skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Static Control Components was always fun to watch! They really seemed like the leader in terms of making 3rd party consumables chips, at least on the tech and legal side of things.

The chips on toner/ink started because there was a need to comprehend how much ink/toner was left in a cartridge and to make sure the right one was inserted. You could weigh the cartridge but that's quite expensive. It's much cheaper to count pixels or ink drops (and their size) and then write how many of those had been used up into a chip on the toner/ink. That way the printer always knows approximately how much ink/toner is left in the cartridge.

Clearly once you have a chip on the consumable, it's natural for a business to consider how this can be leveraged for financial gain. Lexmark was always VERY aggressive about this. When I was at Xerox we seemed to be much less aggressive in how we implemented restrictions.

I have an abandoned patent application from my time at Xerox for restricting a toner bottle to a specific customer. As far as I know, they never implemented it, but we did have the technical ability to do so if we had wished. The downside to an implementation like this is it kills the 2nd hand/resale market, which may or may not be legal. You cannot patent something illegal. I'm not sure if that's why the patent got abandoned or not.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20140061290
Missing from all this: a dedicated machine running Linux to set everything up. I have an old beat up Thinkpad that I use exclusively for critical stuff that would really hurt me if somebody hacked.

You can have one for less than the price of Yubikey so there really isn't much excuse.
They have likely legal contracts with actors and similar which pay on a per-view basis which could sue Netflix if they would do that.

They definitely license music for their original which likely requires requiring DRM.

They would make offend influential huge organizations in the background of copyright monetization which could cause them tons of problems.
The author states Wikipedia removed the term in 2013 because it's not notable.

I'll join others here by saying I haven't heard of it as well and it would seem "tracer bullet" did just fine in The Pragmatic Programmer published much earlier.

The author doesn't state who came up with the term "steel thread" and I'm suspecting it was the author.
absolutely amazing. I'm stunned how fast quantization was done.

do you think there's anything left to trim? like weight pruning, or LoRA, or I dunno, some kind of Huffman coding scheme that lets you mix 4-bit, 2-bit and 1-bit quantizations?
Not much experience with IBM Cloud it seems, dumping a random blog post from 2017, here you go how we actually do it in modern times,

https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/log-analysis?topic=log-analysis-l...
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/pointers-in-macos-m...

Here's a more comprehensive list.
My experience would say up until they are walking/crawling (assuming they sleep). After that, it was 24/7 duty to watch for falls, climbing, and by 15months or so, they are stacking things to get to get to higher places.

My daughter slept like an angel, my son has not slept through a single night since he was 5 months old.

When people lived in tribes (or even villages), I doubt one or two adults were responsible 24/7 for a toddler. There are a chain of younger to older children playing and looking after each other, as well as elders.
Wait you’re saying VanMoof is considered a budget choice?
Teaching is More than Dominoes
I hate this idea that you either have to be happy with 100% of your job, or you have to find a new one.
I wish ebikes were better at regenerative braking, that would help smooth the worst hills outs, just a little extra help getting up to recharge on the way down, but the inertia to drag ratio is not conducive to such things.

I think many US cities could do a lot better, mostly by limiting cars in certain areas. Already it is common to see bike rental stations near the parking areas near many city centers. It is just that the cars are still there too, and there isn't always a safe way to cross some areas even in the center.

Outside of city centers it is a combination of sparsity and impossible to cross highway exchanges. Even in century old urban neighborhoods it is single family dwellings with yards andboicket fences. Not hard to ride in as long as you know any car door may fly open at any time. But the sparsity means you are probably riding a long way to find groceries. The highway exchanges have no side street alternatives and they slice up cities so that if you want to cross from one section to another, you are going to have to take your bicycle onto a road with no shoulders and high speed limits.

