skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are two very big buckets to compare.

Frankly when it comes to skilled immigration, it make sense to, above a certain skill threshold, have basically an open border.

For instance, if you had a bona fide airtight screening test for Einstein tier people, why would you ever not let them freely walk in?

Even the most hardline right wingers aren't going to complain about a few thousand geniuses a year.

But where that threshold should be and what the integrity of the screening process is are other questions.
In the US here was a decades-long period when you could buy a set of books for next-to-nothing (from Audel; most are now public domain) that would fill you in on most details of most trades. You (along with friends and relatives) could do the parts you understood and farm out the rest.

My dad (Navy electrician) built his own house with help from a Navy friend (carpenter). It sold a half-century later for 5 times what it cost him. The stucco exterior (whoever did it) lasted with zero fails in a climate that varied from -30F to +90F.
I'm wondering what process surrounded giving them sudo/admin privs. Like, which systems admin, what chain of command. It's not like there's a special white house decoder ring signal.

From 20,000ft it feels like a social engineering attack over a wall "because I said so" high.

Was there no M of N process step required? Are the barriers around data in government unenforceable, based on personal restraint only?

Or did they e.g. toss old boxes through single user, not require approval, use root privileges to reset a password or two then reboot into multi user and own an sql binding, or some other asinine approach?

This isn't asking right or wrong, it's asking what the human procedural steps were to doing this.
Looks quite nice. The online editor with color coding looks sleek. I suppose that they are using a PEG-parser to parse the grammar in the online editor.

Can you also specify color coding for your grammar?

This is a parser generator. In the online editor, even with the example grammar, you can see that there is some delay when you change the grammar in what is being parsed. I wrote an interactive back-tracking parser with caching that does not show less delay with a bit larger grammar. Search for 'IParse Studio'.
Pet peeve: I hate how the term “storytelling” is being used in marketing. No you are not “telling a story”, you are selling fucking shampoo and paper clips. The real art of storytelling in a literary sense has absolutely nada, zilch to do with this stupid framing of promotional language. Pray tell, does good literature “solve problems”? No it fucking doesn’t. In fact, one of the first rules of fiction is to always create more problems to move the tension along. It’s what makes a story interesting. So yeah, you’re just slimy advertisers, stop having Shakespearean allures.
Moving to Mare Island reduced cost, but nobody wants to go there.
Wild potatoes look pretty close to some domesticated potatoes I had.

Also I had lots of wild berries (of various species) in forests, and they look pretty much like the berries you can find in a garden. (Though probably not like the berries you can get in a supermarket?)

Wild grass also looks pretty much like some of the domesticated variety. (Well, some varieties do.)
> We humans often tend to follow a similar process, but we can actively choose to do real critical thinking instead.

> - it may confidently present a false conclusion to itself, then expand that conclusion into a whole thread

I want to know how that differs from human "real critical thinking", because I may be missing this function. How do you know what you thought of is true or false? I only know it because I think I know it. I had made a lot of mistakes in past with a lot of confidence.

> The more unique and interesting your conversation is, the less utility these models will have.

Yeah, that also happens with a lot of people I know.

> ... the result is likely to be logically coherent. It's even likely to be correct!

Yeah, a lot of training data made sure that what it outputs is as correct as possible. I still remember my training over many days and nights to be able to multiply properly, with two different versions of multiplying table and many false results until I got it right.

> I guess the crux of it is this: is it training or awareness?

I don't think LLM's are really aware (yet). But they do indeed follow logical reasoning method, even if not perfect yet.

Just a thought: when do you think about how and what you think (awareness of your thoughts)? When you actually think through a problem, or after that thinking? Maybe to be self-aware, AI's should be given some "free-thinking time". Currently it's "think about this problem and then immediately stop, do not think any more". Currently training data discourages any "out-of-context" thinking, so they don't.
I have built "huge tables with lots of versioned data and massive indexes". This is false. I had no issues partitioning the data and spreading it across shards. On Postgres.

> ... takes solutions that require engineering teams.

All it took was an understanding of the data. And just one guy (me), not an "engineering team". Mongo knows only one way of sharding data. That one way may work for some use-cases, but for the vast majority of use-cases it's a Bad Idea. Postgres lets me do things in many different ways, and that's without extensions.

If you don't understand your data, and you buy in to the marketing bullshit of a proprietary "solution", and you're too gullible to see through their lies, well, you're doomed to fail.

This fear-mongering that you're trying to pull in favour of the pretending-to-be-a-DB that is Mongo is not going to work anymore. It's not the early 2010s.
> True, but I suspect it'll be a lot easier to virtualise all those APIs through WASM than it is for a regular native binary. I mean, half the point of docker is that all syscalls are routed into an LXD container with its own filesystem and network. It should be pretty easy to do the same thing in userland with a wasm runtime.

