skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PVC is quite common for water utility use in the US in the form of AWWA C900. I once said hi to the project engineer of a water main replacement project (he was walking around the site), and he waxed poetic about C900 pipe. It’s installed using crowbars, and the joints need to be externally restrained.

Those dinky 1” pipes in your house develop quite modest tension at 100psi. 8” underground pipes are a whole different story.
i'm jonesin'
i need the top 200 at least
It's frustrating to me that if this journalist was writing about what e.g. Donald Trump said, they would feel morally compelled to do a bunch of fact checking, so that they can also print that the stuff he said is wrong and bad. But when they write this, they just copy and paste all the shit the publishers write about how libgen is a "thieves' den" and "massively illegal" and that companies should do the "right thing" to shut down the "serious harm." Zero push back, zero interrogation.

It would be nice to at least have a sentence in there like, you know, "Conversely, Professor Joe Schmoe, who uses pirate libraries daily in the course of his work researching cures for sick puppies, says that it's good that people can download textbooks and read them, and hopes that the publishers are unable to destroy people's ability to do so."
Nobody stood around and just made up a sex for a newborn soviet job-assignment style, making the language "assigned at birth" inaccurate from a scientific standpoint. From a scientific standpoint, Female and Male are clearly defined.

I will not engage any further in a political debate about this subject here. My point was political ideology statements should not be in scientific writing because they are political, the language changes with the political climate, and the language is imprecise. People reading scientific writings 100 years in the future should not have to wonder what political climate the paper was written in.

Scientific writing should not be a product of it's date and political climate.
> the constant beeping

... is why I hate renting cars these days. So many pings and you don’t even know why. You try to shut them off through layers of menus and then they go back to defaults the next time you start the car.

Worst is the LDW dinging at you and jerking the wheel. Hyundai and Kia are egregious. F-off!

And the map, reverting to zoomed-in-3D-direction-you’re-headed view after 30 seconds. Excuse me, Chrysler, but some of us understand maps better when they are flat, north is up, and there’s context.

A memorable BMW shouting at me every time I exceeded the speed limit, in Dutch.

The engine eco-shutting-off just when you’re about to dash across an intersection and a truck is coming. NDE.

It used to be fun to try new things, now it’s just a headache.
Shrinkflation of these products is better than increased prices, because you should not eat/drink so much of this crap anyway.
The biggest issue with local LLM is that best is extremely relative. As in, best for what application? If you want a generic LLM that does ok at everything, you can try Vicuna. If you want coding, code llama 34B is really good. Surprisingly, the 13B code up isn’t not as good, but pretty darn close as code llama 34B.
Why did it allow me to submit it if that one already existed?
Why not use another group taking an amphetamine in addition to one taking an inert placebo?
Helpscout

https://www.helpscout.com/
I'm sorry, what?

Wouldn't whatever "signal amplification" downsides happen just as much with decentralized services
> Reduced demand reduces prices. It's the Law of Supply & Demand at work.

You have to be careful when asserting this though, because demand does not mean what most people think it means. In particular, it does not refer to the number of people demanding a good, nor does it refer to a volume of goods purchased. A declining sales volume occurring together with rising prices does not violate the law of supply and demand.
I did something like this for a long time.

One of the tools I found useful is Microsoft Lens mobile app: it's almost as quick as taking a picture of a doc, but it makes it easy to create a pdf of all the docs and bundle up multiple pages.

Over the years, I have lost access of important google accounts. In one occasion, I had a very old google voice number which I used from time to time. At an unexpected time, Google sent me an email asking me to validate that I still needed it within 30 days. At the time, I was traveling and unable to check email for complicated reasons. I ended up losing the Google voice number, which was the 2FA for a number of accounts, which then became irrevocably lost since the number was re-assigned.
How quickly we become so blase about these things.

One night back in October 1957, I went out with about 100 other kids from our boarding school to watch the first Sputnik moving (and so fast!) across the dark sky.

Today, we don't bother. But a few years ago, I went out to look for a meteor-shower. That night I saw about half a dozen satellites in the space of an hour or two.
At $1-2/minute of labor, there’s a reason pros use the fittings.
> State espionage is going to be at every large US company too.

Snowden revealed, among other things, that the NSA did state espionage on Brazil's state oil company, Petrobras

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/09/world/americas/nsa-spied-...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/nsa-spying-bra...

https://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-document...

International relations are based on reciprocity. I sincerely think that if the US didn't think that industrial espionage would be a legitimate activity of intelligence agencies, they wouldn't practice it themselves.
A brief Primer - Difference Between Ionizing and Non-Ionizing Radiation : https://sciencenotes.org/difference-between-ionizing-and-non...
That's just what the coyotes and raccoons want you to think!
Well I got my benefit at half-gigabit by being able to do off-site backups reasonably. It was not as reasonable before.

