skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
General functions are useful.

It is not a me problem, which is why Rust has fixed this. You are arguing that functions which mutate parameters generally are not useful, which isn't true. You have implied that I have a lack of knowledge of data structures, my code wouldn't pass code review. Reflect: You are proposing it is preferable to have a simple function accept a whole data structure when it may only act on one or more of its fields, and may be used in other places. That is a semantic misdirection, and provincialization.
IOW Minsky's frames and scripts, later fleshed out by Roger Schank, but in an fMRI context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_(artificial_intelligence...

Before the recent LLM distraction, I thought that (frames, scripts, et al; not fMRI) was the one true path.
True, a suitcase could be quickly dispatched but you could hide it very very well on something like a car.
Thank you for this. I can't wait to try this, especially on GLiNER tasks.
>It's not all automation

Almost none of it is automation. McDonalds invested in a fully automated fry machine but they basically don't get deployed because thanks to COVID "labor shortages", they all figured out a much better strategy:

Just have fewer employees and make them do more work. It doesn't matter how much people bitch about wait times and product quality on twitter, they still buy. Americans love to bitch about things on the internet, but they still wait in the drive through line for tens of minutes for "fast food" that is demonstrably worse than it was five years ago.

Americans have comprehensively demonstrated that they are unwilling or unable to just, not fucking buy stuff. Despite all the rhetoric about the economy suffering before the election, even here on HN (which coincidentally disappeared the day after the election, how about that...) we are seeing record breaking holiday consumer spending. It's fucking insane how willing Americans are to just throw money at companies that are outright hostile to them. I cannot fathom the unwillingness to not buy stuff that the average American has.

Quality, service, value, all of it will continue to degrade until US consumers finally figure out that you have an OPTION to, you know, not buy worthless trash. When PepsiCo basically doubled their prices in the past couple years, for products that are literally colored water and automatically cooked potato chips, which had near zero increase in cost of inputs, PepsiCo called it "inflation". In France, the news ran articles about clear price gouging by PepsiCo. In the US, Americans blamed it on Biden, somehow, including Americans who literally grow and sell the potatoes PepsiCo buys and therefore KNOW that PepsiCo did not pay more for those inputs, and KNOW that Biden has zero input on the prices anyone in the chain charge. It's insane to me how unwilling my fellow countrymen are to just consider they might be taken advantage of by business.
Traffic signals are one of the areas where human drivers add the most delay. I've definitely been in situations where each car takes 3 additional seconds to notice that a light has changed, and cars continue to run the light (e.g. making left turns) long after it has changed. I'm too lazy to run the simulation (https://traffic-simulation.de/intersection.html), but I'm guessing throughput is much better when every driver is obey the rules and paying total perfect attention.
As someone arguing against vegetarians in the past, I get the point, but I actually made the switch recently, not because of ethics, but simply because of cost and laziness.

It's a silly story: I recently wrote a program to create my diet from the week based on local grocery store nutrition labels and prices for a couple hundred items, subject to constraints for calories, macronutrients (supporting my goals in the gym) and micronutrients (hit all RDIs for vitamins and minerals plus some speculative stuff). Meat is never included in the generated output because it's too expensive relative to what it offers from a nutrient perspective. All of my daily needs can be met for cheap and with minimal prep on a diet consisting basically of rice, beans, eggs, soy milk, oat milk, pea protein, Brussel sprouts, carrots, and apple juice, which works out to <$15/day for ~3000 calories; <$10/day if I remove some personalized constraints which adds lentils and substitutes cow milk in place of plant milks. Prior to my program, I was spending $20+/day buying groceries mindlessly or on takeout.

I've basically become a vegetarian out of sheer frugality and laziness (I don't like cooking and I don't like solving a puzzle to hit my macros each day). I imagine many people could be convinced to be weekday vegetarians from this angle, but it did take me several months to work through nutrition science books/videos to arrive at this point. (Shout out RP Strength.)

The other issue with my diet is that it is not optimized for taste or variety. I don't mind this (condiments go a long way and I'm pretty focused on my fitness goals), but I think I'm an outlier in this respect.

Anyway, all this to say I see an economic angle for hope, except that all messaging to the public on nutrition science is awful and confusing which leads to consumption decisions not based in any logical framework, and I doubt that behavior will change anytime soon unless we go through another economic shock.
I guess the next release is going to be postmodern bert.
Yeah but someone can't pick up my car and walk away with it on their back, can they now, genius?
I like him a lot. He's kind of doing a Dave Barry thing, right?
Google says:

"While elements of the scientific method existed in ancient times, the modern scientific method is generally attributed to Sir Francis Bacon who outlined it in his 1620 treatise "Novum Organum," placing the invention of the scientific method during the early 17th century during the Scientific Revolution;"

which sounds about right.

