skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The moment you have learned SQL, is when you have forgotten everything about C/C++
Besides that, there will be a change in consent management as well, regulations will become much more strict, especially if you are in the EU. Lots to do in 2024 to remain compliant. :-/

Regarding 3rd-party cookies, server-side tagging is the answer, also helps with adblockers. If you don’t want to pay a lot for AWS or GCP for hosting your own analytics server, you might be interested in MetricsGate (www.metricsgate.com) which hosts the server part for you and also auto-configures your GTM and GA4 accounts.

Disclaimer: I’m the founder of MetricsGate.
European neobroker Scalable Capital raises $65M on a flat $1.4B valuation
There's a lot of cool Java interop stuff coming in Clojure 1.12 that might help here (Alpha 6 should drop "soon").
Only a decade of life doesn't seem to me something that should require "revival".

I'm still using my 11y/o Dell XPS which I cannot upgrade but works great.
How is this any more dangerous than reading a URL and manually typing it in?
> Definitely better than anything you could get at a Pizza Hut or Dominos or Little Caesars.

It's a shame that bad pizza is so popular, when good pizza is relatively cheap to make.
My understanding (which is my recollections of a dive into typewriter history decades ago) is that avoiding typebar collisions was a real concern, but that the general consensus was that the exact final layout was strongly influenced by allowing salesmen to quickly type out 'typewriter' on the top row of letters.
So knowing the maximum yield medieval farming fields can produce.. How many Hobbits till starvation and civil war?
In France they've at least published the data types they're using for scoring people who need benefits:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24179765-les-cibles-...

Yet, publishing data types is not enough; to gain even a glimpse of the actual scoring and its robustness, you need also information about the algorithm in use, its performance metrics, error statistics, distributions, missing values (which are apparently too present), etc. All these should be available through a FOI (and if not, a request should be brought to a court). Given how much even peer reviewed ML research is flawed, the stakes are high for an administration to demonstrate robustness (or a claimant to demonstrate otherwise).

The lawfulness/lawlessness they discuss in this piece is an entirely different question.
The video hints at why achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI) is so difficult. As an example, it points out that AlphaGo was able to surpass human Go players by playing against itself, which worked because winning Go games provides a clear reward function: winning the game.

Similarly, the rumored Q* breakthrough involves solving simple math problems, another closed domain with a well-defined reward function. This has likely gotten people overly excited about the prospects for rapid advances in domains like open-ended text generation. Defining, much less evaluating, a reward function that maps to the "quality" of generated text in general for use during the inference phase is hard to imagine. So while grafting planning onto a language model works for constrained use cases like math, it is hard to see how it could work for generating high quality, coherent text in general.
ChatGPT should have been named TIME magazine’s Person of the Year.
The line is wherever they want it to be. They're the customer. They can buy ad space or not.

If they think association with Musk makes them look bad then they won't buy ads on his platform.
It is culture but it's not the pro-individualism enlightenment parts of Western culture that made us great. There's so much anti-natalistic culture to fix (and a little bit of economics)

- make housing cheaper

- fix education so people can start their careers and adulthood earlier

- pass safe harbor laws so that parents and feel safe leaving their kids at home, or letting them take the bus

- also economic incentives help, beef up people's social security if they have kids
This guy calling my company issued MBP ancient? It’s my portal into the cloud driven clusterfuck known locally as “production” still
The golden era of the 2000s produced no revenue stream other than ads on Google Search.
Apple will need to exit India due to unions, corruption, lack of Medium Scale Manufactures, bureaucracy as many of MNC have done or are doing it right now.

It will be better for Apple to shift manufacturing from Mainland China to Vietnam etc.
Blind SQL injection is what I’ve heard this called, if anyone wants to read more. I used this concept to exfiltrate sensitive material from our database using PgHero’s analyze feature for an in-house incident response workshop once.
Mac-n-cheese is very popular in (at least) Singapore, and that includes amongst our ethnically-Chinese people.

