skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of these spam / clickbait articles and SEO Blogposts were written (at least partially) by a less advanced version of this for quite some time. They are probably written by openai these days
You know what's interesting? It feels like history is repeating itself with Fly.io, just like it did back when I first encountered Heroku. Back in the day, I was super excited about Fly.io – it had that same fresh, exciting vibe that Heroku had when it burst onto the scene.

I remember being blown away by Fly.io's simplicity and how easy it was to use. It was like hosting made simple, and I couldn't help but think, "This is it, this is the one!"

But, as time went on, I noticed little signs of trouble. Downtimes became more frequent, and my deployments, which were once snappy and seamless, turned into agonizingly slow affairs. It was like déjà vu from the time when Heroku's greatness started to wane.

It's disheartening to see Fly.io go down a similar path. As more people flocked to the platform, it seems like its performance began to suffer – just like what happened with Heroku. The more popular it got, the less reliable it seemed to become.

Scrolling through Hacker News, I can't help but feel a sense of disappointment. Others are expressing their frustration too, and it's like we're all reliving that moment when Heroku lost its charm and became a hassle.

I have to admit; it worries me. It's like a cautionary tale of how even the most promising platforms can fall from grace. It's the reality of the fast-paced tech world, but it's tough to accept.

So yeah, here I am, hoping against hope that Fly.io can somehow break free from this cycle and find its footing before it becomes as useless as Heroku was at its lowest point.
>The reality is, supermajority (including me) of people prefer not using cash. Especially up here in the North.

Unfortunately, in my experience, I'd have to agree with you on that. But it also brings to mind a relevant Samuel Adams quote:

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
> they never bothered to reply and put me in some kind of shadow ban from re-registering with my email.

So did you manage to delete your account then attempt to re-register using the same email address you deleted the account with?

Why would a company shadow ban you for asking an innocuous question?
Not intentional, but that's amazing! Also a pretty wild game that was played in mesoamerica.

[1]: https://www.britannica.com/sports/ollama
Yeah, there’s just something too suspicious about heated plastics.

I feel the same way about those Teflon pans as well. I don’t have any evidence, I just… don’t trust ‘em.
This someone is perhaps not affected by a missed schedule as badly as others. It is rational to provide too optimistic a schedule. And if something goes amiss, find a political solution. One is to find a scapegoat.
Looks go in and out of fashion, beauty does not. Here's Nefertiti from ~1350 BC, she could still be a model today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefertiti#/media/File:Nofretet...

In 10 years' time we'll be laughing at today's trend of Kardashian-style duck lips, Brazilian butts and fake eyelashes, but the funniest will be the plain people who desperately tried to become attractive through aping the style, not the objectively beautiful people like Kim herself who could actually pull it off.
The price was already high for something that is not a product it's just extortion: "pay us or you'll get ads! Pay us or we will disable features from your phone like play in the background".

There is no recommandation engine for example, you just get the same clips over and over again.
I have a feeling there is a good number of parents willing to volunteer a child. They start getting mouthy around 3.

/s kinda
I'm not the person you asked and as an Australian it's difficult for me to find a concrete irrefutable example of the USofA IRS being weilded as a political weapon on short notice.

I can, however, provide two examples of an incredibly
unlikely event that happened to two political enemies of the then seated POTUS:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/us/politics/comey-mccabe-...

As outlined the Comey | McCabe audits appear to have all the likelihood of jeering at the president and then being struck by lightning.

This does appear to be something specific to a particular POTUS and not a general practice.
That is a very nicely constructed project!
I saw your other comment, glad to see this wasn't intentional as the optics were pretty bad
This is our public site, for people who don't have support plans with us.

