skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, that's a far more bold claim, I've never met anyone who has done it and you are the first person I've ever heard claim to know of it, even though I've been steeped in meditative and spiritual traditions for a few years now. Anyway, this is just a pointless back and forth, however you should at least out of basic courtesy not pretend to act shocked that I repeat the basic truth of 99.999% of human beings' existences. That I honestly have to say I find almost rude!
I was thinking about this recently. I work at a large company with untold millions in AWS spend. I'm 100% confident that I could shave off a few thousands (maybe even tens or hundreds of thousands) from the bill with a little bit of effort on my side. If I go up the management chain and ask if (1) I can make this an official project and put it on the roadmap or (2) I can do this on my own time and keep some % of the savings for myself as a reward, the answer would be a very clear "no" to both. So overall, as an end developer I really have no incentive to work harder and ensure lower operating costs for my company, and I'm sure most developers in the industry are in the same position as me.
That's what Consumer Reports exists for.
Yeah I didn't understand what the author even meant in the article. How is first come first serve not fair?
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Re stevia, apparently how you taste it is determined by how sensitive your bitter taste receptors happen to be. It’s somehow also related to why some people can’t stand cilantro, for example.

For me, stevia is simply sweet with no aftertaste so I guess I’m lucky in this regard.
Would you be willing to share any of these configurations?

I've largely curated my own UBO rules/handful of TamperMonkey scripts over the years; seems you've gone above and beyond. Sounds like an admirable effort.
Yes, that has been the main line in public discourse and court actions, people screaming that the electromagnetic waves are disturbing them (again, the meter communicates with the operator via the grid's own electric cables, so there are no more 'waves' than before). Flat-rate tariffs still exist and are the default option here in France.
"Emergence occurs when a complex entity has properties or behaviors that its parts do not have on their own, and emerge only when they interact in a wider whole."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
I believe that's a different story explained here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14178993
It's a web page. It's not even a web app its just scrollable text interspersed with video and links. You don't really have to "optimize" it to not hit the CPU on a 6 core desktop computer, use 400MB of RAM, or lag on a phone. It's not a technical trade off its just 5 minute job that probably should have been a 15 minute job.
Like I wrote in the comment above, it's a never ending discussion, and there are no numbers that people will agree on. So I urge you to look at the cost of living of yourself and people around you, as well as the salaries. A 2024 dollar or euro is maybe worth 50c of a 2020 dollar or euro. The cost of a house has in many places increased by $100 000 during that time, but have the yearly salaries of hospitality workers increased with $25 000?

There is no high demand for hospitality workers. If there was a high demand, then you'd see software engineers quitting their jobs to go work in restaurants and hotels.
I imagine the 0xFF might be converted to 0x00 due to DC blocking capacitors/high-pass filtering, audio circuits aren't really suited for non-audible content.

He might get better capture accuracy with a digital oscilloscope hooked directly at the chip's audio outputs if he's lucky, but it's still pretty impressive he got a bootable image out of that.
Can't argue with that! Lesson learned.
Anecdotally I’ve been doing a lot of research lately on recommended systems and it blows me away how many Chinese papers there are (papers written by researchers in China) and how many claim to beat the current “state-of-the-art” often without saying what that is.
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> It's like needing an account to use a monitor

Given the current enshittification trends, I would not be surprised if in the next few years Samsung, Acer, LG, et al decide that a subscription model for monitors is exactly what they need to pump those share prices up.
While one might have existed, I've never seen a fridge that has cools for the fridge and freezer size. They all have one set of coils between the compartment and then some sort of baffle to control how much cold goes to each section. It is a small engineering problem have another baffle blowing cold are to the ice maker.
> the resistance to something as simple as padlocking a hatch baffles me

We keep hatches simple to facilitate egress [1]. A padlocked hatch must be reliably unpadlocked.

[1] https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo1info.html
Oculus engineers apparently did.

So I'd imagine the internal pressure over something closer to main products would be the same or worse.

Centralizing identity was (prior to the EU) a core moat for Facebook/Meta.
That is a great mystery, to me it's as clear as if someone pasted a cartoon dog onto the image, it's extremely blatant and impossible to ignore by my normal human pattern recognition.
I could also describe a JMP instruction as "if you got here, jump to there", but just because I can doesn't necessarily mean I should.
I disagree. I would rather use a uniform and fixpitch font (and a single colour) for the entire URL, and to force it to display the entire URL as ASCII. The only part which should be hidden is the password.

(Being able to change the settings might be helpful, so that you can configure the fonts, character sets, etc; and perhaps even the setting to display the password if you want it to do.)
I've been thinking about the cake cutting problem recently, with a bit more "physical world" and dexterity in mind. Even in the two-player version, one can add few more criterion.

