skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This could be an interesting comparison. My experience with AWS is that it was super easy and cheap to start on. By the time we could use whole servers we were using so much AWS orchestration that it's going to be put off until we are at least $1M ARR, and probably til we are at $5M.

Make adoption easy, give a free base tier but charge more could be a very effective model to get start ups stuck on you. It even probably makes adoption by small teams in big companies possible that can then grow ...
Little prods of science education can go a long way! I think it’s cool that white noise is just the universe chilling.
The vision and ideas from the game Deus Ex are waiting to happen.
Having lived in Japan for multiple years in the past and knowing other foreigners who've lived there for a decade+, I'll say that while it's true it's no anime dreamland and skews insular, one's experiences there will vary a lot depending on approach.

For example if you're running with a younger crowd in Tokyo and have become reasonably adept at speaking the language you'll run into a lot less of that kind of thing — a lot of the time people there just aren't comfortable with dealing with those who don't speak Japanese well, and older individuals and more out of the way cities might be less accommodating of outsiders. Often when I see writings online about having a bad time, it's from jaded Eikawa teachers who've made no effort to learn Japanese or branch beyond their friend group of other foreigners despite having lived there for many years.

That said young people aren't running the government there due to being solidly outnumbered, so national policies are naturally going to be more reflective of its older population.
Yeah I don't know what the actual subscription numbers are, would be surprised if OpenAI is publishing that info.
"too cheap to beat" sounds anti-competitive and monopolistic. Large LLM providers are not dissimilar to industrial operations at scale - it requires alot of infrastructure and the more you buy/rent, the cheaper it gets. Early bird gets the worm I guess.
Unfortunately, this seems to be the future. While now the sky is largely empty with an occasional plane, in the future it will be filled with drones. It already happened with cars. A century ago the land was mostly quiet, now you usually have a loud and busy street somewhere in the vicinity. And in the farther future, it will be spaceships in the solar system (and maybe beyond).
https://archive.ph/kX84f
They are at 2020 1/2 numbers right now. Every product I purchase at my grocery store is 2x the price as it was in 2019.

The govt. stopped calling Safeway and asking for prices and started calling Grocery Outlet Bargain Market and asking for the price of food expiring yesterday.
On the bright side, it's a few more steps on your pedometer.
No, the equivalent would be America loading fines and tax penalties onto a large EU tech company, like...

Um...
>It’s important to remember that after the Holocaust, European nations have a special responsibility to the Jewish people, and therefore they often errs on the side of caution in preventing that people from being targets of potentially genocidal rhetoric.

Oh bloody fucking rubbish. French courts let a guy off on murdering a French Jew, in France, because he had smoked marijuana beforehand.
In my country, as you can't just switch customer's plans at will, the telcos structured them as limited-time offers that have no commitment or penalties on top of a regulated base pricing which is like 2-4x the going rate.

After a year the offer ends and you can keep your current plan at the expensive base rate or you can move to a new plan/offer to get the discounted market rate.

That way they can justify increasing rates over inflation and changing contracts at will.
This should be a link to the blog post:

https://draculatheme.com/blog/celebrating-10-years-of-dracul...
I like calc paired with gnuplot.

https://github.com/lcn2/calc

inb4 dc(1)/bc(1)... calc supports complex numbers, C-like pseudo structures/functions, custom decimal points and lots more.

Also, calc/gnuplot will run on a toaster or even legacy systems from 20-25 years ago.
Looks like GitHub workflow to rebuild pages errored for some reason and that's why the 404 showed up. However, you'll notice that if you click on the direct link to the git content, everything is there.

https://github.com/june07/clippings-archive/tree/main/craigs...
They are most likely referring to this in collaboration with Jony Ive:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/openai-jony-ive-talks-ra...
> The reality is that if you want good schools you need to cut your losses with the worst behaving kids.