Lastly, I have ridden to get groceries in the Netherlands, it was quite pleasant. Even in winter when it isn't fun, you can bumdle up and ride to work. I apoke with people who did. Riding to work (or shoo) when the temp varies from -10C to well over 40C presents additional challenges. Apart from the Pacific Northwest, the US climate isn't anywhere close to as pleasant year round as the Netherlands. Some parts of California are nice enough I guess.
I start by asking Bing lately. Usually I have to use other resources too, but especially now that it has internet access I find LLMs to be a great way to start the learning process or finally learn about something complicated I've been putting off for years.

It's especially good for the kinds of questions you would normally need to know someone personally to ask.

"I don't know anything about this programming language but I'm interested in learning it. I know python pretty well. Can you explain the fundamentals of the language and how it is similar and different to python? Below that, can you write some code examples in x language and in python to show the difference?"

Stuff like that.
I'm not going to create an account, so I use the "Try an example button". When I press the "Create" button, the image appears, but before I can look at it carefully, a modal popup ask me to sign up.

The idea to allow creations of examples is good, but the popup destroys it.
His blog is quite the rabbit hole, with blog post about the creation of de_dust and de_dust2. Highly recommended.
Iterators are often nice, but are no replacement for loops. Try processing multidimensional arrays without loops.
Microsoft calls this the strangler fig pattern and recommends it for large migrations: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/StranglerFigApplication.html

They make it somewhat easy to do using Yet Another Reverse Proxy (YARP). I’m in the middle of it for a .NET 4 to 6 migration. The challenge for me is that it introduces complexity. Developers have to think “do I fix this bug in v1 code or v2?” We have to host two backends instead of one. They both touch the same db, so that adds complexity- what if v2 does something in data that breaks v1? All solvable problems but just thought I’d share a from the trenches take. I do still think it is the right approach for this scenario.
So IRC?
> I almost exclusively (On the rare occasion I use paper, mostly as a prop to look professional ...

Yellow legal writing pads were good for that, back in the day.
I used to have a similar hangup, I liked getting expensive notebooks and very rarely used them because I was worried I was “wasting” the page by writing banal stuff on it. I ended up fixing it by complete accident. I ran across yet another nice notebook* and to save on shipping I bought three of them. Later on I happened to be in an office supplies shop with a friend and she saw some pens on the shelf that she remembered as being the best pens she’d ever used*. They didn’t have single pens but the box of 12 wasn’t that expensive so I thought sure, why not, and bought a box. When I got home my notebooks had been delivered. So I was standing there with a whole box of nice pens in one hand and a whole stack of nice notebooks in the other hand, both of which I had bought excess of on a whim, and something just clicked in my brain like “these aren’t scarce resources, these are plentiful”, and I’ve never had an issue since.

I don’t think it’s a bad idea to buy cheap notebooks (or cheap pens), do what works for you. But if you want to use nice notebooks and find yourself struggling to do it, you could try buying a bunch to teach yourself they’re not so precious and rare.

*: The notebooks are Code and Quill, the pens are Uniball Vision Elite, I still use both to this day. I have a stack of 10 finished notebooks and I’ve lost or given away God knows how many pens, but I’ve never run out of either.
You see mods on reddit go on ego trip ban spree's all the time. It's classic 90's mod meltdown stuff. I don't think subscribing to a benevolent master is a good model. What happens if their gaze turns to you?

Moderation is really hard. And it's especially hard because a lot of people have very para-social relationships between themselves and rando's they talk to online.

Whilst I know that sometimes those rando's turn into real friends in the real world. For the most part people are strangers, and the better form of moderation is getting off social media for a while.

If meta wanted to do something amazing. It'd enforce one reality tunnel on the networks. Rather than have a base set of rules. Have a base set of news and facts that everyone shares in. Bubbles are generally bad. And everything goes to shit, even on HN, when we start getting into politics.
nice, I am super interested.

