skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A hybrid helicopter with 4 blades? There's a lower limit for weight to fit the ICE (we can't scale an ICE down much), so it might end up pretty close to a smallish helicopter
Just like E-Mail, right?

Really: The federation model is the same. It faces the same fundamental constraints (arguably exacerbated by some technical ones).

They've been solved for E-Mail. I believe they're solvable for ActivityPub by going through similar steps.

We can argue about the centralization of E-Mail all we want: There are still multiple companies providing the service and it's possible to start your own. Yes, companies - I think that while loose and and more or less charitable communities definitely have a future, real stability and trust will come from entities large enough to be too big to easily fall over (and most naturally those are companies with paying users).

I've seen so many small instances go away, leaving their users almost completely helpless and effectively locked out of the network. Keep in mind that your instance is your identity provider (I think there have been efforts to change this, but I'm not seeing any ways to migrate from an instance that is already gone).
> instead of the way it is in modern Western media, which is being an instrument of social change first

All art is a form of personal expression and it is full of new views and political change. I think that the difference is that in the West reactionary criticism permeates all social media.

If a Japanese show tells the story of a set of characters fighting the global goverment injustices its viewers enjoy the show. If an American show tries to do the same a very small part of the population but very noisy will criticize it as "communist" and "politicized" instead of enjoying the real feelings of love and justice that humans enjoy in their stories.
I was not a fan of Foundation, however the Cleon story line was awesome, everything was really bad.
I am offended by Netflix’s constantly moving goalposts.

I paid extra for multiple users, that wasn’t enough.

I pay extra for additional screens.

Now they have the gall to suggest I haven’t paid “password sharing.”
I was definitely seeing PB incidents closer to every 50-100mi, than 100-200mi.. but yes they are frequent enough in some road conditions its hard to believe people have never seen one.

Further - I think it promotes bad tradeoffs that reduce safety.

Like you, I sometimes ended up cruising with my foot over the accelerator to protect from being rear ended due to PB.

This is exactly the opposite of driver instruction and what is logically safer. If we had to choose where to rest a foot in anticipation, the brake is the better place to be.
I’m getting into Spinning Up by OpenAI and from there I’ll see if I can build the system I’m trying to build (RL DAW control for music production). If not I’ll probably try to use RLLib.
Not going to lie, I was a bit inebriated when I did it so I don't remember the exact stuff involved; my hardest challenge was reflashing the stick's Debian install because I accidentally bricked it.

It involved the openstick hacking[1] to get Debian onto it, and from there because it was just a straightforward arm64 box I had to compile the correct version of open5gs and mongoDB to support it. Not technically complicated, just a hilarious "just because I can doesn't mean I should" project.

The stick itself backhauled onto my home WiFi network, so in essence any cellphone was talking to my eNodeB wired to the network, then over WiFi to the USB stick running Debian, then back over the same WiFi back onto my LAN and out onto the world.

[1] https://hackaday.com/2022/08/03/hackable-20-modem-combines-l...
After Biden literally saying they'd take care of it, all the NATO aligned press started to imply that it was Putin's doing, to blame it on the west.

Anyone suggesting that Putin didn't need to do that (he could just not send gas) is considered a conspiracy theorist at the same level of a flat-earther.
It was a 2 week study, and diet was only changed for a week. The time period was probably long enough for existing microbes to decline due to environmental changes, but not long enough for new microbes that favor the new conditions to move in.

If you've ever dramatically changed your diet, you'll know a week is not long enough for the resulting GI upset to subside. It often takes a month or longer.
“Die Brüder Grimm” ;)
A lot of those stories aren’t written in contemporary German and would sound very weird if you used it in your day to day language.
There is something like this omnipay its a framework that lets any payment processor (gateway ) integrate so you can switch processors.

So a project would use omnipay and then select what processors they want their clients to be able to use. Clients bring their own API keys or OAuth.

I believe it's in PHP and Ruby.
Let me preface what I'm saying by just expressing gratitude to 3b1b for making an amazing math animation library, getting tons of people excited about math(Including me), and producing some really great videos to give people intuition.

All that being said, I've found that 3b1b videos tend to bound the intiution you can get on a topic. Most of his videos tend to reframe an idea in some sort of interesting way that can be easier to grasp without rigirous definitions and theorems. If your goal is to just understand the ground level of the idea, then this intutition is really great.

I've found that this "visual" intuition becomes unhelpful as soon as you try to grapple with a more advanced version of the topic. Your understanding of the topic is often completely limited to the way he frames it, and becomes quite useless when you leave that limited framing. He doesn't teach you "fourier transform", he teaches you a very specific context of the fourier transform which doesn't generalize well.

