skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I put my finger on exactly why it sounds a bit uncanny-valley: it sounds like humans who are reading from a prepared 'bit' or 'script'.

We've all been on those webinars where it's clear -- despite the infusions (on cue) of "enthusiasm" from the speaker attempting to make it sound more natural and off-the-cuff -- that they are reading from a script.

It's a difficult-to-mask phenomenon for humans.

That all said, I actually have more grace for an AI sounding like this than I do for a human presenter reading from a script. Like, if I'm here "live" and paying attention to what you're saying, at least do me the service of truly being "here" with me and authentically communicating vs. simply reading something.

If you're going to simply read something, then just send it to me to read too - don't pretend it's a spontaneously synchronous communication.
Even if one does qualify for those programs, the sign-up time is on the order of almost a year here in California. Applications are Supposed To Be™ reviewed within 45 days, which is already a long wait, but they are using the new normal “due to higher than usual volume, fuck you” approach just like every other modern bureaucracy.

https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/individuals/Pages/Steps-to-Medi-Cal.... sez “Due to the high volume of new applications, the process is taking longer than normal”, and I have secondhand experience of six+ month wait times.

Expenses incurred during the coverage gap need additional approval for retroactive repayment, meaning you have to have the funds to pay upfront for however many months/years the sign-up process takes, then once your coverage starts you have to apply/wait/hope to be paid back for everything paid out-of-pocket which might just get denied: https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/formsandpubs/forms/Forms/mc210a0907....
I left all the defaults as is, uploaded a small image, typed in "cafe," and 15 minutes later I am still waiting on this finishing.
> Morocco and Gaza do their daylight savings based on Ramadan.

Something about this doesn't make sense. My understanding is that Ramadan can happen at any season of the year (imagine fasting all day in Greenland during the summer!) because the Islamic calendar doesn't insert intercalary months like many other "lunar" calendars do. Given that, what is the benefit of having a daylight savings time at all if it's tied to the lunar calendar? Isn't the idea of DST tied to day length?
Which can make business sense if you take into account both the probability of the project failing to deliver a competitive product (always high no matter how slick the pitch deck is) and the probability that it gets no traction in the marketplace even if it is as good as the competition. Buying an existing successful product and its customer base can be much lower risk even if it is the more expensive route.
Google assigned the hashing algorithm (maybe, assuming it wasn't chosen in some law somewhere, I know this CSAM hashing is something the big tech work on together).

Once the hashing algorithm was assigned, individual values are computed or calculated.

I don't think the judge's wording is all that bad but the word "assigned" is making it sound like Google exercised some agency when really all it did was apply a pre-chosen algorithm.
I fully support using Macbooks as a thin client into a better computer. So long as it's your computer.
> Crosswalks at intersections are nearly obsolete due to the thick A-pillars in modern cars.

What?
To what degree are elections close because many of the eligible voters are making mental trade-offs - between the hassles of actually voting, and the seemingly-microscopic chance that their vote will make an actual difference. In elections where all the media coverage gives them a strong sense of knowing how the election will turn out?
And specifically with respect to the law, breaking a law and claiming you didn't know you did anything wrong as an individual is not considered a valid defense in our justice system. This same type of standard should apply even more to trained law enforcement, not less, otherwise it becomes a double standard.
Isn't this just going back to the 90s web? Before all the javascript and interactivity craziness was used. We can argue all day about how bad js is from a development perspective but I definitely like the interactivity it's brought to the web.
At the time, what they did was assumed to be legal because no one had ruled on it.

Now, there is prior case law declaring it illegal.

The ruling is made in such a way to say “we were allowing this, but we shouldn’t have been, so we wont allow it going forward”.

I am not a legal scholar, but that’s the best way I can explain it. The way that the judicial system applies to law is incredibly complex and inconsistent.
Not pixel count determines whether camera is advanced or not.
How do you justify this kind of recurring purchases, even with selling your old device? I don't get the behaviour or the driving decision factor past the obvious "I need the latest shiny toy" (I can't find the exact words to describe it, so apologies for the reductive description).

