skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a link to this graph here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240105023309/https://nitter.no...

Took me a very very long time to make sense of the chart.

Watts/kg up, minutes over which that power output was sustained to the right.

White points are Vingegaard climbs in the past, yellow points are Vingegaard climbs in 2022, pink points are other cyclists.

The yellow and white curves are just trend lines? They seem to just be distracting.

And Riis's climb of Hautacam in 1996 is "off the charts" by being very high and to the right.
Most of the machines have hundreds of settings divided across a dozen different sections. Simple things like bold and underline make it much easier to visually parse the sections.
That incentive won't go away. But we don't need to give subsidies or bend regulations as well.
Yup, after I switched to a console - I was finally able to just play games with my friends and not waste mental energy on fiddling with settings.

I don’t have to worry about downloading a game launcher riddled with telemetry or wait 6 months after launch for a PC port to reach a playable state.
> I'd think that the user base of Debian would be larger than of some of the other distros listed (edit: changed wording here) there, so ...what up? why?

Debian packaging is notoriously difficult and has a very steep learning curve if you want to do it "the right way" aka using Debian's arcane collection of debhelper Perl scripts.

On top of that, there was/is/IDK a lengthy period of debate in Debian on how to deal with third party library managers in general (PHP Composer and especially NodeJS started the debate), which scared people off for good.
I believe there is no process or tool that could reliably do so (see sibling comment[0]). Indeed, at some point you need to trust an author that what they are publishing is what they say they are publishing, and authors being fallible means that mistakes _might_ slip by.

What I'm surprised by is the apparent cultural norm that this is just a regular everyday occurrence which entirely erodes any faith in the meaning of SemVer. Sure, we cannot 100% trust SemVer (because humans are fallible) - but there is a world of difference between trusting it ~99.9% and 0%. The JavaScript community (from the outside! I could be wrong!) seems to have simply accepted the 0% situation, and all the extra toil that goes along with it, rather than trying to raise the bar of its contributors to be better.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38906936
>and all the while he openly and literally tried to destroy the lives and reputations of those who said as much

Not just "tried", he completely destroyed a couple of journalists' careers.

This is not something that should ever be forgiven.
It is not just nostalgia. Windows used to have a built-in word processor. Not anymore. If I wanted to write a letter on a Windows computer I was unfamiliar with, I could use WordPad, I knew it was there, like Notepad and the calculator. WordPad is not the best word processor, by far, but it was there.

Now, there is no word processor I know is there. There is that useless trial version of Office 365, or maybe the real one. Or LibreOffice, that I am not very comfortable with. Or one of the webapps like Google Docs, but then I need an account, and internet access (not guaranteed).
They complain both about potential reproduction and complain about efforts to block it. (A red team without consent is just a hacker!) Talk about speaking out of both sides of your mouth.
> to be required to own an electronic device that rapidly falls in to obsolescence to perform basic activities.

I bought an iPhone 11 Pro in 2019. I paid Apple $40 for a battery replacement last year. My phone continues to work well, and I'm going to keep it until it breaks.

Apple still pushes updates for the iPhone 8 which was released in 2017, so I expected to get at least two or three more years of life out my iPhone.
I have some bad news for you:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology
Pretty much, yes. I didn't care enough about that above post to copyright it. If I did I wouldn't post it at all.

Thats my issue. I see it as the public domain shrinking immensively. Things posted without vetting attached will 99% not be anything worth stealing and 1% spammed as badly as a meme if it's semi-interesting. And Disney can still lobby congress under this model to expand copyright.

What really improves here? It doesn't even benefit open source development.
Yeah, agreed, but it’s also the biggest timesuck ever.
Buffett’s million dollar bet was made on Long Bets, the accountability mechanism operated by Long Now Foundation. The intention of Long Bets is to encourage responsibility in prediction-making (by keeping a public roster of predictions), to encourage long-term thinking (by offering a opportunity to shape a long-term bet), and to sharpen the logic of forecasting (by recording the logic of predictions and bets.)

