skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool.

By far the most interesting aspect of this, for me, is that we're now seeing tools for building software infrastructure with layers of APIs that operate on -- gasp! -- natural language, which is notoriously prone to imprecision and ambiguity. And yet it works remarkably well. It's hard not to look at all this, mouth agape, in awe.

Part of me wonders, though:

Wouldn't it be better if we could compose LLMs by passing sequences of embeddings (e.g., in a standardized high-dimensional space), which are much richer representations of LLM input, internal, and output states?
The Japanese emperor has zero power and lives in one of the safest countries in the world, but no one would be naïve enough to think he doesn’t need protection.
> Firefox requires at least uploading to Mozilla

... which requires I sign a legal document and involve a thirdparty gatekeeper. Chrome is practically the same; I'm not going to ask my users to go mess with their browsers' settings assuming they can even do so (policies).

Life is too short to deal with the nonsense of hostile platforms.
Always check the Tech Specs pages for the details that aren’t always in the press releases.
https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-14-and-16/specs/
Yeah, it looks good, but don't have any IOS devices. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What’s the point of this? Isn’t it still your own IP address?
With due respect to the tireless efforts of the TruffleRuby team TruffleRuby always seemed fated to be forever almost ready. I first came across it in 2013, I think it was, but there was always a not-quite-ready factor. If I remember the show-stopper was that it was unlikely to ever be Rails compatible but I may be wrong.
I was specifically talking about a PhD requirement as a precursor step in a research career.

> Academia is a shocking hive of nepotism and corruption wherever you are.

Also isn't something discussed by Dr Natalie Gosnell who has her Dr. and a position. Her complaint (in the article you linked) is that " astrophysics .. is paralyzed by “systemic racism and white supremacy” ".

There's no obvious mention of nepo babies in that link that you selected.

My own preference is for astro tangential projects such as

https://www.sarao.ac.za/media-releases/2022-africa-data-scie...

which are off shoots from the larger SKA project initiated here back in the 1980s.
If this hack enabled wiring up actual physical buttons for things that need them, that would be handy.
> He said "I restart every day" as if this were a normal condition.

To be fair, I think that 20 years ago most people shut down their computers when they weren't using them for more than a couple of hours, and most definitely at night.
(Also, I believe that he meant that he "starts up" his computer every day, rather than "rebooting"/"restarting")
Work on Android extensions got picked up again :)

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/12/15/new-extensions-av...
Your objection was to equal opportunity to lessons. We’re not talking about operating ice skating rinks for the public. We’re talking about allowing all people to be taught by teachers.
Just the default Google Workspace one for the moment. Only a small handful of users at the moment & didn't need anything fancy.

We are probably going to be looking at a redo of our whole auth at some point in the next 6-12 months as we plan to grow in size & move a lot more people into Tailscale.
> Meanwhile, a 8GB stick of RAM can be bought for what? 40€?

I think the M2 chips use on-chip LPDDR5. is it a 6400MT/s LPDDR5 stick for that price or a 2133 MT/s SO-DIMM?
I corrected my text above to read "unreasonably short lifetime" now. In my experience, plenty of products from the 90s and older still seem to work absolutely fine despite their use of electrolytic caps. Yes, some of their parameters may have degraded, but it still seems to be within tolerance for their particular use in the design.

It also depends on how exactly the caps are used. Caps close to a massive heat source, like a power resistor, are likely to dry out relatively quickly, while others, like those used as part of small signal filters, may last literal decades, with not much change in e.g. ESR or capacitance (and hence still conform to factory calibration pretty okay). Admittedly I don't have any hard data for that, only anecdotical experience with measuring ESR and capacitance and saying "this looks fine".

The crucial point is that the "capacitor plague" affected much more than products which were on 24/7 or which had tight tolerances, to the point where it was very well visible to the "casual" consumer. Yes, we may not expect a server mainboard that was on for the last 20 years to still have its caps within spec, but wrt the capacitor plague, the gaming PC you mentioned would have been quickly affected, in an obvious manner, as well.
Ask HN: Do EV Owners Think About Evacuations?
I'm thinking about both living in the Western US and buying an EV. One scenario I keep thinking about is getting caught in a wildfire evacuation zone without a fully charged battery.

