skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I say this as someone that does like Django.

I had the opposite opinion. If you were trying to convert Rails, Laravel or CakePHP users, this would just convince them that Django was more manual and involved than those frameworks. It would be better to utilize extensions like `scaffolding` to give a more equivalent workflow. It does demonstrate general MVC benefits and architecture, however.
> Fine-tuning has one huge advantage though: it is far more effective at guiding a model's behavior than prompting, so you can often get away with a much smaller model. That gets you faster responses and lower inference costs. A fine-tuned Llama 7B model is 50x cheaper than GPT-3.5 on a per-token basis, and for many use cases can produce results that are as good or better!

These comparisons are reductive to the point of being misleading. Even with all the optimizations in the ecosystem, it's not trivial to get a finetuned 7B param model running at an acceptable inference latency. Even if you use a GPU such as an A100 for maximum speed, then you have scalability issues since A100s are scarce. Also, the "50% cheaper" assumes 100% utilization of a GPU which will never happen in production use cases.

Quality-wise, a finetuned Llama 2 is not necessairly better than ChatGPT. Finetuning requires a high-quality dataset which is not easy to construct. And in my own experience with finetuning Llama 2, qualitivately it caused more frustration to get outputs on par with just using ChatGPT.

The value of the ChatGPT API is more dependable scaling and not having to pay for an infra.
Linux 6.6's in-kernel SMB networking server graduates
Sometimes the best technology fails and the space is overtaken by lesser technologies. It can be something as silly and out of your control as timing. Maybe the competition came out a bit after you and grew faster as interest in the space rose astronomically in parallel.
Apple introduces the advanced new Apple Watch Series 9
You'd be surprise how HUGE that market is and also Unity's foothold as the engine of choices for those games. So this makes this decision even more baffling because instead of sharing the revenue these developers will just change to a different engine (it's not like that market will disappear, so if using Unity is unprofitable or too big of a dent in the revenue, they won't stop making those games, just use a different engine)
Fun fact:

- The author of the popular Minimal theme is now the CEO.

- The author of Kanban, Style Settings, and a couple more plugins has been hired.

- The author of Advanced Tables, Breadcrumbs, and Leaflet plugins has been hired.

Fingers crossed they also hire the Dataview developer, which is in my opinion by far the most powerful plugin available!
I recently started to only use liveviews for any page. Yes, I could do a simple controller/template combo, but then after some time comes the feature request for some interactivity, and I have to convert the page to LV manually. Or something like the global navbar needs some dynamic thing, and here you go: either embed a LV in the static page or... do nothing since all pages are LV to begin with. The overhead is pretty minimal IMO, a simple LV that does nothing is a few lines of module code, not much more than a controller route. And by standardizing this (no more deadviews), pipelines/plugs can be simplified, and live_session for seamless navigation becomes much better. Phoenix Deadviews render within a few MS, but still a live_navigate is snappier.
This seems debatable, but let us assume they are not obviously inconsistent. Those postulates only really mean something if you apply them in some situation, and if you apply them as laid out a few comments before, they make inconsistent claims. If applied to the subsystems, they postulate non-unitary evolution of the combined system, if applied to the combined system, they postulate unitary evolution. If inconsistent is to strong of a claim, I guess this could be changed to incomplete, maybe there are missing postulates resolving the issue.
>The bottom line being that there is nothing you can do

Google's ENTIRE JOB is to surface the CORRECT content for a query. If they are objectively not doing that, then they are in the wrong. Imagine credit card fraud just kept increasing, and instead of adapting and improving their systems, companies just threw up their hands and said "deal with it, not our problem, nothing we can do" as you had to generate a new credit card number every other day because even the most trivial card number enumeration attacks were not stopped.

The fact that google is completely unwilling to change how they operate to prevent even the simplest, intern driven SEO trash from overtaking literally authoritative sources should be exhibit A in a trial to break up Google, as evidence of how negative value they are to the consumer.

