skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think being judgmental towards people who aren't seeking your judgement is parasocial and weird actually.
Between the Booms: AI in Winter
Correct me if i'm wrong but its not even exploiting some firmware bug or anything.

Think there is a 'plugin interface' in those firmware that exposes whatever is needed to read the raw data so all it does is uses that interface to dump data instead of using the official calls. IIRC its why the read speeds are slower.

Source: some post on the same forum couple of years ago.
I am aware of Hispania, etc. The thing you're perhaps missing is that 'minignape began their comment with "as a white person...".

That is usually a characterization used by non-Hispanic white people; hence my reply referenced non-Hispanic whites. I also wanted to highlight that they would probably be tolerant of an unfamiliar Hispanic white in-group at their company, but weren't tolerant of a South Asian one.
I am going to disclose my own bias here: I tend to look for multicultural teams and somewhat evenly distributed.

As an African so far I have worked and learnt a lot from a Brazilian-Japanese, Bulgarian, Portuguese, Dutch, Belgian, Israeli, Russian, English, Indian, Pakistani, German, Argentinian, and a Polish.

Some of which I have the pleasure to call friend.
Great points.

But why do we invest so much complexity into outputting html/js/css.
A simple file based caching plugin like KeyCdn Cache Enabler saves every page as static html and uses Apache rewrite rules to serve those files until invalidated, bypassing php entirely. It is trivially easy to install and configure.

Free tier cloudflare caching basically does the same, host your dns on cloudflare, turn CDN on for a record, and whatever users request from that IP gets cached statically, distributed across and served by Cloudflare’s global cdn.

For more interactive database heavy applications like ecommerce you can go deeper with opcode and object caching, but none of it is that complicated. There are plenty of managed solutions that do all of this for you.
I thought that the Apollo system was barely able to execute on the available hardware, so there was no redundancy.

I think that the space shuttle did feature this kind of system though.
imo, you won't be able to lure players away from lichess.
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Canada has been dealing with this more proactively than most counties with Indian diasporas, a process no doubt aided by the by the significant number of indo-canadian politicians familiar with the issue.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-human-rights-...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/caste-discri...

https://www.trtworld.com/americas/toronto-school-board-recog...
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Major X1.8 solar flare produces Earth-directed CME, impact late October 10
While I completely disagree with a full ban for selling a antique pill press I also disagree with selling an antique pill press. Donate that to a museum of medical history or something instead of trying to profit from an antique pill press. You don't know who you are selling it to and you can't trust who you are selling it to via eBay (pill presses are restricted on eBay antique or not) isn't going to divert that to someone who is going to attempt to try to use it for illicit means.
"Similarly, you can test your ears: which ear would you naturally use on the telephone?"

Well, I'm right-handed, so...
On the Linux side, aren't Flatpak and Podman enough, and even more granular, to limit file system access in the absence of pledge?
Just my experience. I reckon a lot of recent events like buying oil from Russia has sadly justified it for a lot of people.
We all go through that cycle. I think the key is to get yourself through that "complex = good" phase as quickly as possible so you do the least damage and don't end up in charge of projects while you're in it. Get your "Second System" (as Brooks[1] put it) out of the way as quick as you can, and move on to the more focused, wise phase.

Don't let yourself fester in phase 2 and become (as Joel put it) an Architecture Astronaut[2].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect

2: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect...
Indeed, ICU as well, and then they all moved to UTF-16, which, again. in the long term lost to UTF-8. My point is that committing on a specific Unicode design 30 years ago was not, in retrospect, necessarily a good idea.

By not committing to UCS-2 early C++ left the road open to UTF-8. I'll concede that UTF8 has risen as the clear winner for more than a decade and C++ is well past the point that it should have at least basic builtin support. The problem is that there is at least one important C++ platform that only very recently added full support for the encoding in their native API.
Funny thing, early deployments of a few Garbage Producing Transformers, and the base will be drowned out by the mess created and even humans will have problems telling what is right, much less a machine. Ever increasing amount to work out what is sense and what is a convincing lie.

Dead Internet Theory is already in motion.
Ooh substances - scary stuff. Must be very dangerous to allow selling a thing that could be made with any CNC router out of scrap, so let's also ban CNC routers.. eventually, let's ban hands as they can be used to do stuff. /s
There's a new super-thin solar cell out there
I saw this solar cell made by Exeger, called powerfoyle. Apparently, it can go straight onto a device, like headphones, and can charge its battery, even indoors. But I'm not sure if the output will be anything substantial. Can anyone share their thoughts? Would this be viable?
A few at a time is all it takes.
The 'universes' are loose abstractions, not a defined part of the theory; there's no actual hard distinction between timelines, in much the same way as coastlines don't have a defined length. They all blend into each other if you look closely enough.

