skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cows in Rotterdam harbor, seedlings on rafts in India;floating farms the future?
Perhaps, but if someone ignores the email and never logs into or interacts with 23andMe in the meantime, the post hoc change in ToS should have no impact on their ability to join a class action lawsuit.
I got downvoted in another thread for suggesting that a company might do exactly this
Exactly. Now, the lack of inventory will cause slow sales to become a self-fulfilling prophesy

This, plus, I'm not sure the F-150 was the right platform target to begin with. Maybe for commercial sales, but not necessarily for the general public. The F-150 Lightning is still a "big" truck, and the trim options actually available from dealerships all seem to be the most expensive ones. There are zero models within 100 miles of me at the base trim, and only one under $70,000, but dozens of everything-but-the-kitchen-sink trucks that are priced more like real estate than vehicles. All I want is a no-frills electric truck that I can go grab some boards from the local hardware store with. Instead I'm better off with a Ford Ranger that gets 26 MPG and putting the $50,000+ I saved into offsetting my carbon impact a different way.
https://archive.today/9p3xZ

EIA release: https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/pdf/steo_full.pdf
Plant nurseries are exacerbating the climate-driven spread of invasive species
Replied to you elsewhere but this might be a German version of the ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WorrpfjAYdc
You're letting the video codec make all the decisions for bitrate allocation.

Netflix tries to optimize the encoding parameters per shot/scene.

from the dynamic optimization article:

- A long video sequence is split in shots ("Shots are portions of video with a relatively short duration, coming from the same camera under fairly constant lighting and environment conditions.")

- Each shot is encoded multiple times with different encoding parameters, such as resolutions and qualities (QPs)

- Each encode is evaluated using VMAF, which together with its bitrate produces an (R,D) point. One can convert VMAF quality to distortion using different mappings; we tested against the following two, linearly and inversely proportional mappings, which give rise to different temporal aggregation strategies, discussed in the subsequent section

- The convex hull of (R,D) points for each shot is calculated. In the following example figures, distortion is inverse of (VMAF+1)

- Points from the convex hull, one from each shot, are combined to create an encode for the entire video sequence by following the constant-slope principle and building end-to-end paths in a Trellis

- One produces as many aggregate encodes (final operating points) by varying the slope parameter of the R-D curve as necessary in order to cover a desired bitrate/quality range

- Final result is a complete R-D or rate-quality (R-Q) curve for the entire video sequence
It's for engineers tired of memorizing long weird CLI commands. I teach you the underlying C data structures so you can get out of command line hell and make the most out of your time!
It isn't about "sufficient contact". Google knows exactly who to call at any of these companies, and those people will pick up the phone when they see Google is the one calling.

Qualcomm actively botches the security of their products as per request of many governments.

The purpose of the letter is to openly shame these companies without directly accusing them of foul play, instead of gently painting them with the brush of mere incompetence, mere lack of knowledge how modern tooling works.
In the second link (BBC) they say it is the same person.
I saw both videos and clearly, it's hard to confuse, it is the same person.
I was replying to wood being a carbon sink being relevant. You are right that the point of comparison should be on the whole process on both sides. Wood being a carbon sink is a component in that, but I doubt that it's hugely relevant.

That quote about absolute emissions doesn't tell me much. The link has a much more useful metric: ~0.55 tons of CO2 per ton of produced flat glass. This is the number that a new process is competing with.

Another consideration is longevity. The rate of amortization acts as a multiplier for carbon footprint. It's hard to compete with glass in this area too.
The question is, what are the potential negative scenarios.
Exactly.this behavior is why I never gonna send my DNA to any of these services. Certainly not US. I hope than EU will have some regulations for this soon.
you and the OP are conflating civil war with laws of war. October 7th was clearly an act of war, and war has been the result. Hamas knew this, but relied on Hezbollah and Houthies pitching in in a much larger way, they miscalculated and Gaza suffers.
when games were far more open to supporting mods and had big communities around it, its where I first cut my teeth programming in earnest without even realizing it.

At some point, the programming became more fun than the playing for me
I also use a custom domain. I’m on FastMail with DKIM and SPF configured and I really don’t feel like I have issues.
But is it legal to post the full text online without paying anything to the Crown?
Bought by Epic Games then Epic sold to Songtradr, which is when the layoffs happened.
This reminded me that the Ready Player One audiobook is wonderfully narrated by Wil Wheaton and has Wil Wheaton mentioned in passing as a character about halfway through…
Part of the problem is that Hamas seized control and isn’t a popular government. Only like 10-15% of the Palestinian population could have voted the last time they had the chance, so there’s a valid argument that the civilians killed are being victimized twice: by the terrorists using them as human shields and by the IDF targeting them anyway.
This piece frames this as a debate between broad camps of AI makers, but in my experience both the accelerationist and doomer sides are basically media/attention economy phenomena -- narratives wielded by those who know the power of compelling narratives in media. The bulk of the AI researchers, engineers, etc I know kind of just roll their eyes at both. We know there are concrete, mundane, but important application risks in AI product development, like dataset bias and the perils of imperfect automated decision making, and it's a shame that tech-weak showmen like Musk and Altman suck up so much discursive oxygen.
Take a few steps back, the obvious problem is that all phones are chock full of mysterious black boxes that the owner of the device has zero say over.

