skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do web developers generally create their own audio subsystems or use platform native APIs directly? No, those aspects are handled by the browser which does the heavy lifting for them, allowing for a write-once-run-anywhere{-that's-supported} experience. The cross-platform toolkits (like Qt, JUCE, etc) do the same thing; they talk to the platform APIs on your behalf. What kind of expertise or team structure you require to build your application for various platforms really depends on what level of the stack you want to author against.
Download from here https://www.sendspace.com/file/oakqxm and upload to archive.org

80mb low res version downloaded from vimeo.

Does anyone else see the irony of a non-shared doc about how Getty is not sharing?
I have a vr unit of some kind, the $300 Facebook one. No other $300 entertainment device has ever held my interest for less time than the VR headset.
Sofoio is a web application that allows its users to seamlessly connect their social media accounts, import their social media posts, and create a beautiful, personalized one-page website.

While other platforms often rely on links or static content that becomes outdated quickly, Sofoio sets itself apart by leveraging users' existing social media content and posts to create a centralized hub that requires no manual updates. This unique approach eliminates the need for constant maintenance and ensures that your content is always up-to-date and accessible in one convenient location.

We are for;
-Creators: Centralize your content, and simplify your audience's experience.
-Consumers: Access all your favourites in one place, no more jumping between platforms.
Stability AI makes its Stable Diffusion models available on Amazon Bedrock
One never seen first class not have room in the bins. If this is the case, get the flight attendants involved. First class bins are supposed to be for first class only. And yes I've seen flight attendants remove bags
You Rust folk are easily wound up.
Or convince the utility that you're a business and probably pay a lower rate than the high income tier.

This is already the case for kwh rates if your usage is significantly above average (e.g. large house with a lot of people) -- commercial rates are lower, because the high usage tier residential rates are jacked up to subsidize the low usage tier rates.

PG&E will presumably also leak and sell the info, even if it's illegal for them to do so, but AFAICT it wouldn't be illegal for them to do so.

What are your rates supposed to be if the people living at the residence aren't a constant set but ebb and flow? --- yet another law that assumes that everyone lives a particular way, has a single or a finite set of fixed residences that they own and live in, collects wages at a relatively fixed rate from an employer, etc.

As far as detaching from the grid. It's becoming more viable to do so, which I presume is part of the driver for this change: More and more people are only pulling lots of power when there is sustained bad weather. This creates a lot of transmission costs that aren't paid for by usage.

PG&E residential high peak rates aren't that noncompetitive with running a natural gas generator. So well overbuilt solar, plus batteries, plus natural gas backup for winter storms and you might be able to detach assuming you don't get an EV. You may want to add a few kW bitcoin mining capacity to shed your excess summer power.

Right now the economics of solar support spending money to overbuild solar rather than putting in more battery. An intuitive way to think about it is that a battery provides value when and only when its discharged. Capacity that is discharged every day costs little per use, capacity that is discharged only once a year during a winter storm is extremely expensive per use. Solar provides value only if you can use the energy, but the cost per unit power is much lower, and there are cheap ways to usefully sink excess power. (heating a hot water tank, regenerating a desiccant for cooling, or running a bitcoin miner).

Commercial availability of small flow batteries would likely help the economics of grid detaching a lot-- because the marginal cost of additional capacity can be extremely low.

There are other costs in being grid detached-- a lot less redundancy and spare capacity in your power. If parts fail your power is out. Suddenly the power factor of your devices starts to matter, etc.
"AI overlords will not be able to resist enslaving entire masses of people who will be powerless to stop them"

that's what I don't get about this kind of posts

what's the point of enslaving people if AI does all the heavy lifting?
Lux is lit, it's absolutely my go-to engine. If anyone is looking for a FOSS project to contribute to we could really use a bevel shader.

In terms of accurately rendering participating media and caustics no other open source project holds a candela to lux. ;)

Mitsuba doesn't count as it's too slow to be of practical use.

