skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the contrary, our civilization has never before had to deal with so much shit.
Thanks for the story, it illustrates the lack of cynicism in all ranks, compared to Microsoft, Google or even OpenAI today.

I like reasons and conditions, but reproducing culture takes a lot more work. Though one feels the character and actions of Mervin Kelly were crucial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mervin_Kelly
I'm just saying there is a VERY good reason for intelligent young men to avoid marrage like the plague. The second you say, "I do" the countdown timer starts and divorce in America is broken, biased and expensive.
You maybe depressed, maybe not, I don't know enough about all that. But meeting a therapist is a big yes. Don't shy away from it. Go consult one.

Having said that, don't punish yourself so much. Most people feel what you are feeling, most of the time. You just went through a big change in your life, and now you are wondering why it didn't help. Maybe you are blaming yourself for making all these changes. But guess what, you were focused enough to get it done, and maybe it didn't pan out. It's too early to say whether it did or not.

It's actually okay for things to not work out the way you want. The real problem is to consciously or unconsciously expect results for everything you do. And then finding fault in yourself when results don't show up. Don't punish yourself by doing that. Let things be for some time. Take pleasure in small everyday things, like making a breakfast that you enjoy. Look forward to things. Don't try to find things to look forward to, instead just look forward to routine things that are part of your life anyway.

In other words, relax. And consult a therapist.
What a gut-wrenching story. Except for you it isn’t just a story. My heart goes out to you! I know what it is like to not know how I’m going to survive the immediate future. Those kinds of moments test you as a human and reveal who you really are.
>Better to move such important info to a journal app like obsidian

Something like Obsidian is fine for personal notes, to archive useful information someone else posted in Teams, as trying to find it later will be impossible.

However, at an organizational level, I’d expect some kind of team based document management… SharePoint if they are all-in on Microsoft. From my companies brief use of MS Teams, it seemed like teams in Teams were backed my SharePoint, which made that concept pretty straight forward.
Previously it used be to nasty, brutish and short. Dirty, difficult and dangerous seems little polite and gentler version of it.
Or they scan using UV or other frequencies so that even if the envelope is visibly opaque it’s not opaque to their scanner. Sometimes their post processing slips up and reveals that their scanner can see thru the envelope.
directly in contact with intruding ants
You can dither not just in print but also on illuminated screens. For example:

http://caca.zoy.org/study/out/lena6-1-2.png

This picture has only pixels of the aforementioned eight colors.
No one has mentioned Frigate. It has taken the "homelab"/selfhosted world by storm & utterly dominates. Open source, works great, & by far some of the most sophisticated detection/triggering schemes one can acquire, period. https://frigate.video/

I have two Hanwha units I never got around to using at my last place. H.265 IP streaming out. Onvif is the main standard everyone seems to use for streaming out.
All sorts of stuff, I git bisect reasonably regularly.

You can even do things like automatically git bisect the linux kernel, with a little care. I wrote this up a few years ago https://paulgraydon.co.uk/posts/2020-12-27-automated-kernel-....

I can't talk about the actual case that lead me to ever need to git bisect a kernel in the first place, but at the same time I also learned how to make a minimalist one-C-file initrd, because what I needed to catch was visible under a /sys or /dev mount, or something like that. I later realised it's possible to do the same thing with Go in slightly easier syntax, if you cajole it in to producing a statically compiled binary!
No, the opposite. We should appreciate all the marvels that progress has brought us, and use that as motivation to bring about more. That was the conclusion of the piece, and I agree. Progress has gained a negative connotation to many people in recent times, and I take it that the author is pushing back against that sentiment.
I'm genuinely interested in the distinction. Humans "breeding" animals is the same as any other environmental factor that affects evolution of a species.
If you use tables for what they were intended for or you have no problem with them, keep on truckin. But they sucked when they were the only way to do things.
This is in response to why Americans are not buying EVs. The American auto industry pretty much only advertises its largest vehicles, which is partly what drives that demand.
> I find it questionable that a government agency should be collecting analytics on its visitors in the first place

I don't agree with them using known abusers of personal data for the tooling, but this is what I was talking about.

