skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Running a profitable business with happy customers is parasitical? I thought that was for PE and hedge fund clowns.
The Yesterweb: A movement which could not scale
I don’t fully understand the use of business case after reading the documentation. Is it really a time save?
“Thanks for the heads-up! We'll probably be off Cloudflare fairly soon - I think that's more likely the better fix. But if we end up being forced to stay on it, we'll look into configuring those rules.” --reply to an email I sent
I have the exact opposite experience. In fact for a while I lived on optimizing Java projects to meet with performance numbers even my junior Rust code can beat easily. Most Java devs have no idea how to write performant software.
I'm pretty sure whoever coined the term just wanted to sound smart. Retrieval Augmented Generation is a fancy way to say "put data in the prompt"
Yep: `bluefin-framework` and `bluefin-dx-framework` for the stock and developer version. We also have asus and surface images with their respective kernels.

If you have an AMD Framework the gnome-power-profiles manager has the inprogress patches from AMD already included and are probably better. Upstream Fedora is also in the process of evaluating `tuned` so in the future there may not even need to be a separate image for Framework.

Rebase instructions here: https://universal-blue.org/images/
> I don’t drive at all when it snows as a human.

That's the smart move. I've been quite astounded at family members without a driving license pushing family members with driving licenses to drive when they thought it wasn't safe. If it snows and it isn't 911 level urgent then simply stay put.
The only reason you want to use bfloat16 is to train "compressed" models. Best inference performance tends to be at 4 bith quantization (and many people are trying to make it go down, even to 1 bit, and with sparsity, actually below that)

So this just doesn't matter.

Ironically, memory speed is what matters. And that's exactly the point where the M1 actually beats even the M3.
In my area they burn garbage for electricity[1] which a lot of the content will be plastics, they collect metals from the ash. As mentioned it still releases carbon in to the atmosphere but better than this setup since the emissions controls are much better as they are with most power plants.

With an electric car you are not limited to any one fuel, whether it be solar, wind, hydro, nuclear, nat gas, oil, coal or plastic / garbage this is the big win decoupling fuel from transport.

1. https://pinellas.gov/waste-to-energy-facility/
The app is 255 MB. If you’re on a 2 GB plan, that’s an 1/8th if your data for the month just to save a few bucks.

This is in addition to when you just want to eat the damn thing once you get it.
The issue was clearly predicted. Even ignoring climate change it would have been a problem but they went ahead with the changes and now don't want to admit that the experts warned them.
You'd probably get one anyway due to that receptor activation.
Ask HN: Who would like to trade surveys for their projects?
As the title suggests: if you fill out mine, I'll fill out yours! I'm hoping that people in the same situation will be able to get some input by trading fill out out each others surveys (if they are short - mine is 2-3 minutes)

Here's the link to the survey: https://forms.gle/wNAcrT9T638g8coZA

Background: I have a project that I'm working on to develop a mobile app that helps people to stick to habits that they want to work on, but struggle with (e.g. meditation, exercise, studying, etc.).

I've built a couple of basic apps, but as part of my learning, I want to go back to the beginning to build it with input from users, so I've created a short survey to gather feedback on habit formation challenges and desired app features.

Thanks for anyone who helps!
People will be quick to blame private equity. The private equity playbook is quite literally to cut costs, raise prices and load up with complicated debt then sell the business before the complicated debt explodes. That's just scratching the surface.

We have ample evidence of what works for sites that contain what is essentially user-generated content. All social media sites, Wikipedia, Ancestry, numerous others. Gracenote/CDDB [1] was one of the earliest examples on the Internet. The model that works is Wikipedia.

This is all so painfully obvious when you examine such enterprises through the lens of the workers relationship to the means of production. Users here are the workers. They're creating the value in these sites. Without these workers these sites are worth nothing. Wikipedia works because it is owned by the Wikimedia Foundation. This isn't quite being owned by the workers but it's a lot closer than any for-profit enterprise. Oh and simply being a non-profit doesn't solve the problem either.

