skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you do that with an OSS project that's on GitHub?
Exactly my thoughts. BabylonBee just seems like a collection of incredibly lazy political jokes. Folks in certain subreddits sure eat it up though; in some there are more BabylonBee posts than actual real content.
HTTPS: //Chat.openai.com/ Is Down?
This was my reaction too, I feel like there is something I'm not getting. I get that the bet is virtually guaranteed to go negative if the number of rounds is high enough (100+ rounds), but the opportunity for huge payouts still pulls the average up.
> is going to be a wild success

The Mac Pro accounts for 11% of all Mac computers sold and 40-50% (~$20bln) of Mac revenues in 2022 (including laptops); the Mac Studio is only 1% of units shipped. What's your definition of wild success?
That's some wholesome WTF.
Cool idea. I like the thought of having this on a monitor constantly playing at a bar for cyberpunk decor.
It’s interesting that you make this point. Because Meta’s video is _all about_ the hardware: here’s new lens design, here’s high density screen.

Apple’s Vision Pro release has been all about the software: the interaction models, how to use SwiftUI to make immersive and windowed apps, the windowing model, accessibility, type readability, and every little detail related to UI

I’d argue Apple is equally software and hardware
Or they just really care about VR, or they're an investor that's bullish about the company. A good number of people on HN have literally millions of dollars in stock in various companies.

Focus on their argument, not "outing" someone, whatever that means.
Thankfully my library uses Libby - I just wish they let you check out physical books too like how Overdrive used to.
Black markets are dangerous and people are going to do it anyway. Albeit unintuitive, legalization and regulation is the way to go!

As an average American, decriminalized drugs and sex work for the win!
The determination of whether a job is useless is largely left to the person responding to these surveys. If a person thinks their job is useless, then it is. They may be right, but it's also possible that there is a disconnect between their perception and reality. The study uses the example of doormen who are considered to provide no useful function except as a symbol of prestige. However, I'd argue that if the doorman viewed themselves as that symbol rather than a necessary skill which facilitates ingress and egress, they may feel differently.E.g Vanna White isn't a letter flipper (useless), but an entertainer who flips letters as part of her job.

There was a recent thread where a person working for a pizza shop was depressed because he felt as though he should make a larger contribution to society than "just working at a pizza shop." From a career advancement perspective, this job offers little opportunity. However, from the social perspective of feeding the people in his area, it's immensely helpful.

Some of the fault for this disconnect belongs to their employers. Knowing the difference that they make in the world is helpful to everyone and something that companies rarely communicate.
The DIY Race to Replicate LK-99
Size is correlated with resources. Microsoft should have the resources to throw at this problem.

Unfortunately the Microsoft approach to software engineering is to set a bunch of monkeys loose on a room full of keyboards, rather than to spend their considerable resources vying for top talent.

(Obviously they do have some good engineers, no offense if you're one of them, it's simply that from my sample size of 5, 80% were just warm bodies with email access.)
I certainly wouldn’t call Apple a hardware company. Their software is as much a part of the story of their products as their hardware, if not more so in many areas.
The really cute thing is conducting in one axis insulating in the other two. Then you get to have a very high density interconnect for free.
Canada will gain a lot of farmland in the upcoming years. So good news for Canada?
The claim was "purely civilian," which was false. End of.
In my experience (with the beta), live voicemail actually replaces carrier voicemail whenever possible.

This means that if you ignore (or even miss!) a call, it’ll record and transcribe the call as a live voicemail anyway. So I’m not sure what Google’d call screening provides above this (unless all unknown calls get sent to the call screening? You can tell iOS to “Silence unknown callers,” which does still ringback a few times before recording a what I presume is a live voicemail)

And at any point during the voicemail you can answer the phone anyway.

