skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about using it to write messages in gift cards?

I always struggle to find words for such a thing. Its pretty cool to ask it to tailor a message to a particular family member then get ChatGPT to tweak it until it sounds like something you would like to say to the person.
There's a screenshot in the blog post that shows "0%" CPU usage. I doubt that Cal wanted to make it seem like animations were "free" but I do want to caution people that just because the GPU is now handling drawing doesn't mean the usual concerns with animations with regards to performance don't apply (I am not going to wade into the UI aspects of when to use animations). Animations are best used in moderation, for short interactions rather than running continuously all the time, even when drawn with graphics hardware. It's nice to push 60 (or 120) fps every once in a while but your app should really not be drawing at all most of the time. That's fewer frames to display in software, and on newer iPhones with ProMotion that's also going to mean fewer display refreshes. Your users, and their batteries, will thank you.

(But really, moving all these things to CoreAnimation is really nice, kudos to all involved!)
(Not after a big meal though)
AFAIK nobody has been injured due to Tesla FSD, so not exactly sure how that qualifies either.

Actual self-driving cars will save thousands of lives, so (to me) Tesla being the only company that is pursuing it in a way that might actually get there before the end of the decade says they care more about the health of the general public, not less.
Iirc, you can turn this behavior off with `editor.auto-save = false`.
San Francisco makes U-turn on 'killer robots' plan
Not in general. But humans can exploit prior knowledge to select which avenues to pursue first.
What's cynical about it?

Apple is benefitting from the availability of Linux on these devices. That they do nothing to help this effort is disappointing.

Yes, it is a triumph in reverse engineering. I am very impressed. But why reward Apple despite not helping in this effort?
Do they still ground through the user like the intel models?
> India's approach was to cancel large-denomination banknotes, but it did not have the intended effect

The objective was not to cancel large-denomination banknotes, given that even larger notes were issued in their place (2000 Rupee notes). The printing of those notes were well underway when "demonetization" was announced. The goal was to understand how much cash remained in the system, and to move away from a cash-based economy.

Just as most government programs, results are mixed. It seemed more of a failure immediately afterward, but with 6 years of hindsight doesn't seem as bad. It kicked off India's digital economy, with UPI digital payments finding mass acceptance. UPI payments went from $1.5B in October 2016, to $10B the following month. This triggered mass adoption of phone payment apps, and the transaction value stands at $140+ billion per month as of today. In most tier-1 and tier-2 cities in India, you don't need cash or a credit card to survive.

As far as tax evasion is concerned, while it wasn't any sort of total success it did pave the way for more transactions to flow through monitored digital channels. Today banks don't accept any significant amount as cash deposits and there are strict caps on annual cash transactions. Overall, the "demonetization" event of Nov 2016 was imho a success as far as the government's objectives were concerned.

As a private citizen however, I don't particularly like the privacy problems that tag along with this.
Having to pull in Nix and run that to use something like this is a big no, for me.
There are no electronics in knives so I don't see how they could be e waste

I'm still using knives my grandparents used, still as sharp as ever and not rusty at all

As for losing your keys there are many systems that rely on the brain or other low tech mechanism to avoid losing them
> after about 40k requests, this has cost me $10 in OpenAI charges

That's amazing. Hope they can continue to keep the pricing that low.
Does this example fall under any of your categories? https://twitter.com/thedigiguru/status/1599195462845677568
There's a big difference between being able to borrow money, and being able to function.
Gotta have something for your promo doc on frugality if you’re going for L7
For some things it confidently gets completely wrong, you can correct it slightly and put 5-6 other prompts to arrive at a correct answer. This is not easy to automate though.
They could spend their valuable time somewhere else instead or reinventing the wheel
Some things were better, some things worse. For example, I hated the thousand pound CRT monitors and love my thin LED hi res.

I also hated floppies. Squeek, squeek, grind, grind.

The old hard drives were fine, though.
I don't think the grandparent is saying that people are wasting their time; they're saying that it's a shame that they even have to do this, and that public hardware documentation isn't the norm.
I wonder what the correlation between consistency of written/spoken language is for the breakdown per language here:
https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/language-breakdo...

