skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a very pessimistic view, that the world is "horribly bad" is subjective, and as it has been said, contradicts objective metrics.

This graph by itself is hard to interpret anyways. Though pessimistic, your interpretation is a valid one, but so is the optimistic "people are happier than you think they are" conclusion.

More neutrally, I think the chart is more about social expectations that have little to do with how bad the environment is. For example, I would expect people who believe in a religion that says that life on earth is horrible and ones goal is to reach heaven to say that they are unhappy even if they are doing fine. That's because no matter how they feel, this is earth and not heaven, and true happiness is unreachable. Anyways, too many possibilities to interpret this without additional data.
This is tangential to the article but when ever I read about a lost film being found there’s always mention of how it was found in a vault. I can’t help but always try to imagine what that is. Can anyone describe what these vaults are like? Does film have a smell?

People can reference a data center but most probably have never been in one. They all have a slightly dusty smell, there’s the whine of fans and HVAC, the odd people that work there, server cages, card and retina scanners, some have metal detectors. From the outside DC’s can be huge nondescript brick buildings with a massive gensets surrounded by a well built security fence. Regardless of the size they all have a similar vibe.

So I’d be very curious to know what a film vault in Hollywood is like. If it has a similar ‘you know you’re in a film vault’ feel and culture to it.
Microfrontends should be your last resort
It’s more to remove hot air from the top floor, and allow cooler air to fill the bottom of the house.
Nintendo double downs its stance against emulation... [video]
Lots of doubt. But don't doubt this: anybody who bets against orbital solar will lose, and it won't take long. The costs are all going in the direction to make space-based solar the winning option.
The Reasons Behind JavaScript’s Success
There's virtually unlimited resources (books, tutorials, code) on how to build the front-end (lexer, parser) of a compiler, less on semantic analysis, and very little on the back-end (codegen). A program that doesn't emit at least VM bytecode should not be called a compiler, but rather a transpiler.

I wish tutorial writers focused more on the backe-end. There's a lot of topics to be covered there that usually don't get the deserved attention: intermediate language, single-static assignment (or a similar IR representation), converting certain patterns to assembly, instruction selection, register allocation, instruction encoding, object/executable file creation. The latter in particular deals with how to structure the program into code sections and map them to virtual memory areas. You also have to deal with symbol tables and symbol resolution (at the linking phase).
Safari also has random weird (read: highly annoying) things where it purports to support a given component of the WebExtensions API, and then totally doesn't. Storage.sync is a perfect example—why I should have to build my own syncing infrastructure purely to support safari (particularly given that apple always talks about wanting to protect user data)?

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/saf...
Real-time area calculations, trying on décor elements, home repair estimates — these and more emerge from the power of smartphone AR measuring tools. Modern augmented reality technologies powered by LiDAR, AR SDKs and machine learning algorithms allow us to achieve this. But it requires specific AR and AI expertise that even technology-advanced companies may lack.

So let’s figure out how to implement such a project in the best possible way.
Alternatively, you could use a debugger that supports conditional breakpoints.
Thanks, David Peter
Screening is a separate question, many drugs extend people’s lives pans with cancer but don’t actually cure it. I would call them a good thing, but they do directly mean a higher percentage of the population has cancer irrespective of detection. Which gets to my point, people with cancer isn’t a statistic that’s universally good or bad but a complex thing.
Stratechery (https://stratechery.com) is written by Ben Thompson, who is based in Taiwan.
The amount of soul in this desktop interface is off the charts.
The industry says weddings are "all about the bride", and IME the marketing seems almost exclusively targeting women and their anxiety. So it may be challenging to find a partner similarly minded.
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Rust was a political movement first? Can you elaborate?
"sentience" has an additional problem that science fiction authors conflate it with "sapience".

I suspect that some influential science fiction editor made a mistake early on and it stuck. Outwith science fiction, I've less commonly come across the conflation, and people generally use the dictionary meanings, more in accord with the Latin roots, of "sentient" meaning being capable of sensation/feeling and "sapient" meaning being capable of intelligent thought.
Perhaps you can compensate for it?
ThinkCentres and Android tablets aren't really thin clients. They can run thin client software, but so can pretty much all thick clients.
So is it in the public domain?
7 billion USD for 1 GW? No so far off of some modern nuclear power plants.