Of course, if you get a call while you have no signal it’ll just go to carrier voicemail. (Recorded live voicemails and carrier voicemails are played back from the same screen, so this is no more complicated to navigate than before.)
Because the bid nets them money now. And if they can't do the job, then they can beg for more govt assistance or just not deliver.
What prevents the existence of such an ecosystem? What are the main obstructions? The most obvious ones I can think of are the data centers and necessary protocols but those are easily solvable problems with enough cash. The other obstruction I can think of is that consumers don't actually want these stores and protocols because they're perfectly happy with the services that big tech delivers. Convenience seems to be the #1 factor and most consumers are happy to pay a premium to be in Google's, Amazon's, and Apple's ecosystems. Even if it would be cheaper for the consumer if there were interoperable protocols for these digital vaults I am almost certain that the average consumer would not care because whatever features the big tech currently offers is more than sufficient for their use cases. Very small subset might care but they're too small of a minority to make a difference. Google consistently kills products that HN users enjoy but HN users are clearly not the target demographic that Google actually cares about since they keep killing HN favored services and products.

So if the data centers and protocols are not the problem it must be consumer preferences and going by the software quality that most consumers are willing to put up with I am certain they don't know and care enough about interoperability to actually force the big players to develop the necessary interoperability protocols.
You're banned from working on your own open source projects at Apple? Had no idea, disappointing if true.

I could understand now talking about current work but if you have an open source project that's unrelated you can't publicly do anything?
Tell that to Netflix, youtube, instagram, quora, Uber and others.
90% of the US congress is re-elected. AFAIK, they have given themselves pay-raises several times.

Besides there is an automatic annual hike that is self-implementing and doesn't need a vote. It requires a vote to block the hike, lol.
And someone who is free can choose to be as cautious as they please. They just can’t force their choices on everyone else.
Absolute dystopian nonsense… company literally just sets what it’s own content is worth.. then can pull the content it already owns and write it off as tax break..

Ohh those shows we created that we no longer stream… umm yeah those were worth 1.5 billion so we will be writing that off and lowering our tax bill…. Ohh and we may pull another 400 million worth of content later just an FYI.

Absolute lunacy
Ah yes, K, the Potassium Constant
It's a knowing jest, not a sincere statement - and a reminder to the others to keep the show going for their audience.
> That’s because Disney is claiming two contradictory things: Both that the assets were least producing so little value that it’s cheaper to destroy them than to keep them, and that the assets were worth $1.5 billion.

This is not contradictory. They were once worth $1.5B but now they aren’t because no one was watching them.

This happens all he time with inventory and cost of goods sold. I buy a bunch of lumber that can only make a special item and it costs be $1.5B. No one is buying that special item any more so now that lumber is worth $0, so I write off its value.

It’s not a scam as if I later sell it, I pay taxes on its appreciation from zero.

It seems Disney spent $1.5B on movies it expected to stream for many years and was amortizing the depreciation over many years. Now they expect to make nothing so they realize the complete depreciation now.
You know why. The guy probably rants about the ccp or putin every day. Sound like anyone you know? I wish dang would do better handling the obvious rampant flamebait.

@dang flamebait alert. Please climb up thread to find the offending party.
Meta releases open source AI audio tools, AudioCraft
Wow, that's amazing. Do you have any favorite lesser-known movies you watched during that time?
Unless your business is in the line of user authentication, what business advantage would one get by developing their own LDAP server? It would be an incredibly inefficient use of resources if you're a 100 person shop only wanting unified logins.
You might want to add an appropriate modifier before “grammar” on your top page to indicate your domain.

Being a natural-language person, I thought your tool might be something that, say, generates rules for verb conjugations from a corpus of a human language.
If you repeat this game n times (as n goes to infinity), you will have Θ(n) pairs of (heads, tails) and O(sqrt(n)) unpaired wins or losses, except for a vanishingly small fraction of the time when the results fall outside of any fixed number of standard deviations.