It's the rough equivalent of Fedex just throwing away a third of the packages they are supposed to deliver at random, and people seemingly just saying "eh, nothing can be done"
It was disallowed for many years but is re-allowed since the 2022 season
There is no enumerated right in Germany, the US or Canada to have a pleasant life and plenty of people suffer far worse than the occasional traffic inconvenience. There is in fact a war going on in Ukraine right now which is making a whole bunch of peoples' lives quite legitimately miserable and depriving many of their lives - well beyond adding twenty minutes onto a trip to costco.

I think it's totally legitimate to argue over how effective an action like this is for the cause - but this is a quite reasonable form of protest.
> Do WebGL plays count?

According to https://unity.com/runtime-fee "distribution via streaming or web browser is considered an install."

> Will games made on prior versions of the editor be affected?

From the FAQ https://unity.com/pricing-updates , "Will this fee apply to games using Unity Runtime that are already on the market on January 1, 2024?

Yes, the fee applies to eligible games currently in market that continue to distribute the runtime".

So while it doesn't apply to any past downloads, it will apply to any future downloads of previously released games.
I don’t recognize English of 500+ years ago y shuld i rekcogniz it in anthr 500 yrs

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A Comparison of Pneumatic Actuators for Soft Growing Vine Robots
If ever there were a food item that needed a "Chilean Sea Bass" style marketing rebranding, its the Chokeberry.
It’s much harder than you make it out to be.
According to the article, it won't be automatic, and won't be a higher price at least for the first year.

> Finally, Unity Plus is being retired for new subscribers effective today, September 12, 2023, to simplify the number of plans we offer. Existing subscribers do not need to take immediate action and will receive an email mid-October with an offer to upgrade to Unity Pro, for one year, at the current Unity Plus price.
Vampire Survivor wasn't developed with a Unity Enterprise subscription, so it's irrelevant what their hypothetical cost structure would have been if they had done something completely different than what they actually did.

5 million x $0.20 = $980,000 in Unity fees under 2023 pricing vs. $2040 annual pro subscription under 2022 pricing (for exceeding $100k in sales).

In other words, this is an instantaneous 480x fee increase, without any corresponding increase in the value of the services provided.

Do you understand why people are outraged now?
24kW is basically the peak when it's doing instant hot-water for the taps. You shouldn't need that to heat a home.

You're right, it can't match the _peak_ output, but the whole system is designed so this isn't necessary.

With a "traditional" combi-boiler, it will turn on occasionally to heat the water in the central heating system, and continue to pump it around. When you need hot water, it switches over the heat-exchanger to directly heat the incoming water and this is when it will ramp up and burn the most gas (24kW+).

For an air-to-water heat pump system, the system will be on almost continually, but will heat the water to a lower temperature, the peak power output is less, but it averages out the same. For hot water, the system will heat a storage cylinder.

One of the catches here is that's it not always an easy retrofit as the lower water temperature can necessitate larger radiators.
Devices that consider themselves special enough to deserve a specific fast charge technology can't be expected to charge on just about any USB A, what's complicated about that?

Your Sennheiser will fill up just fine in a pinch on the iPad's charger or on the M1 charger. Will the iPad charge on the charger for the M1? Likely, unless Apple sells noncompliant PD chargers or if the iPad uses some oddball fastcharge alternative that isn't PD. PD is carefully specced as a pyramid of "bigger sources can serve all lower level sinks and not just a subset" (yes, cables need to encode their level)
I once had a fun week playing Kerbal Space Program building solar-powered quadcopter launch platforms...

Basically a quadcopter which is mostly a big platform with a rocket payload in the middle. The quadcopter slowly ascends to the highest feasible altitude, bypassing all of the worst of the air resistance, and greatly reducing the delta v needed to get into orbit as a result.

This was mainly helping with the atmospheric drag problem, though; you would presumably need a lot of atmosphere to get far enough from the planet to help with the increased need for horizontal speed with a super massive planet.

