skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. Richer people have better stuff to do than have kids. Poor people are too uneducated and out of it to control how many kids they have.

It's kind of like wondering why people don't want to fall into puddles. And you notice that poor people who walk to work in the rain are the ones falling into puddles the most.

It's not about money. No one in history has ever had kids because they suddenly felt financially secure enough to. No one wants kids. Across the globe, when the standard of living rises, fertility goes down. Reproduction is a biological Ponzi scheme. When you're given an out, you take it.
I am working on this with mine, but even Signal is too weaksauce in my book. Ownerless (and ideally decentralized) p2p chat is what I am after. If everyone in my group used Android then it'd be Briar or Cwtch hands down for primary text/picture msg and SimpleX or Session or Jami as voice/video call and backup. Because there's an iphone upsetting everything that scratches Briar and Cwtch, so it's SimpleX reinforced with Orbot on my group's menu currently and it seems to work reliably. Session has terrible notification delays when in the background, they use the [IMO] boneheaded send-on-select abstraction within the selection gallery when attaching an image on their Android app (oh and your unsent typed text is wiped). Very unprofessional, needs a bottom-up redesign for its interface. Really has that everyone quit feel to it.
Literally the first definition of a labyrinth is that it is a synonym for maze.

Your definition is wrong.
It's interesting when you have these old, large, sprawling bureaucratic organizations and the employees hardly give a sh!t anymore and allow for these large vulnerabilities. It's not a money issue, it's a caring issue I think.
There's definitely different circles in the US. My circle of friends and family is on Whatsapp. More than 99% of my communications would be through WhatsApp.
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With the growing popularity of .NET MAUI among developers, there is an increasing demand for robust PDF viewing and editing tools. One notable component that meets these needs is the Syncfusion .NET MAUI PDF Viewer, which recently introduced built-in toolbar support in the Essential Studio 2024 volume 2 release. This feature is available on both mobile and desktop platforms.

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I built a portfolio website inspired by Apple notes
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But not too fresh, you want to be in the flat spot of the bathtub curve. This failure was in an upper stage no ?
I disagree. It’s a personal blog :)

I want to know what they think. I also stylistically like the directness of “I” and “you”. Not everything needs to be written abstractly, academically, or in business-speak.

Also, your comment starts with “I”.
Thank god for capitalism then. ;D
The other advantage was for moving off-prem. Cap-Ex vs Op-Ex. That was the reason one of my past employers switched.

Another past employer switched because we hit our scale up limit, and needed to start scaling out. A small refactor allowed us to scale out, and we moved to azure's managed database, queue, and blob storage. The web frontend could scale based on connections, and the queue and blob storage was slower than our current approach, but it was better once we added the autoscaling. Since the slower speed was PER connection. Minimum scale was 5 instances, so that there was no bottleneck when scaling.

There are many reasons to go "cloud" but for most small businesses (or at least small departments of large organizations), cloud-first doesn't seem like a great option unless you have 10s of thousands in credits each month. Just build your software, scale up first on-prem or at a datacenter - it is LOADs cheaper and predictable.
If you run your own datacenter maybe. But if you pay to rent bare metal servers, orchestrating those isn't any more complex. The biggest downside is that depending on the provider you might have to wait hours instead of minutes when provisioning a new server
Sounds like if-else with extra steps.
someone online mentioned(i'll link if i find it again) a quote similar to this, something like that:

- go crazy in understanding the problem
- break it in small words
- repeat above steps until it's easy to write in forth
> 3. Carefully construct a well thought out solution.

I think he might be on to something here ...
Exactly the same experience here. I think the downlights are designed with cooling in mind, whereas the bayonet style are just shoehorned into that form factor
I've gotten everyone from my in laws to my co workers on signal.

>I can share baby pictures without them being stored in google forever.

>We can organize whose bringing the coke without leaving a paper trail that lasts forever.
That approach would have worked, probably.-

Indeed, what you mention (death by a thousand cuts) is an issue ...

... for the sake of argument, however, you then end "back on square one", so to speak, with a "centralized" "gatekeeper" for content ...

... so, what to do (maybe): An open standard for pre-paid balances that is interoperable, as a sort of "pay-per-rss-article" standard, with standarized pricing. But, good luck with any of that ...
Lately, especially with the layoffs frenzies, I've been rethinking one of my engineering culture practices in particular: having a culture of everyone maintaining documentation for everything (using particular lightweight methods and conventions).

It's a lot harder harder to tell people to do this (because it's professional, it's effective for your team and company, and you'll be valued as a great engineer)... when they can look around themselves, at our industry, and see all the sociopathic execs at companies having great years... getting rid of people to make numbers look even better.

