skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a hacker news API so somebody could set up an NNTP server with an HN newsgroup. Looks like it's already been done, at least for personal use. If a newsgroup is read-only and only on one NNTP server, does it count as usenet? Is that like the sound of one hand clapping?

https://github.com/HackerNews/API

https://www.npmjs.com/package/hackernews2nntp

https://github.com/gromnitsky/hackernews2nntp

Honorable mention for gwene.org which converts RSS feeds into NNTP and gmane.org that converts mailing lists into NNTP.
> The official Reddit app won't do anything until you sign in.

Oh don't worry, that's by no means an oversight.
"Clean Energy Associates’ (CEA) “Energy Storage System Supplier Market Intelligence Report” asserts that the incentives offered by the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) are the catalyst for the surge of the number of North American battery factories."

Thanks Biden!
So for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmGDpUnlMas is people learning to drive an ambulance in an urban environment, so, they're under blue lights with a siren, they're authorised (while learning and after completing training) to exceed speed limits, and break various other rules, but they're being trained to do this safely (or at least, more safely than most people probably drive normally)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjkBchxT5kw is a solo, commentating live on his driving in a response car rather than an ambulance, again he's be authorised to break the rules.
I still maintain that Usenet was the original 'reddit/digg'. And the webapps competitors have tried to cater, and fail.

I'd rather see a newer Usenet protocol... Say something that also integrates with the Fediverse. But there's no "money" for open protocols, even though companies again and again try to emulate "Usenet, but profitized".

This feels like a longer tail of the image hosting problem, btw.
Talking on the phone, like some sort of psychopath...
Let's start a commune.
The paper aptly defines consciousness as a controlled hallucination, one which corresponds to top-down information being matched to bottom-up sensory information, which to me suggests that consciousness is not a discrete phenomenon. A subject having a phenomenal experience, and later self-awareness must have evolved smoothly with the increase of connectedness.

AI models are very simple compared to us, but it's interesting how the generalizations they come up with as a result of training appear to evolve just as smoothly, in seemingly useless parts that over time amplify each other and provide a generalized solution.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/N6WM6hs7RQMKDhYjB/a-mechanis...

You can say that self-awareness is the ultimate generalized solution for survival in a complex environment.
One of the clearest memories I have of my high school education was when my high school Earth Science teacher shared his process on evaluating the surrounding geology of a property before purchasing his home. Home ownership seems like an increasingly distant goal but I look forward to putting that lesson into practice one day.

Rest in peace Mr. F.
Most batteries are custom made for their end clients. A Tesla for instance does not have 10mil AAs squeezed into the chaisse, it has model specific weird shapes with proprietary connectors etc. Batteries do not require high tech or high cost manufacturing plants either (like say leading edge microchips). Similarly most applications for batteries (most of manufacturing really) uses Just In Time inventory management. Batteries are (saly still) bulky and quite heavy, so you don't really want to ship them about, especially not as (fast) air freight.

So it makes sense that most regions (or even individual countries) will ultimately end up making their own, locally.
Checked arithmetic has been implemented in the standard with `ckdint.h`, so give it 50 more years!
> I worked at a local newspaper in the past and I can't tell you how many people they employed for things not central to core journalism.

At least try to tell us. Give examples.

> Reflecting back now, it's not wonder they eventually downsized significantly and had to vacate the large building they'd been in for decades. They could have cut huge swaths of people, just focusing on journalism, and saved a ton of money.

That kind of sounds unrealistic. Your ideal sounds like an army with only front line troops. It'll get defeated because those troops won't get fed and will quickly run out of ammunition. Support functions are important in viable organizations.
It's also healthy. "Established scientific knowledge trusted by domain experts" shouldn't be taken for a gospel, even if you're not a domain expert.
It's definitely the case that the truth seems quite different from the marketing speak. For example, NNT was constantly in the news during the 2008 financial crisis pontificating about this and that and yet his fund was far from the best performer during that time even though you'd think that sort of meltdown would be ideal for his supposed crash put strategy.

As always do your own research before you actually put any money into anything.
Yeah, the kinetic energy associated with a running engine (flywheel to entire vehicle mass) makes it rather difficult to stall from a single cycle problem, especially given that it consistently recalculates and checks everything multiple times before the timing signal is sent.

The engine feels like it’s running fast, but it’s really slow compared to ECU’s ability to observe it and respond to it. A single missed signal would just result in a misfire.
Microsoft stashes nearly half a billion in case LinkedIn data drama hits
Text is 2D compared to face to face interaction. It's like assuming a video chat is the same as the real thing when there is so much data being lost.

Is it blindly optimistic to assume that people will eventually yearn for more genuine interaction, daresay truth?

