skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your info is a little out of date. Two months ago I hired movers to go 150 miles, and I did the packing myself. I have a house rather than an apartment but I don't have that much stuff. Cost was $3500. A full service pack and move across the country would probably be upwards of $5000. Even more if you were moving a whole family.
Is a boxy yoke cheaper than a round wheel?
This is pretty cool, I did a similar personal project that I describe here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28480790. The only historical thing I log however is if a video was removed/reuploaded.
Wikibattle.me
Every time I think about leaving Microsoft for a higher paying FAANG job, I think about our teams general chill work schedule and lax time off. Really hard to give that stuff up, even for tons of money.
My colleague (an engineer) always looked down on peers that could not describe Gradient Descent
Yeah, it’s really well done. I haven’t ever kept my instance up because I get tired of the hassle, but when I run one, user experience is great.
For all the talk of equity, this seems to be potentially a very inequitable policy. You can't block access at home, so this would most affect those who don't have internet at home or don't have a comfortable environment at home to do their schoolwork.
I would be shocked if they had zero learning curve to be honest. It's an awkward movement on a vehicle you aren't used to. People would wipe out bad when escooters hit the scene too, and they supposedly don't have any learning curve according to the companies laying them on the sidewalks that is.
I would think a decent vanlife solar setup would be able to recharge a couple ebikes. Hell might even be able to do it with a Jackery or GoalZero battery
You should try to converse with them through the search history. Search for something like "Hello I am the previous owner of this TV. Please logout from Youtube.".

If the stranger is not a bad actor, they will definitely be happy to log out.
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I have the exact same need which I use NetNewsWire to achieve, it has the ability to enable notification for each feed you subscribed, and it works across all your devices as long as they have iCloud enabled.
> x.foo doesn’t “return a bound method object.” It just accesses an attribute and returns the value of that attribute. The attribute can be any Python value.

Python docs, section 3.2, subsection "Callable types".

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#the-stand...

x.foo returns an "instance method object", which is a "callable type". Also referred to as a "bound method", the same term that Ruby and JavaScript use.

> When an instance method object is called, the underlying function (__func__) is called, inserting the class instance (__self__) in front of the argument list. For instance, when C is a class which contains a definition for a function f(), and x is an instance of C, calling x.f(1) is equivalent to calling C.f(x, 1)... Note that the transformation from function object to instance method object happens each time the attribute is retrieved from the instance... It is also important to note that user-defined functions which are attributes of a class instance are not converted to bound methods; this only happens when the function is an attribute of the class.

This last part is why the following program has an error:

def foo(self):
print(self)

class Foo:
def __init__(self, fn):
self.foo = fn

x = Foo(foo)
x.foo()
Ask HN: When reading a text, do you remember exact words or the overall meaning?
I've been wondering recently... when I've just finished reading a text I can kind of remember the "meaning" (or a feeling) of what the text was saying, and can also translate it into other words most of which weren't present in the text, but can't recall the exact words. Like for example:

If I read

"Computer programs are available to help instruct speed reading students. Some programs present the data as a serial stream, since the brain handles text more efficiently by breaking it into such a stream before parsing and interpreting it."

and then turn my head away to describe what I've read, I say: "computers can help in speedreading, because they can show data serially and it's better for the brain that way", but never remember how it was written (I didn't even remember the "instruct [...] students" part).
Absolutely. These transformer models are trained to autoregressively predict the next token (text, or now audio), and so can be viewed as powerful compression schemes by combining with something like Huffman coding (see https://ml.berkeley.edu/blog/posts/dalle2/ for a lengthy but great read on how language models can be viewed as sophisticated lossless compression algorithms). The log-likelihood loss function used to train these models can quite directly be interpreted as the average bit-per-token needed to compress the dataset.

"Compression is comprehension" - Chaitin
Schnorrer not Schnor.
Can you regeneratively brake if the battery is full?
Synthesizer V Pro is a really interesting tool that does something similar to this. Right now it has very limited voice banks, but the ones they have are pretty crazy in their capabilities.

https://store.dreamtonics.com/product/solaria-voice-database...

(Of course right now you can only use voice banks they've pre-trained, but I bet in a few years you could fine tune it on recordings of your own voice)
I really hate this mentality. I don't understand how people do shoddy work on peoples homes. For example, I drilled through my joist and put in these plastic rings to prevent rattling. 100% any other plumber would have just cut holes and left it at that. I originally planned on getting 1 per hole, but thought, it fits two, why not spend another $30 on material so both sides are covered? It turned out that it more than double the pipes rigidness while surely making the pipes silent for life. With one, I could see them eventually moving/popping off or having slight rattling. With both, you could hang off them and they wouldn't budge.
I felt healthier stacking boxes but I really felt better when I moved close enough to work to cycle every day.
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It's kind of a joke, the entire thing is relying on the locked down hardware as it contains the keys that generate coins. You can set up your own mini network that only sees / validates your own nodes and get rewarded. The solution they came up with is a CSV of "bad" nodes. No joke.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helium/denylist/main/denyl...

