skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As much as I love rust. Its just shocking to learn these newer languages like go didn't take any learnings from jvm and dotnet world for something simple as dep/package management
Even with all the hate Apple gets in the tech sphere, they do have a lot of very handy features in their products.
There is a standard for this, most US companies I encountee over 100 people seems to support at least the security, info, postmaster, and support mailboxes at least.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2142
Contrived example:

US Produces 1,000 pounds of butter, sells at $1/unit
China Produces 1,300 pounds of butter, sells at $0.7/unit

Nominal: The US economy is bigger, because they produce more US dollars.
PPP: The Chinese economy is bigger, because they produce more goods.

It's obvious to me that PPP is the more accurate metric.

PPP is the real metric of GDP. Nominal is the metric you get after you adjust for the market price in dollars.

If the US dollar lost half of its value internationally, yet the US economy still produced the same quantity and quality of goods, did the US economy shrink by half? I think not.
A LVT (land value tax) would be more appropriate. You want people to use land more effectively and encourage high density housing. Landlords / developers shouldn't be punished for providing more housing in the same footprint.

A LVT would automatically discourage owning multiple properties unless they are all net flow positive with respect to the LVT, which would decrease vacancy.

LVT can also be adjusted to prevent rent seeking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
Mine's 12 and still gives the neighborhood dog hell whenever she sees them! Plus, she keeps pushing to walk faster all the time. I don't know where she gets it, and I'm starting not to look forward to the days when she inevitably slows down.
Thanks for the explanation!

I didn't realize PWM specifically referred to fast cycling. I thought any sort of deliberate on/off pattern to modulate power would be PWM. What you said makes sense though, that the regular microwaves can't lower their power output enough (whatever The mechanism) to be safe for some foods.
Google is an advertising company. They're planning an exit in a non-core market. It shouldn't be a surprise. The weight of "traditional google" has held zero value to me in measuring their cloud product.

Google's cloud products are built around the needs of advertisers. A large and slow backend that's meant to churn ungodly amounts of data.

Amazon is a retail company their cloud products are build around this need. They have a highly segmented and mostly nimble backend that's mean to build unwieldy amounts of API.
I feel like using your mouse is actually pretty efficient in many cases though.
It’s still safer than a normal intersection.
Roundabouts prevent HIGH SPEED t-bone and head-on collisions.
The difference in safety is easily worth the “cognitive load” of a 2-lane roundabout.

I think drivers will get used to them and in practice there will be few collisions.
You should try diving into num for like a month and see how you like it. It's different enough that you need to go past a certain kind of ledge to start liking it. Or at least that was my experience.

For me, it shares the most important benefits of Rust but with quite a lot more ergonomic coding model.
The key difference is that it’s not someone’s primary residence. Even I as a fairly libertarian person think it’s not a terrible policy to keep someone’s primary residence at a cheap tax level but increase the tax levels to prevent homes sitting empty for 50 out of the 52 weeks a year. Land is a finite resource. If we make the it more expensive to keep that house empty maybe it will be rented out to someone in which case you just increased the housing supply without having to build anything.
This is probably more a request at the compute team/gke teams but...spot management.

For example, managing a spot fleet in AWS via terraform is filled with features and levers I can pull. It's easy to manage basic scale-out/scale-in procedures and allows me to set thresholds.

In GCP, as I understand it, I can only manage a node pool at a basic level.

EDIT: Also, yell at the people who manage the python library.

https://cloud.google.com/python/docs/reference/container/lat...

Generated samples suck - take a look at the boto3 docs and see if they tell you to go look at code generated samples.
If the heavy traffic or the locked out traffic does a right turn in the roundabout, then a solution to this is a bypass lane. This works very well for letting traffic through and opening up the roundabout.

Multi-lane roundabouts help when theres a clog downstream of the roundabout.

Roundabouts are also great if you have more than 4 roads meeting.

But yeah, in general roundabouts shine the most in low-traffic intersections that previously had lights. They make driving in those are so much nicer, drivers basically never have to stop.
Another possibility is ML for Cued Speech: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.01083
That depends on whether the training data contained languages other than English.
Okay, I'm sorry, but you can't talk about critical thinking and then reject Le Guin's historical observation because she's a fiction author. That's a bridge too far for me to respond to seriously. That's the complete absence of critical thinking, that is a shallow dismissal based on rote categories.

We might as well conclude that your views on Marxism aren't valid because you're an engineer rather than a political scientist or historian, or that your views on teaching critical thinking aren't valid because you aren't an educator. Which would make this entire conversation meaningless.
You have a wife and a boyfriend?
Modern trope rendition of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_on_the_Moon

You’ll also find that 90+% don’t care about research into basic science at all, art preservation, art creation, environmental preservation, or even obscure medical research.

