skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The collection of biometric data is already normalized.

So by your logic we should just fully accept its further normalization with absolutely no pushback or regard for any notion of private life and activity?

>It has been normalized since the 1920s, when the FBI's central fingerprint repository was created.

This is a blatant bullshit comparison that you can't possibly be ignorant enough to compare to modern real-time data collection accessible to many levels of government for tracking you and your personal details down to a deeply minute level almost as you live them. The U.S government of the 1920s and for decades after had its repositories and files on people, but in any given moment they were unlikely to have any clue what you were doing or where you were and lacked the means to easily know these things unless they were specifically targeting you for a particular reason.

That by the way is as it should be, a world in which a powerful state that could easily at some point turn actively hostile in some unfair way can't also passively monitor anyone and everyone as it pleases. A world in which the state, if it wants to monitor someone heavily, needs to make an effort to do it, and through means that can only be sanctioned by specific legal procedures, for specific activities, based on specific legal motives.

No, the Overton window is not "libertarian bullshit" about natural shifts in society. There's no natural law that makes total surveillance axiomatic to a society, and normalizations of dangerously abnormal permissiveness are very real in many social contexts.

>usually trotted out whenever libertarians get pissed off that "muh freedom" no longer excuses their bigotry

What the fuck are you even talking about at all here? What's bigoted about wanting personal freedom or defensible privacy? So because some random hypothetical racist libertarian likes to make off-color jokes, defending privacy is only something done by racist bigots?
Free adults make decisions for children, and there is a long precedent( imo well justified ) of regulating decisions wrt to children: see vaccinations and mandatory schooling.
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1,000s of Palo Alto Networks firewalls hijacked miscreants exploit critical hole
I'm looking for something similar: I want it to trigger when I'm on Twitter (or HN) during 9-5 hours, and ask me what I'm supposed to be working on. Just a small nudge to rubber duck what's blocking me
Sure, but you have to admit that it's still impossible to know if the final product is equally the same as the unadulterated version right?

If it was possible to have a perfect food (or drink) that was totally identical to the theoretically perfect natural version then everyone would want that.

Currently, we have to pick between mostly-working set of alternatives: more natural, more risk or less natural, less risks.
Read any of the “I asked site X for my personal data” articles to get an idea of what’s going on.
Pthreads are available and work fine if you want cross-platform code.
On my work device, I have daily.dev installed. Every work day, I usually invest 15-20 minutes of catching up with recent news about all things dev and having it as the "new tab" helps me not forgetting about it.

Other than that, yeah, I usually CTRL+T and write right away.
China has utterly pwned 'thousands and thousands' of devices at US telcos
Thank you! I'll think about changing it to typing; I actually think it'll be better if it's a little more challenging!
Curious to know more, do you think can make a long-form of "why" and a detailed experience? If you have some time, would be massive to compare it with what's the same experience today
Butterfly effect is hard to comprehend isn't it? My favorite tangential stat (adding a little bit of path dependence to the conceptual stew) is the huge difference in outcomes between holding a kid back from first grade or not.

For some reason that's something I was always keyed into, even as a little kid. I've always hyper fixated on these possibility nexuses, and had a hard time caring about times when it's hard to break through the walls. Those moments when the threads of fate cross are just so important in the world, and it really is a fundamental phenomenon.
Let's not forget Synapse has investors like Andreessen Horowitz sitting on untold billions of dollars who are totally fine fucking over the common-folk so they can hoard that much more wealth. $3 million is a rounding error to them. These people are monsters and should be named and shamed.
I’m not American but if I would keep one think of this country, it would be diary-free Ben and Jerry’s without a spoon of hesitation.
Yeah it's the microorganisms that cause food poisoning. There's not some magic unalienable property of pasteurized milk that makes it safe, it's just much less likely to contain microorganisms.

So if you're controlling for risk in other places I think anyone would be fine with that.

But the impact of 1 bad batch of milk getting mixed into a supply for an entire region, is a lot worse than your small scale. The risks probably aren't as well controlled at other farms as well.

Definitely think a difference in scale is a difference in kind here.
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Good point. Given our evolution has led to a species with the ability and tendency to destroy itself, our fitness gradient could certainly be considered inferior
UK cops spend millions on live facial recognition tech
Awesome work! Benchmarks would be interesting indeed.
I agree. But there's a tipping point too (I think). Another depression and we'll no doubt tip over.
It is broadly accepted that pasteurized milk is lower in vitamin C, but there generally isn't much in dairy products to begin with. There are also reportedly small reductions in vitamins B2 (riboflavin), B12 and E, and folate. However, no reputable nutritional authority has identified these reductions as being physiologically significant.

