skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US, there's a continuum of care, from senior living facilities to assisted living to nursing homes.

Nursing homes provide high intensity care to people that are unable to care for themselves, far more than housing. Many of the patients will have significant mobility issues.

Assisted living facilities provide things like optional meals and cleaning services and the like.

Senior living is housing that is relatively designated to older people.
The alien in the TV series the resident alien is descended from octopii.
Bob Flexner, Crusader for Truth, 1940-2024
That’s your definition of “the government” and it’s wrong at the very least in the sense that things aren’t that simple, except maybe if the government you’re talking about a military junta. But in a mature, stable, functioning society the government is part of society and serves a myriad of purposes, in a myriad of ways. And that’s actually OK.
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> [...] “Value to the company” means furthering the explicit plans of your company’s executives

It’s not much of a mission statement! Certainly nothing on “making the world a better place”. But it has the comforting solidity of the truth. The good thing about the music finally stopping is that you don’t have to worry about when it’s going to stop.

An interesting side effect is that the tech industry is rapidly losing the "good guys" image it had in wider society for a long time (with a little help from Elon and friends, but certainly they aren't the only reason).

If both devs and users are realizing that the "make the world a better place" spiel had always been a marketing lie that was kept up as long as there was spare money for it, maybe we could now also start thinking how to really make the world a better place.
> triggering script hang/out-of-memory issues through what seems to be deliberate behaviour when the script does not pass a collection of Web API checks (since the same behaviour was observed on their "officially supported browsers" as well if the user-agent was spoofed to Pale Moon!).

This is a federal crime.
Portia labiata spiders are also fun:

"Females try to kill and eat their mates during or after copulation, while males use tactics to survive copulation, but sometimes females outwit them."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portia_labiata
Ah yeah but that's always the case. Was mostly just surprised my response to 27 number ones was "really, only 27?!"

Looks like the hot 100 is more confusing than I thought; I see I Want It That Way by the Backstreet Boys only peaked at 6 because it somehow only came out after its peak in popularity, whatever that means (maybe it was only a music video for a few weeks or something or not physically available or something?)
Maybe in the US, but Britpop reached it's peak in the 90s. Oasis, Stone Roses, Blur, Happy Mondays and many others
May I clarify my comment.

Trust was maybe a different word , maybe hope is the correct word ? (but doesn't everybody trust hope)

But I trust the people who can make me hope for a better future by actively not submitting to those people who are actively trying to reduce my hope in better future.

There is absolutely no denying that what Trump has done , has absolutely made many people really hopeless. Such levels of incompetency at a presidential level just feels weird. Its as if nobody is seeing how absurd things are , when you connect everything.

Maybe its me , but this presidency feels like a chaos to me as an outsider / foreigner.

America , as it is right now , is a failed state.

I don't understand , don't we trust countries based on their stability and their stance. Such level of open defiance is what makes me trust france that they are more likely to stand to facts than ahem america.

To be honest , maybe I am being too gloom / sad over america. It feels like the world is shifting towards a russo-american , european , chinese influenceced multi polar world.

What america really hated russia was for are just past wars , but britain and france also had these but they collectively became allies after world war.

May I ask , where in my total arguments , am I sounding unreasonable? I thought it doesn't matter where you read the news , I was able to reason to a pessimist outlook of the trump presidency.

Everything is a propaganda , propaganda literally means something along the lines of sharing your ideas.

Listening to propaganda isn't bad , but blindly advocating for it without reason is bad and dismissing other opinions without reason to fulfill your bias is bad.

If you can really counter my reason , then hey , I can be glad that I don't have to be sad about USA.

Also , I watched a video somewhere that we have a limited amount of (he said "fucks" but in the sense of I give a fuck) things you can care and you have to use it wisely.

I really was giving too much care about USA but I have stopped caring now since its not my country anyway and what power do I really have? Maybe it might be my own fault / I read some things without really applying my own reason.

I am sorry if it offends people but this is my honest opinion
America has fallen in my eyes. And there is nothing I can do to change that , so why even care about america?
What a hateful thing to say.
> The GPC signal will be intended to communicate a Do Not Sell

So, there is no tracking opt-out like DNT had.

Do Not Sell is classic regulatory capture: It allows incumbent players to continue their current bad behavior, and directs revenue streams from smaller players (data brokers) to existing monopolies.

Also, this opt out won’t interfere with Mozilla’s recently acquired ad business, which uses user data to sell ad real estate (invading their privacy with obtrusive ads).