So it's Chinese enough by that standard.
I suspected as much, but it sounds like something that shouldn't be possible or rather, something that shouldn't be done.

I hang out with indie game devs and there's a running joke that it's now possible for indies to sell their soul to corporations. Just sell Netflix exclusive rights to your (mobile?) game. It's no longer a thing limited to SaaS!

Netflix did something fairly shady with Hades a month ago: https://kotaku.com/hades-netflix-iphone-free-android-1851016...

The other running joke with acquisitions is that they can buy your app but you can always just build a similar app. I thought the timing of the World of Goo 2 release is a bit of a coincidence, but maybe I'm just connecting the dots wrong.
This was my problem with the article too. It’s not that ancient.
I feel like pizza is one of those things where the ingredients are really cheap, but much of the value is in the special equipment needed to make it really well. Normal people don't have a 600F pizza oven, so even with the same ingredients they just can't make the same kind of product.
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A character in Cryptonomicon did something similar, using the lights to blink out morse code so he could gain information without his captors realizing it.
Really loving my Fairphone 5 - basically smartphones are enough of a commodity now everything feels really high quality and fast physically. The sky blue colour is really nice. AND also it avoids conflict metals, is repairable.

Much much better than my last Fairphone (which was the Fairphone 2).

I switched from an iPhone this time. I'm also enjoying that Android is a bit more programmable without rooting it - running a full Unix distribution in Termux, scripting it with Tasker to run Python scripts on events etc. Actual Firefox.
> If they'd just had some foresight and gone 48v in 1955

How would they have done this without cheaply-available high-speed switch-mode power supplies with low-DCR inductors/MOSFETs?
I tried free markets last weekend. It works great. Roger Clinton was right, “free the market and the booty will follow”.
found out that this has problems when file name has underscore (_)

Better use some long rare string as place holder for xargs

gblame2 () {

local file=$(fzf)

cat "$file" | awk '{printf("%5d %s\n", NR, $0)}' | fzf --layout reverse --preview-window up --preview "echo {} | awk '{print \$1}' | xargs -I __XZY__ sh -c \"git log --color -L__XZY__,'+1:${file}'\""
}
The meme "I declare bankruptcy" comes to mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-m3RtoguAQ
'the input you provide is a sentence of text and a couple parameters, a minimal amount of creativity"

Have you tried creating art with AI? Usually it takes hundreds of iterations of text-to-image, image-to-image, inpainting, outpainting using dozens of different models.

"A sentence is all it takes" is like saying all it takes to make a million is crossing some numbers on a grid.
But again, you’d then just use Chrome for work and Firefox for personal browsing.

As it happens I lived through this in the early 00s with IE but back then I used Opera for personal browsing and IE for work.

Even in the very remote possibility that you can somehow make changes to root certificates but cannot install a second browser (and I’m being charitable here because there are literally zero reasons that would ever happen), it would still make more sense to update your local hosts files with a pihole-list block list rather than installing your own root cert and using a 3rd party tool to MITM all your web traffic.

I do get the appeal of this tool. I honestly do. But there are so many safer ways to solve this same problem.
the author of a novel has a copyright to the contents, but can't trademark the contents of the novel.

the same is true for artwork.
Can you give an example where property tax changed to land value tax and a home owner was better off?
That's exactly why it's important to know more details about such warnings
Is there a phone that allows me to upgrade over time and not only fix it?

Turning off app updates would have the same impact if you're right about the increasing memory requirements.
This happened to me too. Every committed iPhone user told me - you should have used a case! Ummm... What's the point of a phone being beautiful and thin if I then anyway have to make it large with a case? It was a bad piece of design.
GSuite is an awful product for an employer.

If you have a problem there’s no one available to help you.

On the MS side they will literally pull an engineer who is writing the code for the product you have a problem for to help resolve the issue if you’re large enough.

The part you see in your browser isn’t the only part of the product a company has to buy. In fact, it’s not even the most expensive bit. If you see the most expensive plans for most SAAS products (ie the enterprise plans) almost the entire difference in costs is driven by support illustrating the importance and value of support.

