skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MDF warps and swells worse than any other furniture material I've ever seen. If it's not well sealed against moisture (and laminate alone is not sufficient), it will eventually develop severe flaws if exposed to water or kept in a humid environment.

Regular wood (and to a lesser extent plywood) will warp somewhat over time, though rarely enough to affect the function or appearance of the piece. It will swell with humidity, but it won't be permanently disfigured by it. Also, it won't become prone to catastrophic failure because people occasionally spill drinks on it.

MDF doesn't have to have these issues; it can be used correctly. It's just very rare to see that in a lot of cheaper furniture.
You make it sound like being a gatekeeper is a thing of honor, but in this context being a gatekeeper means regulation, but not protection.
The car companies won't let that information out to independent repair shops (except where mandated by laws). The "right to repair" movement is one attempt to make it possible.

The worst offender is John Deere and their newer farm tractors. Only authorized repair centers can get the software needed to troubleshoot the vehicles. Part of why Deere does not want details out there is that some tractor models have the exact same engine, but different power outputs based on how much the customer paid. One could "unlock" a more powerful engine without paying corporate. The really big "implements of husbandry" (as my state calls them) can cost $500k. At peak planting/harvesting time, you can wait weeks for a technician to come to your farm. Or spend a few thousand dollars having it driven to the dealership by truck.
Only beyond a certain point.

Once someone gets to Bill Gates level intelligence, I would agree any additional steps beyond that probably negatively correlates with grit and 'a certain irrational headstrongness' to a sizable amount, so much so that it noticeably reduces chances of business success.
It's very likely GPT-4 is an ensemble. A single model won't be able to keep up, even with this level of parameters.

Run a fleet of these together, however...
> There are virtually no sugar free foods available in any of the british supermarkets.

The whole of the fruit and vegetable section, unless you're including fruit sugars.
^ Yes, this is what I meant by "hidden from the GUI". Apple is purposefully obscuring the process. If you double click, the OS tells you "this Application is damaged" which is at best leaving out key information and at worst deliberately misleading.

As I said in my original comment—I'm not necessarily against these changes in isolation. I think macOS handles the balance reasonably well. However, if you take these changes together, the throughline is clear. We went from "don't worry, Gatekeeper is entirely optional and easy to turn off" when it was first introduced to "don't worry, advanced users who can use the Terminal or know the specific hidden incantation can still bypass Gatekeeper."
No doubt, but at least in the UK nobody is forcing ISPs to modernise their infrastructure because competition seems to be entirely on price rather than service.
You could do it (and Adobe has with some documents AFAIK) by using some kind of DRM solution, limiting access to approved software. That software wouldn't then be allowed to expose its UI tree to accessibility APIs, except for approved screen readers that embed a particular key in their executables. Those approved screen readers would have restrictions around what they can do with the text. Sure, everything can be broken, for example with third-party fake speech synthesizers or speech recognition applied to the screen reader's output (as contemporary OSes don't even provide good DRM mechanisms for audio), but it would make the process that much harder.
If you replace a term with a completely different term you often get a completely different meaning.
Eh. As a counter point.

I live in Montana, have a degree in an unrelated field but still work on IOT projects.

I work mostly from home or private office and have never needed to drive for course of work.

Not sure how you exist in Montana without driving.

If you’d like to move into that field, it’s certainly not easy but it is possible.
And all of that needs to be backed up, secured, stored, tested for validity regularly, and so on.

More disk space isn't one drive, but redundancy too And backups. And even network bandwidth.

This thread sort of highlights the problems. DEVs don't get it. Nor does management.
We already teach history. Either there's something wrong with how we're doing it (highly plausible) or it's something else (highly plausible).
You know.. you can believe in or be inspired by someone without buying into everything they say...

fyi, your comment is super low quality and on the line of antagonism, ironic given your HN handle would make one think you would not impose unnecessary suffering (by deriding something someone said)

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edit, your comment history is quite telling, I would change my HN handle if I were you
What's the point of going to the office if everyone is hiding from everyone else?
Why I shared this to HN: I love linguistics factoids and collecting obscure Wikipedia articles, particularly about indigenous cultures in Russia/Siberia. I find a lot of great Wikipedia articles on HN, so I thought y'all would appreciate it.
I don't believe that was what OP was suggesting; the addition of nutritional information for fast food outlets would be very welcome, personally. It'd be very informative to see the caloric breakdown and macros of food consumed from such joints. We already have macro-nutritional information for beers, why not extend that to what is commonly ordered with beer, too?

