skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the link. Pretty impressive mission despite the unfortunate ending!
Edit: Did it actually crash? The article says it was “brought down” but that could have still been a glide and regular landing if it lost power.
All former soviet republics suffered economically yet only one is acting this way.
> The US has been historically so flush with capital and regionally isolated that there was no burning need nor desire for much centralized governance let alone bank coordination [...]

Until fairly recently in large parts of the US, it used to be illegal for banks to have more than one branch. (The last restrictions on branch banking in the US only came down at the end of the 20th century or so. It was a long and slow process.)

For comparison, Canada is just as wide-spread, but they had national banking chains since forever (because they were legal), and with that came national coordination.
This sounds a lot like most traditional degrees in Universities, where people are learning for 3-8 years and only then start working.
"D1" CloudFlare's database thing
Yikes, that's atrocious
Am I reading this correctly? The Nintendo Switch has 7154 games?
But, what if Babur had succeeded in reconquering Fergana?

Or, suppose that – much like how the Brazilian Empire became independent of Portugal in 1822 – 19th century Britain had fallen into civil war, and Prince Edward of Wales withdrew to Delhi, and declared himself Emperor of an independent India, albeit one where people of British ancestry remained in charge?

How much should our judgement of history turn on its vicissitudes?
"For things that are 100% plastic, ie. basically the only type of thing a 3d printer can reliably produce"

This is nowhere remotely near true. I've been testing SLS-printed diamond blades and coring bits for two years, now. They work just fine, and last longer than their stamped/brazed equivalents.
Some things the government does doesn't have to be profitable, it does them because it is a good thing for a government to do.
Thanks!

Grand majority of paid users will see no impact to their limits. We do have some bugs where a small fraction of paid users today use more than their quota (Pro+ users burning $100 worth of an A100 when paying us $50), and those folks will see limits, yes, as we fix some loopholes.

I hesitate to post this given the anger I've seen about any changes, but I can't subsidize paid tiers, that gets expensive fast. As best I can tell from looking at prices for competitors in this space, Colab will still be the best value for money. If folks find otherwise, please do tell me where the competitors are sourcing those GPUs for cheaper.

It goes without saying we remain committed to supporting the free tier.
> I don't like sitting and looking at a screen for 9 hours a day. I work from home and while I love that, I'm constantly getting up from my desk because I just feel so restless. I go to the gym but it isn't enough.

Neither do I. I also take breaks a lot. If you were in an office you would too. You’d BS a lot with your coworkers, sometimes for long stretches of time. It’s just not fun to sit at a computer 9 hours without breaks.
Doing military stuff is just dangerous in and of itself.

In Desert Storm, the first Iraq War, half of all deaths were not related to combat.

"292 killed (147 killed by enemy action, 145 non-hostile deaths)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War
Are you on Windows? Check out this sample list of AHK utilities. Download them and give it a try! https://www.dcmembers.com/skrommel/downloads/
The IRS does not need to be a large operation. It's a problem created by our complex tax code, something every politician ever has promised to fix, and yet here we are. I for one would rather see the root issue solved. The primary role of the IRS can be done with a handful of agents and computers. They do not need to be a law enforcement agency. They do not need to have guns. They do not need to be yet another arm of federal and executive overreach and power expansion.
Thanks a lot for collab, I have access to really powerful compute from my job yet I still find myself using collab a lot. The only problem I had with it was the very vague FAQ and the spotty resource allocations but the new faq is much better. Thanks again!
> building a system for 330,000,000 people across 50 states that works flawlessly (and is responsible for trillions of dollars) isn't easy

Which is why they should pay real experts to do it. For less.
What does this mean in this context? What's being locked down?
I wonder if zlib-ng would make a difference, since it has a lot of optimizations for modern hardware.

https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng/discussions/871
Hindsight is 20/20, sure, but the 90s were a time where a lot of people didn't have anything to eat, a time where everyone's life savings turned to dust overnight, a time where many people ended up homeless, a time where highly educated people became unemployed without warning (or couldn't get salaries for years on end) and were better off sweeping streets than working at science institutes...

And that set a basis for Putin being revered in early 2000s for bringing in "stability".

The war in Ukraine is an outgrowth of that.
We are also dealing today with blowback from the perceived claim that "Not One Inch" [1] of NATO expansion to the East could be expected as Western policy. The Partnership for Peace program may have started off in the right direction, but, as the military hawks took policy control like good generals the only thing they actually cared about was "securing the nukes". And expanding NATO to the East.