Google unfortunately is awful at this.
> Part of the design of Dutch cities is to make the fastest, most direct, most convenient form of transportation _not_ the car.

That's only a good thing if you accomplish it by making other forms of transportation faster and more direct. It's a bad thing if you do it by making cars slower and less direct.
I don't think the word 'own' can be fully applied to digital items at all. I've lost count of various apps that were one bought by me and then just disappeared from the stores. The big part of it is constantly changing requirements by the AppStores, for many small developers it is impossible to keep up with all the os updates, reworking of permissions, new privacy policies, etc, for all old titles.
Anyone technically literate considering iMessage for secure comms should probably read this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38537444

In any case, it's better then using plaintext. It's probably safe enough against non nation state actors.
That works for novels and so on. For philosophical writing... If someone is advocating for X yet not even close to dogfooding it... It's tricky. Sort of like Marx and Engels. Or all the modern caviar socialists.
The waste is not just the end product but all the waste and environmental impact producing it.
I think the MS tie up with ChatGPT means that for the large corporate world, the die is already cast.
Great advice but... really should have picked another picture. A night shot on a phone camera is going to be heavily postprocessed, it's grainy... just not the best demonstration of the tech
The Hebrew calendar is a marvel of historical engineering and complexity. Both solar and lunar with exceptions to accommodate Shabbat and other holidays, and be consistent with the Torah.

https://stevemorse.org/hebrewcalendar/hebrewcalendar.htm
CAN bus is multi-master access with automatic arbitration between nodes. Something what Ethernet is completely incapable of and that's the reason why CAN bus is here to stay for a long time.

Ethernet needs active switches isolating each branch of the star network from each other. Because Ethernet working in bus mode is absolute joke, slower than CAN bus if you add enough nodes to such network. But when you need to drag all sensors and ECUs to a center of a star where is switch, where is the saving on cables?

Even worse, there is no guarantee that node on such network will be able to deliver message to other node, thanks to CSMA/CD which says Random disconnection if collision. Well guess what? Your wheel just locked during braking and we need to tell that to ABS/ESP unit. When using CAN you can rectify it by using low CAN ID and thus increasing priority in arbitration. When using Ethernet, you are only praying to RNG Jesus.
Any Linux distro would run well on those, even the latest Ubuntu and Fedora.
> Speed X Mass = Force

That's not true.
Yeah I noticed that with the half-life VR ports. You run pretty damn fast lol. It's much more obvious in VR than on a screen.

I guess it would feel slow if it were more realistic.
At the end of the day, if there is no definitive answer to a question, it should respond in such a manner. "While there are compelling reasons to think A or B, neither A nor B have been verified. They are just the leading theories." That would be a much better answer than "Option A is the answer even if some people think B is." when A is just as unproven as B, but because it answers so definitively, people think it is the right answer.

So the labels thing is something that obviously will never work. But the system has all of the information it needs to know if the question is definitively answerable. If it is not, do not phrase the response definitively. At this point, I'd be happy if it responded to "Is 1+1 = 2?" with a wish washy answer like, "Most people would agree that 1+1 = 2", and if it wanted to say "in base 10, that is the correct answer. however, in base 2, the 1+1 = 10" would also be acceptable. Fake it till you make it is not the solution here.
Why are you only concerned with emissions of transportation and not total emissions? Replacing 10 GWh of fossil fuels with 10 GWh of renewables will reduce total emissions in both scenarios because that 10GWh of fossil fuel energy was being consumed fully in both scenarios. Eventually, when almost all electricity is carbon free, adding more carbon-free capacity will stop reducing emissions because your capacity greatly exceeds demand. Once that happens, then yes, scenario A will result in greater reduction of emissions for every unit of new carbon free electrical production because it is offsetting gasoline combustion. But my point is that we are decades away from electricity being nearly 100% carbon free.
lol, brain fart: I was talking about Troy series with David Gemmell:

https://www.goodreads.com/series/43788-troy
I liked the idea of the book and it stayed with me, but it could have been a blog post, like a lot of non-fiction.
Oh I'm sure editorial staff across all major media is prepping for the right moment to pop that front page. I'm guessing that we're not long from seeing the first "personhood for software" mainstream (premature) discussions popping up. I personally can't wait for it - it's going to be a real shitshow :D
I left Spotify as a paying customer due to podcasts.

