skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree completely. It is a real shame that nowadays so many people do not assume good intent, or if they do, they value the intention much then the Deliverance. There are definitely a small number of people that intentionally use terms that others may find distasteful or offensive, but the vast majority of people are not trying to do that. They are just using the words and vocabulary with which they are familiar.

The more time goes on and the more experience I get the more cemented this becomes. The best example is the expression you guys. Nowadays that expression is fully gender-neutral and is routinely used to refer to a group of mixed gender individuals. Some people can feel excluded by the term, and for that reason I do often try to substitute a different term for it, but many of the women I work with use the same expression of you guys even when referring to a group of entirely women. I strongly wish that most people would hear that and not think of a gendered reference. I think that would radically improve communication.

If there is doubt about what the person meant, sometimes a clarifying question can be extremely useful. For people that are trying to use offensive or exclusive terms, it is good to push them on that a bit and ask for clarification and such. But I don't think I've met anyone who was using the term that way in many, many years.
Android isn’t less secure but you can definitely screw up Android way more than you can iOS, there are some massive botnets that run purely on Android.
I am pleased to see a Junghans Max Bill watch smack at the center of the top display. The other ones are way too busy for my taste, except maybe the digital Seiko.

The self-designed watch camouflages its functionality with minimalism, and the day and month displays proceed in mathematically positive direction. I like it.
> If, at the end of those few days, the doctors decide the patient is dangerous, the doctors will file for a hearing before a judge, which will take about a week. The patient will stay in the hospital for that week. 99% of the time the judge will side with the doctors, and the patient will stay until the doctors decide they are safe, usually another week or two.

This says a slight variation from state to state. I might live in one of the more progressive states (Washington) and have transported hundreds, if not thousands, of voluntary and involuntary patients.

> the doctors will file for a hearing before a judge, which will take about a week.

Not so, here. That hearing here should, by administrative code take no longer than 48 hours and only take longer than 24 hours if further assessments are needed. That patient will also have advocates appointed on their behalf, a MHP, an attorney, or both. It's not just an automatic rubber stamp of the request to hold.

> Voluntary patients are technically allowed to leave whenever, but they have to do this by filing a form saying they want to. Once they file that form, their doctors may keep them in the hospital for a few more days while they decide whether they want to accept the form or challenge it.

There is no such process here. You -may- have to wait for an "appropriate" time to be discharged, i.e. to avoid disruptions to medication, to not threaten the security of the facility, but you are being discharged no different than to hospital.

However, there is a grey area, and it is touched upon. "If you don't do this voluntarily, we will apply for involuntary." But this also works in reverse. For mental health court proceedings in Washington, one of the questions that has to be answered is "If the patient would agree to voluntary treatment, should the involuntary hold be dismissed? And if not, why not?"
In other news, Amazon investors just found out the AWS CEO could be replaced by a chatbot and nothing of value would be lost.
Geez I get that innuendo is the national pastime of the British but that video goes on and on about it.

Looks like a pretty good system though!
Fair enough, it is actually work to do research. But that doesn't make the video wrong. People have time to comment on here and talk crap about a source, but not a few minutes to watch a video and find out possibly insightful information. I think people have wrong priorities here, and the real objectives of comments about reputation are to prevent other people from watching the very thing that you don't feel like watching, and farm internet points in the process.
As already mentioned by another poster, algebraic numbers are more general than algebraic integers, because the leading coefficient of the polynomial does not have to be one, similarly to the difference between rational numbers and integer numbers, where for the former the denominator does not have to be one, like for the latter.
Radiation destroys DNA and directly causes cancer. That's the super obvious link. Your deliberate avoidance doesn't change that fact.

Because of this are a bunch of safety protocols in the extraction, transportation, storage and use of radio active materials and their waste products.

100% sure that all of the chemicals involved in Solar manufacture are less toxic to the human body than handling Plutonium. So, we can probably design enough protocols to make it safe to manufacture given we did it for far more toxic materials.

> You can live right next to a nuclear power plant, or even work in one, and your radiation exposure will be indistinguishable from background levels.

So they dug up and replaced all the surface soil around Fukushima for no reason?
they mean at time of being declared legally dead (1986) it's been 10 years since he disappeared (1976)
I will try my best to not make this sound like a veiled promotion.

Short answer is you need a VA. What I do mostly act as a filter. I have seen this happen with my clients. People often think that it is just too much hassle to running a small sideproject and not worth the time. But geez man, do you have to do everything?? Why bother with the grunt work. You have caught the lightening in the bottle, but for the rest do not invest any more in terms of emotional commitment.

