skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's the flicker. Pulse width modulation is evil. I'm not aware of a single instance where it's preferable over an analogue adjustment. It's a horrible and thoroughly "non-human" solution to a problem. The most annoying thing for me is that car headlights are now PWM LEDs. I can see the flicker, especially in my peripheral vision. It's highly distracting and annoying.
While they're not being paid by TikTok, they are getting attention, and companies are happy to pay them for promotion/ads.

You're right about the chicken&egg problem though. Who's picking up the traffic when TikTok is banned? Instagram?
It excites me so much to see this. Really impressed to see this article give a voice to both sides:

- the urbanites who want more space to walk, safer spaces to bike, and easy access to amenities without a car

- the suburbanites who want to be able to drive into city for dinner and a movie

I remain confused by the suburbanite argument, though. Is it really so arduous to either park near public transit and ride into the city, or drive to an underground parking garage in town and then walk to your destination? I would think everyone benefits from walkability and bikeability that makes cities quieter, cleaner, and cooler (thanks to trees and less car exhaust). Seems like folks who want to drive right to the front door of their destination can just stay in the suburbs instead of demanding that they drive their car right into the city.

I also thought that it's interesting to see certain luxury goods merchants -- I think the article called out pianos and furniture, specifically -- losing business as cars get harder to drive into the city. On one hand, it's unfortunate that a pedestrian-friendly city can't accommodate these businesses better. But the quoted attitude doesn't feel very productive: “Do you know much freight gets delivered [in the region] every year? Twenty million tons. Imagine how many cargo bikes that is.”

The basic math checks out to... roughly 300 million bicycle trips (at 300kg per delivery) to deliver all of that freight. Which doesn't seem totally insane? Especially when you compare it to the stated 700kg delivery weight of city-based delivery trucks, which means you still need >100 million truck trips to deliver all of that freight. Something like 9/10 orders can be delivered more efficiently by bike, according to the article, because parking is easier. Obviously you can't deliver everything by bicycle, but it seems counterproductive to rules bicycles out entirely because occasionally someone needs a Tesla delivered to their house.

Anyway, I'm still waiting with bated breath for a US city to swing in this direction. I'd move there in a heartbeat.
Hello from a desktop ARM machine that runs windows!

M1 Mac Mini running Windows 11 in parallels.
She uses it at school, but no one taught her how to use it. She has followed tutorials for making games on Roblox Studio in the past. However, kids just hit the ground running with Scratch way better than adults.
Thanks for writing this up.
The white on black background made me blind for today.
Yeah, but Bukkit is ancient - so ancient, upstreaming is basically impossible and even discouraged because it would break compatibility with the few people who still need it. It's really only maintained as a reference architecture by Spigot because it helps with initial Minecraft release reverse-engineering.

Spigot, meanwhile, is run by one developer who only posts his code within a few weeks of a Minecraft launch after working on it completely privately. Paper has examined taking over that role, but has decided against it for the time being until they are ready to fully take on that job because... it's not an easy job and he's basically mastered it (Paper would be much slower if they were doing it themselves for the first few releases). Also he runs the plugin repository and Paper isn't ready to launch their own yet. Also, Spigot and Bukkit have this ancient API that not many plugins use, but a few do... and it'd be nice to not break them.

So Paper is the first remotely reasonable downstream with a big open-source community for it, which then makes it more like... one fork. And even though Paper is technically reliant on Spigot (and Spigot on Bukkit), Paper can really cut them off whenever convenient. And there's a good reason to make Folia a fork - the way it works under the hood is very different than a traditional Minecraft server, and it basically breaks all the Spigot and Paper and Bukkit plugin compatibility.
According to the contract, in exchange of 375K USD (+/- salary for 1.5 developer) you agree to this when you sign the MFN:

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If the Company issues any Subsequent Convertible Securities with terms more favorable than those of this Safe (including, without limitation, a valuation cap and/or discount) prior to termination of this Safe, the Company will promptly provide YCombinator with written notice thereof, together with a copy of such Subsequent Convertible Securities and, upon written request of YCombinator, any additional information related to such Subsequent Convertible Securities as may be reasonably requested by the Investor.

In the event YCombinator determines that the terms of the Subsequent Convertible Securities are preferable to the terms of this instrument, YCombinator will notify the Company in writing within 10 days.

Promptly after receipt of such written notice from the Investor, the Company agrees to amend and restate this instrument to be identical to the instrument(s) evidencing the Subsequent Convertible Securities.

==

So, any type of issue triggers the MFN and the jackpot to YC.
> If angels came from the heavens and offered to take care of our needs, would you fight them?

