skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Product market fit is the context of an investible startups is quite different. You can always build shit people want. For eg. A static website hosting you know that market exists. But in case of an investible startups, you have a product hypothesis that has never been tested ever, validating the tech that is new, innovative gtm motion and business. The point I'm trying to make is the question whether the market exists for the idea is validated which is where the opportunity lies.
If once you start down the marketed path, forever will it dominate your destiny.
Internet Archive is not a snippet, it is the whole cloth. The whole point of the Internet Archive is to have an archive of the internet as it was and is.

Fair use is inherently about picking favorites based on how something is used, for what purpose, and what impact that use has on the original source. A fairly big argument in favor that the Internet Archive falls under fair use is that the Internet Archive do not commercially compete with the original work. Can Facebook make the same argument?

Facebook is free to make their own internet archive that is a mirror of the internet. That is to say, they are free to make a copy of the internet as it is without adding anything, without collecting any user information, without serving any advertisements, and without any user generated content. I do not know why Facebook as a for-profit company would do so, but in term of copyright they should be allowed to do so.
Excellent writeup thank you. And I love that you wrote "BurntSushi is a national treasure". I hope he sees your writeup because it's true.

(BurntSushi is Andrew Gallant, creator of ripgrep and other excellent Rust crates, and writes code that is especially good IMHO for learning how to write real-world Rust libraries and programs.)
it looks like this is "just" a search engine for some pregenerated images. so this isn't SD, this is a static image gallery with a search engine
I use copilot, but not for this. I find raw gpt-3 conversational interface to be much more useful for getting over various small programming puzzles.
Yes, going from 0 to 5 is how new innovative products work. The iPhone you keep dragging out didn't sell all that great either - the shipment were counted in millions (not tens of millions you quite for Samsung) during first years of them as well.

I frankly find your aggressive tone here utterly bizarre - why do you so strongly need to defend Apple here? Can you explain that?
"We have never been modern" by Latour is one of the few books that will be more important 20 years from now that it is today.
> venomous overgeneralizations

Sorry, but this illustrates Graham's point even better than the "mercurial Spaniard" thing. Reaching for a fancy word that doesn't quite make sense in context.

Overgeneralizations could be absurd. They could even be dangerous, perhaps - although Graham's alleged overgeneralization really doesn't seem to be, even if wrong. They're not venomous, at least not without an argument. You can't just throw it out there for effect. That's grandstanding.

The slower, less urgent pace of writing allows us to overthink things and make odd communication mistakes we wouldn't make in conversation. Graham's advice is good for avoiding this.
Could someone please explain in a few words what the problem is?

I had a look at dall-e and it seems to be paintings generated by a program (as opposed to humans). I do not know what stable diffusion is.

What is the moral aspect of the problem?

(I am a highly technical person, just not interested in AI so I do not get the big picture)
"Own your data"

But it seems to require a Github and a Vercel account: https://outstatic.com/docs/getting-started
Climate activists throw mashed potatoes at Monet work in Germany
For this to be remotely efficient, transmitting the energy needs to be less wasteful than letting the light travel a bit longer to the ground. I don't really see how that's possible.

The article mentions current transmissions lose 50% of the energy... And that the receiving stations take up a lot of real estate. Why not use that real estate for solar panels on the ground..?

Even if you could utilize the sunlight 24 hours a day (which is not always possible according to the article), perhaps building more solar stations on the ground can be distributed so that that it's always sunny at all times?
It absolutely is, Cloudflare offers great services and they deserve it!
It's been tried, but you need a very large scale to pull this off. So it often just fails. Think RIM, Jolla, Microsoft, even Symbian as an ecosystem.

To make something that has a consistent quality (or look and feel) you'd need to be in control of both the appliance and the ecosystem, and most companies do not have the money or knowledge to do that. It's also hard to make money that way, which is why only a single-digit amount of brand names actually manage to do it long-term.