I don't like them using Facebook for analytics, I don't know what they were getting from it. But the basic premise of analytics, I think they should do.
This is the conclusion of the article:

> This world and the standard of living we enjoy are the gift they left us. We can never pay it back. But we can pay it forward: we can keep progress going, and build an even better world for the generations to come.
He almost pulled off ending h1b's in first term but got played by the whole russia thing with Jeff Sessions.

So my theory is the VC's figure get him on our side so he doesn't do that again.
I was just talking about this today. There was a political comedy TV show here in Oz 'Shaun Micallefs : Mad as Hell'.

I cannot remember the details exactly but the general idea was something like this.

There was a dinner party with all these people talking about how bad they have things. One was complaining about how they had poor service at a restaurant. The next talked about the pain of the Covid lockdowns. The next spoke of rationing in the war time of the 1940's. The last one was a 10th century peasant that goes on about how "the skies turned dark and winter came and it never left. All the crops died and then the people. And then came the plagues..."

It was done as a way of saying, yes, we have issues but put into context, we are still doing fairly well.
Not true.

Hearing Ukrainian for the first time, if you're Russian, sounds like you're hearing a Russian dialect you never heard before but understand 90% of, bar some words you've never heard. The languages are that close.

Polish, otoh, would baffle a Russian at first, you'd grasp quite a bit but you know you're hearing a foreign language, Slavic but foreign.
For that you use one note. One note has best searching capabilities. And you can share it by linking to your SharePoint site
The context was this comment:

> Depends on the assembly, but even most (all?) RISC instruction sets know about words (and probably half-words too) in addition to bytes.

Of course, you could define words and half-words in terms of bytes, too. Just as you can do with vectors.

And many vector instructions operate more on eg streams of words than streams of bytes.
Why? Cheap flights and booze? I'd like to know in order to avoid such destinations. Drunk Brits on bachelor parties were by far the most annoying tourists in Spain or Greece. I thought my co-nationals were annoying until I encountered drunk Brits.
The Arctic Dilemma
Let other people worry about testing out all the new nonsense. I go with stuff that’s pretty mature and stable, with the goal of being able to use it for at least a decade. If something isn’t going to stick around that long, it’s really not worth my time.

Just because something exists, doesn’t mean you need to use it. Python exists, along with Flask and various other frameworks. Those will likely be around for 10+ more years, but if you’re already working in .Net, like it, and it solves all your problems… who cares that Python exists.

These are all just tools. If I have no use for a lathe, I’m not going to go out, buy a lathe, and learn how to use it. It’s a waste of time. Even if I think they are cool, if I don’t have a reason for it, bringing it into my life would add stress and nothing more.
If this is what it takes for us to progress as a society, then let them do it.
Has someone ported this to Emacs?
3) Politically savvy managers with a technical background, who treat money/sustainability as an enabling factor and see the primary output as being technical.

The closest I every came to this was Australia's DSTO in the late 1980s. The management was technical and cared deeply about their people, the development of those people and making a positive technical contribution.

An interesting recollection of Bell Labs:

https://quello.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Memories-N...

I think it's not about recreating Bell Labs, but doing something better that will fit in with today's technical ecosystem. Are entry barriers lower today, or is that part of the problem: low entry barriers mean people don't have to congregate to get sufficient resources?
>serverless

Doesn't the term confuse anyone hearing it for the first time? It sure did me.
I don't see why Origin Private File System needs some fully virtualized nonsense. You can just create some fuck off far out directory for the site for this cause. Should be fine.

There's already pretty safe secure & altogether sensible options for giving websites access to files. Alas it's all via even slower even worse abominations that File Access Handles, because spec authors swear it would be hell on earth if they didn't quintuple buffer every read or write, will swear we could never ever trust devs to ever possibly do a good thing. There's been such a constant hedging that being slow & adding layers of safety to io is necessary and it's taken literally decades to get even these crap ass concessions. I know this is impolite and I'm sorry but what cowardice, what unrelenting sad clutching of pearls. What utter betrayal of Extensibile Web Manifesto. https://github.com/extensibleweb/manifesto
What if building things with computers felt like magic?