Again, this is still super valuable if you just want a broad understanding, but not particularly helpful for a comprehensive education of a topic.
Not every story with a black person in it has to be a story about the person being black. We're pretty used to seeing shows with white characters whose whiteness doesn't contribute anything to the story. The implicit rationale here seems to be that any character who isn't white and male needs a special justification for existing.
Have you figured out how to get a SAS connection as a GAA user? I can't even find a price list.
You're right. It's not untested at all. It's just not instantaneous, unfortunately. :)
> woke netflix produced crap where they force american identity politics onto the world.

They should add more european style stereotyping to keep them happy.
I like your vision here, but the average person living in the USA cares about two things - sports and social media. This is an exaggeration and don't get me wrong, I love a good football game here and there, but there is some truth to it.

Over the years I've received so many odd looks when I bring up privacy that I've stopped and just accepted that my vote or email to my representative is all I can do. I hate to be cynical, but this train isn't derailing anytime soon. EFF is doing God's work here, but the American citizen will continue to be hypnotized until things get bad enough for them to care, in which it will already be too late.
If you have log sync turned on - which I think is the default - your entire flight path is sent to the cloud. There are also a number of thumbnails from the flight visible in the web app. They're very low resolution, but I don't know if that's all that's sent or if they're downscaling them server side.
No shame in that, I love his videos but I think it's well established that there are different kinds of learners out there. His content matches what works for me, and it's worth reminding people like me that one size doesn't fit all. But for those he does speak to, he is a fantastic teacher worthy of the praise he gets.
Hear, hear. I was there in the time of webrings and it was glorious! All sorts of quirky little works of art waiting to be discovered.

Then came the monolithic social networks, and we collectively changed from the weird and wondrous adventure mode into the TV-dinner that is the web nowadays. Neither is perfect, and I'm not sure at all how to have both. But I'm glad the pendulum is swinging a tiny bit back.
The economics just don't work the same.

the most lucrative scheme for productions, while also staying within that invisible boundary of not alienating consumers, for films and series: the exclusivity deals.

How's that dr watson?

In an extreme example you are paying a long term subscription, let's say $200, for the exclusive privilege to access say 2 shows. That's $100 for one aficionado, per production.

What you are advocating for is

for each production to be made available on dozens of platforms each having most other productions, you end up with a prorata/ratio of that aficionado who viewed yours, but also happen to have viewed 8 other productions. Unless the viewer pays up 20x or 30x for some universal subscription, that's far less revenue than $100.
In practice subscribers simply won't even spend 10x. Why? Because they are only ready to pay 10 times more for certain beloved productions, but very little for those that aren't deemed that necessary to watch. So they tend to accept to pay a lot for a few hits, even if they have to give up on all the rest.

Why does it not work the same for music?

First, it used to. Apple, in the good old Steve Jobs days, did it good to break the practice. With iTunes. Which managed to catch up with every other platform and integrate well to provide a UX leaving the competition far behind. Pressure power, and master maneuvers accomplished the exploit. Apple TV didn't show the same prouesse, maybe Jobs started to fade away, Apple didn't make a great screen display like they did with the iPod to gain that consumer pressure against the trad distributors, and it was simply a much harder battle due to the second reason below.

A great tune is played many many many times. An average one at least far less. So the prorata formula used to compensate the owners, works OK. The pareto distribution applies where great hits get accordingly rewarded.

With movies/series, unless it is one of those rare non thriller/mystery gem, it is watched once and for all. A one to one view to reward system puts greater productions at a deficit.

I doubt the Entertainment industry saw all of this from the get go, but they have decades of accounting experience and shaped it up once cable/satellite tv with network channels became prominent. It roughly applies the same with with streaming.

Does it make it right? Legally it seems that they win, those exclusivity contracts are legal. Building a platform and funnel your productions through it only as well. Although legislators needs to step up their game, end the lobbying thr led to this abuse of Intellectual Property rights, to finally enforce what it is and just it: ownership of the art, not of its distribution.
They did test it in some countries though so they have some kind of data.
Pirating popular shows is actually pretty darn easy, and you get the benefit of watching it with your favorite player wherever you want to, not with the crap player they offer under scenarios they dictate. Want to watch an HBO show offline on a plane or train, no problem. I actually “pirate” some of stuff I pay for.
Damn, talk about largely neutering a bill. It shows how much contempt many manufacturers have for their customers.
> I've found that this "visual" intuition becomes unhelpful as soon as you try to grapple with a more advanced version of the topic. Your understanding of the topic is often completely limited to the way he frames it, and becomes quite useless when you leave that limited framing.

Can you give a specific example?
Mastodon project seems to be very aware of it this. I believe gargron said recently in an interview they're changing the mobile app to default to mastodon.social, and putting signing up for other instances behind another "Advanced" screen or something.

https://www.theverge.com/23658648/mastodon-ceo-twitter-inter...