Every social media site will go through this: increasing value extraction to maintain profits that will ultimately destroy the site. Ancestry isn't a socia media site but it follows the same pattern.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracenote_licensing_controvers...
I came to say much the same thing, but specifically about IT.

I used to run architectural ideas by operations people who would - and occasionally did - tell me I was full of shit. Maybe 1 in 10 of us are brave enough to to this, 1 in 6 if we are generous, but now there is nobody to tell us we are being stupid before we steer the ship toward an iceberg.
According to Wikipedia, the injuries from gasoline in these communities resulted from deliberately using it as an inhalant (to get intoxicated). This can hardly be compared with standing at a gas pump outdoors for five minutes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opal_(fuel)

From that article: "Opal is a variety of low-aromatic 91 RON petrol developed in 2005 by BP Australia to combat the rising use of petrol as an inhalant in remote Indigenous Australian communities. ... Typical unleaded petrol contains 25% aromatics, such as toluene, ortho-xylene and para-xylene. In contrast, Opal contains only 5% aromatics, which means that it has less of the toluene and other solvents which produce the intoxication (or "high") that inhalant users are seeking."
There’s also the possibility that somebody’s feelings could get hurt if unexpected family members are discovered.
No, they're less recruiters or negotiators and more as scouts.

They are supposed to go out and find interesting things in (or adjacent to) your space, get to know them, understand how they measure up among their peers and competitors, and bring all that information back to the company.

They're all waiting for the company - usually the CEO, CPO, or CRO - to say something like "we have a need for X."

Background: I was at Okta through the Stormpath, Azuqua, and Auth0 acquisitions. I didn't have a role in any beyond knowing the M&A team and observing it throughout.
Think of it more like conceptual / performance art.
Allow people that don't know SQL to query a database.
All Ryanair-branded flights are on a single type rating, the 737. They do have Lears for parts and personnel transfer and acquired a subsidiary, Lauda, which exclusively fly A320s.

But if you book Ryanair, you'll board a 737.
People playing the lottery aren't donating money, they are buying the mental image of winning it - just listen to them daydreaming about what they will buy and how they split the money. They might also, with a minuscule chance, have an immediate positive effect on their life via an enormous influx of money to their bank account [0]. This is not at all comparable to donating to science, where the positive effects for oneself are years away, if they materialize at all. It's a completely different mindset.

If you can't comprehend this, think about how older people talk about you wasting money on video games with virtual items that are, theoretically, instantly replicated at no cost. Looks stupid on paper, too, but how it makes you feel is why you spend the money.

[0] I know that winning the lottery has been bad luck for a lot of people, but people playing the lottery either don't think that far or have "solid" plans for avoiding this fate.
> God help you if you have a hick accent or something like that. I think they’re much more likely to trust non-white people from the right social class.

That sounds right. Accent is often a (weak) signal of educational level.
The toxicity that you burn away is much less than the one that you get in return.

Dioxins for instance:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266676572...
I can understand where you're coming from but driving on a road where everyone has the same speed on average is less stressful than driving on a road with large differences in speed.

The latter requires a good evaluation of the speed of the vehicles behind / in your mirror rather than just checking for whether a vehicle is there. On the former, you can simply match speed with the person in front and you're good to go.

Due to this, ADAS is also broken on roads with high speed differences. It won't alert you of a vehicle is coming 100+ kmh than you in your blind spot.
Elemental Haiku (2017)
Erm, because most things get to 70% and then stall?

"The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time."
—Tom Cargill, Bell Labs

The differences between something having 90% and 99% and 99.9% coverage is GIGANTIC at each step.
> Because of the chemicals added to plastic, burning it to make fuel creates a lot of nasty air pollution.

