skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As an example of the information-retaining quality of SVG representations you could fairly easily imagine the reverse operation: SVG Images TO Postgres.

I actually did this several years ago!

I ended up collecting the floorplan/layout for most of Australia's largest shopping centres by scraping the SVGs from the interactive maps on their websites. I parsed the coordinates they contained — the location/size of individual shops, ingress/egress points, ATMs, etc — as Well-Known Text and stored them as native geometry data types in PostgreSQL.

The shopping centres were even kind enough to leave labels and metadata embedded as attributes in the SVG. Bless.
What, it was supposed to be pass-only, like ultimate frisbee?
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I don't see any definition that address "irrelevancy" but many do mention "unwanted", which is effectively the same thing as saying "unsolicited".

Edit: Emergency alerts are solicited by owning a phone in a country that mandates that cell carriers send those messages.
Yuri Bezmenov was a Soviet informant and KGB operative who defected to the United States in the early 70s who has some choice words to say on this subject, words which turned out to be more than prophetic. It is worth watching the whole interview, about 1 hour 20 minutes in which he laid out the four stages of ideological subversion” created by radical Marxists to indoctrinate and weaken nations from within.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yErKTVdETpw
I can't live with Braves terrible bookmark manager, and inability to save history for more than a few months. But I can't live without the flawless ad blocking.
Regardless of what the GP said, you broke the site guidelines here, which ask you to edit out swipes (like "What are you talking about"). Your comment would be just fine without that bit.

We've to ask you this kind of thing more than once before. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
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> No. It's not the same thing.

Yes, “the number of dollars I must give to get a fixed set of goods is larger” is exactly the same thing as “the number of things I can get for a fixed quantity of dollars is smaller”. General price increases and dollars being less are identical.

> It's not a conspiracy theory when 99% of the time the narrative is "...it's the Russians and war...

It wouldn’t be if that were true 99% of the time, but its not so, as you say:

> FFS stop with the hyperbole, stop being so naive, and stick to the facts. Please.
Good code which you don’t just want to throw away?

It’s a stereotype that game developers don’t usually write good code. I’m not sure how accurate this really is, but I bet a lot of games get released and then the devs are like “nope, not touching that again” (except for easy bugfixes)
Tell that to the hundreds of developers using sideloading to distribute thousands of successful apps on Quest: https://sidequestvr.com/

Or to the thousands of Mac developers who sideload their app without the App Store.

Or to the tens of thousands of Windows developers who distribute apps through freestanding MSI and EXE files...
Yes, good point, I suppose we would have to weigh the probability of that against it fudging a number. I would assume inventing a new feature is harder, but who's to say; all this LLM stuff comes down to probability.
Is Reddit about to drive themselves off a cliff? I feel like all these large tech players are trying to support alternative movements
Babylon 5 did a bit on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_r7sh75258
Educators get paid a flat fee, not an indenture on your future work (nor do you owe anything back to the people who made the learning materials they use). And if you teach yourself from books or websites you don't pay anything (except maybe the cost of the books). All of which seems right and proper?
I would too, but most people get nervous revving their car past 4k.
I liked vertical tabs on my main monitor where there is plenty of space. But on the laptop, especially with using split screen i got too crowded. I have since made the tabs completely invisible and just navigate trough them with the Vimium extension.

This has some quirks because of the limitations a browser extension has, but I now much prefer to just use keyboard shortcuts and search to jump to tabs.
He didn't mention the word "buy" even once on the article. Maybe he needs to use those machines for work :)
I see three assumptions in your paragraph that need to be true in order for the technology to work. I'm ordering them by how likely I think they are to come true in the next decade.

* Headsets will have good enough resolution and be generally comfortable enough to replace monitors for office space.

* There is a solution to the pass through input problem that is acceptable for the average office worker. I don't think there is a solution of the passthrough problem that beats a keyboard/mouse, or even a laptop in a cafe. I think it's more likely the average office worker will accept a worse form of text input given the right conditions.

