skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it does. 3:2 pulldown produces interlaced 60 fields/s. On a digital display, it must be deinterlaced, and the only "correct" way to do that is to remove the pulldown, producing 24 fps. If you just deinterlace it as if it were originally 60i, you'll just end up with something similar to 24p converted to 30p by repeating 1 of every 4 frames (with a loss in resolution to boot). So for digital displays, 3:2 pulldown is pointless at best, destructive at worst.
"The Grandfather": you made your account in 2008 with a rage comic era meme handle and no associated email address and now it's completely broken and trashed by backward incompatibility bugs from all of the upgrades and changes and acquisitions made by github corporate and its various owners
If the prompt is copyrightable, then why wouldn't that copyright flow through to the output?

I can't legally pirate Windows just because the source code was run through a compiler. Even though the compiler itself adds no additional creativity, the underlying source code is still a creative work[0], so pirating the binaries still infringes a copyright. Just one that's in a slightly different place than what we're normally used to thinking about.

Just to drive the point home, there's a few other situations in which copyright "flows through" to things not subject to copyright. Back in the days of copyright formalities, if you published before properly registering something, your work would be born into the public domain. And this occasionally happened to serial media - e.g. someone might just forget to register the third season of a TV show. In that particular case[1], seasons one and two are still copyrighted, and because season three is a derivative work of the prior season, nobody but the original owner can actually make any use of season three. The only practical difference is that the company that owns that TV show lost one year of copyright ownership over the third season.

[0] By definitions of law. I honestly think most software shouldn't have been made copyrightable, but once Congress said "software is copyrightable" that put that question to bed.

[1] I don't remember the name of the TV show or the court case, but this IS a thing that happened and this theory IS court tested.
Good one. Added to the backlog.
https://kevinkuchta.com/ - mostly silly projects that try to combine humor and "that shouldn't be possible" technical hacks.
DoD assets weren’t needed. Any customer would have the same power to object to this.
https://walkabout165.blogspot.com/

Started out 15 years ago as a travel blog 15, now (past several years) more of a (non-code) aerospace / physics tech blog

Lately fun responses with ChatGPT
It’s not just a heat pump thing, it’s the entire industry. The state of science and tech journalism is pretty sad right now.

That’s what happens when few people are willing to pay for quality research and writing.

All that said, it is relatively recently that Americans have had access to heat pumps this efficient and they work reasonably well in sun-freezing temps.

I grew up with heat pumps. It was pretty normal for it to kick into emergency (electric heat element) when the weather got nasty (for DC, so the mid-teens F).
CS50. Things I'd always heard about and been intimidated by -- C programming, videogame programming -- pops up in the whirlwind curriculum. They're really trying to teach you that "it's all just code, and you can learn anything."

It was while I was taking CS50 online that a programmer left the company where I'd been working (in a non-technical position). His manager was scrambling to re-distribute his workload, and knew that I'd started taking an online CS class. When he offered me some easy entry-level work, I'm sure I would've said "no" just months before. That was the exact moment when the class made a huge difference.
Yeah... saw that coming the moment there was any way for the contents of the beaker to directly contact the hot plate (no big ass double water bath), and there wasn't an ice bath present immediately drop the beaker into and get the fuck outta dodge.

Explosives are one of those things that provide for endless fascination to many and were a common topic in the earlier days of the internet, thankfully this now ancient post https://archive.is/JX6gl [alt: https://web.archive.org/web/20220117042510/http://www.operat...] with it's then highly unusual focus on safety precautions, temperature controls, and emergency measures killed and buried any possibility of me ever becoming curious enough to actually mess with that shit.
Async replication implemented with 1 second of data loss expected when the primary goes down.