[0]https://longnow.org/ideas/the-million-dollar-long-bet/
I don't actually know what that specifically means in this case.

If I were to guess, I'd assume that "de-coupling" means "splitting the spectrum into RGB." RGB, because it's easy to reproduce for human viewing, but you could do this with other spectrums as well.

I imagine "in-coupling" refers to how they get the light to a sensor.

I used to worked for a company that would use lasers to "build" mirrors inside of blocks of glass. They could tune those mirrors to reflect just red, or just blue, or green, or any combo.

I can imagine using this sort of tech to build panels of glass that can route "de-coupled" RGB to travel spectrum specific sensors.

Or, it might be possible that they're just capturing the full spectrum of light, but using microscopic etchings or surface treatments to bounce light down a layer of glass, somehow bouncing "pixels" of light down the pane of glass in a way that isn't lost while capturing other "pixels".

I say "pixels", but what I mean is "a portion of the glass." If you think of the glass as the polished ends of fiber optic strands, all bundled together, each of them routed to a specific sensor pixel - that's sort of what I mean. If you can etch your prisms/combs/gates fine enough, you can have higher "pixel" density from your glass pane.

Then again, they're the lens experts and could be doing something else entirely. I'm really just guessing.
Interesting, this is where my Dad was born. His Dad was in logging and he followed suit. Times change things ... people adapt.
> For baseload the gas turbine still beats the pants off of nuclear.

Not if you price carbon.

> For reference, traditional nuclear is 4-6x as expensive as wind/solar, and wind/solar are still dropping.

That's cost per MWh generated not accounting for when you need it. Renewables need both short-term storage and long-term storage.

If you generate with solar, what do you do at night? You'd need 12 hours of storage. Maybe that's economical in some contexts but it definitely raises the cost.

Now what do you do if it's cloudy or still for a week, or a month? 720 hours of storage would be crazy expensive. You could use natural gas plants or similar, but then you have to pay the cost of maintaining natural gas plants and the associated infrastructure that you only use 2% of the time.

1GW nuclear plant vs 1GW (average) of solar + 12GWh of storage + 1GW natural gas plant + rarely used gas pipelines or 720GWh of on-site reserves, which costs more?
Plex is trying to pivot to legitimacy and become a streaming service.
I made an app that runs Mistral 7B 0.2 LLM locally on iPhone Pros
Holy!!!! hahahaha - cheers!
A nice idea. You can get lucky and bring your own phone to a network but there are subtle implementation details between dumbphones and expected services, let alone updates to SMS protocols that can "break" device functionality.
>we do not and never have let religious beliefs dictate humanity’s space efforts

luxury space tourists sending them a check to turn the moon into their personal graveyard, polluting the surface with organic material which seems scientifically disastrous dictates the efforts just fine.

If the only thing that stands between turning the moon into the next dumping ground is the traditions of the Navajo people they might be worth listening to.

Not sure why people are trying to create a wedge between science and religion here. The Navajo and scientists have more in common on the question of stewardship of the moon than SpaceBurials Incorporated. Same goes for stewardship of the earrh btw.
Here’s the particular explanation I remember reading a few years back: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/11535
1) Armstrong was (is) an asshole who destroyed careers and lives, which is part of why they threw the book at him as opposed to others

2) That said, 7 in a row is still incredible. While he had a few incidents, he was always able to recover and never had an injury or illness that knocked him out. If Roglic could say the same, he'd probably have won at least 2 Tours if not three

3) Of course they're still all doping. WvA winning on Ventoux... Pogacar winning Tours de France and Flanders? Pas normal

4) Speaking of all still doping, the ongoing involvement of former dopers really goes against a stated desire for clean racing. Inigo san Milan making bones with his "zone 2" bullshit...dude was team doctor for Saunier Duval. University of Colorado should be embarrassed

5) all that said...who cares? The NFL barely tests because who wants to watch 1950's football? Same with cycling. I'd rather see van der Poel do inhuman things. Cadel Evans era was boring
The "boundaries of remote work" means more "his coworkers only see him online, so his other online persona might be visible to his coworkers". If his coworkers or business associates find his online stand up, they might not be able to separate it from him because they only know him from online work, not in person.

