skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn’t sound like a country wide universal benefit (at least as of 2013).

> Florence currently provides support to about 2,000 working families in 23 wards and four cities in Tokyo, Kawasaki, and Yokohama cities in Kanagawa Prefecture, and Urayasu and Ichikawa cities in Chiba Prefecture.

I have read tons of articles on these types of benefits, but never seen them successfully implemented on a national, universal level. The main problem being voters not wanting to prioritize spending on kids, or at least prioritizing spending on older population groups rather than kids (since that is who the voters are).
Microblogging is one of the many aspects of the internet where the only winning move is not to play.
No -- it's also not customary to tip people who get a commission from your purchase.
This one is fun too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_nines_in_pi
MNX is probably good but they are taking an awful long time to get the job done. They ran into the same roadblocks as any format, there's too many competing needs and too many opinions. MIDI 2.0 has also had some really interesting talk about embedding notation data inside the wrapper to make it an "all-encompassing" music format.

I'm not as familiar with MEI but I don't believe it's any better for preserving music engraving data compared to the musical data itself.
Anyone else found it odd that the article says "For all the improvements evident in contemporary surgical technology, electron microscopic images actually confirm that the edge of Neolithic obsidian blades exceed today’s steel scalpels in sharpness" and then cites a paper about obsidian blades from 1982?

Has there been no improvement in sharpness in 42 years? Or are Neolithic obsidian blades just that much sharper?
I think you can estimate the threshold by just counting the ratio of times you flag something and it immediately dies. You would wait a while to see which items die or do not die, and discard the subset which never die, and consider only the subset of items that transitioned to [flagged][dead].

If the [flagged] logic is simply "flags >= N", then of the subset of samples that are flag-killed with your involvement, you will be final flag in 1 of N of those.

The null hypothesis is "this experiment converges to a reciprocal integer".
> Not that any of the other DEs would serve as better bases, unfortunately. No matter what making a Mac-style DE is going to be a steep uphill climb.

No idea what the Elementary, helloSystem, Etoile, etc. folks are messing around about. The Cappuccino Project's Aristo is the best base to start with, and arguably looks better than Aqua. (I was never a fan of Aqua's overshined blue dialog buttons and scrollbars.)
I believe that a significant amount of what happens is based on herd movement. Which is similar to the concept of social trend, but I think that makes it sound more rational than it is.

People seem to be largely motivated by a subconscious desire to keep up with the flock. They copy what everyone else they see doing without realizing they are doing it.

This can be fairly mindless and random. But all of the activities are rationalized (again subconsciously) so people think that there are logical reasons they are using some service, tool, whatever.

Most of the ideas that you think haven't been made in the last ten years probably were made, by multiple people. They just didn't become wildly popular, so you never heard of them, or if you did, you decided they were a failure. Because now any business that does not get $50 million in funding or a million users is a "failure".
yeah sadly capitalism is brutal about this. In the past mentoring and apprenticeship was based on the fact a business owner can get years of cheap labour out of you.

The economics dont really math out with software development, because to be a good software developer usually means you are smart enough to see when you are being exploited and nope out as soon as possible.

Then mentioning AI is an even deeper layer of "nobody wants you to know the tricks that is making them scam money"
One thing I don’t see mentioned yet is that efficiency isn’t the only reason multiple queries can be problematic. There’s also consistency. This might not matter for many SQLite use cases, or in general for blocking single-reader calls. But if your database might be handling concurrent writes that could occur between any two reads, reducing the overhead to zero still might not be worth the tradeoff.
> If BlueSky truly believes that there will even be an "official app (or the web site)" for their decentralized protocol

The utter majority of people aren't nerds. They go on the App Store, type in "bluesky" and install the first hit, and that assumes they've heard of it in the first place.

Reddit, even before the Great API Crackdown, was just the same. The utter majority used the official client/website no matter how horrible they are/were to use - I'm honestly surprised old.reddit.com (the one with barely any JS) is still alive and kicking, new.reddit.com (the inbetween) for me keeps alternating between "it works" and "it redirects or shows the new UI that fails all the time with graphql errors"...
> it was not anticipated that it would fail this time due to a known issue

It was anticipated it would fail eventually. They will review this failure and use information from it to bolster their refurbishing program.

> For comparison, if a plane crashed after 23 flights everyone would assume it was a factory defect.

Planes are meant to fly well more than 23 flights so that's a bad comparison.

No other booster has flown more than 23 flights, this is unchartered territory.
And yet most of us don't have it. I think I get your point but if I had a couple million in the bank my day to day would be way more fun and way more ambitious and I definitely wouldn't work at a job I didn't love so I think it matters both in general AND in the context of "I'm quitting"
In this example a person is looking at code they can't legally copy, learning from it, and re-implementing the same functionality.