Do any of you consider that possibility, and if so how do you account for it either practically or just mentally?
Which is perfectly reasonable to me.
I wonder how it does with these lengthy TOSs that are everywhere these days. EDIT: doh! No large blocks of text.
The Melbourne climate I was referring to needs heating 9 months of the year. The vast majority of houses have very simple, inefficient gas ducted heating. Rightly or wrongly, humidity control is generally not well considered.

I was going to install an ERV system but the payback was not within the life of the equipment.

Someday I’ll build a Passivhaus with a system as you describe.
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Yes correct! Thank you!
Same. I've run a lot of Linux on a lot of ThinkPads, and never had to think about the track point once.
Seems like it is not a new problem.

https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/11174
Apple seem to smash every other brand when it comes to laptop mouse input. The size of the Macbook track pads is incredible. They really 'get' it whereas all the other manufacturers have tiny afterthought pads and my fingers touch the edge before I can finish a gesture. I have a Thinkpad at home too but I never use the nub.
There's a limit to this process. At a certain number of bits, the sum of voltages will be too high to represent safely. Yet adding more bits on a digital computer is trivial.
This take completely strips V of any responsibility for their actions and places the “cause” of their suicide squarely on the shoulders of a journalist intending no malice. V repeatedly deceived people in their life - not by not being open about their trans identity but by lying about their educational history, their skillset, their product. Blaming the journalist for V’s suicide absolves them of the very real damage this type of bullshittery causes to those closest to those engaging in it.
To me, it’s as much of a preference as text editor or spaces vs. tabs.
Add a manual choke and a spark retard/advance dial and now you’re really driving!

/s
Those look like they have standard scroll wheels, albeit maybe they're wide enough that you could get a continuous scroll by alternating between index and middle fingers. Am I missing something fundamentally unique about them?
Marginal Revolution writers are really into the status quo and keeping things as they are.
For a body, with bones, since they can't stretch. All you need is rotation at each joint. You can get away with 10/11 bits per axis.

So for a full body you should be able to compress to 200 bytes per frame for 50 joints. That would mean 300k for 1 minute of animation at 30fps. Interpolate to get 60fps. That doesn't include faces.

If you do faces like Apple does, which IIUC is just N morph targets where N is like 15? Those are 1 weight each and you could easily make those 1 byte per weight or less so that's 27k for 1 minute of animation

Both of those could probably easily be compressed by storing deltas like draco or fit to curves for lots more compression.
Because that’s why we still have a society. You can’t put the ability to launch nuclear missiles in a freely distributed app so consider this a less exaggerated version of that restriction.
There just isn’t much market for it. People don’t feel the need to project high res images showing every little flaw. The video conference services generally downscale the video to 1080/720 by default.

You can get up to 4K on external cameras or on a few desktop monitors with thick cases but those cameras are much too large for laptop cases.
The article fails to credit the inimitable Ted Selker with the invention and development of the TrackPoint. Shame!
> acc and lane centering is kinda.... I'm already driving and have hands and feet on controls, I don't need that automated in the first place.

Anecdotally: I and a number of friends have held this same opinion for years, but recently it has changed. Not because of lane marker following, but because of this situation: “idiot in front of me slammed on their brakes at the last second while I was scanning left or right”; the system kicked in and legitimately prevented an accident. If there was some way to just enable that feature I’d be pretty happy.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mfPHTWsFhzmcXw8ta/the-feelin...
Curling up in a ball and rolling around on the floor seems like a worst case for a lot of motion tracking setups. Systems based on wearable sensors won't work because you can't comfortably roll around in them, and single-viewpoint systems like the Kinect get confused when they can't see your whole body.

