skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> mostly true in the USA

It didn't matter what part of the world, Apple simply had the superior graphic design and video editing tools. Amiga provided cut-price competition for 'non-linear' video editing, compositing, and 3D CGI (e.g., Newtek products), but once again, not taken as seriously, and not at the same scale as Apple products.

It's not fair to say that CBM failed Amiga, but that Apple aggressively beat CBM at developing markets for their platform:

> According to Eric Peters, one of the company's founders, most prototypes of "the Avid" were built on Apollo workstations. At some point, Avid demoed one of their products at SIGGRAPH. Says Peters: "Some Apple people saw that demo at the show and said, 'Nice demo. Wrong platform!' It turned out they were evangelists for the then new Mac II (with six slots!). When we got back to our office (actually a converted machine shop) after the show, there was a pile of FedEx packages on our doorstep. They were from Apple, and they contained two of their prototype Mac II machines (so early they didn't even have cases, just open chassis). Also there were four large multisync monitors. Each computer was loaded with full memory (probably 4 megs at the time), and a full complement of Apple software (pre-Claris). That afternoon, a consultant knocked on our door saying, 'Hi. I'm being paid by Apple to come here and port your applications from Apollo to Macintosh.' He worked for us for several weeks, and actually taught us how to program the Macs."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Composer
Positive Steering
This should be forbidden. Terrible idea to use the Shell for more than three lines of code!
Very true, though for compilation, perceptively-instant is nice rather than a few seconds.
No depositors have been wiped out because we are changing the rules as we go. In the end it will be the little guy or the general tax payers that will get screwed while the ones that knowingly took dangerous risks got a defacto bailout by the rules being changed in their favor at the last minute.
rather verbose: https://google-research.github.io/dex-lang/examples/tutorial...
> Duration is stress tested at the larger banks.

Then why do we read this: “Fed’s Bank Tests Overlooked Risk of Rapid Rise in Interest Rates”.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-15/fed-s-key...
The real world is at the same time insanely detailed and also not nearly as "dense" as a videogame world.

Insanely detailed because literally every pebble is unique and can be interacted with in a huge variety of way. Just on my desk at the moment I have over 20 different objects, all with different physical attributes. Some could be set on fire, some can contain liquids, some are purely decorative, some are hinged, some contain electronics, etc etc etc.

At the same time, there is very little in my house that a videogame protagonist would actually want to interact with. I live in a town with several thousand homes and small businesses that similarly have very little to offer in the usual videogame sense. Even in fairly large open worlds like The Witcher 3, it's often not even 5 minutes on horseback between towns and even small hamlets will have at least several quests and/or some vendors. Just to get to the next town in the real world would take over an hour on horseback, and that town would be just as boring as mine to a videogame character.

TL;DR You don't actually want a videogame world to be like the real world, there is not enough to do in the real world that you would want to do in a videogame.
European here. I'm honestly shocked to find out that there's anything else than the "work for money so you can live" mindset.

Unless you have equity or it's a charity, of course.
Thank you. I've never heard of this option, I just enabled it.
Exactly.. It's less a cascading failure, more a common-mode failure.
Ultra-processed food intake and risk of cardiovascular disease
Ask HN: What AI tools you use often?
let's start with me and THE GLORIOUS ChatGPT which i use everyday, midjourney once a week, but is there any other tools you use often in design/programming/productivity/else?
Ironically banks are some of the least shareholder friendly businesses, they direct a lot of profits to their own bonuses during good times rather than expanding their balance sheet or returning the profits to shareholders. I wonder how much this paradigm contributes to bad outcomes as it could easily incentivize short-termism and recklessness. Poisoning the books with bad choices that won’t take effect for multiple years or a decade, or comes with individually asymmetric risk less than the business’ asymmetric risk (10% of bank failure just means 10% I retire early) seems really tempting when it means years of big bonuses.

Given that banks seem to have an uncanny ability to destroy themselves in spite of an ever increasing set of regulations trying to stop them from doing so, and the current trend indicates in the future we’ll be left with just a few blessed TBTF banks, I think we ought to consider a system where the Government or Fed provides the core functionality of “let me put $X in an account so I can use $X in the future” for free and banks compete based on value added. It’s the least-worst outcome, because otherwise people are going to turn to crypto to avoid the for-profit oligopoly subsidized by repeated debasement and access to Fed lending/liquidity tools unavailable to the public.
It seems much more likely this breakthrough will come from alternative methods of extracting hydrogen, than re-inventing the Haber process.
You're right, the documentation is all over the place and pretty hard to find.

https://rubenwardy.com/minetest_modding_book/en/index.html

https://dev.minetest.net/Main_Page
I've had a little look at it, and I think LibRapid aims to solve a different problem. LibRapid aims to be as fast as physically possible (where reasonably possible to do so), and hence is able to achieve performance at or above libraries like XTensor and Eigen.

