skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was the point that drove me to write the article in the first place. I think that there should be some kind of knowledge threshold before you can use assistants. I think the same point can be applied to why students need to know how to calculate some equation without a calculator.
Yeah, hopefully that trend is dying and we can get some sanity back.
Shopify CEO betting on Remix web framework
Uhh, speak for yourself. As a fanboy myself back then, it was kinda terrifying. Sure Power Computing was able to bump the bus speed beyond what Apple seemed to to able to do, but they also cannibalized Apple’s hardware market which they needed to stay alive. Also it became clear that the wheels were falling off the “new” OS rewrite (Rhapsody) project with no real plan for remedying. It was scary times when Microsoft had to help bail them out. Honestly, buying NeXT was the accidentally smartest move Apple executives made. I remember how cool BeOS was but was glad they chose NeXTStep over it. Mostly, because I was a Unix fanboy by that time too.
Reddit pushing their app so hard annoys the hell out of me too, but what are they doing that qualifies as "shady"?
IIUC, this actually seems very reasonable despite what the rest of the commenters seem to indicate.

BoE wants to have their own system to allow people to pay/receive money electronically. Certainly useful. BoE also doesn't want to have a ton of risk by storing people's life savings so they're limiting it to 10~20k pounds. The expressed goal is to facilitate day-to-day spending so this seems well above what an average person spends day-to-day.
I think the stark contrast of a guys matches/inbox to a girls matches/inbox is whats demoralising to most guys. I once read an apt expression for this where the men are thirsty in a desert and the women are thirsty in an ocean. I have all but given up on online dating and simply socialize in person. If I meet someone I like, I would just ask them out. If it works out great. if not hopefully I made the other person feel better about themselves.
> the Power Computing years were the best time

No, it really wasn't.

I know people who were techs for retail stores at the time.

The sheer volume of shit cheap-ass clones that crossed their workbenches during that era....
A small company will not survive a federal investigation even if they did nothing wrong. The lawyers fees involved will be in the 10's of millions before you can even get to the stage where a judge can rule on it.
Most companies don't care whether your company has one employee (you) or a million. So it doesn't matter whether you call yourself a freelancer or a consultant or a contractor or anything else. What matters to them is whether the entity they will be contracting with is a person or a company.

And as others have pointed out, this is usually for tax reasons: if the company contracts with an individual, the company is more likely to be viewed by the IRS (at least in the US) as your employer, and are thus subject to paying unemployment and payroll taxes.
Converting it to some object is not converting it to usable data. Anyone who tried to convert arbitrary json to python will know the struggle of `json[0][0][“root”]…`. This is also possible with xml and is similarly completely useless. At least the latter has tools around this fundamental problem.
The heroin users believe it is in their best interests.
Have you even read your own link? The store's name is "JBL Global Sales Store". It has no WD in the name, or any proof that they are related to the company. In fact, it's only been in business for a bit over a year, so it's not like it has any weight behind its name.

I'm just rolling on the floor at the idea that a random seller on AE is more reputable and trustworthy than Framework. One of Time's best inventions of 2021 or Fast Company's most innovative companies of 2022. That's rich.

An OEM has extreme incentives to stock real products. Considering they have to support said products for years and deal with any negative PR when something goes wrong. A random AE seller which has a 75-day money back guarantee has no such incentive.
Elon would spend a billion. Plus Elon already has other objects in space and a history of putting more up there. He may just spend money to intercept your theft to prove to the military that his tech can make interceptions “cheap and efficient”. It would be a great demo for the up coming space wars.
> In the 2000's AMD all but disappeared

Say again???

In the early 2000's, AMD's Athlon trounced anything Intel had to offer and would for years.

This followed soon after with the Opteron, where AMD single-handedly switched "x86" over to 64-bit essentially overnight while Intel failed to shove Itanium and a number of other ill-fated ventures down the market's throat.

If anything, the 2000's were AMD's golden years, admittedly mostly made possible by Intel's own incompetence at the time.
what udacity used to be free. Didn't know that, but now they charge so much for the nano degree.
NG (in the US) is now about 70-80% cheaper than it was at the recent highs.
Wealth is created under free markets, not "concentrated".
Why diesel? If you need natural gas to run the furnace, it might as well run the generator too.
Sorry for not being more clear. The onboarding process is a simplified version of the actual scraper builder. The fields are not editable, it's just to get used to the scraping flow.

I've noted down your suggestion and I'll make this more clear or add field edition.

Thanks!
The prime example in the post is someone who already had $15 million.
I'm bipolar without the psychotic episodes. I get unrealistically enthusiastic about life when I'm up and suicidal when depressed. These periods have lasted years, making a correct diagnosis only possible after years of suffering. With mistakes along the way - don't take SSRI's if you think there's a possibility that you might be bipolar.