The point is that you as an individual playing a repeated game don't get to meaningfully sample the expected value of the distribution. You only get to sample once, and you will almost surely (i.e. with probability approaching 1 as n goes to infinity) sample a point in the distribution where you lose nearly all of your money.
That's a problem? :)

https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/food-agriculture-environm...

In 2013, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimated that livestock production accounted for 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Though the analysis was based on data from 2004 and 2005—over 15 years ago—it remains the most widely cited estimate of livestock’s global carbon footprint ...

More recent data and science indicate that livestock may contribute a wider range of emissions, potentially more, potentially less. For its part, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has released a new, lower estimate that livestock produce 11.1% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Peer-reviewed studies have put the figure higher, at up to 19.6% of emissions.

...

Ultimately, it’s unlikely that researchers will agree on a single estimate of livestock’s global contributions to climate change. That figure is a moving target, shifting depending on the year, the method of estimating the warming impact of methane, and many other factors. But one thing is clear: we won’t be able to avoid the worst impacts of global warming without tackling emissions from livestock.
How illiterate do you have to be to not read the actual content. It's is the embedding which is 100KB. Not the entire model.
> wouldn’t women who are so inclined have the same power to choose to date multiple men?

They absolutely do.

> Wouldn’t this tend to balance out any pathological behavior on the other side?

I don't know about that. Everyone's maximizing their own options. I think that is pathological behavior in of itself.

> It boggles the mind to imagine that most attractive women would put up with this behavior on networks they frequent.

Boggles my mind as well. I wouldn't believe such things had I literally not seen them with my own eyes. Women would rather share a really good man than try their luck with bad men. I've literally seen a woman be a man's hidden lover for 20 years.
This simulation is the collective wealth over N players for M times. It is increasing.
https://coin-n.streamlit.app/?utm_medium=oembed
if you’re in the US you should be fine. Especially Midwest and west should be good.

if you’re not you should probably get on it and come here

we have food, water, and energy.
The more you crank up the field and gradients the better resolution you can get. Being able to take MRI of a beating heart depends on that sort of thing.
If they pull another $400M later they’ll pay taxes on the full $400M earned from a zero dollar cost.
This is really really cool

One nitpick:

> a photograph, an inherently static medium

At least on a computer screen, it is far from static

Just displaying a photograph requires looping through the whole thing multiple times per second, both to refresh the display and to draw the image

And even a static photograph usually contains enough time information to be compressed quite a bit
AI Tutor for College Students Using Their Class Material
Hi, My name is Hamsa Omar and I'm building an AI tutor similar to ChatGPT but for students(currently university students) based on their course material. This way they can get answers that are applicable to their course. The data is pulled from whatever Learning Management System their University provides, currently focusing on Canvas LMS which is the most popular among Universities. I've been able to put together a pretty shitty MVP here https://coursemind-dev.vercel.app/ with limited data but that was enough for a professor to agree to try and incorporate it into his class this fall semester. I'm relatively technical so I've been able to build the v1 above and am working on a more polished v2 with contractors. I'm looking for technical expertise to come in as a co-founder to help build the product and iterate with feedback.

Let me know if your interested.
Do you have a source? I thought the opposite was true but I’m no authority.

Edit: just found this on Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2023/07/19/excessiv...
Absolutely. The individual is long-run guaranteed to be wiped out. But I disagree with the original author’s way of concluding that fact (ie, that it arises from “losing 5% per round”, which is just false).
I studied econ in the 2000's and a theme that constantly came up was the Kyoto Protocol (basically a joint agreement between many countries to lower emissions). The US refused to sign for many years, which was seen by the rest of the world as tragic and unconscionable.

A few years later I noticed nobody was talking about this Kyoto Protocol anymore. It turned out innovation (in this case fracking) had caused gas to become more widely available, and since it causes lower emissions than coal, the US's emissions had fallen below the targets stipulated in the Kyoto Protocol even though it never signed, and this was achieved purely through innovation.