Ps I worked with a guy who was in Russia for IBM in those days and he said they needed armed guards and dummy trucks to deliver a Mainframe.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/57615585-not-one-inch
The Many Lives of Elizabeth von Arnim
Studio Ghibli available to rent online
Zelle and Venmo are difficult to reverse and filled with scammers. This is one of the reasons why paying large sums of money or digitally isn't easy. Will this be any better?
ASCII Art Archive
Sort of defeats the purpose, no?
Would it be too hard to find good out-of-patent designs for appliances and to elaborate on them with details on manufacturing, assembly, and repair? Publishing complete documentation of an appliance like this would be the final product, really, because after you post a good design some Chinese factory (or 10) would start turning it out.

I've personally been thinking about designing a standard classic drip coffee maker with parts that are easy to manufacture, replace, and clean. I have a personal belief that you should only ever have to buy one of those, and that the only reason that we go through many in a lifetime is because they're made of plastic, the reservoirs are impossible to clean, and the insides are often inaccessible without breaking something.

A lot of Chinese stuff seems to be based on old (but still great) designs, for working with paper and printing, for working with leather, etc.. The shared designs result in a standardization for both parts and replacement between factories and over time; you'll be able to replace your alibaba paper cutter with exactly the same paper cutter 10 years from now. I love it.
Are you running on anything special compute-wise? I have a budget node running Mongo, it takes almost a second to fetch a single 1MB document.

Writing it out I realize it's not indexed by the attribute I'm retrieving by...
Local StableDiffusion on M1
How Linux Certification Has Evolved over the Years
I also compiled a list of most useful AHK scripts
https://gourav.io/blog/autohotkey-scripts-windows
I've been using Colab for a few months as I dive into my personal ML education. Free at first, Pro tier now. It's very handy and I appreciate the product.

I suppose my concern is this - Was Colab using "compute units" internally for limits already? Or was it "as available"? And if so, will my compute units allocation be what it has been or will it be decreasing? To be honest, when I read the email today, I assumed the limits would be tightening. It feels like the sort of thing that happens when a company tightens up on a product. Not really a reflection on you or your product, just past experiences.
> the only thing that could make them even less pleasant to have around

Do you actually live near an installation of wind turbines? I don't, but I drive past many wind farms fairly regularly. I just can't wrap my head around this "they're so unpleasant" argument. They are aesthetically neutral at worst.

Seems to be the outcome of existing bias that is entirely unrelated to the aesthetic "pleasantness" of the wind farms. Trotted out by politicians that have a vested interest in subsidising fossil fuels, whose extent of suffering through the unpleasantness of wind farms is looking down at them from 30,000 ft.
It's probably easier/faster to just have AI generate vector art then use a tool to automatically vectorize it.
The issue is collateral damage. Using a flak gun to take out a drone flying 20 ft over a crowds head at 120mph is going to probably do far more damage than the drone would.
No, I really think the author is right about consumption devices. They're just not optimized for creation. No keyboard, tiny screen, perfect for reading tweets and scrolling Instagram but not great for sitting down and creating a PowerPoint presentation, flash game, application, or what have you. Hate Microsoft as much as you want, it was possible to write programs on a Windows machine, in fact they produced tools like Visual Studio and Excel. Making an android app on Android or an iPhone app on an iphone is impractical. That's why we lost.
I wasn't suggesting imposing a system on Russia or taking control, any more than the US imposed a system or took control of the UK after WW2.

"The largest recipient of Marshall Plan money was the United Kingdom (receiving about 26% of the total). The next highest contributions went to France (18%)" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan

Moreover, Russia clearly did want and in fact received some economic aid under Yelstin.
Agreed. I'm just asking people to be better.
I hope it works better for you, please send feedback if it doesn't!
If parts and designs are standardized, if your particular manufacturer has skimped on a part, you could replace just that part with an identically specced one from another manufacturer.

edit: And I don't mean that everyone uses the same type of clothes iron, I mean that the type of clothes iron you use isn't tied to a particular manufacturer.
This is true and does not deserve to be downvoted
I'm not saying that Gorbachev's ideals were flawed. It's the approach he took to putting them in place.

In a way, he was putting "the human face" on socialism in the same hamfisted manner that the "should be done" socialism was pushed down people's throats before.

His bright idea to solve the alcoholism problem by having a Prohibition 2.0 is a prime example.

What with the oil prices? Forget that, look at the vodka prices.

That's solely on Gorbachev. And it worked as well as you'd expect.

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/27/world/soviet-liquor-price...
If there was a consistent pattern that cyclists followed, I’d be more tolerant (than I am).

Many cyclists want it both ways: to be a car when it’s convenient (ride in middle of road) and be a bicycle when it’s convenient (run red lights).

I have no problem with cyclists, I just think roads should be engineered with them in mind where applicable, self governance isn’t working well.
Some additional comments and opinions:
1. Precision drilling with a 3 flute stubby carbide drill is a good way to achieve +/- 0.001 size tolerance in certain materials and size ranges, close to what you can get with a reamer and blisteringly fast speeds.

