skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that is as true now. Microsoft has made in-roads in a number of markets, which has to concern some competitors. Within the last few years they left slack in the dust by bundling teams. They also bought github just a few years ago. A couple years before that linkedin, which there are still no real competitors to. Their cloud market share has been increasing and they're increasingly pushing the integration of the Microsoft 365 suite and github with azure, which has been pushing more enterprises towards their offerings. Microsoft has also started throwing money around to organizations which they want to work with, such as OpenAI and G42, effectively choosing winners.
Your Mac doesn’t know where you are at all times, whether you’re walking or running or in a vehicle. I also suspect it doesn’t know your social media habits as well, although everyone’s different in that regard.
> WSL, becoming again a Java vendor, adoption of Rust, FOSS culture on DevDiv, VSCode eating VS licenses...

These are all nice things for developers, but I don't think they are actually good for Microsoft in the long-term or their bottom line in the short term. At least not the way they've been executed.

If anything, the treatment of Microsoft's older cash cows under Nadella has been disastrous, essentially throwing goodwill and money away - e.g., the quality of and feature development in Windows.
So who will train the AI?
Sophia Script for Windows is the current actively developed debloat tool. Updated today.

https://github.com/farag2/Sophia-Script-for-Windows
I suspect the answer is yes.
Problem with Google summed up. Ethics and pseudo sciences folks wanting to opinionate technology. That's akin to a kitchen knife refusing to cut gift wrapping paper because that's inappropriate use of a knife. The silliness
My observation is that both of those could be linked. We might be reaching the limits of technology.

It means that to push boundaries we need more money to buy/construct new tests. In other words, you need exponentially more money. Which leads to the kind of blockbusterization of science. You don't get hundred blockbusters each year, instead you get two, by team with track record. Which sounds a lot like institutional decay.
> Nobody ever leaves the BPO willingly – there’s nothing else to do. She sees her ex-colleagues when she’s on her way to work, hawking vegetables on the market or trying to sell popcorn by the side of the road. If there were other opportunities, people would seize them. She just has to keep her head down, hit her targets, and make sure that whatever happens, she doesn’t get laid off.

And this is the kicker: it's all very well for us to wring our hands about how their conditions could be better, but people are voluntarily choosing to do jobs like this because it's still better than the alternatives. Staring at video footage for 8 hours a day to get paid a dollar an hour sucks, but it sucks less than walking around in a traffic jam in the African sun, trying to hawk bags of popcorn to drivers and constantly risking getting run over with no certainty of getting paid.
Ironically, I find it hard to believe that the majority of iPhone owners would know how to use anything else. Today's America has been preconditioned to "Google it" and "look it up on YouTube" for years. If all roads lead to Rome, cutting off the Spotlight search default might not add up to much in the long run.
To be fair I don't always read the responses to my comments.
What bothers me is not that it displays web results but that it forces Bing results and forces Edge to open said links despite it not being the default system wide web browser.

Now that sucka.
This is the most boring knuckledragging subthread I’ve ever read here. Arguing we shouldn’t bother knowing anything but what’s underneath our nose, without qualifications. Not even a theoretically useful philosophy, such as solipsism is being espoused here.

All the while masquerading as intelligent conversation. It’s only interesting until you follow it to its conclusion. Anti-intellectualism in a nutshell, and you should be embarrassed to be seen in the vicinity. :D
This couldn’t happen because of minimum wages. And yes I would be happy if white people would stop colonizing every piece of land and people they can find to fiddle with their little capitalist toys.
Yeah I'm an old dinosaur still on SublimeText. For me, quickly searching across all my repos is the most important feature, and I like Sublime's search the best.

Also I have so many keyboard shortcuts memorized to where I couldn't even tell the shortcut, my hands just do it on command.
Eh, I think that’s setting students up for failure once they enter graduate studies or more open ended problems that don’t come from a problem bank. Productive struggle is a perfectly valid approach to teaching, it’s just less pleasant in the moment (since the students are expected to struggle).
Master's studying representation theorems in nonmonotonic logic, left academia for industry during my PhD. Fun spaced out maths problems. I tried to formalize my thesis in Lean but it is nowhere near as simple as you make it out to be.
I think that's a common experience!
> Not everyone can store their data in cloud

This is a nearly verbatim conversation I’ve had three or four times in the last twelve months:

“Why not just use blob storage for the data ingest?”

“We have security standards for sensitive data; we have to use private links and validated protocols and systems.”

“Okay, what’s step two? Where does the data end up? Where do end users consume it from?”

“Power BI!”

“The local app?”

“No, the online version.”

“You just said you can’t use cloud services like blob storage!”

“We can’t!”

“You’re using Power BI!”

