skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly as an European - this is not on the table of high priorities right now. Let Musk figure out between F9 and Starship how it’s best to produce rockets for the next half century, then copy and remake the same thing here.

The EU having independent access to space is a point of pride, not a continental emergency.
The worst is when an app has multiple levels of hamburger menu or "⋮"/"..." buttons. I'm always opening the wrong one! Looking at the git panel in vscode, I see 4 different clickable "..." buttons stacked above the each other, its terrible! It's like a designer decided to make a UI with only "OK" buttons and no other labels.
The article even says "We think hell will freeze over before the Toyota Camry relinquishes its spot as the bestselling non-SUV in the country. It maintained its place with a 7 percent increase over last year."
I've driven a bicycle in winter and yeah nah, I'd rather just take public transport. It's not just traction but the fact everyone else got shitty traction too, so there is a good chance than most of the agility of small bike/bicycle is negated by just slipping.

At least with bicycle like 95% of my route is not on actual road sharing it with cars, can't do that on bike.
... and blue checks! son they'll be limiting your ads to 280 characters
What do you mean? Alex Berenson was kicked off of twitter in the summer of 2021 because of factually correct tweets about covid [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/davidzweig/status/1607382645603704834
But that's not really true. Across Canada and the US there is intense social pressure - especially with the person taking the transaction watching one tip. I fell for this for a long time, but gave up after the local corner stores all started adding tips. You can see the annoyed looks, even though - for some I asked if they even see the tips and was told no - it goes to the company.

After that I gave up and no longer tip. I also, interestingly, as a side effect, just stopped eating out.

I saw that the feds are trying to pass a junk fees law (primarily targeted at resort fees and the like). I fully support this legislation as well.

IMHO - people (companies/orgs) have become so greedy of recent, its interesting.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-urges-states-jo...
should have switched to linux ages ago.
> The biggest headache when coming across these menus on the web is the complete disregard for accessibility.
This is great. Google is no longer a useful search site.

Examples:
* too much emphasis on awful video spam
* SEO and spam has floated to the top
* imprecision in search

I recently searched for some simple instructions for jumping a car battery, and it was hard to find a decent website.

Try searching for a simple recipe for cookies on google and you will get directed to the most awful blogs where the information you are searching for is hard to find.

There should be a ranking bonus for simplistic sites. A massive bonus for simple explanations given on a forum or stackoverflow... organic content that is useful and not regurgitated into a blog.
One of the companies I own (rather smallish one) creates commercial websites. Hamburger menus work just fine according to our research and a/b testing, sometimes superior to other navigation methods, sometimes not. YMMV.
Well, I'm not doing that, though, so... bad on me, I guess?

But I have LEGOs that are probably way, way older than the average length of a romantic relationship. Hell, they're probably quite a bit older than the average length of a marriage. That's just true. My kids have some metal trucks made a decade before I was born and with hundreds of hours of kid-play-time on them, that they still play with. And those are just kids' toys, not things made for use by adults who will be careful with them! Lots of stuff does last a really long time.

Quite a bit of stuff does indeed get a ton closer to lasting "forever" (say, an entire human lifespan) than most serious relationships do. Normal consumer shit, too, not, like, gothic cathedrals or something.

Treating things as less-disposable than a serious partner is probably not a great idea, but, in actual fact, they... kinda are.
There's a phrase for this that I've heard used by architecture critics.

"That building probably won an award."

Who cares if there aren't enough elevators, or if the cooling system can't keep up with insolation, or if windows fall out or plumbing is always breaking down. That pretty glass box with the innovative lobby won an award! (And now we have to work in it...)
Yup, no difference in India and China now...
Don't Listen to the 'Godfather of AI'
Did they really succeed economically though? Or did they jump-start crowd-sourced open source LLM assistant work that will end up giving people ChatGPT for free on their phones. OpenAI seems to have a slight first mover advantage as of May 2023, but it's not a real moat.
You are replying to a joke, or so I hope
You can argue that the cost of car rental is way less than the amortized cost of an actual car

I don't think people arguing this have ever actually run the numbers and realize just how expensive rentals get. Every year my wife and I plan a week long road trip. If I price out this years trip from the midwest to Utah in a full size suv or truck (need 4wd and space for climbing/camping gear):

Base rental: $970

mileage fees: $350 (1400 miles at 25 cents a mile)

Tow fees: $180 (optional, but I like to bring my small teardrop so $20 a day for the tow package fees)

We're now close to $1500. At this price I can buy a truck, title it, insure it, and then sell it at a slight loss when I get home and still come out ahead of the rental. In just one trip.

*edit - formatting
The marginal cost of putting a tipping screen in the payment flow is close to zero. If one person tips for the whole year, it's pure profit.

