skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ISPs are already rate-limiting users based off the service tier they paid for. If you’re paying for 250 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up, you’re not getting the 1 Gbps down 5 Mbps up connection that your neighbor is offering. If you choose to upgrade to the 1 Gbps plan, you’re using the same equipment over the same wire.

Choosing to then sell you an additional premium option where you get the full 1 Gbps you theoretically could get but don’t already pay for, but they’ll give it to you for a selection of curated services including their own is possible, and to incentivize you to not use a VPN, they won’t count it against your data cap when you access Netflix at 4K on 4 screens simultaneously because you’re now a VIP customer—all of that would violate the spirit of net neutrality. T-Mobile already does similar things as a “bonus” for their customers and technically, it’s not net neutral. There’s all kinds of ways to discriminate between paying customers, and that was the original fear of not having net neutrality: that the internet would become just like cable TV. That hasn’t happened with or without net neutrality as law (or as an FCC rule at least). Pretty much most markets have explicit data caps on some ISPs at least now, but the way it started was ISPs rolled that out slowly, over the course of years, market by market.

You are correct that other States could pass similar laws. I don’t follow the politics of other States much, but if California can do it, so can they, but other States can’t rely solely on the fact that California did a thing and now they don’t have to bother taking any legislative action themselves, if it’s important anyway (and I’m not convinced this particular issue counts as important). California even won in Federal court, great! There’s precedent for it now, but that doesn’t mean ISPs would necessarily lose in a different circuit, and they could always force a circuit split in a friendlier district.
> To work with GC, you need some way to track if the GC'd object is accessible in WASM itself.

I've never heard of a GC with that kind of API. Usually any native code that holds a GC reference would either mark that reference as a root explicitly (eg. https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/1459) or ensure that it can be traced from a parent object. Either way, this should prevent collection of the object for as long as the reference is reachable from a root. I agree that explicitly checking whether a GC'd object has been freed would not make any sense.

> The reason why you probably need a custom string type is so you can actually embed string literals without relying on interop with the environment.

WASM already has ways of embedding flat string data. This can be materialized into GC/heap objects at module startup. This must happen in some form anyway, as all GC-able objects must be registered with the GC upon creation, for them to be discoverable as candidates for collection.

Overall I still don't understand the issue. There is so much prior art for these patterns in native extensions for Python, PHP, Ruby, etc.
Bezos-backed freight firm Convoy shuts down after slashing hundreds of jobs
Here's a negotiations question: Is Google overpaying or underpaying for "default"?

If you believe the price tag is so high because Google is secretly paying Apple to stay out of the market, then they'd be overpaying what would otherwise be a fair market price.

But the key argument in this case has been that the value of being "default" is so high that companies like Microsoft can't compete, since those extra queries make google way better. In that sense, Google would be UNDERPAYING.

To make your overpaying argument, Microsoft should have been arguing that being default is worthless and that Google was clearly paying Apple for some "other" nefarious reasons, like not developing their own search engine. I actually think that's a much stronger argument because I think there's evidence of it. But it's not the main argument being made in this weird case about how important it is to be default.

They could have just looked at the evidence of a deal between Google and Apple for Apple to not compete and left it at that. They've made this too complicated. The involvement of these other search companies is irrelevant.
So the api used for inpainting is very easily swappable to a local instance. But when you say consumer hardware, I think you might be overestimating how capable most people’s computing setups are.
DNA art reproduces are in high resolution/color
A possible optimization would be to change internal representation on-the-fly for long-ish strings as soon as random accesses are observed. Guidance from experiments would be required to tell where the right tresholds are. Also JavaScript implementations already do internal conversions between string implementations.
> I analyzed 1,232 models from the Open LLM Leaderboard and 88 models from the General Language Understanding Evaluation (GLUE) Leaderboard.

This analysis seems highly sensitive to the population of "models." What if I submit the same model 1000x to the Open LLM Leaderboard (perhaps with small tweaks)? I'd expect the models' performance would be highly correlated, increasing your measure of `g`.

Given this, does the value of `g` truly say something meaningful about LLMs?
I had thought Charles Johnson had moved left politicaly? I haven't looked at his blog in a long time (15 years?)
Im against trucks on roads here for the most part. But to act like Cybertruck is particluarly bad just isnt really make sense. Not having a huge nose will mean visibility is much better. The nose is also lower then an F-150 so the chance your head getting smash (the cause of deat most of the time would seem to be much lower). Cybertruck suspensions seem to also make it run closer to the ground when running on roads.

Plus Tesla fleet all follow the newest generation outmatic breaking regulation that is still voluntary. While many car makers including trucks don't yet implement that.

So in general, yes all pickup trucks are bad but this one seems better rather then worse.

