skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
USA lacks vigilante assasinations. In some countries in the east communities can dispatch assassins to get officers who are corrupted. The punishments extend to family members as well. This usually able to regulate a lot of corruptions and misconduct in the west. In essence the rule of law in the east are enforced by "social contract" or in American sense "by the people". In the west, these has been severely suppressed in place of laws that dont apply to them. Take China for example with their triads. There were few legendary cases where clans tracked down former corrupted leos and exterminated their grandchildren (water margin is one such "documented folklore). In the west you see this as "family feud like ninjas" but it occurs quite frequently if lived long enough there. The west is very fixated on a single possible tyrant but forgot day-to-day mini-tyrants. In the east the reverse is true. This is also one reason where most eastern asian countries adopted informally dictactorial system and perform way way better than American system.
This is legitimately great stuff!

His expensive electronic device now functions, from a UI perspective, like a normal tap.

Thank goodness traditional taps just work, and were invented before all this "smart" technology made our stuff so annoying.
I imagine that's the joke they're making, yes
Found the web interface: https://ux.priorlabs.ai/
Really cool!

Just playing around with regression mode...

A very simple dataset, powers of two:
1:2, 2:4, 3:8, 5:32, 6:64, 7:128 (missing the #4 value)
Predictions (1-10):
1.582 5.236 13.150 22.943 37.584 67.475 109.945 155.322 218.001 10,300.425
Error (1-10):
-26.4% 23.6% 39.2% 30.3% 14.9% 5.2% -16.4% -64.8% -134.9% -240.9%

... well, it has a positive slope

Let's see what happens if we copy the exact same values in the dataset 10 times first.

Predictions (1-10):
1.993 3.967 7.986 18.138 31.965 64.140 128.125 126.607 130.667 161.756
Error (1-10):
-0.3% -0.8% -0.2% 11.8% -0.1% 0.2% 0.1% -102.2% -291.8% -533.1%

Interesting, repeated values give the model a lot more confidence of the known values. The interpolated #4 value is still off by 12%. It does not extrapolate well at all.

Looking forward to trying it on real world data with more features.
Modeling Story Expectations to Understand Engagement: A Framework Using LLMs
why is this downvoted? the specific cities (notably in Arizona) that have taken deliberate action on this are exceptions proving the general rule that light pollution is demonstrably less of a policy concern even compared to the notorious American disdain for walkable infrastructure.
Freedom includes the ability to voluntarily subject oneself to obligations and enter binding contracts.
Downside is they also seem more retrenchment happy.
What is it that is supposed to be wrong with the link? .app is a regular TLD, the host name resolves to a regular IP address and there is a regular web server returning regular HTML.
i’ll make that annoying comment: perhaps people who consume a lot of sweetened foods are also sort of people who have bad diets, regardless of whether artificial or real sweetness. Not a hard thing to believe. all the article says is artificial sweetener intake was compared to people who didn’t consume as much artificial sweetener and found a big difference in diet. That baseline captures a lot of people who don’t take sweeteners at all; artificial or natural. I supect these are likely the sort of people who have better diets. To me the effects need normalizes against an individual’s intake of sweetened foods generally.
There is no language that fits that bill perfectly afaik.

As someone who used to write a lot of Python, Rust feels easier for larger projects and for long-term maintenance. It’s also (for me) substantially easier in Rust to write anything with concurrency or parallelism, whether async or threads. The learning curve is significantly higher than Python. For my day to day coding, now past the learning curve, it does feel ~as easy as Python, most of the time.

Optimized Rust is as fast as optimized C++.
That wasn't a solution. It was just one of many statistics listed by the article.

Also, the comment about secular monks mentions friends before spouses and children. It's about the total lack of other people:

> What is most striking about these videos, however, is the element they typically lack: other people. In these little movies of a life well spent, the protagonists generally wake up alone and stay that way. We usually see no friends, no spouse, no children.