Have you tried getting a bunch of Kinects and doing some kind of sensor fusion? I don't know what the current state of the software is but you can buy the hardware for <$100 each used.
Honestly, my apologies. I’m quitting nicotine after ten years of (ab)using it.

I should probably stay off the internet for a while.

Again, my apologies.
> It's hard to be looked at as 'the person complicating things'

Recently I caved and bought a smartphone, but I remember a time before that when some friends and I went to a bar.

Someone paid the bill and asked everyone to Venmo him their share. Lacking any immediate way to do that, I reached into my wallet and handed him some cash.

He looked a bit perplexed. "Oh, don't worry about it."
That sounds like the most boring coffee. Why would someone wait in line 10 minutes for that?
I might be totally misled, but I think of it as a parallel resister circuit. One area of low resistance is extremely significant.
Yippie! Clippy 3.0!
What is the current Nokia you have that you hate?
The OPs point was more about the bickering than what vehicle.

FYI, there are states in the US that don't require motorcycle helmets, which is also part of that bickering.

In terms of risk... a head injury is a head injury... it doesn't necessarily matter how fast you're going or on what vehicle.

I spent 4 years living in Vietnam. Helmets are mandatory there, but few people wear ones that would actually help you in an accident. They just wear a plastic cap that gets past the law. Other countries in SE Asia are similar.
I never get all the Apple fanboy love for their trackpads. They're okay, but ultimately they are still trackpads. They still erroneously track input when you brush against them the wrong way. I prefer the Thinkpad trackpoint by far. (And an actual mouse is even better.)
Pennsylvania Ave was closed to vehicle traffic on May 20, 1995, following the April 19 truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, in which 168 people died.
> Actually, if there was better infrastructure, I'd probably be able to travel at higher speed, and therefore have more danger in solo accidents.

That really doesn't happen in the Netherlands, however. I mean, ya, those grannies on bikes seem aggressive, but they aren't going very fast, Dutch bikers wearing suits are not like Americans bikers wearing spandex. Biking as a normalized transportation thing means speed isn't as common compared to biking as some kind of recreational sport.
We'll, that's something. 5 new extensions will bring the total up to 23. I still don't get why they make it so difficult to use any of the thousands of other extensions that are available.
I feel like I always comment on TikTok posts on here, but FWIW this is something I noticed early on about TikTok as well - the app felt well put together. There's even a web app that it is way better than it needs to be if you go on tiktok.com

I believe the videos are actually 720p, that may only be on mobile devices though.

I have strong and complicated feelings about how good UX/UI needs to be in software. It often gets ignored especially in B2B settings, but there are certain times where it's so clear how crucial it was to get something right. I think about Spotify compared to Apple Music and how Spotify had a way of preloading songs so they played immediately that Apple Music never quite captured. TikTok definitely had the chops.

The one big technical issue I have noticed with TikTok as a user though, is that their comments go down a lot. It's clear that comments are handled by a different service and it seems way less stable. It's somewhat common to be able to load videos but trying to load the comments leaves you with an endless spinner.
what a shame. Been using Brother HL-2170w printer for 15 years without any problem. And it was less than $120 new.
I help do recruiting at LANL if you are looking for something specific, just let me know.
An elephant falling the proportion of twice his own height will probably die.

A mouse falling the same proportional height will survive without a scratch.

Systems behave differently depending on the scale. Small is beautiful, and its a good heuristic that the smaller the scale the more tolerance to variance that system has.

A few local govts that have been captured (SF? NYC?) will not collapse the US.. But if the FBI, the executive, legislative get captured...
You can skip to step 4 using something like GPT-J as far as I understand: https://github.com/kingoflolz/mesh-transformer-jax#links

The pretrained model is already available.
LambdaPrompt looks really cool. Love the Pythonic expression as good ol' functions, which makes the code read very naturally.

