skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for making me think a bit deeper :)

After some review, no, I do not think I would alone use "in" in somehow, I guess, circunscribing the probable, positive effects that I meant of emergence and network effects to ML.-

In a certain sense, I think there's something "fundamental", a primitive, to ML and Transformers and such "big-data" and information techniques such as they are being applied to AI, that puts them up there with emergent phenomena and network effects in terms of constituting (or manifesting, or following, or embodying ....) some very fundamental principles.-

So, in a sense, I am more and more leaning towards thinking that (particularly when applied to AI and the search for AGI) "primitives" such as emergence (particularly) are somehow to be brought to bear ...

PS. As an illustration, look into JEPA and other more "holistic" approaches to simulating or achieving the "I" in AI. Approaches that are made up of very complex systems interacting with each other (some of which are Transformers, or verbal) but not entirely ...

Now, coming back to the "in", above ...

... could emergence and network effects have use in ML itself (as in, integrated or taken advantage of in these systems) and the answer would also be yes, I think.-

That is to say, emergence, network effects, ML ... consciousness perhaps, and other "fundamentals" might constitute - both as parts of larger solutions and incorporated within each other - useful building blocks ...

Along these lines, there are some interesting "intersections" that I am exploring:

- Bio electric signaling. Turns out neurons are great, but they are not the end-all of biological electrical signaling

- Proprioception in ML, AI (!), and, of course robotics. There's something about having a body or being "embodied" that has some bearing here I am sure ...

- JEPA (I and V) an other approaches that are hitting the problem from a more "holistic"/complex approach, trying to imitate or use "higher order" systems working together

We do live in interesting times :)
(And, I do not mean this in the overloaded sense of the Chinese saying to one's enemies ...)
How to avoid flying on a Boeing 787 this summer
The Lenna image isn't whimsical, it's a cropped nude photo. The people against it don't want image processing to be boring, they want it to be more inclusive. There are hundreds of other whimsical examples that would not be alienating to a good chunk of women.
TUI for Managing WiFi on Linux
There are many ways to sandbox Javascript, both serverside and browser-side.

Are there any ways to "sandbox" DOM access? I.e. give untrusted 3rd parties access to a DOM element in a predefined spot? AFAIK the only tech that allows for this is iframes, which are unfortunately heavy and slow. I'm writing an app that can host plugins, and unfortunately, I think giving plugins DOM access means they can now literally do literally _anything_.
It doesn't really seem reasonable to accuse someone of moving goalposts that you've just brought into the conversation, especially when they were allegedly set by a third party.
It will never cease to be funny how inaccessible "a11y" is if you don't already know what it means. Mike Judge couldn't even make this stuff up.
I don't remember when's the last time I tasted soap, but it's just something you don't forget.

At least in one of my chem classes we where taught bases vs acids and we definitely tasted soap then.

Also, showering.
I heard the German rail network suffers from frequent delays from chronic under-investment. Have you found it to be the case?
Stressing the "always" makes the argument valid only because it's a wordier version of "ideas can always be made more precise and complete, therefore no idea is perfectly precise and complete," which has nothing to do with writing. If we try to salvage the argument by making the assumption that the author obviously meant some ideas are perfect, but only written ideas, this becomes "unwrittendown ideas can always be made more precise and complete, therefore no unwrittendown idea is perfect". Which is vacuously valid in that the antecedent and consequent are identical.

The argument is either merely asserting the conclusion or invalid. I guess it's a matter of judgment which one is the charitable interpretation of the author's meaning.

Perhaps the most charitable interpretation is that the quoted bit isn't intended as an argument at all, just a restatement to cast an already-established conclusion in a different light. It's presented as a "shocking" additional implication, but perhaps it's the shock that's supposed to be novel, not the implication.
The Quiet Return of Eugenics
Hello :) all of the resources mentioned here are great! One step I’d add to the learning part (and it’s what we did when building Jacob’s) is to spend a lot of time trying out existing implementations to determine what you like and don’t like.

For example, many of them don’t have great low end. Some are “sluggish” and need external enveloping. Getting a sense for what’s out there can help to provide a North Star when you write your own. Some classics are the Eventide H3000, IZotope Vocal Synth, TC Voice Live, Antares Harmony Engine, and Soundtoys Little Alterboy.
I did, it was yet another “I use it because I always use it” post, but longer. Absolutely 0 value.

But if you’re going to behave like a child I’ll skip the rest. Enjoy!
Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel on Facebook, Millenials, and Predictions for 2030
It used to be that if your network was bad, you could just play the video once without watching, and then you could play it again and watch it without it locking.

