skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're counter-supposing that the US goes to war more or less randomly based on how it feels about interesting newspaper articles. Seems unlikely - being outraged is quite easy, I can manage it at least once a week if I go looking for bad news. However, it is quite difficult to sustain an overseas army for extended periods of time and requires reasons, intent and a certain ruthless self interest. It is possible to kill people and see effectively no response [0, 1].

The US public on mass are regularly revealed to be completely horrible. They've looked past countless tragedies because it would be inconvenient to acknowledge them. It happens almost weekly; there is a lot going wrong in the world that the US kinda shrugs off. Much of it their fault to a first or second order approximation. They are totally capable of overlooking 100 murders if they don't also think that there is something to be gained by sending the army out.

Consider the situation vs. Iraq as an example. Powerful people wanted the war. As soon as there was a half-plausible narrative they sent troops in. It wasn't the narrative that led to the going in, the narrative removed a blocker to stopping the political forces that were trying to trigger the war. That is very much the layer of the world where propaganda happens.

EDIT And just to try and articulate myself a bit more clearly, because I distracted myself with the interesting story in [1] - the US has well developed propaganda systems for building these events up into a justification for war that may, or may not, spin up depending on the assessed need of whoever organises the media. The fact that the German propaganda system was inferior to the Anglosphere propaganda system on its home turf doesn't tell us much about the limits of propaganda. The Germans were dealing with an aggressive society [2] that was extremely good at finding a cause for war and then broadcasting it. But nevertheless the underlying cynicism of the English speaking world is very clear if you look for it - the official "why we are doing this" is almost always propaganda over the top of "this will be a profitable venture for the people making the decision to go to war".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007 "shot down by a Soviet Sukhoi Su-15 interceptor" -> "All 269 passengers and crew aboard were killed, including Larry McDonald, a United States representative" -> "Reagan ordered the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on September 15, 1983, to revoke the license of Aeroflot Soviet Airlines to operate flights to and from the United States". No war broke out. via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airliner_shootdown_inc...

[2] I mean, seriously, the British had the empire that the sun never sets on, the US has the Not An Empire on Which the Sun Never Sets They Are Just Random Military Bases and if you ask they got it by a continuous series of defensive moves. One shudders to think what it would be called if the same thing was done by people with the wrong passport.
Thanks!

> throwing climate controls into the screen.

Urgh, yes! I wouldn't mind so much if you could do it from the steering wheel controls. It already does a limited subset of phone, media and navigation that way, adding climate, which is only a few actions anyway, seems like it would fit right in to the UI there.
Agree. Musk tries to get some love from the techbros but forgot that bros dont read Addams.
The idea of optimizing an AI product to use humour and sarcasm is actually very clever because a lot of people mistake sarcasm for intelligence.

But wryness aside, having it present itself to the user up front as potentially misleading, via humour, is probably the best way to operate over human minds anyway. Wit engages your own wit and critical faculties. If you are funnier than this AI, you are exercising your intelligence. Edward Tufte's old "the cognitive style of powerpoint" essay was about how the tech Microsoft used created generations of drones who thought in cliches and bullet points, whereas if Grok can actually challenge people via wit, we could actually get some enhancing effects from it. Psyched for this anyway. Congrats.
We should make it much rarer: part of why we have so many people killed or seriously injured by drivers is that we’ve been unwilling to enforce laws or take away licenses, and every bad driver knows that. If there was a high chance that, say, being seen texting, blowing a light, etc. meant your car would be impounded for 6 months it’d magically turn out that Tik Tok can wait until you’re out of the car.
Saw.t
Oh please let there be something similar for macos!
Calling something naive isn't an argument. Do you have one?
My body remains on Standard Time all year, DST just messes me up. I can handle the earlier sunset just fine. Permanent DST? Please, no.
Is there a point to getting a rice cooker over an instant pot?
Wolf Blitzer is famous for this (or used to be). He'd use the same tone of voice for "rain expected later today" as "apparent Klingon ship lands on White House lawn."
> In order to finish quickly, you had to be fast and efficient.