> mastodon.social isn’t actually the default in our app. It’s just one of the top ones that shows up. However, I think that possibly going forward, we might rework the onboarding user experience into presenting a default option as well as an advanced option, where all that stuff with choosing a server would basically be hidden away from the people who get intimidated by choice.
Generative AI: Developer Tools and Infrastructure
Actually, in about 500 million, there won't be enough CO2 left for photosynthesis[0].

The shelf life of complex life on Earth is probably closer the end than to the beginning. Still a lot of time left from our perspective, but we have to save ourselves -- and the legacy of complex life on Earth -- sometime.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future Expand "Lists" and search for "photosynthesis".
Youve described the working condition yes.
But when the sensor fails, an owner can not start their car even when it is in park because the sensor thinks it's not no matter what you do.
The wait for this part seems to be 2 weeks for the lucky ones, and 6 months for the ultra unlucky ones. Typical seems 2 months.
Similar for the EGR system parts which is even sadder because cleaning it doesnt take long and would get the people another year or two until more parts are available.
From my experience at a R1 school, this is only true for late-undergrad and grad classes, not early-stage coursework with massive student-to-teacher ratios. In those courses, you are more likely to get Q&A time with a TA during office hours. So perhaps a YouTube+TA would be better model. Bonus is that you can rewatch lectures again & again until things click.
If your use case is read-only I suggest taking a look at roapi[1]. It supports multiple read frontends (GraphQL, SQL, REST) and many backends like SQLite, JSON, google sheets, MySQL, etc.

[1] https://github.com/roapi/roapi
Foobar2000 v2.0 final has been released
I think that applies to many topics. Maybe math more than others due to the complexity of it all, but it seems commonplace that as you become more of an expert on a topic, the more detached from "newbyism" you become. It's harder to put yourself in the shoes of a beginner to see what they're seeing and know what they're missing.
Equinox is a CUV. Mustang is a CUV, and bigger than the Model 3:

https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/ford-mustang-mach-e...
Rocket league?
The Criterion Collection now offers a streaming service, which consists mostly of what would be considered "better options" than the typical mainstream chaff.

https://www.criterionchannel.com/
Deaths = N*average, not N*median.
I don’t know what the bit about VC (venture capital? voice chat?) is but this site is definitely social media
But does it really matter that the incident is a flood or a cascading software failure if the likelihood and severity is the same?

Being in the same building is an "implementation detail" from a customer perspective, what matters is the consequences of this decision.

For example, maybe this decision allows for better network connectivity at a lower cost for inter-zones traffic, while, on the other hand, not protecting against some classes of risks.

In the end, you can have a similar multi-zone outage keeping the region down for an extended period of time just because of a bad network config push (see the massive facebook outage in 2021). As a customer, I don't care if it's a flood or a network outage.

Imho, what matters the most is a clear documentation of how these abstractions work for users and the corresponding contractual agreements (costs, SLAs, etc). Users can thus decide if they are ready to pay the price of protecting themselves against an extended outage impacting a single region.
Release notes: https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Versi...
I57 near Rantoul, IL near Chanute AFB has a particularly straight section of road with no overpasses (any cross roads go under) for just this reason.
I've heard it described as "sit back" vs "sit forward" learning.
Indeed. The different networks are used by different people in different ways to do different things in different communities. With some overlap and cross-posting, despite some networks making that very difficult.

The strength and weakness of Twitter was dumping "everyone" into a very flat network. Increasingly that just sets people at war with each other.
For a substantial portion of its flight, a spacecraft is an aircraft. A first stage like the Super Heavy doesn't even necessarily exit the atmosphere. Super-Heavy's intended MECO & stage separation is 65km, well below the accepted 100km "edge of space" definition. Super-Heavy is an aircraft, Starship is both an aircraft and a spacecraft.
Flunct: Well-typed, fluent APIs in SML
Disappointment can only come from your own expectations. Good doesn't last. I like to have a mindset of using these kind of things while they work for me, until they don't, then leave and not look back. Don't get attached to commercial endeavours.
The legality of scrapping without explicit permission depends on the context as has been demonstrated by multiple court cases. Robots.txt short circuits that by giving permission to people who might not otherwise qualify.

As to making a copy with intent to X, that’s what fair use is. A student may photocopy the full text of an short article so they can accurate quote it in their term paper. They can’t simply photocopy an article because they are a student with access to the article and a photocopier nor can the photocopy a full book because they want to use a short quote in their paper. Copying incidental to acceptable use becomes retroactively acceptable. This distinction may seem crazy to you, but the fact that intent matters means you can’t judge an action without context.

Fair use in commercial context is looked at with vastly more suspicion than fair use in academic context, which again demonstrates specific actions on their own aren’t always enough information to say if something is allowed.
Thank you so much Ancras.
Right now, the SEC is considering raising the accredited investor definition from $1M+ net worth to $10M+.