And making a liar out of me for telling people they should be thinking about our collective success, rather than hoarding information for job security, or declining to help out a colleague in what (in a sociopathic company) could be a zero-sum game.

I still believe in great engineering teams, and I will heal or smite any toxic elements within my power... but I haven't yet figured out how to reconcile my best-practice culture theories with the current reality, when we see all these prominent techbro companies revealing more of their true nature in a way that employees can't ignore.

One idea is to bootstrap a company that's better, and not get into a VC trap that eventually will probably make you be jerks even if you weren't already predisposed. (It's hard-mode, compared to just getting some VC money, hiring people, and just repeatedly trying to look like you have growth potential. Also, you have to share the equity more equitably, or you're telling people that the truth is that it's transactional, and most of the talk about focusing on the success of the whole is a swindle, to get them to do what you want to make you specifically rich.)

Another idea is to find a good company, and work within that. (But that's hard, when even the ones that profess to be more values-oriented than most are usually just a veneer over the familiar sunny-sociopath culture.)

Another idea is to hire a team with values compatible with the good culture theory, and if the company starts going bad, we idealistically or on principle still do things right. And it the company really stabs itself in the face, and we have to move on to other places, we'll have that network of a rare great team.
I ran into this. I'm trying to set up an account on wise.com. The way they want me to set up my bank for direct deposit is to type my banks password into their site! I asked support if there was any other way to do this (for example the regular institution, branch, account numbers) and they said no. But they reassured me that despite me typing the password into their site that they don't have access to it! (Ok, it was actually a Plaid iframe, but still not my bank. Clickjacking would also be very easy to implement and there is no way for the average user to understand this.)

Then banks wonder why their customers get phished.
Possibly - the advantage of cloud is you don't need to provision for your peak load, it scales with usage from a few requests a day, to millions a second for an hour a day. If your usage is lumpy or growing fast then paying 2-3 times more than the cost of your own hardware can be cheaper.
R2 egress is free.
And if you lost your report, you can try searching for it on the dark web.
Has anyone found or made a great set of tutorials for "Affinity for Photoshop Experts"? I've been using Photoshop for more than 30 years (now Photopea), and I don't think I've ever felt more like an alien than the two times I've tried in earnest to learn Affinity tools. A six month trial could be generous enough for me assimilate.
its not Snowflake's fault their customers used weak passwords and no MFA. Not enforcing MFA does merit some blame on Snowflake, however, I still think its on the customer to secure your own environment.
Well.. it's rather hard to run most other benchmarks on any M4 device. Anyway I don't think the exact % matters too much to get the point across .

But if we compare the difference between M3 and the 9950X in Cinebench and Geekbench and assume the ratio stays comparable it would still be slightly faster
This is worse than the typical family speal. I hope you realize it's just another tactic of the same manipulation. Trying to provide a sense of superiority to it's employees to justify working conditions. If you can't handle it, "go work at USPS" is especially telling.
I've been wondering this for a while -- why are people using DBaaS?

Wouldn't you use an AMI of choice, self-host, or use one of the cloud native solutions? Seems like piping all your DB calls outside your VPC would have a lot of downsides, not the least of which is a lot of latency (I get there is peering infrastructure). Also, there are security issues to contend with, threat surface is much larger with a DB available to the internet vs a DB on a segmented private network only available to the middle tier.

Is it a cost thing? Is something like xata or neon cheaper than say AWS Aurora? I don't see how it could be cheaper with all the inherent egress costs.
Yeah. It's a hard question, honestly, and I only arrived at a decent answer for me (indie software dev) after sitting with it for a few years.

A few things that've been helpful for me:

* HealthyGamerGG's Youtube channel (the quarter life crisis vid is excellent)

* Self-Care Tips For Children of Emotionally Immature Parents (a lot of people's values were given by their parents)

* Therapy

* Mindfulness practice
Looks like more than enough blame to go around. Not enabling MFA is pretty egregious by ATT. Snowflake creating a platform where such a high consequence mistake is apparently easy to make, and obviously without sufficient compensating controls to detect or limit impact of such a single point of failure. That's egregious too.
In the field I used to work in (cogsci, neurocognition), peer review has been broken for over 30 years. Peer reviewers didn't care about the conclusion. If there was data and a p-value that met superficial scrutiny, any conclusion would be accepted. Combined with shoddy methodology and a disdain for statistics, this led to a deluge of completely untested theories, and the reproducability crisis.
Amazing write up as usual, Erika. Your blog is an inspiration and model of what a tech blog should look like: high-quality info, plain and clear language, and extreme focus.
But what about how the same professional workflows are gearing up to dismiss anything that has been visibly produced through GenAI tools (seen in HR and supply contracting, as well as in art commissions - and I don't see how it could not expand further).

