skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's ok, we have been pretty quiet. Our primary launch goal is to have a full visual designer/IDE, not really push the UI framework stand-alone. However progress is happening and we are getting closer to that point as you can see in the talk above.
Drobo reportedly files Ch. 7 bankruptcy, signaling the end of a simpler NAS
I'm sorry but it seems that it's global warming that is causing insect declines as the primary driver, not farming practices (though farming practices do play a role of course).

Protected lands of the Puerto Rican rain forest saw huge declines in insect and consequently birds and there is no farming there.

The explanation is simple. Heat waves are killing the bugs. They simply can't cope with 1 or 2 weeks of intense heat. You also see this with lizards and frogs.

Since they are low on the food chain this translates to bird declines, and other animal declines.

PS. I choose not to use "Climate Change" because it's too neutral and is the preferred term of the fossil fuel industry for a reason. I like "Global Warming" or "Climate Crisis" or "Climate Emergency" or "Climate Chaos". The problem is too serious to use neutral language.
When you do find one to restore, look up these resources to swap the old processor for an Arduino, download the framework with all the rules for missions and points and so on, and still emulate the old hardware interface:

https://missionpinball.org/

https://github.com/AmokSolderer/APC

There are a number of machines up for sale, priced at around $4,000:

https://pinside.com/pinball/machine/star-wars

https://pinside.com/pinball/machine/star-wars-trilogy

Might want to start with a cheap, older Bally or Williams machine instead of the late-model licensed Star Wars machines, but they can be found for a lot less if not (yet) in working order!
Your comment is like a zoo of the nuclear industry's failure.

My point is that managerial incompetence is inevitable and YOU AGREE and that REGULATION IS NECESSARY for solid fuel reactors. But the point of numerous other posts is that REGULATION MAKES NUCLEAR UNECONOMICAL and needs to be reduced. But by your very admission, it can't.

Then, despite me stating the obvious that various nuclear arguments like "average deaths" and "average radiation released" are politically completely ineffective. Particularly since Fukushima. Does anyone in nuclear disagree that, whatever the logical reality of the stats, this argument is worthless? Yet you parrot it here.

I think it is funny you say "well you exclude the 737 MAX". Why would you exclude that from a discussion of managerial incompetence? THE 737 MAX WAS A DIRECT RESULT OF MANAGERIAL INCOMPETENCE. In fact the 737 MAX is a PERFECT example of the additional challenges of managerial incompetence in an age of vastly complex software stacks and control systems. Did anyone on Hacker News not see garden variety software corner cutting in the exposes on the 737 MAX?

Here is another problem with nuclear arguing for less regulation: people's faith in regulation and oversight is fundamentally worse now that it was a generation ago. Perhaps it is because of the republican elite war on government, perhaps it is greater awareness and spotlights from the internet, perhaps it is a result of industry lobbies undermining regulatory agencies and starving them and propagandizing against them for their short-term financial gain.

The public will not trust a for-profit company to:

- run a nuclear plant long term that can melt down

- properly transport the waste

- trust that the waste is secured properly (Yucca or whatever)

They will not. So you need a design that won't melt down (so if the operators screw up, it's not a disaster) and there's no waste transported through neighborhoods (that some scumbag / mobster won't dump on the beaches or in a swamp somewhere).

"oh that would never happen" Um, what did Fukushima do with its irradiated water? That wasn't even the mob.

You know what else happened in Fukushima? The government clammed up and wouldn't release any information. Some of that is Japanese culture, but still it was a cover up. The US Military was releasing more information about radiation release than the Japanese government!

If you want reduced regulation, you need to make a meltdown proof reactor and one that virtually eliminates the waste. As someone that isn't in the nuclear industry and has no economic interest in LFTR/MSR (are there even any companies left working on it in the US?), when I saw those two aspects of LFTR/MSR, that's when I got enthused about nuclear power.

...

"SMR technology is being proven a safe and and cost-effective nuclear technology."