> However, we don't write every individual LTX file to object storage immediately. The latency is too high and it's not cost effective when you write a lot of transactions. Instead, the LiteFS primary node will batch up its changes every second and send a single, compacted LTX file to LiteFS Cloud. Once there, LiteFS Cloud will batch these 1-second files together and flush them to storage periodically.
For everyone outside of the US: You can download it from apkmirror. Worked fine for me
The short answer is boring and won't win any PC vs Mac arguements online - it's about economies of scale. Nobody wants to design, manufacture and mass-produce a line of haptic trackpads unless they have an enormous lineup of machines that can use them. To Apple, the interests aligned and the investment paid off. Other manufacturers have tried the haptic trackpad route, but nobody has the tenure in that field that Apple does.

Despite that, I still share your sentiment. MacOS isn't a suitable environment for a lot of development work, and Apple makes no attempts to acknowledge of fix these gaps. Depending on your workload, maybe an Asahi Mac would work well? If you're just interested in a gesture-based workflow, KDE's Wayland session ships default with Asahi and is a great experience for gesture-lovers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBEsxTVRsEo&t=134s

My experience using KDE with a Magic Trackpad 2 has been excellent. I get the smooth scrolling and responsive gesture support I missed from MacOS, with constantly improving support in apps like Firefox, which recently got a great 1:1 pinch-to-zoom and two-finger-swipe back gesture. My only complaints come down to the price, fragility of the thing, and the Lovecraftian horror they list as a "Lightning port".
I don't understand why anybody would use this. There are plenty of "Twitter alternatives" already, and Meta doesn't exactly have a great reputation. I see no reason to expect them to deliver anything noteworthy.

Sorry, not going to bother personally. If it turns out to be be awesome, I'm sure somebody will let me know.
Looks like gifs are the problem (for me). They render fine but on submitting, they repeatedly fail to post. Oh well.
Yes but I can't view any posts (threads? I guess?) because I don't have an account ... just like how I can't use Twitter anymore.
Among the many lessons for Elon to come out of this -

If you publicly announce that making an app is easy and could be done with a fraction of the engineers when you buy it, perhaps it’s unsurprising when a competitor decides that they should make the same app to take your revenue? After all, if it’s so easy to do, maybe it’s the next thing you should do.
Windows 10 (not even 11) was so annoying on the last random laptop that I'm not dealing with it again. And I gotta stress how low my bar is. I don't care about privacy or anything on random spare PCs, I just want it to work without harassing me constantly, and up until now it was tolerable. Idk what a dark pattern is, my word for this is "dogshit." It's more annoying than dealing with Ubuntu's random issues at this point.
I'm not sure you understand what React Server Components are if you think server-side web forms with only the necessary client-side JS is in opposition of it instead of being exactly what it's about.
Well the word “efficient” always needs context. You have to define the goal first before you can define efficiency.

OP said electrical efficient so the goal is conversion of electricity to heat and it’s 100% efficient.

Even an electric heater compared to a propane heater is more electrically and energy efficient, but it’s not as storage-efficient (because fossil fuel gases have much higher energy density per volume AND weight than lithium batteries).

A heat pump is more electric bill-efficient.
I would say the app I work on falls into the need for SPA, so I naturally love React. Hooks are where I actually jumped to React, from Marionette / Backbone and it's been love for me ever since. I don't do CSS in JS stuff, I stick to Tailwind for my needs there, so I guess we're in agreement on that.

But I'm so crazy fast in React + Tailwind that I really don't understand the frustration. Combined with Typescript, coding is just a joy for me these days.

Maybe I'm happy because I'm not jumping to each new framework trying to micro improve things, but honestly I'm not sure.

Coding the frontend in 2023 compared to 2013 feels like a piece of cake.
> there is a reason why the “don’t swipe right unless you’ve over 6ft” thing is a tinder trope

Seems like an obvious way to demoralize single men, make them feel worthless, depressed, unproductive. Which is to say if I were running a psy-op campaign against the West, I’d definitely be using that tactic.
iTerm2 I agree with, but Warp? Does it have any real adoption? The company has taken ~$70 million in venture capital funding and the product requires an account/sign-in. Even if the product itself has good features I would not touch it.
I hate this new trend with a passion.

