skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the foremost pesticide manufacturers include Bayer, Merck, Colgate-Palmolive, SC Johnson, and Procter & Gamble.
No, they just pay for their APIs per search. It costs Kagi about 1¼¢ per search.[1] Each user searches 20 times per day on average.[2] So it costs Kagi $7.50/month just to physically provide one person with search results, ignoring any overhead like buildings and employees. To keep the lights on they have to charge at least more than that.

[1]: https://blog.kagi.com/status-update-first-three-months#finan...

[2]: https://kagi.com/stats
Even if you get that cleaned up, Google will still advertise to you as if you were interested in dating sites.
there is an animation (pixalated) for slaughtering your pal.

Also you can capture humans as pals. So there is that.

Definitely not a nintendo take
Orwell himself thought that his primary abilities were “a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts”.
I read it as more of “Everyone hits each other here so it’s cool”, implying a culture of violence rather than saying they make great punching bags.
IMO, your brain can adapt to "minimal" UI and even with minimal UI it will find its desired source of dopamine distraction.

So either you replace those distractions with other activities or you have to put something more engaging and advanced to protect you from going to rabbit holes.

The second is what I'm experimenting with. I built a quick chat that tries to challenge the necessity or intention of my device usage after I unlock my phone. Unfortunately it's possible on Android only. If you are interested check Intenty app on Google Play.
The further you go, the less you know.
Interactive Map: Options for Carbon Dioxide Removal in the United States
Is it as self-evident as the absence of an object placed in your blind spot?
Yeah, that would make sense
> Maybe it's naive, but I wonder if escalating fines then sanctions against countries responsible for a lot of cybercrime could work.

Unfortunately that gets wrapped in Geopolitics. I'm sure the cybercrime unit will love to issue sanctions against certain countries but the higher ups will never allow that because they need that country as an ally in the region more than they need to stop cybercrime from that country. Ie. bigger fish to fry.
College Is All About Curiosity. And That Requires Free Speech.
What is that keyboard?

In the photos it looks absolutely flat, like capacitive. But they refer to it as tactile.

Is it going to be like those 2000s plastic domed keys that click the dome down to cause a contact?
Asterisks code for italics in markdown language.[0] You can avoid this by escaping them with the backslash.

\*example

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Biggest problem I think is that I believe the cartridge port connectors are un-obtanium from parts suppliers these days.
The godfather of relational calculus languages, Alpha, put the relation context first, and then allowed you to send multiple commands that operate within that context. SQL eventually gave in and added WITH to soft of, kind of, try to get to the same place.

But, ultimately, SQL was designed around the idea discrete function calls rather than unit operations (with continued efforts to try and hack on the latter after the fact), so in that sense, the operator going first does make more sense.
Everybody's aware that Google will start enforcing DMARC Feb first, right?
PRQL as a DuckDB Extension
I do not know where it is available, but there is a new documentary TV series: "A Real Bug's Life".

Its first episode, "The Big City", includes many very beautiful filmed sequences with jumping spiders.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29520604/?ref_=ttep_ep1

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13919000/?ref_=tt_ov_inf
I agree. I know this was supposed to be funny, but it was actually a bit sad for me
Why is another one of those needed? Personally I'm excited about the idea of a feature-rich editor that is still blazing fast.
M2 increased 65% YoY, maybe the should cut public spending to reduce their deficit and stop the money printer instead...

Or better: Close the central bank because politicians abuse it to spend money they don't have.
Yeah, Activision Blizzard was always chasing revenue at the expense of everything else. They got away with riding the coattails of Blizzard for a while, but eventually everyone figured out what was going on.

My "favorite" part was watching them kill Overwatch with Overwatch League. Overwatch was popular because people played it casually. Activision thought it would be great to make it a professional sport. Eventually every balance change was aimed at preventing some pro team from complaining and they made the game completely unfun for casual players. So they all stopped playing. Meanwhile, Overwatch League was massively unprofitable and the privately-owned teams all pulled out after losing everything. Probably the worst business decision in gaming history, or maybe even in Fortune 500 history.