The article talks about sixth graders, who are kids themselves and obviously can't get married and have kids:

> In 1970, just 6 percent of sixth graders had a TV set in their bedroom; in 1999, that proportion had grown to 77 percent.

And marriage in itself is obviously not the solution:

> Time diaries in the 1990s showed that husbands and wives spent almost four times as many hours watching TV together as they spent talking to each other in a given week.

Again, kids and teenagers can't get married and have kids:

> American kids and teenagers spend, on average, about 270 minutes on weekdays and 380 minutes on weekends gazing into their screens

The article talks about young people meeting friends. Again, this is not about marriage and having kids:

> Young people are less likely than in previous decades to get their driver’s license, or to go on a date, or to have more than one close friend, or even to hang out with their friends at all. The share of boys and girls who say they meet up with friends almost daily outside school hours has declined by nearly 50 percent since the early 1990s, with the sharpest downturn occurring in the 2010s.

I could go on and on:

> The best kind of play is physical, outdoors, with other kids, and unsupervised, allowing children to press the limits of their abilities while figuring out how to manage conflict and tolerate pain. But now young people’s attention is funneled into devices that take them out of their body, denying them the physical-world education they need.

It's only in your mind that this article is somehow a "marry and reproduce" message like in the movie "They Live".
It's evolved quite a bit if you don't need a `sh`-compatible shell.

I'm a huge fan of `fish` for personal scripting and interactive use: https://fishshell.com/

Obviously you'll still have `bash` installed somewhere on your computer, but at least you don't have to look at it as much.
I don't have the bsky app, nor am I logged in on my phone's browser, and this opened fine for me. No app redirects.
Assume an (untrusted) application A wants to send a stream of somewhat long (several tens of KB/multiple pages each) messages to application B. A and B could establish a shared memory region for this, but that would possibly allow A to trigger a TOCTOU vulnerability in B by modifying the buffer after B started reading the message. If page capability reclamation would have been cheap, the OS could unmap the shared buffer from A before notifying B of incoming message. But nowadays unmapping requires synchronizing with all CPUs that might have TLBs with A's mapping, so memcpy is cheaper.
I have my own list of things that could "easily" be added to C, but I'd rather them not to be.
> Maybe I'm just a cynical aussie, but how can you possibly be enthusiastic for (eg.) putting ads infront of as many eyeballs as possible?

You can be enthusiastic about a job done well, even if it’s not necessarily one you believe worth doing.
You can have locally ignores files in .git/info/exclude IIRC.
I mean you are talking about anomalies which is not what people mean here. Obviously masochists exist but that’s not very interesting
Honest question from an outsider. WordPress is open source, so why hasn't the project been replaced with one that doesn't include him?
> Now, living in a bubble is trivial. It's also the subtle default on a lot of social platforms.

Indeed. IMO, social media should have very limited facilities for blocking/muting (e.g., maximum number of accounts to block, no blocking accounts that have never previously interacted with you, and no import functionality), so that it could only be used to stop true harassment, and not to intentionally live in such a bubble. That's one of my biggest criticisms of Bluesky: the whole design of their blocklist system seems to be to intentionally encourage this sort of thing.
That could be the VAE? The "latent" part of latent diffusion models is surprisingly lossy. And however much the image is getting inpainted, the entire thing gets encoded and decoded.

Edit: I'll note some new models (SD3 and Flux) have a wider latent dim and seem to suffer from this problem less.

AI generated images are also biased strongly towards medium lightness. The photographer's adjusting of the tone curve may simply give it that "look".
Yep, this is a big factor for banks. No audit trail in face-to-face chats.
it's in the second picture not the first
I have the Bluesky app installed but I'm not logged in. So the website link is also being treated as an app deep link. It opens the app instead of just opening the website.

I don't have a lot of familiarity with app deep links, but my understanding is that originally deep links required a special non-domain to be registered that was separate from a normal web url.