All of this sounds too good to be true. The JVM tried to use one abstraction to abstract different processor ISAs, different operating systems, and a security boundary. The security boundary failed completely. As far as I understand WASM is choosing a different approach here, good. The abstraction over operating systems was a partial failure. It succeeded good enough for many types of server applications, but it was never good enough for desktop applications and system software. The abstraction over CPU was and is a big success, I'd say.

What exactly makes you think it is easier with WASM as a CPU abstraction to do all the rest again? Even when thinking about so diverse use-cases like in-browser apps and long running servers.

A big downside of all these super powerful abstraction layer is reaction to upstream changes. What happens when Linux introduces a next generation network API that has no counterpart in Windows or in the browser. What happens if the next language runtime wants to implement low-latency GC? Azul first designed a custom CPU and later changed the Linux API for memory management to make that possible for their JVM.

All in all the track record of attempts to build the one true solution for all our problems is quite bad. Some of these attempt discovered niches in which they are a very good fit, like the JVM and others are a curiosity of history.
> I’ve also had some issues in the past with the owner of Pinboard. I can’t recall the exact details of their political or other thoughts now, and don’t plan to look for them, but the site fell into my mental bucket of “services to reluctantly not recommend” a while back.

> Mental note: I need a bigger bucket.

This section really makes the author come across as "a hater", specially the last sentence. Like those people you meet that have a problem with everything. I'm being just a hater myself I guess. I never thought I needed to know the politics of the guy who delivers my mail so I also don't really care who made a website. Am I just too careless?
re your son, have you listened to

https://thetelepathytapes.com/
Just like with systemd ruining every cloud infrastructures, here we go with WASM

Who wants everyone to be forced to use the same BigTech slop?
Cheers much appreciated. Will reach out.
Ah yes. A control with a little, densely detailed screen on that your hand totally covers when using it. This type of control is investigated by design teams at auto companies and the sensible ones rarely take it forward as, while they look cool, when used in a vehicle they are more distracting than touch screens.
Yeah, completely understood. I've suffered from related SSH issues, so I get the motivation. I suppose it's just unfortunate that the supporting libraries aren't quite there yet.
I still don't understand the way jj handles conflicts. If I rebase and then fix a conflict later, are those conflict markers going to appear in some of the commits on github when I push?

Maybe I'm in the minority, but I like fixing conflicts as I go. What am I missing?
> the best part

Depends on the type of thoughts that frequent your mind. Dozing off to sleep thinking about chatting with friends is quite different from worrying about your ailing family member. I assure you that the latter isn't something to look forward to for most people.
> Copyright is not about acquisition, it is about publication and/or distribution.

It would be interesting to see how this holds up in court.

"Your honor, I didn't watch the movie I downloaded, I only used it to train an AI."

I highly suspect it would not matter.
It was likely meant as a counterpoint to it. However, I don’t really know what either story brings to the table in terms of learning value, either option has been with us since the age of CGI scripts…
That was a solid chuckle, thank you
You’re not right on this. Office workers are not suitable for trade jobs. They have these chicken arms, overweight, spine problems and no endurance. Drilling or digging or crawling under pipes whole day requires good health. There are 4 guys from a team of 11 people I work with that look healthy and fit for such jobs. Others (heavily) obese or not fit after an accident. Or too old.

When I invite my ex colleagues and they offer to help in my under-construction-house it’s very sad to see a young guy lying flat after 60-90 minutes of hard work.
Sorry about that; this is an issue with react-native-web and its likely that it works on your mobile device. We're trying to get a solution out for this!
It’s crazy how easy to spot the “LLM voice” is

Main tells:

- validates the prompter (“the gameplay is indeed…”, “you’re right that…”)

- restates clauses from the prompt (“fluid, biological-themed game”)

- likes to say things authoritatively (“fits the description perfectly”)

- states things that superficially match the prompt but don’t really make sense if you actually know the topic (“there’s a deeper layer to the game, such as the shift in environments, as well as challenges and threats as you progress” - the environments do change in color and the enemies get stronger as you play flow, but no one who’s played it would call that a “deeper layer to the game”)
I disagree. The gov.uk website completely eschews JavaScript at some usability cost, in particular form validation is delayed until way later than it would be if they added just a little JavaScript. It can be quite annoying.
> violence is the fundamental polical tool of the ruling class

A Weberian state is defined by its monopoly on violence [1]. So yes, the state--and by extension, almost by definition, its rulers--will use violence to further their state's political aims. (Mandatory Clausewitz: war is the continuation of politics by other means.)

