skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My phone - essentially all social media, video streaming, email and messaging apps.
I check all the emails on my computer only. I do not have any social media presence. Anyone who needs my time mails me or calls me.

I use my phone exclusively for call only. It has freed up a lot of my time in the day to get work done.
No one ever said he was an EE?

It's a transcript of an informal podcast interview with - clearly - a marketing guy who may or may not have 'engineer' in his title.

I've worked with dozens of guys like this over the years. They could elegantly bullshit their way through any discussion. They had an answer for every question, even when they didn't.

There's a reason they don't send the design engineers to trade shows.

Steve Jobs was one of these people. A clever marketing guy who relied on others for technical heavy lifting. I suggest going back and re-watching some of his presentations, like the unveiling of the iPhone. Every word he said was meticulously planned and very rehearsed.

Not that any of that matters, because engineering is a team sport, and that's where taking this too literally becomes a problem. Just how like a football team is made up of different skills and varying physical builds. The reason they don't send the design engineers to the conventions is because they are too honest and will spill the beans on the product's shortcomings, or inundate the customer with irrelvant details.
I think the book mentions that it did not happen because Xi abruptly shut it all down.
This would have been really handy when I was porting my Matrix client to OS8/9. Thanks
u know the landscape is terrible when something like this can be funded, series A no less. zero diligence.
I mean there is precedent: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/10/amazon...
It is a term of art in compilers/language design though, isn't it?

If you break an invariant the compiler is relying on for optimization then you can't say for sure what the effect after all optimisation passes or in future versions of the compiler will be. It's just "undefined"
We are trying to bring the levels of technical practice, competition, and passion software development has into the cyber security space! Finally detection engineers have somewhere to practice in-depth on a SIEM without messing about in an entire homelab. Open Alpha is out, so we will be improving the platform every day!
Sure, this is possible. Also Chegg is an "innovative learning tool", not a way to cheat.

I agree that it's not that different than asking a tutor though, assuming it's a personal tutor whom are you paying so they won't ever refuse to answer. I've never had access to someone like that, but I can totally believe that if I did, I would graduate without learning much.

Back to ChatGPT: during my college times I've had plenty of times when I was really struggling, I remember feeling extremely frustrated when my projects would not work, and spending long hours in the labs. I was able to solve this myself, without any outside help, be it tutors or AI - and I think this was the most important part of my education, probably at least as important as all the lectures I went to. As they say, "no pain, no gain".

That said, our discussion is kinda useless - it's not like we can convince college students to stop using AI. The bad colleges will pass everyone (this already happens), the good colleges will adapt (probably by assigning less weight to homework and more weight to in-class exams). Students will have another reason to fail the class: in additional to classic "I spend whole semester partying/playing computer games instead of studying", they would also say "I never opened books and had ChatGPT do all assignments for me, why am I failing tests?"
And that’s a bad thing, and the people involved in making those sites should feel bad and do something about their mistakes rather than just shrug. And we should call them what they are: Mistakes, abuses of the web.
Indeed, even legitimate "AI" is just human intelligence that's been macrodata-refined into a huge matrix of weights.
Those aren't algorithms, either. "Monte Carlo algorithm" is just the product of sloppy language use from people involved with the field instead of outsiders.
Yeah, specifying an automation rate of 93-97% to investors when it's "effectively 0%" per your own executives... That's pretty egregious.
Yes, there is.

Python source code is translated into bytecode for a VM just like in Java or C#, and by default it's cached in .pyc files. It's only different in that you can ask to execute a source code file and the compilation happens automatically before the bytecode-interpretation.

`SyntaxError` is fundamentally different from other exceptions because it can occur during compilation, and only occurs at run-time if explicitly raised (or via explicit invocation of another code compilation, such as with `exec`/`eval`, or importing a module). This is also why you can't catch a `SyntaxError` caused by the invalid syntax of your own code, but only from such an explicit `raise` or a request to compile a source code string (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1856408 ).
In this one case it's not meant to trivialize, it's meant to point out that LLMs don't behave the way we thought that AI would behave. We thought we'd have 100% logically-sound thinking machines because we built them on top of digital logic. We thought they'd be obtuse, we thought they'd be "book smart but not wise". LLMs are just different from that; hallucinations, the whole "fancy words and great sentences but no substance to a paragraph", all that is different from the rigid but perfect brains we thought AI would bring. That's what "statistical machine" seems to be trying to point out.

