skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure! It still leaves the issue of getting there, and you can't stay in the shadow of a moon the whole way there.
>It sound like the manufacturers just see USB-A as a convenient and cheap connector for delivering power.

Is it really any cheaper than a simple barrel connector that manufacturers have used forever for power?
They've been leaked ever since they were shared with anyone other than yourself and the Social Security Administration. Any system using an SSN as a password is fundamentally broken - just the fact that a company can verify your SSN is proof that it's an authentication mechanism known to more than only yourself... (Ok, they could be hashing it, or at least the first five digits of it... but they're not.)
> I can't imagine any solutions to this logistical problem that wouldn't also significantly affect learning outcomes.

Okay, what's the least harmful? It seems obvious to me the easiest solution (blanket ban of in person schooling) was chosen rather than trying to minimize harm.

Just off the cuff, regarding high risk teachers, why not have _them_ work remote with an in class, lower risk, TA to handle the physical interaction required?

I can't say I have all of the solutions or even a good suggestion but I can say that, after the initial closing of schools when there was very little information, once the risk factors became much more apparent, there was a minimal amount of rethinking of policy because everyone had already taken ideological stances when there was only ideology to make decisions with. That extends well beyonds schools as well but schools and retirement homes are essentially the opposite ends of the spectrum of risk and seemed to, at best, have the same solutions applied to them.
> But in the meantime it's not helping to have a bunch of the housing stock dedicated to tourists

Tourists bring in good tax dollars for the city since NYC has insane hotel taxes on top of the ridiculous cost of Hotels.

From a moral perspective, it really shouldn't be anyone's business how a property owner decides to use their property. If they want to rent it on month-to-month leases or 12 month leases, it's up to them. If there's not enough permanent or long-term housing, then you need to deregulate NYC's byzantine zoning regulations and make it a lot easier to build whatever, wherever.

Also you need to get rid of rent control; it is categorically proven to make things worse
Pitch is a *subjective* property, inherently tied to the complex processing humans use to perceive sounds. “Simple” physical measures like fundamental frequency of a periodic signal are very closely related, but for real-world audio (aren’t really periodic), the relationship is more complicated.
What Is Entanglement and Why Is It Important?
super cool very retro
I often find reading these sort of descriptions amusing, for the strange mix of "hey, cool seeing someones DIY project" vs "I just don't understand why". I guess my personal value on hacking up your own stuff is just way higher than that on home automation...
I don't care for Wayland because I don't care for the FreeDesktop people, Red Hat or IBM. It's also horribly bloated, x.org runs comfortably on very very little hardware, Wayland is an incredible resource hog by comparison.

I hope soon, the FreeDesktop people will formally stop "supporting" X.org so some other, more interested party can finally take control. FreeDesktop's charter promises that they will extend X.org, not abandon it OR replace it, so if you've given donations to them (as my organization has) you should feel a little ripped off.
Why filter out the votes made after only one or two prompts? A lot of times, a single response is all you need to see.

Do you really need more than this to know which one you’re going to pick? https://i.imgur.com/En37EJD.png

Avatar doesn’t have humans? Seriously?
> In the case of Apple or Google, I'm given a store forcefully. Google let's you jump through hoops to get another store but it isn't easy.

Every Samsung and Xiami phone comes with another store.
After ~150mm aperture, right?

Highest magnification is approximately 2x the aperture in mm, and 300x is approximately the atmospheric limit.
“okay, you promised me 10 minutes, that ran out four minutes ago, so how many more minutes?”

Seems to me that ATC need to get it together also.
Just to clarify, I am not advocating for tests to only test one thing, rather that after you have tested for one scenario you don't need to rehash it again in another test.

Breaking a test down helps to clarify what you're testing and helps to prevent 80 loc unit tests. When I test for multiple things, I look for the equivalent of nunit's assert.multiple in the language that I'm in.

The approach I advocate for typically simplifies testing multiple scenarios with clear objectives and tends to make it easier when it comes time to refactor/fix/or just delete a no longer needed unit test. The difference I find, is that now you know why, vs having to figure out why.
Sure, I get it. Will fix it asap.
There was a rent moratorium in most places. People were not paying rent.
The EU is forcing Apple to allow third party app stores by April. As for the US issue, law cases like this are unique and have to be dealt with individually.

https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/18/third-party-app-stores-apple-...
Right - you don't need a wasteful proof-of-work blockchain for this. The mechanism used for Certificate Transparency would work great here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_Transparency

Same for "real estate on the blockchain" - when people argue for that, the bit they are usually arguing for is a trail of historical records that can't be corrupted. Certificate Transparency solves that really well.
The point is, if you're answering these honestly, if an attacker knows your mother maiden's name and which hospital you were born in from attacking Comcast, now they can use this info to reset your bank password. If you had different answers on these different services, attackers are still at square one in terms of getting your bank info.

