skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, but it makes sense to qualify what features of "good" tools are important for beginners. Temperature control is very important, and you should probably have one even in your first soldering iron. Something like hot air rework, on the other hand, is an advanced feature that you can defer until later.

Another not overly expensive tool I wish I'd known about as a beginner is a heated solder vacuum pump, dispensing with the need to juggle soldering iron and a non-heated vacuum.
Not just for highly computerized cars, I have a 97 Ranger where literally everything is manual and I don't even have a dome light anymore. There's a parasitic drain I can't quite figure out so I just make sure to start it every once in a while. Since I'm a year round bike commuter the truck can sit around for a long time, especially in winter when there's no house and garden projects. I've considered adding a manual battery disconnect, the only thing I'd lose are the pre-programmed radio stations.
Honestly, I don't really see this. Small personal transactions happen via Cash, Venmo, PayPal, Zelle, etc. without much issue or friction. As far as the general consumer is concerned it is instant.

Large business transactions generally (not always, obviously) do not have the sense of urgency that would require fast settlement. There's some market maker stuff that benefits from fast settlement, but that's not exactly a reason to push whole new system out to everyone.

The biggest "benefits" of crypto are not benefits to the average consumer going about their daily life. Instead of dealing with fraud you'd have to deal with customer service issues for actual customers who forgot/lost their keys. And, honestly, you'd probably have to deal with more fraud. Your phone gets hacked, your keys get stolen, and then what… all your money is irreversibly gone?
A word of warning. Running managed Kafka and Elasticsearch quickly become expensive. The worst (limited and expensive) is AWS.

That's why our in-house solution, combined with our expertise gives us a very cost-effective formula.
The problem is that the future is uncertain, and price is guided by feelings and impressions. People think Tesla is a great company for a variety of reasons that have nothing to do with math. They trust Elon Musk, they think Tesla has a technological advantage, etc. Of course a lot of people also look at balance sheets and hard facts before making a purchase. The price of Tesla's stock is composed of the coordinated actions of all these people. It turns out that adhering to your narrow idea of value does not help you accurately predict the price of a stock, or even the market as a whole for that matter.
My hands simply shake too much and always have to do detailed soldering work - my kingdom for a simple and inexpensive automatic solderer!
This is a good summary. What's interesting to me to observe here is your PT story is the system working as designed. This intention is not hidden. If one could just google the solution to their problem instead of using scarce resources, as the common phrase goes, that's a good thing actually.

We do an awful lot of rationing in these sorts of ways. It's maddening to me that I pay the astronomical premiums I pay and yet, end up having to play mini-doctor by asking the internet for answers. I do not have any illusions that I'm able to provide sound medical advice to myself or others, but just due to these sorts of issues and also doctors visits that are practically conducted via drive-through, Google MD is often my doctor / PT person / etc of first resort.
Handling Wikidata Qualifiers in Reasoning
South Main Auto has an excellent youtube channel with various parasitic draw videos. For those struggling, it's a good watch.

Here's one such: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDqlG5bRq8k
This article is making a mountain out of a molehill.

The crux of the article seems to be “wow! If you block traffic it really adds up to wasting people’s time!”. Duh. Lots of things do this, many less valuable than driverless cars.

As an example, Seattle’s drawbridges sound like much more of a disaster than whatever time is being wasted by Cruise vehicles. Sailboats can’t even make it under the Fremont bridge, so every rich dude with a boat blocks traffic (including multiple bus lines) for 10 min when they sail by.
Idk, I grew up in a white middle class neighborhood but the cost of housing is pretty considerably lower in the neighborhoods to the other side of the freeway/railroad tracks that happens to also be predominantly black. (This is Ohio btw)

Note those neighborhoods were built in similar times with similar sizes of lots and quality of houses.

The only noticable differences between the two locations is racial makeup of the community.

So if two areas are equally nice to live in but one is cheaper to live in than the other then why are people electing to live in a more expensive area over the cheaper one? Assuming everything else is equal.
The more people passively index, the more the market becomes sensitive to small changes by those using an active strategy.

Think of index fund investments as increasing gain on an amplifier — the more gain, the higher small signals can get boosted. An index fund is basically following the active investors and putting more weight behind each of their decisions. More passive investment money means a higher amplification factor.

If you go to a restaurant, point to the person next to you, and say "I'll have what they're having" then you'll get a meal of some sort. You may be happy with it, but who chose it? The person next to you. What if everyone does this? Who decides the initial meal that will propagate to all customers? One person.
I wish these comments were higher up in the discussion. These things are essential reading for new users who want to succeed with spaced repetition.
Do other languages have as nice a mapping to tokens?

For example, if you were to go from French, you'd have 33 characters to work with rather than 26 (accents such). And you'd have chemisier and chemisière being two different genders of the same word that are used in different contexts.

