skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>since they trained on a huge chunk of web text

What did they trained it on? Why is it unprobable to train on a better/bigger dataset any time soon?
> I guess for some kids it's easier to pop a dvd in the player than navigating menus

I can't speak for all kids, but for mine it's the opposite—the main TV remote they use controls our Fire TV Stick, and has a button for Disney+ built in. Plus, our iPads have Disney+ apps. Whereas our optical drive is a PS4, so they'd need to use the TV remote to switch to a different input, plus the PS4 controller. I'm not saying they couldn't figure it out if they wanted to, but for them, navigating menus to Disney+ is much easier.
I somehow missed the point where I tried to overthrow the government?

Au countraire, mom ami! I use my democratic right of arguing for my opinion. You may very well disagree, but that won’t make me or the growing number of like-minded individuals go away.
It's the very similar-looking Beaver Building/Cocoa exchange: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Wall_Street_Court
It’s wide AI use that will disrupt society. Underground AI will not be widely used.

Let’s not imbue individual underground AI with magical abilities.
There were 3rd party replacement libraries the QuickBasic standard libraries that were much smaller and faster.
This bill is soooooo much worse than just banning tiktok - flood your representatives and senators with phonecalls.
Very cool, congrats Ajay and Kian!
Greatly appreciate it! I don't know why but book format is the one I like best, maybe it's a mix of learning at my own speed and at the same time something tangible that I can mark in various ways.

Thanks!
thank you!! we also have another number which is prompted to act as a spokesperson for the product: (650) 835-7163
The kit is not yet in stock, the longer blog post said it would be available in about two weeks.
> No, a good legal system cannot be outrun by technology.

This is not a productive line of thought.
> I have one of the first Prusas

I've had two Prusa mk3s for a few years now and they've been excellent. No problems at all, and now Prusa is my default recommendation. I'd run batch jobs on them for days for "customers" without concern.
all of them show that they tried to either stop us users or nudge them to go offshore to keep trading. where is solicitation implied?
Sure, these types of critiques have been around since the Frankfurt School, but I think that just shows how ahead of their time the members of the FS were. Adorno gets criticized for painting with too broad a brush, but I feel like he was just making the right points too soon. For example, his remarks on the film industry make perfect sense in the context of contemporary superhero movie trends, even though they might have been exaggerated at the time. And clearly the message hasn't gotten through.

On your last point, are the hideous 5-over-1s being built in your HCOL city affordable? Because the ones I'm seeing certainly aren't. Ugly, undistinguished, cheaply built, and still expensive!
Well, tailwind itself is very reusable, probably the epitome of reusable CSS.

And code that uses Tailwind is reusable as long as you use components (React, Vue, Svelte, WebComponents, CSS components with @apply, it doesn't matter). Those are reusable.

Trying to use Tailwind without components, in a CSS-garden style page for example, is just trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. It's just the wrong tool for it.
Disclaimer: I own an Ender 3, heavily modified.

Prusa printers are generally rock solid and their quality control is great.

For 1k, I really think we should be looking at a CoreXY machine (or, at least, something that doesn't have a bed that moves, whatever the kinematics). That's a major speed limitation, and it also causes vibrations even in lower speeds as you are moving the bed and your entire model. That's the only thing I cannot easily change in my printer, anything else, from the bed to extruders is easy to modify.

Sure the MK4 has a larger build volume. But so do many other printers.

The breakout extruder board is a nice thing but it is available for other printers too.

I like the loadcell concept for bed leveling but I wonder how much better it is versus a simple bltouch.

I really wonder who is the target demographic for this printer and why they wouldn't get other Prusa offerings instead.

> I love their commitment to open hardware

Prusa is relatively open with their hardware so it's indeed a massive bonus versus some proprietary Bambu Labs printer. However, they are the same company pushing for pre-sliced files which is a terrible idea. Not only they can be malicious, but they will also be specific to a given printer, which would benefit Prusa if most gcode is created for Prusa printers.
> Why? It seems focused on only applications/products from a few countries of concern

...or any country that the Secretary of Commerce unilaterally decides is a "national security" concern.

