skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the vast majority of what I do, a toy is all I need.

This is the nasty catch-22. It is preferable to have a single tool that handles both simple and complex cases. But sometimes, you just can't make one tool that does both well. If you optimize for the hard cases, then most users will use only a tiny minority of the features.

Microsoft tried to work around that with the "ribbon", which tried to learn which features each individual uses. Users hated it.

So I keep around LibreOffice for the hard stuff, which I write perhaps once a year. And I use Google Docs every day.
> In the top right quadrant is what psychologists call ‘authoritative’ parenting (not to be confused with authoritarian parenting). Perhaps because of this confusion, Angela has labelled this quadrant as ‘wise parenting’, which is a much better word for it.

Ahhh "Wise" parenting. No bias there, ha ha.

My wife and I no doubt were in the upper left quadrant, permissive parents. For better or worse, we weren't going to have any of the demanding side of the spectrum. Could we have been more demanding "for their own good"? Perhaps. But I think neither my wife nor I were raised with demanding parents and we turned out fine — so we went with that. I think for both of us it was the "supportive" axis we felt lacking in our own childhoods so that is where we doubled-down.

When my kids grow up though, if they have kids of their own, and the pendulum swings the other way, I will not be surprised. Life seems to be like that. When I was raising the girls I tried not to overthink it.
All Apple products.
If anything you should open it up to check for any leaking batteries/capacitors.
Yes and: "regulations" is just a scary words for "rules".

Yes and: Policy proceeds rule making. Rules try to encode incentives and disincentives to achieve those policies. For better or worse.

Yes and: Surplus, and therefore overuse of, unhealthy foodstuffs (eg HFCS) is the result of pro Big Ag policies. Which are often in opposition to public health interests. So we (taxpayers) are paying to create lifestyle diseases at the same time we're paying to mitigate those same diseases.

I know you know all this. I hate to go meta on the UPF debate; but there really is an easily identified root cause.

The very first priority to mitigating lifestyle diseases should be:

Stop making it worse.

/rant
The multiverse is a scientific hypothesis only if we can devise experiments to verify it. If not, it's an matter of conversation. Anyway, any single universe in a multiverse is unlikely, just like the result of any roll of a 100 sided die is unlikely. Our universe might be more unlikely than other ones but we got one roll of the cosmological die and we have to do our best with it. I don't see any difference if this universe is part of a multiverse or is alone, unless we find a way to move to other universes with different values of the cosmological constant inside the multiverse (I'm assuming it's really constant during all the lifetime of a give universe.) That would be a great proof by the way.
Some youtube channels are good too.

https://www.youtube.com/@umarjamilai

https://huyenchip.com/blog/
Likely licensing issue with Sun/Oracle?
I thought it was Levy Hackers?
I run a small time wireless network for a business (about 100 concurrent clients at any given time), I had to disable PMF because some devices simply wouldn't work.

Edit: also, from my notes at setup time, some devices could connect but then had trouble roaming.
Not only a solution-driven/pragmatic mindset. Also a clear-minded perspective (in this case one and the same).

Yeah consumers “won’t change”. Because that’s an asinine focus if you want the whole (first) world to change. Would you rely on “personal motiviation” if you needed a whole brigade to storm a beach? Clearly not. Likewise these individualistic efforts are completely wrong-headed.

Because they’re not supposed to change anything. Only to assign blame. (Clear-minded: what motivation is behind the consumer nagging)

The proper way to change all of society is organized effort. Which means leveraging existing institutions. Like entire freaking supply lines. You maybe stop importing toothpicks from across the world instead of the false narrative of “educating” the “consumers” (keyword) to not “buy stuff from China”.