I can't remember where I got the bipolar/schizophrenia idea, but I read an account of someone who was diagnosed this way. If I can find it, I'll come back and post it here in a comment. It was interesting.

I don't know how else to answer your question, so I used ChatGPT AI to give me a general answer.

Can a person be bipolar and schizophrenic at the same time?

Yes, it is possible for a person to have both bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. This co-occurrence is known as "schizoaffective disorder." People with schizoaffective disorder experience symptoms of both bipolar disorder (such as mood swings and manic or depressive episodes) and schizophrenia (such as hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking).

It's important to note that schizoaffective disorder is a separate diagnosis from both bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, and it can be challenging to diagnose because the symptoms can overlap. Accurate diagnosis is important because it can impact the treatment plan and prognosis.

If you or someone you know is experiencing symptoms of mood swings, psychosis, or other signs of mental illness, it is important to seek help from a mental health professional. Early diagnosis and treatment can improve outcomes and quality of life.
AKA Cost of Goods Sold (COGS)
> There are companies like WhatsApp was before acquisition that only needed couple dozen people.

But what was its revenue? Was it profitable?
> You'd always be it.

It's slightly more complex than that: if you were farther away or otherwise in a better position than average your portion of the interval would be <1, and so even if you sorted first you still weren't guaranteed to be hit.
My biggest hurdle reusing old phones and tablets is the battery failing over time wile living on the charger. We need a project or company that makes dummy batteries that just report 100% full all the time.
Oh wow, you built this. Congratulations, really impressive! Do you have a post somewhere about how you built those AIs?
While I agree that this sound nice this will virtually guarantee DRM-encumbered features of devices reaching their legally-required unlock date will be set to fail immediately. That'll force those devices to become e-waste anyway. No more streaming videos, no more using your bank's app, etc.
That's why I had said "... I can sign up for COBRA... "
"Most people support patents because they have this romanticized notion of some little guy in his garage inventing the next light bulb. That’s not representative of the mass offensive and defensive patterns of use by modern corporations."

I often think that the bigger a company or wealthier a person is they should get less things like tax deductions, patent protection, subsidies and a lot of others.
Why does weighted randomness seem so difficult for games? Are there any libraries that simplify this? I couldn't find any for JS.

So I created my own "algorithms" for things like randomly choosing which type of plants spawn in the world. It weighs them by the local frequency of each land-type. Eg if there's more swamp nearby, it's more likely to spawn cattails.

It's awful. Not intuitive. Weights have to be passed in ordered smallest to largest. Posting in hopes someone will correct my entire approach or point out an industry-standard way of doing these things.

Utils.weightedRandom(percents, types)

function weightedRandom(weight, outcomes){
var randNumber = Math.floor(Math.random()*100)
for(let i=0; i<weight.length; i++){
if(randNumber<weight[i]){
return outcomes[i]
}
else {
randNumber -= weight[i]
}
}
}
Ask HN: Hearing aids embedded in walls of house that track people's movements?
So instead of having someone wear a hearing aid while at home, you would have speakers in a house that amplify certain frequencies towards only those individuals who need such amplification.

Is such a thing possible? Has it been done?
Publishing of information, distribution of information, self service, and facilitation of services were very long standing problems before the web. The web solved them cheaply and easily and it did it by design, not by coincidence. It didn't need artificial hype because it was obvious what it was good for.

What do cryptocurrencies do again?
When someone gives fair opinions on something that directly competes were their own work, you should take their opinion very seriously. It’s an excellent quality in a person, and shows they’re more focused on the problem than their ego.
Driven by MBAs who told their IT department to do crypto, whatever that means, because they read it is the future.
If you're into logic gates and deep learning:

- Deep Differentiable Logic Gate Networks (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.08277.pdf)

- Video presentation: Deep Differentiable Logic Gate Networks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VulM891DhI4)
Not only. There will be a tangible increase in productivity worldwide if he torches the company. Twitter is super-addictive if you use it well. For a news junkie, being plugged into the matrix of streaming events is irresistible. I have been way more productive in the last few weeks now that I am losing interest in the platform.

If myself, a Twitter addict, is turning off of it, imagine what it does to average user engagement.
I mistated in my original comment, this page is not to do with UK or EU consumer law, they are explaining your rights established by UK contract law which are hundreds of years old. Any purchase of anything from a haircut to an airport building is covered by this basic law because whenever you buy anything in the UK a contract is created, regardless of wether you signed anything or not and this contract gives you certain rights in law one of which is that the thing or service you paid for should do what was advertised.

