skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is no overlapping theme or logic to the story.

I think that's pretty different than GP's point about art needing to have "voice." It seems entirely clear to me that AI will get to the point where it can generate something coherent in terms of plot/theme/logic - that's just a matter of time.
Animations embedded within text are distracting and make the reading experience worse
The vegan part is nonsense.
He has a video on YouTube where he is measuring himself with what appears to be a normal scale, and he says 6% there as well, with 22.2 BMI:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_3p81GmHEg&t=22s
Order Edits and Payment Collections in Medusa
Hm - I've found that the security and performance issues are worse with ORMs than with direct SQL because the developers don't understand (and are actually separated from) what's actually going on.
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I've found that the problem with not using an ORM is that you can end up writing a lot of repetitive CRUD queries. Every model ends up with the same basic read, insert, update, etc. function, but because you're writing untested, un-typechecked SQL queries, they still need to be carefully reviewed, tested, etc. You can write some helper functions to abstract over the repetitive parts, but then you start creeping into home-grown ORM territory, which is much worse than using a standard battle-tested ORM. If I'm using a ORM, I can be pretty confident that the method to read my model using an ID is going to work without fuss.

For a small service with just a few basic queries, skipping the ORM and going straight to SQL is pretty nice. And there are situations where you need custom SQL, like complex reports or dashboards. But for typical CRUD in a team setting, I've found that ORMs can be worth the overhead.
I was surprised at how much my random guesses were correct, based on the style of the flags. (Mostly getting it wrong, but maybe 20% success rate)

There is definitely a clustering of design styles. British territories for example tend to have elements of the Union Jack incorporated. Germany, Luxembourg, Italy, that area tend to have more the simple 3 stripe designs.

I found myself occasionally guessing a right answer for flags in regions I knew very little about. I guess that sort of knowledge about design trends seeped in somehow.
https://www.goto.com/blog/our-response-to-a-recent-security-...
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"A good example is setting up state for integration tests; I'm not going to re-use any functions I create for that."

And if it turns out I'm wrong about that, the braces provide a very nice, guaranteed cutting point in the future that anyone can understand without having to load all the context of the function.

This isn't the sort of thing I want splattered all over a code base, but it is a nice niche tool.
After working with ORMs for a long time, all I really want is a nice API for building queries (that actually supports all underlying database features) and automatic mapping of the results to whatever objects/structs and primitives the language supports.

Everything else is IMO a bad layer of abstraction that will eventually bite you when you need to get closer to SQL.
> I should note that I’m in Canada and so I don’t have to worry about healthcare coverage.

Basically anywhere with a robust social safety net (not the USA)

Do you find that you get less comp for your contracts working in Canada?
LINQ is nice, but EF Core has some significant limitations and forces you down some pretty sub optimal design paths.
Let's hope you don't need to go anywhere urgently in the middle of the night... oops not enough battery to make it!
This is incorrect. This is not the first-ever strike. There were wildcat strikes across the UK last summer, more widespread than today's it would appear:

> https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252523767/UK-Amazon-work...

Media outlets routinely ignore illegal, unofficial, wildcat strikes. They are more newsworthy however, because they express genuine disillusionment amongst workers and their capability to organise themselves without union management.
It is also worth mentioning that Oberon-07 is a purely structured language in the sense that each sequence of statements is either fully executed or not executed; the only exception is ASSERT(FALSE) which halts the program.

So in Oberon:

WHILE i < 100 DO
...
END
(*Is i >= 100 here? Yes of course, otherwise the loop guard would be lying.*)

In C:

while (i < 100) {
...
if (i >= 10) break;
...
}
/*Is i >= 100 here? No, not necessarily. Why is the loop guard lying then?*/
Either Chinese companies are reaping huge profits on batteries, or the American companies that repackage them into their bespoke platforms (EGo batteries don't work with greenworks or ryobi AFAIK because they put different plastic shapes around the battery cells so you're locked into their ecosystem for example) are reaping the profits.

Hopefully, 200-230 wh/kg LFP and 150 wh/kg sodium ion batteries should be a revelation in all use cases of batteries in the next year or so.

Tesla gets to operate at the extremes of volume, so they get to demand the best prices I would imagine, but the markup still seems astronomical in other things (like tools, home powerwalls, etc).

IMO there needs to be some governmental nudge. Battery prices (in theory) should be dropping in price such that many ICE-based tools will be fundamentally cheaper as batteries. An electric lawnmower shouldn't be more expensive than a very very dirty two stroke ICE lawnmower with the LFP/Sodium Ion that is coming to market.

