skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using high-tech laser gear, UN-backed team scans Ukraine historical sites
OpenAI models are great, but a lot of people have blinders on and only use ChatGPT or GPT4. There are fantastic alternatives, and there are plenty of reasons to try them out. I've focused on a few reasons: speed, cost, and capabilities, but I'm sure that there are more. What do you think?
I would say that GAMBAS is the most similar thing I've seen so far (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambas)
It's super weird to me that people will leave a bad review because there were things on the menu they didn't like. I like some types of organ meat, and dislike others, but it would never even enter my mind to be like "2 stars because 40% of the menu is stuff I don't like". People are weird.
That's an uncharitable read. There are market realities to the cost of real estate, there's no need to add a moralistic spin to it.
Mercedes-Benz beats Tesla for California's approval of automated driving tech
We don't have enough details from the article to determine fault in this particular collision. I'm not familiar with that particular highway, but there are a lot of US highways where (legal) prevailing speeds are 40 mph or higher and there are driveways from which unprotected left turns are permitted.

I think including details specific collisions is probably a distraction. Regardless of fault, this type of collision happens; and does the estimate of 200 lives / year justify the cost of adding underguards on trailers? (and rightful grumping about poor quality of statistics)

That's separate from a policy to eliminate driveways on highways above a certain speed, or provide separation of directions to eliminate left turns, or a nationwide 25 mph speed limit, or a separate road network only for large trucks, or whatever proposal you have to reduce the speed of collision here.

FWIW: Here's a street view of US-281 where it enters Hidalgo County, and the posted limit is 60 mph: https://www.google.com.mx/maps/@26.0843029,-97.8616537,3a,75...

Again, we don't know where the collision took place, this is just where I happened to look on the highway where it's roughly paralleling the Rio Grande. A speed limit of 60 mph on a well paved, two lane highway through a rural area is consistent with my expectations.

Closer to McAllen, TX, where the article says the deceased works, it's two lanes in each direction with a center turn lane, and a speed limit 55 mph. https://www.google.com/maps/@26.1518933,-98.1911449,3a,75y,2...
Hybrid AI-Powered Computer Vision Combines Physics and Big Data
Right. And my point is that it won’t affect their bottom line at all. The power users think they have “communities” but they do not. To us plebs it is mostly an afterthought that there are different subreddits at all. Reddits front page could be totally AI-generated and i bet most users wouldn’t notice. Another day, another “what’s something underrated you think everyone should know” thread.

The power users probably have a higher rate of block installed anyhow, so maybe Reddit will see a little uptick in “engagement”
There was a really bad flu that went around just before Covid. It was a bad enough flu for me that I actually had to take a Ventolin inhaler. When I finally got covid in late 2022, I would say the flu I picked up in 2020 was worse.
> In NYC the DHS intakes and beds 60,000 homeless people _every single night_.

I interpreted parent's use of the term "solution" quite differently.
If you put contact info in your HN profile - especially an email address that matches one you use to login to openai, someone will probably give you access...

Anyone with access can share it with any other user via the 'invite to organisation' feature. Obviously that allows the invited person do requests billed to the inviter, but since most experiments are only a few cents that doesn't really matter much in practice.
http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/VisualMic/ uses the rolling shutter to get audio from regular-framerate video of a bag of chips.
Four-Legged Robot Traverses Tricky Terrains Thanks to Improved 3D Vision
In the US, government organizations are not allowed to copyright their work. They can, however, obtain works that were copyrighted by someone else. But pretty much everything coming out of NASA is public domain, though they don't put a lot of effort into publicising that fact.

https://www.copyrightlaws.com/copyright-laws-in-u-s-governme...
Ah you're correct, I just quickly entered Gandi's email page and saw the 0.35 eur a month price (linked to current "old" service) but didn't go through the linked price-list.