It’s a bad signal because it’s from a bunch of reactionary people.
@stream is actually straightforward in Node; it’s just part of the http request. Typically Instant API waits until the full request is processed to return headers and body as the endpoint implementation could modify headers; but with streaming headers are sent immediately and then the rest of the response streamed with .stream() injecting text.

In serverless environments — where we have used the framework as a gateway with endpoints being executed inside of Lambdas — streaming is accomplished using Redis broadcasting and channels are managed via UUIDs. We may open source this at some point but an enterprising engineer could fork and implement this.

Re; scaling. As mentioned in README we’ve scaled horizontally to 100M requests / day or about 1,157 RPS without issue on older, proprietary versions. Candidly this early release is designed for usability over performance but I wouldn’t be surprised in either direction. :)
California vehicle code (VEH 25251.5.7(a)) has an interesting inclusion of strobing yellow center light proportional to brake force.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....

What I think is absurd is red, yellow, and/or blue flashing lights except for emergency vehicles on or conveying to an emergency. Throughout the South US, maintenance vehicles flash zillions of lights creating visual distractions and flasher fatigue.
Did you compare with simple baselines like bag-of-words and word vectors?
If you go that route, people will game it by dividing it among family. Instead, an unoccupied housing tax might make more sense, which is what they do in Vancouver.

A real land/property tax that forces productive use of land is also needed, but repealing prop 13 is probably never going to happen.
I have one too. The only problem is that you have to change the tray depending on what mode you want to use.
I had AirPods Max stolen from our car a few months ago. A week later they popped up on Find My a block away. I hopped on my bike and tracked to a small apartment building. Using Find My will show you a “warmer … warmer … colder” kind of UI and whenever I lifted my phone to a particular window (shades drawn) Find My would say “Nearby.” I called the police and they were genuinely excited to knock on the door. A guy answered and denied having headphones that fit the description. Another police officer brought me around to the window and had me “play sound to locate” and sure enough you could hear the beep-boops through the window. The officer went back and said “listen, we know they are in your apartment, we can hear them, either go get them or we are getting a search warrant.” The guy said “ohhhh well I did have a party last week and there’s this backpack…”

Uh huh. Headphones returned.

Another officer returned to this scene and asked if we got the headphones back. I held them up and he says: “OH $&@# YEAH!”
Italy is secular republic, while the KSA is an absolute monarchy.

I'm still failing to see which one is a "Catholic country" unless you are somehow conflating Italy with the Holy See, another absolute monarchy.
I'm working on my first startup building a technical product (no customers yet - still developing). No idea if I'm doing this right, so let me know what you think.

I'm building a bunch of templates based on my own professional experience as well as from talking to experts and random business owners who could be potential pilot customers.

This helps me get both product validation and research gaps. Hopefully when I do start reaching out to my pilot customers things will be set up for them on day one. I have a few who are interested and if they decide not to use it I can at least go after others in the same sectors and set them up easily.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/14/pyrex-and-i...

Spoke too soon
(Warning: Anecdata)

There was a multi-lane roundabout near me with traffic signals and pedestrian crossing signals and all. It was an absolute nightmare to drive through, bike through, or cross on foot. Cars pressured one another to drive aggressively, pedestrians had to wait for walk signals, cars got confused and blew through the crosswalks by accident even when pedestrians had walk signals, bikes were an afterthought... it sucked.

They recently simplified it down to a single car lane and a single bike lane with priority (unsignaled) crosswalks at every entrance. It's slightly slower to drive through, but much less stressful. It's a joy to bike through. As a pedestrian, I love it because I don't have to wait for a walk signal... I just cross, and entering traffic is obligated to yield to me.

So, in my head: single-lane roundabout > intersection > multi-lane roundabout
One of their demos was showing how they could recover a username/password combination for a third-party site (Instagram), which was specifically possible because a password manager was in use that auto-filled those fields, putting them in memory. One possible reading of that is that you'd be immune if you didn't use a password manager, didn't let your browser remember the password, and just typed it in each time. There's a bunch of reasons that's a dumb objection:

- Having a password manager is good for lots of other reasons, and at least means that only one website is compromised if the password is stolen

- Their technique could probably also steal session tokens, which isn't quite as bad as stealing a password but is still bad.

- Password managers can be configured to require a click to fill in the password, which also defeats this attack.
>So the latent to pixel space conversion is made with another diffusion model?

Yup

>This is kind of refiner used in SDXL?

The refiner only works on the latent.
This is the wrong way of looking at the problem.

