skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Text becomes hard to read when lines are much over 70 characters. I don't know that there's a universally preferred solution. Personally, I only use movie-shaped windows for movies, and page-shaped windows for everything else.
...although that didn't work particularly well in that case.
I would have preferred for this article to be written by ChatGPT. It's clearly a PR template. Just search for the Sergey guy's name and see.
Olkiluoto 3 starts full regular electricity production – but 14 years late
Aesthetic training time is really tough though.

Composition push-ups, color-theory pull-ups, subject lighting crunches. It’s not easy but you gotta get artistically ripped before you can be a judge art.
Targeting engineers who want to copy some code and get done with the integration has been a core part of Stripe's DNA. This added with the fact that they don't need dedicated support / sales teams explains why they make huge margins from small and medium businesses
The article is about avif not webp. Note the editors (past and present) for the AOM avif specification don't even include Google https://aomediacodec.github.io/av1-avif/ Google was involved in each format but not responsible for on in control of either.
I still have every laptop I've owned & I don't know why (fujtisu p1120 (what a badass machine), some msi core2duo (p951 or something), a msi gx66, a dell venue 11 pro, and my current Samsung book 12. Oh and I bought a Sony Vaio P way way after the fact for like $130, as a potential p1120 refresh- neat ass system. Almost two decades of gear. Some very well stickered, the Dell & GX not so much.

I think you're onto something about size. It's a factor. Still, I feel real shame for having not gotten rid of more machines. I have gotten rid of old desktops at least.
> hat's how everything works. Literally every CRPG (and every crappy mobile game with an XP/level mechanic) owes an enormous debt to Dungeons & Dragons

And they owe almost everything to the lore from Tolkien's middle-earth.
The published specs don't tell us how many layers of NAND there are, but they do claim the 2TB is only 1.8X the write performance of the 500GB and 1.125X the 1TB. Not the 4X you'd speculated.

If you have a QN322, feel free to provide benchmark results.
Is that the UK name of the US game "Stratego" ? Yes, a deceptively(?) simple board game that incorporates imperfect knowledge.
Turkish is another dreadfully regular language, would make for a great programming language
It is also one of these things where the first to do it gets the advantage.

If you are the first to do the "only 2 rooms left" trick for example, you will get the full results before people get desensitized. But people will get desensitized everywhere, not just on your website, so if a competitor tries to pull the same trick, he won't get the same effect as you did. If fact, it may be time for you to roll back, to make competitors look bad for using the now well known and ineffective trick you invented. And if it works long term, then you get a head start.
If you can, take some time off and do something for yourself. I got way too caught up in the grind, was spending every spare moment on leetcode and algorithms, and all I felt was a gnawing desperation to succeed and get an offer. I took time off and refocused on what was important to me. I started hiking and biking and doing things that interested me. I stopped leetcoding at all. When I next interviewed a couple of months later, I didn’t even study and I didn’t need to, I came across as confident, and I got 2 offers right away. Fortunately I had a job at the time so I was able to go back to business as usual without it affecting my finances, but being in that situation without a job terrifies me.
So we are in agreement that abuse of corporate power and abuse of government power are both bad things to be avoided.

I agree with you that the monopoly on violence requires more scrutiny than the soft-power of money. My argument is that certainly doesn't imply no government oversight, nor does it imply we don't have enough government oversight right now. Especially of corporations - your argument appears to be government power is dangerous to use because it can be abused vs. individuals and vs. music acts; can you think of an example where too much government oversight of corporate process has led to improper deprivation of liberties (jail time and the like)?

We can acknowledge government power is abused against individuals while still asserting it is the most effective tool against corporate overreach and should be wielded as such.
Weapons stockpile, asymmetric warfare: Taiwan could thwart China – with US help
Let's goooooooo!
I would not complain about a free open source tool because they don’t do a good job of marketing it.
Dadeville, Al Shooting
I guess the front desk has no discretion to give discounts, in smaller places the owner can give you the booking.com price because it means they don't have to give a cut (is it 30%?) to the bastards from Amsterdam.

I remember walking into a hotel at around 10 PM (I was road-tripping around Iceland and could've slept in the car too) and asking if they'd give me a discount (1 room more to sell), and the front desk person clicked around on a lot on his computer and when a colleague asked him, he said "I'll just give him the agency rate.".
Power loss, EM interference, and probably some impedance and frequency response characteristics too (not sure about the last two)
The original paper is very good but I would argue it's not well optimized for pedagogy. Among other things, it's targeting a very specific application (translation) and in doing so adopts a more complicated architecture than most cutting-edge modes actually use (encoder-decoder instead of just one or the other). The writers of the paper probably didn't realize they were writing a foundational document at the time. It's good for understanding how certain conventions developed and important historically - but as someone who did read it as an intro to transformers, in retrospect I would have gone with other resources (e.g. "The Illustrated Transformer").
https://archive.is/8aqVH
Generally, no, loyalty programs from hotels are not a scam. Or, I guess, it’s probably most accurate to say that they do not have to be a scam to be profitable, some places may run them as a scam anyway.

