skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t have the numbers for US wildfires this year. But the emission caused by the wildfires in Canada this year was about 2x the annual emissions generated by transportation.
I asked it to use more sarcasm as part of my “custom instructions” that I have set up in my account.
Having to explicitly say "remember that" is so anachronistic. Of cause computers (should) remember everything.
Upstream seems downright hostile to classifying patches as security.
KDL[0]?

[0]https://kdl.dev/
Web browsing is rough on my circa-2015 laptop.
Last I checked, CDK was just a typescript veneer atop the steaming pile that is known as CloudFormation.

Not even tagged unions can polish that turd.
Your mouse story makes me think of the day the CI system at work turned out not to be robust to vibrations.

One day we started having flaky tests, seemingly out of nowhere. We quickly identified that the issue affected tests involving graphical X client applications, but then we struggled to make further progress. The issue was just impossible to reproduce in other conditions... Well, as it happens, the CI jobs were running on some desktop machines we had installed somewhere within our premises. It turned out that some gentleman had plugged a mouse into one of the machines, and left it lying around on the shelf. Since then, when one of the machines was under a heavy load, the fans would spin faster, causing more vibrations, in turn causing the mouse to move, ever so slightly. And for ungodly reasons, this had side effects on tests.

Fun fact: the machines were not on my site, I managed to diagnose this over SSH. I was quite proud :-)
Because inflation also raised people’s nominal before tax incomes. The net effect from inflation accounting from both the impact on wages and expenses was therefore negative 2.3%.
> If you want config-as-code (and you want to!), just do it properly and use a proper programming language for it.

Or generate it, or use something like nix
> earliest known Homo sapiens fossils date from around 300,000 years ago and were found in what’s now Israel, Duller said.

This is false, according to my records. The oldest homo sapiens fossils hail from Morocco[1].

CNN itself even thinks that so not sure how they make this mistake: https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/07/health/oldest-homo-sapiens-fo...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaic_humans
I think by "fixing the seed" they just meant using the "Reuse seed from last generation" button. By default, this will mean that all future images will get generated with the same seed, so they'll look identical. The "variation seed" thing mixes slight variations into this fixed seed, meaning that you're likely to get things that look similar, but not identical to the original. The "variation strength" slider controls how much impact from the variation seed is mixed into the original, with 0 being "everything from the initial seed", and 1 being "everything from the variation seed". I'm pretty sure that leaving the width/height sliders at their default positions is fine.

Also, just for future reference - lots of UI elements in A1111 have very descriptive tooltips, they help a lot when I can't quite remember the full effects of each setting.
No, you're correct, media is also a homogenizing force. Regional accents have disappeared, for example. But I would argue that even the political polarization is homogenization, not evidence of heterogeneity, because the variety of the middle was eliminated, leaving the consolidated extremes.

My point is that personal llms will be an even greater force along this same line.
> I would like to know your deck lists from then.

It's been so long I can't remember. Most of my cards came from Revised because that is what we sold and unboxed, so I basically had all the most powerful things from there like the Serra Angel, Shivon Dragon, Wheel of Fortune, Mana Vault, Copy Artifact, Demonic Tutor, Vesuvan Doppelganger, Winter Orb, Armageddon, Mana Flare, Will O' the Wisp, and all the multilands, which is what made a five color deck possible.

Then I had a few strong creatures with trample damage, and a few Limited and Beta cards that I had traded for like a Time Walk and Ancestral Recall, and at least one Mox.

But I never had a Black Lotus, although I almost got one once.
Wow, I had no idea!
XML doesn't require an Internet connection?
> Causing inflation. Which means your assets are less valuable, and poor people move up.

You’ve got it backwards. Assets tend to track inflation. Rich people do just fine. Wages do not. Poor people suffer the brunt of it. Inflation increases the inequality.
Basic logic, can't dispute it.
Those buildings and equipment and patents may have value, but less than the bonds, loans, and other liabilities IBM also has. Not only could IBM be worth $0, it could be worth less than that.

Things are worth whatever people are willing to pay. Bitcoin may be the original sin of crypto bros, but it still appears to be worth money, because it's impossible to make one for free, or obtain one for free. And it has utility. You can buy drugs or avoid the banking system using it.

Silicon Valley Bank had buildings. It was literally worthless at the end. A company is just as fictitious as a bitcoin, only existing because people all agree that "company" is a thing.

(EDIT: I changed my example to SVB from Enron)
I love it. Was so happy to see that syntax when I first encountered Toml. Hierarchy is always clear without having to scroll, and snippets retain context.
> But your finger wagging still doesn't make sense in the context of thinking India or the developing world is any better.