It's difficult for me to say more about what happened here and how you might have handled it, because I don't know what happened with this SYD host, because it's 1AM and the people who worked on it are, I assume, asleep. When I know more, I'll do my best to get you a postmortem.
Thanks for the recommendation, especially these days that I'm really deep into Anarchist literature :)

Also Brian Eno, urging people not to get a job: https://youtu.be/d-53tzx69fM
Right, didn’t mean to imply it did.
You have reactive properties to model the internal state of a component but what's the recommended way to manage global state? Example: I click a button in a row of a table and I make something happen outside the table, so several components upward the components tree of the page and then a few others downward in a different branch of the tree.

I'm sure there is a better way to do it but (10 seconds of thinking time) maybe a top component with just an empty div and a reactive property with the global state and the code to apply changes to the reactive properties of the appropriate children components, no matter how far down the tree? That seems something to standardize and not code from scratch every time.
>It is plausible that plastic will be the next tobacco/leaded gasoline.

More like lead, since it's impossible to remove the microplastics from our environment.

Tobacco you can just stop, I know it's addictive and all, but at least the issue is psychological, not physical.
As an aside, this is a very common misinterpretation of Einstein's comments. After its discovery, there was a major disagreement about how to interpret quantum mechanics. Bohr, among others, advocated for a view that quantum mechanics was a fundamentally probabilistic phenomena with no direct causal explanation. Einstein vehemently disagreed with this, and felt that the universe was absolutely causal in nature. And the only reason that an explanation that rejected determinism/causality fit so well was due to a lack of research or knowledge.

That's the context where many of his most famous comments come from. He was not skeptical of his own results or views, but of others' interpretations. It's the same for "Spooky action at a distance." Einstein had a deeply held belief that the universe was causal and logical, which he held to his death. Incidentally, the probabilistic explanation, "The Copenhagen Interpretation", ultimately 'won.'

It's one of the best examples of why equating science with consensus is such an odd view. The greatest physicist of all time held a fringe view on the very topic that he was 'the father' of. His arguing endlessly in support of his view, contrary to the consensus, only made for better science for all. To say nothing of some of the most amazing debates in history, with Einstein and Bohr having numerous live public debates over many years, constantly aiming to one-up each other.
Battery powered climate jackets? Exists but should be more ubiquitous
Frankly, Safari works.

If those features slow down the web then that’s a knock on those features. Plus I’ve yet to see a single one of these supposedly “missing” features actually matter in the real world.
Oh yes... Sweden. Political party initiated by a literal SS soldier, keeps having to kick out members for nazi salutes and similar stuff, but calling them fascists makes you offended...

The same government that wants to revoke citizenships and permanent residence permits. Yup, calling them fascists is an abuse of the word. Hahahaha.
The LLM has generated internal non-text representations of all sorts of stuff - the whole model doesn’t “think in text” per-say, it just outputs text in its last layer.

But there is an association in there somewhere that “zebras are animals that have stripes” that isn’t necessarily linking those words (it could be linking the concepts of zebras, stripes and animals).
The problem is not weapons. The problem for Ukraine is they are still a Soviet-tier army, operating with Soviet-era tactics. It's not productive to ship them thousands of Abrams and F-16s if they do not understand how to operate these systems in a combined arms fight. They do not, and it takes a long time to become competent at this. So, a King of Battle war of attrition it is until either Ukraine can figure out how to do this or something truly catastrophic happens with Russian supply and morale. Or NATO directly enters.
Can you give an example of how you're arriving at your performance numbers? My tests with enwik8 show LZAV performing considerably below your benchmarks on an Apple M1 system (~320 MB/s compress, 1780 MB/s decompress), and I'm curious why.
you have to use caps
Anything that catches your eye is good but my favorites are:

30 Weird Chess Algorithms: ELO World https://youtu.be/DpXy041BIlA

Reverse Emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS! https://youtu.be/ar9WRwCiSr0
So many feeding bottles and sterilizers are plastic. I'd like to see plastic and forever chemicals banned from as many areas as possible. Baby feeding equipment has got to be the best place to start along with hot food packaging.
He is a hollywood character now, hero of a movie.

