skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the current financial system stopped working and for some reason we needed to actually use Bitcoin to pay stuff, it would not be possible. Cryptocurrencies don't scale, because the way they work is extremely inefficient.

Not because the way they work is inefficient, but because if the financial system collapsed that badly, we would not have an internet, or power, or food, most likely.
Would be slick if all the space-company accounts had a couple lines of detail identifying what % of their total sales comes from government, military, commercial customers, etc.

Of course this would require people wanting to move away from “how can I tarnish this account with a label?” and toward “how can I improve transparency without aiming to insult?”
It can be useful for circumstances where you want to minimize (or even eliminate) retraction. I've done some cool prints in vase/spiralize mode with large nozzle sizes -- with zero seams, zero retractions, and zero moves over printed surfaces, you can get some really awesome looking prints.

But anyway it was just an example of a scenario where the slicer might not have enough information to know how to not crash the print head.
The name twitter was looking for is 'public broadcasting' which is crucially different to 'state media'
I could believe that it's possible to stumble upon an instance that fits who you are and offers a great onboarding experience - but it's far from the norm.

The reason I'm confident saying that is that it's actually by design for the platform. The community is very hostile towards any kind of discovery tools or enhancements that help you explore the network without a direct introduction. Any attempt to provide that functionality is blasted with an intense amount of aggression and shut down.
I can wait to buy an open source machine where i can customise. I find the interface with all my last couple of AEG machines ridicolous. The only way to get the machine to work the way you want is turn it off and start again. I really find myself wishing to have a chat with the engineer that programmed this. Very frustrating to have to change machines because they do not have service manuals available. (Wife could not wait me figuring it out). CLI TO MY WASCHINE NOW!!
if ferretDB truly does provides ad-hoc queries, indexing, aggregation, and real-time data processing, making it well-suited for a wide range of applications, then sure , it’s a great alternative . I can see all types of web apps even enterprise systems working well w it.
I imagine that because of the churn of people doing cashier jobs, there is little incentive for businesses to design pos systems that reward expertise over getting someone up to speed quickly.
Probably giving it the benefit of the doubt, as we're supposed to do on HN. If you watch the whole thing and get past the typical instagram spam synth voice and general weirdness, the tech actually seems pretty cool... Personally, I can't think of a better solution to the problems they're proposing to solve.
> Could Google, or any other company out there, build a digital copy of you that answers questions exactly the way you would? "Hey, we're going to cancel the interview- we found that you aren't a good culture fit here in 72% of our simulations and we don't think that's an acceptable risk."

Well, on the other hand, in the successful case, why bother hiring if the digital copy already answers all questions like you (except likely faster)?
Here is how NPR is funded:

https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finance...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR#Funding
Rome wasn't built in one day, as the total market cap grows, price fluctuation will become irrelevant.
Maybe a bit of everything, though in my experience people outside the US significantly underestimate how much successful professionals in the US earn.

For example, this article [1] says that to be in the top 1% of earners in the US a family needs to make $600k or more. There are 330 million people in the US, meaning that 3.3 million people are in a household earning $600k or more. I think that's a lot!

[1] https://smartasset.com/data-studies/what-it-takes-to-be-in-t...
Uh, let's back up.

> Pwsh starts on my machine in 400-500ms. Far slower than I'd like. That is with no profile.

This is already 10x slower than a reasonable shell startup time, with no profile configuration at all, on an extremely fast desktop system. It's downright embarrassing that you are even attempting to defend this state of affairs.
Buffett on iPhone: '$10k won't make you give it up'
I am not sure what you mean by them being open about it. Looks to me that they are open about the funding they get. Them getting grants to service communities that are not profitable doesn't mean that they take marching orders from Washington.
Nice, added. I was able to find some books here that were not listed on any of the other sites.

I am surprised that there still is variety. Is there a reason an independent bookstore lists their books on one marketplace but not on another?
Musk does have the tendency to make "motherhood and apple pie" sound like nuclear war. It seems more about attention seeking than running a business.
Hetre are some numbers: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-tran...

Unclear how many of the kids who receive hormones end up getting surgery.
Which instance is nice?
What part of the world are you in? In hot humid areas like Houston, you'd break out in a sweat just sitting stationary.
In the BBC interview, Musk says they are thinking about changing the label to "publicly funded".

Seems like a good compromise.
> "That sounds like one of the least interesting things I could do with $44bn."

You could fund The Manhattan Project ($21Bn).

And the Panama Canal ($13Bn).

And the Concorde project ($2.5Bn).

And the Hoover Dam ($0.8Bn).