As is, just 10% of Americans qualify as accredited. This increase would make startup investing the exclusive domain of the 1%.

We should be going in the other direction, ending accredited investor restrictions so 100% of Americans are allowed to invest in startups!

This doesn't mean that 100% of Americans can or should invest their money in startups. But at least it will be legal for them to do so.

Using income or wealth to restrict accreditation causes biases in the funding market. Less than 1% of 18-34 year olds are accredited. Only 1.3% of African Americans are accredited. These biases affect which founders get funded.

Open access to startup funding enables truly open crowdfunding. This will lead to more startups being created, and more types of founders getting funded. This is all a huge positive gain for society, and can build wealth for Americans who never had access to this asset class.

If we really believe in the power of founding and investing in startups, we should let everyone do it!
> The UK will probably allow those to be sold.

Fair! Playing it out...if the UK allowed Microsoft products to be sold, but not products from the gaming division, that also might cause consumer unrest. Other than fines and/or preventing sales, there aren't all that many sanctions available to regulators in a situation like this.

> Maybe even fund and promote a standardised Linux Desktop distribution to replace Windows

I'm old enough to have gone all-in on Microsoft alternatives around the turn of the century. European countries have been pushing initiatives like this for decades without meaningful results. Maybe this time it would work?

> It also leaves the market wide open for their competitors to claim without resistance from Microsoft.

This could be good overall for the long term of the software ecosystem, although the sudden transition would be detrimental for UK citizens in the near-to-medium term.
so basically it's the incumbents game to lose. users are already trained on a lot of existing UI. adding text generation into the UI that already exists seems like the path of least resistance for users.
We upgraded from Rails 4 to 5 last year (lol - it was EOL before our migration was even done), but that was before our CTO left to be a CEO somewhere else and there's been no attempt to find a replacement. Now the executive is obsessed with piling on features with little regard to technical debt or maintenance. It's going about as well as you'd think.
To be fair, it's hard to look at Stadia as anything other than a masterclass of how to make your customers whole.
I actually believe a lot of people feel the same way but watch anyway because of the entertainment value the animations provide. But it really has made me realise that good animations alone really aren't enough and have found dry pieces of text from wikipedia to be better at times.
Glad you like it yellow_flash8
They also have a paper on the approach, though it doesn’t seem linked from the repo.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3586057
More generally, poor communication of technical information. Poor communication of requirements. Poor communication of architecture. Poor communication of design. Poor communication of intent in code.
https://youtu.be/fPF4fBGNK0U

Modern car crash test into older car.
I think Java catches the segfault and throws a NullPointerException or something like that.
Why would the US part ha e all of the talent? Are/were Activision's development teams based solely in the US? I thought they had devs elsewhere too.

Might make sense if their EU/UK offices were mostly admin.
As time goes on I start to think that life imitates Minecraft.
That's what I was expecting, and what I got from Google and Netflix website, but it flat out refused to open up.

Through some mystic fuckery it worked via VPN for me, but not for my wife (same exact VPN server).
Full-Hand Electro-Tactile Feedback Without Obstructing Palmar Side of Hand [pdf]
Then do the same with Google, 2FA is never bad.
It’s really not that expensive. You make it sound like Netflix is getting away with murder. If you use it, pay for it. Grow up.
> Nuclear power has high upfront investments, always. And pretty much all nuclear projects are finished behind schedule and wayyy above budget.

Which grid-scale solar projects have gone into production on schedule and under budget? Are there any?
First real success of open source? Where have you been, friend??
1. David Silver's RL playlist on YouTube.

2. Hugging Face's Deep RL course.

3. Deep RL in Action by Zai, Brown (from Manning)

4. Sutton and Barto's tome remain a classic for good reasons.
>As submarines do not swim, LLM's do not train:

The neural network behind the LLM is "trained." Yes, it's a term of art, very observant. That doesn't change the fact that there's not a substantial reproduction of a work in it. LLMs "learn" to predict text by feeding them vectors, the resulting "weights" of that process could be thought of and implemented as a big walkable decision tree to predict the next token it weren't for combinatorial explosion, but there's no substantial reproduction, or "copy", in there.

Is there a substantial reproduction, in your head, of a song or a text or a painting you can perfectly recall and can't seem to forget? Be careful, the copyright police will get you, the only way to delete it is to delete yourself!

>feeding into a machine is called copying

Copyright law deals in "reproductions" as far as I understand it. Feeding a copyrighted document as vectors into a program that reconfigures some matrix of vectors, and then using that matrices to output probability distributions into something tangible, where something tangible isn't a complete or substantial reproduction of the copyrighted work, is not a copyright violation.

If you think it is, amend copyright law, or take it to court and let a judge settle the matter, and hope it's in your favor.