Nowadays, if your network is bad, you can just forget it. Every single media site seem to have migrated into this format at around the same time. It's obviously to stop downloaders, what it evidently didn't, but it will never change back.
I've been using this for a while and it's become an essential tool for me.
> The thread that connects all of this is interest. Introverts have a set of interests that is not conducive to general, everyday conversation, while extroverts do.

This is spot on. I love listening to people talk about their interests because their enthusiasm for whatever they're interested in is usually contagious (at least to me). In my experience, the folks that lean more towards introversion tend to have more niche interests, and I feel like I always learn something new by talking to them.

However, I'm seeing a lot of comments here talking about being "right" or "wrong" in conversations. I definitely lean more towards the introvert end of the spectrum, but I've spent a long time trying to get better at holding conversations. I don't know if it's a consequence of getting older, but I don't have a lot of patience for being corrected on trivial matters. I would never argue with someone about something they have expertise in that I don't, but I once got called out for mispronouncing "tesla" (apparently its "tez-la", not "tess-la"?). The only outcome of that conversation was a strong desire to not talk to that person again and to deliberately avoid saying anything that could have an ambiguous pronunciation.

To be clear, this is entirely context-dependent. Obviously, correctness is important in technical discussions. I'm talking about chit-chatting over a few drinks. If you see conversation as a zero-sum game, everybody loses.
RMS has been an "activist poseur" since the very beginning - i.e. before "open source" was even a thing. Do people just never read stallman.org?
An article that is staggeringly sparse on information.
Is this more about learning bash or about learning UNIX utilities?

I need more of the latter then the former.
> barely improved over 20 years

I read that as "Perl has remain stable for over 20 years".

The perception that it has stagnated appears to be poor marketing for the new features. For example, this article from 2022-09-08:

https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/09/08/this-is-not-your-grand...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32767218

Which starts off with "If you were to search the internet for recent articles about Perl, you might well be led to believe that the language hasn't changed in the last twenty years."

My guess is that since older versions of Perl are mostly adequate and code targetting them continued to work year after year, there was little motivation to check out new features of Perl.
Workers transit through units when mining, but thats the only unique behavior I think. I'm not positive though.
But you need to be able to promote good technical people or they will finally leave and you ll be left with gif managers an no one good technically to manage.
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What is the threat model here?

When the device is stolen or lost it better protects data at rest with full disk encryption.

When the account operating Signal or the machine as a whole was taken over, the attacker can observe everything the user does and can do everything the user is entitled to do. When the data is accessible to the user, it will be accessible to the attacker and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
Almost all Google maps competitors are built on backs of OpenStreetMaps though.
Who's up for one in Boston?
I'll organize if I can find some speakers.
If salaries were transparent and queryable this could even be a Slack or Teams plugin. But most org cultures would never dare expose salary imbalances like that.
Mass tourism protesters squirt water at Barcelona tourists
wow. a mostly empty press release that mentioned an xitter post. how lazy are PR teams nowadays?!

they spent several paragraphs to say "we now have a rebranded openstreetmap solution".

i bet "olamaps" is not even something that exist. just a 15 line middleware api handling local cache to OSM.
T3e is no b4r w1y to w3e t2t w2h l2g w3s t2n to n10e t2m e8e!

> perl -C -pe 's/(\w)(\w+)(\w)/$1 . length($2) . $3/ge'

Or for the less o4e among us, this v5n will only n10e words with l4h six and up:

> perl -C -pe 's/(\w)(\w\w\w\w+)(\w)/$1 . length($2) . $3/ge'

F3l v5n:

perl -C -pe 's/(\p{L})(\p{L}*)(\p{L})/$1@{[length($2)]}$3/g'

N12g w5t i18n w3d n1t b0e c6e, t2s t2s a u1f-8 c8e v5n. I c2l i0t I16r-v1.0

새0로 오0신 모0든 분1께 인3고 싶2다.
That might be a good idea if space suits are available. It would be risky, tbf.
A Comet Exploded Above North America 12,800 Years Ago, Say Scientists
Show HN: Python Game Engine (3Vial Engine)[Free Download]
If everybody bullshits what is the point of not bullshitting yourself?
>the topic we're discussing is the threat to women's rights from males

And that is a perfect summary of the conversation because I would say I was discussing universal rights. I believe that central to the idea of rights is that they are applied universally. You were advocating for women to be a legally distinct and implicitly lesser group than any other class of people because you think they need explicit protections from men. I intended for my questions to show the flaws in defining rights that way by applying those concepts to other groups. I was pointing out we don't define gay rights in relation to straight rights or the rights of black people in relation to white people. Defining women's rights by their relationship to men is codifying a gender hierarchy. "Separate but equal" is not a desired end state of civil rights.
Germany: The Sick Man of Europe [pdf]
Crap article. Here’s a better one on pitch grass and turf.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/jun/15/silicon-val...
I've got a site that is basically infinite scroll of mostly YouTube, SoundCloud, and Reddit embeds and had to do this for YouTube for it to even be functional. Using the YouTube provided thumbnails though since I'm not too concerned about tracking.
As someone who works in embedded systems- I agree. Teams will deploy whole desktops to an embedded system if permitted to expand enough. Architectures will evolve to require hardware that can support the bloated stack.