The only reason we have two choices at all is because there is Apple and there is everything-that-is-not-Apple. The second one is also using a different model (separate hardware and software vendors, and OS forks in varying degrees), but at least the commercial variant has Google behind it with plenty of in-house specialists and money to throw at it. Without Google, Android (as a technical thing) could have been constructed (since it already has been: Maemo, Moblin, MeeGo, Tizen), but has the same problem that all the other non-duopoly attempts had:

1. The content simply isn't there
2. The network effect doesn't catch it
3. There isn't enough similarity and consistency (too much internal differentiation is bad)

This isn't really much of a technology problem as people might think, and inversely, the technical arguments matter a whole lot less than what people tend to attack or defend positions with. The mass market doesn't care how many floating point operations a phone can do, but an insignificant technical fact like that is what is usually used as measurement of 'quality' or 'value'.

Regarding smaller scale ecosystems, those exist, but mainly outside of Western Europe and outside the North America. There are billions of people that live elsewhere in the world that do not use iOS or Android, and instead might simply rely on feature phones or significantly reduced smartphones that run a handful of 'apps' and aren't user-managed. Some of those operating systems never make it out of the local markets, and others (like KaiOS) might be available on a broader scale but not really sold retail anywhere outside of their local markets.
Keeping someone alive in a coma _has little value_? To whom? What kind of value?

I don't think the comatose person would agree, were they to wake up -- and that has happened repeatedly, it's not exactly fantasy.

Should it not be their decision, or the decision of their family?

Whether or not it is misery, and whether or not it is worth coping with that is really to be decided by the person experiencing it, isn't it?
Often someone's obituary gets posted on HN who was well known in some parts of the IT community, but not well known enough to have a Wikipedia page or a bio somewhere.

One thing that I usually want to know (and that's usually hard to find), and it's not out of morbid curiosity, is how old the person was and whether their death was sudden and tragic or more or less natural and expected.

I know the loss hurts in either case, but it's somehow much more comforting knowing that e.g. an 82 year-old kernel dev demi-god grandpa died in his sleep, having lived a long, fruitful life, than that some game dev prodigy in her late twenties got hit by a drunk driver.

RIP Wolfgang, I read a bit about your work and it sounds like you did enough good for several lives.
It seems they might also be covering costs for when a vial gets opened for a shot or two and then has to be thrown away after being above freezing for too long.
WTTE-RNN – Less hacky churn prediction (2016)
Ahh thankyou for sorting me out. My apologies OP
Make sure you don't have type 2 diabetes. After meal fatigue is a big red flag.
Powering Spotify's Audio Personalization Platform
Thank you! I actually searched it by the url (domain) but didn't find...
What happens to U-Boot now? Will it continue to live on, or will it be replaced by something else from another vendor?
I dove into the "type driven development" style with Elm (and a little Haskell) a few years back. In my opinion the pure functional style was more important than the type system. Maybe I just didn't try hard enough to think in terms of types, who knows. But I have to admit - not having to worry about run-time errors is quite nice.

Shortly after Elm, I discovered the array languages via J, and felt like I finally found a style of programming that fit my brain properly. Immutable by default, rank-polymorphic, and extremely powerful. Terseness is a feature - when you can write the same program in 1/100 of the code (not an exaggeration), you can explore alternative approaches quickly and find bugs more easily. On the other hand, there's no compiler or fancy type system to find bugs for you, so terseness is also kind of necessary.

Today I'd recommend array language newbies to try BQN or K first. BQN has some features that other array languages surprisingly lack (closures, modules), and only a few idiosyncratic design choices (unlike J which is very weird). K is pragmatic (it has dictionaries and tables!) and is ascii-based, but it has an almost Forth-like minimalism. For someone used to 'import xyz' style programming it's a jarring transition.
> compile flags

they don't play nicely with os package managers like apt.
A Practical Approach to Sizing Neural Networks
You don’t seem to get my point though - it only has turned into a quagmire for Russia because other countries have feared the thing of which you are sceptical. It is like complaining the medicine is useless because you don’t have symptoms, when it is only because of the medicine that you don’t have them.

