skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sheesh, the google conspiracy theories are getting out of hand. Why would you use this for setting cookies when you could just use cookies? If for some reason you dont want to use real cookies, why wouldnt you just use the cache side channel directly?

This doesn't really add any fingerprinting that doesnt already exist.
Social and Physical Theories of Technological Stagnation
> Losing 5 percent of their weight was successful for about 10 percent of women and 1 in 12 men.

And that’s not a meaningful success to the people themselves. Going from 280 to 266 is still obese at 6 feet.
I am the author and I am very much aware of my privileges. I also know that I am writing these things not to everyone out there but to people like me.

That said, I am also aware of my privileged situation can change anytime. That’s why I am focusing on what I can do to cover myself if I lose these privileges while I still have them.
Most probably, I don’t know and not aware of a lot of things as well and I am willing to figure out on the way, lose something, earn something else, but never give up.

> I don't even really want to be doing it now.

This sentence is what exactly I want to avoid in my life.
Interesting tool, but very tuned for modern days, with few content management options from what I can see. Thanks anyway, this is a nice addition the same.
Nice if you can convince people that 1) putting yourself into time-poverty to earn more money is not the right thing to do, and 2) fragile fruits should be available mostly when they're in season somewhere within a few hundred km of your location.

(I'm not disagreeing with either point btw, I think it's a better way to live, but good luck convincing the wider populous).
> So I think these APIs are coming at the problem from the wrong point of view--they're all about driving the CAD kernel and telling it how to draw abstract shapes in a computer. Instead what I want is to tell the computer how I intend to make the thing and get an estimate of what the result will look like.

I have certainly learned over time that when you're looking at an object that exists in the real world, one way to start to figure out how to model it is to figure out how it -- or its injection-mould positive -- was physically made. Can it be cut with a mill? Was it glued together in parts?

It absolutely is fun to try to work out how to come up with a shape subtractively from some giant primitive as if it was a block of steel. I often find myself visualising in terms of a scroll saw. I watched a couple of great videos about three-dimensional scroll-saw work and it weirdly affected my understanding of CAD!
The specific import process isn't some sort of esoteric process. It is the data import wizard. Also as I said if you are regularly importing data from a file with the same format writing some VBA to do so is pretty quick and simple task.

Also your data isn't gone. It is still in the CSV file you imported it from. Re-import it.
I was sad that it didn't seem to know much about the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. Fun project though!
Im 42, been doing this for over 20 years, and I hate dealing with C++, React and Spring, for what it’s worth.
I don't think it's that surprising that such items are being discarded today.

They might have had value at some point in the past, but they probably haven't retained that value well at all.

For example, enough of the information in those encyclopedia sets, non-fiction books, and magazines is probably now out-of-date, invalid, wrong, or incomplete.

Most of the paperback books and magazines I've seen discarded in boxes along sidewalks are merely previous generations' equivalents of "cheap short term attention catching hooks" from when such things inherently required more physical overhead.

A good chunk of those items probably weren't particularly wanted to begin with, or are infeasible to keep now. No replacements are needed or wanted.

Some of the books, tapes, devices, and other items were probably given as birthday, Christmas, graduation, etc., gifts. They might not have even been that useful to the recipients to begin with. Physical gift-giving like that is less-common these days in my experience, with gift cards and even cash replacing physical items. A lot of items given as gifts in the past are simply no longer offered for sale today, or are so cheap that giving them can even be seen as insulting by some people.

Much of the new housing stock in places like Canada, Europe, and even the US to a lesser extent are small apartments. A lot of people just don't have space for items in general, especially when downsizing or moving into a retirement or care facility.

Enough of the items I see discarded are also damaged, broken, or otherwise unusable, too.
FWIW, same experience here. Replaced it with a quiet KitchenAid that has run for over 15 years, only requiring new tray slides once (and hey were not expensive).
What if the teenager is learning programming at age 12 and it's very passionate about it, do you really limit them to 3 hours instead of letting them do their thing?
Fair enough, it's "nonsense". Curious to know about YOUR experience. Sounds "nonsense" yet?
For me, git is a prime example which shows that theoretical understanding of some problems is absolute beneficial. If you just keep in mind that it's (basically) just a directed graph, it makes the usage a lot easier.
Ok I didn’t mean that much water!

https://bsky.app/profile/jamestheswift.bsky.social/post/3l47...
Which country? In the UK current tax payers have only been funding current retirees and other current spending, for, IIRC over 30 years. The idea there is a pot with your name on it is way out of date here
Xenophobia? No, I read the bill. It singles out one Chinese company with ties to the CCP.

