skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because China tried to cover up the existence of COVID at the beginning. Because they didn’t want to hurt their economy.

They suppressed their scientists from sharing data. They insisted it didn’t transmit between humans. And they insisted it wasn’t very contagious while erecting massive facilities to deal with it overnight.

Add to that the fact that the local administration deliberately wiped out evidence of illegal animals being sold at the market very early because they were worried about literally being sent to the gallows by the national government if this could be proven, the Chinese have been wiping evidence right from the evidence but for completely explainable non conspiratorial reasons.
> In amy case, that does not solve the issue of overall production or grid capacity.

Actually that could have done well (although I wouldn’t hold my breath + all sorts of logistics of reality can prevent the utility). If you have 100 MWh of car batteries charging during off peak, that’s extra capacity you can leverage during peak hours.

I do agree that in practice that won’t work out for all sorts of reasons (the comms and standards for that aren’t defined afaik + what happens if enough cars disconnect that suddenly you don’t have enough capacity and brownouts begin to shed load)
Why would it? It would make more sense to start with concepts ("dog", "brown"), and then pull it into words ("That dog is brown") - given that we're trying to convey a thought that seems to be far more likely than us chaining things - we start with the intent to communicate something, the markov chain does not.
You don't have to explain the perils of extending L2 over any type of WAN to me. There used to be a hard requirement from some SANs to have dark fiber for their replication - not just L2 adjacency (needed actual FC zones extended to another site if I recall). But all is not happy times with L3 links and BGP between things (and even then, BGP configs to achieve anything decent in terms of failover needs BFD or more). But sure, poop all over this fun thought experiment if you want, I doubt anyone's going to deploy this and put a billion dollar company at risk.
Polarpod: A Vertical Boat
"Like codepen, but node.js executing in the browser."
Brutally draining the battery while aSleep should never be called "supporting Sleep".

And even before then Sleep was very hit-or-miss anyway. I've never used Sleep because it's just far too inconsistent and thus unreliable, compared to just shutting the thing down when I don't need it for a while.
That's a good point! I did consider this but decided against it since the share URLs would be pretty long.

Instead I went with a S3 based storage solution — still pretty simple, not managing any servers or databases manually.
Unsealed Ghislaine Maxwell court documents [pdf]
We have not blown the Turing Test out of the water. I guarantee you that out of two conversations, I can tell which one is ChatGPT and which is human 95%+ of the time. (even leaving aside cheap tricks like asking about sensitive topics and getting the "I am a bot!" response)
Others have noted that Tesla got a big subsidy that requires them to employ a minimum number of workers. This appears to be an curious point of leverage. Tesla can't just shut it down to quash the union, like your Walmart or Starbucks.
Yes exactly! You give yourself a new perspective to solve the problem.

If you have ever seen a professional digital artist draw, you'll notice them flip the canvas repeatedly. You might think they're crazy how much they flip it, but this really does help turn off that part of the brain that got too used to the drawing. Too used to the auto correction magic our brains love performing.

This technique forces them to see that the curve they just drew feels off, even when their brain with the image right side up refused to see it.
Whats the point of taking a company private if you can't use it to stroke your fragile ego?

Nothing surprising here. Somebody in the US comedy scene should deliver one of those 2000lb tubs of lube to his trailer home. If he needs the strokes, better avoid the burns.

I wonder if he appreciates that having fielded accusations of systematic bias in government-twitter engagement, wielding his code-ax to direct systematic bias against popular sentiment and engagement with government might be seen as ... a bit two-faced? I suspect either "thats the whole point" or he doesn't care. It's not about what people think its about, it's about him.

As a coder, would you write this at a higher abstraction
apply-systematic-bias(toward, away, rate, filters) or what?
Apple and Microsoft both run by CEO’s with MBA’s, but you could argue that they are not “MBA types”, which is fair enough, but then we’re really talking about an straw man MBA.
Yea, but are any of those missing features required to run Snapchat?
I keep on stumbling on this story, yet i can't seem to be able to grasp it.

