skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Everyone seems to be chasing the network-accessible API approach because lock-in is easy

This feels like a lazy critique. Sure companies may like the lock-in, but people are chasing the network-accessible API approach because it is way more powerful than the stuff you can run locally. Admittedly it’d be great if local models could get up to ChatGPT’s level, but if we’re being honest with ourselves they’re not there yet and are miles away from GPT-4, so it’s totally understandable that people want what OpenAI is selling.
> It's almost like Turing was hard to work with!? :D

Maybe there were other reasons why he was sidelined and (eventually) driven to suicide. Guess we'll just never know...
I live in a British Georgian rendered building (think South Kensington London [1]).

I find render is classic and beautiful but yes they are an ongoing maintenance issue to regularly repaint every decade or so and once the render has become damaged, rerendering the whole thing is eye-wateringly expensive. The main challenge is the right materials and expertise (lime render and porous mineral paint) which is expensive so people flipping a house will just bodge it with cement render and waterproof paints that will barely last a decade before it cracks, traps water, causes damp and starts coming way from the wall.

(Note that exposed stone also weathers and requires replacement which can make render/paint maintenance look very cheap).

A key part of the longevity of render is the design of other features e.g. you need correct channelling of water so it doesn't pour from roofs/windows down the render causing stains. This requires true skill and subtle architectural features like drip grooves carved under overhanging coping stones and subtle curves in the render itself (bell cast beading I think?). I am maddened by hokey designs that e.g. add a section of wooden facade above render which grossly stains the render below within months. It's just so careless and predictable. Any staining is a design fault that past experts knew how to avoid. There shouldn't be any "sources of colour" above render.

One of the joys of render is that you can personalise it with your own colours [2] which will stain less easily than white (grey is quite trendy) or even go for full graphic design [3] (I can't recall if those specific buildings were rendered - we have a tradition of drawing stone lines onto render so that it resembles limestone construction).

[1] https://images.mansionglobal.com/im-365825/social

[2] https://offloadmedia.feverup.com/secretbristol.com/wp-conten...

[3] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-57212364
It could be if tool is work of good design and engineering. But not when tool's claim to fame is that it does not use XML to describe build config like Maven/Ant.
You could absolutely write professional software in BASIC.

As a kid I wrote my first "professional" product in Applesoft. My family used to rent videotapes (Betamax!) from a little video shop on the corner. They kept records of who rented what on paper cards -- they literally wrote in the customer name and phone # on a paper card and put it in a box. They would go through that box each day and see what was overdue, calling the customer to remind them to return. I was a curious kid so I asked the owner "how do you keep track of everything? Do you really go through all those cards every day to see what is due? Does anything get lost?" I told the owner "I can put all this on a computer and make it so you'll never lose track of who has what" and he said "tell you what, you create that and I'll buy it!"

I wrote a little program in Applesoft basic, using a light pen, that could keep track of the customers and video titles -- what was available, what was out, what was due, and what was overdue. The owner LOVED it! Customers had a "membership" card with a bar code on it.The clerk just had to scan the member card, a barcode for "checkout" (taped to the side of the screen) and then the bar code on the tape. No keyboard. Happy beep meant success. Check-in was the same process. And once a day they could check the "overdue" screen to see who to contact. The customer name, phone number, and name of movie was right there.

They weren't crazy about entering the names of all the tapes and sticking the bar code stickers on them, but once complete business was so much easier & faster.

It took me the better part of the summer to write this and I was paid $200 (a fortune for a 12 year old kid!) and given "free movie rentals for life." The owner was good to his word, and even after he bought a movie rental franchise many years later (maybe Blockbuster?) my family still enjoyed free rentals though the apple 2 was long since retired.
> Also in Norway less of the money is going to few private corporations, but to the state, which invests large parts into profitable pension funds,

If only other oil-producing countries had the ability to exploit their oil reserves for their own benefit instead of just giving it away to a few private corporations...

Crazy stuff, I know.
They're tracking a vessel over time, though. Surely any errors and inaccuracies are negated over a long enough time horizon.
If you are going to blow the whistle, please use securedrop.org over Tor network.
Howard Roark rolling in his grave
Yeah, but if you're low and have to stop for gas, it makes you 10 minutes late. In an EV you're an hour late or have to find another ride.
I have a Model Y. I think there's a ton of disingenuous discourse concerning EV range.

Tesla will say that it has, idk, 310 mile range or something. It never has this range, period.

- You cannot run it down to 0%, much like you can't run a gas car to 0% and then be stuck on the side of the road.

- You cannot run it to really even 10%, because you're advised that this is stressful on the battery, and while there is high probability of a gas station within 30 miles of anywhere in the US, there is near-zero probability of there being accessible and reliable public EV charging. If it is cold out, the vehicle will advise you to never let it drop below 20%.

