skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The elimination of peer pressure makes alot of these choices dead simple.

Except you're not really eliminating any peer pressure unless you also lock them in your house for their entire childhood life. The moment they go out (alone or in your company), the peer pressure will kick in simply because "oh look they're all on those phones and I'm not".
Things imported from a third country, such as China, sort of cost more. PPP is strongly affected by the cost of locally grown potatoes, locally made milk, locally performed plumbing repairts. PPP is about adjusting exchange rates to keep "cost of one plumber hour" fixed across several countries, the cost of buying USB sticks made in China is kind of then "more expensive" in a country where the cost of getting a plumber of otherwise "low", with both "more expensive" and "low" a matter of definition.

Both plumbers' rates and USB sticks flow into the calculations, of course. The previous paragraph is simplified.
No grievances that Russia might have had can justify this devastating war, and total annihilation, and mass murder.
> I tend to follow a lot of people, and like to see a mix of their posts. But on Mastodon, what I got instead was "who is posting right now?"

This was a big issue for me. Some people I followed would constantly post, so your feed, over time, simply becomes whatever those extremely online users post. It becomes less of a "balanced media diet" if it favors people who are always online. Of course, you can just stop following those people, but you really don't know how prolific someone is when you first follow them.

I remember seeing someone post a prototype of a view of the feed that instead treated it like a messaging app or RSS feed where you'd see a list of posters sorted by most recent post date first. That way, you could just click on a profile to see all their posts in chronological order instead of a mixed feed of everyone's posts. I thought might be a better way to go.
In other words, people believe that "taking it seriously"
will automatically reduce the frequency of a bad thing.
But in fact it doesn't--it might well do the opposite

Well, there are plenty of countries that take murder extremely seriously and have vanishingly low murder rates (Japan comes to mind) so I'm not sure we can really say that taking it too seriously is counterproductive to the goal of reducing murder.

I agree, though, that America proves that taking it seriously certainly isn't enough to prevent it.

(It's also worth noting that per capita violent crime in America has plummeted since the 90s, with no major changes in the way we handle such things...)

But "taking seriously" particular manifestations of
this general issue, like murder or sexual harassment

I definitely agree that you can take something like sexual harassment seriously in extremely harmful and counterproductive ways.

For example: focusing on overly rigid standards of speech to the point where nobody wants to say anything at all, a focus on overly harsh punishment instead of education/remediation, etc.

I will also share that I, personally, have seen the devastation that a provably false #metoo accusation can wreak.

Still, I strongly object to the idea that the efforts of organizations to address the "social justice" causes lumped into the category of "wokeness" are automatically bad. I don't think that's a useful discussion. It is a thing to discuss one policy at a time.
> I'm starting to think that like 80% of product diversity is really just pricing discrimination in disguise.

I think the term used for this practice is "market-segmentation".
My kids play Minecraft and Sonic all the time these days. The key is my kids have developed a sense of how some things are different than others and that is good and also bad. It’s a system that allows and encourages discussion.
All money ultimately goes to labor. Rocks don't accept cash as payment.
If you could configure a fleet of machines from a browser window, over the network; that would be pretty cool. No clue how that would work in practice here though.
> with a reflective strips in a configuration similar to those worn by roadway workers (though their safety gear is generally bright orange or yellow rather than black).

But similar enough to turnout gear worn by many North American fire departments.
Often the hardcover version comes out well in advance of the paperback, so if you want the book as soon as it comes out, you have to pay the premium for the perceived "premium product". Only later does the paperback come out at a lower cost, while the hardcover retains its higher cost -- I'm not sure if it drops a bit when the paperback comes out or not.

This is a lot like back in the movie rental days. The VHS cassette for a new release would be $120 or something, and only a few months later could you buy it at the grocery store checkout for $25.
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Your overall point is probably right, but "tens of thousands of dollars of value in each gram" seems like an exaggeration. How much does one CPU weigh?
Google had to teach its NotebookLM podcast hosts not to act annoyed at humans
Efficient LLM Scheduling by Learning to Rank
We study how to approximate the famous shortest-job-first scheduling in LLM inference!
I did last week, before I added the first contact.
Thanks for the kind words! I still feel like one of those newcomers myself :)

Now that so many more people are running workloads, including critical ones, on GPUs, it feels much more important that a base level of knowledge and intuition is broadly disseminated -- kinda like how most engineers basically grok database index management, even if they couldn't write a high-performance B+ tree from scratch. Hope this document helps that along!
Yes, exactly. The first time I used booking.com it was because I was trying to book a particular hotel in an under-developed country and the hotel's web site wasn't working so I had no other option. I then had to cancel the reservation because covid happened, and I expected to have all kinds of problems, but it all went smoothly. So I started using them more often, tentatively at first, but now with full enthusiasm. I have yet to have a bad experience with them. They seem to be one of the good guys, which is one of the reasons I'm advocating them. We who value having good guys on the internet need to support them when we find them.
And people are telling you that this is not possible with the Google public OAuth API. When Slack asks Google's public OAuth instance if user abc@example.com is valid, Google checks with the Google Workspace associated to example.com, and returns to Slack a response saying "yes, that user is valid, here is more information from example.com". This can be the same Workspace or another one, Google isn't really telling Slack apparently.