Just about anything that "raises concerns about remote work" simply means one or more pro-office people have used it as an excuse to question remote work. Companies rarely question the boundaries of in person work when firing employees for actions caught while representing the company off hours (driving company vehicle, wearing company uniform).
Maybe such functionality is best left to the browser itself. Firefox already has the functionality to "detach" a video. Then you can scroll wherever you want and still see that video.
A problem that a social credit system can mostly solve - just don't do business with people with low social score :)
Yeah, it’s called Slack
Yes…

but often it tells you how little time they have spent actually engaged with the real truth of the place or places they are about to compare the problems of wherever they live, instead of the idealistic view of someone who was visiting family or being a tourist … it is a shortcut to that emotional connection to the reader, but taking that can sometimes leave the writer clearly marked as not actually having any grounds upon which the rest of their arguments can stand…

This however doesn’t appear to suffer from that. It seems quite well considered.
This is a weird take to me.

> In the 1980s, the home computer industry was so new that most computers came with a programming environment that was easily accessible to the end-user. There was so little software out there, users were expected to build their own little programs.

There is a piece of that sentiment that is probably valid, but come on. Python is pre installed basically everywhere now. On a Mac? You get Python and PHP. On any machine, the world is so interconnected that you can get the language of your choice in seconds.

Maybe it is easier to find software now that so much of it has been written, but getting access to a compiler that suits your needs/styles/whatever is comically easier.

You aren’t limited to vendor specific Basic, or paying out the nose for something like Borland C
idk about hierarchical planning just ask an LLM it'll probably work

https://say-can.github.io/
It's a pity that Henry Ward is handling this issue so poorly, and lacking the necessary transparency.

The hard truth is that Carta sits on a potentially huge source of revenues (secondary market), and therefore it is very tempting to "screw" existing customers in order to multiply its income. Easier to go public (IPO), or be acquired, when you have a "growth" story.
That bit is obvious. The next generation benefits from the innovations of the previous generation.

But boomers knew about global warming, and refused to do even the bare minimum to help curb it. (More highways, gas guzzlers galore, effectively ban nuclear, anti sustainable urban development)

Even the one positive assertion comes with asterisks. The boomers oversaw a lengthy defunding of federal programs while wealth kept accumulating at the very top of this nation. So the resulting economic benefits haven't been all that useful to the rest of America.

Ofc, no individual bears the sin of an entire era. But we need to recognize the inherent selfishness of that era nevertheless.
I've used libvips a couple of years ago from golang via cgo. It was a bit rough to get started with it, but impressive once working.

It was quick enough to convert full-page pdf documents to black and white thermal printers (with scaling, didthering, autocrop and all that) in real time during an http request. Somewhar suprisingly, we also haven't had any memory leak issues, despite simply calling it dirctly in long-lived server processes.

Not sure about the state of the library now - my project has been discontinued - but would definitely check out libvips again if i'd have a need for an image manipulation library.
Non alcoholic drinks are becoming a lot more prevalent where I live, which is maybe surprisingly Wisconsin. It's a welcomed change for those of us that want to drink socially but not get drunk.
Scotia, CA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotia,_California

It is a “company town”, but it is not incorporated.

You can also find a company town near you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_company_towns_in_the_U...
At a rough guess, each Purkinje cell is an MLP unto itself, and as the article states, this implies some orders of magnitude more computation for a brain simulation. I also heard something like 'a neuron is an MLP unto itself' on the Brain Inspired podcast. It's likely we've vastly underestimated the processing power of the brain.
Wasn't searching LibGen more efficient?
> Of course the optimal amount of fraud for a business is zero.

