skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Code of Federal Regulations upgraded Vodka in 2020.

Previously:

“Vodka” is neutral spirits so distilled, or so treated after distillation with charcoal or other materials, as to be without distinctive character, aroma, taste, or color.

Now:

Vodka: Neutral spirits which may be treated with up to two grams per liter of sugar and up to one gram per liter of citric acid. Products to be labeled as vodka may not be aged or stored in wood barrels at any time except when stored in paraffin-lined wood barrels and labeled as bottled in bond pursuant to § 5.88. Vodka treated and filtered with not less than one ounce of activated carbon or activated charcoal per 100 wine gallons of spirits may be labeled as “charcoal filtered.” Addition of any other flavoring or blending materials changes the classification to flavored vodka or to a distilled spirits specialty product, as appropriate. Vodka must be designated on the label as “neutral spirits,” “alcohol,” or “vodka”.
Gotta call it AI if you want to make the headline or receive the funding.
Only a small fraction of people will give up their cars, but I do hope the no-car evangelism takes off. Y'all can ride the trolley with stops every quarter mile while I just cruise on the now empty roads in my own personal car, parking right next to my jobs front door. Thanks.
Microsoft is working on a Copilot Pro subscription (APK Teardown)
Optimize for learning, not for earning. In the tech field degrees matter now (you don’t see too many AI startups founded by high school students without degrees). If a University is a ticket to a funded tech startup or a tech co, go that route. Go to the geographic hub of the industry that you pick.
The GCHQ Christmas Challenge 2023 – Gchq.gov.uk
Modder Fixes Fatal Flaw in Cult Classic Japanese Racing Game After 20 Years
Exactly, an extreme begets the opposite extreme.
They used a machine-learning model to predict the physical properties of each material. That is how they managed to narrow it down from millions of possibilities and find something worth actually trying to synthesize.
These tools are transforming the way we interact with audio content. From creating realistic voiceovers to enhancing digital assistants, these tools are revolutionizing various industries.
Replacing Lithium with Sodium, the only information this article suggests came from the AI, is about as trivial as you get in chemistry. That is a question that a high school teacher would ask their class after introducing the period table and expect everyone to know.
Layoffs for profits are the way.

Unions are also the way.

It's a tale as old as time.

Some kind of universal basic income tempts my thinking as a solution to not having enough need for labor anymore.
> even critical ones that would require to resize a system partition from a running OS?

Windows updates can usually do this actually. But only if the recovery partition is after the system partition. On my systems that have been around for a while and had a recovery partition in the front of the drive (as used to be common), there's often a handful of recovery partitions, because the original one was too small, so some update made a new one at the end, and then that one was too small and another update made another one at the end. Kind of messy... and hard to cleanup, I don't think many filesystems are easy to extend or reduce from the front of the partition.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but they also seem to adjust for inflation when talking about the poor getting poorer “in real terms” but didn’t do the same for the rich people getting richer.
This is the next thing, a renewable type of battery storage device that is also carbon net negative ? Sign me the fuck up ! Who wants to fund the pot-A.I.-to battery startup with me ?
If Swiss daycare is anywhere like Seattle's, for 2 kids 1 year would cost $50K, which is a high percentage on its own all the way up until $200K income.

And for FAT retiring low income taxes are compensated by wealth tax.
So far none in my social circles uses Tik-Tok, thanks $deity.
Dedup off, since I use my history to reconstruct things I've done and for that I want the full sequence of commands.

Checking now it's 104,545 unique commands. It goes back to April 2012.

Note that this is just my laptop; things I've run on my work computer or when ssh'd somewhere else aren't included.
Why would it? People are voting with their wallets that this is okay, that they'd rather have Slack and all that it has instead of some competing solution that's more responsive but lags in other areas, so there is no market pressure to improve this.
Reminds me of that deranged Danish murderer that built a submarine for undisturbed murder sessions :S sadly his victim did not survive that
They used a machine-learning model to predict the physical properties of each candidate material. Since ML and AI are (incorrectly) basically synonymous at this point, the news outlet is probably the one that s/ML/AI/'d.
So to sum up, pretty meaningless then.

If its not higher capacity + lower weight it's not an alternative.
Would you mind providing a link? The only post I found on Algolia when searching for "max woolf" over the past month is yours :)
For comparison, can we see how much Joe and Jane Averages' wealth has increased in that lesser timeframe?
On some urban rail lines, the main source of noise is the horn which they blow at every intersection.
>Maybe I look at history with rose tinted glasses but my experience tells me people are spending more and more money.

They are... On rent. And food (even the exact same food). And everything else. Wages haven't kept up with housing for some 30 years and we're seeing the consequences now. The housing crash didn't help either.

