skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
29.9%-efficient, commercially viable perovskite/CIS thin-film tandem solar cells
That's not what the OP said. He said, "And they're committing ~50% of homicides and shootings."
Wait, still ?? Which countries ?
Should we expect that delivery status notification will work and be surfaced in the UI? I end up encouraging those who are on SMS to go to WhatsApp just because I can never be sure that the message was delivered. Working across many countries and providers, SMS is still very unreliable. There is no way in iOS to know if a green bubble got the message or not.
I've long wished for more studies like this. So it's good to see.

This one does miss some important variables:

1. Dose-dependent effects

2. Naive vs experienced users of a drug

3. Novel vs familiar task

Though the authors spend a lot of time showing these stimulants reduce work efficiency, their central finding seems to be: "There was no significant effect of drug on performance"

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add4165
You can see the source IR image (which incorporates GOES data) here: https://navigator.eumetsat.int/product/EO:EUM:DAT:0330

It took quite a while to work out how to process it to get a level of realism I was happy with. IR is tricky because the same level of grey could either be warm cloud or cold land, so just discarding anything below a certain level to try and get rid of the land also loses a lot of cloud detail. I've combined that IR map with another false-colour image which lets me recover some of that detail, then I'm also extracting clouds from a true-colour image which restores more detail for areas in daylight.
It’s possible, but I’m thinking a lot of constant-current devices will have some ripple in their output, even if smoothened. Human eye won’t see it, but high frame rate camera might capture at just the wrong rate to see it.

It’s an surmountable problem, but can be expensive if it doesn’t need to be overcome often.

(All speculation on my part)
Let’s pray the Brussels Effect applies here
I just finished The Left Hand of Darkness, and now I am reading HMS Surprise.
Fentanyl kills thousands every year in America. Will Europe be next?
I recognize most of them, they're all pretty common orchestration, distributed computation, or experiment management tools. Maybe you're just not as integrated on the operations portion of the ML space?
> They have no ulterior motive

"Alphabet pays Apple 36% of Safari search revenue, Sundar Pichai confirms" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/14/google-pays-apple-36percent-...

> it's just obviously the right technical design.

Setting aside the question of motives, Safari engineers designed their content blocking system (1) without any actual experience in developing ad blocking extensions and (2) without consulting the developers who do have such experience.

Moreover, ad blocking extension developers are practically unanimous in saying that Safari content blockers are inferior and not obviously the right technical design.
> now everyone has to deal with such complexity directly, or make use of a middleware engine instead

You don't really have to though, you can still use the higher-level older graphics APIs. It wouldn't have made much sense for Vulkan to include a high-level graphics API as well, as those APIs already exist and have mature ecosystems.

Similarly, in Windows land, you aren't forced to use D3D12, you can still use D3D11 or even D3D9.
https://archive.ph/gSZoa
They were well-known for not doing that, though.
I see now, Thanks!
If you ever have nothing better to do, view the revision history on the wikipedia entry for Session Private messenger and witness the petty roadblocks thrown up as objections to allowing it to have an entry.

I'll just say Session had to meet a lot of criteria merely to have a wikipedia entry that Signal's entry did not meet at the time.

To this day Session's hard-won wikipedia entry is saddled with a "limitations" entry best summarized as "Session is not Signal".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_(software)
> I guess maybe I'm missing the purported point of signal, attaching your phone number to use it notwithstanding, but attaching payment identity to it as well? Like, what's the point of going through the pain required to use it?

Your payment info is not connected to your account.

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360031949872-Do...
> conversation on the topic of news epistemology has always irked me because i detect an implication that there exists an "unbiased" recounting of events. This is naive.

I would say, rather, that there is an ideal unbiased recounting of events that is approached with various degrees of fidelity and we all sort of agree to call reporting that is reasonably close to this ideal as "unbiased".