At this point, I'm just waiting for someone else to make games with the quality and "spark" of old Blizzard. It will happen. Probably not at Microsoft, though.
> Intel planned to reserve the high-margin 64-bit server market for Itanium, so it deliberately held back its x86 team from going to market with their completed 64 bit extensions. AMD did not hold back, so Intel lost control of the market it intended for Itanium.

Is there anything I can about what Intel planned for their x86 extension to 64 bits? I'm curious about this road not taken.

> Itanium chips were targeted only for high-end systems needing lots of ILP concurrency. There was no economic way to make chips with less ILP (or much more ILP), so no Itanium chips cheap and low-power enough to be packaged as development boxes for individual open-source programmers like Torvalds. This was only going to market via top-down corporate edicts, not bottom-up improvements.

One wonders why they have not learned from this mistake. They continue to make it again and again (AVX-512 and NVRAM are some more recent examples). If the ordinary joe can't get his hands on a box with the new stuff, he's not going to port his software to it or make use of its special features.

> The first-gen Itanium chip, Merced, included a modest processor for directly executing x86 32-bit code. This ran much slower than Intel's contemporary cheap x86 chips, so no one wanted that migration route. It also ran slower than using static translation from x86 assembler code to Itanium native code. So HP dropped that x86 portion from future Itanium chips. Itanium had to make it on its own via its own native-built software. The large base of x86 software was of no help. In contrast, DEC designed Alpha and migration tools so that Alpha could efficiently run VAX object code at higher speeds than on any VAX.

Seems like Apple learned from that. Both generations of Rosetta have top-notch performance. Hard to emulate bits were circumvented by just adding extra features to the CPU that directly implement missing functionality (e.g. there's an x86-like parity flag on the Apple M1).
https://archive.ph/2024.01.24-150831/https://www.nytimes.com...
Most common theory is union busting. NYT would eventually layoff its entire (unionized) sports division in favor of the Athletic, which isn't unionized. Most critics have accused them of union busting by outsourcing their sports reporting to a non-union shop.
My Company Has Earned Its First Paycheck
I still largely reject the code completion complaint. Specifically, it is very common to know what columns you want before you know what tables have said columns. This is especially true on normalized schemas where you are almost certainly having to do some joins to get all that you want.

So, does it somewhat complicate the logic? Of course. It is by no means impossible, though, and unless you are using super generic column names everywhere, the search space for what tables to suggest will be helped by knowing what columns you are looking for.
There is already a lot of real value in scientific domain-specific models. One such example is weather forecasting. We can suddenly create forecasts with astonishing accuracy on commodity hardware in a matter of seconds, versus several hours with traditional numeric models. This is life-saving.

And it's open source, e.g.: https://github.com/NVlabs/FourCastNet
I don't think there are any advances in real time AI. We're still stuck with the same bad AI from the late 90s.

Oh, or if there is better tech, nobody really uses it, everyone focuses on multiplayer because $$$.
Can you explain what you mean by:

> your theory assumes that people are always at their 100% and thus can work to improve their lot

It's not obvious to me at all that a person needs to be at "100%" to improve their lot (and avoid criminality). I would never get out of bed if that was the case.
That's fascinating.
>I don't believe that not talking to others is a solution, to be honest.

Being in the united nations has basically nothing to do with talking to others.

What exactly has the united nations done lately? Did they do anything about the genocide in western china?

Did they do anything about Russia's war in ukraine?

Did they do anything about Palestine's offensive war?

At some point the UN lost their way. My country isn't significant on the world stage anymore, we arent going to fix anything. Best to withdraw.
What if GPT was integrated with a module to

1. Take light input. Video/images.

2. Take sound input.

3. Touch, heat input.

And other inputs from the environment. Then there were mechanisms which could also be neural networks that will transform this data into more digestible way for GPT and GPT was also in addition specifically trained to act based on this input.

Then it would run in cycles, where it gets this input, and it will provide output on how it plans to react to the data, maybe every 100ms.

