skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the landscape of products at the local Home Depot or Lowes, it seems like most offerings are Wifi Only, need internet access, and require use of some proprietary app. The cynic in me thinks this is by design to lock people in to needing additional services (aka revenue streams)

I grabbed a bunch of very cheap (via aliexpress) zigbee based products, and have been amazed at how well they can work. I find myself wishing I could find more ZigBee based devices locally (US-Based, at common retailers) in order to more quickly implement and build up more automation.
Why is it fraud? Maybe it's a legitimate item.
Yes, people with a strong sense of morality, interestingly (to the HN crowd), still do exist.
> dumping the binary to distribute is so scary

So don't.

Build a reproducible distribution image from a base image + fileIn source code.

https://cuis-smalltalk.github.io/TheCuisBook/Daily-Workflow....

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mastering_ENVY_Develope...
Nuclear will always be “big projects”. Renewables don’t overrun much.
a lil earlier than that -- "wtf happened in 1971?"

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
Many people seem to think this couldn't/wouldn't have happened if someone else had been doing the inspections. This problem was likely caused by a flaw in the process. A mistake a 3rd party could also make. It is not a mistake where Boeing is doing nefarious cost cutting and needs to hide it or has made a huge engineering mistake affecting all the aircraft. Somebody put the plug in - got a phone call, or shift change, put your diversion here - and forgot to put in the bolts. The inspection - if it occurred - failed to notice. I suspect the documentation on the plane will help identify how and by whom. It could just as easily been some other 3rd party mechanics doing routine maintenance.
If that were true, then if Unity decided to ban MIT and Apache licensed software from the store, that would mean that MIT and Apache are actually kinda shit. Seems there's a pretty clear error in your logic.

Also, your appraisal seems to be assuming that the only goal of the GPL/LGPL is to release software through Unity, which is not correct.
Wow, fascinating! From the title I was envisioning something akin to a solid rocket motor where the fuel gets consumed from the inside out and wondering what the point of that was, since at the end of the burn you'd still need to have enough fuselage left to avoid compromising structural integrity. (And at that point why not just build the fuselage like that from the start and use the extra mass for more liquid fuel?) But from the video it looks like this engine actually burns the hull back to front, meaning the fuselage actually gets shorter throughout the course of the flight until there's nothing left. That's really cool!
Do note that there are less than 10 community property states (but it does include CA and WA).
Server-side rendering local dates without FOUC
> "We've done a lot of bad things, and we'll try to improve in the future."

Standard procedure. And they will change nothing in the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15HTd4Um1m4
Mechanically, I don't think that works. What prevents the debt from attaching to the inheritor before death (e.g., co-signed loan)? The only solution here is eliminating the cost basis step-up at death.
Citibank told their employees to work from home in December and common understanding was that it would make the upcoming layoffs easier (quick Zoom with HR and mailing the hardware back to the office is all it takes).

In addition their Q4 results came in REALLY bad ($1.8b loss) so they're using it to justify the cuts to appease the investors.
How is going from 1300 workers to under thousand only 20% cut?
not THAT badly, lol
Actually their favourite time to cull the workers is last quarter and ensure that you’re out before bonuses are announced and paid in January. That’s always November and December. That they’re doing this now is unusual for them.
After reading the article, I was expecting his game to be something like Tetris or some 8-bit retro thing. It's not, though.

Full immersion is entertainment, consuming your full attention. Like a movie theater or a stage play. That's OK, but not full time. Light immersion is walking around with your nose in your phone for most of your waking hours. That may be worse.
I think we understand that an auditor could, in theory, do that, but the question is whether auditors do, in practice, do it. The IRS is not supposed to be screwing people on technicalities like this, and a reasonable auditor should conclude that the spouse obviously would have signed had they known they needed to. Regulation isn't interpreted by computers, it is interpreted by humans who can make reasonable adjustments for these sorts of mistakes.

So, does anyone known of someone who actually got screwed by this in an audit? I'm sure it has happened often enough that at least someone out there has been audited who would be affected.
A situation where parenthesis make a big difference in the headline. This is not an 83 BILLIION dollar mistake, it's referring to 83(b) regulation. Just pointing that out for possible headline correction to de-sensationalize it.
Submitted earlier today - would be nice if people instead of re-submitting the exact same thing that didn't get traction, emailed hn@yc and asked for it to go in the second chance pool, it's more polite to the original submitter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38969417
Sam Altman is a visionary for creating World Coin and scanning eyeballs, sells the poison and the cure!
I have no doubt their mission is serious. It's dead serious. That's why they are willing to steal without a single drop of concern for the people's who's lifes they are affecting. And have no issue gaslighting people into thinking that's ok. "Because AI learns just like humans". At the end of the day, after decades of works all they have to show for a procedural bullshit generator. I'd be desperate to show progress too. Still, I wouldn't steal.
The text of the article totally fails to mention that the rocket blew up fairly spectacularly 1 minute 30 into the test...

