skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would rather stay unemployed than be forced to work with other people like that
Even if it is a skateboard, it is still heavier than a non-electric skateboard. As GP said, electric vehicles are very heavy. My electric bike weighs considerably more than non-electric bikes, our electric scooters weigh more than kick scooters, and parent is being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian.
I can't see agreement on intentions in writing, there will be many intentions.

What I would like to see is what harm it is supposed to prevent.
It's the doublethink of someone who's trying to assert an argument for reasons under than actually understanding the technical question, or caring about the technical answer; and sees no problem in taking two different rhetorical paths to get that predetermined conclusion, even if they're mutually contradictory.

(It's also like the legal concept of "pleading in the alternative" (?): "my client never borrowed that car; and it was already damaged when he received it; and he returned it in perfect condition". Permissible for defense lawyers—utterly discrediting for journalists).
I was curious about MPQ format and found this tool: https://github.com/eagleflo/mpyq

Maybe you can use it to decompress some files and assess how much disk space you can save using deduplication at filesystem level.

If it's worth the effort (1 mean, going from 1TiB to 100-200 Gib) I would consider coding the reassembly part. It can be done by a "script" fist, then can be "promoted" to a FUSE filesystem if needed.
To be fair on this one, most of the times I complain people haven't got to the end of some short story before asking. This is an enormous and dense resource. Great, but I started scrolling and got surprised.
I don't think they really care, or feel that they have to care. The way that I've seen it work is they'll make rare exceptions for individuals they absolutely can't lose or wan't to hire but that's it and the exceptions truly are rare.
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The best way to get better at tough conversation (that I run away from) is to practice. I created this to help myself by simulating tough scenarios using AI.

With Tough Tongue AI, you can stumble, stammer, and say the weirdest stuff—then try again until you nail it. No judgment, no sweaty palms, and definitely no awkward pauses...okay, maybe a few, the AI is still far from perfect, but it’s all part of the fun!

It has been helpful and given me confidence to have those conversations I've been avoiding! Hope it's of help to you as well :)
I am sure you yourself can think of some specific examples, where companies earn money without providing value.

Or are you suggesting, that every single cent that every single company earns, comes from something that actually provides value to someone (excluding shareholders)?
Which means they'll just ask for passwords, which users will happily input since they know they have a password for the service.
The crazy thing is that younger generations think that's actually how in-office work looks like (because they haven't experienced anything else): You come in, have teams calls all day with people distributed all over the world, get a coffee, leave office. I swear to you, it wasn't like that a decade or two ago.
I have been involved with something similar in the past. But I didn't enjoy it after some time. It was end to end testing with AI agent.

I am curious to know your motivation behind making this?

You wanna integrate this into a product? or was it a try to optimize on Claude's cost?
To be fair, the name "click to cancel" does not, in fact, imply that cancellation must be as easy as signup in cases where signup is not a click away. A name that would better imply that would be something like "symmetric cancellation", or "cancellation parity". However, that would be less catchy to the public than "click to cancel".
> I've never heard anyone say the early church wrestled with polytheism.

See:

> Marcion preached that the benevolent God of the Gospel who sent Jesus Christ into the world as the savior was the true Supreme Being, different and opposed to the malevolent Demiurge or creator god, identified with the Hebrew God of the Old Testament.[2][3][5]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcionism
>The fact that those number come from a citation doesn't make them true

it does make them the citated paper problem, though.

the guesstimates are explained as guestimates, and used as illustration for possible upper limits.
There is no mystery, except for how millions of people think blurry videos of regular passenger aircraft, radio towers in fog, and dudes flying DJI phantoms at night are mysterious.

And the media is stoking the flames of this hype train as fast and hard as they can for those sweet sweet clicks.
>gradually moving in that direction

Lead paint on children's toys and asbestos in the walls suggest there has never been a culture of making sure it is safe before putting it in production even in the physical world.
> Now the media is telling us we should stop using a term they popularized, by continuing to use the term in their headlines.

The media is conveying Interpol’s recommendation, not their own.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filioque - to this day the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church disagree on whether the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father, or from the Father and the Son.
I can’t believe this move.

For years, we’ve championed ScyllaDB as a truly open source alternative, investing time, trust, and effort into it.

Now they’re pulling the rug out from under us, merging everything into a source-available enterprise product and leaving OSS behind for good.

This feels like a betrayal, a cash grab, and a slap in the face to the community that helped them get where they are today. How can we trust them going forward?
Yeah Big tech is running out of ways to grow profits YoY. So the next solution is the consulting approach of just laying people off. Eventually it will catch up to them and they will become the next IBM/Boeing/etc. where people ask what happened to these companies they used to be great.