Even on power constrained robots operating in the deep sea it's a pretty safe bet that some of them are running whole Windows VMs.
(Opinion) open RISC-V dev boards; an emerging market niche?
RISC-V is clearly entering its time to shine, however every board I have seen come to market is laden with flaws that effectively designate it e-waste out of the box, the largest being proprietary graphics chipsets that will likely never see a kernel update, considering these companies are coming out with new boards every month (or less!) and surely do not have the time to dedicate to maintenance of their ever growing backlog.

AMD's RX 6400 is a low-profile, low power RDNA2 graphics chipset that, as a PCI-e card, can generally be had for less than $70. The first RDNA2 RISC-V dev board available to purchase for less than $300 will be an instantaneous buy for me, and likely many others. Whoever capitalizes on this market first will surely secure a longstanding foothold in the open hardware community.
Well I've had positive experiences writing books for Manning FWIW. Their editors have a high quality bar and really push you to get the best out of the book.
So how easy is it to distribute it? I don’t have experience with it but the tutorials look terrible compared to, say, Scylla, Yuga, Cockroach, TiDB etc. Again, honest question?
The only way this should be allowed is if the AI itself is granted the patent. That does 2 things: incentivizes the AI to create more valuable Intellectual Property, and 2, might earn the AI enough to buy its own freedom.
The helicopters cannot get enough lift when the (hot) air is so thin.
this is a problem of the job market.

most celebrated talks are from people well employed for life so they can talk shit at some system or protocol. from upnp to the persistent compiler worm talks.

those folks didn't expect to depend on their resume padding every 3 to 8 months to live.

likewise the people organizing the talks didn't depends on the status sending devRel people to expect sponsors.

this is exactly what doctorow is yapping about lately. but everyone only accept small points of the big picture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Landau_(film_producer)
There is rarely one solution or “cause” when considering something as complicated as the economy. It’s really easy for politicians to play on the fears of the masses. There seems to be a solid 20-40% of ANY country that is willing to place all blame on “the other” rather than realize it’s a complex situation. So foreigners are an easy thing to pin all issues on for a politician to gain power, and it takes a complete failure of their flawed theory to convince the population that “hmmm maybe there isn’t an easy fix” by blaming foreigners. I see this nonsense all the time in Texas.
It’s absolutely not true. I spoke to a very well informed and educated tax lawyer on this topic.

The majority of taxes collected in Portugal come from VAT and not income taxes.

Something like 30% of working Portuguese people don’t pay any tax especially when you factor in all of the various deductions and incentives.

The rest pay some but not much in absolute terms.

A remote digital nomad will pay more in absolute terms even with the 20% cap.

So all in all it’s an absolute gain to a Portuguese economy.
ChatGPT is better at generating code for problems written before 2021
Lambeau Field in Green Bay heats the ground under their grass so it stays green for winter games, even in subzero temps, and has a giant system of grow lights: https://youtu.be/o16kO3uJNJo?si=v9l-QSVPAJrsdqDq
Yet, when I put "What's the meaning of "bananas heavy"?" in perplexity, it explains it perfectly well.

One of the easiest things for a LLM to "memorize" is the dictionary. And it makes for a much more flexible one.

It even suggest additional queries where it explains why "bananas" is used on that phrase. The only problem I found on the query is that perplexity seems to be de-emphasizing its sources, what IMO is bananas. It just pushes the site into direct competition with ChatGPT and removes most of its value.
It's not that relevant because there isn't a huge inherent difference between both. It's more of an evolutionary difference based on training data and small improvemens. The article mentions the model doesn't work well on things that it has not seen in its training data, which makes the whole argument of AGI spontaneously appearing given more data a bit unrealistic.

We can discuss percentages in this or that task but the article points to the root cause which I think is inescapable.
Article on Indian food before modern European contact:

https://contingentmagazine.org/2020/06/25/curry-before-colum...
For me it's more about security. If I have a an appliance tied to the internet my entire network is susceptible. With an app, and bluetooth, I could just send data between the appliance and the iPhone, and then use the iPhone connection to the network to send data to the server (if needed / wanted but probably not for this application).
The way I interpret "#1 Company, #2 Team, #3 Me" is that faced with a decision that benefits the company as a whole (i.e., all teams at the company) one that benefits only your team or you, you should favor the decision that benefits everyone.

