skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love to participate in a small community like this. Problem is that they usually fail to gain inertia and become abandoned quickly. They also become filled with spam unless actively moderated.
The North Node in astrology represents your life's purpose, spiritual growth, and the direction you are meant to move toward in this lifetime. It serves as a guiding light, pointing you toward qualities and experiences that will help you grow and evolve.
There is no logic in GP. It's just typical bioscience.
> Some people love their realtors

I'm sort of concerned that some people have "their realtor". I've sold a few houses, realtors are companies I contract to sell my house and they can be fired.
The Biden administration has been very pro nuclear for some time (possibly from the start), with the current plan to triple nuclear capacity from currently 100GW to 300GW, adding 200GW of generating capacity.

https://liftoff.energy.gov/advanced-nuclear-2/
Whether you're a beginner or looking for advanced topics, you'll find everything RAG-related in this repository.

The content is organized in the following categories:
1. Foundational RAG Techniques
2. Query Enhancement
3. Context and Content Enrichment
4. Advanced Retrieval Methods
5. Iterative and Adaptive Techniques
6. Evaluation
7. Explainability and Transparency
8. Advanced Architectures

As of today, there are 31 individual lessons.
AND, I'm currently working on building a digital course based on this repo – more details to come!
The quoted paragraph literally ends with

‘“Doris, what if I throw in a $50 calling card?” mutates into “I’ll be charming at your office Christmas party if you do the dishes this month,” aimed at a befuddled partner who may or may not have yet realized that what they thought was a partnership is in fact closer to a mutual exploitation.’

So yes, it’s not at all about some preternatural gift for perception or intuition that the parent commenter shoehorned in. Less artful, more “gross”.
Are you part Tamarian? I can't understand half of what you're saying because it's all vague, half-completed cultural references.
>I suspect that WSJ held back such topics until after the election…

Why?
I have my main VLAN, a guest VLAN, and one for any 'smart'/IoT devices that need to connect to cloud services. Each is firewalled from each other and each has its own separate WiFi SSID.

Not just because the IoT devices are prone to attack because they may not get many updates, but also because they often need 2.4 GHz or may only support WPA 2. So my main network can be WPA3 only and 5 GHz only but the other networks are more lenient.
Lisp interpreter in a browser with Rust and WASM
Random salesman movie association: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glengarry_Glen_Ross_(film)
In principle, device manufacturers could make hardware DRM work for ML models.

You usually inference those on GPUs anyway, and they usually have some kind of hardware DRM support for video already.

The way hardware DRM works is that you pass some encrypted content to the GPU and get a blob containing the content key from somewhere, encrypted in a way that only this GPU can decrypt. This way, even if the OS is fully compromised, it never sees the decrypted content.
I gave GNU Cash a real honest try about a year ago and couldn't figure it out. I don't think I'm above-average intelligence, but I'm very software-savvy. And I simply could not do it. Like at some point I got angry and decided I was going to crack this code if it killed me to do so, and I literally failed.

GNU Cash may or may not be beyond the ken of mere mortals. But it's certainly beyond me.
This is an assumption.

of course it is an assumption (lets keep it that way :) )

The supposition that there are significant number of murderers walking among us that would not murder because it is illegal has no basis.

btw this is an assumption too :)

I will bet good money that you don not have what it takes to kill. Most people do not.

you are forgetting that humans by their very nature are animals... and also predators. you are thinking about a little more civilized humans, your Mom and Pop in Boise, Idaho. in large parts of this Earth human life is expendable - civilized places have laws in place to ensure this be the case. I am certainly not saying that if you legalize murder we'd all start shooting each other but there is a much better change that happens than that "most people won't have what it takes..."
I used to drink Soylent drinks, but they cost way too much now a days and it took at least two to fill me up each meal. I just bought groceries at Walmart and got Yogurt, Chicken steaks, fish and hotdogs. Bannas and apple sauce for breakfast. Costed me like $110 a week. I have Autism, so I'm a very picky eater and only like simple food too.
I am on both, but I actively use Bluesky (along with Twitter)
Sure you can do that. But the context of what is going on in different frames will be mostly lost.

Explain the history of earth seen from a probe hovering one inch above the event horizon of Sagittarius A*?

From the perspective of the probe:
"The solar system, home of mankind was a blink in the sky that lasted 1 second according to probe time. As was most other stars, as seen from here. Surely nothing important could ever happen in such a short timeframe.
Fin."