English tends to not have this difference.

Likewise, French has more verb conjugation forms than English does.

If you were to go to Japanese, you'd have the hiragana, katakana and kanji.

While my Anglocentrism may be showing, I'm not sure there is another language that tokenizes as well when it comes to novel character combinations.

Make up a new word. Use it in a setence. Give a definition for it.

My new word is 'diflubble'. It is the feeling one gets when they are both excited and nervous in anticipation of an upcoming event.

For example, I felt diflubble on the morning of my graduation ceremony.

vs:

Make up a new word in Japanese. Use it in a setence and give a translation for it. Give a definition for it.

My new Japanese word is "keigarou", which means "being full of energy".

例えば、私は今日、keigarouな気持ちでいます。
Translation: For example, I am feeling keigarou today.

The thing there is that you can't just make up new kanji. And it wouldn't be hiragana either.
That sounds very hand wavy and not at all convincing. You could just as easily say that time is an emergent property of the universe, so the universe has always existed and needs no cause. The problem in doing that with God is you have something intelligent and complex enough that it was capable of creating the universe with the metaphorical snap of its fingers. This is a harder pill to swallow than the universe just existing, because the universe is not intelligent, is less complex, and can't create things whole cloth.
Last time I was laid off was ~10 years ago and it was great. I worked out 2+ hours a day and got in the best emotional and physical shape of my life. I took well needed vacation time and visited some foreign counties. I also picked up some light volunteer/contract work at startups I cared about to keep my skills fresh.

I think that peoples experience will often depend on if they view it as an opportunity or curse and their level of financial stress/buffer.

I would recommend the following in no particular order:

1) Spend a fixed number of hours on the job search per day/week, and treat the rest of your time as you would a vacation.

2) Collect UI, its not much but helps.

3) Exercise & focus on healthy stress management.

4) Stay socially active in your industry.
They don't need to, because white men dominate most industries. There's little to be learned from examining any particular one of them.

If white men were to come to dominate a field previously dominated by some other group, that would be interesting. NPR could (and perhaps already did) write an article on how programming went from being female-dominated to male-dominated.
Hakko is not exclusively low end. They’re used in plenty of manufacturing plants. They’re not selling their $30k rework systems to hobbyists.
You think handwriting is easier to recognize than digits of a standard form and size?
Probably not the best model to follow.

* Be androgynous, bald, and the same build as everyone else on the planet. Other people's clothing is the only access control governing access to secure areas.

* Nobody will ever think to look in closets or deep freezers.

* A white man in a turban or a giant crow costume will attract no attention anywhere.

* Nobody will ask questions when you show up to someone else's shift wearing their bloodstained, hole-riddled uniform.

* If you drop an obvious explosive device in a crowded area, a helpful security guard will always come along shortly to retrieve and deliver it to the nearest lost-and-found.
Brother of a friend of mine has five children -- apparently success in Darwinian terms.

Two of them were born addicted to heroin.

Currently residing in a "sober living facility" last I heard, confidently talking about launching a career in retail management. The field looks attractive because he can "just tell people what to do".
If only we could get a blink tag and some techno music playing full blast.
ha, should have kept a 27" model on the line.

no, I don't think this is the deal (though the lack of the 27" has affected my hardware buying decisions for our lab), just re-registering my complaint.
Who said anything about the age of their old math teacher? You've got to learn old math and new math, presumably with different teachers.
> * iPod -> Music player w/ FLAC + 1TB SD

Out of curiosity, which Music player did you settle on? I am in the market for one and looking for options (currently leaning towards a FiiO M11).
When I was in college I followed FreeBSD and Solaris for a bit just to dabble outside Ubuntu and Fedora.

I remember looking for info on FreeBSD versions and wondering what the heck RELENG was.
LLMs powering Sims-like agents in a game
Chris Langan was a bouncer for twenty years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Langan
> The downsides are now substantial as the customer expects higher speeds.

Why would they expect this? It seems like the slowness is the only thing keeping the game from growing legs and walking away from the humans playing it.
Instruction Fine-Tuning OSS Flan-UL2 on V100s
Because there's so much more English language for them to train on relative to most other languages, they're able to do some optimizations for English that they can't elsewhere. Should they not be able to implement optimizations for cases where they have the data volume to do so?
That was an online essay, not a book
I was expecting the same. It does seem like a good euphemism for a contractor that kills it (not literal killer).
Sure, but you still have an infinite number of possible inputs, your model will only show that on certain note combinations at just the right volumes you get sub harmonics through intermodulation distortion if you find those note combinations when you build it. Musicians are very good at finding and exploiting these quirks of equipment, they are what ultimately define the characteristic sound of given bits of gear (and the musician's) and are what companies in the modeling business aim for, they get a dozen or so of those characteristic sounds and fudge the rest through a mix of techniques like interpolaitng the difference. But you can not get them all and the only people who end up buying the tech are the ones that primarily want those stereotypical sounds and that is getting to be a very crowded market.

