skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like it would be a lot more useful if it wasn't tied directly to the ESPN game. Like, the screen scraping part seems ancillary.

The performance is very impressive though, NFL games aren't easy to pick.
I don't remember most these things happening in the US but maybe you live somewhere else. In hindsight there were a ton of mistakes, but I do remember there being mass graves and overworked medical people WHILE there was a lockdown so some of the irrational things probably make sense.
Yes, and I'm sure somewhere in the Instagram terms of service, users have agreed to license their work to Instagram for those purposes.
>creating a predictable revenue stream for the IRS

This is the biggie. The IRS absolutely HATES the idea of uncertainty. It's why last year when I started doing my taxes and initially had a refund in excess of $1000, my tax software popped up a warning saying that there's a heightened chance I'd be audited.
>And now the order of the tabs is all over the place and when you want to click the "images" tab it's sometimes not the second tab and when you want to click the "videos" tab it's sometimes not the third tab.

I also noticed this; they redesigned their search tabs few months ago and now it's sort of bad and user unfriendly. Sometimes there is "News" tab, sometimes there is no news tab and tabs look all the same and generic(white rectangles with black text).

>I think this is very interesting because you have to think. If Google can fail this hard at tabs, which is not really a complicated thing to program, imagine how hard they are failing at indexing the entire interweb. Imagine if they are doing to search results the same nonsense bullshit they are doing to the tabs.

God knows what is in their index and what is not in their index. I think every search engine needs to make its index open and transparent. And yea Google can fail with all sort of things, they are not ubermensch or something like that.

Google's ranking algorithms and search technology are millions of LOC and not even Google engineers know how exactly Google Search works.
Yes? it depends on what context.

If you're creating a parody, yes it is legal (which sounds like is the case here).

If the "You" is the owner of the 007 trademark, then yes, they the 007 trademark owner is allowed to do that too.

If you're using that exact character in your own production, it is not fair use, then no you cannot do that.
Also note, Shoelace was built by a Microsoft engineer, Cory LaViska. He left to work on Shoelace full-time[0] after it was acquired by FontAwesome.

[0]: https://blog.fontawesome.com/shoelace-joins-font-awesome/
Agreed - and it is that backdrop of growing nationalism where it might actually be beneficial to have a small subsegment of the population in every country which shares a common, unifying belief in the design perfection of a global hipster coffee shop.
If I build a shell, unwittingly fuck up the build configuration, and make install it into /usr; then fixing it will be... well it'd be easy because I have Snapper set up so I can just roll back a snapshot, but if I didn't have that fixing the system could be quite annoying.

If I install the borked shell into my $HOME then fixing it is as easy as removing the broken binary so I fall back on the underlying working shell.

That's the value of immutable /usr, having a reliable underlying fallback system which my fallible human self won't fuck up due to carelessness or hubris.

And yeah, I think most people only modify /usr to put library symlinks in for applications that have particular dependencies. But you can put those where ever as long as they're on your load path.
Obesity is the symptom. The disease is a bigger, more interconnected subject.
I only recently discovered the hazy IPAs, I find them much easier to drink. Evolution is strange when 8t comes to tolerances.
"Improved food access through establishment of a full-service food retailer, by itself, does not show strong evidence towards enhancing health-related outcomes over short durations."

-- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28566095/

"Initiatives to build supermarkets in low-income areas with relatively poor access to large food retailers (“food deserts”) have been implemented at all levels of government, although evaluative studies have not found these projects to improve diet or weight status for shoppers"

-- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4899338/

"Living in a food desert census tract was not significantly associated with BMI"

-- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5615612/

"Using a prospective controlled quasi-experimental design we evaluate the impact on Body Mass Index, fruit and vegetable intake and perceptions of food access, of increasing neighborhood supermarket provision in one community in Philadelphia. This increase in provision was one part of the wider public-private Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative. The intervention moderately increased perceptions of food access, but did not lead to changes in fruit and vegetable intake or BMI."

-- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4201352/

"We found no evidence that the absolute or relative accessibility of supermarkets, fast food restaurants, or mass merchandisers were associated with individual BMI change"

-- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5895451/
Bret Victor (Dynamicland) – Inventing on Principle (2012) [video]
I mean the presence of affiliate links indicates the page is likely spam. I bet that's a good heuristic more often than it's a bad one.
The technical definition of how something works is often irrelevant in the eyes of the law. What matters is the output, and its effects.

The output of a search engine is nothing like the output of generative AI.
I see it the opposite way round

Apple would have to make the iPhone really awesome to convince me to pay more money for it. These days I don't see what that is.

For me, Samsung and pixel cameras, battery life, performance-feel, are plenty good enough. What's there to spend more on?

