skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can get very close with Twirp, without losing endpoint definitions. It’s such a simple protocol you can even manually implement client wrappers or server endpoints without much difficulty.
> One has to assume some level of good faith

From the tech industry which known for its surveillance capitalism? They should be imposing regular audits of the systems as a pre-condition for allowing them to even exist.
Yes. And with a little less luck/skill, the Apollo 11 lunar landing could have ended up as a disaster too.
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> Oh god, the noise

Time to sound like an Apple fanboi.

No. 1000 times no. Do not accept hardware like this. For your own health.
> You would not go to the concert to hear hi-fi speakers playing pre-recorded or generated music, although with your eyes closed you won't hear a difference.

I would. Concerts are pretty bad, people go for the atmosphere or the drugs, strictly speaking the actual music is usually objectively worse than the studio recordings for the same tracks.

It's coming through the speakers either way, the artists are not my friends, I do not care.
Please don't actually do this without permission. It's bloody terrifying when 4chan does it.
Oh but it is: I find it useful. For example, I would not pay a lawyer for that contract, so having it draft me a mediocre contract is still better than having no contract.
The cheese is on the inside. You butter the outside of the sandwich when making grilled cheese.
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Siri Founders give AI 2034 predictions [video]
Here’s a copy of the video description:

“The three founders of Siri were together for the first time in years at the Project Voice conference in Chattanooga, Tennessee tonight and I got them, at the speaker dinner, to give us their AI predictions.

Adam Cheyer, at one time ran the biggest AI program in the world. Siri went on to be Apple’s most profitable acquisition.

Dag Kittlaus, and Tom Gruber follow.”
"Balls and Bins" - the art of packing efficiently (in space and time) that is 50% of effective software engineering.
I went to check Dell website and indeed what seems like the successor of OPs laptop, Latitude 5440, is available with Ubuntu, so that is nice. Although even with Latitudes it seems bit hit and miss which models are and are not configurable with Ubuntu.

But the most confusing thing to me is that I also found Precision 3480, which looks exactly same as that Latitude 5440, is available in similar configurations and even costs roughly the same. I struggle to understand what is going on here, why is the seemingly same thing sold under two different models?
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/05/economy/funko-pops-invent...
Physics confirms best way to make playground swing go higher
Code that works in 3.6 but not in 3.5 is fine within typical compatibility definitions. That said, Python nowadays deprecates things quite often (especially things in the standard library), so if Python wanted to adopt a “major = incompatible” scheme, it would probably go up to Python 10 or so.
> Sad statement on the judgment of the respondents.

Nope, it's a sad reflection of the study construction.

Physicians' empathy was evaluated by their 52 word responses on Reddit. Unsurprisingly, a chatbot optimised for politeness and waffle outperformed responses of people volunteering answers in a different format optimised for brevity...
MEG has much better temporal resolution than MR, but it’s spatial resolution is only marginally better (according to the below source, figure 6). However it doesn’t help that MR has a vast array of acquisition methods and techniques.

The below link is also interesting for its discussion of fMRI.

https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/brain-metrics/what_does...
I run my own mail server too. Rspamd does a reasonable job of cutting back the amount of down that gets though, but I feel like I have no control over it or visibility into what it's doing.

What tools are you using to implement the controls you describe above?
Text does not consume meaningful bandwidth, so a mesh network should allow IM. (You’d need to limit torrenting, video, and hi-res audio)

Email and ssb can be supported by having a bicycle and a thumb drive.
It’s in development… Federation is expected to be done in the coming weeks. The team is very small and is dealing with a lot of things at the same time.

But nobody asks that you join now, just wait for federation if that’s what you care about.
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>the United States and the Soviet Union were racing to land there, they crashed spacecraft after spacecraft before each finally succeeded in 1966. The government space agencies were able to learn from each landing attempt.

Roger.

>Today, by contrast, private companies are expected to repeat these successes, without government resources and without lessons gleaned from many failed and successful missions

Misplaced expectations.

They're going to need more crashes.

>the folks in the background look like they're holding back tears.

This was not in the background when NASA astronauts were tragically lost before they got to the moon the first time.

I expect anyone to repeat these failures until they have enough lessons learned themselves.

>why is it so hard to pull off a lunar landing?

Mother Nature is a bitch.
Let's ban commercial aviation at night too. Though I'm not sure why the night sky enjoys special status over the day sky. The rich people wouldn't be getting paid money if lots of people who couldn't otherwise get it weren't happy to pay for Internet.
Their ARM boards are supported by Armbian and DietPI, the X86 ones should run anything that works on that architecture.

https://www.armbian.com/download/?device_support=Supported&t...

https://dietpi.com/#download (click Odroid).
This is a bad analogy, it is more like if the Tokio runtime was built by a VC backed business which is really not that bad.