Only if the business doesn’t have to pay to avert fraud.

> A world with zero fraud would be optimal for them.

You are misunderstanding the statement. We are not imagining which hypothetical world we wish to live in. We are making a claim about fraud levels in this world and how they feed into profits.

In this world, every reduction in fraud costs money or time or opportunity. Therefore, optimizing your profit means choosing a non-zero (often higher than you’d think) level of fraud.
> Nobody deserves anything. That implies some kind of cosmic force or entity that is keeping track of who does what and enforcing some kind of justice.

You’re right that it relies on a divine judge which is why there is a moral argument for the existence of God[1].

1. https://www.peterkreeft.com/topics-more/20_arguments-gods-ex...
kinda needed if you want to make a nice 'print' view.
Show HN: I made a HTMX Playground 100% in the browser
I recently dug up an old project in an attempt to improve on it. It's a code sandbox for playing around with HTMX in the browser, that runs a mock server within the sandbox iframe. The server "framework" is loosely based on Django, so if you're familiar with Django, you'll immediately understand what's going on.

I recommend clicking through the examples.

Github repo: https://github.com/lassebomh/htmx-playground

Probably my favorite part is the lack of HTMX specific code. It's designed to mimic the client and server, but really nothing else. In principle, this means that it is agnostic to whatever frontend framework is being used.

Known problems: Limited mobile support, Ace Editor (should just be Monaco) and lack of proper error outputs.

Feel free to give feedback, suggestions or questions.

I learned a lot when making it, and I hope you'll something about HTMX! Happy tinkering.
denial

anger

bargaining

depression

acceptance
This is a great example of an edge case which many people might never need but is really useful in a pinch: that’s what provides the equivalent of the Mac target disk mode, which is really handy if you need to repair a no longer-bootable system.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/1761066b135f1a322c...
Please, McCarthy is old hat.

Here's a Survey of WorldWide Censorship, specifically the chapter on internet[0] to get you up-to-date. There's also the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) [1] which deals more with infrastructure blocks.

There's also the more subtle kind, called "fact-checking" which on the surface does a very good job shielding us from the conspiracy theorists[2]. Don't misunderstand, on the surface this is a noble task, but it is still a filter of information that you did not employ yourself, and one that you have no means of controlling or influencing. You will only see what they left out: If you are not accepted by these gate-keepers you are silently excluded by most big media outlets. Here are eg. the organizations that Facebook trust to fact-check[3]

There's a really large machinery operating worldwide these days. Or, specifically, a whole lot of different machines. I'm not saying this to spead FUD, just FYI.

[0] https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-irtf-pearg-censorship-...

[1] https://explorer.ooni.org/findings

[2] The European Fact-Checking Standards Network (just one example): https://efcsn.com/

[3] https://www.facebook.com/formedia/mjp/programs/third-party-f...
I still think you are not too wrong though. I usually use invidious and there are no interactive widgets, except for the video player, which I think is default HTML5 player. I rarely need anything else. And PIP can be done in Firefox with ease, without the website needing to implement anything.
And the important detail is that the secondary revenue source only exists if startups keep trusting them with their cap table data - I don't know how hard it would be to migrate providers with cap table info but I guess we will hear about it in the next few days/weeks.
*inluned
No one owns the moon.

_yet_
Lawsuit, subpoenas, discovery. Someone is going to sue and all the truth will come out. I love when CEOs write stuff like this because you have them nailed if you find out differently.
Point two is double edged, it also picks all losers.
Lol, why is this being posted here?
The Breakfast club analogy in the first 2/3rds of the film --- there's a finite number of distinct and static social-idelogical-clubs --- analogously Republicans and Democrats in politics is silly. No penetrating and practical solutions will follow from this contextualization.
I remember reading some persuasive arguments that Russia probably only has a small amount of Soviet era nukes left for the same reason. They are extremely expensive to maintain, increasingly so as they age. And the Ruskies aren't exactly flush with money given the rest of their huge military demands.

