skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All real people (not machines with lossless recall) are actually the second case, even if they think otherwise.

I tend to agree, but I suppose that the level of lossiness varies from person to person, and depends on training and concentration.

> the feeling of seeing something is all there is, whether you interpret those feelings as visual or otherwise

Interesting! Would you say that the same mechanism applies to the feeling of hearing or tasting things? Or are those fundamentally different from visual experiences?

And what about observing the real world, is that the same experience as replaying something in one's head, but using a different input source?
When people place a search query their intent is not always to purchase something (though the search results these days often seem to suggest otherwise).
I once went on an organized swim with wild marine mammals. What struck me was how many people on that trip could not swim and only relied on buoyancy aids and snorkels - I mean, guys, clue is in the activity title!

To be clear, this wasn't some swimming with captive dolphins, we were a few hrs out of port, in the middle of nowhere, in deep water.
Like a lot of anti-monopoly laws, the harmed party is not the consumer but other businesses.

No, you cannot simply refuse to give Apple their 30% (unless you are yourself big enough to negotiate an exemption; including waiving a 30% fee of your own for Apple's apps on your platforms) if you want access to their huge and very lucrative market.

Microsoft lost an anti-monopoly case because they bundled a free browser with Windows. Forcing your competitors to pay 30% and thus have higher costs and prices than your own competing services is a much more straightforward violation.
It can be a point in your favour but also something that you are asked to avoid. You both showed good knowledge and default choices and showed that you can implement a simple algorithm from scratch. Both are valuable points about your skills.

The main "result" of the interview shouldn't just be "does the code work". The process is far, far more important for understanding how you write code.
Pumped water storage is great, and I'm aware of it. We need more of it where possible.

It's highly dependent on the kind of landscape you have though. Great for places like Switzerland, much harder to find a suitable place for it in Texas or Australia.
I think we just need to be ok with the fact that people will die. Trying to attain a zero incident or zero death policy is completly unrealistic.
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> Is Amazon cutting out the author middle man and using A.I. and user data to generate books on its own?

Amazon has done just this elsewhere: https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/29/amazons-alexa-ai-animated-...

By the by, I’ve enjoyed my Kindle a whole lot more since turning on its airplane mode. I connect to WiFi to sync new books to it, but don’t give my Amazon overlords other opportunities to present AI slop from the vaults.
The price tag also seems like the people want it to be marketed as a robot. You could strap a motor and RC controller to a floatation device and waterproof it for less than a couple hundred dollars. Why do things that are meant for safety always have to be insanely priced?
I wasn't so much imagining each shell script being replaced with a binary, as I was imagining deploying a single static binary "sysadmin-DSL interpreter binary" — where that "interpreter" is just "Ruby with a custom prelude, all packed together" — such that I could then name that interpreter in the shebang line for my admin scripts written in that DSL.
Of all the ways I'd describe a samosa... spicy isn't the word I'd choose? They're so good except for the peas. Why oh why do they always sneak in peas?

I'd try some chicken 65 and biryani if they have fresh food for purchase.
Price controls are not the same as price fixing. Price fixing is done by cartels to ensure all their prices stay high. Price controls are implemented by governments to prevent price gouging.
What do you mean, "So?" This is maybe one step below being removed from the ability to have a checking account. He has been removed from Internet commerce with Zero Recourse and even gaslit by the company harming him.

This will keep happening because people like you will just flippantly continue saying, "It's not my problem." It will become your problem soon. As companies continue ignoring completely screwing a slowly growing percentage of people, that demographic will do what he will likely do next, call his local congressional representative to grab your company by the metaphorical ear.

Internet companies have incredible legal privilege right now. As expected, they are now abusing it as they have grown large enough. I'm glad these companies are filled with people like you because you don't even mask yourself. That is what will make the boot come down faster and harder.
IMO, the real headache is installing the supporting binaries ripgrep, fzf, lsp, tree-sitter, native-compilation, etc. I agree that emacs config should hew as close as possible to the defaults, and my init.el is pretty small. For the binaries, I build a docker container and run emacs in it. https://hub.docker.com/r/wwarner/emacs-gopy
Just another example of the US’s excessive liability culture that is gumming up the gears of society.
I have no idea why Indian snacks haven't taken the US market by storm. Yes, they can be spicy. But a lot of people like spicy (and they have differnt levels of spicy so it's not all mouth-burning). I look forward to a future where every gas station and truck stop in America has bags of Indian snacks.
I recently rewrote my 15 year old and very long/unmaintainable config. The main thing I did was break up my config into separate files per major mode. All package installation is in one file though, because minor mode packages are shared between multiple major modes.

