skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://openaudible.org could be considered somewhat Calibre-like. If it's more about self-hosting, media servers like https://jellyfin.org may be more interesting (although I wouldn't call those similar to Calibre).
I'll freak out when they actually do this

Quality of life in North Carolina is obnoxiously high especially in the Triangle and Charlotte

Also with the tax differential between NC and NY I can install my own charger in weeks
The problem is interference: Most modern cars are a nightmare of radio interference which is an absolute headache for manufacturers to eliminate. And the interference is much worse on low frequencies and especially for AM receivers. Much easier to simply delete the AM radio option. Source: Was an automotive EMC engineer for many years.
Forcing everyone to buy new radios will just kill radio. Especially for cars.
My favorite Erlang container
Classical music over AM? The quality must be awful.
> HNers seem capable of identifying pseudoscience when its an article in nutrition (namely, eg., that correlations in the effects of human behaviour are not explanations of it)...

For me the real question is how well can GPT-3 identify pseudoscience.
It's perhaps a bit on the side but still part of the topic of search.

Have you noticed how newspapers systematically do not supply a clear source for their articles? It's especially prevalent on political cases where there are easy-to-link paper trails. This makes it a lot harder to find the source for their article, so you end up just taking their word for their angle on the story.

A great recent example is Biden's Executive Order on the protection of women. When the newspapers writes about his EO, they're never doing it form a neutral standpoint. In this case they're either pro or anti abortion. But if you want to know the contents of Biden's EO for yourself, then you're forced to search for it. And depending on the search engine, that might also be hard because also search engines are politically biased.

Just so we're clear, this post isn't pro or anti abortion. Instead it's an example on how newspapers systematically force you to take their word for their angle on any given news story. So if you want to know source material, then you're forced to search for it. And when you do search for it, you're then at the mercy of the political bias of the search engine.

For that reason I'm not so sure a non-profit search engine will make political biases go away, especially when you consider what happened to Wikipedia. While not a search engine, it is a non-profit and communal project that set out with the ideal of being truly neutral, but in the end it failed at that, and some would say spectacularly. And the main reason is exactly bullshit, or rather the BS that comes with political bias.

Don't get me wrong, it's still a great source for information, but when you search for any topic that is in any shape or form politically sensitive, then you have to know about Wikipedia's clear political bias beforehand, or else you might take their angle as gospel.

This is especially insidious when it comes to search engines and also social networks, because most people assume that what is shown to them there is neutral, or at least coming from a friendly party. But then it turns out, that's not always the case.

When you systematically get biased information, then it's a democratic problem, because it prevents people from making up their own mind about political topics. Thus when people finally vote, the risk is that we get a society that does not reflect peoples actual opinions.

I think most people in here has been on the receiving end of that, no matter which side of the aisle you're on. And the result is always resentment and bitterness which in turn does not make for a healthy democratic environment.

Instead the political bias should be more clearly visible and out in the open on both newspapers, encyclopaedias and search engines alike. And while a non-profit search engine would certainly save you from corporate interests, it still won't save you from political ones, though it might be a good trade-off to save privacy.
surprise surprise "shown to outperform existing methods on several benchmark datasets"

its SOTA!

Also checkout https://text-generator.io ... not SOTA.. as its not using hyper large language models, but does a excellent job for basically price/performance vs OpenAI which is very pricey. Also generates code without having to go on a waitlist for codex.
Australia has many leading experts in theoretical and experimental quantum control
The first line only matters to racist whites that assume only BIPOC are corrupt when data shows white wealthy people commit far more crime and more substantial crimes at that.
just sign up for https://metallic.io/
get in touch with archive.org
Some ex-FARC guerrillas have become tourist guides in Colombia
The French have a good response to the contagious mental illness that creates this mindset.
Yes. The numbers seems vastly exaggerated by the TikTok’ers. But the biologists in the article are concerned not whether or not those examples are hoaxes, but by the oncoming popularity of releasing insects and other animals where they shouldn’t be released.
Unless there's something missing from the article, Sagan comes out of this looking, to me, like a bit of a BHA
Agreed; it is likely that the tiktok'er did release some, probably a few thousands.
The new new streetcars (for Line 6 Finch) are the Alstom Citadis Spirit, identical to those used in Ottawa and also destined for the Hazel McAllion. Given the wheels literally keep falling off, the gauge is the least of the worries.
> Most of the modders only give you the right to download the mod from the Nexus site using an account and a browser so they the modders get a bump to their downloads counter and hopefully an endorsements.

Why is that so bad? Modders are just using Nexus as a way to host their mods and facilitate the community discussion. Some mods are huge after all, Nexus provides the hosting for the downloads, and software to manage them.