2. For long holes, guide drilling with a stubby drill is superior to spotting for orientation, and does just as much for position.

3. Spotting at 75% of the finished diameter isn't usually necessary, it's better on small sizes to pre-chamfer using the spot drill to 130% or spec rather than post-chamfering. Most holes would want to have a chamfer.

4. Optical comparators are useful for profile measurements.

5. Go/no go gages are not well characterized as a cheap and easy way, they are the final say and represent both the state of the art in metrology and the actual geometric definition of the tolerance limits for size and any other geometric control that you care to specify. For metrology of very tight tolerance holes and bores at small sizes, precision ground gage pins are the most expensive way to go and are irreplaceable. For larger bores, 2- and 3- point bore gauges and micrometers are to be seen as a necessary evil. I view 2 point spherical gages or micrometers as superior to 3-point cylindrical mics, because they tell you much more information about the bore shape.

6. The best designers avoid tight tolerance features except where strictly necessary.

7. I would tend to avoid straightness, cylindricity, and circularity, when tolerancing holes, and focus on the more general concepts of size, position, and surface profile.

8. Diameter compensation offsets are usually easier to adjust in the machine control than adjusting the boring tool, and can usually get close enough, especially on a horizontal CNC milling machine.
I'm specifically talking about cases where you don't have the whole program, like SDKs
No, interac is a layer on top.
Terms of work are outlined in the job offer.

In any case, we don't seem to be talking about a workplace with official uniforms. That was a red herring by the OP.
Nothing in either of those links remotely substantiates "frequently been used as a tool to go after political opponents". It's just a list of allegations. A bunch of people and organizations (from, it seems, all across the political spectrum) got audited, that's it? Did the audits... find mistakes in their taxes?

For those here who are young and haven't had an exposure to this process outside of meme sites: an IRS audit is indeed a big pain in the ass. But as political oppression, it's pretty weak sauce. It's not like we're deploying novichok in the service of tax collection.
> I doubt it. High standards are rare in journalism, most will go along with high profile figures if it serves their own interests.

The debasement of "journalism" to the point where it applies to Joe Rogan and/or "news networks" which have actively fought (and won) court battles on the basis that no reasonable person would believe the statements were actually true, or news radio which for decades gave equal airtime to "both sides" even if one of those sides believed in a Hollow Earth does not mean that "journalism" has lost high standards, merely that the term has been horrifyingly diluted in the United States.

> If you want to bring Nazis into this then how about all of the practically fawning interviews that US media had with Adolph Hitler right up until he invaded France?

Whataboutism is an intellectually bankrupt argument. Nobody is defending those journalists, but if you're going to try to make a whataboutist argument, apples-to-apples works a lot better than "with the benefit of hindsight, we know that Hitler was bad and that Ford would have actively led a fifth column if he could have, so they were bad". You could equally say "if you want to bring Dwayne Johnson into this, then how about all of the love for Cosby as America's Dad?"

The known facts are different.

If you want to assert that a comparison to Nazis (and I used Goebbels as an example because he was principally a radio propagandist rather than Goering, Himmler, Heydrich, etc; he's the sort of person who would have seemed like a harmless marketing geek) is bad in a whataboutist sense, you would do much better to say "if you want to bring Nazis into this, then how about Speer? He wasn't (actively) involved in the Holocaust and he could have had a lot of interesting things to say about architecture and designing an imperial capital?"
> Also known as a perfect beacon for an anti-radiation missile.

Wouldn't that just take out the remote drone controller?
Maybe this current explosion in the relevance and visibility of this kind of AI model will finally lead us to rethink how insanely nonsensical our IP systems are. I'm not holding my breath, but there's hope that this sort of thing will (combined with situations like the HBO debacle) clarify the need for massive IP reform in the cultural zeitgeist.

The problem here isn't that the model was trained on copyrighted works, the problem is copyright itself and a cultural focus on collecting rent. We probably need UBI or equivalent to deal with the outcomes here in a healthy way.
There's enough horror stories about Google and gmail to not trust them with something so important.
What are you talking about
They didn't all directly hit New Orleans, but: Ivan, Katrina, Rita, Wilma, and Michael are all cat-5 hurricanes that have hit the U.S. Gulf Coast in the last 20 years. There have been 37 cat-5 hurricanes since record keeping began in 1851; of those, 8 happened during the 2000s and 6 more during the 2010s, so about 37% of recorded cat-5 hurricanes have happened in the last 20 years of this 170-year period.
Wonder if you could make this into an interesting short story, or maybe even a screenplay for a movie using lots of creative license.
Not even outdated - just incorrect. There have been proprietary tools longer than there have been computers, it's the point of patents - grant a monopoly on your proprietary tool for X years in exchange for making it's workings public knowledge.