Likewise, stuff got more expensive over the pandemic. Gas is triple the price now, streaming services is starting to approach cable prices once again, Dollar menu fast food isn't a thing anymore. The best coupons I could find is $4 for 2 burgers. And a typical combo can easily cost $15 by itself. $20k new cars aren't a thing anymore, and the used car market also inflated. The $3500 used Nissan with 140k miles bought in 2018 is seeing 9-10k on Craigslist.

I'm seeing the opposite effect you are. People aren't going out anymore: they can't even afford a monthly bar crawl where what used to be weekly or multiple times a week outing. Much less traveling happening. People who used to live alone are rooming up again because rent keeps increasing. Spending power and QoL is going down.
Title updated. That was in fact what I intended. Forgive me for my bad English.
> Martin Fowler, Kent Beck and Uncle Bob

Dunno about the last, but I have gotten a bunch of value out of Beck's TDD book and Fowler's refactoring book.
Lots of small software companies existed from the 95-XP era to do exactly this, to fix errors such as missing paths or dll issues for major updates and upgrades. Seems like Windows Update is ripe for supervision again.
Unfortunately ads work even if the person is very disinclined to the purchase when viewed. When faced with a decision in store many months later, even years, whichever brand you recognize more will be more likely to be purchased. Ads are a very effective form of brainwashing. One might recall the adage that "there is no such thing as bad PR".
It’s definitely important to scope where car replacements are most successful. And it’s not rural living. It’s in more dense urban and suburban areas, where most of your needs are within 2 miles, and also that there is decent public transit.
It's a feature, not a bug. I've been meaning to cut my youtube consumption anyway.
Could you elaborate? I've seen this tendency (or an acknowledgement of it) in even the best people I've worked with, ones who are far better programmers than me. I've spent a lot of my career primarily pair programming, so I've had ample opportunity to talk with them about stuff like this explicitly.
The potatoes need to be suggested by the AI first.
I've never seen a stronger case for ensuring public ownership of key infrastructure in all cases, otherwise you can end up in a situation where two giant economies are held hostage by one person.

This doesn’t make sense to me. Presumably some entity more specific than the “public” would be responsible for such a work. It would still require a toll in order to exist in a revenue positive way. It would need to be revenue positive in order to build a future replacement. What difference does it make if the entity is controlled by something called an “agency” or by a “company?”

Are the various entities chartered by government somehow immune to turf battles and protection of proprietary interests?
This is also why trains are so hard to build in the USA between the coasts.
This whole conversation is either roleplay or made by AI
> These are viewers who are least inclined to buy anything.

How do you figure? No one likes ads and everyone thinks they are personally immune to them. But they are still effective, somehow. I seriously doubt whether someone has an ad blocker installed is indicative of some characteristic about them that makes them not worth advertising to.

In fact we can gauge from advertiser actions that probably the most relevant fact about them is simply the ad blocker, which is why they want to get rid of the blockers and advertise to them. They know ads work on us, even when we believe otherwise.
> so is it wrong that an individual risked millions of his own money for a "public service" ?

No, nothing wrong with that.

The problem is when that person tries to stop any "competition" (e.g. a new bridge). Infrastructure like roads and bridges aren't "just" a business, they're needed for basic economics and trade to function. "We invested in this bridge a 100 years ago so now no one can build a new bridge in the general area until the end of times" is nothing short of delusional. When people complain about "capitalism" what they usually mean isn't the basic concept, but this kind of hyper-narcissistic money-grabbing wankery.
Apple Unveils Ferret, First Open Source AI
One of the biggest differences was on an nvidia Shield tablet. They cut a ton of corners to fit the GPU and still hit a $200 price point. It didn’t even have fast charging, so sometimes the battery would drain during a game even when it was plugged in.
This couldn't be more false.
https://archive.ph/ZlOLN
What does "tracking you" mean in this context? Storing youtube watch history?
Show HN: Edu AI, a company grown from my research (AI and pedagogy)
Hi guys, I am a researcher and entrepreneur from London.

Innovation has been slow here, I regularly browse and read ycom news and thought I'd share my UK ed-tech startup that's sprung out of my AI-driven pedagogy research project here at Goldsmiths, UoL.

Not sure what it's like over in the states or other countries, but we see here lots of educators using ChatGPT for creating assignments and marking; while simultaneously complaining about students using ChatGPT to write their work.

It's really bad at the university level here at the moment, feels like we have a loop of ChatGPT producing learning material, students submitting work written by ChatGPT, and then lecturers marking it with ChatGPT.

The basis of my research is around maintaining a human in the loop, learning from our past mistakes with social media and the internet, and trying to apply deeptech (mainly AI) in a way that I see it having a long-term benefit to student learning outcomes - everyone seems obsessed with the short-term quick wins, and being fresh out of the UK education system, I'm all too familiar with being a guinea pig for trying new learning methodologies out.