Even a tiny whiff of burning plastic makes me nauseous for hours. I want nothing to do with that. If I seal clothes in a plastic tub for a few years, the clothes take on a plastic smell that also makes me nauseous. It doesn't wash out, so those clothes get thrown out. Long ago I got rid of all the dishes made of plastic. Even plastic cups impart a plasticy taste to water.
Why on earth would you want to let someone know that you had a big payout? It's none of anybody else's business how much money I have and if nobody knows you can walk downtown in peace, go to restaurants, hang out with your same friends, and still have lovely ski or yacht holidays in peace.

The Bay Area and Seattle have quite a few "unknown" billionares. For example if you had less than 5% of Microsoft when it IPOd you were not listed in the S-1, and if you hung on by the mid 90s you could have been worth 8-9 figures.
Diablo T25 New World Record Time
Quora cookie settings: We and our 128 partners store and/or access information
When you go to a Quora page you have to accept their cookies policy but today I was astonished by what I was reading:

We Care About Your Privacy (lol)

We and our 128 partners store and/or access information on a device, such as unique IDs in cookies to process personal data. You may accept or manage your choices by clicking below or at any time in the privacy policy page. These choices will be signaled to our partners and will not affect browsing data.

And when we go to the settings it's even worse:

Use precise geolocation data: 42 partners can use this purpose

Deliver and present advertising and content: 76 partners can use this purpose

And so on...

I know there's already a lot of discussion saying Quora is bad, but I couldn't believe it was at this point!
I don't think there's an equivalent to flash even today. The design tools and the model behind is still probably the best way to create moderately interactive content.
FWIW r/bcba has a monthly job posting, perhaps the mods would allow you post there if you messaged them (or just a standalone post)?
And I ask, why not both? It's gonna be a rough day at the job site hanging dry wall with a screwdriver.

There isn't some dichotomy that makes us choose between good tools and solving problems.
Are you saying that you think that description means the Michell was likely African-American? Or are you just saying that that description refers to a physical trait of being relatively dark-skinned for a Caucasian, instead of a behavioral trait?

I would have parsed that as meaning he behaved in a generally dour way.
I can't wait until it naively does a table scan on one of our several TB tables...
Outside of the super high end, the middle ground is simply not available any more where I live. Even the old taxi companies, under pressure from our regional Uber-copycat, have switched to an app-only, quantity-over-quality, throughput-focused model. I can't call and book a ride at a specific time in advance (this used to be possible, of course with a waiting fee), the drivers will no longer let us make detours or stops on the way because their next ride is already booked by the time they pick you up, they drive like maniacs to hit their time targets, all while constantly fiddling with the three phones stuck to their dashboard viewing and accepting rides from the three platforms they "work for".

All of this for a 20% decrease in fees (which started rising back up the moment a near-monopoly was established) and having them "all in one app", even though there are now 3 "all in one" platforms, each with their own set of quirks that you need to remember just like we had to remember for the different taxi companies before.
I've got to ask, the H1, why is the site name the main heading and not the title of the article?
Hah, yeah, I think that's a pretty accurate portrail.

There was a real feeling that we were part of the future. Now we just seem to be part of turbocharging the worst aspects of ultra-capitalism.

Combined with the endlessly frustrating hype-cycles, it really doesn't surprise me that it's all lost its shine. I was reading some comment last week by someone bemoaning the cynicism around LLMs/GPT etc, and I couldn't really agree with it. Being in my mid-forties, I have been around for at least half a dozen major hype-cycles (including the previous couple of AI based ones), all of which have, at best taken a lot longer to come to fruition, and at worst have had sod all impact on the world. I can understand why people are sceptical that "this time it's different".
I’d hazard a guess that a only a small minority of potential signers of public petitions to the NIH could, for example, describe how mRNA vaccines work, or the genetic processes underlying the differentiation of species, etc etc. but should we entrust them to effectively sort out biomedical research priorities? Yes, it would be interesting to see how public opinions line up with expert priorities, if only to uncover and address gaps in public understanding of science.
SHSAT is an NYC-only HS thing, right? Are there any other US cities or regions doing similar at HS admissions level (ages 12-14)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialized_High_Schools_Admis...
> Not good enough to trust your life to if you’re an Albertan.