We have senses so our brain has some sort of a priori knowledge of the world? We're all almost blind when we born.
And because 43 watts is about $200 a year.
I thought this was an interesting, alternative lens at looking at the economic balance between supporting long-tail customers with higher performance needs vs. developer time/cost. I suspect internationalization efforts operate similarly; it’s not often worthwhile to translate your software into many languages, many of which are rarely read/spoken by users of your software.
I've seen a similar explanation of the nature of thoughts: "the world of thoughts is the world of sound, each thought appears as a hollow shape emitting a unique sound, which appears to support that shape". In modern teems, that's very similar to a radiospace filled with signals and noise, each signal encoding a shape, everyone has a transmitter and a receiver that uses some well known method to translate shapes to signals. It helps that the signals space has infinitely many dimensions.
Great news. Can't happen fast enough if you ask me, I hope we'll see a massive push for EV infrastructure soon.

Soo many car these days, the noise and air pollution is getting ridiculous. Try having a peaceful, relaxing walk in a city during busy hours, it feels like you're living inside an ICE. Super agitating. Only solution is to become tone deaf. Or noise canceling headphones.

Then you go far away into rural nature and can't help but think something went really wrong with humanity at some point.
It's been a while since I lived in that part of the country, but I was under the impression that the crime in Chicago is largely confined to a few neighborhoods that the taxpayers you mention would never go to anyway. For most Chicagoans. crime is something you see on the 10 o'clock news.
On the other hand, the universe appears to be a dangerous place for life. It could be that almost all civilizations suffer an extinction event before they get technologically advanced enough to prevent it or survive it.

It could be that the only ones we'd actually bump into are those who built and launched generation ships not too long after they became capable of it, which would be when they are not too far ahead of where we are now.

Right now we just don't know enough to say what it is like out there. We do know that we sure haven't been able to detect any signs of alien civilizations. But we don't know if that is because very few civilizations start, or they start but something kills them before they start doing things we could detect, or they are only at a stage where they are doing such things for a relatively short time and then they switch to technology that we can't detect.
I just created a calendar event to remind me to post it in 2024.
It's also worth mentioning that, by his own admission, OP only managed to save less than 2 euro cents per day (60 / 3360).

Maybe he has different ideas, and that's perfectly fine, but personally I value reliability and uptime far more than 2 cents.

EDIT: I failed at math. See below comments. :V
Well that strategy has worked for other things.

They’re not dumb. They took a bet. Not all bets work out

Podcasts probably just aren’t that profitable. They just don’t have the same pull like a TV show, plus they’re so cheap to produce so there’s always so much competition
If it was a pure benefit, they wouldn't need to force you.
Funny thing - this works very well, so long as you don’t use the UI. At least, it has recently, I do t know if things changed.

I was listening to a history podcast (British History podcast), which has been going on for years. I listen while running, so it’s managed on my phone. For a while, I would occasionally get the app trying to skip ahead, but only if it had issues downloading the next episode (again, I was out running).

I eventually just downloaded batches of 10-20 episodes and everything worked perfectly in chronological order. And more recently, it all “just worked” even while new episodes were released. My guess is that some behavior recently changed, but I can’t confirm
it.

So, I think the UX goal is to try to get you some content of it has issues with the next chronological episode.
eBook Pixel Art and NFTs (50 Pages) [EN, FR, DE, PT, IT, SPA]
Hey guys, this is looking so good!
Google search results have been decreasing in quality quite dramatically in the past few years for me.
I need to spend more and more time crafting complex search queries tuned to my needs, and still most of the results are more or less irrelevant. Or sometimes it seems to completely ignore the syntax I give it.
Basically, Google search does not understand what I'm asking. Sure AI hallucinates stuff, but at least the stuff it hallucinates is mostly relevant to what I'm asking.