That just solved the maintenance and editing problem. Each major mode only takes 5-100 lines of config. Lots of major mode specific custom code, but now I know where to look if something is off. Reasonably simple to evolve.
I use them a lot on allaboutberlin.com, because some readers are familiar with certain things and others are not. This lets me serve both audiences while keeping the guides short and straightforward.

I very rarely use footnotes except for citations, unless it's a precision that would be useless to all but the most erudite readers.
This is very exciting, California might be the first to pull it off at scale in the future.

However it's still 9% of the current MW capacity. We'll see how it ages and it costs in the long run. Most of the pilotable energy sources in the state remain nuke, hydro & fossil fuels.
I had this problem a few times with Vim — installed too many plugins and custom scripts, things breaking at random times, slowdowns that are hard to diagnose.

That's why I now just use VSCode with nvim emulation instead.
High speed rail could dethrone that, but it would take a lot of infrastructure.
Yes, how dangerous is it? Please enlighten me.
I thought that invoking the command without an argument toggled it between off and on, but apparently that's only when it's invoked interactively.
Indeed, as long as you know the fundamentals, whether it be code or cooking, you can make something quite good. Recipes are just for help, to be a true master, you'll need to learn from a beginner's mind.
Peas are great in samosas and increase the protein content which is important if you're on a vegetarian diet as many Indians are.
At the AI engineer fair, or some other event?
Yes, you can incorporate more-permissively licenced code into a GPL codebase. Tokio seems to be MIT which I think is compatible
Necessary or not, ignorance revealed induces shame in people. I recently had a similar experience with a coffee shop: felt like I'd discovered something cool in a foreign locale, and then learned that it wasn't a hole in the wall but an international chain. Perhaps shame isn't the right word. Because, as I reread what I've written, I'm describing a perceived loss of exclusivity. The feeling of being ordinary, when one once felt special.
> But I find there’s a strangely good feeling to walking away from someone who’s making presumptions about their right to my time, attention, and money while spitting in my face, and I feel like I’m a normal enough person to be a reasonable barometer on that sentiment.

This reminds of the dungeon scene in Monthy Python's Life of Brian.

"Prisoner:
Oh, what I wouldn't give to be spat at in the face. I sometimes hang awake at night dreaming of being spat at in the face.
"
You will have no problem growing perilla. You'll have the opposite problem, in fact.
You cannot manufacture new information out of the same data.

Why should you believe the output of the LLM just because it is formatted a certain way (i.e. "formal logical relationships")?
I trip to my local Indian grocery showed me very quickly that Indians must really love their snacks. Some of the namkeen are really addictive.
>inflation-proof assets

Gold was not very valuable to the Aztecs since they had a lot of it. What exactly is "inflation proof"?

I think saying anything about the far future is just a projection of fantasy. Reality will crush such fantasies under its weight.
"we can't figure out why this thing restarts so we seamlessly made it restart with no downtime by having a load-balancer/backup that kicks in when it kicks down"
Membership loyalty cards typically gate "yellow tag" pricing. Some yellow tags are for bulk purchase discounts but some are just "discounted prices". The FTC says that it's deceptive pricing to advertise a sale while raising prices, but since yellow tags are membership pricing, not a discount, it's defensible to raise prices with the original price as a yellow tag rate, available only to members. Yellow tags are not always promotional prices.
This is very exciting, California might be the first to pull it off at scale in the future.

However it's still 9% of the current MW capacity. We'll see how it ages and it costs in the long run. Most of the pilotable energy sources in the state remain nuke, hydro & fossil fuels. Safety issues, notably fires, notably in Australia's grid are still an issue.
Is this some kind a humiliation fetish I'm too poor to understand?
I built a starter kit [1] with this in mind: how can I leverage built-in functionality to the max? The stock setup installs only one package (`which-key`—now going to be included with Emacs 30!) and all other packages are opt-in. There's no framework: you just clone the starter kit once and tweak to your liking. I use this setup on most of my machines and I find it works pretty well.

On my personal machine, I have +2,600-line `init.el`. Fortunately I understand everything in there and I routinely modify it. It's been a long time since I declared bankruptcy. The built-in `use-package` macro really helps keep config tidy.

[1]: https://codeberg.org/ashton314/emacs-bedrock
for some reason they don't carry pocari sweat, which despite its unfortunate name is the best sports drink I've tasted
> Galileo's ordeal with the inquisition was mostly due to him making fun of the pope (probably not a good idea).