Now, there is another field called "sub", that should be a unique ID for the Google Workspace or the specific account, but it seems that this is not always stable, per the article, so people integrating with Google OAuth don't trust it.
zero sum thinking has already infected public policy. turns out liberals can be just as "they took our jobs" as the redneck conservative.

the real fear should be that people wouldnt want to come. already chinese intl students are break even when considering US vs going back to china. who wants to deal with all the bureaucracy and hatred when they could just go back and work for deepseek.
> Key Advantages: [...] Can provide supportive evidence for VPN/proxy usage, when the latency is too high for all server locations

I'm reading through the description, but I'm having trouble understanding the difference between a client having a higher overall latency due to bandwidth/connectivity concerns (e.g. a 3G phone) versus using a VPN. Both would have increased timings and the clock skew would be similar. Would both would be considered too high for proof of location?
Ticks do not require the consent of the host to drink blood.

Things like Google and Facebook cannot be parasitic, every dollar gained is a voluntary exchange with no threats. People choose to use Google and gain something from doing so.
librewolf but basically #metoo
do you end up with a finished keyboard or is this giving you DIY plans?
I mean, where else can I go
The day you causally find an old work colleague at the top list of hacker news.

Hi Jochen wink
The Life-Affirming Vitality of Raw Milk (2024)
I was looking for a simple table recently- outlining say how the shared memory or total register size/SM varies between generations (Something like that Wiki table). It was surprisingly hard to find those info.
It is possible to do without tablets/phones. It means you can’t do 2 hour dinners for the first 5 years. Always have a parent ready to walk outside.

Once the child is 5 they will sit and talk to you for hours, do puzzles, and play games.
I mean, the nuance seemed captured by the "in short" here, as you are just providing examples of things that taste nicer ;P.
I used this to build my current keyboard a few months ago. It was my first hand-wired keyboard, and this made it much more approachable. Thanks for creating it!
A good cheater in such a group will prosper heavily due to being better informed and connected.

Game theoretically it's a loser proposition. Even with an intense price of shunning. It's happened in Amish communities many a time.
Thanks; that does seem to be the case, and (as someone afflicted by astigmatic halation) I will no longer avoid following Mastodon links.
Yes, I definitely agree, YMMV, tax situations and school district quality vary greatly depending on specifics.
You can make lists in Mastodon, and put the noisy people there and exclude them from your main feed.

You can put all your Asian follows in a separate list as well if you want to quickly catch up with them.

No algorithm has its down sides, but I doubt they'll put in an algorithm that I'll like more than "no algorithm".

I'll add that I think algorithms should be the responsibility of the client, and not the server. The web client is merely one client. There's not much preventing any of the numerous other clients from implementing an algorithm.
Well, it was good for us when we first tamed fire, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Ain't greater modern cargo cult than "healthy food".
The browning is what makes food taste great for me, and that is what makes sunny side up eggs be less healthy. If you browned an omlette, it’d have a similar effect, I imagine.
When, of course, the reality is no one ever got rich by simply doing good things, treating others fairly, and conducting themselves in a way that overall benefits others.

And any individual "employing thousands of people" is really "exploiting thousands of people" unless the thousands of employees' wealth is increasing at a faster rate than the employer's.
There’s an interesting question on service providers responsiblity who use Oauth for primary auth.

Should they reset all access to a company account if a domain transfers or becomes publicly available?
An empty space in an urban area is always a cost to the public, by way of providing zero utility, yet everyone having to expend time and energy to commute around it. The owner is squatting on it, waiting for other people to work to make the surrounding area more desirable, at which point they can enjoy the higher rents.

Basically, the owner gets something for nothing, which is tantamount to rent seeking.
Reinforcing the face-palm at the heart of this, which is that anyone deciding to you know, just use email instead of asking why an immutable ID changed... just probably enabled information leakage. Seriously, I'm so thankful that my colleagues would be principaled about this and ask questions instead of just doing something to make it "work". Where "work" means some GSuite user probably logged into some other defunct GSuite user's RP-account.
That's how AGEs are formed in the body. The article is primarily about dietary intake of AGEs that are formed in high temperatures with certain foods.
If I had to choose between sugar and meat that's been Maillarded, the properly cooked meats win by a landslide.