But IRL you don't need that many to create a strong deterrence.

Even just the SLBM fleet alone should probably be sufficient to scare anyone away (not that I think that should be the only platform, just saying).
My responses:

1. Imagine most of your field of view is filled with the view of a basketball game from courtside seats, a front row of a concert or boxing match, or even a movie. Imagine a movie where a train is coming from the side and you can just turn your head to follow it coming in. People value immersive experiences. That’s why we pay for IMAX tickets and surround sound Atmos speakers. I’d also say the vast majority of time you’re not watching tv with a group of people. In situations where you are, I agree VR makes less sense.

2. Fair point if the tech doesn’t improve.

3 and 4. The phone is a 3x5 rectangle that’s increasing in screen size every year. I don’t see how someone wouldn’t prefer AR that lets people move around in the real world to view something from every angle without holding a small viewfinder in front of them.

Navigation to a building or within it would be much better with good AR. If I’m meeting other parents at my kids school for some event, I can’t keep track of all their names and their kids names. Overlay that information above their head using AR (assuming they share it).

There are tons of other use cases I can think of. I’d say people will wear AR/VR glasses for long periods as long as they provide significant value and are comfortable. I already wear prescription glasses. If you told me the numerous AR use cases I have in mind could be included in them 10 years from now, I’d be all in.
I am saying that so far progress in metaphysics came not from philosophers but from physicists, who actually do experiments or math calculations.

Similarly progress in understanding AI will come from people who actually build and experiment with AI, or with brains.

As for ethics, i don't see how is it relevant.
I had down-voted your comment but then figured it’s a simple misinterpretation of the quoted sentence so I reversed the downvote. Sibling comments have already clarified the context of the quoted sentence.

As I understand it, SAG-AFTRA already has a general concern (not confined to this specific case) about how WFH affects the working conditions of employees:

> “Something that the union is kind of concerned about is the way remote work has changed the way we work,” Sleiman said. “We’re always online, on Slack and shit, so when are we off the clock?
Cancel meetings - updates then can't bork your system just before them.
yea i'm not sure having 8 hour long marathon porn sessions improves my performance or relaxation

though like you said earlier, I bet if it wasn't for porn I'd have multiple unwanted children or multiple STDs
What really caught my attention was the date format: 2024/06/01, YYYY/DD/MM. This is first time I'm ever seeing anything like this.
You're making a lot of assumptions about the nature of the plagiarized content.

If plagiarizing is bad because the copied info might be wrong, then original research is bad because it might be wrong.
>Where the drawings do exist, "they're like six generations behind the industry standard," he said, adding that there are also no technicians who fully understand them. "They're not alive anymore."

That's like a complex legacy application in which the original developers passed away. In this day and age one can only wonder how the american armed forces will deal with this problem in a scenario where the military struggles to attract and retain their talent.
The specific part of the analogy that breaks down is that nobody actually knows if, when, nor how we will ever create AGI. So all safety efforts are necessarily speculative (because the field itself is speculative).

Like, if the scientists working on the moon landing didn't even know yet what the moon was made of, nor whether they would be getting to the moon by slingshot, by elevator, by rocket, by wormhole, or by some other yet unknown means, it would be very hard to make any meaningful proposal for how we would stay safe once we did get there.
I like the idea of Long Bets, though their fee is much higher than it looks: https://www.jefftk.com/p/long-bets-by-confidence-level

I've recently gotten into Manifold (https://manifold.markets) which I think is generally a better home for this sort of thing: you get the views of many more people, essentially weighted by how well they've previously done.
Please do! I'm looking forward to hearing how it works out.
China leadership wants to be prepared to go to war with other superpowers while its own people are at war with them.
Steroids: putting the Super in Weston Super Mare.
What? Can you elaborate? I just remember the email invite spam.