(Sorry for the awkward sentence, but they claim it is a privacy preserving technology that doesn’t gather or sell user data, and there’s no way to be doublespeak compliant without using tortured grammar.)
Not really, yes (though possibly not for the actual landing, depending on accuracy), and it's actively being worked on: https://www.intuitivemachines.com/post/nasa-awards-intuitive...

IM didn't win the contact because of their landers per se, but obviously as a company they have a vested interest in this kind of lunar infrastructure. Being able to build it with a bunch of public money is a huge win for them
If you’re usual child-raising age then you probably have 6-10 years of experience, and there should be lots of jobs that pay $500k in the Bay Area. Buying a $2m house on that salary is pretty doable.
Apple Intelligence has an LLM that runs locally on the iPhone (15 Pro and up).

But the quality of Apple Intelligence shows us what happens when you use a tiny ultra-low-wattage LLM. There’s a whole subreddit dedicated to its notable fails: https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleIntelligenceFail/top/?t=all

One example of this is “Sorry I was very drunk and went home and
crashed straight into bed” being summarized by Apple Intelligence as ”Drunk and crashed”.
Do you still get malware in ads when using ublock origin lite?
It's good practice for working on ESA projects in a professional context ;)

Edit: harsh marking on the risk register. Very realistic practice for dealing with ESA in a professional context! I do like the flowcharts and block diagrams
>> Ah really? Which ones? And nope, physical agility is not "solving a physics problem", otherwise a soccer players and figure skaters would all have PhDs, which doesn't seem to be the case.

Yes, everything that has to do with navigating physical reality, including, but not restricted to physical agility. Those are physics problems that animals, including humans, know how to solve and, very often, we have no idea how to program a computer to solve them.

And you're saying that solving physics problems means you have a PhD? So for example Archimedes did not solve any physics problems otherwise he'd have a PhD?
That doesn't necessarily hold true with rich text, though...
7mb is a LOT of text. More than most epic fantasy novels.

While surely the text fits, it’s all the stuff around it like rendering and layout that take the memory.
I use raw weather data, more specifically cloud cover data to determine if the clouds can light up during sunrise or sunset. You can read a more in depth explanation here: https://sunsethue.com/whitepaper
https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/agents-and-tools/claude-c...

It's amazing. You just say stuff like "use tailwindcss and make it look great!"

https://github.com/andrewarrow/xvibe
I don't see any hate in it, it seemed like a post talking about sympathy for hateful people. They even said they didn't want the hateful people to be miserable. That's really nice.
So many New York City sidewalks are covered in scaffolding
I thought everybody did this.
Man the AI race is just launching at all fronts.
Because when innovative software isn't made inside the EU then Europeans will simply use the best products made elsewhere.
Relevant: https://www.hbo.com/how-to-with-john-wilson/season-1/2-how-t...
Yes, clearly we should have spent more time trying to coax our cpus into fucking up pipelining.
Yea I agree , fair point. Though I think , I would probably study more about france's current system to trust it more but that requires efforts and in general a sense of direction (like which country / politician to even start reading to start to generate trust from reason )

I was more about talking trust from intuition which can then create that sense of direction.

I thank you for creating this comment. I gotta read more about macron to see if he's really how I felt from my intution.
Not to go all aluminium-foil hat, but around that same time the NYT broke the unidentified aerial phenomena story, and that up and vanished from its pages all of a sudden.
It’s the basic math of the funding bill. The amount required to continue operating does not equal the amount allocated for social security, Medicare or Medicaid. So no matter what anyone says about “not cutting” there will be cuts. Lawmakers have been asked about this repeatedly with no answers.
How does having money make it harder? Are we saying a small group of passionate, under-capitalized people is the best way to start a studio?
Does this also provide an idea of when to sell? Could it also provide an estimate of profit (percentage)?
>The government has no responsibility to look after their citizens beyond offering public goods/services, which Healthcare is decidedly not.

The responsibilities of the American government are (presumably) determined by the voting public, Congress and the Constitution. Congress decided in 1965 that the responsibilities of the government would include providing healthcare through Medicaid and Medicare, and the majority of the American people support it.
This looks neat! Will the self-hosted binary function in air-gapped environments?
By your logic, the government can never take away a welfare program without that action being not good, since necessarily some vulnerable people will be impacted.

But let us not forget the poor Floridans! Lots of elderly move to Florida to retire, which means that the tax dollars from the state are being spent disproportionately on folks that did not pay into that system during their working years. How is that fair?