Helium has been paraded around as a successful use of blockchain when it's highly centralized and has no actual customers.
Data analysts spend so much time fighting with their data. But imagine you could just ask a question and get data. Introducing DataDistillr, an innovative new product which integrates the power of the latest GPT models along with a powerful open source query engine to do exactly that. What Google did for search, DataDistillr could do for your data.
Step 5, ensure continuous purchases because the batteries won't last
> it's just a little too off-brand for a guy who wears all black and hates texting.

I'm in the boat with style but I threw 20$ at it because I know I'll get a few interesting looks. Might even add it to my "recruiter" resume.
Electrolysis of water becomes extremely favorable above 1.23 volts, and is not something you want to subject most electrodes to. The closer you get to 1.23 volts the more and more likely it is for electrolysis to happen at a given current used to maintain the field they'd need.

I'm not 100% on this given I don't want to buy the paper and am not an expert in this field, but have done a lot electrolysis related work on personal projects.

edit: Also electroplating would probably become a concern as well depending on what exactly is in that brew.
Can somebody explain to me what their endgame plan was? They stole what, $10B? Did they think that would just blow over or something?

Follow-up question: Let's say that 6-12 months ago Alameda went bust, and FTX didn't steal all their customers funds to bail them out. Presumably Alameda fails. Maybe FTX fails too depending on their state, but they return all their customers funds first. Is that possible? I dunno if any crypto-related company has ever shut down cleanly so I don't know how it would work. It seems like it would be a better option though, they'd have dented reputations from a failed hedge fund/business but y'know, not any fraud.
Good advice. By the way, the reason captcha didn't stop it is because Recaptcha is $2 per 1000 solves on 2captcha.com (or any other solving service), at $0.02/SMS this only lowers their profitability by 10%.
Having made a similar recommendation mechanism recently, I’m so thankful to tell you that your algorithm sharing is really helpful and inspiring to me. Looking forward to see this project open sourced!
The statement that he hasn't done due dilligence and the draw down on the investment are both pure speculation.

Furthermore it doesn't make much sense to calculate drawdown of a 40 billion USD investment with a timeframe of a few months. The idea of any large investment is to make it grow with time after long term interventions (years, decades).

This all sounds like very silly Elon bashing to me.
Yes, unfortunately this is the case (I work for ebooks.com). Most publishers require us to use DRM and Adobe DRM really sucks, but there isn't other options out there and we don't have the resources to make something better.

We focus quite a bit of effort on educating publishers about moving to DRM-Free as it makes everyone's lives easier and from what we've seen increases publisher sales numbers.

https://about.ebooks.com/should-we-sell-your-ebooks-without-...

https://about.ebooks.com/sales-jumped-54-when-this-publisher...
the cynic in me wonders if this, now, is a planned diversion from the seeming universal outrage at SBF being out on bail, with widely documented vanished stolen investor money having been given to politicians (of both parties).
What a crazy coincidence for me. Only today I received a pack of resistors and capacitors in order to experiment on this very thing. I was trying to help my nephew with a basic electronics kit and we found the pot we added didn't have the linear characteristics we were hoping for. Rather than swap it out I was determined to understand where I went wrong.
My understanding is that you think I've offered you a rebuttal with new information to anything you might challenge me with. I haven't. I originally offered a meta-comment about the way that people discuss the topic, in response to another meta-comment about the same.

You understood what I said in a very different way than I meant it. I recognized that early on and told you so repeatedly. You willfully ignored me, and apparently continue to do so.

What can I do to clarify myself? You haven't asked me for clarification. You misconstrue everything I offer up because you view it through the lense of the initial misunderstanding. You ignore me when I explicitly tell you we need clarification. I'm out of ideas. What am I supposed to do?
SSRIs are a helluva drug
Sure there's a market for cheap disposable stuff hastily thrown together by people who barely know what they're doing because they're always using the latest tools for the first time to pad their resume.

But there's also a place for durable things of lasting value, built by people who enjoy perfecting their skills, technique, and craftsmanship with mature tools to solve problems well, learn the domain well, and build lasting relationships with customers who are big spenders.

It's kind of naive to assume that those people are making no effort to better themselves just because they're not always chasing after the latest hot new thing.
This is a fine example of why Roland isn't really relevant in the electronic music gear market any more. They have a great legacy and great marketing department, but I can't remember the last time they released a product that really excited people.
> One thing it lacks is reliability. You can't trust its answers all the time.