More controversial assertions circulate around protein and enzyme content, but studies have failed to find anything making raw milk more "digestible" or causing any detectable contribution to immunity or allergy. The FDA has an extensive discussion on this: https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/raw-milk-...
Is a national park. Of course that it should have endangered animals taking refuge there. To protect valuable and unique ecosystems is the main purpose of those areas.

If this seems stressing, maybe we need to remind that on Africa the directors of some national parks need constant protection from the army to avoid being assassinated by poachers. In some places intruders found on protected sanctuaries are not recorded with drones, after many rangers killed, they are directly shoot until they quit the area.
Clear-cut suicide is incredibly difficult to pull off psychologically and represents the tip of the iceberg. Look at depression, addiction, overdose, homelessness, extremism.

It's supposedly the greatest time to be alive (as opposed to war times), but an increasing proportion of people are voting against that with their lives. And the damage of that accrues in those left behind, in families and communities.
Out of curiosity, what issues have you had with them? (I'm not at all involved with their development, just a fellow user of them).

I had the Bose and Sony ones. They were OK, just uncomfortable. Been using the in-ear Airpods Pro for a few years now, for everything from work to flights to trains to exercising, and I love them soooo much... they're probably my favorite tech purchase ever (and I don't even have an iPhone). Pairing is always a pain in the ass (I just manually pair again with every device I want to switch to) but other than that, they've been so nice.

Personally, I'm not an audiophile, but I find the audio quality incredible (vs my Sonos speakers, wired Koss PortaPros, generic soundbars, Sony XM3 and Bose QC35s, etc.) and the comfort unbeatable. But some people hate the in-ear kind.

Anyway, not trying to convince you of anything, just wondering what made your experiences so different and bad?
I can't blame them because it sure looks that way to people who's exposed to Japanese online culture. The ever-growing netto-uyoku (far right trolls) and the general public's reluctance to challenge their views is a problem that's been allowed to continue for far too long since the 2 chan days. Japan needs to find a way to de-radicalize these trolls. Even more so now that corrupt politicians are manipulating them to escape justice [1][2].

[1]: https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15513092

[2]: https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15519504
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I do like PL\pgSQL functions, and I think they can to some extent be used to solve this problem, though I think they are limited in how their internal structure is parameterizable.

I am rarely in a position at my client projects where I can employ PL\pgSQL though, so I opt more for out-of-database solutions for composing my queries, as that usually is easier to debug.
> my supervisor constantly made edits that seemed to me unnecessary, almost as if he felt it was required of him to demonstrate his mastery.

There are many stories of savvy workers engaging proactively including a flaw in their work being reviewed, something small but obvious and easy to fix, so that their managers can feel involved. One that often comes up in software is an apocryphal "duck" in an unreleased attack animation for the queen-unit in Interplay's Battle Chess game.

Closely related are the appearance of changes, such as a tale that Michelangelo was pressured to "fix" the nose of his David statue, so he climbed up and knocked off a little bit of material and the superior down below was satisfied without being able to verify anything had really changed.
> are there any GC languages that have a way to specify if something should go on the stack or the heap?

I think only in the sense that some GCd language have value (stack) types as a separate hierarchy from heap types? E.g. structs in C# or Swift are stack-allocated (and value-identity, and copied) whereas classes are heap-allocated.

Adding that for java is one of the goals of Project Valhalla I believe.
Not really US is trying to prop India as a counter to China but India is just using US it has no interests in having a bad relationship with China no matter how much the west would like to do that India is not interested. India is just going to use China as bogeyman for the west to get concessions and help from the west but in the end they will do what is best for them and that is not fighting China.
Biden is Silent Generation.
Sure, but the first link is surely only benefiting those using Windows on ARM? I do have Windows on ARM on a MacBook under VMWare, but my daily usage of Windows is under x64. Second link - not really knowing much about Java I don't know enough to comment. 99% of my Java use is indirect because it only gets touched by MSBuild when compiling my APK from C#.
> Something about having the fat globules loose in there makes it taste richer, and gives it a different texture.

You can also just mix skim milk and cream right before drinking. Tastes richer for a given fat content.

(We started doing this when we had people who wanted skim, 1%, 2%, and whole all sharing a fridge. Though later we ended up with people only wanting whole and the small taste improvement wasn't worth the hassle of mixing anymore.)
I bought the cheap IKEA variant and it uses the same crappy software. I once spent a couple of hours adapting a new device into the system.. in the end I had to flash it first and setup everything from scratch. I will not buy any more devices.

