skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's simply not. You need a plan to eventually be rid of this compromise.

because..?

> That we could possibly rearrange our food system so we don't need it anymore is better.

Will this be before or after we fix capitalism/finish building communism?
The answer I expected! :-)
I've been wondering if he's having some sort of mental health crisis. Some of his behavior has been rather erratic.
It's more than there is no evidence of an issue, so why pretend that there is? The "right" way is entirely subjective, unless you can give me some objective criteria for what it should be.
Indian Firms Funneled AMD, Nvidia AI GPUs to Russia
This seems bit nihilistic. You can't be automated. You can't process repos at scale.
> How can this be possible if you literally admit its tab completion is mindblowing?

I might suggest that coding doesn't take as much of our time as we might think it does.

Hypothetically:

Suppose coding takes 20% of your total clock time. If you improve your coding efficiency by 10%, you've only improved your total job efficiency by 2%. This is great, but probably not the mind-blowing gain that's hyped by the AI boom.

(I used 20% as a sample here, but it's not far away from my anecdotal experience, where so much of my time is spent in spec gathering, communication, meeting security/compliance standards, etc).
Well that's a lot to unpack. Saying AMP connectors doesn't really mean much of anything because, for starters, AMP (TE Connectivity) owns Deutsch.

In the retail space, at least, DTM's largely been superseded by the lower-cost ATM line. Weatherpack and Metripack are pretty common in the US because GM developed them and GM is a huge company. The only company that comes to mind for using DTM connectors is Caterpillar, so you'll definitely see medium duty trucks with DTM assemblies.

The two automotive companies I'm most familiar with (80s Volvos and 00s BMWs) use keyed connectors all over the place. The Volvos used off-the-shelf washing machine connectors (AMP /(junior )+(power )+timer/) that can be had with keyed connectors. BMW saved pennies by going with high density connectors and small gauge wire. Most of that stuff is off-the-shelf as well, but often with proprietary keying.

Both DTM and Weather/MetriPack are pretty bulky compared to what's available now though, and when you're talking about 100 or 200 pin connectors size probably matters more than a few pennies. And, of course, once you start adding the retention doodads to MetriPack assemblies you start getting closer in price to DTM style stuff. The simplicity of the wedgelock design means fewer parts to stock and potentially faster assembly which could easily negate the more expensive housings.
I have dual 27 flat monitors at home and dual 27 curved monitors at work and the ones at work are far more comfortable to use.
It's a superstitious practice.
I had a 55" TV as my main display in 2022. Had it about a foot away from my face. It takes a few days, but your brain and body get used to the size.

I just bought a 39" ultrawide and for the first few days I thought "oh dear, I have to keep turning to see the whole thing," but I've not even thought about it for a couple of weeks now, so I guess I'm acclimated.

YMMV.
> general consensus on HN

General consensus on HN is generally wrong.
True, but I believe we are discussing forecasts on the scale of hours, not decades.
This might be the measurable "some" non deceptive time saving, whereas most of it is still deceptive in terms of time saved
But your argument only works if EVERY person who downloaded a book from IA would never have paid for a legit copy. But I contend that the general level of corner cutting in the world means that the odds of this being true about EVERY person is essentially zero.
Been using pgvector for a while, and to me it was kind of obvious that the source document and the embeddings are fundamentally linked so we always stored them "together". Basically anyone doing embeddings at scale is doing something similar to what Pgai Vectorizer is doing and is certainly a nice abstraction.
It's true due to the nature of what the network is.

In the abstract: if I own the infrastructure and someone uses that infrastructure to hurt someone, that someone who was hurt (or the parties who protect them) are going to come to me asking questions. If I just say "I don't know" and the law doesn't protect my willful ignorance, I'm at best enabling harm; I'm at worst socially or legally liable for negligence.

In the abstract, the systems of human governance recognize harm and seek to mitigate it.

So if I'm peered to a network using me as a bridge to do harm, I can't trust that network when the bad starts to outweigh the good. If I can't establish trust via human methods, I'm gonna cut that network off to protect myself.

(The Internet started as people who had working relationships with each other and grew out from there. Even though the web of connections is much larger and more indirect now, the whole thing is still at its core a human construct and beholden to human standards of conduct, because humans ultimately have their hands on the various plugs that are yankable).
Ah, oops. I meant Voice AI agents. That is, LLMs that people can talk to with their voice. Let me edit the post so that's clearer. Thanks for the feedback!
That map, while interesting, seems entirely subjective - the whole appearance of the map can be determined by the thickness that you set the street view lines to, no?
If you have zero evidence against the mountains of evidence I do have, why should I be convinced of your argument. It seems like it is you who are talking subjectively about what you want and then applying that to everyone else.
They buy companies like VMWare and Computer-Associate, gut them and jack the price until they only have captive consumers from the fortune 500.
I wonder when and how it will have to be broken to her that unless her interests happen to include something that pays a living wage, she’s actually fucked for life.