That entirely depends on what price the angels would extract for doing so.
sans-humans, maybe. But we /are/ causing the Holocene extinction, which is essentially defined by the last two centuries of accelerated biodiversity loss. Climate change will only further stress already fundamentally strained ecosystems. It’s happening right now, at all of our literal doorsteps.
Converting those sounds to human-audible noise would be an interesting project, and maybe even a product for gardeners if it could be made inexpensive enough.
So many people here are incredibly naive.

That's the real problem, more than anything else.

Our governments are out to get us, not help us.
Did science twitter migrate to somewhere else? Where would you go to keep up with scientific papers?
Letting users block injected third-party DLLs in Firefox
bigclivedotcom, aka the Consumer Reports of electronics that catch on fire and/or perform miracles.
I find your website kinda sketchy. Your FAQ claims that the company was founded in 2007 but that's not true. meteocentrum.cz was founded in 2007 but this company didn't appear until 2021.

meteosource.com also appears to be a rebrand of forecasts.cloud. Why?

The multiple rebrandings and false claims make me hesitant to trust you.
I enjoyed the read. Nice take on the future of AI without going handwavy.
> Wouldn't professionalism dictate

No, this is called being a grown up in all contexts, not just professional ones.

> What's impolite in a social context isn't the same as what's impolite in a professional context.

Professional contexts are subsets of social contexts. They aren't special. The only thing that can make any context special are the meanings of individual behaviors the actors within that context have mutually negotiated between them.

> doesn't this sort of feelings-management interfere?

Of course not. A typical person can work more effectively when they personally don't have to actively manage their emotional responses to others. This is facilitated by non-superficial politeness all around. Because it is a natural response to ruminate, for periods of time that are disproportionate to the event, on how others have treated us (common in relatively social animals, and possibly non-animal organisms), it is far more efficient to manage politeness than to count on emotional self-management.

> Isn't this why militaries all over the world do this? Shouldn't we all learn from their example?

You can be rude, not just impolite, in particular instances in civilian life without getting most people het up about it. But these instances are few and far between.

In militaries people are explicitly taught that their life absolutely depends on this rote learning and immediate response to shouted orders. Additionally, the military doesn't care as much about optimal functionality, just basic functionality. Theoretically systems exist in the military to prevent cronyism and other forms of privilege; everyone is treated the same, or at least has the same opportunities. This itself minimizes the rudeness bias. More importantly, when off duty, or on duty but not actively engaged in an exercise, officers and senior non-coms are less direct and do a lot of feelings management. Military life is not boot camp.

Even with all of that, in Vietnam at least, grunts did kill their officers at times. Active shooter situations are extraordinarily bad, and a lot of work goes into preventing and managing them. Being polite is one part of this management.

And plenty of people don't have the mindset for the military, and know this, and purposefully avoid joining the military because of this. You can't eliminate them from the civilian workforce.
The "VIVID" line by SORAA are also high-quality high-CRI LEDs with good cooling solutions, and they're available in things like MR16 GU10 for desk lamps with the "weird" bulbs with two little prongs. I got a cheap GU10 desk clamp lamp on Amazon and spent twice as much as the lamp itself (which came with a functional bulb) on the nicer bulb. The exact model was SM16GA-09-60D-930-03 if anyone is curious -- fabulous super-bright desk lamp that is very flood-y and covers a large area with a very small lamp head.

But yeah, explaining to normal folks that they need $30-$60 lightbulbs for every fixture in their home is basically a non-starter, but for me, I use this lamp every day and it should last a decade or more, so the value prop isn't bad, especially compared to spending $500 or so on something like a Humanscale "nice" desk lamp, which technically has much worse CRI and much lower output.

We recently built our home and went with WAC recessed lighting in all the main areas, which was about a $15k premium over just using what the contractor wanted to use, involved a lighting design company (that was also purchased the fixtures from), and took a dozen+ hours of our time and input, but I think it was worth it in the grand scheme of how much we spent. I personally can't stand hanging out at peoples houses where they have mismatched lights or just very poor lighting; it kills any interior design niceties and makes you really realize how much lighting affects the general feeling of indoor spaces.
> You’d trade all of that for… what, agriculture work in a feudal society?

Nope. But that's not the only other option.
what is the license of the code? you might send a copyright violation notice as a way to work around gh's internal rules. alternatively, you might lean on gdpr or ccpa.
yeah... ideally, there should be a reachable identity system for everyone, independent to centralized database. Content can be anywhere, RSS is nice, a content authentication system is nice too, but what's missing is an identity system.
> Light source in combination with specified control shall provide “reduced flicker operation” when tested at full light output as specified in JA10, where reduced flicker operation is defined as having percent amplitude modulation (percent flicker) less than 30 percent at frequencies less than 200Hz.

