skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is something that really got me thinking about how to make my own prettier from scratch because I thought it was interesting. Needless to say, having looked at the “tests” for prettier I was kind of lost because I was trying to reverse engineer from the tests. What I saw was the format tests are auto generated and have if statements in them. If you’re a unit test stickler then seeing an if statement in a test should be a smell. The hardest part was trying to get the why behind each test. No explanation is in the test but I’ll bet it’s in the docs, source code or whatever cloud chat community.

Also, I had to check the winning implementation just for sanity’s sake. It is older than a week or two. Still, my hats off to them for being able to meet the compatibility mark and get the cash.
I believe that's how it works too, it's worded very conveniently for the copyright lobby. The rest of the DMCA notice just falls under "good faith belief". There is a section about misrepresentations that starts with "Any person who knowingly materially misrepresents...", but it would be up to the accused to prove the claimant intentionally lied.
Not really, they still can't do hands and faces reliably, especially DALL-E which hallucinates like mad (not just with hands) and generally has quite a lot of distinctive artifacts on lines and densely packed details. It is possible to fix hands in SD/SDXL 100% of the time, but that's much more involved.
I use instagram to look at vintage motorcycles and buy vintage motorcycle parts. Thats all. I follow motorcycle accounts only. But when I hit the search icon - the splash screen shows me, almost exclusively, 1/2 naked women.
To be clear though — Musk acknowledged it was worth a fraction of what he paid for it many months before he paid for it. In his view, the company's value crashed in early 2022 and that more information came to light during the acquisition process which further changed his view of the company's value.
All humans “want” to do is obey the laws of physics.
DHL to field test Volkswagen ID.Buzz fleet in South Africa
This was directly explained IIRC, which is that they subletted one of their grandmother's rent-controlled apartments, which was technically against the rules but the super looked the other way.
It's like alcohol. some people tolerate it well, others not so much. For me, the internet makes life better. ymmv
Nothing. Just like nothing stops the ones that do want a collection agreement as they work for Tesla and have join the union. There's no requirement for a majority wanting it or not.
Separately from that, Clojure turns some genuine Lisp people off.
You are correct, but it's sad that education isn't about knowledge. We're forced by market conditions to seek money more than knowledge.

I've developed quite a cynical view of the world, with each new truth that's revealed about our society and the nature of people, my faith and trust lowers. But is it really cynical if, everywhere you look, you find evidence of its truth?

Rhetorical question but I think about it daily.
If only there was any actual evidence of him existing
> I don't think any human can make sense of two time dimensions

Sure humans can; Greg Egan built a whole sci-fi universe that way:

https://www.gregegan.net/DICHRONAUTS/00/DPDM.html

But two time dimensions doesn't contradict our logic. (It contradicts our best current theories of physics, but that's not the same thing as contradicting our logic. Egan's model is logically consistent.) So this is not an example of what you were claiming.

> Anything I could suggest would by definition not make any sense to us

In other words, you are saying humans can't imagine a universe that contradicts our logic. I agree. And that is a "no" answer to the question you posed in the GGP post to this one.

Whether universes that contradict our logic could "exist", even if we can't imagine them, is a different question from the one you asked in that post. As for that:

> How would you even think about something like this if you throw out the foundation of our thinking?

Indeed. And if we can't even consistently think about such a thing, what's the point?
actually it is possible: education. basically, the reason one might not want some people to have kids is their lack of education. provide them with better education and that "problem" goes away.
If no law __enforcement__ occurs then yes, there are no repercussions.

How are laws enforced internationally?
It took me a long time working professionally until I realized why this is (and I find myself agreeing).

You're essentially paying for support (and accountability).

This is why a lot of the more successful open source projects are the ones that monetize by offering enterprise support - this is _crucial_ for something that is key to your company's product.

And while we can all share stories of terrible support, in my experience they are outweighed by the positive ones.
It’s not where I work. The packages are truly envious!
lol, that’s terrifying.
But that's not really how books work though. I don't ever really need to read more than 1 book at a time. I'm all for e-readers, have a couple and use them, but it's a cost saving measure. I would vastly prefer physical books for the interface.
This is obviously complete nonsense, no need to read the article.
> "The homeownership rate is the proportion of households that is owner-occupied."

Often overlooked and makes it possible to have a steady 'homeownership' rate while the actual proportion of young adults that own homes falls off a cliff (i.e. due to the obvious trend towards adult children living with parents longer).
> eg. customer has a static phone number in one country that they have continuous SMS access to, customer wants to install your extra app, whatever

GitHub uses TOTP which does not require SMS, can be used with dozens of apps (because it's a protocol), and can be easily transfered using QR codes or seeds.
I actually did this with my old Android phone earlier this summer after getting my new one. Under normal use I had to charge it every day, with Airplane Mode on (and, granted, not using it) the battery lasted like 3 or 4 weeks.
> It’s harder to choose sources due to the plethora of choices

That's sort of why print magazines are/were helpful and approachable - they're an easy entry point with curation, discoverability, and an editorial staff. They're also somewhat self-contained rather than being an endless rabbit hole of attention-grabbing links (those generally being limited to the cover.)

