skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plenty of reasons.

- They are selling spare network capacity, and throttling MVNO traffic during peak usage times.

- The existence of MVNOs means they themselves can target the mid-high end market and don't have to advertise cheaper plans on their website and under their brand. In some cases the big carriers themselves own MVNOs.

- In addition to consumer facing MVNOs, these carriers also make a ton of money from operators of stuff like IoT networks, GPS trackers, vehicle manufacturers and really anything that needs internet access.
Anyone know what the first human animals to give each other names? Just asking.
Has logseq changed recently? When I tried it, I really disliked the very rigidly based list style / bullet point architecture for notes. It works great for todo lists, but for longform journalism and notetaking was deeply unsatisfying.

I don't think obsidian popularity is very strange. It's got a very clean look to it, the search is very fast, it's very easy to interlink all of your notes together, it's got a graph builder, and it's trivial to write plug-ins in JavaScript and extend its capability.

I do wish it was open source – that's the only drawback to it for me.
A good example of this I see a lot in a code base I'm currently working in is React components that conditionally render or not. I really can't stand this pattern, and whenever I can I refactor that into having the component ALWAYS render, but have the caller decide whether or not to call the component.
Taking a moment to ask oneself, "Are we the baddies?" would be perhaps even more useful.

inb4, "No, it's the bloggers who are wrong."
I can still hear the Amiga versions sound effects in my head.
Hey there! Higgsfield AI.

We have a massive GPU cluster and developed our own infrastructure to manage the cluster and train massive models.

There's how it works:

- You upload the dataset with preconfigured format into HuggingFaсe [1].
Choose your LLM (e.g. LLaMa 70B, Mistral 7B)

- Place your submission into the queue

- Wait for it to get trained.

- Then you get your trained model there on HuggingFace.

Essentially, why would we want to do it?

We already have an experience with training big LLMs.

We could achieve near-perfect infrastructure performance for training.

Sometimes GPUs have just nothing to train.

Thus we thought it would be cool if we could utilize our GPU cluster 100%. And give back to Open Source community (already built an e2e distributed training framework [2]).

This is in an early stage, so you can expect some bugs.

Any thoughts, opinions, or ideas are quite welcome!

[1]: https://github.com/higgsfield-ai/higgsfield/blob/main/tutori...

[2]: https://github.com/higgsfield-ai/higgsfield
I agree with you completely on this, and I also have a bit of an analog circuits background. These chips are unfortunately probably better thought of as purpose-built accelerators for specific neural networks trained almost a decade ago than as the next paradigm of computing.
I think the argument is that you need to ask how you are measuring when you say it seems more correct than anything that came before. You may just be describing the experience of swimming in the dominant paradigm
> Finally, I’m curious how much evidence there is animals use of antibiotics impact humans.

There's a ton, and it all points to antibiotic overuse in agriculture as the main culprit.

Antibiotics and their metabolites don't just stay in animals, they exist in their waste and percolate throughout the environment, water supply, etc, causing antibiotic resistance in bacteria in the environment.

Antibiotic resistance in bacteria is mainly from misuse in humans and animals, and disease spread between the two, along with ineffective waste treatment and the leaching of antibiotics into the environment[1]. About 80% of antibiotics sold in the US are used in agriculture[2], where they are given to animals not to treat infections, but to prevent them and to stimulate growth.

Here are some diagrams from the CDC[3][4], and some articles[5][6][7] from the CDC.

> Most diseases don’t spread from animal to human, so I don’t suspect it’s all that impactful.

Over 60% of infectious diseases in humans are spread from animals, and 75% of new diseases in humans are spread from animals[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_resistance

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4638249/

[3] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Antibiot...

[4] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Antibiot...

[5] https://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/food.html

[6] https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/challenges/antibiotic-resista...

[7] https://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/environment.html

[8] https://www.cdc.gov/onehealth/basics/zoonotic-diseases.html
Am I the only one to have the expectation that software I use should never crash?

Firefox has 20+ million lines of code. Honestly, I can't tell: Are you trolling? A modern web browser is some of the most complex software ever written.
This whole series has been great, but he got a sponsor for this installment and was able to do even more tests than usual.
I feel like you're hijacking a term at least 15 to maybe 20 years old though. It's kind of a brilliant marketing idea, but you're just confounding the vocabulary.

It's not to say this isn't a fucking great idea (because it is!). But you know, just don't piss in the community well.

Further, PostgreSQL means one and only one thing. But Monkey Patch means 2 now, apparently!

For reference: Here's the google ngram viewer link for "monkey patch" from 2000 to 2019.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=monkey+patch&y...
Sure but just because you are dealing with a company that AT&T outsourced its billing and support to doesn't mean you are somehow sticking it to AT&T. As long as they operate the towers they will continue to own the market.
> What supernatural being descended on earth and gave governments the supreme right to own the path from earth into space.

