skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just wish this was the price on my bill. But it’s not. It’s 13x more and we are waiting for: the VAT on electricity to go up to 19%, co2 taxes (aka the budget filler money) to go up, and the removal of the price cap for end consumers. 2024 will be wild in Germany. But energy companies will make a killing.
The digital half of class is available via extension (which is how I did it) although it moves at half speed. And for some reason the analog portion hasn’t been offered for a couple of years.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AWSCertifications/comments/18p8uub/...
Best SSO Provider in 2023?
I have a friend running a small company that needs to setup SSO for their employees. I don't want to recommend Okta though.

Who's the best provider for them to use?

I looked it up and couldn't find and clear information. Thank you!
Looks like TheBloke has released GGUFs of this Dolphin fine-tune: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/dolphin-2_6-phi-2-GGUF

There seem to be a few Phi-2 fine-tunes floating around. This is another one I've seen: https://huggingface.co/afrideva/phi-2-sft-alpaca_gpt4_en-ep1...
Thank you for the feedback. You should probably look at our blog post explaining how to index in smarter way [1]. You should probably come and talk to us on Discord. We work with MrBeast and they don't have any issue indexing millions of YouTube videos everyday.

Ho! And just to tease you a little bit. We highly improved the indexing speed of Meilisearch v1.6 (january 24). Here is a teasing tweet [2].

[1]: https://blog.meilisearch.com/best-practices-for-faster-index...
[2]: https://x.com/kerollmops/status/1734576622303404317
Then let me be clearer: one is a routine, eminently survivable collisoin that happens dozens of times every day, the other is a certain death sentence. They are different, and they are different because smart people cared to fix a problem they saw instead of just throwing up their hands in despair. To wit: if you genuinely care about this stuff, get off your ass and help instead of whining on the internet.
Christians consider that a sin and thus a barrier to "heaven" in the afterlife.

I don't believe this, myself, and can see myself considering this in a few decades. I'm in my 40s now, hopefully I have maybe two decades of good-ish living left. After seeing shit like Alzheimers destroy people I loved - I don't want to go through that myself or burden other loved ones.
Neocities has WebDAV support, but it's limited to paid subscribers only (it's billed mainly as a way for you to "mount your Neocities [site]" as a virtual drive), and it's got a lot of the same annoyances that afflicts more or less every REST and quasi-REST service (where you have to tickle some URL over here in order to effect some resource over there).
I haven't found anything about fast food restaurants in 2023 either. However restaurants had been using non-competes in 2017 [1]:

> While the prevalence of the practice may vary by region, one labor study published in April estimated that around one in six people working in food preparation or service jobs was bound by a non-compete agreement, according to a survey of nearly 67,000 workers.

The news article is from 2021 [1], but the one page in the labor study mentioning food services uses data from 2017 [2]. (The paper is on SSRN and there is no open-access mark, but I was able to open the PDF. Check page 51 out of 61 if you're able to open it.) There's still a problem even if only non-fast-food restaurants use non-competes, and a ban on non-competes should cover all restaurants at the very least.

Biden signed an executive order asking the FTC to consider banning non-competes, though the FTC hasn't actually passed anything about non-competes yet.

[1] https://thecounter.org/biden-targeting-non-compete-agreement...

[2] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3814403
The confidence distribution is generally derived from normalizing a likelihood function, and the likelihood function is arguably the proper underlying concept that provides a link to both Bayesian and frequentist inference, per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likelihood_principle
you bought a floor goban? how many people can you play with IRL?
Chat GPT's Bad at Math
I think any therapist will tell you that it's best to have something to look forward to; probably small, near-term things as well as large, long-term goals. When you don't have anything to do, the future looks pretty grim. I've long given up on anything like finding some sort of meaning to all this, but I do try and find little enjoyable stuff to do.

I think exercise is pretty key and applying the philosophy above of doing the type of exercise you like and making it easy to do is very helpful.
… because Siri, predictive text, etc suck because it isn’t using an LLM. Alexa, and the Google Assistants from the same era all suck as well. I don’t see how evidence that Apple sucked with pre-LLM ML is an indicator that they will suck with integrating an LLM into their products.