It then could also have a storage it can use, where it can store data as part of the output to later retrieve it again.

So it would be a set of modules that is controlled and interpreted by GPT.

It could then do all of that above, no? And all of it should be just a matter of implementing. The only near time challenges may be certain types of inaccuracies and or producing tokens in some cases might take too long time to have fast reaction time.

So basically you'll try to run as frequent cycles as possible with the inputs mentioned above, other neural networks identifying the objects, in many different ways and all the context about the environment, unless a new version of GPT becomes completely multi-modal.

And you run those loops, then GPT gives output what it wishes to do, e.g. store some fact for later usage, move there, move here, etc. Or retrieve some information using embeddings then decide again, and short term memory would just be this context sized window, and if it needs more it just looks into its own memory for embeddings.
Where I work, we use AI for tasks that are similar to analyzing medical imaging (but not medical). It easily outperforms humans. Not in terms of accuracy in identifying features -- it's about the same as people in that -- but in terms of speed.
it's just a manner of speaking
> 63 points, with 60 for the landing and bonus 1 point each for scientific camera and two payload probes

S rank! Play next time for SSS!
>I can think of one: https://www.hdtracks.com/

Platforms like HDtracks and Qobuz are not a "Bandcamp alternative" when considering the business reasons that artists use Bandcamp.

Bandcamp lets small independent artists upload their own songs without a distributor middleman.

In contrast, HDTracks only gets music from distributors like established record labels. Example discussion when somebody asked about it: https://gearspace.com/board/career-work/1358709-how-do-i-get...
No Interview Feedback Policy
> I need Starcarft 3 badly

This feels at least tangentially relevant :

https://battlechat.co/15-wow-mount-outearned-starcraft-2/

I haven't personally double checked the math behind this claim, but it does broadly track and makes me slightly apprehensive. I don't mean this as an absolute because there are clear and obvious exceptions, like From, but it increasingly feels like the market is actively disinsentivizing devs from making good, unpolluted, games.
Ah yes, isolationism, Authoritarians love when countries do that, makes them easier to take over.
They've been gaining a reputation for banning artists/bands who are on the 'wrong side' of politics without notice or explanation.

I guess many people will cheer that on these days, though. Conformity is the new punk?
Where has it gone south?

Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, WoW, Overwatch, and perhaps even Hearthstone were all such great games at some point.

It seemed like Blizzard knew how to make games that were both delightful and profitable.
The success of Minecraft proves that the children yearn for the mines.
There is Soroka 1954 - Analog methods in computation and simulation. Includes mechanical and electrical analogs
Ditto: Diffusion Inference-Time T-Optimization for Music Generation
As another grown ass man (well, more or less) who also played those games, what really bothers me is that dude's haircut. It's like a grease tsunami had sex with a chia pet.

I miss the 90s, can you tell?
This kind of “let him first cast a stone” comments needs to stop or else we will never get news.

If anything, having a publication release an article like this shows that they’re not held back by conflicts of interest.
Why are there so many posts word-policing the use of superlatives? Calling everyone super-extra-awesome-amazing is not helpful to understanding of meaning in this context and is in general harmful to everyone--especially kids who will go years without receiving any honest feedback because it makes adults feel better to say everyone is awesome and give everyone a trophy.
I don't feel the need for this for commuting by bike, even in cold Norway. Mostly because I for commuting am never that out of breath that my lungs hurt.

However, I use the Lung Plus variant often when cross country skiing. When it's -15C and below, pushing myself for an hour or more outdoors can make me cough all evening. Lots of people have cold induced asthma from training too hard outdoors in their youths. But with this I'm fine.

Also, the main point for me isn't necessarily the temperature, but that it retains more moisture. -15C can feel vastly different in humid Oslo, compared to the dryness of the mountain pass Hardangervidda. This feels like it "helps" avoiding dry coughing.