- You cannot really charge it to 100%, because you're advised that anything above 80% is stressful on the battery, supercharging above that level is quite slow (its oftentimes actually faster to just stop at 80% and also charge at the next supercharger, and the Tesla nav knows this, which is quite cool). Some superchargers will even charge you extra for going above 80%, if they're crowded.

- What this means is that, functionally, you're not dealing with 100% of the battery / 310 miles of range. You're working with 60% of the battery (80%-20%) / 186 miles of range. On the top of the line EV humanity makes. On long trips, you can eek that up a bit to maybe 70% of the range, but realistically given the distance between superchargers, its not going to make a difference.
Reaction: Talk to an old guy in Legal or Accounting about having stuff that "just keeps working", out of sight & mind.

Though to be fair:

> If you don't have a plan to [...] definitely take it out of service, ten years is far too short.
The paper is publicly available at the first link in the article, which includes various photos of the different fluorescent 'layers' https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)01227-8.
Depends on the domain. Biology labs are often composed of more women than men. Chemistry tend to be the opposite.

And they both use substances that would destroy your eyes.
> But now with accessible, local models my bet is on bored young hackers coming up with the best use cases and killer apps, not Microsoft.

That's only one part of the equation because these young hackers need companies with huge capitalization to deliver the models to them for free. What I hope actually happens is that model building can become modular and therefore could be crowdsourced. I'm not even sure this is even theoretically possible but it would help a lot.
Logitech (yes, the mice/keyboard company) also had a Modula-2 compiler/IDE for the PC as well in the mid 1980s. It supported the mouse, unsurprisingly for Logitech, even though mouse support on DOS wasn't that common yet.

http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Logitech_Modula-2
Oppenheimer and the resurgence of Blu-ray and DVDs
The code wouldn't be special cased... it would run through the first 10,000 or so rows to find out the dataset to generate the state transition table. If any invalid entry is found later, you'll end up in an invalid state, and can detect that case and fall back to slow code (or even theoretically update the state transition table and return to the fast path).
> Pinker has talked a lot about this, and going far back in history [0] has estimates that 15% of people died from violent deaths compared to 0.15% during the peak of ww2 Germany.

7.5% of Germany's population died during WW2, that is just military deaths, excluding civilians dead from bombing raids by the Allies, hunger, disease, etc.

The 0.15% number is absolute nonsense, and anyone who is seriously using it, knows nothing about history (which is just about right for a fraud like Pinker)
'There isn't enough cooking oil in the world to power one day of green aviation'
How much energy does the Sun produce?
The best feature? The only thing you lose is the ability to fold down the middle seat, but you can still remove it if you need to haul something large. We had one for 3 years and needed to take the seats out 3/4 different times.
The original downtown library in Chicago closed in the late 1970s and moved to temporary space; they spent a full decade arguing about a permanent replacement before finally agreeing to issue a bond and to hold a design competition.

This design was a collaboration among many groups, and had a long list of "as a homage to XXXX, we've included this design element." It almost certainly wasn't a serious entry, but that list of design elements apparently kept getting it enough votes to stay in the competition as they did each round of elimination. At the end of the competition, they looked at the remaining entries and realized that this was the only one that could be built for the amount of money in the bond issue. So it won.

It's pretty strange as the "cheap" option, because everything you touch is made of marble, brass or solid wood, the doors are huge and very heavy, every light fixture looks custom made, it's filled with artwork and sculptures, etc.
Types correspond to propositions in formal logic, and programs satisfying that type are proofs of those theorems. This is called the Curry-Howard Correspondence.

That might not sound particularly interesting, but here’s one of the ramifications: if you need to prove that your program follows some spec for eg avionics software or reactor control software, then one tack is to encode that protocol/spec in a type (usually an extremely expressive type system called a “dependent type” system) then you can prove a program correct to that spec and generate a program that is correct by construction.

This has been done. There’s a C compiler called CompCert where the optimization passes have been proven to not alter the meaning of the program. A tool called CSmith was used to fuzz gcc, clang, and CompCert and found dozens of bugs—but none in CompCert.
Mapping Middle-earth: The lopsided demographics of Tolkien's universe
Microsoft Adds AI Key in First Change to PC Keyboard in Decades
You could invest it in real estate as that has historically had a great return.
And yet that's exactly why they got this vehicle in the first place, because of some tax rebates on larger vehicles. Somebody else already chose it for them.