In general keeping all these things should be severly restricted for private use, specially in cities.
Wow! I can totally see that now. Basically you want to build a more intelligent browser-automation tool :)
I think that once you start having symptoms that it's too late because the bacteria has already spread outside your gut and at that point it'll be too difficult to put it back in check, it's passed the threshold
lol I've been using YT for music for years. it's maybe slightly cumbersome, and a total waste of bandwidth. but i think its the largest catalogue of music available. i only recently stopped using it quite as much once they neutered the search function (all you get is "recommended for you" etc). but i'm happy to see a fellow youtube listener, thought I was the crazy one in my friend group
Yeah, got both with my old 2015 MBP but only the two-prong with the 2023 one. Though the two-prong plug is still detachable from the brick so I presume Apple would be happy to sell me a Schuko+cord for some exorbitant price.
I'm completely ok with this if electric car companies feel like not honouring warranties because some parts of the world are more rainy than others.
Notably, the placebo effect usually only effects suffer reported symptoms as in this case. It’s a folk wisdom that it has physiological effects, which is often not true.
Yeah I liked one of its suggestions for a sailboat with rocky forested coastline in the background, so asked it to refine it to look photographic. But the result still looked more like an illustration.
What does Jeff Bezos have to do with Convoy?
Yes, it's true. The costs to do apparent 'journalism' fell because underpaid news writers could make a valid-sounding article from stuff they found on Twitter. That started a race to the bottom, where now very few places are doing non-Twitter journalism.
Confessions of a Tableside Flambéur
For example, the current UAW strike seems very damaging. They're attacking the very nature of the auto companies and saying they don't even have the right to make money or try to profit, and demanding huge wage increases and further union expansion to include the battery plant.

Meanwhile the companies are losing 30k+ per EV sold and are only about 10% of Tesla's size, and Tesla has something like an 18% profit margin even after price reductions.

The unions might win locally but put the companies out of business in five or ten years by slowing them down. So, this structure of a single union led by a guy who's already independently wealthy and old and for whom the long term survival of the union doesn't matter monetarily, and the fact that the companies simply have to deal with him, and for electoral reasons both Biden and Trump showed up on the picket lines... I would quit if I were an exec there. Feels like they'll be driven out of business and bailed out either publicly or secretly within ten years. Market tracking this: https://manifold.markets/Ernie/will-ford-gm-or-stellantis-be...
> never once heard a Swift developer complain that it's too hard to discover API interface

Xcode presents the equivalent of a “header” when you follow a symbol to a framework you don’t have the source for… it’s a swift file full of definitions only and no implementations. The compiler emits this for you automatically as a .swiftinterface file

> or keep things non-`public`

I definitely am a swift developer that would complain about this. It’s way too easy to be cavalier about using the “public” keyword and making things part of the public API when they probably shouldn’t be. It’s like engineers have muscle memory from Java and just type “public class” without really questioning why first.
A successful vampire can live a very long time
This is not the first trial of ketamine used under clinical anaesthesia to disguise its effects. A previous study using similar methods in 2018 found the usual effects of surgery: a transient increase in depressive symptoms. I'm no expert but my inclination is to blame this on postoperative pain.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000709121...

The confidence interval in the new study includes zero, although the average beneficial effect is still surprising when considering the usual expected negative effects. I suspect that the real effect may simply be that general anaesthesia causes a susceptibility to suggestion.

It's not clear if ketamine — or anything else — should be expected to work normally when it is administered to patients under general anesthesia. General anesthesia has profound effects on the functioning of the nervous system.
I don't think so. I think they honestly believe that RTO will make employees more productive. Productivity has been trending downward since 2010 or thereabouts and nobody knows why, so they're willing to try anything.
it's also a lot to do with the types of people that do polishing/artistic work are very different people from those that do the programming of the features.

expecting an artist to be a good programmer or a programmer to be a good artist is just unrealistic. not a lot of artist attracted to FOSS/github/projects to go looking for things to do. probably a much better result from FOSS maintainers to jump onto Fivr and look for someone to do polish
Back button works for me on Firefox 118.0.2 (Linux). Posting because the other guy might not respond, I think the bug made him a little mad.
Yep, forgot a zero.
>millions of Americans who work for a restaurant or with variable hours or on contracts that provide them with zero heads up when business conditions change

wouldn't you consider your statement itself to be a giant heads up, right now? Heads up! save some money, don't spend everything you earn. And don't tell me you didn't get a heads up.
What were you trying to accomplish? Curious about your use if you can share it
Refreshing LLMs
> tired of companies that raise hundreds of millions from some of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world trying to pull the “we’re a startup” card

But they are one! If those wealthy people were getting perks in this failure, the way e.g. workers at Good got screwed, I'd agree with you. But if you're running with massive fixed costs and volatile revenue, knowing whether you're weeks or months from shutdown is difficult.

