skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> to understand any of the above to a useful level.

The standard model for electrical current is not true, but it is still useful in the vast, vast, vast majority of cases. True and useful are very different things. The conflation here is erroneous.

The average person is never going to understand what is true in any meaningful way, and even those who focus on certain truths are going to be focused on very specific truths, not all truths. There is only so much time in the day. For everything else they have to work with simplified models that may be quite disconnected from reality, but as long as they work for all practical purposes, who cares?

> And you are claiming that adding industrial-scale AI agents to the public 'conversation' at a scale never seen in history will have zero effect?

Conversation only happens when people realize they are working with a faulty model, so if conversation keeps happening then that means people are realizing that the model they currently have doesn't work. What do you think is going to happen with more noise? If people can't find a usable model in a not-so-noisy environment, do you think they will suddenly be able to find one in a noisier environment? That seems quite unlikely. In reality, the outcome is the same either way.

Maybe increased noise will turn more interest to the vetted environments and ignoring the noisy conversations, but if people are already not finding the vetted, the reality is that we are not likely to see change there either.
The essence of it would be something like "life is easier when you know your place" within the structure that you are living in. You have people to look up to and people that remind you about what your work and lifestyle was and is worth. And whatever function you fulfill, there are reliable ways to get to you and your peers and no crisis, conflict, change of leadership or cultural shift can change that.
It's not just price. Amtrak routes cover a tiny fraction of the routes that greyhound does, and likewise only a fraction of cities/towns have airports. At least in the past, Greyhound was often bundled with Amtrak to complete trips.

Many of the existing freight rail lines aren't suitable for passenger use even if there was demand to support them, and even if they were the are still tons of town with no rail passing through them. Using the highways we've already built and are going to maintain either way is more efficient than building out completely different infrastructures for public transit and personal transportation.
No, because "quality" means two different things here. I believe the main reason word2vec became important was purely on the software/engineering side, not because it was scientifically novel. Advancements in Python development, especially good higher-level constructs around numerical linear algebra, meant that the fairly shallow and simple tools of word2vec were available to almost every tech company. So I don't think word2vec was (or is) particularly good research, but it became good software for reasons beyond its own control

In 2016 or so it was proven that word2vec is equivalent to the pointwise mutual information between the words in its training set, after doing some preprocessing. This means that Claude Shannon had things mostly figured out in the 60s, and some reviewers were quite critical of the word2vec paper for not citing similar developments in the 70s.
> They will soon be the ones pushing for better intercity bus / passenger train options.

Nah. Boomers mostly live in the suburbs, where mass transit is never going to work because there isn't enough density. But it's common for retirees to move once they no longer have any need to live within reasonable commuting distance of work and no longer need the three bedroom house because their kids have moved out. So they move to a retirement community in a low cost of living area and don't have to advocate for anything because those communities are already designed for that lifestyle.

When they want to travel between cities they'll get on a plane.
That didn’t age well
What if looking backwards in the solarsystem is looking at the same planet, just in the past? Mercury, venus, earth, mars, saturn, uranus, neptune... all the same planet.

Neptune, gasses condense as they get compressed by gravity
Uranus, a small core surrounded by compressing gas
Saturn, we can see the accretion disk formed before it gets compressed to more mass (heard we just found hydrogen cyonide here as well!)
Mars, a dense planet with no atmosphere. Water under the crust, though!
Earth, hydrogen chloride + h2o = BAM! Life
Venus, too close to the sun to sustain life
Mercury, a hot planetary body which is smaller due to it's matter being absorbed by the Sun
Did you try OSM ? Just curious.
https://archive.is/P2GeG
The article links Better Bus Coalition and Link Houston.

https://betterbuscoalition.org/

https://linkhouston.org/about-us/
I like mos def's version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzvg_hCCn8Y
MSFT acquisition instead..?
"Figmates" has a dotcom air to it.
> it's like saying the distance between New York and Washington is 200 miles which is not that long, because a Ferrari's top speed is 200 mph

It’s saying the distance is within a class negotiable by a Ferrari.

In the GDP to value case, we’re saying that the consideration at hand is comparable to all of the work of a small country for a year. So the care the latter gets is in the same class as the care the former should receive.
uh, isn't it an rss client? Can't you just add what you want to it?
I think the two main ones are Rust and Zig. This may be controversial (but it seems very obvious to me) that:

Rust is created in the same spirit that created and evolved C++: create a complex and featureful language that enables compiling your solution from a high level representation in an expressive/safe/performant way.

Zig is created in the same spirit that created and evolved C: create a simple language that allows you to directly and transparently represent and reason about what you want to have happen.