Although a more rare use case, I also throw vids on my media server and my friends and family can browse.

It basically opened a new class of applications.

If this was the future and we all had 10 gigabit connections, then I could share videos we’re editing with friends more reasonably.

If we go back in time, the jump from 90’s Internet to modern Internet allowed sites like YouTube and Netflix to exist.
Excel does not relate to Ubers’ core business.

I’m nearly 100% certain we can look back at this comment in 20 years and find that absolutely nothing happened.
Any time I identify a fun and novel problem I get suspicious. Generally, programming should be mundane and you should be solving problems that have been solved thousands of times before. If something looks new it's more likely you haven't correctly identified the problem you're solving.
If you're worried about DMCA, you should comply immediately. If you're not obligated to comply with DMCA, why do bother with such question? If there's no process set by law, set yours yourself.

By "overseas" and "outside the reach of DMCA", be careful how you draw the lines. Did you incorporate overseas? How are you separating you personally from your corporation? If you are based in a country that obligates you to follow DMCA and if your corporation is nothing but paper and you're the only person involved, a judge might disconsider the corporation as a mere way for you to escape your local jurisdictional obligations.
Why do these EU laws never seem to target EU companies? On that note its past time for the US DOJ to break up EssilorLuxottica.
It doesn’t really seem like there’s any evidence for a story where Google went out of their way to destroy any competing search engines. The worst thing the article references is an engineer who argued that search engine quality is directly proportional to search volume, which if true would imply that making Google better necessarily implies other search engines will be worse.
Phillip Rogaway explicitly abandoned the OCB patents in 2021:

* https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/cfrg/qLTveWOdTJcLn4HP3...

The linked patent reflects the unpaid upkeep fee and shows a status of expired as a result.
If we're being generous, the author may have had permission to do so. It's not inconceivable; the code was abandoned. If one of my reports had asked, I would have approved.
> in a scientific article, this is insane language to use and really calls into question the assumptions and conclusions.

Springer Nature would appear to disagree with your assertion.

"Authors should use the terms sex (biological attribute) and gender (shaped by social and cultural circumstances) carefully in order to avoid confusing both terms. Article titles and/or abstracts should indicate clearly what sex(es) the study applies to. Authors should also describe in the background, whether sex and/or gender differences may be expected; report how sex and/or gender were accounted for in the design of the study; provide disaggregated data by sex and/or gender, where appropriate; and discuss respective results. If a sex and/or gender analysis was not conducted, the rationale should be given in the Discussion. These guidelines apply to studies involving humans, vertebrate animals and cell lines."

https://www.springernature.com/gp/policies/book-publishing-p....
One of my favorite things driving through West Texas is seeing fields of cattle out to the horizon, grazing under a sea of giant wind turbines, with oil derricks sprinkled across the fields for good measure. The ranchers out there squeeze every dollar out of their land, and they have no prejudice against setting up gratuitous wind (and, I'm told, solar) power like one might think.

The bottleneck is apparently transmission. There are already some transmission projects in progress, but they take time to build.
I know, but our DBMS doesn't support schemas. Instead, it's easy to spin up more "databases" that all share one instance but have separate ACLs, quota, backups, etc. Postgres has something similar but with less isolation. It doesn't really matter how exactly you slice it, point is you aren't sharing tables.
Elon probably would just say “ok, boomer”

But I’m not sure what 20-somethings can afford his product.
… which is obvious, and not what I asked?
I'm moving towards this for my current workplace. SSH will only be allowed via VPN, only to a bastion, and that bastion will not permit agent forwarding, or really much of anything other than ProxyJump. I'm baffled that agent forwarding is a feature when OpenSSH won't even use a key file if the permissions are wrong.
Just do the right thing. Put yourself in the other party's shoes and consider how you'd feel about approaching this from their side.

Textbook publishers aren't improving their offerings with each iteration. They re-release the same shit with a different cover and charge schools (and taxpayers) a premium for this "service." In some cases, the content they republish was already paid for with taxpayer money. Their business model is exploitative on every level. Fuck them.

A fiction author puts effort into a work of art. They're not forcing sales or doing anything shady; they're just someone trying to make a living selling copies of their art. Respect that and don't play games with them, unless they can't be civil.
Yes, I understand the theory. But after decades of watching this stuff, the topic kind of falls into "what am I going to believe, the theory or my lying eyes?" territory.

If I saw this effect actually happen over the long term, I'd be less suspicious of it. As it is, I'm very suspicious about it. I'm not saying I think it's not true, I'm saying that I haven't seen any indication that it is.
Making cool stuff out of cheap materials is great, but as I understand it, PVC itself is nasty stuff (even compared with other plastics) that we should probably be avoiding if we can.

