skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure somebody just photoshopped that entire scene together and drew the cow.

Look at the way shadows would have to be cast to form the handlebars vs the hands on the handlebars, for example.

So the tail could be an intentional puzzle or joke.

It also has the general photo-illustration style of Caplin's "How to Cheat in Photoshop" books.
https://github.com/BlinkDL/RWKV-LM
All problems are, when seen from far enough away, 'transition' problems.

They are very, very real for the people experiencing them. Life itself is transitory, often on a shorter timeline than the problems encountered throughout.
So the code suggestion comes from the same data trained for the public version, which could include GPL code or have other issues?

I doubt any company would use this in their production code. Internal tools, maybe.
None of your links are about 222nm; they're all about longer wavelengths or mixes that include longer wavelengths.
I'm not the one using ad-hominem attacks to make their argument, so I'm not sure who the bigger troll is here.
>If you bet on the scientific majority around climate change being wrong / non-existent / something we can't control, and end up being wrong, then the worst case scenario we make the planet uninhabitable (I'm going to the extreme here).

Have you heard of Pascals wager? What do you think of it?

The problem with your 2nd part is it hasn't been actually shifting away from oil, just shifting where in the chain uses more of it. 'Green' infrastructure and products are still overwhelmingly powered by oil & coal and require such significant amounts of emissions to extract that it is self-defeating in the majority of cases. The strongest advocates of 'Green' energy have been frequently silent on Nuclear Energy, which is an obvious and much easier solution to their own alarmism than wind farms (have you seen local eco impacts and blade disposal?) solar (works only where it's sunny with limited options for power storage which is its own can of worms).

>For something more immediate like health concerns with this derailment, is should the officials be more willing to be wrong? And message as such?

I think transparency is what is being requested, not wrongness.
I'd just pick out one of the many C++ tutorial websites and start. Learn by doing.
Their training data comes from repos, not from you using the tool.
> What is the best way to know what you want to do with the kids and the kids and the kids and the kids and the kids and the...

Excellent work, Gboard. This has a distinctly different flavor than ChatGPT.
Yeah Europe is a total mess. Signalling systems, rail gauges. True.

PS I didn't know the NYC metro was so big compared to the rest. Wow.
Wow this is 19,000 words. I like his summary at the end:

At some level it’s a great example of the fundamental scientific fact that large numbers of simple computational elements can do remarkable and unexpected things.

And this:

... But it’s amazing how human-like the results are. And as I’ve discussed, this suggests something that’s at least scientifically very important: that human language (and the patterns of thinking behind it) are somehow simpler and more “law like” in their structure than we thought.

Yeah I've been thinking along these lines. ChatGPT is telling us something about language or thought, we just havent got to the bottom of what it is yet. Something along the lines of 'with enough data its easier to model than we expected'.
How many spreadsheets are that big? And how much bloat do you think supporting that accounts for?
EU Parliament confirms 2035 ban on new petrol and diesel cars
Especially since the virologists were educated in Canada, and the GoF was funded by the U.S.
The work ethnic thing is a real shame because I've seen this reflected through the consultancies I deal with.

It is just unbothered with a lack of pride from an engineering and effort stand point. Important not to generalise as there are the odd shining examples that come through.

Similarly in medicine in India, not a single drug has been developed in India that has come to market though it is a manufacturing centre house for cheap generics, how safe they are I'm very unsure.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is another example of an open-world with ridiculous attention to detail. It's certainly rare to have such a detailed open-world and a really good story.
Windows Phone 7: 2010

HTC Dream: 2008

There's a reason Microsoft completely ditched Windows Mobile, because it was never in the post-iPhone fight.
Its even more bonkers that she remained anti-encryption and pro-mass surveillance after the CIA was caught spying on her committee, while her committee attempted to investigate the CIA!