https://energycodeace.com/site/custom/public/reference-ace-2...
There are more ads than ever and one of the new promised twitter blue features is getting paid if you get people to look at ads.
In some businesses selling earlier at a higher price is also acceptable. It’s only the delivery that is later (or indeed concurrent).
clicking the link at the top of the page may help explain :) https://github.com/google-research/robopianist/
"Do you want to play a game?"
i had a similar view, until i found COB LED stripes (with dimmers), with 20W per m (LED W, not equivalent, i have mounted a few of those 3-10m (!), and now can have dimmed 1% background lights and hospital style brightness as well.
it is a contagion affecting software development speed and quality by putting non-devs and non-engineers in charge of devs/engineers. it is more okay when someone who codes or engineers is in charge of running agile and how to run agile.

when someone non-technical is a scrum master, run for the hills or perform as a 10x engineer until you can automate that person's functions enough that they no longer need to show up at your meetings and just become metrics-readers and team-hype-people for representing your team and not for caring too much about anything that isn't automated metrics and team health surveys from which meaningful ventures forward could be established such as perks and more attention to extracurricular needs if there are any.

ayyyy Corporate family??? gotta take care of everyone more and get outta the way baby, we're moving code here and you're not!

but yeah, 10000000% respect for hardcore startup engineering mentality where agile actually really does mean agile, and it means lean remote agile these days where it's asynchronous comms and as little live meeting bullshit as possible. Learn how to read and write or don't call it agile. be asynchronous or you're not agile enough for me.
People who actually use Linux on the desktop en masses is Chromebook users. Immutable OS is just fine as we see, let's people reach their goals.
It’s a lot less in US dollars, it still the most ludicrous thing I own by 100 miles.
Could you share some of these podcasts? thanks!
Autolayout is definetly a good approach. Webflow is a good commercial example, their builder isn't a canvas experience, it's a nested block experience, so you're forced to think about the layout from the start - and it works. I know of website design agencies who's staff are just designers who can't code - but they build everything they deliver to a clients in webflow.

What webflow doesn't have to deal with compared to a tool for webapps, is that most websites are just static. Web apps have all this extra code mixed into the frontend for functionality - providers, routers, state management methods, api calls ets, all this extra stuff in your components that isn't just "view". Taking some generated static react and adding functionality is easy. But then coming back to a page 5 months later, and refactoring the design in Noya, and merging that new code with what's actually been built? Kinda tough.

It really depends if code export is a core goal, or more a side effect. There's a lot of value imo in a tool for designers, devs, business owners, whoever at a company to mock up an idea really quickly, with something that looks like their companies actual design system. Like the napkin sketch on steriods - but then still implementing it traditionally.
The Class of 2023 Faces a Jittery Job Market
> Every American expat I know has a similar-ish process where they have to get over the fear/anxiety from living in the US.

So your selection bias includes only people that have made the decision to leave. Do you not see the issue ?

Even if you didn't select into people who left presumably for a reason, this is still an anecdote. It's your opinion, your reality. It's not shared.

For example, I have an anecdote of living in the EU. It's cloudy 10 months out of the year, everywhere except in the south. No one told me that. Winters were harsh. Foreigners in general were not accepted, most social interactions were with other ex-pats. Salary was much lower and that limited my ability to buy property and save for retirement.

I could go on. But what I wouldn't do is broadcast all of this as if it's some kind of universal truth. It's just my experience.
What are the numbers? Are they disclosed?
How to get started learning modern AI?
Neural networks! Bah! If I wanted a black box design that I don't understand, I would make one! I want rules and symbolic processing that offers repeatable results and expected outcomes!

...and maybe there's still a place for that.

But for someone who has been possibly foolish and ignoring neural network-oriented AI, where's the best place to start learning?

Go back to the basics of recurrent neural networks, deep learning texts, and so forth? Or is there a shortcut into the hip and popular transformer-based technology at this point?
Good to know. Thanks for the followup.
Try visiting https://news.ycombinator.com/newest Sometime it has more topics.
No complaints here, I seriously love what they're doing. Been tinkering a bit with it but it's had been a great utility and one that literally just works. Been trying to make inroads at $WORK with it as we use so much extra cruft that needs maintenance, breaks, isn't that performant really, stateful, no exposing or ACL management that doesn't require CA shaped pain.

I feel an ADR coming up :)
So were it to be the case that we should consider building an AI by scraping people's publicly-available work without their consent to be immoral (as many whose art was scraped to build e.g. stable diffusion would argue it should be)...

Do you not agree (in that context) we should consider scraping the output of an AI generated via such an immoral process to create yet another AI also immoral? At the very least, I'd think we would consider it further laundering of other people's labor with just extra steps.
My point is that the plumbing for this sort of thing is coming into focus. Human factors are not an effective safeguard. I feel like every issue you have brought up is solvable.

Today, already, you can set up a red zone watched by computer vision hooked up to autonomous turrets with orders to fire at anything it recognizes as human.

