skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they threw an obnoxious senior manager that kept interrupting me as I calmly answered the questions

This is a red flag. To me this signals that a company not only has a toxic culture, but embraces it. Such places attract personalities who love conflict and once there are enough people, they set the culture.

What doesn't get said often is that conflict is a failure of leadership. Often all it takes to resolve conflict is for one very senior leader to snap their fingers and say, "Guys, I want you two to make this happen". But what happens is that leadership is either far too disconnected from the ground to align their teams, or they constitutionally advocate conflict within their teams in the name of competitiveness. Either way, such places can be hell to work in.
One person using generative AI doesn't impact anyone else's ability to complete the challenge, but it does seem weird to officially condone using AI and partner with an AI company. If the goal of the challenge is to write 50,000 words in 30 days, and you use an AI to write most of that... then you didn't meet that goal. Like, at all. We should be honest that telling an AI to write a story and writing one yourself are very different things. Anyone who writes knows that having an idea is the easy part, and most of the work happens in turning the idea into the story. Writing to meet an aggressive quota like in NaNoWriMo takes work and discipline. I used to like NaNoWriMo for promoting writing as a creative exercise and motivating people to write and finish a project, but the main criticism has always been that pushing people to set potentially unrealistic goals can also be discouraging or encourage bad practices. Saying "AI is fine if it helps you meet the quota" kind of doubles-down on NaNoWriMo as a word factory and misses the point of its own challenge.
If you're picking communication protocols for your API endpoints, you're doing it wrong.

The ideal API supports `/api/call.json` and `/api/call.csv` and `/api/call.arrow` as well as `/api/call.grpc`, and the only thing that differs between these is the serializer (which is standardized and very well tested).

If the App is buggy, I want to (1) check what API calls it's making (2) be able to run those API calls myself, which is why I (ideally) need a text-based (human-readable) format.
> I didn't realize the Voodoo was running on NT 4 but for CAD/3DS/etc I can see that being a thing.

I may be incorrect about the Voodoo cards being in the NT 4 machines, if that was a driver impossibility. I think 3DS Max required Windows NT at the time? I know there was a bunch of Voodoo cards in the office as well, but maybe those machines ran Windows 95.
The problem is that you need at least hardware tokens, one on you and one in a safe place as a backup. And I can't justify the cost of that.
Yea, and the code gen (for Go at least) very clearly assumes you're using a monorepo and how dare you think of doing anything else you monster.

E.g. there's a type registry, which means you can't ever have the same proto type compiled by two different configs (it'll panic at import time). In a monorepo that's (potentially) fine, but for the rest of the world it means libraries can't embed the generated code that they rely on (if the spec is shared), which means they can't customize it (no perf/size/etc tradeoff possible), can't depend on different versions of codegen or .proto files (despite code clearly needing specific versions, and breaking changes to the generated code are somewhat common), can't have convenience plugins for things that would benefit from it, etc.

And all of this to support... an almost-completely-unused text protocol. And `google.protobuf.Any` auto-return-value-typing, but tbh I think that's simply a bad feature, and it would be better modeled as a per Any deserialize call registry, where you can do whatever the heck you like (or not use it, and just `.UnmarshalTo(&out)` with the correct type).

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What really gets my goat here is that none of this makes sense at all for a protocol. The whole point of having a language-and-implementation-agnostic binary protocol is to not be dependent on specific codegen / languages / etc, but per above the whole Go protobuf ecosystem is rigidly locked in at all times, and nearly every change is required to be a breaking change... and if you make that breaking change in a new Go module version, like you should, you immediately break anyone who uses two of them at once, so it must also always be a semver-violating breaking change.
Some firms were broadcasting live feeds with sub-second (~200ms) latencies to broad audiences not long after the dot com bust.

There've always been (a majority of) broadcasters that had seconds to half minute (!) delays. Very few understood, or even today understand, how to tune every single touchpoint (including what's safe to do, and what one must not do.)

Having an ultra low latency “video toaster” / broadcast mixer is a critical piece for sure.

For us the motivations to work on this started with "backstage feeds" synced with live TV that needed to look simultaneous to the home cable viewer (think World Wrestling Entertainment) as well as Wall Street calls that needed to be (perceptually) in sync with dial-ins. And of course, Times Square NYE ball drops!

In reality, almost nothing matters that way. For vast majority of content, the viewer is consuming only your stream, without some more real time channel at the same time. In most cases, the viewer cares far more about visual quality than the delay.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gifted_education
Exact floating point accumulating is more or less solved with xsum [1] -- would it work in this context?

[1] https://gitlab.com/radfordneal/xsum
Does anyone know the genesis of the Higg’s field as mud explanation?

I remember reading that since I first heard about the “God Particle” in the Science Times maybe 20 years ago.

