skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not in homebrew yet (and I've so far stayed away from anything that is a bit nightly/weekly etc.) but there are several things in here that are important:

First, while they don't have a fix in the code for it yet, they've done a bunch of preparatory work on the topological naming problem -- foundational work behind the scenes that means the core codebase doesn't fall behind while they work on that, and they can do a release in the meantime. A fix for TNP is delayed a bit longer but they appear to be going about things in a sane way.

Then there are loads of comfort and usefulness things like:

- Draft PointArray improvements
- Circle to circle and to line distance constraints in the Sketcher, among other things
- B-spline improvements (and Join Curves)
- Closed loft support in Part Design
- the navigator is better and there's a new turntable view mode
- fixes to Persistent Section Cut apparently make it actually usable now

I'm looking forward to the upgrade; I really like FreeCAD and I'm increasingly hopeful about it.

Edit: oh and aarch64 support in Linux, by the look of it, making a bunch of high DPI chromebooks an interesting choice for FreeCAD machines. Plus some python package dependency management in the Add-ons manager.
On iOS, ExchangeBlocker helps block these calls: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/exchangeblocker/id1344628290
Ukraine definitely does not have a sensible leader. In 2021 he declared both that "he does not like the Minsk agreements" and that "Ukraine needs to obtain nuclear weapons". After the start of the war, he insists that Ukraine be allowed to join NATO, which would automatically mean World War.

Alright, from his point of view, perhaps this is sensible: Ukraine stands to lose otherwise, so for him the World War might be preferable.
996 culture
US does fine; likely in less of a rush to be first-past-the-post on announcing results. When the big US labs announce, they will likely be more careful and vetted and authoritative.
Yesterday someone posted a couple links and I remember this one:

https://manifold.markets/QuantumObserver/will-the-lk99-room-...
Happy to help! To give some context: there was a GPT prompt which was something like "Act as a language tutor. I'll have a conversation with you, and you reply back. If I make a grammar mistake, keep the conversation going, but put the correction in a parenthetical statement."

I was using that for a bit, but typing in another language was enough friction (vs. speaking) that I didn't use it that much.

For this, audio is perfect -- all I need is the gentle reminders about what to fix, and why. GPT could probably have a parenthetical part in the official transcript too.

Anyway, hope that helps give context.
>If the base is BSD licensed, why would commercial users not use the base rather than the GPL one?

Non-copyleft licences are not a universal business need for commercial users. See Red Hat, Suse, and Canonical for examples. BSD licences are also GPL compatible, so for whoever feels the need to contribute open source BSD licensed code, there is also a one-way street for redistributing it under the GPL. I believe this is an advantage that GPL projects & their username can leverage.

>Why? What does a GPL license let you do that you can't do with a BSD license?

I believe that bad people should not have access to good software. Bad people are incentivized to do sneaky things, and therefore, they avoid GPL licensed software because it legally binds them to be open and honest about their code/intentions. Take what happened with MINIX and Intel ME for example. MINIX has a permissive license that Intel exploited in ways that I'd bet most people here agree are net a negative. If MINIX had been GPL licensed, then Intel would have just chosen an alternative for Management Engine, but at least the options available (i.e., attack surface) would have been reduced.

I even support the SSPL. I don't care if it doesn't meet the pure definition of "open source" because what matters more to me is that it prevents large companies from abusing those who do most of the work supporting FOSS.

I believe that a successful GPL-licenced BSD is possible, and I'd take delight in knowing that big tech companies would be disincentivized to used it for some surveillance capitalism product i.e. Google's plans for Fuchsia.

[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/minix-intels-hidden-in-chip-op...
*in my butt for ages.

sorry had to :)
As per this comment, I added it to pypi. You can now just do ‘pip install attr-dot-dict’.
Aha thanks man. Yeah - agreed that there's lots of work to be done on the speech.

Makes sense - getting from 0 to 1 can be a bit of a struggle with this method, so could be good to find some ways to make that easier.
Where is the "extracting value" part? If you mean "calling their product open source while you think it is actually not" that is a really weak justification. By extracting value I literally mean using open source code as a SaaS model then not contributing back anything. Getting angry over names is not seeing the forest from the trees...
Settled a bit.
All you need is access to SS7/Delimeter, there are people who will grant you that for a price. If you stick to abusing users and do nothing that would anger telecoms you are most of the time free to do what you want.
I'm confused on your phrasing of "they explicitly never will be."

Those prototypes, of course, aren't going to themselves be shipping. But they are for R&D and to provide example of a nascent technology that one day should end up in a consumer product.

You absolutely can disagree with the approach of showing this too early or not trying hard enough to incorporate this into an (albeit expensive) consumer product today/soon.

But my read is Meta wants this stuff to one day be in consumer headsets. Just not there yet.
Yeah this is great, shocking how reliable the speech-to-text is even for my unconventional accent.