And an Eiffel Tower, a Statue of Liberty, and a statue of Christ the Redeemer. ($100s of M)

Buy yourself a B52 Stealth Bomber (~$2Bn).

And a Hindenburg ($100M), and a Titanic ($400M).

And still have a couple of billion left over.
Could they already do that using actors and sets? I doubt even the poorest dictator would lack the resources to do that currently. It’s the scammers on the other hand who would benefit with cheap ability to generate fake audio/video
What's sad is that people just automatically assume every government is altruistic when history has proven that to be unequivocally false. There is not ONE government in history that hasn't committed disgusting atrocities against its people.

When you realize that, it becomes clearly easy to see that you ought not put full trust media that is backed by government when every government has used media like this to push evil propaganda on to its citizens.
>Are you an incel?

Thankfully God blessed me with charisma, good looks and a positive outlook.

>No different than if I was to start saying we need to kill all the god-believers because of the times they told me I was going to hell. Kill them all, because they clearly don't respect me and are in my way, who knows what theyll do next. They'll do anything if its in that book of theirs!!

Many atheists already hold this view either explicitly or in effect, and it's a more logically consistent one than yours. There's nothing stopping you from staying silent in the prisoner's dilemma, but confession is the most strategic choice.

>"the only really straight heterosexual position is to be an asexual incel." -Nick Fuentes

lol
> Java has the lingering shadow of Oracle hanging over it.

This myth needs to be dispelled.

OpenJDK is Java, and is open source under GPL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK

https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/LICENSE
This is something bought up every time science is mentioned in the context of the Islamic world in the Middle Ages, but it's more nuanced than that. Every civilization goes through cultural trends, and Luddites are universal. It's also helpful to think of scientific progress accelerating in places where different civilizations can interact, and the core Arab lands had reached a sort of homogeneity by the Middle Ages, and some level of intellectual stagnation, pretty similar to Europe in the Early Middle Ages. Contrast with parts of the Islamic world at the periphery, and you see a great deal of innovation. The early Ottoman period was one of major technical innovation, as was the Indian subcontinent.
I do not believe there is morality without God. The difference would only be in what I consider to lead to the greatest pleasure and the least pain for myself, after all "what I seem to owe you I owe at most to myself"
For a positivist, you’re not very strong on logic.

I didn’t say anything about the god having to exist, that is not part of it. The point is that the person believes he is talking to a being, rather than relying on a law of (super)nature.

The rock has no will, it is not the rock that decides you grant you luck, it’s an inevitable consequence of your action.

The god, real or not, is a being with a will, he presumably hears you and may decide to help or harm you.

Similarly, praying is different from casting spells. Not because they have different effects but how they are thought to work. It doesn’t matter if you or I believe praying works, the point is that prayer is talking to a sentient god. Magic spells is not. Both may be delusional, but surely you must be able to tell them apart? You learn this stuff in middle school.
Recovering Sample Authorship: The Case of Sohan Lal
Mikes bikes does a full service which is $500 - and yes bike techs have a lot of mechanical knowledge, like for example using various spacers to change the geometry to suit the riders body/grip/posture etc.

And then for certain things you need multiple spacers, or you can only mate this handle-bar with this type of headset/stem etc...

Bikes are fn awesome machines.
State funding of media, regardless of how it’s structured, creates an obvious conflict of interest with editorial freedom. Theoretically it’s possible for a state funded media company to exercise editorial freedom, just like it would be theoretically possible for a climate study funded by ExxonMobile to exercise academic freedom, but not without acknowledging that the conflict of interest exists. Maybe they are a high integrity organisation, but the existence of this conflict of interest isn’t really up for debate. Maybe it’s not necessary for any state funded media to be labelled on Twitter, but if you’re going to label any of it, then you should label all of it.
Sorry, but at least with respect to typicality, this is wrong:

> The typical argument against teen pregnancy is that it limits the life options for the mother, whereas you're arguing that the having these children represents harm towards the children.

I just googled "why is teen pregnancy bad" and every one of the relevant pages mentioned harms to children. And it seems pretty weird to me that you are so eager to sweep aside the harms to them. Those same teens could have children later and everybody would be better off.

> You're implicitly arguing that non-existence is preferable for the children.

I am not, and that is an absolutely wild think to take from it. It's akin to the kooky arguments of anti-contraception types and frustrated would-be grandparents that not having a child is basically equivalent to murder.
The attack involves placing a device between the cord and the wall.
"Publicly funded media" seems like a decent way of characterizing NPR. At some point one might question what Twitter and its users are getting out of all this labeling and relabeling, though. How many users are going to have an I had no idea NPR was publicly funded media but now I know epiphany when encountering that label?