Somewhere that's changed over the years and now regular web links like this default to opening in apps if the user has them installed.
I've been on both sides of this and it is so true.
I don't think there's any AI-fication going on in that photo. The modified version has a more compressed tone curve to bring out more detail, along with jacked up saturation (especially evident for water). This is similar to what most cell phones do by default to make photos look more pleasing.

I do agree that the original looks better, but the author of the post clearly prefers the modified version.
In terms of stats, Chicago+NYC+LA are up there in legendary tiers. Florida probably negligible if you use those cities instead. Forfeiture is bad though sjould have been banned.
Trust me, nobody gives a flying shit about their companies dogshit useless mission or downright useless and laughable company values.

They just pretend to in order to get brownie points with upper management. It's just playing the game.

And I'm convinced the ones making the values themselves do so to see who will fall in line.
These days, you need to fake optimism in order to get or keep a job.

Reality of this industry is that if you hit any hurdle at all during your career... Whether it is your own fault or someone else's, it may trigger a kind of avalanche effect because you won't display quite the same level of extreme optimism that they want to see...

Successful people in tech tend to conflate naivety with optimism and see it as a signal of capability.

Many of them have lived in a very fortunate environment where the environment rarely worked against them so they don't understand the feeling of being thrown successive curveballs, one after another while barely trying to stay afloat.

Their idea of adversity is of a hurdle that, if you can clear it, you end up further ahead, closer to your goal. They don't see it that the hurdles many people face are set up such that if you clear it, you are still behind... The prize for clearing nearly impossible hurdles is just survival.

There are things I did in my career where all the pieces in my plan fell together, amazingly, after 2 years of work and careful strategy, with full support of team members, but it all fell apart at the end because someone with power behaved in a way which was completely counter-intuitive and not aligned with their stated goals.
Yes. I've noticed a similar pattern online that I fucking hate. It goes "Group X is bad, so anyone who shares any belief with Group X is bad."

Like you, I believe that we're more alike than we are different, but that mindset focuses on the small differences over the many similarities.
At this stage some sort of fork seems inevitable.

This insanity is entirely unrecoverable on current trajectory
The batteries do not have to be located close to the recorded data
The right person for the author’s role is a person who enjoys the process the author describes.

Someone who wishes procurement reduced to online documentation and credit cards is going to hate their job if it requires engaging with high touch sales processes.

Maybe they need a purchase team partner - the analog of the salesperson in a salesperson-sales engineer team.
All of them AI slop of course. They train on this? I guess it's garbage in, garbage out.
> the GDP of the nation of Tasmania

When did the state of Tasmania secede from Australia?
You only had to put "with drones" and you had the trifecta. No wait: quantum drones.
Relational Frame Theory
Nobody is expecting anyone to follow someone else principles.

You and OP should follow the principles that you feel best.

It wasn’t a mere discussion on military aviation history, context matters, the implication here is post apartheid the government is corrupt and incompetent, it was corrupt before too just propped up better by foreign powers.
I use Bluesky all the time and I have never installed the app on any platform. I suggest getting rid of it, if you're such a fan of the web.
An 'All Souls Examination' of the Machine
On iOS and iPadOS, even github.com links will do this with the GitHub app installed.

We're complaining about a completely normal URL that links to a normal webpage. This is very, very silly.
Again: “crucified.” Say what you actually want, I don’t know how to interpret this idea. I haven’t heard of a crucifixion in recent times if I’m being honest.
A signal that an AI is better than a 5 year old is being able to respond to the following query: "What are your terms and conditions?".

For now, it is failing.
CBOR is derived from MessagePack, and is used throughout BlueSky/AtProto.

Reports there are that JSON is still the speed champ, by a healthy measure. I am among many who seem to chalk this up to JSON encoding/decoding being fantastically well optimized, having many heavily-invested in very well tuned & optimized libraries available.