I thought this is what patents protected, not copyright.
A surprising problem I'm seeing with maintaining a link blog is that articles from it occasionally get submitted to Hacker News, where people inevitably call them out as not being as appropriate as the source they are linking to - which is fair enough! That's why I don't tend to submit them myself.

This particular post quickly turned into a very thinly veiled excuse for me to complain about PDFs, then demonstrate a Gemini Pro trick.

In this case I converted to HTML - I've since tried converting a paper to Markdown and sharing in a Gist, which I think worked even better: https://gist.github.com/simonw/46a33d66e069efe5c10b63625fdab... - notes here https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/27/distro/
> But regardless of what reasoning I could provide in behalf of the opposing side, my personal desire is that all governments and all courts to go fuck themself when it is about providing users data. I truly make no exceptions for that, it doesn't make me sympathetic if a user allegedly distributes child porn in a private conversation, or if he is a terrorist and disclosed a location of a nuclear bomb to his partner. I mean it.

This is an interesting stance to me, because throughout modern history I'm not aware of any budiness/entity that did not have an obligation to turn over information as a result of a court order other than information under attorney client privilege. Encrypted data is actually the odd one out, other than not collecting information in the first place, in that most things can be compelled.

The only time I have an issue with the courts having power to order someone to hand over information is when those orders are done secretly. There must be accountability.
from having built a bunch of tiny indie games in a prior life (in Flash :P), time = state, and time = world

and depending on what games we're building, either we record actions as state changes (eg chess / turn based games: if no moves are made, time didn't elapse), or "real-time" games (eg chess w/ a world state like a clock)
Nvidia Blackwell, AMD, Google, Untether AI: First Benchmarks
it is very interesting, I have a similar blog post in my bookmarks as well: https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/generating-json-directly-fr...

the problem is that it only works with Postgres, not mysql or sqlite or pretty much anything else (at least not as conveniently) and the bigger problem is that the queries become more complex
Japan's nuclear authority decides to reject plan to restart Tsuruga No.2 reactor
Maybe it's not for you, but the "everything is a string" thing is just the default. SQLite has STRICT table option since 2021 that people really should be using if possible: https://www.sqlite.org/stricttables.html

This brings strict types that people expect from the other server-based databases.
apparently yes. Broken glass (which obsidian is, a volcanic glass) have edges a few atoms wide beating anything manmade.
The SQLite db can easily live on the same machine as the app server.
What if a person isn't capable or willing to do work that justifies such a wage?

I'd rather see the answer on the other end closer to a UBI then making basic jobs uneconomical by making a "minimum wage" higher then the value of the labor.
My Government sure loves milking the EU for money to "fight" long COVID.
Silicon Valley's Online Ideologues Are in Model Collapse
I actually work on SQL Server, but I also write a lot of KQL queries which also work this way and I totally agree that the sequential pipe stuff is easier to write. I haven't read through the whole paper, but one aspect that I really like is that I think it's easier to guide the query optimization in this sequential style.
Three others, and none were lost. One was the nephew of my boss, who was allowed to just go sit in a break room pretty much any time. The other two just hung around looking busy whenever the boss came by. The cooks knew what was going on but didn't say anything. Eventually, my boss figured it out and assigned me to clean pots and baking racks in the bakery. Dysfunctional place for dishwashers.

She told me I could be an assistant baker and get a raise if I learned everything the two bakers could teach. When they day came they said "there's nothing more to teach you" (there was a lot more, but not for an "assistant"). I told my boss and she literally ran out of her office, me running after her, ran into the bakery shouting "he thinks he knows everything!".

No assistant baker job for me. I moved on the next day.
Really wish these were called achievements instead of a skill tree to head off every discussion fixated on how these aren't actually tree structures and/or don't work like, or even have a similar intent as, video game skill trees.

Especially seeing them in practice, it's pretty clear to me that the goal is to fill in all the segments, which helps to identify which skills or projects might be be sitting in a blind spot. And especially in a group environment, helping to point out which people might be able to answer questions about specific tasks because it's easier to spot on a chart like this than asking each member the same questions.
Title needs 2020 :-)
So is this another blow for the free will argument based on quantum entanglement that some posited was happening in the brain? It seems this is another nail in the coffin leaving very few arguments other than mostly solipsistic ones.
I would love to teach these kinds of sessions. But I have to have the time, it has to be a subject I know well, and I need to be fairly compensated.

Sorry, not an AI expert.
Automating mTLS on HAProxy Using SPIFFE/SPIRE
Deaths from COVID does not imply that the mRNA vaccines are not harmful and that there may be no dire consequences a year or two later because of it. It does not minimize the harmful impact of COVID either, no one (well, I surely did not) claimed this.