Furthermore, education on caloric intake and macro-nutrients in general would be a very wise decision. From experience, schools in the UK tend to skip what many would consider the essentials (sex education, dieting) to focus on more academic ventures -- it's good that we're focusing on academia, but we also need to place a greater spotlight on ensuring we live healthy lives; this is something regulators and the Government in general are very well-positioned to enforce.

The only real lectures we had on dieting were wishy-washy "eat vegetables" talk, which is glaringly obvious to pretty much anyone. Teaching people how to incorporate them into a meal seems like the logical next step.

Regarding educational institutions, I would much rather such information be presented to children in place of Baccalaureate programs which schools receive kickbacks from the Government to do; I did one and found that the majority of students (including myself) found the entire venture pointless and excruciating.

N.B. A semi-related note: For someone on a restrictive diet such as myself (e.g. keto), having nutritional information for beer is a very welcome luxury. I'm able to have a drink with friends while knowing how it would affect my total intake of carbohydrates for the day.
Entry level Enterprise grade HDD storage will run you about $1,000 per TB.

All Flash arrays will get even more $$$$

Price out a Nimble or PureStorage array can see if they will sell you 12TB for $800... I will wait.
That's your choice. You can buy new, convienent, modern cars that spy on you and will be dead in ten years. Or you can buy old, reliable cars that lack most modern amenities but can be repaired forever with a metal lathe and a welder.
I don't think that matches. In your version, "before" implies that something happened that affected the goodbye-saying.

In the song, "before" is an adverb referring to the current time in the story, which does not impact the goodbye-saying.

I can only make yours scan if I interpret it as "She said goodbye too many times before... I stopped taking her back.
"Say goodbye" doesn't necessarily mean "to speak the words 'goodbye'". I'm not an English expert, but I think that waving with your hand is also "saying goodbye". And if that's true, then "żegnać" is the same as "saying goodbye".
I have a 2019 Subaru Outback. I also use GrapheneOS on a Pixel 3A. I have noticed that, when my phone is plugged in and I have location services enabled (for navigation), when I'm NOT using navigation, the icon in the top bar indicating location services being used pings once every 30 seconds.

I'm sure onboard cell modems can be used to triangulate well enough, but just knowing that my car likes to hitch a ride on my phone's sensors has creeped me out forever. I'll definitely be looking for an old beater car as my second when the time comes.
Texas drivers license offices closed, online services down after software update
Notepad++ with the NppFTP plugin that allows me to browse and edit remote files as if they were local (just gotta remember to set Unix line endings as a default rather than Windows style).
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/europe

77.5% is definitely a "dominant market position". That is the term that matters, people just like to use the word monopoly instead (note: if lots of people use a word "incorrectly" the meaning of the word changes).
No, this is not happening because they are clueless on what they can do - this is happening because they believe they can get away with this (by seeing that most companies do that). There is a clear global consensus on whether they are permitted do that (no, they can't), but there's also something resembling consensus that they'll keep waltzing over the boundary while they still can as regulators take their time with enforcement.

You don't have to worry about data laws unless you're trying to walk that line - and you should not. If you act reasonably and don't even attempt to track people unless they explicitly ask you to (which is what opt-in informed consent means) then you don't need to bother with the nuances. Megacorps are hiring privacy lawyers primarily because they want the lawyers to answer "what can we add/change to somehow keep doing this prohibited thing" instead of just stopping it.

When I hear from "unwillingly violated", most of the time it somehow comes from an organization blatantly and willingly violating the principles; indiscriminately harvesting data and basing their business model on that. Even for a startup, getting a quick 30 minute consultation on data privacy isn't a big deal, and compliance is trivial if you're willing to abandon prohibited ideas - GDPR compliance is primarily tricky for those who want to see what is the maximum amount of evil that is still legally permitted.
I mean Microsoft.

Quite curious what those 1831 members would do, if Microsoft decides to play a VB6/VB.NET (both now in maintenance) on F#.
Um, does he still have that data? Asking for a friend!
It says 8 A100 for normal inference. How different is the 4bit performance?
My best job required skills I only had from mucking around at home. The clincher was when I got out my notebook and started quizzing them about the company finances and structure. The atmosphere changed. YMMV
The classic, most malicious, version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code

> Microsoft Senior Vice President Brad Silverberg later sent another memo, stating: "What the [user] is supposed to do is feel uncomfortable, and when he has bugs, suspect that the problem is DR-DOS and then go out to buy MS-DOS."

That's obviously a very extreme example (involving deliberately actively sabotaging interoperability), but private APIs, used to privilege first party software over third party software, are and were common.

What you've quoted is an explainer aimed at non-programmers, but I'm pretty sure they're talking about private APIs.
The license is insane (custom taylored without a legal expert):
https://huggingface.co/spaces/tiiuae/falcon-180b-license/blo...