This gives me hope that problems we currently see as catastrophic could be similarly solved by innovation (e.g. by clean power generation becoming more economically viable than dirty methods).
If you look at rpilocator.com’s “Last Stock” date, you can see that lots of retailers have has the 3, 4, and even Zero 2 in stock in the last few days. That was so rare earlier this year.

Maybe not the 1/2GB models you are looking for, but still an improvement.
>Close, except throw "AI" in there a few dozen times.

Yes, and earlier it was crypto, and earlier, $foo_buzzword, and earlier, $bar_hypeword, and earlier, SAAS, and earlier, client-server, and ...
The "average" of the distribution goes up as you increase the number of rounds, but the probability that you get an average or above value when you sample that distribution once goes to zero as the number of rounds increases.
It was just standard Trump Administration corruption.

The whole plan was for Trump to still be president so they could get approval to not do the work at all but keep the money.
You’re taking arithmetic averages of percentages… I don’t think that calculates anything meaningful.

Try 225% * 90% * 90% * 36% to get the expected value.
Not a superconductor expert, but resistance exponentially decreasing with temperature is not a normal phenomenon in most cases!
Until the “full faith and credit of the US Government” — the US Military — defaults we won’t have any problems selling our debt.

Sadly, that time is almost at hand.
> Probably a lab that confirms any piece of it will get a significant share of attention and acclaim.

Why is that though? They're taking a discovery that somebody else came up with, and (mostly) follow a recipe they're given.

I mean if they were synthesizing a theorized substance or significantly improving its production, or measuring an effect that was previously undetectable by known instruments and experiments then those things would deserve acclaim on their own.

Not saying they aren't good scientists and labs working on this or reproducing is worthless, the reward just doesn't seem big enough not to be meticulous about it. If you're right then you'll be one of the dozens of labs that reproduced it and all credit goes to original discoverers. If you're wrong you'll be the ones who bungled the experiment and share just about equal blame.
The traceback rules are really what did that but I think those were in the same bill that mandated STIR/SHAKEN. STIR/SHAKEN just makes spoofing caller ID more difficult.
Especially if the material happens to have photo electric properties too...
Remember when cosmosdb users could read other users databases? [0]

It was so boneheadedly stupid, it was like a sysadmin making all user directories readable by all users. Not sure how that would not be tested. And made me worry about what other vulnerabilities lurk in Azure.

[0] https://www.wiz.io/blog/chaosdb-explained-azures-cosmos-db-v...
Because my phone rings and apparently unlike other people on this thread it’s usually a legit call and I can just let it drop to voicemail if it’s one of the relatively few obviously junk calls I get.
Anthony’s video 100%.

For anyone who doesn’t watch… the point being made is that this has been done so many times that yet another implementation was pulled from the stdlib in 3.12 (AttrDict).

It’s true. I’ve implemented this several times myself, and thought it was a new/good idea every time until I remembered how many abstractions it breaks if I use it anywhere.

I can’t promise I won’t do it again in a few weeks! `NaturalDictLite` is probably coming around in the accompanying rotation of bad name ideas :p
This article doesn't really follow the title? I was expecting some critique of existing software and why someone prefers alternatives. Instead, I got a list of excuses on why people haven't really looked at it.

Not that any of the points are bad. As read, they all seem like solid reasons to not use something. Indeed, the fact that frameworks have no reason to use these over user space constructs seems very compelling, all on its own.

The rest feels like a thinly veiled rewording of the second point? That is, this feels like advocacy that is blaming the messengers for not successfully convincing us that we should use this superior thing. Which... is still a heavy handed advocacy. :(
Right, exactly. I feel design has really been pigeonholed into “visual design” by many.
of course, much of it may be on fire during the growing season...
No, your expected value is indeed positive over repeated iterations: (1.05^i)*w, where i is the number of iterations and w is the starting wealth.