How did they get to the point of finish-your-work-quickly? Short pipelines?
He could fund a new company elsewhere in the world and start from scratch, perhaps.

But even if he was super-careful about ensuring that restricted information wasn't shared with the new company, I'm sure his political enemies would find ways to have him locked up if he tried that...
This is also foolish though. Plenty of concepts are not remotely original but are still very useful if you haven't come across them before. No one is sitting down and recreating all of knowledge from first principles, even very smart people hear things for the first time.

And for that matter, it's not like propagandists are dumb, any more than pop musicians are bad musicians. It's absolutely possible for one for formulate an original idea in the service of propaganda.
Leaf blowers are a scourge. Why is it hard to get rid of them?
The thing about cancer is how insanely adaptable most are. You do one thing it does another. Cut off food supply it migrates its metabolism.

It's pretty wild. Terrible of course but it explains why it's been so hard to erradicate
Email scrapers are kind of an old thing when you can buy lists of real emails for dirt cheap. And thanks to all the data leaks you can even get them for free. No scraping required.
Literally able to replicate in 5 minutes with a chatgpt api key and a prompt. Why impressed?
Next up: Grok Netflix Special.

Followed by #DontGrokMe Twitter backlash after Ronan Farrow article.
The hilarious part about this is that even a sci-fi scenario can’t even imagine walkable or transit-oriented city development. I guess even in the automated robot future we’re still using cars for some reason.

You’d think that our robot AI overlords would calculate how wasteful personal vehicle infrastructure is and how un-optimized they are for human health and well-being, lowering the efficiency of the enslaved populace, and make corrections.
you have the wrong conceptual model of how LLMs do the thing they do
Run Gitlab pipelines 2x faster and 5x cheaper without changes in .gitlab-ci.yml
We're happy to announce a new SaaS on puzl.cloud. It lets you focus on your CI/CD workflows while we handle your GitLab runners and pipeline jobs. We call this approach Zero Idle because you pay only for actual CPU and memory consumption, not for allocation.

This is the #1 way in the world of running pipeline jobs in terms of cost/performance. It beats everything from AWS, GCP, and Azure to GitLab.com SaaS runners, since they all are built on traditional cloud instances. If you don't use GitLab yet, you should consider it just to be able to boost your operations with puzl.cloud :)
What is bewildering is that you expect that the world has turn around in the blink of an eye to humor the Japanese, who are now suddenly having second thoughts after telling everyone else to use Firstname Lastname for Japanese names in an international context for most of the last 150 years or so (as the article correctly notes).

Given the amount of work and confusion entailed this is a completely unreasonable expectation.
Depends on how you synthesize that information; its not only regurgitating.
That is reasonablish as video APIs go. But it's quite a small part of all scrcpy has to do to mirror the screen over the network.

Most of that code would be covered with something like "gst-launch pipewiresrc ! encodebin" and the whole mirroring with adding a few elements.

Well, in theory at least; gstreamer has the habbit of getting quite fiddly oftentimes. But I don't see any fundamental problems why this too couldn't work with simple composable tools.
You know another project with much of its source files in the top-level directory? https://github.com/git/git
> No large-scale email scraper has the budget necessary to run the content it scrapes through a LLM.

That's why it's awesome to be able to locally run open-source LLaMA! Not to mention that by running it locally OpenAI is not aware of your shenanigans.
They're different appliances, no?

The rice cooker cooks at atmospheric pressure, and stops cooking when all the water is evaporated.

The instant pot is a pressure cooker.