Stop the war on Maillard. Start the war on sugar.
They work, just barely, and definitely not up to the marketing hype. I'm in the space, and it's really hard to "sell" a solution to someone who had bought the marketing bs and says "X said they can do Y".

Most "agent frameworks" are just workflow builders with LLMs as a node in the workflow. Zapier can do most of what "agent frameworks" do with having OpenAI / Anthropic as a node. IMHO, to be an "agent", you need agency. And a lot of that agency has to do with having control over the control flow. (Design its own graph at runtime)

Agents with true agency - that is, generating the control flow at runtime is a hard problem (we've spent months into it - and it's still not generalizable). We've got a long way there with good old engineering (deterministic guardrails, progressively enriching context etc). (This is on top of the usual distributed systems problems - for example - solving for invoking tools idempotently / at least once delivery etc)

But the path of least resistance here is claim "How an AI agent 3x'd my inbound and mowed my lawn" and make a youtube video about how agents are going to take over the world.
> Sentences like the opening line of the Declaration of Independence simply do not occur in conversation.

maybe not in your conversations
Actually, OpenAI provides Pydantic support for structured output (see client.beta.chat.completions.parse in https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/structured-outputs).

The library is compatible with that but does not use Pydantic further than that.
Foxconn is a Taiwanese company. China's revolution is about delivering for workers. I don't get where ppl are coming up with "slave labor" when it is American allies possibly operating in China's SEZ that are doing the bad stuff.

It's also simultaneously sanctimonious sounding when development is very difficult and America sacrificed three generations to industrial capitalism, stole half a continent of land, and used slaves to do our own development depending on how you count inputs to the process.
This feels similar in spirit to some service providers (*cough* Atlassian -- especially bad when they acquire other companies and push that bullshit on previously functional authentication systems) using ownership of a domain to assert ownership of an account using that domain.

E.g.:

1. You create an account using an email associated with a domain.

2. The domain owner coughs up their protection money to Atlassian and proves ownership of the domain.

3. Your password-protected account is assigned to the domain owner. Your password and 2FA invalid. The domain owner can access your private data without your password and 2FA.

Both TFA and the thing I described rely on broken, simplistic views of "domain ownership == account ownership".
First of all we foster a very strong community of likeminded friends from school, church, and other activities. We don’t all see eye to eye on every little thing, but we have generally the same goal. Second of all is that we talk to our kids about it, we try and make these things a conversation.

FWIW we were homeschooling for quite awhile but they now go to a school that has a No-Phone policy.
When I step through the logic in my mind, seems likely.

Lets make the leap of faith that we can improve our AIs to actually understand code that it's reading and can suggest improvements. Current LLMs can't do it, but perhaps another approach can. I don't think this is a big leap. Might be 10 years, might be 100.

It's not unreasonable to think there is a lot of cruft and optimization to be had in our current tech stacks allowing for significant improvement. The AI can start looking at every source file from the lowest driver all the way up to the UI.

It can also start looking at hardware designs and build chips dedicated to the functions it needs to perform.

You only need to be as smart as a human to achieve this. You can rely on a "quantitative" approach because even human level AI brains don't need to sleep or eat or live. They just work on your problems 24/7 and can you have have as many as you can manufacture and power.

I think having "qualitatively" superiority is a little easier actually because with a large enough database the AI has perfect recall and all of the worlds data at its fingertips. No human can do that.
> Most of the effort goes into hardware enablement;

Which is why Linux is primarily corporate funded. The corporates want to sell their hardware. To sell their hardware they need to get it running on Linux, so they fund that. As hardware support constitutes most of the code contributions, most of the code that goes into Linux was because corporate actors made a decision to pay for it's development - purely in their own interests.

That's nice - this symbiosis between FOSS and corporates works well for both sides. But it's a stretch to say Linux would not exist today without it. The most you can say for certain is Linux would not have it's great hardware support without it. The BSD's don't get anything like the amount of corporate funding Linux does. They are doing fine, and notably work on common modern hardware. So could Linux even without corporate funding.

