skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My brand new work thinkpad is total garbage compared to my two year old MacBook Pro. Only laptop where I need to use an external mouse.
I don't think you are missing anything. People who stop and do the math are likely to be surprised by the incredible cost of the existing private car traffic system that we tolerate. Every reasonable option is dramatically cheaper.

People may quibble with the constants in that model. Even after eliminating competing private passenger traffic, a hop on/hop off local bus is probably not going to average 20 MPH. It would probably be more like 5-10 MPH.
Think of cessation, also scripturally described as the “non-occurrence of consciousness,” like voluntarily inducing the effects of general anesthesia. Consciousness switches off without a trace, while the basic homeostatic operations of the body — temperature, heartbeat, breathing — remain online.

- Isn't this like the nirvana of nirvanas ? I had heard about some of the monks in the Himalayas able to attain these states but had brushed it off as utter nonsense.

Since now we know this is feasible, can we surmise that there is no need for an external chemical to shut off the mind or to even alter the mental state of a person ? Could you for instance get into an alcohol or a drug induced state without drinking or doing drugs - What a world would that be ..
The most rational thing for a human being to do to safeguard our future is to depose of these four individuals. The interesting question is whether that would be a futile effort - would someone else rise to vill the void? If that's the case then are we already doomed?
Upgrade to v2 if you haven't yet! It was just released earlier this year and makes the language a lot less ugly. No more command/function divisions, everything's just a function!
> SSN? Haven't we moved beyond SSN for security purposes?

No, the banks haven't, which means you haven't, bucko.
This argument would be more relevant if the concern was "chinese cultural influence", but in tiktok, the algorithm is intentionally different for those in china vs those in the west, with drastic differences in what gets recommended.

Ain't it funny how for themselves, the CCP wants tiktok users to see inspirational content and science and happy stuff, while the west gets whatever addicting smut we can manage to produce. The CCP also says kids in China shouldn't see gay stuff, and a certain 1980s chinese social movement.

TikTok is literally the CCP attempting to influence americans. It's not okay when facebook does it, and should 100% be illegal, but american politicians DGAF about that, but it sure as hell shouldn't be okay for the CCP to do that either. Just because the american government is unwilling to reign in local corporations doesn't mean they should also abstain from doing their job with foreign threats.
Google just sold it’s registrar business to Squarespace, so, maybe not.
Propane always struck me as a potential lower carbon aviation fuel since it easily liquifies under modest pressure, making the whole system lighter and more compact than natural gas or hydrogen.

Batteries would AFAIK need a 2-4X power/weight density improvement to do anything more than short haul electric flight. Short haul electric planes are possible today but not beyond a few hundred miles range.
> I think you’re vastly overestimating how much Amazon cares.

They care because every fake Kindle Unlimited read comes out of Amazon's pocket. Directly.

That's entirely different from the situation with counterfeit merchandise, where Amazon gets its cut anyway.
> I keep explaining all we have to do is build a data mart built using SQL Server, and use our ETL tools to keep it populated with the data they need to analyze.

I mean, that's like >90% of building a CRUD web app. If you truly only need the R in CRUD, your approach sounds reasonable. Otherwise, just go the extra distance and build a CRUD app with csv export / direct SQL access.
Keep in mind, the context of this discussion is that someone who works really hard and completes 90% of their KPIs ahead of schedule will now be financially penalized by the CEO for reporting any additional progress.
Same. The TikTok algorithm did more to fix my mental health post-lockdown than multiple therapists or any other social media. Rather than being tuned for maximal negativity it seems ByteDance tuned the algorithm for maximal positivity.
I was raised in Baghdad, I can assure you the person who set this up knows better, but didn’t care enough or didn’t think other people would know what teamviewer is or both.
I've worked with documentation auto-generators before, and the problem they have is that they can't figure out which references are relevant and which aren't. I remember auto-generating a class diagram of a Java project in the late 90's and it showed every class having a reference to the class "java.lang.String". Generators have gotten (a little) smarter with one-off heuristics like "treat the class String as if it were a primitive", but they're still way more cluttered than a knowledgeable human would ever come up with.
There's a lot of different practices, though in a lot of schools that have practiced meditation for centuries, "Mindfulness" style meditation – what's largely practiced in the west – is just one aspect. The Dalai Lama, for instance, discuss at length in his books deeper phases of meditation that focus on things like "emptiness" [1] or compassion, loving-kindness, etc. Someone who's more knowledgable can correct me if I'm wrong, but the 'mindfulness' type meditation is almost like a warmup for these other forms of meditation.

