skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are correct. I did elaborate on that in another thread.

I did come in with a concrete project when I first started looking at this years ago. I'm interested in creating models for 3D Printing.

Unfortunately, even with this limited scope I found it hard to get started.
But again: I'm not blaming anyone. I know that I'm using a professional tool as an amateur who does not even have enough time to skill himself up for something that is possible in this tool but not its primary use-case.

Mostly, my comment was meant as a fun/light story about how much I like thos release notes and how they get me to spend a whole evening on Blender every time they pop up.
Nor the sudden increase among this demographic.
Is this satire? I have a Prusa mini, and for a 3D printer it’s as close to “it just works” as you can get. My friend got an Ender3 and has spent countless hours modding it, replacing parts etc and he still can’t print PETG reliably while I print in any of the “normal” materials without worry at all. The stories I hear about cheap Chinese printers are like my friend with his Ender, just dialed up to 11.
It's a proprietary versus open source argument. You can build a mk4 clone for much less than the price of a Prusa-branded one, as everything is open source. The higher price tag is like a donation to open source.

Prusa also makes the open source XL if you want an CoreXY model, or you could go with a Voron which is also open source.
VESA 100mm x 100mm through-mounting would be so money. If I could bolt this to the back of my monitor sandwiched between the monitor and the stand I'd be so happy.
I ended up treating my bookcase full of all my unread books I originally planned to work through like this. In this case my bookcase is the bucket, and I carve a stream or a river out of it. It's like a two step filtering process.

It just probably would have been cheaper for me to just bought the ones I actually would read. But sometimes you can't escape the fantasy of you being some higher intellectual who will one day work through all of these books. I realize now that I probably will never make it through that Modern Algebra text, Operating Systems, or the complete collection of William Shakespear by the Royal Shakespear company -- so I humor myself while being realistic about the progress I can make.
thank you!! websockets have been around forever but they're still so fast.
I mean...There are others bigger than that with Phoenix A, but these are quasars and very visible, even if billions of LY away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Cluster#Supermassive_b...

It seems the bigger tact is HOW it was discovered using gravitational lensing that may open up the ability to see otherwise "non-active" blackholes, even supermassive ones that otherwise dont have accretion discs or other forms of waves (radio, light or otherwise) that would make them directly observable.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.15514.pdf

I am also not an astronomer, so dont take my word for it. Just seems that it may be a new method that may open up the doors to a more discoveries that may make things like this a bit more....common.

TON618 and Phoenix A even are somewhat outliers from a discovery standpoint it seems. And frankly the sizes, distances etc are basically incomprehensible to me.
This seems like a bit of a stop-gap since the Prusa XL seems to be taking longer to get going than expected, I would hope their plan is to totally rearchitect around the Prusa XL design and scale that down to the 250mm^3 size class.

They are still very good machines, but I would have a hard time recommending anyone get an i3 style printer when the advantages of CoreXY are so obvious, and particularly because the price gap between the X1C is not very big.
C# 11.0 new features: list pattern matching
Equally arguable: Rape feels good and no amount of preaching is changing that. Has similarly been part of human culture for time immemorial.

I still consider it desirable to reduce the amount of rape to 0, regardless of how important it might feel to rapists.
This comment is gross in a whole variety of ways, but the practical thing I'll rebut here is: Catholics don't tithe, and indulgences are a concept from the 15th century.
This is really amazing, thanks for building and sharing this!
Could a hack be possible by exploiting the GPU? Like making a 3D game scene that's actually encoding malware so when the GPU tries to render it you now have access to the system resources?
Here is a copy of the paper

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.15514.pdf
The UI looks refreshingly lightweight. Is there something like this for C#?
Dias: Automatically Rewriting Pandas for 1000x Speedups
Dias is a novel, extremely lightweight optimizer of Pandas code, catered to ad-hoc data-science workloads.
> Or perhaps the same awareness made teens enact the pathological behavior they learned about online, complete with self-harm and suicide atemtps?

