skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, 'military brat' is definitely a stereotype. I'm not a sociologist so not familiar with relevant research, but I would be shocked if it hadn't been studied.

One thing I would point out is that military kids are in a far different scenario than the OP's cousins kids. Military kids will grow up moving from base to base, but the schools around bases are fundamentally different. Those are schools where teachers are used to student turnover, and the students are as well. OP talked about kids that were in a more nomadic situation, where they could only form brief <1mo friendships. The local culture of these communities is also used to and adapted somewhat to this.

That sounds like childhood trauma to me, the closest analog might not be military children but the foster care system. Not a 100% analog, since presumably the OP's cousins kids didn't have the pre-existing trauma that entry into that system necessitates, but that is the closest conventional analog I can think of. Moving around constantly into communities that aren't necessarily set up to deal with that is rough.
A repair can include replacement. How finely would you like this hair sliced?
> vs delegating to someone else and they spin on it for 3 and screw it up at the end anyway.

If that is happening more than twice in a 6 month period you need to do a post-mortem on your management style, something is wrong. Spinning on a task is already a bad sign pointing at a problem that can be solved at the management level.
Sure, but this library contains none of the contents of any of those headers, so it still doesn't apply here
tl;dr it's the same feature he's talking about, but also he's wrong in a very Yudkowsky way.

I was curious about this so I hunted it down: https://youtu.be/AaTRHFaaPG8?si=NbIe3hBSovvOQA-G&t=4483

He speculates that Wikipedia got the idea from Arbital. Insofar as I can tell, that seems to be a wiki-like website that started around 2015 -- I had never heard of it, so it might be older? That does predate this specific implementation of popups on Wikipedia, which is from 2018.

The fun context here is actually discussed in the article -- the genesis of the Wikipedia popups was a community gadget on Wikipedia (Navigation Popups) that's from much earlier. Oldest version I could casually dig up on Wikipedia is from 2007. Unless Arbital is vastly older than I think (older than LessWrong itself, which is from 2009), the chain of inspiration is presumably in the other direction. Or completely independent.

The article is, overall, about why it took so long to go from that working example to something more robust.
FWIW, if the manufacturer does it right, it could theoretically do the sync once with your car and have it authenticate with a lot of different networks that participate in that same partnership. Otherwise, it'll just be a one-time setup the first time you charge.

For example, Ford has this "Blue Oval" network concept, so any charger network that is a part of that would trust that without necessarily needing me to associate my individual car identity.

Honestly though I'm kind of a fan of just having a credit card reader on the dispenser. Its way easier if I want to choose a different payment method for a particular charge, and honestly it is not that much additional work to plug in, tap a credit card or phone, and then it starts charging. Its adding like 10-30 seconds to a 10min+ transaction.
I like Open WebUI. It’s a web app that runs locally, not a native MacOS app. But it’s very nice.

https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui
Sure, but wiring 240v is still not difficult -- even in the States. The physical act of wiring 240v is on par with that of wiring 120v.
> closest supplier of Uranium

Dp you understand how energy-dense Uranium is? You can power a 1GW nuclear reactor for a week with a carry-on suitcase full of pellets. The proximity is utterly irrelevant.

It's also not even necessary! Uranium was discovered on the Czechia / Germany border and there are still many reserves there! Europe only stopped mining it in 2016!
"blows me away" would work as well
Feels very creepy knowing this much about a stranger (not to mention gamifying it) but also weirdly fascinating. My closest friend has diabetes, it can be hard. Hope you're well. I suppose I can just check though lol. Strange but well executed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing

Astroturfing is the deceptive practice of hiding the sponsors of an orchestrated message or organization (e.g., political, advertising, religious, or public relations) to make it appear as though it originates from, and is supported by, unsolicited grassroots participants. It is a practice intended to give the statements or organizations credibility by withholding information about the source's financial backers.
eieiogames@gmail.com is great (or whatever's best for you on https://eieio.games/whats-my-deal)

I think the biggest rabbit hole I went down was trying to use FEAL (which is very breakable) and exploiting the things that make it breakable. But this is very much not my area of expertise - I was learning as I was working - so it's very possible either that that was a dumb idea or that it was a great idea that I didn't figure out.

I also considered things like "focus on add lots of entropy to groups of 200 or so UUIDs, but have obvious patterns beyond that" which I think would be a reasonable strategy; here I just kind of ran out of time (I told myself I'd make this in a week)

Did some light reading about a few other things but nothing substantial
Literal survivorship bias. Woof
I haven't touched ooba in a while, what's the situation like with exl2 vs the non-homogeneous quantization methods people are using like q3k_s or whatever. IIRC while exl2 is faster the gptq quants were outperforming it in terms of accuracy esp at lower bit depths.
* Doesn't scale. In many places. In particular, GitLab CI is required to use GitLab's Gitaly for Git replication. Gitaly has architectural limitations on throughput, which are surprisingly easy to hit with even a medium sized team. Certain otherwise reasonable patterns, particularly child pipelines, cause severe load amplification with Gitaly.