That said, isn't the obvious answer 'all of them'?
Am I the only one that finds it incredible an air gapped device has enabled USB ports? You want to bring data to it, use a freaking cd/dvd-rom. You may bring all sorts of crap in, but if let's say the air gapped machine is reimaged from cd/dvd every day and nothing ever leaves it, who cares?
Yes but he could have been one... He really took to AI and reignited the fire that melted the AI winter.
I think putting AlphaFold here was premature; it might not age well. AlphaFold is an impressive achievement but it simply has not "cracked the code for protein folding" - about 1/3rd of its predictions are too uncertain to be usable, it says nothing about dynamics, suffers from the same ML problems of failing on uncommon structures, and I was surprised to learn that many of its predictions are incorrect because it ignores topological constraints[1]. To be clear, these are constructive criticisms of AlphaFold in isolation, my grumpiness is directed at the Nobel committee. "Cracked the code for protein folding" is simply not true; it is an ML approach with high accuracy that suffers the same ML limitations of failing to generalize or failing to understand deeper principles like R^3 topology that cannot be gleaned stochastically.

More significantly: it has yet to be especially impactful in biochemistry research, nor has its results really been carefully audited. Maybe it will turn out to deserve the prize. But the committee needed to wait. I am concerned that they got spun by Google's PR campaign - or, considering yesterday's prize, Big Tech PR in general.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10672856/
He talks of deporting illegal immigtants —something Harris also now claims is a problem and moreover claims they are more efficient at the border than Trump was ;that’s a dubious claim but it shows she sees it as a problem as well. Over 60% of voters also see illegal immigration as a very serious problem, more see it as an issue. In addition India itself is strict and also deports illegals.
Imagine if you had a systolic array large enough that all the weights would only have to be loaded once at startup. Eliminating the memory-compute bottleneck of the von Neumann architecture could make this quite a bit more efficient.
Forcibly Transferring Ukrainian Children to Russia: A Genocide? (2023)
The purpose of using markdown is to make editing simple. The purpose of using git is to use a well-known and rock-solid history-preserving file store. Both of those purposes are orthogonal to method of delivery and tech stack used. So no.

In general, i agree that static site generation is preferable to dynamic rendering where possible, because it makes for a much simpler and more secure deployment. But a wiki has to support editing of pages in the browser, and authentication of users before they can edit, and you need a backend for that. Also, if you want to support browsing of page history, a static site generator would need to render every version of the page upfront, which feels like a bad idea to me.
A safe work contribution plan for the year: Hold 1+ (stretch 3) opposing thoughts at a time.
Spoken like someone who does not have to make a choice between groceries or gassing up the car.

Credit cards are predatory toward low-income individuals on purpose. When my vehicle needed $3000USD in repairs a few years ago, I did not have that money just laying around, so it went on the credit card. It would have taken me one month to pay that off if I did not also need to pay a mortgage, utility bills, student loans, groceries, and medical bills, on top of minor daily expenses people like you seem to forget exists when they want to punch down at someone less fortunate than them. When you already have nearly every dollar you make ear-marked, that "6 months interest free" crap might as well be a fart in the wind.

So, cc's are doing exactly what they are supposed to do; keep us in a position of minimum payments because emergency high-dollar expenses will, inevitably, happen if you are a living human not fortunate enough to have been birthed in a higher tax bracket.
Ui is practically a problem solved (from the technical perspective). The complexity you’re talking about stems from trying to solve the problem with the wrong technology (the DOM). Laying out text for a document is fundamentally different from creating an application interface. An things that are easy to do in any UI toolkit (from GTK to Android) can only be hacked in the DOM. Things like layout constraints (between two components) and lists.
The clean code people are losing their collective minds reading that. lol
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In my Intermediate learn C++ but not build any project..
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Some of favorite coworkers have been from India during my career. This includes both their personalities as I got to know them and their demeanor at work.

I have worked at Cognizant for just over a year.
Though we don't have this problem on my immediate team, it is something we talk about because it's obvious in other teams and as an overall culture at the company.

It doesn't seem like overt discrimination (from me and my coworkers limited perspectives). There's a couple factors

1. People hire who they know. About two thirds of the employees are of Indian descent. So on average they hire their friends and former coworkers who are also Indian.

2. Leadership requires the offshore teams to be on every project. This is to keep costs down and because the other lines of business besides their main and original one (staff augmentation) are relatively new.