I don't think this is really that important. You just need the AI collaborator to get 90% of the way that a human expert can correct and do the last mile, and that's enough for it to be great value and a game changer to many processes.
Surely more people use Windows, iOS, Marcos and Android though.
>New York City Public Schools have blocked access to OpenAI's ChatGPT AI model on its network and devices, reports educational news site Chalkbeat. The move comes amid fears from educators that students will use ChatGPT to cheat on assignments, accidentally introduce inaccuracies in their work, or write essays in a way that will keep them from learning the material.

It's wikipedia all over again. Sorry kids, but this is exactly how you want it to be. This is how your generation learns that censorship sux. Its unfortunately a frustrating lesson. But it will pass. Here's the eerily similar wikipedia story from 2007:

https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/11/banning-wikipe...
Not at all, that's the biggest problem of these things. They further alienate human-human contact, while the opposite should be the goal. I'm wondering who is pushing this AR/VR madness and for what reason.
A refreshing project. I hope this does well. We need more of these to succeed.
Literally tried to reinvent the wheel and is now paying the consequences.
What a bizarre comment
Ah right! I think I'll post this again, with `vacant` as the keyword. My bad!

Thanks for the tip on forklift & similar training tools - super useful, has got some juices flowing.
I really appreciate this comment. You've very clearly presented a problem that I hadn't considered and now that you've presented it, I can immediately see it in my work life. The business I'm with is suffering from "service" creep. "We can and will do anything." It's really damaging the quality of our services and putting a lot of pressure on us to expand in a direction that's not our biggest area of opportunity. You've given my something to think about.
McLuhan is interesting and provocative, but also has a strong tendency to spout statements and assertions with little basis in fact. I'm not saying "ignore him", he'd managed to suggest far too many interesting observations for that. But read or listen with discernment, and note that apparent throwaway comments are often false.

Standouts here, based on the full interview (<https://yewtu.be/watch?v=xtsTB3U8AeE>):

"The literate man can carry his liquor, the tribal man cannot." This fails to stand to even slight examination: history is replete with drunken authors (Dylan Thomas comes to mind, whoever he was, as S&G noted), and the correlation is far more with populations which had a long-standing relationship with alcohol and hence evolved both tolerance and moderation. Indian and Chinese populations are highly literate but notably less alcohol-tolerant than Europeans.

"You cannot propagandise a native." That is, literate populations are singularly susceptible to propaganda. This is ... interesting, but again, fails to stand to examination. Tribal cultures are subject to Big Man narratives, and propaganda seems most effective among the less literate and educated members of a population. In part this is because propaganda is a large-group mechanism, that is, its very influence is largely based on its ability to move a large portion of the population, and even amongst literate cultures, there are limits to how much of the population is highly literate. That the highly-literate and educated are subject to different sorts of propaganda and influence I've no doubt, but that illiterate populations aren't subject to cargo-culting, mythology, and daemonisation of the other ... fails basic historical tests.

"Electronic people lose their religion very easily." Again, evidence suggests otherwise. The history here of the Second Great Awakening, of the Burned Over Districts (of upstate New York), of Holy Rollers, of Father Coughlin, and of the recent co-option of the American Evangelical movements ... all suggest that religion and electric / electronic media can in fact coexist, though again in different forms.

There are others.

Again: don't ignore McLuhan, but be well aware that he is very much the showman --- that is, somewhat ironically, quite the creature of television, at least of his time --- mid-length interviews (this one runs ~28 minutes), fairly common in the 1960s and 1970s --- and often goes for immediate impact rather than deep truths. The penumbra of people who influenced and were influenced by McLuhan is worth examination: Harold Innes (mentioned in the interview, though again claims made in the interview are questionable), Walter Ong, Neil Postman, and Elizabeth Eisenstein amongst them.
With 100 Milliwatt around the continent, wow, that’s crazy.
Would be interesting to see, what wallstreet would do with it.
Light speed in Fibre is Slow than RF, they are buying towers for direct connections via RF.

For low bandwidth, but time critical signals this could be a thing.
But what do I know :D
I've always wondered if Image magick was named after Aleister Crowley's book. The spelling of magick is the same.
From what I remember it was either kids who were too young to pick out their own clothes who had them, and then also adults who stopped caring about what their clothes looked like. If you were in the age between those two points in life, you avoided them like the plague. My thesis is that these young kids simply grew up continuing to wear crocs, now they are in their early 20s and the marketing focus is on them now.
A theory: the tradespeople that young people mostly meet aren’t the elite within the trade. If they meet a welder, it’ll be the guy putting a trailer hitch on dad’s minivan, not the guy welding skyscraper girders. The second kind is more inspiring.
This time is different for two reasons:

1) It actually works
2) people are paying for it

And that is with the handicapped version (sandboxed and no wallet attached).