But a lot of electric tool makers are using the reduced sound and superior torque abilities of electric tools as a price premium product. Things like lawnmowers and leaf blowers and snow blowers being high performance electric tools is like a "starter EV" for millions of Americans: it teaches them about recharging batteries, how EVs are better than ICEs in many ways (quieter, better torque, less smelly, no gasoline to spoil over winter) and how to deal with the annoyances (recharging).
Open a PR and fix it?
Decentralized energy storage does seem like one solution to the mismatch between renewable energy inflow, and energy usage. EV batteries certainly have the capacity (har har) to support a household during the low-generation times or to "cut the tops" off peak demand.

This approach though presupposes that everyone lives in suburban dwellings with garages/driveways, which is at odds with the more sustainable, higher density living scenarios (eg, urban centers) where public transit / alternate transportation usage is higher, and there is less space for personal cars. Eg someone on the 5th floor of a walkup is not going to run a cable from their window to their car parked at the other end of the block.

I think solutions like the Powerwall (or other brands' equivalents) might be a better way to go.
No, which is why I'm not yet too worried about them flooding the space and taking all the jobs away. I've never seen it happen before.
The wealthy are the only people who meaningfully can, and they're the only people who have a reason to. Being poor sucks. There's no point to life; if I was hit by a bus or jumped in front of a car while on break today at my miserable, entry-level job, it'd be okay for the world and I wouldn't feel like it was a loss for me. It'd actually be better. I wouldn't be wasting all daylight hours working a job I can't stand and being too exhausted when I get off of work to even read.

I was only afraid of death when life had hope. Now that I'm pretty much poverty-trapped, at least for the next few years, I'm fine with death.

Death is for the miserable people in the world. If you have the means to avoid it, your life is good enough to justify avoiding it. Life is great when you have time and low stress, so there's no reason not to try and preserve it.
But Pichai is doing tremendous job. He had been hired to keep the lights on at Google for as long as possible and this is what he is doing.

You can mine Google for next 5-10 years but it is basically a dead end company. The goal is to give back as much as possible to shareholder so they an allocate capital to better performing ventures they choose. Google is irreparable and sinking.
Pretty sure insulin is for diabetes not cancer
> It would be pretty easy to remove "kill everyone except me" as one of those options, if we thought it was worth it (which again, it probably isn't).

The idea is to keep everyone except the pilot alive but unconscious until things improve. I think it's preferable to everyone unconscious and eventually dead.
Worth noting: if you're not seeing the Brotli header, it's probably because something (e.g. your browser) is transparently decoding the declared Content-Encoding (which is `br` for Brotli). That'll yield raw gzip data. In this case, your browser or other user agent has already applied Content-Encoding, so they aren't going to do it again.
Those scales are fairly inaccurate. What is best is a float test and caliper test.
Nobody, including Wirth, wanted Pascal in its original form to survive, or at least to be in widespread use, given he iterated on it multiple times. You'll note the article is not about Pascal. For a reason. Pascal is a very different beast to the Oberon family, which proved itself - in it's unexpanded form - viable to implement both a OS and applications, whether or not you like the tradeoffs of the languages.

Focusing on Pascal is also irrelevant to the point I made, which was to answer the general point of the appeal of Wirth's languages.
I think (and hope) you're right. Recently, someone coined the phrase "bach faucet" to describe the mundanity of an "AI" that can compose millions of novel bach fugues that are indistinguishable from the real thing [1]. At the end of the day that is just pointless - abundant art serves no purpose in society, and its value will be zero when considering supply and demand.

[1] https://twitter.com/galaxykate/status/1583907942834716672
I do see that as odd given what he proports to be but what do you get out of it? I was thinking that this guy goes with his gut feeling and happens to get lucky from time to time.
I believe the claim that execs would make is that natural attrition isn’t fast enough, especially during economic slowdowns where opportunities to jump ship are at an all time low.

Further, there’s a good chance that the execs have taken it into consideration already, IE they need an 8% reduction so they layoff 6% and assume 2% through attrition.

The skeptic in me also suspects that this isn’t just about cutting expenses - they’re wanting to send a message to those who remain that it’s time to get to work and achieve some results. IMO it actually ends up demotivating and turns people away from trusting the org, but rather prepping to jump ship.
Au contraire, it's the most successful of products, an innovation that comes from a purported flaw. Due to distraction while it was made its handle is so short it can only be wielded by one hand, which is all Thor needs to deliver his "mightiest blows." The implication is that Thor's two handed swings would break any weapon.
You're conflating law enforcement with regular life. Regular people and employers don't have the investigative authority of law enforcement. Law enforcement has a higher standard of proof because it comes with higher penalties.

The rest of us who don't have the authority to conduct formal investigations have no choice but to make decisions based on the best knowledge we have and the benefit of our life experience.

The employer did what investigation they could. That's what they've been doing until this point. This information about Roiland didn't just come out today. This is all easily found out. You've reflexively invented the fearmongering scenario that action was taken on allegations alone.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if significant chunks of WebKit start getting rewritten in Swift once it gains C++ interop.

