skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks and good point about the structured data.

I ask about mbox (one file system file per Thunderbird folder - e.g., one file named Inbox containing all its messages) or maildir (one folder per TB folder, containing one file per message) because it affects search using outside tools that don't understand that folder structure.

I'm wondering how efficient they are: When you search, does grep return an Inbox mbox file at a certain line number, or a maildir file?
Reduced demand for French wines in the US means more for me: bring it on!
Actually quite useful. Agree that this is a source frustration for anyone trying to make a decision about server providers.
Does this attempt to normalize for the possible case that colour is overrepresented in older art because pigments were so precious? Do we see a lot more purple represented than we should have expected to if we went further back than 1800? And as it became cheaper, it’s less novel and less interesting to utilize?
The specs seems to exceed that of the Steam Deck. And that was barely selling at a profit for a while. I'm not really mad at the specs.
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Is that really true or isiit just that blues and greens biodegrade and so the only evidence of the past's colors we have is the mineral colors. We have evidence that paint has been used on wood furniture - but not what color was used.
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I appreciate the honesty and foresight.
I would argue that if something is illegal but it is acceptable, right, good, or moral, (depending on which reference framework is appropriate) a decent person or corporation should commit that crime as often as is frugally possible, e.g. "Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men"

Vice versa, that mythical decent corporation person should not do things that are legal if they are not acceptable, or right, or good, or moral, no matter what other incentives are attached to that action, e.g "Facebook doing an authoritarianism to erase objections".

Thusly, when "Facebook does an authoritarianism" is the topic of conversation, we can say, "Facebook is bad" without wannabe Cartmans showing up in a psychological crossdress yelling, "uh uh, I do what I want" on behalf of the un-decent corporation.
I would say it mimics real life interactions of some communities. I do not think that is universal.

I would say this is straight up wrong. It is universal since it's fundamental to being a social animal. There's a cost to being at odds with a group. We do have all sorts of mechanism and rituals, formal and informal, to minimize or amortize that cost in all sorts of settings but it's still there and it's still essential. You look at the faces of your coworkers in a meeting in which you're making some unpopular proposal to see how it's going over and you feel the slight sting of recognizing the smallest hints of disapproval. It's built right into all human interaction.
Out of curiosity, do you have a specific goal or outcome in mind in this exchange? I have tried to determine what your and your sparring partner's objectives are, and I admit it is difficult to discern.
Joan Didion’s words remind us how fragile life is—how everything can shift in an instant.

she shows grief, love, and self-reflection clearly. this is why her work feels timeless. her words are a quiet companion in the darkness for anyone who has felt loss.
> Workflows are systems where LLMs and tools are orchestrated through predefined code paths

This definition keeps coming up, but the definition isn't accurate for workflows. Modern workflow systems are very dynamic in nature and direct their own process and tool usage (e.g. like Temporal, disclaimer: my employer). You can even write workflows that eval code if you want though for most that's a step of flexibility too far to give to an LLM. Many workflows have LLMs tell them what to do next, sometimes via a bounded tool list, or sometimes open ended e.g. process execution or code eval. There is no limit here. A better definition of a workflow is that it durably orchestrates things, not that the sequence or code is predefined.

So by a more accepted/modern definition of "workflow", agents are workflows that just happen to be more dynamic than some more rigid workflows.
There’s one scenario: if there’s room for more automation, manufacturers might have fewer high-wage workers at a more automated plant. The problem with that theory is that it doesn’t work if the task can’t be cheaply automated (much textile manufacturing falls into this category) or if it’s already being automated. I would be surprised if Apple has that much untapped room for automation but other companies might be able to match costs that way.
When it comes to things like cars and room interiors, neutral colors have a much better resale value because they appeal to people more widely. For cars, vibrant colors might mean higher insurance rates (red cars are associated with sports cars, young drivers and aggressive driving).
So you think it's a fine trade for them to relinquish, say, 8-10 staff members in order to feed an AI machine they never asked for?
Where is my posix shell with dotnet bindings?
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We've been using electron scanning microscopes, radio telescopes, etc for much much longer than we've been using "AI" in them.