(Ed: well, https://github.com/djkoloski/rust_serialization_benchmark only shows rust options, but somewhat contradicting this. JSON encoding appears ~3x slower, when looking at best CBOR & JSON performances)

This article feels quite broad & high level, as a general introduction. With a couple graphs thrown in at the end to try to close the deal. The space savings I tend to think are probably reasonably representative regardless of the library being tested. But the speed is going to vary greatly, and this is one of very few examples I've seen where CBOR comes out faster. The article does not provide any information that I can see about what the test is, what data or libraries are being tested.

It is worth noting that CBOR has heightened interest very recently, as the recent Kubernetes 1.32 shipped an alpha feature to talk in CBOR. The very good library below has gotten some good attention.
https://github.com/fxamacker/cbor
Tangential, but I think we're long overdue to fund employee benefits through taxes instead, which employers pay instead of being on the hook for e.g. paid medical/maternity/etc. On average employers would pay as much as now (unless they're abusing loopholes, e.g. gig work), there would be fewer loopholes, and small employers would be 'insured' against potentially ruinous hires - I know a handyman that won't hire an assistant, because of the risk of getting someone that would be on medical leave more than work, leaving the handyman on the hook for all his pay. This makes growing small (<10 people) businesses very difficult.
O1 isn't a chat model (and that's the point)
They're not going to build a port "just 5 to 11 kilometers from telescopes" (from TFA) when the telescopes are 15km from the ocean. A chemical plant wouldn't be inland either because it will want access to the port.
Sam Moore, part of 'Soul Man' musical dynamos Sam and Dave, dies at 89
I think "well before the personal computer showed up in the geological record" is a bit of hyperbole, but it is not a new phenomenon:

"We find that despite short-term fluctuations, partisanship or non-cooperation in the U.S. Congress has been increasing exponentially for over 60 years with no sign of abating or reversing"

"Partisanship has been attributed to a number of causes, including the stratifying wealth distribution of Americans [2]; boundary redistricting [3]; activist activity at primary elections [4]; changes in Congressional procedural rules [5]; political realignment in the American South [6]; the shift from electing moderate members to electing partisan members [7] movement by existing members towards ideological poles [8]; and an increasing political, pervasive media [9]."

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
I would agree with that. Neither work nor houses are fungible.

Time and effort and suffering are distinct from value creation.
> I start to wonder if I should’ve just reverse-engineered your tool myself.

Ever since I started taking this advice instead of going through a sales process (I really only need this inflicted on me a single time in my life), I have been a lot happier. We also stick the counter at around $50k saved per year for applications that are essentially fancy crud forms.

The best part is it bypasses all the complicance requirements, since if it’s written in your company it can’t possibly be bad.
Forming opinions should not need anything yes, however promoting or publishing that others will consume should be based on stronger foundations don’t you think ?
.ai at their domain name emphasizes the grift factor IMO
>Commercial real estate bottomed already

I think you are under estimating the problem with Commercial real estate, along with rental around the city that has on adjacent Commercial real estate pricing. Which also has a knock on effect on other financial instruments.

The situation wont change or pops the Commercial real estate value to where it was. But it should hopefully buy some time for the market to solve itself. And this isn't just JPM literally eery bank and finance sector are forcing other sector ( other than tech ) to end Remote work.
Great Bakersfield Dust Storm of 1977
Quite the opposite. Employees under 28 hours a week don’t have to be provided health benefits at all, and typically aren’t in industries like retail that mostly employ front line workers on a part time basis.

Part time help is cheap.
I found getting started quite easy.

But then you discover there are like 4-5 different ways to manage packages and not much consensus in the community on what the correct way is. That was kinda discouraging
I played the game for a while at one of my past jobs. I knew what I was doing and that I didn't really care, but I wanted to get more money and that required playing office politics.

It did work for quite a while, that is until I had some hard times in my personal life that made keeping up the facade unbearable. Within a short period of time I had people worried about me, even though I still did all job duties completely fine.

Next thing you know I'm not a team player by HR, and I need to be more positive, etc.