Is it wrong to think that people gain purpose from other people, and that our mammalian instincts will not be so easily conquered?
> Endpoint protection solutions can be installed in iOS devices.

How does "endpoint protection solution" protect from 0-day exploits? I guess it can do that only in marketing materials, not in reality.
I'd like if we got to the point where the computer was on the back of the monitor so it'd be easier to cool, and then the bottom would be dedicated to peripherals, including way better keyboards.
That's a different lensless camera art project than yesterday's (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36139729). Related list of lists:

https://github.com/golanlevin/ExperimentalCapture/blob/maste...

https://www.fotomuseum.ch/en/situations-post/vernetzte-kamer...

https://unthinking.photography/imgexhaust/three-new-cameras

"Don't tell me you're going to use that smartphone for night photography."

"My camera is augmented."
I worry about overuse of hand sanitizer creating antibiotic resistant "superbugs" as we've been told for decades... but I sure as hell can't go to a gas station or a grocery store without washing my hands with hand sanitizer any more. I feel like I can see the germs now.
> meaning that it is easier for other vehicles to sneak ahead of them in traffic

Changing lanes is "sneaking" now? Does somebody really think we need autonomous driving trained to block other cars from safely switching lanes?
Can't wait for the Adrian's Digital Basement video: "Landfill Lisa: Can It Be Restored?"
Twitter loses its top content moderation official at a key moment
> Yes, the SAT favors rich applicants who can afford to pay for (and spend time on) test prep.

"Rich" is the wrong word here and really distorts the comparison. A typical in-person SAT prep class is $1,000-$1,500. This is a one-time expense you can plan for over a number of years. That's affordable to the vast majority of the population in a country where 87% of teenagers own an iPhone: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/10/11/teen-survey-iphone-owne.... As for time, only 20% of teenagers work while enrolled in school. Only about 1/3 have a job during the summer. Yes, there are kids who are homeless, etc. Spending $1,000 and a couple of days a week in the summer going to prep classes might not be achievable for kids in the very bottom rung of society. But it's quite approachable for kids in the lower middle class and up. It's not only the "rich."

By contrast, a lot of college resume boosters are only available to the rich and well-connected. Lower middle class probably don't know anyone who works at a human-rights non-profit who can help secure an interesting internship. Most parents don't have the time to get their kids involved at the Olympic level in some obscure sport. As a matter of geography, many of the things that stand out to admissions officers at elite universities don't really exist in middle America; and the things that do, such as involvement in high-school football or FFA, are looked down upon.

There's also a matter of cultural capital. Pretty much everyone knows you should study for tests. That's a no-brainer, and accessible to all cultural groups. But figuring out what will pique the interest of some WASP in Harvard's admissions office takes special cultural knowledge. I was joking with my wife that our daughter's diversity essay should be about going to Bangladesh and getting in touch with her fundamentalist Muslim roots (my dad's grandfather was an imam). But we hang around enough rich white people to know that's not what they mean by "diversity." Instead, it would be far more helpful for her to go back to Bangladesh and fight against Bangladeshis to legalize abortion. That's what they mean by diversity.
Seems like an excessively speculative theory when the alternative, "SARS1 infections were overwhelmingly driven by droplet spread and SARS-COV 2 is a close relative so we expect it to behave similarly" is right there..
Yes, I posted a followup which investigates the issue somewhat further.
It appears to be some bug with the message queue handling, specifically when the UI is in Aero mode. In classic mode, the problem is not there. In Windows XP, the problem is also not there.
https://scalibq.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/the-story-of-micros...
yeah there's a lot to it. Thats why i think people who try to summarize "what the locals think" into a nice one liner should just not comment. it misses to much
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I wish I could find the quote. It was something like:

"You gotta assume we're going to keep making the models better and faster and cheaper." (My memory of an old interview)

There was also this from a recently deleted blog post:

"Cheaper and faster GPT-4 — This is their top priority. In general, OpenAI’s aim is to drive “the cost of intelligence” down as far as possible and so they will work hard to continue to reduce the cost of the APIs over time." (Now deleted blog post from earlier this week)
What do you use them for, if you don’t mind me asking?
Is it something like "suck it up" but more formal?
Ok, but do any of those systems have qualia? If so, where does the quality come from?
What did Stonehenge sound like?
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Oh that's actually clever. Thanks for sharing
Looking back, it was crazy how much emphasis was placed on surface transmission.