Once you can give these systems web access and a wallet we’ll see the full size of the wave.
With the way Google and other providers have shutdown accounts with impunity, it’s hard to think of anything but a custom domain being a safe option.
Maybe for work, but everyday life, I don't see the benefits. At the moment all of this seems redundant, just like a smartwatch when you also have a smartphone.
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Yup - I used to budget $200 - $250 for "last year's flagship" or something midrange.

Spent $290 in April 2020 for a Radeon RX 5600 XT - a few steps below the top end $400 5700 XT!

The 6600 XT is actually about that much now, which isn't awful. But it's also increasingly far from the top end (behind the 6700 XT, 6800, 6900 XT, 7900 XT, 7900 XTX) and those range in price from $350 to $1000!
The FP-90x is currently at the top of my list. The price and portability makes it much more practical for me than the bigger console pianos, even though I am very allured by some of the nicer actions with longer keysticks. I’ve played the RD-2000 enough to know I’ll enjoy the action, but I haven’t been able to find an FP-90x in a showroom yet to hear it in person. The piano sound samples I’ve listened to aren’t super impressive, but I’m not super concerned about that.

One of the things I plan to do is connect my iPad and laptop and play around with all the newer piano VSTs that I’ve missed since being away from that world for about 10 years. Sadly Kawai pianos don’t work as USB audio interfaces, so you can’t pipe the VST output back into its onboard speakers. The Roland pianos all support this feature, as do I believe most or all Yamahas.
I would dispute that. Modern framing and construction is not that difference than 100 years ago, and in many cases is even easier. Oh sure we don't make balloon frame houses now because they are a fire hazard, but the skills used to put a floor in before the second story wall is no different than putting up a 2 story wall and building the second floor onto that, might use a nail gun instead of a hammer because it is 10x faster for sheathing though. And things like plumbing and electrical and drywall and flooring are easier than ever. I don't gotta plaster an entire wall into existence, just the joints between drywall. I don't gotta put ceramic knobs up to wrap my wiring around, I can just pull a shielded wire through the walls. I don't have to cut and solder lead pipe or install ceramic drain lines or huge threaded cast iron pipes, I use plastic which is way faster and easier in every way. I don't have to mend carpets, you buy new, and laminate flooring is cheaper than anything ever before and is so easy ive had a 6 year old child doing it. Tile hasn't changed in like forever.

If you follow the bog standard construction methods, there are only a handful of dangerous or bad things you can do. Like pulling wire through sharp metal conduit holes and not using grommets. Or sticking your furnace up tight against bare wood boards or paneling. Or being completely clueless and ignoring the instructions printed on your insulation and creating a plastic trap for moisture to accumulate. Using brittle screws instead of nails for framing. And almost all of these things would be caught by an inspector immediately if you even tried.
Apple is not the only or the first manufacturer that did this, they wouldn't be copying Apple if they do this.
The negativity here is bizarre. This looks just about exactly like the first steps we need to create good spaces for social networking and publishing online. The guy is already taking feedback about subdomains and looking at selling domains, which obviously would give people a little more control and assurance they can own their stuff.
Web Components 101
You should tell him to move to Australia. Tradies in Australia are like royalty.
Especially since it's a solved problem. SawStop[1] is incredible. Yes, Festool isn't cheap, but neither is an unplanned amputation. Of course it's not perfect, but you'll probably be looking at stitches instead of dismemberment.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYLAi4jwXcs
One thing to keep in mind when doing this is that you can modify the voltage taper when the pot is used as a voltage divider, but the pot will then have a different total resistance depending on where it is set. That means the pot will load down the previous gain stage differently than a true log taper pot. This might mean you need a bigger coupling capacitor too.

If you are trying to make a variable resistor with a different taper out of a linear pot and some resistors, the only one you can make is a reverse log taper. That makes this technique more useful for volume and gain controls but less so for most tone controls.
Then by that definition most countries in the top twenty for size can be considered empires.
No, only the 7950x3d and 7900x3d from AMD have this property of asymmetrical cores. This is a new thing for AMD. For the 5800x3d, or the 7800x3d, it's only 1 CCD so there's no asymmetry, and no scheduler accomodations are needed. Likewise, any non-x3d chips are symmetrical.
And offers a generous notice period, and data transition options, when it shut downs.

To be fair, this should be what to expect from any large corporation, but sadly, many don't.
I really adore Python's iterable- and keyword-unpacking operators (*some_iterable, **some_mapping):

arr = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
head, *body, tail = arr # head=0, body=[1, 2, 3], tail=4
head, *rest = arr
head, *_, tail = arr
*_, tail = arr
first, second, third, *rest = arr

foo = {"a": 1, "b": 2, "c": 3}
bar = {"b": 9, "x": -1}
{**foo, **bar} # -> {"a": 1, "b": 9, "c": 3, "x": -1}