If someone really wanted to use such technologies to be a game changer they would forget about the past and use it to design something new that exploits its strengths in a way that is natural to the musician instead of showing off its weaknesses. The potential of the technology is quite amazing and yet everyone uses it to chase nostalgia.
This is the correct way of thinking, and is widely applicable to many commonly recycled materials. Wood, aluminum, steel, and some plastics can be efficiently processed in this way.

Battery materials and applications are different. They cannot be cheaply and easily melted down and re-used. The main constituents are all very similar and difficult to separate, and need to be separated extremely well in order to be used in battery applications.

The lithium carbonate extraction is very telling. Lithium is #3 in the periodic table. The remaining elements that we would want to extract occupy every number from #24 through #30. The reason that they are extracting cheap lithium and none of the heavy, expensive elements, is that more process development needs to be done.

In light of the above, creating a facility to grind up batteries does not represent much progress towards the core problem, and is not a particularly large step in the right direction. It would be like making a facility to grind up plastic, without having a process in place to recycle the plastic. It's great, but you need more, much more.
Could be a weak starter (and or the combination of that, a weak battery and maybe even bad ground straps).
Here's online version: https://tiktokenizer.vercel.app/
> It mentions that Firefox writes wayyyyy too much in the temp folder.

> > the amount of calls to VirtualProtect is currently very high

Calling VirtualProtect is not writing to the temp folder. The VirtualProtect call is to change the permissions of the in-memory pages. It should be an inexpensive system call (other than the cost of TLB flushes and/or shootdowns).
I don't disagree with you, but it's also important that there is accountability. There is currently little accountability with LLMs.

One could argue that the user should be accountable, but that doesn't account for how an LLM is trained. A user should clearly not be held accountable for being harmed if using an LLM maliciously trained to harm users. Most legal systems punish negligence in a position of power, so it stands to reason that the creator of an LLM should bear some responsibility for its behaviour.

It is not yet clear to me how accountability should be portioned out to the user, operator, publisher, trainer, and model creator, but my feeling is that all bear at least some responsibility for its use.
Tesla owner butt-dialed a $4,280 Autopilot upgrade, still waiting on a refund
TBH the main reason I commented this was to get some kind of validation from the community (positive or negative). Sounds like I need to turn it back on :)

I really only use this machine for MWII, Halo and Titanfall. It's a glorified Xbox. I even contemplated putting it on a standalone VLAN to 100% physically isolate it from my core net.
We can start by implementing policies designed to reduce rent seeking activities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
Different languages have different levels of conciceness of course, but I highly doubt that Spanish is anywhere close to 15x less concise than english.
When exactly did that imaginary, completely made up "sparing of taxes" ever happened?

This is San Francisco. The only thing I ever hear from politicians is an additional tax, on top of all the other taxes.

But prove me wrong: when in the last 10 years did San Francisco "spared" or lowered taxes?

San Francisco has a budget of $14 billion dollars.

Paris, France: €4.4 billion euro.

The issue is not lack of money but mind boggling, ineffective, corrupt spending of the money.
> those people are bitter losers and idiots who's opinion grows less relevant each passing year

Their racist opinions have grown relevant enough in the past several years to drive you, a presumably non-racist Republican, away from voting for your own political party. Racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, white supremacy, and bigotry in general are all on a sharp rise, thanks to Trump's normalization and weaponization of bigotry, and to everyone who supports him, and especially to people who privately dislike him but publicly support him (most of the Republican party).

Thanks for not voting for him yourself, but don't blind yourself to the problem with America and your Republican party, which owns Trump now and forever.
You can also make your profile readme executable scripts, since shell scripts can be more or less valid markdown. See mine: https://github.com/egosown
I commented on this above but I think this is because ASV users need to be screened for heart issues first!
Eh… “la mesa” is “the table”, English wins. Even in context, spanish conjunction rules allow you to elide pronouns in many cases that would be confusing in english.

The reason spanish might encode longer is the tokenization scheme compacts tokens based on popularity in training data, and most training data was english. No more no less.
"I've habitually always maintained the old (Apple?) hub-and-spoke model where the PC is the core and everything else is a mobile extension of it."

This is the model I use in my own life but with a slight variation:

My server at the datacenter is the core and everything else is a mobile extension of it.
Dude's been tending his issue for a decade, I bet he'd have at least those like him as a customer. In a metro he might have a pretty lucrative business. On the other hand in the metro there is probably someone who already does this work, but they are very hard to find!
I asked a girl to prom in HS with a fortune cookie. It didn't work, but it was a fun experiment.
Strongly agree that so many more features lead to more friction and the tool becoming less useful. The original Palm devices were really awesome. Dedicated todo button, push it, and your todos instantly come up, one tap to drop down the category selection, and one more to select a category, and you're there.