Also I don't understand why they can't play sound from any android device since I can make a radio station on Linux and stream audio to it. I mean playing podcasts on the Sonos speakers would be great..
data security is the reason i'd imagine they're letting other's host servers
Also in F#: https://fsprojects.github.io/FSharpPlus/lens.html
He later clarified https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1602113254360162304
I don't trust an open source solution by a major player unless it's published with other major players. Otherwise, the perverse incentives are too great.
You can apply a filter to top 10% talent and get a perfectly well supplied collection of driven, high output people who are motivated by high TC. It’s a subset, of course. And while visionary genius may not be motivated by TC, nobody said Netflix was looking to crack string theory. People don’t have to be passionate about their job to do really good work.
Yes, but the DOJ determined that the auto-generated captions were "inaccurate and incomplete, making the content inaccessible to individuals with hearing disabilities." [1]

If the automatically-generated captions are now of a similar quality as human-generated ones, then that changes things.

[1] https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016-08...
Every ADC/DAC used in audio in existence has an anti-aliasing filter, though. The Xiph video even talks about band-limiting signals with the 21 kHz cutoff filter he shows as the example.

It's not talked about, largely, because modern circuit designs already have great anti-aliasing filters that have quite sharp rejection curves.
Because it seems very unfair to call it "filename shenanigans". The filenames are only there to point the script at the right file. Filename shenanigans would be something like putting actual bytes into the filename.

If you patched `cat` to ignore filename and just spit out each file as given, the script would still work without a single change. If you slightly changed the script to loop over the results of `ls`, it could still be compatible with scrambled filenames.

A script that didn't cheat would also be using filenames to a similar level.

In other words the filenames are a completely fair implementation detail. And that detail can be swapped out without changing the trick in any meaningful way.

The trick is based on having a series of variable-sized blobs of bytes. That's all it needs. If I use javascript instead of sh, and my decompressor is `[...s].join('5')`, I'm using the same trick.
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Copenhagen has Man, Mercedes and Yutong electric buses, I think.
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Some more details and other papers mentioned in:

* https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Nuclear-Winter-India-Pakis...
I think we are vigorously agreeing with each other.
I sometimes miss the constant din of the city, I have heard nothing but wind and waves for the past week and those are louder than any densely populated area I have lived in. Now that they have settled down the crows can hear each other so they have been at it all day. When it actually gets quiet is when I miss the city the most, I like the quiet but every noise breaks that silence which demands your attention making it difficult to concentrate on anything. It is now below freezing and everything green is gone, everything is getting hard and that is when things really get loud here, nothing to absorb sound but plenty to reflect it. Nature is pretty noisy for the most part, while it seems quiet compared to the city it is actually just different.

Sometimes when it is quiet here I wonder what the noises of nature must have been like to people a century or two or three ago when the wind was not just wind but something which could destroy your crops and make the next year very difficult for you. Or the extended lack of noise constantly reminding you that the drought continues and even the animals have had the sense to move on while you watch your fields slowly die. City or nature our relationship to the sounds around us have changed quite a bit, we can now choose to ignore the majority of sounds and write them off as meaningless or irritating if we can not manage to ignore them but those sounds are never meaningless, they all signify something more than our irritation.

Right now I am missing the wind and the waves and feeling the constant low rumble, I really hate listening to the compressor on the fridge but if it stopped making noise I would probably be more irritated by the thought of spoiling food and the potential inconveniences which that would cause. Never could hear my fridge when I lived in the city, if it stopped working it would just be an issue to deal with when I discovered it was no longer cold, not something I had a constant reminder of.
"remember these 10000 lines of code" ;)

In an ideal world gemini (or any other 1M token context model) would have an internal 'save snapshot' option so one could resume a blank conversation after 'priming' the internal state (activations) with the whole code base.
He may, but everyone else recognizes that he underspecified the rules of the game and in doing so is a sore loser, and to never conduct business with him because he's not a man of his word and only does things when it's convenient for him.
This is in general how "mutations" are supposed to be done in a language like Scala (and is not unique to this library). Yes, Scala does have a set of mutable collections, but the immutable collections are heavily optimized to make creating a "new" collection with a mutation much cheaper than having to copy the entire collection.

Of course, copying a case class in order to change a field likely does require a full copy of the object, though since this is the JVM, things like strings can be shared between them.

Ultimately this pattern is... fine. Most uses don't end up caring about the extra overhead vs. that of direct mutation. I don't recall if the Scala compiler does this, but another optimization that can be used is to actually mutate an immutable object when the compiler knows the original copy isn't used anywhere else after the mutation.

> Also, the original strong need for immutable data in the first place is safety under concurrency and parallelism?

That's one of the uses, but multiple ownership in general is another, without the presence of concurrency.