Arguably the best thing about HN and good aggregation blogs is that they provide curation and discoverability as well as some degree of editorial commentary. And hopefully they're not managed by attention-maximizing algorithms.

The abundance of options and content - even if you were to limit yourself to a specific category, such as peer-reviewed articles in a particular field, or a particular medium, such as youtube videos - from online ources can be completely overwhelming.
https://creative.salon/articles/features/future-of-planning-...

I mean wtf? Is it synchronicity??

Discuss: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38441377
Just a guesstimate but such a person should probably be prepared to cough up an extra $15-25 if he really insists on charging to the top.

If lower efficiency cars like VW ID4 start using the network, it will be a money printing machine for Tesla.
no need for vouchers. we just need the right and the support for more people to work part time. that right for example is already law in germany. the problem is that not many people make use of it, partly because it would reduce their income but partly also because there is no broad social support for people to reduce their worktime in order to do other useful things.
With these models, the Pytorch code is an interpreter, and the 100Gb of weights is the code. So you have say a 10G (10 weights = 1 LOC) LOC codebase, all in assembly, no comments. G'luck.

Oh and it doesn't always use logic. So there are no ORs and ANDs and IFs, just +, *, exp, max, etc.
It's a fun way to get guided variations.

Maybe you don't know what you specifically want you just want stylized gnomes so you write "a gnome on a spotted mushroom smoking a pipe, psychedelic, colorful, Alice in Wonderland style" and by the end of it you get that massively long and stylized prompt.

Maybe you do know what you want but you don't want to come up with an elaborate prompt so you steer it in a particular direction like the cat example.

For the first one you can get similar effects by asking for variations but it seems like this has a very different drift to it. Fun, albeit expensive in comparison.
I bought plans to build a log splitter back in the day.

It sucked until I upgraded it with a hydraulic cylinder from an old d4. Now it can split granite I think.
Goodness gracious almighty. It is the synchronicity of life happening before my very eyes.
I’d say you timed it decently, little over a decade ago you could be denied insurance for a pre existing condition (and insurance costs were going up at an even faster rate then)
I seem to remember most all the articles about how airships are on the verge of becoming practical again -- in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s... Don't get me wrong, I think airships are neat, it's just after seeing this promise unfulfilled so many times, I just doubt that it will happen.
> We're trying to get machines to think, but we only have the barest understanding of how we, as humans, think... But thinking we can create "AGI" without first increasing our understanding of "wet" neural nets is the height of hubris.

That depends on the landscape of the solution space. If the techniques that work much better than anything else happen to be the same techniques used within our own brains, then we might find them, through aggressive experimentation and exploration, before we even realize that it's also how our own brains work too.
Looks nice, although method chaining is not really idiomatic Go and is generally discouraged.
I read books off of an SD card inserted into an e-ink device that has never had the wifi turned on.

The problems with internet overuse are orthogonal.
Your comment is contradicting itself. You’re saying you had a lot more when you worked out a lot and the same now you don’t, which is it?
There are a few magazines by (I think?) the publishing arm of Raspberry Pi: Hackspace and MagPi... they are a little pricey and mostly cover small electronics and programming-related projects, but they're in a similar vein.

I wish there were still some decent magazines like these I remember reading through in my youth, but one big challenge for the publishers is the "maker" / "mechanic" these days is much more limited to hobbyists.

In my Dad's generation, you kinda had to have a certain level of mechanical ability if you ever wanted to own a house and car/bike and not live in squalor.

Nowadays, if you even have the money for a home, it seems like 99% of things are made to be replaced, and for anything that needs fixing, it's impossible to fix it yourself without some pretty strong technical abilities (and a lot of time/patience).

There's also a lot more emphasis on practicality, and less on sci-fi-type aspirational content in general.
Reddit Leads Class of 2024 IPO Candidates Testing the Water
All the passengers routes I was on as a child are gone, replaced by industrial transport.
Used to be able to get to a lot of places - at least on the West Coast (ie Vancouver to Prince George, Vancouver to Calgary etc).