These are grunt work, you need a task monkey essentially. What I do is just translate this communication in binary response or options to pick. After you made your first dime from a sideproject, you need to outsource support. Everyone complains about bad support on everything they use, but the reality is that you can not afford to commit yourself to do support work. Being entrepreneur means you have to create barrier between things that require emotional investment. You may think hiring a 7 dollar an hour dude from a random country is a risk, but it is worth the gamble if you have a business that is profitable. And the risk is not a big risk. I am not self depracating myself but the reality is VAs like me are "disposable". You try out a VA for a week, see if that person solves your problem, if not try another one.
> It's about not having to write "implements IDuck" right in the class declaration for the down-cast to succeed.

That doesn't make sense. Not having to write "implements IDuck" is true of both structural typing and duck typing. That logically cannot be what makes them different.
They should concentrate on developing the browser and get out of political activism entirely. Use the rather large amount of money they already have as an investment fund to finance a slimmed-down operation while also soliciting donations from users and some select companies. Ditch the large administrative staff they gained during the Baker years, swap some of them out for developers. They should not try to be a PAC, there's enough of those already.
I have Disney and Netflix currently.

I have had Mubi. I think I will take it again.

Have Prime but cancelled it, runs out in a few days.

Prime seems to me like even more of a dumpster than Netflix, except for some nice things to have. But it has all these shows with names like Dunes, or Djanga or similar rip offs of really popular titles that they haven't bought (I scroll through all movies to see what they have), and it feels somewhat like they think they're going to put one over on you.

My feelings on Netflix https://medium.com/luminasticity/netflix-the-crap-you-put-up... - it could have been a premier service, but instead it's the crap you put up with, and https://medium.com/luminasticity/obligations-of-the-author-0... given its habit of cancelling everything you can't trust that it is worthwhile to devote yourself to a Netflix series until it is all over and you hear the reports of how things went.

I would get rid of Netflix but my daughter will kill me when the final Stranger Things drops.

Disney I don't have any complaints about, right now there isn't anything particular I am committed to on it, but I'm sure there will be. Of course I'm in Europe, I think the service might be more family friendly and bland in the U.S.

So as much as I hate to pay higher prices for things I sort of do feel like Disney has earned a price hike on the service.
Looks like it's all Manga / Anime piracy this time around.

Usually I'm very against such diligent copyright enforcement, but in this case the infringement seems egregious and committed on a for-profit basis. Am I missing something?
I think everyone's mental health is being neglected today, men and women alike.

I'm as hard an individualist as they get, but humans are fundamentally still social creatures and it's good to get together at least once in a while to share drinks and just party and have fun.

Specifying men/women takes away from the argument that society and community are taking a hazardous back seat in today's increasingly divided and petty politics. I think we both/all agree here, different as our expressions may be.
I feel the home page should have input vs output examples. A picture tells 1000 words. I don't want to signup unless I see the value.
which is to say, the best thing about running a business is that you can just pay someone else to deal with the problems you don't want to. hate invoicing? there's a service for that. hate doing the books? get a bookkeeper.
VA in this context meaning?
That problem isn't in scope. That's a long term issue, we care about returns we can deliver in the next 2 quarters.
NPC, sus and phish are at least 20 years old and serve a clear purpose. The rest I've never used.
Thank God Texas generates power from unlimited resources. In my place, the more we generate and consume, the less we have left for the future. In Texas, the plants have to generate as much as possible for some reason !
Claims that quantization doesn’t hurt models are made all the time but rely on the fact that almost all evaluations today of LLMs hardly scratch their surface. If we evaluated LLMs properly, even large quants would be detectably worse, and by a significant amount.
i think it is "virtual assistant"
But there was only evidence of a reduction in temperature in your link. Which would actually increase the effectiveness of Solar.

The idea of a global darkness for a significant period of time, would be extinction level.
Developer Voices: Multi-Platform Mobile Navigation with Rust at the Core [video]
Because they don’t like the fact that the majority of custom content for uncensored models is hardcore porn.
Professional creators wont switch to linux bucause of Adobe.
Well, being deliberate with words is definitely a great attribute. However, I came here to say that, as a blind person, I cringe whenever someone calls me "visually challenged" or in any other way tries to crawl around the seemingly bad word and does all sorts of linguistic hoops to avoid calling me what I am.

This tendency is totally counterproductive, since it creates yet another barrier between the disabled and "normal" people.