“That’s different!”

“How?”

“Err…”
Awesome. I think lack of math education leads to gullibility, and there is so little recourse for people that have been scammed, it just screws people for life. Hiding behind interest rates is like selling snake oil in a circus, but for modern times.
As bad as the wages might seem to someone making 1000x this, it still might be a decent salary for someone living in abject poverty and also offers the possibility that their services become more in demand as AI takes over our world which allows them to demand higher wages. Much earlier in my life I was the one to be negative on capitalism but after experiencing this process first hand I am a supporter of it. Although there are many situations where it hasn't delivered the intended benefits but in aggregate I would bet that it has.
Good the abundance of sodium and its stable state is going to give us a huge potential for power storage. I have so many potentially spicy pillows in my house I'll be glad to have it swapped for sodium any day.
Low latency, deep blacks (iirc)
Yes (to a reasonable approximation), after calling:

UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());

(https://docs.oracle.com/javase%2Ftutorial%2Fuiswing%2F%2F/lo...)
> I am ashamed of being part of the tech industry.

Unlike these folks, you don't have to be. Quit.
found it again with watching, playing and building online videogames.

an indie game renaissance is underway, and it’s fantastic.
Commenting here for posterity when Apple loses their antitrust case.

Smile!

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Yeah. Look at all the benefits of colonization in African countries. Look at the great job we are doing. Giving them money to alienate themselves looking at the shit we produce. Such a great advancement for humanity. Thanks lord for bringing civilization to the savages
How Olympic athletes prepare for extreme heat
I guess most Iphones are sold in a bundle with a carrier contract. Those bundles would become impossible. Without this scheme, most Iphone users would notice how overpriced their shiny status symbol actually is.
Do not know why but still it's a problem for me to shuffle cards
This might be relevant:

> According to the complaint, the new ISA doesn't permit the nuclear plant to have automatically running backup power generation, which is fine for planned outages, but not so much for unexpected ones. In that case, the datacenter would apparently be able to use power from the other nuclear reactor as a form of backup.
https://archive.ph/FgwkA
If you didn’t know it, why not learn it now? Here’s your opportunity, one of today’s 10k.

Arguing you shouldn’t need to learn it isn’t impressive in any shape or form. It’s middle-brow level (non)curiosity, and less than welcome here.
I vouched for this post. Not sure why it or previous submissions were dead. Seems interesting.
Jason Ladanye is a remarkable magician
And he's still more lucid than Biden when he actually begins to speak.
It's not going to directly teach you how to build a harmonizer, but this guy has a series of incredible videos on audio processing that might be helpful: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-wATfeyAMNoirN4idjev...
People like to dismiss memorization because you can only use it to solve very simple problems, but someone once gave me the analogy that to "you can't write a symphony without having memorized all the notes first", and I've found that to be a great analogy. By memorizing the simple stuff, you can tackle the hard stuff.
The deep connection between mathematics, art and magic
There are levels of gray between no AI and exploit poor countries.

All of the AI companies are extremely well capitalised and can afford to be better.
I honestly think African workers should continue to get “exploited” like this. This is the exact same way China got exploited and that let them bootstrap their entire roaring economy. Not to mention, hawking at intersections isn’t as bad as it gets in some parts of Africa. Literally dying of hunger is a possibility too.
If training AI requires exploitation, we should simply not train AI.
It’s planned. I’ll do something actually useful for people, work in medical/social care or maybe go back to farming (what my family has been doing since generations).

Feeding people with something else than marketing bullshit to their brain, feeding them something they can eat.
How is this science? Of course they babble in the language and accent that they are exposed to... What else would it be?
Sounds like a decent wage for that part of the world. Looks like on the medium-high end folks are making $600 a month there. Not sure how many hours worked but conservatively towards the high end that works out to $3-4 an hour.
Directly copying the licensed design of the Swiss railway clock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_railway_clock
Pretty good Audio Developer Conference talk on it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJUmmcGKZMI
Sounds like an admirable goal. I wish you luck.
Yea, I was going to say, there's no way the police would have reacted that way if the mother wasn't black and working class. If she was a white professional, she would have been treated with kid gloves by everyone in the justice system. The busybody nosey neighbors would have of course still reported the kid no matter what race she was.
I've repeatedly encountered research I'd have liked to use, but which was inaccessibly buried by the pipeline from academic research to patents, to optional failed startup, to bigco portfolio entombment. And wished for an industrial policy dialed more towards a progression from research, to open source and community exploration, to cottage commercial, to small-scale industrial. Or consider a slider from non-competes, to California I'm-working-at-a-competitor-tomorrow, to China and-I've-brought-stuff - I'd like to see more California and China than not. Our optimization for pharma and VC, often seems terminally ill fitted for progress along many vectors.
Reagan...?
> Why Are Locals Eating Beef From Brazil?