I remember people talking about wiping down grocery boxes left in front of their door with hand sanitizer and leaving it to sit for 72 hours before bringing it inside.
Also a mirror, just in case archive.org is ordered to scrub posts from humanloop.com

https://archive.is/7TYBl
Who you wrote code for? If I were a billionaire, I'd be done writing code for other people. (I mean, users, sure. Not employers, though...)
Wasn't whataboutism forbidden on HN?
Is it actually open source? I can only find PDF schematics, not source files. The git link takes me to a closed gitlab instance.
There’s documentation usually with an API and you have changelogs. If you scrape the website, if there is a change in the UI, it will break your product. So it is feasible, but it will make all products worse and harder to maintain.
OK now anti vaxxers no longer look too bad... That's the next level of crazy.
BERT is not a generative model (you might be able to force it to do that, but that's not what it's meant for). It's good for text classification tasks, for named entity recognition and other tasks like this
"Really, once you get distracted, the pain of sitting on a nail just goes away!"

Spying on users, injecting ads, and dark patterns. Or you could just uh.. not have any of that?
>but only if all your straps have the same mechanism.

You might choose to replace all your bands if you want to use only captive spring bar mechanisms, but you must replace them if you buy an Apple watch.

A captive spring bar with a lever solves the problem entirely, and in a way strictly superior to Apple's approach. It is smaller and cheaper than the Apple solution. It will work with any watch from any manufacturer. It will allow you to keep your old bands if you choose.

If you can think of any advantage Apple's system has, I am all ears.

>you can build a massive ecosystem around a predictable, controlled, singular, homogeneous product line

Spring bars are also entirely predictable, controlled, singular, and homogeneous. You can buy a band in any standard width and be confident it would fit any watch. We had a far larger ecosystem before the fruit companies got involved.

This gives the lie to Apple's supposed genius. "Tight integration" is completely unnecessary when there are standards. They just want a monopoly.

>Even myself, I prefer the Nato straps on my regular watches as they are easier to swap than conventional straps.

Completely incompatible with the Apple watch, of course.
Given the title of "Investors Are Finally Pushing Back", the explanation is presumably "people are getting fed up with boards doing this".
> but that Reddit is also implementing a change where third-party apps would lose access to NSFW subreddits, while the official site would not

What's the official public rationale for that move?

And what's the corporate-internal rationale, if anyone who knows can say?

(I can imagine a few reasons other than simply to take away more user base of third-party apps, but I'm curious what the truth is.)

(Aside: Both openness and NSFW seemed to be significant parts of Reddit from early on. I recall very early on, briefly looking at Reddit, and I noted with amusement that they seemed to be slying using NSFW to help boost adoption. That might've even been before subreddits, or maybe it was an early subreddit.)
TL;DR: If all media tell you the same thing over and over again, just don't do it and you should be safe. Propaganda is propaganda, don't get confused if many people around you fall for it, just stay on your path and trust your intuition and supress the urge to follow the herd.
With this line of thoughts one should've joined a blockchain/ICO/NFT/web3 scam. They were used to be 50-100% above the market.
Isn't there also a massive counterparty risk, since you're trying to claim money when everyone else has lost money?
Is there a database that supported arrays of foreign keys?
The value of analogue computation is limited. They are not universal computers. The problem with analogue computers is that there's a limit on the number of consecutive operations that they can perform to produce a useful result. With digital computers, errors can be corrected after each operation. Whereas with an analogue computer, evey step introduces noise which cannot be corrected. It cannot be corrected because in an analogue system any input value is 'valid'. In a digital system input values that are slightly higher or slightly lower than a digit can be corrected to the nearest digit.
Disabling the biggest malware of all time is amazing. System76 is getting quite attractive.
NNT is very entertaining. He's also blown up two hedge funds. Ever notice that running a fund is an asymmetric option? The management makes money either way at least until the investors leave, but there's no clawback if the fund blows up. So, I enjoy NNT. I respect his wit and intelligence. I'll even use his insights to steer my thinking. But he's not where I want my money going. And with his books and his trips to Washington perhaps he's gotten that bigger job.
The Surprising New Source of Lithium for Batteries
It’s the End of Computer Programming as We Know It. (and I Feel Fine.)
Well, Android has uBlock Origin. I admit that I read almost everything on mobile these days, including 100% of my Reddit and HN usage. I sit in front of the computer all day for work, so I have little appetite to continue sitting for leisure reading.
How did you learn how to tune (fuel maps, timing, etc)? I was kind of hoping the speeduino docs would have something in there, alas "it does not cover advanced engine tuning, fuel / ignition strategies etc".
You can start with an easier problem: how airplane can fly. Individual atoms ability to fly is zero, but airplane's ability to fly is 1. If we were to calculate airplane's ability to fly as a sum of its atoms abilities to fly, the sum of zeros is zero - we would get zero ability to fly.
> it has model specific weird shapes with proprietary connectors

No. The shape is cylinder. They're not model specific. https://cleantechnica.com/2020/09/22/everything-you-need-to-...
Paywall removed: https://archive.ph/D15Vl
I used AltTab first, then switched to Contexts because AltTab imposed a serious performance penalty on my older Intel Mac. Did you also experience that?
I used 100kB as an example purely because it was in the ball park of the images talked about in the article - not because it's a hard limit!