I know the Royal Hudson (BC coast, Vancouver to Whistler (at least) retired years ago and is a museum just in Squamish. I rode that one as a child, too...
Was going to say that the comments on the link is a dumpster fire, but it looks like HN is not much better.
LockBit: The cybercrime gang hacking some of the largest organisations
Installing a version of Android without Google Play Services running constantly in the background effectively doubles handset battery life in my experience. Disabling radios can do that again if the device is rarely used.
This is fun, thanks for sharing! It would be interesting to upload the initial image from a camera to see where the chain takes it.
So I can issue frivolous DMCA complaints against, say, YCombinator, and by law it has to be taken down until a counterclaim or X amount of time has passed, putting the onus of responsibility on innocent people? And as long as I'm actually the rightsholder, government will do nothing to address bad faith claims? The standard for proof is practically impossible, and you don't need a valid claim to negatively impact innocent people.

It's a law that has no business existing; I'd argue the moral solution is to simply not honor it. We need to push back against copyright and IP in its entirety because it's clearly not serving its purpose if you can just cancel some random guy's project because you don't like it.
So they start cramming even more students into classrooms and creating other new, innovative ways of getting money and giving the students less for it.
I do wonder how this may be different between things like physical or musical skills vs something more academic.
Before reading this, I assumed the method would involve rewriting large parts of the game's graphics code. But it sounds like the author is intercepting draw calls and changing them to use color instead! Looking forward to the rest of this series.
> I think most VPS hosting providers are running on VMWare.

Out of date info, but last time I really looked there used to be 3 tiers of VPS provider:

* VSphere with SAN and blades (I think there was an HP reference implementation for this - many providers seemed to use it). These were by far the most expensive, and not really very good performance for the money due to SAN speeds and ESX not cpu scheduling multi core VMs that well.

* Xen/KVM. Mid range in terms of cost, and less fault tolerant than the SAN backed VSphere stuff. But usually out performed it.

* VServer / OpenVZ at the very cheap end. These were more like early LXC containers than VMs. The price point meant that you got what you paid for, and there were tech limitations with what you could do with the kernel (they were sharing the host kernel). Security wasn't great either.

I doubt the VMWare providers are as common now as they were 15yrs ago though. Even back then, they weren't the most common though.
For most of this year I’ve needed a lunch time nap and not been very satisfied with overall energy levels. Unrelated to that I decided to lose some weight, and after losing 6kg (~13lb) the difference in my energy levels has been astounding. I haven’t needed a nap since and my productivity has certainly increased.
I mean, re:2 you just compared new Americans to cattle, so you might have a point here
Thanks for sharing. Makes sense and I can relate to many of the things you say about Reddit (too bad it’s so hard to do things in moderation these days).
> available on your terms

Why does this desire make them less sympathetic?

The irritating thing about this is that one may be unable to find some movie or song which they’ve already seen or heard. Even in a case where it is officially available, gating some record of culture behind a fee is just holding said culture hostage to ransom it back.

More charitably, it’s someone attempting a business model which is thwarted by how inexpensive it is for individuals to copy and share digital media. I instead lack sympathy for the people with an obviously bad business strategy and prefer to recognize this culture-renting as farcical.

(That question I asked wasn’t rhetorical; I am genuinely interested in the answer but I also wanted to explain a different perspective.)
If I'm gaming I do usually use it plugged in to my external monitor with a mouse and keyboard, and the lid closed. And it certainly does get quite warm during extended sessions, but not blazing hot like my previous Intel MacBook Pro did.

Under non gaming loads (for me, that's mostly web, iOS development in Xcode, and streaming movies/TV) the M1 Air barely ever gets even slightly warm.
Vinyl records, cassette tapes, and CDs will also be unused in 100 years. Cassettes and VHS will by then be unreadable, just as most floppies are now. Hell, in 100 years, there won’t even be the mp3 codec anymore.

You don’t need to tell me that people deliberately choose dead trees; I am one of them: I collect books and have more than most collectors. Same goes for vinyl.

The writing is on the wall, however. In 100 years it won’t be a thing, just as fountain pens and wax seals aren’t today.

Yes, they will still exist, and yes, people into whatever type of historical reenactment that is will still have them, but there will be no industry around them like there is now.
For some background music while reading you may enjoy the song that introduced me to the concept: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=epHneMeLyis&pp=ygUMcmFnIGFuZCB...
Tesla doesn't make anything in Sweden. Their workforce is mostly mechanics working at car service centers. What the unions can do is make it very hard for Tesla to operate in Sweden. They cannot hire other companies to perform something for them, no electricians to repair charging stations, no cleaning services, cannot source any parts for cars there, etc. They can of course hire people directly to do these things and likely pay a premium to be able to attract people and get the things they need from other countries and use their own drivers to get that to Sweden.

Sympathy strikes might spread to the other Nordic countries and maybe even Germany, where they are already fighting IG Metall. Then the federation of Nordic transport unions have proclaimed their support for IF Metall, so Tesla might be unable to get anything shipped in these countries.

Or they could just sign the agreement that sets basic minimum requirements which supposedly they already exceed.
Is it ever gonna be possible to support Safari Extensions and Time reporting/blocks via iOS?