See the video.
Similar X-ample: https://www.threads.net/@parkermolloy/post/C14qS_CJp8q
I wonder if the author realizes that there are eight billion humans. They can't all work on the same thing. And the majority of people who are not engineers and who just work regular mindless jobs need entertainment.

Also we've had entertainment since the dawn of time. People don't just go home and stare at the wall for sixteen hours before going back to work. Almost none are going home from work to solve humanity's Real Problems(tm). Entertainment holds significant value to everyone plus or minus a few percent.

But really the author has a critique of capitalism and doesn't want to admit it. The complaint is that art is a product you're expected to pay for and consume, and individual artists almost can't even exist without spending all their time advertising. Imagine how much art would be produced if artists weren't forced to choose between making art and paying rent.

All in all, the author is yelling at clouds because other people have values he disagrees with and refuses to understand
I was looking at used compact cars but the market was insane. Even with a COVID markup on the new Rio, the price was competitive with used Corollas/Civics that were 10 years old and had 75K+ miles. This is my 6th or 7th Hyundai/Kia and they've all been fantastic.

Edit: I forgot but I have some bad news, Kia is probably killing the Rio so you might be out of luck. Makes sense as the dealerships heavily promote the Forte and barely stock any Rios. The salespeople were a little surprised we loved the Rio so much, I think it's just too small for most Americans.
Nice... a sliding/bigger keyboard like the Nokia N900 would be nice too.
Rudy Kurniawan the notorious wine forger
Somehow, I was unaware of C-M-% for replacements, though I use M-% all the time for a (naive) string search then replace all instances by pressing the ! key.

This is a very neat trick, and little things like this are why I keep using Emacs. Part of me wishes there were some "universal" version of the M-: keybind for evaluating elisp expressions in any interactive command.
This seems bad. Heating of oceans will trigger a change in underwater currents, which will have a dramatic impact on heat distribution on the planet.

I've read somewhere that carbon emissions had declined for a few years. Is that true?
It doesn’t appear to be token-by-token inference. Each new completion uses a different model, but the new completion is entirely created by that model.
> but work best when applied to creations that are universally agreed to be terrible: the prequels, St. Anger, or the oeuvre of 6ix9ine.

I paid for St. Anger, and am still salty about that.

on the plus side 6ix9ine was never good, and is in jail.
Legally, yes.

But she could experience some consequences if future employers don't feel great about this.
List of projects using Fortran: https://github.com/Beliavsky/Fortran-code-on-GitHub
"codewords to use on doctors and such"
Funny you mention Factorio, because there's a Reddit thread where most of the commenters came to same conclusion you did.

https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/ml00ac/how_...
That would be fun... or end with both manufacturers being completely grounded by the other and we back to canoes and horse carriages :)
Alternatively we could hire Trump to reprise his "president" character for a TV show, so he resumes encouraging the boomers to get Covid and now RSV.
GNU Modula-2 just joined the set of official GCC supported languages on a full install, and is now listed on the set of languages that matter on Compiler Explorer.
> There's no such thing as "no aging".

Yeah there is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negligible_senescence

> To stop death is to enforce death.

No. To stop absolutely all change is to enforce death. Aging is just one type of change amongst many that a person can experience.

You may be unable to change in any way but aging, but me?

I may mourn for the "meadow" that I saw being build when I was in infant school being turned into another housing estate when I was an adult, but I know that change is part of life.

I moved country in my mid 30s. I've visited 21 nation states, and seen how different lives can be, and tried learning far too many natural languages.

I'm a furry, so if we solve all the questions in biology (which is probably much harder than SENS, but SENS would give me time to wait), I'll see if being an actual anthropomorphic wolf suits me.

I've not found the right person to start a family with yet, but I'd like to, and I hear parenthood also changes people.

> As you grasp to stay the same (alive) and the environment changes, you'll naturally fight to hold back the environment from changing. Which will destroy the environment for the next generations.

Non sequitur.

Even the first part in isolation, "naturally" doesn't really apply any more, even if for whatever reason a biologically[0] 20-year-old mind with a century of experience is as inflexible as a natural century-old mind, rather than as flexible and open to novelty as a natural 20-year-old.

Both sentences together is even worse, making you absolutely as poetic as you say you're not.