This is not naïveté, since pretty much everyone readily admits that truly unbiased reporting is impossible. But some people are doing their best and some ... are not.
> This, my friend, is a captive customer, that will pay anything to get his girlfriend back

Or potentially do anything. I'd be a little scared of having folks like this convinced I am the personal arbiter gatekeeping their access to their 'lover,' that I 'took them away.'

When Replika.ai restricted erotic chat from their product, the apoplectic anguish on their subreddit was unlike any emotional reaction I've ever witnessed from a group of people about a consumer technology. And their anguish was genuine - there are Replika users who truly consider themselves married to their AI companion.

And frankly, the Replika AI is not even that smart. After watching that unfold, I am convinced that these tools don't need to be much more sophisticated for many people to start forming what they feel to be deep and genuine emotional connections with them.

Edit: Brings to mind the Nature paper[0] posted this week about how the CASA theory seems obsolete today, that we are less prone to personify computing systems now.

> A recent study investigated whether we could be friends with a social computer, in which participants were asked to converse with a chatbot over a period of three weeks and constantly rate their relationship. The results showed that initially participants were enthusiastic and engaging with their chatbot friend, but quickly this diminished, with scores for intimacy, believability, and likability decreasing with each interaction

It would seem this definitely does not apply for everyone, like our user in Sweden.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-46527-9
> Seems like it took longer than 45 minutes to build out the feature.

This is very obviously a joke.
It is inevitable
I was really just curious. Your "no you" is disappointing.
You build it on top of the API to bootstrap and prototype with a very high quality model that takes minutes to get started with. Then once you have operated for a while, you have a ton of logged data to train/retrieve/analyze and can swap in a competitor, downgrade the OA model, finetune instead, or something.

In OP case's, this worked perfectly: he built a working product quickly and easily, and... discovered that it was a product he didn't want to work on regardless of token cost, cut his losses, did the post-mortem, and moved on with his life.

Imagine if he had wasted a year & a ton of money building his own LLM "because I'll need to economize on tokens and have to build a custom LLM" before he could even launch!
I've been experimenting with a similar idea to "pushing ifs up" in OOP, too: Question ifs in the code of a class and just use more classes.

For example - python terminology, as it came from there - don't have a class "BackupStatus", and have the BackupStatus use 2-3 Booleans to figure out how to compute a duration, a status message and such. Instead, have a protocol "BackupStatus" to declare what a BackupStatus has to do, and figure these out for a FailedBackup, a PartialBackup, a SuccessfulBackup and so on.

It's different from what I did for a long time, and some people are weirded out by it at first. But at the same time, it allows me to create a bunch of small, complete and "obviously correct" classes. Or at the least, very concrete cases to reason about with somewhat technical stake holders. And once your backup status classes / enum members / whatever are just correct, then you can go and discuss when to create and use which of states.

It's not for everything naturally, but it quickly gives a solid foundation to build more complex things upon.
Interestingly enough the person who wrote the white paper for the signal protocol implementation in Googles RCS, Emad Omara, now works for Apple
https://www.gstatic.com/messages/papers/messages_e2ee.pdf
Flicker isn't inherent to LED lights rather it's inherent to being particularly cheap when making them. Even just good consumer LED lights will have an extremely constant output.
We've been building with Modal over the past few months (though no prod-scale tests yet) and were slightly disappointed by very large (10-20 second) cold start times. In the long term we're more interested in inference servers that use compiled/optimized models instead of running plain old PyTorch (which adds another few seconds to cold start on its own).
They could perhaps bid but intentionally not win much. I think the harder part would be to represent themselves as a legitimate buyer, with some level of spend, which probably wouldn't be too difficult either, but it's a question of value I suppose: if they have customers with deep pockets, no big deal. The platform I work on aggregates about 3-4M qps so getting 700K qps is certainly feasible.