Bezos said in an all hands one time amazon would go out of business in 50-60 years and that is happens to every company eventually. I think you get too big and too bureaucratic where everyone is just looking out for themselves because you are more worried about getting laid off or fired than you are building great products.
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> Maybe if they just no longer used it, the problem would self-correct

But then they would lose the opportunity to shame people for a mistake they made, and this is the MO of the media: gaslighting people into thinking that normal folks are always spreading incorrect information while the media is always on the right side.
Nice, the most jarring difference to me is when you scroll up in Photos or Settings, the topmost area isn’t blurred.
This feels like a beautiful work of art! Great job, OP!
I wonder if some people with dissociative identity disorder, or who at least identify as plural, experience overlapping simultaneous trains of thought
More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of PTSD
> Take the number of distinct possible configurations a system

Easy for an isolated system. Human body is 6000 billion cells, each of them has many possible configurations, most of them share and process informations. I respectfully doubt there’s much to do with bits outside of a tiny bit if flesh in a petri dish.
It's super cool to see the digital unraveling of scrolls become more accessible. It's also amazing that we can still read the text of something that is nearly 2000 years old.

One thing I don't understand is the picture of the scroll though. I don't see how they were able to figure out the letters? They don't look like an alphabet to me
In a taxonomy of religious belief the communion of saints is much closer to ancestor veneration than it is polytheism. If you're going to see anything in christianity as potentially polytheistic it's the triune god come on.
Easily Gimp and Krita or painting (you can buy the latter on steam, if you want to support open source).

Photoshop is a round and mature product, but since I don't do any print, I can do everything with Gimp (perhaps you can do print too, no experience here).

Creative cloud or however it is called today is a non-starter for me. Also, I can integrate Gimp in image pipelines more easily. I also use Blender for modelling.

Maybe I am not entirely up to date, but today you can use these tools to make things that were just not possible a few years ago. In a quality that is competitive with high quality media products.

For me it is a hobby and I get the advantages in a professional environment to use the same tools that fit long and complicated pipelines. But if you just want to create high quality art, the tooling is readily available.
I think there is a relatively simple explanation.Overall, it appears you have time to breathe. It doesn't look like you are burdened by as much existential fear about survival, it seems that you get medical care whether you're employed or not, you don't have to worry about medical event driving your to bankruptcy and ruining your life, and most of all, you have much better food especially coffee than we do. American cappuccinos suck. Cappuccinos I've gotten from coffee stand in the middle of the park in Finland were orders of magnitude better.

I know it's not all unicorn farts and sprinkles. You still have right-wing civilization shredders in your political system. You have a boatload of bureaucracy, and it appears to be more difficult for a small business organically to a medium-sized business.
The rest of the day, you listen to small talk

The office where I work we have a whole section of one floor that is strictly no talking and phones must be on mute. If you want silence you can sit there. I cannot imagine that we are the only company that has come up with this idea.

That being said, I still work from home when I feel like it.
Nvidia $249 AI development board promises 67 TOPS at half price of 40 TOPS model
Some of those interactable visualizations on scale and seeing the sun/moon/earth rotate at the same time is the best anywhere.
> Who cares what any of us imagines anyone else thinks?

Since you're responding and we're having a conversation about each other's opinions, I'd say it actually is relevant.
The Dark Web is more like Raymond 'Red' Reddington. Socials is for the local college weed dealer.
I’m so tired of the schadcn radix aesthetic, every website looks like the same with black buttons and controls.
> delve

Nice try, ChatGPT!
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head meet sand lol

source: been coding for 15+ years and using LLMs for past year.
"Compression" here is nontechnical, and I was using it by analogy as an aid to intuition. I didn't want to throw out the E word (entropy) unnecessarily.
I put OpenWrt on my WiFi routers when I can (Linksys Velops, ugh). TP-Link routers usually have a very easy OpenWrt install, and seem to work well afterwards. Are the flaws/problems this article hints at in hardware or software?
Bits are a unit of measurement we use in relation to computers. Humans are not computers. Do not use bits to measure anything in relation to humans. Stop thinking of humans as computers. It's dehumanizing, unhealthy, and a very narrow way to think of people. Using a computer model for humans is useless at best and misleading at worst.
at least the calculator should work...
As Mary asked Jesus to perform the miracle at the wedding at Cana, for the said of her friend, we too are called to pray to ask Mary to intercede for us for our intentions.
I needed to normalise a big list of dates recently. I thought maybe GPT could help. It spat out a list of normalised dates which, after a bit of careful reading, were about 95% right.