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/a-brief...
Perhaps it's due to the fact that you can't really have type-generic closures in Rust: once the compiler has inferred one type, the closure cannot be used with another type. In contrast, inner functions can have any number of additional type parameters.
Vinyl chloride degrades in air 99% in 100 days and doesn't bio-accumulate.

It'll be a source of 14-CO2 for about a year, tops.
What cards have you tried?
If you stick with general-use mSD card these days they'll most likely be TLC.
The issue mostly is they don't* support TRIM unlike an SSD, and they use bottom-of-the-barrel flash chips (cause consumer grade, pricing is important here).

Pony up a bit more cash for "high endurance" grade (mostly MLC), or even industrial SLC cards at a much higher price point.
My current roster for my small pi4 cluster is a mix of Samsung Pro Endurance, SanDisk High Endurance and Kioxia High Endurance. So far they've been working pretty great for me.
Last time I checked they're about $15-25 a pop, which isn't cheap but not that bad either. I've been meaning to checkout SanDisk's max endurance which supposedly has much better write cycles, which I'll probably do after the card in my dashcam dies.

*On SBCs you could do something *like* trim, but it's not as straight forward, and support depends on the controller of the card wildly.
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, February 2023 Edition
Yes I do. The game, It Takes Two, works fine, but the EA App does not render so you have to guess where the buttons are, and it also brings nothing of value other than being an annoying launcher. Also the networking in the EA App seems flaky.

I am not accusing EA of caring about my Linux gaming experience. But I still blame their app for making it worse for their games they distribute.
The racist part in this article is not a bait car. The story isn’t even about a bait car, the bait was merchandise. It’s that a black neighborhood was targeted and the vehicle was filled with stereotypical merchandise.
I've never been fired but pretty much realized this from job one. I do agree though that for the people who don't understand this and look at the company as a place where they work with friends towards a common goal getting fired is likely the best way for them to understand that they are all just cogs in a heartless machine.

I had a team member fired the other day (he probably deserved it) and no one even bothered to tell me. I figured he quit and reached out wishing him well. I felt pretty awkward when I found out he was let go. The problem was they aren't even back filling his role, I just have to pick up the slack. He does a job totally different than mine that I really have no experience doing. I'm just winging it and not really caring about it. If they don't replace the guy I'm not putting in extra hours to ensure what he was doing gets done. Give me half his salary and I'll care.
> Americans view politics like sportsball, I.e "our team good everyone else bad"

it doesn't take a lot of effort to discover that plenty of power-structures and political regimes around the world aside from the United States eventually simplify down to basic adversarialism.

It goes from 'RED/BLUE' all the way to 'GreatLeader/Dictator', but the United States doesn't have 'us versus them' to ourselves.
Angular, React and many other frameworks can be fast.
If you add ads, many DOM updates and to large JSONs you can grinde every site to a halt.
I love how Haskell splits the type definition and function definition into two lines. It’s so readable that way. Also enables outlining your program first with just type definitions, and then going back and filling in the function definitions later.
There was Kite also that was shutdown. Microsoft can maybe keep it as a vanity product but seriously - I'm curious what kind of teams pr developers are using CoPilot and how much more productive you feel?
This and investment in self development through the work for the company. I don't earn just money but I gain experience. When the second one doesn't go up, it's time to go.
All this math. Thank God for science.
> ventilation in many buildings sucks

We've known that for a long time[0]. I have friends that are plumbers and HVAC people, that have to do strange stuff, by law.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/legionella/index.html
There was an art piece (at Burning Man, where else haha) that replicated this to some degree - simply a chill couch/bed thing that'd comfortably fit about five, with headset microphones and a projector, which'd visualize the sound.

And... however they put it together, it was magic. You really did feel like you were singing shapes into existence with your friends.
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hopes that it would set them free. But that only allowed other men with machines to control them."
So can you share one?
ChatGPT and other LLMs for that matter are most definitely not using beam search or greedy sampling.

Greedy sampling is prone to repetition and just in general gives pretty subpar results that make no sense.