The iPhone has historically been really bad at this, and even regressed. A year ago I had to wake the phone, point it at my face, wait a second, then go to the home screen, open the app, wait a couple of seconds, then navigate to where I wanted to.

Recently, lock screen widgets, shortcuts, and even some siri features have started to make this a little better.
When people say "main character", what exactly do they mean? I've never heard this term outside of literary criticism before.
Sold out. :-(
And how many of those are due to untreatable illnesses? Or other problems that have no resolution? How many of them actually can be prevented and how many are people coming to the reasonable conclusion that their life is worse than death?
Well no, but I also would question the inverse. Holding accountable companies that gain from possibly bad actions and asking the questions is helpful.

See: Microsoft's Supreme court case over their preference for IE and forced monopoly. While Microsoft 'won' the case, the outcomes were exactly what the case feared but "convenient" political climate helped them avoid travelling back to court of course. Microsoft took extreme steps to avoid being broken up in the 1990s however and it's arguable that one of their political mitigation methods, investing in Apple, actually had worse effects on them. (Prior to the iPhone in 2007, it was assumed that RIM and Microsoft would be the big two players in the smartphone space, Apple and Google have basically become the big two players in the Computing space mindshare)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
to be fair, this has always been true at the WSJ, a Rupert Murdoch property.
Yeah, if a mechanic told me having the battery die in 3 days was normal, I'd stop going to that mechanic.
"The market" is poorly defined, but if you're using the index as benchmark, then investing in the index matches the benchmark by definition.
This seems to be a minority opinion but various experiences dealing with business negotiations, dealing with crazy people, etc. have led me to be very careful with the word “lie”.

A “lie” is a deliberate falsehood and not the product of a wrong belief, delusion, etc. Normally ChatGPT “makes stuff up” that is sometimes right and sometimes wrong and you can’t say it “lies” when it is just wrong. If you instruct it to lie and it does, maybe that really is a lie.
> we have places like the Salvation Army that would rather have folks die instead of giving a trans person shelter

Honest translation: they told a man that there was plenty of space for men in the men's shelter, but that they could not enter the women's shelter.

And why would that be?

https://reduxx.info/trans-serial-killer-who-targeted-women-w...

https://www.womenarehuman.com/male-transgender-boasts-of-har...

https://www.womenarehuman.com/male-trans-pedophilia-rape-his...

> passing laws to ban trans folks

Name one. One single such law. The proposed laws are to return to enforcing sex-based policies. Males weren't welcome in female washrooms, sports, shelters, or prisons before but were forced in by the intentional conflation of identity with physicality.

If you mean bills enforcing no drugging or surgery of minors, well we're being assured that doesn't happen so the laws obviously don't matter.

> and take rights away from queer people in general

Again, name one. What right?

There's a lot of conflation going on, claiming parents want to ban drag shows when they want to ban all sexual shows - burlesque as well - in public places where children might go. Nobody is coming for the drag queens, etc.

But, thank you for being clear that you're talking about TQ+ laws and rights, instead of tying them to LGB sex-based rights as if the rainbow is monolithic in politics. Lesbians face street violence for saying that lesbianism is female and demanding the right to male-free spaces.
Further, 10 requests where 8 can be more aggressively cached, may well be better than 4 requests where none can be cached.

Separating out requests isn't just about maintainability, it's also about separating entities with different caching behaviour. We could just do one big request for HTML, but if there's a lot of the page that doesn't need to change, that's wasteful.
The gardener is still not high IQ.
The reason for this is cross-border controls. If North Korea steals your crypto, you have no recourse.
I've had a $100 Weller and a $25 Yihua soldering station and found them pretty comparable to each-other.

What's most important is that you get an electronics soldering _station_ of some type and not a basic plumbing/electricians iron that is just a pen on a cord. Those are extremely frustrating for working on a PCB.
Same. Also not super tired, can go through with coffee, etc. But I don't feel rested when I wake up, almost never. [1]

The things I never tried: giving up caffeine completely, eliminating sugar completely, eliminating carbs completely, losing 20 kgs (I'm a bit overweight like BMI 27).

What didn't work: Ritalin, Venvanse, Modafinil...

[1] I feel like it could just be "stress" ie don't know how to relax and let go (beer does work but I wake up worse).
I cling to small stuff like "will my wife remember to pick up the clothes later?" (making up a real example that has zero bad effects if it doesn't happen today)
Almost every web analytics, mobile analytics, and ad tech company uses ClickHouse.

Examples: https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/about-us/adopters
Datasets and blueprints: https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/getting-started/example-datas...