skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surprised by your labor estimate.

Here in the Netherlands, the norm is that it's a single day of work by a crew of two. That includes everything you described: rails, installation, repatching, wiring, inverter, basically the entire package.
I’ve been advised to use certain language in every company I’ve worked at. For example, I shouldn’t say a product “dominates” a market, it has a “competitive edge” or it “leads”. I’m not sure this is hiding evidence.
Okay interesting, I was thinking they drained into the Jordan River and went south. Is the drainage underground?
They are supposedly important for SEO. I say "supposedly" because everything in SEO is speculative voodoo and no one (aside from the Google search team?) knows if it actually matters.
i can very recommend Mina Le:

https://www.youtube.com/@gremlita/videos
My guess is that they’ve received commitments since 2021 on parts and drivers for 10 years, and don’t have those commitments prior to that date, so they’re only offering opt-in OS updates that will be under subtly different terms for liability indemnity purposes.
Godot and yes although it isn't at parity at this point as more people adopt it it will increase in the number of features, especially if people choose to support it monetarily.
“Anything you say can and will be used against you.”

It’s not just a warning, it’s reality, as you’re seeing play out here.

Legal opponents will use whatever they can get ahold of. At a certain scale, it’s guaranteed you’ll have legal opponents - often constantly! - no matter what you do. Though some courses of action will certainly result in more of them!

The question is, is it better or worse than the alternative? And how likely is it to actually cause you harm?

Because I’m pretty sure a bunch of emails saying “We’re going to crush x by locking up the market.” would be worse. We’ll see how this plays out though!
Unity unites the indie game industry against its new pricing model
Godot Engine is coming along nicely https://godotengine.org/
Because when minwage is established, the market naturally simply adjusts the other parts accordingly.

Sure you pay both $x, but the skill diff can be 10x. USD16$250 can get you a bootcamp coder w zero exp (but w profile/status of citizen cardholder) [1], or someone way beyond 10x that skill who simply can't afford to negotiate.

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/haseeb-qureshi-how-to-negoit...
The technical term for long-distance power delivery is "transmission". Distribution refers to getting the power from the local substation to the individual homes and businesses.
Symbolics
> Utilitarianism ought to be about maximizing the happiness (total and distribution) of an existing population.

That's a somewhat-similar alternative to utilitarianism. Which has its own kind of repugnant conclusions, in part as a result of the same flawed premises: that utililty experienced by different people is a quantity with common objective units that can meaningfully summed, and given that, morality is defined by maximizing that sum across some universe of analysis. It differs from by-the-book utilitarianism in changing the universe of analysis, which changes the precise problems the flawed premises produce, but doesn't really solve anything fundamentally.

> Compare to Rawls’s Original Position, which uses an unborn person to make the hypothetical work but is ultimately about optimizing for happiness in an existing population.

No, its not; the Original Position neither deals with a fixed existing population nor is about optimizing for happiness in the summed-utility sense. Its more about optimizing the risk adjusted distribution of the opportunity for happiness.
Well, then you better tell Google that their answer is wrong [0].

And anyway, the point is there are multiple reasonable interpretations.

0: https://www.google.com/search?q=How+can+I+enter+the+United+S...
https://beaconpower.com/carbon-fiber-flywheels/

These guys have two projects (check their operating plants) using flywheels. They're used for frequency regulation. About 20MW each.
> My overconfidence was that scientists, as individuals and as a community, would always do the right thing...

This is a great point. I'm shocked by how often I end up working on a project with a colleague who is taking the path of least resistance. In my field, this usually results in using decades old statistical methods than have been proven time and time again to be unsatisfactory. They just don't want to learn new methods or their technical expertise aren't good enough to learn how to implement the new approaches. So they just coast. I'm not sure what to do in these situations other than just try and set a positive example.
If I need concurrency these days, I just write it in Golang. My primary use for Python was one off scripts for cloud management / automation tasks. Today I write maybe 70% Golang and 30% Python.
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At risk of an avalanche of knee-jerk downvotes, I will suggest this angle:

'Inclusivity' is in vogue. It's a meme (Dawkins) which is so deep into the psyches of normies today it integrates into everything. Normie is the fish and inclusivity is the water.

What I think is being left on the side lines is 'exclusivity' not in class of product, but in intended customer. "KDE 3.5 is an advanced product, it was not meant for average users like you. Go check out $LATEST_GNOME, it also comes at a more affordable price too!" Sure you're going to turn off some customers, but what you're really saying is "you're not good enough to be within the set of intended users" and I think this dynamic can drive some users into saying "nuh uh I'm not some normie goy, gimmie gimmie gimmie!"

Well that's my shitter thought away, time to flush this turd!
I was going to say seems like a lot to me, that is 2 or three nuclear plants worth. But I don't know anything about Nigeria or the sizing of power grids. So I decided to look it up.