Oh hey I found an old screenshot: https://imgur.io/zq8iyV0?r
Unity introducing new fee attached to game installs
Popular? I can do a backspin without spilling my beer. Get the caddy guys on the phone :)
https://archive.is/ATpC4
Is the Mona Lisa print on your wall distinct from the original? I.e. Was her face shape changed in your print to a version you prefer?

Arguments against against scarcity that point to copies of a singular work seem circuitous. There are innumerable copies because the single, canonical version is so valued.

Similarly, great pop songs are valued because everyone knows them, which is why individual song value peaked during the dawn of mass distribution (CD, then early digital) but before the market was flooded with volume.

The scarcity in the pop sense is the limited number of songs that everyone knows. (Largely through sophisticated media campaigns and forced radio/channel placement, but I digress)
I’ve just started using Obsidian and absolutely love it. I’ve tried many many note apps over the years and it’s by far the best.

Today I found I could build an archive of meeting notes by recording and transcribing conversations with MacWhisper and then get a summary and actions via the integrated ChatGPT extension. So handy!
Shoot, sorry about that
same.
it feels like QVC for generation z
A note to AI companies: Do not use AI generated images in your posts if they can't generate hands. Your whole thing is that AI is "here", but images like this undercut that message.
Ballsy to pull this stunt when Godot is so close to hitting critical mass (see Bender). Is this them seeing the writing on the wall and cashing in?
>But, we emphasize the limited reach of our decision today. We do not
uphold the injunction against all the officials named in the complain
I think having a desk-based job after the age of 60 in GB correlates to a ton of factors. I can't access the paper but the abstract mentions no control variables.

That on its own could be understandable, but if it's printed in the Daily Mail, then for sure it can't be true...
Do the next simplest thing: shard geographically. If you really need to handle users transiting geos, that's still dramatically simpler than meegroserbusses.
Capitalism is probably at the top of the list, running healthcare/electric power generation/etc as for-profit entities. Homelessness. ICE cars.
A white dwarf's density is apparently around 1e9 kg/m³. Olympic swimming pools at 50m*25m*2m * 1e9kg/m³ would have a weight of 2.5e12 kg. As a sphere, the radius is (solving: volume_of_sphere = 4/3×π×radius³)

$ qalc 50m*25m*2m = 4/3*pi*x^3
(((50 * meter) * (25 * meter) * (2 * meter)) = ((4 / 3) * pi * (x^3))) =
approx. (x = 8.4194515 m)

Gravitational acceleration (for a point mass) is: the gravitational constant, multiplied by the mass, divided by the radius squared, and we want the result in Earth gravities:

$ qalc G * 2.5e12kg / 8.4194515² m² to gee
(newtonian_constant * ((2.5 * (10^12)) * kilogram)) / ((8.4194515^2) * (meter^2)) =
approx. 0.24 gee

You're only one order of magnitude off — if this is correct, which I am really not sure about!

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_dwarf · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic-size_swimming_pool · https://duckduckgo.com/?q=volume+of+a+sphere&ia=answer · https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=surface+gravity+calcula...

What I'm even less sure how to calculate is whether an 8-meter sphere can be that heavy. Uranium is ~2e4 kg/m³, but under its own gravity, things shrink until they reach black hole status (infinite smallness; perceived size coming from its event horizon). Basically I'd want to turn the above 1e9kg/m³ into an unknown, but what's the formula for mass given your specified radius and gravitational acceleration? TBD

I'm really curious if this was just a few words strung together and it happened to come out to within one order of magnitude by pure coincidence, or if (how) you calculated this!
You mean AppleJPEGDriver? Yes, but I'm pretty sure I learned about that from one of your older comments.
> Does anyone have an oven that can maintain such low temps?

They seem quite common for ovens outside of the US but most digital US ovens I've used have a minimum temp of 170F for what I assume is some liability reason.
This isn't exactly a landline, but I've got (an older version of) this bluetooth -> telephone gateway [1] and have a few vintage handsets that I'll occasionally hook up to it. Incoming/outgoing calls route through your cell phone (good or bad depending upon your perspective) but the quality is great and it's nice to just sit and talk on a wired handset.