I am blind. If you dont like that, stay away. But it is even more hurtful if I can feel your uncomfortableness through the language.
The best place I ever worked had fairly sophisticated, formal channels for noticing when a cluster of related-looking problems happened repeatedly, and escalating that to engineering for a fix. It also had open Slack channels with engineers and product managers in them, and some informal understandings about what type of problem was appropriate for support or professional services to bring up, there.

That combination kept the customer-frustrating bugs quite low, while still allowing engineering to keep developing new features at a fairly rapid pace.

(and then we got purchased by a PE firm and dismantled)
Can everyone have a Google or* Discord account?
By god, andrewflnr. Very "nice". /s. See point 4 below.

You just showed that you are inaccurate, pompous and fake, all of that, in one single comment of yours, above. How? I'll tell you:

1. inaccurate: That commenter's username (the one who started this subthread) is _acco, not
acco_ as you wrote above.

Check that in their comment, or here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=_acco

I was careful to check the spelling before mentioning their name, unlike you, even when I referred to them earlier. The fact that you cannot even get the position of an underscore in a name, correct, seems to indicate that you are sloppy. which leads me to my next point.

2. pompous:

You said:

>Really, I'm being generous in assuming they didn't reply before you.

This is the pompous bit. Generous? Laughable.

I neither need not want your generosity. If anything, I prefer objectivity, and that people give others the benefit of the doubt, instead of assuming bad intentions by them: I had actually checked for a second comment by _acco (in reply to layer8) just before I wrote my comment to layer8, the one that got all of you in a tizzy. But you not only got the times wrong (see your edit, and point 3 below), but also assumed bad faith on my part.

3. fake.

You first said above that both those replies to layer8 showed as 13 hours ago, then edited your comment to say 14 and 13 hours. It shows that you don't use your brains. The feature of software showing time deltas in the form of "hours ago" or "days ago", versus an exact time stamp, is pretty old by now. It dates back to Web 2.0 or earlier, maybe it was started by some Web 2 startups or by Google.

If you think you are so clever as to criticize me without proof, or say that you are generous in your assumptions about me, you should have been equally clever or generous about the time delta point above, and so realized that I could have replied to layer8 before _acco, which was indeed the case. Obviously I cannot prove it, but the fact that I got _acco's name correct, while you did not, lends credence to my statement. It shows that I took care while writing my comment.

4. So you are fake because you don't bother to think before bad-mouthing others, and even more fake because you did not apply (to yourself) your own made-up "rule" in this other comment of yours, where you criticized my comment as being neither smart nor nice, so not of value:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41310460

I should not have had to write such a long comment to refute your silly and false allegations, and I will not always do that, but decided to do it this time, to make the point.

And, wow: you managed to pack 3 blunders (being inaccurate, pompous and fake) into a comment of just a few lines. That's neither smart not nice. Instead, it's toxic.
>but they are complex valued and change when you sample from them

I see, that does sound pretty different
I agree, although we should note that the constant here is that I and this CEO both think jobs we aren’t doing could be replaced by bots.

But, really, I do think I’m right and they are wrong…
I can't recommend this other story by the same author highly enough:

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_11_15/

There was a time when I was locked in a windowless room for several months and practically the only thing I had was this book (which the above was published in) and almost everything in it is amazing:

https://neil-clarke.com/books/the-best-science-fiction-of-th...
Is it? That's the thing we literally mass produce in factories. I think it's the machinery to do voltage conversions and transmission that is the critical cost factor.
Have to agree because I've seen the same. One of my mentors was laid from a major tech employer after > 18 years with this organization. He's on a lengthy severance package, his kids are out of high-school, their college is set up, and he's sold out of California and moved to the other side of the country, having now bought property near where he grew up, and has started teaching as an adjunct for a nearby university. Not retired, per se, but this man has a Wikipedia page that highlights his career in this industry -- he has so much more to give but no tech employer to give it to. Good for the kids he's going to be teaching, maybe, hopefully, but it's sad to see him essentially forced into retirement for $REASONS.
Only goes to show the value of a BDFL
Yeah, "you guys" is a fascinating case. I happen to be non-binary and autistic, so it's one that causes me a minor mental stutter to hear.

I absolutely never assume ill intent. But it does cause a cd-skip mentality for me, so I usually privately tell people. "Hey, heads up, you guys causes me an unfortunately unavoidable mental hiccup. It's not major, and I recognize it's common language. If it's low cost to you to use an alternative, awesome, but I don't want to cause an even bigger hiccup for you."

My goal is always to share the impact, and to be open to solutions that might include "nothing changes". I assume people would want to know they are unintentionally having that impact and also that I'm not going to roast them for using a very very common expression.
I don't disagree. There's still value in having eg Linux sysadmin skills, because the LLM still doesn't always get to the solution, but I kick off the job and come back a bit later and don't need to try the basic stuff myself, which means I spend more times on the harder problems.

