skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is the right way to handle it. Not all cultures are diverse, and not all images with groups of people need to represent every race. I understand OpenAI, being an American company, to wish to showcase the general diversity of the demographics of the US, but this isn't appropriate for all cultures, nor is it appropriate for all images generated by Americans. The prompt is the right place to handle this kind of output massaging. I don't want this built into the model.

Edit: On the other hand as I think about it more, maybe it should be built into the model? Since the idea is to train the model on all of humanity and not a single culture, maybe by default it should be generating race-blind images.
Not just sane, also safe. Designers will add the needed padding but people just banging together a site will not and this default then saves us from scrollbars.
if you just want count/location, super resolution techniques (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade2676) and proximity labeling (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.28.564055v1) may be a good starting point. cryo may be able to help with that if the direct electron detectors get better (as my understanding (and in my experience), cryo-et data is quite noisy). my guess is that multiple techniques will have to be combined and processed with sophisticated computational pipelines to make this a reality. each technique provides some information on the state of the cell, so the computational question becomes if can you figure out how to integrate information between these techniques to get the specific information you want. it may be too early to tackle this, but who knows...
>slightly handicapping people who become accustomed to it and then read text without it.

Or maybe slightly boosting when reading double spaced? (I didn't read the article yet, my plane is just starting).
PHP-RAG: open-source PHP-based LLM solution
Good, I’m rooting for the people. Tesla (and others) are blatantly ignoring human decency and social contracts in the pursuit of their founder’s greed. This must stop. I’m glad Sweden has strong enough labour unions to battle this at scale and head on, unlike most other countries where it’s too easy for corporations to exploit workers with little to be repercussions other than the occasional drop in the bucket settlement and massive profits.
Go's API stability and making assumptions, even in semi-official code
Is the SG government going to renew leases at discount rates? There was a huge scandal in China when some older 30 year leases came up on some apartments and the local government wanted to allow renewals at market rates. Everyone just assumes when the leases expire they will be renewed at less than market pricing (so it’s as good as buying!). The central government had to step in and make the city renew the leases cheaply, since the real estate market takes these leases as a formality (and China has a a lot of 99 year leases that would go bonkers on the secondary market otherwise).
That's super interesting. I wonder why Mozilla didn't bother to do this for their own browser.
New Zealand's New Government Says It Will Scrap Smoking Ban
Most people can filter the shitposting vs the real criticism.

What is nice is being able to read:

I worked there. Avoid team X or manager Y otherwise the company is amazing.
There's no right answer— it depends on leading and tracking, type size, presence of drop caps, proximity to other elements such as pictures, other columns, or the edge of the page, etc etc etc. Just like everything else in graphic design, it's all about the way something hits in context. It's just one element of a whole.
I think I got this one, just let me finish reading Vol 4 of Principia and I'll type it up.
I 100% switched from 3rd party password managers to keychain and never looked back. It does everything natively, including 2-factor auth.
The must-have 3rd party N64 exclusives were the AKI wrestling games (The 2 WCW/NWO games, WrestleMania 2000, No Mercy and the 2 Japan-exclusive Virtual Pro Wrestling games). Pro wrestling fans still consider them among the best video game representations of the sport (along with certain PS2 era WWE games and the Fire Pro Wrestling/King of Colosseum series). This was also meaningful at the time the N64 was current because that was also the last time period when pro wrestling was genuinely mainstream popular in the US.

Other than that, pretty much all of the games you'd actually want to play on N64 are Nintendo or Rare games.
There’s enough water in the state of california to see the population go up by 10 fold. We just devote the vast majority to a politically entrenched farmer-millionaire landowner class so we can grow things like cotton and alfalfa for export markets.
In LaTeX it’s quite easy to change the kerning so that one needn’t leave a space in the plaintext. It’s akin to e.g. east Asian full-width Unicode punctuation marks, or even slightly dated English typography (when there was a little more space before most semi-colons).
> to be replaced by brand new rent controlled units.

will it be rent control with new rent price baseline? Where people from demolished apartments will be living until new apartment will be built?..
That sounds like something a three-letter agency would get all stuffy about.
People move somewhere because there are jobs available not plots of land
How would it even be economical for a developer to build new rent controlled housing? Or is the base set to when the apartments are constructed? If not, you don’t need to be economic illiterate to think something fishy will happen if the math doesn’t work out.

If I had a rent controlled SF apartment, why would I ever want to give it up? That’s like winning the lottery. I can see where these people are coming from.
What is the 100th busy beaver number? I believe this is an integer, and I also believe it is not computable
I don't think your day and my day are quite the same.
Hello, fellow person of culture :) A variety of useful org-mode nuggets at your site... I've subscribed to your feed.

