skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And my favorite Floppotron 3.0 performance, The Final Countdown:

https://youtu.be/e-WakfBNHD0

Along with a cool article by the inventor about how it works:

http://silent.org.pl/home/2022/06/13/the-floppotron-3-0
Not a stretch. Follow the chain of doctoral advisors.
There is a reason that open source thrives in the niche of tooling for other software developers, and ... thrives less outside that niche. The target audience for software development tooling ascribes huge value to being able to read and modify the source of the tools we use. And for good reason, it's not just a principled stand; open source directly helps us do our jobs better.

But outside that niche, nobody really values this capability, and it's not a mystery why not. What good does open source do an accountant? Any given work-a-day accountant is never going to read or modify the source of their software. They just have no interest in that. They may have a computer enthusiast friend who has made a compelling case to them for why this stuff matters, so they may agree in theory, but they aren't going to do extra work or pay extra for this. It just isn't a direct enough impact for them.
Another reason is name collision with Square. Single syllable, five letter word in the payments area.
More if you are not paying enough attention. This article is not about alcohol being good. It is about beer being good, and even goes on to suggest non-alcoholic beers potentially being a health boost, leaving unstated that we know the alcohol has harmful effects (because this is a feel-good article, not a study). When studies appear to disagree is when we learn the most, such as coffee studies disagreeing pointing us to the differences between filtered and unfiltered coffee or caffeinated and decaffinated, or how 'healthy' oils can become unhealthy when heated past their smoke point in high temperature cooking.
The amount of spam and scam that starts heading your way when you purchase a house is insane.
This is surely the "Why the Apple phone will fail, and fail badly (2006)"[1] of our time.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37362181
the issue with NA beers are that we still pay "taxed beer prices" on what amounts to fizzy yeast water. The pricing model is ridiculous...the alcohol companies know that people who've found themselves in the misfortune of not being able to drink will pay it.
Weird the article didn't mention Let Me Be Your Fantasy by Baby D, probably the most famous use (and my favourite use) in the UK at least: (1992)

https://youtu.be/LXMihKGqtfc?t=20
It just hit me that when I was doing IT support for some departments in college I laughed at how antiquated tape storage backups were as I saved my papers and homework on to magnetic storage 3.5" floppy drives.
British Colonial Biopolitics and the Great Bengal Famine of 1943
Btw The game was on sale for $7.49 on Nintendo switch for the next 4 hours. Not shilling just saying that's a great price from 29.99.
A D.C. grocery store is removing Tide, Colgate and Advil to deter theft
> You can't slander the dead (who in any case have no rights) so it's OK to call them what you want.

That might be right from a legal point of view in many jurisdictions.

But that's pretty much irrelevant for the discussion at hand.
https://archive.ph/6bxyv
Inevitable Simpsons clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu0R96OZy6w
The question is not natural vs non-natural.

Industrialization is rife with short-term thinking.

The idea that this will help humans long term has not been proven.

The only people who are SURE not to be negatively affected by this kind of thing are the super rich, who are not getting their salmon from the same places as you and I do.
When calculating energy requirements on a flat plane of travel, the weight of the load is only relevant* when accelerating. On a flat plane, once the load is up to speed, it doesn’t take any significant increase of energy to maintain speed, regardless of load weight. The main reason fuel is required to maintain speed on a flat surface is overcoming air resistance. At the speeds that road traffic travels, only the front and back shapes of the vehicle contributes substantially to air resistance, not “air friction” from an elongated middle body. This means that on a flat plane like a highway, doubling the length of a vehicle to accommodate double the load, does not require anywhere near double the energy to maintain speed. It does however provide much more space to capture solar energy.

By the way, you can take advantage of this yourself on long highways by driving close (but safe) to large trucks, driving in their slip stream. It cuts fuel requirements substantially because the truck is doing some of the work of moving the air for you.

One puzzling thing is why trucks aren’t designed to be more aerodynamic, instead of a giant box shape. Anyone got any thoughts on this?

*aside from small things like added friction on bearings, changed tire geometry etc.
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That story works even better if the original cookie decorating party was a Christmas cookie decorating party.
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Addressing the "Technological Illiteracy" bit from the viewpoint of someone who was running a Chess Club up to 2020.

Depending on where you live what people do online can vary a lot, especially if you have a mix of young and old people. My Club had lots of players/parants that used WeChat and lots that used Facebook messenger. Some people barely used the Internet. Different clubs will have different mixes.