Android has the problem of being too open to prevent backwards implementations and shitty, vulnerable, and bug prone code, but not open enough for anyone with the incentive to fix those issues to actually be allowed to fix them.

I see the eventualities to be either Google locks down android significantly, and the market shifts to something more akin to Nvidia's board partner model, or, it opens way up, and device manufacturers open source their implementations of various system devices in order to crowd source fixes/improvements/etc. The former is much more likely than the latter, but, as a consumer, the latter would be preferable.
I formally modeled Dreidel for no good reason
The vast majority of combatants are male, so women and children are typically viewed as non-combatants by default.
>2001-2005 for wikipedia

I was there [still am]. Recently, I provided an update to "transistor density," which was then cited by Perplexity.AI when I asked about a specific new processor type (eerie, having been an early adopter for both wiki and LLMs, from a user-perspective).

I'm left wondering "how much an old wiki handle" [account] might be worth, if it is so-readily cited as "leading authority" (when in reality I was just a curious teenager, trying to figure out what made encyclopedia "so special," when wikipedia provides all these linkages FOR FREE).

Half a lifetime ago, and I'm still curious how this whole "open source thing" is going to play out...
All without Rust?
I find it arguably easier now to see what people are actually contributing in a remote environment. In the office, people can just 'look busy' and take meetings and then go to lunch/gym and just disappear for hours. In a remote environment, you have more metrics like how many tickets resolved/responded to, hours worked, meetings taken, what deliverables were completed.
Al Jazeera was not unique in their short-term coverage - nearly all western outlets also wrote similar articles shortly afterward, based mainly on unsupported statements from Palestinians. As soon as day broke and people saw the actual photos of the impact area it was clearer that attributing the attack to either side would be challenging; several reputable outfits in the US even wrote short postmortems to understand why they did what they did and to prevent it in the future.
Tesla screwed the pooch with the Cybertruck. The looks get crapped on a lot, but if they were selling those things for $40,000 people would have bought them anyway, especially if it qualified for the full federal tax credit. The $70,000 price point is an early Christmas gift to Ford and Rivian.
Einops: Flexible and powerful tensor operations for readable and reliable code
Please leave clues as close to the scene of the crime as possible. You can't fix everything, and some fixes are too big and take a long time, but please just leave me a clue.
Fully agree with you here. I can understand why people argue "We must do everything possible that no human being ever finds out anything medical-related about another human being, ever"

But that is a value judgement, and I believe it is one that comes at a great cost to society- I wouldn't be surprised if >50% of the cost of medical care is directly or indirectly due to this attitude, and that medical progress has been slowed immensely for the same reason.

If we could make medical data more open, it would greatly benefit the vast majority of people. OF COURSE it is true that some smaller number of other people/patients are helped by the existing medical secrecy system. I fully admit this is a trade-off, where we have to decide what values are more important.

(source: Am medical doctor)
Slightly related, I wonder what opportunity cost the Israeli tech sector will incur from this conflict. Instead of developing their startups, lots of young people are busy with warfare at the moment.
If I'm not mistaken, that's the point the person above you was making. Those stickers on dump trucks that say "Stay back 200 feet. Not responsible for broken windshields" are worthless from a legal perspective.

They do absolutely nothing to remove liability from the truck driver/company. If a rock falls from their truck and cracks your windshield, they absolutely are responsible for any damages.

Rather, their sole value is to convince drivers that the trucking companies aren't at fault, so that drivers whose vehicles are damaged from falling rocks erroneously elect not to press charges or pursue damages.
That is an incredibly tightly run organization. It might be reactive, dispatching a technician as soon as the ONT goes offline, or the router plugged into the ONT stops pinging, but this is first class customer service.
I'm surprised this has been asked. The majority of sw engineers I have worked with over the past 20+ years have been gamers. I'd prepared to go out on a limb and say the most effective and productive people I have worked with have tended to have been the biggest gamers.
It's a human thing. Not all humans, but many.

> Dying is a natural process. Sorry.

Avoiding dying, as best one can, is also a natural behaviour.
I once looked into arbitration against a local company based on their ToS. Initiating arbitration would have cost me several hundred dollars, not to mention time, which was more than my dispute was worth.
Slow car sales in general is a thing, I think I read there's like 3 million brand new cars sitting in inventory, when the normal is less than a million
It took one year from Winnie the Pooh entering the public domain to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh:_Blood_and_Hon...