Honestly, I don't know if there's a point to having these questions. At least one security expert feels similarly: https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2005/02/the_curse_o...
Restored 478-key, 31-tone Moog synthesizer from 1968 sounds beautifully bizarre
What’s the actionable take away from this?
I'm not sure moderation scales down well either. It's easy to say "the community" decides but in practice that means it's down to the handful of people who step up and do all the work. And people interested in volunteering their time for free to moderate don't always have the personality type we'd prefer.

That's why it's so concerning to me that Mastodon admins can interfere with your ability to leave an instance. Like email, you're to an extent dependent on your old provider to forward.
Heck, I find so many cases where std::min and std::max could be used as well.
Aw I loved that movie as a kid, yet another missed opportunity by NASA!
> In November, Google’s research division released a set of open-source tools for AI and machine-learning based on RISC-V.

Does anybody know what this is referring to?
It works fine on iOS/safari for me, in the sense that the text is all readable, but the simulations don’t seem to all execute. Which… given that other folks are reporting that the site is slowed to a crawl, I guess because it is running the simulations, I’ll take the iOS experience.
No plans as of now, will see.
NYC doesn't even make the list apparently:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_proper_by_popul...
> You Don’t Need a Full-Size Pickup Truck, You Need a Cowboy Costume

That’s hilarious
At Least 15% of Reddit Content Is Corporate Trolls Manipulating Public Opinion
Whereas Wayland originated in 2008, sway didn't exist until 2015, Wlroots 2017. This is not when they were ready merely when development begun.

Furthermore it was of vital import for KDE and Gnome to support both X11 and Wayland for years and leverage their large existing codebase. Wlroots would both have to travel back in time like the terminator from 2018/2020 to 2010 and become universally suitable en route.
I've never been mugged, probably because I don't hang out around shady characters at night.

Back in the 80s, I got viruses and trojans, because (a) I was promiscuous with floppy disks, and (b) I worked with students. And I installed software from shady places that came with unwanted stuff like browser toolbars.

Nowadays, I use Linux, and I find I can rely on the distro's package repository. So I only install software from the repository; if I need to try something that isn't packaged by the distro, I proceed with extreme caution.

I'm sure it's different if you're running a corporate Linux desktop fleet; but this is a home network, with one laptop that runs any GUI at all. The laptop exposes no network ports. In fact the entire home network exposes no internet ports.

I think Red Hat would be fine, if they'd stick to serving corporate requirements. I just wish they'd stop shoving stuff down the throats of non-corporate users. I'm particularly annoyed by systemd; Poettering is a specialist in throat-shoving.

Unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to get Bluetooth Audio to work on Linux without pulseaudio. I have a pair of nice Bose cans that I can't use, because I don't want to run pulse. I need a bluetooth audio stack that depends only on ALSA. (I think it's possible, but every time I try I run into a brick wall, and I've got tired)
I agree with everything written here - C++ is never going to be Rust, or any other language, but it can at least become better than it is now, in some common-sense ways.

In my view, C++'s biggest problem is its design-by-committee structure, leading to a lack of pragmatism - in other words, perfect is the enemy of good. Pragmatism is what you see when you look at the standard libraries of languages like Python and Java: are they perfect? Far from it. But they prioritize being at least good enough for a good amount of situations, over being perfect. Which ends up being far more useful for regular people. And being useful for regular people is what makes a programming language successful.

But design by committee means if your proposal isn't perfect, it will get shot down. So the language remains bad for everyone's use cases, rather than at least becoming somewhat good for some people's use cases.
I love the idea/concept. I think it could gain more traction if you didn’t use the term hate and instead went for something more like “an alternative to python” or something like that.
> And I'm not smart enough to just follow a paper

Don't sell yourself short. This is the sort of thing that is only straightforward if you have the right background.
For a systems language execution environment there is a huge list of crucial questions: what is a library, what is a package, how does linking works, how do you interact with different build systems, how you separately compile having only interface declarations, how to manage alternative libraries for the same interface, how to tweak compilation for multiple targets, how do you ffi?

The answers to all of the above will have an impact on your language features: how you import, how you declare foreign entities, what visibilities are possible, what data storage classes are theere, what is the module initialization order, what code can be executed during module initialization, what is your conditional compilation mechanisms?
> they are obligated to honor that "incorrect" price.