There's important nuances to what perspective one have. Something that seems to not just be missed but actively fought against in modernity.
Stateless cluster local OCI registry mirror
Not that weird but I use it as a translator and to learn Spanish. It's better than Google Translate because I can specify the region (i.e: Spain vs Latin America) and the formality. I can also experiment with more colloquial phrases and idioms that don't have a direct translation, e.g: "It's raining cats and dogs"

It can be useful in explaining grammar and fixing mistakes, though it can sometimes falter.

I tend to double check some things against other translators if it's something important of if the output looks fishy.
Astro-Colonialism: Conversation with Willi Lempert (2024)
I just did this and used the app Emma but it is awful at breaking down and categorising transactions and the analytics seems to take a back seat to selling you some debt or investments. I’m tempted to build my own to be honest I think there’s a lot you can do to help people understand savings and becoming wealthy over decades rather than becoming an overnight crypto billionaire.
Anomaly detection in time-series data is not a concern of the standard library of all things. Nor is it a concern of "base abstractions" shipped as extensions (think ILogger).
Sounds like your sister got that information illegally. It’s hard to blame EBay because they can’t use that.
You'd still get a note off event, which would then trigger the release part of the envelope or whatever.
"You're on the team, but you have to fund your own trip to the Olympics to compete."

...

"No not like that!"

Never knew if it was real but I've seen on reddit several times that letter someone got from their employer chastising them for not owning a newer, nicer vehicle, since they were making good money at their job and it was "hurting the reputation of the business" that they were driving effectively a poor person's car. It feels far fetched but at the same time, also feels exactly like the irrelevant twaddle that a certain kind of upper management type would make his secretary write a letter about.
I agree, but it does give one pause to consider those costs as well.
I don't have to because I just use the "following" tab? I only see people I follow. Really don't get the point of this service
I've yet to encounter a "dick bar" that doesn't jerk the page around when it collapses. Not smooth at all. I'm surprised that it hasn't been solved in 10 years.
This was a bit disappointing article by Quanta standards, pretty much just felt like the introductory part of a longer article.

The "why" is that if we assume, as a thought experiment, that we have a magic black box that always gives the correct answer to some question that we otherwise don't (or can't) know the answer to, it can help us come up with and prove results about computational complexity that apply to the "real", oracle-less world too.
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We'd love to hear from you if you've done some of the following:

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Managing AI Permissions: RAG and Dynamic Authorization for Secure Access Control
C is a high-level assembly for PDP-11
There is going to be an interesting breaking point when DVDs and Blu-rays stop being sold mass-market. I think a lot of people will realize the downside of going all-in on streaming.
I think you value their work too little. I worked as a realtor for a time and admittedly not a good one.

A good realtor has knowledge of current values in the local market, issues to look for throughout the transaction, which services will be needed and who can be trusted to provide those services.

There is often an element of buffering communication between buyer and seller, but it's not just a trust problem. Due to their different interests and perspectives, they will tend to communicate in ways that could offend the other party inadvertantly. A good realtor is skilled in smoothing this over and being more objective.

As an aside, the term realtor is trademarked and is something on top of real estate agent, but for the American public the realtor association has been so successful that almost every agent joins.

At the time I did this work, the requirements for licensing were indeed too lax in my state and therefore a commensurate number of lower quality agents. Which of course feeds the impression that agents are useless, because it was more true.

My understanding is that licensing the has since tightened.

None of that detracts from the fact that a good agent does quite a bit of work to build up knowledge, and to assist through a huge transaction that most people will seldom make and therefore more likely mess up.

Unfortunately this work is also often spent doing things that never lead to a transaction, such as multiple showings to buyers prior to finding a fit, or preparing listings that ultimately fail to sell for whatever reason. These costs need to be accounted for somehow, so we end up thinking only of the services rendered in our dealings.

I realize I have even more to say but I gotta stop sometime...
but even big tech companies give mid-career job candidates "tests" that heavily involve the speed of basic calculation

this is 100% NOT a thing... a company would get their pants sued for age discrimination if they even broached anything like this in conversation let alone implemented it ...
Both; I've been on Mastodon since Twitter imploded a couple years back (well, I think I had an account since the last time Twitter toyed with banning third-party clients in 2018 or so, but I didn't use it at that point), and had a Bluesky account since early 2023, but didn't use it until a few months ago when it abruptly gained serious traction.

These days I mostly use Bluesky; it is more _fun_, which is the main thing I'm hoping to get out of twitter-esque services.
I just put everything in one file. Over 15 years worth of transactions in a single ledger file ordered by date.
Americans are presented with a false dichotomy: Socialized medicine or US-style privatized healthcare; where the healthiest are charged 10% or more of their income and the neediest are dumped onto the US government.