For instance, I know Turkish is very consistent: it was refactored in 1928 with the birth of Turkey. Turkish is quite high in the rankings. I don't think because there's loads of data available, but because of its consistency. Contrary, English has loads of data, which should compensate for it inconsistency.
I always recommend the book "Love and Math", by Edward Frenkel. The book is fairly approachable I think, and it mixes his own biography with examples of interesting math concepts and connections.

Funnily enough, Frenkel works in the Langland program that Wiles talks about here, and explains a little bit more about it and why is it interesting.

Also, I really like this quote from the article

> Yes, some people are brighter than others but I really believe that most people can really get to quite a good level in mathematics if they're prepared to deal with these more psychological issues of how to handle the situation of being stuck.

I foud this true in experience. Sometimes people find maths hard at the beginning because it's a different way of thinking, much more abstract, and you don't usually have an intuition when you start. But in the end, most of it is practice. Also, some things only click when you go back to them, or need them for more advanced concepts.
Thanks! I'm also interested in seeing a CPU comparison against tinygrad. From what I've seen, tinygrad already utilizes the AMX coprocessor, so I expect to have comparable performance between the 2 on Apple Silicon.
Both emojis and excessive gif meme usage didn’t go away if I see insta, TikTok and often Twitter.
Since Apple started making phones out of freekin glass, I have only bought rugged phones. One problem I had with my Cat was that the compass did not work properly (inaccurate and erratic). This made using Google maps almost impossible. I had the same problem with my rugged Doogeee. My rugged Nokia is a lot better, but is woefully under powered.

In my efforts to find the perfect rugged phone, I honestly feeling like I am chasing butterflies.
Congress Could Sneak a Bad Journalism Bill into Must-Pass Defense Legislation
I don't reckon the intended meaning is that it is literally impossible, but that it is an unfair and likely ineffective way to prevent romance scamming. His visage is used because they have already farmed the pictures, probably because there were quite a few available so enough to titrate them out over several weeks. So it doesn't really make sense that he now has the duty to remove his online presence, which is important to many people's expression of themselves. In fact, the ability to find him online probably has ended a number of these scams and prevented the women from losing even more money.
> Memorization vs. Understanding is a false dichotomy.

Hey, you're flipping us around. Who was it that wrote this?:

> IMO they are two kinds of tests:

I'm the one that's arguing that it's a false dichotomy, that tests need to cover both and not one without the other.

> I could also imagine that forcing the student to make one choice is a feature, not bug. For example this decision may teach the student that (1) not everything is binary and a single book has no absolute truth

By writing a test that forces non-binary things to appear binary and presents the book as an absolute truth? That's going to teach them the opposite?

> (2) to move forward, you need to make a choice.

You're grasping at straws with this. You're telling me that marking correct answers incorrect is good because it teaches a life lesson?
Yeah, sounds like a good idea. If/when it becomes a thing people can finally skip reading the card and land it straight into the trash. Beware of the tsunami of autogenerated stuff to come upon the world, it will become tiring.

Perhaps writing (by hand) a smiley on a post-it would be more meaningful
right, I kinda wish more languages did things like this. Every JS framework or library has a cute name but then realizes they need to always say the ".js" if they ever want any SEO results (looking at you Next. Node isn't much better either tho).

It might be silly, but if we just added some l33tspeak like n3xt or n0d3 we would actually be making out lives a lot easier. Or we could just spend like a whole extra minute to come up with something like Deno which is short and sweet and apparently unique enough to never conflict with other results
Text editing on that 100Mhz computer felt responsive...

Of course it did, because you were only editing the text. If you switch off syntax highlighting, linting, autocomplete, type checking, git integration, spell checking, grammar checking, and everything else your editor is doing then you can experience the joy of fast typing again.