(all that being said I would love to see Appleseed dev pick up again, it would be really nice to have a production focused spectral renderer around again)
tl;dr it went poorly
Read what I said to the other guy. We are not having a conversation over whether those problems exist. It's about the motivation to solve them. And the problems of today should give us massive motivation to do so. Even trillions of dollar is not "too much money."
California Utilities Seek to Charge People Based on Income, Not Energy Usage
How do you know the packaged binaries were built from the published source?
Microsoft broke the ground. Their DRM that opened the door for legal music sales came out in 1998 I think. Certainly by 1999 I was using it commercially and had the first labels already onboard.

I remember the controversy - it was CD Baby for sure.
>So there are examples of large extended spending budgets (on rocketry programs, specifically) with nowhere near as much progress as SpaceX has done with far fewer people, less time, and less money.

at least in the US, a lot of the budget is really glorified government pork, unfortunately. Boeing and even NASA have to spend their money sub optimally in order to secure future funding from government bodies.
That's funny. (For some reason the Twitter picture doesn't load anymore, but there are screenshots via Google.) I admit, he may have read some de Sade.
One of current biggest project of green hydrogen in EU is the green steel project in Sweden. They received around 50 millions so far from the Swedish government and more from the EU funds. Their expected date of finishing is set to around 2045.

The experts involved in that project was asked this winter if and when they expected to see green hydrogen in the European energy grid in order to replace natural gas, and their reply was around 2080 and earliest 2050 before any hydrogen energy will be burned in order to generate electricity. It takes a lot of time to build up production, storage and pipelines, and even longer to go from small scale experiments to full industry scale. The current technology is still much more expensive than natural gas when producing hydrogen, estimated to be about 10% more per unit even after you include tax rebates and green credits. Their project wouldn't have been started unless they had received those government subsidizes, and the news reporting on it are predicting that the final price tag for the government will be a few hundred millions before its fully up and running.

But lets ignore that and look at the European Commission climate package in 2021. For the small price of €2 trillions of European subsidies then maybe in 2050 we would see the European grid being supply with enough hydrogen to make a difference in the climate goals. That was however before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and a lot of the money intended to go into renewables energy has instead gone to pay for even more fossil fuels. Since then there hasn't been much talk about those trillions intended to be invested in green hydrogen, nor much proof that it was anything more than just talk.

Political talk is cheap.
Here's a reading of Twain's most famous anti-war work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRVod4PwQHs
Great work writing up the process. Much appreciated!
I agree with these points but I can see no evidence that they apply to SpaceX.
sorry, but you may just be using it wrong. i've been doing very heavy green field systems infrastructure for my startup and gpt-4 is utterly indispensable for my postgres set up. huge time saver, and i was dealing with the exact issue of default data directory.

what you may not be doing is reading the explanation or pasting in your error messages. very rarely does it make an error that isn't trivial to overcome and in far less time than a hunt through "10 blue links".
If I wanted to do this, what kind of specs would I need to have on my Desktop Computer?
Show HN: Ruby WhatsApp SDK Gem
Whatsapp Ruby SDK gem

Whatsapp released the Cloud API. I had an App that uses Whatsapp, and I extracted all the Ruby code that talks to the API into a gem and made it public.

The gem provides the ability to connect with Whatsapp API. Amongst them, you can:

- Interact with Business Profiles.
- Interact with Phone numbers.
- Interact with Media: audio, videos, images, stickers, templates, and documents (Upload/Download, send, receive).
- Send and receive messages (text, templates and others).