Be cynical, clear-minded and pragmatic—all of these lead to the same conclusions on this topic.
Beijing's official messaging needs AI, algorithms to counter Western media
Looks interesting. Any tips for using it effectively? What's it been most helpful with?
The third option here is writing type stubs for the library, which you can sometimes find community versions of as well. They’re not too time consuming to write and generally work well enough to bridge the gap
It's a Samsung, Android phone. I used "Modes and Routines" which allows to set greyscale (and silent mode etc.) and automate triggers (such as time of day) to activate a "mode".
I've always wondered whether the Sumerians knew they were the first. Past empires, lost civilizations, and ancient artifacts have always fascinated us. The first museum emerges is Mesopotamia around 530 BC; the Egyptian obelisk installed next to the brand-new Colosseum in Rome was older then than the Colosseum is now; legends of giants and heroes of bygone ages are literary universals. We hunger for the past.

But the Sumerians were first. There was no glorious but crumbled past empire to inspire them. They figured out everything for the first time, and we know little about what they thought about it.

Now consider that humanity is likely the first in the Milky Way galaxy. We too have to figure things out for the first time, but on a grander scale. What will history think of us?
TikTok will block beauty filters for teens over mental health concerns
The Formlabs Form 4 uses a CM AFAIK and at a 4-5k price point it's not hard to see how they sell them at a profit.
OpenAI gets $1.5B investment from SoftBank in tender offer
Get on Twitter (well, X) as that's where the the cutting edge is.
Why India's latest Sun mission finding is crucial for the world
Anyone can steal it, sure. And anyone who did so would be a criminal, unless they were the police.
https://archive.ph/7S0ER

> Thursday October 12 2017

The article is old. But, in fairness, things could be even worse now. I mean, this "Online Safety Act" is new:

> https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-safety-act...
Not parent, but I assume the idea is that you could form this fractal by hand (all or in part) in any 3D Minecraft terrain. Then you could route rails according to the theorem.
Cisco wireless LAN controllers used to have this feature built in. In some release they removed it.
Lots of interesting details around the beginning of writing systems but it seems to overdramatise the conditions and role of Sumer in kickstarting civilization as we know it?

> the original organized, literate, urban culture was produced by a far crueler and more challenging environment than either of those (Indus, Nile)

Egypt and the Nile don't seem particularly different as an environment. Dry desert with regular river floodings etc.

> The Sumerians invented kingship, priesthood, diplomacy, law, and war.

Of those, only law sounds like a legitimate priority claim, in the sense of having writen, thus fixed, laws rather than whatever the potentate of the day feels like declaring as being the law today.
AMD Releases ROCm Version 6.3
Rpis proposition has always been support rather than value per se.

If you want cheaper, yes there are other options. If you want something where a mainline kernel will work, and has a community, Pis are a much better choice.
Whistleblowers shared a $98M reward, no wonder people are spamming SEC with tips
Pretty insane how much money some whistleblowers are getting paid for successful tips to the SEC. Some stats:

In fiscal year 2024, the Commission reported getting nearly 25,000 TCRs, some 14,000 of those were from just two people!

Largest reward ever was $279 million.
I would like something like that, but I wouldn’t want it to be run by the government.
No. Not at all. String splitting is a couple of lines' code. I don't want have to think about a logging framework just to read a protobuf - it can send stuff to stderr like everything else. If Google wants protobuf to be a widely accepted standard then it shouldn't require you to opt into their ecosystem to use it.
> The key point is to make it harder (but not impossible) for me to use the phone.

All apps, and actually the phone manfacturers themselves make phones harder to use through user hostile patterns. Mandatory updates, re-logon, TOC confirmations, cookies, self promotions in the face, adverts, warnings, spray of notifications on marginal things, answering questions to important (or not) questions, selecting important (or not) huge amount of settings, suggestions (actually another self promotion mostly), update informations, etc. all make the phones as difficult to use as much those helps, or even more. For insane amount of money. Problem relocation machines they are.
Anyone going on record about accountability now will hear those words in TV commercials during their next campaign. It’s bad judgment to deny that a new, entirely unelected, almost improvisational department of the Federal government relies on lack of accountability.
As I was building up my understanding/intuition for the internals of transformers + attention, I found 3Blue1Brown's series of videos (specifically on attention) to be super helpful.
Is `HTMLDivElement` really that different from `class Rectangle`?
From what I understand, Collabora basically runs LibreOffice on the server side and relays the resulting image to the client. This looks like it has similar approach. And I'm sad to say it but Collabora is near unusable compared to Google Docs.