Not that use of Rust is impossible but so far Apple’s interest in Rust has been as far as I know entirely in server usage.
Thank you! And yes, you're right, I will look into this. Responsive design is definitely the biggest challenge for me.
I love how approachable it is. Domain experts in other fields are able to program in excel and codify their knowledge. While, not always great in terms of code quality, often it is bad, it still provides a great starting point in moving to something more resilient and safer in terms of data validation.

There is a reason it is the worlds most poplar programming language
Have you considered implementing a project folder structure, so that the workbook and the source code could be version controlled together in git, but the IDE would import and export the source automatically from/to the workbook?
Great question - couple of differences:

1. We are open-source & self-hosted, while most of the existing solutions are closed Saas tools and many of them ask you to send your data to their servers for analysis

2. We focus a lot on customisation. We allow ML engineers to define custom metrics to monitor (say you are doing human pose estimation, we allow measuring drift on individual key points as well as complex metrics such as body length, torso ratio etc.). In our experience as ML practitioners, these custom metrics are much more insightful that just out-of-the-box statistical measures.

3. We are completing the whole refinement loop. With each check, we define a rule to capture "interesting" or "problematic" data-points (essentially cases where model performance is down) and integrate seamlessly with your existing ML workflows to automatically retrain the model when required
Solidarity

I feel this is an important movement for both the people involved and the competitiveness of employers who treat their staff better.
>But running a publishing platform should be as simple as running a website.

Why is this consider stupidly easy? What kind of website are talking about, because the websites I run and have run in the past are not so simple
India demos homebrew mobile OS, BharOS, based on the Linux kernel
My Galaxy A51 just got Android 13 and the corresponding security update for January and this was a mid-range Android phone first released over 3 years ago. It's supposed to get more security updates after this although no more full Android versions (not like I can really tell anyways). So yeah, there are Android phones with more than 18 months support.
Oh, ok. But, I thought they were referring to the term freedom of speech as in the first amendment (not includes obscenity, child pornography, fighting words, and the advocacy of imminent lawless action) because they've given an example of cyberbullying
might be a better idea to have a system where you don't need to go into debt to stay alive
How distressed debt investors exploit contracts to gain control of companies
The idea that every single very, very rich person is necessarily "living" is cope as well, albeit in the other direction.
The reasons you want an ORM or query builder: Reuseability and composeability. In Django for example, you can compose querysets and reuse them in Forms, Admin, Templates, wherever. You can also generate Forms and Admin out of nothing but the model class.

Most frameworks are way behind Django/Django Rest Framework in that regard. I'm not saying there aren't any others doing something similar, NestJs for example. But I'm not aware on other solutions.
Yeah but The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a good children's book. Maybe you don't have children but trust me there are plenty of bad children's books (especially now it's easy to self publish).

Take a look at Penguin in Peril for example.

Cats are hungry -> they go to see a film -> they are still hungry so they decide to steal a penguin -> the penguin escapes -> the penguin swims through a fountain back to the zoo -> the cats get put in prison.

I dunno maybe it's still fairly coherent, but we've gone from "completely impossible" to "bad children's books" in like 2 years. How many more years do you think it will take to get to "good children's book"? I bet less than 10.
You're thinking of the direct effects when you should be thinking about the tertiary effects. Your assertion is "I don't go around advertising that this is my BTC address, they'll never know it's mine"
This is very achievable by layering it. Start by asking for a synopsis, then characters, then story arc, then outline, then chapters, then chapter outlines, then content. Each time seeding the prompt with the hierarchy of content above that level.
Thank you. People keep posting paywalled articles, thanks for linking the alternative.
Great response that you've written.

It makes me think of Ben Graham's apt observation from his book "Intelligent Investor" (which Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger both know and cite religiously):

"You do NOT want your banker to be an "optimist."

If you do not understand what this means, just ask http://perplexity.ai to explain the idium/phrase/limitless concept(s). No login/signup required [this replaced Google Search, IMHO, for all but the most-specific technical inquiries].
Well, even when you use ORM, you still need to write tests to check that you use it correctly: e.g., you didn't omit any needed fields, excluded all unneeded fields, etc.
How do you find meetings without meetup.com? HN, obviously. But are there other good leads?
Cross posted from a discussion on a different post but I thought it was relevant here as well:

I mostly do work on the Python side of things and SQLAlchemy is the de facto ORM there. I hate it. It’s heavy. Opinionated. The happy path seems to be doing things in sessions where joins foreign keys and things are evaluated in the app instead of at the DB level (one can define relationships in models for the ORM to understand but not define explicit foreign key relationships at the DB table level, wtf? Thereby doing joins based on common columns…) and yet I can’t fault ORMs for their ability to get you going fast and help you iterate very quickly.
I recently had the chance to start a new side project and trying to go the pure SQL route which I love was so slow in terms of productivity. When I could just model the tables via SQLAlchemy I was able to get to the meat of the thing I was making much quicker. What I didn’t like was all the additional cognitive overhead but I gained DB agnostic ways of querying my data and could use say SQLite for testing and then say Postgres for staging or production by just changing a config whereas if I write pure SQL I might get into issues where the dialects are different such that that flexibility is not there.
In the end I am very conflicted. Oh, some context I began my professional life as a DBA and my first love was SQL. I like writing queries and optimizing them and knowing exactly what they’re doing etc.
All plagiarized and non-copyrightable.

What a shame.
"Sir Christopher Hohn A British hedge fund manager knighted by the late Queen Elizabeth II says that Google and its parent company, headquartered in the Bay Area, should lay off more people after axing more than 12,000 people."

Title should read: "Upper class hedge fund manager thinks engineers make too much money, wants it for himself".
Presumably in the comment

"Besides that, it just sounds like esoteric nonsense. What's next? Essential oils?"

it refers to the entirety of Bryan Johnson's routine including the tea-tree mouthwashing, the weekly acid peels, the 33,000+ images of his bowels, the laser treatments, the fat injections into his face, etc.

I doubt they meant that a vegan diet, regular exercise, and sleep hygiene is esoteric.
Assuming you're talking about AC servos typically used for industrial equipment (and not the DC kind used for robots or RC aircraft), there are kind of two routes you can go.

On the easy hobbyist route, you can get the parts from a nice online store with email support like DamenCNC [0]. You'll need to read the spec sheet to find the speed/torque/resolution though.

On the harder route, you collect a bunch of spec sheets, figure out what features you want, come up with a list of SKUs, find a seller on Alibaba, AliExpress or eBay and ask them for a quote. Not all of them will be responsive but I didn't find it too hard.

For a vague idea of the price, you can usually get the order of magnitude from the listings on the sites I mentioned.

Ultimately though, servos are treated as industrial equipment and take a lot of work for a hobbyist to figure out. If you're not buying a pre-made kit sold by a hobby store, my suggestion is that you should know the manual like the back of your hand and be able to clearly visualise the full installation process step-by-step before you buy anything, as there's a lot of stuff that can trip you up and a lot of ways you can even kill yourself. Servo drivers don't have nice AC wall plugs for example, they have screw terminals, so you need to be able to wire mains voltage electricity without giving yourself an electric shock or causing a fire. The manuals usually say you should get a professional electrician to handle it. All the cables are non-standard and usually per-series so you need to make sure you buy the right ones. The list goes on...

"Surely I just feed it electricity and it spins" you might think but unfortunately it's not that simple. These motors are deceptively complex things.

As others have mentioned though, Teknic is a thing. Those motors are much simpler, they're designed as drop-in replacements for stepper motors and they have an easy to use online store.

I'm not a fan though, for a similar dollar amount and several orders of magnitude more stress and time, you can have high-end A3 servos from Delta with more features than you'll ever need. The encoder is 24-bit! You'll never be able to accurately use that resolution without precision engineering and temperature control but it's nice to know it's there.

[0]: https://www.damencnc.com/en/ac-servo-drive-400w-asd-a2-0421-...
The packages I receive seem like they are packed by a simple algorithm. Find the longest dimension of the object, get a box that holds that size.
Fill the box with packing material.
I realized the problem with this format is that it will always be more expensive since desktop/gaming computer parts are never designed to be smaller. The main reason being cooling.

Although there might be a lot of headroom to use gaming laptop parts.

Honestly I'm not really ready to pay 50% more for a gaming setup with the same performance, especially since it will still be difficult and expensive to upgrade.

So there's no good solution other than finding enough room for that gaming desktop.

Personally I use a cheap durable laptop (thinkpad L series) for everything I do that doesn't require performance. I'm saving electricity and money.
Average Pregnancy Length Shorter in the US Than European Countries
Strike always fascinate me. I wonde if there is any material that examine the dynamics of striking? E.g. The impact of striking, short term and long term, and its competitiveness relative to region without striking. One aspect I find intriguing is that the "trigger" of strike is often salary falls behind inflation. On the other hand, some portion of inflation is caused by increased labour cost. So by the time the strike demand is fulfilled, the next strike is in theory in the brewing. What material would you suggest to read upon?
Too bad Apple's management was so timid. That could have changed the course of computing back in 1985. I had a Macintosh IIx and it was a great computer but I would have bought the Jonathon in a heartbeat back then. Thanks for the history, first I've heard of it.
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Tesla invests $3.6B in two new Nevada factories to build Semis and cells