Clearly false. If the store owner sees the incorrect price, he can say "that's incorrect, it costs more... do you still want it?". If you call the cops, they'll say "fuck off, this is civil, leave me alone or I'll make up a charge to arrest you with". And if you sue, because the can of off-brand macaroni and hot dog snippets was mismarked the judge will award the other guy legal costs because you were filing frivolous lawsuits.

> "bots" can make legally binding trades on Wall Street, and have been for decades.

Both parties want the trades to go through. No one contests a trade... even if their bot screwed up and lost them money, even if the courts would agree to reverse or remedy it, then it shuts down bot trading which costs them even more than just eating the one-time screwup.

This isn't analogous. They don't want their chatbot to be able to make sales, not even good ones. So shutting that down doesn't concern them. It will be contested. And given that this wasn't the intent of the creator/operator of the chatbot, given that letting the "sale" stand wouldn't be conducive to business in general, that there's no real injury to remedy, that buyers are supposed to exercise some minimum amount of sense in their dealings and that they weren't relying on that promise and that if they were doing so caused them no harm...

The judge would likely excoriate any lawyer who brought that lawsuit to court. They tend not to put up with stupid shit.
Regional ISP markets are usually a monopoly or duopoly. If you're on comcast, its unlikely there is another high speed option out there for you (or if there is, the option is no better than comcast).
My understanding is that Apple's defense is that they never opted in to a free market, and therefore they aren't required to have one. Google however sold android as being a "free market" choice, and as such can't artificially skew that market.

I don't know if it really makes sense, but that's my understanding of these two verdict when held in contrast.
Only if you trust digitalisation to be a perfectly faithful process, and digital artefacts fundamentally unmodifiable or falsifiable. Which we all know is totally the case... oh wait
What's the license?

What are your thoughts on PESTO which learns pitch-prediction very well with a small network, and uses a self-supervised objective?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.02265

https://github.com/SonyCSLParis/pesto
My argument applies equally well to that: the mere fact that a religion has large numbers of adherents does not in and of itself show that it is either good or useful. But that's a harder case to make because it turns on what is meant by "good" and "useful", and those are things about which reasonable people can disagree.

To be clear, "fitness as a general purpose programming language" is also something about which reasonable people can (and manifestly do) disagree. All I'm saying is that having large numbers of adherents is not a valid argument in favor of fitness any more than it is an argument in favor of goodness or usefulness. It's possible that all it shows is that a lot of people drank the kool-aid.

[UPDATE] It's also possible that most of the people using C++ think that it sucks, and they are all just using it because everyone else is using it.
How does a 1% increase in traffic cost your health?
How does differ from the very neat joblib.Memory https://joblib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/generated/joblib.Mem...?
Bound to return to its peak population of 1.85 million any day now... Cities always come back, something, something.
It's a bit dystopian when "news" and "conspiracy theory" have completely reversed meanings. Doublethink is a present reality.
The small silver lining in NYC was that it convinced some of our worst cops to move to Florida.
CUDA vs. ROCm: A case study
Lessons never learned:
- https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/09/special-need...
- https://www.amazon.com/Windrush-Betrayal-Exposing-Hostile-En...

I love digital records, but historically people have been wrecked by the destruction of physical records.
The walled garden has everything to do with the lawsuit. This lawsuit would not have happened had Android been a walled garden.
Blah, this generic sentiment is so tired. What specific rights should we take away from groups of people but are present as individuals?
Watching UK policy from a distance has been like watching a dumpster fire.

You can get arrested for writing a Tweet, you need to show an ID to watch porn on the Internet, a kitchen knife is considered a deadly weapon. They shot their economy in the foot with Brexit. It's like they took the fucking worst policy ideas from both sides of the political aisle in the USA, and thought, hey, let's combine them, this will turn out great.
I thought I did answer the question. But to be clear, what is being pushed on children is that homosexuality is normal and healthy with the subtext that they should experiment with it. I am suspicious of the claim that it is those things and that the claimants are doing nothing more than promoting tolerance.
On the subject of intimate conversation...

> I think it means that you get to a place where you feel comfortable being vulnerable with someone else. It's sort of a shared environment that gets created between both people, where everyone involved in the conversation can say, yeah, I'm going to let down my guard. I'm going to reveal something true about myself

This would be exceedingly difficult for me to do, especially with someone I just met. I pretty much don't do it with anyone, to be honest. Seems like there are only downsides, especially in the age of social media where someone says something that is is then quoted out of context and follows you forever. Also why I'm not on social media.
They mention simulating fire and smoke for games, and doing fluid simulations on the GPU. Something I’ve never understood, if these effects are to run in a game, isn’t the GPU already busy? It seems like running a CFD problem and rendering at the same time is a lot.