* Bad error handling. Ruby errors leak through. Although the underlying error is my user error, returning it to me as an underlying Ruby exception is really unhelpful. It basically shows that they didn't validate inputs at all. The input is trusted, so it's probably not a security issue, but it's a huge usability and developer experience issue.

* Config format is weird and deficient. Surprisingly difficult to programmatically generate. Can't generate new jobs into the current pipeline. Must generate child pipelines. See above for the load amplification issue therein.
My wife and I always say that the most dangerous show on television is "House Hunters International".

"I need a 3 bedroom apartment with a full kitchen in the village center, with at least parking for one car, I have a budget of $300/mo".

"Here's at least three options"

It also bring up a kind of discomfort between us, as tech workers, and regular people. The quantity of money we can earn, even at the lower end in the U.S., is unfathomable. It makes us want to go places and spend somewhat frivolously to support local businesses.

We were recently in Portugal. There's a ton of trendy food spots with prices near what we'd pay in HCOL U.S., but there's a ton of really local, mom 'n pop places, with absolutely incredibly prices, and they're incredibly appreciative of your business.

One place we frequented was maybe a 30 second walk from a very trendy tourist district, but served local food at very local prices. Ubers were lined up to drop people to go overpay for mediocre food in the district, literally on the street next to where we were eating. If they would have just taken a moment, they could have come and had a great relaxed meal and support some locals for almost next to nothing.
Oh okay. That's a pretty different suggestion from the comic.

Would you suggest random 128 bit numbers, then? Otherwise it's hard to see what else would serve the same role without being UUID in a trenchcoat. And having identifiers is important.
Tangent: There's a study that I can't access, but the abstract claims that during the 2020 election, chronological feeds exposed Facebook users to more "untrustworthy content", without necessarily having an effect on people's political knowledge or polarization [1]:

> We investigated the effects of Facebook’s and Instagram’s feed algorithms during the 2020 US election. We assigned a sample of consenting users to reverse-chronologically-ordered feeds instead of the default algorithms. Moving users out of algorithmic feeds substantially decreased the time they spent on the platforms and their activity. The chronological feed also affected exposure to content: The amount of political and untrustworthy content they saw increased on both platforms, the amount of content classified as uncivil or containing slur words they saw decreased on Facebook, and the amount of content from moderate friends and sources with ideologically mixed audiences they saw increased on Facebook. Despite these substantial changes in users’ on-platform experience, the chronological feed did not significantly alter levels of issue polarization, affective polarization, political knowledge, or other key attitudes during the 3-month study period.

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp9364
I can vouch. Having OpenRCT2 and being able to play this amazing game again has brought me so much joy.
Yay! It works. I used gemma2:2b and gave it below text

You have spent 190 at Fresh Mart. Current balance: 5098

and it gave below output

{\n\"amount\": 190,\n\"balance\": 5098 ,\"category\": \"Shopping\",\n\"place\":\"Fresh Mart\"\n}
Are we completely sure about that? In my mind it could just be that we don't understand it well enough yet. I mean, junk to us maybe. Nature tends to produce pretty optimal designs from my experience.
Absolutely agree. Middle and upper class people view money and wealth fundamentally differently through a security lens. Growing up poor radically alters the way you feel about money, i'm more stressed about money than i've ever been, but on paper i'm doing great. I always feel like i'm one wrong move from disaster that will throw myself and my family into a pit we won't be able to escape from.
I think you don't understand the games they play. They will cause a surgery to be delayed the day of the surgery by last minute denial tactics, losing patients precious time in things like cancer treatments. In that case, you didn't have the time to even collect the money and get a loan, if that's really your angle.

It's not performance art, just empathy.

I have a friend who they tried to kill this year. His doctor recommended going in and removing an area they thought some skin cancer had spread to. They performed the surgery, biopsy confirmed their suspicions.

After all that, the insurance company (too late thankfully) came in and said they didn't think the cancer had spread, so no need for surgery.

I hope you never have to deal with this, but if you live long enough you or a friend / family member probably will.

There's countless amounts of blood on their hands. It's not about bills coming in and getting uncovered, it's about life saving surgeries being delayed till the patient dies in hopes that they can avoid covering something they're supposed, or avoiding paying for a medication in the hopes that the patient dies before they can litigate.

I don't really care how you want to spin things, that's murder, and thankfully most folks agree with me.
Private health insurance in a country that has a robust public option is an entirely different thing because that baseline level of care means that the private providers have to offer something substantial above and beyond the baseline to justify their continued existence. People with medical needs can choose to tell them all where to stick it and still live without going in to debt.