Not only is there a legal risk, but there's a disconnect as to the genuineness of what is given/provided in the end.
I would argue that's pretty misleading. Especially if you're saying "AI chatbots are the future". The tech you're discussing here has been commonplace for the past decade and has nothing to do with current trends or the future.

Folks here are talking about _dialogue_ trees not ML _decision_ trees. These are very likely manually coded. It's conceivable but not very likely that there's a simple classifier model behind the scenes here predicting which line of pre written dialogue to serve at each junction. If you write AI chatbots your readers are going to expect that it's a chatbot that actually generates the text, LLM or otherwise.

idk man. feels clickbaity.
Our economic system is at odds with security because we're trying to "get by" as cheap as possible. That doesn't bode well for protection of users' data.
> Because clockspeed ramps power exponentially

It's not exponential; P = C V^2 f, so power is something between O(f) and O(f^3), depending on how voltage scaling works. It follows that efficiency (energy per instruction) is something between O(1) and O(f^2).
What are the anticipated use cases?

I know of one: transgender people often would like to alter the timbre of their voice and spend a lot of time training their voice. At least for online scenarios, this can just do it.

But other than that AI voice altering research seems like it benefits mostly scammers? I’m just wondering what they tell themselves they’re doing. I didn’t see this in the paper.
SAP's bid to woo open source community meets muted response
Where I grew up it was either Starbucks or McDonalds. We didn’t otherwise have a lot of options as young people. The only other third places were bars.
No, they are not just a matter of opinion (although there is some small subjective element to it).

If our eyes somehow detected the exact wavelength of light directly then, yes, we would perceive a continuum of colours and it would be totally arbitrary how you divide it up.

But we don't. As the article says, we have a discrete set of cone types that divide our perception of colours up into clusters (albeit overlapping and fuzzy). For that reason, for most people with normal vision, a rainbow appears to have 6 main colours.
While I share the sentiment, Normie Norman is not at fault. Meta and other BigCorps are the perpetrators and Norman the Victim.
i for one look forward to experiencing this next generation of ramjet technology firsthand in my next three-star motel room air conditioner, the most common and widespread use of ramjet technology in the United States today.
Nice to see. I guess this is the “trickle down” of capitalism that “they were talking about”. Stuff like this needs to happen more often.

I bet Musk has a few dollars to spare on something like this instead of laundering money through his Mars colonization project.
If one would like to explore these ideas further in a very entertaining way then I would suggest Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach
I'm more interested in this for other form factors that use ARM - headsets in particular.
It's probably linking to the 'sequence number' rather than the page number. The cover is the first sequence number but doesn't have a page number. So if there was a few blank pages before the numbered pages started, it would probably be off by that many. I'll bet there are ways to mitigate that— PDF usually seems pretty good about dealing with the discrepancies between print and digital document structures.
+1 for scott
No. it's page 70 in the PDF. But the title page is visibly numbered "i" and only the following page is numbered "1". That offsets everything by one.
> That seems like an extremely high-bar.

Ironically, it was an attempt to avoid an argument about that point :P

I think it's at least possible for this scenario, given they make more from services than from macs: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/fy2024-q1/FY24_Q1_Consol...

I'd still be on the surprised side if so, but it would be mild surprise rather than shock.
I guess everyone is going to learn what Snowden was worried about the hard way now. I imagine there's going to be extortion attempts over calls to abortion clinics etc.
Somewhat resembles? Come on.
Full build on pi2 is 2weeks. Full build on desktop is about a 2hours. About a million lines of code and 300 dependencies.
Everyone I know in the US uses either iMessage or Whatsapp. No one I know uses MMS.
Yes, Scalar would be helpful. The problem is that not every developer needs all the code in the repository for their daily work. However, Git makes it difficult to do partial checkouts.
I just realized this is going to fvck my call blocking strategy up: now creditors will have a bank of known good numbers to spoof into my whitelist with! :^O
Internally a corporation is a command economy, externally it isn’t of course.

Other command economy examples - gov’t, the USSR, the US during wartime, Russia right now, etc.

Aka when someone in a position of authority says ‘money gets spent here and this way’, regardless of any natural market tendencies (and sometimes with little regard to solvency or pesky things like quality of life).
iOS doesn't allow 3rd parties to run language interpreters, all browsers on it are just reskinned Safari.
The competency crisis will march along slowly, then explode all at once.
Isn’t that what `pmpm deploy` solves? It should copy all packages into the target dir.
Considering some prions slowly take away your ability to sleep, it really is the stuff of nightmares
Honestly, I don't get why all the popular upscaling methods (DLSS, FSR, XeSS, ...) aren't integrated in all of the mainstream engines: Unity, Unreal, Godot...