And at least one history I read on the subject questions whether Galileo was even intending to make fun of the Pope. My memory of the basic story that book told:

- The Pope encouraged Galileo to publish a book with his new theories, but just told him to add a theological "escape hatch" (provided by the Pope himself) to make sure he wasn't viewed as heretical

- The book is a dialogue between three people, one of whom, "Simplicio", is kind of stupid and backwards the whole book, but in the last chapter says effectively, "Actually I've just been pretending this whole time to be foolish; but actually I"m wise, and let me tell you why." He then gives the Pope's argument and the book ends -- giving the Pope the last word, as it were.

- At the time no books can be printed unless they're officially approved by the Church as being non-heretical. The book was reviewed, and approved, by two different Papal censors in two different cities. It was only sometime later that the Pope became offended by his words being placed in Simplicio's mouth; in what the author I read thought was almost certainly a misunderstanding.

As the author said, Galileo was encouraged to write the book; was told some theology to put into it; he did so. The book was submitted for review and approved twice. What more could Galileo have done?

If I could read Renaissance Italian I'd go back and read it and judge for myself. Anyone here read it that can weigh in on the theory that Galileo never meant to offend the Pope?
This has been the bane of my existence for making mobile apps. I always want them to work offline as well as online so when I start developing it, it just ends up with me diving deep into CRDT research instead of actually building the app.
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that and fresh fenugreek!
But is it a blog if it doesn't have an RSS feed?

…okay sure, technically yes, but not one I will be able to follow, or remember to read until it pops up in someone else's aggregator or links in the future.
They’d snap your hands off for
distribution and marketing costs as low as 30%.

Retail markups were much higher on physical software.
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> 80% of your economy? Or more expensive energy?

Logically they are the same thing. Economy makes things with energy.
That might be true in some places. In my company, they've systemically cut QA positions and testing gets pushed off. We spend about 25% of our time fixing bugs and defects every sprint. They are still pushing us for more speed.
The DMA was badly drafted, and it's quite protectionist. The EU does not write good tech legislation overall, because it does not understand tech industry at a cultural level, having never built out its own.
Most Indian stores carry them. In SF, the one in the Mission definitely does. I think the one downtown does too.
> They're just not. The thing they're trying to avoid is a customer discovering a product on Amazon, then immediately finding it for less on the manufacturer's website.

So they are using most favoured nation deals? Whether you believe they have a good reason for it or not (I don't think they do) doesn't make it any less anti-competitive

> It's their business, which they've built over decades of immense investment and effort.

I don't care how much money and effort it takes. That's their problem, not the customers'.

They have also built it up by exploiting their workers, creating inferior knockoffs and then kicking the original off the platform, taking as much money from suppliers as possible, and introducing paid placements so that vendors need to advertise to show up even when searched for by name.

> And the immense value of what they've built is evident in the difficulty other massive retailers like Walmart, Target, Kroger, etc. are having building similar online retail businesses.

Perhaps that might have something to do with all of Amazon's best efforts to exert ever more control over suppliers. Or leveraging their success in other areas (looking at you AWS) to do things that would not be profitable otherwise in order to eliminate competition (Diapers.com anyone?).
I think that is not so simple to solve. Limit it to some column width? Someone will complain that it only uses one third of their screen. Unlimited width? Someone will complain about whole width text. But the good thing is, that there is reader mode and evem if there wasn't, you could zoom in or resize the browser window or send to new window and resoze only that.
It's not a generation, it's a type of person and a cultural attitude. The majority of older people own nothing and had no say in the running of the world.
I've been getting these too — they've largely supplanted the plausibly-human-written glurge I used to get (mil-SF and disturbingly specific romance subgenres). I don't think I've given Amazon any reason to believe I'd want them, though. My guess is that these are just the highest-expected-profit books that Kindle has, and it's what you get if Kindle doesn't have a more specific signal for you.
Volume Shadow Copies (Win Svr 2003) on NTFS were the first implementation by Microsoft of CoW. But it was limited to VSS snapshots, so not useful for day-to-day storage usage.

DevDrive is not a derivative of ReFS, it is ReFS with some file system filter bits turned off among a couple of other things. DevDrive is a collection of features centered around ReFS for the purposes of speeding up file read/writes (think node modules).
Unfortunately, the anti-AI discourse is a vocal minority in the grand scheme of things. As long as engagement metrics are up and the marginal benefits outweigh the marginal costs, the AI slop will continue.

Boomers using Meta AI to create nonsensical images on Facebook and WhatsApp aren't complaining about it on social media.
Yes, you could run all that on an instance < 8GB. I have kafka and clickhouse running on a 2GB vm.

I wouldn't choose kafka for this setup as you could just use ch for everything
I don't see how any of those technologies necessitates cybernetics, especially in the traditional sense of mimetic devices or brain computer interfaces.