> The effect is that a lot of people wasted their time modding their game

Without a community site at the centre this process would be immeasurably harder. It's an inherently hard problem to manage hundreds of modders making independent mods and getting them all to work together. I'm not sure what the alternative is.

There are certainly reasons to not like Nexus, but I think you'd find modding somewhat requires a site like Nexus. You have to make both the consumer and the creator's experience easy enough that people will be bothered to do it. If I had to sift through 40 different personal blogs to download .zips of mods and load them, I just wouldn't bother.
The press release is complete garbage, none of the words randomly used there ("quantum", "integrated circuit" etc.) provide any kind of correct information, in that context.

On the other hand the Nature article and the research results are very interesting.

This has nothing to do with "quantum computers" or "integrated circuits".

The device is a special-purpose analog computer, which can simulate systems described by quantum mechanics, e.g. molecules, like the traditional analog computers, a.k.a. differential analyzers, which were used before WWII to simulate any systems that can be described by a system of differential equations.

However, for now, this isn't any kind of programmable computer.

To simulate another molecule, you have to build another analog computer, i.e. molecule simulator, with different spacings and sizes for the semiconductor quantum dots, though in the future they might achieve some degree of reconfigurability, to maybe simulate several kinds of molecules with a single quantum simulator.
The answer to the question boils down, deeper, to the question "if parents pay (taxes) for education, do they get to receive quality education in return", and even more controversial "and if they choose different education, do they get to to use those dollars".

I have 3 kids. I am pretty wealthy, even though people richer than me complain on this site about money. I do not have enough dollars to give my kids private schooling. At that point it is very disappointing to read schools consume 42000 per kid on average, per year. With that money, I could give all 3 kids a full private education, easy.

Meanwhile I have regular conflicts with teachers, that tend to boil down to 3 things: the kids have been seriously unfairly treated and eventually reacted strongly (although all 3 are girls, they do fighting sport for a long time), they were confronted with drugs (this is when I get mad at schools. Yes, we're talking primary school), or what the teachers are telling them is obvious bullshit, clear even to them (for example, one conflict was about Madagascar being in Italy). The teachers and the school treat us as enemies (with a few, very nice, much older, exceptions). They have called youth services on us, because of what we eventually found out are financial reasons (for them).

Meanwhile it is getting worse every year, by a lot. Most recently, parent teacher conferences are now only in group (meaning all parents that care to come at once), ONCE a year.

I am half tempted to ask my kids to beat up some random kid just so we'd actually be able to have a talk with a teacher ABOUT OUR KID. JUST ONCE. (again, with 2 very big exceptions that are individual teachers doing better)

Point is, the education in this school is bad ... and getting worse all the time. Homeschooling, of course, is not allowed here.

So I, as a parent, have a huge problem:
1) I cannot give my kids quality education, just don't have the money
2) I pay MORE for the bad education they get than I would pay for private education
3) There is an extreme discrepancy in the quality of education for my kids (one of those positive individual exceptional teachers is the teacher of ONE of my daughters)
4) I am treated as the enemy for bringing up very reasonable problems
5) I am treaded as the enemy by school management since I suggested one of our daughters be changed classes because she has the worst teacher
6) one teacher hates my daughter ... because I demand she get some real education after hours (mostly Khan academy)

FIVE, I have a dilemma. The private school has offered a scholarship for my eldest daughter, which the other ones probably won't get (doesn't make it free). Do I give her this opportunity, knowing I can't replicate it for my other kids, or do I deny it to her?
If he Wants the space that bad he should buy it. The city should make the fine proportional to the sum of wealth and income over 100,000,000 to deter shenanigans. Repeat offenses should be points on license. DMV should adjust their policies to prevent this for the rich only abuse through fines that reflect the above metric. Try thinking through a problem and not just jerking your knee.
Is there anything in the parent product's licenses that suggest what licensing people have to use?
Can you elaborate? https://yacy.net/ is a decentralized search engine. Are there shortcomings to the protocol?
I think "put this in a dangerous domain" was what the parent was specifically not doing.

I also wonder if it's GPT-3 itself arguing as the text is kind of strange. :)
>"executive I".

haha fair enough. Haven't heard that phrasing before
The false belief is that the mod community follows/should follow FS philosophy just because most of their produce is free. Why should they? The products they are modding are also closed source for profit endeavours. When a team pours so much time in a project, it's an understandable expectation that (when becoming popular) they could profit the same way the original game did (once copyright issues were cleared). Lots of mods could break out and be either sold as new games, the original studios endorsed them or straight up hire mod developers. Open sourcing would make that difficult, as it would play against the copyright/for profit angle.
+1 for using local providers for critical infrastructure, especially financial stuff. If something like this happens to me and I can't achieve anything through support channels (which is already unlikely), I can get on a train and go bang on the provider's door within 3 hours.
Ex typographer and logo designer here (I didn't work in that profession since 25years but I know a bit a about it).