Imho UX would be improved by a larger text box, more clear demarcation between "stuff I've said" and "stuff the bot said," similar to how iMessage or Whatsapp have two-column message layouts or blue-vs-grey or both.

Also maybe some "hold spacebar to activate mic" keybindings would not go amiss, similar to how Zoom or Gmeet makes the mic hot if you're muted but hold spacebar. That would save a lot of choppy/distracting clicking. (Or possibly just make the mic hot all the time when the bot isn't talking?)
I find it really hard to deny that platform lock-in is a powerful anti-competitive and anti-consumer force - I think you’re off base in denying its impacts and the merits of addressing it.
A lot of your complaints are with the libertarian nature of our government.

The constitution protects private dictators from interference by the government, not citizens from interference by private dictators. It’s an important distinction to remember in the USA
UV purification sticker helps Cambodian villages produce clean water for free
Oh, I understand! Yes! I actually have some of these tendencies myself, while my son has much more. My brain is naturally attracted to details, especially the intricate interlocking kind. That being said, I am not entirely certain that all autistic people are the same in this fundamental way. At least, I am not aware of it, I am still learning.

How do you feel about the analogy of Hardware / software. Like the hardware is the same, but the software is written different. Good talking with you. Would love to know more. Any types are welcome!
I live in Europe, it's approx. $0.41 per kWh and diesel fuel is $1.60/liter or approx $6,4/gallon.

If I use your example,

- 75 kw battery to full is $30.75 and it's $10.25 per 100 miles;

- 2 gallons for ICE to travel 100 miles, it would be $12.8 per 100 miles.

So electric car would be a clear winner. If I factor in charging at 80% efficiency, it's $12.3 - only a $0.5 difference.

And the country I live in has the 4th highest energy price in the entire block.

Two points I would also consider

1- the service cost of an ICE car would be higher in a long run compared to the electric one due to higher complexity and more moving parts.

2- electric's car battery will wear down overtime and it will probably run less during winter.

I don't have much data though to elaborate on those points.
good not great.
The really stunningly good ecosystem ripple effect of switching to Wayland is that anyone who wants to make hardware for Chromebooks now needs driver support for the one clear obvious huge target they should have had been targeting anyways, Wayland.

More directly obviously useful to most people though is just the fact that the shelf life of these units should hopefully be a lot longer. The OS might not longer get updates, but Chrome can keep upgrading & just run on whatever Wayland compositor is there.
When people say that something can’t be done, I think the majority of the time they mean (but don’t say) that it can’t be done within unspecified x,y,z constraints.

Those constraints, as you eluded to, are most often things like “within a certain timeframe” or “under a certain cost”.

Saying that something cannot be done without specifying those unspoken constraints - or being explicit that you do actually mean it can’t be done, even on an infinite timescale or with infinite money - is kind of a useless statement to make IMHO.

I’ve never really understood that tendency but maybe working in tech kind of conditions you to think in a more flexible way about what may be possible?
The demos are, unsurprisingly, soulless muzak. This contributes nothing to our culture.
Exactly. And from the various videos it doesn’t seem diamagnetic at all because it floats in a stationary way on a single planar magnet.
Diamagnetic material can’t do that, they need an array of magnets.
This is horrifying and yet I can’t look away.
Same for 'no one willingly goes to get help or treatment'
Hmm, just had a weird speech-to-text hiccup.

I've asked to teach me how to construct past tense in Spanish. It gave me a few examples (Spanish and English translation right next to it, text-to-speech engine hadn't realized that some words were in English, though, and pronounced them in Spanish manner), then suggested I try to form my own sentences. So I've replied "Yo entendí sus ejemplos!" (uh, I hope I've got it right) but somehow it transcribed it as "You: Suscríbete para no perderte nuestros próximos videos." While I think I've stuttered and may be mispronounced something, it surely didn't sound anywhere close to that.

Being an LLM, it didn't bat an eye and asked me about the name of my channel :)

But I'm wondering if there was some request-response mismatch with the Speech-to-text API you're using and I've somehow got a phrase intended for someone else.
That's not how public forums work. Unless you are put on a pedestal (which is effectively what writing your own articles, joining larger organizations, making your own content, etc does), you will be drowned out by misunderstandings and misinformation.

There will always be a much greater effort required tackling bad information than it takes to post that bad information. This is why public forums are a terrible place for debates or discussions. It's also why you're considering their post a lower SNR when it's really not, certainly not in comparison to those just claiming that it's possible with a sort of blind optimism or ranting about bots or what have you. Important to signify here, I don't lean in any which direction on this specific topic, but just highlighting how the low effort posts being viewed as higher SNR to you is exactly what leads to more noise on public forums.