I never implied that India or China are doing any better (although India has taken massive strides which is usually ignored by the West). My gripe is with Western countries criticizing the global south for environmental neglect, when they don't do anything about it and simply ship away their problems.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/climate/oil-kenya-africa-...
I dug deeper in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37517597 — it's mentioned in many books, but Newton's very thorough biographer Richard Westfall authoritatively says “According to a story that rests solely on anecdotal authority, he spoke only once”. So in fact we can be fairly confident it's only an anecdote and nothing more.
A horse can also injure you when you're not riding it. A friend of mine was badly hurt by her horse when she tried to lead it into a trailer and it went nuts. Similar types of incidents can potentially happen with cars, but anecdotally seem quite rare. There probably aren't any good statistics on this, though.
Also, even the sketchiest car is far more predictable than a cranky or barn sour horse.
Uber Eats will start accepting food stamps for grocery delivery in 2024
McKinsey wants you to believe they can measure the productivity of SWEs.

Measure their productivity and they vehemently deny it and will sick lawyers on you. In the land of free speech.

The US is run by people with mafia mentality.
The model doesn't "know" anything. But if you provide it with certain assertions, it will repeat them back to you.

For example, if you make a prompt saying "XX represents up, and YY represents down. Tell me how to write upside-down using these." ; Then you can argue that it "knows" which pairs of characters represent which direction. Not real knowledge, just regurgitation of whatever it was prompted with.

https://chat.openai.com/share/f6c1d260-2246-4388-8c98-290a1d...

In exactly the same way your prompt is preceded with OpenAI's prefix that sets up some "facts" about itself, telling the model what its name is, what today's date is, and what it's knowledge cutoff date is. Even though they might have trained the model on much older (or much newer) data and texts, it will still tell you the cutoff date that is part of the prompt it was provided with.
I think it's hard to call it misreporting when they've been reporting it the same way since before the standard you'd rather they use existed.
Consider it a chav announcement.
Is there even a benefit to using overleaf in the first place? My understanding is it just hosts a latex compiler and modern looking, though not superiorly functioning ui. Just take the evening it takes to set things up from scratch and work out any kinks if there even are any. I really dislike this over reliance of putting everything into "the cloud"
The best thing about this sort of farming is you get ready access to heirlooms basically whenever you want thanks to how many indeterminate varietals there are these days (if you have greenhouse or no frost in your climate zone you can have a fruit bearing tomato plant at pretty much all times). Occasionally I can get an heirloom in the grocery store but its a toss up what exactly it will be or if its even available at the time. Meanwhile I can pick out of the catalog some very bizarre looking tomatoes or other plants, grow them up before long, and in a few square feet end up with more of these heirloom tomatoes (that might be sold for like $5 a pound normally) than I could ever know what to do with.

I can also grow various different herbs that are normally tricky to source, e.g. thai basil that can't be found outside asian grocery stores. Plenty of these heirlooms would be impossible to get other than growing them yourself because they have characteristics that make commercial sale a nonstarter: e.g. my heirloom tomatoes basically cannot be stacked up and sold in a market stand because they are sometimes larger than grapefruits, aren't very sturdy like perhaps a roma tomato is, and will crush themselves.
I have much more experience in C# then Java FWIW, so you're welcome to take my opinions with a grain of salt.
I've had a couple of really annoying errors with Beam serializers that took me way longer to debug then I thought was worthwhile.

I think it is a worse choice, it's too ingrained in the language and ecosystem to change. That and a couple of other nits would likely make me pick Java over C# or Go if I was starting a new project going forward.
Much, much higher for the horse. Horses are far less predictable, temperamental, harder to manage and keep healthy, etc.

And more than powerful enough to kick someone in the head and end them in an instant if they really wanted to.
NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power (2022)
True but that's to be tackled differently instead of not providing scripting at all.
You might enjoy watching some Old School format MTG on youtube, I got into that for a while. It’s neat to see a modern take on the game as it was in 1994, and people play with spectacular old cards.
Being a great mathematicians not all about solving Millennium Prize Problems or being a household name like Einstein.
And then apple gets sued, is forced to release their internal communications in the discovery phase of the lawsuit, and then when their illegal and anti-competitive actions to pressure other companies to do this becomes clear, then Apple gets fined X% of global revenue.

Any hack or loophole that you can think of, the answer is "and then the EU forces apple to pay billions or 10s of billions of dollars".
Designing a generic competency test would be very difficult to do fairly. There are a lot of incentives to design a test that would disqualify judges on arbitrary political grounds.
A lot has changed since 2016.

