skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am very happy with my Remarkable 2 but I think that can depend on individual needs and expectations. My desk was perpetually covered with stacks of paper with notes from meetings. As I handled each note, I had to keep each piece of paper until the last note on it was handled. When I tried a paper notebook, I found that there would always be unhandled notes several pages back from my current page.

For me the RM 2 is an infinite persistent (editable) notepad. I can organize my notes by project/task and can easily cleanup things that have been taken care of. Most importantly, like OP, I didn't want yet another device that does it all. I don't need to add to desktop PC, laptop PC, IPad, IPhone and then forget where everything is.
They don't typically count as a moving violation, since you have the right to face your accuser in court. As far as I understand the situation.

They are more like parking tickets than a speeding ticket.

I imagine this varies some by state, but I believe it to be a fundamental constitutional issue at play.
Websites arent made with firefox, so they are not optimized for firefox.
They also can be buggy, firefox is my daily browser, yet, multiple times per year, a website is simply bugged on firefox.

Google Chrome was recommended by power user, and that how they took the market lead, not because they are the internet, but because power users told regular users to use chrome.
Shoelace: A forward-thinking library of web components
--trace-time is also great in curl
Fair, I always figured there were some people in that bucket, just not that many!

I think I’m also just cranky over the general trend of junior devs who know a “framework” but none of the underlying concepts or code and can’t cope when their “framework” doesn’t…work.
Another regression in ChatGPT?
It's not an open source license. Maybe that's why the quotes but let's not indulge them in their lies.
Ensuring Reliable Few-Shot Prompt Selection for LLMs
Few-shot prompting is a pretty common technique used for LLMs. By providing a few examples of your data in the prompt, the model learns "on the fly" and produces better results -- but what happens if the examples you provide are error-prone?

I spent some time playing around with Open AI's davinci LLM and I discovered that real-world data is messy and full of issues, which led to poor quality few-shot prompts and unreliable LLM predictions.

This article explains my methodology and how I used data-centric AI to automatically clean the messy few-shot examples pool and increased model performance by 30%.
Second Sight’s Implant Technology Gets a Second Chance
HN isn't pro censorship. HN is very much against government censorship.

It gets more confusing when you talk about a company censoring (as opposed to a government). HN gets schizophrenic here. Companies should not be forced to carry content they don't want to carry, but companies shouldn't be able to censor people because of company ideology or politics or whatever. HN is very conflicted on this issue.

But I don't think it's fair to be surprised that HN is not in favor of censorship, even the closed-minded groupthink self-censorship that Orwell was dealing with.
Which sites don’t work with Firefox?

Safari is a huge simply due to iOS but it’s a shame that Apple stopped maintaining the windows port.
Time to cancel NASA!
> There are no "instructions to decode H264", there is dedicated hardware acceleration like Intel QSV and AMD VCN, but these gets bypassed just like Nvidia's decoding acceleration from my previous example. All of this is trivially observable, playing back DRM-protected video wastes an obscene amount of resources, relatively speaking.

For L3 you are just using SIMD/vector instructions compiled for specific platform, so they are specialized CPU instructions (not general use) that help with decoding. And L3 is mostly now 720p and 1080p low bitrate on majority of streaming services that people use, you would need to have VERY old hardware to not be able to use it. I've been watching 720p/1080p h264 videos 15 years ago with only CPU decoding without ANY issues, most of the world did. So that's just not an issue.
If we are talking about L1 then you have hardware acceleration so your point is invalid in that case.

> From user perspective you'll notice stuttering, unusually high CPU usage, dropped frames and more, especially once you try to play multiple videos at once.

Yeah because 99% of people are playing multiple widevine videos at once on their 20 years old hardware... come on.

> That's exactly what I meant. Being pedantic over my choice of words isn't very productive.

Im not being pedantic, you are not bypassing a lock in a door with a key, don't you? "Hey honey lets bypass our neighbour door lock using his key so we can enter his house" No one says things like that. If you meant what I meant then you just used wrong words to describe that. Your choice of words have different meaning which isn't very productive.
> I honestly didn't even know who Taylor Swift was for an embarrassingly long time and I yet enjoyed her songs when I heard them

The below article (from 2014) has a great perspective on how popular TS was not just in the US but also globally and how rare this was (and still is):

https://priceonomics.com/some-artists-are-big-in-america-som...
> But Google crushed them with the rapid releases. I remember that to realease firefox 3.0 (from 2.0), it took them like 2 years. Crazy slow.