I'm really not sure what you're getting at here, but you definitely seem to be confusing generative AI here. What's being discussed here is not generative AI. It's just a very refined algo searching for patterns in images. This is not "artist conception" type of content like the image of the black hole. So until you accept the difference, you're just spinning your wheels
Just out of interest: do you notice any difference at all between different brands of coffee? I am with on the idea that coffee tastes awful, but despite that I still prefer certain brands that taste subjectively better.
Genuine question: How? Is there a downside to CloudFlare I'm not aware of?
>I don’t care.

The particular problem with poorly defined definitions is they cause a lot of spilled ink later on.

For example the term AGI. Or, even deeper, the definition of intelligence, gets debated again and again with all the goal post dragging one expects these days.

Even breaking out simple categories can help like

Type I agent: Script driven, uses LLM for intelligent actions.

Type II agent: LLM driven, uses scripts and tools. May still need human input.

Type III agent: Builds a time machine to kill John Connor.
If they go overboard people will start switching to FreeTrade-BSD
The question is, who among is willing to be the object of tomhow's first official Unsportsmanlike Conduct penalty? ;)
To me it's just not an encrypted messaging app. I don't even get all the discussions about it...

It's a bit like if we analysed the E2EE guarantees of email over and over again. Every year, multitudes of people would publish a post explaining how email is "badly encrypted". Well, email is not E2EE, period. If you want E2EE, use a system that has E2EE.
Thank you for what has to be a tough job.
>I hope there's a way to disable the chat button entirely, so I'm not accidentally triggering a function that I never want to use and my kids certainly won't be using, like the damned "share" button on the PS5.

Nintendo is very concious about parental features, so I'm sure there's some way to disable the chat button. I'm honestly surprised to begin with they took the step to work with live chat.

>How's the Deck with multiple Switch Pro controller support?

I've had no issues connecting a variety of console controllers all at once to the Deck. PS5, PS4, XSX, and Switch Pros worked fine.
> Difficulty is set at 4 leading zeroes, unless you're coming from US in which case there's also a tariff of 5 more leading zeroes.

> You can see it in action on this recently decommissioned system I'm using for testing purposes: https://ams.source.kernel.org/

Something seriously wrong with it. When I run it with my normal German/EU home connection, it does ~17k iterations. When I run it with a US Atlanta VPN, it only takes ~6k iterations.
Gwern and others who have dug into it this far might be interested by this footnote in the Crespo article: "I have tried to lay my hands on the original version of the conversation, as I am sure Simon did, too. I contacted Gabriel Zadunaisky, who, as the article explains, participated in the meeting. He is a professional translator. I asked him for the original version, and he replied on WhatsApp: 'Mr. Crespo: I am very sick. Unfortunately, I am unable to provide you with the information requested.' My hypothesis is that Zadunaisky translated the conversation directly from the recorded version and that this original version has been lost."

My read is that most likely, it was recorded on an old school reel-to-reel tape recorder. It's entirely possible that the tapes are still sitting on a shelf somewhere in Argentina, though the chances of actually tracking them down are pretty low. I worked with some reel-to-reel tapes that Alan Ginsberg made (now held at Stanford) in the mid-60s (including one where he is talking to Bob Dylan!) and they held up pretty well. Had to use audio editing software to remove tape hiss, but they were not as badly preserved as I expected.
It appears they're using https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis for the proof of work proxy
Wait, what? Receiving foreign web radio streams in the UK is prohibited?!

How is that even enforced?
This is about AI models and not the famous Cypriot cheese :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloumi
According to the BBC reporting, it appears that for each country he's charging 50% of the tariff they place on US goods coming into those countries, or a baseline of 10% for some countries like the UK.

(sorry, this is a BBC live news ticker link):

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy39eet?post=asset%3A3a34...

