skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember watching a thing about a Japanese geologist. It had to do with figuring out what kind of rock is in the earth's mantle. The way they do this is apparently by just squishing regular rocks (very tiny ones) with machines to simulate the mantle's pressure. Apparently this changes the color and other properties of the rock, effectively making a new rock. They said these machines are hard to manufacture after a certain point because if the precision is off by even less than a mm, it'd destroy itself while applying pressure. The geologist hired a Japanese craftsman to hand-assemble a new machine, and it worked well enough to break the record and basically discover a new rock we hadn't seen before. Wish I remembered the names!

Anyway, I thought that's a cool example of the intense craftsman culture "paying off" beyond just receiving admiration for impressive combs.
That's assuming you only ever run old Blu-Rays on that player.

Blu-Ray has a thing called BD+ on it, which lets content companies run arbitrary native code on your player (among other things). It also lets you update your player's key revocation list for HDCP. So either of these mechanisms could be used to render your old purchased content unplayable.
US Senator William Proxmire (D) and his Golden Fleece awards protesting odd-sounding projects

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Fleece_Award
Most trading APIs are fairly simple, TD for example is very easy to use and very accessible. IBKR is a bit weirder in both protocol and access, but, works very well.

You can pretty trivially DIY that.
Moreover they're basically the only ones in the entire world who make good Photography equipment. (Minus some niche non-consumer German/Swiss companies)

+ Their whole revolutionary industrialization with Deming is something for the history books.

As that one economics joke goes "There are four types of economies in the world - Developed, Developing, Japan and Argentina."
"Business co-founders" are usually finding me (not the other way around.) They are approaching me on linked in cold, or on linked in referred thru someone, or at Meetups (pre-pandemic) or thru community organizations.
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If you inflate a balloon, you're not stretching out the dust on its surface.
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Indeed though Waymo hasn't had any big accidents unless they are keeping them on the down low and or paying lots to the right people.
Anton Yelchin was killed due to traumatic asphyxiation when he thought he parked his Jeep and got out of the car and it then rolled into him and crushed him against a gate. Arguably the blame falls on GM for building one of those stateless shifters that always pops back to the center.
Indeed, GotG is really going to peak around volume 16.
So if child labor was banned, it is your contention that chocolatiers would just shutter their doors because they can't find labor anymore?

You can't conceive of the possibility that they'd hire adults at a higher wage? Or raise prices for consumers in the developed world?

You're basically saying it's OK for American companies to hire undocumented workers because the alternative is everyone starves.
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The book Seveneves has a lot of vivid descriptions of futuristic orbital mechanics solutions.

It's a bit of a heavy read emotionally but it's very rare to find hard sci-fi of that quality.
Waymo isn't Uber. And I doubt Uber will evere be/acquire Waymo...
Has Britain learned anything from Jimmy Savile (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile) or have they just accepted this is how it will be? Because their libel laws feel like an important part of how something like that stays covered up.

Or are they even allowed to have a serious conversation about it given those very libel laws?
Thanks for the feedback! I agree my documentation is very lacking in that department. I hope in the next few days to have a page in the documentation that describes my rationale, and the tradeoffs made during development.
This. You can literally read the history of China since the 1990s and witness this exact phenomenon! Child labor goes down, wages go up, adult employment goes up, poverty goes down...
> wonderful tech but terrible product company

i couldn't have said it better, something i've been feeling for a long time. they have all the engineering expertise, why not the same for product?

it's even more surprising given Altman's ycom experience, it's not like this is a classic engineer-run corp
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No complaining unless you're willing to publicly disclose which of the nine seasons of Finding Bigfoot you purchased.
If you're interested in a more in-depth article about the intersection between Parfitt's thinking and how he lived his life, Larissa MacFarquhar has a very fantastic profile on Derek Parfitt as well - fantastic as in not lurid and oh-look-at-the-savant, but genuinely sympathetic and illuminating about his work [1].