I believe the heat pumps intended for these climates provided alternatives for those cold days. If you want to stay all electric, it would include a resistive electric heater, but could be paired with some other fuel source.

Personally, I'd seriously consider going ground source where temperatures like this are the norm, but that doesn't work for everyone either.
Or transpiling to C/C++, like Nim.
In Paris my dryer and washer were in the kitchen, but vertical. In Berlin, they were in a closet next to one of the bathrooms, also vertical. In both cases apartments, if that matters.
I've been a consumer of bazzite for almost a full year now. I built an AMD based gaming machine and wanted an experience as pleasant as SteamOS but for HTPC's. That was what first turned me on to the universal-blue project.

I later picked up a framework (exactly 2 weeks ago) and have been daily driving Bluefin on it and the experience is exactly what I'd want from a daily driver. The durability and mindlessness of a Chromebook for updates, options to install all my tools/utilities, and disposable/composable development environments built right into the base system.
I'm curious to see if people have tried this out with their datasets and seen success? I've been using similar techniques at work to build a bot that allows employees internally to talk to our structured datasets (a couple MySQL tables). It works kind of ok in practice, but there are a few challenges:

1. We have many enums and data types specific to our business that will never be in these foundation models. Those have to be manually defined and fed into the prompt as context also (i.e. the equivalent of adding documentation in Vanna.ai).

2. People can ask many kinds of questions that are time-related like 'how much demand was there in the past year?'. If you store your data in quarters, how would you prompt engineer the model to take into account the current time AND recognize it's the last 4 quarters? This has typically broken for me.

3. It took a LOT of sample and diverse example SQL queries in order for it to generate the right SQL queries for a set of plausible user questions (15-20 SQL queries for a single MySQL table). Given that users can ask anything, it has to be extremely robust. Requiring this much context for just a single table means it's difficult to scale to tens or hundreds of tables. I'm wondering if there's a more efficient way of doing this?

4. I've been using the Llama2 70B Gen model, but curious to know if other models work significantly better than this one in generating SQL queries?
From ease of development standpoint? Because featureset it seems like JavaScript and or WASM has absolutely filled that neiche. There were web apps and games that were never before feasible with flash.
We use MTA-STS (for inbound AND outbound) with our mode set to enforce[1], to require senders to communicate with us only using TLS encrypted sockets. There is no legal precedence currently requiring software services to implement backdoors.

[1]: https://github.com/forwardemail/mta-sts.forwardemail.net/blo...
Or the huge boat lift of Strépy-Thieu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C3%A9py-Thieu_boat_lift
Guessing its intended use case is business analytic queries without write permissions —- particularly for non-programmers. I don’t think it’d be advisable to use something like this for app logic
It's Time for Change at the Dolphin Emulator Blog
Thank you!

Can you remember how it did sound when in motion?
EVs or only Teslas?

I have a suspicion that that is true primarily for Teslas.

I have a Toyota plug-in hybrid, which theoretically is an EVs as well as an ICE car, and its repair/maintainance is similar to that of an ICE.

The high cost of Tesla repair is due to their vertical integration, perhaps limited capacity devoted to spares and monopoly over who repairs (max rent selling from repair). EVs should be cheaper to repair and maintain.
I came to read some feel good confirmation bias aka their complaints on lack of buttons for things like defroster and fan speed.

I was horribly let down. Have they never driven a ford edge?!

Anyway why does turning on defroster in most cars turn all the fans to full blast immediately. On normal cars I’m mildly annoyed but it’s simple to turn the fan knob with muscle memory.

On the ford edge to turn it off full blast requires pressing a tiny circle on the touch screen to bring up a slider and then push the correct space on the slider, no haptic feedback is possible. it requires staring at the console and ignoring the road.
I can hire people who have expertise in oss libraries. I have to build people who have expertise in our in house stuff.