I'm not sure what would work as a good general-purpose replacement for PVC for making things out of though. I'm not sure if ABS is available in the narrow diameters that PVC is. Pex is more bendy. Bamboo is strong, but not uniform. Wooden dowels or aluminum tube could work for some things, but it'd be more expensive.
As far as I can tell, Books3 seems to be training data for language models. I'm not sure how it was created, but it contains a lot of books. I got it by torrenting The Pile after it was forced offline by the Danes.

They're asking to remove 109 books from the dataset, which I can do. But I'm not sure whether to. Once you set aside the question of law, it becomes a matter of ethics, and these questions aren't so easy.
I've gotten as far as buying the photo printer but picking out what to print out of the flood of photos - and then where to keep the paper - has kept me from actually printing :)
I’m not a pro and don’t follow the development closely, but that said, I feel like I’ve been hearing about impending WASM for about 10 years
This is my experience as well. Everything is expressed as 'number to multiply by to get USD' so USDJPY would always be used in-house inverted. British firm as well. Nobody likes the GBP.
But a massive precise map is the perfect seed for a useful simplified map.

Simplifying from a non-complex source is a waste of time.
Well information wants to be free, copyright shouldn’t exist, piracy is ok yadda yadda
https://archive.is/IZtsM
The author explains how analyzing and presenting data was worth millions of dollars. The author documents how a senior executive instructed him to write excel. It is clearly their core business. Also, and this comes back to the fantasy/denial/wishful-thinking aspect here, neither I nor the law says core business. That's a word that you added. If you did it as part of your job, then it is, by definition, part of their business.

I am also nearly 100% certain we can look back at this comment in 20 years and find nothing happened, but only because nobody will take this code and make a billion dollar business. If they did, I guarantee there would be a law suit.
> To this day, I’ve never encountered an in-house application system as well-designed as Uber’s. You could go from start to Hello World running on a *.uberinternal.com subdomain in under 30 minutes with full CI/CD.

I worked on all this at Uber back then, and this comment warmed my heart a bit. Thank you.
The safety features like forward emergency braking are relatively new and were forced to market quickly because of regulation. Between 1946 and 2016 the interface for a car was mostly the same, save for Citroen being weird until they were bought by Peugeot, and GM for that brief period in the late '80s where everything had to be a steering wheel "pod." The two biggest changes really were changing the headlight switch from a floor mounted pedal to a button or stalk knob starting in the '50s, and going from keyed ignition to push button start in the 2010s. Otherwise turn signals were on the left stalk and wipers were on the right, gas is on the right, brake center, clutch left, manual was 1,3,2,4,5,R (add or subtract gears as needed) and automatic was P, R, N, D, L, radio controls were left dial was power and volume while right dial was tuning, and the three dials below that controlled interior heat, A/C, and defrost. If you drove a car in 1973 and went into a coma you could wake up and drive a brand new car in 2003 no problems. If you went into a coma in 2003 you wouldn't be able to do the same with a 2023 car.
I recently decided to go take some classes at the local college and I honestly can't fathom why the large publishers listed in the article even care anymore. The days where downloading the book mean you can skip the publisher seem to be largely disappearing with the subscription also including coursework that integrates into the lesson plans themselves.

I use LibGen to download all of my textbooks but not because the publishers get anything less, it just enables me to actually have a usable form of the book to read and search though. Even if they can manage to make it hard enough to stop that, there is still no actual gain for them out of it.

Calling it a notorious illegal shadow library makes it sound a hell of a lot cooler than how I put it though.
There's 960 of them. Hence, the name.

Slight nuance: the 960 figure includes the regular starting position, and there's some variation in different tournaments about what would happen if the classical starting position were selected. So, at least in some tournaments, it's actually Chess959. But I guess that has less of a ring to it.
fair. projection on my part. i interpret seeing people say indoor cats lives are miserable (and using that idea uncritically to affirm their own choices) are doing so from a holier-than-thou position. to me, it's an uncreative and lazy view on pet ownership, but i getcha: flies, honey, and vinegar and all that.
Google's plan is to break every type of client fingerprinting and then funnel everyone into using their browser attestation.

iOS isn't any better and already sends a unique "Private Access Token" with requests to Cloudflare.
Anti-trans group, advertising as feminists, descends on SF for annual convention
It’s impossible to even get a sense of a textbook’s content from the so-called “previews” that you find on Amazon, Google Books, and the publisher’s’ websites. I prefer print, so I’ll happily pay if the content is good, but just letting me see the preface, contents, index and maybe a few pages of chapter 1 isn’t enough for me to discern that. Libgen at least lets me see what I might be getting.