Early bird gets the worm, and all that fun jazz!
> I feel like this whole thing is going to be graphene all over again. A massive initial hype around "world changing tech" that ends up being very difficult and costly to scale and produce commercially.

That's kinda how science goes. The first free-electron laser was built in 1971. It took decades to develop and commercialize free-electron lasers and we still in the early days.

It is rare for a single discovery to revolutionize everything especially in the 21st century. Typically it is a series of discoveries in a row that taken together allow new processes and technologies. Each discovery on that road is important.

The short term impacts of discoveries are overestimated, the long term impacts are underestimated.

On a 50-100 year time scale, the perception of graphene may be very different from what it is now. We are looking at a tadpole and saying, I thought these eggs were suppose to hatch into frogs, not tadpoles.
Their methodology involves things like including the cost of residential chargers spread over 5 years "(We assume an L1 charger costs $600 and L2 charger with installation in 2021 costs $1,820.40)" and including cost of the time taken to occasionally drive to commercial chargers

article here: https://www.andersoneconomicgroup.com/many-gas-powered-cars-...

cost calculation methodology from 2022 here:
https://www.andersoneconomicgroup.com/second-edition-real-wo...

... and in more detail here https://www.andersoneconomicgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/202...

They base it all on Michigan so really the headline should end "... in Michigan". In Europe for example it would all look very different.
That contains doesn’t permit the behavior, though. It would give you an AttributeError if you attempted this.

Yes, addict seems to be exactly what I was going for.
Hm. I'm not sure where you're picking up that I'm triggered and stressed out. Can you point out where you're getting that from?
A car shouldn’t need an “emergency” latch to open the door, it’s dangerous and unsafe for this exact reason.

Someone needs for force them to make it like every other car that opens just fine with a dead battery.
> There are two types of people: Those who think VR will change the world—and those who haven’t tried it yet.

> While there are few things as magical as your first VR “a-ha”moment

That first moment for me was Cardboard. I have since used Vive and Oculus and they are cool, but I’m not left wanting to come back for more. Maybe the Cardboard experience conveyed the wrong thing to me, that this is a fun one-off type experience and not something that fits into my life in a bigger way. I’m sure some of the tools have, or could have, real world practical applications, and I would use them if needed, but I just don’t want to strap on a headset and be forced to tune out the rest of the world for longer than necessary.
WWII? The atom bombs on Japan? I tried to understand the history, causes, read the Richard Rhodes books, other books, watched documentaries and movies, etc.

As I read this thread, I guess that it has more and better thinking about the issues of morality, ethics, various steps that could have been attempted with Japan, atomic weapons stopping wars, etc. than Truman considered when he decided to drop the bombs and conclude that Truman saw just two cases: (1) Drop atomic bombs, end the war within not many hours, and save lives of US soldiers. (2) Delay, attempt, look for alternatives and possibilities, negotiate, demonstrate, ..., and lose more US lives. So, he picked (1), and maybe he did it in less than 10 minutes.
I am sorry, I was not trying to post flamebait. I have provided more context with sources and an explanation of what I was talking about in questioning responses further down in the thread. I would include them in the parent comment if I was still able to edit it.

I really don’t feel like it was a harmful comment, it has net upvotes, the majority here seem to agree with the sentiment.
Rushing to close a deal on a high value asset such as a boat, aircraft, or real estate where the seller insists on actual cash. Granted, you should probably use some form of durable check, but some buyers want actual cash. There are also cultural business habits in some ethnicity/national backgrounds to prefer actual cash over safer bank instruments.

It really doesn't matter: if someone wants to carry a large quantity of cash on a plane, this is still an open society and freedom must be defended.
Here's another one: https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/stanfordlanguag...

BTW hooray is okay there, but 'hip-hip-hooray is discouraged. Germans said hep hep in the hep-hep pogrom of the early 1800s and might have said 'hep hep hurra' during the 3rd Reich. It cuts too closely though, personally I just use bravo to avoid any trouble.
The BIG change is if this supports high magnetic flux densities, in which case literally everything that depends on magnetism or magnets or electromagnets gets an order of magnitude better - ten times as much power per unit of heat disappeared and ten times as much power per unit of mass or volume or just ten times more powerful. Remember how battery energy density increased by a factor of five (nicads -> lithium-ion) and we suddenly had quadcopters and flashlights that could burn paper at ten paces and handheld vacuum cleaners the size of a soda can that could suck pet hair out of shag carpets and cars running off batteries? Imagine that happening again.
The feature was put into place not only to make money, but to satisfy those who wanted status on Twitter without having to earn it.

This betrays a complete misunderstanding of the whole idea of blue check marks. They were never (supposed to be) about "status", they were about "verification". In other words, the notion that you are actually who you say you are. If it turned into a marker of "this person is a celebrity or 'someone very important'" that was a mistake that should never have happened.