Honestly the anti business sentiment on HN is just becoming annoying. Get shamed when not building OSS, get shamed if you take VC money, etc. People are supposed to be saints that work for free so you can then take that and build your own proprietary stuff? Seriously...
Again, I don't think the analogy holds—no one is entering anything. A better analogy would be someone standing outside your house and asking you to pass a book to them through the open door, which you then voluntarily do.
I have a Dell Latitude 5490, which was cheap refurbished from Amazon, and it works great with Ubuntu.
That calendar system sounds ideal for the way I work. I'd probably write some tooling to make it a little easier, but sending around little iCal files and reviewing my schedule often means I have a good intuition for what I'm doing, and when.

When I start to get annoyed by the amount of stuff I've got scheduled, and the consequential overhead of managing it, it means I'm trying to do too much, and I need to reduce it. Outlook considers every moment not spent in a meeting as "free time", unless you specifically block off "reserved time", and that's just not how I work.
The Apollo moon landings were such an insane achievement. They did it in a time where digital processing was in it's infancy and barely existed, minimization technology was undeveloped, many modern materials which are much stronger and lighter weren't invented yet.

And they managed to live broadcast from the moon! Storage was in it's infancy, so even storing a video from the moon was impossible (they would need many reels of film that just wouldn't fit.

Digital cameras weren't invented, you only had analogue cameras. Most of them required film - and can't be developed on the spot, it requires special equipment. So to get video from the moon, the used cathode ray tube cameras - and even the cathode ray tubes of TV news were huge at the time, you can look at pictures, these things used to take a whole truck to carry. But they managed to get a very small cathode ray tube camera there, and to film long videos of hours of missions on the moon.

And get managed to broadcast it all with analogue RF all the way from the moon to earth. With no digital signal processing, because that wasn't fast enough back then for any real time use. And with surprisingly low noise for an analogue transmission. They made a whole network of receivers on earth to be able to do it.

Today all of that would be cheap, but back then it must've been quite the achievement.

They also had pretty minimal computational power available compared to newer attempts. But maybe putting a human in control is enough.

Google's moon challenge is pretty cool. They actually wanted to give a bonus for taking pictures of the original moon landing site. That could've been really nice.

But sadly, NASA was afraid that the site would be disturbed and declared no fight zone over it.
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If better data had been available to us, we would've been able to make a more informed decision. We've decided that privacy-preserving telemetry is one of the ways worth exploring to improve that data for the next time. If it is something we roll out to customers, customers will have the choice to participate. We will not collect any telemetry data unless we've obtained consent.
We have nice bread in the US. Sometimes people outside the US don't realize the massive amount of choice we have here. There are like 50 different kinds of bread in the supermarket I go to. Unbleached organic flour is also readily available if you'd like to make your own bread. There's 10s-100s of types of fresh vegetables probably. There are organic variations of almost every available vegetable and herb as well. We have pretty good regulations around food labelling, so you can find healthy things. You just have to be vigilant. It isn't that hard to eat a diverse, healthy diet, once you know what to avoid. Bad things to eat do exist here though, and they're quite addictive. I think our car centric culture lends to eating fast, processed things. You can eat a full diet of rice, beans, vegetables, and meats very cheaply in the US. It gets about 2x more expensive when you go for organic foods, though. It's still significantly cheaper to eat a healthy diet of all unprocessed organic foods than it is to regularly eat at restaurants.

Before I had an interest in researching a healthy diet I made poor dietary choices. I don't think the good choices are always immediately obvious. I also spent about 3x my normal time in the supermarket when I first started eating healthy. If you live somewhere with few grocery options you may have to drive pretty far. When I was a kid we commuted 40-50 miles (1hr drive) to go to a better, cheaper grocery store.
This isn't that surprising given how much Doctors are overworked and, often I think, underappreciated.

A concern with something like this though, is to what extent is ChatGPT just telling patients what they want to hear, as opposed to what they need to hear?
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10 years ago, not only were CO2 levels increasing every year, the second and third derivative were also positive. In other words the rate of increase was increasing, and so was the rate of increase of the rate of increase. That has changed.

It's like a huge train with tons of momentum hurtling towards a cliff. But every second we're not only pressing on the accelerator we're pushing harder on the accelerator. In other words, we were increasing the momentum of our foot on the accelerator. Over the last twenty years we've stopped pushing that accelerator harder and are just starting to very slightly ease up on the accelerator.

To avoid hitting the cliff we need to let off the accelerator and slam on the brakes. But at least our changes will have a significant impact on the speed we have when we hit the wall.