I ended up having a website with updates and a Facebook group. 1-to-1 Communication was done via SMS since everybody had that. I used to also do announcements on Club night, posters on the wall and a mass SMS at the start of each year to remind people we were starting up again.

A website for registering is not a trivial thing to setup and maintain. Even if you are just using a SaaS vendor it will still cost significant fees. Our Club charges $100/year to cover everything. If you want something non-standard then who knows what that will cost.

I know that since I left some stuff does take place on discord and some registration is done automatically online (under the grace of a club member with time). But you have to pick your technology to match your members. If most of them a 50+ then a discord that only 10% use is only for discussion, not somewhere for official communication/business.
You're kidding right?

The CIA has black sites specifically for people like that
People love paradoxes, so the paradox inherent to Tyler’s story is a really great way for him to anchor his message in your memory. I see that as why he spends so many words on it.
>Actors don’t break out by virtue of their stellar background acting work.

Indeed. But it's a paying job that gives one the opportunity to learn how a film set works, and gain skills that will be useful later. Think of it as an internship, if you like. That, you'll surely agree, has some value?

>Why would you bother recreating someone when you could generate someone better fit for the role?

But, they're not doing that! They're taking background actors' images, and copy-pasting them into other scenes, and other works. That seems... Unjust? I mean, that's me, isn't it? Fair enough (I suppose), if they create an entirety synthetic person (that's totally been a thing for decades, for massive, anonymous crowds), but if you make something that's based on me, looks like me, moves like me, sounds like me, isn't that partly my creation, and shouldn't I get some credit, and some compensation?

I mean, maybe someday they may create entirely synthetic background actors, and then the point will be moot, but for now they're not quite there, and they're trying to get away with using actual peoples' work in ways that weren't ancicipated, and for which they were not compensated.
DNA is fairly fragile. I'm not sure about this particular case, but have a look at https://slate.com/technology/2013/02/dna-testing-richard-iii... for general timelines.

> What’s the shelf life of DNA?

> About a month to a million years, theoretically. The decay rate of DNA depends on the conditions of its storage and packaging. Above all, it depends on whether the DNA is exposed to heat, water, sunlight, and oxygen. If a body is left out in the sun and rain, its DNA will be useful for testing for only a few weeks. If it’s buried a few feet below the ground, the DNA will last about 1,000 to 10,000 years. If it’s frozen in Antarctic ice, it could last a few hundred thousand years. For best results, samples should be dried, vacuum-packed, and frozen at about -80 degrees Celsius. Even then, ambient radiation is likely to render DNA unrecognizable before it celebrates its millionth birthday.
I mind Vaping as well. In addition to all sorts of smoke.

I even mind dryer scents; literally ANY unusual smell in the air. Unusually pungent foods, camp fire and BBQ smoke, any cleaning agents. IMO every house should have scrubbed exhausts and possibly also intakes.
> goal is to feed the planet efficiently

If that was actually the goal, we would be investing into bioengineering salt-water tolerant crops, like China is doing. Or into permaculture, like many environmentalists are advocating. Or at least we would legally mandate interoperability and repairability of farm hardware, like right to repair advocates.

But really the goal is to allow the established industrial players to continue their existing business practices, even thought they are harmful and thoughtless.
Hello! I'm the developer of the CARI website. Do you know what resolution your iPad's screen is, or what model/year it is? Thought I took care of making the website responsive, but it sounds like I missed an edge case. Thanks!
Is severance something that’s legally required?
Yes, but I'm still wrong, without elaboration, and add then a touch of gaslighting? Jez.
Surely there's a "change of control" clause in their contractuals?
Do you have links to pilot blogs/discussions about this? I’d be curious to give it a read.
Anchovy, Herring, any fish that is not at the top of the food chain. Salmon is a predator, it's like eating tigers.
I remember saving up my cash to buy an Adaptec 2940 and a 9GB SCSI drive, getting it working and finding it...not noticeably faster than whatever ATA/133 drive I had at the time.

Which of course, I could have bought three more of for what I spent.
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It doesn’t have to be oversimplified baulderdash. As the whole “ELI5” thing has shown, skillful reduction can preserve the truth and spirit. It’s just not easy.

(It’s actually a lot of fun as a parent trying to do a good job of this)
> it’s searching for profits that push for greater efficiency

Efficiency like John Deer using the copyright law to stop Farmers from repairing their tractors?

https://capturedeconomy.com/how-copyright-enabled-john-deere...
here's the actual study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-00862-3
He famously and publicly promised severance to all the employees he fired, as well as an incentive to get more of them to leave.
Somehow I feel is important to note that the Amen Break, being super-influential to the whole genre of jungle/jungle-tek is not so important for drum and bass, contrary to some statements here. I also doubt how important it was to hiphop in general.