Hinkley Point C is currently estimated at £32.7 billion for 3.26 GW.
> I’m persuaded that one of the reasons European Americans underperform relative to Asian immigrants—especially at the bottom of the income spectrum—is that Asian families strongly discourage teenage preoccupation with sexual activity and relationships in favor of focusing energies on education

No, it’s because the barriers to immigration are much higher to Asian immigrants than the people who already live here. You will also see this in Nigerian-American families. The effect goes away after a few generations, and in the case of black immigrants racism is so effective the effect goes away with their children.
The article said it was in the George Eastman Museum. The site has a virtual tour at https://www.eastman.org/virtual-tours which includes a link to the "Technology Vault", at https://goo.gl/maps/CXX9qDt7JemuASss5 .

It uses Google Maps Street View to move around inside the vault.

EDIT: having gone through it, that vault appears to contain machines - "technology". I didn't see anything which looked like a large film storage area, much less one for nitrate films.

Ah-ha! The 2020 report at https://www.eastman.org/sites/default/files/GEM_AnnualReport... mentions they had a "A Tour of the Nitrate Vault".

Using '"Rochester film museum" Nitrate Vault' as my search terms I found the article "Rochester's best kept secret: A nitrate film collection" at https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/lifestyle/2016/04... with several images in the interesting story, with details like "Only three other facilities in the U.S. can legally store this volatile film stock" and "Every five years staff goes through 20,000 reels to make sure they are not decomposing", and the quote “Because of the great amount of silver content in the emulsion, nitrate films have dark, rich blacks, and more detailed gradation. The sharpness of the edges are so crisp and there’s so much depth, it’s almost like 3-D.”

More images via DDG image search: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=%22Rochester+film+museum%22...
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Regardless of English communication ability, we should hope programmers understand the difference between "until" and "while". (VB, bash, certainly others.)
Sorry, no, termites don't know crap. They don't have to shed nearly as much heat per unit of surface area and are perfectly fine in humid 35 degrees C.

We've known about thermal mass, convection, venturi effect and other stuff for ages, and it's not going to help you be comfortable (another thing termites have no concept of) beyond a certain envelope.
We’re running seven clusters comprising of about ten nodes each. So seventy total.

Ubuntu has been mostly faultless also, but having maintained my own Kubernetes Distribution based on Ubuntu it was an area getting increasingly complex with no obvious benefit, netplan, for example.
I have been freelancing in AI for some time now, and have one main client with a huge product, and we are slowly evaluating ChatGPT features and ideas, but I am really happy that he isn't buying into the current hype cycle too much. No fatigue here, sometimes I wish he'd be trying out more stuff, but I just keep my mouth shut..

For myself on the other hand, I have been interfacing with ChatGPT (web / API) almost daily since release day, feeling like I am at the edge of things; not wanting to miss a single new thing; can't miss what others are working on and releasing ... and its becoming so exhausting, it almost feels like a second full time job. It's really hard to manage, because as much as I believe I need a break, its also the most exciting thing for me to happen as a developer in a while. Also ... I have been there for Bitcoin ... in 2011, through all the cycles, I made money, but resisted all the hype, but somehow this all feels different, I still wonder if I am just getting fooled because its different.
While I also dislike the trend towards minimal icons, I don’t think the ones in this project are a good example. They are more whimsical than they are helpful. Without the text I wouldn’t be able to tell what they mean.
> libuv brought .NET to Linux. Will never forget that.

Is that a very good thing or a very bad one?
As a thought experiment:

- computers are able to churn through any problem more quickly and cheaply than people

- machines are able to perform any tasks that humans can, more quickly and cheaply

I’m curious what you think is left for people to _do_.

We may not be there today, but at some point, both of those things can and will become true.
Health Check Response Format for HTTP APIs
> why don’t we stop the root cause of the problem, instead of the insestuous habit of layering on symptom management on top of symptom management.

Super simple answer: one requires everyone change their individual habits. Difficulty - very hard. The other requires no change at all on the individual level. Difficulty - very easy.

Be careful with falling into the "public health initiatives are just a bandaid" trap. I was going to say you probably wouldn't approach a pandemic by telling everyone to eat more healthfully but considering your last sentence, maybe you would have argued for that approach.
Both mitigated using revanced
So you are saying your i140 can be pending indefinitely?
Healthcare is fascinating. The quote that nothing will be implemented that possibly harms patients is false, because harm is complicated.

Sharing patient data harms privacy, but in the long run more data sharing is probably the best route for reducing physical harm. The body is just too complicated for individuals to fully grok.
It may be tempting to develop your own physical product, but if you can build it in software and run it on an existing platform (e.g. iOS), then that is much preferable considering the waste of natural resources.
In my opinion WordPress can be compared to Windows. Not just in terms of security, but everything.

WordPress is the Windows of content management systems.

They both are widely used, have an outdated architecture, are keeping compatibility above all, therefore don't innovate, are very extendable, can run almost anything, and are the go-to for many people.