Have journalists been using that deeply flawed analogy since Higg’s hypothesis was first published?
Temperate rainforests are different. They have very small spot fires from lightning, but the underlying foliage generally never burns. Fungi does the work of clearing out the dead material.
I think it would be better to show a bunch of colors randomly and let you pick your blueness / greenness from that, instead of slowly converging to an answer with extremely similar choices near the end.
That's a lot! Now I noticed: "I am tracking local time of day[...] infer whether night mode [...] any aggregate effects."

So you've thought about that already :- ) (it's evening here)
That's ingenious: the technology simultaneously makes and breaks the scam.

The cleverest business name idea that comes to mind is also the one most likely to get this comment deleted: consider the Scunthorpian[1] business name Cuntermeasure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
For my purposes, among the most important

Even a major refactor is relatively easy if you can find stuff in your codebase. Even a small bugfix can get complicated if there's a ton of ambiguity
Also disappointing for one of the last bastions of free speech as a forum.
> 2D printers just won't cut it:

Not your off the shelf consumer stuff, no, but there are printers that could do it, for sure.

What's more, I really have no idea what the point you are trying to make by linking those images is showing. Printing designs on nails doesn't require the level of resolution your screws idea would, so it isn't really relevant.

A quick search shows an especially high resolution 3d printer released last year in May, that can print at a 20-nanometer resolution, the D4200S[1]. That's basically cutting edge, and way, way overkill to print at the resolution required to fool you after tampering with your device.

> This is why I wrote below about eventual discovery of a possible tampering and low priority of checking it in principle.

It's a given that how often someone would check something like that (not that it would be used in practice) depends on their threat model, but you used yourself in the example originally. The point was you wouldn't be doing this, and in the context of the original comments and conversation it didn't make sense as a suggestion.

> This is a strong claim without any evidence. You didn't show how to overcome it.

The problem here is your assumption that the screws are not easy to reproduce, except they are. It's a false assumption. I showed capable printers exist, in addition exist the level of precision the worlds best counterfeiters can work at and are capable of, and yes, state actors have access to such people.

> It isn't:

It absolutely is.

All your arguments, or the links you gave that imply the arguments you didn't make, are limited to using preexisting keys which is not a requirement, or existing flawed implementations, which are not a requirement. Secureboot is a standard, and you are free to use your own keys, and own implementation - if you can't write or manufacturer your own, there are still open solutions you can trust like those from pureism, and software like coreboot.

It would really be better if you make an actual argument and reference urls rather than just spamming a bunch of links FYI. I shouldn't have to open 10 tabs to understand your reasoning.

[1] https://3dprinting.com/news/nano3dprint-launches-highest-res...
There is no submission in nano, it's literally just a participation challenge.

Exactly. Which is just one MORE reason why all of this is just a tempest in a teapot.
>Rollercoasters are subject to multiple schemas of classification

Rollercoaster is one of my favorite answers to the game 20 questions for this reason.
Tmux does suck pretty bad though?

It conflicts with the clipboard and a bunch of hotkeys, and configuring it never works because they have breaking change in how their config file works ever 6months or so.

These days I only use it to launch a long running job in ssh to detach the session it's on and leave.
Interesting vehicles you picked. Because I worked on both of those.

The Jeep Cherokee had a wheelbase of 101, the Liberty had a wheelbase of 104. It was not really much larger in footprint. The liberty gained a couple inches because it addressed the single biggest issue with the jeep Cherokee, and that is no one could get in the rear doors easily. The independent front was also new for Jeep and it wasn’t to any degree compact because unlike a lot of the jeep vehicles today, they kind of expected someone to take the liberty off road still.

Don’t get me wrong, the liberty wasn’t slim, but it was smaller than the Nitro and Liberty/Cherokee that replaced it after a short life.
There's a pony in there somewhere
Is this telemetry enabled internally at Google? Enabling it internally would be an interesting litmus test of what is required to make it privacy/security compliant.
It needs to be a library.
I, unlike Musk, don't have a team of lawyers though. Its common for people to attribute business decisions directly to Musk, but do we actually know he was the one and only person at Twitter involved in this decision?
I received an email at 9:22am PT this morning saying that my fork of this repository from July 2023 was violating the terms of service. So, this was not something that was added to the repository recently, and GitHub had more than enough time to resolve the issue in a less aggressive manner if they wanted to. It seems more likely like malicious action by GitHub on behalf of a copyright troll or other bad-faith entity like Google.

Here is the full text of the email I received, which contains no evidence for the alleged terms of service violation:

> Access to the raxod502/AdguardFilters repository has been disabled by GitHub staff due to a terms of service violation.

> When making content moderation decisions, we consider information from a variety of sources, including: account profile data, information contained in submitted reports/notices or discovered through our own voluntarily initiated investigations, and context around the contents of the repository.