I'm looking for suggestions to make it better. I'm sure the people in HN could provide great feedback I could use to improve the library.

https://github.com/ignacio-chiazzo/ruby_whatsapp_sdk

Thank you!
Life expectancy back then was only about half of what it is today, and war was a relatively minor contributor to that:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1040079/life-expectancy-...
The boring version crept in while everyone was distracted waiting for the cool neon one from the movies to show up.
PAging Harrison bergeron, paging Harrison bergeron
I’m American and I’ve enjoyed every country in Europe I’ve been to. As far as know, none of those countries would allow me the freedom to work as I do here and I doubt I could find a house large enough for my family of 6 or the 20 acres for my horses and other livestock. I’m open to any way of doing things, provided they give me equal or better results. My family left England for lack of opportunity in 1750 and we have done fine here since.
The original Steamboat Willie enters the Public Domain come January 1, 2024. It seems unlikely Congress extends copyrights in the next 8 months.

https://observer.com/2023/02/so-mickey-mouse-is-about-to-ent...

Things that entered the public domain this year: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2023/01/public-domain-da...
> Well China has outspent Tesla by a massive margin.

> So has Russia. So has NASA. Same with Europe.

> Not to mention Boeing, ULA, or other long time rocket technology suppliers.

Do you have sources for these claims with respect to rocket technology? SpaceX has raised $10 billion to spend pretty much only on rockets - again, the easiest part of space technology by far. The rest of the money is going to comm satellites, which are also know to be a pretty easy technology. The budgets for these space agencies are bigger, but they are also spending on much more complicated things like science mission payloads. Not to mention all the pork.

> He also seems to have a secret superpower for plowing through government red tape and bureaucracy. I have no idea how he does that, but both with Tesla and SpaceX it has made a significant difference. Easy not to notice that, but a lot of ambitions have been ground down with resource attrition on that mountain.

That superpower is lying. When you claim that you have capabilities you don't, they pay you to develop them until they figure out you were BS-ing in the first place. This is what happened with the rural broadband subsidies.
Every apple device supports AVIF natively and by default.
surveillance based adtech is collapsing already and is doomed in its present state. they are screwed with or without gpt.
i'd be happy forego having to directly use a computer at all. I really want "Ok google, book an apartment for 4 in this region of <x>. Make sure it has blah blah amenities and blah blah beds" ..then have it show me some options and pictures on my phone or ar/vr headset, i say ok book the thing, and it just does it.
Building a Blog with Next.js 13 and React Server Components
What jumps out for you personally?
It’s not a lack of motivation to solve the problem. It’s the lack of a viable pathway to solve the problem regardless of funding.

Are there specific avenues of research and development that have a decent shot at bringing roundtrip grid>hydrogen>motor efficiency on par with other EVs, and which are currently starved of funding?
Wealthfront is doing 4.3%, CIT is at 4.75%, Vio Bank is at 4.77%. and UFB Direct is at 5.02%. They offer different advantages and services beyond just the rates, so check them all out.
As a left-libertarian, I thank you for these links.
A Swedish startup I'm talking to has both IQ and personality tests. Same for virtualy every other Swedish company I talked to in the past. Similar but to lesser extent for German companies. Some companies try to hide it until the final interview. I hate all of it.
I wish the Internet was exclusively this sort of thing. You know, dork stuff.

The other examples of this kind of community worldbuilding I can think of are the SCP Foundation[0] and The Elemenstor Saga[1], although I suspect there may be many others out there in the imaginary digital multiverse.

[0] https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/
[1] http://elothtes.pbworks.com/w/page/18807121/FrontPage
To be fair...

- The US government also effectively decides the number of US residency places by how much they will fund Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

- Many places in the US won't see you if you are on Medicare.

- It is quite common to need to wait 6-12 months to see specialists in the US too.
hey now, a lot of design docs, circular meetings, and performative LGTMs went into that useless shit.
As a robotics engineer I would love the tiny and extremely powerful motors it would allow. Also I suppose you would not need gearboxes (or the need for them would be reduced) which would lower cost and mass even more.
I used to read the AV Club’s reviews, but honestly the quality has gone way downhill there recently. Now I follow A.A. Dowd (one of the AV club’s former reviewers) plus a bunch of other people on Letterboxd, which is pretty much a social network for movies.