[0] in this sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomarkers_of_aging
> the Left?

You mean the GOPs modern definition of a leftist, or the vast majority of the times definition of a leftist?

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Norman_Thomas/
Nice details! Do you have a contact in case someone wants to pick that up as a side project?
If they overhired by 50%, and hired a bunch of idiots, the tech executives should be the ones on the chopping block.
For me this didn't show anything but using google did

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aamazon.com+openai+pol...
A similar example with:

> I'm sorry, but I cannot fulfill this request as it promotes a specific religious institution. It is important to...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CLKNWZGV
A quick search turns up energy per capita has been 300-350m btu pa since 1970 [2] while inflation adjusted per capita GDP tripled in that period [1].

One can argue over the definition of real gdp vs inflation adjusted gdp but the 3x increase imo vs constant energy use seems quite convincing to me.

Imo economic growth decoupled from energy use and it no longer holds.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NYGDPPCAPKDUSA

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/04/10/176801719/two-...
Arrows in Arrows in Arrows [video]
Them being solid and made of concrete is almost certainly a huge step up over skyscrapers made of glass, which is a deathtrap for birds on account of being reflective and basically invisible to them.

That said I think the GP might just be trolling, as I've never heard of anyone raising an issue with cooling towers being a threat in this way. The anti-nuclear discourse has always (rightly) been focused squarely on operational safety and waste disposal.
I was going to submit one, but it said that Amazon had flagged the item as having suspicious review behavior, so I'm guessing a lot of others had the same idea.
Drones will be the mustard gas of the mid 21st century. We haven't begun to see the massive casualties they will create. Think guided cluster munitions where every 100g payload finds a soft target and you launch 1-5k of them at a time.

The Ukraine war is already causing blowback as seen in Gaza.

We should make war itself illegal.
Again: the situations are not comparable. Russia was unprovoked and has a stated objective of annexing a sovereign country. Israel is in fact under military threat (was, in fact, attacked, gravely), from territory it has occupied since 1967. It is unsurprising that the international responses are not equivalent.

A short way to sum this up is: regardless of the distaste many in the west (myself included) have for the means by which Israel is pursuing it's goal, the west is unanimous in support of that actual goal: no western state believes Hamas should be left to govern Gaza, even as many probably do quietly hope to haul Netanyahu to the Hague (if the Israelis don't imprison him first).

Meanwhile: every western state actively, viscerally opposes Russia's goal.
> Some people deal with complexity through science. This sounds great, until you realize that science is currently systematic (step by step) and not systemic (whole picture). Reality is made of interconnected systems. A systematic approach leaves blind spots.

The counter argument is that human minds are limited and very few people in history are able keep even a large % of the entire system in their head.

A huge problem we face as a species is that as the amount of information that needs to be connected to each other in order to make progress grows, fewer and fewer people are able to make large contributions, meaning we'll accumulate knowledge and understanding at a slower rate.

Hopefully technology will help here, and people have been working at using computers to try and connect those points, but I am not aware as to how successful those efforts have been.
No goods shipped part is unlikely on Amazon, I think.
Whenever I install or (re)configure something involving "Smart Home" I think carefully about what will be returned when family/partner does a `git blame` ...
> the unglamorous stuff that needs doing.

You're thinking of picking up the trash, driving trucks, fixing toilets, and assembling wheelbarrows. That pays shit: the things that "need doing" are mostly just not done, and what is done pays nothing. Advertising has never "needed doing", it's always been an exploit that psychopaths use to enrich themselves at the expense of all of humanity. And the advertising industry is nothing if not glamorous.
Civilization 1 and 2 was much greater experience than 5, although graphics was quite basic.

This is in some other aspects means the opposite
Strange that Bard did not use a real Swedish word for the product. Ikea products are common every-day Swedish word
Some more resources:

- A Comprehensive Survey on Vector Database: Storage and Retrieval Technique, Challenge, https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11703

- Survey of Vector Database Management Systems, https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.14021

- What are Embeddings, https://raw.githubusercontent.com/veekaybee/what_are_embeddi...

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h/t: https://twitter.com/eatonphil/status/1745524630624862314 and https://twitter.com/ChristophMolnar/status/17457316026829826...
I don't know shit, but I'm pretty sure the kind of birds cats kill are very different from the kind of birds that get killed in wind turbines, i.e. eagles
This is why I legit jack sparrow shows.