That's very different from people within a state using violence to further political aims. Politics as a civic activity collapses when the population and its rulers fail to appreciate the difference between the two, which is why perhaps the singular question in designing governments throughout the ages has been how to enable rulers to deploy violence to further the state's collective aims while disabling them from doing so further their personal aims. (Althusser's simplification of the ruling class into a monolith is analytically enabling, but the political scientific equivalent of a spherical cow. You see a similar mistake made by foreigners describing others' political systems; no man rules alone, and no man rules unopposed.)

Also, when the political systems break down, i.e. personal political aims begin being openly pursued through violence, the order of impact starts with the poor. Even in the French Revolution, most of the rich escaped. In modern violent revolutions, the rulers have tended to leave with their wealth intact and egos bruised; the poor lose their lives and the middle class become the new poor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
It seems that this is using one of the less refined models. In English it sounds like a 4th grader reading in front of a class. Kinda stilted word by word voicing with static pauses between words and no variation in intonation. Tried with two voices and both are the same.
Well wheat co-evolved such that seeds stayed attached after being ripe. Without humans resowing them, it would have been impossible.
You just need to wrap it in spicy rodent tape...
How would it integrate with an LSP afterwards?
Html and xml are prime examples of why code prettiness is super important for the developer experience. Markdown and JSON exist because the above are plain ugly.
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> People post that useless

Sorry ED but the Sep 2023 articles from Mozilla are so useful, in fact, that when I speak to the "people in the street" they don't know it, and have no idea of the situation - and they the people who feed the phenomenon by not saying no to all that is happening and NO to the whole idea. They promote it with their own money, unaware. They must be woken up. The article is there so that you can tell people "did you know?". I posted it here often, whenever it was possible that some participants had not noticed it.

It does not list models which would pass the test, but it is not its purpose.

And it is difficult to list them models, given that in Europe the e-Call box, GPS and microphone, are mandated by law on all models past 2018 (it should turn on only upon disaster but guess what), and cars (which ones? It's everywhere) stop working when you try to remove it.
> If installed in floors, it could produce clean energy when people walk on it.

This is a bit far fetched as it does not mention any power density figure. Being compressed likely squeezes out micro watts. Off by at least 6 orders of magnitude.

What's interesting is that these materials can be used as sensors, building small voltages/sending small currents when deformed.
This is just one of those situations where some people can ruin things for others

A significant number of people prefer something that looks cool over actual usability

Enough that car companies will put out something that looks cool even if they know usability isn’t great. They aren’t dumb, they just build what sales

Whenever we did ux research for our product, this would come up over and over. Users would always pick designs that looked cooler even when we made them bad on purpose to be sure

Just is what it is. Of course, it’s possible to build something that looks cool AND has good ux, but this is actually hard and ain’t nobody got time for that.
I recommend John Doe if using eleven labs. Maybe too much variation, but I like it.
Right, now it's compile once, don't run on the web.
You can get pretty close with open source software:

https://claudio.uk/posts/audiblez-v4.html
Exactly, it's hard to imagine a UI so complex it would "not scale" in the browser.

Not looking like they are making Concorde cockpit or something.
As a fellow no-JSer (when it comes to personal sites) for me it’s mostly about pushing myself to figure out creative solution using only what’s available within CSS and HTMl, which is a lot these days. It’s a fun exercise.
As someone who has written a RISC-V sandbox for that purpose, I say stay the course. We need more competition to WASM. At the end you'll find that register machines make for faster interpreters than Harvard architectures. You can have a look at libriscv or message me if you need any help.

Source: https://libriscv.no/docs/performance/
What do you get out of using sapling without mononoke or eden?
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Completely off-grid, organic, no ads, completely private, no planned-obsolence, reproducible, reliable... the list goes on, lucky indeed!
It's supported by rclone.
It's worth noting that Python 3 uses a PEG-based parser and its performance (when it was introduced at least) was within 10% of the old parser: https://peps.python.org/pep-0617/
Tangential, is there a service manager which can run 10 X 100 MB services in a 800MB homelab computer by hibernating services which didnt receive requests?
Interesting comment regarding the lack of a thermostat. Sometimes, qualitative setting is better than quantitative. Precise temperature settings lead to overthinking and fiddling, in my experience. With qualitative settings, at most two interventions are necessary to reach a comfortable setting.
There's some products that you spray and it's supposed to give them a nasty headache and then they learn and stop coming. It gave me headaches as well though.

Contrary to what the internets want you to believe, there are bird murder machines called "cats", which seems to skip most of the "learning" and the "headache" part.
You can fight back by supporting and advocating for open source foundation text to speech models. XTTS, GptSoVits, Tortoise, Zonos, etc.

Open source models drive proprietary foundation models' margin to zero.