That's an incredibly sweeping power to grant.
What is authoritative is the evidence. The cohort WPATH was familiar with before 2010 and for which we have considerable data was older male-to-female transitioners. This cohort has changed significantly per the article, which is why some people are raising concerns about the lack of quality safety data for minors.

Furthermore, only the US has really pushed gender affirming care for minors to this degree. Every other country has backed away from it due to low quality evidence. You know what else those countries have that the US doesn't? Universal healthcare that creates wildly different healthcare priorities. Consider that when when evaluating neutrality.

> leaving out significant statistics like a less than 1% regret rate of trans affirming procedures (less than a knee surgery)

The article and the responses make clear that transitioners are not followed consistently, so this evaluation is based on very spotty data. The fact is we don't know how common regret is.

Even the responses that are pro-gender affirming care acknowledge that the data supporting long-term quality of life improvements is poor.
That's what is my impression as well.
Not an expert, but I thought Twin Peaks invented secondary plotlines.
Season 5 may as well have been a different show entirely. Forget character development, they dropped everything except two actors, including most of the setting and what little plot had developed.
Sounds useful, I will read it later!
Does beeper have an API with a curl interface ?

As in, I can run a curl command with an API key and generate an imessage ?

How can I throw money at this today ?

EDIT: OK, I understand that the same restrictions are extant that always have been - namely, an Apple device needs to be involved in creating the actual imessage. So this is not the breakthrough service I thought it might be.
This is a core point.

It most stuck out to me when the article talked about car colors - most cars are black or white because car makers mostly make black or white. Buying a car with a splash of color is hard. Red is your best chance. Followed by butt-ugly blues.

You cannot meaningfully choose according to your taste because choice is restricted. (Related, try to buy furniture that isn't a fucking cheap imitation of mid-century modern)

And that happened because offerening the most bland and inoffensive looks will be bought by the vast majority of people who don't care about taste, or don't have any. (How would you develop taste if all the choices are the same)

It's bland things for bland lives reinforcing more bland choices in product design. Mixing all colors gets a dull grey, and that's where we're landing.
>My last job I could take the most incompetent beginner and make them productive. In my current one, I really can only train that social skill side.

The problem is not the incompetent beginner. The incompetent beginner has potential for future competence.

Incompetent seniors are a bigger issue, since their future potential is usually limited, and they might still have sway due to their seniority. This is especially bad in big bureaucratic companies.
How easy is it to repair?
These run Android. I want a feature phone without Android spyware etc.
I've been half way through this tutorial once and it indeed is fantastic. I'm not sure if it applies to recent versions of Blender though.
Default work culture and job expectations are basically designed around the idea that you are hiring a married man whose wife is cooking, cleaning etc and all he has to do is his paid job. This is simply not reality in most cases.

Also, while only 15 to 20 percent of people qualify as officially disabled, studies suggest that at least 60 percent of people have some degree of impairment that would benefit from accommodation.

I suspect the above two factors are the root cause of seemingly nice people who are seemingly resistant to change and just can't get their act together.

These days, even just getting oneself adequately fed without excess time and expense seems to be a challenge for a large number of people. We have a variety of services trying to address that issue but, really, it probably needs something more like a cultural shift to address it effectively.
Via MacOS VMs/containers.
> I have never seen an incompetent nice employee ever do anything so damaging.

bullshit. how many incidents are due to incompetence? how many alerts were just forgotten? how many customers churn because of low quality ux? how many additional incompetent employees were hired because your nice friend let them through? incompetence erodes culture, leads to bureaucracy and the slow death of a company.
You can self-host with https://github.com/mautrix/imessage and https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/
Other than Office, sure? (Office is has long been one of their main cash cows. Is part of why they wanted to keep it on Mac, which is pointedly not Windows). It's also irrelevant. The point was that they used the pricing of Windows (which the OEMs) and withholding information about Windows to force OEMs to bundle Office/Works instead of competitors.

