skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I find terrifying with the system is that it's not enough to earn a living. You have to get rich. There will be no stopping until the complete market domination and then the line needs to continue going up significantly somehow. Dominate, then exploit.

Take Netflix's incessant price gouging. Or all the examples in this article. It's always funny seeing telco operators complaining about regulation and pleading that they'll self regulate and be good citizens.
I would love to see the code of an on device implementation that could accomplish a similar task. Pre LLM I have never seen an app that can take a variety of voice commands and execute on them with a good user experience. Are there any good open source implementations that can run without depending on proprietary calls to the device?

In fact I still haven't seen speech-to-command being implemented well in an end user app regardless of technology. Maybe I have looked at the wrong apps. I haven't used Siri to any large extent. Google home seems very gimmicky.

I recently tried doing a small bit of STT and I was underwhelmed by the quality I get on device. I used Whisper. It was bad enough that I concluded that I'd probably need to call to a hosted service instead.

And even if the TTS works really well, for most use cases you'll need to have an LLM reinterpret what your saying into commands.
To an extent costs did rise. All sorts of materials are costlier. Rent is higher. Labor is paid more. Pre pandemic was what 6-7 years ago at this point, thats a long time for prices to stay flat. If companies like trek were making appreciable more profit margin today than 7 years ago, it should be apparent in their quarterly reports no?
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I disagree. The point you're making is predicated on not understanding SQL. If you know an ORM well, and don't understand SQL, then of course it will be easier to review. I would however argue that if you don't understand SQL, then you can never truly understand an ORM, in that you can't know what the DB is capable of doing. You'll probably get lucky for things like `WHERE foo IN (...) --> WHERE EXISTS` translations that the DB's optimizer does for you, but you also probably won't even know that's happening, since in this scenario you don't understand SQL.

ORMs typically do an OK job at producing OK queries, in that they're unlikely to be the worst possible option, but are unlikely to be optimal. This is largely driven by schema decisions, which, if you don't understand SQL, are unlikely be optimal. The clunkiest, least-performant queries I've ever dealt with were always rooted in having a poorly-designed schema.
It was an easy way to use an existing plain-text document where HTML was expected.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-html-spec-0...

The PLAINTEXT element was replaced by the LISTING element (which was itself deprecated in HTML 3.2): https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1866#section-5.5.2....
Oddly, this is why Russia's tests[1] and China's firewall[2] may end up being the unfortunate end state of splinternet. I am on android and played with some of the alternatives. Sadly, you are right.. it is genuinely hard to get away from the convenience.. and I care. It would be impossible to get someone, who doesn't care to make that jump.

I don't want to start my rant on cars, because even now I am debating buying an old clunker just to avoid some of the technology in modern cars ( not that it would stop cell snooping on me.. ).

[1]https://www.pcmag.com/news/russia-tests-cutting-off-access-t...
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall
Here is a page DOJ publishes on that (at least for fines). https://www.justice.gov/atr/sherman-act-violations-yielding-...

I also found this for criminal prosecutions under section 2 which is the section covering illegal monopolies. Pages 12 and 14 have some quick summary charts and tables.

https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/ant...
I'm guessing in this context it means drain the battery. I haven't heard of this technique, but it seems plausible, by tricking the phone into constantly transmitting over WiFi or cell.
Took me a while to process your response; thanks for providing to so much to think about. And yes, it is indeed nice meeting other SGML enthusiasts!

Can’t say I’m familiar with the use of notations the way you are describing, and it doesn’t help that ISO-8879-1986 is devoid of any reference to the italicized or quoted terms you’re using. Mind sharing where in the spec you see these data attributes?

The SGML spec is hands-down the most complicated spec I’ve ever worked with, feeling like it’s akin to how older math books were written before good symbolic notation was developed — in descriptive paragraphs. The entire lack of any examples in the “Link type definition” section is one way it’s been hard to understand the pieces.

> some HyTime concepts

I’m familiar with sgmljs but have you incorporated HyTime into it? That is, is sgmljs more like SGML+other things? I thought it already was in the way it handles UTF-8.

> Why do you think so and why should this be required by tag inference specifically?

Perhaps it’d be clearer to add chunkable to my description of streaming. Either the parser gets the document from the start and stores all of the entities for processing each successive chunk, or it will mis-parse. The same is true not only for entities for also for other forms of MINIMIZATION and structure.

Consider encountering an opening tag. Without knowing that structure and where it was previously, it’s not clear if that tag needs to close open elements. So I’m contrasting this to things that are self-synchronizing or which allow processing chunks in isolation. As with many things, this is an evaluation on the relative complexity of streaming SGML — obviously it’s easier than HTML because HTML nodes at the top of a document can appear at the end of the HTML text; and obviously harder than UTF-8 or JSON-LD where it’s possible to find the next boundary without context and start parsing again.