A 4GHz CPU is only 40 times faster than a 100MHz CPU (not that clock speed is the important bit here, but whatever), but you're asking it to do probably about 20,000 times more computation every time you press a key. And then you complain that it's too slow!
It sent me on a crash course for success. ;)
Had a VW in that color. It's very good at hiding dust, less so with real dirt. For city driving, yeah, it could be left unwashed for many months with no-one the wiser.
Godbolt doesn’t accurately show runtime speed of algorithms on input data, which is what you need when discussing simd performance. And often these are proprietary industry algorithms that are the core of a business’s model.

I’m all for transparency but I’m also not about to get fired for posting our kernel convolution routines, or least squares fit model.

> It should be part of these discussions to proof what you claim

Further - these aren’t subjective claims that need to be proven on a forum for legitimacy. It’s the literal state of vector based optimisations in the compiler world right now. It is a hard problem and for the time being humans are much better at it. This is quite a large area of academic research at the moment.

If someone is so uninformed of this domain that they don’t know this, the burden is on that person to learn what the industry is talking about. Not the people discussing the objective state of the industry.
Digital MFK?
To what degree do modern sex toys come with sensors in addition to actuators? With enough usage, you could employ ML to learn the "optimal" reaction of the toy to the current sensor state.

Of course, additional (external) sensors would probably help but probably be too intrusive.
Most of the ones in the US have humans. They also have kiosks, but if you really want to talk to a person, you can.
Honest question because I'm totally ignorant here: can anyone shed some light on the typical roadblocks for large corporations to release documentation like this one, other than "it's just easier not to do it"?
COV19 boosters young adults, risk benefit assessment of mandates at universities
More like G-spot.
About 20 days ago I asked the same question ("How ready for daily driving is Asahi Linux?") as a Ask HN, resulting in ~100 comments about it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33607994

Conclusion seems: depends on how ready you are to live with the various drawbacks. Personally, I wasn't, but I'm hopeful the day will come soon as I like Apple hardware in general, but can't stand Apple software.
Proud you both can be.

Now, with the advent of programming languages supporting full Unicode encoding (e.g. in Swift) since a few years ago, the option of

Emoji as variable names

should not be forgotten...

(Unfortunately the HN comment system does not support Unicode and justs deleted them from my neat example)
ChatGPT could render Google obsolete in two years
Yes every unit takes me around 20 minutes to assemble and pack, but it prepares me for when I can outsource it later. "Do things that don't scale"
OpenAI is working on a tool to watermark AI-generated text to prevent misuse
what about the grey alien abductions huh? pet store
No, it has not. If you talked to the GPU through OpenGL, you did it on the main thread. You pass all the state that you computed in that thread. Chances are you computed that state in that thread too.

There are some optimizations regarding e.g. scrolling being computed in a different thread/process (still on the CPU) before compositing (on the GPU) but that is not a requirement for smooth animation.
Flowroute: DIDs -> select number -> Choose a DID Action -> Set callback URL -> Apply action -> check SMS Callback, SMS DLR callback (?) -> enter URL complying with https://developer.flowroute.com/api/numbers/v2.0/set-a-messa...
(I had to have it exactly as specified with /numbers/ starting from the webroot and not in a subdirectory),
see also https://developer.flowroute.com/api/messages/v2.1/receive-an...

Using SMS webhook v2.0 in Flowroute Preferences -> API Control

In Arch Linux I installed "community/nginx-mod-echo 0.62-5" and restarted nginx

nginx.conf:

load_module "/usr/lib/nginx/modules/ngx_http_echo_module.so";
http {
log_format postdata $request_body;
}

sites-available/example.com.conf:

server {
location /numbers/1NPANXXxxxx/relationships/sms_dlr_callback {
access_log /var/log/nginx/example.com/postdata.log postdata;
echo_read_request_body;
}
}

Reload nginx, then I just did `tail -f postdata.log` and in near realtime received output like
"{\x22body\x22: \x22Your OpenAI API verification code is: 438301\x22, \x22to\x22: \x221903866xxxx\x22, \x22from\x22: \x2218559090331\x22, \x22id\x22: \x22mdr2-9e551f88de31449096782f9a9f32080f\x22}"
Walter it seems like you have had an amazing career!