I don't even use Apple's messaging, photos, calendar, music etc. because I like having freedom to change between platforms and use them easily with anyone, regardless of their own platform.
I'm glad R/C seems to be shifting to meet a younger demographic in a way that model railroading hasn't been able to. I recently bought an ARRMA and I'm blown away by how powerful it is compared to the Tamiya and HPI stuff I grew up with. It's fun to see the new R/C sports (drifting) and twists on existing hobbies (FPV becoming a new focus in R/C planes).
SEER: Super-Optimization Explorer for HLS using E-graph Rewriting [pdf]
Yes, and if you're really into the physical aspect, there are all kinds of robotics kits and lego and such that can give you that.
> From what I heard, this provision for public prosecution dates from the olden days when the post office was carrying important and sensitive messages, like that from the royals, and when they had to fight highway robbers and such.

You were misinformed.

> As for the argument, "nothing else done otherwise", we don't see similar prosecution privileges for other essential services in life (health service, public transport etc.).

Yes we do; as the article says, in the UK any private organisation or individual has the right to bring a prosecution.
> I think it is just pattern-matching.

> For role playing, the pattern-matching approach will probably work well. The potential for using LLMs to depict characters for movies and games appears staggering.

I deeply agree with this. Role playing and simulating agents (ultimately via clever prompting) seem to be the tools we need to get to the next level. I've had an unbelievable amount of success by simply iterating a dynamic prompt and keeping track of the last things the LLM did and any relevant error messages.

The LLM part is mostly solved. The new challenge is role playing to such an extent that you can engineer agents (via prompts) that are difficult to distinguish from the real deal. The other hard part is figuring out how to expose your domain as functions to the prompt. What seems obvious usually doesn't work. You oftentimes need to decompose the activity to accommodate context limitations - Multiple modes of operation become necessary for more complex agents who can't reliably consider all of their capabilities at once.

To put this back into the language of the article, I would say the real magic trick is figuring out how to project a rule-based problem domain into a pattern-based one (i.e. prompt) so that the LLM can make an effective decision.
AFAIK Breville microwaves are also made by Midea.
I'm pretty sure that Bologna abolished 'Engineer' titles.
FWIW everywhere I've lived has an on/off thermostat, maybe it's regional
> it's currently 13°F in Dallas right now, so not really sure the point of calling out specific cities. it's winter. it gets cold in winter. things have problems working correctly in that cold of winter.

Only in Texas do things have trouble working correctly when it gets down to 13F. Auto-spec parts are rated for -40C to +105C.

Generally in Minnesota the primary problem with (older) ICE vehicles where the battery is located toward the headlights instead of back toward the firewall is that a battery with low charge will have a cell or two freeze when it's kept outside on a -10F - 30F night facing into the northwest wind, then the engine doesn't start the following morning and the battery needs to be replaced. Very few vehicles have trouble in 13F weather, except maybe in Buffalo, NY when so much lake-effect snow falls that the vehicle can't even drive through it.
Most ML are certainly compression systems, as you imply. But reproduction and redistribution of copyright material is quite different than generating a service that allows someone to find said material. The question about caching is a different one, but I doubt it falls under the same intent, as Google is incentivized to cache content to better facilitate the search __and redirection__ service, not to facilitate distribution.
> The law prioritises people who sign up for something they don't want (e.g. as a contractor, but wants to be perm), over people who sign up for something they do want (i.e. as a contractor, who wants to be a contractor).

I don't think that's a fair statement of the situation. The law is attempting to punish companies who intentionally mislabel the tax status of their employees. (for example, Uber claiming their drivers are "self-employed", when they're effectively just doing modern Piecework).

Not arguing that the law is perfect, but the goal here is noble, and the idea is sound. Without new laws like this, nothing stops all employers from lying to the IRS about all employees and just making every employee anywhere a "self-employed contractor".

> How do you know where you stand, as an individual or a business, if this stuff can just be changed?

You read the rules? Nothing major has been changed, they're just closing previously exploited loopholes. This only really applies to you if you are an employee at a company that's trying to evade paying their taxes by labeling you a contractor.

It doesn't prevent contractors from contracting (unless they're in some kind of weird edge case).
I can't find the actual picks that this LLM made, are they listed anywhere? As squirrelmaster commented [1], would be very worthwhile to see how this picked in regards to the (betting) markets: against-the-spread (ATS) and the money-line.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=39019606
I’m inclined to think that the industry will bounce back in a little while. We’ve seen plenty of bubbles pop in software and so far things have always gotten better. I don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing.
Not in my experience. I have two different Bluetooth keyboards (and three non-Bluetooth wireless keyboards), none of which can operate wired. At least one of the non-Bluetooth ones can be used to get into BIOS though.
No it didn't. Transmitting power via microwave radio signal through a vacuum is no new thing. That's all they did here: transmit power a meter or two across the inside of the spacecraft while it was in space. They did not even attempt to do transmission of power to ground for obvious reasons.