It was assumed that if you asked the same AI the same question, you'd get the same answer every time. But that's not how LLMs work (I know you can see them the same every time and get the same output but at we don't do that so how we experience them is different).
There are a few distros that use Clang as the system compiler (SerpentOS and Chimera Linux for two).
tdeck is making fun of the way the article is written.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia
You shouldn't but there are many sites that assume the default font is black and the default background is white. (I'm sure I forgot to set them myself.)

There are [to] many ways to set the font size. I don't even know which on is the correct choice, if there is such a thing.

Maybe not trying to control it is the best approach? How can one tell?
I was fully expecting "inverse reluctance" to make an appearance somewhere in there.
Furthermore note that the firefighter ended up pleading guilty in that assault case. https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/firefighter-pleads-gui...
we had facebook, but things weren't centralized to only 5 websites yet. You are right though, there's a lot about the old internet that was better, but there was also stuff that was worse. It was more untamed perhaps. I certainly don't miss rotten.com or goatse or the absolute cesspit reddit was at the time (as you mention). We tend to forget about this and just think about the good, like individual weird blogs hosted on their own quirky websites actually being able to find an audience (which still exist to some extent but not to the same degree at all). Still, I think "the internet was always shit" is too cynical of a take. Some parts of the internet were always shit. Some of it changed for the better, some for the worse.
Proportionally they're fine when you look at window and door sizes. They're just short wheelbase 4/8 tonne trucks with a dual cab. You see them fairly often here in .au driven by tradies who actually understand what they need to use for work and entertainingly smaller, easier to park, and have a cargo capacity larger than the shitty utes that all the accountants drive
Those are very small variations. I would look for confounding factors, e.g. income levels, mental health, etc that could easily explain a few percent difference.

Looking at the full paper, specific factors were accounted for but the list seems kind of short for such a small statistical result. The paper acknowledge that racial minorities have a higher incidence but the data doesn't seem to contain income information... yeah.

Honestly I'm mostly surprised it came out so small.
Project DARA (Decentralized Archives and Publishing)
The audio of the interview is on the page. The "Surface Mount Technology" bit is at 7 minutes in.
I wonder where the remote drivers are? If they were in Vegas, latency could be very low -- but if they are in Berlin...
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Newton's Method?
Landline phone. Never used it, the only thing I got there was spam, marketing or survey calls.
Twitter for reasons that probably do not need explaining.

If low-tech counts: Contacts. They are just so much hassle compared to glasses, the imagined better looks are not worth it.

Read-later services. Just another pile of things to manage. If I really need to read something, I add it to my todo app.
> You can really rely on everyone driving a motor vehicle to obey practically every traffic law every time. That is, they stop for red lights, they stay in lanes, make legal/safe turns; they generally stay near the speed limit and don’t egregiously violate it. And they know that driving is a privilege and that violations can cost them their license, which will cost them their job, their freedom and a lot of things.

What utopia do you live in? There's a major wreck at least once each year a couple blocks away when too many people speed while blowing the stop sign at the same time. There's a motorcyclist routinely going 115mph+ through our 25mph neighborhood, and despite having gotten the police to give him stern warnings on three separate occasions he still hasn't stopped (has slowed down to ~80 most days). The median minimum speed at stop signs is 10mph, which might sound safe, but it's faster if you happen to be crossing the crosswalk at the same time because they have to make sure they can get in front of you -- usually misjudging and requiring me to jump away. And you're right that people usually stay in their lanes ... on straight segments ... on curves I have to be prepared to take evasive action as some pickup truck inevitably borrows half my lane while I'm beside them.

Sure, cyclists usually brazenly flaunt traffic stops, speed limits, and the requirement to share the road, but it's not anywhere near as bad as what the cars are doing.
>Art without money is madness.

... wha?

... huh?

I've created so much art in my spare time, for the sheer love and joy of it. It's done for me, but I've shared it with friends and family and they've also greatly appreciated it, and sometimes participated in it with me with splendid results. Money has never entered the equation.

Am I missing something, or am I correct in my reading of that statement? If I'm correct, I don't mean to be judgemental, but that's a horribly disappointing view of art, whatever the medium, and I'm sorry that you feel that way.
> Maybe if we want more optimism in our media, we should give ourselves something to be optimistic about.

It seems to me that it's the opposite. Stories are how we form our views of the world and our dreams for the future. Therefore if we want to have people who build towards things worthy of optimism, we should start by telling stories that inspire them to be optimistic.

Look at Star Trek - Roddenberry didn't go "well the world is hella racist so I guess the show should be too". He made the show reflect his vision for how we could live a better life, and people responded to that over time. I think we badly need the same thing today.
Yes, a very good point.