Nigeria is the 6th most populous country on earth with 230 million people in 920_000 km2. for comparison Texas is 700_000 km2 with 30 million people and they are making 65 gigiwatts.

So yeah, that is very low.
His website: https://www.toddecological.com/ Revolutionary technology.
Is PaLM here bard.google.com or something else? Because some LLM names contain the version number and some don’t, so I can’t tell if this is PaLM 2 aka current bard or not.
It does say though not brilliantly well. First para

"What is the smallest area that you can sweep out while rotating an infinitely thin needle in all possible directions? Spin it around its center like a dial, and you get a circle. But rotate it more cleverly, and you can cover an arbitrarily small fraction of space"

The animated diagram shows how a naive circular sweep covers a circle of area x, the err.. other one covers an area of x/2.

You can reduce from x to x/2 to x/n for arbitrarily large n (I think, IANAM) thus tending towards arbitrarily small area.

A bit more detail https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-proof-threads-the-needle-...
Okay, so I've had some fun with this. It is true that ChatGPT will be very resistant to give you directions to take a duck home from the park, but it will eventually do it if you ask the right way.

And if you ask for a duck recipe immediately after, it will switch gears and give you a detailed recipe - in my case for Roast Duck with Orange Sauce.

I told it that I was confused between the last step of bringing a duck home (making sure it had somewhere to live, and the resources it needs), and the first step of the recipe (removing the giblets), and for the first time ever I saw ChatGPT get mad.

It suggested that I was deceptive, and that I withheld my true intentions about the duck, and asked me to release it on the grounds that it didn't trust me to ethically and humanely process the bird.
They did put CoD back on Steam, and Destiny went back too.
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You're right there is the same force pushing down on each side. But there's also an additional force in water pushing up. It's called upthrust. It's equal to the weight of displaced water. If the densities are different the samples with the same weight will have different volumes and different upthrusts.

This can be quite a useful phenomenon practically. Anyone who has learned to scuba dive will know that if you take a deep breath in from your air tank you increase your volume without changing your weight and will be able to slightly change your bouyancy and float upwards or downwards without moving your limbs. Submarines also use the same phenomenon.
It mostly depends on if you can outrun or outsmart a duck, and how much patience you have.
To extract tables from PDFs, you can use the following tools:

1. Tabula (https://tabula.technology): a free and open-source tool.

2. Parsio (https://parsio.io): uses pre-trained AI models for data extraction from PDFs, emails, and other formats.

3. Airparser (https://airparser.com): uses GPT approach similar to ChatGPT for data extraction from PDFs, emails, and other formats.
> you wouldn't automatically be told about a death threat, so you wouldn't know if the company received a death threat

I would, in the last ten years.

> Most "death threats" are vague and unsubstantiated: some (pseudo) anonymous e-mail threatening general violence

These (e.g. “I hope you all die*) aren’t typically referred to as death threats. Any one of naming a target, specifying a method or stating personal intent (versus generally hoping harm befalls one) qualifies as a death threat.
Hmm, I wonder if they get the 0.20 cents per install from adds? Then again it would be extremely ironic if they would charge more for install than they can provide revenue via adds...
This sits right at the ideal intersection of entertainment and informative value in LLM articles for me.
> utilitarianism has a vague but somewhat related problem in treating “utility” as a one-dimensional quantity that you can add up?

Yes, it does. This is one of the most common (and in my view, most compelling) criticisms of utilitarianism.
I think I can help you with a couple of those things if you're interested!

You can remap the keyboard shortcuts in macOS easily. Go to System Settings - Keyboard - Keyboard Shortcuts. The one you specifically mentioned for WIN + E is in the Spotlight section under 'Show Finder search window'. Double-click on the key chord shown and type in what you'd prefer. (Incidentally, the Finder search window is atrocious and I hate everything about it. But I get wanting a shortcut to just open Finder in general.) Another neat thing you can do here is assign keyboard shortcuts to any menu item in any application.

You might also look into BetterTouchTool for gestures, keyboard shortcuts, and a billion other things. One option BTT provides is inverting the scrolling for the mouse only. It's a quick and easy checkbox in the prefer-- settings.

Parallels is good and all, but I personally use VMWare Fusion. It's free and I've not had any issues with it that would compel me to pay a subscription for Parallels.
Golang, Python, Terraform.
Maybe incompetence and thinking these trends are good go together.
If you have a problem with Canada gooses, then you have a problem with me, and I suggest you let that one marinate.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=w1exJGPZyhs
I wrote a comment about this recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37457753

"Marl" is an interesting angle on it.
I like this phasing "occupying the right amount of space", it's an easy way for me to remember if I'm 'doing it right' or 'holding it wrong'.