I've interviewed a guy, Fuchi, that does some stuff with a playstation and a dreamcast > https://www.gasnewsletter.com/p/44-fuchi

How can I reach you to arrange the interview?
not a lawyer, but I don't see how it would be. that being said, it's the type of offense that is unlikely to get you in trouble
One day there will be a https://smbx.org/ for ChatGPT.
Right - The ‘palette’ for text generation is smaller: just 26 or so letters (plus some other characters), and if you put the wrong ones next to one another the result is garbage.

There’s something interesting in the fact that an image based system doesn’t need as much complexity to capture a semantic model as a verbal system does; I think there’s maybe a parallel there to the way that human minds find it easier to just ‘visualize’ some things as a basis for reasoning about them, but if we can’t ‘visualize’ and instead have to ‘think things through’ it’s a more intensive process.

Like, GPT has well known trouble counting - ask it for five things and it will give you four or six. Humans can offload some thinking about counting to visual/spatial reasoning though.
Making the experience worse fir customers than pirates is inexcusable. Can’t watch on all my devices, that’s not an issue with pirated stuff.

Streamers work hard to make their interfaces good and recommendations valuable because that is their value add.

I suspect DRM might be added because circumventing is a different violation as opposed to just copyright infringement.
As someone with four children who lived most of their early lives a thousand miles away from any established support network, I didn't find this to be true.

On the contrary, the marginal cost of each child decreased with increased help from their siblings.

Perhaps the given scenario is true in "helicopter parenting" modes, but we don't generally employ those.
Cold doesn't have to be an obstacle. Here's a video on Finland's bike infrastructure.

https://youtu.be/Uhx-26GfCBU
The Finns would like to have a word with you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU

Aptly titled "Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can)"
Where I live, the people with long commutes are more likely to live outside the city in a house with an extra room. It's the urban apartment dwellers that don't have the extra space.

An extra bedroom in most parts of metro Boston is like an extra $1000-1500, even in the close suburbs. An unlimited pass for public transit is $90/month. A blue bike annual membership is that much per year. It doesn't even come close.
I paid money for my Android phone. It was not free.
> Whereas the other subfields of philosophy don't (yet) have ways to fully validate them, and/or make them reproducible?

I think it depends on the field. Reproducibility is more of a recent concern, whereas this process has been going on since the ancient Greeks, I'm sure.

Probably more recently the criterion is "commercial value".
The aero penalty, weight penalty, and production energy penalty likely outputs an order of magnitude more co2 every 20k miles than they scrub.
My guess is Mapbox would worry more about competitors in the routing and Addressing space than

The biggest danger with Open tiles is a basemap is the gateway to other data services with higher costs and an easier path to a defendable technical moat. Swapping a basemap can literally be a 10 minute job
I use AI (ChatGPT) when I can't come up with a title for some templates or article blogs: https://www.ratherlabs.com/blog
For these cases, ChatGPT is really helpful and useful!
They do have team plans where each user is ~20 USD with no included searches.
How many years apart are the kids?
I fail to see any value in trying to compare hugely diverse populations of hundreds of millions of people against each other and their ability to discuss nuanced political topics. It feels like you're just hashing out some intuitions based on what's come across your twitter feed or something? It's your prerogative to do so, but don't convince yourself it's a meaningful insight.

"whatever is on the American mind these days" lol.
If few will pay for it, then even fewer will pay for more expensive and less efficient mobile units.
The car would be lighter and more aerodynamic and require less energy to produce without the scrubbers, the idea is a net loss.
I just had to say this: I admire and applaud your patience which you demonstrated when responding to the person above. Kudos for being insightful and kind at the same time.
I thought this would be about laptops. The laptops I use for work and personal stuff cost around $100 and are effectively disposable. They are not great for intense use, but the vast majority of tasks go just fine. And when developing any serious slowdown shows up right away so my work ends up being usable on low end hardware with janky connections. When one of these laptops got stolen recently I just got another one, provisioned it using some scripts, restored my personal data, and that was that. Total loss was a little over a hundred dollars and a half day of work.
Not sure what gave you the impression that I have any love for the MAGA or the self-righteous "woke".
On my old Mac: Python=133.5 s, Numba=2.61 s (parallel prange in count_primes), Taichi=1.8 s. (on ti.cpu, but fails with metal).
What's an example of a bug that would be caused by having an unused variable?