That does suck, it's not really a huge amount but a tad much for _just_ email (compared to Google Apps or MS365).
https://www.reddit.com/r/cremposting/comments/149a7ge/poll_s...

https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/148w58w/vote_s...

https://reddit.com/r/tennis/comments/148suem/rtennis_blackou...

https://reddit.com/r/SipsTea/comments/148sk76/further_protes...

https://strawpoll.com/polls/e7ZJGVOXBy3 (/r/stardewvalley)

A decent number of them show that people support an indefinite blackout, though there are some exceptions (like /r/tennis), where there is more support for opening back up. It's not universal, but generally people seem to be in favor of keeping the pressure on Reddit this way.
*Worse for the average person, better for the elite. Just another symptom of growing inequality.

As I said in another post, better to be the 10th wife of a prince rather than the 1st wife of a commoner (in a highly unequal society).
People need to start thinking of politically-impactful truths in terms of probability distributions and outcome possibility spaces, rather than absolutely.

If it were a lab leak, there are probably a handful of eyewitnesses.

Any information (not leak; was leak) would have serious ramifications to the political systems of the two largest economies in the world (the US and China).

What are the chances that we'll ever hear the true story?

Which isn't a suggestion that "They're covering {specific thing} up." It's a suggestion that we will never hear evidence of any of the possible outcomes.

And beyond that, what would "the truth" in this case change?

>> Said Metzl, “Had US government officials including Dr. Fauci stated from day one that a COVID-19 research-related origin was a very real possibility, and made clear that we had little idea what viruses were being held at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, what work was being done there, and who was doing that work, our national and global conversations would have been dramatically different. The time has come for a full accounting.”

Yes, the national and global conversations would have been substantially worse and less effective.

Once the cat's out of the bag with a global pandemic, any breath blaming its origin is wasted.

Can you imagine how many scarce resources would have been mispent if SARS-CoV-2 had begun with worldwide knowledge that China was responsible?
Couldn't the government claim you are lying about how many users you have, and then demand you show them how many you have? How will they prove how many users they have without handing over the list of users?
Obviously OEM repair is prohibitive, but surely there's some local or semi-local shop that would do the whole lot for something more reasonable in total?

Not just for giving them a lot of business, but because you're saying Look, there's a common failure mode, the same event took them all out - and that's valuable information. It probably is a similar issue in each.

(Ok maybe don't bother with the bulbs..)

Although I suppose depending on your excess you may be better off with an insurance claim.
Apparently I'm mis-remembering Scour, but Audiogalaxy was definitely just a FTP site index. FTP isn't hard to use, but finding the files you were looking for and downloading them via FTP servers were definitely more difficult pre-napster. There weren't many that were just open, you'd have to upload content to be able to download something else. A lot of them were 10-1 ratios, or people were looking for specific things to trade.
It also ignores that we are slowly, but surely, moving towards more renewables for electricity generation. The UK hardly burns any coal these days, I believe we have 2 coal fired plants that are there mostly for emergencies. Yes, we still produce quite a lot from gas fired plants as they are easy to turn up and down to match demand, but the the direction is set, electricity generation will get greener.

This just feels like a super defeatest post.
Unfortunately I can't not use Discord since there are some people that are best reached through Discord.

In an ideal world I could just make another account and forget about this, but there's still data in my old account that I can't export.
Italian Consumers Consider Pasta Strike to Protest Skyrocketing Food Prices
I agree, but I suspect that if there was significant cost attached companies would only use non-competes in very rare cases.
Coming from countries where truck transport is not allowed on Sundays - it's great. Means that if you're going with your family somewhere on Sunday it's very quiet on the roads. Also awesome for long distance driving, always plan those for a Sunday and the traffic flows much smoother. As for the idea that it moves the traffic to other days - no it doesn't, because a lot of that traffic wouldn't be driving on Sunday anyway - most businesses are closed on Sundays anyway.
Agreed. The problem is when citizens come forward to push for this, the manufacturer's lobbyist come in say it's too dangerous. Both from a trade secrets and a user injury perspective (battery packs explode dontcha know). And the manufacturers have more money to spend on lobbyist and political campaigns than the citizens. Like anything, it would take average citizens organizing in significant numbers to change anything. And not enough people care enough to actually sacrifice their time and money to make such a stand.
"Nothing work related should live ONLY on my work machine." is the intent.
I’m not here to feed you sources or convince you. If you’ve ignored the twitter files for months no link from me is going to change your mind.