> If you wish to regain access to the disabled content or would like to dispute that a violation occurred and can provide additional information to show that a different decision should have been reached, please review our Appeal and Reinstatement Policy and submit a request via our form.

> You may review our terms of service here: GitHub's Terms of Service

> Please feel free to Contact GitHub Support if you have any questions.

I filed support ticket 2981480 to complain about this communication.
At some point, 5MB of storage went from something that would kill you if dropped on your head, to something you might choke on if accidentally ingested.

(I'd put the cutover in the mid-1980s, when a handful of floppies would both be too large to swallow and too light to do much drop damage)
Hey! I've worked with them pretty extensively. Feel free to ping - nick.k@trieve.ai
My partner and I regularly disagree on blue vs green as the colours become more of a gray colour - might be interesting to randomise the brightness of the colours being displayed then seeing if the skew towards people perceiving blue Vs green changes as the colours become closer to gray.
If the higgs field did not exist, particles would not have enough mass to attract each other, and the universe as we know it would not exist.

So while I do not know if there is some particular cause of the higgs field, no reality like ours would exist without it, and realities without it would not look like anything we recognize (although maybe scientists could simulate it).
> what limits do we place on countries randomly being able to make supranational claims like this?

Randomly? EU or other nations act because their citizens have their rights violated. I assume Clearview has collected Dutch faces en masse and thereby violated laws.

Obey by GDPR or don't deal with the data of EU citizens.
I liked it, but... is there a way to script it? Clicking on notes gets old fast.
P.S.: It reminds me of that time when Turkish kinda-dictator Erdogan appeared to ordered his security staff to attack protesters. [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_protestors_at_the_...
We use msdf textures. Generate them dynamically when people upload fonts. We tried 3 methods, and we're sticking with msdf for now because its very fast.
So we should just never use some framework?
Sure, if you have the luxury of having a functional IDE for all of your code.

You can't imagine how much faster I was than everybody else at answering questions about a large codebase just because I knew how to use ripgrep (on Windows). "Knowing how to grep" is a superpower.
I just wish it would let me get the feel without any data collection first and as soon as I look like I'm interested .. I want to share, save, do something more advanced .. only then go fish.
Don't zoom in too close on the text :)
They aren’t made of anything (other than numbers). Fields are currently the fundamental ontology. They are mathematical objects.
I was picturing it as a sort of 'Here's a new paper' feed, but obviously if you're getting 5.2 notifications per minute even the interesting stuff will get drowned out. Am I envisioning this wrong?
Resident Evil games for iOS/Mac add online requirement years after release
>There are plenty of studies that show that the auto regulations did in fact reduce emissions substantially.

Wow, well, yea maybe my first hand experiences and career lessons are all wrong. Surely those studies were funded by groups that initially had interest in showing the opposite result and their funding was freely given regardless of the published outcome.
I mean… uh, duh?

Our goal is no screens before 6 with the exception of things we can’t control or “I want to see the picture”.

I’m firmly a tech person, but ffs, giving kids screens… what are some of you thinking!?

I can’t wait to see the little monsters that YouTube raises.
Imagine some preindustrial scientist being awakened in the modern era to find that the aether has been first debunked for more than a century and then rediscovered, but with different rules.
Meanwhile, the reverse is true for me. I’m sick and tired of desktop chat clients and other applications being, or turning into, single-purpose Chromium instances.
People are not careful about what they throw away. Batteries, lead, and so on end up in trash. When you burn it those get released to the atmosphere, sometimes in a form that is even worse chemically than what we started with.

We do burn trash, but as the other reply said, it is expensive because you have to somehow account for all that.
It drives me crazy that we have had the technical ability to do these things, but just not the demand. I believe it is a chicken/egg problem. It is one of those things that you don't get until you try it yourself.

I hope if more broadcasters (technical and non-technical) realize what is possible they will ask for it more!

> For vast majority of content, the viewer is consuming only your stream

Agree! I think it is that way because you can't have intimate/interactive streams yet. When it becomes possible I hope to see more streaming to smaller/more connected audiences.
I'm not sure, but I don't think "I did it from abroad" should just make it OK. The whole point of the GDPR is that personal data is valuable and important. Would you feel the same if Clearview were instead taking people's money?
Well that's true, but also something that can't be addressed within a currently running process afaik.
I mean, sure, not everyone can afford an editor, but that's never been the point of NaNoWriMo! The point of the challenge was to write a first draft and use the time limit to constantly push yourself forward. It was to demonstrate that a finished story that can be improved on can be more important to a writer's career than an exquisitely crafted idea that never gets onto the page. Editors are things that always came after NaNoWriMo.
Well, you asked:

https://extrastatic.dev/svekyll/svekyll-cli

I wrote a post about embeddings that uses some fun Svelte animations. You can scroll to the bottom and click view source. That'll show you the markdown for some very complex visualisation in Svelte. Then, click on the download button and download that post entirely, which can be built into a single HTML file with two commands: "npm i && npm build".

https://webiphany.com/2024-04-29-distance-sean-shawn
got the exact same
Yep, still are.
I used to have a lot of anxiety wondering if what my brain perceived as "Blue" was the same shade of "Blue" to other people. Like, sure, the sky is blue and a similar color to water for everyone.... but what if what I see as blue is actually red for other people and there is just no way to confirm because that is how our brain processes that frequency of light? I'm sure it isn't actually possible to confirm... but I was always interested in it.