Programming as a kid or teenager wasn’t work. It’s fun. It’s a challenge. It’s a sense of accomplishment if you do something that you didn’t know how to do.

7 can seem young to me too but I also know kids these days seem different and if they are naturally into something… can’t say much.

Even kids with little to no screen time are sponges and there’s so much more to stimulate them.
My son built his first interpreter in Haskell when he was 18months old
there's an open source ai gateway - https://github.com/Portkey-AI/gateway
New Batteries: It's Not All Hype – Sabine Hossenfelder [video]
My funnest one was a big flaming GIF at the top of our admin page that said "production". I believe it was from "cooltext.com"

last i checked it was still there 10+ years later
Absurdly pathetic.

Probably not just Samsung but man for a company that loves to market the shit out of their Samsung Knox "defense grade" security the rank inadequacy here is just stunning.

Maybe the password was 12345, maybe it's user error. But I get the impression that the state has gained the upper hand against privacy pretty widely.
> I don't normally bother to correct people on this, but in the context of the argument you're making, it's a pretty poorly placed mistake.

Touche, or touché
Yeah, "slam" seems a bit hyperbolic, if not click-baity.
came across this guide earlier - valuable insights. thanks for sharing!
The essay ends

> But we can pay it forward: we can keep progress going, and build an even better world for the generations to come.
This is a nice blog post. Whoever wrote it should move it to their personal blog because it does not belong on the ziglang GitHub wiki and so I'm going to remove it imminently.
The issue was that before, large spreadsheets would overflow the context so this “compression” technique helps the LLM do more from the same data.
More recently: The Objects of Our Life https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40995515
If you want to read more about that room and the context in which it existed, I recommend reading Lisa Brennan-Jobs’ “Small Fry”.
A Discussion with a Robot [video]
> . The most common dog color is probably brown or black

trust it more than gPT
Already posted 3 months ago https://www.buysellstartups.com/
it sounds a little bogus to me, but i can outline some ways to approach it

if you have a set of features, generating its powerset is fairly simple

>>> powerset = lambda xs: [x0 + others for others in powerset(xs[1:]) for x0 in [[], [xs[0]]]] if xs else [[]]
>>> powerset(['int', 'float', 'set', 'array'])
[[], ['int'], ['float'], ['int', 'float'], ['set'], ['int', 'set'], ['float', 'set'], ['int', 'float', 'set'], ['array'], ['int', 'array'], ['float', 'array'], ['int', 'float', 'array'], ['set', 'array'], ['int', 'set', 'array'], ['float', 'set', 'array'], ['int', 'float', 'set', 'array']]

then you just need some way to calculate various merits of the different designs. one merit is simplicity, which you could maybe try to operationalize as something like this:

>>> [(d, {'simplicity': 10 - len(d)}) for d in powerset(['int', 'set', 'array'])]
[([], {'simplicity': 10}), (['int'], {'simplicity': 9}), (['set'], {'simplicity': 9}), (['int', 'set'], {'simplicity': 8}), (['array'], {'simplicity': 9}), (['int', 'array'], {'simplicity': 8}), (['set', 'array'], {'simplicity': 8}), (['int', 'set', 'array'], {'simplicity': 7})]

comparing two merit-maps such as {'simplicity': 8} and {'simplicity': 6} for pareto optimality is simple enough with some thought, especially if we assume the keys are the same:

>>> some_way_better = lambda a, b: any(a[k] > b[k] for k in a)
>>> defeats = lambda a, b: some_way_better(a, b) and not some_way_better(b, a)
>>> defeats({'simplicity': 9}, {'simplicity': 8})
True
>>> defeats({'simplicity': 8}, {'simplicity': 9})
False
>>> defeats({'simplicity': 9, 'turing-complete': 0}, {'simplicity': 8, 'turing-complete': 1})
False
>>> defeats({'simplicity': 9, 'turing-complete': 1}, {'simplicity': 8, 'turing-complete': 1})
True

then it's easy enough to calculate which of a set of candidate designs can be eliminated because some other design defeats them