And again, people are assuming if he shut down six months ago everyone could have gotten severance. Convoy is $100+ million in debt. Wages are privileged; new severance obligations are not.

> real solution is, and always will be, collective bargaining

The closer solution is civic participation. How many people in Silicon Valley have written to their state elected to raise unemployment benefits? (Note: I'm not saying anyone deserves what's happening. But union participation in America is stubborn and dropping. We need another drum to beat.)
I think most larger ISPs current have their own speed test nodes these days.

It’s problematic if they don’t, because if Comcast detects a virgin running a speed test, they can throttle virgin traffic to give lies as results. So virgin need to run their own nodes.

If you kill net neutrality, that behaviour is legal.
Yeah, read a little bit after commenting and it looks like they now use the Google maps API to get POIs but not for routing
You can embed the font file into the SVG if you want the text to remain selectable. If the size increase worries you, you can strip unused glyphs from the font file before embedding it.
He said that before he said he had "funding secured" to sell the company at $420/share and after he laid out the planned 35 minute Hyperloop from LA to San Francisco, right?

(I'm just trying to nail down the timeline of full truths/no cap from Elon.)
Delta, a syntax-highlighting pager for Git, diff, and grep output
It's not meant as a doomsayer - we developed effective vaccines and we failed at distributing them to all humans - western countries paid ton's of tax money and some people got very rich - every else people died preventable deaths. From a technological point of production and distribution of the vaccines was possible. It didn't happen because there was no profit. Same reason even in Germany you can't get antibiotics. I'm not even go as far as in the US where a lot of people can't afford basic healthcare. In an catastrophic event goods necassary for survival will have a price and there will be a black market that will be brutal. I think and hope there is a way to distribute and create required goods fairly but I don't know how to establish and enforce such a system.
Yes, twice in fact. Went from being a geologist for environmental consulting firms -> community management for various tech websites -> software engineer.

Each has worked out better than the last and brought me more enjoyment (and dollar bills as well, ah gem). I still like my rocks, but I really like coding, too.

Now over 40 though. Hoping to stick with the software engineering side of things from here on out. But who knows!

Edit: In terms of advice - if you’re bored or lacking fulfillment in your current role and something else legitimately interests you, take the chance and do it.

It’s not always possible of course, I am very very fortunate in having a partner who is supportive and can help cover us financially while I attempted to ramp us in new careers.

But people with a strong enough desire seem to find a way. It just might take a bit longer.
Review of Spintronics, using mechanics to teach electronics
>The financials I reference are public in EDGAR.

Yes, I know, I follow their finances closely. "They have $25B in cash according to their balance sheet" is practically meaningless. I understand this might be a difficult concept to grasp for some mental models, but there are many historical analogs to look at why that's the case. They'll produce whatever numbers simple minded analysts will post on Twitter. Look at the discourse around their decrease in COGS. Many metrics are trending down.

Of course, I'm not a "they're going bankrupt" person; I just believe they'll be a much smaller company than most imagine.
SteerLM: A Simple and Practical Technique to Customize LLMs During Inference
And for good reason. If you swoop in and add a feature I (as the maintainer) don’t care about, the maintenance burden for that code usually falls to me. I don’t want to spend my time maintaining someone else’s code for a feature I don’t care about. So yeah, I have higher standards for testing and code quality for 3rd party contributors than I have for my own code. I like PRs which fix bugs. But PRs which add features, without talking them through first? Ehhhhh
Elon Musk said

> For following the war in real-time, @WarMonitors & @sentdefender are good

Turns out those accounts aren't good.

Musk had the freedom to endorse those accounts, and the times has the freedom to criticize him for doing so.
Cruise is a demonstration of falsehoods programmers believe about transportation.
DAE like Bluetech? Very accessible downtempo/psybient, used to listen to him a lot during my Simon Posford/IM phase.
As always, the immediate question: ChatGPT-3.5 (the free version) or ChatGPT-4 (the paid version)? Just saying “ChatGPT” doesn’t mean much.

It’s not very interesting at all to hear about ChatGPT-3.5 making mistakes, and an unlabeled reference to “ChatGPT” usually seems to mean ChatGPT-3.5. ChatGPT-4 is an entirely different level of product.

ChatGPT-4 can make mistakes too, and those cases are much more interesting since it is among the best LLMs on the market, so it is more representative of what current LLMs can (and can’t) do.

For reference, here is ChatGPT-4 discussing this: https://chat.openai.com/share/f67600f5-7d36-49b7-b136-f77dcb...