> Regarding namespaces, one of their creators (SGML demi-good James Clark himself) considers those a failure:

Definitely aware of the criticism, but I also find them quite useful and that they solve concrete problems I have and wish SGML supported. Even when using colons things can get out of hand to the point it’s not convenient to write by hand. This is where default namespacing can be such an aid, because I can switch into a different content domain and continue typing with relatively little syntax.

Of note, in the linked reference, James Clark isn’t arguing against the use of namespaces, but more of the contradiction between what’s written in the XML and the URL the namespace points to, also of the over-reliance on namespacing for meaning in a document.

What feels most valuable is being able to distinguish a flight of multiple segments and a flight of different beers, and to do so without typing this:

<com.dmsnell.things.liquids.beer.flight>
<com.dmsnell.things.liquids.beer.beer>

<com.dmsnell.plans.travel.itineraries.flight>
<com.dmsnell.plans.travel.flights.segment>

Put another way, I’m not concerned about the problem of universal inter-linking of my documents and their semantics across the web, but neither was SGML.

Cheers!
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do you have a source that’s written aka not a podcast? googling the mayor burning claim just brings me to your comment

even just a transcript of the episode you’re discussing. generally i find if someone responds with ire rather than a link, the event usually did not happen as they remembered it
I expect the accent is part of it, actually. Call it the Henry Higgins effect.

Rose: If you ARE an alien, how come you sound like you're from the North?

The Doctor: Lots of planets have a North!

(the joke lands better for American audiences if you mentally replace "North" with "South"; in many ways the economics/stereotypes are similar)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svi-fBXZzqI
The VERY lucky ones that have been around a long while and own their building, sure.
It's actually just cursor latency specific to the windowed environment you're running. From what I've experienced (with a 4060 Ti) it doesn't seem to impact FPS games at all.

I haven't tried any games that use a cursor with Wayland yet so I don't know if it would have an impact there.

I think it has to do with whether or not the game in question is reading the mouse device directly (e.g. through SSL) or via the compositor. If it's reading the device directly it stands to reason that there would be less latency.
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it might have been safer if the ship just pointed its flight deck into the wind

Reading TFA, that's precisely what occurred:

Chambers ordered his chief engineer to transfer the ship’s electric load to the emergency diesel engines and make steam for 25 knots (29 mph)... The captain turned his ship into the wind to prepare for a fixed-wing landing.... Buang lowered the Bird Dog’s flaps and approached in a shallow descent at a speed of 60 knots (69 mph). With the ship providing an estimated 40 knots (46 mph) of headwind to aid the landing, the light plane slowly caught up.

15 knot headwind plus ship's speed gave 40 kt landing wind, aircraft landed at stall speed of 60 kt airspeed, giving 20 kt to kill on landing. That was a risk on a slick deck, and from the accompanying video the landing was fairly far down the deck, but had sufficient braking distance.
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>Just let me write and leave me alone.

Yeah, we have networked supercomputers in every pocket and on every desk. And word processors and spreadsheets have been around for decades---that use case is a solved problem.

I suppose we can be charitable to Microsoft and say they're trying to innovate, but these AI features lack a clear practical need that they're meeting. It feels more like Big Tech flopping around trying to make the next big thing happen, rather than actually going out into the real world and solving problems actual humans have.
> False positives aren’t a big problem.

You will think that until something your wrote with your own mind and hands is falsely accused of being AI generated.

“Sorry alkonaut, your account has been suspended due to suspicious activity.”

“We have chatgpt too alkonaut! No need to copy paste it for us”

“It is my sad duty to inform you that we have reasons to believe that you have commited academic misconduct. As such we have suspended your maintenance grant, and you will be removed from the university register.”
That's basically what SEC Form 144 is.
I’d say “it’s not a crime if ur rich” or “it’s not a crime if ur powerful” is more fitting.
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The key is modularity with good interface design, then you have AI generate each component and play more of a QA role to validate each component is functional.
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It seems that Ruby and Ruby on Rails have some sort of renaissance now. I only know a bit of Ruby, but I hear it a lot that RoR is the best thing for prototyping and startups, even better than Django.

Personally, I write Go professionally and I love the simplicity and the absence of many dependencies. That said, Active Record and Active Job seem to do exactly what I write manually over and over again in Go due to having no frameworks.

Is Rails still that good?
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Your words were

> One's investment into a criminal enterprise could arguably be contributing to or encouraging that crime

Every shareholder is an “investor”. Well not really, when you buy a stock unless you buy at IPO or secondary offering, you are buying an ownership share from another holder.