> Not sure if it said "Gov-funded" an hour ago when you commented or not

I am pretty sure all the observations made on labels in this thread were accurate at the moment they were made.
Try diffuse lighting - the classic option is a light pointing at a white shower curtain. That should cut down on the specular reflections.

Alternately, get yourself a movable light, a live view through the camera, and move the light around until you find a position that gives you a good image.
Many cases I knew, people would have several repeaters and extra routers to extend coverage in big houses, and not set it up correctly in PA/Bridge mode, so peripheral network devices would be locked behind in a separate NAT’ed subnet.
Reminds me of the (was it family guy?) parody of the starship/trek captain who makes crazy contortions as he speaks.
It still blows my mind they can’t run this tiny operation profitably taking 10% of many multimillion dollar writers’ revenue. Is it a requirement that YC companies raise way too much money and then proceed to torch it any way possible?
Ask HN: Has anyone tried to make LLMs drive a car?
Seems like LLMs are very good at generalizing to random tasks that they're not necessarily trained for. I wonder how GPT-4 would do at responding to inputs from LIDAR sensors on an autonomous vehicle.
Well, my maxim with AIs is that all they express is a lie unless proven true.

Nothing good can come out of taking too seriously the output of algebra parrots.
With section 230 protection because they are not an editorial news organization under the defined meaning
Oregon east of the Cascades.

If you use a lot of pedal assist you actually get a lot of air rushing by you without too much effort: it's nicer than hopping in a hot car.
The EV Transition Explained [pdf]
The book "Bad Science" has wonderful discussions and examples of the placebo effect as it relates to medical research. Highly recommended.
The linked site https://www.tsur-lang.org/ seems to be offline, so I'm a bit confused in what way it's a "mirror" of a language or how it looks.
Weird I haven't seen this idea:

Microblogging shouldn't have private messages. Let people have a profile and a link to an email address or similar and be done with it.

I'm not sure why a service designed to publicize things so that everyone can see them ALSO chooses to take on "private messages." I get that's how the big money incumbents see it, but I feel like less would be more here.
>> Mass unemployment is a likely outcome, but modern states already have amazing safety nets in place and they're not far away from a universal basic income.

very few western and east asian nation have that. 80% of population dont have safety net
But we just read that kids were indeed made to believe they had been used for satanic rituals.

There is still no good surgery available. It is a crime to pretend the surgeries work.
I think the discussion around VR/AR sometimes misses the forest for the trees. Yeah, existing products are mostly sucky/very niche, and the existing direction for the entire sub-industry seems very unlikely to break into the mainstream.

But that's not to say it's not possible for a mainstream-successful iteration of the idea to exist. My personal feeling is that there is a viable path to mainstream success, though it's far from guaranteed that a player succeeds in taking said path.

The real question IMO isn't "can VR/AR be made mainstream successful" (this is largely unknowable until someone does it), the question is "can FB be the company that makes VR/AR mainstream successful".

And IMO the answer has always been no. If there is viability in the entire subfield I think Meta is poorly positioned to be the tip of the spear.

Its fundamental business model works against the interests of good products in this field (stuff every virtual surface full of ads! Inescapable eyeball tracking for MAXIMUM CONVERSION ATTRIBUTION!!!1one) - one can make a (good) argument about the implications of Meta's VR play with the interests of humanity, but I don't think we even need to get that deep. Their business model fundamentally is at odds with creating compelling products in this arena. So much of their product strategy seems to be stuck in the hole of "what is good for Meta" instead of "what is good for users".

And then there's seemingly the perennial issue of FB not being able to ooze any kind of desirability or cultural cachet, which is deeply necessary for any of this to reach the mainstream in a big way. Everything it touches, even before the VR/AR pivot, is like an even more corporate and dead-eyed version of EPCOT.
I have a Fisher Space Pen in my bag for when I really need to write something on the go. It's just that I wouldn't want to write a whole novel with it. By analogy, I think the Apple Smart Keyboard Folio is an excellent portable keyboard. When I'm out and about, it does the job. But when I sit down at my desk, I much prefer my full-size mechanical keyboard.
what's the reason for the initial @ symbol, seems superfluous
How does virtual threads get you DPDK? How do other apps get access to the network card and the SSD if you bypass the kernel?
1. Quadruple it.

2. see above

Should be cheap, or why else are Samsung, Micron and Kioxia whining about losses?