Government subsidy of Healthcare necessarily raises prices by removing competition from the market. So not only are Floridans paying for people that didn't pay in, but they're paying more to do it!
You’re right.
That’s economically inefficient, but apparently seems to be the only way to create models that compete with the bigs.
IMHO this repo will die within few years, and that’s both a pity and a waste of public money.
Big LLM is too long as a name. We should agree on calling them BLLMs. Surely everyone is going to remember what the letters stand for.
That is because they want to undercut the US and prevent them from making money. It remains to be seen if they'll be as benevolent in making tech open-source if they are the clear winners. Frankly, I don't see why they will.
Certainly not. I don't believe progress is always good. But subsidies should be reserved for ambitious projects that push the state of the art forward. For those projects that realistically will not get funded commercially. CERN, for instance.
We have been enjoying Massive Attack. The same culture that hatched Banksy is my kind of folks and the music has a good edge, IMO.

For modern stuff, I've enjoyed SomaFM's Groove Salad out of San Francisco. They have net streams directly accessible in VLC, so the processor burning Web app is utterly unnecessary.
I see the era of permanent tech employment as coming to an end, and tech will have to transition to being closer to a trade. You don't expect to pay builders/plumbers/architects/electricians and keep them around forever after your house is built right? You will at best only need them occasionally on a one-off basis for any fixes or alternations.

A properly designed tech solution (aka, not one designed to pad a resume) for upkeep should only require a small fraction of the manpower needed to originally build it. I expect companies keeping in-house "skeleton crews" to run things and handle maintenance and small changes, with larger ones being done by a (potentially returning) cast of contractors who come in on a project basis.

So the solution for permanent employment would be to either join one of those skeleton crews or join an agency/consultancy. Otherwise, the only way out is freelance and curating your own client portfolio. Maybe you can partner with others and form a coop to have more manpower and handle bigger projects - essentially building your own agency.

> Your assertion doesn’t even acknowledge infra engineers

My assertion is that engineers who want to succeed in the current market will need to know enough infra/sysadmin to support their solution, or farm it out to someone who will. If they don't, someone else will outcompete them.

Infra is also a huge breeding ground for resume padding and architecture astronomy (and there were no incentives to discourage it - in fact cloud providers are still laughing all the way to the bank). It doesn't inherently mean all that complexity was necessary. So I expect "infra" specialization to become a nicher skill, one or permanent skeleton/maintenance crews or hyperscalers who actually need the complexity.

> who clearly don’t work on product facing work

I'm intentionally being vague when I talk about "solutions" and solving business problems. I do not mean it should be an app, a product or even have a UI. A cron job running a shell script to copy files from one place to another may very well be the right solution to some business requirements. Infra engineers would be a perfect fit for problems that don't involve significant UI work (I myself prefer those as I hate frontend with a passion).

I think the era of high specialization in tech might be in decline; tools are good enough and hardware is good enough and the field is mature enough that most business problems can be solved just fine by a generalist (bringing in specialists on an ad-hoc basis when needed) - or otherwise they'll get outcompeted by someone who can.
> The conspicuous main eyes provide vision more acute than a cat's during the day

Curious how the spider processes all this information with their tiny brain ...
> Of course, there is always the risk that this becomes unmaintained in the future

We can't even be certain that Notion won't be acquired, deprecated, or poorly maintained in the future. Risks exist on both sides.
I want a sequel to Lego City Undercover with the building and driving mechanics of Lego 2k Drive.
I have two SO-DIMM sticks of a domestically produced Chinese brand named FASPEED, with chips bearing logos and markings that I don't recognize from anywhere else. These sticks' mfg. datestamp is "44-24" and from what I've learned they cost little in China but come with a salted price tag when sold through channels aimed at Western customers. I'm not sure if they come in fast-enough variants to compete, and not sure about the quality or longevity otherwise. FASPEED makes SSDs, too, but I have no data on those. I also have an M.2 SSD from another Chinese brand called XINCUU which I previously had never heard about. The label of that SSD is in parity with expectations of Chinese business morals - it claims to be PCIe NVMe with "1000 MB/s speed" but is in reality a SATA device, and it does not perform even close to the ~550 MB/s limit of SATA 3.0. Both of these run unusually warm for DDR4 memory and M.2 flash storage, leading me to believe they are wholly designed and produced in China.
The file is 142k lines line that GitHub would have to turn into HTML and the browser would have to render immediately.

The browser is perfectly able to render the raw file (you can try it yourself) but everything that goes with it would be asking a bit much, particularly because the intent of the author was to blame the file, therefore adding yet more information/elements to the page.

While browsers nor GitHub are beacons of performance, I don’t think it's fair in this case.

PDFs can be rendered page by page and each page is self-contained. Same with videos, where you read the index and jump to the key frame you're onto, reading data in a highly optimized and parallelized way (often down to the chip). With HTML you must render every letter that comes before line 100000 before rendering line 100000
It's nowhere near as much as you think it is.