To directly answer the question in the headline, it seems that almost all locally produced beef in Montana becomes an “anonymous commodity crisscrossing the country”, so the origin of the product you get at the supermarket is a sampling of the overall U.S. market, and Montana beef is only 1% of that. And Brazilian beef is more than 1% of the U.S. market, so Montanans are more likely eating Brazilian beef.
They've been around forever, originally with zinc-air batteries. That must have failed somehow.
Not being able to take ideas and turn them into products clients want is solely a product management issue.
I’m also not sure what’s the problem. We’ve been doing globalization for decades and it sounds like they pay market rate for office jobs where not many (office) jobs exist. Manufacturing has been much worse of a work environment and we seem to have gotten over that collectively
it's a mere correction, it's still higher than pre-covid
Claim to be hiring. I'm not convinced most postings are legitimate.
This is a natural outcome when governments create rules that in effect solidify a market practice. It becomes irrelevant over time and fails to change because the rules will not allow for it, and even if they did, committees are not known for being industry leaders.

In education the solution is simple and effective - cut all federal student aid. The educational institutions that have strong industry ties and therefore the best outcomes will persist. Those that were warming chairs to hand out fake degrees will go under. Let it fail for the admins, because it's already failing the students.
>And yes I would be happy if white people would stop colonizing every piece of land and people they can find to fiddle with their little capitalist toys.

May I suggest reading a history book on the Muslim conquest of the Balkans and Iberia? If not for Muslim colonialism Spain and Austria would have never had to become world powers to survive.
Excerpt from an article about these findings:

For a more granular look, comparing individuals instead of population averages, I recently joined Luke and her team, including Dugas, to examine activity and energy expenditure in a large, multiyear analysis known as the Modeling the Epidemiological Transition Study (METS). More than 300 participants wore accelerometers similar to a Fitbit or other fitness tracker 24 hours a day for an entire week while their daily energy expenditure was measured with doubly labeled water. We found that daily physical activity, tracked by the accelerometers, was only weakly related to metabolism. On average, couch potatoes tended to spend about 200 fewer calories each day than people who were moderately active: the kind of folks who get some exercise during the week and make a point to take the stairs. But more important, energy expenditure plateaued at higher activity levels: people with the most intensely active daily lives burned the same number of calories each day as those with moderately active lives. The same phenomenon keeping Hadza energy expenditure in line with that of other populations was evident among individuals in the study.
As is often the case in this discussion, the die hard security people will quote the definition of “true” multi-factor with the standard “at least two of something you ____”, but this level of security isn’t needed for most sites.

I find it helpful to think of most “2-step” logins as simply an extension of passwords (one-factor), plus an admission that both users and web sites/apps are completely incapable of following the rules of password management. Users can’t stop reusing passwords, and web sites can’t properly store them and avoid getting hacked.

2 step logins are a method to force users to use a password that changes every 30 seconds, and that password is unique per web site/app. It shouldn’t be seen as a true multi-factor in the traditional sense.
Probs less of a don't use dart motivation and more of a "here's another option if you're a python dev". Especially since nobody seems in love with the current state of desktop UI frameworks for Python.

Also potentially a move to make Flutter more of a cross language standard for interfaces to oppose electron?
Gemini is solid. I’ll give them a year or two before they start building an unscalable moat.
RISC-V Emulator for Sophgo SG2000 SoC (Pine64 Oz64 / Milk-V Duo S)
There's broke and there's broke.

One of my in-laws bought a house in the suburbs. She kept her low-wage job downtown, despite pay being average for her vocation, and she could easily get a job closer to her new home.

So now she has a long commute, and decided to get a petrol car.

Despite knowing very well that petrol is taxed heavily and electricity is cheap here in Norway, petrol cars have significantly higher road tax and congestion charge than EVs here. The distance she needs to commute is well within what even a first-gen Leaf could do during winter, so she had plenty of EV options.

She also knew the job had no parking for employees, so she has to park at a public parking facility, which downtown costs a fortune.

Basic math skills shows that between the petrol, the road tax and congestion charge and the parking, that car is costing her half her daily paycheck each time she goes to work.

Didn't take long after she got the car till she started complaining she was "broke each month".
Proofs and Refutations is a great book.
> Typical thought leader dogma aside, using pizza as a metaphor for team size has always been silly to meaningless.

An easy way to see it fall apart is to imagine a team that each eats 3-4 slices of pizza, or a team that only eats one slice each.
The average monthly HOUSEHOLD income in Kenya is ~$160/mo and ~$250/mo in Nairobi [0]. Uganda is even poorer than Kenya.