How can you trust a tool that's right 95% of the time? In the end I wrote a script which handled edge cases explicitly. That took a little bit longer, but the output is deterministic. It took less time than manually cross referencing the output and input would have.

I tried asking GPT to write the conversion script instead, but the script it generated just didn't deal with the edge cases. After a few rounds of increasingly specific directions which didn't seem to be helping, I gave up.

I've been using copilot for development work. It has some magic moments, and it can be great for boilerplate. But then it introduces subtle bugs which are really hard to catch in review, or suggests completely incorrect function signatures and I wonder if it's adding very much at all.

The biggest problem with these tools is that they turn a fun problem solving exercise into an incredibly tedious reviewing exercise. I'd much rather do it myself and understand it fully than have to review the unreliable output of an LLM. I find it much simpler to be correct than to find flaws in other peoples work.

Am I missing something?
My director pushes production guys really hard. They sometimes close an eye and ship a bit faulty product. No screws on heatspreader or wrong thermal pad. And here you go, these things do not last long. But in the books revenue was made in that year. Repairs will come later as separate expense.
So I'm confused--are you saying that Israel thinks Messianic Jews are not Jews because they abandoned their faith or something like that, OR are you saying that Israel doesn't let Messianic Jews to be citizens because sometimes non-Jews convert to become Messianic Jews?
Yes, we have spoken to a lawyer and it is indeed the case. It still costs money, and we are not sure how to proceed yet, outside of removing links to the domain.
"Clever" code is an anti-feature.

Writing code is already hard enough as-is due to the complexity imposed by business requirements. On top of that, reading and debugging code is significantly harder than writing it. It is extremely easy to end up with an incredibly clever codebase, which in practice is just a completely unmaintainable mountain of technical debt.

Take for example something like the Fast Inverse Square Root algorithm [0]. It is incredibly clever, but if you randomly come across it most developers won't be able to easily understand how it works. The well-known variant uses undefined behavior, gives a suboptimal result, and doesn't have any meaningful comments. In other words: it cannot be maintained. Having one or two of those in places where they are absolutely necessary isn't a too bad, but imagine having to deal with bugs in a codebase where you come across stuff like this every single day.

Writing clever code is easy. It is far harder and way more important part to write simple code.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
"However, for those who wish to use Brisk in proprietary or closed-source applications, a commercial license is also available."

Unfortunately there is no public information on the pricing.
It does have the blur thing when you slide over the widget screen.
I don't really understand the snarky tone of this article. Regardless of however INTERPOL is falling short on curbing this scam, it seems pretty uncontroversial that "pig butchering" is insulting to the victims.

I'm not sure how successful this will be since the existing term is pretty snappy and evocative, if a bit distasteful.
A similar effect, when animated with a function like `color = (y == (x ^ t))` for varying values of t, is called “munching squares.”

It was originally written for the PDP-1 in the early sixties. I’ve seen it demonstrated on the Computer History Museum’s PDP-1. I always wondered how the characteristic “XOR texture” could be produced if the PDP-1’s display can only plot points and does not use a bitmapped framebuffer.

Turns out it takes advantage of the long persistence of the screen’s phosphor, and the brightness of each point decreases over time.

The CHM has a video of it running online, but it does not capture the effect of the phosphor persistence: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10266415...

Edit: here’s a video of it running in MAME that somewhat shows how phosphor persistence creates the XOR texture: https://youtu.be/AxJzUiaQ7xM?si=X9K47c4WyD6AisUp
>That's why it's hard to judge past personalities with our modern standards

This couldn't be more naive, you understand that these are not some default cultural norm of the time, shared by all, and we today are simply more empathetic and enlightened than them with each passing decade? These attitudes are a direct reflection of the political sphere and centers of power in which those originating these ideas are embedded within.

People knew racism and colonialism was wrong during WW2. They knew it long before then.

You can take any time and place in history, and if you look you will find someone opposed to colonialism, exploitation, and prejudice, for as long as those concepts have existed. Just maybe not in the military leadership, or political class, since their positions in society constrain the range of beliefs they would've held in order to enter such positions in the first place.
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There is a lot of snark here. My non-cynical take is that they are aping the practices of top AI labs. OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and many other AI startup darlings have a culture of in-office work. People in non-hub offices are encouraged to travel a lot.