3. A minority (but not a small one) of Indians really are just blatantly discriminatory.
i'm left handed but i tend to hold phones to my right ear.
Really they should've have three programs deciding.
Site looks great. I checked audio, HTML, and selected a dark primary color (purple) and the first thing I see is unusable in terms of color contrast. I would expect a tool that looks this slick to work smarter OOTB.
They're partners, not just agencies you independently get to choose, right? That's what I'm getting at with the racket part.

You don't get to interop with one of the biggest cloud providers in the world unless you complete commercial audits with one of their partners.

Given the kind of collusion Google's shown itself capable of [1] do you really think this is all fair?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
Complex tasks are different from complex tools.
I would actually not even be mad. After all it is fundamental change in production of literature works.
I ran https://wave.webaim.org/ against the homepage, saw 11 errors right off the bat, and decided not to look at further.

Particularly for this kind of project, though as an accessibility person I'd argue every project, accessibility is table stakes.
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Hey, we've just released a game demo that uses LLMs to do code generation in real time, as part of the core gameplay loop. Thought folks here might find it interesting to play around with. I'll be lurking in the comments for discussions around AI-native game design.
Can you expand on what you mean? Which commercial certifications has the EU pushed?
The founding of the American colonies was very much a gutter for economic classes. Warren Buffet wouldn’t exist today without European trash being indentured.
Why does a vacuum need a microphone?
you also need two UTF16 code units for plain emojis.
Baker has been in the protein folding game for a long time and was the leader before Alphafold came in... His generative paper came out what last year (2023)?

I mean this is a fast award cycle.
The better question is: if you had a Bangalore company founded by Indians, then a management hire from the US or Britain started hiring immigrants from there too, and they excluded or sidelined Indians, especially ones who didn't speak English - you'd be annoyed too right?
The symmetry or lack thereof between mirrored “left-handed/right-handed” phenomena is a deep problem up and down the physical world:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality
I'm sorry, but your post is so hard to read with this formatting where you seem to refuse to put spaces after commas.

I'm sure you are saying something mostly relevant here but please; for people's perception of your intelligence sake and the accessibility of people trying to understand you, format better.
If this has really been going on for more than a decade I wonder what your labor regulators are doing. This is a clear-cut issue of bad labor policy.
> I did some rudimentary research and came to the opinion that OpenBSD might be the most secure OS.

What's your threat model that a vanilla Fedora or Ubuntu install isn't secure?
I live here, I have a fairly good idea. The EU has quite aggressively pursued different big tech companies over the last few years. The fines have become quite material.
They bought it and it runs autonomously (or did mostly)
You're really conflating things. Altman is no Hassabis.

Just because there is a ton of hype from OpenAI doesn't detract from what DeepMind has done. AlphaGo anybody?

Are we really already forgetting what a monumental problem protein folding was, decades of research, and AlphaFold came in and revolutionized it overnight.

We are pretty jaded these days when miracles are happening all the time and people are like "yeah, but he's just a manager 'now', what have they done for me in the last few days".
This. Every single Atlassian product I have used has always been painfully slow garbage; and I have been forced to use them at various jobs over a decade.

I don't think it was ever a magically good Australian product that Indian hires from Microsoft suddenly ruined.
There will always be a perceived underinvestment in academic research. That's because "reproduction" of PhDs is so rapid that their number will expand to fill any funding available and then some. Aside from short lived transients, fields will exist in a state of Malthusian equilibrium, with most PhDs failing to stay in academic research. And this overabundance explains the relatively low salaries.
WET, write everything twice
Wordpress.org login now requires a WPE non-affiliation declaration
People in the Make.WordPress Slack are being banned for asking about this.
Except Excel has introduced way to many bugs and how many people has it killed?
This is great news, now I can start smoking so I can quit it and add years to my life.
Firefox and chrome has been patched with pledge(2) and unveil(2). That means these items have very limited access to your system and disk. Those are usually applications people get compromised by.

For Firefox, the settings are in: /etc/firefox/policies/

IMO, pledge(2) and unveil(2) are better than anything Linux and other OSs have for sandboxing.
I think looking back five years from now, this will be viewed as another Kissinger/Obama but wrt STEM. Given far too prematurely under pressure to keep up with the Joneses/chase the hype.
Honestly the amount of "The Internet is dead!!1!" comments in this thread is more depressing than TFA.
Seems more like a harmonization effort than what Google is proposing here? Or maybe I'm reading it wrong.

If I don't get one of these mandarin-approved certifications, will I no longer be able to do business? [The Google audits are a hard barrier to connecting to their cloud platform]

It's perhaps a difference between prescriptive and descriptive.
It's not a case of shying away from it: the rules of the prize don't allow it.
One thing FreeBSD jails have that Linux containers don't is a virtual, independent network stack via VNET. At least, I think that's a true differentiator. Am I correct, or is there similar Linux tooling for that?
Nah. That's what the Monk is for.
It is my understanding that due to the structure of modern web browsers it is by design that they execute arbitrary code from various sources, be it plugins or updates or whatever, and due to the microcode issue any flaw in any of those was equivalent to a full system compromise at the firmware level and could persist across a wipe/reimage of the machine. My management was not comfortable accepting that risk.
At least they could have read it before awarding the price.
I figured things like Find My and activation locks put an end to a lot of phone theft. I guess thieves found a way.