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This still won't keep people from "calling J.G. Wentworth",
blowing all their net worth on methamphetamines and then crashing into the hospital ER of the USA support systems:

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Best weapon against Google's Chrome encroachment upon your privacy is other web browsers.

Notably Firefox, Onion Browser, DuckDuckGo, Brave and even Safari: cannot go wrong with these alternate browsers.
If I'm not mistaken, Google Docs has allowed offline editing for a very long time? You might have to enable an extension that comes default in Chrome. For offline-capable rich text collab there's also Notion or Apple Notes.
Really, really only US citizens, or Canadians too? Is this an ITAR concern?
You're arguing that we should not have privacy. I am saying that everyone should have privacy 100% of over their data, no matter what data it is, and there is no middle ground. Obviously we won't change each other's views, no matter what we type. However, one thing is certain: The invented term of "money laundering" has been a very successful attack on privacy, and because of the campaign (to protect the children, fight terrorists, cybergangs, bogeyman etc), many people highly agree that loss of privacy good, including you. Privacy is already a lost cause.
I paid more than that for a used abacus, best handmade quality for business use, dating to the 1960's. But I'm a mathematician with a brush cut.
These tiny boot partitions are such a self-inflicted wound in linux distributions. I do agree there's a lot of people in the same boat, but maybe the solution is to offer some sort of migration out of that state.
This be the same Broadcom that wouldn't provide Linux drivers forever for laptops and such in the early-to-mid 2000s?

Don't know much about their management style and I'm pro-hybrid/work-from-home for jobs that can be done as such but their holding back drivers just as wifi was becoming pervasive seemed pretty low to many if I remember correctly.
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I think that's coming from gradio?
FreePascal is pretty good but could be better with more manpower; Lazarus never was as good as Delphi GUI-wise, and hasn't been updated for modern GUI toolkits, so (unfortunately) it's almost obsolete by now.
Yep I got it from somewhere on SA in like 2002. Wasn’t that obscure, a ton of it was quoted all the time.

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While at Mozilla for a quarter century, I got to work for many years with one of the people who made Tasman, Mac IE's engine. It was a phenomenal engine from what I learned. I wasn't on Macs in that era so didn't use it much, but knowing today what I've learned about it, I believe it to be one of the better pieces of software Microsoft people ever built.
I don't know the exact definition but certainly associate "moral panic" with something that may or may not have ever existed or never existed to any meaningful extent.

i.e. Did anyone ever actually put a razor blade in an apple on Halloween? Because I suspect that happened approximately never and yet our parents were cutting them open to be safe.

This, on the other hand, is definitely real and documented.
I don’t think reality owes you the right to not make errors. That’s your responsibility as a thinking creature.

“Fantasy” is an editorialization. What makes a state efficacious is the fact that we’re all living in some form of one, and are able to talk intelligibly about them.
Should be in a few days. I asked Stability to clarify whether I can deliver weights through my Cloudflare bucket and whether qualifying as non-commercial is who runs the model, not who delivers the model.
Cool to hear about your side gig. I've been looking to start doing something similar and have been curious about licensing/insurance specifics. Do you have resources or recommendations on where I could learn more?
I can't speak for you, but I find it hard to believe meaningful compositions would be meaningful without the words naturally flowing out of the emotions that birthed them. You'll find no such meaning behind the statistically average gunk spit out by generative models.
It's funny to think that "weird youtube" is just Newgrounds, much like "weird twitter" is just users from Something Awful/FYAD.
"work on" it how? "thoughts and prayers?"

I fail to understand how it can be 2023, and GitLab have full IPv6 support, but GitHub is all "... oh, is this IPv6 thing new? we'll put it on the backlog with the extremely limited resources of .. err, Microsoft .. who are currently occupied with some OpenAI something-or-other ..."
That's a very different kind of accuracy, though.

This tool is about improving the number of digits that are correct.