And AFAIK they were not sued, despite being ever so slightly off brand for Disney.
It seems that in Israel there are (very small) quotas for non jewish people to be admitted at university.

I've met muslim israeli who have learnt italian to go to study medicine in italy (where there is a notoriously extremely difficult entrance exam) because all of this was easier than going to a local university.
I had a big problem with fingerprints and hand geometry stuff after recovering from some serious burns. They had to delete my account to readd me into the system because it changed so much.
At least for the linux kernel, qemu and other large c projects, this is a solved problem with coccinelle[1]. Compared to AI, it has the added benefit of not doing incorrect changes and/or hallucinating stuff or promt injections or ...

I guess you could use AI to help create a coccinelle semantic patch.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccinelle_(software)
Hey, thanks for sharing this on HN! I'm one of the Edge Functions developers at Supabase and co-author of the blog post. We are very excited about releasing npm support and looking forward to seeing how the community build awesome apps with the Supabase stack.

I am happy to answer any questions or receive feedback.
Playstation Wrap-Up 2023
I'm not sure I understand your point, sorry.
I have a couple hundred acres of farm land with hills between it and the closest cell towers. There's no internet or cell service, so I got StarLink. It was easy to set up and works great, but I don't go out there enough to justify the $110/120 per month. So after a while, I cancelled it.
Over here there are "consumer associations" that have the right to sue in such cases in the name of all consumers. That works quite well.

Due to this traditionally those things are not even tried.

That has changed with (mostly US) businesses entering the EU. A good example is booking.com, who again and again and again invented new dark patterns to then get sued for it, making it clear those are illegal.

We had the same with the airline industry with their advertised prices not matching the actual final price with all taxes and made-up fees. But by now even Ryanair has given up and no longer tries those tactics.

But there are no big financial penalties for losing such cases in court. I guess it's the bad PR these court cases generate every time that makes those businesses after a while giving up trying to screw over consumers...
Meanwhile in Tacoma,WA our mismanaged muni ISP turned over managment to a local private company, which was then bought by global company Palisade Infrastructure.

https://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/article270126722.html
Legally speaking, they have a right to distribute copies. But Youtube isn't required to accept it though, and their copyright claim system is already somewhat notorious for the degree to which non-copyright owners to try to strike down videos for claimed copyright infringement.

Steamboat Willie is probably the single most famous work to fall into the public domain since Youtube started. It is (formerly) owned by one of the most famously aggressive company in protecting IP. Youtube itself is also owned by an entity that is on the other side of IP law than Disney, but definitely far less aggressive in pushing those claims.
You are reading very selectively (and I think fir a reason):

> From 2004 to 2014, these attacks have killed 27 Israeli civilians, 5 foreign nationals, 5 IDF soldiers, and at least 11 Palestinians[11] and injured more than 1900 people.[12] Their main effect is their creation of widespread psychological trauma and disruption of daily life among the Israeli populace.

Please at least try to stay true to the facts, even if you are not willing to steelman the other's arguments.
You really had to reach for that one.
> About a decade ago, EPB called a friend of mine. The representative on the phone said, "Hello <insert name>, we noticed that your internet has been slower than what you are paying for. Do you mind if we send someone out to fix it for you?" We were both so surprised that a company would volunteer their services like that.

Something very similar to this recently happened to me with Spectrum (cable internet) in NYC, which is not a company known for being nice to customers. The tech who came out explained to me that they were seeing unusual performance profiles on their end and that's why they do this. In my case, it turns out there was a splitter somewhere outside where there shouldn't be instead of the line going directly to some junction box, and that's why they were seeing the odd profile. After he removed it and made the line be direct, our service was indeed better, but I guess whoever installed the splitter stopped getting free internet/cable. (I'm not mad about that.) So while the service call was framed as "improving my service" and it did indeed, it was also an investigation into something suspicious they detected. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a similar situation for your friend.
OpenAI doesn't have any legacy business to be threatened by it.
They'll also run ethernet lines in your house, typically just to the inside router and one computer — FREE with installation (which is also FREE, just pay monthly no-contract bill). I am a retired electrician, and have worked along-side many techs in new-builds... never met an EPB worker who wasn't thrilled to work for their employer.

I also know several of their backend techs, and despite hesitant gripes of "lower government pay," none of them apply for tech/opsec jobs at private companies.
I think the self-defense discussion is more of a PR talking point, intl law is pretty clear on the rights and responsibilties of occupying powers.

That said, we seem to be entering a new world order where international law means nothing at all.
Sports Illustrated CEO fired following AI articles controversy
The last time I went rooting around in my SPAM folder, I came back a different person. I am forever changed by what I saw in there. I consider email totally broken in today's environment, but without a SPAM folder it would be closer to totally useless.