It doesn't seem like a great argument for declaring these technologies, which have very little to do with the content of TFA, are imminently becoming mainstream.
There's already plenty of resentment aimed at "big tech". Gen AI will probably accelerate it.
Something that tickled me occasionally was much of my extended family assumed Apple was paying me to make the point of sale app, so restauranteurs would buy iPhones/iPads to use at their restaurant.
American food culture grows one fad at a time so you just have to wait until a few food influencers make some viral videos about the snacks and it’ll take off from there.

There’s just so much unique cuisine in the world and we’re all fat enough already :-)
There's a tension here which I can't quite put my finger on, but perhaps it is: If everything is a people problem, why do we need engineers at all? And if the business can't be run solely by MBAs and project managers, and we bring on engineers for that last part, is it really just a people problem they're solving?
> It's a category error to attribute intentions to algorithms because if an algorithm has intentions then so must numbers and arithmetic operations of numbers.

I don't see how that makes it a category error? Like, assuming that numbers and arithmetic operations of numbers don't have intentions, and assuming that algorithms having intentions would imply that numbers and arithmetic operations have them, afaict, we would only get the conclusion "algorithms do not have intentions", not "attributing intentions to algorithms is a category error".

Suppose we replace "numbers" with "atoms" and "computers" with "chemicals" in what you said.

This yields "As compositions of [atoms] there must be some [element (in the sense of part, not necessarily in the sense of an element of the periodic table)] in the composite with intentionality or the claim is that it is an emergent property in which case it becomes another unfounded belief in some magical quality of [chemicals] and I don't think [chemicals] have any magical qualities other than [...]." .

What about this substitution changes the validity of the argument? Is it because you do think that atoms or chemicals have "magical qualities" ? I don't think this is what you mean, or at least, you probably wouldn't call the properties in question "magical". (Though maybe you also disagree that people are comprised of atoms (That's not a jab. I would probably agree with that.)) So, let's try the original statement, but without "magical".

"As compositions of elementary operations there must be some element in the composite with intentionality or the claim is that it is an emergent property in which case it becomes another unfounded belief in some [suitable-for-emergent-intentionality] quality of computers and I don't think computers have any [suitable-for-emergent-intentionality] qualities [(though they do have properties for allowing computations)]."

If you believe that humans are comprised of atoms, and that atoms lack intentionality, and that humans have intentionality, presumably you believe that atoms have [suitable-for-emergent-intentionality] qualities.

One thing I think is relevant here, is "we have nothing showing us that there exist [x]" and "it cannot be that there exists [x]" .

Even if we have nothing to demonstrate to us that numbers-and-operations-on-them have the suitable-for-emergent-intentionality qualities, that doesn't demonstrate that they don't.

That doesn't mean we should believe that they do. If you have strong priors that they don't, that seems fine. But I don't think you've really given much of a reason that others should be convinced that they don't?
I think you can blame influencers for that. Things get trendy for being cheap and then stop being cheap.
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Yes, when people will throw money at you to pick low hanging fruit, it is simply a matter of not squandering the incredible opportunity.

This very quickly becomes not the case due to the limited availability of... low hanging fruits.

This is of course not mentioned because why let reality get in the way of a good story.

Folks love a good fortune cookie - 'it's a people problem' - it only has 2 words! :)
Indeed.. temperature differences are what drives weather. If the planet is uniformly warmer, does that affect temperature differences? It might even make the differences lesser if the warming effect is stronger in cool places or at night. Which is the case, as I understand it.
It is how all markets worked (and still work in developing countries).

I have seen my grandparents haggling with a merchant over the price of fruits and flour and everything else.

Developed countries just had richer populations that could afford to pay a high enough price such that merchant can eat the volatility and not have to pay the labor costs of having an employee to haggle.

However, due to automation, price discrimination for low profit margin/high volume goods is more able to hone in someone’s ability/willingness to pay. Similarly, buyers are able to scan the internet very quickly for what other sellers are willing to sell at.

And technically, price discrimination has existed for a long, long time in the US too via coupons and mailed discounts based on purchasing history. Only thing that changes is the frequency.
Way too much moral panic.

Having prices adjust regularly is a good thing. The status quo is that stores err on the side of setting prices too high.
We all know once this is a thing, it's going to happen everywhere.
I got my degree in the mid 90's and let me tell you - high school guidance counsellors in the 1980's had no clue at all what computer science was.

I arrived at university expecting to be writing a lot of programs and was soon struggling with a heavy load of mathematics and proofs. Our introduction to computer programming professor made it clear that that class was the only one where we would be taught to program. Computer science, he said, was mostly done with paper and pencil.

It wasn't quite true. We eventually did a lot of programming, but it was nothing like I was expecting.