That would prove the escalation we're seeing, which is the point.
It’s pretty universally described as extremely ugly to the point where the most common request for years is people asking how to build component classes in CSS in order to move it out of the HTML.
Absolutely yes and I would not rely on ChatGPT for anything more than simple snippets that can be quickly verified.

I think ChatGPT could be helpful with things like: "please convert this function written in language X to language Y in an idiomatic way"
Recursive Sans and Mono
Negative externalities require external interference in market economies to produce the socially optimal outcome. Climate change and pollution are clear examples of negative externalities.

As it happens, the farming of meat actually has severe negative externalities in this case. If anything, it's farmed meat that should be restricted by the government in that model.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/07/21/good-software-take...

good-software-takes-ten-years-get-used-to-it

Linux, Firefox, Chrome disproved "open source failures" twenty (and over) years ago. Nice to have another app in the mix.
https://shoelace.style/

And here's an experiment I'm working on, where all styles are scoped to components because all static DOM trees become custom elements with their own shadow root: https://github.com/aalin/rdom
thank you for the kind words! absolutely agree – we're gonna beef up our tutorials and documentation... just have had so much to do but it's definitely one of our focuses now. stay tuned! :)
> Even beyond the strategic perspective, it’s just sort of embarrassing to have two good theories of how society and politics work that make opposite predictions from each other. What are some heuristics for when one would work rather than another?

What's embarrassing is that Scott Alexander is unable to answer that question himself. Maybe he should ask ChatGPT?
Would you recommend the original or the EVO?
I see "the metaverse" as the liminal space between actual VR apps (games, business, whatever). If you're between rounds of a VR game you don't want to remove the helmet while waiting and chatting so you'll hang out in a VR-enabled lobby where you see each other in your in-game outfits. Eventually enough games will have VR lobbies that you'll hang out with people in other games' outfits as you all wait for your game to start.

Ditto business. If you're in VR because you're reviewing architectural renderings or whatever, you'll probably keep the helmet on for a few minutes between meetings and as such, seeing your coworkers come out of other virtual meeting rooms and hang around at a virtual water cooler gives you a bit of that hallway conversation that you're now missing, and provides a continuity of experience.

None of this is where the money is though, at least not now. You're still playing a game, or using business software, and that's what you pay for - not the lobby. That's why, I think, Meta and stuff seems so silly. They seem to expect that you're going to want to use it for its own sake, as opposed to it being equivalent to the Facebook UI - something you use to get the real value, not the value itself.
How could that even be done? A lot of development is open source and happening worldwide, there is no way to “stop going beyond gpt-4”, whatever that means
A VC bought the Flatiron Building and didn’t pay for it
But ... if audacity is like notepad, blender is like vim.
> as they seem to carry negative connotations here

... and for good reason. Or perhaps I'm weird in wanting at least my entertainment to be varied, instead of 1280 indistinguishable netflix series?
you can deploy it in novel situations and release it unethically. Are we not already at the point where we can effectively simulate social media chatter and thus people or social pressure with publicly available tools?

If the API gate is broken then the cat is out of the bag.
As long as you don't think that just because someone doesn't agree with your way of helping fellow human beings, they are necessarily uneducated or heartless.

As an example, just in the last six months or so, I took considerable time and effort out of my day to help absolute strangers in two different occasions to change their flat tires. Both times I was soaked through in sweat by the time I was done, but I was happy to help. Does it follow from my willingness to do this that I would be in support of, say, a government program for roadside assistance (call it AAA-for-All)? Hell no.

America once excelled at civil society, but over time government has subsumed more and more of those functions; to everyone's detriment, if you asked me.
This is true, times are always hard for those living in them. Life is hard, after all.

Which lends credence to Haidt's suggestion that smartphones/widespread Internet is a primary factor. People tend to associate that with social media, which I would think is certainly part of it, but simply just being exposed to ideas can inculcate sympathetic ideas in people.