Have a nice day.
> It's a point of pride for many New Yorkers that if you're homeless and willing to get clean, the city will provide a bed for you every night.

And if you don't want to get clean, just go to San Francisco? At least you can sleep outside in any season without dying.
Hey that's a cool link. I'm kinda embarrassed to say I didn't know you could track bills like this going through Congress. Thanks for the lead.
From that site: "The raw output from the digital scan of a 70mm Hasselblad frame, is a huge 1.3GB, 16-bit TIFF file. At approximately 11,000 pixels square, a single image would require a 12-foot x 12-foot computer monitor to display the whole image at standard resolution. "

The Flikr images must be jpg conversions of the original TIFFs, certainly in an attempt to reduce file sizes. I'm not sure where the 11,000 comes from. The JPGs are 4400x4600. Perhaps the original TIFFs were 11,000x11,000 pix.
Is it a competition?
The first quote is about mineral resources but the link is about climate and greenhouse gas emissions. I'm sure it was just an oversight, but there is nothing on that EPA page that remotely addresses the mineral resource issue.

"Greening" the world with electric vehicles will first require a significant and rapid increase in our industrial mineral supply. The IEA predicts a 5x increase in required critical metals over the next 17 years to meet clean energy demands and claims "Today, the data shows a looming mismatch between the world’s strengthened climate ambitions and the availability of critical minerals that are essential to realising those ambitions." [1]. Geologists within the industry are publicly claiming that "Global reserves are not large enough to supply enough metals to build the renewable non-fossil fuels industrial system." [2].

But lets just assume we have enough minerals for the sake of argument. How are we actually going to get it out of the ground and into the supply chain fast enough? More mining. More transport. More industry. More pollution. And more fossil fuel consumption in the short term (though as the EPA notes, the long-term emissions balance favors EVs).

If the green energy revolution is going to come true, we're going to require an expansion of mining capacity that the world has literally never seen. I'm not sure everyone advocating green energy understands exactly what's required to make that happen. But the mining industry is certainly aware of the demand! If we give them the green light and an economic incentive, they'll strip mine every mountain in the global south just so everyone in the global north can drive an EV.

[1] https://www.iea.org/reports/the-role-of-critical-minerals-in...

[2] https://tupa.gtk.fi/raportti/arkisto/16_2021.pdf
Library? What library?

It seems to me that a Transformer should excel at Transforming, say, text into pptx or pdf or HTML with CSS etc.

Why don't they train it on that? So I don't have to sit there with manually written libraries. It can easily transform HTML to XML or text bullet points so why not the other formats?
Enhancing LLM Responses using a user's context
EVs are near useless in city centers because hardly anybody can install home charging, plus many households have only 1 car so they hamstring themselves for road trips. If you can install a charger on your property and also have ICE vehicles in your household, EVs are great. Not too many suburbanites / exurbanites doing >250 miles in day.
Hundreds of hours of labor (and the hours developing professional skills prior to that labor) are not free. Art-grade photo printing is not free.

The book is huge in all 3 dimensions. Nearly every page is a full-page photo print. It is a work of art, an artifact, and well worth the price. I love my copy.
I agree it's probably safer to just ban them instead of trying to plug all the loopholes.
Still young and new, but definitely modern, elegant, flexible and declarative: https://github.com/fork-tongue/collagraph
OpenRsync: BSD Licensed Rsync
> Although, I fear the vendor lock-in intensifies here,

The openAI API is super simple - any other vendor is free to copy it, and I'm sure many will.
Profit motive.

Industries don't sacrifice profits for the public good.

Just look at the fossil fuel and tobacco industries.