At 9.84 GHz their ~meter scale aperture from 400km LEO orbit to the biggest NASA dish in existence (that could track LEO) would have a path loss of 76 dB. That means something like (being generous) 0.0000000001% of the power would make it. Plenty for carrying information but useless for beaming power.

Space solar power requires coherent emitting apertures on the order of a handful of kilometers to be feasible (from LEO). We can't build kilometer scale anything in LEO. End of story. Once that changes we can think about space solar power.
The compiler doesn't do much of the predicting, it's done by the CPU in runtime.
I see ways to sync new runs but no way to import all past runs from Apple Health
The standard work around is to have someone go from a sole proprietorship to some sort of corporation like an LLP or LLC and do a business to business contract.
Snip or Skip? The Complicated Debate Over Circumcision.
I don't disagree with your first paragraph, but I don't think it contradicts the spirit of my original comment. Cheeses were invented because there was a demand for non-perishable protein.

> And this isn't some new phenomenon, "cutting out work for wives and mothers trying to put food on the table every night" is an entire industry. Go look at any food ads from the 20th century.

Sure, but that doesn't necessarily mean people's diets necessarily had to deteriorate. You get to pick 3 between healthy, convenient, cheap, and tasty, and Americans overwhelmingly chose the last three. This may caused some vicious cycles, but those are downstream affects caused by lack of demand.
You don’t need to side load. It is available in the App Store.
That... doesn't seem sufficient, or legal, or (if legal) ethical. You can't just "compensate" people for using their copyrighted works via whatever means you've decided is fair.

I think funding UBI studies and lobbying for that sort of thing is a public good, but is entirely unrelated to -- and does not make up for -- wholesale copyright infringement.
Meilisearch v1.6
> Having different categories and words for food and poison is useful. The distinction is not arbitrary.

A very hot pepper has features of both food and poison. Most things are not perfect binaries, and if you put a dividing line on a spectrum, the placement of that dividing line must be arbitrary. Obviously people try to come up with good definitions of things, but that still doesn’t mean it’s a productive use of anyone’s time/effort deciding which side of an arbitrary divide a thing falls into.

> It's not random or arbitrary.

No one said arbitrary == random! Arbitrary in this discussion is meaning “a person chose it”. And it is a useful concept to me here in this context because it distinguishes things a person is deciding from things that are just real in-and-of-themselves out here in spacetime.
Particularly after the whole Sam Altman debacle, regardless of one thinks that the board was being logical or not and regardless of whether anyone thinks that Sam Altman should have been fired, it's still very clear that the non-profit side of the company is not in control of the for-profit side.

We've seen zero evidence that the non-profit side of OpenAI meaningfully constrains the for-profit side in any way, and have seen direct evidence that when the non-profit and for-profit groups disagree with each other, the for-profit side wins.
From #91 an asked an hour ago,

> I wouldn't necessarily say abandoned. I still work on it from time to time, but progress is very very slow and I cannot prioritise it over other things atm

https://github.com/timfraedrich/OutRun/issues/91
> if you are self-employed

This is barely 10% of the workforce. It kind of sounds like you're saying that the government does have everything it needs to prepare tax returns for approximately the other 90%.
Yeah, the basic economy of TT was always disappointingly easy.
Space based solar or fusion power - which one will work commercially first?
I prefer self-checkout simply because I'm better at bagging my groceries than people are. Employees don't care if your food gets crushed by a carton of milk, or under fill the plastic bags; and that's another thing - human cashiers use plastic bags here in the US. I like having control over my bagging situation.
Maybe, maybe not. Lots of stuff gets put in "the back of my mind" because I'm not sure how to do it immediately. Maybe I'll think about it occasionally, or note a consequence like "oh this would be affected if I get around to X". Then when I actually sit down to do it weeks or months later it seams easy - even though when I first thought it I wasn't sure how to even do it.

Point being- it's pretty unlikely that something bouncing around the back of someone's head for years would have taken 5 minutes to do right away, just as it's unlikely that it would have taken 6 years if they'd started when they first had the thought. I suspect there's been some amount of thinking, and potentially that other work was subtly influenced by this thought so that finally doing the task was "easy".
On the contrary, the struggle is to not see it. The article's point is "color/diversity" is better than sameness.

Look again for other keywords, "sameness", "homegen"-suffixes.