Humanity really does need an online self-hosted office suite that natively uses OpenDocument format, but I'm afraid that to achieve that it'll be easier to start from scratch with browser version as a first platform in mind.
also

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/understanding-multim...
It's not without challenges but we need to want it. Apple or whatever will never make it easy just from the goodness of their hearts.

Consider Asahi linux with their years long efforts to make it possible to use something else as an OS on the Mac. Or something like broadcom drivers that's now practically a meme.

If I "buy" something it shouldn't come a blackbox inside.
This seems like well thought out advice, but I feel like most people don’t have the emotional intelligence or communication skills to pull off “wise parenting” - and will actually be doing “authoritarian parenting” without realizing it if they, e.g. try to enforce things like (cue Tom Smykowski in office space) “I know this sucks, but keep doing it until you reach the natural stopping point. The NATURAL STOPPING POINT I SAID. Can’t you see I’m a WISE PARENT.”

In general, one has to be careful using conceptual advice for things like parenting- as it can lead to justifying some pretty awful, even abusive behaviors. I’ve seen adults angrily or even violently forcing a child to do “power poses” so they would “grow up successful” - a fad idea based on discredited research that seems ridiculous and clearly fails the common sense test. Said child is now an adult and does not speak to that parent anymore.
> no web UI because, of course, it's E2EE

I've used E2EE messenger apps over a web ui before, are you sure that's not just a design choice?
Right now I’m thinking of my Razer PC laptop. Computer technology is always getting so much faster that yesterday’s expensive cutting-edge future-proof elite hardware is tomorrow’s slowpoke bottom-shelf e-waste. Now, I will say it overall has been a good computer. But I could have saved a lot of money getting something 10-20% slower and replacing it sooner.
Interesting. How are you dealing with cases when you need a navigation like Waze or Google Maps? Navigation apps are my main obstacles for trying a "dumbphone".
That's good sci fi, meanwhile we're not even sure a human could live on mars for any extended period of time given it has 1/3rd the gravity and may completely fuck up our internal processes such as vision, blood pumping, maintaining bone density, risks of hernia, &c.

We're talking about solving the n+100 problem while we're not even sure n0 is possible. It's cool to talk about terraforming Mars but we fucked up our 100% human compatible system in 200 years of industrialisation, idk if people realise how completely disconnected from reality they sound
I'm troubled by the premise that further right on the "demanding" scale makes parents "wise". At some point, an increase in demanding things of your children seems unwise to me.
A lot of advice on how to achieve "high uptime" focuses on the technical bits. The technical bits are important, but the bigger risk is the people component. I've been in this game for decades and I've seen time and time again that all it takes is one bad hire who likes to roll out changes carelessly, bypassing any change managememt board, to break your uptime SLA for the entire year. You can fire or discipline that developer after the fact but at that point it is too late. See for example: this year's Crowdstrike outage.
Stripe runs a ton of Mongo replication clusters and uses home-grown proxy services on top of Mongo that manage and control where data lives, so the services don't have to think about that side of things. I'm not sure what changes have been made to Mongo itself but for the most part it's standard Mongo 4.
Modern electrolytic caps don't burn like they used to.

The last few times I made a mistake, there wasn't even an explosion, even less a short-circuit. The thing slowly boiled and bubbled or unfolded.

Anyway, it blows up because the capacitor's insulation layer isn't some stable material, it's a tiny oxide layer built over the metal plate by anodization. If you put a high voltage on it with the wrong polarity, you reverse that anodization and short the liquid and the metal electrodes.
The explanations given for uptime are topics about performance & correctness in database.