Back in the days, increasing major version number meant something. What are the major changes between Chrome 114 and 115? For some reason, Mozilla decided to take part in this race that Google has started.
Right, especially when it's not clear if such a machine will be needed a year or two from now to run a model with the equivalent performance.
> since the final "product" will be a PPT, having the notes already in a PPT file means you get to skip some copy/paste steps.

If the slides have been shared beforehand, keeping notes in the same file means you don't have a second file to keep track of.
Definitely, the fact they're rent seeking against similar small companies clearly shows that. Sad that rather than looking inward to improve themselves they've decided to just attack others.
Demonstrating that enshittification isn't a phenomenon exclusive to tech companies.
I assume the ball milling stirs the material (and probably heats it up) exposing lots of surface area to interaction with the balls. I'd guess ultrasound would be blocked/absorbed by the material it hits first.

But I'm not a physicist, just my first thoughts.
Israel's pioneering use of water 'to the last drop'
`:not(:first-child)` has specificity 0.1.0 that is some orders higher than 0.0.0 of `* + *` (since `:first-child` is a pseudoclass), so you'd have to adjust anything that you'd need to override it with.

Strict equivalent of

* + *

would be

:where(:not(:first-child))
2B || !2B
Founder Rewind
Intuitive Machines says it is ready to fly to the Moon
> There were a lot of unique features of Muhammad that ending up having a major positive effect on the subsequent conquests

I'm not sure I buy it... I just don't think things hinge so delicately on individuals. Generally if one person has an idea, thousands of people around them have the same idea. The limiting factor is how many of those thousands have the time, resources, and will to follow through with the idea. The distribution of excess time, resources & will has a pretty strong correlation to environmental & socioeconomic factors.

As for the borders of whatever empire expanded from that region, sure they would have been different. I don't think there would have been an exact correlate of Islam necessarily.

But if you look at the period of ~500s to ~1500s as a golden age for merchant kingdoms in that region, where they built off the intellectual foundations that were spread by rome, I think that was basically inevitable.

I also think it makes sense that something like a religious ideology would be a catalyst for that, to unite so many disparate people in a way they can trust each other and work together in a decentralized fashion.

And for that religious ideology to stick around and take a conservative turn after centuries of antagonism, colonialism, and interference from the west, that also seems like a pretty natural course of events.

The specifics of each country definitely have variance and could have turned out differently. But as you zoom out I think that if trends are happening on a scale of 10s or 100s of millions people, it's got a deeper underlying cause.

I think of it in terms of physics. A person can't lift a huge steel beam by themselves. There's a larger force at play when the beam gets lifted... a larger well of potential energy. The aligning of that well of potential energy to the goal of lifting the beam takes a certain amount of time. One person could lift it by themselves over time if they create a lever and add counterweights, but it would take more time. However a skyscraper? A single person could never build a skyscraper on their own. Think of how much mass is in an army and how much energy is exerted in moving that army across a continent. How can a person deliberately cause so much mass to be moved? They can only do so by tapping into a well of potential energy that already was created. That potential energy must come from somewhere, and when the army moves across the continent, they are expending that potential energy. The process can only continue if the energy well is being replenished. That replenishment is part of the machinery of society. An individual person isn't going to singlehandedly author that machinery in a group larger than the size of an ape troupe. It takes a lot of energy to modify that machinery at the scale of even a small city. A single person can only make minor contributions to the modification of the machinery at the historical scale.
Doesn’t that increase complexity? I just have a database wrapper class and keep all my db code segregated there. In my case also using an ORM would blow up that segregated approach.
Yea, what the other people are missing is there were 100+ other collectable pieces of shit that ended up in the dump worth nothing. The people that managed to buy the right crap, then keep it for decades are the ones that effectively won a lottery. But really it was pure chance they happened to win.
> People for Bikes

Industry lobbyists taking naming tips from the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea.
> My problem is, there's no consensus among HN readers about what the term means.

Open Source is defined here, by the people that invented the term: https://opensource.org/osd/

The vast majority of HN readers would support this over any other definition.

Anything that provides access to source but doesn't allow forks, commercial use, competition, removal of advertising, etc is 100% not open source.
have you heard of rewind.ai? it sounds like it might be a possible solution for what you're looking for (not affiliated with it though, and also don't have it on my Mac, so not sure how well it works in reality)
Looks like it may be cheaper to hire a guy to go around town and collect checks. Maybe that’s a startup idea there.
Not sure if ftp is the most ideal way. That's how it was done in the old days and usually got screwed up with multiple people.