Speaking from the other side of the desk, guests can vary wildly in how much they cost to accommodate. A good guest (mostly one who cleans up after themselves) can cost as little as one-quarter of the average guest, that significantly improves the margin on the room and we can definitely afford to pass some of those savings on to you once we know you’re a good guest.

Speaking from a broader view, the kind of guest who stays often enough to meet loyalty targets is usually travelling for work. Their demand for accommodation is inelastic (job needs them in this place for this long) but very substitutable (pretty much any clean room will do). It makes sense to sacrifice some margin to capture that.

So there’s a few good reasons why hotels or hotel chains can offer real discounts in their loyalty programs.
This is the norm from my perspective over the last 25 years.

I was a contractor once and while I sat at a tiny desk in a hallway and wasn’t invited to the ice cream parties I know I was paid better than all the FTE as they tried recruiting me but their offers were far less that my hourly rate.
American declinism is a fantastic narrative which keeps propelling America forward. Never being satisfied and always wanting to do better is part of the American ethos.

The linked article is the leader. I recommend reading the longer form briefing article as well which has lots of interesting information. For example, America's industrial CO2 emissions are down 18% from mid 2000s peaks even as industrial output is up and we have policy headwinds. Good news...
I read "Lawrence Death" the first time.
> The flexibility of the labour market helps employment adapt to shifting patterns of demand. Already many of the workers in America who were laid off from Alphabet and other tech firms at the start of the year are applying their sought-after skills elsewhere, or setting up their own businesses. In continental Europe, by contrast, tech firms are still negotiating lay-offs, and may think twice about hiring there in future.

This is the most interesting point made to me. Might change my own opinion a bit on what rights best serve workers. I can see how ripping the band-aid off is better for both parties, even though it stings, vs letting layoffs drag out over months and wasting everyone's time and energy.

Would have been nice to see some sources cited here though.
> I think some people (not suggesting you) don’t seem to recognise that in congestion, 3 lanes actually provide more capacity than 1, and that it’s not possible or logical to stick to the left lane at all times/conditions.

Rule 268 of the Highway Code touches upon this:

> In congested conditions, where adjacent lanes of traffic are moving at similar speeds, traffic in left-hand lanes may sometimes be moving faster than traffic to the right. In these conditions you may keep up with the traffic in your lane even if this means passing traffic in the lane to your right. Do not weave in and out of lanes to overtake.

Ashley Neal's video on motorway driving provides some good examples of when sticking in lane 2 is OK, provided that you continuously observe and anticipate other road users: https://youtu.be/Vo7sNwf80lI?t=766
This isn't an excuse, but maybe part of the problem is that schools haven't evolved in the way they teach.

Information doesn't move the way it used to, kids brains and attention spans are different, so maybe tying kids to chairs and lecturing them doesn't work like it used to and teachers are paying the price for it.

Not saying the teachers are to blame or that parents aren't part of the problem, just that there may be a bigger issue in play as well.
It's not really a chicken egg problem.

If a browser doesn't support a format as default nobody will use it unless big players like Apple or Google enforce it.

If Jpeg XL had been enabled some time without a flag they could claim
> There is not enough interest from the entire ecosystem to continue experimenting with JPEG XL

but hidden behind a flag there is no way to know.

How many users enable experimental features in their browser?
This seems corrrect though it made me curious. I've skimmed the Booking ToS and can't find anything that expressly forbids altering the site appearance to make it render differently. The closest is perhaps Section A14. Intellectual Rights. [0]

So either Booking.com have thought about this and don't care, or they have not thought of it. Given that they do expressly prohibit monitoring/scraping/crawling for commercial purposes I would guess it's the former.

They've limited liability in a way that any loss is limited to the amount paid and also do not offer indemnification, which further limits their exposure.

(Reading legal documents is my personal rabbit hole.)

[0] https://www.booking.com/content/terms.html#nov2021_terms_all...
Except for the time, effort and money required. Other than those things there is nothing to stop them, no.
I think this is a great example of how easy it is to change a ui in the browser, and something I think we take for granted now. Take any other tech and it'll be hard, potentially impossible.