Yes, it might annoy customers, but I have a hard time buying the idea that people will go buy a Samsung phone because Apple stores ask for a tip.

I've seen online checkout pages for e-commerce stores asking for tips now. Not even for custom products or commissioned art or anything but just straight-up factory made products like motorcycle parts and electronic goods.
Software Is a Tire
Because the average American is considered to have a readability level equivalent to a 7th/8th grader (12 to 14 years old). They lack the critical thinking skills to from from search results to prioritized list. :-/
> This idea is quite similar to retrieval transformers and Hopfield networks which have been known and published for several years now. It's not really that novel.

Is it? I had thought retrieval transformers "merely" used retrieval as a backend of sorts rather than a substitute for the attention itself?
yep. Really need to stop commenting when I'm waiting on after-hours compiles.
I wonder if the tipping system is envisioned for Genius Bar work, which is more like a specialist consulting service rather than purchasing merchandise.
https://archive.is/FjDbo
This x 100. In many ways making friends as an adult is like romantic dating, but should be less stressful and easier. You just have to start asking people to do things together. You'll find that you really connect with some people, and others you won't but don't despair. Just keep "dating" until you find a group of people you enjoy hanging out with and who enjoy having you around.
I guess we can never expect the tools to find all the mistakes only the straight-forward ones (which seems to be a moving target)...

This could be an example of when things fall through the crack, while rust & its tooling eliminates most of the errors during compile time, it's not entirely impervious...

Overall I'd prefer depending on tooling to catch a subset of errors (which could miss 1 out of 20 times), rather than the added manual review effort with each change...
Ha... I accidentally replied to the wrong comment. Anyway, thanks! That's pretty neat. The sample images look a bit overwrought like a lot of other AI images do but I'll bet they're doing that to follow the trend rather than it being a technical limitation.
wondercraft, just FYI, when you oauth in the app name is some random firebase app URL. Keep up the good work though!
The footer on this simple page is atrocious. Seems like a not-great alternative IMO.
I bought one of those and asked the clerk how to pronounce it. It was very noisy but I think she said either koog-a-MAH or KOOG-a-mah. How do you say it?
I suspect premature release of an upcoming book by a hacker group is a more real threat than a fire.
just to clarify; you don't have to do it, but I'm not sure the alternative is less intense and charged. There is a related payback moment later in the game though, and it feels pretty good.
No one thinks infeasible miracle cures are the solution, so he's doing much more than "pointing that out": he's making an argument about the infeasibility of carbon capture.

In particular, he's saying it's impossible to capture enough carbon at scale in a cost-effective manner, so therefore we should not even be looking at this option until we've exhausted the alternatives. But he's wrong: it's not impossible, it's merely expensive, and anyway we should be pursuing all possible remedies in parallel, not dismissing something as infeasible because someone's armchair analysis makes it look like a scam to them.

What we need are people trying both likely and unlikely solutions, not knee-jerk gatekeeping from randoms on the internet.
This is a curious extract - why didn't the author do the obvious research?

> "I don’t know much about what happened in the ~60 years since Kefauver–Harris [1962]. But today, I think there is good evidence, both quantitative and anecdotal, that the FDA has become too strict and conservative in its approvals, adding needless delay that holds back treatments from patients."

There have been endless scandals since then related to lax oversight and failures of the process, such as Merck's Vioxx scandal (FDA approval despite evidence of heart issues, only taken off the market after what $10 billion in sales???), the Pfizer-Bextra scandal ($2.3 billion settlement), a whole host of cancelled shady experiments, e.g.

> "A research scandal that led to the shutdown of 75 human experiments at the University of Oklahoma medical school in Tulsa has brought the departure of three top university officials and dismissal proceedings against a scientist."

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jul-22-mn-57464...

Then there's the movement of clinical trials overseas by the likes of Pfizer to avoid FDA scrutiny, and resulting $7B lawsuits by Nigeria etc.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jun/05/health.healtha...

If people are going to write articles calling for less regulation of clinical trials in the USA by the FDA, they should at least try to inform themselves on recent history.
This is it really - the more I tried it the more people just absolutely loved it. People suck at keeping up with each other - if you make any effort at all (and do it regularly) suddenly you appear to be the social butterfly. When all it really takes is the occasional phone call or text message
In 2013 (2 years after the decision to shut down nuclear) 45% of Germany's electricity production came from coal. In 2021 this was down to 30%. So -15% coal delta. The data does not support your narrative.

I’m not aware of any specific policy about coal (which would be a justifiable criticism of German energy policy which has nothing to do with nuclear) but coal is down nonetheless even as nuclear power plants are being shut down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany#/media/File:...
The game High On Life used Midjourney to create additional environmental art like posters and advertisements.[1]

The twitter account for the remake of System Shock used Midjourney to create an advertisement, and said they'd be continuing to use AI for art and possibly in other areas.[2]

I've seen other random postings from people saying that it's being used especially for generating concept art for games.