Do you have anything online about your work at Boeing?
well I guess I'm behind in this scene. Maybe I should get one. Could be a nice reminder for when the laundry's done
I'm talking about having rechargeable AA/AAAs with higher power density, possibly using the same chemistry as in phones, laptops, drones, etc., so the industry could cut down on the amount of variation in sizes and connector types (which could possibly make the batteries somewhat cheaper thanks to less variation in manufacturing - though I suppose the price driver is still the chemistry).

What's the minimum voltage we could get without intervention? I'm not well-versed in batteries, but I do recall that a typical Li-Ion cell has 3.7V on output, which might be tricky to fit into one AA/AAA, but isn't that far from two AA/AAAs.

While there's no standard way for devices to accept multiple AA/AAAs, to a first approximation, a Li-Ion cell reformatted into a shape of two AAs with ~1-2mm "space" between them, would fit all my remotes and a third of my children's toys - so I could see a "Li-Ion double AA" working as a product, provided it could shed that 0.7V somewhere. The biggest problem would be devices accepting odd number of batteries.
It's a proper UI and it includes in game tutorials and help pages to explain the basics of the game as well as making the game much prettier than any existing tilesets IMO.

DF is also not as 'hard' as most people think, if you start your fort in an easy location you can quickly build a self sufficient colony inside a hill or underground and make it inaccessible to most threats once you understand the basics of production in the game. And with the UI upgrades managing your dwarfs' moods is a lot easier too.

The only thing that has been preventing me from being an annoying df evangelist for years has been the horrible UI :D
Full title is

"COVID-19 vaccine boosters for young adults: a risk benefit assessment and ethical analysis of mandate policies at universities"

From the article:

"Risk-benefit estimates:

The figures display benefits and harms per million third doses administered:
SAEs [Severe Adverse Events] (figure 1A), grade ≥3 reactogenicity (figure 1B) and myopericarditis (figure 1C). At this scale, and as shown in figure 1A, boosting young adults with BNT162b2 could cause 18.5 times more SAEs per million (593.5) than COVID-19 hospitalisations averted (32.0)."
> If you demand from me to spend time on more detailed explanation and you are unwilling to do the same, then I prefer to spend time on something else.

So you got nothing. I suspected as much, thanks for confirming.
We (at least in the US) tend to celebrate "confidence".

Maybe it's a primal thing, where confidence was a signal of strength, because if you went strutting around without being able to back it up, you'd get your primal butt kicked. But now people can false signal with impunity.

Maybe ChatGPT can help educate us out of thinking unwarranted confidence is admirable and attractive.
Still relevant IMHO (:
This is a common problem when people complain about graphics performance and compare to older hardware - we forget how much higher modern screen resolutions are. It's not a smoothly scaling problem either. As often with scaling, you hit problems at particular levels that require a totally new solution to the problem. CPU speeds stagnated whilst screen technologies didn't, hence, complexity.
not if you have a model with a Chicony keyboard.
The default admin password for a popular educational software that locked down Windows was "changeme". My school did not change the password.
People think this is a temporary problem while and will only last while it's cool. It's not. It's signalling the end of internet chat/forums as we know them. Here's why.

AI chat will become more and more accessible. Writing/renting/commissioning bots will be cheaper. Can you imaging arguing your case to a bot? To a team of bots run by the same org? The sinister side of me thinks this will quickly turn political and will also help eroding what's left of democracy.

I remember reading about a Wikipedia editor some years ago that ran a service for squeezing in dubious edits. When others argued his tactics was to drown them in text. I think it worked pretty well for him. That'll be a dirt cheap trick accessible for pretty much everyone very soon.
Thanks, I found an article by googling that. I just asked it if it were pretending to be a Dane, what would it answer... worked.
“click bait” is very slowly taking on a more general meaning as any title or link that doesn't precisely and concisely describe the article, including where humour is being applied (like here).