I honestly can't think of one.
One of the things I think you are labeling under convenience is efficiency/productivity.

Until we can all work from home and use replicators to create our stuff, transportation will be a huge part of the production side of society. Speed limits affect that directly.
Well, great minds, etc :)
Leaving family, friends, community and the place you know is higher on my list of disruptive than selling a house.
Actually Python OOP is closer to C++ and Smalltalk than Java, but I digress.
Printers suck the print quality hasn't really improved since 1999.

In 1999 I was using a £150 canon colour inket with 360x360 resolution. Lasted ten years with fake ink at £20 a year. Now I am using a £150 canon megatank with 1200x4800 resolution, scan,copy,wifi and print plus an official bottle of ink costs £10 and lasts 5000 pages. Downside, I doubt the modern build quality will last 10 years but fingers crossed.

So adjusted for inflation my printer is much better. But having been been tantalised by £50 allinones for 15 years if you can just get past the expensive cartridge chips I agree it doesn't feel like it...
Yep, Urbit is incredible. It does require some technical know-how, and has a sign-up fee (unless you can get a planet for free from someone). I think that has really maintained quality of discussion. It has also come a long way in the last 3 years. I was given a free planet in early 2020.
They're not saying it explicitly but it sounds like the software for managing this thing will be closed source. Customizations will only work on Mac and windows. Hard pass from me unless someone reverse engineers the configuration protocol
Just that ink printers don't really work well for people who rarely print, compared to laser printers, for example.
That reminds me of the whole most real numbers are irrational, in fact the vast-vast majority of points on the number line you see before you, are not rational numbers. Humans don't have a good intuition for maths. So guess what happens when you brute-force a neural network machine into an AI?
Get a leather composition book cover for the look/durability, then just use $1 composition books. I’ve had one like this for 10y and works great.

https://www.amazon.com/Leather-Journal-Composition-Notebooks...
This sounds much like The Phoenix Project.

https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Busine...

It's a solid read for anyone in engineering or close (e.g., project manager).
I produce electronic pop under the moniker Visions of Division.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@visions.of.division

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0b836tZPLcWr1M0BTr6qhp?si=Y1...

I also create video to go along with the music.

I'd be happy to discuss my process with you.
EzMail Chrome extension to generate entire emails using AI
Not true, and well known as not true for ages in the economic field. The primary source of monopolies are government regulations (e.g. patents, exclusive licenses, etc). In fact the words "monopoly" and "patent" started meaning "the government will allow this and only this business to do that thing, and will prosecute whoever tries to compete".

HP only have like 25% of the printer market. Realistic alternatives currently are: Brother, Epson, Kyocera, Ricoh and in some markets NEC. Anyone buying a HP today is asking for it.
The US also used to have much better public transport systems - trains and busses - relative to the time period they were running at least; and those were killed off by a combination of corporate commercial interests and government subservience/blidness/cretinism/capture.
In the complete spectrum it is a budget e-bike right? The proper ones are much more expensive.
A good fraction of bikes i see in cities are powered. 52% of new bikes sold in the Netherlands have electric assist so even if they aren't the majority now they will be in a few years.
I think the whole "Van moof" backlash is a thing that only exists in Amsterdam and opinion pieces of certain newspapers that have run out of things to write about.
The point of all of these arguments is always that speed limits should be increased when all evidence suggests they should be lowered.

Evidence, in this case, being number of deaths.
This article bakes in some false assumptions about compliance.