* Cutting a cake is a skill; it takes an effort (thus associated cost) and you may not be accurate at cutting it. There may be some error bound epsilon.

* If so, in the traditional "I cut you choose" model, as there are risks associated with cutting (what if you intend fairness, but you ended up with lopsided 49:51 cake due to an error?), one may not volunteer to cut the cake; if so, how can we encourage / compensate one to cut the cake?

* The "skill" can go both ways; it takes an effort to figure out which cake is bigger - even more then the cut itself. both parties may volunteer to cut the cake. if so, how can we encourage / compensate one to be the chooser?
> This is why the free software movement failed

Did it though? I see people caring more and more about privacy, and eventually it might even be mainstream. Big tech is becoming so awful that even casual users are noticing and asking questions, and we now have laws to give users freedom and protection.

Give it time, electricity was still scarce once. You wouldn't say it failed back then.

Everything I use is free software. It didn't fail, it delivers exactly what was promised.
A consequence of low/no information buyers who don't talk to repair people, don't read Consumer Reports, and don't consider the lifecycle TCO of a major appliance. My grandparents had a Thermador side-by-side built-in for 25 years until parts for it became too expensive or unavailable to replace. My parents had some cheap, ugly yellow GE early-80's refrigerator that lasted 40+ years.

If customers fail to realize some manufacturers adopted and went beyond intentional planned obsolescence, then they brought it on themselves throwing money away by expecting a different result. That's either stupidity or insanity.
I like vonet and pachnout
> We don't train models on noise. We train them on coherent data. The very act of writing is where intelligence lies. A model can only present that intelligence. It cannot create it, and it is not aware of it. There is no objective-thought function. If there was, then the LLM could simply tell us about it.

We don't train humans on noise. We train them on intangible and tangible things in the world. The very act of choosing and ordering the things is where intelligence lies. A human can only present that intelligence. It cannot create it, and it is not aware of it. There is no objective-thought function. If there was, then the human could simply tell us about it.

Turtles all the way down.
Unfortunately I can't do any of those things because I live in an apartment and we have mailboxes like these: https://kopbrevlada.se/pub/media/webp_image/catalog/product/...

But I appreciate the suggestions!
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free != destructor, that's the important point here.
I did learn some lessons. My kids are enrolled in swimming classes now! :-D
This works for some things, but not others.

For example, commercial laundry equipment comes from VERY FEW manufacturers, and you may never have heard of UniMac https://unimac.com/product/washer-extractors/uw-series-high-... but you probably have heard of their little brother, Speed Queen. Blendtec is another example.

But some things are vastly different between commercial and residential. Commercial ovens often have no heat shielding at all (because they're meant to be installed in a commercial kitchen and used all the time) and so the sides can get very hot. Not what you want in a home kitchen!

You can find some names, and check what they offer in residential versions.

But the surest way is to find people who work with them talking about them.
Oh so Americans do care about being filmed in public xD

Surveillance Camera Man might be my new hero, if his goals where the ones I hope.

Although I might want to turn away the surveillance cameras as well, some rando filming could be worse for:

- uploading the video to YouTube

- sometimes reaching places that are not really covered with cameras

- and in the Surveillance Camera Man case specifically, for it being more likely that the video be used for nefarious purposes
I'm sure there is a spectrum of treatment in dairy farms, but it's nearly impossible to investigate every farm you buy dairy products from, ane virtually no one is strict enough to eat only products from farms they are familiar with, unless they are in the industry. I choose to not partake as I know I am not that disciplined and will just eat what's served to me after I've had a couple glasses of wine.
Something something snakes, something something unintended consequences.
Chronic inflammation may be a "disease of affluence"
After going through a bunch of toasters, I bought a Dualit and so far it been holding up. Hated to pay so much for a toaster though.
> The products shipped under him had flopped

He was the PM for Google Chrome and Google Drive, and took over the Android org in 2013.

He has essentially proven himself with 2 major product releases and managing an additional major product line, but Google is a different company in 2024 compared to 2014, let alone 2004.

When you're a large public company who's stock is owned by major pension funds, 401k funds, sovereign wealth funds, PE funds, etc Investor Relations becomes the critical function of a CEO.
This is another trick, find out the high quality brands and find who they're OEMing, and get those.

Parts websites for appliances can be good hints.
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Some people have zero sympathy for viewpoints that differ from their own, which leads to individual polarization. But some people have an excess of such sympathy, which can contribute to collective polarization.

They are very worried about being fair-minded. They see a vocal minority as social proof that the minority viewpoint is sincere, thoughtful and worthy of consideration. Neither is a bad assumption to start with, but it's not a great place to end the thought process.
With all the knowledge we have now, the next Max "accident" should take carrier CEOs to jail and bankrupt the carrier.
D has a pluggable GC, if that's what you mean. It makes trying out various GC strategies easy without modifying the compiler.