Yes, it will take a lot more than RTO to create an innovative culture like paying more for one, but one can reasonably hypothesize that working physically together is a necessary but not sufficient condition.
Agreed on TP-Link being a good choice for OpenWRT hardware. If the concern is only software, then I'll be on the lookout for liquidation sales of TP-Link stock.
There are two ways to implement a constant current LED driver; a linear regulator is one of them. The other is a switched-mode power supply. A linear regulator is the cheaper of the two.
I find the gigantic swing of a lot of software developers from the pure separation of data and styling into notebooks rather amusing.

In particular, there is very little that a "notebook" style environment can get you that you couldn't have gotten as output from any previous testing regime. Styling test results used to be a thing people spent a fair amount of time on so that test reports were pretty and informative. Reports on aggregate results could show trends in how they have been executing in the past.

Now, I grant that this article is subtly different. In particular, the notebooks are an artifact that they are testing anyway. So, having more reliance on that technology may itself be a good end goal. I still have a hard time shaking that notebooks are being treated as a hammer looking for nails by so many teams.
I've been thinking of a real 3D display for a long time. You see, if two intersecting - colliding - electron beams can produce a real photon and if you consider this a voxel, which it is, then it is possible to build a volumetric display with a grid of electron cannons, two of them colliding in the x and y axis and this xy plane being reproduced in the z axis. If you control the beams precisely, fast enough, you could "scan" the grid in all three axes, creating a dynamic 3D image that can be viewed from any angle, much like a 3D printer forms objects layer by layer but in real-time and with light instead of material.

Considerations:

- The accuracy of the electron beam control would be crucial to ensure that photons are produced at the right locations in the 3D grid.

- Energy Requirements: High-energy electron beams would require significant power and advanced beam control systems to generate enough energy to produce visible photons while avoiding issues like scattering.

- This concept would likely require advancements in electron beam control and volumetric display technology to achieve practical use. Similar technologies already exist in areas like cathode ray tube (CRT) displays and electron beam lithography, but extending this to a 3D volumetric display would involve overcoming many technical challenges.

- Beam Interference: Electron beams are highly sensitive to interference, so you'd need precise control over the environment (vacuum, temperature, pressure) to avoid disruptions in the beam path or photon generation.

- Photon Efficiency: Maximizing the number of photons emitted at each intersection is crucial for a bright display. Minimizing scattering losses or inefficiencies in photon emission at beam intersections could be a key challenge.

- Complexity of 3D Grid Setup: Setting up and maintaining a 3D grid of intersecting beams will require precision engineering and calibration. You could explore automated calibration methods, possibly using machine learning to fine-tune the display in real-time.
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I do. And I have a door. Everybody in my company has a private office with windows and in a way it's the best of both worlds. Collaboration and impromptu discussions are possible, we sometimes have lunch together, and I can close my door when I want. We also have the option of working from home Tuesdays and Thursdays.

I've only ever worked for one company that had an open office plan - a big room with a bunch of desks loosely organized into teams - and I wonder if money saved on real estate is worth the productivity loss? I assume the big companies and consultancies have measured this, but I'm skeptical.
It seems very odd that the article seems to be measuring the information content of specific tasks that the brain is doing or specific objects that it is perceiving. But the brain is a general-purpose computer, not a speed-card computer, or English text computer, or binary digit computer, or Rubik's cube computer.

When you look at a Rubik's cube, you don't just pick out specific positions of colored squares relative to each other. You also pick up the fact that it's a Rubik's cube and not a bird or a series of binary digits or English text. If an orange cat lunged at your Rubik's cube while you were studying it, you wouldn't process it as "face 3 has 4 red squares on the first row, then an orange diagonal with sharp claws", you'd process it as "fast moving sharp clawed orange cat attacking cube". Which implies that every time you loom at the cube you also notice that it's still a cube and not any of the millions of other objects you can recognize, adding many more bits of information.

Similarly, when you're typing English text, you're not just encoding information from your brain into English text, you're also deciding that this is the most relevant activity to keep doing at the moment, instead of doing math or going out for a walk. Not to mention the precise mechanical control of your muscles to achieve the requisite movements, which we're having significant trouble programming into a robot.
Wait until you find out that MinIO, the S3 compatible storage company, is apparently an AI company through and through now. https://min.io/

> the AI revolution is powered by technologies that are either built on MinIO or integrated with it.
I can suggest improvement - combining long running e2e tests with notebooks is even better match
It would be a lot less abrasive to say "It's linked elsewhere, but here it is: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234" or some variation, instead of saying "it's here somewhere, go find it".
To address your "empty space" question, you must first define, specifically, what you mean by this phrase.
Buy the ticket how? Look at the fees for paying--you can't actually buy the ticket without paying for it.
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