We're never getting back the phone systems of yore, but for me, it's more about replicating the ergonomics of 'the phone call' rather than stubbornly preserving antiquated technology.

YMMV -- some handsets can be finicky, most work great though, and since it's functionally no different than connecting a BT headset, you get some weird added stuff by default (access to contact lists, siri, whatever your software already provides (incoming call blocking, spam filtering, etc))

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Xtreme-Technolgoies-XLink-Bluetooth-G...
Michelin’s Coveted Stars Can Come with Some Costs
Nothing wrong with another tool in my chest, I'll give it a shot! Thanks for the referral.
> is when somebody is showing me something, doesn't realize it's a touchscreen, and accidentally borks whatever we were looking at.

It's funny -- I've been using my work laptop for over a year and only yesterday discovered that it has a touch screen by doing exactly this.

I haven't bothered to figure out how to disable the touchscreen yet, but it's on my todo list.
While this is a good example of all the good stuff raw django brings to the table, if you build a blog with django, you should go for wagtail in 2023:

https://wagtail.org

- It's incredibly more productive.

- Seamlessly integrates with any django website, or hold your hand to create one from scratch.

- Play nice with the whole django ecosystem.

- Is easy to pick up because under the hood "it's just django". It uses django models, routing, auth, etc. It's uses standards, best practices, and is a good citizen.

- The blog admin and the provided block editor are good out of the box.

- It still gives you all the flexibility you want: it doesn't force any template on you, any page structure, workflow, nothing. You get to decide how simple or complex you blog is.

- The team behind it is super nice.
There is no contradiction because there is no limit of knowledge.

The limit of y = e^x is infinity. You can keep increasing x and y will increase exponentially. So you plot the function, let's say with the x axis going up to 10 and the y axis going up to e^10. The graph shows very clearly that, while there was progress before, we have even more progress now. Exponentially more, even! What came before is dwarfed by what we have now; if you look at the range of y for x values 9-10 you can see how little of a difference all those others values (1-8) had between one another, compared to the changes we have now. The rate of change is so high that we're basically in an era of semi-complete knowledge. We must be at some kind of inflection point, this is truly a unique era of understanding.

Then you repeat. Set the x axis to 100, and the y axis up to e^100. Oh wait, it's the same graph. That's because it's always the same graph. It's scale-invariant. The slope at every point is always whatever y is.

We're always at right at the limit of explaining the "essential nature" of the universe because the "essential nature" of the universe can only be (to us) what we can understand it to be. We chose e^10 as the limit of the y-axis in our first exercise because that's all the knowledge we knew about. We chose e^100 as the limit of the y-axis in our second exercise because that, too, was all the knowledge we knew about. Choosing these random values as the limits of our function (i.e. the limit of the "essential nature of the universe") leaks information into the visualization that will always paint a picture showing that we're at the most transformative time there ever was.

When we do it that way, we will always come to the same _wrong_ conclusion. We will always dwarf what came before and be dwarfed by what comes after. To think that we're actually living in an inflection point is hubris, it's wishful thinking, it's the sour grapes of mortality.
Apple advances supplier clean energy commitments
It’s clearly more difficult, but authors are a few individuals briefly thinking about a problem not entire civilization attacking the problem across generations.

My first thought is balloons work based on relative densities so they can still reach very low density air on a high gravity world. That doesn’t help much with rockets, but firing a gun or using something like spin launch is much easier if you can start from very low atmospheric pressure.

No idea what actual engineers could come up with.
I had a talk with a circle CI rep at a conference and I tried to explain to him that yes I’m not happy with our custom Jenkins setup (agents, CasC, pipeline library), but that I also want to spend time and money on a migration project to end up at the status co again. If I would go to my boss and say we can either spend some time and fix our setup or spend time plus running costs for this external solution then the answer will be clear. I think convincing teams with huge stacks of CI setup to just switch because of marketing promises isn’t working. I would think of using a new setup when I start from scratch. At the moment at least.
These cars stem from the Formula Student, which since 2022 has re-allowed the previously forbidden "powered ground effect".