1: Emptiness meditation, best I can describe it, is sort of like meditating on how something like a "Chair" falls apart under scrutiny. We perceive it as a solid object, yet when you analyze its parts, it tends to 'fall apart', and what makes it a "Chair" becomes hard to pin down. You start to see it more as a coming together of many things, each of which also tends to fall apart under scrutiny. Worth pointing out that this 'emptiness' is not the same as nihilism.
Jobs just added that to the keynote presentation after running it past nobody.
Then why does the CDC recommend them?
Does Excel run in a browser today?

There are a lot, I mean a lot apps that support scripting languages and don't need you to manage the language's runtime yourself. Blender's UI is entirely in Python. Civilization games have most game logic in Lua.
There was never a public outcry.

There was an elite outcry.
Lmao so nobody copied it anyways, that's so apple.

I wish Apple would copy a stable os from someone themselves. Literally upgrade to Ventura today, can't log in anymore, doesn't accept my password. I'm SU mode there don't seem to be any volumes mounted or users in /Users. Now I gotta take it to our tech guys because I really just can't be bothered with apple's shit.
That process relies on DAC, plus electrolysing H2 and that conversion processes, which means the propane would have to be at the equivalent of 15-45$ per gallon. What is less affordable?
Ramana Maharshi says anything transient is false

CBT and other psychotherapies challenge X or Y as false
> And it's not like Elon is blameless either. In 2016 he was a mere puppy of a billionaire, with barely $11,000,000,000 to his name, and now 7 years later he has $220 billion. A 20x multiplier in 7 years. Is there anything or anyone that has gotten that much richer in that time frame in human history?

What? I don't really get the train of thought here. His net worth went up because the Tesla stock went 10x, not because of dark money. You're making it sound like he was a struggling billionaire who was bailed out by the Saudis. This is a pretty unhinged theory.
It depends on the country. In some countries you can be sick for a couple of days without needing it. In others the company can decide to send you to the company doctor or labour institution doctor (like in Holland). Or for them to visit you if you're not capable.

The way this works is generally quite flexible. Do you do this every other week then yes the first day you will be sent for a cert. If it's once a year they won't bother.
This feels like a distraction. Summing the net worth, total assets, and assets under management of Zuckerberg, Musk, Thiel, Andreessen, Meta, Palantir, Paypal, Tesla, and Andreessen Horowitz, one gets $729.2 billion. This is certainly an over-estimate, since by counting e.g. Meta and Zuckerberg's assets independently, we're double-counting their wealth.

The famous Rothschild family is estimated to be worth around $400 billion [1,2] (oddly, the Snopes article on their wealth debunks one too-high claim of it, but doesn't replace it with any other number, except the yearly revenue of one of their businesses [3]).

The top 4 asset management firms manage $26.3 trillion [4]. While this is not the same as owning those assets, it still makes them exceptionally powerful. Compared to them, the wealth of these billionaires and banking families is a rounding error. We focus on the "tech" moguls because they're the most visible, not because they're the most powerful or richest.

[1] https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/rothsc...

[2] https://jewishbusinessnews.com/2022/04/18/are-the-rothschild...

[3] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rothschild-family-wealth/

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_asset_management_firms
HotStart: B2B pre-sales tools to warm-start AI products and build value reports
Hey all,

Excited to share and solicit feedback for a project we're building to assist pre-sales and customer success teams in value selling for B2B SaaS solutions.