Even patents aside, why wouldn't this D2 thing qualify as:

COMPUTING
a piece of software that carries out a particular function, typically creating
or modifying another program.

(source: google "define tool")

While it isn't creating or modifying a program, I'd consider "parsing text in a specific syntax to create a diagram" more like a compiler than a site that just provides information or crud sites with some forms. I'm not entirely certain how where it runs affects it's tool status, but it certainly is a consideration to be made while evaluating it for any particular use case.

(also from define tool:

a thing used in an occupation or pursuit.

and depending on where you stand on the "thingness" of software may also apply here, but that feels diversionary)

I can think of quite a few single vendor languages - various IBM mainframe languages like JCL, K, matlab, multiple .Net and MS languages until recently, applescript, etc.
I'm from Canada. Our banking system is stable, but expensive and not very competitive.
It seems to depend somewhat on the input image. Software like ImageOptim[0] brute force the best compression by trying multiple different compressors/modes and picking the best result and there is rarely a consistent winner.

That said, the best solution today is probably to just use a newer image format like WebP or (soon) AVIF if you need to meaningfully reduce image sizes.

[0] https://imageoptim.com/versions.html
Former Microsoft director of user experience trashes Windows 11 Start menu
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https://pseudopod.org/

No affiliation.
Given the slow pace of the government, I would be okay with government run grocery stores. We would still be a good half a century away from them considering self checkout, so they would still staff human cashiers, which you don't find in private grocers, these days.
Isnt subscription the most win win revenue model?
There is not much to learn about the man. There is no scientific advancement that he possessed that we don't. He is the last of his tribe with a language that will be doomed when he was gone. The obly person will benefited will be some socialogist doing a research on him but now he wont be able to add a paper to his name on that topic. Leave him alone is the best response from a compassionate human beings. Imagine every humans outsider massacre your clans whenever you see them, I really doubt you would love to be contacted by outsiders. Perhaps if you can offer heavenly pleasure say a mate (you or another willing partners?). Doubt so. So the OP is very positive...but the HN crowds are not as proven from this very instance.
> Willow ptarmigan carcasses were excluded from the analyses as these are known to collide with the tower base (see Stokke et al., 2020[1])

How?! It takes some mental effort to not blame victim in this situation.

The article linked gives only one actual observation of bird managing to kill itself this way:

> it was observed that one individual, part of a group of 10 birds, crashed directly into the tower base at 2.7 m height above ground (25 September 2011, at 07:05 a.m.). The rest of the group passed the tower on both sides.

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.6307
This live-streaming list of topics being tended feels like an organic examination of genuine citizen interest as an alternative to the "no man's land" of politically corroded news feeds.
Yes, I left out the warnings for brevity. It's a bit of a pain to do all the includes in a one-liner :)

What this does allow you to do though, is also do things like:

make CFLAGS=-DFOO LDFLAGS=-lfoo example
The Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts
https://www.liveabout.com/the-most-puzzling-ancient-artifact...

Out of Place Artifacts
https://www.discovery.global/out-of-place-artifacts
Ubisoft’s Rocksmith+ guitar learning service arrives on PC next week
Can you come up with a prompt that will reproduce some of his painting almost exactly?
> Other PDAs used a special alphabet one had to memorize,

Graffiti was so easy to use that you would see people write with it on whiteboards.
> > IRS has frequently been used as a tool to go after political opponents.

> Or some people try to politicize their tax dodging when they get caught.

I don't see why that has to be an "or." the statements are not mutually exclusive (i.e. they can both be simultaneously true)
I monitor my hs-crp quite regularly (multiple times a year).

1. How is this different from a test you can order?

2. hs-crp is quite variable, especially for people who are predisposed to inflammation. I really don't know if I can make any sense of it [1]. Given that the plans on your website (but not this HN post) suggest a lower frequency than my own testing, I'm a bit skeptical of this product (or service).

> For example, you may get an insight like - you have had ginger 15 of the last 30 days and your inflammation levels are down 10%.

You have no proven numbers or data, and you're just saying you MAY find a correlation. Have you published anything that validates the efficacy of your product, other than an experiment with N=1?

[1]: Edit/Add - From your own tracking sheet, how can you tell whether the first 2.9mg/L in your graph is not an outlier, since that's when you started measuring and hs-crp can be elevated for a number of reasons (cold, flu, infection, sleep, stress)? Maybe your baseline hs-crp is ~1mg/L.

Add: there is no doubt that fitness improves hs-crp. My hs-crp before the pandemic (when I was playing every day) - 1.4mg/L. After 2 years of inactivity: 5mg/L.