Something that concerns me is that we end up with Flutter(-like) websites, on a canvas using wasm. No cool stuff like this would exist, no way to escape the ads, and eye strain from websites that Dark Reader can't change. I wouldn't be surprised seeing "dark mode" as an added benefit to a subscription one day.

(Yes, Flutter has html too. But if I tell my boss that it's because of my ideology for the web, that pixel's are a bit off, and performance is degraded, I might as well look for another job.)
Very impressive. The linked thesis is a nice overview of the design:

https://lavarails.com/download/open_world_3D_microcontroller...

It describes a lot of previous commercial game devices, but doesn't really discuss current alternatives to the PicoSystem. I wonder if there are more capable open-firmware devices at around the same price?
Disabling Javascript on the source page works as well.
Such as events like this?

https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/hundreds-of-teenagers-floo...
This reads like a bizarro-world advertisement.

You book through booking.com, and upon arrival, regularly find your reservation bumped due to overbooking?

That’s not positive for booking.com!
It’s stupid complicated, but essentially right. The legality of facilitation depends on the laws of all the jurisdictions involved. So where it’s legal and customary, say, in Egypt or whatever, I think, you can get away with it. Because how else would you get anything done?
It seems this is the effect of some law Californians voted for, so they want it.

It would be a shame for the citizens of CA to move somewhere else and vote the same thing there.
It's the "behind a flag" part that is the issue.

How are you supposed to get feedback for a feature people can't actually use?

It's like when Debian removed a package I use that was not shipped under the rationale that "no one uses it". Obviously no one uses it - you never actually shipped it, you just had the source available if people wanted to compile it.
ProjectionLab just reached $100k ARR
Should western countries be able to use slave labor outside the west?
Ah perfect. Thanks for the reference.
I was actually under the impression that this is more or less what they do, but that not everything can be recovered this way, in particular the various materials that get encased in epoxy for ease of handling, like most of electronic components.

And when you look at the semiconductors, the chips and the display, the input materials to most of it aren't really that special, as I understand, but turning the sand into thinking machines takes clean rooms, factories, transportation and processing that add up to huge amounts of energy - in some cases as much as will be used to power the device in its lifetime, I've heard. And no recycling technique is ever going to bring the embodied energy back.
Turns out, this is all I needed the whole time lol https://github.com/casualwriter/vanilla-chatgpt
namespace pdf_page {
dunno cmd_l (whatever);
}
Try explaining the broken window fallacy to a guy who just bought a new Porsche from breaking and repairing windows.
How would Europe even compete with America in the long run. America just has so many advantages (massive influx of talented workers, one country, better equiped with natural resources, the supremacy of the dolllar). There are many other reasons some of which might not seem clear cut. The average American or European life requires an economy which is on average much better than the average for the world. If you do not have comparative advantage in creating valuable things compared to the rest of the world, it is hard to see why the living standards will keep up.

The Americans might have their own problems, but they keep coming up with innovative products several of which which will be massive value producers for them. All the most valuable companies of the world are in US. What will the EU's comparative advantage be? Yes valued companies is not everything and quality of life median matters but in the long run what will the EU have an advantage at (Not just America but even Asia/ Africa).
As the article points out, immigration is a key factor behind America’s economic performance. Too many people in tech are hostile to immigration out of a misplaced fear of immigrants lowering wages or ‘stealing’ their jobs. Whatever legitimate merits those concerns may have - and research shows them to be few — let’s never forget that the hard work and entrepreneurial spirit of immigrants help create these well-paying jobs in the first place.
Show HN: Multiplayer ChatGPT
Hi there! We built an LLM interface for ourselves and figured it’s at a point where we should probably share it with others :)

We initially built ChatSeed to solve a few problems:

- Difficulty sharing prompts/responses, limited to copy/paste, screenshots, or browser extensions

- Editing conversations to “branch” was possible via “edit message”, but hard to reuse/track

- ChatGPT Plus has a token limit of 4096 tokens for GPT-4 (API has an 8k or 32k limit)[0]

Features

- Chat seeding — click the plant emoji to easily reuse part or all of an existing conversation

- Real-time multi-participant chats

- Chat URLs (link to chats, save seeds)

- Shared and hidden chats

Note: The “Shared” chats are public by default and “Self” chats are shareable by link. This is a demo, and subject to change at anytime, though the tool currently supports GPT-4 and GPT 3.5.

Please let us know what you think!