HotStart is a pre-sales data integration platform that makes it easy to build compelling business cases and product demos by ingesting end-user event and click stream data to warm-start B2B SaaS products. The main goal is to enable teams to use real events from your prospect to supercharge custom demos and come up with value reports that make ROI and product benefits crystal clear to the buyer (increasingly referred to as SaaS Value Engineering).

Today, B2B SaaS teams accomplish this by providing prospects with custom JS tags that live on their site/app during the pre-sales cycle to collect click event data. Alternatively, they might request a single large file export from the prospect and perform manual ETL to accomplish the same thing. Developing and maintaining these tools, and building value reports can be a time-consuming and technically-challenging task, often blocked by constrained engineering teams. HotStart democratizes high-fidelity custom demos and rock-solid value reports to help customer-facing teams increase deal size and close deals faster.

Check us out here to learn more and, if applicable, discuss your use case: https://yep.so/p/hotstart

Cheers,
Chip
code: https://github.com/facebookresearch/seamless_communication

paper: https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/seamless-m4t/

demo: https://seamless.metademolab.com/
Wait, you mean the data that any random company can access when I apply for a credit card or job is also available to other people with money but don't care if I agree to it first?
By that definition most Linux distros aren't UNIX either though - which is a bit silly.
This thing is amazing... does everything I want, it is perfect! Love it!
Opens in NVim, if I exit, I am back in the file manager... just brilliant.
Also exit with Esc to folder you are looking and ctrl-C to original... very cool.

I am really a simple man, what can I say.
Why? How would you know?
Appeasing crazies and holding on to power
How Fast Can a City Grow?
That's one of the things I have in the project! At least the window switching. Not the dynamic window selection and "edit mode" though.

https://github.com/hwayne/autohotkey-scripts/blob/main/Lib/WindowSwitching.ahk
>“and veto the hiring of any executive involved with leading TikTok US data security organization”

Actually, all that does is allow the US gov the same level of control of tiktok that the CCP does.
It's missing because Apple doesn't release drivers or upstream the drivers so it's on hobbyists to reverse engineer them.
It’s definitely better than “gnu+linux”, but Android is currently the most secure and usable linux distro hands down, and in my opinion it is just very sad that it is so hard to even run an android app on linux.
People also forget (or may not know, since they post-date the use of print telephone directories) that you could opt out of being in the Yellow Pages. You can't do that with credit headers, or even, practically speaking, with credit cards.
Could you list some examples of such hardware? I'm interested.
The revolution is coming.. I hope we don't melt to death before

I would recommend taking up studying the teachings of the Buddha. There is a lot of valuable material and the hidden priceless gem of awakening
I think they want to get rid of the trains going to Interlaken directly. At least that's what I read in the SZ [0].

If you haven't seen it, there's the great talk from David Kriesel on the 36C3 [1] about how Deutsche Bahn is... "doing statistics" to hide their delays. It's well worth the hour!

[0]: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/reise/deutsche-bahn-verspaetunge...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rb9CfOvojk
New Recipe: Serving Llama-2 with VLLM's OpenAI-Compatible API Server
Leadership and management are crafts just like engineering. Goals and KPIs are tools. Most of the time when I've experienced bad Goals or KPIs, the root problem was one of the following.

1)Lack of clear mission/direction at the top level of the organization. This is a 100% necessary condition for good goals & kpis throughout the rest of the org. Otherwise it feels like political battles and favoritism between different people or departments with conflicting goals.

2) Goals & KPIs that are not well mapped from the org's mission or roadmap down to the individuals. Now all the individuals can hit their goals but org fails, or vice versa.
This feels like "doing what's right for the company is bad for my performance review."

3) Confusing health KPIs with outcomes or goals. Something like commits per day/month is a great health check, but bad goal, and the benchmark for healthy is totally context dependent. This feels like "She solves the hardest problems but the solutions are very few LOC." Or "he has the most commits because his code is so buggy".
Citation please!
There is a website (blockshopper.com) that scrapes and indexes real estate transaction data from counties that publish it. It’s easy and free to find someone’s address and doxx them. Their policy says that they only remove your data if you are a target of harassment, under court order or law enforcement officer.
isn't it of a bad KPI that's destroying business? for KLOC committed and sick leave for example, isn't it suppose to be "KLOC per active days" that fix the issue?
Seems to be https://developers.cloudflare.com/stream/viewing-videos/secu.... Probably can be disabled and replaced with short-lived signed tokens. Though perhaps CloudFlare could have used [more modern iframe restrictions][1].