"Poisoning was the leading cause of preventable death for all ages, combined, for the ninth consecutive year and was the leading cause of preventable death for every age from 22 to 68. This is largely due to the opioid epidemic affecting millions of people in the United States."

https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/deaths-by-demograph...
Most of you guys have deep and practical experience with robotics and robots, for me anything that a robot is demonstrating by doing is a magic and scary thing...now I am having mild paranoia due all these progress in LLM and now these activities done by robots...What future might roll in front of us? What are your opinions on that?
No, this has been directly confirmed by Nintendo developers at various points. For people to even be able to try SMB, they'd have to be convinced that the NES wouldn't suffer the fate of the Atari 2600 and the like. It wasn't just about the VCR-looking design - the marketing materials had very careful wording to avoid associations with the failed game consoles, and accessories like R.O.B. (that never even existed in Japan!) were mostly made to make the NES look like a complex electronic toy, and not a game console.
I have no sense of its general coverage in the zeitgeist, but this month the White House announced Overdose Awareness Week "to focus the nation’s attention on the devastation caused by illicit fentanyl and other drugs" and also announced funding for a variety of things to attempt addressing it. Their recap links to media coverage in a variety of sources.

Of course, people and front pages quickly tire of 'boring' things like that and unfortunately get more excited about other events prone to popping up in a large country.
What was the difference in runtime performance, and did you try CuPy?

https://github.com/cupy/cupy :

> CuPy is a NumPy/SciPy-compatible array library for GPU-accelerated computing with Python. CuPy acts as a drop-in replacement to run existing NumPy/SciPy code on NVIDIA CUDA or AMD ROCm platforms.

Projects using CuPy:
https://github.com/cupy/cupy/wiki/Projects-using-CuPy
I mean, there are gangsters that play poker, and there are private games run by gangsters (I imagine), but the idea that the poker world is highly entangled with the underworld is pretty outmoded at this point. High level pros like Jungleman aren't going to risk their rep/access to other good games by breaking someones legs, even over a few million. He and his backers have the risk of losers defaulting baked into their EV calculus already when he plays those games.
It was never a realistic plan to start, let's be frank. And even if it was, what is the point, the UK is a small country, with a small fleet of cars, without very good options for powering such a fleet, and while they destroy their own economy, the third world will surely drink till the last drop of oil, and they will do that because they don't have other choice if they want to get out of poverty.

We (as we the whole world) will stop burning fossil fuels when there will be no more fossil fuels to burn.

We can pretend otherwise, but we are just making ourselves poorer, and becoming poorer is bad because we will need prosperity to mitigate and circunvent the effects of the inexorable global warming. And then we can get into the trap were we never thought how to adapt ourselves to some 2C more in one hundred years, because we naively thought we could avoid it, but by them we will be to poor to address this or even to develop the energy we will need when there will be no fossil fuels anymore.
Also worth to keep an eye on: https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway/
As someone who built advanced turn by turn routing based on openstreetmap, problems like the u-turn in the article are hard. Giving good turn instructions for the last 2% is also hard, because so often it requires an appreciation of what the turn looks like from the driver's perspective, not just the curves and angles of the vertices.
That's OSMAnd plus, with unlimited maps. Install it from F-Droid and you won't pay. For some reason they upload the plus version for free there.
Free podcast stats can be generated using https://op3.dev

Cloudfront on top of an Amazon S3 bucket is cheaper and faster than Amazon S3 on its own, by the way.

You might also look at IPFS Podcasting, but that requires quite a leap of faith!
Seconding this experience.

My first name is "Ricky" and I very frequently have to correct people (mainly in drive throughs and over the phone) who repeat back to me "Britney" or "Nicky".

Very possible I just suck at enunciating my name and no one has had the heart to tell me all these years.
Doesn't work with addresses in Vietnam, so my vote is "still sucks for 100 million people".

I tried putting in "46/8B/29 Xô Viết Nghệ Tĩnh" and it directs me to some place 132km away even though it is actually a few hundred meters from my current location.
What's old is new again, lol.
Software Engineers are misnamed. They do not register with a professional body and commit to a code of ethics; nor can they be disbarred from working if the regulating Society of Software Engineers decides they have failed to work to the standards required.

Software engineers are mostly know-nothing cowboys. The fact that you haven't previously heard of "Just Enough Software Analysis" confirms me in my impression that there are no standards and no regulation.

If you want to git gud, also read "Quality Before Design: Exploring Requirements" by Don Gause and Gerald Weinberg.
Lots of lists on my personal site, even excluding the one non-handcrafted page.