> And what's especially tough is that this affects hard to verify tasks disproportionately, while those are exactly the kinds of tasks you'd generally want MTurk for.

That's where I'd see MT just shutting down as being a very real possibility. If fraud management and consumers leaving the platform because of too much junk or unverifiable results, the whole concept could just fall apart from a business standing point.

We saw the same phenomenon I think with earlier "get paid to navigate the web" kind of scheme way back in the days, with a watch process monitoring the user actions on the computer and paying by the hour. Very quickly people found new ways to fake activity and game the system, and it all just shut down.
Okay. Have fun planning the whole economy. Let me know how it goes.
The phony comforts of useful idiots
Do it the right way through Congress.
It's a shame that the outline algorithm didn't succeed. Why shouldn't we be able to compose content from different sources arbitrarily? Why shouldn't I be able to write an <h1> fragment and have it mean "top-level heading OF MY CONTEXT" instead of making an assertion about global document context that I can't control?
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Ah, Brian Eno.

I played with a piece of music software of his many years ago now, mid 90s it was. Can't remember the name of it but it was an early attempt at sort of generative music.

Simple concept - choose a few basic settings like BPM, then drag some instruments (represented as blobby icons) into a 2D box which represents the 'soundscape'. The horizontal axis of the soundscape represented displacement on the stereo channels, the vertical represented volume.

Each instrument would play a part in the music. I can't remember if the were samples or used the old midi synth stuff, or how it was decided what notes they would play. The instrument icons were mobile in the box and would move around, bouncing off the walls, shifting from left to right speaker while disappearing and reappearing in the music that was generated.

The idea was that the music was infinite and unique.

Simple idea, fun to play with, I wonder if anyone got much more than an "Oh, neat" and five minutes tinkering out of it though...

I bring it up because even though that was 30 years ago, it seems to be on-theme with this project.

(Edit - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koan_(program) - turns out not to have been his creation, but he used it to publish music and wrote about it)
There's margin (on BOM cost), and then there's profit margin (above the design cost).

Design costs are probably an order of magnitude higher in USA than in China, and can't be spread over hundreds of thousands of units. I'd bet the profit isn't that great.
Should we leave behind the joy of curating our own content?
Frankly, people not talking to their cat(s) should be registered as certified sociopath
OPML file https://gist.github.com/sjdonado/793f690e7783fe41eda06845998...
Meanwhile, every other country is also negotiating amongst themselves to remove any dependence on the US. Dealing with the US is only to soften the blow and buy time.
Wearing a headband along with CPAP would be a challenge, though we are having a few people that want to try it. I'll keep that in mind in the future.

Thanks
There is a lot of way and the most common is shiny (https://shiny.posit.co/) but with a biais towards data app. Not having a Django-like or others web stack python may have talks more about the users of R than the language per se. Its background was to replace S which was a proprietary statistics language not to enter competition with Perl used in CGI and early web. R is very powerful and is Lisp in disguise coupled with the same infrastructure that let you use C under the hood like python for most libraries/packages.
I used it in production for a client last yr and i compared that with a go implementation. The concurrency support of crystal on a 40 Core machine beast the socks off golang. Crystal both maxes out all the cores to a high degree, on file io and overall speed of execution. The time taken to do the same task Crystal; beats go by a significant margin while being so easy to write. And go is a easy language to write but Crystal is so much more easy to read because of Ruby syntax inheritance.
> break it down into the much simpler problem of reading tokens, then write simple "combinators" (and, or, one_or_many, etc etc) to combine these simple parsers into larger more complex parsers.

The popular `pyparsing` library for Python (https://pypi.org/project/pyparsing/) expresses these concepts, just written more in traditional OO style rather than functional style (i.e. there are classes like OneOrMany that you instantiate, rather than binding a single-token-matcher argument to lambda or whatever).
The article seemed to repeatedly suggest that any <h1> without a font size set would be a warning, but reading more closely I'm pretty sure it's only talking about <h1> nested within <section> etc. (So I believe Lighthouse and Firefox are both already doing what you describe in the last sentence.)
That issue has a link to another Issue with more discussion: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/57616.