[1]: https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-csp/#frame-ancestors-navigat...
the page is poorly coded and later paragraphs load and unload making it seem as if the article prematurely finishes, which explains why you might have missed it. the idea is for the Library of Congress to buy the Internet Archive to protect it from legal action

my thoughts on this are that it's a good idea, but it can't be the only solution. moving from a single point of failure to a more secure single point of failure is okay, but a better solution would be for the Library of Congress and similar public bodies around the world to be able to buy/obtain a copy of the archive and the protocols it uses to do the archiving. this would practically guarantee the permanency of the data and, if it was deemed legally viable, provide a decent revenue source
What is the relationship to: OpenCopilot – Open source AI copilot for your own SaaS product (github.com/openchatai) | 127 points by gharbat 1 day ago | 31 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37203196
We're talking about Rasp. Pi batteries here. 15lbs (6kg) of Lead-Acid is probably the biggest, oversized battery that'd be needed (Assuming PS-12200 a 12V 20Ah Lead-acid or 240 Watt-hours of battery life)

> Lead acid battery can only use 50% of rated capacity.

That's definitely wrong. Lead Acids lose durability when you deeply-discharge them, but all Lead-Acids have *hundreds* of deep-discharge cycles supported.

The question is one of frequency. Li-ion is great because it has high-durability through deep-discharge cycles. But is this the use case of a UPS or Solar Backup? I argue no, it isn't.

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The key advantages of Lead Acid are its cheapness and simplicity. If you can overlook its size and weight (okay, 15lbs is heavy if you're used to Li-ion... but is it really a *problem*? I argue no), and also know that deep-discharges would be rare (ie: UPS style "backup battery" usage), then LeadAcid suddenly rises to #1 choice due to gross simplicity you can have when designing circuits.

As I described earlier: two diodes and a constant 13.5V source are pretty much all you need to create a minimally viable Lead-Acid battery backup solution. None of this "LiFePo4 charge controller" crap or CC-CV charging circuits (Lead Acid _prefers CC-CV especially if you want to charge it in 20 hours or less, but it doesn't _need_ CC-CV circuits)

A long-term trickle charger over days (~72-hours of charge) of use is perhaps a non-obvious usecase. But that's called "Always plugged in UPS" and is IMO, the kind of use-case that's best suited for "SolarPi".

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You might laugh at "hundreds" of deep discharge cycles or counter with the "thousands" that LiFePo4 can support. But seriously, think about it.

A 240 W-hr battery (12V and 20Amp-hours) hooked up to a 3W Rasp. Pi will give you 80-HOURS of life per cycle, that's over 3 days.

Assuming ~500 Deep Cycles of durability (which is in-line with Lead Acid specs), that's 1500 days of worst-case deep-cycles, or 4 YEARS of life.

And that's deep-cycling every 3 days, then fully charging on the 4th day instantly (it takes 20 hours to charge Lead-Acid in practice), so really you're looking at closer to 2000+ or 5+ years of worst-case life from something like the PS-12200.

Do you _really_ need the thousands of deep cycle charges? The damn chemistry is going to fail for other reasons (temperature / humidity issues) after 5 to 10 years, rather than from the cycles. Especially in a UPS situation where you've got oversized Solar Panels keeping the Lead-Acid at near-100% charge for most of its life.
The Pile dataset seems to have disappeared late last week
Too many people involved in technical hiring, and too many pointless interviews. It's likely anywhere they went to interview, the people there would have no idea how good they were in the first place.
Now a days I almost always work fullscreen, even when programming if I have docs and vscode I'll just tab between the two. I don't even use multiple monitors cause I find I end up causing myself some pain from bad posture.