I'm not saying I'm ready to replace Google by ChatGPT or Bing AI. I'm saying this is a huge step in the right direction overall for human-computer interaction, and Google has been sleeping at the wheel for this one.
I had a similar problem with identical monitors that I used something called displayplacer

https://github.com/jakehilborn/displayplacer

Later I chained the displays differently and moved the adapters around so it stopped being an issue.
I am someone that worries about hitting a bicyclist.

To do a proper right turn in the US in 2023 there are three directions a driver needs to look.

1. To the left for oncoming car and bike traffic.

2. To the right for bicyclists riding up the wrong way of the street or on the sidewalk riding towards you.

3. Behind and to the right for any bicyclists that choose to pass your car on the right while you're making a right turn (even if you're signaling your turn).

For context 2 & 3 happen to me more than once per year.
Ah yes, good point, I’ll add exception handling. Thanks!
Sharks on mobile non-gambling games can easily spend over $500 a month on a game.

That's the "buy an energy refill to chop more wood!" sort of games.

Now imagine if you pretend it's a competition. You can "beat the machine", as these games are dressed up. And you can wager on them.

Every casino in Vegas has lifers burning their cash. Now you spread that to over a billion devices with no gambling commission.
I don't know that I'm very personally invested in these kinds of decisions, but it's certainly possible. No one ever held a gun to my head and made me wear a mask or get a vaccine or anything, but I did them anyway because they seemed like the best ways to avoid dying from coronavirus or getting long covid, neither of which I particularly desired, and I do know people to whom those things happened.

What I wonder is how laying the blame on some country or other would change other peoples' calculations on those decisions.
New thread already!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34787255
Wow, 49 euro cents per kWh is roughly four times as much as I currently pay in south-east USA! I will not complain about my next utility bill. Blessed be the nuclear plants and considerable quantities of pumped storage near me.
> If you seriously think taxation is theft, I think the best I can offer is to think about how do you define ownership? Before you have theft, you must have ownership.

I think this gives an interesting insight into the point of contention. It appears that one side views the money about to be taxed as their property whereas the other side views that money as something else. Is that a fair assessment?

If someone views the money as their property and the act of taxation as the government seizing that property (especially if the government spends it unwisely), I can see a logical route to "taxation is theft."

However, if someone views society as a group bound by a social contract with a shared responsibility to ensure nobody falls too far down the ladder lest they lose their ability to contribute to society, I can also see a logical path to "taxes are a shared responsibility for the maintenance of society."

I still tend to think that government could fund all the welfare it needs if it simply stopped wasting so much money on cronyism and frivolous projects.
iirc he has been relatively in favor of Rust, but yeah. No need to rewrite, you can swap pieces incrementally, like many enormous, important systems are now doing. The C ABI is essentially fine / good enough, and is nearly the lingua franca of computing.
That probably is the greatest innovation Google launched in his tenure, and they killed it! How frustrating.
I don't know that reference but no one we're talking about here is under threat of death from their employer. You are an intellectually dishonest person.
I dig this one ;)
Basically find-and-replace a few short strings? That's hilarious.

If I was a Skillz shareholder, I would start a class action suit and drag that repo/video into court. Public companies have lost for far less.
I'd really like to see an LLM use Wolfram Alpha APIs like the new Toolformer paper does https://paperswithcode.com/paper/toolformer-language-models-...
GPT looks a lot like an IIR filter that transforms a sequence of vectors. Edit: IIR filters are linear functions of N past inputs and N past output - the latter gives them "memory" and non-trivial abilities to process signals. GPT is mostly linear, uses 8192 past inputs and outputs. I'd be tempted to introduce the 3rd sequence - an "internal buffer" with 8192 tokens - that GPT updates even with null inputs, the process that corresponds to "thinking".
> Aren't there factors in his initial state that 500$ a month won't fix

On average, no. Most poor people are poor because their income is low, not because they are spendthrifts.