> [...] at some point the logos do start to look outdated, either because the company evolves or because the world is moving.

This is simply not true. If your logo looks outdated, 10 years in, it was never a good logo to start with.

Logos need to be timeless.

They also need to to be recognizable though.

These are difficult to align constraints and only a tiny fraction of logo designers manage to produce logos that satisfy both.

Otherwise I agree 100% with parent. Suits meddling in affairs they have no clue of. Been there and seen that at two companies with previously good logos.
The Moonies, often represented in America by some unfortunate Korean boy or girl, beg for money at American universities in exchange for food and lodging. It's essentially human trafficking and indentured servitude because they're trapped in a foreign country.

So, if see someone who doesn't speak English who shoved a photo montage flip book clipboard of deprivation in front of you, think twice before giving them money because you'd be supporting the late George Bush Sr's 2nd-favorite cult.

They also own The Washington Times and United Press International (UPI).

And True World Foods, which runs a major portion of the sushi trade in the US.

Numerous other innocent-sounding organizations in many, many sports, interest groups, and industries.

Net worth around $2 billion.
To solve this problem I use parcellite, which gives me access to my clipboard history.
AM HDRadio is essentially limited to the USA.

Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) broadcasting was expected to become standard (on the MW band) in Europe and Asia/Pacific, however the trials have been a complete failure.

Strangely enough, DRM has been a huge success in India.
Price changes due to macroeconomic circumstances are explicitly listed in the contract as not being grounds to get out of the deal.

I’m telling you, the guy really signed an ironclad contract forcing him to pay $44B to buy Twitter.
hunger is real and it’s a real issue. Not the type of hunger where you want to eat tasty food, physical “body doesn’t get enough calories” hunger.

Listen to accounts of people who actually starved for months, like those lost in the wilderness, bodybuilders in extreme cutting sessions, or from the Minnesota Starvation experiment. They describe how they stopped caring about anything but food to an extreme degree, even sex drive. That’s what serious hunger can do to you. It can make you depressed and uninhibited and directly lower your QOL and intelligence. At that just accepting fat might seem like the sensible option.

Fortunately you don’t have to get this type of hungry even when losing weight, unless you have a hormonal issue. You can be 15% body fat and not physically “hungry”, even 10% if you have good genetics or take pills. This is why CICO, while absolutely true, is generally bad advice, and eating whole foods and weightlifting, while not guaranteed to cause weight loss unless CICO, is strongly recommended.
This is one of the wildest analogies I've ever seen.
How did laser enrichment turn into the former? What did Australia have to do with nukes in WWII?
Funny, I find them to be identical to Google's results localized for Sweden. Are you possibly using Google Search logged in or saving cookies between closing tabs (i.e. not using Cookie AutoDelete)?
That's not logically connected to statement "parsing JSON is major bottle neck".

It's just comparison of execution times of several different package manager.

Better would be parsing JSON vs binary in Bun.
> This is the obvious answer for any rational observer.

"Obvious" and "rational" in one sentence seem to me suspicious every time. I'm suspicious about "obvious" itself, because of my math education, but when combined with "rational" it is just too much for me.

The answer you refer is a simpliest one: it doesn't need any special assumptions of Musk's personality and it is built on a smallest possible sample of relevant facts. May be it means that it is an obvious answer? May be. But it doesn't mean that it closer to reality than more complex opinions relying on more data points and more complex models of Musk's personality, not just an assumption of his rationality.
There are some other issues with this study that might strain credibility, but yes, I think you are mistaken about the size of the effect being reported.

At low prevalence probabilities, odd ratios are more or less just multipliers on the prevalence probability.

So if there is a 0.1% probability of developing Crohn's without childhood antibiotics, an odds ratio of 3.5 would mean that there is approximately an 0.35% probability of developing Crohn's with childhood antibiotics. That's 100 in 100k vs. 350 in 100k, and in my opinion that's not a small difference.

More generally, an odds ratio is the ratio of the odds of something under two different sets of circumstances.
How popular is Web3 in Silicon Valley?
many people in china tell me web3 is very popular in SV, i wonder how popular is it?
Back in the MS-DOS days, it was a bunch of pkzip archive files on floppy diskettes.

Saving a file with different names on occasion seems to be the way the rest of the world does it.

My child does a ton of different layers in her art program, each of which is a separate project... that get saved periodically.
> How did the return on the good investments compare to the costs of the bad investments? And how did the overall net return compare to, say, S&P?