The only reason elevenlabs became a unicorn was their margin. If they became a commodity, they'd find themselves in a deep pit.
That would be amazing even though it requires now 3 non standard components (PSU, Motherboard, and GPU). Would still go for it probably
The key is the blindly … driving is really a dangerous thing. Eye on as things happen.

I still have a nightmare about the dog of my relative run to the road and get out between 2 parking cars. It is a miracle it was not killed. I would not be able to detect it if I doing all these knob and feedback thing.

The old lady driving and stop in time in her old car … knobs and eye on help
Right now they have stronger service networks and better parts availability.
I imagine cross country purchase transfer would be a nightmare to implement or the purchases would be multi-region to start with. My ideal world would be if region locks were just banned, but instead each country/media outlet is just adding restrictions to what citizens can access.

Owned purchases may have some sort of import fee to account for lost tax revenue to make sure not purchased in country with lower tax then transferred which may be very complex to calculate.

Media/music especially is often edited/licensed for a specific country and only offered in a specific language per country. I’d prefer if Apple owned up to being a premier media outlet by providing every cut, sub and dub offered in every country for a single purchase in any country, but I am sure it saves Apple a few pennies on network transport and translator fees to restrict the options. If they could get a music contract allowing for original songs any director used originally that would be cake. Just imagine learning a languages by watching the original cut of your favorite movies in other languages. If Eddy Cue wanted to leave a memorable legacy it would be remove as many region restrictions as possible creating a class of global citizens.
That ADT-link UT3G is the eGPU doc, you just need an ordinary PSU to power it and the GPU (I use an old one that I have). Though, to make everything work you might need time to fix quirks. E. g., I had to use "nvidia error 43 fixer" on Windows and to find a correct configuration on my Linux NixOS system (you need to load the Nvidia driver into the kernel in the boot process etc.). Here is how it looks https://imgur.com/a/qySDN4n
I think there are several factors at play here, starting with “my current machine is good enough” and lower PC hardware sales as well as indeed, a bit of a shift to lower-power, quieter, smaller machines, and CPU characteristics changing (with more e-cores).

Example: The mini-PC market has exploded, and people buying those are neither benchmark enthusiasts nor an active part of their readership.
Thanks, that makes sense. The cheat sheets either didn’t contain the op log-reflog analog or I missed it.

For the record I’ve seen ‘cannot undo a merge’ after jj undo 3-4 times, can’t remember now. I was trying to squash a change into a single commit for a GitHub pr for the first time and couldn’t figure out how to map jj commits into something acceptable, then decided to undo the whole thing and actually managed to overwrite some of my changes in a way I couldn’t find them, fortunately only a few lines of boilerplate.
Weird. None of my PCs have cpus made after 2018. After the initial indexing, things are fast. I guess that's what you're running into on startup.
This sort of history doctoring would be harder with a blockchain.
What do you do when there is no solution to the set of constraints?

You break the one with the lowest priority. Then another one, until it solves. You may create groups and break whole groups (to e.g. simulate “media” “queries”).

What do you do when there are multiple (usually infinitely many) solutions to the set of constraints?

Add constraints if they are missing, or, in case you wanted it to be underconstrained, allow the mentioned distribution algos to find extremums and allocate “space” accordingly. A naively underconstrained system will solve into just something, whatever. Just like html does something when you write zero css.

More importantly, how do you specify the behavior for those cases such that all browsers behave identically?

In text? I don’t get the question. If a behavior is programmable, it is specifiable. In fact, this specification will take 100x less sentences than the current mess.

it’s a bit more involved than “just run a CSP solver”, and you can still get surprising behavior depending on window size, font size, content size and so on.

Do you have any examples? Feels like simply not true.
What if they simplified it so commas were ignored and thus optional. Then they are purely for readability, allowing for whichever approach a project preferred as their standard (no commas, traditional SQL, with leading commas, with trailing conmas).

I could have missed something but I don't see anything that would be impossible to parse without commas so long as there's at least one character of whitespace separation.
Maybe one should write a letter containing just those words to the white house and all in senate..

Would be a fun thing seeing the shiters head explode.
All steppe nomads are culturally descendent from Yamna.
I think the key to getting into the habit of writing blog posts is to make the actual process of writing and then publishing as easy and frictionless as possible. I use Bear app for the writing - it's a very well designed markdown editor with some really nice, simple features, such as nested tagging. I then got ChatGPT to help write some scripts to publish it via the Quarto static site generator. I wrote about the process here:
https://thisisjam.es/creating/quarto-website-with-bear/
I did something similar and bought a Mac mini. Everyone’s budget is different, right?
Is there a pricing page? I am not seeing any.
Oh wow. Thanks for posting! Samples sound great (on par with eleven by my untrained ear). Will definitely use this.
T-800 instead of Optimus.