You have a hand in shaping the world she will grow up in. If this is important to you, keep it in mind at least next Tuesday.
Do you know any other hard sci-fi books like this? I loved the Delta-V series, and have been looking for hard sci-fi like it ever since.
Solving symptoms and not root causes is how you get band-aid fixes that wind up being inadequate to the task in the end. I would've thought everyone here would be aware of the danger of treating symptoms rather than the underlying issues, given it's such a common pitfall in the computer field.
In theory, that would be the solution. In practice I read about all sorts of weird edge cases and bugs when trying to do that.

Some discussions over here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ultrawidemasterrace/
There are reports of blurry text on monitors with resolutions around 1440p or less than UHD. macOS doesn't always scale fonts optimally on these, which can make coding feel straining over time. My recommendation is to look into a 4k or higher monitor for sharper text rendering on macOS, even on a smaller screen size.
For what it’s worth I’ve contacted them to see if they would be open to handing over the hosted version. The current answer is no, based in part on wanting to delete user data. I suggested I could take it without data and users could reimport their data post handover. If you’d like to see this happen send them an email and voice your support.
"Efficient" in terms of what outputs, for what inputs?

You can't just handwave the term as a synonym for "I think it's better!" - it actually does imply inputs, outputs, and depending on what you want to optimize for, you may get very different results.

If a scythe is genuinely better for the job than a sickle, great!

But in a country without a lot of infrastructure and without modern supply chains, I'm pretty sure a tractor is the wrong solution to the problem. Unless, of course, your problem is "how to burden nations with loans they will never be able to pay back so you can come in and take over."
Reddit Fits into the AI World
> True, but (a) maybe it would evolve "naturally" given enough time,

You could say the same for myopia. But we still make glasses for people, which breaks the natural selection process that would drive that evolution.
This was a rhetorical question.
I checked with my wife and she is unsympathetic to this idea.
The stacking of suggested content, even search results has always been unintuitive.
When you say "non industry study", you mean "non recording industry study." It was almost certainly paid for by someone who would profit from the piracy, either by owning an ISP, selling bandwidth or running a search engine.

But go on dreaming that giving away complete copies of something will somehow encourage people to go and pay for another complete copy. Because if that strategy worked, other businesses would do it too. But it doesn't and that's why the other businesses only give away very limited samples.
I think that you are not only incredibly patronizing, but you use faux psychology 'active listening' tactics to pretend to engage when you are really just shoving your point through while making yourself think that you are listening to people.

The fact that you cannot even engage to answer what a multimedia community is without claiming that I am acting in bad faith in order to jump out of an escape hatch is telling.

Your lack of self-awareness is astonishing.
not a data breach
TSA silent on CrowdStrike's claim Delta skipped required security update
Buyers beware: the current Apple cloth is not compatible with the new Mac Mini.
You have to incrementally improve. You can't jump an economic step.

I'd love to have everyone have no labour to do and be served by robots but let them eat cake doesn't work in reality.
I think the flip side to that feeling is that people are young and healthy, and that when they're no longer self-supporting, they'd rather be gone.

Here I'm overgeneralizing from the N=1 case of myself. But I had always been young-and-healthy, and even at middle-aged-and-healthy, I have a hard time visualizing the impending disabilities.

I've also got the bias of being comfortably middle-class. I will be able to afford the help I need for basic disabilities. It's easy to imagine that by the time I run out of money for that, I'll also have run out of interest in limping (literally) along.

There is a very strong chance that I will have a change of mind once actually faced with them, but it's really hard for me to have an emotional understanding of that now. So I need to point out that there is a very dark aspect hanging over that belief that you will take care of yourself in your age, just to take that out and consider it, even though I can't resolve it.
Is there somewhere the general consensus is generally right?
I wish deep desks were more common! Modern ultrawide curved monitors sit way too close for comfort for me due to the way their legs have to be angled further back for center of gravity. custom desks end up being so expensive.
This is almost certainly it. There’s a lot of head-sand-burying around here about just how easily an attacker with access to logs of a not-even-that-large segment of the nodes can gain visibility into individuals’ service access patterns.
This website implies an affialiation with whoever developed the model (especially with a pricing page) which is very, very bad and will likely lead to a Cease and Desist.
https://archive.ph/VGg8V
This is a textbook case of letting better stand in the way of good.

I'd love to re-imagine our food of food production and consumption, but it sounds like you're arguing that because food production and consumption is a better solution, we shouldn't be promoting GLP-1 agonists.