We think of the internet as one big flat network, but it's actually a conglomerate of separate networks (interconnected by peering and transit agreements). There are a finite number of networks on the internet. Of those, only some are good CDN locations as you don't need a CDN node on every single network. The number of places where you could possibly ever want a CDN location is finite, with three or four digits.

Cloudflare has a presence in 335 cities - a lot, but not an impossible lot. We're not talking about ten million. Ten million dollars, maybe. (Ten million dollars would be $30k per city - respectable)

How many of Cloudflare's customers even care about all 335 cities? If you're a European business with European customers, you only care about the ~10 mainstream internet exchange sites in Europe (e.g. Frankfurt, London). Cloudflare has 59, but I don't think they need 59. If you want to be a Cloudflare competitor and support European businesses, you only need ~10 physical locations. That's an extremely manageable number.

What you want is at least one peering connection to every major European network, and ideally, a hotline to their NOC or a detailed BGP community agreement, to block attack traffic as close to the source as possible.

I should point out that due to the ongoing collapse of US hegemony, a lot of European institutions would like to reduce their dependence on Cloudflare right now.
Germany has an interesting history with Open/LibreOffice. Multiple attempts that ended up going back to Windows, but with fresh attempts that are ongoing:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/04/germanys_northernmost...
I can barely think of any real application where they would help. I have a weekend project that's already too much context -- I asked Claude to change some Tailwind styles for me and it just shat up the whole file. and that was a toy!

even if allowed, how is Claude going to help my at work where a single file in a large project, one of many, is tens of thousands of lines long?

guess I'm a dinosaur
Private industry can always build on open source as well. The just work on the parts that don't involve reinventing the wheel.
I suspect newer generations will instead try to change the reality so that it resembles the digital world.
>like having an intern who has memorized the library and the entire Internet. They occasionally hallucinate or make mistakes

Correction: you occasionally notice when they hallucinate or make mistakes.
A little bit earlier, but I remember dumpster diving behind a big company in the early 80's and finding a couple boxes of probably about 200 blank floppies. Couldn't believe my score! I pretty quickly found out about half of them were bad, which was probably why they were in the dumpster. But still there were plenty of discs for Apple II games copied from all my friends.
The piece you're missing is de-consecration. A consecrated space is holy whether the people are in it or not, within the Catholic tradition. Yes, you can deconsecrate it, and then it's just a building. However a loaded tabernacle makes it a holy space in the eyes of Catholics even if it's an empty space. It is conceptually very different to Methodism: the entire point of Methodism is to abandon such mysteries.
Nobody is focused on work in the office, it's politics and coaster culture everywhere. WFH allows me to my work efficiently and quickly. I don't need to look busy because I'm delivering.
There are downsides both ways.

Person A: I save and live below my means, purchase elderly care insurance at a premium, and am set for later years.

Person B: I live a lavish lifestyle, spend my money on experiences or depreciating assets, and have nothing left saved for a likely future event, such as elderly care. But it's okay because the state will steal from Person A to pay for me.

I argue that Person B having to rely on charity, family, or ultimately starving is a better outcome than the present model.
That looks VERY AWESOME. Really looking forward to try it :)
Alexander Hamilton oversaw an explicit program to steal technology from England. https://apnews.com/general-news-b40414d22f2248428ce11ff36b88...

I believe that is what is being referenced.
“Florida is too big for public transit” is entirely circular reasoning.

Things are so spread out because of dependence on private transit.

The more densely (and public-system connected) we can make our cities, the more divine Ocala National Forest-like experiences we can access and preserve for our children.
For this prototype, I understood that they're using solid lithium liners. They have a casting die to make the lithium wall, so this is strictly a single shot + long reset type of thing.

I believe their proposal for an operational system is that they use a liquid lithium wall which they keep spun up for form a liner. This liquid lithium is also supposed to be their primary working fluid, so it'll be kept liquefied and continuously circulating.
Still very, very impressive for undergraduate work.
Possible, but if you look at the graduate students and lecturers behind many of these IPs you will find they are Chinese (or Russians or Iranians).

This is the paradox in those who are championing barring Chinese students from the US to prevent them from stealing IP, they don't see that at least 50% of this IP is generated by students from China, in a way they will be handing the CCP a gift by incentivising those students to remain in China.
> a lot of frontend code is trivia that you can just ask the LLM for these days

If you're building CRUD yes. If you're doing anything remotely complex or novel, LLMs fall apart, much like they do for complex backend tasks. There's a lot of cool, highly customized stuff you can build with JS, and LLMs don't do a very good job at general problem solving.

They're still helpful for writing small, specific functions, or providing high level guidance