(And “sceptical” shouldn’t be “[sic]” because it is correct spelling in many non-US dialects of English, including my own.)
It's been called that for a long time...
> specialized committees

Or permanent civil service, or to lobbying organizations that these days often write the bills and regulations.
Interesting that is now short-handed as Lean Startup. Steve Blank pioneered that formula in the 90s under the term "customer-driven development". But it seems he adopted the "lean" terminology over time, as well.
> Organ donor status basically gives them permission to harvest your still-beating heart.

The 'ticking clock' scenario you outlined makes no sense and now you're just spreading scare mongering.
JavaScript's Promised Convenience
The convenience of `promise.then` behaving both like monad's `chain` and `map` comes at a cost of ambiguity in some cases.
I have used google lens with French origami book. Works well.
Yep, Elixir 1.14, OTP 25. I set the log level to warn so Phoenix isn't logging anything that I see. Do you think that still impacts performance? I thought Logger compiled out log calls below the level threshold.

Good call on running as a release! I'll try that next.

edit: Ah well, good thoughts but didn't pan out. I updated the logger config to use `compile_time_purge_matching` just to make sure there wouldn't be any logging impact, and I ran the app as a release, but didn't really make any difference in the numbers that I saw.
I speak as I speak and write as I write. There need be no competition between the two. What Graham is doing here is reducing two very different media to one.

I love the rich complexity of language you can find in any book by Gene Wolfe. Much of how he writes allows him to communicate two truths in one thick sentence or leave us puzzling over a philosophy. I'd never expect or insist Wolfe to speak as he wrote. It would be a crime to his works and a crime to many others'.
Sleep better, eat little and often, go for a walk after lunch, expose yourself to bright light. Try avoiding foods with tryptophan, including eggs, spinach, salmon.

It's related to serotonin and your blood sugar.
The Scala 3 requirement really does cripple the choices available. The Scala 3 transition does feel a bit like the Python 3 transition where major libraries and frameworks are really dragging their feet on transitioning because of the high level of effort for very little obvious improvement.

Scala 2 is still getting regular updates so there's no rush to use 3 just yet, I'd recommend picking the framework first and using the Scala version they support. That makes the development experience much better with access to much easier to use frameworks like play or finatra.
That's ~130km/h for those on the other side of the world... which is a normal average speed on the Autobahn.
An IPC system for the whole operating system
There are times when they have been less recalcitrant than their competitors. Faint praise for sure but when you are doing PR bits for recapturing solvents for reuse instead of exhausting them or burning them, years before your peers are getting sued for not doing the same, you might not be angels but you’re also probably not the devil either.
Wait, do most people not get tired after lunch ? I've had trouble staying awake after lunch since grade school.
> I have an old Air and frankly, although the battery life, weight and hardware in general are fine, I didn't find the software so much better than Windows.

> The problem with Linux is another entirely different story.

Those two things are a big part of it for me. OS X is essentially a “more useful Linux” for me, because I can still use all of the command-line tools I know and love, but can also use Word and Fusion 360. Trying to get things like gcc and make and CMake going on Windows is doable but it’s a huge hassle compared to “brew install cmake arm-none-eabi-gcc openocd”
Every article criticizing the Fed's actions misses the elephant in the room: the massive, spellbinding increase in USD via abnormally low interest rates since the 1990s (not just since Covid).

There is no modern historical analogue (in the USA, there are plenty elsewhere), so reflecting back on the 1970s is pointless.

The Fed still only has two choices - hyperinflation or depression. These are the cards you are dealt when you print money with abandon for an entire generation.
Things that have helped me at various points no one thing has lasted though just because things keep changing in my life. Biggest one was quitting caffeine!