It was much more prevalent in free market countries. Authoritarian economies tend to be too rigid to experiment and develop new things.
I get that. My comment has nothing to do with people's pride in their work. I was commenting that there's not enough user demand for better preforming software because users don't seem to mind the software hellscape we currently live in.
The product you're referring to is called "AirPort Time Capsule" and time capsule can't be copyrighted.
My personal first experience with this was Riot.js. Ultimately, I still enjoyed using it, but writing large applications in micro frameworks is hard: it feels like either the micro framework grows substantially and starts to lose its original appeal, or your application grows framework-like limbs and suddenly the appeal of using a micro-framework is somewhat diminished.

I would guess the only real way out is to always carefully constrain your scope and keep your application as simple as possible. Easier said than done...
Same, tabbyML+llammacpp running StarCoder3B runs great, excellent completions for go, terraform, shell, nix
Etalumis: Bringing Probabilistic Programming to Scientific Simulators at Scale
I actually really love this, and have been wanting something like this for a while. Excited to give it a try.
We also say "youse" in Australia (or at least my region of Australia, it's definitely informal though)

Since moving overseas and studying other languages (Slavic and Baltic languages) I think it's definitely something needed in English. I think I still use youse, I never note it. It's just something that's so naturally useful it wouldn't occur to me that I'm saying something weird or forced.
GAAP requires you to accrue your batteries deposited in landfill, so back to 0.1 per year (/s if not obvious)
Cars are impractical to carry by hand, while a lot of expensive computer / photo / audio gear can easily be carried in a tote bag.
So, by analogy that most english speakers will understand:

Use "thou" where one would use "I" if discussing onesself. Use "thee" where one would use "me".
If you buy IKEA then you can’t. But if you buy from independent specialists then you’ll often find their ranges will be available for decades.

But then you’re paying a minimum £120 for a set of cutlery rather than £12.

However the way I look at it is that good cutlery lasts a lifetime.
On the contrary, it is clear to me they definitely ARE modeling the world, either directly or indirectly. I think basically everyone knows this, that is not the problem, to me.

What I'm asking is whether we really have enough evidence to say the models are "alignment faking." And, my position to the replies above is that I think we do not have evidence that is strong enough to suggest this is true.
I'm making perfectly reasonable arguments; you're the one who's talking nonsense. If there's something you think I have yet to prove why don't you say what it is instead of just calling my arguments weak without offering any counter?

>I.e. you’re going to need a better rubric.

I see nothing wrong with the rubric I gave. It's the one the constitution set up, and therefore 100% correct from a legal perspective. Past courts having different opinions from the current one is irrelevant to that.

> The agency's own personal interpretation" is another nonsense phrase

No, it means exactly what is says. The agency has its own interpretation which has and ought to have no more legal weight than a random person's. If it's just the word "personal" you're objecting to, that's obviously a figure of speech that doesn't alter the substance of my argument.

An agency is an agency, not a court. They have exactly zero constitutionally granted authority to interpret law. Why in your view should their opinion on the law have any more weight than yours or mine, or than any other person's personal interpretation? Or more importantly, more weight than the courts; the institution created for the very purpose of interpreting the law? Because it seems very obvious to me that it shouldn't. Especially in the context of a lawsuit to which the agency is one of the parties.
Advice for 'Highly Targeted' Individuals: Don't Use a VPN
On the cheaper side, Lansky makes a good jig and set of stones that's good for setting angles, and getting razor edges if you already have the angle set. [1] Worksharp makes a similar kit that's more stationary, with several versions at different costs [2]

For a little more, and a little more freehand style, you can try Spyderco's Sharpmaker [3]. My dad has one of these, and growing up he would sharpen kitchen and pocket knives to a razor edge very quickly with it.

I personally freehand sharpen my knives using Shapton stones [4]. I have the Kurumaku at 320, 1000, 2000, 5000, and 8000 grits, although the higher grits don't get used often; usually the 1000 grit alone is enough for getting a razor edge fairly quickly. I got mine from Amazon, but you can find them various places for $30-50 each.

[1] https://www.lansky.com/deluxe-5-stone-system.html
[2] https://www.worksharptools.com/products/precision-adjust-kni...
[3] https://www.spyderco.com/catalog/details.php?product=77
[4] https://shapton.co.jp/en/#products
Tabby is great! Though they broke the vim plugin going for lsp support, but older version still works fine.
How is Quart not near the top of the list?

Reflex looks pretty interesting, does anyone have any experience with it or similar for large complex apps?

It seems really nice as a way to avoid having multiple languages in a project, since static analysis is bad at crossing language boundaries, but I'd imagine you might run into limitations.
There's a similar story about Soviet hard drives.

See, the early hard drives used in Soviet computers required a lot of manual maintenance, which included cleaning the heads with ethanol. They also topped out at ~5Mb.