'Listen. Strange supernatural beings descending on earth is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses...'

> OK, so, if you could launch from a ship in the middle of the ocean you would be free to launch as you wish?

Couldn't that possibly be mistaken by countries around the world as an icbm launch. Given that danger, I'm pretty sure no private company would be allowed to launch rockets without government approval. But I'm just guessing.
You make a great point. You're totally right that the total amount of creative content on the internet is much, much bigger now. That is something worth appreciating. I've found some really amazing artists on social media platforms, and even been able to reach out and collaborate with them. So it's not all bad, of course. What I'm mostly concerned about though is the website as a personal, creative, individual space. This doesn't really need to be a user writing their own visually creative HTML/CSS. I just feel something of creative value is lost if the entire human aspect of the internet is viewed through the window of social media.
At least for me it wasn't just finals and final projects, it was everything. No assignment was done until just before it was due because (looking back now and applying an adult's logic to it) it wasn't high enough priority until then. It didn't matter whether it was every day/week assignments, long term projects or final exams. The only way I could make any significant progress was to be under a hard and short deadline.
Meanwhile, an unlimited family plan on a big carrier is like $45/mo. Ten bucks less isn't that much.

I don't think I know anyone who's using a single plan, though I'm sure they're out there.
Right, managing low data usage like I do definitely requires some thoughtfulness, but it's orthogonal to the choice of using a big carrier vs. MVNO, except for the fact that big carriers won't even sell you a low data plan.

To his point, however, I acknowledge that saving a few hundred dollars per year just isn't worth it to many people when they can walk into an AT&T store, sign whatever the salesman puts in front of them without thinking about it, and have the salesman take care of all the required setup.
> so why are you complaining again?

Because a job that would take 15 minutes turns into a 3 hour task. It might surprise you but some people actually enjoy their job and ticking off tasks :)
Hah, I remember reading this when it first came out in ... 2007!

If you like hacks do check out the 'cansole', video out with two resistors.
Roman times? It's even older. Cyrus the Great won over people by promising to honor their traditions.

He did die in battle against women who would not submit to his will though.
Insightful. Too bad the author apparently stopped writing for 10 years now.
Fi has phenomenal international data and text (free on the unlimited plan), and cheap calls. That's the primary reason I chose it.

I think they basically piggyback off T-mobile's international partnerships.
slightly off topic, but does anyone have a solution for app windows not remembering position on wayland? for example on x i have firefox open in one place, sublime text in another.. but on wayland they always open in the same spot, and i have to move them. it seems such a basic thing to not work.. does every wayland user run a tiling window manager??
You do realize we export crops right? It's not about preventing a revolution? It's about money lol
It's worse. It's one company in a 'contested' territory. So much so that US military is rumored to have considered the 'samson option' of bombing the TSMC facility were the PLA to occupy the island.

Taiwan (unlike Ukraine) is far too critical to the world economy.
No, the basics like hungry and please/thank you are fairly simple. The daycare my son goes to teaches all the kids sign language starting at like 6 months.
hey, I deliberately use that all the time lol
Err, sorry but the encoders don't measure current. An absolute position encoder knows the exact speed/position of the motor. By that you can extrapolate the wheel speed position which you can just match 1:1 with the one on the other side. It won't be perfect as the reaction time of the system if wheel A breaks away and starts spinning but you don't need GPS or a downward camera to mimic a locking diff.
Ten Lessons
GPT4 is good at sketching out stories like this.

https://chat.openai.com/share/3143a927-a283-4abd-aae3-1f0542...
Point a camera at a monitor showing AI generated video and you now have signed video of AI content.
> they would have to essentially start from scratch if they wanted to do anything else like Python

I do tend to disagree here. It really depends how invested they are with VBA. Many VBA skills are highly transferrable to Python and other high level programming languages.

I was fortunate to have experience with multiple languages from the start, but many of my colleagues have programmed in other languages other than VBA after learning VBA only to begin with. From Ruby to Python and beyond.
You misunderstand the nature of whiteness, if you think this is a problem. An uninterrogated aspiration to a Western state of being, atrocities and all, is tantamount to The Thing Itself.
Infrastructure Became Digital Public Infrastructure
That sounds like a good deal if you actually want and use all those things.
Coffee makes me hyper, and I have ADHD. My diagnosis was quite rigorous too, and not just some questionnaire(s).
You do realize that unrest in the rest of the world leads to problems here, right?

It's both about money and about keeping a couple of billion people from starving to death.

lol indeed.
I don't think it's a vendetta to stick it to the telecoms, just pay less for service. If the carriers themselves operated these services (like Verizon and Visible), people would still use them.