Trying to use exact equality is going to fail on most equations even if you have millions of correct digits.
> "Do birds or dogs recognise such things?"

Since dogs and some birds are territorial creatures and will fight to defend territory they perceive as their own, obviously yes, even if only in a rudimentary way.
>Get a good VPN and don't worry about it.

The point is that one side can "legally" do that the other can not (in most countries). It's really not about the technical side of it, but the legal one.
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There’s still a jump proportional to how unexpected it was by the market as the bets are settled, so to speak. Until it’s announced, there’s some contingency that thinks it won’t happen and is putting downward pressure on the stock. Eyeballing the small jump here hints that it was a small contingency.
>I realize that it's more a combination of tradition and their self imposed exile from the world for a long time.

Surely it's more to do with population density? It's not like every Japanese person has one of these combs.

It's much more likely that these niche businesses can exist where population is highly concentrated.
Tasman was way ahead of Trident actually. It had many problems Gecko had in that the web didn't care much for standards so implementing the standards, even well, wasn't considered a selling point. It was years of mostly Mozilla effort to make standards matter enough that web developers came around to them and then Tasman was viewed as an amazing pioneer alongside Gecko.
I wouldn’t recommend Israel’s current system. The iron dome’s always had the obvious weakness that it is much more expensive than the rockets it intercepts, and, welp...
What about Canada?
>This is something that can only be done by law or something

I'm 100% on your side with that, artist should be fairly paid, consumer should not be f**'d, it's really that easy ;)
Equating a filesystem corruption with bricking a device shows you don't get it. Filesystems are ephemeral: all I have to do after a corruption is reinstall the system, and it's as good as new.

You also missed the most important part of what I said:

>> because you're trusting a system with a single point of failure, and the consequences of that inevitable failure are not acceptable to you.

I don't care if my phone fails: it's disposable. Sure, there are times it might be inconvenient, but it's not like I need it to drive my car or get into my house.

If your phone failing is some huge big horrible problem for you, yeah, you absolutely ought to carry two phones around. It's unreasonable to expect consumer grade technology to be that reliable.
It’s a real shame if SpaceX’s technology gets co-opted by the US military, because then any point to point Starship trajectory needs to be treated as a hostile ICBM, even if it’s just passenger transport.
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Then how would you explain that Microsoft didn't find out about any of this until a minute or two before the board fired Altman.

If they were involved in anyway, wouldn't they actually know this was about to happen?

Your version of events requires us to assume all the board members are lying and Altman is lying and Microsoft is Lying and you and you alone know the truth.

EDIT after reading some of your other comments, its clear you aren't operating based on facts, but just some made up fantasy that you want to believe:(

I regret trying to engage in meaningful dialog with someone who isn't trying to argue in good faith:(
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I watched the whole launch event, my takeaway is that the Cybertruck is is going to really take off. I say this as someone who really disliked the initial aesthetic. Here are 3 facts:

1. It outpulls an F350 Diesel (and an F150 lightning and Rivian R1T)

2. It outurns any vehicle due to rear-wheel steering

3. It is faster than ANY truck AND most sports cars (it beat a Porsche 911 while pulling a 911 on a trailer)

4. It is bulletproof. They showed footage of two different gun types shooting the car. I imagine you are going to have certain celbreties get one of these simply to "flex" as the cool kids say these days. Some people will also get it because they are in cities where drive by shootings DO happen frequently and you can at least duck inside your Cybertruck.

Now, believe it or not, but there are people who do work with trucks that really need to pull a lot of weight, and being able to pull a little more than the F350 is going to result in less trips, so functionally some people will get it just for that reason. Also, moving a truck on certain job sites is a PITA sometimes, and the all wheel turning is going to be like magic in some situations.

I predict this will change the entire industry.
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well, there will be a lot of inheritance and spreading of wealth (thru theft et al) as a result of that uprising!
And chalk.