It also has seamless CUDA integration, allowing you to perform operations on the GPU by simply changing the tempate argument to your array definitions. For example, `auto cpuArray = lrc::Array<float>(...);` and `auto gpuArray = lrc::Array<float, lrc::device::GPU>(...)`.

It appears to me that TensorStore's primary focus is storing the arrays, not providing high-performance routines to manipulate them.

Regarding the features you mentioned, LibRapid provides an ArrayView class, which provides strided read and write access to any Array type. I'm also planning on impementing a method to save and load arrays from files, so it might be possible to implement some form of compression into that process.

Hopefully this helps!
I love the “new” MagSafe charger on my MacBook Air but also love that I can grab a charge from any random USB-C charger and cable if I need to. I regularly charge from a little 18w charger that I use for my phone.

It’s enough to keep the thing going without draining the battery and will charge it overnight fully. It’s pretty great having the option.
No, but I have Linux on mine.
I still won't fly on these planes.
There's no one-size-fits-all ergo keyboard, which is why the dactyl has a configurator.

This is a bit of a trope in places like /r/ErgoMechKeyboards/. However, it's a bit of an empty statement without further data. Of course hand sizes/shapes differ, but the question is if they differ enough to preclude designs that work for a majority of the population. If you look at e.g. hand length/width datasets, within a group (e.g. men) these are close to a normal distribution. And the spread is not that large. e.g. the different in hand width in the ANSUR II 2012 dataset is 0.6cm between the 25th and the 75th percentile for men. The difference in hand length is 1.3 cm between the 25th and 75th percentile.

So, it's very likely to be possible to design a keyboard that fits most people well enough. Sure, if your hand size is an outlier you may have to get creative.

Besides that, there is also some latitude in designing ergo keyboards for multiple hand sizes. See eg. how Moergo iterated for several years so come up with a design that works for many different hand sizes [1].

[1] https://www.moergo.com/pages/glove80-ergonomic-keyboard-desi...
People not understanding the capital structure of a business strikes again!
They took a 40% hit to deposits. What do you want them to do? It’s not survivable. This is just how our banking system works.
Controversial opinion: Public transport should be publicly owned.
I don't understand, the bank is having a massive run on it and collapsing. Thus the FDIC steps in per the norms of the last 50 years and fixes it. The system works like a charm?

How is this bank fine? They have lost confidence and everyone is pulling their money out. They would collapse if not for FDIC insurance and the system stepping in.
I'm using a Samsung Note 10 Lite. Wacom stylus, SD card, headphone jack, and though the battery is ostensibly not user replaceable, a guitar pick will open the case. I love this phone.
If you hit the right targets, you will get pushback. Not everyone who is shooting at the target has the same intentions. Exposing the state's nature to the populace and maiming the populace aren't the same intentions.

A similarly blunt application of your position is that everyone punished by the state deserves it. Neither of us should rush to such extremes.
> The spread of school shootings is a meme - it didn't happen in the pre-internet era

That might not be the case:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_...
Github Copilot more frequently than ChatGPT
I came across this very interesting bit of history while looking for an image to illustrate my RTS camera control concept[0] as an analogy.

It's interesting how a lot of the wartime "computational drudgery" frequently employ women, the perception of which shifted to becoming a more men-dominated employment after the war.

It would be lovely to hear interesting perspectives from people here on what other tidbits you know of about little-known roles and the social climate during the war, or your insights on how things came to be the way they are during and after the war.

[0] https://github.com/EsportToys/NaturalEdgePan#figure-2-this-w...
GitHub Copilot Labs includes "code brushes" which I find handy to refactor existing code without tedious comment-based prompting: https://githubnext.com/projects/code-brushes/
This is a rather heat generating post (as opposed to light).

I think the things that cause this are:

* References to some supposed collective discourse ("so many refuse to discuss this.").

* Statements about what "we" do (who is "we"? Americans? Anglos? English speakers? The world?).

* Heavily political topic central to the USA Culture War.

* Use of (USA) identity group divisions ("white", "black").

I think this is a really unproductive line of discourse and a particularly bad way of approaching that line, focusing on consensus building and a call to action (in this case, a change of discourse). I think this post is unsuitable for hackernews.
There aren't any domestic KLM routes, the country is roughly the size of the New York area :-)

He used to fly KLM cityhopper which is KLM's "regional airline" in US terms, going across most of Europe. Then he transitioned to the 737 because the government bought a 737 BBJ as their new private jet. The government jet is operated by KLM, so the king can fly it as first officer together with a KLM captain.

