skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not wish to minimize your struggles and your pain. But it seems to me, someone not in your situation, that two things are true:

1. Much of your frustration is not with America, but with your family, and specifically your parents. It is your parents who fought, it is your parents who took in the stranger, it is your parents who beat you, it is your parents who expected that you would get a job and support everyone else so that they could have stability. (I am not an expert, but from what I understand, this is a typical expectation in families that come from third-world cultures.)

America isn't magic. Coming here doesn't automatically fix your family.

2. For all that you see that is unfair, or needing improvement, not coming here would have been worse. You make a decent income? You would not have in the village. Your parents fought over money every day? They would have in the village also. You grew up on nothing? You probably would have in the village also.

You sacrificed your own opportunity to give your siblings a better life. You're bitter about it. (I probably would be, too.) But it is also an honorable thing. It's honorable in third-world cultures; but I think it even gets some honor in America. (Some. There are also plenty who will mock you for being a sucker. I think they are wrong, but they are there.)

Whether honorable or not (I think it was), whether wise or not (perhaps not), you did what you did. It is now water under the bridge. What should you do now?

First, don't ALT+F4 life! Instead, what can you change?

Can you go to any of your siblings and say, "Look, I gave up my chance at college to give you stability; now I need you to help me with college"?

Even if not: Being in America, 30+, making a decent income but no degree... that isn't the worst starting position for the rest of your life. If you sit around and feel bitter, this may be as good as it will ever get. But if you look around, you can probably find some things that would 1) make for a better life for you when you're 35, and 2) be actually within your ability to reach. Start working toward those things.

You do not drive a car looking backwards. You did things in the past that, on reflection, you see as people taking advantage of you. You can't change that. But stop looking back at it and start moving forward from where you are.

So far this has been mostly about material things. But internally, I think you need to forgive your parents for their own brokenness, and their unreasonable expectations. You need to forgive yourself for letting yourself be taken advantage of. And you also need to stop looking for your own joy in material or financial success. America sells that dream, but it's empty. Things and money don't satisfy. Still try to improve your situation, but the American dream leaves you empty. Make friends that you enjoy spending time with. Find some activities that give you pleasure. I think God is there; find him. In those things you find real joy, real meaning. More money doesn't do it.
Did you have some plugins in vim? It is very odd if it was slower in this scenario.
> Writing a CPU emulator is, in my opinion, the best way to REALLY understand how a CPU works

Hard disagree.

The best way is to create a CPU from gate level, like you do on a decent CS course. (I really enjoyed making a cut down ARM from scratch)
Nothing is fair. I try to impart this lesson with my children everyday. They see it, viscerally, when they go visit their grandparents in Colombia. There are really poor people in this world who never had a chance. You have a chance and have learned an important lesson.

A new member of my crew immigrated here from Guatemala 6 years ago. He is now 24 and has learned English to the point where there is no accent. My wife has been a citizen for 18 years and still has a very strong accent. My Guate buddy took his opportunity by the horns and hasn't let go. He is amazing and has used the system(s) to the best of his ability.

He joined the USAF to get ahead and it has proved to be one of the best moves he made. He recently finished paramedic school paid for by the GI Bill. This is a story as old as time, and my grandfather did the same thing after swimming across the rio grande in 1934, except is was called the US Army Air Corps.

I say all that to say, you can lament your current station in life all you want. Just know that nothing will change if you sit in the corner all pissed off. The other option is to recognize that you are in control of how you respond to adversity. There are two options when one feels they have been slighted; 1. Get angry, stay angry, and pout. 2. Brush it off and have another go in a different way.

Some ideas that you may or may not like:

You can still join a military guard or reserve unit. That will unlock a LOT of benefits and you might actually like it. There are always government jobs that pay ok, but offer tuition reimbursement, pensions and other benefits in lieu of high pay. Apprenticeships with the trades (electrician, plumber, HVAC) can lead to making a LOT of money and owning your own business.

After all is said and done, there are more than one way to skin a cat. (I don't condone cat violence)
I mean, with some of the recent demos, robots have got a lot better at folding stuff and putting it up. Not saying it's anywhere close to human level, but it has taken a pretty massive leap from being a joke just a few years ago.
They tried SYCL and no one is using it
It's Chrome 6, the same one from the Erin Brockovich movie, and it appears to be produced naturally.
You are right : "much simpler but more limited"

And because you can limit yourself, you can effectively simplify your way of consuming IAM

"He who can do more can do less"
My thoughts as well. I too would have trouble with the overlapping lines tests if all the images underwent convolution.
Bingo - even if we do everything right the percentage of matching builds isn't expected to be 100%. If it is, there just aren't enough samples.