I don't really like the mask variants. If covid thought people with glasses anything, it's that masks fogs everything up! My Lung Plus mostly fogs if I'm standing still, then I breath straight ahead and into my glasses, otherwise it's fine. My girlfriend however recently bought a "OXYO one", which is the same concept. But it has more of a "snorkel" bite piece, and moves the air to the sides instead. So it's a bit smarter in that regard.

I guess looks is the main drawback. And how the saliva freezes, heh, look at the icicle in my picture. This is me the other day in -24C:

https://imgur.com/a/NXm8P79
This is different from a project that was started as open source without any company backing. Without a company backing it it likely won't survive.
What does M2 have to do with public spending? Most of that money was created by private banks with private loans.

Edit: It's also a little hard to stop spending money when you're dealing with the fallout of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Turkey–Syria_earthquakes

> The confirmed death toll stood at 59,259: 50,783 in Turkey and 8,476 in Syria. It is the deadliest earthquake in what is now present-day Turkey since the 526 Antioch earthquake and the deadliest natural disaster in its modern history.
Maybe when going fast on a bike, they'd cool down faster. I remember from ice skating below 0C that if I didn't wear sports glasses, my eyes would hurt afterwards in the warm dressing room. I've always attributed that to them "thawing" although that's probably not literally what they do.
Richard Wolff: How You Are Being Exploited [video]
Depends on where you live. There are huge swaths of public land in the US where anyone is allowed to hike, explore, camp, hunt, or just shoot guns into the dirt. There are also many State and National parks which are cheap or free to visit.

But yes, once a private entity owns the land in the US you'll need permission to do anything.
Complexity, tho dazzling and impressive, is apparently a small trick. Consider the simple algorithms that generate fractals, alife and random numbers.

Problem-solving intelligence appears to be similar in that we consider it impressive and special, but, in the big scheme, is actually rather trivial and common.

Speaking as a person who has spent literally decades enthusiastically chewing upon software design riddles, it makes me feel a bit insectile.

I mean, the termites in my walls probably feel what I feel, and they're just playing with mud and spit.
It's kind of weird how much of the gaming industry still caters to the teenage boy demographic.
The majority may be there, but there are still many scattered throughout the country.

FFS, there's a National Park in New York City: Gateway National Recreation Area. At least I hope it's still there: used to go mountain biking there a long time ago.
It doesn’t follow that a language server written with JavaScript and run via node will bloat the binary by hundreds of MB. Are they bundling a node runtime too?

Maybe if they are embedding dozens of language servers and runtimes it could bloat the binary, but I assumed the extensions and language servers would be downloaded on demand.

But a rust binary by itself shouldn’t be that large. LSP is just a simple json protocol, so parsing it doesn’t require hundreds of MB.
>learned

It this an unnatural kill you were taught like swimming or figured out what works best for you? I'm just imagining Iceland kindergarten giving winter breathing tutorials. Which is great. I feel like a lot more common life hacks should be transmitted this way.

Like it blows my mind some cultures normalize ass washing, and subsects of others clump toilet paper.
I'm still very happy with the service; it's my preferred/only vendor for paid music downloads, and although I appreciate and use the streaming available in the app, at the end of the day, that could all disappear and I'd still have my purchases.

I know that's not the same for artists who have made more of an investment in it, promoted their bandcamp.com URLs and all, but as a consumer I'm content to continue using it as long as it delivers value to me, and cease using it when it does not.
Water can solve a maze!
Squadrons in a VR headset is a premium X-Wing experience.
Fetch() with File: Support
> I disagree with the author's position that there are no deep intellectuals left

Well, there is the problem of the author trying to distance from liberals by calling them "left."

Slavoj Žižek is many things, but also deep, left, and not liberal.