The way they implemented podcasts wasn’t great.

Previously Spotify was very good suggesting music that I liked. I’d go to the home screen and see lots of relevant suggested music and just click play. When podcasts came I found it harder to use Spotify for music as music felt like a second class citizen, more clicks to find and get to as the home screen was now podcast biased, heavily promoting podcasts on to users as they invested big in to podcasts.

For me it would have been easier if they had two distinct tabs, music home and podcast home, treating them completely separate rather than trying to unify the views as one home screen.

I switched to Apple Music.

The music suggestions and playlists are not as good as Spotify but when I search in Apple Music I only get music back and I also get lossless audio.
I was talking about Troy series with David Gemmell:

https://www.goodreads.com/series/43788-troy
Albert Cory, 'Author of "Inventing the Future," a historical novel'...
If “confabulation” is necessary, you can use confabulation for the use cases where it’s needed and turn it off for the use cases where you need to return actual “correct” information.
It definitely is a thing, we literally teach this to CS students as part of the design process in the UX design course.

It’s called prototyping, in this case it would be a hi-fi prototype, and it lets you communicate ideas, test the implementation and try out alternatives before committing to your final product.

Lo-fi prototyping usually precedes it and is done on pen and paper, Figma, or similar very basic approaches.

Google (unsurprisingly) uses it and has instructional videos about it: https://youtu.be/lusOgox4xMI
Pro audio - most condenser microphones (except electret) run off 48v provided via the mixer/audio interface through XLR cables
I noticed two ways.

Either you don't get any updates and at one point you can't use any app because it's outdated.

Or you get all updates and at one point you can't use any apps, because your phone became unbearably slow.
Which rocks are these pro-Hamas protestors hiding under? Are they poisoning us with fluoride or parachuting into Iowa? I haven't seen any "pro-Hamas demonstrators" but I have seen either moronic kids or anti-Palestinian infiltrators dressing up in fatigues to join pro-Palestinian protestors to muddy the waters. I haven't seen any green jihad flags.

Another failure is Bill Maher: a moron and a tool of idiocy because he equates pro-Palestinian with pro-Hamas without any nuance or concern for the lives of both Gazans and Israelis.
Check out the footnotes after the story.

Footnote #3: The brick oven in a Russian peasant's hut is usually built so
as to leave a flat top, large enough to lie on, for those who want
to sleep in a warm place.
I wish I could simply run 3 year old apps. In many cases I am not allowed, especially the bank ones, which are the ones that I cannot run in the background as the OS kills them.
Where can you get this therapeutic use? Asking for a friend /jk
I read an article a while ago that concluded the tapes were almost certainly reused (overwritten).
Synthetic images like generated graphs with fine lines and text (i.e. not photographs), need pixel perfect rendering otherwise they look terrible. This is likely to be a far more common and useful use case for images in a terminal than showing photos.
Microsoft ha recentemente annunciato un aggiornamento rivoluzionario per la sua app di posta elettronica, Outlook. La nuova funzione, chiamata "Dictate", consente agli utenti di utilizzare la propria voce per redigere email sia nella versione di Windows che nella versione web dell'applicazione.

Secondo quanto dichiarato da Microsoft sul sito Microsoft 365 Insider, questa funzione di dettatura sfrutta l'intelligenza artificiale per permettere agli utenti di esprimere liberamente i loro messaggi senza i vincoli della digitazione. Supporta attualmente oltre 50 lingue diverse, trasformando completamente il modo in cui comunichiamo tramite email.