In particular, most of the interesting stuff that happens in the kernel, the stuff that determines what the kernel will look like in 10 years time, stuff like adopting Rust, is driven by people scratching itches in the FOSS tradition. Not all of it - pKVM is Google initiative. But eBPF was scratching an itch. Jens Axboe developed io_uring probably as a consequence of wanting storage to run faster at Meta - but it was definitely an itch of his. It's nice that Meta to paid him while he developed it, but saying its creation was "driven by corporate interests at Meta" is a bit of a stretch.
My 7 year old gets access to YouTube and that is about 4 hours per week, split between Saturday morning and Sunday morning. His content is of his choice but we make sure he watches something interesting and we have discussions about what he watches: some cartoons and science shows or instructional videos. As far as social media goes, we try to keep it as far away as possible and instead fill his time with a lot of activities and sports and daily time spent outdoors. I noticed when screen time exceeds 4 hours a week he feels bored and having some minor mood issues.
“Again, these are just assertions. I’m less invested in some of these than I’m presenting. The talk isn’t about any one of them. I’m not here to convince you that my reflections are valid. This is about the exercise of discussing and questioning.”
yes, fly.io deploys also. Philadephia
How do you explain these kind of ideas to a three-year-old?
They wouldn't also happen to throw out memory safety guarantees one level up by using a ton of array indexing, would they?
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You cannot be serious it. All of the ad tech companies produce a service people want otherwise no one would use them!

There may be other services that might be better if not for network effects, but it is trivially true that a search engine is better for most people than no search engine at all. And that is what is produced.
This isn't pure statistics though. This dataset is massively biased. And out performed on what, that 2+2=4 or that 2+2=Who know what except that God gives us our provision despite what our eyes see and logic tells us
I don't know if there is a somber write up. But from what I have heard from a lot of people, is that jobs designing and making say PCB boards and electronic circuits just don't exist. They are all in Shenzhen. Those American firms that have American engineers still, seem to all involve flying to those factories to help fix problems, and are dead end jobs. At least thats my impression.
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Yeah don't take a 2-year-old to a dinner like that. Do it later, when they are old enough to sit through it or get a sitter.

It's only a few years when they are this needy. You'll survive without exotic vacations and fancy restaurants for that time.
Technical argument against tabs: they don’t play well with auto-formatters that enforce a specific line width.
The more results a manuscript must have, the more work it is to develop the manuscript.

Peer review misses 100% of long papers that don't get submitted, where multiple non-outrageous claims were too much work to develop.
Amid a flurry of hype, Microsoft reorganizes entire dev team around AI
100% ownership is required. Blaming AI is a craftsman blaming the tools. The craftsman is the one that buys/makes the tools, and maintains them. Things can not have responsibility only people can.
Coming from the neural network world, rather than the shader world, but: I'd say you're absolutely right!

Right now NNs and their workloads are changing quickly enough that people tend to prefer runtime optimization (like the dynamic/JIT compilation provided by Torch's compiler), but when you're confident you understand the workload and have the know-how, you can do static compilation (e.g. with ONNX, TensorRT).

I work on a serverless infrastructure product that gets used for NN inference on GPUs, so we're very interested in ways to amortize as much of that compilation and configuration work as possible. Maybe someday we'll even have something like what Redshift has in their query engine -- pre-compiled binaries cached across users.
Fantastic, solves the issue of bots from foreign adversaries. Everyone complaining doesn't seem to get it, it doesn't need to solve all usecases, but solving this one usecase is great.

Conversely, can this be used to show that someone is NOT a chinese/russian bot? I've had enough with people accusing me lol.
> one of your parents will be your 'friend'

That doesn't do much since they will just keep the spicy posts hidden from the parent.
If you are fortunate enough, put your kid in private school where smartphones tend to be banned in elementary and sometimes up to middle school.

Beyond that, I don't intend to give my kids a device until they are 10. (Heavily restricted smart phone) and won't be allowed to social media until they are 13-14.
[citation needed] for evidence that somehow TikTok is at all responsible for causing adhd
38% of new startups have solo founders (2x from 2017)
shame, ICANN sucks
When i went to buy a SIM card I had to show ID. Is that the case in all America? Why not offload verification onto telecoms.
Except TW TFR even worse than PRC TFR, and ultimately scale effect takes over - PRC with crippled TFR still generates about as much male new borns per year than TW has men 18-40 total. PRC still on trend to generate 3-4x more MEN than US projected to add population per year, incidentally around the same as active duty military... having enough bodies is not going to be an issue for decades. Having enough nukes is.
Goal Misgeneralization: How a Tiny Change Could End Everything [video]
Thanks! We think that just because something is deeply technical doesn't mean it has to be ugly.
This!

I immediately thought about Robert Kiyosaki, author of 'rich dad poor dad' I was eagerly reading as student. I later came to realize Robert converted to making money by selling his story and advice (and 'rat race' game :] which I also purchased! )
I studied both, can't say for sure EE was harder. Some courses in computer science were extremely hard for me (complexity, discrete math) and some courses in EE engineering were equally hard (most of the physics courses, analog circuits and more)

Both degrees can be made super hard, as hard as the school desires them to be...
corporate handouts.
Indentation is very much visible.