my AP) where I couldn't figure out how to run it without the UI account.
For standalone use (I hesitate to call it "dawless") the MPC probably offers more bang for the buck than Push or Maschine modulo existing commitment to either of them on the computer.

The Linn video came across my feed because I've been on Youtube learning about MPC's. I plan to buy one as a hardware sampler and for me they're still value for money without considering sequencing and CV.

With the caveat that making music with a PC based DAW has zero appeal to me.
How can it be protectionism when the US has no consumer drone industry to protect?
I keep older hardware running older OS's for just this reason.

There was one version of Apple's Photos for MacOS that has not been topped in terms of its retouch tool (actually got much, much worse). Since I restore a lot of old scanned-in family photos I keep this aging iMac just for photo editing.
Temporal is great until it's not XD
Haven't used them myself yet. As far as I understand it's essentially moving the data loading into the router. The router has an API for the loaders so the rest will work automatically like loading states. So yes, this means you have to define what to load at the top where you define the routes. Though I think this also works with nested routes, but I don't have any experience with them.
I just want to take advantage of this news to say: I love HTMX so much! :D It makes web development fun again. I can still use all the fancy js libs I want -- but my main logic lives on the server, using plain HTTP and HTML. Really clear and simple.
That doesn't need block chain though, just a public key.
I don't know why someone would mock that in the first place. Surely a starship with a built in matter replicator would use as many tablets as they found convenient.

Owning like six iPads wouldn't be a good use of the resources that would represent for me, personally. But I could do useful things with them, and if I could politely request a magic box to give me one, I'd have at least six around already.
Do you have any evidence for this claim?

Here’s their recovery process:
https://proton.me/support/set-account-recovery-methods

I don’t see there customer support call as a recovery method. I‘d expect that for paid accounts you could theoretically verify your identity to CS via payment, but in that case you lose the data anyway.
> If you're writing a CRUD app and mocking your database calls instead of just starting an actual Postgres instance before running the tests,

Actually that's wrong too. The production database will be different than the "testing Postgres instance", leading to bugs.

It turns out that whatever testing solution you use, if it's not the actual production instance and you're not using real production data, there will be bugs. Even then there's still bugs.

This is the simple truth: you can't catch all the bugs. Just put in Good Enough testing for what you're doing and what you need, and get on with life. Otherwise you will spend 99% of your time just on testing.
I think think the statement "humans lived in vicinity of a species that lends itself to domestication" is wrong. Horses do not lend itself to domestication, as stated earlier this process took thousands of years. No one would say, oh it just took humans a couple of thousands years todo X, well that was quiet easy.
Apple kills Pay Later feature ahead of Affirm integration
How many shots did he give LLMs at solving each question?

If you do it enough times I am sure you would eventually get 100% on these tests. but if you only get 100% every 10,000 tries it's probably not AGI..
What kind of derailleur can one get for $10?

Looking at jensonusa, the cheapest rear derailleur is a Shimano Altus 7/8 speed for $22.
If you enjoy this topic I also highly recommend "A Brief History of Intelligence" which goes into quite a bit of detail, is very readable, and ties in directly to the near term future of what intelligence will mean in our world. Really a very good book!
In fact, the article sugests it was a third party, for-profit DRM service, such as OverDrive, which publishers force libraries to use to lend audio and e-books, who sold the patron's data to advertisers. Perhaps this is what the GP comment intended to point out.
I suspect you're over-egging the amount of compliance that needs to be done and under-egging the filter of the existing big players mostly being American, who buy up competitors in order to maintain market dominance
I didn't, the comment I responded to did "poor critical thinkers who are poorly educated"
Yeah, there will be some incorrect papers.

But there are errors in the other direction too. How many deleterious effects will never be proven scientifically because it's incredibly exhausting to get thousands of participants and quantify their subjective wellbeing in a controlled way?
I've tried several over the years, most recently Molasses (Obsidian...), and because I want the files to be easily accessible across time and computers I've settled on just using .txt files with explicit titles.

Edit, as that didn't really answer the question: no, I don't have any digital visual note taking app I prefer. I use a paper notebook for that, because handwriting and sketching is engaging and I find I remember better what I was thinking at the time.
The Essence of Lagrange Multipliers
> This whataboutism ignores one very important point.

Reverse whataboutism is still whataboutism.

For example this predicate

> while still staying generally within the bounds of the law.

Completely ignores the fact that US companies have been found lying and deceiving to circumvent the barriers posed by the law.

But not only US companies, remember the diesel gate?

This other predicate

> (In China) by law every company is part-owned by the government itself

It's completely false, while this one

> The Ministry of State Security literally has employees who show up to these companies every day like normal workers

It's pure intellectual dishonesty . Every sufficiently advanced intelligence agency has spies. With the USA agencies being the largest employers for spies on the entire Planet.
Britain's second-largest city is forced to cut sanitation due to bankruptcy
Is there anywhere we can get a current status of this effort? At first glance there doesn't seem to be anywhere close to the full archive (there are only 182 items in that collection).
Yeah, I actually clicked on the article thinking that there would be no continuation.
I think they mean, "I'm thinking of creating an instance of Slack that people can join and chat who are in this stage of their journey", not that their idea for a new company is like Slack.
Confabulating if you want a non-"vulgar" word. Bulshitting if you don't care.
Ah... so it seems there is nothing deficient for artists. Just photographers?
Sweden is not Switzerland. And he died almost ten years ago.
Oh, that makes a lot of sense. Thank you!