The intuition for why this happens is that the losses of the majority are made up by the big gains of a minority. You can even see that after two iterations:

Case 1: two heads -- 225% wealth
Case 2: heads, tails -- 90% wealth
Case 3: tails, heads -- 90% wealth
Case 4: two tails -- 36% wealth

So, most people are losing money but a single lucky guy makes enough money that the expected value is still positive.

If you run a simulation with a low sample size, you might not see this effect because the "lucky guy" case is rare (and gets more rare with more iterations).
$360 for eight people in San Francisco? I would be a sucker to believe that.
Hey, yes, I know about space. There's also hover-group, etc.

Those seem to ignore the spirit of what I'm saying though, as firstly, no one says you have to use them if you truly want 100% decoupling. They're just convenience functions.

If you want to control margins based on component indexes and only use margin, then great.

Secondly, they're quite simple to understand.

They're also not out of nowhere, they're out of what you explicitly define as say, space-x-4. Having this be on the parent just makes great intuitive sense, that it wouldn't be defined on the individual items. If I see items evenly spaced I don't even have to think about it that it's obviously on the parent. The mental overhead of this is truly negligible.

I would argue that "spacing growing out of nowhere" is an order of magnitude more painful when using traditional CSS that has grown beyond the "perfect" starter phase of every complex app that uses normal CSS. And I've even tried using all the different CSS frameworks from back in the day where you write classes in certain ways with prefixes, etc etc. It is inevitable that eventually you get so much tangled and dead code, the mental overhead of that is now something orders of magnitude more.

While we are talking about that, you mentioned it being bloated. Your argument is that it takes "CPU" cycles... I forget the exact article (and exact details, paraphrasing), maybe it was github. Classes outperform inherited CSS tremendously, and I think it was github that tried to design their site using 10's of thousands of 1-level-deep classes instead of nested. This is just nitpicking, however. With tree shaking, I have an entire app that sees millions of visitors per month get a 3kb css file when gzipped. The bulk of the js (compiled html) takes up < 100kb for the entire app. I don't think even the most "lightweight" wordpress theme or what have you comes close to that. I just googled "most lightweight high performing wordpress themes" and some blog spam has most of them weighing in at 900kb-1mb (!!!).
Right, but the uncensored models are supposed to be used for non commercial purposes only.
There's a social media app I use who's feedback tickets page (which is only reachable in app) does not work. I submitted feedback, devs asked for a reproduction (I clicked on the notification). Went back to make one, and tried to get back to the chat, but the tickets page just wouldn't load.... Guess the bug will never be fixed
I get the general sense that Azure is a frankenstein of a bunch of services they had built before as well as some that were formerly internally used, and have since been published/scaled up for customers

Nothing seems to have been designed to naturally fit together, everything feels like its glued on
After some very quick butchery, WebKit turns out to be about 30M of it, just so you know next time you're at a party and it comes up during a drinking game, or something.

I wonder how hard it would be to write a simple ("simple") HTML renderer enough to show my documentation (which is all I use it for). "Look a rabbit hole! Let's go inside!!"
Question for the cognoscenti: supposing that LK-99 superconducts with T_c = 110 K, how significant a discovery would this be? I.e., does it establish a brand new class of high-T superconductors, or is it merely one unremarkable member of a known class? Further, does it offer advantages over other high-T superconductors such as ease of fabrication or cost?
That’s true, though it was mostly only around the announce cycle part of that phase.

Definitely a stronger push around it for sure tho.

(I still say it was a great design, they just best on the wrong direction of chip/etc tech with it so it rapidly got useless)
In science the fights are so fierce because the stakes are so small...
The impact of extreme weather events has been declining as a share of global GDP since 1990, people are good at adapting.

Source :

https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/dont-believe-the-hype

One of the high scenarios for emissions, RCP 8.5, which was used for modelling what might happen with climate change, is unlikely to happen:

https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-good-news-about-cli...