Inky Frame has an SD card slot on board which can store huge images if needed. JPEG also can be decoded in chunks so there is never any need to store the entire image in memory, simply scale and encode the chunks and store the result in the framebuffer - in principle there is nothing stopping you displaying multi megabyte images on Inky Frame.

You do seem to misunderstand our product range - it is targeted at Makers who want to take the base hardware and modify the software (and possibly to some degree the hardware) to create their own inventions and scratch their own itches. It's not really mass market stuff where you straight up plug and play.
The cell themselves are fairly standard, it's the packs themselves, cooling systems, BMS, etc, that are custom.
Good tools explain the tradeoffs they make and provide escape hatches for when you need to sink down to the lower level (since all abstractions are leaky in practice).

Use the escape hatches appropriately. Also - not turning on logging for your ORM and looking at what it generates or using an n+1 detector, linter, etc is the fault of the dev team, not the 'incompetent PM'.

Also the example declarative migration doesn't really feel declarative to me. Seems pretty... procedural? To me declarative is "describe the final state desired and I will generate/execute the diff". In practice I find migrations need backfill + biz logic sprinkled in.

> Migrations first, not schema first.

Similarly I don't think this works in the real world either. Please consider the poor junior dev who checks out the code base for the first time and tries to run migrations and then seed data.

The best practice has, imo, long been to load a schema file which represents what the db should be at the head of a branch and then load up your seeds. Migrations are to catch your team and live environments up. They occasionally get nuked from the codebase as everyone reconciles their environment.

> And the problem with portability is it comes at the cost of specificity. I don’t want a database access tool, I want a Postgres access tool. I want it to expose Postgres’ power user features as first-class features,

I don't know about Python based ORMs but ActiveRecord does this.
My optimistic excitement is gradually wavering as I wait onward of 3 minutes for the first image to generate.
Hmm, didn't know about old reddit. Guess I'll use that maybe. But yeah, current reddit is slow. Chrome always revs up
Biggest ever study of primate genomes has surprises for humanity
The average consumer was fine, just don't start a business based on what's very likely temporary policy. Though, I suppose one could argue that business is always a gamble and some people made a lot of money off of the pandemic.
I hope someone proofreads that article before it's published to the Interwebs!
OMG 6 months, I like to hear about that too. The job search is a struggle.
I feel like you guys must not follow politics.

Bipartisanship is pretty much dead everywhere. Majority rule is one party rule, even for very slim majorities. Nobody crosses the aisle anymore.

When we have a bicameral party split, or executive split with legislature, as we currently see federally on both counts, very little gets done.
US Air Force colonel ‘misspoke’ about drone killing pilot
Just another uninformed "A.I. could transform computer programming" article. Not worth reading IMHO.
Sure, but chatgpt is so large in the public conscious because anyone can freely use gpt-3.5-turbo or pay a measly $20 for gpt-4. Some whitepapers made years ago pushed AI forward but didn't showcase its capabilities.
Guilty as charged :p
> In other words, and I'm hardly the only one saying this: ChatGPT is not a replacement for people. It's an augmentation. It's a bicycle for the mind, to steal Steve Jobs's famous metaphor.

This is the analogy that jumped out to me as well. LLMs seem to be more of a vehicle than a destination. Like a bicycle, LLMs need to be operated with the direction and effort of an operator to ensure it stays on course and doesn’t veer into traffic.

Continuing the analogy, I suspect that LLMs will open up traditional white collar jobs to more people. More people can get to the destination on time with the aid of a bicycle than on foot.
Nice branding. Any relations to Elegant Themes/Divi?
I love the idea as a learning tool, but:

1. ~USD $535 isn't exactly 'low-cost'

2. I'm confused who the audience is.

It can't be kids--this is too advanced. It can't be engineers (or student engineers)--there are better, more practical learning tools. Maybe people with an extra $500 who just enjoy fiddling around?
This has been fully retracted: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/02/us-air-force...

Original story: https://web.archive.org/web/20230602014646/https://www.thegu...

Shame on The Guardian for not mentioning the retraction.
Seems to be vying for the same compile-to-C niche as Nim, though Lisp homoiconicity is welcome. I must say though, from the summary, I'm not a fan of using C type keywords. I much prefer the adoption of something unambiguous e.g. Rust or D. Nim prefers 64-bit numeric types but has compatible subtypes with bit widths in them (int32, float32).
High is the number of freelance gigs I've foregone, because they asked me to estimate the work ahead of time on my own dime.
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36164797
I'm guessing you're connecting to 4G with a sim card? Essentially a small computer, so you're exposed that way regardless.