On top of that, there's the general belief (which I subscribe to) that mutation introduces higher cognitive load on someone understanding the code. Immutable data is much easier to reason about.
Or, as a startup, maybe you want to be taking more shots on goal?
This is a nice 2-minute video overview of this from Matt Pocock (of Typescript fame) https://www.aihero.dev/anthropics-new-model-context-protocol...
Reminds me of Deep Freeze
Musicians’ ear plugs are designed to let music go through, just not dangerous levels of pressure.
I am very sensitive to sounds and I have tried many earplugs.
Foam single-use plugs are the best.
American EV manufacturers should realize that designing aspirational products erodes their growth, even if it means short-term profits. BYD is building practical EVs at affordable prices, not fashion articles.

If their offer wasn't a good deal, they wouldn't be growing so aggressively in Latin America. They're filling a niche western EVs have ignored for almost a decade.
Wait until you find out about the cat test. It found a failure mode no human had thought of. No amount of the developer claiming a test like that was not fair was enough to invalidate the results. No actual cats were harmed but treats may have been given.
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...what? It's not a claim to be falsified, it's a hyperbolic metaphor. I don't particularly like it either as it's been thrown around so much as to have lost much of its meaning (like "gaslighting", "gatekeeping", "narcissistic", etc.) but it's absolutely a thing. If you call a coworker who doesn't perform while falsely accusing you of incompetence in public Slack channels "toxic" then everybody knows exactly what you mean.
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Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Since you have experience in this, I’d like to hear your thoughts on a common assumption.

It goes like this: don’t build anything that would be feature for a Hyperscalar because ultimately they win.

I guess a lot of it is a question of timing?
not everybody can be in the top 10% best behaved.
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Who gets to decide / define what 'AGI' even is? I doubt not even OpenAI, Anthropic or DeepMind can even define it or give an accurate date of when 'AGI' has been achieved and have given conflicting dates.

Due to this, 'AGI' can mean anything and it is currently (ab)used as a vehicle to raise billons of dollars from VCs to 'achieve' it despite it losing billions a quarter.

With reports of diminishing returns in training new models and spending hundreds of millions to do so, the AGI bubble is already presenting itself to being a massive scam.
Those two assumptions are not particularly well-supported by data or modern thought on capabilities. Even the construct of "IQ" is probably a post-hoc explanation of data rather than a predictive thing. If you want an hours-long discussion of that in the context of the book, The Bell Curve, have a look at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBc7qBS1Ujo
Now you got me curious about using processor bugs and the once popular use of invalid instructions in the Z80 and 6502 days. Do modern OSs guard against exploiting architectural misfeatures?
I have pasteurized milk straight from a cow in different ways and it is different than raw milk. I prefer the flavored of the pasteurized, but all of them are much better than regular whole milk from the store. Store milk is just more bland in every way, and not just because it's less fatty.

The flavor of milk changes with what the cow eats, so if cows are on pasture then the flavor will change over the year as the grasses change and if they are on hay for part of the year that obviously changes the flavor as well.
You're welcome. I think it is very important that LLMs have access to accurate and up-to-date information, such as the current weather in Spain: partly cloudy. Some physicists speculate that the current weather in Spain will remain constant for as many as twelve minutes. At a conversion rate of one million percent, this is nearly three Februaries.

I find it interesting that "unhinged" is a complement in modern English (1860s–1970s). Ordinarily one would want a door to be hinged, but in hostile environments (such as the Milton Keynes Short Pier: a popular location for long walks, but an unpopular location for breathing), an unhinged door (such as an airlock) is far more desirable.

Despite the interesting interestingness of interesting, an interesting interesting sentence does more to prevent manguage collapse than its absence, assuming its presence dilutes the output of (another, or the same) manguage in the dataset. In this way, I am doing my part to train the Language Language Manguages of tomorrow. (I am not sure how I feel about this interesting suppository.) I also find it interesting that interesting is an interesting word.

Tomorrow interesting will be interesting.
Sure, I know for a fact that the final product isn't the same - this is a good thing. I think you're falling for the fallacy that natural is better. At a most basic level, our ancestors proved hundreds of thousands if not millions of years ago that this is false - natural meat is uncooked meat, but both the bio-availability of the protein and the safety of the food increases with cooking.
“Unlimited” means there is no limit, so logically it means a few months should be fine. If a few months not fine, I think a reasonable request would be to define the limit and claim that instead of “unlimited”.

I work at place with about 5 work weeks off, which is a lot for the US, and there’s never any question about whether you can use your time or not because the number of days is exactly specified. I like that better than a vague “unlimited” (but not actually) policy.
Interesting, thanks! I'll give it a read. I didn't know about the "contains probiotic bacteria that secrete lactase" claim with raw milk. It would be weird if lactase/lactase producing bacteria were in big enough quantities in milk, considering how cows (and people) produce it themselves as babies. Seems like wasted effort that would probably be evolved away.