If you have a server with ssh access, you can set up a 'bare' git repo (obviously you should back it up to somewhere else. i.e. s3 as a tar ball) and that should work for you.
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As long as remembering a new command is required this also be used:

* systemctl status 'brand-*' That is, custom services could start with the same prefix.

I run a lot of custom services, and usually I want to check on one specifically, or if I want to look at the total service health, I also want to include the services which are "not mine".
D seems interesting but I'm kind of put off by the fact that there doesn't seem to be a lot of folks using it, at least in the circles I run in. Anyone have an answer to the question why aren't more people using D?
Don't see the point if the product reviews are fake.
It’s a crapshoot of course, but I tend to agree with a bear case these days. It takes a while for interest rate changes to completely affect the economy and the Fed is still raising rates. Credit card debt recently crossed $1T. Layoffs are still occurring in the tech industry and elsewhere. My thinking is the Fed will overshoot (as it always has historically) with interest rates and when the economy starts tanking like in 2007/2008 they’ll cut back to 0.00 immediately. By then the damage is done, unemployment shoots up, credit defaults shoot up, foreclosures shoot up, and we probably get some deflation.

Except for retirement savings, I’m almost entirely out of stocks… not so much because I think it’s downhill from here for a while, but more because my high yield savings account is giving me about 5% APY guaranteed.
I'd speculate that ball milling transfers significantly higher force at higher intensity then ultrasound can.
Yep. Nature and Elsevier have their own issues but this is a different context.
Freedom Holding Corp: Brazen Sanctions Evasion (Hindenburg Research)
What? A few days ago I gave up trying to write a moderately complex component based on flex-grid. The number of options, and all the quirks of them, was overwhelming, and in the end I couldn't even get the basic behavior I wanted. Maybe i will try again some other. I think display: flex is very useful, display:grid is too complicated with the way they designed it.
The solution is obvious, Disney should do more, take real risks and swing for the fences again. Because there's no reason not to.

And what they should do more of isn't legacy content in a new medium — i.e. putting those same TV and movies online instead of cable, but new content that hasn't been completely explored yet.

I didn't start playing video games until recently, but it is obvious that is where the puck is going to be. For example, GTA V has made $8.3B since its launch in 2013. https://www.tweaktown.com/news/91612/grand-theft-auto-franch...

And the shooting video game CSGO has players spending $100M/mo on "cases," https://www.dexerto.com/csgo/players-reportedly-spent-100-mi...

A title with even broader appeal, League of Legends, seems to have roughly 180M MAUs (2023, https://riftfeed.gg/more/player-count-league-of-legends) and $1.75B in revenue in 2020. https://www.esportsbets.com/news/riot-games-revenue-2020/

For comparison, Disney+ had 157M subscribers worldwide (and ~$8B in revenue https://www.demandsage.com/disney-users/)

The above games don't seem to be games anymore — at least, not in the Kerbal Space Program sense, my only frame of reference. They're content distribution systems with players consuming content in bite-sized doses as they play. Their active user bases are larger than what Disney's, and arguably more engaged.

These titles are usually quite violent and based on new IP. With their coffers and IP library, Disney could easily make something better that offers more compelling experiences with modern technology.

Disney Research has been chugging along on doing "story telling" with the help of ML for quite some time now, https://studios.disneyresearch.com/projects/ , with recent advances, they could conceivably arrive at interactive storytelling experiences that allows every child (and adult) to be inside the fantasy universe of, say, Beauty & The Beast and play out a meaningful role in that universe.

If the current modes of content and content delivery don't work, why shouldn't they try something like this at a larger/more serious scale?

If anyone can turn games into a mainstream content delivery platform, it's Disney. And by owning the means of distribution, they can go back to adding more arrows to Walt Disney's diagram.
I meant to ask if the theory is true, it should work for any number, until marginal propensity to spend is equal amongst everyone. My point being that a theory should be general. One person could argue for 17$ while the other argues for 15$. I don’t see how one would using a general principle would decide which value is correct.
This analogy should be in a gallery, good day to you sir.
> if you don't have a job, so being put in jail won't make you lose your job, you should be jailed longer to make up for the fact that jail harms you less.

I know you were being facetious but, due to how the US legal system works, if you don't have a job/income, you likely have worse legal representation, which means you get a worse plea deal, and do go to jail longer.

And having children/family to care for usually does affect sentencing.

So you inadvertently described the current system in the US.
You can read a lot of the old discussions between the founders Madison, Hamilton, etc. and the type of abuse they were worried about and how they thought the structures they put in place would reduce risk.

I think it’s been working ok, but there are issues (issues they often explicitly predicted), see: https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Washington%27s_Farewell_Add...