Besides, for the multi carrier ones like Fi, that means they can switch the underlying partners. I'd much rather deal with Google than the big carriers.
Ah! How many of her files has "final" in the filenames? ;-)

Well, there was even a "Git for Photoshop." I think it was LayerVault[1] -- a search brings it up.

Of course, yes, the trick with PSDs and static assets during the early days of the web were the file naming patterns. I did one in my 2nd or 3rd job long back (early 2000s), and when I met the team after 10-years; they were happy that they were pretty much still following the convention/pattern that I outlined.

1. https://www.layervault.com
Uruguay generates 32% of electricity from wind and 3% from solar. 44% comes from hydroelectric power, which is really, really useful to serve as a carbon-free dispatchable energy source to fill in for the intermittency of wind and solar.
The physics of power generation. Have a battery car all you like. The electrons powering that car are coming from coal.
Extism handles this really well across 16 or so different languages - and you don’t need to write a whole IDL / schema.

https://github.com/extism/extism

It’s a general purpose framework for building with WebAssembly and sharing code across languages is a great way to put it to work.
Show HN: New GPT for helping in preparing for Kubernetes CKA certification
Kube mentor is a custom GPT that is curated by me to help you prepare for CKA certification.
It is fine tuned to give you good practice scenarios for CKA.
The PR mentioned: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/11610
Author here!

I'm 100% guilty of applying to "programmer's brain" to everything. You'd cringe if you saw the alt music notation I've been working on for the past decade. It's an ascii abomination. Seriously, it's got functions and everything is represented in base twelve.

Anyway, I thought pseudoprose was worth sharing because of how LLMs might change the writing process itself. I've been experimenting with using GPT to expand ultra-condensed notes into essays. But I've found that I'm too obsessive over my writing voice to ever let it fill in gaps for me haha

But even without LLMs, I still naturally gravitate to writing with pseudoprose. It's how I've taught myself to structure thoughts. But maybe thoughts don't need structure, and that's just my programmer's brain imposing order on the orderless :)
I do RPA from VBA personally using IAccessiblity. See stdAcc (https://github.com/sancarn/stdVBA/blob/master/src/stdAcc.cls) and an example (https://github.com/sancarn/stdVBA-examples/tree/main/Example...). You are basically doing the same as what you'd do in UiPath, by the looks of things. Just a slightly different flow.
There is a pretty significant gap in the implications of the existence of exoplanets and in the implications of the existence of exobiology.

Prior to the detection of exoplanets, there was likely still a general consensus that they probably exist, because that didn't really have any implications for our model of the universe. It was understandable that the technology of the time was just not capable of detecting things that small.

The question of life becomes more complicated because what it means in terms of detectability is completely different depending on the conditions. Depending on how common it is, things range from it being weird we haven't detected any yet to it being so rare that our existence is indeed special.
I think you confused your negatives there!
Interesting that dependency inversion principal -- [1] is like an extreme case of pushing ifs up by encoding the if into the type interface implemention. Ultimately what you get with DI is pushing an if up some to ... somewhere.

# Somewhere:
walruses = [new TransWalrus(), new FrobWalarus()], ...]
...
for(walrus in walruses) {
walrus.transfrobnicaterify()
}

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_inversion_principle
It seems like every thread has a few “well actually” top-level comments. It’d be interesting to do some sentiment analysis to see the numbers.
I ran a pre-admission (surgery) clinic at a major university hospital through Excel.

VBA is powerful and quick at prototyping/iteration.

I would even venture to say that VB6 was the zenith of CRUD apps
Wait, what, how does that work? I don't think the phone treats a second cellular connection as wifi calling for the first sim, does it?
New research doesn't seem to support that stimulants have a paradoxical affect on those with ADHD (the sources cited were pretty interesting in my opinion). I'm not saying it's not possible for some, but it seems like people make it out to be far more common that perhaps it truly is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradoxical_reaction
That is very interesting..
I don't think a large group can pick a standard. What works well for one programming language does not work for another, and we devolve into tribes. Protobuf gained popularity when it dropped features to better support Go more naturally (no more null/nil for example), and rode in on a wave of Go adoption. And made things worse from a Python developer perspective. Pretty much the same as toml adoption, which fits more naturally with Go and more static languages, unlike the much more dynamic and flexible yaml.
As usual in these "Yeah, but can AI do this?" threads, the answer is yes, it is already happening: https://www.space.com/mars-oxygen-ai-robot-chemist-splitting...
Heh. Nice one - definite HN vibes here.

More specifically this is fact checking a statement from:

The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

a 1986 book by Richard Dawkins.
> vital functionality had to hunted for in menus or (much worse) right-click context menus

Those are bad, but magic touch-sensitive areas are even worse. The article mentions scrollbars as a clear example.

> scary technical language

This could be bad, but frankly a technical error or code that you can google is a lot less bad than a generic "oopsy whoopsy something broke".
> First, a lot of English-speaking countries place lower importance on veggies.