For some reason I don't run into hallucinations as much as other people seem to, assumedly because I'm on well trod paths, but being lied to like that is always a fear. I asked it about argocd and it told me there is a command line program for it and I didn't believe it and had to Google it for myself, which didn't save me time or energy, but I got to ask it how to do things instead of hooting hoping the documentation had the right example.
> … I can't believe this Sun Cable project is being taken seriously by our government.

It passed government environmental requirements, a milestone for the (private sector) project’s promoters. Articles should be read a touch more carefully and cynically before jumping to outrage surely?
> let this be a lesson

I forgot my backup code, so now I can just never use Uber again.

Lesson learned!

(you see how ridiculous this is, right?)
Trademarks have scopes.
Can we please just throw the book at Google for this. Their search monopoly harms everyone but themselves.
My work is trialing Microsoft’s Copilot for 365. So I have a built in chatbot in teams to ask various questions among other features.

Asking about specific Microsoft documentation it will just immediately bail and tell me to look that up on my own because it was built on training data up to 2022 and may not be fully up to date on the latest documentation. It won’t even link to the page last time I tried. It makes up PowerShell commands and suggested completely out of date options.

So Microsoft’s own AI assistant cannot even provide accurate information about the Microsoft products it is integrated with let alone anything else.

It can be useful for a short script but anything beyond that it is slower and less reliable than doing things myself.
Douglas Adams, digital watches, and local max [video]
RocksDB 9.5.2 – SupplyChainAttackPoC for Meta BB
Do you understand them? I've never ever used "rizz", but I understand it means "charisma" or charm, for instance.
>Really sad to see Firefox’s direction but also not sure how they should be funded to avoid these things.

I'm not sure there is an alternative. It's not just Firefox: other big projects like this already have foundations and lots of money in funding, but then spend the money on things not at all related to the core mission.

From what I've read, Mozilla won't even take your money to develop Firefox. They'll instead use it for the Mozilla foundation which funds a bunch of social causes.

Wikipedia has a huge endowment, so they really don't need money to keep the lights on, but if you donate, it'll similarly be used for funding social causes through the Wikimedia Foundation.

There's also a Linux Foundation for funding Linux-related stuff, but here again a lot of it is spent on social causes, not directly on development-related costs.

You'd think that if funding were really that tight, social causes would be cut and just keeping the servers running and essential personnel employed would be the highest priority, with SW maintenance and development a close 2nd. So, apparently, money must not be that tight. Or, if it is, it's being woefully mismanaged. But I think there's more to it: it seems like when times are too good (something gets popular and gets funding), then the people in charge expand the scope of the project to consume all the funding, adding on various pet projects (like those social causes), instead of saving the money in case of a funding downturn later. Wikipedia probably did it best by setting up an endowment so that everything else is just gravy, but even here they're constantly asking for more money on the site and acting like they really need it when they don't.
A big factor with this will be how inexpensive they are relative to something that's more maintenance friendly. If you can get five of them for the price of a similar traditional electric motor I imagine it might be worth planning to swap and never service yourself. Particularly the longer they tend to last.
I actually have a different hypothesis. The amount of professional developers is increasing exponentially since the invention of computers, at a pretty steady rate. It’s only possible because of increased tooling. I’m hoping that ai is powerful enough to keep this trend going
I'll be afraid when AI takes a bug report with that typical one sentence problem description (like 'Paypal payments are not being processed, we loose 30k a day'), and fixes the problematic one line of code that the AI wrote before.
What you describe is pretty much straight virtue-signaling. And as a disabled person, I can tell you, I need nothing of it.

Especially this "your membership in a group of people concerned to change" part, which is virtue-signalling at its best.

I have NEVER met someone using alternative language like "differently abled" who actually did something substiantial for the community or for a particular person. Almost all cases have a touch of patronisation.

I need nothing of it. If you cant call me disabled, you are part of the problem, not the solution.
Imagine blue tape for software. I guess the closest thing I have seen is

// Fixme: address this later.
At first, that new term is not just the "updated term" that everyone knows is now considered less offensive.

At first it's partly activist, and when you adopt it it means that many people won't understand you, think you're criticizing their use of the previous term, or think you're probably activist on other topics too, when you think you're using a normal, neutral expression.

So most people are sceptical and wait with adopting new terms until they're widespread.
How the Intellectuals Lost (Many Times Over)
Gonna read it mainly because David Allen talks a lot about him.