But this car has an upgraded battery and powertrain beyond what the rules allow and they maybe also use tire warmers and potentially rubber/glue on the launch surface/tires
What formal verification, if any, has been done on this (e.g. with TLA+ or similar)? Lock-free/wait-free designs are notoriously bug prone.
That's like at least half the fun! But seriously, there is a great library of community plugins.
>Musical instrument design is a well saturated space as well…

Yeah, thats sort of the point. :)
This phenomenon is common enough that it has a Wikipedia entry [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_light
I thought there were JS style worker threads:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/visualst...

but from looking it seems like people were doing it by writing VB that ran in a separate EXE and then indeed, COM would let you do RPCs between the different processes. So multi-processing rather than multi-threading.
> Chrome's differentiator is that it's fast.

I don't think that's the whole story. Chrome aggressively marketed itself around its sandboxing and security at a time when browser drive bys were huge. Anyone I recommended Chrome to, I did so because of security, not performance.

> if 99.99% of users aren't going to use it,

Ideally the crate would get closer and closer to the performance required to enable it entirely. I just meant as a temporary state.

Also, I think more than .01% of users would enable it if there were a checkbox on install like "We can make your browser a tiny bit slower but potentially increase its security".

> it's probably not worth it to bloat the binary size either.

eh, there's so much in `chrome://flags` I don't think that they mind too much? idk
> DEEP VZN drew especially sharp scrutiny because the EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit that specializes in sampling animals in attempts to prevent emerging diseases, played a central role in the PREDICT consortium. (EcoHealth also had a long-standing collaboration with the Wuhan lab at the center of the lab-leak theory.)

This is why it actually matters to try to figure out if the lab leak is the most probably cause, taking into account adverse interference based on the Chinese government's massive destruction of evidence. If the lab leak was the cause of the Covid-19 pandemic, then it is very reasonable to shut down related programs.
Hmm.. I guess this is what motivates me to try Godot.
> CI is an overgrown shell script running your build and telling you when it fails.

Oh, I wish it were that simple...

But, I also don't know what they measured. But, I'll give you just one example. Jenkins default landing page is a disaster in terms of speed. It tries to display data on recent builds everywhere across your cluster. For even not so big clusters this can be hundreds to thousands of items to pull from individual nodes running those builds. I've managed to crash Jenkins more times than I could count by simply loading the landing page w/o a particular configuration added that prevents it from its default behavior.

CI server will have its own database, typically, managing all sorts of CI entities: jobs, artifacts, users, secretes... It could be quite big and you'd do well taking care of proper indexing etc.

CI will have its assortment of runners, which are often provisioned dynamically (think VM or Docker images that need to be deployed to runner nodes), distributing them across the cluster is also not an easy task, if you want that to work fast. Of course you also want to be able to distribute the artifacts across the cluster -- this also takes time and resources.

CI will have its own bookkeeping necessary to, essentially, do garbage collection, reporting and self-diagnostic.

In big enough clusters this stuff can have a very high latency, if you don't specifically work towards reducing that latency.

> If you want fast CI you need fast tsc, clang, rustc, etc... not a faster program that calls exec on them.

Ever heard of ccache?

But, really, this is also super-naive. To make builds fast in a distributed system that CI is you would also need to figure out how to distribute this cache, how to modularize the builds... You might have heard about how one of the most difficult things in programming is cache invalidation? -- That's only partly a joke.
Many companies start as bright locomotives of the tomorrow world, only to crumble into the valley of greed in the future. Unity is not an exception, it seems. For them, it's so much easier to raise prices and f%.k their customers than to truly innovate.

Innovation requires talent, efforts and pain - and that's a scarcity, especially in the aging company which prefers an illusionary comfort to the true freedom.