I can set time limit for HN if i use an app, or if I use Safari. Switching to Firefox (with the same WebKit backend) means no screen time limits apply.
EU sucks ass for consumer protection. I bought an overengineered EU designed electric plug adapter in Paris. It wouldn’t work without applying 10kg of force to insert my charger, which it broke doing so.

Store wouldn’t offer a refund only replacement. Only got a refund after I made the clerk test the replacement which also had the same issue.

Same happened with floss that was the thickness of shoelace. Tried to return but Monoprix wouldn’t take it.

In the US, stores take back anything and if they don’t it’s a credit card chargeback away (which I would have done for the electric plug if they didn’t refund me.)
A relevant podcast:

https://slate.com/podcasts/decoder-ring/2023/08/the-homemade...
Haven’t you seen the show? Peg is always trying to have sex with him.
this.

sign up on startupschool.org.

there is the yc curriculum then there is yc cofounder matching there. literally thousands of users globally, with filters so you can match with people you want.
The most productive and enjoyable time in my adult life was when I had extremely poor/slow wifi at home, and high-speed internet available a bus-ride or long walk away.

Mininal distraction at home since there was no dopamine loop, but enough connectivity that I could load most things in a pinch if I absolutely needed to. Once or twice a week I would walk up to my Univerisity snd spend a few hours there, syncing backups, downloading YouTube videos and articles that seemed like they'd be worth watching, checking social media for an hour or two, etc.

Then back to my little room and a productive week ahead.

Unfortunately CoViD lockdowns in Melbourne destroyed this arrangement for me. It is something I'd like to return to at some point though.
Looks like 73% of freight is moved by truck in the US vs 77% in the EU. Not a big enough difference to really matter I think.

https://www.trucking.org/economics-and-industry-data

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1068592/eu-road-freight-...
It could test one pair of wires in the cable, but not all of them at the same time. There are likely much better testing setups out there.
> > ...there is much to hate about the process.

> That's a signal that's trying to tell you something.

Indeed, and what it is telling me isn't what your points are about. I'm fairly vocal internally about certain changes I believe need to be made. But I'm also not really in a position to do anything about it but suggest changes.

There have been non-generalist interviews for over ten years, although not for every team. This problem has been addressed several times over the years. I think the post above is about the most recent round. But Cloud and many other orgs have always had their own inteview style.

Generally speaking, the more senior the candidate, the less generalist the interview seeks to be. And the more specialized the role, the less generalist the interview seeks to be. Some interviewers haven't gotten the memo, and many situations end up being, say, 50% generalist, and 50% specific role. But plenty also go purely role-based, especially in areas like security or UX design.

However, one thing Google strongly seeks is someone not wedded to this or that technology. If you think of yourself as, say, a Ruby-on-Rails developer, then you are probably a bad fit for most roles at Google, even the ones that involve Ruby-on-Rails. Google expects you to be able to pick up whatever knowledge you need to do your job, whether that is learning a new framework on the fly, or debugging a system you aren't familiar with. It's not exactly a "generalist", but more like someone who can learn tools and techniques easily.
Companies also need to measure the ratio of resources expended to the amount of value being produced, even if cash flow and profit are good at the moment. Unsustainable business practices can remain hidden until the decline begins. When that happens, inept management has to scramble to figure out what's going on and will almost certainly make worse decisions than a lack of sustainability was sussed out much earlier. An apt example would be companies that need to keep hiring more engineers merely to keep the software from collapsing under its own weight. Often times, upper and middle management aren't paying attention to this and are completely distracted by growth and profit, despite the fact that most of their engineering staff are far less productive, perhaps to the point of hardly producing anything at all.
The parent is saying that “dry powder” (i.e. cash) can be used to "pull the trigger" on a purchase of luxury vans when a rainy day comes along and the owner of the vans are forced to sell at reduced prices due to economic hardship.
Thank you! That's so interesting that it can actually slow the melting.
I'm misremembering from the initial "uBO Minus" release [1]

[1]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/a559f5f2715c58fea4d...
Slightly offtopic but related: One of my mobile providers supports configuring public (non firewalled) IP addresses for mobile devices and when choosing that option my phone battery drains very significantly faster than otherwise. I suspect it's because all the random packets that arrive every second or so on the public interface (when NAT and firewall are disabled) either cause the radio to use a lot more battery or prevent the CPU from going into sleep mode (or both of that).
Also not all notions of God are dualistic — where you get to (notionally) talk to the guy using “you” and “I”. India’s Advaita Vedanta, Ibn Arabi’s version of Sufism and even some sects of Hasidism all hold that everything is in God. I haven’t found the Christianity that does this, but if it was discovered under Islam is probably thinkable here.

Are these different ideas of God entirely? Yes: in India there are however many gods and Brahman says these are lesser precisely because they don’t include the whole universe.