* It's possible to project a 3d image of myself while wearing a headset that doesn't include the headset and passes the uncanny valley. The uncanny valley is wide, and even AAA video games haven't cleared it yet.
Are we going to start seeing rounded corners on parcels now?
I’m not trying to be elitist, there’s certainly a need and place for content aimed towards beginners or people very casually engaging in a topic, and when I’ve been getting into a topic I’ve found Reddit quite valuable. It’s just that after a few years as you get more into the topic you start wanting a different kind of content and discussion, and don’t want to keep reading the same rehashed advice or beginner-oriented content any more. So there has to be (or should be) a place for content aimed at more experienced people.
I see the name “Brave Browser” and my brain just refuses to engage. Their marketing team ruined the product for me before I ever got the chance to try it.
Both of Ableton's courses are legendary for this:

https://learningmusic.ableton.com/

https://learningsynths.ableton.com/
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If corner crossing is not possible, the value of his private property increases by the value of the notionally public land that's effectively exclusively his now. If corner crossing is allowed, then that value is stripped away and he "loses" millions.

Of course, this claim of damages collapses in a puff of logic when you point out that he never should have had exclusive access in the first place. Maybe he can sue the judge next?
Hm. Maybe they've backported some nanny code from Sydney?
Maybe I’m misunderstanding your original argument then. I read it as saying this company shouldn’t be allowed to make this request because semi-automatic weapons are still legal. That, to me, is whataboutism.
Why is the air always so thin? Why never thick air? And why does it matter?
> absolute pedant who is looking to argue trivialities would bicker

Well, yes it's a more than a little pedantic, but I think your statement may be too strong.

For example, at least one member of the Nobel family has objected to using their name on the prize:

> Nobel accuses the awarding institution of misusing his family's name, and states that no member of the Nobel family has ever had the intention of establishing a prize in economics. [from Wikipedia]

Also, while it's true that they're administered similarly, it also is true that they are funded from different sources. The Economics prize is funded by the (100% state-owned) central bank of a monarchy. Does that matter? Maybe not, but it's certainly a bit smelly and some of their picks in the past don't seem entirely justifiable solely on academic merit.
My understanding is that "you can see the source code" is typically labeled "source available". "Don't have to pay for the binary" is sometimes "free as in beer", or if you're using floppy disks, "freeware" (though that term seems to have fallen out of use).
ah! nice! thanks!
This is our path yes. All paths end, eventually, but oh well.
You can also remove that unnecessarily large sidebar header that Firefox insists on not letting users disable via normal means with userchrome mods. Some such setups can be seen at https://firefoxcss-store.github.io/.
The differences don't seem salient though. Doing a legal thing faster doesn't generally make it any less legal; doing it for profit changes the legal regime somewhat but not in ways that seem relevant to what's being claimed.
Lots of tech jobs pay 150k or less in NYC. I'd think its probably just below median.
You cross reference their answers with answers from others in their field. This is in fact something you learn in journalism school.
This was predictable from the get go and many had had pointed that out already that soon people will start noticing that LLMs aren't as magical as they thought once the initial awe wanes away.

Don't think OpenAPI is doing anything here, it's not in their interest to reduce the "quality" even there's no objective and repeatable way to measure the quality either.

It's all probabilities all the way down. Who knows what the model will do. I mean, you can dry run by hand but even on quad core processors, it's damn slow so imagine the inference by hand.
Hmmm. Very interesting, traffic from google ads has been kind of generalized for a while now I agree. What kind of audience does a mid tier newsletter reach?
I was looking to sign up and see if it could work for our sales team but it looks like that is not possible without an invite code?
That's cool, I had absolutely no idea! So while I may have suggested in other comments that I didn't love European FAs fiddling with the offside rule and VAR, I do appreciate a bit of innovation and creativity and it sounds like the US is willing to experiment which is great to see. I happily retract my earlier confident assertion about how points work in groups/leagues :)

On another note, I've really enjoyed seeing the game over there going from strength to strength, I hope you're enjoying it too and continue to stay involved at some level!
This is essentially what rubber ducking is.
Amateur level.

You need to testing for Larges, not Mediums.
It's ridiculous that this case got anywhere within the court system. Imagine a grown man angry that some other grown man stepped over a square-foot corner of his precious 22,045 acres of dirt to get onto some other area of dirt. This is like my brother and I arguing over who's hand was on who's side of the back seat of the car when we were pre-schoolers. How much time, money, and energy was wasted on this clowning?
I think the bigger difficulty lies in how to store and process this stuff on a GPU/other accelerator.