E.g. The summary
> coffee shops are physical filtering algorithms, too: they sort people based on their preferences, quietly attracting a particular crowd and repelling others
Could the solution be a user permission dialog? Similar to how browsers implement webcam/etc permissions: “Enable <website> full GPU access? (Default: Off)”
I’ve been wanting something like this but so long, and had it on my list of projects to potentially try making. All I need is basic tracking of my walks/runs to motivate myself, and have zero desire for all the other bloat most fitness apps have.
Having more children is near-universal reaction to poor child survival rate, and vice versa. (Though usually it's not about the offspring dying as adults.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w
The argument was that Apple can use a business model similar to Epic's business model for Unreal Engine: no matter where / how you sell your game, Epic's licensing terms have you pay them a cut of your revenue.
this is a pretty standard performance win to avoid constantly getting the time when you don't need it. Certainly seen this win at work (AWS) but also likely in various other projects repeatedly. But bias for action for getting it done!
That's fine. You can donate your work. But you cannot forcibly donate the work of others.
"This didn’t exactly come as a surprise to us, as for the entirety of Kagi’s life so far we have actually used the cheapest, single-core database available to us on GCP!"

Outages suck, but I love the fact that they are building such a lean product. Been paying for Kagi as a part of de-Google-ifying my use of online services and the experience so far (I wasn't impacted by this outage) has been great.

A few years ago I built a global SaaS (first employee and SWE) in the weather space which was backed by a single DB, and while it had more than just 1 core (8 when I left from memory), I think a lot of developers reach for distributed DBs far too early. Modern hardware can do a lot, products like AWS Aurora are impressive, but they come with their own complexities (and MUCH higher costs).
If you enjoyed this post, I would highly recommend this blog post on springs. Springs basically are PD controllers, and I reference this post all the time to understand how to use them: https://theorangeduck.com/page/spring-roll-call
> Title should be "Six years of thinking allow programmer to solve problem in 5 minutes".

"You didn't pay me $1k to press three buttons; you paid me $1k for knowing which three buttons to press."

EDIT: oh, i see a version of this was already posted in another comment :)
I guess I must just be lucky because I've never worked at a company where HR had any real say at all over the normal hiring/termination process. They're there to make sure the paperwork is filed properly and has the right font and that's about it. My only interactions with HR over 20+ years have been on my first day of work where they hand me brochures about the health insurance, 401(k) and other benefits, and then on my last day when I return my badge.

I don't doubt that these places exist, where HR inserts themselves and becomes part of the hiring process--just never saw one myself.
One that doesn't have ABS at all, though an alternator or charging issue can effect abs because abs relies on high pressure pumps that are powered electrically
One step closer to 'Graphene Valley'
Setting up the old model train set surely must be on a lot of folk's bucket list. I for one definitely will set mine up one more time when I'm retired. Although I have never done that as an adult. But I think it's such a fantastic hobby to have.

Everyone who prefers a virtual alternative in form of a video game is nuts! I cannot even see much similarity between the two, unless creating and automating tracks is really what you find interesting about the hobby (as lnrd hypothesizes). To me, that is the least interesting thing about it. It's not about creating a run of tracks, it's about creating a corner of the world. The scenery, the (long) building process, the hidden gems and stories... For many, it's also about being in a club, the community... you know, like, in the old sense of the word, not the internet sense of the word.

The article makes a good point that we should actually be living in a golden age of model building. Twenty, thirty years ago, it was much harder to come by supplies while in the globalized world we live in today, everything is just an online order away. But of course that also makes it much harder for your local shop to survive.

Also: youtube channel tip: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjRkUtHQ774mTg1vrQ6uA5A
Then you come across Trilium and drop the mic

[0] https://github.com/zadam/trilium
> People and them are quite varied though.

So ask permission. Do you want to have our model ingest your work? Y/N
What is most important I think is ensuring basically no coverage of Gaza suffering or casualties or genocide accusations. Basically things that would make on opposed to Israel's war in Gaza.
Why don't you do some shit with your family, like go on a vacation or go hiking or go sailing or go to museum. You'll spend time with your family and have something to talk about.
I read it — possibly misread it — as an instinctive reflex to balance out the negative assessment of Trump so as not to completely lose half the audience.
Why synchronized block are not preemptible?
When compiling

public void syncMethod() {

synchronized(lock) {
// some code
}

}

they could translate to

public void syncMethod() {

await reentrantLockAsync.lockAsync();
try {
await somecodeAsync();
} finally {
await lock.unlockAsync()
}
}
> summarizing , censoring or transforming conversations without a visible agent.

That would be pretty easy to prove, and if they do so without informing users about it, they could get fined for huge amounts since it would probably constitute a GDPR violation (i.e. saying that everything is end-to-end encrypted but really sending everything through an LLM hosted elsewhere).

Why should they do any of that? What would they gain?
Base-10 isn’t inelegant, is it? I mean there are good arguments for 12 being better but it isn’t like 10 is prime or anything.

Happened across a neat comment yesterday that presents a defense of ten. Not 100% convinced but it is interesting to see pushback.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39000882