I have either assembled my own desktop computers or purchased ex corporate Lenovo over the years with a mix of Windows (for gaming obviously) and Linux and only recently (4 years ago) been given a MBP by work as they (IT) cannot manage Linux machines like they do with MacOS and Windows.

I have moved from an intel i5 MBP to a M3 Pro (?) and it makes me want to throw away my dependable ThinkPad/Fedora machine I still uses for personal projects.
I find it comical that it's usually liberal leaning folks that want to use early 1900s interpretation of the law for why it's bogus. Yet they want "regulation" for so many contemporary issues. A true liberal would adapt and move with the times: vehicles are the primary way people move in most parts of the country. The average speed AND acceleration of cars (and the people driving them) is MUCH higher than the days of the Model-T. "Regulating" the coexistence of vehicles and living meat bags seems like common sense, and saying "cars weren't here 120 years ago" is irrelevant.
The reason human verification is necessary is that the government is relying on something called the "private search" doctrine to conduct the search without a warrant. This doctrine allows them to repeat a search already conducted by a private party (i.e., Google) without getting a warrant. Since Google didn't actually look at the file, the government is not able to look at the file without a warrant, as that search exceeds the scope of the initial search Google performed.
There's a password on my Google account, I totally expect to have privacy for anything I didn't choose to share with other people.

The hash is kind of metadata recorded by Google, I feel like Google using it to keep child porn off their systems should be reasonable. Same ballpark as limiting my storage to 1GB based on file sizes. Sharing metadata without a warrant is a different question though.
That's only thinking about it from the perspective of the planet. Relative to the planet, the magnitude of the incoming velocity vector is equal to the magnitude of the outgoing velocity vector. But in the reference frame of the sun, the planet loses an infinitesimal bit of momentum, and the spacecraft gains that momentum.

And that's assuming you don't do an extra burn at periapsis, which is far more efficient at changing speed than doing the burn in interplanetary space.
I think the wave of tariffs is showing that fundamentally cars are becoming low margin businesses with the rise of electric cars, which is good for consumers and bad for producers.
Who said anything about FAANG? I don't work in that world and in fact you literally could not pay me to do so. It seems miserable as hell. But Dropbox isn't in that world either. And in any case, I've never ever had to prepare for a job interview at all, let alone for multiple months. They aren't that hard in most cases.
Note: I am the author of this article.

That question is answered, in the last section of the article. And: yes, they are selling it, as they admit in the privacy policy.
How significant are the production subsidies? Are they a meaningful percentage of sales revenue?
Good changes! My experience with the Universal Blue images have been amazing. The stability is great and it really brings the "it just works" feeling to Linux.

Containers aren't perfect, and sometimes getting something installed in a container can be difficult, but once you have it working, it is always reproducible. For example, getting Android Studio working on Bluefin was a bit of a difficulty (the flatpak does not just work out of the box).
I do strongly recommend using Ethernet, unless you have the WiFi-only model, but gotcha.
Only the rights of the minority which live in less populated states and thereby the rights of the others are subdued. So those people don't deserve equal weight to their votes?
Founder of interviewing.io here.

Clarification: Just because companies don't want a 3rd party like us providing them with junior candidates, it doesn't mean they don't want them. Even back in 2017-2019, when the market was booming, we couldn't get employers to take our juniors... because they generally have their own robust pipeline.

So the solution is to go to companies directly, rather than relying on a 3rd party service like ours, which companies tend to use specifically for roles they can't fill on their own.
> its emotional folks like you who end up getting taken advantage of by communist / socialist / comrade like ideologies

Oh, so anyone who disagrees with you is a communist / socialist? Hate to break it to you, but I'm a red blooded American capitalist that has a few criticisms to make the system better and freer. You cannot have liberty in today's world without a job - you will be homeless, on the street, and freezing, and society has decided that applying resources to that problem is a waste of time. That doesn't mean anybody "owes" you a job, but not even remotely considering the consequences of layoffs is bloodless and heartless and ultimately a detriment both personally to the person laid off (though no fault of their own, after all, just wanting to juice those stock numbers!) and to the US economy as a whole. And god forbid you're here on an H1B visa - better pack your shit and get out if some corporate overlord decrees so.