What applications were you envisioning when you built it?
Idaho National Lab and Oak Ridge National Lab are pretty focused on power reactors these days. I have a lots of friends at Argonne National Lab, and some of them work on entirely open source exascale reactor projects like:

https://github.com/openmc-dev/openmc (ANL)

https://mooseframework.inl.gov/ (INL)

https://www.anl.gov/mcs/nek5000-computational-fluid-dynamics... (ANL)

Cool shit.
The base doesn’t consider anybody thinking differently from them as a “true” American and as such are undeserving of rights. Frankly, I’m getting really sick and tired of these people.
There are fractional sales people with skill in this game who would get you absurd deal flow. It’s a win-win on incentive alignment. Feel free to email me if you need help finding one.
you will have to become our early bird user to get that info. ;)
Hadn’t heard about this! I’ll give it a try
There's a missile launcher across the street from the White House -- see the Popular Mechanics link in a sibling comment.
Singletons (in Rust)
This thread on Rubyists' impressions of the gradual typing options is relevant: https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/105sdax/whats_the_lat...

Spoiler alert: not a lot of fans
Grid Pathfinding Optimizations
> Stop bickering and splitting hairs and wear a damn helmet. You have to wear them when you're on two wheels with an engine.

Can you translate that into dutch?
I haven't had an issue with the scroll wheel clicker, or have any particular idea to improve upon it, unless one were to do away with the clicker entirely in favor of thumb buttons or maybe putting an extra button next to the scroll wheel instead of having the scroll wheel be the button.
That is intriguing. Anyone know of an equivalent for Windows?
If you were to plug in every night I wouldn’t think it would be an issue. That assumes that’s a possibility for you.

Unlike a gas car, when an EV is stationary it’s using basically no energy. Climate and the computers would still be running but relative to driving at a normal speed that’s not much at all.

So even if you were stuck in a traffic jam you may still be better off because you’re not losing ‘fuel’ as fast as an idling gas car.

During the 2021 winter there were articles about how people were afraid they’d freeze to death in an EV if trapped in a massive traffic jam for a very long time. As I remember papers looked into it and found the EVs would actually keep you warm much longer because of how little energy the climate system used compared to keeping a full engine running enough to heat the cabin.
I worked part time at LBNL in Berkeley for a few years around 2000, writing software and working closely with physicists (related to my PhD/postdoc work).

The fact that they would hire me half time (with benefits) should already say something positive about the place. It's a beautiful location and they have fascinating things going on. Sadly, I was laid off after a few years during a RIF, but got hired back six months later as a consultant (for more $$), which set me on quite a good career path for awhile after that.

I think the national labs (and similar scientist/engineer positions at universities) can be a good option compared to industry jobs, if you can find them and your salary requirements aren't too high. You generally don't have to teach, though depending on where you are, they may like to see academic-adjacent measures of progress like publications, talks, etc. My experience involved far less corporate-style BS than I later experienced in industry, but some very big egos. YMMV.

Good luck w/ your change of pace, I hope it goes well for you.
> I don't know how evolutions, and therefore moveset changes, work in competitive battles.

An evolution / moveset change cannot occur during a competitive battle. Mega-evolving happens in battle but is "evolving" only in name; it's distinct from regular evolution ("Megas" weren't given their own dex number so they have the same as their regular form) and never prompts a new move being learned.

That being said, Z-moves[0] from Gen 7 and Dynamaxing ("Max" and "G-max" moves)[1][2] from Gen 8 could both result in more than four unique moves being used by one mon. With Dynamaxing I believe the maximum would be 7 unique moves given 3 turns each using a different max or g-max move plus any turns using the regular 4 moves in the set.

[0] https://www.serebii.net/sunmoon/zmoves.shtml

[1] https://www.serebii.net/swordshield/maxmoves.shtml

[2] https://www.serebii.net/swordshield/g-maxmoves.shtml
This is amazing. Thank you to all the contributors!

I am working on a project in the old media space and we were planning to build several of these elements ourselves if something like this didn’t come along. Love the open source nature and would love to contribute.
For anyone following this, I am no longer interacting with wizeman, and I recommend checking out my previous post (1) about using respectability and decorum as cover for spreading nazi rhetoric.