There is also an element of culture required among the population too that’s necessary.

> “I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.

“This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.

“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.”
But your complaint was about HTML and JS being all there is? I'm not sure what it is you're looking for.
I think it's being downvoted for the "Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television" energy of it, basically a combination of being an irrelevant tangent to the actual topic and boasting about ignorance of pop culture.
dang, I LOVE it on these rare occasions when you emerge from behind the screen and add to the dialogue.
Pretty much anything sold as collectible, by definition, isn’t.
Firefox still runs great on my ThinkPad T420s running Linux, which is 12 years old at this point.

And while I never use Firefox on Android without uBlock Origin, I don't get how it can be described as unpleasant after the rewrite a few years ago. The combo makes browsing bearable compared to Chrome.

The sync tabs thing used to be flaky, I agree, but now sending tabs to and from Linux and Android always works for me.
Windows 11 Dual Boot with virtual hard disk, without partitioning
If you fix the random number seed virtually all LLMs should be deterministic. However, just 1 token difference in the input could produce a very different output, depending on the sampler, model, etc. So, LLMs can be deterministic, but in practice they are pure alchemy.
Does this kill everything else in the soil? Microbes, fungus, nutrients, etc. A bunch of sterilized dirt may be better than poisoned soil, but even if it's possible to sanitize soil over millions of acres I wonder what the impacts would be to the plants and animals that we expect to live there. Saving the dirt by making it lifeless and infertile won't save the forests.
One of the more popular Schizophrenia drugs also cause diabetes :(
Meta's AI Agents Learn to Move by Copying Toddlers
Her music isn't that hard to identify, even if you don't listen to it. It has a country-folk song structure, and a simple rhyme scheme. Listen to a few songs and you'll see what I mean.

Meanwhile, I'm coming from the other side - I'm a musician and I've been wondering why is it I don't care much for the music of the biggest pop star on the planet? Usually when it comes to the "pop tarts" as I call them, they have something I like.

Not so with Taylor Swift.

I've listened to all her top hits. I've tried using AI to find songs I might like based off of other music I like. I've basically come up empty-handed. If there's a song where the music is interesting, it's ruined with her vocals or her simplistic rhyme schemes (I really find her rhyme schemes super annoying!).

The most interesting song she has is Shake It Off. The use of a saxophone in modern pop music is welcome and I find the repetition in lyrics better than her usual rhyme schemes. No surprise it was co-written by Max Martin.
Sorry, this may be a miscommunication. Terraform itself has a test suite, yeah, but it doesn't have a testing framework that users of the language can use to test their own code.

To make a python metaphor, if cpython had a testing suite but pytest didn't exist then people wouldn't be able to test their own python code. That's kind of the situation with Terraform right now- you can't test your code using just the Terraform tools, you have to rely on Terratest which was written by Gruntwork. Hashicorp has spent years relying on the open source community to fill those gaps, which Gruntwork has done very nicely.

Hashicorp even recommends Terratest for testing: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/testing-hashicorp-terraform
This is how it's pitched.

Then in a few years you likely will find it outsourced to a third party contractor, who has helpfully worked with the city or county to place the cameras in convenient spots that just happen to generate a ton of revenue.

I'm not totally against the idea, but at least where I live these red light and speeding cameras have devolved into ways to gain revenue vs. safety just by taking note of where they happen to be placed (and not).

There also has been an overall push to slowly reduce the threshold for activation of the cameras. Started as egregious speeding, now it's 6 over. The outcome is of course exactly what you would predict: everyone figures out where the cameras are and slams on the brakes for that block only. Super safe!
Agreed, I now no longer want to watch sports with my children.
> Relatively speaking. You might not notice it when playing back a single video

So like 99.99% of use cases?

> but I promise you that you're not going to have a good time if you try to play back multiple high bitrate videos on slightly older hardware (think HTPC).

That could be the case, not disagreeing here, if you use old hardware, have multiple high bitrate videos and multiple streams at once but this is specialized niche example.
I have years-old Go code that just keeps running. PHP is very stable. I've found Python to be a PITA sometimes. Javascript rots faster than anything else I've encountered.
Open Feedback as a Gift
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I think for a lot of things an ORM is “good” at, you could likely just have a bunch of static JSON files and retrieve them from disk with zero practical difference.

I just can’t wrap my head around why you even *need* a database in those cases.
Baseball cards had a use when, ya know, the internet and even things like printed annual references, either didn’t exist or would not have been affordable to the average kid.
Don't feed the mouse!
True, but they're still not going to do anything about your stolen package. You could have video evidence and a license plate. Doesn't matter.