The so called 'jungle music' is defined by the amen - it is not jungle unless it has it. Period. This Shy FX track cited in the article is "Original" because of the frantic MCing of UK Apache (what did this guy take in the studio!!). There's a whole lot of much more intense and better tracks. Try any Krinjah track like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssPd9j6VaRw.

In fact, the label Metalheadz introduced the notion of dnb as a marketing move to distance its industrial-influenced sound from what was initially called jungle-tek, and was really techno with the amen break increasingly getting 'seasoned' on top of it. So dnb is not defined by the amen break, but rather by what is called the 'reese' sound and very specific arrangement and syncopation of layers of similar samples, which is nowhere to be found in jungle.

I presume there must be other reasons that mad amen got big - not only his sonic characteristics. In fact many funk records expose such loops, and lots of these had been used in pop music, not only underground. The sample itself, I presume should've been largely available during tracker times during 90s - I guess on BBSs or in sample packs.

We are also very familiar, thanks to Prodigy, with the breaks of Bernard Purdie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Purdie) sampled at least twice (to my knowledge) by Liam Howlett for his biggest hist (I write his here because he is indeed the main producer of most if not all Prodigy bangers). But you see it was only Liam who sampled it, because he had the records. And I doubt hundreds of teen producers had the original Amen record. And I presume this has to do with the modtracker and trackers, because it was so easy to take s.o. else's samples and do stuff with it. It is not trivial to take samples from someone's MPC, though, so my guess is that Amen must be also regarded as an internet-age phenomenon, not purely musical.
So really, you can just decide for yourself then

Even if you can understand what the proof proves (not a given) do you personally understand the actual requirements for the software perfectly?
This reminds me, did Parag and other in the top management get their money? I didn't see any update on that.
Heavily depends on locale and what the employment contract says.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severance_package

But Musk did publicly promise severance, then didn’t deliver. That would almost certainly be breach of contract.

And also given that Twitter universally refused to pay severance in all markets, including those with mandatory severance, I suspect Twitter’s decision isn’t coming from a legally sound place.
Not in most of the US, but as detailed in the article, telling people you're paying two months severence (presumably in writing no less) and then not paying it is likely a breach of contract law.
The HP Itanium dev units we worked with at ActiveState in 2000 shipped with an Imation floppy drive. If I recall correctly, the install media for HPUX shipped on an Imation disk. It was a true beast.
This reminds me:

I can't stand the fact that screws and nails are measured by the pound (at least in the US). What a ridiculous unit of measure to use for a count of something. I have never, not once, thought to myself "I need 2 pounds of nails for this job" because only a lunatic would think of "how many" in terms of weight.
It’s clearly a misnomer.

We should call it what it is, and what people will call it in a 100 years: Crypto Scheme
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Omar_case

Detaining does not happen in US but they just get shot by LEO.

A lot of black community will tell you they are improperly taken/shot in for trivial infractions.

Tell me one instance in RU whereLEO just shoot unarmed civilian for minor road traffic stop.

David Miranda was detained at Heathrow:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Miranda_(politician)

While I understand US is better than RU,CN they are not that far ahead.

Nit pick is OK but defending CIA is hopeless. Ask amnesty they will tell you more cases.
Every shareholder got their money at the buyout price: $54.20 per share.
I think that's what's called rewriting the history books. The narrative du jour causes people to fit everything in a neat little box. Clicks, views -> land better jobs.
One of the comments in the OP:

I believe the problem is that bridge in the US (not true in some other countries) lacks a "critical mass" of 20 and 30 somethings.

I like to play bridge, but all the people I have asked in my age group (the 20 and 30 somethings) say bridge is a game their (grand)parents (used to) play. I am not sure how bridge can be introduced as a fun hobby without the face-to-face aspect, because compared to other online games it does seem a bit monotone.
Imagine paying someone who doesn't even stop invading your privacy when you're paying.
Train your own private ChatGPT model for the cost of a Starbucks coffee
When you promise it, sure.

https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/...