Libgen is also great for books that are long out of print, and the authors long dead. It’s a crime against humanity that these works are locked up by our archaic copyright laws, for things that have long since ceased to be remotely profitable for the publisher.
Your citation actually furthers my point. We are not discussing the logical notion of Gender here.
Taking this to mean, Bing has still achieved significant market share via start menu integration. Yeah.
One of my favorite random youtube videos: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RJh9yTIBY48 "What salt tastes the best? Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs and more"
I don’t see why you couldn’t have a persistent install of something like Tails or Kali Linux as long as the OS drive is encrypted with a password of a particular length. Can we brute force 25-character passwords 20 years from now? Maybe, but the statute of limitations would elapse by then (in the US anyway). I suppose it wouldn’t be as “safe” as a live USB that doesn’t persist anything, but that’s the tradeoff- you can’t persist anything and probably have some “setup” to do each time you boot from the Live USB.
> It's not a scientific statement, it's a political statement.

This is a good point. Once a scientific term becomes politicized by its usage outside of clinical settings, it ceases to be scientific.

For example, weight has become politicized so when you read something like “7lb 5oz infant” in a study you can just throw the whole thing in the trash because the researcher has clearly gone Woke.
But the problem is that there is little economic incentive to build more than is being built. The housing is being built for wealthy people. If most of those people aren't trading up from less expensive units, then that doesn't vacate any less expensive units. So, outside of the wealthy crowd, there is little downward price pressure in housing.
Which is funny, because they aren’t very good at it.
I think it'd be interesting to a more in-game useful work of the government. For example that the homes of the producer may catch fire randomly. If there is at least a firefighter there is no problem, but once all firefighter die, then there is a 1% chance per day that each producer may burn and die.

At the beginning of #13 eve thing is fine, until all firefighter die and the quality of life index abruptly rockets for a while. Then for example the apple producer dies, and after a few days everyone starves and dies.

It may be a more complicated criteria, like each firefighter can protect only 2 or 3 producers, so the ratio of producers to government workers must be always not too high.
Why would you spend any money on a suit you intend to lose?
Why do you hope they’re irrelevant? I hope they become better
I dunno, I was pretty careful not to assume that in my comment.

The town square metaphor is really not a great one for the internet. You don't run nearly as high a risk of getting doxxed or swatted for speaking your mind in a physical public place.

And if the unspoken suggestion is that anonymous doxxing would be impossible or too costly/risky in a hypothetical de-anonymized world, I'd call BS. Even if it worked, that would require some kind of "panopticon internet". Sounds bad...
This is not unusual; my 70-something dad still runs an ancient Windows 7 machine.
The proposed use is MDMA-assisted therapy. Take a dose, talk to a therapist. Wait a month, repeat. You seem to be imagining people popping the stuff like SSRIs.

Intuitively, this makes a lot of sense. MDMA is a fun drug because of the fact that it makes it basically impossible to feel negative emotion under its effect. PTSD is characterized by extreme negative emotion around a particular trauma, to such an extent that it becomes disruptive to living a normal life. Just talking about the traumatic inducing experience can lead to uncontrolled emotional responses, making it difficult to approach therapeutically. The MDMA acts as a shortcut around that last bit: by blocking the patient from feeling negative emotion while they talk about their trauma, they can re-evaluate it in a more removed way.

Combine that with theories about how we edit memories when we recall them, and you've got a pretty obvious method of action.

It's not intended to be a chronically taken treatment. But the results were pretty massive. That CAPS-5 score they talk about the reduction by 24 points versus therapy alone's 15 is on an 80 point scale, with the bare minimum for PTSD diagnosis at a 12, and "moderate" PTSD being in the 23-35 range.

Compared to most results coming out of the mental illness treatment field, MDMA's looking like a silver bullet.
Because there are nearly no giant EU tech companies trying to monopolize the world.
Werther's Original did not betray us.
We built https://github.com/trypromptly/LLMStack to serve exactly this persona. A low-code platform to quickly build RAG pipelines and other LLM applications.
one approach might be to use multiple icloud accounts to shard the photos data by what you want to sync locally vs not (for example by set of years, i.e., myname1980to1990, myname1991to2000, etc). it's an added pain no doubt.
You can get this even lower, without the need for the extra promotion bits, if you make a note of a few things:

1. There is still redundancy in that there are multiple pieces of the same type, and if you permute their locations you get another representation of the same state.
2. You don't need to say that some pawn's location is the king if it's en passant. You can just use the back row, which pawns can't get to.

Using this, you can use the permutations of the pawns to store extra information. For instance, all of the pawns will be on the board at squares #a, #b, ... . Since pawns themselves have numerical indices, you could say that the "canonical" representation of the board state has all of the pawn locations sorted in ascending order. Then, different permutations of that can carry information about promotions and which of the "pawns" are really queens, etc.
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