Can this stuff run on an iGPU while the dGPU is doing more rendering-related tasks? Or are iGPUs just too weak, better to fall all the way down to the CPU.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Even in 2020, they knew that the fatality rate was very low for most of the population and was only an issue for the elderly and those with specific comorbidities. Many of the secondary and n-ary effects of either the pandemic or eliminating cars are unknown until they actually play out. There may be some projections, but those projections tend to change. For example, maybe electric scooter become a huge problem because people refuse to walk after cars are banned (negating the potential exercise related benefits).
You usually don't design an algorithm for a single CPU. Most software has to run on different tiers and generations from Intel, AMD, a whole herd of different ARM processors.
Even the very hottest code paths will mostly do CPU feature detection but not "if cpu == i7-12700K { ... }"
Not the connection, just the company administering and profiting from it.
drama is one part of life, yes
This looks great, will probably take a stab at this with TIC-80 right after I hit "submit" here.

BUT ALSO: I've also been curious about the Uxn/Varvara stack for a while, too. Do you happen to know how well these challenges would translate to that stack?
Seems like Lufthansa has decided it's not able to land planes at SFO at night.
This sounds like a lot, do they get their money's worth?

But I would point out that people spend even more for sports-tickets I think. And even for Taylor Swift? A bit crazy from my perspective, but it's people's choice.
That might be how it works in TV but that's not how it works in real life.

Pretty much all that needs to happen in the US is somebody shows up with a document signed by a few people (dead guy and some notaries). Whether that document was stored under the fridge or a law office -- nobody cares.
Your forgot one of the biggest reasons:

Florida has no income tax.
I don't think a bubble associated with a technology means that the technology is not incredibly useful. Rather, it's an overly aggressive inflation of value that is nominally attributable to that technology, where much of that value later collapses.

The dot com bubble did not invalidate the importance of the web. But there were all kinds of shenanigans going on around the promise of the web. People were setting up companies thinking/claiming that making a website would make the business wildly valuable, ignoring all the actual problems unrelated to the web that they'd need to solve before they would have viability. They were then successfully going public with nothing but the website built - no actual product in place. Then it collapsed. But the web carried on and some of the companies being built through that period (e.g., Amazon, eBay, Google) were quite real.

I see similar things going on with AI now...

An electric utility company that a friend works at has an edict to lay off all 200 customer support staff and replace them with a chatbot. They don't want to pay OpenAI, so the executives are giving the team (of 3 data scientists) 6-months to build their own in-house LLMs. They don't have the data or the infrastructure expertise to do it. But, AI!

A tech company with 1-2K employees and lots of revenue that another friend works at is preparing to IPO in the next year. Executives are forcing LLMs on teams that can't find reasonable applications for them. It's being done to boost their valuation heading into the IPO because they can then call themselves "AI powered".

At a FAANG that another friend works at, a non-technical VP with lots of available budget commandeered several data science and engineering teams to build something laughably bad with LLMs (LLMs would never work for this application, customers would hate the outcome, and it would create contractual problems for the company). The technical teams were tempted by the budget after a round of layoffs, but they could only stomach it for so long. After most of a year and 10s of millions of dollars spent (plus the contractual issues starting to appear), sanity prevailed, and the project was cancelled.

None of these examples say that LLMs (or other ML approaches) won't continue to have life/society altering impact. They point to people trying to exploit/build the hype for short term financial gain. It's why so many ML practitioners don't like the term AI - many of them feel like AI == ML + hype. ML is just a tool, and all the hype makes people engage in science-fiction type thinking that obfuscate where the value really is. But it will all work because AI!

These are only anecdotes, but what I'm seeing now feels a lot like what I saw in the dot com bubble.
> Seems most large metros are going through some post-COVID pains

I don't know about the US, but here in Canada the 2016 census was already showing meaningful decline in communities with >100,000 people, with communities of 1,000-29,999 people picking up most of the slack. COVID may have accelerated things, but signs of a 'counterubranization' movement were already presenting itself long before we ever heard of COVID.
From the article:

> “You can see the indent of the pen and if the writer is excited or tense. There are minute details on the page which digitisation [can’t capture]. There is a thrilling sensation that you are looking at a document that a real human being wrote on. You get a connection to the past that digitised versions won’t give you.”

More importantly: the digitization process is prone to errors and mistakes. Anyone who's spent any time browsing digital collections will have encountered pages that were scanned out of focus, or where a part of the page was illegibly crumpled, or a page was missed or miscategorized.
Advent of Technical Writing
I never know when I have boredom vs dopamine starvation. Having lots of possible things to do but not finding them motivating.