What needs to happen is a federal government problem of assistance in finding a job and relocation. Those are 2 "artificial" blocks from preventing people who are barely scraping buy in those areas to move to a cheaper COL area.

1. You can't do an in person interview or even a phone interview for a job in that area if you are expected to be at work during the day, and cant miss days

2. Traveling is expensive. Moving even more so.

Reduce the cost of those things to zero and few things happen.

Companies get access to a wider pool of candidates for free, which they will take advantage of. This will improve the rate of economic growth in remote areas .

Areas like SF will quickly start declining due to "essential" workers leaving - nurses, restaurant workers, retail, construction e.t.c. Majority of those people dont care about where they live, and will optimize for salary/col ratio, considering they can find their respective job in a lot more places.

This will directly and effectively worsen the NIMBY's lives, which is the best way to get someone to change their mind. Government officials will be up for reelection, so they will absolutely have to cater to immediate demands.

Best part is, the people will start selling their houses and moving as well, which will drive down the cost of housing quite a bit.

Also, this necessarily will increase demand for automation, which is a good thing.
> infrastructure

Imagine if anyone, not just Apple, could build on that, creating an automatic sneakernet. Populous areas without cell towers would come online, with ultra high latency. Throughput would also need to be throttled by the owner of each device to accommodate battery consumption preferences.
I was also intrigued by that section. It's surely interesting but looks more like an important special case than a technical subject. Not complaining tho.
Interview with Mike Engelhardt the Creator of LTspice [video]
One correction. It's not $8B per year, it's $8.4B in the last quarter--which is over $32B annualized, especially considering the last quarter's revenue grew over 20% from the same time last year. GCP's profit margins are low (for now) but positive. [1]

Moreover, per its filings, Google had almost $65B of contracted backlog representing customer commitments for future purchases (over multiple years), primarily related to Google Cloud. That is not to say those can't ever be unwound or delayed, but it's a pretty meaningful amount, even to a company the size of Google. [2]

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204423...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204423...

edit: formatting
I guess this is depending on country. In Sweden you are allowed to exit from the inner lane. But you have to yield to traffic in the outer lane because you are doing a lane change even if you go straight for the inner exit in a two lane exit. The outer lane is not causing the accident, they do not have to yield and they are allowed to go to the third, fourth or fifth exit fully in the outer lane if they want to. You just have to make sure you don't hit them on the way out.

This however does not stop accidents to happen all the time in this situation because of drivers trying to get past the traffic jam by going inner lane in high speed and then exit in front of traffic trying to get to next exit. And mostly without blinking at all.
too much maybe? yelling at clouds just feels so good sometimes. apologies. i do actually wish we could have nice things.

this is how aws became easy and fun for me[1]. a similar interface could exist for any provider.

heroku is right about picking the good parts and exposing only that as an interface.

1. https://github.com/nathants/libaws
> I just wish Rust learning resources would be more upfront about this.

While beginner resources don't dwell too much upon cyclic references, they don't consider unsafe blocks as unusual. All the material I've seen say that there are certain domains where Rust's compile-time safety model simply won't work. What Rust allows you to do instead, is to limit the scope of unsafe blocks. However, the beginner material often won't give you too much details on how to analyze and decide on these compromises.

Anyway, compile-time safety checks (using borrow checker) and manual safety checks (using unsafe) aren't the only way to deal with safety. Cyclic references can be dealt with runtime safety checks too - like Rc and Weak.
I’ve found that it’s not the setup but the maintenance that’s hard with these sort of solutions for others.
I like Helix, but I get annoyed by a really tiny thing. When you hold the left and right arrow keys, the cursor will go to the prev or next line once it reaches the beginning or end of the current one.

Which is completely fine behavior, to be clear. I just can’t deal with it. vim does not do this.
You're entirely right. But the evidence is not a single drought, it's a staggering combination of many events that show things are changing in a drastic way.

Anyway it's also important to point out that the climate has changed before, but during humanity's existence it never changed this quickly: it looked more like this https://xkcd.com/1732/ which describes changes along thousands of years rather than a century. The derivative of in respect to time is just to steep.

Another thing to consider is that quickly changing environmental conditions is often associated with extinction events. We are in the middle of one such event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction but maybe one can say it's okay; on a geological scale, such disasters this happens all the time.

The question is, maybe, to ask what will happen to us and the things we care about.
Notice you are creating your own arbitrary definition of 'truly open', which IMHO corresponds more with 'reproducible'.