Left that job shortly after. I hate this bs culture shit and refuse to play it anymore. Luckily where I'm at now doesn't care.
This reminds me of the soap-opera effect[0] on modern tvs. I have difficulty watching a movie on someone’s tv with it enabled, but they don’t even seem to notice.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_opera_effect
More like stupid is suddenly everywhere in the Bay Area.

The one fine piece of good journalism in there is that SFSU professor: humans have a hard time separating the ideas from the speaker. Done.

Now, I might be wrong, but it sure does sound like tech folks in the Bay are getting ready to take advantage of MAGA madness, and paranoid about AI / surveillance.

If anything, it’s this orange website that’s closer to untangling identity from the content, but that’s nothing new and Web 1.0 news.
But that's not OP deep linking to an app - it's just a normal website URL. It's you having your user agent configured to launch an app for this particular domain. Nothing that OP can do about that.
Momentum. Heavy objects in motion have inertia. Oddly works in a similar fashion with software projects.

20+ years of OSS contributions and Matt leading the project is a LOT of inertia. You can fork the project right now yourself, but until some significant number of contributors move their efforts to your fork, you get no change of direction.
The value of WordPress is in the brand, the ecosystem, and the community, and we’re all trying desperately to hold that together.
> If I lived in San Francisco, I’d have ~100x more available jobs to apply to if I lost my current one.

In some sense this also fits under culture. The Australian government has historically been fairly technophobic (they really have a thing against privacy - the ban on effective encryption springs to mind, they've tried to ban Monero too but that doesn't work because crypto is too slippery). I also vaguely recall from years ago that we make it hard to use equity as a significant part of employee compensation. Overall Australia lacks the free-wheeling spirit of letting people do things that works so well in tech so I assume there are a lot of other small barriers I don't know about (eg, I'd bet companies like Uber would have been killed in the crib if it started in Australia). We also have a subtly anti-cheap-energy policy that must make life hard for data centres.

We've produced some big tech success stories like Atlassian but when you combine dubious regulation with the larger US capital markets there isn't really much to recommend about Australia. I wouldn't suggest putting money into the Australian tech scene and the market has probably sniffed that out.
You can use homebrew to install the latest version of bash and then chsh to set it as your default shell. That’s what I do anyways
https://archive.ph/qrmGE
Is your device running iOS or iPadOS? This is default and non-configurable behavior. Even github.com will open in the GitHub app if you have it installed.

I understand the confusion (and frustration), but this is just a normal URL. The .app is just an ordinary TLD (but one of the newer ones.)
The ideas for advancing D come thick and fast. C and C++ will never merge with D, because we have different philosophies of what makes for a great programming language.

For example, D will never have a preprocessor. Or over my dead body :-/
WordPress is a lot more than it's core code. There's a whole ecosystem of plugins, for example, and the usual place to share them (wordpress.org/plugins) is, essentially, controlled by one guy. It's not so easy to fork that.
I think it is a less exaggerated take than the idea we can all work half as much and have the same amount of stuff.

There are lots of things that can be done, but they revolve around increasing either productivity or increasing efficiency. Neither of these is synonymous with simply cutting back on work.
Unsurprising that Matt never replied to you.
> Rude, inappropriate, presumptuous, offensive .

All degrees of the same thing ? And the degree in the eyes of the subject
Still use my L702x daily. It's heavy but I love the display and the speakers. It had Nvidia 3d vision with shutter glasses at one point, obviously not useful now. Windows 7 still on it. With an SSD it's still speedy and does a good job. I hope this 14 year old laptop will get me through another 6 years at least.
This piece is fascinating - by far the most informed commentary I've read on the issue of energy demand from AI-focused data centers. I learned a ton from reading this.

I extracted some points that stood out to me here (for if you don't want to wade through the 7,000 word original) but it's genuinely worth spending time with: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/12/generative-ai-the-powe...
What is the use of a Github app on iPhone or iPad? I guess I could see it useful for reviewing pull requests and making comments if it's urgent (it's not) or your main dev device is out of reach (it can wait)...