In late 80s these were gradually replaced with imported Western hardware that offered more storage for less. In some places, the engineers in charge of servicing those things got creative and used such upgrades as an excuse to up their ethanol quota. After all, if a 5Mb HDD needs N ml of ethanol to service daily, it stands to reason that a 20Mb HDD needs N*4, right?
Nothing a heart surgeon does is "elective". Nearly nothing "elective" is ever covered at all by insurance.
What's with web scraping tools rebranding as "web scraping for AI"? It has nothing to do with AI at all.
what the artist created was technology that automates traders, and calling it mere art or commentary is pulling the punch on the challenge this poses to actual traders. consider reading more literature and even writing for edited publications before commenting on idiom usage again.
I suggest you have a look at the video I posted above. I'm sure plenty slaughterhouses does a good job at mixing CO2 with something else. We only need to regulate the maximal CO2 concentration, the prices won't move neither the bacon availability but there will be much much less suffering

https://edepot.wur.nl/546026

> The principle of gas stunning or Controlled Atmosphere Stunning (CAS) is that animals are exposed to a high concentration of CO2, CO2 mixed with inert gases, or inert gases only

> Carbon dioxide especially at high concentrations (above 40%) is pungent and painful to inhale and leads to a highly aversive response involving very loud and high-pitched vocalisations and vigorous attempts to escape from the gondola and the exposure to the gas, including scratching other pigs vigorously with the claws of the front legs and trampling of pigs that have become recumbent. Furthermore, during the induction phase animals will show increased breathing and gasping associated with signs of breathlessness (“air hunger”). Induction of unconsciousness with CO2 stunning does not immediately induce unconsciousness and the process is associated with fear, pain and respiratory distress (Verhoeven et al., 2016; Beausoleil and Mellor, 2015), lasting from the start of exposure to CO2 until loss of consciousness
Same with 'Frosts of Mora' from Sweden. Cheap, and incredibly sharp when new. 100 of those, or a hipster damascas blade???
Why is this automatically a bad thing?
On a related note, some languages distinguish between "we including you" and "we excluding you". I wonder why it's not a thing in European languages. Seems like a pretty important distinction in certain cases :)
I wonder with customizations like in OP you could bypass this. For example, if the alert comes after 20 minutes of being near an air tag - if the power to the circuit was automatically cut for 1 minute every 15 minutes, would the alert still activate?
Well, it is ambiguous enough of a statement that it could be both. Maybe rolled threads and CNC lathe finish on the head... to make it look nice? Rolled threads are stronger anyway. Zooming in, it does look like there's turning marks on the head of the screws.
> Do you honestly think retailers are throwing away 50% of their returned stock?

For lots of categories of goods like apparel, yes. Its far cheaper for them to trash the item than spend all that money on the reverse logistics of actually analyzing the item. Other categories are probably more like 20-30%.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1yqcagavfY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG8idKaX9KI

If you're thinking the vast majority of your returns are getting restocked you're woefully uninformed.
Yeah, a fun side project would be republishing the advert information somewhere devs could set up alerts
Nature's gonna nature.

The fallacious line of thinking that one can fully isolate an outdoor planting is the more interesting issue this touches on, a skeptical take is that this fallacy continues to exist in regulation only for its utility of abuse by large companies seeking to profit from the commercialization of sterile GM crops.

I'm sure the upper echelon of commercial weed growers typically have a far higher education in landscape ecology than the captured regulators.
You shouldn't. This is what hardware people always say, and then when the result is an unmaintainable mess, they want software people to bail them out.
> Why should devs have to implement a separate API for 4+ different OSes?

Because they don’t want to release software that targets a lowest common denominator. If you don’t care about this stuff, just use Electron or some other library that lets you move fast and make mediocre software that feels foreign on every OS.

Each operating system is different in lots of different ways and if you want to make the best app on each platform, you embrace that. For example, many apps have some number of settings. On Windows you will probably put those in a Preferences or Settings dialog in the app. On iOS, some of those belong in the settings panel. Great apps aren’t going to pave over these differences.

Same goes for accessibility APIs. There’s all kinds of assistive devices (both hardware and software) already in widespread use. They have different expectations on every platform. Follow the conventions laid out by each platform maker and your software should just work. It’s the same as handling keyboard and mouse support. Each OS has different APIs.

Does that mean people who write cross-platform libraries have to do more work? Well yes it does, but then creating an abstraction over each platform is what they set out to do in the first place. It’s an important part of the job.
Starcoder3B works great in my second hand rtx2080. Can’t run 7B, just a hair too little Ram, but still great completions
There exists a small percentage of men who will go absolutely savage on somebody for stealing from them, and the existence of those people is probably a bigger crime deterrent than the police.

So I say, shine on you crazy air tag tracking vigilante diamonds.
that said, there's not really a lot here, so I'm not sure what anyone would take issue with
Basically I described how any content-addressable storage system works (including git), with the complication that our content is spread across various archive files, MPQ here but just as applicable to tarballs or anything else.