It's up to you to decide, if these are good things or bad things.
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Looking forward to when we are going to be able to listen to incoming tcp connections also. It will become a fully blown platform. The developer experience with wrangler is still off though
This assertion regarding quality sounds like an appealing but probably wrong guess, like curse of dimensionality.
Well they were an "AI Startup"....
To begin with: that documentation looks to be ancient, so be careful as it may not reflect reality any more, though nothing stands out as obviously wrong.

You’ve skipped over the difference:

> Safari assumes the width is device-width in portrait and device-height in landscape orientation

Whereas width=device-width means device-width when in landscape (device-width now being the longer axis), which is I think always going to be what you actually want. If what they document is correct, and it does sound right for how I recall it being described some years back, that the page effectively zooms in when you rotate, then it’s just not what you want.

Testing in desktop Chromium’s responsive design mode, it does seem to behave reasonably in the presence of <meta name=viewport content=initial-scale=1>. I haven’t checked anywhere else.

But if you specify width=device-width, then initial-scale=1 is actually superfluous, that then being the default. I understand that it was part of the common incantation in order to work around Safari orientation change bugs which I think have been fixed for a few years now, but I don’t have anything to confirm it on (really wish they’d provide an emulator for non-Apple platforms) and have never had anyone answer it when I’ve mentioned it here on HN.
> Is there an online tool/piece of code that can find words like this in a string?

...but he's using a language model for a language task.
Now that I have done some work with gambling companies, I'm actually pretty sure most people actually don't have delusions about their winning chances, but they just want to "try their luck" so to speak.

There are also the people who get delusions about this sort of thing and can become very problematic for casino staff because they annoy other patrons (eg hogging specific machines or harassing them out of table seats).
You basically want something to catch the solar radiation and either reflect it or convect away the heat. Some sheet material affixed a few inches away from your walls would give the same or better results as the trees.
Arvind isn’t ready to admit that c-levels are fantastic candidates for artificial augmentation and platform-based enablement.

after all, haven’t we established that language models are highly proficient at producing bullshit?

and they don’t need golden parachutes!
I was referring to the chess analogy from the comment I responded to, not to the comparison from the top level comment.
Thinking Is the Problem
How does that work? What’s the answer?

Submarines certainly partake in whatever aspects of swimming are responsible for traveling in or under water.
It strikes me that we just have our head in the sand when it comes to dating.

From the sample of young guys I know, the ripped guy on trenbolone that takes great shirtless pictures is fucking so many women that he actually says he is picky on tinder. All the other guys are playing video games. The ripped guy has zero interest in relationships and giving up what he has now. The video game guys have zero chance at a relationship.

No mystery that this setup is going to produce a highly neurotic society that almost no one is happy in besides the small group of guys working on a sex addiction.

The other stuff you mention is really not much different than the past.

Min wage in 1990 was $3.35 an hour and average new car price was $15k. All my money at 20 went to a piece of shit car that constantly broke down and needed repair. That was pretty much everyone I knew. That is a time when even the $15k new car was basically a piece of shit by modern standards. There was never a time in the past when the average person had it easy economically sipping champagne. Dating though you have a point.
Most employers don't look at grades. Assessing skills is time-consuming and often difficult; a degree, especially from a selective school, is a signal that the student satisfied the school's assessments for entry and continuous assessments to remain enrolled to completion. Previous employment at a known, desirable employer (e.g. FAANGs) serves the same kind of purpose.

It is presumed that having the degree correlates to having certain skills. Often the skills they have and also the skills desired never appeared on any syllabus; they're meta-skills useful to thriving in the university, academically and non-academically, that will also be useful in the workplace.
I’ve been married for 5 years, together for 10. The main reason we got married is because my new job had really good health insurance and her graduate school had crap health insurance.

We didn’t do a big (or any) wedding, buy expensive rings, etc

But I guess we were already “committed” to each other in the intellectual / spiritual sense so marriage was just a formality. The whole “escape hatch” thing didn’t really apply, we just don’t give a shit about the institution of marriage and associated ceremony
I've done some of this on a small scale, and the number of potential surprises is just really high. Things like your aluminum frame being subject to US anti-dumping regulations. Or the supplier sending you power supplies with fake UL marks, and now the whole shipment gets seized...not just the power supplies, but the other stuff in the container too. Or your mold is off by just enough to make the already bought-and-paid for aluminum end pieces not fit. PCB oopsies that can't be jumpered around, etc. Or, one of your suppliers likes your idea and copies it and undercuts you on the finished products. Or that terrific, low-cost/high-quality supplier just disappears overnight, and you can't find a suitable substitute.