If the claim had been "no deep intellectuals of the politics of the middle," I could have agreed. It's difficult to think deep thoughts while drinking the Kool-Aid.
Thank you for your kind words. Full disclosure: my laziness exceeds my need to see the publication's original title on HN, thus going forward I will cheerfully accept whatever dangAI spits out.
Lovely insight. Thank you!
FAO?
membrane switches add value for the manufacturer, not the consumer. considerably cheaper than other solutions.
Back in 2015 I fixed Chromium's support for server side image maps. It was almost totally broken at the time--any zoom/scale level other than 100% would throw it off, nonzero padding would throw it off, several issues like that. Nobody had noticed because image maps aren't used any more in general, and server-side image maps REALLY aren't used, but I was in the same boat as you: I wanted an easy way out without JavaScript, and I remembered my 90s HTML.

Sadly, after I fixed the Chromium bug, I decided the server-side image map sucked and I wrote the JavaScript anyway. The JavaScript version is better :(
And barely 9,200 as of Dec 31st, 2019

The overhiring during covid really went insane in a lot of places
Yeah, I think it was eaten by inflation though.
Yeah, but the post I'm replying to suggests that police are demoralized when the original charge is not what prosecutors actually bring in court. Ultimately, the prosecutor needs a charge that they can prosecute (get a plea bargain, or convince 12 peers of the defendant) and I think the cops understand that.

In the case of Capone, it was just easier to prosecute tax evasion; "here's his bank balance, here's the tax we think is due, here's the tax he paid". In the case of shoplifting, plea-ing out a misdemeanor is probably easier than convincing a jury of a felony charge.

Like, all they probably have is a grainy video of the suspect. Are you convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that that's the person sitting in the defendant's chair? If one juror thinks "no, I'm not sure", then everyone who commited the crime goes free.

Also, realistically, $950 shouldn't be the threshold between a felony and a misdemeanor. That can't be a number that was adjusted for inflation. $950 isn't much money these days.
So just like human judges?
A lot of people. Interesting that Ybarra left.
The Lil[0] scripting language, like most APL-derived languages, has uniform operator precedence; expressions evaluate right-to-left unless you introduce parens:

3 * 2 + 1
9
(3 * 2) + 1
7

Lil includes an integrated query syntax which loosely resembles SQL. Queries begin with a command (select, update, extract), contain intermediate clauses in any order (where, orderby, by), and conclude with "from":

select key value orderby value desc from x

The order of evaluation of clauses matches precedence of other operators: "from" executes, then every intermediate clause, right-to-left, then finally the command and any column expressions or aggregations. Since queries are expressions, rather than statements (like all control structures in lil), having "from" last means that you can chain "subqueries" without nesting them:

extract key orderby value desc from
select key:first value value:count value by value from a

I think this approach is nicely internally-consistent; the only real downside is that, as with SQL, this syntax is not ideal for IDE-driven auto-completion.

[0] https://beyondloom.com/tools/trylil.html
> artists/bands on the wrong side of politics

Any examples? Which side is "wrong"?
Google Cuts Workers Improving Search
You can say that. You can say a lot of things to explain consciousness in a materialistic sense, as in how it could've emerged. But I cannot fathom how material interacting with other material and forces gives arise to subjective experience. It simply makes no sense to me. If I create a copy of my brain, it would be conscious, but with its own unique subjective experience. This makes sense so far, but what exactly is this subjective experience and how can "mere" mechanical matter create such an entity.

So in short: I cannot understand what is the actual substance of subjective experience.
If the bad decisions there were driven from the top, then the acquisition could cause a large change in behavior. No guarantees, of course.
>I still remember IE 5.0 that was on the office 2000 and Windows 2000 disks (not ME). It broke the legacy interface for manipulation of select controls. 5.0.1 fixed that, but it was too late.

Do you happen to remember more details about this. In particular, what method worked for the IE 5.0 that was broken?

I develop a framework that aims for universal browser support, and I'd like to account for this.
Llama2 7b and Mistral 7b run at about 8 tk/s on my Mac Pro, which is usable if you're not in a hurry.
"Joseon is not a party" because it isn't a nation-state (like the signatories of that treaty), it is rasengan's personal micronation/cryptocurrency.
It's a cool project but not really an alternative to Bandcamp. It doesn't solve payments or distribution.

Bandcamp also offers a streaming app like Spotify etc for all the music users have bought on the platform.