While beam search is better than greedy sampling, it's too expensive (beam search with a beam width of 4 is 4x more expensive) and performs worse than other methods.

In practice, you probably just wanna sample from the distribution directly after applying something like top-p: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.09751.pdf
How do you like it? And why did you pick the Telluride over the Palisade?
haha we'll have it out polished in the next week or so :P
This article explains the chip market in a very good way, and articulates what I was trying to say about the A100: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2021/06/13/a-br...

Nvidia is a good chip company as a whole, but the A100 is a real problem.
You've fallen for the "all or nothing" fallacy of security.

In reality, securing something means taking steps to reduce the probability of the event, and reducing the impact of the event when it occurs.
our own!
> This was done with a full load of high value cargo (tea, porcelain, spices), which is what the clippers were built to carry.

I can see demand for tea and spices to arrive fresher, but why porcelain?

Wild guess: was that added mostly because a ship filled with tea and spices wasn’t heavy enough, and needed ballast?
To be fair they only became profitable last year, so for a long time there was no profit margin to "optimize"
Rust has managed to shift the discussion around systems programming to focus on safety.

It didn't used to be like that. Memory-related crashes and vulnerabilities weren't blamed on C++, but just bad programmers not following best practices. Any discussion of flaws in C++ was a circular "if you don't like C++, then use C", and "if you don't like C, then use C++", because there wasn't a third option.

Now even the C++ community is wondering whether C++ is becoming a "legacy" language.
Haha, right now: nowhere. The .ai TLD is cheap :) We think there's a lot of interesting stuff we could do if we have this connection between the substance layer of the work and the meta/reporting layer though. Ideas like reconciling decisions made in Slack into a Google Doc, or summarizing weekly updates for people who have to read 20 of them per week.

Looking forward to chatting!
Royal Mail hackers demanded £65M ransom
What are you suggesting instead? A protocol change like protobuf for example? Or an architecture change (send less data in the first place)?

Just wondering what a more complex but better solution would look like in this example.
That’s not the issue, though, because the operands are promoted to int, which in that example happens to be 32-bit. The actual issue is that the product 50000 * 50000 = 2500000000 exceeds even the 32-bit 2^32-1 = 2147483647 and due to modulo arithmetics results in 2500000000 - 2^32 = -1794967296.

If int was 16-bit (which it is allowed to be), no integer promotion would take place, and the result would be 50000^2 mod 2^16 = 63744.
While I liked reading a lot of Wolfe, I always had something of an issue with the "truthiness" (or based on a true story) of new journalism. Not just new journalism though. James Michener also wrote a lot of things that were heavily based on historical fact but had a lot of other (often non-obviously) invented content woven in.

A book like The Right Stuff seems pretty rooted in historical reality but you could never be too sure when it departed.
Fun tool, love how the banana peel logo stars to foot tap soon as the track's playing
Last I used Spotify for podcasts, it didn't have chapter support, didn't have shownotes support, didn't have smart speed (skipping silinces), don't think it had any concept of playlists or queues, and so on. Some of that may have changed but those are pretty basic features for a podcast player.
> perhaps we should reconsider the 'tiktok is objective evil' narrative.

I don't think the fact that tiktok was educating car thieves on ideal targets leading to an increase in stolen vehicles is a great example of tiktok's benevolence or enough to excuse it for the other harms it enables.

That said, nothing is pure evil all the time. Tiktok is just a popular means of communication and sometimes the message being communicated will be good and sometimes it will be bad. There's no criticism of tiktok's content that doesn't apply just as much to youtube or any other social media platform. However, tiktok still has their own privacy/security issues, the concerns over what and who gets promoted or suppressed by tiktok's algorithms/moderators, and of course that whole supporting china/genocide/the oppression of hong kong thing all of which makes me doubt the "tiktok is evil" narrative is going to go away just because a couple car companies caved to some bad press.
That would be also a good idea, albeit you need to automate the whole process...
Short of building my own using this API, does a self-hosted Codesandbox/Stackblitz alternative exist? I love the idea of spinning up web containers within my corporate network so I can prototype applications using internal APIs.
I can imagine this being used with some form of acoustically hardening resin. Put it in a container where the walls are ultrasonic transducers and then make the wave interact in such a way as to create acoustic hotspots that harden the material
Only on par with GPT2-XL, was not trained to follow instructions.
Added more cowbells as a joke, but it actually worked well