The gist is:

> Commercial use: Falcon 180b can be commercially used but under very restrictive conditions, excluding any "hosting use". We recommend to check the license and consult your legal team if you are interested in using it for commercial purposes.

This is unlike smaller Falcon models which are available under a proper Apache-2 license: https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-40b/blob/main/README.md
Interesting, but almost every click on the site requires an account (with an email). I would love to be able to assess it a bit more before creating an account.
So I can't have the homemade daal but I can have loads of potato chips (potatoes, salt, sunflower oil, paprika, yeast, sugar, onion)?
Empathy in Email Marketing: The Key Ingredient for Success
They will be rare but do you really think Big Oil's lobby will let that one go thru?
I'm not arguing a position for or against action, I'm pointing out that things are worse than the quote claims, and I'm pointing it out because there is a long history of downplaying the severity of the situation when it comes to this issue.

Whether it's pointless or not is up for debate. Your brake pressing analogy could be slightly off. Rather than being in the moment before the car accident, we could be in the moment just after driving off of a cliff. In that case, brake pressing is indeed futile. But I think the system we're in is too complex to know for sure, and I'm all for people wanting to say that they are interested in doing anything they can. I'm also all for people actually taking action rather than just saying they are on board with the idea. Also...just do nothing if that's your preference.
This list actually surprised me. The European companies on the list fall into 3 categories: commodities (e.g. petroleum or mining), utilities, and automakers.
The utility of a diamond ring is not to have shiny rock. It’s meant to be an expensive useless thing to demonstrate that you/your partner can spend money on expensive useless things.

So a shiny thing that’s less expensive actually doesn’t satisfy the same role.

A shiny thing that’s just as expensive but less valuable (ie lower $/karat, ie lab grown) is so large as to out itself as not-the-truly-ridiculous waste of money that a real diamond is supposed to be for its signaling value.
Sulphur oxides have been proven to reduce global warming - when the ocean freighters cleaned up their emissions in a bid to stop pollution we saw increases in temperature. I hear people suggesting that we dump a ton of that in the upper atmosphere, but adding more crap to the air to try and stop the previous crap reminds me of how the old lady who swallowed the fly ended up with horse-sized problems.
For a change of scenery, here's your Latin 101: https://youtu.be/0lczHvB3Y9s.
From what my friends in China tell me this is changing in a big way, mass produced foods are taking over for the labor in even small and unlicensed vendors. They're hitting some sort of economic threshold that we have in the USA where it's just cheaper for every diner to buy frozen from GFS than do it themselves.
Salamander last update was 07/01/2019 so I really doubt it. Would not need it anymore though, considering advantages of Doublecmd and that is in active development since 2007.
Sam Altman says 20% productivity increase should be the goal of companies over the next 12 months using AI .... Side note He does not want a brain implant!
It failed my basic benchmark that only GPT4 passes:

Q: I have a 12 liter jug and a 6 liter jug. I need 6 liters of water. How do I do it?

Falcon180B: First, fill the 6-liter jug completely. Then, pour it into the 12-liter jug. Fill the 6-liter jug again, and pour it into the 12-liter jug until the 12-liter jug is full. At this point, there will be exactly 6 liters of water in the 6-liter jug, which you can then use.

Q: Using only a 6-liter jug, how can I get exactly 6 liters of water?

Falcon180B: You cannot get exactly 6 liters of water in a 6-liter jug because it would already be full. However, if you had another container that could hold at least 6 liters of water, you could follow these steps:

1. Fill the 6-liter jug with water.
2. Pour the water from the 6-liter jug into the other container.
3. Refill the 6-liter jug with water and pour it into the other container.
4. Repeat step 3 until you have poured 6 liters of water into the other container.

This way, you can get exactly 6 liters of water by combining the capacity of the 6-liter jug and the other container.
Genuine question, not being provocative: I'm curious where you'd choose to go.

I'm not exactly optimistic about the UK's long-term, but I'm struggling to think of anywhere in the west that doesn't have similar trends.
Famously the EU has never before addressed issues that aren't violations of inalienable rights
China bans use of iPhone for government business
Highly unlikely in the US as a whole. California, maybe. Most other states this won't be the case.
People with internet controlled ovens turn them on before arriving home to shorten the time it takes to get dinner on the table.
> How can I import `tsv` and/or n-triplets file into v2 XTDB so I can run a couple of queries on WatDiv ?