Have a good day as well - not everyone that disagrees with you is a communist. Get therapy for your problems.
AC does that, without the electrical college it would just be DC all the time with ever increasing polarisation.
> We should have had ranked choice voting years ago at the very least.

If we could somehow "fix" voting (in many or all cases this is a constitutional modification, no simple task), why would we even keep voting at all? Voting's just bad. The things that you and everyone else like about democracy, ironically, have nothing to do with voting. You like the idea that any small child, boy or girl, can grow up to become president. That there is no ruling caste, and so on. That we have peaceful transitions of power from one administration to the next. That there is some sort of time limit on how long one can hold office.

All these things are achievable in a superior system: sortition. Everyone who qualifies (35 and up, no a felon, natural born citizen) has an equal chance at becoming president (similar for other offices). We do 20 or 30 drawings so that if anyone rejects, we go on to the next.

Trying to fix voting when the fundamental flaw with it is that all of us, to the last, is simply not intelligent enough to cast a vote wisely, can't be fix with vote diddling and runoffs and ranked choices and whatnot. The defective portion of the mechanism's still there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
I've never prepared for an interview in my life, and I've never had any difficulty. Anecdotal of course, but I think prep for interviews is vastly overrated.
Yeah, I just think examples like this need to work for the masses in order to be useful otherwise they're just pie in the sky advice like abstinence to prevent childbirth. It does work and it's 100% effective but humans are horny. Same with saving this amount of money, there's a select few that can pull it off but most are incapable. Those are the people advice is for
Is this another fake like the Google bot that made reservations at a restaurant?
> These new C4A instances are advertised as offering up to 50% better performance and up to 60% better energy efficiency than their current generation x86 instance types.

Hardware (see also, Google's TPUs and their performance vs. energy cost) is one reason why I'm fairly bullish on Google.
The hashes involved in stuff like this, as with copyright auto-matching, are perceptual hashes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_hashing), not cryptographic hashes. False matches are common enough that perceptual hashing attacks are already a thing in use to manipulate search engine results (see the example in random paper on the subject https://gangw.cs.illinois.edu/PHashing.pdf).
>and he guided the company to a point where certain areas became "over-invested or under-performing."

And now he's fixing it by cutting those under-performing areas.

>So, it should be him stepping down.

Why? How would that help the company get better? Do you think competent CEOs are like cogs that you can pick a new one from the stack of LinkedIn applications whenever the old one makes a mistake, and then slot him in the existing machine and everything will magically work better?

>Nobody ever said being a CEO would be easy.

Exactly. That's why you don't rush to replace the devil you know with the devil you don't.
In a lot of states, primaries require registration/party membership to participate in. Effectively more gatekeeping. Additionally, the two parties have no interest in breaking the two party power struggle.
That's even more absurd. It's not about "avoiding accountability" it's about putting superlatives into proportion. Is it "avoiding accountability" for your friend to say that he's going to take you to one of his favorite restaurants in the city? Is it "avoiding accountability" for your boss to say that this is one of the most important applications to the business?

Also, marketing departments don't usually do this, they just say "we're the best product in the market" and define best in some ambiguous way.
Yes, but at intersections drivers are forced to slow down and look for traffic and maybe prepare to make a turn, so you can expect them to move slower and have more situational awareness.

Am I wrong?
I will still be using the cross walks everywhere I go. Because there's no shortcut across the street that is worth me stopping traffic or getting hit by a car.

Jaywalking is for selfish and impatient people who are bad at assessing risk.