Currently, I have a quiz generator hosted on [redacted], it uses OpenAI API to create a quiz on an input topic or based on uploaded PDFs, so basically upload lesson slides or document, get a quiz, give it to students; win-win, save time, while also not just a lesson plan generator (there's a lot of GPT wrapper tools built for teachers here that are different versions of AI lesson plan generators).

We're currently offering this tool for free, and I am personally covering the API costs, this has been fine until a recent 4000% increase in traffic; we're figuring out our next steps as we speak.

If anyone is keen to share insight, invest, support, or anything else with this project, feel free to get in touch with me at [redacted], or drop me a message at [redacted], just quote this post :)
I wondered about supplying troops across the Dnieper river in Kherson. The vehicle wouldn't have to stop at any point and wouldn't need a bridge or a road.

They would probably be rather more expensive and yet another thing to maintain and not carry that much. Ontop of that where would you hide them so that the opponent wouldn't concentrate effort to remove them? The more effective they were the more they would get targeted and be difficult to protect.

I really just think that nobody has tried - there probably aren't such a lot of hovercraft "on the second hand market" that can be bought and fixed up to go and the only ones in large supply are very small recreational vehicles.
Hadn't read anything by Cheever before. This was incredible.

Starts off with a real Ferris Bueller lightheartedness and takes a very moving turn.
All of these concerns are predicated on sprawl-based land-use patterns, which themselves are dependent on the automobile. The largest impact of private motorised transportation, after climate, has been on the built landscape.

What was replaced were dense cities and compact towns, along with more distributed rural living, though the traditional form of that, still found in some places in Europe and elsewhere, is of small towns from which farmers travel to their (nearby, but not immediately proximate) fields.

In the city/town example, where the total urbanisation rarely extended more than a few kilometers or miles (as in low single digits), one would walk to shops or the market square, and purchases were carried, occasionally pulled in carts or wagons, or later delivery by the merchant was arranged.

Some goods, particularly fresh / readily spoiling ones (milk, eggs, ice) were delivered by cart door-to-door.

I'm not saying that we necessarily are returning to a similar circumstance, though it's a possibility you and others on this thread seem not to even consider. I'd suggest that this is an error. What a post-carbon world will entail is much more expensive private vehicle costs, where EVs seem to runs 2--4x the cost of an equivalent ICE vehicle, which would make ownership more challenging and various alternatives, including smaller transport options (bicycles, electric bikes and scooters, "city cars", and the like) more viable. I'm going to suggest that the Uber/Lyft ride-hailing revolution has proved a failure with many of the purported benefits (less traffic & congestion, universal availability, lower cost, less demand for parking) falling well short of advertised potential.

And I'm not claiming that the transformation will be instantaneous. Mass-market automobiles first appeared in 1901 (Ford's Model T and equivalent General Motors offerings), whilst tract suburban development didn't gain significant momentum until the late 1940s (Levittown, PA), and weren't fully mature until the 1970s, a lag of a half to three quarters of a century. De-suburbanisation may well follow a similar timescale. And yes, it's worth noting that there were a few minor road-bumps on the path to suburbanisation (the Great Depression, World War II).
Turning a cute tragedy of an obsessed man into a significant eavesdropping technology exploit and privacy nightmare... Peak hacker news discussion!
This 100x
> Also, if I were an advertiser, I would not want my ads shown by people using ad blockers, no?

This is a good point that marketers will never accept because their livelihood depends on the proposition that what they push down the trough will seem so delicious that the hogs will slurp it up.

I’m an ad blocking zealot and feel a big FU towards ads that slip through. Much less likely to trust the brands or their products, especially the scummy junk that pops up on yt. (“I bet you think doing cardio is the best way to lose weight…”)
Yeah, I did. But maybe I missed something, do you care to elaborate?
I use it regularly as it costs only a few euros to get my groceries delivered and I can do my shopping from the couch in ten minutes.
In an age where everyone questions if conventional intelligence does work, artificial intelligence will surely be popular.

But yes, it probably is just expert software. We sometime call it intelligent, although it may just be some physics model with a lot of experience in engineering pragmatic assumptions to reduce brute forcing likely optimal solutions.
Draig is the first comprehensive programming language to be codable in Welsh (English words as control and function names have been removed to encourage welsh oriented speakers to try coding in their own language)
Orbital reflectors could boost solar energy around dusk and dawn
Unlike Project Euler etc. where one really needs to be good at algorithms/math etc to make the most efficient code, else it will just run for days to brute force, most of advent of code can be solved with terrible algo as the input data is very small.