I suspect this type of thing is more common than people realize but I have no evidence to support the suspicion.
Previewing Changes in Windows to Comply with the Digital Markets Act in the Euro
The more I learn about stuff like this, which happens in many other places at either the same or different levels of government, the more I believe that democracy in the United States is effectively a sham.
That's basically what I expected, thanks.
I've recently came across this website:

https://www.incfile.com/blog/cheapest-states-to-form-an-llc

Find it's informing.

Also to considering is the tax.

which is here:

https://taxfoundation.org/publications/state-business-tax-cl...
Amazon (sort of) did this in 2013:

https://www.autoweek.com/news/a1939026/buy-nissan-versa-note...
Apple to Adopt RCS Messaging Standard for Interoperability with Android Devices
That’s a bit disappointing. Meta had been on an “open source” roll lately
Interesting article... though to be honest, I'm not sure I buy the premise.

In the article, he states: "Let's call the matrix of all (xi 1) `X` and let's call the vector of all yi `Y`", and then states that the units of `X` are (m 1).

But if you instead say the units of `X` are just m, the "1" is in units "m", then the problem goes away, the whole matrix has the same units ("m"), and everything works fine.

I'll be honest in that I've never thought of a matrix having multiple units per column... and I can't think of any example where you aren't just putting the units in the wrong place. Let me know if you have a concrete example that might work.
Unscrupulous governments can easily take everything you have and destroy you, literally.

History is full of examples. Heck, you'll see examples in the newspaper every day.

The rookiest cop has more power over you than Bill Gates.
Planning for Unplanned Work in Linear
My bad, it's with the t470s

Maybe it will work. But mine has more than 50% degradation on both, and I run Nixos from RAM and don't do serious work on it, so I don't care about the shutdowns.
As a generalist, it's a mind-numbing amount of work in 2023
> I struggle to see the benefit of this kind of censorship as well, it has a very “video games make people murders” vibe. That we’re being protected, for our own good, from…horny robots?

These broad strokes are always the result of poor reporting extrapolated to all humans. See also: escalation of porn use.

In all of these "___ makes people ___," there are a minority of people for which it's true. The media just presents it backward, as though most people are this way.

The question then becomes, do we care. Let a maladjusted 12-year old boy play with a sexbot for the next few years and they will come to some deeply-flawed conclusions about how sexual interactions and healthy human relationships work. If he's distracted and banging away at a flashlight, that's one less competitor for me on the dating market.

Where does that end though? What happens when he wakes up, realizes he's been duped, and goes looking for retribution against someone? It won't be PornHub; they're an ephemeral concept. It won't be me either; I never did him wrong or denied him anything. The victim is more likely to be our wives and daughters-- the objects of his envy.

Entertainment is supposed to be a distraction-- maybe you drag out the sexbot after an unsuccessful night of trying to hook up. But that's not how these things get used. People clearly spend 8-12 hours at a time with these things and form parasocial relationships with them instead of forging actual human connections. Most of us don't need the handholding to be told this isn't going to end well, but some people do, and these are the ones who slip through the cracks and become the 40-year-old creeps following your wife to the car or trying to solicit your kids on Roblox.

I suspect sexbots (and porn) are particularly exploitative of the autistic. They're an easy trap to fall into when you have to work 3x as hard to connect with people. You get the benefits of sexual release without any of the effort. There's no incentive to go the hard route and learn to work around your issues when you can just engage with a bot you can rape to death once offended. You don't learn any skills that transfer to useful human interactions this way.
the A350 can fly with one engine, not sure about the 321neo.
Mac classic UI/UX: Tog on Interface (1992) Bruce Tognazzini 0201608421
I’m guessing this will also help with thick accents?
I'm willing to bet the RCS bubble will still be green to indicate loss of p2p encryption.
All solid questions I'd like answers to as well. I was merely adding that it isn't a one-off, as some people have gotten used to immediately dismissing it with.

> Have multiple independent people used the method to analyze the same objects? Do they get the same answers?