Some guy already did it for mosquitos.
I might be missing something; isn’t a Tailnet a bunch of user devices with wireguard tunnels connecting to each other directly? Where does the limit happen?

(And thanks for your work!)

Edit after 1 minute: of course, limit on Tailscale Funnel itself. (Too deep into thinking about Tailscale and forgot about the actual topic of the post. )
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
It only opens up to another machine validated by public keys.

It serves similar purpose as opening firewall to just a specific IP/port and dynamically change the IP/port as the other machine moves or disconnects. One of the main advantage is that it works behind NATs you don't control (i.e. public WiFi).

Edit: also most home routers do not have the ability to dynamically open up to specific IPs based on where your outside machine is.
I observe there's about 37% overhead when using TS connection on a local gigabit network.

Copying large file from Synology DS1821+ NAS (Amd Ryzen V1500B) to Windows PC (i7-6700K)
is about 111-113 MB/s when accessing NAS directly and 70-73 MB/s when traffic goes through TS
(different large files, so no caching here).
I still can't find decent G4 LED bulbs.. Tried several from Amazon, they where alle terrible at color rendering (even if nominal CRI was ok-ish). Any suggestions?
Engineered obsolesce.
Just to expand on why you should use .test for this, it's a reserved TLD according to RFC 2606 [0] and should therefore be guaranteed never to be issued by any registrar. Alternatively, you could use any of the other 11 reserved TLDs: .测试, .परीक्षा, .испытание, .테스트, .טעסט, .測試, .آزمایشی, .பரிட்சை, .δοκιμή, .إختبار, .テスト

e.g. we use `https://www.splitgraph.test` for local development, which is nice because we avoid a whole class of "works in dev" bugs that you get with `http://localhost:3001`

For the certificate, we use a self-signed certificate signed by a root cert generated by mkcert [1] locally on each developer's machine (to avoid sharing a root cert that could be used to MITM each other).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.test

[1] https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert
Fun fact the SR71 was capable of in air refueling but it still required pyrophoric triethylborane to start afterburners which couldn't be resupplied in air. So total mission time was limited by that and not fuel.
I think the point isn't that that we're so good at brainwashing other humans into committing atrocities it's difficult to see what AI adds (the sort of societies that are somewhat resistant to being brainwashed into tyranny are also pretty resistant to a small group of tyrants having a monopoly on dangerous weapons)
when mutually assured destruction became a thing.
Distilling Text into Circuits [pdf]
[1] gives a jist as well.

What I meant to say was that: Acc to The Information article the engineer raised concerns because it appeared to him (article wording) Bard team was using (and heavily reliant on) ShareGPT for Bard training. The engineer wasnt working on Bard and presumably someone told him or somehow he got the impression that Bard team was reliant on ShareGPT. At the time he was at Google.

Then, when he raised concerns to Sundar Pichai, Bard team stopped doing it and also scrapped any traces of ShareGPT data. So, the headline is false and Bard (again presumably) is not trained on any of ShareGPT data.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/29/23662621/google-bard-chat...
> Main thing I notice is the fear I sense in people whenever cops are nearby, and definitely the sense of this security state hovering over everyone.

As someone that has lived in a police state before, I can't tell you that your feelings in the US aren't valid. They are yours alone. But perhaps travel somewhere were actual security forces search you randomly, harass you for no reason, etc. Experiences I have never had in the US, not once.
This is blatantly false. It’s stated very plainly in the traditions spoken every meeting that the 12-based programs don’t align with any sect denomination or religion.

The programs are faith based and widely supported by medical professionals. Plenty of folks have problems with anything being faith based, but unfortunately there aren’t better alternatives for alcoholics and addicts.
I mean, there are definitely people who run tests and check whether the $200 baskets result in better coffee — Lance Hendrick [1] is my favorite YouTuber for that kind of thing.

The question isn't whether it makes a marginally better espresso (it probably does); the question is whether it's the best bang for your buck.

For most people, it probably isn't.

For people who have Weber EG-1s on their coutertops (AFAICT, it was Weber with their Unifilter who started this wave of super-expensive baskets/portafilters?) and La Marzoccos / Decents? It might be!

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzmGNwyN0MI
Given the effort you put into this question, it's probably not for you.
Apple TV is the best currently available. I think you're underestimating the complexity required to make these devices work well.
> get an idea out and then do everything you can to make it grow 30% each week

Compounded? After 8 weeks you go from 10 customers to 81, seems doable. But after 6 months you'd have 5,428 customers. Maybe if it was an App Store app? But if you have to talk to any of them, yikes. Might not be the most sustainable rate of growth?
it's a creative analogy

as you dug into it, you found it didn't hold quite as well

but I think that all scientific theories are is just 'creative analogies' that people came up before we were even born (or at least, grown up enough to understand?)