I've noticed everyone's life in orgmode is unique to them. Here is how I've come to use it: https://www.evalapply.org/posts/why-and-how-i-use-org-mode/

(Aside: I love the neat and clean site design. The typeface is pleasing too. However, may I suggest serving it over https? Far too many ISPs are user-hostile and inject garbage into unencrypted traffic.)
DatkForum Cybersecurity
DarkForum e un nuovo siti web di cybersecurity progettato dalla DarkCode comunity , ad oggi è ancora in progettazione ma fra poco lo troverete online sul sito web troverete il necessario per fare tutto, vi terremo aggiornati su questa piattaforma.
That's fair because there's very few legitimate use cases for a blockchain.

Domain names are perfect for this purpose though, it's decentralized, secure and there's no way to claim the domain of somebody else.
They're modified hormones. Normal glutide made by the body has a 5 minute half life and makes you feel full. Semaglutide has a 1 week half life.
> How much more freight is going by truck in Europe because of the bias towards rail for passengers, and how does that compare to US people traveling by car when train would be better?

Europe moved lots of freight by rail. But building of motorways shifted a lot of freight to roads. If your company moves just a few trucks of goods per week across Europe, road will be faster and cheaper.

Rail is now used mostly for bulk goods, but increasing conterisation is enabling easier use of rail even for smaller shipments (less than a full train length, which in Europe is max 700 m).
They're modified hormones. Normal glutide made by the body has a 5 minute half life and makes you feel full. Semaglutide has a 1 week half life.

It's amazing how much hormones control our minds.
Or a Perl script sold as AI because you can charge more this way.
At the time the hardware differences were more significant than they are in modern systems (we're also in an era of diminishing returns on graphical improvements). Playstation 1 had larger storage space and could take advantage of prerendered graphics and full motion pre-recorded video, but the actual real-time graphics were more limited on the PS1 than the N64. The N64 had also created the analog thumbstick, and although Sony would later copy and improve the design with the Dual Shock controller, initially N64 was a far superior platform for games with twitchy 3D gameplay like platformers and even first person shooters. Another factor was multiplayer. For party games, N64 was a superior experience, as up to 4 players could play at once vs. PS1's two controller ports.

At any rate due to these factors you'd have to make various trade-offs when porting a game from PS1 to N64 or vice versa (cut back on multiplayer, reduce textures, adjust controls, compress audio, etc). There was also no such thing as a universal game engine like Unity or Unreal that could cross-compile for both platforms. On each system you'd have to bake an engine from scratch.
> Between the slave class that comes out at 22:30

Correct me if I misunderstand, and for clarification to other responders, but I believe this is referring to the class of foreign laborers (most visible as young men working hard manual labor and women working domestic labor) which Singapore employs on a temporary, long-term basis from less prosperous countries.
A Life-Extension Drug for Big Dogs Is Getting Closer to Reality
Idiots still do user agent checks and block anything they don't explicitly support.
I would try it if they supported Linux.
See also ‘domain tasting’ (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting), where registrars would temporarily register non-existent domains when someone attempted to load them, showing a ‘for sale’ page to skim extra money off registrations.
jq has a very simple `jv_getpath()` that is a smaller "language" still (the "language" being an array of string and integer indices). I believe Jansson and others also have similar get-path functionality. They don't have the asterisk feature that this has (which is not like .[] in jq), and which looks admittedly quite useful (in terms of ease of use but also in terms of heap allocation avoidance). OTOH this doesn't allow access to non-ident-like object fields except via the asterisk feature. Neat!
Should this be an A/B test? A practical guide
This is pretty interesting, but for anyone who is on semaglutide maybe not a huge surprise? At least in my experience with semaglutide, everything I consume I need less of and I feel way less desire for things.

I am not a big sweet eater, but usually enjoy a decent sized chunk of dark chocolate about every other day. I still have roughly the same cadence of wanting a piece, but the difference now a single square is enough and I don't feel the need for more. It isn't like the desire for things like sugar, fat, etc is gone, it is more like I am just wayyy better at knowing how much of that I need.

I have been on semaglutide for ~2 months and it has honestly been wonderful for me. I have described it as being the drug that helps my brain stop acting like we live in times of famine and has massively improved my relationship with food.

It really is just a shame that it is so cost prohibitive as I genuinely think that it probably could do a ton to reduce healthcare and impact of food overproduction (I eat so much less meat and I have heard some from others), but I don't think that will happen unless insurance starts covering it
Another slam dunk psychological study straight into the garbage bin.