Unless the street is completely empty, I guess.
To be fair, the majority of podcasts are from a group of generic white guys, and they almost sound identical to these AI generated ones. The AI actually seems to to do a better job too.
Best time to buy a frame.work Linux Laptop without fomo.
I’m done with Apple.
Partially it's because this is a false dichotomy. The most efficient and safe system isn't something that erects permanent barriers between pedestrians and cars – because a system like this creates ugly cities and undesirable walking, cycling, and driving conditions – it's something that allows them to coexist safely, generally by making them slower, more visible, and more predictable.

I walk/run, drive, and cycle in NYC. In my view, the way NYC works in most intersections and roads is pretty close to maximally efficient. And it generally gets better over time, although it has occasionally gotten worse in the name of safety.

The things that make it that way include (1) mostly one-way roads, which makes jaywalking significantly easier and safer (2) mostly single-lane or dual-lane roads (3) well-tuned traffic lights with relatively brief cycles (4) relatively low speed limits that are brutally enforced with speed traps (5) an abundance of red light cameras.

The least safe parts of the city are those with more than 2 lanes of traffic, especially if it's bi-directional, and those with really poorly designed cycling infrastructure. My pet peeve roads are the ones that look like this:

| sidewalk | cycle lane | parking spots | road |

e.g. Grand St in Williamsburg, because this design makes jay-walking extremely dangerous. and it makes cyclists go faster than they otherwise-would, because of the (occasionally-enough-to-be-dangerous false) sense of being insulated from both pedestrians and cars.

The other major source of risks, again IME, are cyclists going counter-traffic on one-way roads, and people on electric-assisted bikes in general traveling >20mph.
>New Yorkers don't have a concept of "jaywalking"; it's just "walking."

It's also not a word in the German language at all, it's just "crossing the road". If you do it safely grate, if you don't not grate and if there are children nearby unsafe road crossing is really something you shouldn't do, especially it it's just because you are to lazy to walk a small bit more (I think crossing a road close by a pedestrian crossing while you aren't allowed to cross it is also the only way it is illegal outside of the case of "you action counting as endangering you or others" (like actually endangering not some absurd twisting of definitions)).
The article also quotes Mullenweg saying, "We’ve seen a huge boost in businesses". Anyone know if that's true business? I'm thinking it's the business Automattic stole from WP Engine when they took their ACF plugin and cut off WPEngine.
My 2015 15" MBP is also still kickin, is/was an absolutely fabulous unit. Was my work machine for 3-4 years, and now another almost-6 years as my personal laptop. My personal use case is obviously not very demanding but it's only now starting to really show its age.

I also have a M1 from work that is absolutely wonderful, but I think it's time for me to upgrade the 2015 with one of these new M4s.

The longevity of Macbooks is insanely good.
I threw out all my pots and pans that have non stick surfaces and replaced them with stainless steel.

Same with most kitchen cooking implements.

Stainless steel pots and pans are much cheaper, last longer, you can scrub and scrape them and the big upside is you don’t have to consume DuPont non stick chemical coating nor feed it to your children.

Despite all the celebrity chefs in the world attempting to sell you their name brand chemical coated fry pans.
Especially because pixel count is a meaningless metric by itself. 12MP is the same as a Nikon D3, which if it could replicate the results of I would be happy with!
CXL memory is also a thing.
Sortition also helps with the whole "those who crave power should be the furthest from it".
This is great. I suppose the improvements will arrive soon. I used to use Thunderbird on Android long ago. (K-9 has done it's part in filling the gap sincce then.)
It has always been a neat system to use - Thunderbird on desktops, and on cell phones(used to be on iphones also, I think.) though not linked, the same freedom of self mail control. A very good way to archive all your mail, as you want, without externalities. IMAP and PoP.
If you DO start in March, your days/month fall into a neat little pattern:

Mar 31 - Aug 31 - Jan 31

Apr 30 - Sep 30 - Feb 28/29

May 31 - Oct 31

Jun 30 - Nov 30

Jul 31 - Dec 31

That highlights a few interesting cycles you can use to calculate dates from a simple count of days from the start of the year:

153 days every 5 months

61 days every 2

31 days per month

An "early reset" occurs every second month, jumping to the next 2-month cycle after the second day 30. Another occurs after every fifth month, jumping into a new 2-month cycle halfway through the last one of the 5-month. And of course, end of the year breaks the third "5-month" cycle WAY early, just before even its first 2-month is finished.