Maybe go for something like Optane memory while doing so.
You use "an" when the word starts with a vowel _sound_, regardless of spelling, and pronunciation has to be memorized in English. "The class lasts an hour and he's getting an MBA" is the correct usage even though they both start with consonants.
That's weird. It's not any different than the power for a clothes dryer or a stove.
The moment you start letting laws define your morals, you have lost what it means to be human.
I agree, there's a lot of context missing whenever a resume gets binned on something seemingly arbitrary, but when you're in a hiring position and you have 1000 resumes, its easy to just toss 900 of those out for arbitrary reasons before contacting the remaining 100.

Maybe there are very good reasons you left jobs after 1 year or less, but from the hiring manager's perspective, its not worth their time when there are 100 resumes to choose of people who never left a job in less than 2 years.

Don't worry though, this isn't the same high-pass filter everyone is applying, and your resume is likely to make it past filters elsewhere.
Their solution does not preclude fanout. Fetching work items from such a work queue by multiple nodes/servers should be no problem. One solution that also would be good for monitoring would be to have a state column, and a "handled by node" column. So, in a transaction, find a row that is not taken, take it by setting the state to PROCESSING, and set the handled_by_node to the nodename. Shove in a timestamp for good measure. When it is done, set the state to DONE, or delete the row.

Monitor by having some health check evaluating that no row stays in PROCESSING for too long, and that no row stays NOT_STARTED for too long, etc. Introspect by making a nice little HTML screen that shows this work queue and its states.

As I wrote in another comment, this is somewhat similar to a "work queue pattern" I've described here: https://mats3.io/patterns/work-queues/
People seem to misunderstand why the metaverse was pushed so hard. Meta isn't stupid and was doing it for a good reason.

It all comes back to how Meta makes its money - data collection.

Facebook is in a really tricky position right now. They don't control the hardware or OS that it runs on, or the app stores. That means that at any time, Apple or Google can screw them over and deny Facebook from collecting data.

However, what if they had their own hardware (Oculus) running their own OS? Then, they could collect as much data as they wanted without any interference from Google or Apple. That means significantly more profit! There's no way in hell they're going to break into the mobile phone market, so VR was their best option.

That's why they pushed VR so hard. They need it to work because otherwise they have no control over their main source of income, and the squeeze on them is getting tighter ever day.
Ai generated news has actually been a thing for a while now. The news agencies that use it still do fact check the output.
Sourcing for this? This is a very under-reported story IMO, the main source we have is self-serving comments from the guy who screwed it up saying “we passed because it wasn’t going to be profitable at the projected volumes”. But I don’t see how Intel would have even been capable of being the sort of partner that mobile SoC development requires.
I'm not clear as to how a conversation block is turned into one (or many?) samples. Is the first message in the block the input, and the remaining messages prefixed with sender names and concatenated as output? I know the code is all there but instead of picking it apart I would have preferred a more complete example mapping a block to sample, because I don't have a mental model of how LLMs learn from context. On the one hand I doubt individual input/output prompts from just two messages contain enough context, but I would have imagined that inserting names and concatenating multiple messages would be be equally misleading. Does the model generate an entire conversation from a single prompt, which is split before being sent by the chat app?
The following is clearly labeled as an opinion and a purely subjective value judgment, but here's one thing about crypto that I can't shake my head from.

I notice that disgusting, wicked authoritarians that relish in their desire to achieve control over other human beings absolutely despise crypto.

If I knew absolutely nothing about crypto other than the fact that enemies of humanity hate it truly vehemently, what should my judgement of crypto be?
"It's Twitter, but set up like email where you have multiple servers, but they can all talk to each other"

That wasn't very hard at all.
That is a disturbingly plausible explanation.
You have to have a band limited signal to sample anyways, where it's at in the spectrum doesn't matter. The first thing you'll do before feeding anything to an ADC is running it through a filter to make _sure_ it's band limited. Whether that filter's at DC or some Rf doesn't matter.

Here's the result from his original paper where he specifically says that it doesn't have to be at DC:

https://imgur.com/uSywML7
I'd swear on A Canticle for Leibowitz.
You can tell a lot about a user based on their posting history, and GPT4 can pretty easily tell if that person has a history of good or bad faith interactions. I wrote a bot that uses GPT4 to do this analysis automatically, and while I think it would be very useful, and also potentially change the dynamics of online discourse, It feels scary and dystopian as well. I'm very torn on whether this sort of thing will be good or bad, but it seems obvious that this kind of thing will become ubiquitous. I took my bot down for now, but I'd love to hear arguments for and against it. What do you think?
There's a reason they don't. Much harder to trick people into donating to you if the algorithm on a large private social media site isn't around to prop you up.
You could chuck most of Musk's portfolio into that category TBH. What ever company does that dumb tunnel idea and Tesla are the two additional companies that come to mind.