Tuttavia, per utilizzare questa funzionalità, gli utenti devono creare un nuovo messaggio di posta elettronica o rispondere a un'email ricevuta in Outlook. Dopo aver posizionato il cursore nel corpo del messaggio, è necessario selezionare l'opzione "Messaggio" e poi "Dettatura". A questo punto, è possibile iniziare a parlare nel microfono del PC per vedere le proprie parole prendere vita nel messaggio di posta in arrivo.

Nonostante l'entusiasmo generato da questa innovativa funzione, Microsoft ha segnalato alcune problematiche attuali con la funzione di dettatura di Outlook. Alcuni comandi vocali disponibili nella versione precedente di Outlook per Windows non sono ancora disponibili nella nuova versione, mentre alcune lingue supportate potrebbero presentare una precisione inferiore o un limitato supporto alla punteggiatura.

Tuttavia, è importante sottolineare che Microsoft assicura di non memorizzare alcun dato vocale, audio o risultati di trascrizione generati da questa funzionalità.

La nuova funzione di dettatura vocale di Outlook si propone di semplificare la comunicazione via email, offrendo agli utenti la libertà di esprimersi senza le limitazioni della tastiera. Una rivoluzione nel modo in cui scriviamo le nostre email quotidiane, questo aggiornamento rappresenta un passo avanti verso l'utilizzo più efficiente della tecnologia nel nostro quotidiano.
It's not that hard to Google.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/15/23512004/elon-musk-start...

> Twitter has suspended the accounts of several prominent reporters who cover Elon Musk, including Ryan Mac of The New York Times, CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, The Washington Post’s Drew Harwell, The Intercept’s Micah Lee, and Mashable’s Matt Binder, Aaron Rupar, and Tony Webster.
> This is so strange, this is exactly how you don't handle problems like this.

Is it a monopolistic behaviour by the book?
You can get one of those magnetic adapters if you worry about your USB-C port that much.
The real pros will use data centre GPUs like the MI300. I think local ML will become huge in games
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I now, truly will never know how much Land does a man need :(
Very cool project!

That’s funny, I started working on a 16bit CPU for a stack computer a couple of months ago, and ended up naming it "sola".

https://git.sr.ht/~louismerlin/sola
A 12-volt battery typically has six cells. A 48 Volt Lead-acid battery would have 24 cells - I'm not sure how that would change the constraints on charge balancing and starter-motor stress.

I can say that the 24 Volt deisel vehicles I have used makes buying two batteries expensive.
That figure is quite ridiculous. Even if one completely ignores Steam and all of their games/products, even CS:GO alone is worth billions by itself, with millions of concurrent players (and growing) more than a decade after its launch!

All that said, I would expect Valve's total immediate-term 'worth' to be much less than it could be, which is the entire point of this topic. The reason companies treat their customers poorly is because it's profitable, but it also has consequences. You see large short to mid term growth in exchange for long term failure. That's why I think it's more typical to see public companies treat their customers poorly than it is for private companies. Generally the "employees" (including board and CEO) of a public company are evaluated on their short to mid-term performance.

By contrast private companies, especially ones that remain private long beyond the point of being able to 'cash out' with a public offering, tend to be more focused on the long term viability. So it's expected that their 'value', whatever it may be, would be less than it would be if they acted in a hostile fashion to their users.
So as workers/employees were asking for higher salaries the main message we heard from many was: "We can't do that because it will cause inflation". Now that there are articles that say inflation was in fact not caused by increased wages, it's suddenly not interesting anymore where the price increases are coming from?

It definitely is interesting, the issue is that the current inflation is causing a wealth transfer from wage earners to investors/capital owners.

That is interesting, because it destabilizes society and we should definitely look into where or who is profiting from the price increases.
For some definition of normal, to be sure.

My normality has been surrounded by people that make their own stuff, from septic systems, to custom cars, to work sheds, to brick barbeques and to wood fired pizza ovens.

There's an entire state here of people that wouldn't see that as much of a challenge to build or aquire if they wanted good pizza.

For years we just used the annealing oven out the back next to the glass furnaces .. other people had other ways.