https://peel.fm/65bade0
> Only use Apache v2, MIT or BSD licensed

Even if you use code under these license, you are still supposed to credit the authors by reproducing the license. So you need to know where it came from. Do you credit all the software the model was trained on?
Not really, since my comment wasn’t talking about investments. It’s easy to sound smart when you change the subject.
Isn't the question, will the rest of the world ever have an app that is popular globally like Facebook, Google, etc? Now I can only think of TikTok and that is relatively recent.
The linked product peaks at 222nm and is filtered to exclude longer wavelengths. It's being compared to Mercury vapor lamps that peak at 254nm.
Sign me up. Its essentially the co-op of software businesses.
No, I was casting doubt on this:

"Controlling the illegal wildlife trade would require a huge government commitment which doesn't seem like a viable option."

Why isn't it viable if it would prevent a pandemic? They already implement many other authoritarian policies (supposedly successfully) that are meant to curb far less dangerous outcomes.
Ask HN: Explore NPM Packages by Similarity?
I'm curious if there exists a way to explore npm packages by semantic clustering or similarity. For example:

- If I know `npm-run-all` is close to what I want but is no longer maintained, are there adjacent projects I don't know about that would serve my need?

- For this particular example, here are some example packages that such a clustering might show as adjacent: yarpm, @xarc/run, concurrently

I'm imagining something similar to the map of reddit* but with or without the geographic metaphor.

* https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-reddit/?x=255000&y=381000&z=1231248.9168102785
I did not say we should feel bad for Russian soldiers dying (though we should), and I definitely did not say we should not feel bad for Ukrainian children dying (we definitely should). I said we should not celebrate videos of Russian soldiers dying in particularly gruesome ways, an instance of the more general moral principle that death and suffering are bad. This is what I meant about the moral imperative of Ukrainian victory overriding other moral concerns.
> Zero-error policies are generally good.

I'd love it if you could convince my old board of directors of that. But their first step would probably be to fire everyone who had survived the nightmare, because they "didn't already address it."
It's funny the next article under "new" is about europe banning gas vehicles.

I personally have a long list of problems with banning gas vehicles (I'd say it's insane really), but something that could easily be addressed is how manufacturers are using the shift to electric to enforce vendor lock in and steal personal data.

There is absolutely no reason why a precondition of driving an electric car should be having an app, sharing data with the manufacturer, or any of that nonsense. And this "outage" is one of the more obvious consequences. Before we even consider trying to make electric cars more popular, there needs to be open infrastructure and maintenance that doesn't depend on any proprietary crap manufacturers are trying to shove down our throats.
I went through a similar byzantine process years ago when vetting a customer-data platform. Our CEO was an acquaintance of someone at Blueconic, so they had to be in the running. They were super-opaque -- unwilling to even give me a range of prices after multiple calls, even after giving them reams of data that represented the traffic/usage we could expect. They were constantly angling to get more senior executives roped into calls and to show demos of features we'd never use. They were also super-reluctant to give us names of references and wanted to moderate such a call. We asked for 3 references and they gave us 1, like David Brent in The UK Office, when his boss asked him for 5 things he did to cut costs and he said "I'll give you 3, and if you want 2 more I'll do that." The other companies were better but still took real effort to extract information. We ended up going with Segment.
Valve chose SteamOS for the Steam Deck. It is (currently) based on a snapshot of Arch, but deviates so much that it's a huge stretch to still call it Arch. You could just as well say that a device runs Debian when it actually runs Ubuntu.
> This is pretty basic C++/computer architecture stuff.