Sigh, that is pure PR boilerplate weasel words.
The fact that Putin and Xi are close and Putin made a move unthinkable a few years ago shows that these autocrats mean serious business. It's not some fiction novel story anymore.
Omega 3 is a long chain fatty acid.

Return short, chain fatty acids into long chain fatty acids by four enzymes FADS1, FADS2, EVOL1, and EVOL2.

https://www.mdpi.com/nutrients/nutrients-06-01993/article_de...

I have polymorphisms in FADS1 and FADS2 that slow down the rate of this pathway. By the way, I have Inuit (SAMI) Heritage.
Which is sufficient reason to avoid OpenAI now, frankly.
Damn, thats interesting. Are there more examples of open source books? Quite an interesting idea, especially for non fiction.
Show HN: Papertrail – Save your Slack threads with one click
Hey folks,

Inspired by a tool that my friend and I used at respective our companies, we wanted to build something that could help folks remember their context from their Slack messages.

We decided a 1-click solution using pre-defined emojis would be a quick and easy way for folks to quickly save their Slack threads and all it's messages easily. The saved threads currently go to a choice of 3 archiving solutions: Notion, Asana, Coda.

We would love for you to give it a try if it seems useful to you!
Alpine Linux 3.18 fixes DNS over TCP issue, now ready for all the problems
(OP here) I'll start: I'm trying to get a nice Stable Diffusion setup going so I can run my own LORAs and enable non-technical designers and artists in my circle to use it.

After realizing my old GPU at home isn't good enough and I should use cloud (duh!) running into struggles around how to set something up that doesn't run all the time (cost is too high) but can turn on/off based on usage or a request that a non-technical user can perform without having to get access to the cloud account. Also what if they forget to turn it off!

This is a great use case for serverless but there's no GPU access from serverless platforms at the moment. Also some issues getting the major vendors to give me a GPU-enabled account!

Would love to hear how others have faced this challenge.
It may be still more efficient to pump water underground. Isolating CO2 is very energy intensive, for the same amount of energy we may isolate 100x more H2O. Sometimes it even condenses spontaneously!

There is also huge amount of natural CO2, single vulcano eruption... It is about reducing green house gas emissions generated by humans. And there are many artificial lakes, fields and forests that generate huge footprint on water vapour..
This is just regulatory capture. They're trying to build a moat around their product by preventing any scrappy startups from being able to develop new products.
It's weird how entire TLDs get reputations like that.

NY's transit agency - the MTA - used (and still uses) the domain mta.info. My high school blocked that domain, along with every other info domain.

I have a .xyz domain that I briefly wanted to use for email, but services blocked it based entirely off the TLD. Using the same mail service (fastmail) I could send mail from my .net domains.
This is also a way for industry incumbents to pull up the ladder behind them.

Once you gain the lead position, it is in your interest to increase the barriers to entry as much as possible.
How? They will have the omnipotent robots.
2020-2022 submission statistics are now available for ArXiv member institutions
> GPT is perfectly capable of writing dark scary horrible things if you ask it to.

I see the environment/good ending stories where it's free to make up the context (story, wishes, etc). Did you guide it?

If try hard enough, you can get around most anything, but some baseline exists. It's the increasing effort that is the problem, for me. For your example, use the word "incest" directly, and you'll get the beginning of a disclaimer. Add "child murder" and it starts to fall apart. At least with GPT3.5.
I guess it depends on whether such canals increase the net surface area. If you raise the ocean by 3mm across the globe, does it result in the same net increase in surface area as flooding a large swath of the Sahara?
The major issue is probably government. The FAA has a mandatory retirement age of 65. It also requires substantially more hours to fly commercial than European countries. Both arguably marginally increase safety but at a very high cost.

But the airlines did lay off too many pilots during COVID.
Putin showed that the autocrats mean business. Xi is cut from the same cloth.
> That sounds dystopian to me already (maybe because I'm not in the US?