Anybody looking at the train from the side will be unable to notice tiny differences in rate of change of accelerator depth. But over time that increasing accelerator would have made things a lot worse.
Sounds nice! Unfortunately the XPS13 9315 I have (similar to the XPS13 Plus you have) doesn't have webcam support out of the box and has graphical driver glitches (both apparently due to missing driver support from Intel). The OEM 20.04 image does supposedly include these, but if you reinstall you're out of luck it seems.
Adding to other voices in this thread that the title does not explain academic ranks, it explains North-american academic ranks. There are a variety of academic systems worldwide and in numbers of academics, production, and diversity, USA forms a minority.

A better title would therefore be: “North-american Academic Ranks Explained or What on Earth Is an Adjunct?”

This is not nitpicking. This is about stating clearing the cultural context to not invisibilise discussions that are not centred on US culture.
The combination of rounding rules and freedom of serving size is just ridiculous. You can buy oil in the US that lists 0 fat and 0 calories per serving, because the serving size is like 1/4 tsp or something. The EU's mandatory labeling per 100 g avoids that kind of chicanery and makes things much easier to compare.
You're just being contrarian, not more realistic. Which is also a very privileged position. I also suspect that you haven't actually visited many poor countries.

Even for extremely poor people, free and easy access to information and communication can have very substantial, practical benefits.

A layman's medical encyclopedia that lists smyptoms and treatments for common illnesses may not be an adequate replacement for a trained doctor, but it's a hell of a lot better than nothing.

One of the most important factors to enable the "reliable agriculture" you mentioned is access to a good weather forecast. Even one that's only good for the next two days can be a game-changer when it allows you to harvest a crop that might otherwise get spoiled.

Another example I've read: access to cell phones massively improved the lives of fishermen in Northern Africa by allowing them to find out in which nearby port the demand for fish is highest. Previously, they'd have to guess and often there would be an oversupply (and thus low prices and fish that goes to waste) in one town, while another twon 20km away had people go hungry because there was too little fish and the prices too high.
You are 100% wrong. Our meat production system essentially is a massive system of factories (aka factory farms), with tons of pollution and animal-torture along the way. Cow burps are a major source of methane (https://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/197623/icode/) which contributes to climate change. Animal waste is used as fertilizer but we produce so much we still end up poisoning nearby land (https://foodprint.org/issues/what-happens-to-animal-waste/). Feeding cows takes a ton of energy in the form of food because you need to grow an entire cow, most of that energy just ends up wasted (cows are not big batteries).
He's on Paul Graham's list for the reason that he is Paul Graham's protege.
I really wanted to repurpose my old phone as a security camera , but android power management and lack of sensible way to automatically restart the app for an IP camera made it not very practical.

this could be a promising project but device support looks very lacking at this moment.

I also considered postmarketos but AFAIR for my particular phone it didn't support the camera, so I stuck with rooted android with some hacks to slow/pause battery charging (it is holding about 5min anyways)
Or perhaps it's just proving the laffer curve true.
Inspired, I just typed my wife's symptoms into ChatGPT.

Ten to fifteen years of doctors, over half a dozen, failed to accurately diagnose her until this month.

ChatGPT got her diagnosis right in a second. Wow. I'm both amazed and angry that we could not get this diagnosed a decade ago.
Furthermore, a lot of people seem to think the world is divided into Manhattans and log cabins in the woods someplace. In fact, a huge number in the US and presumably elsewhere live nearby small cities etc., have electricity and maybe other utilities, but don't have what most people would consider decent Internet access.
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Kind of agree, if RISC-V is successful, this is the beginning of the assembly era.
Does anyone have experience streaming with Twitch using Starlink?

I have a WISP (Wireless Internet Service Provider) that works fairly well with occasional issues.

I’m consisdering Starlink but heard there may be issues with latency and dropped frames, and it is around 60% more expensive.
Dollar earned for dollar earned the top 1% pays 6 times the tax as the bottom 50%
In Switzerland they can (and often will) at least fine you if you neglect to dirve to the side when encountering traffic on a highway (to form a "Rettungsgasse"[0]) to allow emergency cars to pass in the middle.

[0]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rettungsgasse?wprov=sfla1
A search for "starship a.i." shows not much. Two I know of are the HAL from Space Odyssey and one from a Startrek short visited by an African–American in the distant future Federation.
Those two things are directly related.

The post-Cambridge Analytica cognitive warfare has two goals:

- To elect your candidate

- To prevent any meaningful discussion of political goals and to focus the conversation on whatever wedge issues are needed to win
Back in the late 80s, amused by the multitasking capabilities of the Commodore Amiga, with a friend we removed the keyboard for a Commodore 64, added the second keyboard to the Amiga so both could use the same computer in one display showing two different windows. The reverse of the purpose of terminals: sharing one display while having a single computer and two keyboards.

