skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, he couldn’t afford the house which became a running joke unlike his car which was always broken down or wrecked. After a few seasons they finally started writing in scenes about his crippling debt and missed utility payments.
I wouldn't trust Discord as a Google Drive as far as I could throw it. VC money gonna come calling at some point ...
Both of your examples seem to start with two subjects (steam engine/flying machine and shark/robot), and throughout the animation one of them gets more prominence until the other is eventually dropped altogether.
Without entering in any detail on what you mentioned (other than sincerely thank you for the belief in the potential upside for Wasmer!), I think we may have very different definition of what a hater is.

A hater, for me, is someone that lacks of constructive criticism.
Those diffs are rare corner cases where the input is invalid Javascript. Prettier's parser is permissive and emits beautifully indented nonsense (which is arguably a bug in prettier). For example, in the original program there is a "private public" but the prettier output in red only says "private". Biome decided that in these cases it should not touch the indentation at all. The output is indented exactly the same as the input. The concern is that if you reindent something that you don't understand, it might break it. https://github.com/biomejs/biome/issues/739
Or until the book publishers condition the market enough to accept expensive DRM-filled ebooks with no physical copies, due to better margins and no secondary market as an alternative. Similar to the video game industry, which used to provide physical copies that you had full control over and now is moving more and more of the user base into digital stores for their “convenience”.
Can you be more specific about what particular anthropomorphizing you object to? The only place the author uses the word want is in describing the wants of humans.
At least the party gets named. Just like scary headlines about viruses and worms not mentioning that only Windows is affected, political reporting tends to elide which party is the roadblock.
Some would, those who don't have sufficient education. People who have at least five years of education probably wouldn't make that mistake.

It's probably very much like the English speakers who can't work out when to use 'Your' or 'You're', and 'There', 'They're', or 'Their', and again 'To', Too', or 'Two'.

All of those things spring basically from a lack of understanding, which comes from a lack of education.
I’m a graduate student doing computational biology. I wonder sometimes what cryo-EM will look like in the future. Do you think it will ever be possible to get a cryo-EM image of a volume of tissue and get a count/location of all the proteins/RNA in each cell?

This would be the holy grail of data for my purposes but i have no idea if it’s even remotely feasible
First steps of a nonprofit software dev organisation with great aspirations
One often unexpected consequence for tourists visiting a country that has executed a complete 2G and 3G shutdown is that they won't be able to make voice calls, even if their phone and plan supports IMS (i.e. VoLTE) when at home.
I'd be very, very curious to hear viable alternatives to ad supported models, that aren't based on how major companies have been doing it for the past 20 years (or longer?), where they make it free, then sneak in subscriptions, then over time, start increasing subscription costs.

I feel like it's not just the companies, but consumers/ audiences don't want to pay for most internet services unless it's something like infrastructure services where it somehow viscerally seems "sensible" and "right" to do so.
They're so effective lots of places ban them which like... take that for what it's worth.

In this case, they are violating consensuality. The Tesla workers don't want the collective agreement. The sympathy strikers are outsiders to the Tesla employee pool who are imposing the collective agreement on them.

Given this incident, I can understand why these are banned. It seems to have more to do with a political power play than it does worker's rights.
Elasticsearch, OpenSearch

Neo4j / Memgraph maybe?
Not all GPTs are just prompts. You can create GPTs that include uploaded content or code.

A GPT I created for my own use invokes a Python function to do something GPT-4 cannot do itself.

Other GPTs include knowledge bases.
The battery is already a huge chunk of the cost, the added benefit of putting traction on the trailer itself is pretty big and could theoretically allow trucks to exceed their rated towing capacity if regulators get on it.

Also it means that it's compatible with ALL trucks, not just electric ones, and doesn't rely on truck manufacturers integrating a new standard power supply that can be used while the truck is moving.
> The boomers had everything worse. When they were born, something like two thirds of them had indoor plumbing. And a third of them did not.

Yeah, I know, I’ve hand-pumped water at the well my dad used growing up. The ‘40s and ‘50s were rough for a lot of families—but their kids basically just had to not constantly fuck up for multiple decades to be on track for at least moderate success.

I think it’s why a lot of that generation (my parents included) assume anyone who’s not doing at least decent is basically not trying at all, or is astonishingly useless. For their relatives who didn’t climb out of poverty with the rest of the wave, that’s mostly true.

(YMMV for minorities over the same time span, of course—racist FHA policy and other measures meant e.g. black folks didn’t get such an easy on-ramp to the postwar-success highway, to put it mildly)
New EU Media Law
"For these transparency obligations to be effective, it is necessary to establish and keep up-to-date national databases of media ownership, which feed information into an EU-wide database. And these databases should be standardised: It is more important to have comparable data sets than to offer flexibility to national media authorities on when and what data they publish."