Something like Watch is harder to get, but can’t be tracked.
I have personally experienced this in all my previous projects and my current one.

H1B does suppress wages as employees don’t care how much they are paid. They only care that they stay on H1 so they get their green cards.

However, one they get their green card they feel the same that H1B’s suppress wages…lol…
Interesting - I would guess you usually hold it with your right hand? Is your hearing noticeably asymmetric?

Come to think of it, if I'm doing something else at the same time - such as, of course, writing - I will hold the phone to my left ear with my left hand. Whichever way, in my case, it has little to do with my hearing.
i think for that one they bribed/coherced one insider to explicitly insert a bad USB on the system.
I’m right handed but I often use my left hand and left ear, or sometimes even my right hand and left ear
This is a discriminatory statement and it should be taken seriously.
Serverless servers and the challenge of new React architecture
I largely moved away from dictionaries when switching to swift. Usually we only use them now when going from legacy code.
For the example in the article with JSON, Swift has the Codable protocol, which cleaned all my client code for our back end from the old NSJSONSerialization code.
How TV Watches Us: Commercial Surveillance in the Streaming Era [pdf]
First commercial success? In what new industry?
I do expect new arrivals to acculturate, not to Judeo-Christian values but rather to liberalism. (In the philosophical sense, not the bastardized way the term is used in American politics.)

This is because liberalism evolved as a response to sectarianism and developed tools to allow people with different worldviews to live and work together.
A bit off topic since the thread here was related to performance, but caching in WP doesn't solve the other big problem of security.

A caching layer can indeed make WP act much like a static site, though the cache still lives on your server rather than a global CDN layer. Behind that cache, though, you still have the live WP server with all the potential security risks that come with it.

Caching is a nice perf gain, but if you want a static site anyway there are still major gains to be made with a proper static site distributed globally.
Nobel prize committee really sending some messages this year on what constitutes benefiting humanity the most.
> The argument would be that if you hire for diversity, you are no longer hiring for capability first

That claim is also hard to prove in the first place, but apparently people can just peddle it, and expect other people to do the hard work to debunk it.

Usually, whenever you start asking people to justify that claim, you end up with an anecdote or two and, if you point out that anecdotal data don't make a point, personal attacks.
hey! sorry about that, it’s still not perfect but shows that using CoT prompt does improve llm responses. compared with its base model, you can clearly see some difference. If you like, please email me at contact@pixelverse.tech with some prompts you provided that t1 failed to respond correctly and I can take a look.
thanks for the ref , but it kinda proves the point . your source suggests the avg comp for senior software engineer is 100-150 K . on glass door it 178-263 . https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/senior-software-engineer-... .
All discrimination is contextual and local. The number of groups has nothing to do with it.
Physics prize one goes to AI, chemistry too. What next? Nobel in Literature goes to ChatGPT?

Jokes aside, I think the chemistry prize seems to make a bit more sense to me than physics one.
The rules are different
I'm right-handed and hold my phone to my left ear. Actually I tried holding it to my right ear a couple of times and it felt so unnatural that I had trouble focusing on the conversation. I have no idea why this is.
Same with South Korean airline crashes: https://www.salon.com/2013/07/10/cnn_asks_if_koreas_hierarch... But who knows if any of this is true or if "hierarchical cultures cause airline crashes" is just pop-sci bs.
> I think we can all agree, none of us want it to be like this.

Some people must want this, how else could it end up this way?
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> since he is far more competent in foreign policy

The guy foreign leaders call the "laughing fool"?

> the economy will improve.

Trump's plans would cause the economy to shrink by 10% and cause 28% inflation, according to independent analysis. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/business/economy/trump-ec...
Choose your charities wisely. The average is something like 66% of funds going to the actual cause, and it varies wildly between 10% and 95%+.
Yeah I agree with the 2006 Hinton paper. I read it and reread it and didn't get it. I didn't have the math background at the time and it inspired me to get it. And here I am almost 20 years later working on it.
Maybe "Senior Research Scientist" sounds more respectable among the intended audience. A research scientist is usually an independent researcher rather than someone working in another person's team, while "senior" indicates that they have been in an independent role for a while. A director, on the other hand, is someone who failed to avoid administrative duties, and it doesn't imply any degree of seniority.