You can't just set a 40mph speedway on a limited access highway because "tHaT's WhAt'S sAfE gUyZ". Drivers will ignore it. Except that one guy with a dead hooker or brick of cocaine in the trunk or some other specific reason to be very cautious about complying with the law. He'll do 40. And safety will have been reduced because you have increased the variance in speed of traffic on the road.

There's a reason that current civil engineering doctrine is to set speed limits based on traffic speed and not the other way around.
yea, i thought that referring to a supernatural being by a name which is also found in books associated with religion may indeed turn the reader dismissive. however i hoped a slight chance to draw maybe a few reader's attention to the point that fetus-killing arguments often are as religion-based as the oppotent is represented to be. the difference which hides this similarity is that religions which are not public, visible, inquireable, are not called "religion".
The point of my comment is that “intelligence community” is a euphemism for cabals of spooks - professional backstabbing liars. They are completely unreliable narrators and their word is not to be trusted. The quality of their supposed sources and supposed analyses is irrelevant.
> And the fact most big tech companies are going back to office suggests they have the data to show it is more effective.

Could it not also suggest they have significant real estate holdings?

Edit: and return to office bas been used as a way to get rid of some people without having to terminate them.
If you're the one with the 3-4 load, can you rely on the company to hire more people?

For the worker, the solution is to find a job with a smaller load. For the company, it's to either to find more people to join or to convince the person who manages the high load to stay on as long as possible.
I think the problem is that inflation is bad for everyone, whereas if rates rise it hurts only the weakest players in the financial system. It's a bit like a controlled forrest burn.

Still though, it's too early to say. If there was a more widespread contagion and a panic, then I guess it could be bad.

To me though the real culprit is the super lower interest rates we had just a few years ago. Without that, we would not be seeing any of this.
I don't get your reasoning, sorry. Desantis banned certain books from being taught. Anyone can go out and buy those books.

You specifically say "woke" governors banning or revising classic children's books" which is not the same thing. While I'm not familiar with this idiotic part of american politics, that does sound like the governors are actually banning these books or changing them?

That's NOT what Desantis did.

And as far as I'm concerned, yes, any publisher as a private company should have the power to change a book if they want, but then don't be upset about the blowback. You can do whatever you want as a private company, but don't expect your customer to just take it. Eventually it might hurt your profits, at which point your shareholders might have a case for a lawsuit too.
didn't know that. thank you for the extra details!
Currently "snowing" in De Pijp even. Still plenty of bicycles.
GraphJSON about to cross 10k in all time revenue
I have an edrum kit that i play, but for th first songs we just used a MIDI keyboard. We are doing everything in the box. Happy to share more if you want.

Here is the first song we made: https://open.spotify.com/track/1QHvB9qgKbO6pcXyR9B7oQ?si=IB_...
This does sounds like a difficult business.

Taking on enough liability to wipe out the entire company in just a few days in the worst case scenario just to make a fraction of a cent of profits.
When we speak of liquidity in the business its not can you sell your asset, its can you sell your asset without moving the price.

In 2008 you could sell your MBS at any time, it was just for 10 cents on the dollar, that's not liquidity as we use the term.

They sold a chunk of long duration assets for a 1.2B loss because they had to sell them. That's a big loss for the quality of assets they were selling.

That is what is mean by hard to liquidate. Its true you can always sell anything. It's can you get a price that keeps you solvent that is the liquidity issue.

SIVB wasn't selling 2 and 30 year treasuries, they were selling MBS.
Temporal Python 1.0.0 – A Durable, Distributed Asyncio Event Loop
Let's break Zoom with the traffic load of celebration. :) cURL is simply without peer.
Picasa was a desktop application. I'm not sure if the web thing has any connection to it other than branding and integration.
“Humane is using sensory data from a wearable device to perform smartphone activities like writing messages, playing music, or opening Twitter via a projection on a person’s left hand.”

Sounds like the “Cicret Bracelet” - see Captain Disillusion for how well that works: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KbgvSi35n6o