Most insured individuals in America don't choose their health insurance provider, they just get it from their employer where they might have a choice of plans. The closest thing to an actual competitive insurance market we have is that provided by the ACA, and though that act did many good things the disappointment of the marketplace has been well documented.
> I pay my health insurance because it covers the services I need

I think that, aside from the cost, this is probably the biggest issue most people have with health insurance in the US. UHC makes a lot of money specifically in part by not covering services you need, for example by having accountants override your doctors's orders.

If it were as simple as getting the services you need in exchange for money, I don't think as many people would hate the system as much.
Didn’t they make all that money off a weird porn site that had nude women posing with cats?
How do you have agency when influenced.

You act based on information. If someone controls your information, then they control your choices. This is most obvious in cults.
>my time

With all the modern-day stigma surrounding superstition, somehow I'm still always surprising to encounter people who actually believe in fatalism.

Maybe it's the (IMO poor) technical name? It sounds like it refers to death, but it's actually about the concept of fate. I think this misdirect greatly impedes access to that part of philosophical knowledge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatalism

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Of the 10 listed, which intervention(s) do you find so burdensome?
They won’t stand a chance against duck hunters.
I can appreciate the viewpoint that the election campaign laws don’t make sense or are in some way unfair as a basis for advocating against such laws.

But Romania has laws regulating election campaigns. Is your point of view that that Romanian courts should not enforce those existing laws?
Agreed. This would be the perfect vehicle for a very broad ruling that the government can ban media in the name of national security, the precedent of which could be used in an ad hoc manner.
FireHOL is another pretty big one, around 20k lines. It's a neat firewall configuration tool with its own custom config format.

https://github.com/firehol/firehol
Can it open 180 degrees yet like a ThinkPad?
Brewer's CAP theorem of distributed data storage. you can have two out of these three:

1. Consistency

2. Availability

3. Partition tolerance
Seeing ChatGPT use `return new Promise(...` directly inside an `async function` makes me somewhat less apprehensive about the future.
Show HN: Quick and dirty speech transcription on an Intel NPU
tldr: I made a global hotkey on my laptop that will record my voice while I hold it down, transcribe the result and type out what it thinks I said.

Background:

My laptop was stolen recently and the new one I got to replace it has an Intel NPU [0] in it. The promise of the NPU is running small machine learning models efficiently on mobile hardware. I thought a good application of this would be using whisper to transcribe speech into text. There’s not really much [1] out there on Linux that can do this right now which is kind of a bummer because it’s a big accessibility thing to be able to type with your voice. I use my Sway configuration [2] to map the right control key to run a wrapper program [3] and then the release of the right control key to send a SIGINT to that program. The wrapper catches the SIGINT, ends transcription, and types the transcribed text into the focused application with the `enigo` crate.

Repo link: https://github.com/ellenhp/whisper-npu-server

This is not one of my high polish projects, but I did want to throw it out there into the world, especially because the OpenVINO project doesn't have any containerized NPU examples, even for LLMs.

[0] https://intel.github.io/intel-npu-acceleration-library/npu.h...

[1] I found this, and based some of my code on it: https://github.com/oddlama/whisper-overlay

[2] See end of post for example.

[3] https://github.com/ellenhp/whisper-transcription-wayland/

Sample Sway config:

bindsym --no-repeat Control_R exec "whisper-transcription"

bindsym --release Control_R exec killall -2 whisper-transcription
facebook was also used to do that in the US back in 2016, but it did not get banned from any western country as a result
Running Doom in the iOS Photos App
Oh, is that what I said? Or is that what you wish I said because you had a specious response to it pre-cooked? Does your response directly address anything I said? Are you sure you're responding to me and not some conceptual 'other side' that has predictable views that perfectly yin-yang curve around 'your side' because falling back into groupthink is a lot easier than having to actually read and think about what other people say, and be accountable for saying things that are easily provably completely incorrect? Are you sure that's not what's happening here?
It seems ollama only supports JSON Schema.

Interestingly, JSON Schema has much less of this problem than say CSV - when the model is forced to produce `{"first_key":` it will generally understand it's supposed to continue in JSON. It still helps to tell it the schema though, especially due to weird tokenization issues you can get otherwise.
100%.

The given situation is solvable only by the humans involved. They want different things. Either one of them has authority over the other, or they talk it over.
The underscore trick is what I used to revive HgInit (now lives at hginit.github.io). But it wasn’t a lot of pages, so it wasn’t scripted.
Savings and savings accounts are being conflated here.

One can have a small amount a savings account with plenty withdraw-able assets in Mutual Funds etc to fall back on
Spec script loosely based on Sam Altman's firing sold for over 1M
So if you had a chance to go back in time to 1929, you'd leave Hitler alive?
They are saying he was unknown, not that he was unpopular in the polls.