> rare enough

>> Studies showed that the risk of developing narcolepsy was about 5-13 times higher among those vaccinated with Pandemrix compared to the unvaccinated population, particularly in children and adolescents.

>>> The incidence rate of narcolepsy in vaccinated individuals was estimated to be about 1 in 16,000 to 1 in 50,000 doses, depending on the country and the age group.

>> In Finland, for instance, it was estimated that around 1 in 16,000 vaccinated children and adolescents developed narcolepsy.

Well, it may be "rare" in this particular case. What's not rare is the influx of people with MS (supposedly) in the country where I am located. It is OK though, no one is going to ever suspect the vaccine, we can blame everything on "long COVID", after all. That is not to say that long COVID does not exist.

Regardless of it being rare or not, it is besides the point. The point is that people should not be silenced and ridiculed and called a conspiracy theorist just because they brought up fair concerns. Those concerns do not invalidate nor minimize the harmful effects of COVID, and I feel like people think that when someone questions the safety of the vaccines, they somehow claim that COVID is all fun and sunshine. I personally never meant to claim that.
"Stuff I disagree with" is fine. Outright hate is not. There are limits.
I work on Public Safety applications. Tracking the chain of custody for items collected by officers is very important. Many vendors have support for this. Officers can print labels from their car and begin maintain a custody log from out in the field. Officers can scan labels with barcode scanners or phone cameras. They also often use barcode scanners to scan drivers licenses with can have 1D or 2D information encoded in them.
Yeah, that's why I said "of us," lol. We have our fingers in a lot of pies, also similar to Purism (but not a 100% overlap, and with some differences in philosophy).

My point wasn't that everyone should know Purism already, just explaining why it seems completely obvious to those of us in that niche. I really think it's a legitimate feeling of "they're in the news all the time" and forgetting that not everyone is exposed to the same news, rather than just a "fanboy" thing. For some people, they're right up there with Red Hat and Canonical in terms of presence.
He doesn’t need to be a vet to know the difference between a dog and a cat. Retrieving the booster is optional. Boeing, their competitor, can’t even do it.
So you're basically just talking about upgrading "enemy AI" to a more complex form of AI :)
I checked out learn to code. Had things like write a quicksort, use a bitwise operator, teach a friend, give a speech on coding.

Probably not the most useful list.
And even being this simple and having clear challenges it's worth using it for the latency gains.
Personally, i'd wish Window Maker wouldn't fall for pointless feature creep (in-built screenshot feature!?) and would instead replace WINGs with the GNUstep framework.

GNUstep has silently matured over the years but still lacks a real native window manager. Window Maker once aimed to be that but unfortunately didn't ever manage to fully integrate with GNUstep.

Fully porting Window Maker to GNUstep would be a Win-Win situation for all involved parties: GNUstep already features Wayland support and also offers a theming capabality for which WINGs' hardcoded and thus unchangeable NeXTSTEP aestetics are no match. So replacing WINGs with the GNUstep framework would instantly provide Wayland and more advanced theming support, for free.

People interested in an integrated Window Maker centric system based on Debian/Bookworm should have a look at https://wmlive.sourceforge.net and https://sourceforge.net/projects/wmlive/files/ for downloads.
https://Codementor.io is a platform designed for exactly that. I am registered as a mentor there, though not so active. I have not used it as a mentee, so cannot vouch for the process or mentor pool though.

AI is very broad, what exactly are you wishing to learn/build/accomplish and where are you in the process?

I specialize in ML that intersects with time-series, sensor/IoT data and audio. Info in profile if anyone is interested.
FROM first would be nothing short of incredible. I can only hope that Postgres and others can find it within themselves to get together and standardize on such an extension!
This is true, as long as a day in the field without a working laptop does not cost comparably to a new laptop. Imagine your laptop cracking and ceasing to work when the helicopter that brought you to the interesting location has just disappeared in the distance.
> Landlords are part of the problem though; due to landlords, property managers, investors, etc, the cost of housing / rent / owning a house has gone up, meaning that a job that would get you a decent apartment 20, 30 years ago is no longer enough.

I mean this is one of the few spaces that every economist agrees on the biggest factors in causing housing to become unaffordable are rent control and
construction bureaucracy (zoning, environmental reviews, etc).
oh no, my humorous entertainment reading had a machine involved in creating it so I refuse to find it entertaining.
Somehow i don't even think it is enshittification, because their search has been bad forever. On all previous versions of windows server even.

ok ok, maybe it would slow things down to index shared drives? well how do you fuck up simple search on the LOCAL computer too???? I have to use powershell to do searching "gci -recurse" is built in alias for get-childitem. And it wasn't too many more lines of code to start searching the contents of word and excel files. (although this does take a lot longer, at least it works)
Community Notes, and their abuse, is one of the reasons I left Xitter. I was a CN editor and saw that it just became another battleground for ideology

Bluesky, with ATProto, is putting more control into the author and user hands. You may not like this design change, but many people do. The nice thing about ATProto is that you can write a different UI that doesn't hide or allow for this, and still belong to the social network fabric at large. You don't have to rebuild a new, separate social network from scratch
What works for Apple and Google is rarely the best approach for the rest of us.