You'll probably think that one of these statements is more biased than the other, and that probably reflects your own preferences :)
This is absolutely amazing. Having to clear out a usb just to boot a live image is really annoying (still need to format the usbs with it at the beginning though)
Your completely correct if you mean the norm since the 80's when antitrust enforcement was abandoned. Her stances completely align with the standing anti-laws and regulations that have existed for over 80 years. The anti-trust bar and big business have been trying to redefine what anti-trust is for the past 30-40 years which is what got us into this mess of giant firms and too big to fail economics.
The perspective that bringing back regulatory action is outside the norm shows just how skewed economic thinking has been in the US.
A new lower bound for sphere packing
Looks like humor to me.
Why is it important that he worked for Amazon? Why not mention that he also used to work at McDonald's when he was 17? (Or whatever odd jobs he had when he was young)
They tried to block people using adblockers perhaps or maybe they rolled the block out in a non-uniform manner? I still haven't had any problems.
The OpenAI Assistant could use a Session Backend
The opposite.

The various policies we have are for Aluminum Smelting plants, Desal, and other heavy-electricity industries to use excess solar (or nuclear) power during peak-energy times, and to turn off during peak-usage times to help balance the grid.

On an individual level, we might be able to even do this for air-conditioning, washing machines, or car-charging (if you have a PHEV or EV).

Cryptocoins then perverted the models we created to earn money from this through mining (using energy during peak-energy and turning off during peak-usage). But the "intent" for those laws has always been for industry and/or individual grid-level issues.

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For low-utilization machines (ex: washing machines and dryers), this makes perfect sense. The main issue is that for high-utilization machines (ie: all industry wishes to run at 100%, rather than 80% or 50%), you end up doubling or more the cost of CapEx.

Ex: You'll need twice as many Desal plants if they only operate during the most efficient 50% of times during the week. Which might be worthwhile, but you have to run the math. Every hour these plants are shutdown for power-saving purposes is an hour that they are sitting away / depreciating.
Zuckerberg hunkers down in Hawaii to wait out apocalypse
And then the governments wonder why people stop vaccinating or have crazy conspiracies.
The Cleveland station is a stunning example of the Streamline Moderne style the article mentions. Highly worth a visit if you're in town:

https://www.cleveland.com/life-and-culture/erry-2018/10/f6f3...
Which also happens with tons of user generated content on the Internet, case in point, this thread
Nowadays, with AI producing so much (crap) he'd say it was more like five nines of crap (99.999% is crap).
True, but that's precisely my point: even with this stripped down version, I was able to hack together exactly what I wanted for an upcoming project in far less time. I got a model in the exact hairstyle, pose, and costume I wanted. The upscaler did a pretty good job of making it production ready.

This stuff is wildly productive for noobs who just want to get stuff out. Maybe its not something you'd see in an Apple ad, but its definitely something you'll see in a small business ad.
They wouldn't necessarily have to give up any ownership, so they could keep hoping for a home run to occur later. I feel like that's a pretty good deal.
Apparently you can also stress the legal department out with it: https://www.threads.net/@itsmattslaw/post/C0-gclQLjAT/
Agreed. I only get polygonal underwear (fetish?) images and women cut off at the neck. Can't even read about a TB hard drive without it being some Temu clever boob window shot with "cunting season" or similar written nearby [1]. Not a prude, but this is just dumb.

When did ads stop even attempting to sell me anything? They don't even try anymore. Now they just show me thinly disguised images of dildos.

[1] Typical Example: https://i.imgur.com/sRu8s0I.png
I'm somewhat okay with this - it doesn't mean the barrier of proof should be zero, but in that many of these "influencers" are openly chasing follower and view counts (dare I say some are addicted to it?) then I'm okay with not enabling that.

You don't need to link to CSAM sites to talk about issues like that. Similar to not needing to link to the worst of rotten.com or whatever just to make observations on it.

> I attempted to google and immediately found a footage matching their description, but not from tiktokers but from television news.

My perception has been that tiktok isn't particularly well indexed by Google.
Those boys, I would conclude, simply don’t perceive value in romantic relationships and therefore eschew dating.

To me, that’s understandable: What value would a romantic relationship hold for guys of that age and apparent demographic, especially when finding sex is no problem?
Yeah but can they refuse the detective holding the phone up to your face for FaceID?
OP here. I think I did a poor job of communicating this exact point. I agree with you - risk management is a part of good project management. The point I was attempting to convey is when organizations consider projects (or project tasks) as managed when all they've done is shift risk without consideration of the ability to _actually_ accomplish said project/task. The myopic focus on risk can get in the way of _actual_ accomplishment.
Using it to benchmark C is a cool idea. I hadn't thought of that!

Thanks for sharing!
There's a link from the page to here[0] and then out to here[1], which says...

The tadi web is built with a slippy mindset. We try to be as ‘slippy’ as possible.

Being slippy means you’re not stuck.

When you’re slippy, it’s easy to change plan, or rebuild something from scratch. It means you’re not locked in to using a certain tool.