A new low-cost airline just launched in Australia. The only way to book? By installing their app...

I am not sure how the non-tech masses book their trips, but I usually have a dozen tabs open, comparing prices and flight times across a range of aggregators/airlines.

Even if I know which airlines I am flying I often have several tabs open to compare prices across dates.

All of this is not possible with an app.
Not only that, but since a heat pump is at least 3x as energy efficient as the most efficient gas furnace, using one results in about 1/2 the E2E CO2 emissions as the gas furnace when the grid electricity being consumed is natural gas based. If you live in an area with abundant zero emissions electricity, then you are heating without any C02 emissions at all.

That said, we should do both heat pumps and insulate better.
We have a few ideas for follow-on products, but haven’t been able to put much time into them yet. I’ll add this to the list though, and we’ll look into it eventually!
Heat pumps power consumption can be modulated by energy providers and improve grid power stability.

In Germany you get way cheaper electricity prices if you allow this.
Right. They bother a little about it, but some of my spare Macs have no iCloud account associated, and it's fine.
Needs sorting by last post date and a way to add new blogs.
The unfortunate truth that it doesn't matter left or right, the parents will be relentless. They will choose the most competitive schools no matter what. They will pay for private tuition and get the children to the private schools if they think the default choices are not enough.

Lower the bar would only harm the poor kids who would have a chance to thrive in merit based programs
is this true? I can understand why it would be true, but "sea salt" is a real thing that's been traditionally made in seaside communities through to today, and I find it hard to believe they're cleaning it at anything finer than a gross scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleur_de_sel
The fella did say he bought it from a kitchen store though..
I don't remember for sure, but I'm pretty sure that GitHub used to automatically star your repos when you created them.
https://siwei.io/en/

Mostly on Graph Tech/ NebulaGraph/ Open-Source :)
Go is sane for some definitions of the word! If I got to choose a language to work with though, it would definitely be Kotlin or C#, but I prefer Go over Python because there are fewer ways to solve problems, leading to generally simpler code.

It's like a modernised C but for web/infrastructure. Unfortunately ignores about 3 decades worth of progress in other languages, and is simplistic to a fault. Jumping into an unknown codebase is easier than every other language I've used as a result.
I'm wondering whether the rendering of markdown through a regex that only deals with H3, strong, em and code is enough, since this implementation specifically seems to ask the bot to reply with markdown?[0]

Other than that, it's cool to see this web interface happen. It's little things like this that make new tools easier to grasp for less technical users.

I believe that people are more likely to go through the hurdles of learning difficult setup procedures (knowing the UX/UI will be easy to use) versus making the setup easier but having the daily use be too hard.

[0]: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/1998/commits/c19...
> I'm not sure you understand what React Server Components are

Not in depth, but that's kind of my point. I don't really need to anymore.
Yeah, I jumped ship from Marionette / Backbone when hooks came around, they finally got me to go "wow, that's way way better".
There have already been about ten links on this page that essentially do nothing for me because I don't have an Instagram account. Not sure how this is supposed to replace the use of Twitter for people who want as much reach as possible for their posts.
> You linked to a site that literally showed Walmart's non-tech arm (hint: the majority of the tech jobs at Walmart aren't under 'Walmart' on levels.fyi) paying comparable salaries (you yourself compared them)...

Now I’m still waiting for you to prove your claims which were “Most Fortune 100 companies are competitive now” and you haven’t provided a single link.

> I'm starting to think you got fooled into thinking BigTech was the only option, and are now discovering how untrue that actually was.

Well

A) seeing that when I started working, only one of the current FAANG companies existed, I know that FAANG isn’t my only option.