* Increased protein lowered carbs

* Quit caffeine

* Plan out naps (20 mins max use an app with a timer i like pzizz atm)

* Intermittent fasting

* Change your lunch hour to much later or earlier in the day depending on your productivity levels
As a huge chemical conglomerate with a long history, they've been involved in their fair share of pollution incidents and other controversies.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-3m-pfas-toxic-foreve...

https://www.reuters.com/business/3m-agrees-pay-98-mln-resolv...
I've had Pixel 1, 3 and 5 and my experience was they got better every time
I agree that a "beam of instant death" would be unlikely due to the probable low power density. But, couldn't it be high enough to cause significant heating and health issues?

As some anecdata, I remember a decades-ago report that said it would be safe to graze cattle under the receiving antennas, which suggests both that a) it wouldn't be safe for cattle above the receiving antennas, and b) it wouldn't be safe for humans even under the receiving antennas.
Management by post it notes comes to mind.
> We've been told that "Western" norms-- particularly individual rights, democracy, and market economics

Those three are... not the same thing, and it's dangerous to lump them together.

In fact, market economics are anti-democratic (replaces 1 person = 1 vote with $1 = 1 vote) and anti-human rights (see: wage slavery).
Is this after all the other raises? Wasn't there a 20% hike last year when it was clear there was going to be a whole lot more doses needed?

Don't be naive and think that Big Pharma's #1 priority is anything but money.
> If you made a change that changed the Rust output, you'd invalidate huge parts of your test suite and generate lots of noisey failures.

If that change was unintended, you'd be thanking yourself for unit tests.

The unit test suite doesn't have to be all that large. It's the behavioral test suite which has to be large in order to generate confidence.

> It'd make it fast too expensive to introduce all but the most critical changes.

You can easily have diffs between the expected output of those cases and the new output.

You can review those and merge them, which is time-consuming work, but of great value. You can spot bugs in the review, like whoa, this thing is now being translated in a bad way.

If the project is in a state of flux, the new expected outputs can be more or less blindly merged; still better than nothing, and there is a record that can be revisited. Ah, that test case is actually confirming the wrong thing, which was right previous to this commit when the output changed.
The network could be completely fine but the NFS server could have crashed (and maybe the backups were faulty so it is never coming back). That’s absolutely no different than if the same thing happened to an SSH server or a HTTP server or any other network service. The assumption is no more valid for NFS than it is for an arbitrary protocol.
Worst part of my summer holidays as kid was picking pig poop for the yard farm. My father used to say pig poop is better than cattle though I doubt his reasoning is scientific.
New open-source image database unlocks the power of AI for ocean exploration
Looking thru my personal spam vs legit emails. I see no indication that there is more spam from ends with number than not. But I'm probably biased.
It would have the added advantage of only needing load modules required for that particular command in action as well. If a module were vulnerable, it couldn’t be used as a jump point for some gadget in another module.
Just some ice and chemical then flush.

Skychem or Honeybee 76 is the chemical
3M products are great because they always do what they say they're going to do. They usually even overperform by a large margin. They're one of my suppliers of choice for industrial applications or anything R&D where we don't quite know how good it has to be yet.

3M toxic chemical waste is also a core 3M product, and overperforms too. Some of their Superfund sites, particularly the C8/PFOA/fluorinated crud ones, are among the worst around. (I grew up on the other side of the city from their worst one! Yay!)

And, like any company in the fluorinated chemicals business, 3M has overperformed at ozone depletion and greenhouse forcing. I can give them a pass on that particular one, since society as a whole didn't care much about that stuff until recently. I can't, however, give them a pass for how nasty Scotchgard was/is and how much of it was sprayed on/near me as a child. If you remember Scotchgard, don't look up what it really was or you might regret your parents' life choices.
Mike Powell's was as well.
It’s amazing how people are stumbling to answer and fail to identify its main problem: they’re communist.
Scotchguard is the biggest black eye I know of. I don’t know what’s in it now but it used to be cancer in a can.
> It's so much nicer to be able to git push... And that's it. Done.