That's one of the primary reasons we have governments. To solve issues like this.
This is a very large, very modern city. I'm very willing to believe they went to real hospitals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan#/media/File:Wuhan_Yangtz...
Zig is mostly a good alternative to C.

If Rust or C++ are possible options, Zig probably isn't what you really want. Rust is especially good if you can keep everything in Rust and make the most of the ecosystem.

I like Zig, but it is a much smaller language that C++ or Rust with more than a few very, very sharp edges. That having been said, I reach for Zig in a lot more instances than I thought I would. I write a lot of relatively small programs that I want to work on Linux/Windows/macOS, and Zig is pretty good at that.

Of course, I miss Rust terribly every time I run a Zig program and get a segfault.
>You won't have to wait long for confirmation.

Confirmation that they were sick. Not confirmation of what they were sick with.
Most planners would tell you that you that you need insurance to replace your expected income (or the cost of replacing a non-working spouse's childcare). That amount will often be much less than you'd pay not to die.
The idea is that in typical assymetric cryptosystem you do some variant of bitwise exponentation of “large values” (ie. slow) and both the power envelope and timing is directly related to individual bit values of the private key. This trivially works for RSA and also anything involving integer-like groups and then even for “classic” ECC, things like 25519 are intentionally designed to mitigate this kind of side channel.
If they don't want that to happen they can simply pay deferred compensation like non competes work in every other nation instead of holding them hostage through medical debt service.
We've got younger guys on my team that hem and haw about the fact that we only have vim on our hardware implementation (SAMA5 busy box), and straight up don't understand why I basically can't use VSCode without the extension, and this article hits on so many good points. Vim is extremely expressive, and everyone ends up using it in slightly different ways. For me, my movement tends to center around:

- 'e' and 'k' rapidly, or 'h' and 'b' rapidly to move left and right, or using 'f'/'F' and a target character, with '0' and '$' as needed

- For vertical movement, I tend to use ctrl+'d'/'u' to move the document up and down in chunks, then specific line numbers, as well as marks (usually at most 2-3, with 'a', 'b', and 'c') to hold on to specific areas, or I just end up remembering line numbers and jumping to them.

- Lots of yanking and deleting to specific targets, be it hori or vert

There's plenty more beyond that, but that really is the "crux" of my vim usage, and from what I've seen watching over the shoulders of many programmers over the years, it makes me way faster than most. Programming isn't about typing speed, but my work is often in doing large refactors in enormous codebases. I need to be able to move around as close to the speed of thought as possible, and I have never found a tool that comes anywhere close to providing that ability as vim.

Also, any chance I get to plug the greatest StackExchange answer ever, I will: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-mos...
Show HN: First AI Comedy Club: A Fun Twist on Coding Interviews
They'll get blocked and/or sued. And break every time the site changes.
YouTube videos are out of order?
Maybe it's just me and maybe this is a silly question, but why when I open a channel on anthropology, some videos are out of order?

https://imgur.com/a/dWmBkcc

# 10 - 2 months ago
# 11 - 4 months ago
# 12 - 2 months ago

# 29 - 6 months ago
# 30 - 7 months ago
# 31 - 6 months ago

How to fix this?
Guangdong was SARS-CoV-1.

We've had two spillovers now of sarbecoviruses and the first one hit a completely unrelated city. The other one happened in Wuhan, which is the biggest city in central China and its "catchement area" is probably fairly wide around it.

It does appear that they spillover in wet markets in big cities.

The level of coincidence here may look like rolling a 1d20 two times and the second time getting a natural 1.
> Now you have a bunch of people who the local populace is going to be bitter at, because they get subsidized shelter

Versus the love they're getting from the populace now?

Perfect is the enemy of the good. San Francisco is three quarters of the way towards spending its median income on its homeless [1][2][3]. That is how you generate a toxic backlash against a subgroup.

Has anyone asked the homeless in San Francisco if they'd want a free apartment in Willard? When rates were lower, we could have probably paid for their mortgage for less than it costs to temporarily house them. That is the opportunity cost.