It's very frustrating with these studies because they don't attempt to normalize anything at all. Imagine teaching derivatives and finding that some students learn faster than others. Their excuse? Oh it must be because they did fractions when making pancakes.

One of the easiest ways to create a replicable study, which they won't ever do, would be to place students who have no experience typing (which is common for every generation) and see which ones learn fastest. If you are bothered by this then we can do learning piano, filtering out any student which may have musical practice ahead of time. It would be easy to find. Hypothesis would be that those with higher IQ have a higher rate of mastery.
As much as I generally love Apple products, I'm good with keeping my passwords in a system not 100% controlled by Apple. Thanks though!
I think this is a disingenuous way of painting the healthcare situation in most developed countries, where the overwhelming population uses the good enough public default.

What America has is uniquely nightmarish, and not at all similar to other countries.
What’s the difference, monetarily?

The library bought one copy of the dvd/BR and shares it with as many users as they can. How is that fundamentally different than downloading an “illegal” copy on file sharing? In either case, someone acquired the source material (afaik, “pirated” content is bought with actual money most of the time) and then shared without further revenue for the publishers.

Isn’t that fundamentally the same except for saying that libraries can do it but not scene groups?

Libraries are just a more convoluted and restrictive way of doing the same thing imho. While not everyone everywhere has access to a library system (let alone a well funded one), virtually anyone can download off the internet.
Building a Small REPL in Python
Seems abandoned
If there were too many homes it wouldn’t matter one bit what anyone made, price would go down.
> You agree to these terms when you purchase any media, as these terms are codified in US copyright law.

But I keep talking about changing copyright. Why do you act like those terms would still apply if they were changed? That's why I thought you were talking about terms on top of copyright. It's really hard for me to follow your arguments.

> But again, setting aside US copyright law, how would it be a moral act to agree to something and then act in opposition to that agreement (given the low stakes of what's involved here)?

I have never made a promise to follow the law as part of a purchase.

And I have never had the rules of copyright copy-pasted into a purchase agreement either.

It's just a given that copyright is the law.

If I break the law later, I am not breaking a promise to the seller. There is no moral failure on that front. What matters is whether breaking the law is itself immoral. It does not break any agreement.
I know that there has been a lot of work done in India for writing down Tabla. I am Pakistani, and I can't read hindi in devanagari script, so I am not familiar with this work. Here is my understanding.

In tabla a bol is equal to hitting one or both drums at a given moment.

The dayan (the smaller one) roughly has a set of standard 'hits'. At least 8. But the same hit can be done with different fingers, which has different effects. I am also not sure how to classify dhir dhir, which is played by striking/rubbing the palm of the hand across the surface back and forth.

The bayan is much more complicated. Technically, there are only two types of hits on it, either an open handed hit with the finger tips or a closed handed hit with the palm. But, in practice there are many more, because by pressing with the base of the hand/wrist on the surface while striking, one can change the note (frequency) being played.

Anyway, I think combining two drums, there are maybe 16 simple bols you can play. You miss out quite a lot by trying to write it down in a simple way because of the aforementioned modulation. But perhaps simple compositions or tukrai can be written down.
Swedish and paywalled unfortunately, but here you go!

https://www.na.se/2023-11-16/tesla-ar-den-basta-arbetsgivare...
I love these maps.
Here is one from Switzerland: https://maps.vasile.ch/transit-sbb/, just a tad bit busier than the US
Tangentially, what are people using for DNS+e-mail today? Was a happy gandi customer but have migrated to Gandi for DNS and protonmail for e-mail since the Gandi takeover.
I am really looking for a No Bullshit™ host for these things.
Sozialverträgliches Frühableben

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sozialvertr%C3%A4gliches_Fr%C3...

Sorry, there is no english entry for it. It means to die early in a way compatible to the health-/insurance- and retirement systems, by not 'overstretching' them. As in: Work hard, contribute, but don't profit(too much).
Shame it has no Amiga aesthetics - even making the case beige would have been a nice touch.
Well, stuff like the ArXiv is exactly what they don't want cited
If we're measuring the duration of effect of hormones, shouldn't we measure the duration of whatever it signals/triggers the action of or release of, rather than the molecule/peptide itself?