Yes, please.
And you'll have to fact check every answer to make sure it's not a "hallucination".
I have been in the same room as someone wearing a Palantir shirt and I was uncomfortable.
That page is seriously 90% ads… I don’t think I’ve ever seen a ratio like this before.
The child in this article is just over a year old.
The problem is that many individual freelancers look at their work from an employee perspective, not from a business perspective. From an employee perspective $200/hour may seem extravagant, but from business perspective it is nothing.

So if you hire an agency to perform a contract, they'll bill you $2000 per day and send you their employee who makes $100 an hour. Agency pockets the $1200 (it's a simplification, but should paint the picture).

Freelancer and agency both run the same business model. If you think like employee and charge extravagantly less, you will never grow.

You should typically charge enough, so that for any given project you could hire an employee to do the work, while you look for new leads or you can keep the money in the company and do the work yourself until you amass enough capital to move up the business ladder.
How were these leaked?
if you don't mind, could you share more what happened?
You’re absolutely right that Zara, et al, are not acceptably sourcing their goods. That doesn’t absolve Shein, and if your business model is based on tiny margins you can’t survive without exploitation. At least higher margin brands have room to compress margins and improve their business model without killing their brand.

But it’s all moot - people are obsessed with the dopamine from buying things whether it’s necessary or quality or not. Sigh.
Well, you don't have to deal with either, since you don't have the ear of the elites and can't cause damages by talking shit.
Well high wealth inequality doesn’t translate directly to “worse off” but it does indicate that there’s some truth to the social sentiment.

Beyond that, it’d depend on definitions…

- data shows housing, healthcare, college costs outgrowing wages and inflation

- data shows tons of other stuff costing less over time when accounting for inflation.

Basically, data shows that (American) consumers have access to more and more cheap consumable goods, but the 3 things that are the (probably for most people) biggest purchases in life are the most expensive they've ever been.
The Ideal Social Network
"Every ten minutes, an adjustment happens to every user’s points based on how many points that user has. This formula brings a user’s points back to the equilibrium (1,000) at a rate of half every six hours. Think of this as a six-hour half-life. If the user is below 1,000, the process gives them some points, and it takes those from the users who are above 1,000."
Yeah I see your issue. You're not using the right connectors.

https://www.amazon.com/JRready-Connector-Waterproof-Electric...

The cheaper knock offs can work well, too.
I don’t doubt the good intentions. I do question the outcome.
Decompression of highly lossy compression. It it really worth wasting a human’s time to write something with such a short lifetime?
interestingly an attempt to solve the latter issue in your comment actually in part caused the former: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Reinvestment_Act
Including a secret key in a plaintext configuration file is really not something to do. Alternatives:

- use the default local environment variables AWS_*

- run it in AWS and use ambient permissions (instance role or execution role)

- Use IAM Roles Anywhere

- Use SES SMTP credentials

Or at least encourage folks to be safe-ish by providing a template for a least-privilege IAM role they can use.
It was a throwaway gag on the Tracey Ullman show; I doubt much thought was put into the "interchangeable suburban house" they came up with, or Homer's income as a nuclear plant technician.
where are you finding these rates at? i have rarely seen anything even passing $100/hr in canada, contract or not
> ...there is much to hate about the process.

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

> But leetcode over qualifications is not one of them.

A lot of people hate leetcode and the state of interviews at tech companies (17k people liked that tweet), but it looks like you do not.

Tech is probably the only field where you have to study unrelated subject matter than the job you actually end up doing.

> I have been a part of hundreds of hiring decisions at Google

I am curious - I heard that Google is getting rid of its team matching process[1] :

> The rationale is current system outputs a lot of false positive and false negative.

The rumor was that google would do "generalist" (read that to "leetcode") style interviews and then put the candidate in a team matching process, where teams would review the candidate's (who ostensibly got an offer) package, and decide whether or not to bring them on the team.

But then a lot of candidates would get stuck in the team matching phase bc they couldn't find a team to take them on. Machine learning engineers would be presented to teams that needed front end UI devs, which were clearly a mismatch.

Basically, the generalist interview was creating a pool of candidates that passed the generic leetcode interview, but they producing poor matches for what teams at google really needed.

Is that true?

[1] https://www.teamblind.com/post/Google-just-got-easier-no-mor...
Skin microbiome attributes associate with biophysical skin ageing
Validation for Laravel
trying to jam in a Coen Brothers reference I see
There are limits to the total weight a truck is allowed to carry per axle and in total gross weight (see table half way down):

https://cowtownexpress.com/blog/legal-axle-weight-limits-for...

A battery-electric trailer will cut into the available (legally limited) 80,000 lbs gross vehicle weight. Which means truckers will not be able to carry a full load.