It’s welfare for the industry.
All factory farming has some horrific stories to tell.

Not sure I'd single out whey. It is really all dairy.

And, all chicken, all beef, etc... If you dig into the actual mechanisms of how harvesting is done, it is a horror show.
The academic paper analogy is interesting, because code and papers are meant to do the exact same thing: communicate ideas to colleagues. Code written by a small group of competent programmers with a clear, shared vision is therefore a lot easier to read than code written by a large group of programmers who are just desperately trying to crush enough jira story points that they don't get noticed at the next performance review.

The difference is usually papers written that badly don't go into "production"--they don't pass review.

I usually read code top-to-bottom (at least on a first pass) in two ways--both root-to-leaf in the directory/package structure and top-to-bottom in each source file. Only then when I've developed some theory of what it's about do I "jump around" and follow e.g. xref-find-references. This is exactly analogous to how I approach academic papers.

I think the idea that you can't (or shouldn't?) approach code this way is a psychological adaptation to working on extremely badly wrought codebases day in and day out. Because the more you truly understand about them the more depressing it gets. Better just to crush those jira points and not think too much.
Patent CN111203499A: A Towed Submarine Cable Cutting Device And Cutting Method
Learning Theory from First Principles (Francis Bach) [pdf]
Is there anything that indicates that customers want micropayments?

Music and video streaming services are syndicating content from millions of creators into single subscription services. Why is it so impossible to make mega conglomerates for textual content? Why is nobody doing this?

Right now, creators are forced to make YouTube videos, because that's their most viable path to getting paid for their work. Why does it have to be this way, when a lot of what they do would be better as text instead of as a talking head?
Sales is about closing. He ignored rules to do it. Is it 'right' no. But he was successful at it for awhile.

The two most epic sales I ever saw where these.

One guy I saw some how resurrected a customer of ours. I flat out asked him. His words to me were 'I have no idea how I did it'. While he was saying that he pulled out his wallet and started laying 20s on the table. 'you didnt...' 'i have no idea what you are asking'.

The second one was in the dead of july at a garage sale my family was running. Suddenly a guy comes up and hands me money for a Christmas lightbulb (who put that out there?!). 'did you just get that guy to buy a light bulb' 'i showed him how he needed it'.

Sales is not about doing the right thing. But creating a need and filling it and closing the sale. In the first case he showed the guy that he needed money. In the second somehow he talked the guy into needing a lightbulb before Christmas. It works even better if you somehow get the customer to think they came up with the idea.

If you understand that rule of 'creation' you can actually make yourself immune to most sales bots. The first thing most do is create a need and magically they can fill it with the thing they just happen to sell.
> I understand the thinking, backwards compatibility of course, and why encrypt something that is already freely available?

Let me explain it to you like this:

The NSA has recorded your receipt of this message.

Trust me, the NSA tracking what you read is MUCH WORSE than Google tracking what you read. Encryption helps defeat that.
You can generalize that to anything: when you know the problem domain so well, why the hell are you using ChatGPT to solve any problem within it? Use the most specialized tool for the job or you're just wasting CPU and memory (and electricity, and money, and time). Same goes for a neural net trained on every possible character set. If you know the font and character size in advance it's way overkill.

It's a bit more effort to set up since you actually have to set it up. But at least it's done right.
Not sure there isn't a group bringing it back.

Outlawing being poor/homeless, so the poor can be arrested just for not having housing. Or for debts.

Then, making laws that inmates can be provided to corporations to work.

Boom, some slavery.
As long as they also sell DVD players, I think they stand a chance. The longer they hold out, the more unique they get.
A microwave meal is prepared, it just needs to be warmed up.

Cooking usually requires one to transform matter somehow, which takes longer or requires a few steps. Plus, as said, much energy is lost one the stove or oven. E.g. boiling a pot of rice (most energy lost on evaporating water) on gas (more than half of all energy shoots out from under the pot directly into the extractor) is, apart from not just heating the rice but also speeding up the absorption of water, wasting a lot.

I actually make it a low key sport to use my stovetop efficiently (switching to induction is one!).
You can ask for a raise at any time. You should have a number in mind, and prepare to negotiate. You should have some accomplishments to cite, demonstrating your value to the business. If you don't have a good bargaining position -- not prepared to change jobs -- then you don't want to get too aggressive about it. Don't beg or act meek, but don't create a conflict -- a fine line to walk. Confidence pays off.