Which ones? In the US, we are told to eat our veggies because they are good for you. The problem in the US is that something forced women into the workplace and families are resorting to easy processed meals like microwave dinners, fast food, etc.
Why do you find it odd, The Right To Read was written a pretty distant time ago and corporations would love to own all content and sell it back to you
Windows App Now on macOS, iOS, iPadOS
Anyone use Haiku as their daily driver?
Confirmed about the RV campgrounds. Almost every private RV campground has 50A service, and most state and national parks have 30A service. Both are sufficient to recharge a Tesla overnight, and the Model Y is big enough to sleep inside. I do it all the time.
Alerts Should Work for You, Not the Other Way Around
I think most of what we've built is made of too many parts. I think it's partly because we no longer make the same thing a thousand times, refining it as we go. We don't reduce software to its essence like we did with common tools like a hammer or a dish sponge. We take software parts off the shelf and use them wholesale for 10% or 1% of their total capability. Trimming the unused remainder and integrating it all to suit the problem better would require we stop and learn what those dependencies are made of and how they work. In our rush to ship, we rely on abstraction for speed, but abstraction has a cost too, and it has been compounding for decades.
I just looked at the AT&T plans and it appears that two lines with unlimited data would cost $120 per month (before they add on who knows what additional fees that aren't included in that price). The price for more lines goes up from there.
You meant sync? Email doesn't have presence indication. Few people expect near real time responses to GitHub discussions.
Seems worthwhile to discuss, so I upvoted your post. The barrier on mobile is too high right now to see if this has been floated already.

Sometimes I upvote a post because I think the potential discussion has merit here, regardless of the link. I have either never downvoted, or only once, to something completely inane and not helpful to the discussion. I really try not to fall into voting based on agreement, since my opinions can and have changed as I learn more. Still, there's a fair amount of subjectivity behind my upvoting, coupled with often choosing to move on to the next dopamine hit rather than thoroughly dig in.

Data on our voting behavior would be interesting. Is it already collected and analyzed by a subset of people behind HN?

What is your motivation for this, beyond that it would be interesting, helpful to mods against abuse, and more transparency as to why the vote? That all may be enough, of course, especially the latter two reasons. More transparency and accountability might make discussions even less prone to devolving into emotional reactions?
Uhh...https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07590
Tonsillitis seems a common reason for giving antibiotics, as it is very effective against bacterial tonsillitis. May be it is more common in warmer countries.
Am I just reading this blog post completely differently? I don't see anything reductive about it...?

It seems to me like a technique for taking some rough stream of consciousness and have ChatGPT generate a complete, fleshed out document from it. It's more than just "notes", it's a specific format and prompt.

Whether it's of any use to you personally (I don't see myself using it, really) is a separate question. But I also don't quite follow what is offensive about it.
I mean should I think of my mother as a ML human and not a sentient one? Why does asking nicely work on either?
"it's been going on for hours" - uh, if you have customers in Norway, Sweden, or Finland, it's been going on for days. I have spent most of my conscious time over the last 24 hours trying to convince my Google support contact that this is real. Well, it took two days to get stateside but they believe me now
The Rangers/Raptors etc I'm seeing that threaten to outnumber your regular sedans on the roads are the ones I'm referring to. They massively outsize your regular cars, even SUVs such as the Mazda CX-5, Tesla Model Y, or the Subaru Outback.

The lawmaking that allowed for instant asset write-off for dual cab vehicles up to $150k made zero consideration for the environment, neither pollution nor space wise. I see that it's now capped at $20k, but the damage has already been done.
> to it being so rare that our existence is indeed special.

Which is possible but hardly reasonable . . .

Many in STEM would argue that it's reasonable to assume we're not at all special.
Your original reply to me saying the FCC gives out big fines:

>Which they can only do for unencrypted traffic, encrypted traffic by definition would not be examinable by the FCC for determining whether to assign fines.

If they can only fine unencrypted traffic, as you say in this comment, you posit that it is because they can't examine the contents of the encrypted transmission to know who to fine.

If you intended a different message, feel free to revise what you began our conversation with.
This is outrageous to me, especially coming from a news outlet. As an American, though, I'm wondering if there's some UK legal context I'm missing?
Quantity is a quality of its own.
Doctors rely on an enormous number of heuristics and shortcuts exactly like this.

My wife teaches doctors, and so much of what she does is giving them rules of thumb much like this one.

edit: I want to note that I'm pretty ambivalent on the actual advice of the article, just commenting that doctors in my experience have a truly astounding collection of rules of thumb
if you look at how much money is in play during elections, you can understand why he is allowing it.
It's a real issue in most compiled languages too if you're not careful (also a sort of opposite issue; too few functions causing unnecessary bloat and also killing performance).
We've been doing it for thousands of years. Probably far before we've knew the negative side effects of it.