[1] https://abc7news.com/sf-homeless-plan-housing-all-san-franci... $70k/shelter bed/year

[2] https://smartasset.com/retirement/average-salary-in-san-fran... $96k/year median individual income

[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MHICA06075A052NCEN $120k/year median household income
> Musk really is the ultimate deadbeat.

Donald Trump has entered the chat.
Yeah, I'm watching them, but I doubt they'll succeed. Railways are not interested in them succeeding.
Their Show Flew Under the Radar. TikTok Blew It Up
It absolutely does, but AMD's execution on this front has been unmitigated dogshit for the last decade and now every engineer in this niche has a scar or five from giving AMD chance after chance after chance and then limping back to NVDA when the slog is just too much.

Now that they have money, I'm hoping they can turn this around. I hear that they have... but I've always heard that and it has never been true. I need to see to believe, now.
> reductive to the homeless population as being nothing more than a snide, tongue-in-cheek joke

It is only a joke until you actually see that, then it is no longer a joke, just sad reality.
A well-built roll cage should prevent the very issue that is under discussion here (it should shove the truck up or the car down, not decapitate the driver).

But that's clearly not very desirable.
What about third-party services that offer moderation? And then the adventurous could browse the raw stream!
Private subs are private for everyone, even members.

Only sub moderators and admins can access private subs. You won't be able to see the threads that come up in your search results either way unless they become public again.
Wow your brand is huge. Crazy growth. i wonder how much these subtle mentions on forums help
My friend shut down his subreddit and a mod complained to Reddit admins that my friend wasn’t even active, and Reddit admins gave that mod the subreddit.

Great system.
I tried to repair a TV recently, I really thought it was going to be a cap (not that I've repaired one before) but seems it was a backlight issue, and that it's common for the model. Although in a way that it could somehow detect it seems, and refuse to do anything. Front light behaviour etc. wasn't normal, it wasn't merely that it was unlit.

It's still sitting there at the moment, but it's for the dump unfortunately. (I have a better one to pass on due to my own upgrade, and actually they're renting a new place that will likely come furnished with one anyway.)
You absolutely do not need a car to go to work in Manhattan, outside of very particular situations.
This article is not supported by the data provided.

The first major example is about the availability of TV shows and movies on Netflix, but this isn't a reflection of consumption at all, or even of Netflix. Movies went down because other studios pulled their movie content. But it also shows that TV shows quadrupled from 530 to 2,108. That's big-time long tail increase.

The next example is about more sequels in theaters, but theaters have never exhibited long-tail characteristics to begin with, so that's irrelevant.

Then it goes on to Spotify and admits that it hasn't reduced its long tail, but says he "wouldn't be surprised". That's not evidence -- that's nothing. Then he claims that long-tail artists can't make a living on Spotify -- but the long tail has never been about content creators making money, that would be nonsensical in the long tail. It's always been about the platform making money from it.

Then he finally moves to a fast-food restaurant and discovers that loyal customers make up most of revenue. Which, once again, has nothing to do with "long tail" because the long tail is about products, not customers.

He finally concludes:

> We live in a Short Tail society. And it’s getting shorter all the time.

Yet provides zero evidence for this, and it's easily refutable just by looking at television. We used to all watch the same shows, now we all watch different shows. It's common to mention your favorite show and not only has your friend/coworker not scene it, they've never even heard of it. Same with your favorite band, same with your favorite author. Total available content has exploded. We live in a Long Tail society.
That's not really relevant. The cases are all still very far away from the WIV, which is itself far from anywhere the thread implicates eg residential areas.

I also suspect the thread is just flat wrong- the people most relevant to viral spread are NOT the ones who are only spending part of their day in the city. Its the people who live there and spend all their time there.

2/3rds of the population of Wuhan lives in the urban districts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan#Administrative_divisions

The people commuting in/out are a small minority. No model is perfect.
Snoop Dogg's investment was $50,000,000.