Pigouvian taxes also work in the car industry and this industry isn't that special.
I'm addressing your particular point about not seeing any use for this in the OS. I disagree. If there is a flexible layer that can consume and correlate context, there are tons of use cases
You might be right. It was mostly before my time so I can't say for sure what the atmosphere was like back then. I wonder if China and Iran are potentially a bigger military presence now than they were in the 60s and 70s. Russia feels less so, as it's really struggling to complete its objectives in Ukraine, a country which is in some sense a proxy for the West. But I also feel like there's a growing potential for coordination between Russian, China, and Iran, and that's quite worrying.
Does this really make a practical difference? In your example malicious dependency code could just add a keydown listener on the document to lift a password.
Win32 and WinUI serve different purposes, they aren’t meant to replace one another. Win32 is simple but also really low level. It’s great to get a window handler and handle low level events but building a modern graphical UI requires at minimum a layout system, that’s where WinUI comes handy.

Also you can now mix Win32 with WinUI via the concept of XAML island. It’s not perfect but you don’t have to be blocked in one world or the other.

Though I personally prefer dealing with WPF via AvaloniaUI, styling with winUI is often too frustrating…

https://www.avaloniaui.net/
This is the thing people miss and forget, that there should be natural ebb and flow, but population centers are instead just getting bigger and bigger without really getting more dense.

(It's actually still happening, but people dismiss where it is happening as "suburbs" but if you live in a "suburb" that is 60 miles from "the city" and basically never go to the city, it's really it's own thing.)
The test procedure is to run the code 5 times. Even if it isn't in cache the first time, it will be in the OS cache (ie. RAM) for the 2nd-5th runs. The test machine has 32GB RAM, while the data file is only 12GB, so it ought to be fully cached.
The population count is an argument that puts the US in a further negative light: They stand to gain significantly more due to how economies of scale work than a country with only 5 million people does.
We had one and my wife only had to get gas every 3 months or so. Definitely depends on your use but 35-40 miles a day on battery was plenty for her.
i felt a lot more comfortable when the giant worms were in australia—now i know they're literally in my backyard.
Rule #2 is when calculating duration is to keep the timestamps as long long. If for some reason you need to convert the duration to float, check the duration first and/or just use double precision.
So this is something I work with directly, but for some other agency.

First off, a big reason as to why - is because the laws differ from country to country. Some countries, like Norway for example, require shipping vessels over a certain length to broadcast their positions through AIS, VMS.

This may not be the case for, say, UK.

There are arguments to be had from both systems as to WHY you wouldn't want to broadcast your positions at all times - a typical one is that other could easily infer your fishing fields (fishing patterns are trivial, if you've worked with this you can easily spot what tools they are fishing with, and likely what species they are going for - don't need ML-based systems for that. Any fisher or fisheries analyst can spot the patterns), and thus go after that.

The other is privacy.

A very typical thing is that ships turn off their AIS as soon as they enter international waters. There is no enforcement of that, and many developed countries have practically zero resources to fight illegal fishing, from a technological point of view. UNDP has a program which is aimed at helping developing countries with the tech and training to detect illegal fishing, but there's a long way to go. Developing countries desperately need the data, which is either owned by governments, or private actors. AIS data is either picked up by satellites, or base stations. VMS systems are expensive, but also allow for ships to transfer catch reports and similar - but is unfortunately not always enforced in a good way.

But tech is becoming better. Satellites with NAV/marine radar detectors are in orbit. Long-range drones with sensors are a thing. Countries are hammering through laws that force ships to have certain sensors on them. Lots of ML-assisted tools for automating detection and analysis is being introduced and used.
Database sharding in 200 seconds [video]
Judging by the fact that they mentioned being in grad school at the time and that the laser was infrared, I imagine engraving steel isn't too far off from what they were using it for.
Dug pretty far back to get his older site:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120103091953/http://arthurdeva...
You don't need to sue, you should file a complaint with your states department of labor or whomever is charged with enforcing your states labor laws, they will sue for you if they think you have a case. Also in every state I have seen with a similar law the law specifically says you are allowed to lie if you are asked that question anyways and the employer is not allowed to run a background check on you before they offer you the job so your lie cannot be discovered before the job offer is made (and after its made your lie cannot be used against you and the offer cannot be rescinded without a written evaluation that explains why the specifics in your background check make you incompatible with the specific job you were offered). So I would just lie about it and if you don't get the job or the offer gets unfairly rescinded then report it to your department of labor.

Guidance for New York City which is a locality with such a law:

> Job applications cannot have questions about criminal records and cannot ask you to authorize a background check. Employers cannot ask you questions about your criminal record. If you are asked about your record, your answer cannot be used against you. Employers cannot run a background check on you until after a conditional offer of employment.

> Once an employer offers you a job, they can ask about and consider your criminal record ...an employer can decide to not hire you for one of two reasons:
1. because a direct relationship exists between your conviction and the job you want; or
2. because your conviction history creates an unreasonable risk to people or property.
The employer must send you its reasoning in writing, along with the background check it used.

https://www.nyc.gov/site/cchr/media/fair-chance-employees.pa...
Zuck started building without permits, and then when authorities tried to enforce the permit requirement he had those people fired.