Sorry, but one is exists in reality and the other exists in our imaginations. When we let our imaginations take precedence over reality, we live in a fantasy and the consequence is that we get neither. Effectively this argues for neither, and that's a bad deal for everyone.
frozen, thawed and reheated rice and potatoes triples their resistant starch content, drastically increasing their satiety.
This is a good test case of durability.

On the outer islands, the Stockholm ferries slam into the concrete pier head-on, turn the motor on high to pin themselves against the pier, and then open the front so people can walk on/off. In other photos of these hydrofoil boats, there are rubber bumpers on the front and a ramp system in the front so it seems that they will continue the same mode of operation.
it's around 100 degrees while humans can see more like 180 degrees (more if you move your eyes; I don't want to move my eyes, I want to gimbal my body to focus on a specific monitor) although outside the center of your vision, you don't have good "resolution". The Vision Pro would be like being inside the sphere, but with a big aperture blocking all the side monitors
From an old David Letterman interview with her long, long ago, I learned a cool little life hack:

She moved to the big city and was getting into the entertainment industry, going around with her CV/résumé, trying to get jobs.

The most impressive things on her CV had an * next to them.

At the bottom of the page, it said, “* = l.i.e.”

Only once did someone interviewering her ask her what that means.

She said, “Oh those are lies.”

I like that. Shows it doesn't really matter, and if you're admitting up-front that it's a lie, then it's the interviewer's fault for ignoring it.
Seems like easy money.
"Journalists" seem to trust twitter an awful lot...
Content as in significant text and media content, not selecting the text off a button element. I agree, seems like this is just a post facto rationalization of a mistake from a system that was originally designed for content, not application functionality.
I wouldn't describe any OS as 'flawless', they're all doing what I describe under the hood. QT does have better support than GTK atm. I've also seen bad behavior on windows, esp with older apps. OS X is about the best out there, but even it can have issues with applications that have a view port (i.e. video editors, etc).

I'd prefer to skip all that so I'm happy staying on 1440p until 8k monitors are where 1440p monitors are today with regard to price and quality.
Agreed. To each their own, but the obsession with the biggest and/or most possible screens is something that is very hard for me to relate to. As soon as I am regularly craning my neck to see all of my screen real estate, it is no longer a positive in my life. I'm glad these solutions exist for people who enjoy them, but they are definitely not for me.
I almost never use email on anything but my phone, and Gmail doesn't use a table. They do some tree stuff for the conversation threads, but conversation threads are obnoxious anyway and I have no idea why anyone likes them, they don't reflect face to face conversations well and always create mistakes where someone forgets to reply to all.

I've replaced a lot of tables in my apps with modal dialog UIs, it's nice to have them behave exactly the same on mobile and web, to not have any risk of mistakes due to filling in a box on the wrong row because the label is too far from the box, and it's just generally more pleasant for us non-ADHDers without very good native multthreading support in our minds.

Android style UI is all about encapsulation and reducing the mental context window to the bare minimum, and it really makes a lot of desktop stuff look pretty clunky and confusing by comparison.

VS Code would definitely suffer a lot without the sidebar tree view though, and it does seem like a lot of people prefer the more open instant access to everything that a table provides, rather than clicking through dialogs.
Does anyone else like Zscaler?

All the devs at my company kind of hate it because it's always breaking stuff. I think it's cool in theory, but they have basically zero automated support on how to get the certificate installed.

They have manual instructions on how you add the certificate to the Java key store, and NPM key store, and the python key store, and the OS key store, etc...

And my whole thing is: won't malware use those same key stores? Won't malware detect that the certificate isn't passing and then just default to HTTP?

I'm starting to think it's security theater.
Interesting approach! Hadn't heard of Dominate before now, but reminds me of FastHTML which was making waves the other month. I gave that a whirl, but quickly realized I really like the simplicity of writing HTML without working around a DOM API.

Anyway thanks for the kind words, and let me know of any feedback you have if you do take empyt for a joy ride. Planning to have a public roadmap before EOY
Does blood donation then give the PFAS to the donor?
Broadcom is on track to spend 10bn on RND this year. Basically a pure-play patent troll!
What a shit implementation of this idea compared to a proper Capsule hotel, which would run you about the same per day in Japan and give you better amenities and a truly isolated pod, not just a bunch of wooden dividers and a towel over the end.
Everything is constant time is your precision is limited. Even the naive, recursive algorithm on integers is constant time if your integer size is limited (it will just be an exponentially big constant). To be able to meaningfully talk about complexity, you need to assume that something is not limited, and once you do that for floats, you’ll find that their exponentiation is no longer constant time.
The problem with Strava is how invasive their location sharing is.

One has to actively search to disable it. And the integrations with Garmin Connect and the others are even worse.
Tesla Using 'Full Self-Driving' Hits Deer Without Slowing, Doesn't Stop
True - you really can't escape from politics on x. It's really just a rage baiting.
An AI Robert Downey Jr. would be significantly less likely to break into his neighbor's house while high on drugs and fall asleep in a child's bedroom.
> Artificial intelligence? We don't know enough about "intelligence".