Easier said than done, but you just have to find some person or blog that has similar taste in movies to you, and listen to them.
LipIO: Enabling Lips as Both Input and Output Surface [pdf]
My guess is you'll be very lucky to get the $49.99 rate, considering all the times they have sent you the wrong rate. I went through this nightmare with Time-Warner before the Charter/Spectrum buyout: they raised my rate from $55/mo to $65/mo, I called, they said they had fixed it and credited my account. The next month they did credit $10, but still charged $65. I called again, same story, next bill, same story. On the 3rd call I told them they can change my rate to $45/mo or I'm switching to $15/mo ELP. They said they couldn't give me $45/mo, so I did switch to ELP. And I'm still on it with Spectrum. The funny thing is, right after I did that, TW started sending me all kinds of offers for less than $45/mo! These cable companies are so screwed up and frustrating.

My neighbor recently went on a trip to Ireland and added international texting and calling to her Verizon phone plan for 10 days for $100. But the continued to bill her $100 extra every month for several months. Every time she called, they said they had taken care of it, but it was still screwed up the next month.
Yeah, that's not going to happen any time soon.

I recently settled the estate of a deceased family member and moved some very large amounts of money through my JPMC accounts. As in, orders of magnitude larger than I normally deposit.

Did it trigger any flag from their sales department to maybe ask if I was interested in investing it with them, or moving it to a CD or money market account?

Nope. It was in and out and nary a peep was heard from them the entire time.
Used to think that story was a fiction, that clearly anyone would realize didn’t make sense and could draw the right conclusions. Unfortunately in our modern era it seems some people took its lessons as a playbook. It’s hard to push for equality across the board when some people are clearly just better at certain things. Let people achieve what they can without limit.
After 18 years, Europe's largest nuclear reactor starts regular output
DDG is just a wrapper on Bing, and now that Bing won't let them sprinkle their own AI on top they're also screwed.
I commented on this 18 months ago: https://www.newslettr.com/p/when-do-they-learn-algebra

As time passes, it looks more and more like policy in SFUSD is being set by various individuals whom, for their own reasons, think that "math education" is bad and that it must be avoided for "reasons", probably that they say involving "promoting equity".
When it comes to politics, San Francisco is the world capital of learned helplessness.

London Breed et al. are the problem solving equivalent of giving up.
I do the same thing, TV is blocked from WAN access.

But I have a HTPC/NAS. Most people probably don't have that. I'd say most people just use the apps on the TV.

>Is there some reason that people are compelled to connect their smart tvs to their networks?

They want to use the inbuilt features that they've "paid" for, youtube, netflix, etc.

There are literally buttons on the remotes to access those apps.
I see your concerns, and I find them very valid, am I am happy that things are this way. I think you are right about some things, but probably very wrong about the outcome here. Software development is about to enter a philosophical stage, on the idea of what it means to be a software developer at all. Even if Prompting becomes close to perfect, or in between perfect and what we have now; there is still going to be a need for people to build/prompt something. There are going to be black boxes, but very unlikely for everything.

I think that a good software developer who knows what he is doing, will look very different from a "software shop" stitching together prompts. Shops doing this, as in the past, will be the low hanging fruits, and at some time will stop being valuable due to sole developers, knowing what they are doing, rather than throwing stuff together.

In my opinion, this type of sole software developer, does now know how to engineer with prompts, take care of deployments, tie into business needs, analytics and sales, within the same (or even less) time it would take him to develop an app before LLM's or AI. This would not be a status-quo, but I would assume, a lot of developers, who are good in their field now, could get their in the future with AI & LLM's.