It is literally like the word literally often being used to mean figuratively these days, as in this example…
System Design Practice Problems
Presumably all the women contacting the photo guys in the article are aware of it.

The real issue is that the women aren't going to believe it if it doesn't link to a social media profile or similar, or if they don't talk to the person, and the scammer would easily explain the website away if they were aware of it.
I think what they are trying to say is that a lot of times you don't know (and don't have a choice) if you are going to have to go to a post office to pick up a package or if it will be delivered to the door. Sometimes it's up to the sender, sometimes it depends on the size and sometimes it up to the whim of the postal operator. I'd say only about 25% of my Amazon purchases here in Spain have the explicit option to go pick it up at a local shop or Amazon locker. The other 75% of the time I can have it only sent to my home address. Of those times, about 50% of the time they deliver to the door and the other 50% to some random shop nearby for me to pick up without any way of knowing which will be which. Obviously results will vary from country to country.
A sheet containing all the specs, wiring, resistances etc was tacked to the inside of my 80s speaker set. Fun discovery when I revamped them!
You dont need an Apple Store when the parts are sold everywhere by everyone, not only in a hipster store.
I have a mac m1 pro at work and it's hands down the best laptop in terms of hardware I've ever had if you forget extensability. By a far margin.

It makes no noise at all, to the extent that I even checked a dissasembly video to check if they had fans or just passive refrigeration. The display is the best I've ever seen in any laptop. The trackpad is excellent, the keyboard think is very good, the speakers, microphone and webcam are also very good.

I've owned before a lenovo T530, T460s and T580 and quite frankly if we're talking about just hardware this is even better and my last experience with the T580 was just bad. My perception of the lenovo brand was that they made the best laptops until then. In fact I asked to get a macbook because the T580 was so so problematic and not just for me.

I have to say I personally dislike macOS. In fact because now I'm working on 100% FOSS software I'm only using the laptop for corporate calls or situations where I have to deal with customer data, but the rest I do on my personal computer with ubuntu.
Also the fact that there is no flow to the idea. It doesn’t go anywhere. Your eyes glaze over as you struggle to follow the author’s thought process in vain, because there is no thought process.
I keep a chaotic list of books that I see mentioned and look interesting in Obsidian. If on phone or iPad I screenshot the goodreads page for the book and put it in an album "book".

Now and then I check some of the books reviews on goodreads (the text reviews) and or a couple of them or, if I want to treat myself, 10 or 20 of them. To be, receiving 20 books is the definition of happiness, and one of the few things I will happily splurge on.
> The catch is that Li-Ion rechargeable batteries have much higher self-discharge rate than alkaline AA/AAAs, so you could not use them in remote controls anyway.

How does that compare with NiMh, or whichever is the current standard chemistry for rechargeable AA/AAAs? I may be misguided here, but I generally avoid regular single-use AA/AAAs, as it feels like a complete waste of energy - even if properly disposed of, I don't imagine they get recharged by some factory and put back on the market, so all the embodied energy that went into making them is lost.

> For powering iPhones, you can buy a few 18650 with a type-C/lightning case from AliExpress, but most people will prefer just buying a powerbank.

At least some of the power banks I've disassembled in the past were just 18650s with a case, USB port and charging circuitry, so I can't blame people for buying it already pre-assembled.
I wish people who has ChatGPT answers kept a disclaimer in the first place. But since many people looks for fame, I don't think people will be honest with telling that unless their faith demands it. Honesty is rare and a lost trait.
But it's more likely that they'll lose connectivity to AWS altogether rather than MSK going down itself. I'd not try to write from each store network directly, but through some gateway that would take care of writing to Kafka and that separate store if we still have availability issues.
These vans have awful range.

I have an 18 year old VW T5 Transporter with light camper fitout, which will do 900km (550 miles) on a tank.

The Ford linked above claims 200km (120 miles) between charges, the Merc 95 miles.

These vans won't replace my can fory usecase, not yet, and not at that price.

They'd be reasonably for a delivery route I suppose.