And a picture of the chart they had showing the per-country tariffs:

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy39eet?post=asset%3A7f78...
Fool me once … It used to not even have a way to backup. Having your auth keys on your phone is not actually a good idea.
https://archive.ph/ESees
But then you’re required to archive the discussions for the public to access. That’s much worse for these people than foreign agents (and journalists apparently) listening in and taking notes.
Yes and some people will also make scientifically inaccurate claims like "sex is a spectrum" and "there are more than two sexes" and "it is possible for humans to change sex".

There's a great deal of misunderstanding around this topic. Having open-minded, interesting and reflective discussion about topics like this should however lead to greater understanding. But that is not possible if it gets flagged and censored.
Let us hope that all the wires above the battery packs are of the same polarity. I can't tell for sure if that's the case but I hope the two that are closest together are just book-ended.
Love this. In my fortieth year I feel like I'm finally past this kind of jealousy of talented people. Envious maybe, but I can envy someone and be happy for them. Better that than the bitter resentment of jealousy. A little envy can be a great motivator.
Fear not. Trump has a new stablecoin for you.

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It’s a shame that those Minsky links have been broken for at least a few months now. Does anyone know where this material is?
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Took me way too long to realize this
I will assist in reporting brigading leftist commenters. There are many of us that want to see politics out of commentary when unnecessary.
> Can you imagine if this leaked and they were using something like Telegram!?

That would be a lot more fun :-).

But I'm happy it's Signal: they apparently got a ton of downloads from all the attention and they deserve it.
It's difficult to break important problems down into NP-hard problems. Search problems are, afaik, the current state-of-the-art; but to my knowledge "a bit of a cancer protein" isn't useful, and "an entire cancer protein" would take a few hours at least.
Well yes, clearly the difference in the reason for initiating two otherwise equal stops can only be due to appearance.

I was questioning whether there are differences in interactions during the stop, because police have a lot of discretion in whether or not to issue a ticket.
I think it's just saving face. That statement could be true if revenue was growing at 1% or 10% or whatever.
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Absolutely. Musk can accomplish over the next few years that which the US could and should have done more than 50 years ago
purchasing power takes into account expenses as well. Even if "income has kept up with inflation", it means little if your rent and groceries skyrocted and you had little/no raises in the meantime.
there's this interesting proof of concept written in common lisp:

https://github.com/projectured/projectured

the depth work is almost done. IIRC there are only a couple of nontrivial issues left, but it's been abandoned.
Do people still use Thunderbird client? I would guess 99% of people use their browser.
Autarky is just bad economic policy because comparative advantage is too powerful. Nobody benefits from this. The US loses and everyone else loses. The US loses the most however, both economically and in soft power.

This isn't even the China model. Slapping tariffs on raw inputs guarantees that US industry cannot compete internationally. This is more like the North Korean model.

While there are positives to targeted industrial policy, there are no positives to autarky.
It's not entirely generational; as an Xennial I despise it with the fire of a thousand flaming suns.
Many of them are fully depreciated and worth nothing, or nearly so, on paper anyway. Any new employees won't want an old laptop. And it will cost time and money to deal with shipping, storage, cleaning, re-imaging, etc. On average, the bean counters must figure it's cheaper to let people keep them.
> You would expect an explosion of color in the 1960s and then a decrease

What happened was a lot of muted colors, earthy yellows, browns, and oranges in the 70s followed by an insane amount of the brightest colors possible in the late 80s and early 90s where fluorescent blues greens and pinks were everywhere. It seems like everything got a lot more bland after that and we've never recovered to happy medium.
Buying American stocks and companies is about to be a lot cheaper.
I'm deeply skeptical as well.

If firefox doesn't have enough compelling ideas and features in its primary domain of the browser, then how are they going to develop a new mail competency in such a complete way that they can take on gmail?

Whether they succeed or fail, this will sap resources from the browser team. And it seems overwhelmingly likely to fail.
I think it’s safe to say that there is severe overfitting and pattern matching behavior involved. When I come across someone who says something so broadly judgmental and unfounded, I become immediately intrigued as to how this person is either exploiting or exploited, one of which is assured. I hope you are doing okay.
It’s baffling. I sort of get why some people like strongmen. Hitler and Mussolini fought and bled for their country. Stalin and Mao led armies to victory. They were bad people but I can’t deny that they were strong in some sense.