Is it just me, or does that have nothing to do with uptime?
nah we need to raise them with subversion
No I didn't try them, I might check them out. thanks
3D Printed Programming Language Logo Tree Ornaments: Designed in Haskell
> The hearing just made me feel like "Independence Day" may have had it right. People in government know but don't tell the president for plausible deniability and non-permanence of the position.

I really do need to finish writing that novel inspired by all the things wrong with that film.

Turns out climactic battles are much harder to write than I was expecting.
Sure, really just fired off my comment without much thought and obviously would suck in real life since it would be hijacked by politicians. Not wedded to the government part, kinda just pretending US gov capable of public services like this
BTW, it was quite complicated but I added support for flip phones as well. So the app works correctly on flip phones as well. Flip phone users might have an ultimate setup.
Changing a single number among billions can destroy an AI model
Scientists Unearth Ancient Protein That Could Rewrite Evolution
Mysterious heat waves are popping up worldwide without explanation
Funding is a subsidy only if it comes from tax/borrowing sources that aren't related to the thing being subsidized. If taxes levied on driving fund driving, that's not a subsidy. Also that page seems to be talking about all transport including railways, but we're only interested in roads here.

Germany spends ~16B EUR per year on roads at the federal level:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1293915/federal-expendit...

The amount it gets from motor taxes is vastly in excess of that:

https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Society-Environment/Enviro...

That's not surprising because Germany has the highest motor taxes in Europe:

https://www.acea.auto/press-release/motor-vehicle-taxation-b...

The US does subsidize roads but it doesn't have to, hasn't done so in the recent past and arguably shouldn't be doing so.
I consulted at a Stanford biomedical department that openly used age discrimination to displace older full-time employees. They also were biased in hiring researchers and staff who tended to be of the same ethnicity and characteristics as PIs, and they abused part-time workers for years to deny them benefits, organization-wide.
Viral LinkedIn Post You Read Was Probably AI-Generated
I think it's entirely warranted. It's not just because of the show itself, but the impact it had at the time. If you watch it today for the first time, it's probably harder to see what exactly made it so important. But being old enough to have seen it when it came out (well, a year later on DVD), at least to me, I had never seen anything like it. At that time, you had the "HBO trifecta" of shows: Sopranos, Six Feet Under, and The Wire. I watched each of those slavishly. No other thing came even close at the time. It was the most revolutionary TV since Twin Peaks.

The Wire was special in several ways: First was the dialogue, especially the Baltimore accent and slang. I never even heard anything close to that. I'm in Europe, BTW, and even with subtitles I had a hard time following (that was before urbandictionary, mind you). It was actually years later that I learned Idris Elba is British, which still blows my mind.

The characters and casting are impeccable. Idris Elba, Dominic West, Lance Reddick, Wendell Pierce, Wood Harris, all absolutely incredible and pitch perfect in their roles. Probably most memorable is Michael Williams as Omar Little, a side character in the show which is impossible to forget.

It's not a perfect series, but I'd say the first season is damn near it. I would even go as far to say that it's probably enough to watch the first season to get most of what this series wants to say, mainly to watch the tragedy of the war on drugs from the deeply humanist perspective of David Simon. IMHO the later seasons never matched the first one. On the contrary: the later seasons usually have one central theme which is explored (like journalism, education, etc.) and get a bit preachy at times. Also, the series lacks character development. Yes, people become more cynical and burnt out, but they are already very cynical and burnt out to begin with, so there's really not that much to build upon...
The Reality of an Employer's Market
The best place for the latest information isn't tech blogs in my opinion. It's the stable diffusion and local llama subreddits. If you are looking to learn about everything on a fundamental level you need to check out Andrej Karpathy on YouTube. There other some other notable mentions in other people's comments.
Could you provide some examples of what was wrong for you?
Yes, I used OpenAI API for Dall E 3 and GPT.
Morphing Wheel
This is straight out of The Heechee Saga! The idea of synthesizing human-edible food from asteroid hydrocarbons is literally what Pohl described with CHON food. Breaking down carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen to create sustenance for ships, stations, even whole planets.