Although this may be difficult. Getting permission to go hands-on with a very expensive ancient artifact isn't easy. So it may be a while before we get lots of third-party reproduction.
> If it's not Manifest V3 that makes the Internet safe for advertising, it'll be a "browser integrity" token or some other kind of DRM-by-another-name.

So, no: Firefox will NOT save you.
Metacreations Bryce 4 changed my life as a kid. I loved the interface
My bad, it's the t470s
I dunno. Sounds like being left out of those groups is a net positive.
And yet their storefront is full of counterfeits and gibberish brands with fake reviews.
If the `const char*` is a compile-time value, you can get its size via `std::char_traits<char>::length()`.

Here I could get `magic_functor<std::source_location::file_name()>::type` to work on MSVC: https://godbolt.org/z/Ph8dd78fa
gcc doesn't accept this code, but that seems more like an implementation problem than a specification problem?
The technical info in that community form is a few notches too technical, I work in a different knowledge base.

If someone broke down what the timeline was, what new info is being stored that wasn't before, how that is known, and how Signal has responded, etc, then that would be useful.

I'll admit it doesn't seem great. Phone number I understand, but name and contacts are more concerning.
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: DataUNODC
He easily could have bought parts for a better price seeing as his has the hook-up through his employer.

Without further detail none of us can know the results. Calling someone a thief is a bit of a move…
Just tossing ideas out, but is it possible that structured mornings as a result of modern education might be part of why melatonin is used so often? Being generally a night owl, I slept like shit all through high school and parts of college. I'm just a sample size of one, but if instead of just "dealing" with it, I had looked for a solution to help me get to sleep faster, maybe I (or my parents) would have leaned on melatonin? I certainly had friends that couldn't sleep without nyquil in high school, too.

EDIT: To add another thought, I also had the blessing/good luck of a father who, noticing my difficulties getting to sleep gave me the sage advice of "don't worry about it. Grab a book, do some drawing, worst case scenario, you don't get up for school tomorrow. The world is not ending." How much stress to do we put on ourselves by our expectation of sleep and the perceived consequences of having a bad day the next day. Our life does not operate via step functions. It is continuous, and no one bad day can ruin the next unless you let it.
If your logging service is down all bets are off. But by buffering logs you're now accepting that problems not related to the logging service will also cause you to drop logs - as I mentioned, your service crashing, or being OOM'd, would be one example.
> Once chosen in device setup, the region used for DMA compliance can only be changed by resetting the PC.

Which is interesting as Windows allows you to change the region of a PC:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/change-y...

But I suppose this isn't respected here?
I would also add from a founders standpoint - the infrastructure Delaware has supporting their business incorporations division has been miles above any other state I have worked with. They pick up the phone when you call! The files and forms are (relatively) easy to find. Supporting firms like registration agents are plentiful and straightforward for Delaware.
They have an extra-sticky variety. Now my notes don't "grow legs" or fall off the wall.
How would this actually work in practice? Do I ask the user to utter specific words then train on that? How is it different from the traditional speech recognition that I need to 'train' to work better on my voice?

The Holy Grail would be to train the model while using it, without any friction. I don't think these methods support that though.
I as thinking how hot it gets sitting on a tarmac in Saudi Arabia or Tucson in the summer. A nice BLACK painted fuselage seems like a really bad idea. Just a thought.
This could possibly open an avenue for another party to show up around this. Google de facto having reign on this is because they're the only company in this space that cared enough about it to get it moving.

Apple supporting RCS could create enough interest that it breaks their de facto control of the standard
On the other hand, Sudowrite appears to have been granted some kind of specialized license from OpenAI. They are definitely not a 'sexually charged business', but they are a creative writing tool, and their output is somewhat milquetoast but generally not restricted from "NSFW" concepts like sex and violence.