B) seeing that I specialize in cloud architecture and modernization + dev - ie “system design”. I think I’m at the right “F100” company.
Can you add a "show all" option? And a CSV download? This is a great dataset
I worked on an enterprise stack that started as ASP.net web forms, with C# used instead of PHP (this is not a C# vs PHP debate, the core problems exist no matter what backend form stack you use). The app was created in early 00s and by the early 10s, it was hundreds of pages. While everyone thought our application was mostly a C# app, by 2013 or so, we actually had more lines of JS than C#. Every time a dev needed to add some dynamic behavior to the site, they would import Jquery, or Jquery UI, add a plugin or few, add some inline JS on a CSHTML file, add a css file, etc etc. Eventually the entropy of that sort of thinking, of treating JS as a second class after thought, as like something you can casually inject or bang out on a per page basis, cost us a great deal on product momentum, refactoring, modernization, mobile compatibility, and more.

Facebook itself is a PHP app. React was invented to solve similar problems for Facebook.

If you're building a basic form app and you're able to make a business out of it in 2023, by all means, use some Jquery, a dead simple form UI and go to town. But if that app starts to evolve beyond a few screens or if more dynamic behavior is required, you owe it to yourself and your team to use a proper JS framework and toolset.
Thank you! Encouragement is always welcome.
With Zuck's track record, Threads will be fun but don't expect transparency.
Can you use something like Zod with the newtype pattern? I use DDD-style types for domain specific data over primitives.
"Without being instructed to" is misleading. The prompt text provided by the plugin instructs GPT-4 to create issues.
The idea that tips are based on price in general is weird. It only makes sense to me if I think about them less as compensation, and more as a power play. Given the history of tipping in the US (where it didn't gain traction until emancipation, where it became the way to pay some former slaves), this power play reading seams plausible.
Not a press release. You have no idea what question this quote was an answer to.

Obviously the vulnerable community is not the criminals, it's the poor and neglected communities they came from. A sort of state that is very much an explanation for a lot of violent crime.

Only in America do you ignore social collapse until it becomes a crime wave...
Thank you again, BurntSushi. This is marvelous work.
Perhaps, but what Reddit chose to do is not consistent with its stated reasons. A simple change to the terms-of-service and/or some rate-limits would deter those large-scale (and sue-able) AI companies, until Reddit could introduce some sort of "machine-learning tier" of API access and charges.

Instead they announced punishing fees on everyone and everything with barely any warning. That looks a lot more like a general push for blanket monetization. Their "nasty AI learning made us do it" statement looks more like a convenient excuse to deflect user-anger while simultaneously getting their company name in the news right next to hot buzzwords.
Sure, and you should not be lying though.
This sounds very cool. Wait, no, hot.

In a factory setting, there is a bunch of heat wasted in other processes, e.g. waste heat from machines. Is this heat collected and fed into the air source?
Me too. I think this law is ridiculous, but honestly I'm quite happy with all of its impacts. I view news link-sharing on social media as a negative for both news and social media. It drives news sites into hyping inflammatory and polarizing issues, and turns social media sites into a den of divisiveness and fearmongering. In the old days, Facebook was mostly photos, friends' statuses, event announcements, groups, and unsolicited poetry. If this is a step in that direction, then great!

And as for Google, if this helps people realize that other search engines actually exist, that's great too!

All unrelated to what the bill was actually aiming for, of course.
That's like 20 flushes. It's a lot more than I'd expect for "typical". Maybe a family of 5 does 20 flushes. Or maybe it's 2 people with strict anti-if-it's-yellow policy.
This is totally me :p
Good write up. If I were to build a new SaaS and I’m not anticipating lots of users and concurrency. Regardless the single writer concern, does it suffice as the main storage? What’s is the consistency guarantee?
GIF-hosting site Gfycat shutting down Sept. 1
There is one thing I always point out when individuals are called out as an exception: genetic mutants whose abilities are ideal for specific tasks exist. Runners who don’t produce lactic acid, swimmers with absurdly long arms, and so forth.

The diagnosis of Marilu Henner’s recall ability as Hyperthymesia (per her Wikipedia article) seems to confirm this is a mutation compared to typical memory formation.