An expert salesman once told me to always ask for one unreasonable thing, to focus the conversation on that as if the other side already agreed to everything else. Taking his advice and coaching I once asked for a raise and a company expense credit card, and a leased car. My boss said "We're not getting a car for you." I got the raise and credit card. At another job I asked for a raise and a new top of the line MacBook Pro for working from home. I got a MacBook Air, and the raise.
For anyone who does a lot of einsum I highly recommend the einx package because the stock single-letter syntax very quickly becomes hard to read.
That has already happened in a lot of parts of the world.
Recently some webpages started failing with an JavaScript error message, something is not supported even if my JS is activated. Probably the device which I used was „outdated“.

Obviously the webpage and its full text content is shown to me for 3s before the error message appears and blocks the access.
super cool! i like yours better tbh as it looks much more granular in terms of categorizing

re publishing—just do it!
this project is also a rough mess, only a quick experiment, so i doubt anybody will care if it fails sometimes / not perfect, code is a mess etc.
> Last year, we saw that about 75% of developers use some kind of AI tool for software engineering

I heavily doubt that if I look left and right. They are prompting them in a browser, but few have adopted AI in their toolchain yet.

> “Software engineers are getting closer to finding out if AI really can make them jobless”

It might indeed partially work if people are able to describe a problem and prompt an AI. Do they know how to describe a problem and prompt an AI, rhetorical question?

In practice is does indeed allow other engineers not in software to churn out some scripts and they mostly are of good or at least decent quality. But for complex work or integration, the AIs just lack any context that is needed for the specific problem to be solved. Still, AIs do help the developers themselves.
The app already introduces a new middleman; and cherry-picked sponsorships will devolve into its own corruption.
A lot of sports make quite a bit of money. The problem is the facilities costs. You're spending a lot of money on a specialized building with specialized equipment. Larger markets with more money raise costs even further by raising both athlete and audience expectations with ever more luxurious features, meaning the smaller markets with smaller audiences are compared to them. The facilities operators thus get the majority of sponsorship money as they force themselves into having the largest costs, leaving less money for other aspects like athlete pay and feeder leagues.

Some sports overcome this by forcing the team operators to also be the facilities operators, such as the NFL, but for many others like SailGP the athletes and teams are directly competing with the venues for some of the sponsorship money. And on top of that the different sports are competing with eachother for who gets what sponsorship, as some sports or sponsors have forced exclusivity contracts, such as Pepsi had with Hendrick Motorsports in NASCAR or Mastercard had with FIFA.

And sometimes the sanctioning body responsible for the sport itself is just taking in the majority of the money and leaving the actual individual costs to the venues, teams, and athletes without ever supporting them centrally. F1, FIFA, and the NCAA did that for years.

There's plenty of money, it's just that it's not being spread around appropriately. The worst part is that it doesn't even have to be evenly for the sport and athletes to thrive, just appropriately.
How did Hellenistic political ideas affect the people living in conquered lands?

They had to follow Greek laws.
They no longer had to pay taxes.
They could be elected as representatives.
They had to swear loyalty to the Greek leader.
This is the way. But I’m unlucky to have been locked into a small job market, so I’m stuck in a local maximum. Won’t be moving to the US anytime soon with Trump’s immigration policies.
The reason there are not off-the-shelf solutions is this is an unsolved problem. There is no approach that is generally useful.
Eh, I mean, he was always pretty bad, but it does _feel_ like he's gone totally off the deep end. And he wouldn't be the first; notably, plenty of people around his age went _very_ weird around September 11th (you may remember Christopher Hitchens' weird voyage of personal discovery from basically a pacifist to a bloodthirsty war hawk to eventually getting voluntarily waterboarded, for instance; to his credit he did somewhat recant at that point).

I suspect covid, both the stress of the event itself, psychological impact from isolation, and brain damage from the disease, screwed people up more than we give it credit for.
A lot of people rely on the bills. You are completely out of touch with the people with your attempt to sabotage the printed currency.
No, I could ask if they are able to deliver a stationary device. This would work while sleeping. But it would be very privy because it is custom-made and not delivered in quantities. And even if they can charge you 100k, they may not be willing to do that because it distracts them from their main goal. To miniaturize it and produce it in quantities.
Joe Cross did a similar thing in his documentary "Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead" [0] in 2010 when he went on a 60-day juice fast during which he lost 100 lbs.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat%2C_Sick_and_Nearly_Dead
Great Resignation 2.0 is coming – and I salute the European millennials who quit
The 3GPP spec is “available”, but the implementation in practice is closed. Stuff like the scheduler is what actually brings value to the company delivering a good service. Being closed, the interoperability of network components from different vendors is just impossible. That’s the point of O-RAN Alliance.