If the OP cares about implementation details about how an API like PyTorch is made, I think the MiniTorch 'book' is a pretty good intro:

https://minitorch.github.io/
Then just use an Ad Blocker. The actual problem is SEO spam though.
The crucial difference is keeping the address bar- this is where I think Arc is falling short. Maybe it's me, but I have an extremely difficult time reprogramming my expectations of where the address bar should be.
They might be clear, but they are not universally accepted. Ultimately, usage makes the definition.
Oh I agree that font and weight selection are entirely preferential.

In both of these images you can clearly see bad color bleed in the title bar font, and in the content font in the after case. I'm guessing the users main concern is that they want a higher text density which the after shot demonstrates. IMO both of these cases can be improved substantially to remove the color faults using grayscale subpixel rather than this colorful mess.

RGB subpixel has not looked good on any screen I've used in what about 10 years? The shapes of displays no longer produces good results with these techniques.

Why? Take a picture of your screen from close up with a modern phone and zoom in. You may see a non-RGB layout, but even if you don't you'll almost certainly observe a pattern where the empty space is significantly vertically larger around one boundary (often red/blue), this is related to the brightness targets monitors have been hitting for so long. As the pixels no longer align with the theoretical shape, if you can see the colors, the colors often look super trashy.
IIUC, this is enshrined in Rhode Island's constitution, as mentioned here [0].

[0] http://www.crmc.ri.gov/publicaccess/PublicAccess_Brochure.pd...
^ this guy moderates

Did you ever posted how exactly do you find a similar posts despite them having a very different URIs?
I mean, WordPress has been around for decades. Substack came along and basically made “WordPress with subscriptions” - so now WP has that functionality too.
Not sure who your comment is targeted to, but I've been working with a friend's mom - 55ish - on her WordPress website. With no tech experience she was able to spin up a site with a custom domain and get very close to launching but got bogged down in some WooCommerce details. She was also using Elementor which seemed to not play nice with WordPress.com's hosting. I suspect this is why Elementor now has their own hosting.

My point: this highly motivated but completely inexperienced woman was able to build a website on her own and get very close to launching.

I have no experience with AWS Lightsail. I'm sure it's a fine platform, but to me WordPress.com is really making the web accessible to a lot of people that otherwise wouldn't have access. Maybe it's not worth it to many with a tech background, but for her, WordPress.com is making her dreams come true.
Because replica failover is rarely seamless (and often doesn't actually work at all, IME).
The actual study in question is pretty limited - I don't have any problem with the data published to the PNAS report: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2216162120

But the decision to limit the study exclusively based on race was a post facto decision that doesn't make a lot of sense given the context of what they were studying.

Imagine if they published a study called "Escalated police stops of Right Handers are linguistically and psychologically distinct in their earliest moments" and then you found out that they left out the data on left handers, you would also be very suspicious.

Malpractice might be a bit of a strong word, but I find it distinctively annoying when researchers intentionally play around with their sample sizes.
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Previously favorite? I'm looking for something to replace my current KB, and I was wondering what your current favorite is/why you like it better than Das keyboard.
A loan agreement that is enforced by courts of justice is traditional finance certainly.

Loans in decentralised finance use smart contracts, instead of relying on the legal system.
Yes, so just like Apple's real value is from Foxconn's manufacturing factories which they don't own, OpenAI's real value is from Sama, the Kenyan firm that did the RLHF annotating.

I'm wondering what the legal agreement is for Google Classrooms. In elementary schools across the world, kids write 3rd grade essays in history class or whatever and the teacher grades them. Those essays and grades are all in a database. Does Google have the opportunity to train Bard across that dataset?
> reputable torrent tracker

I once visited RarBG with uBlock Origin turned off by accident. The intensity of the shitstorm of fake links, transparent GIFs on top of the content and other stuff like that was overwhelming. I believe that it is universally stupid to trust torrent sites with anything.
This seems like a bit of the perennially-linked "Choose Boring Technology" bit. Your corporate landing page/blog is unlikely to need anything fancy. This is true especially if you aren't in tech, while the article focuses on YC startups, so a tech subset of (or subset of tech) startups. The categories listed do seem most likely to be cases where there isn't much need for anything fancy on the website front.
Windows common controls had side-aligned tabs around 1997
I think an underappreciated hurdle is how silly headsets look. I don't want to embody/identify as someone with a computer strapped over my eyes like a blindfold. It's a bad, even dystopian image. Personally, I think a helmet would be much more appealing form factor, and you have the digital astronaut/crusader allusions.
Yup - lots of links here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35668525
> The issue of cleanliness also calls for the need for onsite staff

I'm not sure why this is being downvoted.