I won't try to detail the process of generating dates from this here, but I'm sure most of us here can work it out with just a little effort. Instead, here's a couple more fun facts to consider:

If you DO start the calendar from March, counting it as month 1, September (7) through December (10) map rather nicely to their own numeric positions. That seems a pretty strong hint, to me.

And I REALLY love this one:

The Gregorian cycle consists of four centuries. The first three are 36,524 days each: 100 years x 365 days + 24 days for the leap years. The hundredth year (ending in 00) is NOT considered a leap year, EXCEPT for every FOURTH hundredth. So that's 4 centuries * 36,524 days = 146,096, plus 1 more for the leap century, for 146,097.

That number is EXACTLY divisible by 7, which means the week cycle repeats WITH the Gregorian one. Good thing! Otherwise, we'd have to wait 2800 years!
The Last Clear Chance Doctrine (in tort law, not criminal law), which is pretty widely accepted, is that regardless of right of way, if you are able to avoid an accident, then you must.

Having the right of way matters less than the ability to avoid an accident. If you plow into a pedestrian that you saw from three blocks away, you will absolutely be considered liable civilly since you had a clear chance to avoid a collision.

The general rule in almost every vehicle code is that having the right of way does not relieve you of the obligation to do everything reasonable to avoid collisions and injuries.
What scripts have you built to stand up a new server?
Setting up a new Linux server can take a long time, and it’s very repetitive.

I always forget the workflow to set user passwords, harden ssh with my ed_25519 keys, etc. Show us your scripts!
Megapixels is nothing more than the number of sample points. There's so much more to image quality than the number of samples.

I blame the confusion to PC&Android marketing people who were pushing for years and years the idea that the higher the megapixel digits the better the camera is. Non-Apple customers should be really pissed of for the years of misinformation and indoctrination on false KPI.

The marketing gimmicks pushed generations of devices to optimize for meaningless numbers. At times, even Apple was forced to adopt those. Such a shame.
It's hard to imagine ay reason why I would not want to keep upgrading to a new MPB every few years -- my M3 MBP is by far the best laptop I've owned thanks to the incredible battery life.

Of course I'm rooting for competition, but Apple seems to be establishing a bigger and bigger lead with each iteration.
I like that you did it and can look back with a more elegant solution.

What was the thought process originally? Were you just too focused on the problem?

I find that if I'm too close to the problem and too focused for [arbitrary timeframe], this is the type of thing that happens. The joy of fixing something before it's broken takes over.
Great but "infant in the womb" and similar phrases go all the way back to antiquity. If anything, dehumanizing the fetus is a recent invention by pro abortion advocates.
What alternative formulation do you propose?

In the article, a "LLM knows" if it is able to answer correctly in the right circumstances. The article suggests that even if a LLM answers incorrectly the first time, trying again may result in a correct answer, and then proposes a way to pick the right one.

I know some people don't like applying anthropomorphic terms to LLMs, but you still have to give stuff names. I mean, when you say you kill a process, you don't imply a process is a life form. It is just a simple way of saying that you halt the execution of a process and deallocate its resources in a way that can't be overridden. The analogy works, everyone working in the field understands, where is the problem?
You need to know the input space as well as the output space (hash size).

If you have a 32bit hash but your input is only 16bit, you'll never have a collision (and you'll be wasting a ton of space on your hashes!).

Image files can get into the megabytes though, so unless the output hash is large the potential for collisions is probably not all that low.