You can rent movies on many services like google, itunes, youtube, etc... But for shows, you only have the option to buy each episode, which makes no sense.
Roughly speaking, they're not people and not thinking.
I just think the impact of such a device would be on the order of "a marginally better youtube for DIYers" rather than "put all the trade workers out of business." I'm not even convinced a lot of the more recent AI work will result in a net productivity gain, vs the productivity drag associated with increased spam and other AI-generated garbage. Will ChatGPT-like software manage to displace more workers than, say, mail-merge running on a 1980s computer? I'm not sure I'd take that bet. Self-checkout lines are a good analogy, in that they've been around for over 20 years now, and they're still a somewhat marginal productivity improvement over regular cashiers.
That's decent mark up. I bet I could write an app to take products from that site, post them to Amazon, and then just drop ship the orders for me. Of course, I'd have to write all those descriptions...
> If it was intentional, I would tell them that I am sorry for their condition: that they feel that the only way to be seen is to bug people in indirect ways (as they are clearly too chickenshit to resort to outright violence) because they are too worthless a person to pay any mind to otherwise.

Me being Don Draper in the elevator.
My opinion is that the last 40 to 50 years, have been all about entertainment, as a tool of control.

Are cars better, planes, houses....? Only marginally. I don't even want sensors to tell me my car has this or that issue, lol.

But we have phones, the internet, TV programming on demand, YT, tiktok, games, VR, flat screens, etc etc. it's all about content and the delivery of that content.

Basically all development has been in entertainment while every other industry has pretty much stood still, or devolved (eg food quality).
I'm using Casdoor: https://github.com/casbin/casdoor and glad to see it only has ~77,000 LOC according to the shared link.

Keycloak was good but has too much legacy for 10+ years. Casdoor is pretty new and has become a good replacement for Keycloak for me with more functionalities.
It isn't for lack of trying the Linux Desktop thing.
Reminds me of an aphorism with a moon but I can't quite put my finger on it.
34.7% of business establishments born in 2013 were still operating in 2023
> Self-regulation (especially at the industry level rather than delegating to individual companies) doesn't seem completely broken.

Maybe, maybe not. But I do know that I don't have much faith when companies "regulate" themselves. There's just too much conflict of interest there. A third party doing it is, on its face, more trustworthy.
Not having any birds or small mammals to eat because the cats killed all of them is going to do a number on them too. Despite their ability to win a physical confrontation.
> We desperately need to focus on conservation efforts instead of attempting to engineer "solutions" that only end up encouraging further consumption.

"We desperately need to find ways to massively change human nature, rather than using our vast combined expertise to engineer solutions that let human nature work for us rather than against us."

Any solution to a systemic problem that can be articulated as "If people would just..." is doomed to fail. People will not just. People will continue finding ways to convert resources into better lives—for better and for worse.

Posting on articles like this saying "No! We can't keep finding ways to make consumption not harm the ecosystem! We have to force people to live austere, monk-like lifestyles! Only that will truly save us all!"

Like, I'm as frustrated by the idiocy of growing almonds in California as the next guy, but if this solution will actually work the way it claims to, then we may not need to worry about that anymore. And furthermore, it would mean significant improvements for various other parts of the world currently reliant on transporting enormous quantities of fresh water long distances to coastal areas.
Is it? I remember Marc Andreessen's comment near the height of the VR craze of ~2016, about "reality deserts". Some segment of the American population lives in an urban area (or suburban area / village with people they actually like), and for them, the idea that people might want to play computer games online instead of hanging out with their friends in person is unfathomable. But not everybody is privileged enough to have that situation. By the numbers, not even a majority of people is privileged enough to have that situation. A lot of people live in suburban boxes, don't have friends, and don't particularly like the people around them. For them, a technology where they can go out to the Internet, find people that they actually do like, and engage in activities that they all find fun is a godsend.
No firing manager in a large corporation is going to say a word more than what the HR training told them to say, to minimize liability.
The epistemic standpoint of rationality (particularly Cartesianism) assumes a static arrangement of knowledge, where one uses analytic reason to gradually unveil bits of it like finding new territory on a map. It is rooted in analytic geometry.

David Hume challenged this view. His main insight was that an object we call "A" in time T1 may not be the same object in time T2. We also need to distinguish between "A" as an idea of an object and "A" as a particular instance of object.
I think it's because people who do research are perceived as someone who wants, out of good heart, to provide a benefit to humanity.

"How can you not want me to work on this enzyme pathway that can explain how this very rare and aggressive form of cancer develops?" sounds different from "How can you not want me to star in this silly sitcom?". I used extreme examples, but still.
Fracking eyeballs at the turn of the 20th century
They're too expensive to hand out I would guess (also Russia might start threatening nuclear war again) and it would be a disaster to have one get blown up easily.

They're probably also still not fully combat ready.