But as is all too common in the go community, there seems to be a lot of confusion about what is proposed, and resistance to any change.
Yeah, but that login cookie is tied to a session within our database. And since we can count those sessions and see when they were last accessed, now we have stats based on those sessions which are based on those cookies. And we can analyze those stats and glean some useful data - analyzed statistics, we'll call them analytics for short - so we have analytics based on the statistics from the sessions attached to the cookies. So, we better show a cookie banner just to be safe.
Or just a plain ol' trip down memory lane with goatse.
Suicide by heart attack is imminent.
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To be worn, when it rains. Even when not. There are shoes, socks, trousers, shirts, shorts, slips, sweaters, jackets, even suits made out of that, or functionally equivalent stuff. Another option would be something very light to pull over, which you carry with you at all times, crumpled or folded into a volume of maybe two matchboxes, single- or multi-use. Much cheaper than than the goretchy parts, btw.
That's a wishful thinking to pretend that Brezhnev's trajectory would lead to any significantly better future
Exactly. Not an algorithm.
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Please take a close look at the cookie banner that loads on the page you linked. It says:

> This site uses cookies. Visit our cookies policy page or click the link in any footer for more information and to change your preferences.

And then there are two buttons: "Accept all cookies" and "Accept only essential cookies".

The banner is doing two things. 1) It is notifying you that the site uses cookies. 2) It is requesting your consent for non-essential cookies.

Think about this for a moment, why is it doing both things? Why doesn't it just say "Do you consent to non-essential cookies? Yes | No"? Do you think this website added an extra sentence to their banner just for fun?

If you want to use essential cookies, you don't need to ask for consent. That is true. But you do still need to inform the visitor that you are setting cookies. Just as this banner does in its first sentence.
Why does media and film even need to be about changing the world? It gives perspectives and exaggerates it for entertainment from which we occasionally draw cultural memes. Those can influence us as societies occasionally but ultimately they are just stories, personal visions.

The exaggerations in media often defines our outward perceptions more than the boring reality of our actual lives. So it can equally do harm if taken too seriously. And it definitely won't make better films/tv shows.
> If you need AI to tell you about a guest and tell you what to ask them, why are you having them on your podcast?

Absolutely. The podcasts I like are hosted by people who are always well prepared. For example, Russ Roberts who hosts EconTalk[1] often has guests who have recently published books. Russ reads those books before interviewing them. Amazing dedication.

[1] https://simplecast.econtalk.org
I see at least two evil things trying to load on that page.
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Percepta was a company that was doing a lot of CV/ML in this space looking for shoplifting traits. They had a few paying customers before they were completely acquired by ADT Business. A lot of shoplifters use the PLU for bananas when tag swapping higher-ticket items at the self checkout, so, more than likely, they wanted to check that you were actually purchasing bananas.
Then wear a helmet, with a bright flashing blue light on top :)
Tavatron ?!? Really???
Given that Ollama runs quite fine on Windows if you have NVIDIA, why such complicated setup?

It would make more sense for AMD I suppose where Ollama's Windows support is lacking compared to Linux.

That said, neat tricks useful for other stuff as well.
I found a wild Hadley!

Signed, "your biggest fan" from NIEHS. :P
This is great work, it solves an exact problem I too am having. Now I just need to upgrade my 12 year old GPUs to something that can run an LLM.
> There are indeed a lot of people like me.

Are there a lot of people like you that are willing to do this as a minimum wage job? Because that's the real ask.
An algorithm does not require a computer.

A set of rules followed by anything (including humans) is an algorithm.

Stories like this blame computers because that's easier on everyone's reputations than blaming the people who made the rules.
I have done this in projects with POST forms: ”To avoid the resubmit warning when hitting back, use the Post/Redirect/Get pattern: after a POST, redirect with a 303 to a normal GET page. The browser skips saving the POST in history, so back just takes you to the form without complaining.”
Yay, "our users are our beta-testers" hard at work.

How about devs evaluate a change by doing some testing, instead of using users as guinea pigs?

I agree with parent, this is an awful approach.
The issue isn’t that the API documentation has disappeared, it’s that the learning experience for newcomers has degraded. The Observable-first direction has made it significantly harder for new users to grok D3 without buying into an entirely new runtime and mental model. Yes, the docs are technically still there, but they’re increasingly fragmented, and many examples now assume you’re using Observable or some variation of its reactive notebook model.

Bl.ocks.org wasn’t officially part of the D3 docs, but it played a critical role: it was the on-ramp. People learned by tweaking examples, not by reading method signatures in isolation. Saying people just want to “copy-paste” kind of misses the point, examples are how many developers build actual understanding. They’re not just blindly pasting code; they’re reverse-engineering patterns, figuring out how the pieces fit together.

We get it — you enjoy the library. But many users don’t appreciate the direction it’s taken. Such a bizarre defense. I guess we are not supposed to look at the examples when trying to grok a new library, especially a library for chart visualizations which is historically not known to be the easiest to work with.