I think most CS grad students can solve Advent of Code. Some people, probably don't finish it not because it is hard, but probably because they lose interest.
It is where land-use patterns are appropriate to it, see: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39002203>.
how does Penrose compare to GraphViz and its "dot" syntax?
Is that the one that's $20 a month and gives access to GPT 4? I signed up on Friday.
Yikes! WAL2 + begin-concurrent = minimal TPS. I was expecting the opposite.
People who refuse to pay for a service and just drain expensive resources, aren't really "users" in terms of being worth focusing on.
> Importantly, Penrose's vision is that experts will author libraries of domains and styles, and end-users need only express the substance of their diagrams (i.e. the three lines of code above).

In that case, would it be a good idea to start the tutorial with some predefined domains and styles? Part of the intimidation factor here is not just the programming language, but also the abstraction one is faced with using and trying to understand before seeing their first picture. If the goal is to have predefined libraries, then why not start with pre-defined domains and styles and first teach people only how to do the substance, and leave domain & style definitions for advanced tutorials?

What are the advantages of making everything a constrained optimization problem? I like the idea that I can experiment with layouts sometimes, but I don’t really want a random diagram all the time. I realize it doesn’t have to be random, I have the choice to explicitly pin things down, but that takes extra work with Penrose, I’m asking why random is the default. Having done a lot of technical diagramming in papers and books, I would expect to almost always pin things down, and maybe once in a while free up a few elements to move around. Letting the whole thing go random is rarely if ever something I’d choose, especially near the end of making a more complicated diagram. What I’m wondering is whether this design is good for experts, and why, or if it mostly helps beginners.

I recently discovered GeoGebra, and would love to hear some compare & contrast notes. It doesn’t use constrained optimization, and it does separate style from substance as needed, but in a different way than Penrose. The important feature seems to be that it lets you define the relationships between elements of the diagram, so if you move a point, the line attached follows, and then parallel and perpendicular lines attached follow, and so on, everything in the diagram becomes responsive to adapt to the change while letting you put something right where you want it. This way I still get to experiment with layouts, but nothing in the construction needs to be random. Most of the style definitions are point & click GUI actions. Are there reasons that workflow is inferior to Penrose?
> Is everything just AI now?

Yes. There's plenty of youtube clips from last week's CES that make this point amusingly. The word "AI" out of the mouth of every presenter, every 2 seconds.
That doesn't really excuse it, the news outlet has a responsibility to educate itself on basic matters (eg ML vs AI). Even if they have refused to do so before now.

Granted, I've not met many newsrooms with a serious conceptualization of "responsibility" beyond whatever bullshit they learned in school.
Given how chatGPT has been nerfed, I would strongly consider it. I'm thinking of cancelling my subscription.
I use chatGPT mostly as a code generator for the most part.
I'm the guide and it codes and I nugde it at times. Not the reverse, smh.

I even got a message that chatGPT had guidelines regarding coding today, and totally refused to output the usual code examples. That's something new...

Maybe this explains that.

Bard is not up to task for coding endeavors yet. I don't know what they're doing... Smh.
Haha, wow, shots fired.

"Cheever's swimmer is a tragic hero disguised as an upper-class suburbanite. There are a lot of tragic heroes hidden in suburbia, I guess, perhaps because so many of them subscribe to the New Yorker."
yes they do.

And depending on the subject and/or what you're trying to do, it will have a larger impact the just talking to the model
I have worked in places where adding a new server is a bureocratic nightmare at best.

Granted I dont think thats the norm, but also host your webserver yourself is not as user friendly as AWS.

People always forget that.
You could remove them all, and punish them all severely, but without change to the system which they were the most successful at working, they will all be replaced by indistinguishable figures working the same systems in the same ways.
FYI this changed a couple weeks ago. They reopened signups in mid-December.
It seems like a reasonable strategy. They have way too many candidates so it isn’t as if throwing away a bunch because the AI is misfiring would be a problem.
Some inflammation is good to repair damaged stuff, be it muscles, tendons etc. Very often I see this in gym freaks or rock climbers, fighting inflammation at all costs without understanding underlying processes.

Or in case of infection move temperature further away from optimal one for breeding foreign bacteria/viruses, at that scale and numbers its statistics game so any advantage, even by just raising overall temperature is acceptable.

The problem is our bodies sometimes go haywire and don't regulate properly.
Again, the fact that the roads are designed so poorly for this still gives drivers too much sympathy from authorities, regulators, and the general public. It literally can happen to anyone who decides to drive at all, given that visibility is so messed up.

The ditch will heavily sanction a driver and go through a likely redesign when an accident happens. You can’t just expect drivers to do the right thing, you have to also make right things possible. The American approach of “let’s require drivers to develop precognition” is just ridiculously stupid.
They should disable this for people who use Premium. Although I'm happy to now know why my YouTube fell to bits starting on Friday... I uh.. pay for YouTube Premium so they shouldn't care.