No one said anything about transforming overnight.
Which country did you leave? I'm curious.
The thing that bothered me about the later Final Fantasys is that as the series went on, the protagonists got younger and more like pop stars than original characters. At some point it seems like they forgot they were making fantasy games and just started aping pop musicians (both in fashion and appearance/age) and Hollywood.

This happens to a lot of game companies though. Turnover leads to teams with no connection to previous games in the series and with that a loss of connection to what made the games so special.
Ciphey – automated decryption/decoding/cracking tool
I enjoyed your story, but I do want to make one correction. The upcoming second part to the remake is called "Rebirth", not Afterbirth. I think that would be a very different game indeed.
It's not the phone--it's the car. For some reason, some car stereo makers thought it would be a good idea to automatically send a "play" signal to the phone when it is first connected, and this is the result if you don't already have a song queued up.
The fallacy is that there will be no objective classification of what is considered misinformation. Rather, it will be arbitrary. So you can't censor misinformation. You will censor information.
Ah yes, military juntas, famous for their love of free expression /s
This example doesn't feel contrived to you? The odds of somebody setting up a bunch of LLCs for each property, maintaining completely anonymity, and somehow these places all avoiding a million complaints visible with e.g. a simple web search just seems, to me, to be difficult to imagine.
Tell me more -- please -- about opening an agate mine.

I know the Mojave and know I love agates so I'm going out on a limb and saying I'm the man for the job.
> And are you actually using remote caching/compilation? Because there's no way you can set that up in 5 minutes.

Who said anything about remote caching? You don't need it to benefit from it. It's useful if you build a lot of Rust code. A lot of packages turn up repeatedly as dependencies among several projects.

> You may be lucky and be building a pure or mostly pure Rust program, in which case it works pretty well. Throw in some C/C++ and it starts to degrade

You're making assumptions again. What is the issue with pure Rust code? Rust isn't like Python needing C or C++ support for process-intensive parts. And much of the C/C++ dependencies are dynamically-linked, with Rust wrappers. I haven't seen many projects that require Rust and C/C++ code to be built together and statically linked.

Besides, I haven't heard anyone complain about sccache that much. How prevalent is the degradation anyway?
SMTP Smuggling Mitigations in Postfix
it's a secondhand one not one of the 10k eur ones, but its kaya and pretty thick.

I have 5-6 people that I can play with
It seems like you’re talking about the modern FF7 Remake, which is actually an alternate universe version of the original FF7 series.

The original didn’t have a lot of the bits you are calling out because it wasn’t trying to retcon in 20+ years worth of story buildup, and is a much simpler story.

That’s not to justify the complexity of the FF7 lore. I think it and Kingdom Hearts are both ridiculously over complex now, but that people delineate between Remake and the original because of that huge divergence in story.

The article and rest of the comments are about the original game.
I have a 2016 Toyota Sienna. Every time I plug my iPhone (currently on iOS 17.2.1) into its USB, it starts playing Samir Mezrahi’s song as noted in the article. It also “helpfully” hits play every time you adjust the volume:

- Listen to music.

- Pull up a map. Realize the volume’s too low to hear directions. Turn it up.

- Listening to music again, but louder.

I’m having a CarPlay unit installed for Christmas, and my feelings about this are on par with wishing for a Red Ryder BB gun. I’m not sure I’ll be able to sleep between now and then.
Unless I’m misreading the wiki, the deadline of the collapse didn’t change to 20 years further out. The data seem to continue to match the original prediction.
Ten years ago, I created a web color palette for personal use: https://csscolor.ru/. That was when I was studying at school, and it was hard project for me. Now, I even occasionally meet people who use it, which is a nice experience :)
Maybe it's older cars/stereos--it still happens to me when I plug my new phone into my old car.
On the whole solar is massively more practical in the US than Germany.

Northernmost most point in the continental US is about on the same latitude as as the southern most parts of Germany.