This kind of attitude is a wide-open door for racist and classist attitudes to penalize kids of color, kids from poor homes, kids with unsafe or unstable home situations. Suspending and expelling kids almost always makes things worse for those kids.

There are HUGE racial and gender disparities in the rates of suspension and expulsion[1].

Anecdotally, I know a lot of educators and child social workers who are strongly opposed to suspension & expulsion as a punishment or a "solution". None of them cite "metrics obsession" as their reason, but rather the fact that the kids who are getting kicked out of school need more support, not less.

Maybe it seems fine to kick [other people's] kids out of school "for the good of the many", but happens next? What if parents loose their job because they have to stay home for childcare? What if folks end up homeless because they can't pay the bills? What if those kids end up in prisons (that our taxes pay for)? Just from a financial perspective, school is an EXTREMELY cost-effective early intervention compared to prisons, inpatient mental health, welfare systems, etc. Well educated folks often end up making money and paying into tax systems rather than drawing from them.

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/raceindicators/indicator_rda.as...
If you had just said ad, I would agree with you. But a pre-roll ad is a specific type of youtube that many people are familiar with but don't know the proper name of. That's my point. The OP comment does not get pre-roll ads with premium. But they still get sponsor segment ads.
"One has to love the fact that in the land of the free one cannot cross a street where one wants."

This is only really true for a very small number of places in the US, even smaller when you consider the lack of enforcement.
It gets worse. Lewis is now saying that the jury should read his book, and that either the jury will acquit SBF, or they will "lynch" him. He's evidently convinced that SBF did nothing wrong.

https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/111212491776903022
Celebrating 10 Years of Dracula
> Which everyone already knew, and didn't require the enlightened insight of you and almost_unusual to point out specific instances of.

Why do you have to be rude and personal like that? If we can't have a civil discussion, I'm going to get back to work. Take care.
I am deeply sceptical of lobbying and special interest groups, and that includes the "think of the children" variety.
I'd like to believe that "everybody" and "nobody" in your story aren't as black-and-white.

Many people see the value of unit testing. And see how TDD actually shapes your code to be testable and (accidentally, well, not really) therefore also cleaner and better organized.

I've always said, and will continue to do so: good, maintainable code, is accidentally also very well testable code. And vice-versa. And it's not a real accident, if you think about it.
The original Greek text is, but I got a C in Greek so I’ll have to pay for a copyrighted English translation.
Luckily some countries don’t think about it like this. Many European countries put pedestrians first in cities and towns.

Cars can go “quickly” between cities and towns but around pedestrians they really do need to slow down.

I wouldn’t want to live anywhere where the car is king and everyone else must cede to its ultimate priority.

People need to give themselves more time to get places, rather than thinking they are far more important than the greatly decreased safety of others.
And that's worth a billion dollars?
T-Mobile won't be prepared to process opt-outs until October 17th, so calling before then is unlikely to be an effective use of time. Consider waiting five days. Otherwise, the unprepared call center support representative will not know the magic code to bind your account with.
Demystifying Oil&Gas Market: Upstream
The following is an ancient Roman story that Romans told each other about Rome. It is doubtlessly fictional but reveals the perception Romans had about their own society:

A man invented a new kind of glass that wouldn't shatter. He brought a challace made of this glass to the emperor for a demonstration, and threw it to the ground. Instead of shattering, it merely bent. Then he hammered it back into shape. The emperor was very impressed and asked if he had told anybody else the secret to making this glass. The inventor said he had not. Then the emperor ordered him killed on the spot.

Pliny the Elder tells this story. He says he doesn't believe it actually happened, but that it was a popular story in Rome.
https://compnski.github.io/factorymustgrow/#/game

Game projects okay? More a toy at the moment, it's just the factorio tech tree but I'm working to have my own recipes and story and features.

Started as a testbed for learning typescript + React, grew into something to work on when I'm feeling creative.