Can you elaborate? My CGI-based website is deployed with `git push` as well, not sure what the difference is there.
Just create a subscription. $50 a year gets you two boosters a year.
> consistency (because it needs to be able to identify e.g. "1+1=3" as false)

that's soundness, not consistency.

You can build consistent theories of arithmetic in which 1+1=3 is true. The easiest model for such a theory is a structure with a single element.

But that's maybe a bad example, as it's too weak for Gödel's theorems to apply to it. So let's consider instead models of Robinson arithmetic. There are models of Robinson arithmetic, for which the sentence "for all x, Sx != x" is false,[0] even though we clearly want it to be true in the natural numbers. So if we add the axiom "there is an x for which Sx = x" to Robinson arithmetic, we get a theory which is arithmetically unsound, so whatever we derive from it, does not readily apply to Turing machines. Yet, Gödel's theorems apply to this theory just as well (assuming it is consistent, which we can't prove, same as we can't prove it for PA).

I'll leave it at that. We're talking at cross-purposes, since we can't even get terminology straight.

[0]: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1066087/model-of-ro...
LVM3 M2 / OneWeb India-1 Mission
>The current Mac Pro supports up to 1.5TB of RAM and with DDR5 memory capacities about to increase, I wonder how Apple will compensate for the much lower RAM.

Probably by just not supporting that market. But maybe they could implement some kind of Optane/CXL type SSD-as-memory solution?
Myself, I often use it as a back-up strip for submerged arc welding.

(Well, I would if I did any submerged arc welding...)
I had this going well with worms in my compost but then had a mole make home under the compost. These cute little insectivores will eat all the worms.
Tomato soup before and now mashed potatoes. We almost have a full meal to scrape off from these paintings. Everyone is an art critic these days.
Why do you feel so personally offended that I think a company makes mediocre products? Why do you feel so compelled to defend them?

>The iPhone you keep dragging out didn't sell all that great either - the shipment were counted in millions (not tens of millions you quite for Samsung) during first years of them as well.

The iPhone created smartphones as we know them today. Comparing sales trajectories between 2007 and 2021 is stupid.
An introduction to Magit, an Emacs mode for Git
Yes, let's simplify the Internet, being decentralised is such a crutch! We should all just connect directly to Cloudflare.
Having your voice in writing is a difficult milestone.
What is the correlation? Cold weather = large breasts, or the other way round? Or some non linear relation with a maximum somewhere?
Some people use ice to clean RV tanks too. Flush a bunch of it then drive a while and let it bang around as it melts then drain it. Probably would work on a boat too.
Did you know: roads predate the motor car and have a purpose. Getting rid of them isn't viable
It depends on what you consider important. The wired audio output from my LG G8 phone is better than anything I can get from an Apple device.

I also much prefer the fingerprint sensor on the back than Apple's methods.
and the helicopter leading edge tape, I have a 50m roll I have used 3 iches of.
> There are key differences between an emergency and traditional model that increase the costs of making and distributing the COVID-19 vaccine,” Pfizer told Quartz via email. These costs, the company says, include distributing through multiple channels and payers instead of one, as well as producing the doses in single vials, which can be up to three times more expensive and run into higher transportation costs.

Did Pfizer just admit that single payer systems are more economical than the privatized mess we have in the US????
For fun, I went off-road immediately and ended up floating over the ocean after a few minutes
I'm using Fedora on a VM. I'm working with angular and it's CLI works VERY slowly with WSL2 for some reason.
Throughput isn't everything, and improving OPS at the expensive of tail latency can be a problem. Depends on your specific workload, but it isn't something I'd enable by default.
If you're composting it properly, it doesn't really have any smell at all, except dirt. It's when you don't move it around, and it starts to compost anaerobically that it starts to produce methane, and then you've got a pile of stink on your hands.