If something breaks, you can choose to fix it, or let it die. It’s ok, because it won’t take long to rebuild it from scratch.

Every time you grow back, you’ll be a bit different. You might be stronger. Or you might be better equipped for your changing needs.

[0]: https://www.todepond.com/wikiblogarden/tadi-web/
[1]: https://www.tadiweb.com/
Storing it lets you feed back that energy at a different time (e.g. night) but requires a lot of expensive hardware (i.e. batteries) + you have to deal with losses involved with storing & retrieving that energy. Consuming it directly doesn’t require batteries and desal plants are cheaper than battery plants + going to be fewer losses.

It’s a stupid comparison though because the point of batteries is to get to net 0 and desal plants don’t help with that. But it’s not a great sign for renewables achieving net 0 at the grid level that a process that is so energy intensive for getting so little water out is a better use of electricity than batteries.
Oh sure, was just curious what feature gp was looking for. I would love the first one for example
I used sketch around 2017-2018 and the performance was really bad. Much worse than Illustrator. At the time I was on a top of the line 5K iMac.

Currently on an M2 Pro MBP and Figma is more responsive than Affinity Design. The latest versions of Illustrator have had a bunch of GPU rendering issues that affect performance. In fact these issues were the reason I started using Figma.
Happens everywhere, even on my Google News Feed. I can tell Google I don't want to see specific articles, authors, topics, etc., but there's no way for me to tell Google that I don't want to see Clickbait article titles...
Careful what data you send or how to tank your performance with Task.async
I see what you did there :-p
I mean, we’ve understood negative impacts of climate change for like a hundred years now, and minimizer propaganda is still winning the information war for a majority of the planet, and some 40% of Americans.

I don’t think there’s any issue at all with getting ahead of forever chemicals and regulating them before it gets to climate change levels of disaster (in some deregulation parts of the country, it will soon be legal to contaminate the soil and groundwater with pfas and radioactive materials because some politicians friend wants to sell their companies waste to road work).

I am sorry, but I simply disagree that the issue is minimal here. We should be treating this as if it’s already out of control and stamping it out before propaganda pieces settle and let it become out of control.
Great scene.

The theme is repeated both when Monica reveals her shameful secret of having passed on Slack, and when Erlich turns down the ferret / pig startup: "I'm not passing, exactly, I'm just not saying yes" (paraphrased).
> What struck me first is that although I could get that model with Linux preinstalled, in that case I was limited to a most basic model (like 16 GB of (soldered!) RAM). That didn't make a lot of sense, so I swallowed my pride and decided to pay for the Windows - that I'll delete immediately after unboxing, but that was the only option Lenovo offered. For better or worse, I became a proud owner of 21K5000DSC.
Man, I _really_ want to play a Nobilis/Chuubo’s/Glitch game. But I can’t seem to wrap my head around the system(s), and it’s incredibly hard to find an AP that will help me understand how they work.

How would you teach a newbie the game(s)?
I'm "obsessing" over it, because its a bad example. If anything, this whole exchange is a good example of how people will ignore valid, relevant statistics because they find the implication of a given statistic inconvenient. Claiming to be an exception necessarily opens you up to greater scrutiny, so it behooves you to critically examine what, exactly, makes the affected group subject to the stated phenomenon, and honestly assess whether or not your circumstance is indeed an exception.

Here's an illustrative example from my realm of experience: between the fall of 2009 and spring of 2023, 363 people have died in avalanches in the US. Of those, 173 were skiers or snowboarders, and 17 of those were "inbounds" [0]. Somewhere on the order of 60 million people visit ski resorts each year[1]. A surface level understanding of those numbers might cause a ski-hill operator to conclude "the money I spend on avalanche mitigation is wasted, since deadly avalanches are significantly less likely at ski resorts".

Obviously this is a straw-man. But there are a number of ways to misinterpret the data to arrive at a conclusion you want (to whit, in that time period, 3 times as many skiers than snowboarders died in avalanches, and more than twice as many snowmobiler/snowbikers died in avalanches than snowboarders. But it takes really digging in to realize that a) there are also a lot fewer backcountry snowboarders vs backcountry skiers and b) snowmobiliers are consistently the least avalanche-educated of all backcountry users who actually play on avalanche prone slopes)

You're entirely correct that statistics don't dictate outcomes. But understanding what does dictate outcomes, without bias, can help you change those outcomes.

0. https://avalanche.org/avalanche-accidents/

1. https://coloradosun.com/2023/05/29/national-ski-areas-record...
I see a man who wants to sound clever and charming by speaking fast and by using an heavy accent as if he's one of the people. The location also speaks 'This is where the American people live'.

I really don't understand how people fall for this 'I'm one of you guys' trick.

On the other hand, I might be biased, living in a democratic country.
I have no idea why so many people are asserting that the FTC has been sitting on this for 15 months.