[1] https://www.eurogamer.net/high-on-life-contains-ai-art-and-v...
[2] https://twitter.com/SystemShockGame/status/16534450087776747...
ChatGPT made it very clear it understood exactly what I wanted, short of writing the code. The steps it offered were long, and far from generic. So. Why no code? It offers code for other langs all the time, even unprompted.

It was like...if you've ever been mansplained before, when you know how to code something, but are asking a specific question that interests you, related to the process of having a service do that part for you--and someone comes along like, "well, it's easy to code that yourself!"

Not sure if you've experienced that before but it's very similar.
I read that part, but I don't think trading off massive amounts of usability for the majority of people to slightly increase the usability for the minority is the right decision in almost any case.
Brain.fm Helps Me Stay Focused for 90-Minute Stints
Honestly it's probably more to do with the weakness, short-sightedness, and incompetence of their opposition. It's a mark against them that they aren't winning landslides considering who they're up against.
Small Multifamily: Real Estate's $5T Opportunity
It sounds like you were affected by an out-of-the-ordinary experience. I was too—grew up in a "lord of the flies" environment. Wasn't as great as it sounds </sarcasm>.

Took me a decade+ to dig out from that hole socially... one resulting from a lack of competent parental guidance. The experience limits my career to this day, a glass ceiling due to credentialism prevents me from taking advantage of the best opportunities.

Also, no one told me until many years later that your brain does not fully mature until you're about twenty-five. So expect to do a lot of stupid shit until that age.
Should it be based on user research? Why? What are the advantages of basing decisions on user research?

What research shows that hamburger menus are bad? Why the conclusion is this one? What makes them bad?

If you are to advocate for data oriented decisions, you'd better present the data!
Seems like more people are on the "Heylo" app than Meetup now. Its kinda janky but theres lots of good groups and I have met a ton of people
MPT-7B-StoryWriter-65k+: LLM for super long contexts (Apache 2.0)
It’s fine to be so vehemently opposed to it on principle, but thanks to technologies like Square, Clover, etc., tipping is easier than ever. It has become a completely mainstream aspect of the shopping experience. Blame it on those payment providers.

So in practice, building a tipping screen into the payment system is as seamless as Apple Pay and for most customers will not amount to anything more than perhaps a moment of self-doubt or embarrassment as they tap “Other amount > 0” before going to the next screen of the flow.

The anger in this thread does not match the reality of what will actually happen if this was to come to pass, which it probably won’t anyway.
A person making $0.01 more than minimum wage is technically not making the minimum wage. Citing the percentage of people who make exactly the minimum wage is not a compelling argument for how many people are affected by it.
imo, as a global priority, reducing carbon seems like it should be a much lower priority compared to how hard its pushed.

incoming nuclear fusion would alleviate a ton of our carbon issues

if we use info from this wonderfully fleshed out cost-benefit analysis by bjorn lomborg i bet we could get the best of value out of our current fossil fuels while not impoverishing our children and grandchildren:

https://i.imgur.com/1vklbRo.png
Guess I'll just be ordering online going forward.
A focus on Mars could itself bankrupt SpaceX. There's no money to be made from a Mars base. If it distracts from pursuing prospects that actually have economic demand, it will be a disadvantage that competitors will exploit.
How many SEO keywords should we drop?
All of them
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I genuinely don't know what I'll do if/when library Genesis goes down. The only thing worse would be losing Wikipedia.

Has anyone attempted to put together something like torrents of the top 100Gb/1TB/10Tb etc of LibGen data? My dream would be to mirror the whole thing, but that's well beyond my budget/administrative abilities.
I always say to my peeps, if you have stuff you don't want users to find/use then put them in a hidden menu.
This is the most reasonable take. For some reason people in the West tend to ignore that 80% of the world is on the lower part of the exponential slope of progress, income, and demand for fossil fuel derived goods - and they are running up that slope at breakneck speed as a result of technological innovation.

Is the other 20% going to look down from our place of wealth and abundance - built on fossil fuels and countless externalities - and tell them that they have to achieve wealth and abundance through other means? It's ridiculous.

Sorry Sub-Saharan African, we have found that meat consumption is bad and therefore you can't do what we did, even though increased demand is a natural tendency as incomes rise.

All that cheap and dirty energy we used to make our infrastructure and grow GDP? You can't do it that way either. We made a big oopsie and have decided you have to do it through renewables and sustainable practices only.

By the way, are you interested in financing for this solar array? It's ok if you don't have the cash on hand, we'll just hold your highest quality farm-land as collateral.