Hard to translate into numbers, but generally plan on some amount of throw-away work, get some experienced advice if you can, and grow slowly until you understand the risks.
I'm not big on modern country myself, but there is some of what I would call "modern classic country" out there. Chris Stapleton is one that my girlfriend has warmed me up to.
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I collect old computing equipment and I have a number of machines that run old software. The biggest problem with old operating systems (mostly Windows, but others too) is that modern web is unusable without TLS3 and back porting that to old browsers is pretty much impossible...

How many times "I just wanted to download one file" on a windows 98 machine. The only "solution" is to maintain a proxy running a modern OS that renders modern web as image maps.

As for Word 97,I remember when it was new. I also remember when Microsoft went to the "new" ribbon interface (it was much later, 2016 perhaps?) I hated it, my users hated it... Fast forward a decade and last time I tried to use pre-ribbon office product It was extremely inconvenient to use. I don't know if it is due to high dpi screens or something else. This and lack of good dictionaries is the main reason why I continue to pay for MS office instead of using Libre office (or one of ancient office products I own) for example.
the fractures were probably there long before april, that's just when someone had an especially bad day and said 'fuck it'
Not all language tasks, even, are going to be best handled by these models.
Some zealous systems will infer a very regular request rate as coming from automated services and block them, no matter how gentle the rate.
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It's not possible to provide you examples because there is no such thing as degenerate books.
>Well it halved childhood cavities in the 50s. It did its job and I don’t think it’s hard to understand why it was done.

What I heard (but did not verify) was that cavities reduced similarly in countries that did not have fluoride in the water around the same time.
NER, Entity linking, and relationship extraction definitely seem to be 'low hanging fruit' due to LLM improvements, but one of the big problems is that they really need a completely different architecture to limit the decoder vocab if using a decoder transformer for producing the set of sequences in relation extraction with specific entity ids.
A Longformer with full attention to input sequence, and sliding window attention to a large dictionary could be a decent way to find tune a system like this, but there are few that try it.
Unfortunately there's a lot of stupidity going around right now in thinking the answer is just to 'pRoOoMpT tHe LLm RiGhT', but that will always be exceedingly wasteful such that processing terabytes of files will be prohibitively expensive, and there's no guarantee the system will always restrict to the specific vocab and structure desired.

The images in radiology definitely make these types of things harder, and the sparsity is an enormous issue. However, working with some projects in this area, I don't think it's as impenetrable as a lot of radiologists in AI suggest. The main thing needed in the field is adoption of better techniques and architectures to deal with these problems.
Sure, get a sun lamp.
there's money on every side of every issue. The people that lean hard on the "follow the money" angle are almost always those that only acknowledge it happening on the side they disagree with.
Not sure why this is a surprise to people, AWS started with similar humble origins. The goal of Cloudflare has been to become the fourth public cloud for a long time now, I think in several years they will be the most powerful platform to build on.
You can be fun and clever on your own time. When you're doing code in a team, prefer readability over clever terseness and premature optimisation.

Doubly so if (when) you're not the one who has to come look at the code in 5 years and spend days deciphering the clever bits.
Question....if satellite TV that already beams microwaves to earth has issues during cloud cover...how will this be any better? Sure the power may blast through but the efficiency of that will drop depending on the weather.

Well, I guess progress is progress. If you don't try, you won't know. You keep going until you get it.

However here is an idea, what about using this for, i don't know, powering habitats etc on the Moon?
Right? They pretend to have a dev server with live reload, but it's about the worst implementation of such I've seen. Protip is to wrap it within some watchers and cleaners of your own:

while true; do pkill -f miniflare-dist; npx wrangler pages dev public; done;

Lest ye end up with a million rogue processes spinning down your CPU after each file saved with a syntax error causes the entire dev launcher to crash and leave its spawn everywhere...
Is this a general comment meant to apply to anything or are you specifically talking about Easy Effects here?

It has installation instructions in the README, links to a wiki page with more information (https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects/wiki/Package-Repositorie...), the application contains full documentation under the "Help" item in the menu (as many applications do) and they also have the same documentation online (https://wwmm.github.io/easyeffects/).

Not sure what more you could ask for?
Very few people have 3 phase power at home in Europe. Why would they?
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Nobody is, unless they're not 5. Brain plasticity is a thing, but the article doesn't mention it.
Very few people have been more dedicated to the original spirit of service of the World Wide Web than Brewster Kahle. It's as though he's been personally monitoring his server logs for the past 30 years.
Fortunately my code is perfect so it never needs debugging.