That aside, long term memory is indeed distinct from working memory. Long term memory is formed from your working memory, but the memories are stored separately.
It’s naïve to assume 100% of a subsidy will fall on a consumer, though delays between purchase and subsidy help in that respect.
this makes me smile, thank you
https://tuckersiemens.com Just a log of my personal journey through tech. I don't post much, maybe once a year, but I have fun maintaining it.
Someone further down the thread had a similar negative response to that phrase and suggested maybe "parent tested" as a substitute? Thanks for the feedback!
if you are having a large milkshake, I would advise against adding more sugar to your meal. I'm not wrong, I'm giving healthy advice. To follow my advice, you simply need to ask if there is sugar in the other things you order, it's a simple, meaningful question.
You and I want the same thing! I’m sad to say I haven’t found that yet. I’ve been considering rolling my own but I feel like so many similar things exist, there must be something out there already…

One thing I did start building is sort of like a rudimentary code sandbox that’s geared towards running code inline to to explain concepts. I tried using existing solutions, but none really do what I’m thinking of. What might be ideal is something like observable.hq with the code and results visible. I’d like to show the DOM, console, or even both, along with the supporting code.

Anyway, that’s a while off because it’s not trivial. Sometimes I’m surprised there isn’t something obviously suitable for this and I must be missing something, but everything I’ve found so far really misses the mark.

One thing that kills me is that I want these widgets to live as long as my writing does. So many 3rd party tools could be gone next week; I can’t waste time throwing examples in there if it’ll just wind up MIA without warning.
this, movement of discretion from the employees talking to the customer to some central platform with the possible outcomes premapped out, seems to be a general trend for highly cost conscious large stores. so often the people at the desk say i should go online to do stuff their computers won't let them do for me.
Thanks - was wondering if anyone was going to bring up Gwern's stuff.

I want so, so bad for DNB (etc.) to make me smarter, but the meta-analysis seems to point to practicing DNB makes you better at... DNB.
You can only see a limited number of comments. Which sucks considering people in the EU can't get the app.
From my (limited) understanding of agribusiness, particularly in California, it will be hard to be cost competitive with current water sources moving forward as they are heavily subsidized (read: near-zero costs).

The upfront cost from my understanding is in drilling a deep well. Those wells keep getting deeper and costing more. But, past that, it's just the cost of running the pumps to drain the underground aquifers. IIUC the cost of water is free plus the cost of harvesting it from the commons.

I might be wrong here, but all the billboards that say "is growing food wasting water?" along the interstates in California don't really matter over long time horizons. They're advocating for draining the water tables. You can't do that forever. Doesn't matter if it was a "waste" or not, it'll be gone soon and they'll have to pay to pull water from somewhere else or stop growing crops there (or the state will pay to give them water).

When "free" water runs out, other water sources will suddenly be cost effective. But it's hard to compete with free.
Do you use next.js as well or just client side react?
Are software engineers at Microsoft poor in that story?
The UX of the touch wheel was wholesale ripped off of Dieter Rams. I love Jony Ive but he (technically, the rumor is it was Phil Schiller) ganked/remixed that one: https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/141242/what-was-the-i...
I'm in the same boat. Redux + Pre-Hook React was very legible & straightforward... Post hooks React is strong on theory but weak on substance, and I've gone to just jQuery and Python for my latest project.

I did migrate my last project the barebones JS MVP -> React and regretted it immensely. It took about a month and didn't provide enough value to make it worth it.
Microsoft Surface laptops are pretty close to MBPs.
I did a similar thing for a lowish volume embedded product. The update files are just bash scripts with a tar file cat'd on them. The unit just looks for a particular file on an external flash drive to run and the bash script runs, copies off a tar and checks that it has the right hash. Super simple and flexible when customers need me to do something special. Like extract some specific log onto a flash drive.
That’s probably what the antediluvian civilization said before they tried it in North Africa! ;)