My first Pentium could usually but not always math correctly until Intel replaced it during a recall.
Automattic offers this as a service. I think it’s $35,000 — so not too much, but probably out of range for a lot of places.

This is what I said to 404 Media yesterday [1]:

> “It’s gross. We have decades of this stuff built up and it keeps changing hands and changing hands. And what recourse do we have as the writers?,” Warren said. “We also do such a bad job of web preservation, of preserving the history of the web as it was. So it’s kind of fucked to me that these approximations of the past are being recreated in these really blasphemous ways.”

Unfortunately, an archive wouldn’t have solved this particular issue. The problem here was threefold.

First, the original domain had been inaccessible (but still owned by AOL/Verizon/Yahoo/Apollo Global) for close to ten years. It used to redirect to Engadget.com, where most of the archives (sans images as most of them were mangled in CMS migrations, I guess) still exist. (It is important to note they didn’t redirect individual URIs, just to the main Engadget domain.) That means that what was sold was explicitly the domain and not the content. (Many of us original authors owned the content, it turns out. And AOL and its I guess follow-on companies had a non-exclusive perpetual license to it)

Second, the domain was sold (and explicitly not the content) to a shady web hosting adjacent operator who runs a lot of these sorts of spam/splog operations, who then decided it would be fine to take the content from archive.org, recreate slugs (which I’m pretty sure there is no legal recourse for in any jurisdiction, which is fine) and poorly rewrite the articles (this is probably copyright infringement, as many of the headlines and text are extremely close or identical. Just worse because they’ve been mangled by AI summarizers) and then attribute that content to the bylines (incorrect at that) of the old staffers

Third, this operation then decided to start publishing automated and ripped off content under those same bylines of previous staffers, potentially creating confusion and professional repercussions, not to mention making a mess of SEO for those authors, etc., etc..

If the owner of a domain or brand determines that there is value in that domain or brand, having archives (which we had here) isn’t enough to stave off absolute ghouls who want to use late 2010s splog techniques to try to game Google or something, attempting to steal the bylines and identities of the former contributors. (The economics of this whole thing make no sense. But whatever. Not my circus.)

I’ll quote myself again (also from my interview with 404 Media):

> “What’s worse than not having a good archive of my work is having one that is bastardized with my name but not my face and not my words on it,” Warren told 404 Media. “If they wanted to try to revive an old brand, fine, but leave the original writers out of it, and leave the old content out of it too because a lot of that old stuff has been rewritten and regurgitated and I don’t have any idea what it is, and it’s not what I actually wrote.”

[1]: https://www.404media.co/a-beloved-tech-blog-tuaw-is-now-publ...
I see this complaint about LLMs all the time - that they're advertised as being infallible but fail the moment you give them a simple logic puzzle or ask for a citation.

And yet... every interface to every LLM has a "ChatGPT can make mistakes. Check important info." style disclaimer.

The hype around this stuff may be deafening, but it's often not entirely the direct fault of the model vendors themselves, who even put out lengthy papers describing their many flaws.
A module is a piece of software or hardware which is independent in some way.

A bus is a shared medium of communication[1]. Often, busses are time-division multiplexed[2], so if you want to use the bus, but another module is already using it, you need to wait.

For example, if your audio buffers are ultimately submitted to a sound card over a PCI bus, the submission may need to wait for any ongoing transactions on the PCI bus, such as messages to a graphics card.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_(computing)

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-division_multiplexing
> In this system "configuration" was read out of tables in a word document, processed via XSLT transformations and eventually it would spit out a huuuuge single C# document

This is hilarious! It takes a special kind of ignorance to come up with a solution like this.
For a phone, assuming purchase of a higher end model, 4 or 5 years is nothing today.
I'm still looking for a place to watch that documentary from Sweden. It doesn't seem to be available on any platform.
I didn't know counting objects was a problem. That's pretty ironic because the very first implementation of a neural net (AFAIK) is the numa-rete artificial retina developed at the Biological Computer Lab [0] circa 1960. It was a parallel analog computer composed of "nuerons" each with a photocell that could be arranged in a grid and count "the number of objects independent of their size, location and form, and independent of strength of illumination" [1] - this paper may be of interest to those in the field, "Perception of Form in Biological and Man Made Systems" Heinz Von Foerster 1962

[0] https://distributedmuseum.illinois.edu/exhibit/biological_co...

[1] https://sites.evergreen.edu/arunchandra/wp-content/uploads/s...
More info at https://retractionwatch.com/2023/10/09/how-thousands-of-invi... and https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02192 . As the latter makes clear, this type of fraud is most likely done by journal editors (or their assistants), not by the authors:

> When registering a new publication and its references at Crossref, a publisher may sneak extra undue references in the metadata sent in addition to the ones originally present. Then, digital libraries (e.g., SpringerLink) and bibliometric platforms (e.g., Dimensions) harvest these metadata, undue citations included. These sneaked references are processed and counted even if they are not present in the original publication.