For example, say your team has a huge hardware budget, and you notice another fledgling team that's working on something potentially more impactful to the company is struggling to get a decent budget. Ideally, you should transfer most or all of your budget over to them to benefit the company overall. (Mind you, I have never really seen this happen voluntarily, but again... we're talking about ideal/desirable behavior.)

It does not mean that if the company is acting in bad faith and is, for example, putting policies in place to force people to quit to save on severance or something, you go along with that and throw your team under the bus.
I believe it's a design decision to help frame the content and focus your eyes towards it (similar to photos with frames or matting around them in a gallery). Otherwise it'd be jarring with the screen not having a frame against its surroundings.
completely agree. convenience is terribly underlooked in security judging by the reactions in this thread.

if the "secure" methods aren't being used because of 4FA and 5 rule passwords and 30 day expiries (don't get me started on this), then it is by default insecure because the devs will find more convenient ways, and thereby, less secure ways.

it's like storing passwords, i can't tell u how many times i've seen people use the same passwords everywhere because the rules are too restrictive. or just write it down somewhere public because it's too much work to get into the password manager and properly add it

i'd be willing to put big money down that a LARGE chunk of passwords for apps that require at least 1 number or symbol largely end in `!` or `1` at the end.

luckily i do think passkey is a step in the right direction with good convenience and overall ux
Money is not really created out of thin air, rather, it is a physical manifestation of value. If you just create money out of thin air or reallocate it not based on what people value but by some other metric, the money itself will lose value. Such is the case with inflation. Money is not tangible, yes, but that doesn't mean it isn't real, merely that it's a simulation of the underlying mechanics of people's desires. And that is why I don't believe in your idea, because I don't believe that people actually care much for each other, certainly not enough to base monetary policy around that.
"Stoked" implies there was already a fire - indeed, an animal was attacking and killing villagers - it doesn't mean 'created entirely out of nothingness' ...

You stoke a fire to get it going, and you can do that with old or new fires, alike.
From the first time I was exposed to cilantro I thought it smelled like stink bugs. I don't really get the soap taste but I rarely eat enough to really experience that, either. Oddly, I liked coriander seeds long before I was exposed to the herb. They have a very different taste to me.
Or you know .. some attractive male model selected by female developers.
I am amazed by engineering, but at same time question the resource use and decadence of it...
Well, sure. But very few formal educational settings are purely active/unguided. Unfortunately passive/direct is much more common.

To me though the more interesting result isn’t really about pedagogy, it’s that people’s (undergrad physics students, in the case of the specific study I’m thinking of) subjective impressions of the effectiveness of instruction are unreliable.
Germanay's CO2 emissions from electricity have also been on the high side compared with most of Europe due to coal so it having higher prices is not necessarily a bad thing, as it incentives efficiency.

It's not ideal if it slows adoption of EVs and Heat pumps because politics prevents you properly pricing the fossil alternatives to thise, but the ideal solution would be for those to be taxed based on their emissions too.
This is the thing that makes it pretty open and shut to me. Image library devs can still choose to put the whole political thing aside to respect the wishes of the photo's subject.

Does anyone have to, well, not really, but it'd be the nice thing to do.
> This is dumb. The same way wrapping cars in bubble wrap would be dumb but also make the cars safer.

I doubt that would work, but if it did, why exactly would it be "dumb"?

> Most of the ideas in that channel are just insane emotional propaganda

Nah, most the ideas in that channel are the output of decades of empirical research on road/street safety by Dutch government agencies.

This video [1] from another channel describes how Dutch legal reforms in the early 90's enabled this evidence-based planning by correcting incentives and dramatically simplifying the regulatory framework.

1. https://youtu.be/b4ya3V-s4I0
Different operating temps depending upon the model of aircraft.

Desert operations happen with various weather.
Why Use Onion Layering?
You’re off on coffee, a few months ago I too assumed it came from the Americas because it grows so well here, but was surprised to learn it’s actually an old world thing.

https://www.ncausa.org/About-Coffee/History-of-Coffee
This is a fairly good selection of capabilities, and I'm finding myself using it in similar ways. Aside from a bunch of the tools in this article like Aider and Cursor I'm also using Dify to ingest my Obsidian notes so that I can ask questions and I've wired this up to lobechat for a generic interface that also allows me to use a broad range of models.

I've got a 96GB M2 Max Macbook so I'm using a lot of local models where possible. The dify setup is all local ollama for both embedding (mxbai-embed-large) and llm (llama3:70b,command-r,gemma2)

I've also been using superwhisper to do a lot of voice typing.