And we live in internet scale now. Everyone is comparing because there is nothing else to do.
Guilty of being socialists?
"high expectation of working conditions"

Working conditions in the Unites States are quite bad compared to some other places in the world. "At will" employment, wages so low that tips are required to offset them etc. I can go on and on. Just take a read in /r/antiwork/ at reddit. A lot of those things are even illegal but people don't even bother anymore to report them.

We are at a point in time where we have the luxury to improve working conditions and not go back to basically slavery. The issue is we are enriching the rich instead of those that are doing the hard labor.

We have the whole thing backwards, actual labor should be rewarded the most as it takes that one thing away from us that we have a limit resource of which is time.

If we don't strive to improve our lives then what is the point? Work and die to make the life for a few excessively luxurious?
I absolutely despise microwaves. It comes from a (seemingly) irrational fear of my dad's - formerly a trained chemist, but also just a smart guy.

1. I feel that as with many products, microwaves are also maximized for perceived customer happiness - this means food hot ASAP. So, they're probably pushing out the legal maximum of energy in microwave form. "Better" microwaves are probably worse for this.

2. I notice a distinct flavor to microwaved _meats_ specifically - maybe this is true about all proteins, but I'm not entirely sure. It's very pronounced in more flavorless chicken dishes when I notice it. I've read (on some stackexchange site) that chicken can change when re-heated. I don't need to know what it is. I trust the tongue evolution gave me.

3. I have always noticed - no matter what type of plastic, all plastics impart a taste to water once the water has been sitting for some time. I imagine heat speeds up this process. Maybe, microwaves do too. Again, the tongue.

Based on these points, I:

- avoid microwaves like the plague to start with. Air fryers and mini-ovens FTW! Sometimes it's far and above the best choice; e.g. microwaving nachos vs. burning them with the broiler and wasting a LOT of energy in the process.

- never microwave with/in plastics. So, no TV dinners EVER, and pyrex/glass/ceramic containers.

- generally microwave at 70% or less power rather than the default 100% - usually on a program of progressive power reduction (see below)

- constantly stir/move food around - prevent hot-spots (see next bullet)

- immediately stop the microwave when I hear any popping sounds - it's a good heuristic that some part of the food is boiling hot, and the heat needs to be evened out

One piece of advice is to familiarize with the power settings and "programmed cooking" methods of a microwave. I often will heat food on a program of 70% power for 1 min, followed by 50% power for 1 min, followed by 40% power for 1 min.

I hope some of this helps someone. I feel like I'm the anti-microwave evangelist of the house - my wife heckles me about it constantly. I can't wait to send out this link in the AM!
It does rather make the person weilding such a dismissal look like an utter fool though.

At least to international eyes.
OK, here goes. I'm on Linux; location of the settings menu may differ, depending on what you use.

- Go to Tools menu, select "Add-Ons and Themes". You can also go to about:addons in the URL bar.

- On that page, I have on the left: Recommendations, Extensions, Themes, Plugins. Choose Extensions.

- You should be in a page that says, "Manage Your Extensions" near the top. Scroll down to find the one in question, Sidebery in this case.

- To the right of the enable/disable toggle, there is an icon with three dots.

- Click the three-dot icon, select "Manage".

- One of the options is, "Run in Private Windows". Select "Allow".

If I open a private window, Sidebery isn't open by default, but is available if the extension icon is clicked in the bar under the tabs, or I click Ctrl-e to toggle back and forth.

Hope this helps!
>Even microplastics are found on Everest

Funny that you mention Everest. My first thought on Everest is rainbow valley, not untouched by humanity.
> Seems to have been no real "defunding" going on

Not increasing funding to match inflation is defunding. If you disagree then you’ll be fine working for the sane salary you’d have had in the mid 90s, right?

No. You would not. So either you’re being deliberately obtuse or now you understand
I wish I could say the same. My ISP and DO have absolutely terrible peering, unfortunately a lot of our internal stuff is hosted there. It’s always fun to git push/pull with 40kb/s on a gigabit connection.
Both Sweden and Finland joined NATO with the goal of increasing army spending and reducing it on the social programs.