Most retailers don't go to the trouble to explain to their customers that they are also liable for the faulty design or manufacture of the products they are selling for up to six years under simple contract law on their websites, at most they typically say something like 'this product is covered by a warranty and this warranty does not affect your statutory rights', you would then need to go away and research what these rights actually are.
Depending on the speed of your ISP connection, the faster is the connection, the powerful should be the router
I feel like a major hurdle that will separate the hype from reality is whether or not the AI hallucinations is something that can be resolved or will be an ongoing problem.

If so, then it is going to kill AI trust for many applications and uses.
What you’re saying is that water is wet.

Name a government in existence that functions without a central identification infrastructure of some sort. Having ID isn’t what leads to totalitarianism, it is a ubiquitous fact of having a bureaucracy that delivers services to its citizens.

In most instance, having government id is not a harbinger of risk of totalitarianism. There are more important things to focus on.
Darktable is at Risk of Dropping Support for macOS
> just like when people thought novels were bad for people, or when writing would ruin our memories

In fairness, there are also lots of counterexamples where the long-term consequences of a new technology were not adequately foreseen, and ended up posing huge problems in the long run. So I don't think it's unreasonable for people to look skeptically on these sorts of tools.
I feel like a major hurdle that will separate the hype from reality is whether or not the AI hallucinations is something that can be resolved or will be an ongoing problem.
If so, then it is going to kill AI trust for many applications and uses.
They are also kind of a 2 in 1 appliance, in that they can run in reverse and cool your home, and are much more efficient at that than traditional ACs.

In the US where AC is common, summer is generally peak electricity usage. I suspect this will become true in Europe as well with the heatwaves becoming a regular occurrence.
Maybe "fossil fuel powered generator" would've captured better what I meant.
Gusto cuts 5% of staff in response to 'volatile economic climate'
A lot of the conversions that I've seen use smaller packs, like 60KWh or less. And most of them use used Tesla motors and packs. So perhaps this is where the price comes from ... the fact that the pack & motor are used. But $14k does seem quite low, considering the labor involved..
It would be nice for everyone to achieve the platonic ideal of having a gapless empirical understanding of the world from root to stem. It is not possible for a single person to do that, let alone everyone. At some point it becomes necessary to trust if we are going to provide and consume information remotely.

Ideas do not exist without context. Arguably the context is more essential than individual ideas. Judging ideas without context is not a useful exercise. It's easy to fall into a local minimum that's actually quite bad. Eugenics is a common example. Eliminating genetic disease sounds great as long as you don't have the context of genocide or humanism.
It's too bad that Apple hardware is arguably impossible for this use case. You can't flash a custom ROM so you're limited to what the OS allows (which isn't much). And that's only if you have a developer account that can still build and sign apps for old hardware/OSes, which also need to be refreshed every 7 days.
More bumper damage sure, but even at a couple miles per hour, a car where the bumper bolts straight to the frame moving at a couple miles an hour has to dissipate that energy. I'd expect to see some bent metal. My 82 bronco actually has a foot of steel bars that act as sacrificial bumper mounts so the frame doesn't take that impact.
Not gonna lie, this is kind of the answer I was aiming for when I wrote this. Never did I say that AI is bad or shouldn't be used ever. I just think that it's value must be understood fully, whether you're using it for coding or just need to rephrase 2 sentences for an essay.
I hope the EU fines the hell out if apple if something like this happens.
Everything uni doing nuclear is doing micro nuclear, none of them have full >1000MW facilities right?
We're big fans of DuckDb at https://prequel.co! We use it as part of our own dataframe implementation in Go. The speed is unbeatable and the tool is top notch. There are a few rough edges (it's not quite 1.0 level of stability yet), but the team is super reactive and has fixed bugs we've reported in < 48hrs pretty much every time.
Verily is a $1b+ business now.
This is a discussion without many definitive answers.

But there is at least one: the resolution of 4x5 film easily exceeds any commercially available digital sensor, with pretty much any halfway decent lens.

Digital sensors also require collimated light, so digital lenses correct for this, where film can produce a sharp image from simpler lenses.

Additionally, I personally prefer the colour reproduction of film.
No one denies anything or that the company handed it well. But this was never a real-world issue.

All of the clients set safe defaults and the documentation was very clear about default fsync behaviour.
> A unit test could have caught this

I've always wondered the best way to write tests for "This event should happen x% of the time."

Obviously we could re-run the test 100 times and see if it happened close to x%, but not only is that inefficient, how close is "close"? You'll get a bell curve (or similar), and most of the time you'll be close to x but sometimes you'll be legitimately far away from x and your test will fail.

You could start from a known seed, but then are you really testing the percentages, or just checking that the RNG gives you the same output for the same seed, which you already know?
Such metrics can be easily misleading. Even making a tiny modification to code can count as a request or an update.
The $500+ dollar of the author's friend cube is now listed for $899. New currency?
There's an old rule in small business: "Pay yourself first." It means, make sure you allocate money to pay yourself before paying everything else. Once you are used to it, it makes it a lot easier to get to something that seems like market rate.
A lot of of questions...