All your friends are depressed? Hey, life is hard for me too, and I'm kinda sad, maybe I'm depressed too. It sounds trite, but people en masse do work that way.

Social contagions were around before the Internet, but the Internet is an excellent medium for social contagions to grow quickly and spread widely.
It's twice as fast as out of the box PG for most things, and up to 100x faster for reads, depending on what you're doing. So there's that.

Also, from a manageability, on top of the index advisor, there's also vacuum management, so it will figure out when the best time to do the garbage cleanup while minimizing impact on performance.
Maybe not as fast as you'd think. Imagine if you dropped a human off in a time machine with a bunch of chimps...

Ultra high iq people do better on average, but correlation with success drops down after 120 or so

I'm also very skeptical that there will be an exponential takeoff as the energy costs are immense and increases proportionately with intelligence. So until it solves fusion power for us I'm not super worried
I love how "professional" Qt code and API feels compared to GTK+ and how their team is not involved in any political drama. Always a joy to use their products.
Search, deep linking, copy/paste, multiple windows open, faster typing, updating (just a refresh).
Back in the early 00’s I was stunned to find this inside a project at a famous yummy pizza company.

It’s probably still there.
I have so many questions
>> what does it mean to fully grok the optimal?
>> what is the iterated prisoners dilemma?
We should not forget that different people have different talents. That creative superstar guy may have been great at coming up with new stuff but terrible at maintaining stuff. Or at debugging some urgent prod issue under time stress on a saturday evening. You need those people too that enjoy the day-to-day maintenance to keep the house clean, or the occasional firefighting. A good team contains all those types and they complement each other.
If the books have the specific code that is. If the books have some code and discuss edge cases, that is not something a language model could handle. It could give you the abstract concept that applies but it would fail when you prompt it to create new, valid code based on abstract concepts that are in the data.
Yea, this was pretty big news. A year ago...
Especially considering that sometimes people do actually recommend products which they've found helpful.

It might be obvious if the response is saying that you should buy some very specific brand of flat-head screwdriver because you clearly just need any functional flat-head screwdriver. But what about computer components? Or a router?

Some things like this will genuinely perform better than others, especially once circumstances are defined. An educated review, complete with product suggestion, can indeed be very helpful and, unfortunately, impossible to distinguish from an advertisement.
SVB’s Failure and the Lack of Reserve Requirements: Maybe it's time we ra (cont)
Holy cow. The cardinal DevOps sin of changing the contents of a versioned file.
Unfortunately we are in an arms race with the shitty asphalt tanks.

In most of the USA, trying to navigate the world in an electric tuk-tuk surrounded by enormous pickup trucks and SUVs with distracted pilots is basically a death sentence. If an accident doesn't get you, the apathy and road rage toward small vehicles will — they may shove you into a ditch simply for fun.
Its interesting that this cites a "mental illness epidemic" but only seems to cover anxiety/depression. I want statistics on ADHD, PTSD, autism, eating disorders, psychosis, and personality disorders too! If there is a major rise in ED (primarily women) it would explain why there are so many hospitalizations, because EDs are deadly.
Tried the Bing app on iOS and was baffled as to what was the unique selling point. It tries too hard, and is somewhat of an 'everything app' that does multiple things simultaneously and rather badly at that (News, Browsing, Search, Coupons, Chat, etc). It's also really aggressive on the amount of data it grabs. I opened my debugger and it seems they look at everything they can.
There is also the ::part() selector now which is quite useful for selecting things within a shadow. https://shoelace.style/ uses parts for styling individual parts within custom elements.
There's plenty of political drama around Qt.

Not a fan of comments that praise product A with some sort of vaguely axe-grinding reference to product B.
> 1. How is it that a supposed $250 million bond was secured with (according to news articles) significantly less value than that in assets? How does that work? The collateral seems to be his parents' house, a few hundred thousand in cash assets and little else beyond that. Huh? So what makes this a $250 million bond?