If whatever it signals has a shorter half-life, then yeah, the duration of effect is going to depend on the hormone's half life, but not if whatever it signals has a longer half-life of effect.
Matthew Butterick, of typography and Racket fame, used a neat and/or slightly insane CSS hack for hanging punctuation in his online booklets, leading me to a round of web-inspectoring some years back:

He programmed his site builder to insert two elements at the site of the punctuation:

<dquo-open-push></dquo-open-push> <dquo-open-pull> “That’s</dquo-open-pull>

and styles them with this CSS:

dquo-open-push { margin-right: 0.5em }
dquo-open-pull { margin-left: -0.5em }

E.g. the first elements pushes the following element further back, but the second element pulls itself back in that negative margin. The resulting effect is that in normal flow both the positive and negative margin of these cancel each other out, leading to quasi normal inline flow:

text text text text PUSH↔PULL text text

But if there is a line break between the elements the the push element pushes invisible into the right margin and the pull element pulls itself in the left margin, leading to hanging punctuation:

text text text text text text PUSH→
←PULL text text text text text text

So the trick with negative margin not only works at the beginning of block elements but inside the inline flow without leading to a negative experience - e.g. it also works with unpredictable line lengths.

An example is on this page: https://practicaltypography.com/are-two-spaces-better-than-o...

I really like the going of the extra mile, although now with `hanging-punctuation` it is unnecessary.

Note: Butterick programmed his own site builder - Pollen - and designs his own fonts - that makes such customisability more achievable, I assume. Not the biggest fan of using custom elements instead of span but modern HTML and web components makes this syntax valid.
Alright then.

My point that got lost along the way was about Norse ruling britain for 200 years and their cultural influence on the old english during that time.
I do believe that Star Trek has become a sort of scripture, or mythology. It's clear a lot of viewers interpret it as such. Many episodes of The Next Generation are, in essence, morality plays. That genre doesn't exist anymore, but the old morality plays took themes from the Bible and Graeco-Roman mythology. The characters are anthropomorphized abstractions and archetypes. Greed, cruelty, mercy, pride stride across the stage, arguing their case. The canonical virtues are extolled, some adversity and tribulations are faced, and then good triumphs as we knew it was going to all along. Yet that doesn't dampen the enjoyment. It's the very point. We wish to see how bravery is rewarded and how cruelty is self-defeating. We wish to see how faith is never entirely lost. We want to hear impassioned pleas extolling mercy and self-discipline and camaraderie. It's very much out of fashion, but it is deeply comforting. I wonder if Star Trek takes on this role mostly for lack of competition.
> Semaglutide has made headlines recently as an FDA-approved drug for the treatment of diabetes under the name Ozempic, and weight loss under the name Wegovy.

Given the only commonality between these two conditions, it almost seems like semaglutide is a synthetic version of the “you’ve had enough” protein.
They address this: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0J5IifOJDi/?igshid=ODhhZWM5N...

No worse than any other slide. I fully agree with them. This is far better than plopping your kid in front of an iPad for 4 hours. This gets them active in a controlled environment.
The '. ' is already wider than a normal space though, so personally I find it easy to parse both.
Lebedev's design bureau had hanging punctuation since 2005.

https://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/120/

Not submitting this one since it is light on technical details.
Some countries are fully private, like Switzerland and I think Netherlands.
The 68010 was indeed pin compatible with the 6800 and had only 24 address bits.

But the 68012 (which was otherwise software compatible with the 68010) extended the address bus (and had more pins) and was the first m68k CPU to exhibit this compat issue.

The 68020 was more popular but came a couple of years later
Let’s be real here. Most people wouldn’t be able to articulate a system for any sort of activity. Unless it’s a question you get asked often, you have no reason to have an answer prepared.

Also, for parenting, it’s clear that there actually needs to be more structure because millennials are simply drowning.

The problem is lots of people haven’t figured out how to take/ask for constructive advice. And in all fairness, most advisors are quite bad at giving advice.

My middle take is, people should be sympathetic to parents, and parents should try not to get offended by random opinions. Caveat: I don’t have a good a answer for family.
Thanks for the detailed feedback

| example song

I guess having a default page pre-populated with an example song is nice for a demo or a first-time user. But for someone who wants to write a new song, having to delete the pre-populated song could be irksome.

The default keyboard shows only the shuddha or regular swaras btw.

I didn't follow what you meant by "the example notebook is not reachable for the tool". You could just edit that song (https://swaranotebook.com/view/vlB9hVgb5OdKcadbhOOYyzKwvpl2/...) and save it as a new copy.

| mobile

The Swara keys (example: the "r/R" key) are used in twice in each octave, and because there are 3 octaves shown, there are 6 variations , which is difficult to input on a physical keyboard without having additional modifier keys to indicate the octave. For some keys (like the backspace), it would be straightforward. It sure is possible, just haven't worked out what would be ergonomic.