My singular anecdote: I worked for a company I won’t name but you’d be familiar with if you work in tech. We did a lot of expansion and hiring in European offices. The EU managers were far more likely to track and show things like number of lines of code written and they’d want to publicly reward employees who worked nights and weekends. Not all of them, of course, but it was common enough that we had to spend some time training that habit out of some of those teams when they came on. We had a few projects that went bad because the teams were chasing vanity metrics like number of commits, number of lines of code written, or number of Jira tickets closed.

It happens in the US, too, but it’s definitely not a US-specific thing.

I won’t even begin to talk about some of the draconian work time measurements that happened in our Asian offices. The work culture in some countries is… harsh.
Another poster listed a litany of problems with make
But LLMs use and reason with the data, so the word “know” is probably appropriate. Think of it as a analogy, if you want, but it’s reasonable to draw a comparison with what humans do. Even without the reasoning part I’m sure people already use the word “know” to describe how software is able to perform a task or make use of information.

“It has no understanding”

I keep seeing this claim, I don’t understand what it’s supposed to mean. Do we humans have this magical “true understanding”? Can we test for it?
How is "skilled use of LLMs" a relevant skill in agricultural science?
?> Yes, we all have periods where we should be allowed to do bad work, learn on it and eventually come out with better ideas.

Most people's GitHub pages are full of this kind of junk. And in this case, "junk" is absolutely not a pejorative. It's necessary, and it can show growth if somebody's looking for it.
It shouldn't be too hard to filter such prompt engineering hacks from the futur training datasets.
Even early, pre-2013 Nissan Leafs with uncooled batteries have battery capacities that are holding up surprisingly well.
While this is clearly off-the-rails, it is also a great thing to happen (especially with the chance to redeem ones-self in the course). It might influence a whole group of otherwise sleeping intellectuals that maybe believing AI blindly leads to massive problems. Maybe there should be some limits to where it is applied ? maybe it is a great tool that needs more people to bend it back to sanity...
I used to wear cotton long pants (thermals) all year, under the suit pant. Not letting the suit pant touch the skin made it easier to wear it for a very long time (multiple months) before dry-cleaning.

Don't miss those days of mandatory suit-wear.
They rate limit, so they do make it difficult though
Great stuff. Next, would love to see Apple give an option for people sensitive to temporal dithering or PWM.

It triggers migraines (or vestibular migraines), tension headaches and dizziness in a minority.

See https://www.change.org/p/apple-add-accessibility-options-to-..., or FlickerSense.org, or LEDStrain.org forum.
The devil’s in the details, or, in this case, the joint distribution between what a person would produce and what the model produces. If you came up with a way to train monkeys to write Hamlet on a typewriter, it’s still Hamlet. We’re not there yet - to the point where they consistently expand human potential for thought - but we could be, someday.
It certainly vexes me that, when training and evaluating models, I sometimes get better results and sometimes worse. There's a certain amount of randomness associated with the evaluation data (e.g. you might get the right or wrong answer for a particular question with a binomial distribution, or in a real world problem where you train + eval everyday you'll find some days you have easier problems than other days.) Another problem though is that you might sometimes get a better model or sometimes get a worse model and that's what this paper is about.

It drives me up the wall that people write papers where they compare a large number of models and mark the highest accuracy/F1/AUC in bold but never do an analysis to ask "are the differences significant?"
Social media delenda est. Reputation systems, politico-cultural tribalism, and human cognitive vulnerability w/r/t viral information have turned the entire cultural landscape into anarcho-1984.
Copyleft code is (typically) not confidential.
Adapters Are Ambassadors
me: hey siri weather

siri: The temperature is currently 54 degrees. Expect clear skies starting in the evening, going down to 52 degrees tonight.

me: hey siri what's the high today

siri: the high today will be 84 degrees

me: hey siri will it rain today?

siri: Expect heavy thunderstorms around noon

Note nothing it said in the original was actually wrong...
I was not aware this was the case, TIL!
Great preparation for Reality Pro
True, but they have made choices of where they will and will not do this in the past.