But Trump? A middling businessman and second-rate TV star nobody would have ever heard of if he hadn’t been born rich? He has zero credentials for this. What gives?
Their entire industry is built on not paying for data. They aren’t going to spend their own money optimizing this until they have to pay the costs for their design choices.
No pressure to make a seuquel when your MTX in the existing game net you a billion a year for a decade+. It's their own mini-Steam at this point.
I personally use Authy, free, without cloud sync. When I upgrade my iphone (typically every year) all codes are in the new phone. As easy as it should be.

Does anyone know what other apps “survive” phone upgrade, maybe not just iphone but android too?
If you weren't fortunate enough to get born on third base, working hard applies, now more than ever.
Been using this extension to turn shorts back into regular videos for years: https://github.com/raven0230/Remove-Youtube-Shorts

That way not only do you get the seek/pause controls back, but other stuff like volume, comments, keyboard shortcuts etc. now work as usual too.
Why do you assume that spammers and AI crawlers do not have access to large amounts of compute? You can make it more expensive, but these crawlers already have made it clear that they do not care particularly about cost (or they would not crawl so completely indiscriminately).
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Markdown + LaTeX support, export as JSON or CSV, start/stop your review anytime.

Still early days, but I’m excited to share it. Would love feedback, thoughts, and ideas—especially if you’re interested in collaborating.
Most Americans have some vague idea of what is happening. But egg prices are down, so don't count on them feeling bad about the tariff news.
I have been in the workforce for almost 30 years now and I believe that everybody is getting more squeezed so they don’t have the time or energy to do a proper job. The expectation is to get it done as quickly as possible and not do more unless told so.

In SW development in the 90s I had much more time for experimentation to figure things out. In the last years you often have some manager where you basically have to justify every thing you do and always a huge pile of work that never gets smaller. So you just hurry through your tasks.

I think google had it right for a while with their 20% time where people could do wanted to do. As far as I know that’s over.

People need some slack if you want to see good work. They aren’t machines that can run constantly on 100% utilization.
Uncertainty will be priced into the price of things moving forward, I’ve already started adding 10-15% to my BoM over today’s prices to account for the possibility of future price increases and I’m definitely not the only one.
That misrepresents Technicolor. The 3-film process was adopted in the 1930s. It was the most popular, but not first, incarnation of Technicolor.

Kodak also had Kodachrome by the 30s, despite nostalgia for Paul Simon's early solo work.

The more common earlier color adoptions had to do with pigments in paint and especially fabrics. Bold red was so popular for shirts for men over a century that hand-me-down worn-out pinks were considered "boys colors."

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/05/01/pink-blue/

> It's bad design

Says whom? Do you represent the design police? I was never there, don't know the person, and don't know what a person even is, so I'm not guilty, occifer! I'd like a lawyer present, please.
https://github.com/picosh/pico/tree/main/pkg/apps/pastes

https://github.com/picosh/pico/blob/main/cmd/pastes/ssh/main...

These looks like they are the code for the pastebin.

There’s a bunch of other code related to their other services in that repo and in their other repos as well.
So you understand how echo chambers are created and are fine with it?

The problem is that there is no one with power here that can come to the "little guy's" defence. There is no will around here for that kind of support, because the only people hired to wield such power are of like mind. DJT doesn't hire democrats, and this is no different.

Look at this comment section, and tell me this isn't an echo chamber.
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Cloudflare will just straight up block me sometimes, with no way to see the page. For whatever reason this used to happen to me a lot with car dealer websites. Maybe checking lots of different dealerships' inventory looking for a specific car made me look like a bot.

And even in cases where Cloudflare forces a captcha, this POW ran much more quickly than I could solve one by hand
Because when the blowback comes, people will be looking to cast blame for starting this whole trade war, and when that time comes Trump will point to the word "reciprocal" and say "we didn't start this, we were only reciprocating".