We already have a definition of open source. I don't see any reason to change it.
Back when I rode, I made a little arrangement of LEDs around the speedometer in 3 concentric rings of ~32 lights. The blue LED closest to pointing North would light, the green LED would always point towards my home, and the red LED would point towards my destination (programmable before the trip). That's all I really needed. Basically a small version of a navigation arrow above video game characters. It meant that one glance at the speedometer gave me all critical information in one instant. The brain is really good at intuitively figuring out parallax, so if I was moving, two glances gave me a good idea of distance as well, though I experimented with lighting 1,3,5,7,9 LEDs as the destination got closer.
I think software systems need at least three kinds of software installation management (and “system” is key, because you need the operating system’s cooperation, or at least indifference, to make them all function right).

1) One to manage the OS software,

2) One to manage the packages the user or users run directly, and

3) One that can be sandboxed or otherwise isolated from the rest of the system, to some degree at least, for software project dependencies.

Brew does not attempt to do #1 (that’s totally separate—which I now regard as the right way to do things, keeping the kernel et c. installer program and the Firefox et c. installer program separate is better) and is bad at #3, but so are most Linux package managers.

Most of the time when I see people having trouble with Brew, they’re using it for #3 and it’s bad for that, so it’s not working well for them. It’s a type-2 package manager (but, again, most Linux package managers are also bad at that type-3 thing).

I use asdf, direnv, and docker (for daemons—99% of my use of docker is as a sandboxing package manager) for my software project dependency management (type 3). Needing three things sucks, but each does a different thing, and it beats screwing around with per-software-ecosystem tools for things like virtual environments. I would also use them if I were back on Linux (most major distos, anyway—NixOS might be an exception)

Nix, notably, is probably the only semi-popular package management system that could plausibly do a really good job at all of #1-3. I’d probably use it on Mac and Linux both if the package selection were as good as Brew (on Mac), and I didn’t hate their DSL.

I think most popular(ish) Linux package managers other than Nix are worse type-2 package managers than Brew, and bad type-3 ones (as is Brew). I don’t just like Homebrew because I’ve not used plenty of other package management systems, though.
You can tell by the way he posts all of the pro-Hamas memes.
Of course that's permitted.

What they stated was only regarding claiming new ownership over crate names:

> Using an automated tool to claim ownership of a large number of package names is not permitted.
My previous implementation used TF-IDF - I basically took all the words in the post and turned them into a giant "word OR word OR word OR word" search query and piped that through SQLite full-text search. https://til.simonwillison.net/sqlite/related-content

I jumped straight from that to OpenAI embeddings. The results were good enough that I didn't spend time investigating other approaches.
> He has turned into a pro-Putin, right wing troll, regularly spewing out falsehoods on Twitter/X.

Why does Starlink work in Ukraine?
The supplement discusses how they presented the task. Notably, they first gave all the training examples and then told the model what the task is and didn't ask it to reason or create any context before spitting out the answers. So basically the simplest way to interact with it, but probably not a great way to get solutions for this problem if that was the task at hand.

https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...
Adding capacity at the tippy top of the market, while destroying capacity at the much larger middle/bottom of the market, is very unlikely to be net positive.
Interesting, I've never seen a microwave oven without a rotating turntable.
Couple of things I'm now looking at microwave: 1)inverter 2)no rotating plate.

My understanding is that with inverter the microwave can actually adjust the power instead of doing the on/off/on/off cycle you get with the cheap ones.

I guess the rotating plate is there, because it's hard to distribute the microwaves evenly inside the oven. Some time ago I tried to find one without the rotating plate, but the only ones I could find were professional ones (>$1k)

Now at least Panasonic seems to have models that meet my criteria [1], but they are not on all markets. Haven't checked any reviews yet.

[1] https://www.panasonic.com/au/consumer/household/microwave-ov...
Nit: Confusing units. The proper unit for this field is Gt (Gigatonnes).
My takeaway was that 97% of US farmland would be unaffected by aquifer collapse. The 3% that would be affected (and that's assuming every aquifer in the country goes dry, which is not at risk of happening) those farms might become completely nonviable, or they might be able to shift to less water intensive crops and methods. In either case, aquifer collapse is not a significant threat to our food supply.

Nonetheless, it is prudent to preserve those water sources.

re: farms near cities, I think it varies a lot by region. Growing thirsty crops near LA is going to be a lot harder than near Houston.
See https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Attribution_Guideline...

> While the lower right corner is traditional, any corner of the map is acceptable. Alternatively, the attribution may be placed adjacent to the map or on a splash screen or pop-up shown when a user starts the app, device, website, etc.

Please add attribution “© OpenStreetMap contributors” or “© OpenStreetMap” in the bottom right corner. There is a large community of volunteers around the world who contribute to this map.

There's a list of illegal usage at https://github.com/matkoniecz/illegal-use-of-OpenStreetMap#w...