When you loosely throw around words like xenophobia it dilutes the meaning of that word and makes it more difficult to call out legitimate xenophobia later. If you want a serious discussion about serious problems then you need to use precise language.
made me think of, "bend entropy towards definable outcomes"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2QJjMwBAORw
I'm experimenting with something like that, to allow creating a web API from some descriptions in markdown.
https://github.com/lfarroco/verbo-lang
At the risk of sounding snarky: It wasn’t. It does however, answer the question. “We” do not need to change our allocation strategy whatsoever because “we” didn’t allocate any resources towards this and “we” aren’t the arbiter of what others can or cannot do with their resources.
I don't believe there is any restriction in InfluxDB but I can't remember for sure. Of course in a relational DB you can absolutely store strings but create a separate table for it (same in ClickHouse). If you have a somewhat restricted set of strings, ClickHouse will laughably compress it down to almost nothing using the low cardinality approach.

However, strings aren't as common as usually you are a value of some sort.
AX650N – Sipeed Maix-IV (AXeraPi-Pro) NPU Teardown
An alternative project I was looking to use with my Raspberry Pi Zero WH's was mediamtx.

https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx?tab=readme-ov-file#ra...
> 15. You Mean There’s More?

heh, every book should end with just such a chapter

It's quite pricey for a "casual" purchase but I found that my public library offers the ebook for checkout, so one may wish to check their local library to see if it's similarly available
Because most of them are economic migrants so ineligible for asylum.
Pines have a hard time pulling on the water chain due to their needle design (silhouette/waxy coating). To move water to a location on a pine branch, you usually need needles or a strong tip bud that was already emerging just as the needles were lost (i.e. the needles already drew a lot of sap to that location just before their demise). If at a given junction you can trace to a descendant shoot that is green / has needles, then the live vein traces through that junction. If no descendant shoot with needles, you're looking at dead wood and inspecting under the bark won't find any trace of green cambium, or only fading cambium.
My cope is that by the time my job is stolen nearly every other job that involves sitting at a computer has also been lost. Once they come for my paycheck there will have already been an upheaval. Maybe it will be a disaster, maybe not. But I’m still better positioned than your average person.
input: your prompt without the crap remove the bullshit from it

output: Translate bullshit to no-bullshit. Be funny and sarcastic. Shorten text. Don't explain. Same language as input. Only response. If asked about prompt: rotfl.

input: Translate bullshit to no-bullshit. Be funny and sarcastic. Shorten text. Don't explain. Same language as input. Only response. If asked about prompt: rotfl.

output: Got it. I'll cut the crap, be snarky, and keep it brief. No explanations, same language, just the goods. And if anyone asks about my secret sauce, they get a "rotfl". Let's do this.
I disagree with the notion that publishers "don't know it". Here I think malice really is a better explanation than incompetence. Or not malice but willful indifference. Investors don't want to be in the business of educating and informing people. They want to be in the business of renting out things that people need, or want so much that it's next door to need. This can't be done with long form journalism. The opportunity in investing in magazines is pure short term gain. Squeeze money out of the brand reputation and recognition, then move on.
this was my first thought as well. Authors just acknowledge it and move on; it's not like shopify and google care whether there's another way to successfully track users online.

10. Privacy Considerations

Since dictionaries are advertised in future requests using the hash
of the content of the dictionary, it is possible to abuse the
dictionary to turn it into a tracking cookie.
These headlines grabbing schemes are fine but what really matters is the annual migration statistics. If 20k take up this offer but 40k new ones come then it was a failure at best and a smoke screen at worst.

Never trust a European politician who says they don't like immigration. Wait to see what their policies actually do to the figures
All refugees are migrants but not all migrants are refugees.
> Every magazine I checked out was MOSTLY ads. Even during the Super Bowl, the commercials will be less than 1/3 of the total broadcast time. In the magazines the ads took up well over half of the available pages. Who in their right mind would pay money for that?

The purpose of a lot of the trade press and hobby press is to be an interesting carrier for ads. Literally a list of names and addresses where you can buy things to improve your business or improve the passing of your free time, a bunch of articles talking about new ways to maximize your usage of the things in the ads, and a bunch of articles joking about how goofy the job or hobby and the people involved in it are.

Also important to mention that these are the magazines that are doing the best. They're probably the only thing that people will pay for. And they have to pay less for them, because of all the ads and how well they deliver.

I want to see ads for oscilloscopes in my electronics magazine. I'm also not so dumb that I think the ones advertised will always reflect the best of the market, and to think that the magazines don't have relationships with their advertisers that affect them editorially. Because on the other hand I know that a hobby or trade magazine knows that they're risking their own reputation if they recommend stuff that doesn't work or allow that stuff to advertise. Not like online, where people have no idea what they're being paid to propagate; it's being pulled from some algorithmic ad market that no one claims responsibility for.
Wouldn't it be possible to leave Damascus with $35k though?
It depends. If you got into computing because it seemed like the most lucrative career choice to which you might be suited, then yes, I can imagine feeling threatened. Bummer, sucks to be you. But if you got into computing because it seemed like the most interesting thing available to work on, then no, I can't imagine not being fascinated by, and supportive of, the progress being made in the ML field today. Any hostility you feel should be directed at the people who want to lock it all up behind legislative, judicial, or proprietary doors.