With the benefit of hindsight, the invention of SPAM should have told us all we needed to know about the future of the internet. A small percentage of users will do their damnedest to ruin it for everyone else. It's a sign that people cannot be trusted to not use the tech for evil. I'm sure it foretold the corruption of social media as well. It is all SPAM's fault!
They invested approximately $6 billion. Transferred Mustang brand to EVs. Ford made real investments and Monroe Live has rated Ford vehicles second best after Tesla and that is exactly the problem with EV market. Non-Tesla EVs suffer from lackluster sales is a known fact. Ford thought if they made investments they could succeed, and their initial release coincided with vehicle shortage so the early run inventory sold hot, but once market settled and early enthusiasm waned, the sales fell off the cliff.
> since it would be trivial to have a remote controlled lasgun demolish any target

This is specifically mentioned, and carried out, in the Dune novel.

The justification for why it isn't more common is that the resulting explosion is indistinguishable from a nuclear explosion, and the Great Convention strictly forbids the use of nuclear weapons.
I always saw it as the Israel-Palestine conflict has been ongoing for 75+ years with no resolution. It's a conflict that's symbolic of the deep divide of the historical imperial powers and the Global south that suffered from colonialism. I feel this is why people in different continents of the world react so differently to the conflict and why many find it so interesting.
hey hn, supabase ceo here

this is the #1 feature request from our community wrt Edge Functions. Our Functions run Deno, and so a lot of developers struggle to migrate from Node. This update solves that. It was a lot of work - in the words of one of the developers: "the hardest thing I have implemented".

It's nice because it brings 100% feature parity across local dev, the platform, and self-hosting.

We also added a Sentry integration for observability and "Regional Invocations" for connecting to a Function in one particular region (useful if you want to execute a Function close to your database).

I'm just clocking off but the engineer who shipped this is waking up and will be around for any technical discussion.
>None of my coworkers seem to play games regularly either.

Are you sure? Since you don't game, I imagine you normally don't ask people what they've been playing lately. Just because they don't bring it (or don't bring it up when you're around) doesn't mean they don't play games when they're alone.

>There are plenty of social activities one can do that isn't gaming.

What a strange thing to say, especially since I can replace the last word with just about anything and the idea remains equally true. Are you saying to you an activity has no significance or importance (or at least not enough) if it doesn't have a social component? I'm not trying to be combative, just trying to understand your point of view.
While there are elements of truth to this, the reality is more nuanced. They have been promoting Hamas over moderate elements, and have looked the other way as Qatar has provided money in briefcases to Hamas. Israel ignored warnings from their own intel as well as civilians who noticed that Hamas were increasing training exercises on the border from listening to radio communications. The explicit goal of promoting Hamas was not to promote an attack, but to divide and rule the Palestinians: by showing Hamas as an example of "this is what would happen if we left the West Bank" and by exacerbating the rivalry, they used this to exert control over the Palestinian Authority.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/why-netanyahu-bolste...
Nice article. I'd totally forgotten that they launched with a modem chip (6860) in the family. Forward thinking!
Random reach here but has anyone here managed to get FFMPeg to render JS text over a video? I've been thinking about this workflow and just haven't quite figured it out yet, only a prototype in MoviePy but I'd like to move away from that.
Everybody knows that you can bring Betelgeuse back by saying his name 3 times.
These people probably have a single headphone paired with a single device.

Or surprisingly low standards for “nice”.
The Zionist project began long before WW2 (and before WW1)
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I think there is good reason to hold Israel to a higher standard. It is by many metrics one of the most sophisticated states in the whole world. It has one of the highest fractions of people with higher education, it is a highly innovative economy. It is the second largest country of origin for NASDAQ stocks - US being the first one - despite being small by numbers at around 10m people. Whereas the Palestinian territories barely classify as the third world.

Similarly, it was awful, but not really surprising when the Taliban were torturing people but it was a shock when the US troops in Afghanistan did so.

This isn't an excuse or justification for Hamas. But indeed I think our expectations of Israel should be higher.
As far as I remember the explosion created by a lasgun-shield effect was indistinguishable from a nuclear explosion. Nuclear weapons were banned, their use heavily sanctioned. I think there was a hint that the use of atomics would immediately bring in the combined forces of the Landsraad Great Houses totally annihilating the perpetrator. That effectively prevented the use of the lasgun-shield effect.
Though the Fremen set up some shields during the final battle for Arrakeen (in the first book) to draw Sardaukar lasgun fire, thus giving them a lesson to be a little bit more restrained on the use of lasguns.
I think it's close to 100% that we will have an early election, as he can't placate his right-extremist coalition partners on which his government depends. I would guess we'd be up to a 2024 elections.