Now to be fair, the modern "Twitter Blue (sorry, "X Blue"?) feature is a bit of a lie as well, in that they don't do a whole lot of "verification" so far as I can tell. It does at least require you to have, and link to your account, a valid credit / debit card or whatever, which may at least prevent some low effort spam profiles. But it would have been better if they'd implemented something a little bit more rigorous.
> Even if we accept (i don't) the performance aspect, GC languages give more safety,convenience and dev prod. than rust and at a significantly less complexity overload

At the limit, I think the performance benefits of rust are pretty clear. The performance ceiling of rust seems to be pretty unambiguously higher than that of Go, Python, C#, javascript, etc. But yeah - no contest on rust being way harder to learn and use. I’ve been programming rust for years now, but I still reach for typescript when prototyping because I still find it much faster when making prototypes. Especially when async is involved.

> This might simply be an indication that you were using the wrong tools in the first language. Most native languages (D, C++ etc...) have facilities to avoid unsafe behavior. Use them.

Can you give some examples of those tools? The “first language” I mentioned above was C. What equivalent does C have to rust’s memory safety? Or C++ for that matter? Are smart pointers in C++ that ubiquitous and good that memory corruption is a thing of the past?
Can you tell me more about this?
Doctorow always has interesting stuff to read, I've been looking at most of his work for years now. The physical book will now be delivered to me when the Kickstarter ends as that's my preferred way of reading.

I kinda don't get audiobooks myself, I find it hard to concentrate on the book and often have to pause and go back and re-listen because I zoned out.

I guess this is semi-offtopic but I like Doctorow and he can have a slice of my money.
> It basically confirms the existence of a new family of high-temperature superconductors, the first of its kind since the cuprates in 1986.

Specifically, it seems, a family based on a novel superconductivity mechanism. If this a real effect, there's not only significant scope to improve LK-99 synthesis, but also scope to find new materials that could use the same mechanism that operate at even higher temperatures, are easier or cheaper to produce, or that can move more current.
Good to know that. Apparently I'm one of the three people in the world who didn't watch that movie:)
Right. Your point is obvious and correct.

But. You naively assume judicial philosophy must be bound by rules, logic, common sense, ethics, public interest, or precedent.

Strike: ~~The Bill of Rights applies to people, not property. To rationalize civil forfeiture, the reactionaries created a legal fiction that property has agency unto itself. Further, property can be suspected of wrong doing, even by just by existing.~~

Edit: To rationalize civil forfeiture, the reactionaries claims the Bill of Rights applies to people, not property. Further, they created a legal fiction that property has agency unto itself. So property can be suspected of wrong doing, even by just by existing.

Worse, the rules for civil forfeiture are flipped. Whereas people charged in criminal court are presumed innocent until proven guilty, somehow property must be proven innocent. Apparently courts can prove a negative, even if logic cannot.

IANAL. Trying to grok the judicial philosophies of the r/iamverysmart reactionaries breaks my brain. These helped me kinda grasp what's happening:

Bennis v. Michigan

"On this week’s episode of 5-4, Peter (@The_Law_Boy), Rhiannon (@AywaRhiannon), and Michael (@_FleerUltra) talk about civil forfeiture, the practice that lets police seize private property if it’s suspected of being involved in a crime."

https://www.fivefourpod.com/episodes/bennis-v-michigan/

Civil versus criminal forfeiture

"...assets are seized by police based on a suspicion of wrongdoing, and without having to charge a person with specific wrongdoing, with the case being between police and the thing itself, sometimes referred to by the Latin term in rem, meaning "against the property"; the property itself is the defendant and no criminal charge against the owner is needed."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...
> The fact they keep paying these fees tells us one of 2 things is true: EITHER they are honestly not capable of managing a current account OR they (like the 41%) choosing not to but are conditioned not to admit it.

The fact that people keep getting robbed at gunpoint tells us one of two things is true: EITHER the victims are honestly not capable of living in a crime-infested world, OR they choose to get robbed but are conditioned to not admit it.

See the issue with your logic? There's a third option: there is a large power imbalance (like people designing exploitative bank account UXs/people in shady corner with guns) and that is being exploited against the wishes of the people who are victimized by them.
I think its possible the passport "power" index is a 2nd remove measure of the amount of latent and overt hostility in the world by power-camp.

It's very likely a core set of economies mutually agree to decline passports from specific economies, much at the same time.

Within that, there are inter-economy microaggressions which last for generations: if you ever visit India, be prepared to be asked about your patrilineal and matrilineal heritage back to pre-1949 in some detail, so they can "ban you for being Pakistani, without having to ban you for being Pakistani" -And the historical behavior over recognition of east germany, or visitors to Israel who then subsequently visit e.g. Jordan
Very informal "leaked" confirmations, but that is the current state:

https://twitter.com/elsa17z/status/1686763798294593536?s=20