I can see the privacy reasons not to have this data sync, but given the reasons you would be doing it in the first place the risk of loosing those recordings or the data for the voice would be a huge risk.

I don't doubt that Apple could sync this data, I just hope that they are. I don't see anything about that happening on this document so I worry that they won't for privacy concerns.
Yeah, I'm also curious about a) round trips and b) how much would have to be doubled (is there a new endpoint that keeps the existing context while adding or streams to the api rather than just from it?)
Water vapor is co-distilled with water vapor in room temperature evaporation. Humid air a 70F has a partial pressure of about 0.2 PSI - a substantial amount.
I would have to look into tabular data on the H2O TCE system to see, but it is substantial = the smell you get. It also has it's own presence on dry air, but it is higher if water present due to low temperature co-distillation.
These soils need to be dug up -washed with super-critical CO2 ($$$), then baked dry with the vapor condensed.
This has been done in Toronto at a few old factories. Later they started to create a large underwater landfill area - the 'spit' and created a number of clay and membrane lined lagoons(embayments) where they buried it and covered it with clean fill to make a wild life area. Started about 50-75 years ago and it was well built and monitored since then and has stayed sealed.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Street_Spit
My POV as customer for 5 years, doing mostly Video and Binary transfers and asked to move to enterprise few times (and still on the Pro plan, never had any interruption):

They will NEVER says specifics bytes or anything like that (any cloud provider that has any abuse prevention clausule will not too)!

If you says that a "large" file is 100mb people will just gamble and split the files in 100mb chunks. Same for any value here. The idea is mostly about pattern recognition (any abuse detection algorithm) and how much do you pay and how much you are costing.

Bandwidth is cheap for CF but they dont want anyone gaming the system, i will upgrade for enterprise at some point mostly because the SLA, but at the time im writing here, i pay $20 month for a service traffic that cost (to me) hundreds `per day` on AWS or GCP...

People here talk like they multi million dollar project will be blocked because some user downloads a 10mb file on a free plan. But if you really have a critical product you can get enterprise plans starting at $1500 dollars, hardly more than 3K. The enterprise plan is mostly about the SLA than actually services; Thats not the reality of mostly of the people. The basics plans are very good for almost everyone IMHO.

My rule of thumb of any cloud service / provider: You will for sure get deals that will cost very little to you, that is 10x/20x cheaper, but once you "savings" are on the 100x range you may find someone on the other side trying to make you to pay more. I have a friend that was banned from GCP for that reason (long story).

Another example: Hetzner - You can do a lot with the "free" 20TB bandwidth... But do not think that just because theres a number here theres no "catch" for some "creative flow", we got blocked once, was a mistake and is resolved but anything free has abuse protection rules (sometimes not writen) and will find you.
Companies have strong incentives to mix and match two paradigms of employment/compensation, such that they get the best of both, and their employees suffer the worst of both.

In one paradigm, people are paid per productivity unit. In the other, people are paid a set amount per time period but are required to perform above some minimum threshold.

They tend towards the latter paradigm outside of specialized scenarios... so the hope is that someone performs well above the minimum and perhaps even at some extraordinary level in this second paradigm. But the pay does not increase for the employee if he or she does overperform.

However, the minimum performance is rarely spelled out, and can (and does) increase without employees being aware that this has happened. Regardless though, the pressure is to demand that employees work in a way that would only make sense if they were paid-per-unit. That is to say, constantly, and with the minimum amount of rest that they must have without being injured or dying of exhaustion (maybe without even that!).

This is bad enough if your work is pulling onions out of the ground by hand (a job that I remember reading is sometimes paid-per-unit). It is far worse for someone salaried, working something semi-creative. I don't know that the drugs exist that might make me able to focus only on work for 8 or 9 hours at a stretch, day-in and day-out. I have my good days when I look up and its 5pm, and I never let go of a problem the entire time. And then there are the mornings where I flounder about, not even sure where to start.