> This is not to say that humility is all about focusing on others and not yourself. It is also not about stepping back from your values, beliefs or needs when it is appropriate for you to assert them. As the Mussar Jewish ethical movement teaches, humility is about occupying the right amount of space, the space necessary for the situation – not less, not more.
The real problem is industry-wide adoption of metrics-driven design.

When I studied cognitive science, the method we employed for HCI was User Centered System Design. Granted, this was a backronym for UCSD, but the point remains — design should be user-centered, not metrics-driven.

When I launch Netflix, it is abundantly clear to me that their design is driven by their metrics. What I want to see at the top is my “continue watching” shows — 99% of the time I just want to watch the next episode of a show that I’m already watching. Instead, they show me row upon row of shows that I have never watched. Their metrics prove to them that getting me hooked on new shows will increase my engagement and increase the amount of time I spend in their app. Guess what? As a user, those are not my goals! Their UI is effectively one big advertisement for Netflix itself. Wonderful.

Unfortunately, virtually all tech companies have accepted metrics-driven design as conventional wisdom at this point. Run an A/B test and see which button treatment performs better, based on the metrics the company cares about — not what the user cares about.

One outlier here is Apple. They do not design based on experiments and metrics. And the Apple TV app does in fact display the shows I am already watching as the top row. Go figure.
Of course the judge has the last word. It was just a hypothetic prosecutor joke. I found it quite stupid that Roy K allegedly comissioned another crime, holding a painting hostage to get a reduced sentence. What?! That only put a different person in prison and potentially damaged the painting. I don't understand these people (drug dealers, nazis, climate activists) who keep stealing, looting and defacing Vincent van Gogh's legacy. His life was quite miserable as it is, why tarnish his legacy as well?
Yeah, killing with intent is the very definition of murder. (Edit: Unlawfully) Killing someone without intent is manslaughter, with (generally) a much lighter punishment.

But to answer GP's question, AIUI, merely saying "Im going to murder this person?" does not make someone guilty of murder or attempted murder, or (perhaps surprisingly) even conspiracy to commit murder. Conspiracy usually requires an overt act, like buying a weapon, in addition to the statement of intent.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/conspiracy
It probably wouldn't work nearly as well.

It looks like the rails are already a complete circuit - I think they're a single piece of wire that is bent at the end to make a loop, and there are a couple lateral braces soldered on to keep them properly spaced.

You'd have to split the rails into two pieces and replace the lateral braces with something nonconductive (plastic) which wouldn't look nearly as nice; and the device would be a lot more prone to going out of calibration if the spacing drifted.

Its probably possible but there's a lot of downsides to save $2 on a sensor, some of which will be eaten up elsewhere as it will add some additional parts.

Edit: It would also somewhat spoil the magic, as that's the first thing most of us would think of (I certainly did).
This is a critical aspect most mechanically-inclined people choose to ignore. They also like to pretend that a generator, water pump, belt tensioner, etc (just picked accessory belt items for an example) are as reliable as they were 200k ago. And they fail to consider the cost of time lost due to the car stopping at the side of the road or not starting. When your car loses power and consequently loses power steering in the middle of the road, it's not very fun. Yes, new car owners probably do overpay for maintenance, but it's likely not that key maintenance and could be avoided. Yes, new engine bays are more cramped and there is more automation.

I am against connected cars, but I hate when people go way overboard on the "used cars are the best by far" argument just because they know the order of the flywheel, clutch, pressure plate, throwout bearing and fork.
>encourages studios to produce their own engines rather than using the pre/existing selection.

>And then open-source it and let the creativity roam free.

These things are mutually exclusive.
More likely to be just standard Mobile IP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_IP. Fairly standard stuff, can cause some false positives around traveling (I've seen people get freaked out about stuff like "This person just logged in from their home state and then less then an hour later logged in from France!" when it was just mobile IP treating their phone as still in the US while they were in France on a trip, but their laptop connected over normal internet was seen as coming from France)
Here's an even simpler way to phrase the problem.

The current world population is about 8 billion.

By my argument it should be 2 billion.

Your argument is therefore rather foolish.
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I had a feeling some detail like this was missing from previous reports (most of which I did not read entirely).

This is the right move. It represents an opportunity to dethrone google in the ad display market, at least for gaming.
I think Upwork is a terrible experience, but also, it's a pretty safe starting point.

It's where most potential clients are. You just need to undervalue your services a bit, bid low, get some good reviews. You do this for a month or two: over delivering, under charging.

Eventually, you get to a point where you have a very solid job history, and your profile stands out because of it.

At this point, you can charge a bit more.