That they did it is clear. Whether they did it for simple profit (Office/Works) or to further enhance the moat around Windows (Java, QuickTime). They did it using Windows as both carrot and stick, to gain compliance. Because OEMs had no other choice.
> [The] US government does not want any possibility of US citizens' data being in the hands of

China. Yeah, except that any business can just buy that information. I can buy your day-to-day movements for dirt cheap. I own a non-American company (though I'm still an American citizen, but that isn't a factor), and it is insanely cheap to get information about any American you want. Hell, BingBot will tell you all about me, what I do for a living and where I live.

This is about China, but it is a stupid and pointless zero-point game. This bill would get shot down in 30s for being unconstitutional, especially if the company has an American LLC or corporation (making it a legal entity protected by the constitution). Further, you'd think congress would have learned from prohibition that banning something ... hmm, doesn't work? At all? How would you even enforce something like this, stop people randomly to violate their privacy further and search their phone? Will this be another thing to get arrested for when you have a 'broken tailight'?
It's the first point under Features.

> Free and open-source

> PrusaSlicer is based on Slic3r by Alessandro Ranellucci. Thanks to the strong community and a team of developers in Prusa Research we can continually add new features. Follow the development on our GitHub.
> (yes, I've read them all because I can't believe almost everyone missed the point)

That says almost everything there is to say about the article in 1 comment; and even you've sent most of your time discussing the title and meta-issues.

People aren't missing the point, it just happens that programmer productivity is more interesting (hence the link bait title, I suspect). The article stands on its own without comment.
Ask HN: Are GitHub Docs Useless for PATS/Personal Access Tokens and the CLI?
After a rough couple years I saddled up and got back on the GitHub horse, but discovered the world of Personal Access Tokens or PATs. I muddled my way through it a few months ago (am a mediocre git person and only use the CLI; am open to IDEs you like if they will help me).

A couple days ago that PAT expired. My first problem is that AFAIK error messages just tell you things are failing, not that the reason why is the PAT expiration.

I am in some kind of special hell trying to revive my repo. I will cheerfully admit I just started trying random things, like using stack overflow answers I didn't understand. Now my repo is in accessible. You may say it's my fault for being a doofus, and I won't disagree. Obvious point here is to RTFM.

But I can't find overview material on the PATs at either https://git-scm.com/doc or https://docs.github.com/en/get-started. Certainly not how they interact with error messages or the CLI. If there is some kind of friendly summary of how PATs work it's passed me by.

Is this stuff wildely underdocumented or am I just suffering from burnout? If the answer is RTFM by all means, point me there.
Ah sorry, for my tastes the excessive spacing between lines looks like it should be accompanied with children's book pictures. Is the CSS broken on Firefox?
thank you! it's not live right now... but stay tuned for april 1 :)
In a cosmological scale, we are goldfish in a bowl (Earth). We can move around inside our bowl, but we cannot move the bowl itself, and if we leave the bowl we won't last very long.

Thus, our vantage point is fixed.
Prusa mentions in their articles about how China slowly appropriated solar panel designs, beat domestic companies on cost, and now all solar panels are made in China. And that, they hope, they can avoid this for 3D Printers in particular because Chinese companies do not have a good track record for following open-source licenses promptly.