As far as I'm concerned, on the end of a game developer, that should be a single checkbox in the project options, or something similarly easy to choosing between 2X and 4X AA, both on the desktop and mobile, where supported by the hardware (or simpler generic upscaling, if nothing else suffices).

The performance gains (at the expense of graphical fidelity, which may or may not be acceptable) would be staggering - you could quite literally squeeze out just enough performance to enjoy a game or an application even from older generation hardware for more modern titles.
Everyone I know uses signal. Different people really are different.
That seems true if you only think about coal, but we started with wood and any future world without people would have a ton of that. Whale oil too would also be available. Depending on the time periods we're talking about, there would be a LOT of oil wells that could be discovered via the crumbling infrastructure left behind. Surface level coal my be gone in most places, but large mines full of coal site idle in a lot of places now for economic reasons, and energy poor society may dig out these deposits. On the scale of millions of years, there could well be additional hydrocarbons produced, and methane could be used by some future sapient organisms.
Everything has been broken forever, we just get to hear about it nowadays.
I don’t understand why (or to whom) you keep saying “sorry”. I have no skin in the game and don’t care how you subscribe or to what. It is your prerogative to bundle the good actors with the bad because you don’t want to trouble yourself with the filtering, that is perfectly valid. But the fact remains that a fourth are good actors, and that is large enough to not be considered “everyone” (especially in italics, as per your original post), and that is the one point I wanted to make.
Cross between The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker?
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Impact of Price Controls on Medical Innovation
The article said they had to do a bunch of cleanup between requests when it was handled by one service. Which surprised me but these requests must be doing more than just HTTP requests I guess.
Yeah.. Everyone should expect every publically traded corporation to end up controlled by someone in the same mental decline as McAfee and never make a long term contract they don't expect to spend millions enforcing internationally.

Ruining such people's future prospects whenever this happens to reduce the future risk has been such a good strategy that countries like the US introduced credit rating bureaus to emulate this for managing risk with less famous people.

We are naturally in a very unusual time, but things will shift back and the facts will stay and reputational meaning will be interpreted correctly then.

There are always enough idiots to do business with if you are a famous connman, but your business is always of a certain limited category.

If he were poor and did this I think you'd admit he is a putz. I live in a free country where I can choose which market participants to deal with and see no reason to feel intimidated by the buying power of a putz I won't ever be foolish enough to depend on. The more significant someone is in the society the more likely they are to be able to afford my position and not risk yours.
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True, but you have to admit once you really see Normie Norman you come to understand aristocracy.

At least I do anyway.
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I have to disagree. He is a fault. Ultimately, you are the only person who really should care about your own security. When you delegate that responsibility, you are still the one who made that choice.
The Roman Colosseum
It's one-indexed, counting that actual pages in the PDF. The nominal page numbers (as seen on the header/footer) are often different since you don't typically number title pages and the like, which is called "front matter". [0]

0: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/GDDYZG2C7RVF5N9J#fro...
The old bulb was a Cree, rated at 460 lm, 3000k, 90+ CRI. It used 5.5W.

The IKEA bulb’s rated at 450 lm, 2700k, 90+ CRI. It uses 2.8W. Both are dimmable and I suspect the IKEA bulb has a higher R9 value.
The most ancient human genome yet has been sequenced – and it's a Denisovan's
We’re working toward exactly this with https://www.brief.news! We’ve got the ability to create custom topics in beta (I’m currently using it to follow Starship updates), happy to add you to the beta just shoot me an email (in profile).
Microsoft is pushing something along those lines with DirectSR, the idea is that game engines integrate one set of generic hooks which can then be routed to any of the vendor upscalers transparently.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directsr-preview/
Variation in working memory between individuals: an introduction
https://archive.ph/8wuss
I think the irony is completely lost on them too when they complain that LLM's are grossly abusing their copyright.
> If this information becomes public, it could be disastrous.

Isn't it even worse if it doesn't become public? It's been downloaded by an unauthorized party after all, so if they're not publishing the data, I'd wager they've found another way to profit from it. I.e. blackmail or similar.

I guess it depends on your viewpoint wherever that's better or worse.
The Mandiant report said that some Snowflake customers declined to use MFA AND had passwords in place for 4+ years[1]. Maybe Snowflake should have pushed for MFA harder but at the end of the day, this is AT&T's fault.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/unc...
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So many ads, and this feels like an AI wrote it.