Now imagine a company staffed with those developers, it would be a completely different playing field, but not so much different from today's world, were developers to date have been dealing with ever increasing complexity, building bigger and larger stuff.
It's insane because they use an insane codec configuration and then just decide to step back on HEVC for no reason and use a faster preset.
"we created a perverse incentive structure that bled our golden goose to death, but don't worry - we're the good guys!"
The debt is created when you order the coffee and they confirm your order.
According to the standard, it seems that basic MathML support is required for all conformant implementations (https://www.w3.org/publishing/epub32/epub-contentdocs.html#s...), but scripting support is optional (https://www.w3.org/publishing/epub32/epub-contentdocs.html#s...).

Not that anyone actually follows the standard…
I had the exact same thought by the end of the article.
The Grade Inflation Conversation We’re Not Having
you'd be shocked how rarely the word "users" is heard at google. literally asking the question in a meeting "is this what users want?" will get you blank stares.
I mean yeah Detroit's scene is significant in a historical context, but if we're talking electronic music, Kraftwerk is definitely up there as pioneers.
This is one of the worst comparisons I've seen in a long while - using a poor metric and utterly nonsensical incomparable codec settings.
That's a presentational consideration, whether you want a fraction that can stretch into {a \over b} or shrink into a/b, or if it always stays a/b.

Semantics means whether the / denotes eg division of real numbers or a group quotient. Semantic MathML basically wants you to provide a URI pointing to the definition of / you are using, eg. http://www.openmath.org/cd/arith1#divide. This is nonsense and about as likely as getting humans to mark up every word in your sentences with a URL for the numbered dictionary definition of the word you are using.
I don’t think anybody has failed to notice this. Toyota and Honda have both had notable failures bringing Hydrogen fuel cell cars to market despite exciting claims along those lines.

I think you’ll have to quote some more authoritative sources to convince people that it could be viable.
A literal case of there being no such thing as free lunch.
As a young kid, briefly seeing Space Invaders (a table version, in a hotel lobby), was what made me want to get access to a computer, so I could make things like that.

Sometime later, I drew a picture of what the screen of "my game" would look like, once I got a computer. It was two-player game that (in hindsight) I realize was obviously a combination of Space Invaders, Asteroids, and Pong. Not super-creative, though I still think it'd be very playable.

By the time I got a computer and programming tools capable of making my game, I was busy trying to make money, so the schedule for my game has slipped a bit.
I mean, yeah?

Markets are great at finding how much something is worth. uhhhh

Want to give some examples?
This _is_ done by government -- the scheme is being implemented to comply with AB 205.

The article uses confusing and misleading terminology. The _rate_ charged for electricity is in no way based on income; this is about the "residential fixed charge", the bill component you pay regardless of usage. This fixed charge was introduced to counteract a freeloader phenomenon from people who benefited from electric infrastructure but paid next to nothing because of solar rebates.
Compatibility with sandals and shoes (like geta) which have a strap between your great toe and the rest.
>>Plenty of underdeveloped countries are free markets as well.

All less developed free market economies have been free markets since relatively recently.

The wealthiest economies are generally those that adopted market based rules the earliest, e.g. the Anglosphere and North West Europe, which were free market based since the 19th century.
One thing I find interesting about traditional tabi is that they're cut and sewn, not knit as a tube. Socks with seams!
And racism of low expectations.
Anyone with resources will avoid the public school system.

Progressive nuts embracing equality over everything else have taken over.
It sounds like they tried to set up a large one-size-fits-all program.

This might be a good time to bring up Lockhart's Lament, which imagines what artistic education would look like if we treated it like math.

https://archive.org/details/AMathematiciansLament

Nobody with decision-making power in a school district likes the answer which this paper proposes: very small class sizes.
I think it is fair to say VMAF was never meant to measure still image quality. It is also not perfect and Netflix has plenty of example of areas known to be problematic. But it is still far better than say PSNR or SSIM. The major problem is when encoder optimise for VMAF only.
At a guess even if war was a minor contributor it probably was a much larger contributor to those that chose to wear the uniform and go into battle.