#!/usr/bin/awk -f
BEGIN {
while( (getline t < "tags.txt") > 0) tags[t] = 0
}
{
for (t in tags) tags[t] += gsub("<" t "[ |>]", "")
}
END {
for (t in tags) print tags[t], t
}

./count.awk $(find . -name '*.html') | sort -rh | head -n 10

534 li
290 a
215 p
149 br
132 span
99 ul
66 b
47 div
40 pre
37 meta
Did you buy it from Apple directly, or a retailer?

If from Apple, you may consider a chargeback. Or suggest that you'll do a chargeback if they don't refund you when you next check on the status of the replacement.
That's been widely known for quite some time, there's no engine, it just happens "magically" when a LLM gets big enough (and they sure have a lot of that stuff in their training datasets). GPT-4 is generally very good at this, while Turbo will often make mistakes if you force it to decode Base64 that's some nonsense (like random characters).
Toyota gigacasting prototype cuts production from hours to minutes
After a while writing LaTeX becomes second nature. I used to type my master's classes notes straight in LaTeX.
Well, I believe that we won't have funny customer support histories like that from our age to post 40 years from now. At least not from google et caterva.
Very true, and let’s not forget inbreeding
Then I guess to frame it in your language: they want formats that encourage config files, not "config files".

And I don't disagree. The problems of nesting objects "at least 12 levels deep" aren't going to be solved by the right format. The tooling itself needs to expose ways to capture logical dependencies other than arbitrary deep K-V pairs.
Easy. Grow more basil. Eat more basil regularly. Make pesto with excess basil. Freeze basil. Life gave you lemons, so make lemonade.
Having all cards listed would be great, with speculative/historical(?) prices to encourage potential sellers.

First card I searched for was a 'Tim' but the earliest listed was a 4th Ed of which I have many.

Also started around Dark/Revised but stopped collecting at Mirage!
This must be the same guy calling Putin's special military operation a "war"
Most people who lambast XML probably have never used XML or never had to need XML.

I designed a complex data acquisition system and after a lot of research, I settled on XML as the only viable option for complex user configuration, that is both readable and rich in content.

I then built a UI system that works with the XML and generates cofig docs with ease.

Sure, XML has been used in SOAP like systems, and it rightfully gets a bad rap, but that is more on the user than the technology.

A hierarchical document with values and attributes and custom tags? That is an almost DSL in itself.
I still use 12y laptop and I'm very of that even though people around me make jokes
How does this compare to the ones from segment?
I know that everyone hates YAML, but in my experience it's not that bad. I'm not using it to its full power, I guess, more like safe subset, and it works fine for me.

XML has its place, but I wouldn't want to replace my yamls with XML.
Also for a lot of our food stuffs, they exist specifically to deal with an excess you can't deal with at the time of harvest. Things like tomato sauce, various jams, etc. All of that is designed to take a bounty of a crop, and turn it into a form you can eat in the middle of winter when everything is dead outside. Today though, we think nothing of the implications of this as we buy a jar of ragu once a week.
The old “nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft” argument.
More than connections, you need luck and persistance.
The process itself is doable. But not easy.

These are the steps you'll have to follow if you plan to launch a new UPI app:

First, you'll finalize the business plan + team.

Second, you'll have to find early investors and backers

Third, you'll have to find a banking partner to work with

Fourth, you'll have to develop the product

Fifth, you'll undergo certifications and audits by RBI approved third parties

Sixth, you're app will be tested by officials at the NPCI

Seventh, Now you go live

Only after step 7, do you get to know if customers will buy your product.

Or if the entire effort goes to waste.
Search sometimes isn't ordered by distance even in the US. The "obvious" answer I'm looking for can be the 3rd or 4th.
Sorry, should have been more precise: “Besides high inflation…” Sorry, I sometimes skip stating priors. Bad habit

Start with nominal income, YoY. Personal income is before-tax, disposable personal income is after-tax

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=195kL

Nominal incomes were up 2.3% in 2022, but after tax incomes were down 0.3%. Wage inflation had pushed people into higher tax brackets, and the standard deduction covered a smaller portion. That did not get corrected until Jan 2023, when brackets and deductions all went up over 7%. So the big takeaway is that nominal wage gains in 2022 were all eaten up by higher taxes, and that’s before we layer in inflation.

Now, lets layer in inflation:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=195ll

But now let’s add in H1 2023. First, nominal

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=195mP

With the lowered effective tax rate, we see a much bigger gain in after-tax income, up 8.1% YoY in H1 2023. Now layer in inflation, much reduced from 2022:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=195mw

Things look much brighter with less inflation, and brackets/deductions that caught up with inflation

Keep in mind these data are from BEA’s monthly personal income tables. The article is from a separate Census Bureau survey, that tells largely the same story with different numbers
Most grocery stores do have a small set of cuttings of fresh herbs these days it seems.