We have to find ways to sequester. And we have to find ways to live in a warmer climate. It's the most probable outcome.
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They're nearly-unique; there probably aren't more than ten books sharing the same ISBN.
> Cons: Footer can become large with many links (although I really don't see this as a big deal)

Also: you now have to scroll all the way to the bottom of the page to navigate to other parts of the site?
Famously, advice for adult men after a breakup or divorce is to take a cooking class.

You meet people shoulder to shoulder, and your presence in the class is taken as evidence of possessing a personality. If anyone is available (apparently common in cooking classes), then you can transition to face-to-face.
So fix MTA. Their system expansion budget is currently $15B/year, so at the costs of a low-wage, low-regulation, totally ununionized country like (checks notes) Norway, they could be building 60 km of new lines per year.
Welcome to the American Justice system. In the Feds, you only have 14 days from sentencing to appeal a sentence. It used to be unlimited, but that was clogging up the courts because too many convicted people were exercising their constitutional rights, so they took it down to 14 days (or 30 days if you are the Government prosecutors because some animals are more equal than others).

https://www.justice.gov/jm/jm-2-4000-time-appeal-or-petition...

A lot of those 14 days get taken up with time in holding cells being moved from the Courthouse to a Federal Detention Center (or contracted local jail), moved from the pretrial holding facility to your final place of incarceration via Diesel Therapy, etc. If you are lucky you will get access to a law library, paper pad maybe an hour a day, but the Supreme Court has rules that is enough to fulfill your constitutional right to 'access to the courts'. You also need to figure out how to get the law library to weight your mail to put correct postage and get the certified mail forms, and to the jail/prison mail room during their 'open house' hours (normally 1-2 hours and at the same time lunch is served so you might not be eating lunch that day if you are at a place with controlled movements) so that you can send legal mail to mail your appeal (and how to come up with stamps to send certified mail to the Court and Prosecutor).

Edit: Getting stamps includes waiting for the once weekly commissary day to order them, and then potentially waiting for commissary to be delivered to your cell (shucks, it's delivered after the mail room open house 1-2 hour window) so that's up to a 9 day loss of time just to get stamps/envelopes after the appeal is written in triplicate (Court, Prosecutor, personal copy) so you can weigh it and know how many stamps you need to purchase.
That's no excuse. 'No harm in asking' BS requests are antithetical to serious negotiation. It doesn't matter what side it comes from. This isn't just a union v corporation thing, it shows up in all sorts of contexts like lowballers on Craigslist or bid sniping on Ebay. Almost invariably it's simple greed.
> just get a used Esprimo P756/757 tower (E90+ for lower idle power) for 100 bucks or less

Are these still readily available somewhere? All I can find are a tiny handful of $300+ listings and RAM upgrade spam.
Did you ever see Interplay's port to Macintosh? It has 128 pixel textures instead of 64 and a new soundtrack.
Something I have heard said:

Even before Westerners hear of the deplorable conditions in the third world sweatshop and demand the international corporation do better, locals are lined up down the street and around the corner hoping for a job because they beat you half as much and pay you twice as much as local employers.
True, one day they might say Nazis also did it.

These comments from this post:

>> EVERY government does this

>> Pretty sure Cong will do the same.

>> And do you think that is different from politicians in other countries?

>> Interestingly the US is busy pushing the EARN IT act again right now.
You said it yourself: Shotwell does. Elon Musk does as much for SpaceX as Ronald McDonald does for McDonald's.
Linear Diffusion
I would also say this is bad advice. I am not going to downvote you (because I think downvoting should be reserved for worse) but if you do this then you are essentially relying on your partner for friendship AND a relationship.

I see too many couples do this - what they really want are best friends and instead they seek out a partner for this. Should your partner ALSO be your best friend? Of course. But you also need other best friends (each of you) separately in my opinion.
Having grown up in apartments, i disliked so much of the maintenance involved in owning a home...so when my life partner and i owned our home, it did create plenty of stress for me. Then over the years, i grew to treat some of the work as very much zen. Now, i am back in an partment...and planning for our next home - the one that we will retire within...and i look fdor ward to at least some elements of home ownership. For the last year or so, as i learned how to "zen" about some elements, i very briefly wondered if my partner and i should buy a plot of land, live in a trailer temporarily and literally together build our own dream home...but, the concern we have is that our age might limit things tiny bit. so now i wished i had tried this earlier in our lives. Ah, well.
In general, the C standard only requires a diagnostic for constraint violations.
It is at the intersection of technology investors "know" (databases) and technology investors don't know, but have been told is about to blow up (ML).

It is also effectively "roll your own Google/Shazam/whatever", which probably makes for a fancy demo to those who don't know how trivial it is to implement.

Basically investors are morons on average.
The repo for training and finetuning this model is open source here: https://github.com/mosaicml/llm-foundry
back when you could actually use a GUI with a keyboard... those were the days.