> You're a union representing factory workers, wont it be tempting to demand a 500$ raise for everyone ? And then all prices of the output of the factory would be shifted up in price to compensate ?

In a competitive industry typically the result is that the company posts lower profits for its shareholders, not that the widgets increase in price.

> If we look at what the american experiment did with their 1000$ cheque signed by Trump, didnt it do exactly that ?

Exactly what? Cause the average family to be $1000 poorer, putting them at break-even in the long run? That's not really true.

> Isnt it true that the value of 500$ today depends on how hard it is to get in the first place, and if it's much easier, it becomes much less valuable ?

Yes, the problem is that the money is too easy for the wealthy to get. I won't tell you exactly how often I receive $500 dividends in my brokerage account, but every time without fail I still think to myself "wow, free $500, I can't believe I received that by doing absolutely no work."
The easiest way for ChatGPT to generate good output is to plain understand it. Given the vast amount of input data fed into it, it has no choice, but to start reducing the input into fundamental rules which is basically what understanding is. Understanding is a form of compression. More efficient for a neural network to understand a concept than memorize permutations.

Same with statistics and markov chains, people for years tried to generate chat bots with those, but they never worked well.
Fascinating article.

This is a subject I have some expertise in as I teach oil painting, digital painting, drawing, compositing and 3D rendering.

What the article missies is the real reason that artists have avoided hard-edged shadows since the renaissance.

1. The silhouette of an object plays a large part in our ability to clearly perceive it.

2. This silhouette is defined by sharp edges (more exactly, two neighboring regions meeting to form neighboring regional contrast).

3. The hardness of a hard-edged shadow interferes with our perception of this silhouette. This is a particular issue with self-casting shadows, such as those cast by the nose onto the face.

This is the reason that painters and filmmakers generally favour the so-called golden hour (early morning or early evening) when the light is low on the horizon and the shadows are soft-edged.

To quote Leonardo Da Vinci:

``An object will display the greatest difference of light and shade when it is seen in the strongest light. . . . But this should not be much used in painting, because the works would be crude and ungraceful.''

Of all the subjects I teach, shadows cause the third-most trouble (the first being perspective, the second being anatomy). Common student mistakes: using black to darken the shadow (yuk), using default light settings in a 3D render (too hard-edged), in compositing, not matching the source shadow with the composited one, in digital painting, not changing the size of the brush as they model the shadow.

Some of my course material on the subject:

neighboring regional contrast: https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/87565/pages/structural-...

Shadows: https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/87565/pages/colour-shad...

Compositing: https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/87565/pages/photoshop-c...
Reverse proxy on the Pi? If a request comes in for the server and x minutes have elapsed since last activity/WoL, send a new WoL.

I'm a little out of my wheelhouse though. Maybe that would only work for HTTP which will not cover Time Machine?

Does Time Machine run on a schedule? Add a cron job (whatever the Mac equivalent is) to send a WoL ~1min beforehand?
I was at a company that moved from an offshored setup to an offshored and outsourced one, and that was eye opening.

The offshore employees were, on aggregate, no better or no worse than their US counterparts. They were carefully recruited by a dedicated team, and all ended up with solid institutional knowledge because they were valued and retained over their careers. They even had decent advancement paths as well, including into management - I remember one guy in the office whose reporting chain went from him to Hyderabad - USA - Bangalore - USA. That had to be fun.

But then the outsourcing bug bit, teams were decimated in both countries, and that’s when I got to see the typical horror stories firsthand.

I’m careful now to ask people who talk about “offshoring” if they mean building a team of FTEs in another country, or hiring a body shop with the lie that they’ll handle the “non-core business tasks”.
I am deeply sympathetic to Alex Russell's position on frameworks, but the reality is that he's never going to move the needle by badgering developers to prioritize performance over developer experience. The ecosystem won't move on from React to more performant and standards-based alternatives until those alternatives provide a competitive developer experience.