> X agreed to pay severance in employees' initial offer letters and later confirmed workers would receive severance at least as favorable during the post-merger period as they had under the old management. The severance plan entitled laid-off workers to at least two months of base salary, pro-rated performance bonuses as though all triggers for such bonuses had been hit, the cash value of any restricted stock units that would have vested within three months of separation, and a cash contribution for the continuation of health care coverage. Instead, the company paid two months of base salary to comply with the notice requirements of the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, plus one month of severance pay, according to court documents.
Doesn't the WARN act require 60 days notice minimum (or 60 days worth of pay and vesting off all rewards in such period) in the case dog layoffs?
I agree that the NA beer I’ve been exposed to over the last 3-5 years is remarkably better than what I’ve encountered before. To the degree that I like a lot of them on their own terms and not as a substitute for anything else
You didn't specify whether you used GPT-4 or 3.5-turbo.

It's true that it often inserts placeholders.

You can try using the functions feature (via the API) and/or fine-tuning .

If it's relatively simple code then you could also look into Codellama or WizardCoder which you may also fine-tune.

To be fair, the instruction following capabilities of GPT-4 are absolutely incredible relative to what was available a few years ago.

Don't worry, it will only be a few more years before AI is able to completely replace you. Then you will be wishing you could go back to the time when you had to write an extra prompt to fill in the TODOs.
Similar arguments here: https://bower.sh/typescript-terrible-for-library-developers

As a library developer I spend substantially more time on making the types right than the actual implementation. It can be brutal at times.
GenPD Subsystem Posted for Linux 6.6 – Torvalds Wonders What the Heck Is “GenPD”
No, sorry. I don't follow those blogs unless someone sends me a link to a particularly interesting one.
Article is not clear. For instance:

> In October, shortly after taking Twitter’s reins, Musk laid off more than half of its employees, promising most at least two months’ salary plus a week’s pay for every year they’d worked at the firm.

Key word here is the severance was promised to “most”, not “all” employees. Was that how it went down? I dunno, the article doesn’t say. Now you’re saying that no one was paid severance (“universally refused to pay severance in all markets”). Seems like there’s a lot of uncertainty here.
That's not what the parent comment was referring to. Senior execs had golden parachutes they were due if they were terminated.
Use the API and specify temperature 0. It will be as close to determinist as the underlying system allows.
The parent post is referring to the "golden parachute" execs are entitled to when fired by new ownership in situations like this. This is different from getting the $54.20 for shareholders. The purpose of these payments are to help align the incentives of leadership with shareholders so they cooperate in getting these complex deals closed.

I also haven't heard any updates.
Who do you think that clause would benefit and how?
Higher-res https://www.thx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Deepnote-Pane...
SD cards are a completely useless size these days: they're too small and easily lost, but they're too big for modern devices. For adding storage to a phone, for instance, a microSD card is much more useful (although easier lost of couse). A regular SD card is just way too big for that, and most of the space inside wasted.

A thumb drive is much better, as long as it not one of those thumb drives that's barely bigger than a USB port. But for offline storage that can be easily filed into a cabinet and paged through, floppy disks really were a great size. You can't file thumb drives; they're too narrow and thick, so a collection of them just ends up being a pile.

It's really too bad we don't have some kind of inexpensive, high-reliability, high-density offline storage format that resembles 3.5" floppies.
I don’t know much about bridge, but ny understanding is that you can legally “cheat” by embedding information in the plays you make. So I guess there is a kind of tension between basic optimal play and communicating effectively with your partner? Sounds like the kind of thing some hackers would really go for.
Supposedly, they were dismissed for cause minutes before they would have been awarded millions in severance when the sale closed. I’m fairly sure I recall that Parag and colleagues sued because the dismissal for cause was an obvious stretch of the imagination.
These lawsuits are about enforcing contract terms. In business, if you don't honor agreements you get sued (and lose).
It’s basically a scumbag move to try to wear the former employees down. I imagine Twitter will just stonewall for as long as they possibly can.

What real consequences could the officers of the company actually face that would encourage them to behave like adults?
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> Big Ag, mono culture, pesticides all come with the territory.

I am getting the impressing that you are not familiar with corrupt practices of Big Ag, most which have nothing to do with producing more food, and have everything to do with padding their profit margins and abusing their power.

For example, farmers hire agronomists, but actually agronomists make more money from kickbacks from producers of pesticides / agrochemicals than they do from farmers. Many of them are actually undercover pesticide pushers, rather than trusted professionals.

We have metric tons of research that shows that pesticides are overused, and poorly targeted. Not unlike the opioid crisis in US
Not a problem with KDE.

When are people going to learn to stop making extensions for Gnome? This is nothing new. If you want a desktop environment you can modify, Gnome isn't it. The designers have made this clear over and over for about 15 years now.
And “Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation” (1992) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hByt1KkiwgM
I hear pickleball is infamously racist too.
OpenTF has been accepted I to the Linux Foundation