Bonuses for those who can do it seem rare to non-existent. So those that can drive themselves that way are often angling for promotion, sometimes for positions that aren't even available.

They want the productivity from A, but to pay the wages of B. I don't think this is some conspiracy... they don't even realize they're doing this, when they do it. If they were that self-aware, they might start to wonder what happens when exhaust the supply of what is a rare and difficult-to-acquire resource. They can't make more of it. And once it's used up and gone, business will eventually take a big hit.

But, as un-self-aware as they are, and given the timetables involved (it can take years for the consequences to rear their heads), they'll chalk it up irrationally in their heads as that things beyond their control changed to make the business unviable. Supposing of course, that any of the original management is still there to worry. One might think it would almost be better to be managed by supervillains than by buffoons.

So, to answer your question... the problem with Netflix and hot dog eating is that if an employee is doing that, then they aren't performing at the maximum theoretical output. They're not constantly working at that level.
Water vapour is a greenhouse gas but, confusingly, clouds can have either cooling or warming effects. The interactions are pretty complex.
The Physics of Gummy Candy
incentivize development and don't let companies and people hoard residential properties through taxes tailored for that.

so, you if want to rent, build first.
Show HN: Guiderail – How I (partly) solved my procrastination problem
A few years back I made a bet with a friend regarding a 3D printing project: If I didn't do it in time, he'd send a check of 1000 dollars I had written in advance, to any charity he wanted.

At first, well, I... procrastinated. However, as I saw the deadline getting closer and my friend started taunting me about the charity to which he was going to send my check, it really lit a fire under me. I finished the project, though barely on time (we're talking minutes here).

That experience gave me an idea: what if I could automate this motivation boost, but for more generalized goals, such as learning a language or spending less time on YouTube? Thus, I created https://guiderail.io.

At the moment, it's in a very early stage and only interfaces with Duolingo, Github, Fitbit, RescueTime, and Todoist, but I have plans to add more services later.

So, what do you think, HN? Am I out of my mind?

Also that's my first venture into entrepreneurship so I welcome any advice you could have.
5 digits? There are lots for 4 figures, going rate seems to be around $5k. And if you're willing to fix one up, they can be had for 3 figures instead of 5:

https://pinside.com/pinball/market/classifieds?s=1&keywords=...
Thanks for letting me know. I've fixed the URL, but now I noticed the date template tag is not being populated :(.
US Senator Uses ChatGPT for Opening Remarks at a Hearing on AI
Neighbor down the street has 2 nice ones, in addition a basically full-on full size video arcade. During a block party, none of the kids cared about the video games. They were lined up to play the pinball.
If it is any consolation, certain woke parts of today's fiction will probably also age poorly.
Yes, we had quite a debacle including a class chat that the much maligned teacher was not a part of. These kinds of chats should never see the light of day, and the kids in them should not create circumstances where someone feels they need to report it.

Having a parallel classroom the teacher cannot access can be a dangerous toy
Group behind 'cheerful' San Francisco fentanyl ads explains them
Intel says Friday's mystery security update microcode isnt security update
Sounds a bit like the Desertec project.
Don't dry cleaners launder most things - as in, they use clothes soap not TCE? I'm under the impression that this is what happens when I drop shirts off to be cleaned and pressed
Excellent!

Greatly welcome update.

Directly relevant to everything I do on cloud flare.

This was a major pain point.
Not associated with this project (or LMQL), but one of the authors of LMQL, a similar project, answered this in a recent thread about it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35484673#35491123

As a solution to this, we implement speculative execution, allowing us to
lazily validate constraints against the generated output, while still
failing early if necessary. This means, we don't re-query the API for
each token (very expensive), but rather can do it in segments of
continuous token streams, and backtrack where necessary

Basically they use OpenAI's streaming API, then validate continuously that they're getting the appropriate output, retrying only if they get an error. It's a really clever solution.
If you remember the 90s you remember the panic over encryption. We still have legislation today because of that idiocy.

Except wait, we still have panic over encryption today.