I can't offer easy instructions for that right now as we've not adapted the benchmark for the 2.x branch yet (and I would not expect performance to match 1.x right now anyway), although all the code one might need is in the repo for 1.x already and should be straightforward enough to convert to the new APIs given some familiarity with Clojure: https://github.com/xtdb/xtdb/blob/master/bench/src/xtdb/benc...

> Was it Datomic that played a pioneering role in this shift ?

I know Datomic has inspired a lot of people - certainly our entire team - but I'm not sure how much it's influenced the existence of things like Cozo or the wider database ecosystem. I get the feeling that Datomic's impact on application developer communities and library builders has been far greater (also amplified further by DataScript) than the impact on established database vendors & research communities. It has at least been good to see more systems start treating data immutably and exposing time-travel capabilities, even if Datomic was merely ahead of the curve rather than a direct inspiration.

> They are forcing users to create queries and data models through the cumbersome process of breaking down and building n-ary relations from triplets. I believe that the remedy lies in developing robust transformation functions capable of handling input and output across triplets, tabular, or nested data structures.

Despite originally being attracted to triple-oriented modeling I have come around to agreeing with this point of view. Processing with n-ary relations is unavoidable so the idea of not persisting them also feels inherently limiting. I am also quite drawn to "Object Role Modeling" (though I've not yet applied it in anger) which really demands n-ary tuples, and the RelationalAI folks seem to have reached a similar conclusion: https://docs.relational.ai/rel/concepts/relational-knowledge...

> in my opinion, the ideal solution to the DBMS-database challenge resides at the application level and within the realm of database modeling

I generally agree with this too. All I know for certain is that almost everything in software should be more relational and declarative, and then machine learning stands the best chance of figuring out how to make things fast.

Good discussion :)
https://archive.ph/4PNDt
Literally none of what you said is true.

I have a key that toggles between keyboard layers, of which there are three. Different layers are assigned different colors. If I forget which layer I'm on then I can just glance at the keyboard and know. The LEDs are similar in purpose to a Caps Lock indicator.

And for the third layer, which has only a dozen or so keys defined, the keys that are defined are lit up in their own color. This layer sees less use than the first two, so it is helpful guidance to remember which are defined.

I have criticisms about the keyboard -- Moonlander -- but none are about the LEDs. The LEDs are useful and not simply moronic eye-candy as you seem to imply.
The most balanced and sensible paradigm I've come across is Basecamp's Shape Up[0].

I led an engineering team building validated systems that supported GxP processes in life sciences and found that a Shape Up-like process produced the best balance between delivering software that could be validated[1] and speed. I only came across it after several years of trial and error, but I was amazed at how it almost exactly described what we ended up doing.

A side effect is that work-life balance is amazing once you get this process working. If you know exactly how much work you need to do and when it needs to get done by for the next 4-6 weeks, then you can pace yourself much better. When you plan 6 weeks at a time, someone going out sick or taking some time off has less of an impact than when you plan 1 or 2 weeks at a time.

The customers and end-users know what to expect and when they'll get it; everyone gets more predictability in the process. Yes, it takes 1-2 weeks of planning at the outset, but we used that downtime for the engineering team to catch up on tech, build some experiments, work on side projects, or do research. (No refactoring since the validated process requires us to plan and document all code changes that make it into production)

I recommend it for any team that wants some sanity in the processes.

[0] https://basecamp.com/shapeup

[1] Validated in this context means that every feature, function, and infrastructure component can be traced back to a specification through the full lifecycle from design to install to post-install verification and operations.
This is not standard or correct in American English either, though interestingly, German uses the same form for both situations ("ich wünsche, du hättest es getan" vs "du hättest es getan, wenn..."), so if that construction is more common in American English it's possible that it's due in part to the influence of German speakers.
> What is the goal?

Smooth logistics. When Congress intervenes, it’s to alleviate supply-chain snarls.

> If being an owner operator is a good business, then a lender will do the proper underwriting and extend a loan

Why do you pre-suppose a functioning lending market for independent truck drivers? A 50% increase in owner-operators could easily saturate what used to be a cottage financing industry before being noticed.

The core point is we tend to think of truckers as employees from a distance. That shapes our policy responses, e.g. knee-jerk assuming the problem is pay or working conditions. It’s not just that because many truckers aren’t simple employees.
You don't own the inside of it. That's the core part of all this. Businesses decided to sell items with special conditions where you can own possession of the item as a whole but not the ability to dismantle it.

That's just a contract with terms. If you are in the position being addressed by my points, then you have already agreed to those terms.

your problem is with the ownership model, or something else. I am saying, since this model is already in existence and accepted by the public, we need to create some safeguards.

We cannot bypass the fact that you do not own the thing you are testing. So if you want to test something you do not own, then yes I think involving the entity that does own it is reasonable