In much of Europe solar is pretty much useless during winter
From the blog:

> I love that loop. Write, revise, write, revise. It’s like doing reps in a gym. You can’t expect that 10 pull-ups will add any discernible new muscle. But 30 pull-ups, across three sets, done thrice a week, for a year? Yeah, you’re going to notice the cumulative results of that.

I started working on my loop a couple of days ago, incidentally. I am not a programmer and loop is a concept I believe can work outside of programming. Everywhere.

I even made a dedicated page on by blog called the loop :) But my main inspiration was Ma.tt.

Great read!
I highly recommend reading the book “Flow” if you’re looking for that thing that makes every day enjoyable.

In addition to exploring why people love games and other high skill activities, it discusses the idea that we can learn how to turn every day tasks into activities that evoke the same reward centers. It doesn’t just dive into “people like games”, or “people like achieving hard things”, but it delves into why, and tries to explain some of the mechanisms.

It made me start to see daily mundane/boring tasks differently. They’re things I have to do anyway, so I can choose to approach them with a mindset that actually evokes enjoyment. Might as well.

Video games used to be my primary outlet. These days, it’s photography and writing. Over time, cooking/baking have transformed from tasks I begrudgingly did to tasks I find deeply rewarding. I still play video games and my point isn’t to disparage them, but the more things in my life that I can move into the “things I enjoy” category, the better my life has become, on average. And part of that had more to do with changing how I engaged with tasks than the specific tasks I was doing.
There was a time (around 1999-2005 iirc) when Enlightenment’s graphics library Imlib was the tool for fast CPU raster ops, and was adopted by everyone else. Then accelerated graphics (and eventually GPUs) became the focus and the norm, and Imlib was mostly abandoned.
What does "Slow Steaming" mean? [video]
I played FF7 three times during my pre-pubescent years. Along with Chrono Cross twice, Chrono Trigger, FF9 and FFX. (I could not get into FF8's story or magic system.)

I really wanted to like FF7 Remake but stopped around 2/3 way through Midgar.

I don't know whether it's my lack of patience with with single player RPGs at this age, or whether it was just not a good game. I find I can only really get into the odd competitive multiplayer game these days because of the community & friends factor.

That said I always found I enjoyed FF7 much more after getting out of Midgar and having a semi-open world to run around in, versus the more on-rails experience of Midgar. I suppose I'll give the next installment a go.
Damn, that's pretty awesome!
I really dislike these baseless claims. At least provide some backing evidence.

Y’all always like to spout regulator capture but when I go look at the data it does not seem to back it up.

2021 stats
Florida is the second largest generator. And third largest in solar.

Natty gas dominates their generation mix but I wonder if it’s more than just the blanket complaint regulatory capture. Florida is pretty unique as a state, lots of wetlands, is this suitable for solar? Perhaps for the electric companies there on a cost per acre basis it’s easier to build out natty plants? It would make some sense because I don’t think Florida has as much accessible land as other states do.
Fast web fuzzer written in Go
The Chestnut, the Elm, the Ash.

I've lost much of my backyard since 2010 to Emerald Ash Borer. A listful view of industrial warehouses is my daily reminder that change is ever present and unavoidable.
We pay that and more because both Germany and Sweden decided that nuclear power is a bad idea. You would pay even more if we weren't selling, which in a sense would be more fair because then you would bear the consequences of your own actions.

Downvote me all you want, dear germans.
Toyota and entune are the worst offenders. Both of my 2018 toyotas do this with bluetooth audio and it drives me nuts.

Even worse is if you pause playing and then adjust the audio up or down in the car it starts playing again.

I absolutely hate it to the point I have considered switching to an aftermarket head unit.
Not in geniality, but the article is not about that is about production achievements.
It’s an attention grabbing headline that’s no different from a Clickbait. Is it a known phenomenon? Yes, my 3rd gen Prius with low-end audio does it and it’s probably a Toyota thing between ranging from 2010-2018. Will Verge make money from this article? Yes.