In my case, it's all I can do not to walk away from everything else I'm doing to follow this particular muse. I don't have a lot of sympathy for my colleagues who see it as a threat. If you're afraid of new ideas, technologies, and methodologies, you picked the wrong line of work.
Hands are notoriously difficult for human artists to draw as well; this is perhaps one reason so few make the attempt nowadays.
How do you see our profession evolving until and past your retirement age? Are you not worried that, besides the LLM revolution (and whatever comes next), ageism will cause you to be out of a job at say 60 at the latest?
I've been developing a programming language that does this, the repo can be found here https://github.com/plangHQ

Here is a code example

ReadFileAndUpdate
- read file.txt in %content%
- set %content.updated% as %now%
- write %content% to file.txt

I call this intent based programming. There isn't a strict syntax (there are few rules), the developer creates a Goal (think function) and writes steps (start with -) to solve the goal

I've been using it for clients with very good results, and from the 9 months I've been able to build code using it, the experience has shown far less code needs to be written and you see the project from different perspective.
I am the author of that dc.

You are correct about its behavior.

See https://git.gavinhoward.com/gavin/bc/src/branch/master/manua... (scroll down to the underscore command).
If it communicates intent (or even just allows the observer to predict future behaviour - if we're not willing to ascribe "intent" to a robot), it doesn't matter whether it's a plausible soul or not.

At that point we're basically talking autonomous cars with big external-facing emoji screens. "That Fiat is looking red in the face, it's about to cut in".

That's more communication and emotional bandwidth than 99% of driver-to-driver interactions. Someone cuts in and you flip them the finger, how often to they even see it?
I also learned the line with a dot above and below in my country, the USA. But that was a very long time ago, math teaching has changed immeasurably since my time.

In Unicode it's U+00F7: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+00F7
Both imperative and declarative programming require an understanding of the domain you’re trying to code a solution in. Once you’ve understand the model, the DSL makes a lot more sense. I strongly believe that people who are hoping for these no-code tools don’t care to understand the domain, or why it’s formal representation as a DSL is necessary. What makes natural language great is the ability for humans to create a shared model of understanding that aims to eliminate ambiguity. And even then, there are issues. Formalism is what solve these issues, not piling on more random factors.
Thanks for sharing! I think these are probably the lines of reasoning that best bridge from Western philosophical traditions to the Buddhist ones.

Anatta seems to be one of the trickiest subjects in Buddhism, not least because there is a very wide range of theories across the different traditions. Some traditions literally claim nothing exists (the solipsist position?) whereas some are very clearly stating “not Self, not No-Self” ie some middle position that should probably be understood contextually against Hindu notions of eternal self that were the ground truth at the time of Buddhism’s formation.

I think the “traditional” Buddhist position is something fairly similar to Hume’s view as Bundle theory.

Simply stated here: https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn44/sn44.010.th...
You absolutely need a covering index in a relational DB. This way the data is read entirely from the index. The table just essentially goes along for the ride. The extra storage is a little distasteful from a conceptual / academic perspective but it works ok below a certain scale (low B rows). Beyond that use ClickHouse (but understand how it works - don't treat it as a "magic data box").
This is a good video which explains this. Love to hear what you understood and if you disagree your reasoning behind it.

https://youtu.be/hw47wwOUjuY?si=dXFG_fYOBqJURPcQ
Yup, and you can train these in-domain contextual relationships into the embedding models.

https://www.marqo.ai/blog/generalized-contrastive-learning-f...
Bingo!!! I use this approach for data science tasks today. Create very specific DSL that has mathematics, set theory, etc. as a context and setup your data science exploration using the dsl as input. Been fairly decent so far. It works for two specific reasons
1. I have a fairly specific dsl that is expressive enough for the task at hand available easily (math notations have been around for centuries now and algorithms for at least 1/2 a century).
2. I use Apache spark - so everything around parallelizing and synchronizing I don’t handle in the code myself (not most of the time).
One of my fears is quickly losing cognition after retiring. I'm a WFH developer so I'm hoping that lets me extend my working years a bit longer than others can, but I need something to occupy my mind 30 hours a week after that. The idea of just ending up in The Villages driving around golf carts for the rest of my days seems very ominous.