The C rules for integer type promotions are incredibly hard to reason about. They should have just banned implicit conversions from the beginning. This is not super basic stuff.
I know we don't like management, you guys. But if a guy can found three billion-dollar companies and still fall short of your definition of "good manager"... it's possible that you've lost the plot.
As a safety & security robotics company, we looked at UVC applications early during the pandemic. We came to the same conclusions as Avidbots, which they published online:

https://avidbots.com/resources/what-you-need-to-know-about-u...

TLDR: The level of light insolation you need for disinfection makes them less useful for large area coverage and/or areas exposed to the public due to eye safety concerns.
This is neat, thanks!
My 2016 sorento lx v6 has an immobilizer and uses a regular key (not a pushbutton)... I know it works cause I've tripped it.
Thank you for all that insight! It's gold. Yeah, I also got the impression that the e-mail industry is pretty old, and only a few big players rule them all. I feel that everything is pretty messy still haha, because everyone has their own methods of trying to prevent spam? Thanks for helping out so much!
I love it. I love that it learns my codebase, my style, etc... and truly does feel like a second brain at times.

I am using it within JS/Vue and Python and really enjoy it a lot. You can write a simple comment like "upsert the object in the store, and if the item is incomplete recursively call a refresh fn until it is complete" and it will "magically" do the rest - down to understanding where the objects I am referring to are in my store, the attribute used to decide this ('completed_at'), down to the correct syntax for updating the data in a way that plays nice with vue reactivity.

It's also a stellar autocompleter in Python-land. I have been using more and more type annotations in my codebases, but even without that, it will usually guess the right attribute or function name.

I also dig the way it will automatically write a docstring for a function. It can sometimes be a great debugging method since I can just have it comment an undocumented fn to quickly glean what it is doing. I'll circle back to enhance the docstring usually too so it is less cookie cutter.

For writing blog posts it is really neat too, because it will help me write functions to illustrate certain points based on what I am trying to teach in the post. Most of the time I can come up with the most succinct and relevant example, but sometimes I cannot and this tool does a good job helping there.

It's not perfect, but the fact that I can type a few words, hit tab, and then correct any mistakes is really a magic experience sometimes.
Nothing to see here. Now shut up and take your highly profitable boosters.
Saving Energy: Home Server That Automatically Suspends to RAM and Wakes Up Again
A Python script that automatically suspends the server, when it is not used, and another script to wake the server up again, in case there is work to do. To my surprise I could not find any out-of-the-box solution, so I thought, it is a worthwhile effort to write about it.

Currently, the server is primarily used for two things:
- Plex Media Streaming (remotely)
- Time Machine Backups (locally)

To monitor Plex activities, we access the local Plex API and for Time Machine we simply monitor any file access at /mnt using "lsof." In case there has been no activity for 15 consecutive minutes, the server goes to sleep. (Nobody streams, pausing a video doesn't count as activity, and no backup is running.) A Web server on a Raspberry Pi hosts a website that obtains the current state of the home server provided via the Home Assistant REST API. In case the server sleeps, and I like to backup or stream something, I can wake the server using a simple button press that sends a magic packet using a wakeonlan Perl script.

GitHub: https://github.com/m33x/wol-plex-server
There is also Stoke Space which is founded by former Blue Origin and SpaceX employees. Everyday Astronaut did a video on them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS-0W6eHfjM
That’s awesome.
For those who weren’t around when it came out, Serial was a genuine media phenomenon. I’d say it was on par with a big Netflix series (like squid game or Wednesday) in the sense that you would see it parodied in popular culture and could have “water cooler chats” with coworkers about it. I think it’s hard to understate how much this show did to introduce podcasts to the general population.
Genuinely interested to know under what circumstances you envisage China being 'forced' to do anything. Held accountable means nothing here, and paying reparations is for the weak op cit History.