the bogus part is how you automatically calculate the various merits of a hypothetical collection of language features
Making a zombie from a human is very objectionable for me even if the content of perpetrator's speaking is legit. If your learning environment suffers from a censourship too much to have an ability to say "I don't want to live with Muslim family in one neibourhood" in school so why the big bro insists the students to say something about race situation? The school got to teach but it also loves to shape.
could you replace it with a picture of her hugging a dog, and caption it "the dog is squeezed"?
Oof. Good luck over there.
That is not "either", you just got to have another sort of propaganda.
Clearly it is a contested issue even within the court system, there have been verdicts made that go both ways on the same issue and many lawyers are noticing that your position is not shared by everyone in charge, and I do not think any of us are in a position to make such unfalsifiable claims.

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/warrantless-pol...

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/police-turn-on-hid...

>the court determined that no “search” had occurred prior to the entry in Tuggle’s home, so the Fourth Amendment did not apply. To reach this conclusion, the court had to set aside the dictionary and replace the normal meaning of “search” with a fuzzy definition that different courts interpret in different ways at different times.
> In Hypothesis shrinking is based on the generation process. In Hypothesis generators act a bit like 'Functors' in Haskell, ie you can map over them. (You can also filter and `<>` and do monadic binds etc.)

You are right that the generators in Hypothesis correspond to `Functor`s, so you can map over it. Indeed, in QuickCheck, its `Gen` [1] (type of `arbitrary` [2], the generator in QuickCheck) is a `Functor`, and moreover a `Monad`, so you can do monadic binds on `Gen`.

> So in Hypothesis you can take a generator that produces integers, and create one that produces only even numbers by (in Haskell terms) mapping (2) over it. Now, the shrinker you get for free will also only produce even numbers.

> That's not possible (or at least not easily possible) in Haskell. You would have to define at least a newtype wrapper.

Since `Gen` in QuickCheck is a `Functor`, to multiply its output by 2 to generate only even numbers, you can do this in Haskell as:

fmap (\x -> x*2) (arbitrary @Int)

Or, for those preferring OOP-style chaining:

arbitrary @Int <&> (*2)

where `<&>` is `fmap` with arguments flipped, and `(*2) = \x -> x*2`, and `@Int` is type application to specialize `arbitrary` to generate `Int`.

> Have a look at https://hypothesis.works/articles/compositional-shrinking/ and https://hypothesis.works/articles/integrated-shrinking/ for some more write-up, especially about how Hypothesis can preserve information even when shrinking past a monadic bind.

I think what you are hinting at is that, QuickCheck separates generation and shrinking, while Hypothesis combines generation and shrinking. If you prefer combining generation and shrinking, you may want to check out hedgehog in Haskell, see [3] for a discussion of this trade-off.

I think by using the `MonadGen` in hedgehog [4], you should be able to map over and bind over generators, with automatic shrinking, much like Hypothesis.

Hypothesis was first released in 2013, while hedgehog in 2017, so it is possible that hedgehog was inspired by Hypothesis or similar property-based testing libraries.

But in general, I would be surprised if such ‘functional’ APIs (map, filter, reduce, bind, etc.) could not be ported to Haskell.

[1]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck-2.15.0.1/docs...

[2]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck-2.15.0.1/docs...

[3]: https://tech.fpcomplete.com/blog/quickcheck-hedgehog-validit...

[4]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hedgehog-1.4/docs/Hedgeh...
I genuinely ask what is noteworthy about breeding that separates it from any other mechanism with respect to the topic at hand. There is no indication in the comment of how breeding actually violates the unnecessariness of the exact mechanics. I suspect it was posted without having read the thread that came before it, but we shall see when clarification is revealed, if the original commenter ever follows up.
Extremely common for carrier provided phones. Especially the highly subsidized prepaid ones.

Verizon already has this 60 day policy, including for its wholly owned subsidiary MVNOs. T-Mobile is six months. A lot of other prepaid MVNOs are one year.