I believe it boils down to "making a statement". Even if SBF's friends and family were only able to offer up $2.5m in assets (i.e. 1% of a $250M bond, instead of the more common 10% threshold), it's still (according to the court) a massive disincentive for SBF to flee. But the court still wants to assert that he's accused of crimes that merit such a massive bond.

From Bloomberg:

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/sbf-s-250-million-bail-is-one-of...

> Such bonds also signal the seriousness of the crime being charged, and federal prosecutor Nicholas Roos made that point in court.

> “Mr. Bankman-Fried perpetuated a fraud of epic proportions stealing billions for customers lenders and defrauding investors,” Roos said.

That said, with the revelation in today's Forbes story, I wonder if knowing that Mr. Bankman had $10M worth of gift money from his son was known to the court at the time, or relevant to the bond agreement? i.e. would the court have demanded that money be stashed as collateral along with SBF's home? At the time the bail was announced, SBF was claiming his personal assets were in the $100,000 range
One possible contributing explaination that I don't see addressed is that our lifestyles and opportunities have peaked in prior generations and are backsliding. Technology and politics are so invasive that you can't necessarily get a fresh start somewhere else. Young people realize this and figure "why even try". The difference in boys and girls with the graphs are that boys tend to act out and girls tend to self harm.

Who knows if this is a possibile contributor or not. Would be interesting to look into.
I own two MK3s+'s. They are solid machines if you are looking to print PLA and some PETG. The stock extruder is a PITA. The MK4's redesigned nozzle/heat break & 10:1 extruder are basically a Bondtech LGX + Revo & should make for a great improvement.

The MMU3 seems like a marginal improvement, you still have purge towers & large buffer boxes. Hopefully the reliability out of the box has improved.

I wonder if it's too little too late for Prusa. A Voron, Ratrig, Bambu Lab printer seems like it has all these features & is CoreXY. The multi material options seem better on these options too (Enraged Rabbit Carrot Feeder, Bambu AMS).

In the case of the Voron or Ratrig, you'll load Klipper instead of the tried & tested (and outdated) Marlin.

In 2023, I am not sure I'd buy a MK4 at $1100 when you can get a Bambu for $100 more.
> If so, they seem to live in a bubble and are not integrated enough into the rest of the business. Developers need to understand and be involved in financial, customer, and product concerns.

In my experience that's the problem 99.9% of the time. Developers didn't get into their career to care about business, most of them are more excited about reading a new features on kubernetes than they are about solving a real business problem.

In big enough companies there's a lot of silo that is hard to break too. And specialization, someone who has 20 years of experience in $domain-specific-knowledge hardly wants to take a broader view of the world.

> More likely in my experience they are very busy working off technical debt that would be under-prioritised by the manager creating pressure. Some of them may even be innovating new solutions that will open up entire new markets. Sure, not all innovations are successful, but it's enough if a small fraction is.

Then they should communicate better. Your distinction of R&D or not is not relevant.
Did anyone else know ChatGPT can display images?
Learned helplessness is a thing that leads to depression, and depression in turns demotivates and deepens sense of helplessness. They do mutually reinforce, and either could be the starting point.
Genuinely can't tell if this is sarcasm or not..?
Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo

https://aeon.co/essays/why-longtermism-is-the-worlds-most-da...
Is the answer because they are running the race alone?
Having messed with 3D printers since before the iPhone came out, I can confidently say My MK3 is the best printer I've owned in terms of value. I can only imagine that they've improved upon this story with the MK4.
I actually don't want a package manager tuned for "my grandma" (the white whale of the linux community). I'm a professional dev, Arch perfectly suits my needs where as Flatpak/Snap... cause excruciating pain every time I'm forced to interact with them (something I go out of my way to avoid at this point).

> Immutable system does not prevent writable /usr/local/bin.