Code is more likely to be updated at https://gitlab.com/omgbear/factorymustgrow, but GitHub pages is easy.
HF Shopify Image Background Replacement
I agree with your dad.

Ever have a favorite TV show release an episode and then you have to avoid Facebook and Twitter so you don't get spoiled?
As funny as this is, there is something trippy in what you said.

Actually this is why LSD is so important - it helps you better recognise the voices repeating apple, pear, banana in your everyday life

we are all always about to die:

1. everyday billions of your cells die and are dying

2. death is the single most real/important matter in life, and about to or not really only depends on how relativistic you want to be

3. can always swiftly get real because you never know when your last day is
When I said "they" I meant: content providers, service providers and so on.

I frankly don't care at all, I will never buy Youtube TV. However, justifying this behavior is ludicrous, even if YouTube doesn't monetize on such content.

It's just unfair - you pay for no ads, and ...well you do get them because "the file..."
> I hope (and think) that laws are judged primarily by their text and entirely so when it can be determined that the facts match the text even if many of us wish the text was different in light of these specific facts.

What do you think a legal test is?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_(law)

The canonical example of this is a restauraunt banning all head coverings. Despite the fact that technically everyone must adhere to it, since it disproportionally affects those who wear hijabs, it's considered a violation of civil rights.

These tests are created to help lower courts navigate grey areas, negligence is an area where this is applied a lot.
If you have the new iPhone with the action button, you can set a shortcut to ask questions of ChatGPT. It’s not as fluid as Siri, and can’t control anything, but still much more useful.
These are still early days. All the major players are willing to lose billions to be top of mind with consumers in an emerging market.

Either there will be some major technological breakthrough that lowers their costs, or they will all eventually start raising prices.
I get the results of it, I just don't see the value in even poisoning the data, unless you plan on monitizing it in the near term. Maybe the scrapping is imposing real operational costs on you, but then poisoning the data doesn't help.
I took a quick look at pianojacq.com and can relate to the sentiment you expressed with "I wanted to concentrate on making music, not on endless runs and other boring ways of practicing"--although in my case it relates more to creating new music rather than performing.

Interested to hear more about your experience with VexFlow if there's anything more to share on top of it being "very nice". :)

I think VexFlow was one of the projects I encountered when I was recently looking for musical score rendering solutions for a somewhat non-typical context[0].

In the end I settled on using a Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL) reference font directly rather than a higher level engraving library which led to a result that was...mixed. I share (a.k.a. rant about :) ) my experience more toward the end of a HN comment[1] in case the topic is of interest.

[0] A 7-day game jam entry created with Godot 4: https://rancidbacon.itch.io/stave-off

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35139269
I have a question about the point on highlighting in particular. With a subscription-based model, don't you lose out on the ability to partially highlight a file based on the visible ranges in the editor? Unless you re-subscribe to the highlighting whenever the visible ranges change, the language server wouldn't know which slice(s) of the document to highlight after a change comes in.
Of course there's a similar premier in a black mirror episode. Only a bit more fleshed out.
HTTP/2 rapid reset attack impacting Nginx products
I believe there has been rumors that OpenAI was working with Jony Ive to create a wearable device, but it was unclear wether it would be a phone or something else.
There are tons of traffic laws that make things technically illegal even if they're perfectly safe ("no U-turn"), for the purpose of keeping traffic flow orderly and efficient. Not sure why this should be any different or why pedestrians should not be expected to follow traffic laws, or why the law should allow pedestrians to step into traffic whenever and wherever they want.
> It shouldn't be. The risk to you is much greater if you hit another car, than if you hit a pedestrian.

True but the idea to me is the same for this particular situation, it is something running in front of a moving vehicle with little to no chance to do anything about it as a driver.

You are right for speeds and too many people drive too fast in an urban setting, but even a reasonable driving at 20-30 mph can still cause damage.