The three journals in this particular case are all published by Technoscience Academy, an OA publisher operating out of India (not one of the well-known ones). I would think twice as an author before I submitted to any journal from this publisher, lest my paper is abused for manipulations like this (although I'm not sure if it has any journals worth submitting to anyway).

NB (because I got confused first): This is not really about Hindawi. Hindawi published the (trash) article that these fake citations were pumping up, but the pumping-up happened using Technoscience Academy journals.
Apple said it themselves about the 6S at least: https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/6/13853280/apple-iphone-6s-...

Mine shut down once, at a low %. It was a very easy decision to disable the throttling. Even if I were unlucky enough to get a model that shut down more frequently, the throttling was so bad that it'd have been worth disabling.
Oh, there's no "right answer" to font size, but the fact that my size would work on a 1200p screen (and many of my coworkers have significantly larger screens and younger eyes than I) could go towards explaining why the sidebar is on by default and the gutter is so huge.
Point noted, Wikipedia breaks down the data better - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c....
I have some play money in the $NANC Democratic Whales ETF [1] that "invests in equity securities purchased or sold by Democratic members of Congress and their spouses". It's up 23% YTD and is beating the S&P500. Incept date is roughly 18 months ago... I wonder if the greater attention brought to their financial activities is prompting this move? The cynic in me is disappointed because it could mean the end of my corruption-fueled beer money gravy train while their activities continue in a more clandestine fashion.

As an aside: this post is not meant as a partisan criticism. I don't invest in the Republican equivalent $KRUZ because last time I checked it wasn't doing as well as $NANC.

[1] https://www.subversiveetfs.com/nanc
That's weird - GitHub Pages serves static content and rarely (in my experience) fails to load.
When I was in college, someone discovered that you could call 1-900 phone sex lines from the pay phones for the cost of a local call and the college would be billed for the phone charges since the phone was in their name. People were racking up thousands of dollars in charges until the school started placing "observers" near the phones to nab whoever was calling them.

Made "examples" of a few unfortunate students until they could fix the problem internally.
I thought there was a recent law in the past few years that required any entity holding securities to provide entity ownership data to the SEC.
We don't have the tech yet. It would have massive amount of false positives/negatives.
Originally I started this as an open source project, and currently thinking of a similar system to what you shared where I make the problems open source and keep the site close sourced. Here was my original project https://github.com/moe18/DeepMLeet
Any time I see obviously AI-generated image or text, I assume that the entire work is equally low-effort and tend to discount it. Doesn't matter if the work is technical in nature or not.

Not saying that's right or wrong, just saying that it is.
It’s already deployed objects - tiles, paint etc.

The doors opened on IFT3. If it was life or death starship could put something into orbit right now. Obviously it’s not the best solution for that currently (compared to say an FH) - they want to get the reuse working, but that doesn’t negate the fact that starship has been to orbital height and speed (albeit on a suborbital trajectory)
> Invest as much money as you can in a diversified low-fee stock market index fund. Set it up as an automatic payment from your bank account

This should be taught at High school level or equivalent, by default.-
"In JavaScript, neither weak references... is generally available". I think that was true with the old weak collation classes, but doesn't the newer JS WeakRef provide proper weak references?
Large Horse
yes, this is my intention to build software that works for ten years reliably enough without any modifications. i am sure it will not work from the first try and i will have fix things occasionally, but i do not worry about hosting and payments at all.

the question is solely about being able to pay once for ten years and not worry about hosting during this duration of time. i do not like monthly or yearly payments.
These men's internal gender identity is masculine. That's why they are calling themselves men.

This comment is actually kind of a really good example of what I was explaining up above. It's a very terf kind of thing to look at a comment saying "gender is complicated and individual and doesn't fit into a box and transgender communities understand that" and to immediately say, "gender does fit into a box, it's whether or not you have a penis, and if you don't have one then you're just 'pretending' to be a man."

And then to somehow claim that reducing and denigrating the experience of both manhood and womenhood to pure biology in this way is somehow "feminist."