Cheers,

Adam & Mihai

[0]https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11rmyjo/comment/je...
You’re basically saying that we should not trust the internal combustion engine because Ford released a new model car.
The Surprising Thing A.I. Engineers Will Tell You If You Let Them
It depends on the values of the vectors. (4, 4) + (3, 3) results in a new vector (7, 7) which is further away from both contributing vectors than either one was to each other originally. Additionally, negative coefficients are a thing.
What about it? Same as any other whataboutism derailment:

Yes, that is also bad, but right now we’re discussing X. Solving X doesn’t mean your issue isn’t important, it just means we’re not discussing it right now. Now please stop trying to change the topic.
> I cannot take seriously the arguments of an organisation that cuts itself off from the rest of the world for such silly reasons.

Why would they risk unsuspecting visitors running Google code on their computer? It is a spyware company.

There is nothing silly about not wanting to link to Google. Maybe futile given their market domination. But not silly.
Here's a good documentary on a bigger problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWeRAlJQI0c
Tactics of Fascism – Jason Stanley
Show HN: Mousedroid – Use your Android phone as a mouse and keyboard
To this day every IBM customer I've ever contracted for has also been a Red Hat customer. That even applies for mainframe shops. Sales reps and support and account managers at IBM and Red Hat had eachother on speed dial a decade ago since it was so common to work a ticket that involved both companies products, or sell a bundle that would include both companies software and/or hardware, etc.

My only question is what the hell took IBM so long in making the decision to buy them out. I've never been less surprised by a big acquisition than I was with IBM and Red Hat. The only surprising thing was that nobody outside of that space saw it coming.
I wouldn’t, because both of those fields can follow the scientific method as well.
Counterpoint: archiving costs money, even for public domain content. Who pays the archivist, if not the users of the archive? And the more obscure a work is, the fewer users of that work the cost can be spread over, so the oldest and most obscure materials would have the highest access cost.

It is tricky, because one could argue government could take on the role of archiver, but do we really trust government to maintain an unfiltered archive indefinitely? Or we may say archives should be privately funded and there should be redundancy, but then how do we guarantee continuity of funding?
I tried again to make it clear that your theory has no base.

It doesn't matter that you life close to asian part when this mutation is already dominant for a while across the world.

The racist part came from the struggle Asians faced in USA after trump.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracer_gun
Try reading each word slower. Sound it out if there’s too many letters.
Looks like the company running this is simply located in a co-working space in China. Didn't know that just living in China made you a possible PRC asset.
Oh! This is applying FFT to the images! I thought it was going to be applying to functions
f_n : [0,2pi] -> [0,1]^2
where f_n is the n-th level version of the curve.

I guess in that view, higher order curves would have higher frequencies have higher amplitudes, on account of changing direction more often.

I guess that view of things wouldn’t have much visual appeal, as it would just be associating to each integer frequency, an individual vector. (I guess a 2d complex-valued vector?)

Hm, still, I think there would probably be uh, something to see in the directions of these vectors?

And to handle the complex-valued stuff I would think that if you moved from the e^{i t n} basis to the cosines and sines basis, that one could maybe thereby do-away with that? Or...
Well, yeah, that should be true, expressing a real valued periodic function as a weighted sum of sine and cosine functions doesn’t require any complex coefficients, but would doing so actually make the vectors which are the pairs of the coefficients for the two axiis, have a particularly clear meaning?

I would imagine the direction of these vectors should correspond to something like the different directions the curves move in, or differences between these directions.

Oh! One thing that might be nice visually,
If you got the Fourier coefficients for the n-th level of the curve, and then took only the first k coefficients and constructed the curve associated with that, then that might be cool looking.
I wonder, if you held k constant, but increased n, would the first k coefficients converge? If so, what would the curve from those first k coefficients look like?
No idea, but as an American who moved to Europe it's crazy how much ambition is casually discouraged ("the notions on him!") and investors are chickenshit scaredycats offering tiny numbers. Pathetic pay too.

But I still live in Europe because I prefer well designed cities and everyone (mostly) having ample vacation time.
Manufacturing is noticeably absent from the list of successes.
Did you reply before reading? When were tasers ever used for crowd control?
Good rhetoric, but not good faith.

Numbers the article mentioms:

- Approvals were done for a 62MN rocket, launch is 74

- A test at 50% thrust in February measured sound at 110db three miles away when the model used for approval estimated 90-110db for 100% thrust

- Starship will have 10x the power of Falcon 9, launched from a complex 1/4 the size

- The approval process used has never been used for a rocket complex before

And lest you think I'm some owl-loving hippie, I am pro rockets and excited for the launch tomorrow. I just think it's important to allow dissenting views, especially when they do have data. Just suppressing them with smug "rockets good, any disagree bad, and disagree numbers meaningless" rhetoric is really not in the spirit HN claims to foster.