What a great low-cost idea for multiplayer games.
Vercel is a (more?) opinionated ecosystem that influences higher adoption of Server-Side-Rendering and other features. This encourages projects to use more niche APIs like Suspense, and due to the capital, marketing, and bearish adoption of Vercel products by vocal parties (startups) - will influence React's developers to cater to them.

I'm agnostic because I quit full stack web development ~6 months ago. I think the product development story sucks and combined with the market economics of the current tech industry is just not fun or profitable to invest my career in.

It's -probably- a good thing that stuff like SSR becomes mainstream/required. But I really don't like that one of the main entities behind it, Vercel, has raised $563M as of their latest Series E as they steam towards an IPO of their Framework/Cloud offerings.
Ever since reading Children of Time, have never thought of Portia Spiders the same way again. Read it back to back with Blindsight, and it really shifted my view of consciousness.

And even current societies concepts of male/female. In Children of Time the Portia Spiders are Female dominant, and eat the males. Scale that up to an intelligent society and it was pretty interesting perspective change to see female characters debating if they should go hunt some males for dinner. And later discussing 'rights' and "of course males can't be equal, can't they just be happy if we let them live.."
Hopefully this works better for Proton than it has for OpenAI or Mozilla, from a non-profit mission perspective.
> Longevity, happiness, health, leisure, life satisfaction. Companies are there to make these possible, not to maximise the stock trading price.

No? This is exactly the opposite of why companies exist, they are specifically there to increase the stock price via development of their products. That we get better happiness via rising wealth standards is just a coincidence, albeit a very useful and historically true coincidence. And even then, companies can last quite a while trudging along but it will stop at some point if new innovation is not kept up in the form of new companies (as older companies are usually at capacity for hiring). Look at the youth unemployment rate in many European countries compared to the US.

> Are you aware that you can use the developer tools in your browser to set the price of the stock or your bank account balance to anything you like? You don't have to crumble your infrastructure, run from the mentally ill homeless people or bankrupt sick people to see those numbers.

Changing a measure does not change the underlying thing it's measuring, no more than I can time travel by changing a clock. Obviously people are talking about what those numbers represent, not the numbers themselves. GDP is a useful enough concept as I mentioned above, one that correlates well to overall citizen wealth. Europeans are generally quite a bit poorer than Americans, even with the addition of the value of free (or rather, "free") healthcare. Tech employees are even more so advantaged, as their health insurance is excellent while they make multiples of their European counterparts. It is not "libertarian" to acknowledge this fact, and it's one of the main reasons you see many European tech people moving to the US and Silicon Valley.
I get what you are saying.

I don't think you'll find a commercial database that does not have performance struggles of its own.

If you need to do a large data export, you can dump it off a read replica.

A big import, like you said, can be staged and then swapped into place.

Good luck. :)
> He made a unilateral decision to take as much classified information as he could possibly get his hands on and then leak it with no regards to the consequences that came with it.

As we used to say on /.:
"Citation needed".
Would love to hear more about how you’re using it
It's either/both - the "simple" method is to manually host. The more complex methods use runtime or compile-time reflection on the code to determine what gets loaded when (a la https://engineering.fb.com/2020/05/08/web/facebook-redesign/...)
> inference more expensive than training

That's a gamble. It's the whole idea behind a pre-trained model (GPT). If you make a really good model then you can use it a lot of times. That seems to be playing out as intended at the moment.

> very very very big matrix operation

To do efficiently, it's many slightly smaller very very big matrix operations.

> does it require advanced GPU capabilities

No, but GPUs don't have a lot of overhead for those very very big matrix operations.

> high costs because models are too large to fit on a single device

Engineer costs are high, and communication costs are also high. Those are mostly just barriers to entry though. Compute still dominates.

> competitors with more RAM

It's a little more complicated than that because extra RAM has speed-of-light delays and other such problems. If you don't expose a CUDA interface then you have a long hill to climb to get even a couple customers. A couple extra caches or other more esoteric memory APIs won't be easy for the industry to adopt (maybe a clever electrical engineer can fix that; I don't have hard proofs of those bounds).
> Maybe we look at the top down redistribution of wealth. There are so few people controlling so much money and influence.

Because that worked so well the last time Messrs. Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot tried it . . . funny how you can never have "top-down redistribution of wealth" without incurring prison camps, genocides, Cultural Revolutions, Red Guards, and Gulags.
>> It's really cool how it works

Pun intended? Please say yes.
> Considered a classic by who?

By just about everyone who's ever compiled a list of the greatest CS books of all time?

Here you go:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=classic+computer+science+books&t=b...

Count how many of those have SICP on their list (hint: most of them, excluding the ones that aren't actually lists of CS books -- e.g. the ones that have Jobs and Gates biographies, etc.)