Both answered in the paper, so not sure how they are “the real question”.

The goal is always to make better investment decisions. If I can make 55% returns instead of 40% returns by making better decisions, the s&p returning less than 40% is irrelevant. I want to make the 55%.

The real missing unanswerable alternative is if a better decision framework had been used, what unfunded startups would have been funded and how much they would have returned.
Yes, the article could better read, 'Why the world needs a range of non-profit search engines'
Yes, it is. Bing has gotten a lot better recently. This is a good write up on indexes: https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-...
Most tunnels are required by law to have a leaky-feeder arrangement which rebroadcast the AM and FM bands so that emergency services can still be heard.
I have recently found Audiobookshelf which is pretty impressive. It still lacks some features (like Upload progress bar) and polish but is totally usable.

https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf
I just zoom in to the window, copy, then zoom out again.

The same workflow works for tmux panes and emacs windows too.
I've joined the discord.
Pure speculation but the semantics of and usual purpose of “legal hold” strongly imply that keeping the data even with an unpaid bill would be the correct implementation. Even at much smaller scales contracts state fixed data retention or escrow schemes beyond the end of the contract precisely to make legal discovery easier

Edit: went looking for some evidence that supported this (at least in the stricter compliance mode) but found none in the docs. I found a 3rd party audit report supporting the use of this mode for SEC/FINRA etc regulated data and it says the entity is still responsible for maintaining its account in good standing but goes into no further details on what AWS does if you don’t.
That's why many countries choose to wait until DAB+ has overtaken FM. In the Netherlands FM will at least exist till 2027 and will only be phased out once 70% of radio traffic goes through DAB+.

Also, some ISP's in the Netherlands have already stopped delivering analog radio over coax and most people I know actually did just... buy new radios / DAB+ receivers.
Can the journalist organization exclude its members if they break ranks, so to speak?
The paper doesn’t say VC risk is high. It says that 50% of the investments are predictably bad and can be safely dropped because there are better risk adjusted alternatives in the public markets (stocks or bonds) and dropping these would boost returns.

I know he seems to score returns on features such as funding raised and the founder’s background (he claims VCs over value the background). But how do they compare those features with bonds and stocks? I was expecting sales growth, margins or P/S ratios to be the features.

Can someone parse the feature set and algo used?
It's always that product manager who wants more ad placements to meet revenue targets.
Photographer documents all items that she owns
I found their confusing information about being open source quite irritating
While I agree that they may need to better consider the economics - both of the engine and the websites that may SEO it- that doesn’t mean we should just assume as supported is the way to go or the only way to support people. The economy of today looks different than 20 years ago or 20 years before that. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t grow and change.
Maybe the shops you’re using have done that on purpose? I worked on a shopify storefront for the past year and our users stay logged in for an indeterminate amount of time.

We actually have a problem figuring out the exact amount of time their access token stays valid as it seems random, from a week to a month to 3 days.
Sounds like a few places I've had friends work in.

Anyone at a C-level who has to shout at staff is a red flag for me.
The delay after pressing play button is baked in: after you play the first note the timer starts, not before. Not sure what yo mean by 'handler for pressing wrong key seems not working'? It turns the note red and logs a wrong note in the counters, did that not work for you?
Maybe because games as a genre are really different from the tools most open source communities are centered around? Games contain a lot of art (subjective, made by a few/single persons), lot of authority is needed to hold it together, and the product is mostly not something to be refined for years but a one-big-release affair which is would only be used/played with for a limited time. The same way how you couldn't open source a poem or a book - the most you can do is be very community-based, like how most modders - akin to indie game developers - do. Are there any major open source game development besides maybe OpenTTD or Spring (which are more like frameworks and less of a games themselves)?
AM broadcasting on the Medium Wave band is pretty much the only way to cover the enormous distances in places like Australia, etc.

Most FM transmitters also broadcast at high power levels, but as they are limited to line-of-site, they have very poor penetration into rural areas, forested areas, buldings, etc.
Yes, this is what I do with pianojacq.com, there is a cursor for each of your fingers.
Looks like mostly scraped off the web https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3#Training_and_capabilitie....
Many game EULAs explicitly disallow paid mods, but I haven't seen any specifically mention broader licensing.

Even without that, however, mods are a grey area in copyright law. Publishers tend to let mods exist because they bring publicity to the game, but when modders start making money, they usually want a cut at best or sue and shut them down at worst.
The real question is why there is herbicide in your urine.
Everything else is a smoke curtain.

Why if it does not cause cancer but is behind the obesity epidemic?, or related with the autism increase starting at exactly the same years?.

"Not causes cancer" does not mean "is harmless". This stuff shouldn't be there
I hope my reading will improve then!