In the end, it depends on your use case. If you cook a lot of rice, you will be disappointed with the instant pot. In my case, I don't have a rice cooker b/c I don't cook rice very often, and I use my instant pot or the stove top.
> People in 24h cultures always use 12 analog hours in normal situations

No, we don't. The only person I know who by default uses 12h is my grandmother. Everybody else always uses 24h.
I’m quite excited for a potential de-emphasis of the automobile combined with sharing so that we don’t have this ridiculous waste of prime space everywhere. The parking lot, as a concept, is grotesque.
The reasons why I want api for my consumer apps have more to do with my own automation desires than with any personal assistant.

Our kids use a kid friendly debit card product where we can fund their accounts on demand. I also have a chore schedule system I built where they enter their chores each day. I'd love to be able to automate allowance based on chore completion but there's no way to integrate the two.

Every 2 weeks I enter all my accounts, credit cards, etc into a spreadsheet for graphing and tracking. I'd love if there was an api for these services to fetch the data instead of manually logging in.
I have worked on designing small machinery, 3d printers and cnc routers, and on some axis, we use two motors in sync for movement. It is very reliable until it is not, we had times were programming errors or driver failure would unsync the two motors, moving the axis into a triangle. It is very rare like once every 1000 hours, but it does happen. For our bigger machine, were this would cost a lot and could be dangerous, we decided to go old school with full mechanical coupling and bigger motor, we also added second endstops being the optical ones with direct wiring of the general machine switch. The mechanical coupling never failed.

I know it is not really the same type of machine and design, but it still makes me wary that my steering wheel will turn suddenly because of any unforseen reason.
"no more complicated VMs"
-orbstack

Curious how this works without a VM, or have they created some sort of linux "shim", a la WSL1.x?

If it's something like WSL1.x it means you're not actually "running linux", which may have subtle repercussions like differences in threading etc since it's really a Darwin system wearing a Linux suit.

That said if you're writing a CRUD app in python, that probably won't matter to you so it's still worth the tradeoff.
My hope is that kids born today don’t have to drive to take care of their basic needs.

A number of countries transitioned from car-dependent to increasing their cycling and transit usage and I’m hoping America jumps aboard that train (pun intended).
Confirmed, with seeking.

There were times in the past where this was not the case, but it was likely 0.24 or before.
> a nation is a thing

Even that there is the result a couple centuries of propaganda. Again, propaganda isn't false, just promoting a certain viewpoint or perception. That you share anything with people living hundreds of miles away in one direction, but not in another, is not a conclusion you came to without help.
I dunno I like riding my bike around the Netherlands. Haven't driven in months.
This sounds like an advertisement for public transportation, separated bicycle infrastructure, and walkable urban design.
Berlin's famed nightclubs, losing customers, face an uncertain future
Great, now how about Microsoft stop treating F# like a redheaded stepchild? 99.999% of .NET shops will not touch it.
If your JSON always looks the same you can also do better than general JSON parsers.
I think HA combined with something like Node Red would actually solve OP's question. Only thing being it's still a more techy thing than a polished "drop-in" thing.
Announcing Grok
How about "Open Binary"?
Right now (or few months ago, when I tinkered with it) ads are different streams, so to skip them, ublock intercepts and alters API responses, stripping ad info. Why they're not embedded into video stream, that I don't know.
You might want to take a look at https://github.com/ohler55/ojg. It takes a different approach with a single pass parser. There are some performance benchmarks included on the README.md landing page.
Work on open source projects that encroach on the space of FAANG products. Examples: it is nowadays possible to write a version of client-first web based Google Docs using CRDT libraries like y.js and freely available WebRTC signal servers. It would be obviously more limited than Docs, but it would be "good enough" for 80% of the average user, that needs to work on a shared presentation, update their calendar or edit their CV on their phone and print it with their desktop machine. Nobody packaged this hypothetical "app" into a javascript static file yet because it's hard work, but if this project was willed into existence for free it would be good to see how it fared against Workspaces or Office365.
I'm not sure what that table is showing, but it's not what you are implying. Niger is France's plurality supplier, so them showing 5% is clearly measuring something else.