There is a brand of Japanese chalk which is very popular among people who frequently use chalk. It is called Hagoromo.

See:

- Why mathematicians are hoarding this special type of Japanese chalk: https://gizmodo.com/why-mathematicians-are-hoarding-this-spe...

- Apparently that company was purchased from its previous owner and continues to operate: https://hagoromo.shop/
After hearing for years how Uber is a scam and will never be profitable, I guess it makes sense there's some moving of the goalposts here.
What does 'pursue' mean here?

Everybody can write an angry letter to 'anyone, anywhere'.

Can Carter-Ruck actually force 'anyone, anywhere' to cease & desist / defend themselves at court?

What stops a resident of say Hong Kong or Russia or Paraguay from totally ignoring said angry letter?
Every time I need tabular layout I try the tool du jour: Floats, CSS grid, etc.

It never works like I want it to, and I never know if it's because I'm dumb or the tool is poorly-designed, and by then I've wasted two hours, so I always end up just going back to tables because they freaking work.
Small-l "libertarianism" has convinced many otherwise reasonable people that if you raise wages, giant corporations with huge profit margins will elect to shut down.
Mochi and red bean paste I already enjoy, so I was curious about 卵かけご飯 but frankly it's just made me consider egg fried rice as a legit breakfast option :)
Pens (pencils too!) and paper make sense because of the fine detail/relatively high stroke count required to write even some common kanji legibly
But a high reading is a state that can exist. I don’t really see how formal methods would exclude a multiplication/unit error with respect to the displayed unit.
If a humanities or social science course isn't directly applicable to your major/getting a job/getting into grad school and is going to put a blemish on your transcript, I could certainly imagine that you might want to drop it.
They worked hard to make boot nicer, at least for Intel GPUs: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FlickerFreeBoot

Also, the earlier I get the GPU up, the better. My monitor won't display some resolutions used in BIOS screens and text modes.
I've personally made generative models produce poetry that brought tears to my eyes. Granted, they always require as a template other poetry that I already find meaningful, but this did not diminish the results in any respect, in my eyes.

On the other hand, asking GPT to write poetry from scratch? Just awful.
Not my doing at all .. the rationale is that Joules (or TerraJoules) are used for Energy Production | Supply.

If you consider pumped hydro you might lift 200 tonne of water 500m .. and that's joules in reserve, ready for use.

On the consumption usage side the convention is use joules with rate of consumption - how long will your supply last.

It's annoying as heck and trips people up and adds to confusion .. but there it is.
The handbag comparison came to mind for me too: We don't usually look for a big ethnic/culture explanations for European designer handbag manufacturers.

Though perhaps watchmaking is an exception.
I think they do that already - it's called academic probation and failing out.
No, it's the other way around: wages go up, then child labor goes down. Also, China is not a great example as it had a One Child policy for most of the last 50 years. In Ghana, for example, there is an average of 4 children per woman.
> LoFi (Local first)

Are we set on this abbreviation? Cause it's super confusing.
> Alright, I'll bite, how do you prove intent?

The same way you prove anything else in a legal case, by sufficient evidence to convince the trier of fact that it is sufficiently likely to be true ("sufficiently likely" depending on the applicable standard of proof, which varies based on the context which creates the need for proof.)

Legal proof (even to criminal conviction standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt, and even moreso to the standards used for civil liability and other purposes) isn't logical proof.
Here is your syntax guide.

https://www.alancsmith.co.uk/logo/Logocommandref151.pdf

As for autocomplete, today I am going to be the stereotypical hypocritical grumpy old man and say autocomplete hinders understanding, you are better off without it. Which is true, Autocomplete lets your brain go easy mode and just learn the prefixes, hypocritical because damned if I let you take my autocomplete shell away from me, hell, I put up with tcsh for far to long mainly because it was the shell on sgi's that had auto complete. I will however note that without autocomplete I maintained a much better mental view of my filesystems.