It is whether, for companies that offer paid support for FOSS, the obligations are towards the paying customers or all.

The same with FOSS which is used as a basis for commercial products. E.g. Google makes money off Android, but is AOSP with no Google stuff also covered by this law?

And how does it affect companies providing support for software they do not own? (e.g. consultancies).
> Why make the jump directly to central economic planning?

That's what government running things is.

> communism is when the government buys things?

No, communism is from each according to his ability and to each according to his need. You can form a commune with such a structure, it's not illegal.

> Are you arguing in favor for no government regulations whatsoever?

No.
Is it so important? I think this made the community and game world more interesting. It's emergent behavior. As a game developer, I hope I can make things complicated enough to have emergent behavior, even if that's just from my bugs.
Discussions of urban density often require nuance because density/walkability/access to transit/etc. is very dependent on where political boundaries are drawn--often for fairly arbitrary historical reasons.

ADDED: For that matter, the other Boston neighborhoods out that way are not especially conducive to living without a car either although they're dense enough in spots to walking to some things.
Most likely no.

I wonder if apple could be brought to court over this (i hope so).
My theory for why people think they are being "shadowbanned" or otherwise targeted by a social media company is often because of bugs like this. They are weird and almost like gaslighting in the way you experience them and people who don't understand how these bugs can exist assume sinister motives.
I’ve not had this experience in the U.S. I’m a platform engineer providing consulting services. Folks have said they see a clear ROI on my services and I haven’t experienced a shortage of customers yet, certainly nobody turning me away because of my sole proprietorship LLC. Freelancing appears to be alive and well here.

Sometimes my “employer of record” is a 3rd party strictly for their administrative services. In these cases the company I’m consulting for isn’t setup to pay consultants and offloads the legal and administrative work to a 3rd party. But other than the name on the check, the experience has been the same for me and I’ve negotiated the statement of work and contracts directly with a member of the hiring company, the employer of record just verifies everything is on the up-and-up.

From my understanding this isn’t true everywhere in the U.S. though. I’ve been told by a few clients that California and a few other states have locked down contracting. From my understanding a contractor can be a liability in those states because the work performed can be reclassified as “employment” down the road. Not sure if this just results in fines, backpay, or lawsuits, but I’ve had many CA companies flat out tell me “no” until they learned I was incorporated and living in AZ. This is all second hand though - I just know me being in AZ has been the turning point in closing contracts with CA companies.
There is a little evidence (10.1186/s12940-021-00729-8) that a very particular form of non-Hodjkins lymphoma is associated with glyphospate exposure (occupationally!), but ultimately... it's hard to say.
There's evidence of genotoxicity in human cell lines (10.1007/s13205-018-1464-z), but at possibly an unrealistic dose of glyphosphate-based herbicides. They are also demonstrably endocrine disruptors (10.1016/j.tox.2009.06.006), though again true in vivo exposure levels to glyphosphate is not well established it seems, so these studies are ultimately novel.
However, it's clear that they should be given more care than they are now. Hell, it took me like.. two months? to get a pesticide applicator certification and now I can roundup the hell out of anyone's crops, and I barely know anything about the stuff.
The XOR node behaves differently when partially connected than other nodes. XOR seems to only work when both inputs are connected. Other gates like NOT output power if the input is missing OR off.
Yep, great place, been there sooo many times, it used to be free, now there's a small fee to pay at the entrance which also includes a visit to the museum of the Capuchins. You'll find there the San Francesco in Meditazione (San Francis in Prayer) painting from Caravaggio. [1]

The English Wikipedia reports it as a copy, but it is still debated if the original is the one in Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini (Our Lady of the Conception of the Capuchins) or the other one in Palazzo Barberini.

Fun fact: both paintings are in Piazza Barberini, a few hundred meters from each other.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Francis_in_Prayer_(Carav...
I'm 36, just old enough to remember not having Internet access at home; also just old enough to remember hearing the term "information superhighway" and failing to imagine what that meant.

My first glimpse of it was through AOL, and it seemed like a not-so-useful novelty. An advertisement on the television would say "find us online with AOL keyword ____" and you could read a page with more information about their products, or maybe play a silly game related to their products.

I do clearly remember being blown away when I realized that, after establishing the dial-up connection, I could click on the "Internet Explorer" icon and use Yahoo or Lycos instead of going through AOL, and find seemingly anything in the wild west of the Internet outside of AOL's walled garden. That's when I became fascinated with it as a portal to another world. Like many others on HN have said before, it's sad to me that newcomers (kids or old folks) today seem to be increasingly getting only the walled garden experience again.