Judging by the study’s data, converting the organic compounds in an asteroid like Bennu could feed thousands of astronauts for decades. Even the lower estimate of 600 astronaut life-years is staggering when you consider how much food we’d otherwise have to launch from Earth (even with SpaceX’s cost reductions, Elon). If we can refine these processes to work efficiently and reliably, which is a very big if, we’re looking at a future where asteroid mining could fuel spaceships AND feed the crew without being tethered to Earth
Woah, fun
The lack of depth of European involvement really rings true and is a totally different (and more meaningful) frame than the one I came in on (nk/SK).

I can definitely see how that would really look like a shit sandwich from a SK perspective.

I was looking at it as more a way to capture and conserve martial proficiency, but you are obviously right on with the political nature, as well as the optics and narrative that would likely become the defining aspect of this kind of involvement.
> Like any other human when we first do Rust we will make a mess because we are trying to do things like C++ - I expect to see too much unsafe just to shut up Rust about things that work in C++

C++ has its own Core Guidelines that are pretty rusty already (to be fair, in more ways than one). There's just no automated compiler enforcement of them.
Elm does something similr. Neither elm/regex nor elm/parser are built-in, but elm/regex encourages you to use elm/parser instead.

btw, I like the namesake, but a language named Janet is pretty much obligated to also prioritize control.
Correct. Syntactically it's more similar to Clojure while the runtime is, to my understanding, heavily inspired by the non-JIT versions of Lua.

As a language, it's fine. I found the documentation pretty good and the language makes some very sensible decisions but I can't bring myself to use it for anything serious. The lack tooling makes it challenging.
Being a coder, I find these resources extremely useful:

Github blog: https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/
Cursor blog: https://www.cursor.com/blog
Israel-Hamas is a civil war as Palestine is not a state. The rest is just your opinion.
Simon's blog is fragmented because it's, well, a blog. It would be hard to find a better source to "keep updated on things AI" though. He does do longer summary articles sometimes, but mostly he's keeping up with things in real time. The search and tagging systems on his blog work well, too. I suggest you stick his RSS feed in your feed reader, and follow along that way.

Swyx also has a lot of stuff keeping up to date at https://www.latent.space/, including the Latent Space podcast, although tbh I haven't listened to more than one or two episodes.
I personally got bone conducting headphones with built in storage. It's a wearable mp3 player.
Completely Agree with this, Let me add this.
It’s not a misspelling. They mean angles, as in geometry. It was chosen in the 1970s by Anton Long. Cultists frequently use geometry in their symbology.

https://ia600301.us.archive.org/31/items/TheSinisterOrderOfN...
Debanking of tech startup founders – Marc Andreessen interview
TDLR; 30 tech founders especially the ones involved in crypto in the last 4 years have been kicked out of the banking system.
It was a huge focus of their early marketing, to the point where I was surprised to find out later that people were just renting out the properties vrbo style.

It's also quite literally in the name - 'bnb' - which necessarily implies the hosts are there with you.
I was very much interested to understand anything close to helpful information, but all I hear is “Everything is in that book”.

Am working on building a high performance payment processing engine based on iso20022 standards and looking for such information. Would like to hear some feedback on my design documents and overall.

Development is in-progress and plan for first platform release likes somewhere in Q1 2025

1. Product Documentation - (https://openpayments.tech)

2. Developer Portal - (https://portal.openpayments.tech)
The Nordic countries have a longstanding tradition of state-run “folk high schools”. In fact, in modern economies where it is harder for unemployed middle-age people to find new work, and AI might cause unemployment in more sectors, this kind of state intervention seems like a good way to keep adults doing something enriching instead of doomscrolling or drinking all day.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_high_school
Might I recommend charging? You get X for free, and then you pay a fee that grows.