In both elections Trump running by was the aberration. His wins have been a function of the electoral college in action.
In Norway, I understand that electric ranges are commonly cabled up with 3-phase wire that's about the size of a not-special extension cord here in the States. They accomplish this by using 400v.

Meanwhile, also here in the States: The wiring for my very normal (240v) electric range is the size of a baby's arm and might be even stiffer. (That last claim may be a bit hyperbolic: I've bent at least my share of 6/3 wire, but I don't think I've ever bent a baby's arm.)
All free countries control and censor broadcast media, but most don't do it for unicast communication.
> If want a user to schedule a reoccurring meeting at 8am on the first Thursday of every month, you can also keep a set of timestamps as milliseconds since the epoch

No, you can't really, especially if the recurring meetings go on more than a few years into the future. If the time zone rules themselves change (e.g. if the user's country abolishes or introduces DST), then the timestamps you stored will become wrong in light of the change.
Those older ones were just normal step-down transformers. In Europe that would often be three-phase, in the US it would normally be two-phase (J-1772 is only two-phase compatible). In that world, the "charger" (EVSE) was just a smart relay which would tell the car how much power the circuit would handle, but the actual charger was a thing in the car. That's commonly called Level 2 charging.

What is commonly talked about here are DC fast chargers, where the actual "charger" is an AC to DC cabinet on-site. Those chargers could be connected to one or many dispensers. The dispensers are the things with the cables that plug into the car, handle payment negotiation, and relay battery state to the charger in the cabinet. You could have multiple dispensers to chargers in this setup.

The technical English parlance here would be EVSE for the Level 2 chargers (the smart relay things), and dispensers for the pedestals with the cables for DC fast chargers (DCFCs).
Masons deliberately don't respond to these sorts of things but few things tick me off quite as much as proud, confidently administered ignorance.
Thanks for the detailed reply, you have good points. I have a different conclusion, but I respect yours.
If anyone needs a more powerful constrain outputs, llama.cpp support gbnf:

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/grammars/...
Most people don't decide about their own medical "needs." They trust doctors, who are by and large expert and professional, yet frequently discredited by insurance companies.

Insurance companies have too much power in this dynamic, and there should be limits to what they can deny once doctors deem it needed.
It’s available natively on MacOS? I guess you using BSD.
> policymakers in the US start working on banning TikTok or forcing divestment

"Policymakers" is a very vague term. The accurate term here is right-wing politicians. They didn't have enough support to push through their TikTok ban, and repeated efforts failed.

> It's hard to suss out cause and effect in any case

It's not difficult in this case. Many American politicians are on the record about why they voted to ban TikTok. Unlike Facebook and other platforms, TikTok did not suppress pro-Palestinian views. That's why it's banned.
Computer science opens the door to a wide range of work. The lower end of that range is indeed insecure and doesn't pay very well. However, get into the right industry, and you can match a lawyer for income -- without all the hastle and hurdles that junior lawyers have to go through. We're talking easily the upper 4% of income as a junior, eventually going up to 2% or 1% as you gain seniority.

The reason is, there are some skills which are highly in demand, and few people are strong in those skills. In particular, I am thinking of HPC engineering and cloud computing infrastructure engineering. Companies and institutions own large server fleets, we're talking hundreds or thousands of servers. They want whatever is running on those fleets to have high performance, security, and zero downtime.

This kind of work requires strong Linux systems administration and programming skills, an understanding of enterprise networking and storage technologies, confidence with at least one orchestration stack such as OpenStack or Kubernetes, and strong CI/CD and IaC skills (look up GitOps.) As a junior, you don't need to tick all these boxes, but people should be able to see that you're able to learn whatever you're missing.

These skills don't usually come directly from a computer science degree. However, a computer science degree is the primary way to get your foot in the door with building those skills. If you want a junior job in cloud computing and are cold-calling because you don't know anyone yet, then it will help if you have good marks in a computer science degree (although it's possible to prove your chops in other ways, like having a history of strong contributions to open source.)

Later, after you build some experience, and you prove that you can keep learning, you get the job done, and you can get along with people, you'll eventually have recruiters chasing after you, and companies willing to listen to whatever income you pitch to them.
Sounds like time well-spent (with all the other activities as well).
the cognitive dissonance of the folks in the insurance industry is what resulted in that execution a few days ago. stop deluding yourself.
You're overthinking it. Fatalism has nothing to do with it.

I suppose "To die at my time" means to stop worrying about everything that can potentially harm you, enjoy life, and die whenever your body feels like it. I'm not going to stop eating sugar to save a theoretical year or two, and I'm not going to buy all kinds of air purifiers to save a few theoretical minutes of life or whatever the article says.

What difference does it make if I die at 70 or at 90? Why search so much to prolong life? The value of my life is not measured by its length.