Will I fix it? No, I’m too lazy to.
New H1 Humanoid Robot by Unitree
Just curious, is it easy to embed C++ code with a Lazarus front end? I want to use Lazarus for GUI but C++ for everything else.
Exporting coal power. Lovely.
> Bayesian statistics is fundamentally less complicated than Frequentist statistics [...]

I broadly agree with you, but I'm wondering if you would reconsider your qualification as "less complicated" if you consider beginner learners. E.g. someone who knows basic descriptive statistics and probability theory, and is making first contact with inferential statistics. Specifically, assume a learner who knows what an integral is, but is far from proficient with it (UGRAD student, not a GRAD student).

I was reading this paper[1] recently, which highlights two difficulties of teaching Bayesian stats: 1) the mathematical complexity of understanding conditional probability distributions, and 2) the lack of well defined, broadly accepted conventions for what priors to use in specific data analysis scenarios.

I think a computational approach to prob theory could mitigate 1), but 2) remains a problem—the freedom to choose priors, is also a burden...

[1] https://www.stat.purdue.edu/~dsmoore/articles/BayesPedagogy....
Can this function as "Plex for audiobooks"? I don't really have a need for synced books but it would be nice to keep fewer audiobooks on my phone.
It is very possible that I’m the PEBCAK here. Trust me, I’ve made so very many mistakes over the years, that I have no certainty that I’m right about any given then. I don’t think I’m doing anything wrong here, though, and yet I’ve played “A a a a a very good song” about a thousand times.
If you're interested in this kind of thing, I wrote a python package called "unit-syntax"(https://github.com/ahupp/unit-syntax) that adds physical unit syntax to python:

>>> speed = 5 meters/second
>>> (2 seconds) * speed
10 meter

I'd been using Jupyter notebooks as a calculator for engineering problems and was wishing for the clarity and type safety of real units, but with the succinctness of regular python.

It works in both Jupyter notebooks (with an input transform) and stock python (with an import hook). The actual unit checks and conversions are handled by the excellent `pint` package.
And we've had these microplastics in the system in the 1950s. If there was some civilization threatening content in microplastics, we'd know having several generations born and raised in that environment.
Iran (and some neighbors) starts the new year on the Spring Equinox, the first day of spring. It’s named Now Ruz which translates to new day. Kinda makes sense to kick off the year at spring. It’s also pretty precise give that it’s an astronomical event. It dates back to at least Zoroastrian times (15th century BCE).

All the equinoxes and solstices are celebrated there. The winter solstice is named Yalda Night, which was a few nights ago and Christmas may be related to this astronomical event. There is also Mehran and Tirgan. Ancients did like to get together and party.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowruz

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yald%C4%81_Night
Riding a fixie isn't really any harder than a normal bike. Just ride one with brakes.
has there ever been a comprehensive breakdown of why bluetooth sucks so much? Even after 5-6 generations, devices still get into dead-end states that leave me seething. inb4 "the manufacturer isn't following the standard" - no, then why are they allowed to put the bluetooth logo on their packaging? I thought that was the deal: comply with standard, pay the license fee, earn the logo. I've never had the "plays the same song" bug, but about 1 in 20 times, the phone will not connect to the car. I try to press "connect", still nothing. toggle bluetooth on/off, still nothing. then a few minutes later it decides to work. I could go on, but I think most people have experienced extreme frustration with this, and I'd like to know if anyone has drilled down into why, exactly, bluetooth sucks so much.
Then where do our deposits go? If not loans to these companies are they investing in them by buying stock or something? The sum of deposits the bank holds are not available for withdrawl all at once. So where is it?
> Anyway, the vast majority of climate scientists and economists don't think that civilization will collapse.