As anyone who actually tried to demo a quest 2/pro knows, this was absolutely true, and still is true [1].

During covid, there were no in-store demos that I could find for the Pro or Quest 2, in my city of millions. One large chain advertised demos, but it was by appointment, and not one within 100 miles actually went through with it.

Now, with COVID restrictions gone, the locations are far between, and require assisted demos, because you can't really leave a VR headset tethered to a counter and not have something break.

The only reliable way to try was to buy it and return it. See all of the subreddits for how widespread this behavior was.

I think the real issue is that HL: Alyx is an extreme outlier in quality, in VR gaming, which isn't good.
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I think a better title might have been "Society can't optimize for rest". FIRE is a myth, only a small percentage of people will ever have the ability and means to do it. A few can optimize for their own rest, on the backs of the rest of us who cannot and will have to work until close to death.

I think the only way you optimize society for rest on the whole would be to determine how much and what kind of time off humans need at the maxima, and then figure out how to schedule humans for the work that cannot be automated based on that. Suppose a human needs to have a month of time off per 6 months of 20 hour a week work, then we should assume no human can work for more than 20 hours a week 10 months a year, minus some other safety margin. I don't think there is ever going to be a day where society is able to optimize for rest to the extent that it's really needed, the pendulum will never swing as far as it needs to.
Why do people need dozens or hundreds of tabs to the point that they need groups for them? We've had bookmarks (and folders for them) for decades... It made way more sense when you could expect tabs to always be loaded, and not behave like another set of bookmarks.
Software engineers will often get a laptop at work, sometimes need two devices at home for some reason (one Linux, one Mac or one for Windows games), make money using them (so it makes sense to buy a new one if it's faster / has a better display) and can afford it. So I find your post very weird.
That's clear, and you're most welcome here!

I'm sorry our software got it wrong in your case, but you should be good to go now.
...code generation (and therefore metaprogramming itself) are also not fundamentally innovations of Lisp. For example, in C++...

Wait, what?

Maybe I'm confused but doesn't innovation mean doing something not done before?

C++ and even C are more recent than Lisp, they can't be used as counterexamples. Or am I missing something?

(Edit> other than that, I forgot to say: nice article.)
I suspect people are downvoting because they're imagining the older style of watch band spring bars. The older ones like this [1] require a tool, dexterity, and also some luck that it doesn't go flying across the room.

Bands with the newer style like this [2] can easily be done without tools or any stellar dexterity, but are still a bit more fiddly than how it seems Apple watches are. I'm betting this is the type you're talking about, as it's the only kind I've had to deal with across my ~decade of smartwatch use.

[1] https://www.bartonwatchbands.com/products/stainless-steel-sp...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B9FQ3PXF/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
Just follow them ! You're lucky to have smart people to learn from.
This is about alternative front ends becoming untenable. Have you used the new interface?
If you want to be high-availability then you need sharding or something like it from day 1. There's still no first-class way of running PostgreSQL that doesn't give you at least a noticeable write outage from a single-machine failure.
These aren't HMDs, if that's what you're thinking. They're fully integrated systems.
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It's pretty funny this article was published on April 1st
>Maybe he can sue the judge next?

AKA an appeal
Gives new meaning to the phrase about generating something from thin air...
Not the case, no.

I don't recall seeing that chart - if anyone can link me to it I'd be interested in taking a look.
The sheer rapaciousness of these multi-hundred millionaires is just disgusting. I'm glad to see that public opinion is largely starting to turn against these billionaire types as "geniuses" to boils on the ass of humanity.
The birthday emails were funny to read.
I know I’m probably going to get downvoted for this, but I’m going to post it anyhow :-)

https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/02/08/why-does-0-1-plus-0-2-equal-...
Unfortunately, only a minority of people care enough about privacy to do something against the invasive and immoral practices that are slowly killing the internet.

Most of us have nothing to hide, and that's the exact mechanism on which the internet marketing leviathans operate.

Nothing will change, people will still use them free services and install the data harvesting app. The battle is already lost.