Beyond that, France is not importing from Niger in the nominal sense. A French state owned company, in Niger, mines the uranium, and then gives Niger a token royalty on profits. So if they claimed e.g. $100, you'd expect about $5.50 of that (unless Niger was able to negotiate a better deal since 2015) to go to Niger. So their "real" cost would be the $5.50 plus labor/supplies.
“Methods deployed by the AAP government to tackle pollution have included the sprinkling of water on roads to reduce dust and the building of two 80ft high “smog towers”, costing more than $2m each, that are supposed to clean the air but have been deemed by scientists to be largely ineffective.”

https://youtu.be/h6l1IK9QpSg?si=7kFf_3a1raiMB33r

Smog tower looks pretty small. I am not hopeful.
Ya try reading the rest of the sentence I guess.
Obvious if you've been around long enough. I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of people reading this have never actually worked with jquery, only heard the bedtime horror stories.

(I mean, leaving aside the fact that it's utterly nondescriptive...)
Similar experience here. I still use SpamAssassin, in addition to DNSBL, and spam is very manageable, more like five per day on average. Amazingly, SpamAssassin produces zero false positives for me.
I rarely write code after work for my own use. or others. I spend time with my family. A family that started by me realizing there was more to life than billing clients 14 hours a day.

It's ok to not be building some new thing in your off hours. That's a choice they made for their own reasons. Doing what you do is also a choice and both are valid.
Does this work the other way round? Will it reference a deleted tweet, or even data that was deleted under a GDPR request?

I bet some people will do experiments, just like when AI code assists appeared and people found out it copies complete code snippets including comments.

Referencing "deleted" data might be an issue with laws in some countries.
Both, sort of. TBT is effective because nothing grows on it. It's kinda like deet. Being bad for the environment isn't just an unintended side effect, it's a direct contributor to its effectiveness.
Dogs Don't Seem to Care Much About Human Faces
And there is no guarantee that we will not use the UEK, because the feature is compelling.
> among Western countries, the US seems special with their aversion to nudity. Excluding Australia perhaps.

Australian here. Culturally we seem less comfortable with nudity than a lot of parts of Europe, but we’re not as bad as the US. It boils my blood how much online spaces (like Facebook) are moderated according to American standards.

Most software I use also can’t handle the fact that I mix American and Australian English spelling. (Programming always uses American spelling but I’ll use Australian spelling in other contexts.) All of my devices either complain about “color” or “colour”, and I’m constantly being told off or autocorrected for using my own language in a nuanced way.
Hauling filthy stuff doesn't work in a Model X, and it can't offroad on sand. I honestly do need a pickup - half the time I use the thing, I'm towing, hauling, or offroading.

Ironically this is because I bike everywhere I'm not driving.
My ideal climate control system: a nob for hot/cold (no thermostat) a button for the defrost, and a button to inhibit air conditioning. Everything else is fluff.
Absolutely, I've yet to see good rice from an instant pot. Buy the cheapest rice cooker instead (usually like ten bucks).
I am delighted to not work in an industry that forges chain links.
Do you mean their Shorts feature?
Did you miss the link I posted above? The Supreme Court put that ruling on hold:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23a243_7l48.pdf

Hence my argument about this not being settled law.
There are no exemptions for road tax, it is just deductable against income tax, which means you get some fraction of it back depending on your tax rate.

Unfortunately for me I am commuting to a job through the countryside, and therefore I can't deduct anything.
I think that's generally a sensible idea. Anything which required a schedule for humans to read - theatre performances, trains, planes, etc - are better off being scheduled for 23:55, 23:59, 00:01 or 00:05 than exactly at midnight because lots of people don't understand or get confused whether 00:00 on a date means the start or the end of the day.