My concern is over-reliance on client side storage and the complexity it adds to have records of state on both client and server.
This kind of role exists but not in the store stocker or dishwasher side. Those are for better/worse roles that take a few hours to learn. Maybe some things you pickup on the way but by no means a role where it helps to have experienced folks in.
Admiral Rickover's solution for the U.S. Navy submarine program was to write into the contract having company executives on the boat for its first dive.
100% hoax
Anybody have a benchmark that shows that postgres is actually slower when on the same machine with same durability settings?
>A small, individual landlord has no pricing power. They’re competing in a market against all others.

Unless there is a deficit of housing, then they don't have to compete because you pay their price or you live on the street.

With a housing crisis as in the UK the cost of housing rises to soak up everyone's income after other essentials (food, water, energy). Rents are higher than mortgages because you pay the landlord's mortgage, then pay the costs of leasing (such as the landlord's insurance and their property managers fees) and the landlord's profits. Very few want to rent, but most can't afford a mortgage (because 'I'm paying way more than that in rent' isn't proof you can pay a mortgage, apparently).
It wasn't just storage. In the 90s, most servers were single core. Databases already had network interfaces so they could be shared by non-web applications running on desktops, and so were the natural place to split a website over multiple machines. This turned into the received wisdom of always putting your database on a separate machine, despite processing power and storage latency improving so much since the 486 and pentium days that network overhead dominated response times.
They can commingle but simply keep track of how much of the inventory is theirs and how much is not. I think you have a limited understand of how their system works.

I got an Amazon product the other day, likely counterfeit, Amazon listed as seller and has 3rd party sticky barcodes on the packaging. How is that possible without commingling.
Might honestly not be the worst idea!

People could put up basic profiles with their skills listed and you could purchase a time slot with them. It’d be relatively low commitment for both the experts and also the advice seekers.

Some technical problems might be verifying expertise but this could be handled with a sort of social proof like how LinkedIn allows users to vouch for certain skills. In fact you could probably facilitate account creation by pulling from the LinkedIn api.

But yeah, good luck if you build it!
You might have better luck at local events for likeminded professionals and network from there. Most people who are worth their salt won’t likely want to teach their craft to a rando on the internet. Nothing personal, there’s just too much to do.

It would help to know what your objectives are with learning more about AI. Otherwise we can only guess at your motivations.
Agree with this. Abstraction and design patterns when used in a well-thought out manner should make large or complex codebases easier to work with.

And like you, have experienced code bases that tried to throw every design pattern in the book at you, even for a relatively simple application, and made it a pain to work with.

But have also seen them used carefully, in a standard company-wide usage that made all the code easier to understand - worked on a high-volume website with a large codebase, where they had micro-services that all used common 3-tier architecture, security-services, tooling... Really-well thought-out and you could work on any one of their ~100 microservices and already have a good understanding of its design, how to build and debug it, how its security worked, it's caching...

Yeah, agreed, its how these techniques are used that determine if they are useful or just add complexity.
These kind of articles remind me of the headlines of mainstream media when Covid started:

"People who believe in the lableak theory are the same people who believe we never landed on the moon".

Then give it about 18 months and the official tune becomes: "The lab-leak theory cannot be discarded".

What about the coincidence where Peter Daszak was appointed as the sole US representative in the team investigating the origins of Covid-19? The conflict of interest.

But we should just have accepted it as coincidence, right?

Give it four years and Peter Daszak just lost his fundings (it's everywhere, Wikipedia has the links):

"In May 2024, the United States Department of Health and Human Services suspended all federal funding for Daszak and the EHA, saying that he did not properly monitor research activities at the WIV and failed to report on their high-risk experiments. The department also began proceedings to permanently debar Daszak and the EHA from federal funding."

Oh wow. So there was a conflict of interest after all? And he got defunded.

And yet that person was the sole US scientist appointed to look into the origins of Covid-19?

Actual investigative journalists did call that rat out from day one. But they were considered cracknuts.

All coincidences.

So before explaining us it's all "coincidences": please wait 18 months to a few years. Then we can talk.

As a note to mainstream media: if you weren't so quick to spout up the official government propaganda, which is virtually always exposed as lies a few years later, people would be more willing to believe actual coincidences when they do happen.