As someone who wants to advocate for standards instead of frameworks in my org, the problem I have is that the standards process is moving too slowly to address very basic and obvious developer needs. For example, the fact that Web Components are registered in a global namespace is really inconvenient in a large organization where you have many different teams making a large number of components. Sure, you can work around this with a BEM-like naming scheme, but you shouldn't have to. There's a great proposal for scoped custom element registries by one of the Lit developers that would actually address this issue, but it's been sitting in a repo for years without any meaningful activity and there doesn't appear to be any momentum around implementing it. Meanwhile, this is a thoroughly solved problem in the React and Vue ecosystems. That's just one small example, there are a ton of other papercuts and annoyances that there's no hope of fixing in the foreseeable future if solving them is going to involve a years-long slog through the standards process.

The DOM part spec that emerged from Apple's template instantiation proposal has the potential to provide an extremely efficient standards-based target for React-like frameworks that would solve a lot of the performance problems, especially if it's used judiciously for just the dynamic parts of the page in conjunction with server rendering and declarative shadow DOM. But nobody seems to be working on making that a reality, activity on that spec is pretty much dormant. React is going to keep winning until the standards furnish comparable ergonomics.
The product looks nice, but the most important question will be whether it works with Home Assistant. I'll pass if it's locked down.
Honestly, with how horrible air travel has become, I'd consider taking a ship across the Atlantic to Europe if it could make the journey in ~2 days.

Enough space to stretch my legs, plus some WiFi, and plenty of time to adjust to the time zone difference (of course, this only works if you're planning a long vacation, not for a one-week trip).
The anecdote about Tibet is interesting, though I couldn't find it in the book you mention. I searched for "cliff", "vibration", "sing", and a few other keywords. Do you remember more of the context?

After that part, I'm afraid I don't see the connection to the manufacturing technique that is the subject of this discussion.
Source was posted here:

https://github.com/brianhama/SkillzTruth
It's there, it works, and there will always be legacy software. What is there to gain from killing it?
It does not, unless you define "equally" in a very particular way. Under consumption-based tax schemes, poor people spend a larger portion of their income on taxes than rich people (because they spend more of their income, and consumption taxes are a tax on spending).

I'm not sure what you mean when you say that progressive taxes are a sham. The goal of taxing rich people at a higher rate than poor people seems pretty obviously good. Maybe the implementation issues wherein unrealized capital gains aren't captured? But that's particular to our implementation of taxes, not to progressive taxes generally.
> you just need to ensure all that get a dose die.

I believe they were asking specifically that. How do you ensure that?

In other words, how do you ensure all get the correct (lethal) dose?

Some may be partially hit. It would be very hard to tell, no?
2024 page PDF, 370MB just in case anyone needs to know that before opening in a PDF viewer. It may be worth adding [370MB] to the title just in case people are on slow links or cell phones.
guess everyone learned that don't try this.
"Fair cop, then."
I mean... sorta. It's not easy to write a Office add-in just using the C API, and when I tried a year or two ago the only example code I could find was like 20 years old and all documentation was heavily pushing people toward the newer JS-based add-ins.

I quit that job because the extensibility story for Excel was so painful (but they had good business reasons for being in the space), sigh.
I think it’s a loyalty thing too, but it’s not so much about the platform but more about the podcast

With TV shows, if my friends talk about it, I want to watch it too

With podcasts, I don’t seem to really care. If I can’t listen to a podcast because it’s not available, I won’t miss it
Still, TFA is about putting a server on stand-by. A server is not going to run off a battery most of the time, so it's not very relevant if it's drawing 4 W instead of 1 W. Even if it's not running at the absolute minimum power level, by putting it on any stand-by mode it's going to draw an order of magnitude less power than if it's idle.
Disagree when it comes to anything in the real world how we experience things.