Fun fact: There is an agreement with the pilots union that the first officer that got replaced by the king operating a flight gets paid as if they flew it.
The term "air-gapped system" has just lost its meaning.
If this Was discovered 10 years ago, I’m assuming it must be fairly limited in helping, or the results haven’t lasted or something?
"The FDIC is not supported by public funds; member banks' insurance dues are its primary source of funding."
let me make sure I understand... filtering spam from geographical sources known to produce a disproportionate amount of spam, that someone never gets legit email from as they have no interaction with anyone there, means they're a bigoted racist... so instead we should just not filter spam, it's not fair to the spam for us to microaggressively generalize it into some group that gets marginalized, every email deserves equal treatment regardless of where it originated from (since that's all PC and woke, etc.), which ultimately makes sunshine and rainbows go everywhere and world peace and stuff?

you're making comparisons here that are so disjointed it's not even apples and oranges... it's more like apples and rocks...

this thread grew outta the spam filter setup of someone hosting their own email server. bringing gmail into this and talking about how they'd have a PR nightmare if they screw with hawaii doesn't work. yeah, they both send/receive email, that doesn't mean they're comparable in the way you're tryna say... i mean, apples and rocks are both round sometimes, but you wouldn't try comparing how they taste, right?
Boeing is basically part of the USG at this point and has been for decades. There is almost nothing they could do that would cause significant disruption to them.

This is probably the root of the reason for the problem in the first place - Boeing can ship bad planes and they won't get stopped until they fall out of the sky multiple times - and even then nothing real will change.
"Classism is the issue. Opportunity is the issue."

The U.S. should owe its citizens access to opportunity. With access, everyone can pursue economic opportunity.

"Greed of the wealthy reaping rents"

This is rarely the case. IIRC, most landlords own 1-2 units. Only a minority can be described with your words.
I would have been amazed for the time. I had an Atari 600XL a few years later and it was amazing to a 14 year-old. The Xerox Star 8010 would have been like something from 100 years in the future to me.
For better or worse, a lot of services are built around layer 7 http load balancing, which means the balancer (or something in front of it) needs to unwrap the TLS before it gets to origins. Once you start sending /foo to one group of servers and /bar to another, you're stuck with a load balancer that sees all the content.
I'm just not sure these regulations took into account a historically large pulse of stimulus followed by a rapid rise of interest rates.
They were at one point, but capitalism said everything needs to make a profit.
Actually, failing read-only is a feature that I would like. Most cards fail write-only ))
It’s worth pointing out that insofar as the failed subculture is failed, its failure was deliberate. Same thing happened with Native Americans. The playbooks for destroying cultures are centuries old and they’re intended to reap exactly the sort of dysfunction you still see generations down the road.

Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be addressing the issue head on and talking about it openly, but it’s definitely more complex than the genetic argument that tends to emerge.
> * the risk driver for these ongoing smaller bank failures is (reportedly) the rise in interest rates.

It's a failure to diversify investments and adequately respond to a changing interest rate environment.

> * the solution seems to be to create ever larger banking behemoths (on the premise that they they can better manage risks)

Regulation alone can fix it. Just place further controls on how banks can invest their funds (ie. recommended allocation percentages per instrument and risk type), require stringent reporting, and perform stress tests to verify compliance.

The scary thing now is that banks with depreciated assets know they're in this zombie state. They just haven't been pushed over yet.

It'd be easy to find out which banks these are.

Might make for a questionably ethical opportunity to short banking stocks...
All these recent bank failures due to lack of oversight by the Fed. As we learned in 2008, you can’t just blame financial institutions because they’re going to take the easiest route every single time. The Fed is there for a reason. They completely failed to do their job with Powell leading that organization. They internally knew what they intended to do with their rate policy but did not do any stress tests for banks. I find that incredibly incompetent.

More to come.
No, hallucinations are similar to but not quite the expected result which shows they are approximations.

For example, you tell Dall-E to draw a picutre of a man smoking a pipe but then it draws the pipe coming out of the mans butt and instead of a head the man has a leg on his neck. This is approximation. Now if the pipe looked wrong or it was a trumpet or the guy's head looked weird but still a head maybe it knows what a head is and it just made a mistake and it knows that the pipe goes into the mouth so it will be somewhere near the face.

Undesrstanding is a 3yr old child drawing terribly, approximarion is drawing really well but all wrong.

All this applies to LLMs I used Dall-E because pictures are easier to talk about.
The cynic in me assumes that it's because this is not a patentable drug.

EDIT:

MJF foundation is aware of it at least - https://www.michaeljfox.org/news/thiamine-vitamin-b1-and-par..., but points out problems with the study. Further Googling quickly leads to the usual quackery about the magical properties of different supplements and vitamins. Hope this goes somewhere though.
Every time these banks fail, the value of your money gets a little less, and in aggregate the returns in your checking/savings accounts decrease.