Late addition to comment:

I just found this article that explains it well and has some theories on it: https://www.livescience.com/21275-color-red-blue-scientists....
It locks you into a well-documented protocol, implemented by open source software?
The author claims that attempting to retrieve xpaths with the LLM proved to be unreliable. I've been curious about this approach because it seems like the best "bang for your buck" with regards to cost. I bet if you experimented more, you could probably improve your results.
Makes sense! My impression that phase matters from audio comes from when editing audio in a DAW or anything like that. We are very sensitive to sudden phase changes (which would be kind of like teleporting very fast from one point to another, from our heads point of view). Our ears kind of pick them up like sudden bursts of white noise (which also makes sense, given that they kind of look like an impulse when zoomed in a lot).

So when generating audio I think the next chunk needs to be continuous in phase to the last chunk, where in images a small discontinuity in phase would just result in a noisy patch in the image. That's why I think it should be somewhat like video models, where sudden, small phase changes from one frame to the next give that "AI graininess" that is so common in the current models
I think that’s a tricky question. In one sense, they aren’t made of anything since they are elementary fields. Meaning they don’t have constituent parts. But one could still argue that it’s relevant to say that they are of some kind of substance in a sense. The nature of that substance is the domain of Theories of Everything and some argue that the discussion becomes either purely mathematical or somewhat philosophical in nature, more so than a matter of physics anymore. For example, some argue that the fields are all made of math, so to speak, or likewise that their differences are like geometric variations on the same substrate.
Genuinely asking - not directly to OP of course, wasn’t this how people were playing the game when you were kids? Not as rigorous, but you intuitively try offsets to get lucky and find the number in fewer tries?
We made the playground so that you can try Repaint without signing up.
The dawn of a new startup era
Where's "here"? What activists and what plastic bags? There's a bunch of context missing here.
You should consider providing resignation services!

(no snark, entirely serious)
If I was more invested I'd stick it out as well. I have to expect they'll figure this out, its just a bad look and will take them time to dig out of this mess.

I live in a small place and only have a couple original Sonos 1's. Even then we usually only have one playing. I'm just going to sell both and get a similarly small speaker with an Aux input, it'd be just as convenient for me to plug in a phone and stream music from either Spotify or our home server.
Actually that is a test only , we agree both to testing my monitor only, and experiencing what is cyber space.. atleast soon I am ready it could be happen...
> Ah, yes. Drew DeVault. The expert in ... developing 30M LOC OS kernels with billions of dollars on R&D investment in a few years with a small team in an experimental language. "Just make Linux 2", it's so simple, why didn't we think of this?!

This is an unusual take considering Drew DeVault actually does have experience developing new kernels [1] in experimental languages [2].

Drew's own post [3] (which the linked article references) doesn't downplay the effort involved in developing a kernel. But you're definitely overplaying it. 30M SLOC in the Linux kernel is largely stuff like device drivers, autogenerated headers, etc. While the Linux kernel has a substantial featureset, those features comprise a fraction of that LOC count.

Meanwhile, what Drew's suggesting is a kernel that aims for ABI compatibility. That's significantly less work than a full drop-in replacement, since it doesn't imply every feature is supported.

Not to mention, some effort could probably be put into developing mechanisms to assist in porting Linux device drivers and features over to such a replacement kernel using a C interface boundary that lets them run the original unsafe code as a stopgap.

[1] https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/helios/

[2] https://harelang.org

[3] https://drewdevault.com/2024/08/30/2024-08-30-Rust-in-Linux-...
Death to AI slop.
This is how I was using it. I was trying to work through each part of the model, but kept running into an issue in which it would recommend implementing things with Python instead. It wasn’t impossible or even inadvisable to do it with typescript, so I have no idea where the impetus to switch to Python came from.

The issue occurred specifically when I was pointing out that type inference wouldn’t work as expected for typing the store and its corresponding events. I’d feed it some types that were close to what we needed and it would give up and show me how to do it with Python. I gave up after (I wish I was exaggerating) around 2 hours of experimenting with convincing it to believe it was possible to build and type the store correctly.

The store is built and working properly at this point so who knows, maybe the meta layer of typing things really throws LLMs.
It’s weird to think about if solar is cheaper than building materials like fence panels or pavers.