All I am trying to say here is everyone take responsibility for their own actions and don't assume that just because you are a pedestrian that cars are going to get out of your way since they may not physically be able too. Same for drivers, don't assume you have the right away because you are in a car.
It's so disheartening to follow these. Time after another we hear about some insane Orwellian plot to exploit our deepest secrets. All spun so that the masses will think it's for some noble cause like protecting the children when really it's anything but. And it never stops! Tackle one and it's back a year later in some even more devious form like a fucking Hydra. I'm just so tired I wanna move into a cottage in the woods.
To paraphrase a criminal mastermind and philosopher: "Are fucking taking notes on a fucking conapiracy?"

I am often dumbfound by the exsessive paper trail people leave for all kind of things...
"I was not interested to look for any car in sight because I would like to save 5€ for the case of being caught"
With habit-forming I think it helps to first start by adding other activities in rotation rather than just eliminating one.

I can already answer this one: it would be internet-use. My sedentary time is still going to be sedentary time, that's how I want it. I'm not going to chase productivity and socializing for all the leisure time I can spare.
xdennis is asking why bother paying for premium if you still need to use sponsorblock. Why not just use sponsorblock + (uBlock Origin, or yt-dl, or etc) to remove both forms of ads for free.
The US Navy sold 2 obsolete aircraft carriers to scrap dealers for a cent each (2021)
> More than almost any other in the world.

You should only compare to countries with a similar cost structure.
Not really.

A full rack with 16 amps usable power and some bandwidth is $400/month in Kansas City, MO. That is enough to power 5x A100s 24x7, so 10k plus $80 per month each, amortized, of course many more A100s would drop the price.

Once installed in the rack ($250 1 time cost) you shouldn't need to touch it. So 10k plus $1250 per A100, per year including power. You can put 2 or 3 A100s per cheapo Celeron based CPU with motherboards.

Of course if doing very bursty work then it may well make sense to rent...
> ...Russians planned a few weeks to take.

According to who? Are you intentionally demonstrating how silly pro-Ukrainian propaganda is? Russia made the objectives very clear from the beginning: demilitarization and denazification. I don't think anyone aware of that could come away thinking "Yeah, so obviously they expect to accomplish that in a few weeks."
US drinking water often contains toxic contaminants, scientist warns
Yes a smartphone, /corrected. It's a recent announcement:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/28/technology/openai-apple-s...
Definitely saved this article as a guide.

But in terms of light switches, specifically - is there not a simpler way to turn lights on and off while keeping the physical wall switches as the fundamental source of truth?

I’m thinking of a traditional physical switch that has been enhanced with an electromagnetic component that can actually physically flip that switch. A separate control line from each switch in the house goes to a separate controlling computer in the basement. This computer can then interface with Bluetooth remotes or apps on smartphones or anything else that is needed, including having its own internal scheduler for turning lights on or off, or connected to ambient light sensors near windows that could trigger threshold settings to do the same.

That way, no matter how you set up your basement controller, you can always go over to the wall and turn the lights on or off if you need so. And if you are going to bed, bringing up the app can tell you if you’ve left the garage lights on, so you can remotely turn them off.

And when you remotely turn these switches on or off, the in-wall light switch will actually be physically moved to its desired position via the electromagnet being triggered.

Granted, this is something that is really only doable during a new build or a frame-off rebuild of a home (I’m doing the latter and would love to implement this idea), but the point being: this would be a largely obsolescence-proof, dummy-proof and robust/reliable way of automating a home while leaving the physical switches themselves as the ultimate source of truth: flipping the physical switch will _always_ do what is expected it will do, and the switch will always be in the position expected for the light’s current state.
I just enjoyed the irony :^) and wish you well in fixing it.

I'm still mystified about the purpose, though. Can you explain a use case or three?
Probably using the special <Image /> tag on NextJS which they charge a premium for. NextJs claims to be a static site generator too but doesnt allow optimised images at build time for static sites.
Older plans (pre-2022) should be under the "Un-Contract": https://www.t-mobile.com/news/press/uncontract-carrier-freed...