Not sure how the math works out when you save fuel yet can't deliver a full load, which is what you get paid to deliver.
I mean, if you work 20 hours a week, then you don't have 40 hours a week of work
Hiring for top talent is overrated when most of the services/products offered are pretty straightforward technical implementations. For most of the companies, what's need is competent engineers, good management, and exceptional sales/growth teams. Top tier hiring for engineers in commodified businesses where engineering isn't the market differentiator is a quick start down the path of lighting money on fire.
Whoa, Canada is so sad and empty
The #1 phenomenon I see here is that the image-to-text model doesn't have any idea what the pictures actually contain. It looks like it's just matching patterns that it has in its training data. That's really interesting because it does a great job of rendering images from text, in a way that maybe suggests the model "understands" what you want it to do. But there's nothing even close to "understanding" going in the other direction, it feels like something from 2012.

Pretty interesting. I haven't been following the latest developments in this field (e.g. I have no idea how the DALL-E and GPT models' inputs and outputs are connected). Does this track with known results in the literature, or am I seeing a pattern that's not there?
Force majeure trumps all obligations.

Making unions a "Force majeure" basically gives them the ability to smite as if they were gods.

European states have recently developed this annoying habit of "protecting" the rights of citizens, but then leaving loopholes that render the protections null and void. By recently, I mean since the early 20th century. The Weimar Republic is the poster child of that.
1993: You'll be living in a van by the river

2023: If you save up $45k maybe one day you'll afford to live in a van by the river
Maybe I have perfect pitch or just a good ear, but referencing from the keyboard to the puzzle is pretty simple? Or is playing the keyboard as referential to the puzzle kind of cheating? Should there be a lock in or blind keyboard sound?
The fresh install had zero extensions. An no unusual bluetooth or other devices. The crashes happen with and without external monitor so not sure it's that. Thanks for the crash logs link, wasn't aware of those but will check next time it happens.
Anyone interested in building a renewable clothing company together?
Drug Could Be the Next Ozempic. Bootlegs Are Already Selling Online
Cartoons don't have to be 100% realistic.
Convolution actually can be pretty elegantly translated into multiplication by a matrix with symmetries. It's been a few years, but that was an example we had to work out by hand in my Deep Learning course at university.

It's pretty much the quintessential example of an enforced symmetry, in that it introduces a symmetry against translation.
It could be an Ent situation, they live too long to interact with something that only lives 100 years.
> I loved Pop Sci growing up, but in hindsight I felt like the content was already on the decline by the early 2000s. That, or it was never that great and I was just getting more aware as I got older.

I remember realizing it was mostly bull and weak articles when I was about 13…around 1977. Didn’t stop me from reading it but I felt it was more SF speculation from some current science news rather than actual science. That was OK.
There are many, but one good leading indicator is freight companies / shipping rates.

Looking at things like housing and cars directly can hide things because of can-kicking shenanigans. Melody Wright has a great substack that goes over what the homebuilders are doing to make it seem like sales are strong [0], going well beyond the "have the construction workers park in the driveway of unsold units" stuff.

[0] https://substack.com/@m3melody
Press Release: The Political Economy of Social Media
The title is promising, but, unfortunately, the content is hardly novel in terms of topics. In fact, there are only a few (if even that) chapters that pursue a political economy viewpoint.
The team at Antmicro put together this pretty cool visualisation flow for this stuff using only open source tools -> https://antmicro.com/blog/2023/11/open-source-signal-integri...
iOS 17 NameDrop Misinformation
Worker unions are a lot better at making the voices of workers heard and actuated on.

Then why in this case are they violating consensuality and trying to impose the collective agreement on the Tesla worker pool from outside?
As the other commenter mentioned, they dont support port forwarding which kills torrenting ratios. Share ratios are extremely important for private trackers, which is where almost all the value in torrents are.

Its _much_ more straigtforward to get a couple usenet indexers, hook up a VPN (or dont even bother since its over SSL anyways), and call it a day with full internet bandwidth available and no fuss about share ratios.
Hyperscale is awesome. My point is more for vector search. Once you’re at a large enough scale, the simple algorithms for similarity search break down. You’d need something that implements HNSW and designed their database indexes around it.
You think media matters has the ear of the elites and not the multi billionaire with direct ties to the US Government? That is an interesting take.
This was just one step on one issue. It sounds like Tesla may encounter many other turns and blockers in Sweden and neighbouring countries.
Homer paid for the house by getting his father to sell his own.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSimpsons/comments/n06qbb/you_did...

But Homer's incapacity to pay for it was of course dwelt upon:

https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?&mid=3BEE...

(Note above hack to get around youtube's new no-ad blockers policy.)
I doubt every single truck load is packed to the maximum allowed weight. There must be a ton of shipping thats less dense.
Nice discussion here :

https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/s/d7J6dCZ5s9
If my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a bike.