D also supports the following memory allocation strategies:

1. RAII

2. stack allocation

3. malloc/free

4. custom alloctors

Each has its tradeoffs, you can pick the most appropriate one. The D compiler itself uses all of them :-/
A major function of journalism is to verify news before publishing, the issue is likely due to social media where there are very few mechanisms to correct misinformation.
Another brand disappears under the counter entirely by relying on a thinned countertop. No more cracked glass and you get a little more usable counter space for chopping when not using the burners.
I am referring to "Stallman Compliant" software/hardware.

Almost no one besides a small group of fanatics. Used free software.

Why isn't there a smartphone that Richard Stallman can use?

The reason is because no one built such a phone. People where instead complaining about it.

But no one actually thought of a real solution. Besides the fanatical "throw away your phone" that is very impractical for most people today.
Not sure if it's possible to be honest, it might be if you can sit down with a pen a paper. But again we've seen human perform seemingly impossible tasks before, so who knows.
To "slow, chronic, and indirect", I would also add "spanning most of a human lifespan." For these kinds of things we often don't realize something is brand new as of our lifetime. Said in another way, if something changes in our life when we are 2, we will tend to think that thing was always that way, even though it is very recent.

An example, forest fires in the West (coast US). They have always been around. So, many say, nothing new here. Yet, we don't quite grok that they are 10x worse than 50 years ago [1]. Thus, if you look at it across multiple human lifetimes we can see there is a radical difference. Across one lifetime and it might not seem like it is so different.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/24/climate/fires... (has several graphs that indicate magnitude more fire & magnitude more burn area)
I grew up in a suburb. I biked around just fine. We have a bus stop just down the street from where I live now. However, I would let my kids carry a gun before I would let them on a bus.
They are selling transportation from location A to location B via an airplane. The specific airplane, assuming it has the features the customer paid for, is more of a technicality.
Maybe I missed it but is the database being proposed on the client or on the server? Would the client have it's own local database, because if it's another network call, then the client would still have to deal with non-content state management like UI transitions and such, and that basically goes full circle with the early days of JS.

I think a client-side database like sqlite is not a bad idea though. It would store the session and would speed up page loads when the cache is available. I wonder if there are any frameworks implementing this pattern.
I'd say the main issue is why does it take ingesting the entire collective knowledge of humanity for LLMs to work if they are actually reasoning and understand things from first principles? Humans don't require that volume of training data to learn how to write or do basic math
Thank you so much. I don’t always mind long form articles when they justify their length, but this one would have been better if it started with your summary, followed by the some nitty gritty details, followed by meta analysis interleaved with yet more nitty gritty details.
1TB/second is a benchmark number, and obviously it is trying to impress. This is already a purpose without further clarification, on the other hand it does not necessarily mean it can not have other purpose - which again looks an extremely expensive cluster for that purpose. And I do not see the reason to down vote except some one got hurt in the feeling with a fact. With the actually configuration shown, it is just not that performant nor economical, as I said in the reply, if you had read anything about it.
It's still a subsidiary of a corporation that is headquartered in mainland China, and OP is talking about the corporate mindset.
For the record the point was it already handled the fans and tvs fine, but having it store garage codes as well would make it that much more useful
The issue with this is the same one that exists with commercial VNP offerings. It is impossible for the user to verify claims of any company that guarantees anonymity/doesn't track/doesn't keep logs/etc.
For more context on what I mean please see this recent comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39094074
Nonsensical clickbait headline for an advertisement, good work
I’m actually generally optimistic. I’ve spent my whole life singing the tune of tech optimism. But it’s starting to seem like we’re passing an inflection point specifically with respect to being able to maintain a grip on the real. Most of the things I put in my rant have to do with losing our grip on the real: the platforms are degrading because search results are now mostly created by people who are in the business of gaming search engines, as opposed to people who are in the business of sharing real information. The social media sites are overrun by bots, and even the real profiles are sharing curated if not fake snapshots of their lives. They’re not sharing their realities. The erosion of the barrier to entry in publishing has made it possible for anyone to “publish” anything, so it’s very hard to figure out what is real reporting on real things happening in reality. AI is going to enable the deepfaking of basically anything. You won’t be able to tell what is real from what is fake in basically any digital media. These days you can’t trust product reviews to be from real people. You can’t trust the people making the products. You can’t even trust branded products you see on the internet because Amazon doesn’t care to gatekeeping truth. You can’t trust ads you see on YouTube because Google doesn’t care to filter out fraud. FaceBook outright shoves completely unreal sponsored crap into everyone’s news feeds because few people post real updates anymore… FaceBook has to create an illusion of activity to fill the feeds.