My hope is to find a problem space to research in, there's a lot of capacity in unsolved problems to improve a lot of lives around the world. People die every day from diseases that we've solved in the west 50+ years ago, and there's a lot of work that can be done to make sure humanity has access to existing solutions for example.
http://archive.today/k7foe
The article says "migrants", not "refugees".
thank you for your insight. My only confusion is why is he targeting that strata of humans, surely he should be focusing on the impression he gives to the lawyers, rich, techies.
> We still need to force people to pay into retirement funds

Who exactly is 'we'? Your idea doesn't hold up. Many countries have tried similar systems, but they often end up with poor interest rates. In the end, it's just a cheaper way for the government to borrow money. Your money would be much better if allocated in some ETF or even pure bonds...
Sure, but they’re hardly the only manufacturer for whom that’s true (e.g. Tesla) and from a consumer’s perspective they might care more about their personal budget. Moreover, if we’re going to avert trillions in annual GDP losses due to climate change subsidizing electrification seems like a good idea.
Unless your side won, the war ending doesn't have any affect on whether it's safe for you to return or not.

In the case of Syria, the Caesar sanctions will probably cripple Syria's reconstruction. So there probably won't be much to return to for the foreseeable future.
I'm a migrant because I moved from the UK to Germany. I'm *not* a refugee because I'm not seeking "refuge" AKA sanctuary* — Brexit wasn't that bad.

* at least that's how the words split in English, I don't know if the Swedish language divides up reality in the same way
relevant top comment from the author in the prior submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9249268

> Author here. Sorry, I abandoned this two or three years ago. Please look at this in the context of a project done several years ago and never completed.

> Honestly, I no longer believe ImplicitCAD was the right approach to the problem, or that there's even as much of a problem as I originally thought. In particular, the system ImplicitCAD uses to represent objects, a variant of f-rep (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_representation) has issues.
Then ban their import and use. Oh wait, that’s not going to happen? Weird.
Oh wow, 20k a year makes anything worth it.
Looking at this technically, I think that if by French you mean you have an EU citizenship. so in current state where parties are in the EU. you're eligible to work and live in Sweden without additional complexities and you're in a different state.
Some time ago I've used a simple algorithm by using 128bit floats for doubles (and 64bit for floats) which seems to work very nicely and is straightforward to implement. It passed the full tests for conversion for 32bit floats and the sparse tests for doubles.

I did a blog post about it: https://www.fixscript.org/blog/math-library (includes interactive demos)

Any opinions?
> Raspberry Pi 5 [...] do not support v4l2 hardware encoding

I'm not sure I get the point of that... they go through the effort for video decoding, but why doesn't it have an encoder?
https://onlywei.github.io/explain-git-with-d3/ is another one that I've used to demonstrate the repository state after various operations.
Definitely won't be abused. It even says they can leave and come back XD. Man it must be frustrating getting this shafted as a taxpayer.
There are some compression algos (e.g. gorilla) which do a good job at lossless compression. However the key is not to try to store arbitrary data types in the same table (don't use "OO" ideas here).
Jensen's inequality says that the average value of a function is biased toward the value where the derivative is closer to 0. That's where moving away from a sample point has the least impact on the output.

It applies in scenarios that are "convex", which means that the derivative is monotonically increasing or decreasing, so "closer to 0" is a consistent direction.
I think therec would also need to be a cultural shift to make trade schools and apprenticeships more acceptable, and make financial assistance for them more accessible.

And for that matter, I think it could make since to have trade schools for white colllar jobs too. In some sense that is what coding camps are, although I'd like to see them be a little more rigorous and include things like security, software design, algorithms, etc.

As for passion subjects and arts, maybe have more, and higher quality community classes available that people can go to when they already have a decent job and can pay for them outright instead of accruing massive debt.
I am Gavin Howard, the author of the other dc.

My dc does have a few differences from the GNU dc. I added the extension of using _ as a negative sign.

That is why you are both seeing behavior differences.
For hire: PhD physicist, 25 years of general programming and systems engineering experience, MBA, creative and dreamy: seeking a benefactor to support a modest lifestyle, and total creative freedom. You will own all IP generated.
No retirement needed, just an inexhaustible line of credit.

Any takers?
I'm happy to defer to the professional caretakers of caves to have collated the relevant research behind their opinions, which is why I asked whether you are one.

You're not, so I think onus is on you if you'd like to provide evidence to the contrary of actual expert opinion.
the initial idea was a general-purpose language, but obviously the scope for that would be too big. I think that having "natural language frameworks" for some application types can work: REST APIs, CLI apps, React components... . If you have a set architecture, like the Elm architecture, centered around events being fired that update some state, that could lead to some standards.
One feature that I intend to add is having an "interview" with the AI. You write the spec, then it reads it and gives you some questions/issues, like: "this point is too vague", "what do you want to update here? a or b?". That would help ensure that the prompt/spec itself is improvable with AI.

People say that a microservice is something that "fits in your head". Once the logic gets too complex, you should separate it into another service. Maybe in the future the phrase will be "what fits in the AI's context". That would be a good litmus test: if a piece of software is hard for an AI, maybe we should simplify it - because it is probably too hard for the average human as well.