So if you really want to go after “investors” you would have to find all of the investors who invested before the company went public and the ones who bought at IPO.

We also have to go after any bank who lent the company money since they were also “involved in the criminal enterprise”.

In the case of Amazon, you would definitely have to go after Bezo’s ex-wife since she is a major shareholder.
The numbers of retail theft are from the National Retail Federation based on a survey, so by no means a reliable independent source.
Who is your competition?
What is your addressable market size?
Very nervy trademarking genius and calling this natural intelligence.
This change was probably recommended/implemented via AI.
At the PPC prices, you got to have a really good reason to want a PPC desktop. The TalosII cost nearly $10k for the base 2X 4-core Power9 CPU version, and another $5k to upgrade to the 22-core CPU version.

https://www.raptorcs.com/content/TL2WK2/intro.html
Some blocklist maintainers are very trigger happy. You may have been added for following the "wrong" person or following someone who follows the "wrong" person.
This is why I ultimately ended up on Windows after switching from macOS and focusing my free time development work on improving the power user/developer experience on Windows with a tiling window manager ecosystem.[1]

One of the really cool things that has come out of this is seeing how people are adding accessibility workflows on top of the ecosystem. There is one person who controls their entire desktop via the tiling window manager using voice control![2]

[1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/awesome-komorebi

[2]: https://youtu.be/fiPJLmhnnXM
sure, in fact i updated an entire distro to a new python major version several times

cbuild started iirc with python 3.8, currently it requires at least 3.12 due to some features (it will stay on that minimum for a while, though newer versions are always supported), updating it has always been seamless though
I read noduerme as explicitly observing that he isn't.
I love this.

Not that I play it often, however, I guess its the memories.

I remember when RA was released and I was glued to my screen, at home or at lan parties. Multi player or Skirmish, always fantastic way to kill some time with quality game play.

This and blobby volley :)

I love that they fixed so many of the shortcomings of the original gameplay in OpenRA. It's really fun to play.
The default editor in Ubuntu, presumably just the default gnome text editor, is the same. I struggled to get rid of a scratchpad of notes once. Really weird and unexpected and I'm sure it gets people in trouble occasionally.
This is kind of like tech sales at huge tech old-cos. Sales people there can pull down insane comp if aligned to the right account with way less work than a traditional sales grind.
I could have made contributions in line with the support and advantages I have been given.
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Not sure if there is a gyro keeping the seat stable and upright, didn’t seem necessary until he ended up on his butt when going too fast hahhahaha
Love this!
Forget about oil for a second. Why is a large box of cereal $8 at the supermarket? It costs pennies to produce, maybe a dollar in landed cost. The small box costs almost the same landed and it's $5, which is also absurd. There is no supply shortage of corn and sugar, and no glut of demand for cereal.

I'm not stupid, I understand supply and demand. COVID was 4 years ago. Explain the $8 box of cereal.
If 80% of goods in my shopping cart experienced price increases above the current inflation rate, wouldn't these higher prices contribute to a new, higher inflation rate?

After all, inflation is measured by tracking changes in consumer prices.
Wikipedia being too political is a hard problem to fix but the ads and begging for money has an easy solution; Make an account, got to preferences -> banners and uncheck fundraising and whatever else you don't want to see.

An account is useful in many other ways too
So what's that now? An appeal to authority?

SLD-Resolution is sound and refutation-complete (and also complete with subsumption). If you think that O'Keefe is right to say that it's a "very dumb theorem prover" then explain to me why _you_ think so, not who said it.

Because I, too, can quote you authorities- and probably bigger than O'Keefe.
If you go down the list, every single reason written or not that illegal taxicabs for example are illegal doesn't apply to ride sharing platforms this is why you see such a major propagandist push from taxi companies about Uber drivers being rapists, serial killers, mass shooters etc while taxi drivers are angles.

The laws exist for a reason and it's not to protect the wages class of people who drive taxis. Since ride-sharing doesn't break the letter nor the spirit there is very little desire to change laws to make it illegal.

An individual choosing to break the law on the other hand, well, we've already seen what happens, things get bad fairly quickly as opposed to the decade plus of relatively spotless service from Uber and similar companies. There is even a statistically significant gap in DUIs compared to certain cities that banned ride-sharing companies, though I haven't seen a proper meta-analysis yet.
Surely there must be a way to counteract this with an app...
You aren't wrong - however GP didn't use the terms "Teams" and "SharePoint". Those terms should never be used next to "understandable" unless properly negated or followed by "/s".
yes, they are not r1
> Their debt to GDP ratio was 14.6% at the end of 2024, a decrease from 2023

Allegedly almost half of their defense budget since the war began was funded through private forced loans issues by banks directly to (effectively state owned?) military contractors. So that's not reflected in their military budget.