If you are buying from Apple, it's generally unlocked. I'm not aware of Apple directly selling locked iPhones at all anymore.
I've read it probably a dozen times or more. I'm actually mid-way through it again after not having read it for a year or two.

I think it's still a great story. The technology is definitely dated.

There is also some language that will offend or make some people uncomfortable (Racial slurs epithets, among them).
Peak hacker news
Data Fetching for Single-Page Apps
Aggressive marketing is 100% manipulation and dark patterns. There is no line to cross.
Yup - Polish is in a different family (Western Slavic), with lots of unknown words and a different phoneme density that immediately lights up as "foreign".
I guess I'm put off by how horrible he repeatedly describes the past, seemingly ignoring that those people of the past had it extremely well compared to the people of their past.

And how people of the future will look at us with that same horror.
Uber has a phone number that you can call to hail a ride.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/17/you-can-now-hail-an-uber-b...
Hofmann was a mistake, and so was Leary.
https://man.netbsd.org/authpf.8

https://man.openbsd.org/authpf
On this topic, my Dell laptop detects that it's closed by having 1 (!) magnet in the screen, and a sensor on the case. So when I put my magsafe phone to the right of the touchpad, it thinks I've closed it and logs me out.

My MacBook has 2 magnets in the screen to avoid this issue.
Why would they think that? Please ignore all the microplastics, ecological destruction and wildly altered climate due tot dumping 2 trillion tons of carbon in the atmosphere.
Nix is great for this, if you have the disk space. It's nicest if Nix is already installed on the box by a sysadmin, but you can use it in a pivot_root environment if you don't have a cooperative sysadmin.
HIV treatments prevent replication of cells infected by HIV such that the number of immune cells infected by HIV can be undetectable. The problem is there are latent reservoirs of HIV DNA / cells that may reactivate later or hide in areas of the body without immune protection (this is a lot easier for immune system cells with privileged access!). See https://www.nature.com/articles/nrmicro.2015.5 for an older but good discussion on this.
This is fascinating because if your hint in another comment indicates you worked on this at Google, it's entirely possible I have this all wrong because I'm missing the actual ML part - I wrote the client encoder & server decoder for Opus and the client-side UI for the SODA launch, and I'm honestly really surprised to hear Google has different stuff. The client-side code loop AGSA used is 100% replicated, in my experience, by using Whisper.

I don't want to make too strong of claims given NDAs (in reality, my failing memory :P) but I'm 99% sure inference on-device is just as fast as SODA. I don't know what to say because I'm flummoxed, it makes sense to me that Whisper isn't as good as SODA, and I don't want to start banging the table about that its no different from a user or client perspective, I don't think that's fair. There's a difference in model architecture and it matters. I think its at least a couple WER behind.

But then where's the better STT solutions? Are all the obviously much better solutions really all locked up? Picovoice is the only closed solution I know of available for local dev, and per even them, it's only better than the worst Whisper. Smallest is 70 MB in ONNX vs. 130 MB for next step up, both inference fine with ~600 ms latency from audio byte to mic to text on screen, ranging from WASM in web browser to 3 year old Android phone.
The Republican party is the de-facto party of exploitative plutocrats. As reflected by their tax policy for the last half century plus, by their repeal of anything limiting business. Tech bros might pay homage & try to pump their rebel thinker cred by declaring for this shit show, but there is zero interest whatsoever in reeling in the excessive capitalism & unchecked growth-for-shareholders-at-any-cost mentality that is toxified this poor sad exploited misbegotten world.

Part of the furror against Biden is that he is the first dude in a generation to turn the tables at all against big business. Linda Khan's FTC might not be winning ever case but a) no one has tried making a case in many decades b) the FTC is showing continual signs of learning & adapting & improving as it tries to find its flaws & fangs.

The blowback against the Democrats had never ever been fiercer. There are vast vast powers that be, and many of them have acquired much of the media. The narrative being so strongly tilted against Biden, trying to undermine him at every turn & report so little negativity on the other guy, is, I think, 70% a reflection of how annoyed the imperialist fatcats are at having someone actually trying to strike a balance of power. Great Behind the Bastards podcast on the media ownership shifts, https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236...