I feel like I must be a minority, My workflow is almost entirely switch desktop+ switch tab.
Two reasons why its not a proper invoice.
1) I checked the mobile app, web page and any mention of this on my account and it never made it there.

2) The format of the email leads me to question it, the top part has the text:
"
Hello, Suspicious transaction of $399.90 detected. If not done by you contact Fraud Investigation team at +1 (833) 902-0431 to cancel. Service hours(9AM-6PM) Email cs-billings@hilton.com"

Is there a free HTML text field for sending invoice? And how did the break out of the email box and get to the top. This would be easier with a picture.
You define "standard of living" positionally, which is not how it is usually defined, but does make a lot of sense given the prevalence of envy. By that definition, yes, inequality does absolutely worsen standard of living. Points for being honest about your motivations, unlike every other person who rails against inequality.
> and positioning

You ain't kiddin'.
Saul Griffith on the IRA, V2G and why there are so many solar roofs in Australia
Natural beekeepers are the radical dissenters of apiculture
The worth of a build system that is actively advertised as “not ready for production” is entirely individually dependant.
To run it locally, I did:

pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
pip install -r streamlit-prettymapp/requirements.txt
streamlit run streamlit-prettymapp/app.py

(The `streamlit` command is installed by the third requirements.txt)

It does properly show the Macau map, but is hanging on `Creating map... (may take up to a minute)`; I wonder if there's an OSM api key that is not working, or something like that.

edit: looks like the issue is just that it's very slow in places with a decent amount of OSM stuff? It's actually hanging on converting the OSM to geometries, as it tries to convert 400k objects

edit 2: https://github.com/chrieke/prettymapp/issues/26
well, the article mentions webgl
AI Model to translate and transcribe across speech and text
This is in my opinion very wrong, you will end up just selecting for a sub population which might or might have the qualities you are looking for.

You seem to be confusing volume of work and passion for skill. Some of the best engineers i know will are very diligent about work life balance (i guess you call that clock in/sign out), do not have publicly visible git hub because in their spare time they are either with their families/communities or enjoying other non tech related hobbies.

A good programmer (from an employer perspective) is first and foremost a professional, passion and loving doing stuff is good but can only get so so far. I know a lot of the passionate programmer who basically suck.

> There are obvious clowns in the industry

Agree, and the worst seem to be the one thinking they have this magical/predictive ability to discern talent based on their limited life experience.
A Brunner folding guitar (https://brunner-guitars.com/en/b-compact-models/) is definitely portable, although not exactly cheap.
As someone that's getting into making modern games for the GB, after looking at pandocs etc I also wondered how Nintendo could even claim that their "logo" was in the ROM anyways, if it was xor'd or encoded somehow, the actual content of the ROM wouldn't be their logo at all, but meaningless until it was executed.

Great that when someone actually went against them that the precedent was set that Nintendo's complaints weren't valid.
http://studybuddhism.com/en/advanced-studies
You find all kinds of approaches in the Eastern traditions. Buddha rejected the eternalism and theism of the Hindus, but most of his teachings were really quite similar. The yoga sutras emphasized asana prior to the practice of dhyana. Go further east and some of the chan/zen schools rejected all formal teaching methods such as ethical precepts and sutra studies in favor of meditation alone. This latter is where the modern mindfulness movement found its primary inspiration.
Exactly. How many Westerners are trying to meditate without a conscious belief in a Higher Power, an Infinite Creator, God, or such? I wonder if there may be negative spiritual effects by employing meditation without seeking closeness with divinity.
I'm sure there's a fascinating reason they do it, but it makes upgrading via their .deb tar a PITA since they have different package names, so $(apt install ./*.deb) will cheerfully install it side-by-side

I'll also take this opportunity to remind folks they offer torrent downloads so you can take some of the download pressure off their infra if you already have a torrent client installed
>If the agent doing the examining decides to simultaneously look up an American’s TikTok account, nothing would stop them.

And this is a concern because? They already have everything tiktok could give them. They shouldn't, but they do.