Scum.

Also... your bright idea in an apocalypse is to isolate yourself on a remote island that already has problems shipping out resources?
Legal theories work entirely differently than technical strategies. Lawyers can spin this failure into political ammunition the next time SOPA or TPP (remember that one?) comes up: "we tried to use the existing laws to seize DNS records, but dontcha-know, they immediately circumvented it because not all DNS authorities work together. That alone could have prevented $X00 million in losses. Thats why we need a new law to ____, and ____, and stop ____. and we need all countries on board with this binding trade agreement."
I've found KBB valuses a bit low for used cars since the pandemic, FWIW.

Did you buy your Prius at the beginning of the pandemic? There was a brief period when cars got super cheap (no one was buying anything, sellers were desperate) followed by one where they got very expensive (manufacturing was blocked on missing parts, more people were trying to buy used since they couldn't buy new).
> Inclusion goes both ways?

Yes, I agree. That's why making it a girl is so hilarious. As to why you're so offended that I find it hilarious, I honestly don't know what to tell you. It's funny for the same reason I'll refer to a hypothetical serial killer as "him" and follow by saying "or her, of course" to females as if I'm pandering. The joke is that they weren't offended to be excluded from being serial killers.
Yes. Even the older cars have a software patch to tie engine start to the keyless entry.
Mangosteen is great! In Ontario I can find it readily at Asian grocery stores like T&T or Nations.
I’m surprised none of the top comments mention that California will be banning gas cars starting in 2035, with a handful of other states following

So whatever problems are being mentioned here…will have to be figured out in the next 10 years.

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/states-banning-new-gas-po...
> After reading through all the depressing comments from people who think restaurants and hotels are superior to a family atmosphere at home,

They don't say it's superior. Multiple things can be true at once. People often like to cook at home. It's all cozy. It also is a way to save money. People with smaller house have more disposable income, to splurge more liberally on luxuries, feel less constrained in their choice to go out. All those things are true. I think the main message is that people needlessly make conventional choices (e.g. big house, big car), and these choices then drive their decision making after the fact. They're reminding us that stuff (the actual tangible inanimate things) have a tendency to start to own you, rather than the other way around.
In the UK immigration is definitely on the rise, but I can't see how it's relevant to what I'm talking about, nor can I see how it's as apocalyptic as you make out.
I didn’t see one in our area when we were looking. That BMW was the nicest vehicle I’ve ever been in. Absolutely blew me away.
And Cobalt comes from artisanal mines in Congo that utilize child labor. So definitely another plus for LFP there.
These aren't scary to people DIRECTLY, but ISTR that they can be a SERIOUS problem in aquariums.

There was a tale online a while back about an aquarium hobbyist who realized the coral he'd brought into his very fancy tank apparently had a bobbit in it, and how he eventually got it out. You can't just pull it out; apparently, it'll split, and then you have TWO of them.

https://whyy.org/segments/liz-bobbit-worm/

tl;dr: he got it out, but it was SEVEN FEET LONG.
I'm in that first group and I don't see how it makes the most sense. They are not more convenient. I can "charge" my gas car in 2 minutes basically anywhere in the country.

I'm going on vacation next week, driving with 2 young children. It'll be about a 11 hour drive which is not crazy for a US vacation. I don't want to plan where I stop and stop for 45 minutes to fuel up with 2 toddlers in the car.

And they're all much more expensive than a nice 5 year old gas car.
In the Emacs world, this is done using TRAMP[0]. This allows you to treat remote systems over various protocols (usually ssh) as an extension to the local system. So you wouldn't use Emacs over ssh, but rather ssh over Emacs.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/tramp-emacs.html
It's funny how the people who suffer the most from range anxiety seem to be those who don't own EVs.
It's not internet journalism. It's just journalism, or more accurately, Yellow journalism which has been a thing for as long as there has been industrialized media: at least since the 1890s[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
I imagine it's much easier to control on the trade side of things if governments really want to. Fish have to be brought relatively fresh to markets where there is demand.
> a copper pair going along the fibers

I learned the other day that this is actually a thing one can buy. Direct bury hybrid fiber copper, up to looked like 2 OS2 strands and 2 12awg copper conductors. It's fantastically expensive but might be worth it for certain applications, like cameras that are beyond PoE distance limits and also don't have power available.
EVs aren't cheap either, in 2 years one will get better battery tech and a new connector, plus whatever deprecation the battery will go through if you buy one today. 2023-4 and earlier EVs will lose a huge chunk of their worth once NACS cars with better than 200 mile range become available

The value of my leased Volvo C40 has already fallen off a cliff and is less than my residual value. Once my lease is over there will be an NACS EX-30 that will be cheaper brand new, than what Volvo are charging for me to keep my old connector used battery car