However, I see all this and think, man... Prusa, you were 2 years too late on the XL and the MK4. And it's going to hurt the Prusa marketshare immensely.
Because China is dumb and bans all U.S. tech companies from doing business in China? Why should we let their tech companies do business here?
The dark forest is here.
My experience from a large and fairly typical, boring bank:

- Lots of inflated egos on the management side

- Technology is just a necessary evil to them. This makes you a necessary flunky. They will not respect your opinion as they don't think there are any insights to be had from the tech side of things - which may be right, they're trying to accomplish their goals with the crappiest and most primitive software they can get away with, that gets the job done. It's all decades of horrendous tech debt, that they're somehow ok with - everybody in management accepts slow pace of development it causes, as I think they prefer it over giving some power to the IT people.
That article (i.e. the author) seems to have a weird understanding of mathematics:

> "Note that there are two ways to calculate increases. We can measure an increase in absolute terms, e.g., a rise from 5% to 15% of teens with a diagnosis is a ten percentage-point increase, or we can report it in relative terms, e.g., a rise from 5% to 15% is a 300% increase, relative to the anchor point"

Uhm… maybe in an "alternative mathematics" universe? Where I learned math, an increase from 100% of the anchor value to 300% of the anchor value is not a relative increase of 300% but of 300%-100%=200%.

In contrast, A "300% increase, relative to the anchor point" would be adding 300% of the anchor value to the 100% of it that it already has, i.e. resulting in an end value of 400% of the anchor value. So in the case presented by the article quote, to come back to the absolute terms, it would be a rise from 5% to 20%, not to 15%.
Let's Package jQuery: A JavaScript Packaging Dystopian Novella (2015)
You get that there are a world of treatment options for chronic pain between "Mainline heroin most days" and "Take lots of CBD", right?
You’ll find people frustrated with Prusa too. There was a whole discord dedicated to trying to fix all issues.

People act like having the power supply die, bed probe not being reliable, not having x axis tensioner are all normal. Just print out a bunch of parts from some randoms to fix.

Also Prusas software are forks too so weird thing to call out bambu for.
Weird and interesting are a part of individual behavior, and unfortunately our economy is trending towards more consolidation.

The urban streetscapes of older cities are dominated by very similar buildings, but often the differentiation is not just a result of the architecture but of the tenants. You have multiple buildings, multiple landlords, and multiple tenants, and the combinatoric permutations of all of them produce interesting variation on just a single city block.

These days, the modern five over one probably takes an entire block or at least half of one, and the relevant landlords or HOAs basically all but forbid tenant individuality. For example, I have a balcony, but I’m not allowed to hang clothes, or flags, or art, or anything, and so the only thing that is actually out there is some basic outdoor furniture. Businesses with storefronts in these buildings also have similar restrictions, because today’s corporate landlords are used to sterile, manicured environments like malls.
thank you! love your feedback and please feel free to drop any questions in discord/on github
My main problem is a dead laptop if the storage dies. (I still own a M1 Air anyway)

Really wish I could run MacOS off of an external drive as a backup option but it is extremely picky(I've tried multiple drives, USB3.2 and TB3). Eventually being able to boot Asahi off of an external would be ideal, but if the SSD dies there will be no booting with how apple has done things.

This is becoming a harder pill to swallow with how long I'm trying to keep machines. Which sucks because Apple has put out the only ARM chip worth a damn for daily driver computing.

I even tried convincing myself to live off of a Microsoft Dev Kit just so I could have replaceable storage that doesn't brick the machine on death, but dear lord Qualcomm needs to put out some reliable drivers for windows, let alone linux.
Not denying that the process happens, and maybe it's irreconcilable. But I'll attempt to describe my position in more general terms.

The difference between "literal" and "figurative"/"metaphorical" is whether a term is being used as a first-order label for a thing in itself, or as a reference to another concept. That is, a figurative use of a term applies meaning by drawing on a distinct source of meaning.

Words (or idiomatic phrases) can become literal when their usage becomes so strongly identified with what they label that their meaning is no longer determined by reference. "Turn on" no longer involves turning, for example.

I agree that "definition" has become literal, because we no longer refer to the concept of boundaries each time we encounter the term. So too with "cradle": we imagine a particular object that isn't a basket, in itself.