I do enjoy though where systems have to deal with 'weird' days. I believe in the UK the rail ticketing system works on essentially a 26h day - that is to say if you buy a ticket at on 5th November, it will be valid until 04:00 on 6th November, so in some sense the hours 00:00-04:00 belong to both days.
They are extra narrow. Also, I made a typo above. The terrible ones are by bridgestone (down to metal bands in 9k miles). Apparently, a few other options are available in Europe, and a subset of them are imported into the US:

https://www.mybmwi3.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17880

Will need to look into this in approximately 10 months, since I put new tires on last week.
How does that contradict what the parent poster says? I think it's very weird to call something "high performance" when it looks like it's maybe 15-20% of the performance of a simdjson in c++. This is not "going from normal performance to high performance", this going from "very subpar" to "subpar"
Can't they wire between two motors as the supporting signal? Would that reduce the error significantly?
I think Elon also said it wouldn’t censor information. So responses like this wouldn’t happen:

“I understand your request is for fictional purposes, however, I am unable to provide information or assist with the depiction of illegal activities, including drug production. However, I can assist with other aspects of your screenplay or suggest alternative ways to convey your character's involvement in illegal activities without going into explicit detail.”

That’s a response from ChatGPT when I asked it to describe cocaine production for the use in a fictional screenplay.
I'm sure it's possible to get good rice out of an Instant Pot, but the Zojirushi is going to simply be better at it, and it doesn't really take any "dialing in" to get there; you just set the kind of rice and go pretty much, and then you get basically exactly what you want, every single time. Another advantage to a dedicated rice cooker versus using something like an Instant Pot is the obvious fact that it frees up your Instant Pot.

(Also, obviously, there are cheaper rice cookers than the Zojirushi, but there's definitely a reason other than cargo-culting why it's popular. I got one after the Walmart Made-in-China special I got crapped out on me. It is definitely, by a good margin, a better product with thoughtful design that produces very good rice.)
Google's generalized interface for ordering food is a good example of something that does not look good. It has menu item titles but not descriptions. I don't order directly through Google half the time because of it.

To their credit, clicking on a restaurant and seeing available ordering platform options with fee info is nice.
You could try this with a hex dump of an executable binary
Haven't downvoted, but the "continuously" in "continuously differentiable" refers to the derivative and not to the function itself. (Also, from differentiable follows continuous, but not the other way around (sufficient, but not necessary).)
CXL seems to be good for attaching large number of memory modules.

Doesn't seem like a match for consumer PC/smartphone, which typically have 1-2 memory sticks, or at most 4.
I think the only consolation is that most cars that have these controls moved to the screen can just use voice controls or driver profiles to “set it and forget it.”

I feel like a lot of people who have the basic “fan and blue/red” climate controls assume that people in Teslas are swiping all over the place while they drive to change climate settings, but in reality you step in and your driver profile loads your settings and you probably never have to touch the climate control.

Then again I swear that everyone I know who owns fancier cars than me refuses to hit the “auto” button and use the feature they paid for.
Author here.

What industry, may I ask? I may need to make a jump.
It mentions that this is a rewrite of gosseract, however it is not a drop in replacement, so its more of a separate library in my opinion
this looks ace, so a serious question: is it widely used?

this is the first I've seen of it (seems true of other people commenting too), but it looks like there's some strong history (several acquisitions, then joined Linux Foundation in 2019)... so why hasn't it achieved greater visibility?

those questions are not asked to rain on someone's parade, but because going all-in on automation and workflow is a gamble as to whether that thing that glue is going to stick around (Linux Foundation suggests yes), and also is a skill that people want to learn and use (being widely adopted and something people can apply to other companies and roles would make this so, hence the questions)
I've encountered software that just assumes everyone MUST have a middle name. I'm German, I have no middle name. Some software (well, online forms) make this a "hard" assumption, so you have to put an "X" or something in the middle name field; it'll scream otherwise
IIRC this was in Mountain Dew for a very long time but removed in the last couple of years.
Good luck with that.

RISC-V is inevitable.