Importantly, we can sit around and bond over bitching about how bad one of those libraries is. If the authors are or were internal, we are now being divisive and unprofessional.
I don't know how other smart speakers (eg. Google Home/Alexa) do this, but the Yandex Station smart speaker uses this for initial wifi setup. You enter the Wifi password on your phone in their app, then your phone plays a series of sounds in which the SSID and the password are encoded, the speaker listens to that and connects to the network.
So what exactly were the Magic Leap cores? They don't look like the GPU or CPU cores...
Everything you're saying is true, but the wine was watered down. I grew up in (Eastern) Europe and I used to have a glass of wine with my parents at dinner time when I reached my teens pretty much every time they did (we had a small vineyard, like most people, and wine was plentiful). However, I was mixing it with mineral water (50-50) and with a heavy meal, I never got drunk from that.
What I learned from this experience is to read the manual before buying. Fortunately they are all online -- in fact this Bosch only came with a "quick start" guide so the manual had to be downloaded anyway (and most of the doco is in the form of videos, ugh).
There are lots of places in the US and Canada (to name a few) where people regularly go for outdoor recreation, or what have you, and there's no cell service anywhere near. This is very applicable to that case, not just where people actually live.
See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Countries_Study
Moderators, the link is corrupt. It’s presumably meant to be:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/college-acceptance-r...
Enthusiasts struggle to keep model railway industry on track
> You can't outlaw buying and selling businesses.

Sure you can, and I'll argue that we should.

Competition is the only thing that keeps businesses honest, and acquisition is the antithesis of competition. Shut it down and force companies to compete rather than for the richest to snap up their competitors, and to force startups to dream of sustainability rather than a fat exit.
The issue is that programmers often focus on the aesthetic aspects of their tools. They like smalltalk and lisp because they are somehow elegant and beautiful. However this is a red herring. The only metric that should be considered is how effective the tool is for solving the problem. Discerning between utility and aesthetics of a tool is an essential skill for any programmer to learn
It's a great movie, saw it in local cinema. It was quite interesting experience to see the art on the big screen.
How to Stop Your X Account from Getting Hacked Like the SEC's
> What does this project add?

This project uses this upcoming feature in Fedora: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/OstreeNativeContainer... and switches to its consumption model entirely.

On stock Fedora you're pulling from a distribution-hosted ostree endpoint to do updates. With Bluefin (and other universal-blue.org images) you're pulling from a container registry (in this case ghcr.io, but you can push your builds to any registry or host your own).

We ingest Fedora daily and then add codecs, a bunch of hardware enablement support via udev rules, add a few pain-in-the-ass-otherwise things like the obs virtual cam, xbox controller support, etc. Then that image is pushed to ghcr.io and the local package manager uses that.

We also enable Flathub out of the box and Distrobox: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox - then ship a few preconfigured boxes for you to play with: Ubuntu, Fedora, and Wolfi.

Then we have another image that you can rebase to by typing `just devmode` in a terminal which adds vscode with devcontainers, devpod, devbox, kvm/qemu, incus/lxc/lxd, some nice monospace fonts, cockpit, kind, docker, and a bunch of associated cluster tools.

And since we build everything in CI there's no local package conflicts like in upstream Fedora when the main repo and rpmfusion repos are conflicting, your PC only ever gets successfully built images.
The game is quite complex actually, but the script is not doing overmuch right now. The script is doing things that makes sense for a growing modding API, while the engine still does the brunt of the work. That said, there are functions that end up being called billions of times simply because you want that flexibility, and that's where the low latency script pays off.
Multiple markdown files, presenting code more like gists where you can read them top to bottom, plus with docs in between...
To clarify, I'm not saying it's impossible to have a functional vehicle in dangerous conditions, simply that it's an area loaded with edge cases.