I didn't just make that up, dude. And this isn't Wikipedia, either.
And that's fair enough.

The larger point of having a platform without a product still exists.

And I think this is still something where the idea is cooler than the current reality. Mostly because you can vaguely imagine the coolest version of this and you aren't being asked to put anything on the line for it.

Is there some version of this that's genuinely fun and engaging? Maybe so. The potential of non-destructive persistent changes to physical game pieces you own is pretty appealing.

Would I spend $300 for it? Hard no. Especially since the plinth has four slots, but they only give you cards in sets of three. I'd add a fourth card to the base sets and sell the cards in single units and in sets of 4. Three is really weird. It's a hot dog/bun situation.

But that doesn't even address the core issue. For the same price, I can get a game console. I can also get an Android tablet and a couple hundred NFC tags. The only thing you lose is the ability for the card itself to be a small pixelated image.

They claim they've raised $7277, which comes out to 21 base sets at $299 ($6279) and 2 deluxe sets at $499 ($998). And then he spent the last year delivering those 23 units. He claims 25 units sold, but I can't make the math work for that. 25 units at $299 would be $7475, so I'm going to have to guess that the prices have changed over the course of time. Which is normally fine, but that means the cost of these things have already gone up.

It just seems that from every angle I look at this thing, I see clear problems with bringing it to market as a viable product.
If I was successful with my career, I hope I would have saved up 50 dollars in 10 years so I could buy the new version of the software or buy an old used computer to run my old version on.
New York's Controversial Delay of Congestion Pricing
I think you're entirely forgetting about Rust, AI/ML/whatevs, or any of the other myriad topics delivered daily. It's what happens when you open up comments from anyone anywhere at anytime.
Yes I considered that option, but it's mathematically impossible. There's no way to make it so that a general purpose learned mathematical function can't be tweaked downstream to do whatever someone chooses.

So in that sense it's more like the behaviour of the pen and paper, or a printing press, than explosives. You can't force a pen manufacturer to only sell pens that can't be used to write blackmail, for instance. They simply wouldn't be able to comply, and so such a regulation would effectively ban pens. (Of course, there's also lots of ways in which these technologies are different to AI -- I'm not making a general analogy here, just an analogy to show why this particular approach to regulation is impossible.)
This is what you want, I guess:

https://docs.racket-lang.org/sicp-manual/index.html

https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/package/sicp

Trying to run the original language from the times of original publishing on contemporary systems is just a needless hassle.

...just some rabbit from a hole in some forum ;-)

edit: It's also not dead and linkrotten, as can be seen here: https://github.com/sicp-lang/sicp

addit: also from your favourite forum: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25442005
No question but I wanted to say, I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out which js framework was less of an overkill, and finding htmx was pure joy
Thank you. Like you, I also have the impression that folks at those AI safety orgs sincerely believe they're doing the right thing.

But I would ask them the same questions I would ask the politicians: Which "experts" did they consult to reach their conclusions? From whom did their "talking points" come?

I hope you're right that they and the politicians are willing to change course.
There’ve been significant shortages that made prescriptions hard to fill. That raises special challenges for the people who need it for daily functioning. The mechanisms required to patiently track down inventory to get their prescription filled are the ones people with ADHD are having trouble with.

Imagine if asthma medicine became so trendy that you had to hike up a mountain to get it. Great. If I could do that, I wouldn’t need the medicine in the first place.
Get rid of SMS based anti-spam on signup to be a convincing privacy first

Find a different anti-spam measure
If we are talking about tech companies, as stated in the great-grandparent comment, tech employees in the US have as much or more vacation time as Europeans. I can easily take multi-month vacations if I so choose (with some prior planning and assent of course), and that is a similar story for other tech employees too. The difference is that we just get paid much more for the same work.
I think it is "better" to go with the flow. I can't see TS competing for the data analysis niche any time soon!

Maybe try Pixi? [1] Python programming enjoyability really increased for me after using Pixi for dependencies, VSCode+Pylance [2] for editing, and Ruff [3] for formatting.

Pixi can install both python and dependencies _per project_. Then, I add this to .vscode/settings.json:

{
"python.analysis.typeCheckingMode": "strict",
"python.defaultInterpreterPath": ".pixi/envs/default/bin/python3"
}

and I'm all set!

--

1: https://pixi.sh

2: https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release#readme

3: https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/
really great to hear, i love that htmx helps folks that have been knocked out of web development get back into it
paper straws, conserve your water, wear your mask...

Just don't fix society, let capitalism sell you solutions to a broken society: it's more profitable... /s
The idea of running any internet-connected software with a push-update mechanism, built and controlled by a company in a country without a strong independent rule of law, should terrify far more people than it apparently does.

This is one of those 'It's not a problem until it is a problem, and then it's a big fucking problem' scenarios.
The first saas with a hidden cancellation fee! When I first saw it I ran away.
Our lab used to let you remote desktop in for that stuff, but it was unreliable at best (especially during project crunch times) because anyone physically at the lab could kick you off your computer by unplugging it. Was still really nice to have if you were letting a rendering run overnight.

On the Autodesk side, they give out free access to student accounts, so I had that stuff both in the lab and on my home computer.