The first paragraph of the article, FROM FIGMA, says:

"Figma and Adobe have reached a joint decision to end our pending acquisition. It’s not the outcome we had hoped for, but despite thousands of hours spent with regulators around the world detailing differences between our businesses, our products, and the markets we serve, we no longer see a path toward regulatory approval of the deal."

The FTC has not been slow rolling this, they have been in discussions. No one wants the FTC to sue unless they have too, especially Figma/Adobe ... it sounds like Figma and Adobe have finally admitted that they were not going to win this one.
As far as Chicago is concerned, the obvious answer is to find room at Union Station.

For some unknown reason, neither CTA ("The El" and subways) nor Greyhound/Trailways are directly connected to the Union Station building; each is at least a two block walk, with limited accessibility.

Only Amtrak and Metra trains are inside the building. CTA does have a bus stop outside across the street.

Putting everything into one facility would make it easier to use all of it.

Edit: there are a couple of potential reasons for this. First, Amtrak likely does not want to compete with Greyhound on fare pricing. Second, adult beverages are sold within Union Station and Metra is particularly friendly towards them; Greyhound is very much not.
I think it’s completely possible. Though, you’ll have to manage your own control-plane.

Azure AKS and EKS provide virtual-kubelet functionality in some form, but AKS is an a managed control-plane where you can’t add nodes yourself and EKS only allows nodes in the same VPC.

Edit: It already is a thing. https://github.com/virtual-kubelet/tensile-kube
It’s fascinating that this is a paper - we did the math about 20 years ago and have been using excess electricity for desalination in Cayman ever since.
You might want to take a look at NixOS[0]. It is fully built around systems for services etc. and while it does allow you to, e.g., use an alternate local DNS resolver instead of systemd-resolved, it still makes it easy to build a fully immutable distro with mostly systemd components.

It does have the "downside" of not just being plug-and-play but rather BYO system.

[0]: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#preface /
So, this is an interesting question and one which I watched unfold in COVID times.

The law that would specifically come into play here is called the Defense Production Act, and it’s complicated.

Here’s a great overview:

https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/what-defense-production-act

For more specifics, I would look at this overview which is excellent:

https://www.businessdefense.gov/ibr/mceip/dpai/dpat3/docs/DP...

In wartime, seizing capacity from an ally is… problematic. That’s my concern. What is technically possible isn’t necessarily diplomatically viable, and there are quite a few layers of laws here.
LOL soooo good. The principles never get old!!
Funny, I see developers refusing to investigate breaches because "its not their job"
I used the term bridge loan as a sort of umbrella term that might be technically not the best as my training isn't in finance and I know some of this stuff from exposure by proximity. What I'm referring to sometimes is also called a revolving line of credit, the most famous case was Enron's revolvers for example. The point is big banks will normally allow companies to take out large short term loans for this type of thing, usually having large amounts pre-approved.
Just commenting an adjacent UEFI problem solved: My workaround at work with some old test robots that I still use, but don't have UEFI... Put iPXE on a flash drive, and use that to chain-boot into the uefi-only PXE setup. (there's still a few that this doesn't work for, but it's a minority and I'm going to scrap those...)
> That is their problem, not yours or mine.

Wrong - if Google can't make the money they need on YouTube then it's our problem. They'll need to run more ads and they'll take more draconian measures to ensure you can't block their ads. You can better believe they'll further monetize their efforts by selling the needed tech to other web sites. We all lose in that scenario.
This seems to be great marketing.

https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/18/apple-halting-apple-watch-ser...

> In a statement to 9to5Mac, Apple has announced that it will soon halt sales of its flagship Apple Watch models in the United States.

> The Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 will no longer be available to purchase from Apple starting later this week.

And https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/18/tech/apple-halt-sales-apple-w... cleverly paired the story with a file photo of people lining up outside an Apple Store.

> The company confirmed to CNN it will no longer be selling its Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2, starting Thursday on Apple.com and from retail locations after December 24.

Get more people captive shoppers in their brick&morder stores during the shopping frenzy.

> In October, the International Trade Commission ruled that Apple was in violation of Masimo’s pulse oximeter patent, which uses light-based technology to read blood-oxygen levels. President Biden has 60 days to review the ruling before a ban could go into effect.

> “While the review period will not end until December 25, Apple is preemptively taking steps to comply should the ruling stand,” the company said in a statement.

It's nice for review of the ruling to drag its feet until after the Christmas shopping period.

With the news hype, Apple might even come out ahead?
Really impressive simulation of using fresh-water storage tanks as energy storage in regions that use desalination.

The cost of overbuilding desalination capacity is non-zero though, and energy is only about ~1/3rd of the typical cost for a cubic meter of water overall depending on the plant, so the marginal savings may not be as big as we would like here.