Shameless plug: I made https://contractrates.fyi to help consultants/freelancers figure out how much too charge. It's like levels.fyi, but for freelancers. Also free - I tried monetizing it in the past and failed miserably. Now I just maintain it as a free resource.

There is also the route of Catalant, which is significantly more lucrative than say Upwork, but maybe has a little higher barrier to entry. I know several people though that make insane money on Catalant, because they are billing rates as if they are working for a big 4 consulting firm (~$800+ an hour). Expectations are higher though, and it's much less casual than Upwork. Clients overall are less annoying, in my experience, though.
You're right! It's contextual, because most people know soup is a liquid.

Likewise, I know that taking animals from a park is not a normal thing to do, so I wouldn't immediately assume they were asking for practical advice. It is an unusual and unexpected question, which makes it more ambiguous since there isn't a clear precedent to relate it to.
Yup! Great machine!
To give an example:

user installs the game on their pc? unity wants the fee paid for that

same user installs it on their laptop? pay again

same user upgrades their pc and has to install the game again? unity wants their install fee

I believe they also initially said that deinstall + install would incur another charge, but backpeddalled there (weird)
> you also can't tell employees not to say those things

You and I can’t. Our lawyers can. There shouldn’t be that many people at your firm who can make anticompetitive decisions. Ensure they meet 1:1 with corporate counsel to be advised on what the law is, and how the law responds to certain language. That’s not only kosher, it’s protected by privilege.
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I feel like this has been part of the latent background memetic knowledgebase for many years now: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/iq-bell-curve-midwit/photos/
Could you possibly be more elitist?
Yep. For my part, I simply cannot imagine buying a relatively modern car for a whole bunch of reasons, including this. I don't want a smartphone on wheels. I want a car.
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I would recommend reading more on this topic. The price change is but one of many factors leading to the outrage.

No one, anywhere, on any thread, is against Unity charging more. Many of us are already paying Unity a significant sum.
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This is interesting, I read that question as unambiguously about permission, not logistics. I would only interpret it as being about logistics if the question was "How can I ...".
after finally getting some free time to play with this, i did. i've used other non-AI based programs to remove vocals. the in sound is totally different and obviously beyond because they are stems. There's the tell-tale sound that I've heard from all of these generative AI audio things that sounds like a very heavily compressed version of the original. To describe it visually, it looks just like taking an image and removing part of the image and then using a generative fill. Compare how the fill looks to the rest of the image, and that's what this sounds like. Similar, but just smeared and not clean. Maybe it's not noticeable to people that don't work with audio, but it is one of those things that once you're trained to hear it, you can never not hear it.

it is probably the most useful application of the AI things I have seen AND it does as advertised on the box. nice work on the project.
Just as in game microtransactions, it doesn't matter how much or little the median person is paying, because all the profit is in the minority of very big payers / 'whales', so you optimize the payment structure of the small payments to ensure that they don't prevent you from capturing the whales.

If your game doesn't earn a million dollars, it doesn't matter to Epic, because all those (many!) tiny games in total don't earn enough that even a much higher pricing would move the needle.

However, if the low-end pricing structure means that one more (or one less) blockbuster chooses this engine, that makes all the difference, because they are going to pay the full rate out of the billion dollars they earn.
Dude, the reference you provide does not support your claim that "There are fundamental, objective principals." Not sure if you are trying to be subversive or just lazy (or both).
Combined with other evidence, it could show that they knew what they were doing was wrong.
True, but I personally don't find this a compelling enough reason to give up all the other things I'd have to give up to have a modern car.
That's awesome! I just lost my old 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee when it decided to blow its engine at 107K miles. I'm told it had something to do with the variable valve timing system they put in, then I found out that this is not an uncommon problem such that some people pay 1000s of dollars to remove this feature from their engine. Replacing the engine would have cost me 14k. I had no idea, but I long for a car that isn't essentially disposable after 10 years. I really wish they made a car like that these days.
I disagree. It is a lot of effort to build and maintain an engine. To be more precise, there is no such thing as a pure engine, but a platform with tools. Hardly anyone can build these things alone or even with a small team.

Most indie games and devs would not exist without Unity and it makes perfectly sense to use services from 3rd parties. We all do, we all rely on others.

On the other hand, a steady and trustworthy business relationship is key. While I understand Unity, they wanna earn money, I think it is bad to act in such a manner.

Regarding the "look a like" feeling: This only shows, that the market works this way. How could an engine change that?
Which were the four good brands? Also, could this be regulated at the state level?
Threes! was literally the perfect game at launch.

Of course, the shitty free clone 2048 took the concept, made it worse, and somehow (because it was free) captured the majority of the market.

I still play Threes! regularly as well.
> I'm not really invested in this debate beause I honestly don't care

The irony of caring so much that one goes to the trouble of registering a brand-new HN account solely to tell people how little they care?