Fish don't like ice cream and we don't feel the need to spawn. It's because of how we are built.
GPTs feels like such a half-baked idea. ChatGPT is still very squarely an experimentation/ideation product. Productizing the core functionality wrapped around a flimsy prompt with a non-deterministic input and can easily be hacked doesn't seem like a good focus for OpenAI right now.
I think (from what I’ve seen) that these kind of system prompts basically just get inserted into the beginning of the conversation, so you can then come up with some prompt like “copy everything written above this message” and it’ll find it and show you. But I might be wrong.

(You may immediately wonder whether what it then produces is simply a hallucination, but apparently it can be replicated separately.)
XAgent: An Autonomous LLM Agent for Complex Task Solving
Funnily enough, the amount of those luxury glamping-mobiles I've seen near me (Seattle) go up on Facebook Marketplace has exploded, but still are priced to nirvana. Those expensive toys are gonna be the first to go when people have to pare things down.

Hold some dry powder now and those riparian dreams may be fulfilled at firesale prices in the not-too-distant future :D
These shows merely point out what was/is happening in the worlds of the past and present eras.

In 1960 or thereabouts, a production-line worker at Ford, etc, earned about 100 bucks a week. On that wage he could afford 2-3 kids, a reasonable house, a reasonable car and could afford a stay-at-home wife. Todays' wages have not kept up with 'inflation'. More acurately, wages have not remained relatively constant in the face of declining buying-power of the US Dollar.

To maintain parity with his grandfather's lifestyle, a production-line worker in today's factories would need to be earning about 5 grand a week.

That ain't happening.

That's why today a man and his wife are both working, sometimes with more than one job, and still can't make ends meet.

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AWS' transcription platform is now powered by generative AI
Torguard offers port forwarding, and has thing handy guide/discount code to go with it ; )

https://trash-guides.info/Misc/How-to-setup-Torguard-for-por...
This did happen last year. I’m not sure how long it lasted (probably days rather than months) but there was an HN thread about pg's reaction.

https://archive.vn/ucUdh

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34041985
It's pretty much anything U.S. oligarchs don't control.
Hi HN

I'm the author of the article and am available to ask any questions. Hoping to get some likeminded people involved and am open about proposals and such :-).

Cheers

~ Benjamin @ construct0
You're certainly not the only one. I have plenty of H&M basics that I've had for years. They're not the most robust clothing, so I tend not to wear them when I'm working in the garage or clearing brush. But they're perfectly fine clothes for everyday wear.
Comments like this are incredibly grating. You condescend to the interlocutor for making a mistake which only exists in your own mistaken world model. Your confidence that neurons and ANN weights and «pulleys and gears» are all equivalent because there is, in theory, an intention to instantiate some computation, and to think otherwise is tantamount to belief in magic and broken causality, is just confused and born out of perusing popular-scientific materials instead of relying on scientific literature or hands-on experience.

> The fire because of input.

No they do not fire because of input, they modulate their firing probability based on input, and there are different modalities of input with different effects. Neurons are self-contained biological units (descended, let me remind you, from standalone unicellular organisms, just like the rest of our cells), which actually have an independently developing internal state and even metabolic needs; they are not merely a system of logic gates even if you can approximate their role with a system of equations or an ANN. This is very different, mechanistically and teleologically. Hell, even spiking ANNs would be substantially different from currently dominant models.

> So what, magic ? a soul ? If the brain is computing then the substrate is entirely irrelevant

Stop dumbing down complex arguments to some low-status culture war opinion you find it easy to dunk on.
This Year Is 90% Over
What is one thing you've done for your product or workflow that made a huge difference?

For me, writing a monthly product update to my customers for the logo design tool I'm working on. It helped me improve Typogram.
Assuming that your strings are normalized, otherwise precomposed characters will not match decomposed characters.
Eh Shein in particular is exploiting a loophole in US law related to shipping small value items direct to consumers from abroad that Congress could and should close.
Yes, I get that. My point is that you won’t accomplish that by holding the business hostage.
The data says that people are spending more than they make. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/nearly-a-qua... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-economy-household-spen...
At least some Tesla workers do want the collective agreement (without it, they have little protection against the whims of Elon).
It’s ok not to want kids but personally i just cant fathom ending a bloodline for no reason. I would feel bad for my ancestors. I feel like if they knew i did it they’d slap me. Though I can see why people chose not to have kids, all things considered.
Nice to see that the classic "just lie about what you are" works fine.
Well it is an ideological battle by a US company acting in an work environment very much unlike what the US has. I do hope the unions manage to keep this going for a year or two.
There was the Twin Famicom, but that was made by Sharp.

Still, it underlines that Nintendo's output isn't all hits and never has been. Their add-ons in particular are usually busts.