We’ve also set a precedent for future recessions/shifts towards hawkish policy: if you’re a bank exec, be as reckless as possible while demand for loans is high and shift that value to yourself with stock incentivizes and bonuses. Markets are defined by activity at the margins so if it’s not you, it’ll be whichever other bank is ballsy or poorly managed enough to do it. You can even pass on some of the gains to consumers, who will know it’s unsustainable but that their deposits are protected, so you can write and hold as many unprofitable loans as possible on your books. When the music stops the only people screwed are shareholders and all the people whose money you devalued.

Or, the precedent is that the Fed gets scared of raising rates and basically ends up letting banks tell them if they’re allowed to raise rates. Which will mostly be answered with “no”
Mitigating the Risks of AI Integration in Nuclear Warfare
Yes the system is working and the FDIC did its job. The second largest bank failure (by inflation adjusted assets) in US history is still news.
I have a friend who left his Phd and went to Myanmar to start a new life and starting a new life when you are paid 3K all expenses covered when teaching high school classes in private schools is a good deal but really depends on how formal you like to do your business. Those countries tend to have lax law enforcement and an elite class that can do whatever they like, so striking an informal deal and getting paid in cash when on tourist visa is also not a problem. Living as expat is expensive until you learn you way around and stop insisting to live like you are in the USA and adopt local ways of life.

Some time ago China was the go-to destination for that kind of work but I hear it's no longer the case. Here in Turkey there are quite few expats doing that kind of jobs and living very well but there there are almost 200 countries out there and all should be evaluated individually. The general rule works though: However poor the county is, there's always a class of rich people who want their kids learn English and they are prepared to pay for it handsomely.

Being a native English speaker is a marketable skill all over outside the Anglosphere, the demand is there.
The least generous interpretation of that is that this one event ought to convince all my friends of AGW.

Now somehow the climate change topic is an ongoing conversation with a heck of a lot of things said about it. You can't summarize it all in a comment, and in any case this is an introductory statement meant to take the reader to the main issue, which is how evidence is supposed to work.

I would suggest a more generous interpretation is "evidence such as this has been piling up for quite some time and yet does not change minds".
My grandmother had Parkinson's and it was awful. How long until I can go to the doctor, get some blood drawn, and see if I'll develop it one day?
I have my doubts about practical application, too, but the area of 800 km² need not be a show stopper if these things can be stacked, and that seems likely to me.

Also, if I understand https://www.pnas.org/action/downloadSupplement?doi=10.1073%2... correctly, the catalyst weighed 0.22 mg/cm². That’s 2.2g/m² or 2200kg/km² or less than 2 million kg for 800km². So, I guess the amount of catalyst wouldn’t be a problem either, _if_ it is a perfect catalyst that doesn’t degrade and doesn’t require regular cleaning.
you should be concerned that regulators, the financial press, large banks etc all seem to have guided this process

I see no reason why FRC couldn't have just gone on...shown a quarterly loss from time to time, lose and/or gain depositors, shrink or grow...

its as if it was "decided" that this bank will be sold off for literally 1 penny on the dollar

when the crisis deepens, The Fed will lower rates and all of FRCs bonds will be in the green again...and JPM got them for free
Would you say not having ortholinear keys is a big difference for ergonomics?

I don't think there is much proof in terms of scientific studies that column stagger is better (column stagger is usually preferable over ortholinear), so can only really give my personal experience. I strongly prefer column stagger, I can still type row stagger and sometimes use my laptop's keyboard when I travel, but all these lateral movements feel awkward now.

I've also been eyeing the Kinesis Advantage 360

The 360 is really nice (I have a 360 Pro), but I'd order it somewhere where you can return it easily (eg. Kinesis themselves). For me, the Gateron Browns in the 360 are quite a large regression compared to the Cherry Browns in the Advantage2. The Gaterons are smoother, but their actuation point is way lower. Gateron specs say 2mm, but it's closer to 3mm in practice. This makes typing on the 360 quite tiring for me. So it's mostly collecting dust currently (I am using the Advantage2 and the Model 100 most of the time). But this is really personal, some other people do like the Gateron switches.

I wrote up a short review of the 360 Pro here:

https://danieldk.eu/Posts/2023-04-15-Advantage-360-Pro.html
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/press-f-to-pay-respects

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/f-in-the-chat
It’s hilariously misguided to look for singular causes and singular fixes for any issue that persists beyond the first few attempts to solve it. They’re almost always overdetermined and multicausal, and yes, media (not TikTok alone) does play some role in the system.
There's this I recalled, but no idea if anything official, doubt it. https://github.com/majestrate/wterm
If hospitals only employed enough surgeons to ensure they were always in surgery, people would die.

Systems need slack to respond to change. A fully utilized queue quickly leads to infinite backlogs.