I do not believe this is the case when someone calls the Yellow River the cradle of Chinese civilization. I believe that people hearing that term primarily understand "cradle" by reference to the baby-related object, rather than because the word has meaning in itself relating to the start of civilization. As evidence of this, I think attaching "of Chinese civilization" is doing meaningful work, and that most people would be thrown off by the abstract phrase "cradles around the world" or even by the more specific phrase "the Yellow River, China's cradle." They may still understand the speaker's meaning, but they would do so by connecting the metaphorical dots, not because "cradle" has become a literalism.
You might see some examples on websites that are in languages written R2L.
Did anyone notice that the bill doesn't even mention Tiktok??? If it's a "bill to ban TikTok" why doesn't it name the target?

It's a red herring.

This is the Patriot Act for the Internet. Ironically they're copying the CCP playbook and want the same level of sweeping control with the implementation of a Great Firewall. It's extremely broad and includes everything connected to the internet that has >1M users in a year period.

Edit: If you don't want to read it, Louis Rossmann does a good flyover here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xudlYSLFls8
Isn't it the opposite? For all those topics with even a bit of research they are not even close to as concerning as the media presents it as. If people were more informed they'd have less issue it's this weird in-between state where they know about the issue but don't know enough to understand it's not really that big of a deal.
One of the other concerns (apart from safety) is the job displacement aspect - if AI displaces too many workers too fast, that could spark a worldwide conflict (some speculate that similar automation pushes laid the groundwork for WWI and WWII).

So there is a benefit beyond just AGI safety.
Thanks, I was spelling it wrong in my search.
It makes sense because many specialised IoT appliances are 2G-only. At least that's the way it's happening in the EU. For example in Spain 3G will be phased out in 2025 while 2G will be phased out in 2030.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2G#Phase-out

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3G#Phase_out
Is this just an ad for clubmate?
"You buy what you can afford. "

The problem is, there is "almost everybody can afford this", and there is "completely bespoke". We have eliminated the middle ground.
I was curious about the tenancy-in-common issue. This article [1] provides a nice overview.

1: https://therealdeal.com/new-york/2023/03/28/the-trouble-with...
I hacked into a Bing CMS
I've owned an MK3 since 2018, since then some defects have started to appear (the LCD has a contrast blob at the center, and I cracked the X-axis stepper bracket), but nothing that prevents the printer doing its occasional job.

I print mostly functional parts (home repairs & improvement, prototypes), and while I could have printed a fix for the broken part, the prospect of taking the whole thing apart (as well as for an upgrade to an S+) doesn't appeal to me.
Would you hire my extremely sweet computer illiterate grandma as a software developer? No? There's your answer.
> Also the sauna at the trading post. There was a man and 4 kids in the sauna, and the only other person we saw who wasn't just someone stopping in to trade was the owner, also a man. So apparently that clearly makes the two men a gay couple with some adopted children.

In the musical, they turn that scene into a giant naked chorus line singing about hygge.
According to Washington Post data, there were 393,289 students enrolled at schools during shootings in the past 10 years[0]. (Note this is total enrollment, not those present or injured)

In 2022, there were ~25.1 million teens[1], of whom ~67% used TikTok[2], for a total of ~16.8 million on TikTok (totally ignoring anyone under 12 or over 17).

I know the numbers are hacky because the first group includes younger children and the second group doesn't (and 1/3 of TikTok's users could be under 14[3]), but I was trying to get a sense of scale for each category. Assume the TikTok user count is probably an underestimate.

My hacky numbers come up with a bit over 40x more teens being first-hand infuenced by tiktok. To make the numbers even more hypothetical, the next step of deciding how many times worse you think being enrolled at a school that has a shooting is for students and plugging that in to get how much more attention/resources should be used on shootings is left as an exercise for the reader.

[0] https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-school-shootings
[1] https://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/tables/pop1.asp
[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/08/10/teens-social...
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/technology/tiktok-underag...
Classic VB had libraries and references to them. And an API is just whatever interface any piece of code exposes, and it definitely had those.