I don’t know that language, so I can’t say how accurate it is. For the languages that are represented well in its training data, ChatGPT-4 seems capable of really good translations.
Here's one that you write in Python to configure for your Python! https://www.bitecode.dev/p/doit-the-goodest-python-task-runn...
Microfrontends are just another example of a design pattern. The problem is developers think that they can solve any problem by stacking design patterns in the right order. At some point you need to write the code that makes your app work. Your special sauce. But people procrastinate by obsessing over which patterns they will use.
If the hypothetical of terms on the table for a loan is a red herring, so is the supposition that management had months of visibility into their demise.

Convoy wasn't a pure software business. It didn't operate on massive gross margins; it was operationally (and financially) levered. Decades-old trucking companies are going down unexpectedly; I'm not sure why HN's armchair executives figure they could have called this cleaner.
> Net neutrality rules might get in the way of a cloud gaming service negotiating with an ISP to route their traffic more efficiently.

This is not convincing to me at all. ISPs could have supported low latency internet for everything, not just for gaming. If latency is too low then it's because the large ISPs are purposefully doing a bad job of upgrading to fiber and expanding fiber to places without internet access. Fiber would allow ISPs to provide service for cheap and still profit in the long term [1]. Subsidy fraud is as normal as breathing among large telecom companies such as AT&T [2], Comcast [3], and Verizon [4].

Internet bandwidth is not like shipping of physical goods. Sending twice the data doesn't cost the ISP twice the money, nor does it take twice the time. Data caps are artificial and unnecessary [5]. Any ISP trying to justify expensive, fast internet by bringing up metaphors of physical transfers and physical scarcity is lying to you.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/why-slow-networks-real...

[2] https://www.techdirt.com/2020/10/06/mississippi-says-att-too...

[3] https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/15/report-shows-comcast-con...

[4] https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/16/verizon-t-mobile-oversta...

[5] https://publicknowledge.org/no-cap-the-truth-about-data-caps...]
I (objectively) see what you did there
Author here!

The answer to your question is in the FAQ on the website for Next LS in particular, and a motivation for the whole elixir-tools family of projects on the home page

https://www.elixir-tools.dev/next-ls/#faq
It seems unclear if Microsoft was willing to pay more. From Bloomberg's coverage: "Microsoft business development executive Jon Tinter said that his company weighed making a multibillion-dollar investment in its relationship with Apple in 2016, an effort to outspend Google and make Bing the default option on Apple devices." They also offered to sell part of Bing to Apple it seems.

As to Samsung why else would they consider switching from Google to Bing? According to the WSJ [2] they changed their mind "given concerns over how the switch could be perceived by the market as well as the impact on its wide-ranging business relations with Google." This suggests Microsoft was willing to pay more.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-28/microsoft...
[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-is-spared-a-search-engin...
If someone is 67, home computing has been a thing for likely over 1/3 of their lives (depending on geography).

Kind of a terrible take to treat 67 as "old" in this regard.
Shame they didn’t look at the “Fitness” app. It’s first party but requires a separate download. Probably because it’s some of the worst quality software I’ve ever seen.

Its UI becomes desynchronized and self-inconsistent in ways I wouldn’t have believed are possible. The very fact that it exists and is capable of presenting as incoherent UI as it does is damning evidence against whatever UI framework it uses.
> P.S. Palantir was founded by the CIA (In-Q-Tel):

Based on that article specifically.

>> The only early investments were $2 million from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's venture capital arm In-Q-Tel, and $30 million from Thiel himself and his venture capital firm, Founders Fund.[6][7][13][14][15]

Sounds like the CIAs investment arm funded Palantir and didn’t found it, the funding amount also seems pretty inconsequential given the overall funding.
When I write tooling for myself in Go, I usually wrap all of my errors with stacktraces since I hate having to grep for a string that may be interpolated or duplicated throughout the codebase.

Addendum: It is still a good thing to be able to add context to the error message though, so I think you've got a point.
Or core code is written in another language that’s cross-platform and the UI is done in AppKit.
People are bad at big numbers, episode #29292. They understand the numbers around the repair bill for driving around in the rain very well, though.
i was under the impression that DG adult neurogenesis was pretty much settled? is there any controversy abt this?
For extra challenge, any idea if a solar kiln could be practically used for mud bricks?
Is it possible to go from linux administrator into something related to robotics without a major amount of training? or is that leap more of a go back to school for four years type deal?
Amazon unveils 'Sequoia' warehouse robotics system
I have nothing more to offer you. If you're a sophisticated capital market participant, place your bet. I have no current exposure to TSLA or any of their debt offerings. I do not care about the stock price. I care about a material movement in climate change outcome.
And with Skywater there have been occasional free shuttles (efabless), where they will take your (very small) opensource design and fab it for you on a shared wafer
How to use Tig to browse Git logs
For myself, I've got 3gbps fiber to the house, and a need to host something. Pondering buying a used server instead of dishing money out to AWS or GCP. Question is if the power bills make sense.
There's currently very heavy rain in Scotland, which could also explain the correlation.