$1 per hour is around market rate for this kind of a role (some kind of college education).

This kind of BPO work is how Kenya (and Uganda - they're using the same model) graduate up the services ladder.

Edit: these are employees in a Tier 4 city in Uganda. $200/mo is a great salary in a rural town like Gulu.

[0] - https://reall.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Understanding-H...
Farmers exploit workers all the time, probably even more so than the tech world. And, notably I think, the expectation has people doing backbreaking labor in the middle of a shapeless field, instead of sitting in an air conditioning room watching videos and occasionally typing things.
Current electrons in France are an example. People who hate reach other work together to account a majority of the extreme right.

This will stay in place for one more day, staying from Monday we will have the usual political mess.
Every day we stray further from God.

jk, this is amazing
It sure would make interviews easy though.
Anyone sane can't actually favor such a system at home using cameras to a system with existing technology(check other comments).
These systems maybe make sense in environments where cameras are already installed but not at home...
Objectively my country is the most free, you can whip out a swastika or one of those stupid Russian Z symbols here and nobody's going to put you in jail. You might deservedly suffer reputational harm, but that's it.

The system is far from perfect, and it has suffered horribly in the part 20 years from loss of ad revenue, but my local Mercury News is going to give me better local reporting than Pravda would for Muscovites, or Xinhua for anyone.
That would be very sensible approach, but the EU refused to enter any negotiations until the UK started the withdrawal process.
my issue with these hacks is that the moment you want to do something not already implemented, you have to now learn not only how to do it on the original platform but also figure out how to hack it into the hack. e.g. keep screen on, Bluetooth, gps, etc.
Hey! jqjq author here. Some time :) but surpassingly not that much, after getting over some major hurdles like how to mix recursive decent parsing and infix operators (precedence climbing is nice) and how to eval jq's call semantic that uses thunk/lambdas args it was mostly to grind through the rest. Actually string interpolation was quite tricky also. Also helped that i've worked on various jq other implementations and also written quite a lot of jq in general :)
> I would think there would be a long list of potential sellers.

But the problem is that the buyers are inconsistent.

I remember a story before Covid about a chef in Boston(?) who was trying to buy everything locally. Meat, in particular, was expensive because everybody in the chain was pricing for if they only sold a small amount and had to cover the unsold rest as a loss. Everybody was de-risking the transaction at each transaction point.

Once the chef committed to buying a completely consistent amount every single month, he could buy meat for about 80% less since the chef was now the one who was now on the hook for losses.

Everybody always seems to write these articles starting from a proposition that "farmers are stupid"--farmers are NOT stupid. Farmers do things they way they do because it makes hard-nosed economic sense.

If you want a different result, you're going to need to change the economic system around the farmers. However, you need to understand that "consolidation" is always going to be more profitable than not. This is why farmers started co-ops in the first place.
All of the good things you know came from a sea of bad things. There does not exist a world where only "perfectly designed" products and tools exist.
Thanks a lot. I’ll probably earn less money, but waking up and getting out of bed every morning will be much more meaningful.
Wasn't that the point of Radio Free Europe and others?
No doubt the impact of Europe on Africa has hurt but are brining jobs to Africa a bad thing? At this point Africa probably receives more harm from its own residents than outside influences.

Nobody said anything about savages. Please don’t bring negativity into a conversation.
We got a Turkish/Greek rescue ~ 3 years ago. Wildly intelligent, can follow simple commands in both languages but prefers to protest in Greek (oi!) and switches to Turkish whenever she wants something (isterim!)
Poetry at least helps with that for Python. It's all still a mess though.
Also check out the blog (https://signalsmith-audio.co.uk/writing/2023/stretch-design/) and corresponding library on GitHub.
Any teacher who simply forbids the use of ChatGPT is living in a fantasy world.

Source: I teach for a living.
I wish that were the case, but there's not much that can be automated with a CNC in the production of these board patterns (I've tried, a lot). The parts that can be aren't related to actually making the pattern itself: flattening, handhold routing, and the juice groove.

There are some generic-ish jigs that a CNC and 3D printer help with, but those don't tend to change with board pattern.

Economies of scale would be realized by making lots of the same board, but then you're not doing custom one-offs.
you should try API Platform
If we want a society where all humans are equal, my point still stands. I am imagining a future society that fulfills its obligation to equality among all its members. Perfect openness is the only solution.

In your sex offender example, the sex offender would still be allowed to maintain their secrecy, but they would forgo their right to observe the thoughts or actions of those members who are completely open.
Will it work for Africa or is there too much corruption there?
What causes migraines? Study of 'brain blackout' offers clues
A 47 person company with 15 teams sounds like a nightmare to me.