The problem I have with this objection is that it, like many discussions, conflates LLMs (glorified predictive text) and other technologies currently being referred to as AI, with AGI.

Most of these technologies should still be called machine learning as they aren't really doing anything intelligent in the sense of general intelligence. As you say yourself: they don't know anything. And by inference, they aren't reasoning about anything.

Boilerplate code for common problems, and some not so common ones, which is what LLMs are getting pretty OK at and might in the coming years be very good at, is a definable problem that we understand quite well. And much as we like to think of ourselves as "computer scientists", the vast majority of what we do boils down to boilerplate code using common primitives, that are remarkably similar across many problem domains that might on first look appear to be quite different, because many of the same primitives and compound structures are used. The bits that require actual intelligence are often quite small (this is how I survive as a dev!), or are away from the development coalface (for instance: discovering and defining the problems before we can solve them, or describing the problem & solution such that someone or an "AI" can do the legwork).

> we need other big advancements in the field, which may or may not come.

I'm waiting for an LLM being guided to create a better LLM, and eventually down that chain a real AGI popping into existence, much like the infinite improbability drive being created by clever use of a late version finite improbability generator. This is (hopefully) many years (in fact I'm hoping for at least a couple of decades so I can be safely retired or nearly there!) from happening, but it feels like such things are just over the next deep valley of disillusionment.
How close are you to the screen? With my face about 1 foot away, I can easily scan all corners on the 32" 4k flat screen just by moving my eyes.
I honestly forgot about Tootsie. For me she's always one of the bright stars from Young Frankenstein and Mr Mom.
That depends on the size. For 27" or larger, the recommened resolution is 1440p (non-retina) or 5K (retina). 4K is ok if you're going for smaller sizes.

More information here: https://bjango.com/articles/macexternaldisplays/

Just recently bought 27" Dell and I'm quite happy with it (for coding).
Depending on the industry, once legal and compliance get involved, you can face a number of obstacles. Regulatory compliance like HIPAA, SOC2 is a common one (most small startups I've seen can bullshit their way around this for a bit); many early stage startups won't have this in place since it requires a not-insignificant investment in time and money.

Some industries like life sciences will request external/3rd party audits of your system and system validation documentation (documented formal testing, check out "GAMP5 V-Model" if you're curious). Life sciences also wants to see your validated QA system, your employee training records, your internal SOPs, etc.

IT teams may want 3rd party security audits, attestations of data residency (EU companies especially), your policies around privacy and process level security (again, dependent on industry and teams). Some will stonewall you by demanding specific integrations (e.g. SAML-based SSO, SCIM, etc.) that are just too early in many cases.

Sometimes the purchasing team will ask about your funding because they want to know how much runway you have and whether you'll be around 6 months from now.
That feature is fairly recent, and I believe it is now enabled by default.
> Those drugs let people experience intermittent fasting and fasting by reducing hunger and snacking.

This shows you haven't tried GLP-1s. I've been doing IF for ten years, doesn't stop me from being overweight. GLP-1s do.
> Halloween has always been a feast at the end of the harvest season.

[citation needed]

Because the weblog goes to primary sources (amongst others) and finds that:

> The Félire Óengusso or “Martyrology of Óengus” is another martyrology, attributed to Saint Óengus of Tallaght. It seems to date to the ninth century and is based on earlier English martyrologies (like that of Bede), but with significant local Irish additions. It mentions a feast of All Saints in its listing for April 20:

> Under November 1, on the other hand, we do find – finally – a reference to “Samhain”. But it is not associated with commemorating All Saints, but rather with three Irish saints only:

> So while the English were already celebrating All Saints Day on November 1 in the eighth century and that date became predominant in Frankia by the mid ninth century, the Irish were doing so on April 20, with “stormy Samain” the feast of three local holy men only. As esteemed historian of folklore, Ronald Hutton, summarises it in his Stations Of The Sun (Oxford, 1996):

[…]

> For Frazer, Samhain had been nothing less than the pagan Celtic feast of the dead. Like Rhys, he saw it as marking the death of the old year and also as a numinous time when the supernatural was abroad. But he argued that it was common for many cultures to honour their dead at the close of the year and so argued that the Christian feasts of All Saints and All Souls on November 1 and 2 had to have their origins in this posited earlier Celtic festival. Of course, this is based on the idea that All Saints began in Ireland and the Celtic tradition and transferred to the rest of Europe. But, as discussed above, this does not seem to be the case, with the earlier Irish celebration of All Saints (April 20) giving way to the date established in Frankia in the ninth century (November 1). Frazer got the influence completely the wrong way around.