Better to give money to USA to buy one F22 and to complain about darkies being criminals, than to put money to education so that criminality isn't the only route out of poverty right? /s

And of course in Sweden the schools where the residents are poor get less money, aren't as good, and it's much more difficult for their students to be accepted into a university.
1. Every few years we find a new chemical like BPA is bad for us. The companies just made a meme called 'BPA free' and continue making slightly different crap. Goto 1.

I still see microwave popcorn bags, teflon pans and plastic tea bags in shops. The local municipality still pretend that it's all being recycled. It needs to be phased out of food industry leaded fuel as phased out of gas.
Sure it's a pain in the ass, but this is exhibit A on why one needs to use home assistant and build your infrastructure/services for your home based on things you control. Outsourcing monitoring of cameras, control of doors, monitoring of occupancy, and related is a bad move. Especially when homes are designed to last many decades if not centuries and should work even when the internet is out or some random company dies, is acquired, gets bored with a product, decides to monetizing a service in annoying ways, or to increase the API costs to unreasonable rates.
No they aren't, they are trying to make a distinction between how Google used to be good for scouring the wide web but now it's results are poor enough that you are better off narrowing your search to single known good avenues.

By poor I mean the results may be relevant but of low quality, thanks to commerce and SEO spam often dominating the results.

In some ways this is actually a decent reflection of the reality of the web. It is mostly spam and ecommerce, with human communities taking refuge in certain platforms.
Wasn't there an article how the space weather and sun flare up lubricate tectonic plates?
I'm working with someone who asks me to remove documentation that summarizes what a function does.

(The whole codebase is stripped bare of documentation.)

Copilot can write implementations based on comments. Soon I think it could flag potential errors if code doesn't do what the comment claims it does. Then we can do that in code checks.
Good point. :)

I'm still wondering about their hardware acceptance/qualification though, prior to it being deployed. ;)
This together with export LC_ALL=Latin.UTF-8 will do nicely to bring to life the metaphor that programmers are really wizards doing spells!
They don't claim that the words don't have a meaning. They just changed the meaning so that now they are "offending". And offence is a crime for which you can go to jail. So calling someone a nazi can land you in jail.
Lit is great, one thing I learned from Web development in the last couple of decades is the less layers to debug between browser native support and UI application code, the better.
Next we need Human GPT and Human Diffusion.

We'll start with inference, but maybe we'll eventually convince some folks to do a full training exercise.
Not gonna lie, a tree-style tab browser sounds like awful UI to me, but… I’m glad you like it.

Supporting the insecure bloatware that is Chrome & FF extensions tho? Massive convenience factor, I get it, but… ewwww
You probably have a very small illegal population, here in the US, if you don’t wanna hand someone a ton of cash but wanna pay them for something and they’re not allowed to open a bank account, a check is the easiest way to give them money. They can go to a check cashing place pay the 1-3% fee and cash the check. Otherwise you’re giving them cash or doing some complicated load to a prepaid card.
He may have been talking about Fly themselves. Certainly having only a single machine to serve a wealthy metropolis of 8 million people seems like amateur hour.
FedNow is probably more similar to TIPS, which has been running in the euro area banks since 2018, building on SEPA instant credit transfer.
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/target/tips/html/index.en.htm...

Anyone with an euro bank account is probably using TIPS in some fashion. In most cases, you can send a bank transfer anywhere in the euro area within 10 seconds for zero fees. Some banks may charge an extra fee on the sending side, and the receiving side might be a bit slower (in which case the payment might take a few hours to show up or act like a normal bank transfer). It's also used by merchants like Amazon or payment systems like PayPal to reduce fees on their payments.
There already are techniques to guade LLMs into producing output that adhere to a schema. For e.g. forcing LLMs to stick to a Context-Free Grammar: https://matt-rickard.com/context-free-grammar-parsing-with-l...