Do we really know what they think? I suppose we know what they say. To the question of the article, let's say that one or more of them are actually fairly certain that collapse is coming within a few decades - what would be the point of telling anyone that?
> The only supported way to stop the beeping is to throw out the current toothbrush head

Are you sure? On mine, the manual shows how to turn off the "Brush head replacement reminder": https://www.documents.philips.com/assets/20201024/46fe48eae7... (p.16-17). Might your model have a similar feature?
When your energy mix is biased towards wind and solar, the market price for energy fluctuates with the weather, basically. So when there's a lot of wind in an area, then energy is cheap (and the wind farms lose money.) When there's no wind, energy becomes expensive and the wind farms lose money.

This means that base power generation from nuclear also loses money when there's a lot of wind, and that coal power is needed when there isn't any [wind.] So we all pay more _and_ destroy the environment more.

When there's no wind in Germany, they buy from the energy market, driving up prices all the way up to what Coal and Oil power generation costs (which is expensive and terrible), since that is the competition. And since everyone pays market prices, we all suffer from Germany's lack of nuclear. (And ours.)

In a sense: Germany has socialised their energy production.

If I was conspiratorical, I would say that Russia played Germany like a fiddle in this regard. Cancel your nuclear so that you have to buy gas for energy production. And here we are.

Thank you Sweden and Germany.
Once again, the universality of human rights is implied by their name, "human rights." If the government of Slevobia wants to provide healthcare to all Slevobian citizens, more power to them; but healthcare is then a "right of Slevobian citizens," not a "human right."
PV is a bit counterintuitive in that it loses efficiency when it gets hot. Best efficiency is when circuitry is a bit colder and not in full sunshine and 30+ degrees C. Full sunshine around 15-20C works well.

So coupling AC with PV seems like a no brainer it doesn’t work that well when you really want to blast that AC full power because panels get too hot from the outside temperature.
The Kakoune Philosophy
> I appreciate the fact that a paper will appear the same everywhere, that I can refer to "the top of page 7", etc.

There are many great solutions to this problem, including ones that don't require Javascript at all. This website (https://gwern.net/silk-road) presents a really good example -- every header and sub-header is a clickable anchor. If more granularity is needed, on newer articles most of the paragraphs start with an italicized margin note -- though for technical writing, paragraph anchors might be better. The page also pays careful attention to print CSS and has a 'reader mode' to convert all links to footnotes when printed.

Some websites will also preserve the text you select in a URL anchor, but more often than not this is just cumbersome. It also has a greater risk of not surviving changes to the webpage.
I use Spotify. U2 is the only album in my iTunes library, so this happens to me.
They are replacing nuclear
It happens to me every time I plug in my iPhone 14 Pro into my 2014 Toyota Corolla. (Doesn’t haven’t Apple CarPlay by default). So as others have said it’s likely because the car. If I were to replace my stereo unit with one that supports CarPlay I hopefully and probably won’t have this issue anymore… thank god. I always thought it was Apple Music. Well, it partly is I think. I never had this issue with Spotify, rather, well Spotify would always start off where I left it. Apple Music almost always plays the first song in my library. It seems if I leave the app open on my phone, it will continue where I left off sometimes…
Ahh the Chestnut, you can sit in a chestnut home roasting chestnuts on an an open fire burning on Chestnut wood.

It reminds me of the old saying, the axe with the wooden handle was welcomed in the forest because it convinced all the trees that it was one of them.
Also, I cannot believe that some cars (looking at you, Subaru) don’t have a pause button, only mute. Not an issue when you’re playing to music. But when you are Listening to an audiobook, it’s another story
Gall's Law and how it applies to software development
Material made of carbon and nitrogen is nearly as hard as diamond
Embarrassing?

Researchers create many “toy” demos. There is often a progression of stages to a full “proof of concept”.

Where is the downside to an intermediate research artifact that demos their current tech level — Which also happens to be a whimsical functional sculpture, adding interest to a grassy area?

And very successfully creating awareness of their efforts?

Nothing remotely “embarrassing” (or “academic”, in the negative use of that word) here.
A UE5 soccer video game SIM with Jetpacks, on Mars
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I've rented over two dozen cars all with varying levels of support with bluetooth/Android Auto/Carplay and have literally never seen a single instance where this has ever occurred in a decade.