Also I doubt Russia could borrow a lot on the international markets even if they wanted to. Certainly not cheaply (like the US or especially Eurozone countries)

> And PPP is the number that matters - its one of the big factors which governs quality of life

Again... Russia's GDP per capita is still quite low (even if significantly higher than nominal).

Also if your nominal GDP is inflated by defence spending and energy exports and you multiply it with PPP (i.e. consumer price index) what exactly do you get?

> PPP is the number

Metrics adjusted by PPP might. What do you mean by PPP as such? The multiplier itself? https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/PA.NUS.PPPC.RF?most_rec...

Generally low prices indicate that the country is poor overall.

> its one of the big factors which governs quality of life,

PPP adjusted GDP per capita? Really? That's certainly not the best indicator of those things (even if there is strong correlation overall).

Do you think a median person in Ireland is 30% better off than the average Swiss or 2x better off than the average German?

Anyway, going back to Russia. If e.g. $100 comes in into the country through energy exports and is spent making bombs and other equipment what fraction do you think trickles down to the local economy?
Microsoft is trying to stay relevant and have an answer to Wall St analysis asking them questions about their AI strategy. They will delete AI tools and helpers as soon as the industry goes after another "big idea".
That sounds dystopian…

Essay writing is not a task intended to make you specifically better at writing more essays. It’s supposed to train your ability to explain your point of view clearly and with sound reasoning.
The government won't make things cheaper. The point of the regulation would be to actively encumbered the monopolist company and either give strong incentives to split up or make room for nimble competitors.
Trying to grab some marketing shine from dropping names of market juggernaut Nvidia and CEO
Lots of groups have used https://briarproject.org/ successfully in the past, I've heard. Assumes you're using Android though which if you're using a burner, you most likely are.
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> if one doesn’t like watching ads but do like watching YouTube

I don't like watching Youtube. The quality is crap, search is horrible, you are tracked.
yea sure let’s make taking risks even harder

we as a society are better off when people take risks
I have trouble believing that 6.5ms in increased latency would be perceptible to any more than a fraction of a percent of the most elite gamers. Most the people claiming that this level of difference is impacting their gameplay are victims of confirmation bias.
No, I use Next.JS. Never used Ruby on Rails, I don’t see why I would now.
A lot of people use Microsofts products out of old habit and because they are simply not aware of any alternatives. I have helped alot of people try LibreOffice, which offers everything they need from their office suit. Most people also like that LibreOffice looks like what Word and Excel looked like before Microsoft changed up the menu system.
> The normalisation of the fill-up routine

I've owned and driven ICE vehicles since the late 90s. I've owned cars in the country and the city, in 3 states of one country and in a second country. I've driven cars significant distances in two further countries.

The trip you describe where you're going out of your way specially to get fuel and then return, is an exceedingly rare occurrence IME. It's generally just something I (or my wife) will do on the way as the tank gets to somewhere below half or a third full.

Obviously if we're on a long distance trip we'll be more specific about it, but the expectation you have about making a special trip just to get fuel in a car is, as you put it "mind boggling".
Every task I do in teams feels compromised as far as UX goes.

I loathe using that app.
I'll echo what other comments have stated, which is that my problem with AI slop is not just the quality but also the subtle deceit of presenting something that a computer generated as something you created. We all learned in grade school that plagiarism is bad, yet that norm seems to be thrown out the window because what AI generates didn't exist before. It's still not your work. You could argue that crafting the prompt meets the definition of authoring the work, with AI tools augmenting that into something fuller. I guess that's open to interpretation, but I don't find that a very convincing argument. It's easy to craft a prompt that is completely devoid of any real contributions.

I don't mind AI generated content. Just don't try to pass it off as your own. Like, if it's really that harmless then why would someone object to identifying it as AI generated. The fact that not everyone does tells me they're trying to deceive. Some of us object to that, and frankly I don't understand why anyone would be ok with it.
> don't take identifiable pics of people without consent

Hard disagree. Public events are public events. My conclusion, based on experience at street protests, historic trends, and current political events, is that there have been significant actions by provocateurs over the past decade or more, and particularly in Portland in 2020. Taking and posting pictures of these people is an important act. It the internet age makes this tactic impossible, it will be a huge win.

The upside is nonexistent anyway: the state is photographing everyone at these events, so you taking an additional photo does not change the risk surface for anyone with regard to state retaliation.
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