Everything is becoming like this. If you want to buy a reliable product, good luck! It’s not easy to do that anymore because incentives are so misaligned: you can’t trust the quality of the products, you can’t trust reviews — trust is breaking down so widely that to bypass that fact is foolish. It needs to be considered. Trust is everything.
The concept of truth has always been fuzzy when it comes to politics. When was there are stable time for the concept of truth in politics? The entire political system of ads, media, speeches, etc are full of misrepresentations, outright lies or lies by omission.

I guess washingtonpost is upset because historically it was the job of washingtonpost, foxnews, msnbc, nytimes, etc to destabilize the concept of truth. But they shouldn't fret. They should view AI as a tool rather a competitor.
I think we have quite different ideas what complex means. You seem to see a language (C or machine code), which, while based on simple principles, is complex in its behavior, especially if something goes wrong (which should not happen in the first place).

I see literally a subtraction operation versus a huge memory safe language framework set up over the same machine, plus a whole lot more user facing surface level source code, just to achieve the same thing.
Part of it is that it creates an incentive to create wasteful systems, only to "optimize" them later to rack up a bonus. Even if it gets changed to only pay out for reducing spend incurred by other engineers, it's possible to collude in such a way to extract bonuses from the company.

A better way to have aligned incentives for the company and the employees would be to allocate a bonus pool for the entire company, from which AWS expenses are taken out of, but that might be a bit unorthodox.
I guess technically? The first Canadian railway was opened in 1836 (while CPR wouldn't be opened until 1885). Canada gained self-governance in 1867 but it was endorsed by the British government and didn't radically change the administrative structure so I feel like your statement is not particularly accurate.

For the rest of the continent: North America is commonly defined as the US, Canada and Mexico - Mexico's first rail system was established in 1837 sixteen years after independence in 1821 and the US's first railroad was built in 1827 just over fifty years after independence.
just like the automobile industry...
Other game devs mentioned visual diffing as well, we'll try to make this happen!
Both at the time. In retrospect, I was extremely naive, and I was building something I thought was "cool" instead of something that people would really want.
And how are they "trying to hide" it?

> send money (indirectly) to Russia

Even the report mentions the team members moving to Tbilisi, Georgia. Afaik Pavel moved to Dubai and still has Ukrainian citizenship. So I doubt a significant portion of company's money ending up in Russia, maybe except salaries of a few engineers. But it's pennies compared to how much the regime is paid for the resources, if that's what you worry about.
It sounds a lot like a whine from an old motor, maybe the one spinning the tape reels. My guess is someone hacked the output to a speaker and stuck a microphone next to it to record, and the hiss/whine comes from the tape machine itself.
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I bought a nice refrigerator in 2017. In early 2020, it began failing. It wouldn’t freeze, then after that was fixed, the icemaker stopped working.

Luckily, I had bought an extended warrant from the store! Actually, the store sold me an extended warranty from a third-party company. And the service people the warranty company sourced kept failing to fix it, and then leaving things worse, like breaking the freezer drawer.

At first I assumed it was issues with parts and labor due to COVID, but the problem proceeded well into 2021.

The warranty company (“New Leaf”) refused to pay for a new fridge, when I clearly had a lemon. They kept wanting to send technicians out, but it turned out fine print in the contract says they can deduct that cost from paying out for a new fridge. (I forget the exact details, but it basically meant they would never have to replace the fridge if they didn’t want to.)

In the end, the solution was leaving a negative Yelp review against the appliance retailer, along with a BBB complaint. The owner offered to eat the cost and just get me a new fridge. I’d have preferred the warranty company do it on principle, but I’ll take any happy ending.
At least they have a choice to unlink accounts, which probably makes the overall DMA compliance much easier. For Google, it's just been an engineering nightmare, cross-cutting across the entire stack :D
Didn't we hear about the "post-truth world" maybe six or so years ago?
Does this mean a potential Google YouTube ban would be firewalled from a Gmail ban?
Both Google and Apple have implemented models that aim to take the "best" picture from a video sequence, like a live photo.

Have a look at MUSIQ and NIMA.

https://github.com/google-research/google-research/tree/mast...

https://blog.research.google/2022/10/musiq-assessing-image-a...
As I understand it, generics are just a particular mechanism for interfacing with multiple types, and C manages without. For the same program, could a programmer ever be more unaware about which types are parameterized and which specific implementations are called in Rust than in C? I don't have much knowledge of C, admittedly, so this isn't a rhetorical question.
I was talking specifically about indie games that have obviously not very high quality pixel art with my statement.