Notably "By contrast, the Un-contract is all give, no take. You can keep your existing Simple Choice plan and we won’t raise your rates. As part of this commitment, customers on existing Simple Choice promotional plans − like the Un-carrier’s ultra-popular 4 lines for $100 with up to 10 GB of 4G LTE data − can keep them for as long as they’re T-Mobile customers."

Seems like a shut-and-close case for a class action lawsuit. Whoever made the decision to push ahead with this seems to have missed some internal due diligence - or there's some tiny legal footnotes I'm missing.
> cyclists don’t use them anyway

This claim is so ridiculous is invalidates everything else you might be trying to argue, come on.
https://atomictessellator.com

The half baked bits at the moment is full scale automated catalyst discovery, and a bunch of the "glue" code that pulls the different simulations together seamlessly (molecular dynamics, dimer methods, nudged elastic band, retrosynthesis, automated bulk analysis) -- they all exist in various states of development (mostly done) but getting them all to interact totally seamlessly is tricky.

Also this is quite computationally intensive hobby, I am often limited by the amount of computing power I have - even though I run a small cluster in my house (384 cpu cores, 4 GPUs, 24TB NAS)

I am super excited though, just in the last week I have started to make novel, truely unique catalyst discoveries (that are matching lab validations), so after a year of experimenting "it's working.gif"
Or at least the in-between option: Use the savings from cutting the subscription services to run your own NAS at home and locally stream whatever movies or shows you own
> In reality, what happens all too often is that funding and resources are stripped away from the already resource poor schools and given to charter schools.

Where are you seeing this? D.C. has almost half of its students in charter schools, and it also has public schools that are funded more than almost anywhere else in the U.S.

Worth pointing out that the charter school enrollment is highest in the poorest wards with the greatest percent of the black population. It’s lowest in the richest wards with the greatest percent of the whtie population. See for yourself[1].

Like with the claims of “underfunded public schools,” a lot of these conversations seem to stem from people hearing talking points and assuming that they’re true, while not bothering to look at the facts that show the opposite to be the case.

https://dcpcsb.org/student-enrollment
https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-jony-ive-talks-rai...
Too bad sponsorblock will not work on tv((
Those are 8x A100 systems.
>it was discovered that Toshiba had put a backdoor on all Toshiba hard drives

How can we know this is true, and how would a HDD backdoor even work? What's the exploit here?

Does the firmware on the HDD controller magically connect to the internet via the SATA cable and through the host controller to siphon your data to the Japanese alphabet agencies?

Sounds pretty absurd.
I had thought lucked company was for positive announcements?
I do like to call the large amount of TODO items i find in business codebases as “TO DIDNT”, always some comments about what we know should have be done, but some alternative or smaller solution was done instead.

Sometimes TODO comments describe a strict deadline, they read almost like apology letters!
> The question is: what do you do about children with discipline problems whose parents don't care?

This is relevant point to the military thing. If you screw up at school, your military parents will be called -- and it may impact them directly. As in, Sgt. X, your kid keeps picking fights, and we're going to punish them, and you, for it.

Which means the parents care -- a lot.
ICANN asked to suspend .ru and .su domains
Why not? The incentive is intended to increase EV adoption, not to help people buy cars generally. I don’t see how extending the incentive to all income levels would work against the goal.
Old people watch a lot of TV, so pretty much every commercial is targeted at them. Medications, retirement planning, predatory "manage your finances" apps, and of course commercials for thinly veiled clones of NCIS.
I've personally wanted to reference an ad after purchasing something or in other situations and it's gone. Again, think of physically clipping a newspaper ad. Pretty much just like http://wayback.archive.org/but on a more granular/niche scale.
can't speak for price but I have been vaccinated for rabies there were 4 or 5 shots over a few weeks none of them were particularly painful.