Clearly that involves electronics and 68k assembly programming.
How can you do this on Reddit ?
Yes I've never seen an employer sign such an agreement above. They'll either buy it off the shelf, or built it in house. Why would they enable an employee to leave to build a product externally to then buy for an inflated price?
I wrote a script that takes all the info in the database of the FLOSS DJ Software Mixxx' databse (sqlite, yeah!), and writes it to the tags of the MP3s/OGGs/FLACs.

I have another script that reads the info from the tags and writes in back into the database. So I never have to set the cue-points/comments/scores/BPMs again for my tracks :) And all is self contained in the audio file.
Wait are you advocating for monopolies?
That...but also the generation which had (so to speak) stepped up and won WWII was running the show. Their skills at, experience with, and dedication to giga-scale technological development programs and bleeding-edge aerospace missions made an enormous difference.
This was a commercial vector, not some experimental top US priority stuff.

It's unfortunate that aboard the commercial craft there was stuff from national space programs, but this was not comparable to NASA's mission. It's just like SpaceX exploding a ton of rockets to further their research instead of obsessing over getting everything perfect on first try. Unfortunately they should have done more mock missions, but there wouldn't have been enough funding I fear
Oh I agree it is nice and helpful, the previous comment was just being an overdramatic ass, so I sunk to their level...
laugh in 5 week vacation minimum thanks the the unions fighting for worker rights in the past in Europe
I can imagine AI being module-based. Like with plug-ins or apps, call it what you will.

So if you’re, say working in a hospital in a specific role, you will be advised by an AI module for that specific system. Or if you are working in an OR with a specific surgical procedure every day, you will have an AI module active all day to augment your knowledge and deliver relevant information where it’s needed.

It’s going to make some types of work immensely satisfying.
Really? You can appreciate playing, touching, looking at vinyl or watching vinyl beeing played out without beeing a collector or owning some. But it is hard for me to imagine somebody not appreciating vinyl and all the things attached beeing a true pop music lover. With classical music it may be a completely different story.
But they are losing money.
"It's bad at everything" ... bad by what standards? Just a few years ago it would have been regarded as unbelievable science fiction that a model with such capabilities would soon be available. As soon as they are here, people stop being impressed. But the objective impressiveness of a technology is determined by how unlikely it was regarded in the past, not by how impressed people are now. People get used to things pretty quickly.

Besides, there are models that are much more capable than Stable Diffusion. The best one currently seems to be Midjourney V5.
6 landing attempts, all successful, late 60s technology:

mission launch land days since last
successful landing
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Apollo 11 July 16, 1969 July 20, 1969 -
Apollo 12 November 14, 1969 November 24, 1969 126
Apollo 14 January 31, 1971 February 9, 1971 431
Apollo 15 July 26, 1971 August 7, 1971 272
Apollo 16 April 16, 1972 April 27, 1972 347
Apollo 17 December 7, 1972 December 19, 1972 316
Not Twitch, but it seems to work pretty well with video in general. Not as reliable as my wired connection at home but pretty good. Can't really speak to latency (though looked OK on a connection test) but I don't really do anything that's especially latency sensitive.
Hardly saying it's easy but ...

>What makes landing on the Moon so difficult is the number of variables to consider

Compared to Earth, surely it's easier. Less terrain difference, lower gravity. It's getting there and the remoteness is what makes it hard.
> And they become out of sync among different groups with different versions.

This is technically true, but part of the "grpc philosophy", if you will, is to not make breaking changes, and many of the design decisions of protobufs nudge you toward this. If you follow this philosophy, change management of your API will be easier.

For example, all scalar values have a zero value which is not serialized over the wire. This means it is not possible to tell if a value was set to the zero value, or omitted entirely. On the surface this might seem weird or annoying, but it helps keep API changes backwards _and forwards_ compatible (sometimes this is called "wire compatible", meaning that the serialized message can work with old and new clients).

Of course you still can make wire-incompatible changes, or you can make wire compatible changes that still break your application somehow, but getting in the habit of making only wire-compatible changes is the first step toward long term non-breaking APIs.

GraphQL, by contrast, lets you be more expressive in your schema, like declaring (non)nullability, but this quickly leads to some pretty awkward situations... have you ever tried adding a required (non-nullable) field to an input?
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That is true, but it has been very well solved and standardised by OpenAPI and JSON Schema.
When they say P_a, they must mean all the minimal programs for every artifact generated by G. It’s like the union of p_a over all the artifacts.

P_a definitely can’t be all the maximally compressed programs for specific a. There’s at most 2^|p_a| of them and if G were the identity function on m length binary strings where m>|p_a|..
Is this where “tech transfer” comes in and the University gets a piece of the departing business or a perpetual licensing agreement?
This is fascinating, but what is the temperature swing in your house?