They do incorporate multiple models in their system, so maybe generation falls back from OpenAI for those cases. But I dimly recall reading something from a team member indicating they have some special permissions with OpenAI. Take that bit as worthless hearsay, just mentioning it in case someone else has better receipts.
Good enough is literally "best effort delivery", you're just agreeing with them that this is ultimately a distributed systems problem and you either choose CP or AP.
Cofee Comparisons
"The Idea Factory" by Jon Gertner. It's a history of Bell Labs starting in the early 1900s. It pre-dates silicone valley and goes into a lot of detail behind how telecommunications came to be. Fascinating for anyone interested in how a culture of innovation and invention can be created and sustained.
I'm seeing all the comments about the $6m Twilio expense, but nothing commenting on how their cost per employee is $380,000 totaling $19m. I think they could optimize this easier if the will was there. I know HN is very SV/tech centric, and that number makes sense there given the run up of VC money, etc. but I'm willing to bet they could source talent from cheaper places and slash this in half; if they wanted to. Just an observation, not my place to tell anyone how to run their business, but for a nonprofit that is trying to drum up donations to fund their operations, I'd think they would want to be leaner.
That would be very helpful... if I ran Arch.
Maybe record and save these AI NSFW responses then intercept the request and spit out of the saved responses once you have enough of them stored. This would save from behind banned from the API.
If we're taking that route, most people don't care about any specific thing, so we can just skip all this development effort and play video games all day.
Ooh, this is wonderful! Thanks!
I already can't pay them, so nothing changes in that point.

I don't know why it makes you so angry that I want the best tools imaginable to make music, for my games and otherwise?

I promise you won't be inundated by the music I create, and no-one will force you to listen to it.

The mindset that you have the right to dictate what tools I can and cannot use to express myself via music is downright dystopian and extremely autocratic. If me creating some tunes for my own benefit in my basement scares you, I think you might need to revise your world view, or all that anxiety is gonna have a detrimental effect on your health sooner or later.
So you're saying the more users Firefox has, the stronger Mozilla's bargaining position.

You make a good case to use Firefox.
I would be willing to bet that a large majority of Americans would say either that CNN/MSNBC are propaganda or Fox News is propaganda and that a sizeable minority would say both are.
You're right. I'm abusing the word "truth" and "works". But you get a clearer picture and avoid the most obvious attempts to mislead.
Anything over water can fly with one engine out.

https://www.caa.co.uk/commercial-industry/aircraft/operation...

A321 Neo LR is approved for that.

https://simpleflying.com/a321neo-long-range-approval/
Part of the reason Safari doesn't have the market share is because it sucks at such things. No one is actually saying Apple doing it is doubleplusgood. Someone has an "internet mob" persecution fetish.
It really just goes back and forth. The point here is that it's pointless.
"UV Cure" printers are a big mess to deal with. As a hobbyist, if I can do it with an "FDM" printer, I will!
The moment you have a contact from any other country than your own, you'll quickly learn that green = huge carrier fees and blue = free texting that even works on wifi with data roaming off. Quadruply so for group chats.
I think it would need far more space, time and nuance than most people are willing to give, to have a productive discussion of this, even here on HN.
> MonsterInsights Google Analytics — I sort of get the idea of a plugin that helps you install Google Analytics. Really, it’s just a snippet of JS you put on the page, so I wouldn’t use one myself, but not everyone is comfortable editing theme files. Then this puts an analytics dashboard right on your site, which again I sorta get, but I’d rather just use the dashboards at the horse’s mouth rather than re-created ones

Plugging in my solution for this: https://wplytic.com
vectors (or arrays) outperform everything else if the dataset is small. Small is usually in the order of 100-300, but can vary wildly.

This is a very poor way to choose a data structure. How many items you want to store is not what someone should be thinking about.

How you are going to access it is what is important. Looping through it - vector. Random access - hash map. These two data structures are what people need 90% of the time.

If you are putting data on the heap it is already because you don't know how many items you want to store.