The difference between my suggestion and how BTRFS dedupes is that the FS does it on a block basis, which might work better for some kinds of files, but for game assets I think doing it on a file basis is good enough if not better.
Depends on level of commitment and results you need.

To do it once and for all buy belt sharpener - Work Sharp with Blade Grinder Attachment being probably the best price vs quality vs functionality.

For quality sharpening that requires a bit of time buy rolling knife sharpener.

For quality sharpening which is fast and anyone can do buy electrical ChefMate with two slots and follow the instructions.

PS Do not bother with anything that requires clamping the knife, etc. You’ll use it once - it’s just too much hustle to setup and adjust these systems. You spend most of the time unpacking, bolting it together and then readjusting the knife instead of sharpening.

This is why rolling sharpeners work really well - fast magnetic attachment, angles are pre-set.
It's nothing but a dream for now, but in a distant future, self-driving cars wouldn't need to obey any human traffic controls because they could seamlessly weave through intersecting traffic.
We always predict as well we can - that's just how the brain works. Even without narration we'll be subconsciously comparing what we're seeing to past experiences and using those experiences to predict what comes next at various levels of abstraction.

I highly doubt we have any intrinsic bias towards perceiving things as following a story template, since our DNA has been shaped by nature, not stories. The major bias we do have, encoded in the way that our brain works, is just that nature is largely predictable on various scales - next time will be the same as last time - and this bias is what causes us to predict and perceive/segment current experience based on past experience.
Personally I think not a lot. Before JDK 8 maybe, but since then Java has steadily been improving in every direction.

There was a certain phase in my career where it seemed everybody I was working for or with had attempted to do parallel calculations in Scala with actors and found they were only using 2 of the 8 CPUS they had and that they still had race conditions. Your choice was to waste two days trying to make it work in Scala or to rewrite it with ExecutorService and have it done in 20 minutes.
I've been using React templating lately, then you get a lot of cool features like Tailwind and can even use React for your email templates:

https://react.email/docs/introduction

It helps me ship faster when I use the same stack everywhere. I even ported my background task library to TypeScript so to keep the stack the same:

https://github.com/wakatime/wakaq-ts
The amount of things you leave in your car varies strong by local. In many parts of the country you can leave the car unlocked w/ laptop inside no problem.
Samsung make trackers? Are you referring to tile?
Notice the wording - "I decided not to give any more money to Apple years ago". So by his criteria, he's okay.
Companies like Walgreens and Duane Reade have been battling shrinkage for a long time. So either someone is blowing up the numbers internally, making the problem bigger than it actually is, leading retailers no choice but to undertake draconian security measures, or the numbers are accurate and retailers are responding to a legitimate threat that is being downplayed. Which is it?
I think you're missing the point about needing to work in order to survive.
Is that really the case? So far all the examples I've seen were closer to "change X caused people to shift to another type of job, or to a new area opened up by X". Very recently some creative work has been impacted by LLMs, but apart from that, are there real stats on the intellectual work being taken over?
For what it's worth, I've used Botan in a personal project where I needed a few hashing algorithms to verify file integrity (SHA-1, SHA-256, even MD5), and also used Botan's base 64 decoder in the same project.

I found its modern "style" pleasant to write code for, and easy to integrate with good docs. That said, I did notice the large number of algorithms as others have pointed out, and I'm not sure I'd use it for more serious purposes when libsodium is well-established. It certainly wouldn't be an obvious choice.

But to quickly add support for common hash algorithms in a small project, I thought it was a good option and enjoyed its API design and simplicity.
His one about threat models[1] was hilarious and also scarily prescient. Specifically

> If the Mossad wants your data, they’re going to use a drone to replace your cellphone with a piece of uranium that’s shaped like a cellphone, and when you die of tumors filled with tumors, they’re going to hold a press conference and say “It wasn’t us” as they wear t-shirts that say “IT WAS DEFINITELY US,” and then they’re going to buy all of your stuff at your estate sale so that they can directly look at the photos of your vacation instead of reading your insipid emails about them.

Maybe not the "wants your data" part, but the whole pagers-are-actually-bombs thing.

[1]This World of Ours, pdf: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf
Sorry, that's a bit of a wall of text. I think the most salient thing to the topic I can pick out, without creating a corresponding wall of my own, is this:

> there was a time when I didn't agree with a hire and was proven horrifically wrong very soon after

Based on what? Did they turn out to be unproductive, but in a good way? What was that way?
Fuzix works as well...
https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberrypipico/comments/15si3ow/fu...
Genius Annotation for every page on the web
I don't think it works like that, anyway. The alert is not generated by the airtag, it is generated by the phone. And the phone knows what is around it because it scans for beacons on a periodic basis.