For example, this poster brought up “anti-white racism” from the left unprompted, but is claiming to be just “following” a conversation that they both started and steered. The tactic of claiming to be misunderstood is the first move. Claiming persecution is the next one.

This is how you end up with pointless, awful arguments with people with terrible opinions! Don’t touch the poop!

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34422552
I discontinued the use of macOS for programming/work stuff for a few reasons, but a huge one was lack of 8K display support. When my Linux workstation got the (old) 31.5" Dell 8K UP3218K, and it ended up on my desk next to my Mac's (insanely expensive) 31.5 Apple 6K XDR Display... the difference was literally night and day.

The 220ppi Apple displays looked like deep-fried dukey to me suddenly; it bugged me all day, every day after that. YEMV, but the text rendering 280ppi Dell was phenomenally crisper, better looking, and less blurry. It's something you can't unsee.

I'm not sure that there are any HDMI 2.1 displays on the market yet at 31-32" (I haven't checked out this year's CES coverage yet), but these new Macs (MBP and Mini) mark the first non-"Intel Mac with an eGPU" machines from Apple that support 8K.

To me, that's the most interesting thing about them.
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Riding a bike is inherently unsafe. What you're referring to is the proximity between bikes and vehicles, which is even more unsafe.

The roads in the Netherlands are nicely separated from the cars in most cases and also well paved. That doesn't prevent you from riding off the side of the road into a ditch and hitting your head though.

Having had a freak accident on a bike (on a safe road) and cracked a helmet, I'm sure glad that I had it on. I always ride with a helmet.
I have the same dash in my old ford, but with a screen with “Microsoft Sync”. Can’t praise it enough and tell everyone “I will run this truck into the ground” - the screen is almost completely unused; the Nav is.. ok in a pinch, and bluetooth sync is still completely seamless, autosyncs but shows no info about the song track. There are hard controls for everything. Just wish it had a 2A USB jack instead of 500mah or whatever it is pushing so I could avoid needing the cigarette adapter.
I believe your last sentence describes Wyoming.
Arizona is famous for that.

Lower power motor scooters used to be popular in Europe because they didn't require helmets. When the law was changed to make them required, people upgraded to higher power motor scooters (or cars) instead.
gamechanger

how can we use ChatGPT to design a 3d model?
This isn't the 1960s at the height of the Cold War. I'd guess a fair amount of respondents are just trying to recruit people to come work at DOE National Lab jobs.

Personally I think the US needs a new independent energy research program if it wants to keep up with China - the DOE's record on fossil fuels is a bad joke (look into their "Clean Coal" partnerships and FutureGen, the fabled zero-emission coal-hydrogen nonsense plant they poured billions of dollars into). Their renewable energy programs have always been miniscule in comparison (to be fair, any major DOE efforts towards renewable energy tech would have led to threats of budget cuts by Congressional politicians in the pay of the oil/gas/nuclear/coal sectors).

The high-energy physics and materials sciences divisons are not bad and have a decent track record, however. I suppose people will always be needed to maintain the nuclear stockpile and deal with the huge piles of highly hazardous waste, as well. Sounds pretty boring to me.
There's a comment that Thingiverse stopped allowing zip file uploads.

What's that about? Seems they had one job...
Interesting project. I would've liked to have heard a brief comparison with Excel - what makes Datasette something that one should reach for over that? Is it just the ability to use SQL in-place?
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The Blackberry Passport had a capacitive keyboard which you could swipe your fingers on to scroll without touching the screen. This was extra useful in landscape mode since it maximized vertical scrolling space. The feel of scrolling on the bumpy keys was awesome.

I don’t think that would work as well on a larger keyboard, especially mechanical ones, or ones where there is a lot of space between keys.
This already existed. The IBM/Lenovo ScrollPoint mouse.

I seem to remember using the original one 20+ years ago, which was literally just a TrackPoint where a scrollwheel was on a mouse. But I think the 2.0 version was more popular.

https://linustechtips.com/blogs/entry/2091-scrollpoint-ibms-...