I can't speak to the others, but Nix most definitely does not make /usr/local/bin writable. You have to package up your tools to use them.
Season 4 finale, The Deconstruction of Falling Stars. It wasn't originally planned, they needed a filler episode when they got renewed.

Basically when they reached season 4, they got worried they wouldn't get renewed for the planned 5th season so secondary plots for both seasons were dropped and the primary plots for both were compressed into season 4, including the series finale. Then they got renewed for the 5th season and couldn't air that finale until the actual end of the series, so they used some budget from the 5th season to create the new 4th season finale. This is also why Ivanova is in the series finale even though the actress had left the show, it's the one that was filmed the previous year while she was still there.
That's a lie by omission, surely. They sell data too. Ads and analytics, game data, user association data, user attention data.

But "ads" is pretty euphemistic -- to the point of dishonesty -- when the ads are targeted political campaign messages, for example.

Cambridge Analytica was at least enabled by Facebook.

I'd say that their operations could be summed up more reasonably by "Facebook track people".
> Gambas almost means BASIC

It means "shrimp" in Spanish, as you can see from the logo.
"It has no value if new people don't buy in." is a statement that evaluates to true for any currency ever minted. You also ignore the "nonexistent enterprise" bit.
after that story...I am afraid to google accumulation of heavy water...what's that.
Or you're going to find that suddenly the centralized, proprietary AI from a for-profit company that you rely on...

a) Puts up a paywall requiring an active subscription to continue use

b) Shuts down because not enough people subscribed

c) Shuts down the services you use because they want to move on to some new shiny

d) Takes all the data you feed it and creates a high-profile, well-funded competitor to whatever you're working on

e) Starts poisoning your output once it's clear that you're competing with them

f) Starts poisoning your output to create subtle propaganda for their own products or political beliefs

g) Starts poisoning your output to create subtle propaganda for anyone who will pay them

...And those are just the failure modes I can think of in a couple of minutes off the top of my head.
If you have OctoPrint, you can make it even easier by setting up remote printing directly from PrusaSlicer, so you can upload and print with a single click. This is how I have my mini setup and it works well.

https://forum.prusa3d.com/forum/prusaslicer/guide-config-pru...
> 3 x 10^35 blue whales

That’s way more confusing. Most people have never seen a blue whale to scale, let alone can imagine how dense it is. Once you’re at 10^35, why not just increase the exponent and use humans, basketballs or soda cans.

I would imagine that the best scale of measurement would be between 1/100 and 100x.

If the Milky Way is about 1.9T solar masses, then this black hole is about 1.5% the mass of our galaxy.

It’s still a pretty meaningless number, but at least I can look at a picture of the Milky Way and envision 1.5% collapsing into a single object much more easily than I can envision 10^35 of anything.
Can anyone compare FLSUN V400 to this one? I'm looking, and that seems to be awesome.
Maybe we should look at ways to get back to 'just functioning'.
https://twitter.com/emilymbender/status/1640920996768288773?...
Flash in my mind: Use `systemctl reload nginx` instead of `systemctl restart nginx` for gracefully hot reloading nginx configs.
We do read about occasional vulnerabilities on phone GPUs, but I do have to wonder. Wouldn't the compartmentalization and difference in compute abilities between CPU and GPU inherently limit the scope to which a vulnerability on the GPU in a typical PC can exploit?
Yea, it's a wing-nut publication. But the insurance report was real. A year ago...
> Similarly, as a software engineer I benefit from code generation tooling already. If that gets smarter and faster, I will be more productive, my team will be able to build software faster, and instead of laying people off I will expect to be given more work. Maybe our 4-year roadmap will be achievable in 1 or 2 years with the same size team.

Why so sure the end users aren't going to be feeding their own requirements directly to a Jenkins/Copilot/ChatGPT mashup running as a service in the cloud?
Don't worry, even if the locally runnable small language models will not have the same performance as the big models of companies, I think the local ones will be good enough to at least filter out ads from the responses of the big company models. - AIμblock extension soon :-)