The entire terf experience is looking at transgender people who are engaging with gender identity and gender expression in thoughtful, sophisticated, multi-faceted ways and saying, "haha, they're men, look they have an adams apple." Because there's nothing more feminist than critiquing people's bodies, apparently. /s

And it really just gets across why the "transgender people are the real sexists" argument is so ridiculous in the context of how these interactions play out in the real world. One group (the trans community) affirms your gender no matter how you express it, and the other group (the terf community) constantly demands to see what's in your pants and yells at anyone who looks masculine while wearing a dress. It's kind of obvious which group is reinforcing toxic gender norms.
I had a remarkable experience with GPT-4o yesterday. Our garage door started to fall down recently, so I inspected it and found that our landlord had installed the wire rope clips incorrectly, leading to the torsion cables losing tension. I didn't know what that piece of hardware was called, so I asked ChatGPT and it identified the part as I expected it to. As a test, I asked if there was anything notable about the photo. ChatGPT correctly identified that the cables were installed backwards, with the side of the cable that was (previously) under tension on top of the slack end, instead of sandwiched securely in the middle. To diagnose that requires tracing the cable through space and inferring which end is under tension from the geometry, though I can't rule out an educated guess.

What was really remarkable though was that it failed to notice that one of the two nuts was obviously missing, even after I told it there was a second problem with the installation.

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/QqCNzOM
Procedurally generated fish drawings
Ideally, the labor market is competitive. If a company tries to offload it's legal costs to its employees, they'll find work elsewhere, at least in aggregate. Ideally (again), shareholders do not have that option.

When a company goes under or significantly downsizes there will of course be impacts on employees. But equally, their competitors' employees may thrive.

I want to stress again that the alternative is basically lawlessness. If a company cannot be held to account merely because doing so might hurt employees, then it's in shareholder's interest to ensure the company disregards those laws whenever they get in the way of profits - which they can do by selecting boards and CEOs that are willing to take "risks" (and it seems quite unlikely that's ever likely to change). Those agents of a company might not even be in the same jurisdiction as the law, so trying to exclusively hold them to account seems like a pipe dream.

In any case, if laws try to very narrowly focus liability, you're also asking for games of musical chairs, and because it's so easy to create and destroy corporations, that's a game that will often lead to evaporation of any penalties.

Shareholders absolutely need to be held to account for the choices their companies make. Even limited liability is a protection with some problematic consequences; we definitely shouldn't make it even easier than it already is to shift burdens onto others or society at large than it already is.
that's good, i can consider paying for that service...

I'll have to check the actual results, of course, but that's much cleaner than what all the other LLMs output
It's complicated!

If it's not a transmitter, then it's not certified (this has a meaning), you just need to have acceptable data on hand for your Supplier's Declaration of Conformity (SDoC). Then if you make any changes to your product after test, it is a judgement call whether you need to retest. Ultimately you are responsible for compliance, so this is not a free pass. In principle your computer or cell phone manufacturer could get fined if it is possible to operate their device with new user software in a way that emits RF above allowable levels.

If it is a transmitter and you-the-manufacturer make changes to software that operates the transmitter, the FCC has specific rules. Look at the KDBs for permissive changes and for Software Defined Radio Applications. Note that the FCC has a somewhat unique idea of what constitutes an SDR. Some software changes to radio firmware will require recertification but some just will require a permissive change. Some permissive changes are handled in a way similar to SDoCs, where you just get yourself a report with acceptable data, some require filing that data with the FCC.
https://archive.ph/VBa4S
Thank you. In Strflow, tags can be created independently of notes, so tags can exist even if their associated notes are empty.
I am curious why it would work this time. The STOCK act was written a decade ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act
I wouldn’t mind auto saving and allowing me to undo changes from the previous session.
There is some sort of vendor lock-in VSCode. It at least used to be extremely difficult to make GitHub Copilot to work with codium. There is something closed source in VSCode that makes the difference.

It was so difficult to maintain, that I ended up switching to VSCode. So the ”lock-in” worked.
Good. ZIRP led to absolutely ludicrous amounts of waste.
Reading Petzold’s “Code” comes pretty close to, though and is easier.
Any AI features pale before the more important question of whether they've improved durability and reliability of the folding screen enough to make it worth the premium pricetag.
please use this opportunity to reflect on whether ARC measures reasoning skills :)
I have been using Aegis but switched to Ente Auth as I decided to use Ente Photos as well. Both Aegis and Ente Auth are great options. This switch (export and import) was very easy.
Silicon Pathogens: How Cybercriminals Are Targeting Laboratories
> stereotypically was subject to a lot of bullying as young people

There is actually evidence [1] that suggests that victims of bullying often develop long term psychological issues / depression, and depression leads to a lack of empathy.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254192616
Power way out there is hard and I do not know the best ways to deal with it but a standard sort of "explorer" class spacecraft the gets produced and sent out every few years. avoiding he development costs and some of the risk. Maybe one or two in Earth orbit to chase down interstellar interlopers. I suspect (but do not know, maybe someone else does) some of those that worked on JWST did not get a chance to see it launch (but an amazing project non the less).

Also, JWST is mostly looking at things kind far away and sort of a long time ago (with some closer that is incredible. It cannot really compare to the images from Voyager(s) of the outer planets.
Why would they ? The truth hurts the economy. /s