Just like many similar methods, this is based on logit biasing, so it may have an impact on quality.
I had llama2:13b write me a song about Mario to similar to "I'll be there for you" and it came up with:

...
We'll travel through the desert, we'll swim through the sea
We'll soar through the sky, we'll climb up high
We'll battle Koopa Troopas, we'll defeat the bosses too
Gonna make some memories, with my friends, we'll always do
what makes people think it's safe?

Marketing, eg https://www.americanchemistry.com
Well Lina Khan went after Meta for acquiring Supernatural for $500 million while Apple continues their trillion-dollar anticompetitive empire. So it wouldn't be that weird for the FTC to be focused on stuff that does not matter
I see the reasoning but in practice it’s just sci-fi I believe. Even if you have the _perfect_ walled garden… there you are with your wealth. What will you do with it if everyone else refuses to deal with you? What are shares of corporations worth if no one cares that you own something? Why would the military listen to you, when they could obliterate your escape room and take over your wealth directly?

All this stuff you mention relies on the the „fact“ that capitalism and guaranteed private property rights are absolute truths - when in fact they aren’t, actually more like a temporal fashion wave in some parts of the world, and faith in this destructive obsession in „the economy“ is on the decline finally. :-)
Yes, the government should do that. If you get a drug patent and failure to ensure supply causes the patent to be terminated I would bet the behaviors would change quite a bit.
The nexus between KF harassment and the suicides in two of the three cases is extremely tenuous ("KF had a thread X disliked" -> "X committed suicide" -> "KF induced X's suicide") and in the third the evidence that a suicide occurred to begin with is lacking.

I'm sure many, many more suicides could be linked more strongly to any of the major social media platforms.

In any case, the reasons for deplatforming have always been more diverse. CloudFlare dropped KF for representing some sort of imminent and ongoing threat to human life which you'd think a good-faith review of would indicate was misguided (and thus their service should be restored.) KF has not been able to establish relationships with other hosts not because literally everyone finds them repugnant, but because entering into a public relationship with any company immediately makes that company a target for a hate campaign, and even "free speech" hosts and such have found the cost-benefit math unfavorable.
Interesting, I didn't know that some countries don't give protection to typefaces.

Does that mean that if you take a commercial font file and strip the bytecode, retaining only the glyph shapes, you can do as you wish with the result? And does that mean all bitmap fonts are actually public domain in the US?
> it's a loosely coupled top-down public institution

Indeed. Here I was thinking we'd shed the last of this "independent Fed" legal fiction during the "Great Recession."
The hot water in the dishwasher is flowing through plastic hoses and a plastic sprayer before it reaches the dishes.
My point was that the app-not-working category is used in conjunction with support/our team getting involved. I assume this is what Sam meant by "flagged it internally", which was followed by investigation, then a post. I don't see how the timestamps uncover something nefarious.
Silicon, Silica, Silicates and Silicone (1998) [pdf]
>Do american politicians

One side much much much more than the other. Only one side banning mandated water breaks.
Does anyone outside the US use iMessage?
>Thankfully, the site is no longer available via clearweb

Untrue, but once enough people know this I'm sure it'll be taken out again. I'd post the link but I'd probably be jeopardizing my YC account..
They are still in use in France from time to time. Typical use cases I have seen are security deposits, and for small non-profits to expense volunteers and getting paid without bothering with payment terminals.
Super big fan of SDF text rendering and their ability to get effects like soft-shadows and hard bevels, essentially for free by baking Multi Channel and Single SDFs into one RGBA texture.[1] was surprised to see emojis work without being decomposed into separate parts, albeit the colors losing their sharpness above the texture's 1:1 resolution.

[1] https://github.com/Chlumsky/msdfgen
Anyone who believes he was involved in creating Bitcoin after the Sartre stunt he pulled is a fool:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160504011155/http://www.drcrai...

https://rya.nc/sartre.html