skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, I live rural, used to live urban. And regardless of cost to deliver, low income rural utilities gets subsidized in some form when it hits the consumer. Which is what this law in LA seems to be proposing.
“A human brain is just like a dog’s brain, only with more neural pathways.” True, perhaps, but largely pointless: at some point neural complexity results in a difference of kind, not of degree.

I’d argue the same is true of LLMs vs simpler models like Markov chains.
Image Generation in Java with Imagen and LangChain4j
That's US gov debt vs PRC gov aggregate debt.

US aggregate debt to GDP is 730%.
This sounds like a feature that could be really nice, being able to search for something in a new city where you have no frame of reference on what to search for and getting good results sounds really nice!

That said, I expect the worst from this update. My expectation is that it will serve recommendations based on AdWords or other advertising tech. And this will then transform Google Maps into even worse of a product that will be even more covered in ads than it already is.

I hope this beats my expectations, but I’m not optimistic.
The SD-XL VAE doesn’t take into account any of those insights, it’s the exact same as the SD1/2 one, just trained from scratch with a batch size of 256 instead of 9 and with EMA.
As a former mathematician, I completely agree. Academic math is good stuff but you end up making too many assumptions that end up being hard to reconcile with a working system.

Personally, I stopped caring much about beauty because doing work guided by some beauty heuristics didn't make me happy. Doing work that is useful to many people does make me happy; and there ends up being beauty in it somehow.
Or for me in the UK with UK IP, UK account, UK language settings.
Seemingly globally means the USA to google
That would be nice, if China stop adding coal power and even shutting down coal power plants.
RE: 1. Do the pico headsets do this or something? Who doesn't have their spatial tracking process set as the highest priority?

Are you confusing dropped frames with spatial tracking loss? Apple hasn't invented a technology to never drop frames so I expect once we hop into fully immersive Unity apps we'll have familiar stuttery moments.
Tip of the Tongue and Handmade Software
Oh yes, I do look forward to driving on hallucinated roads.
We actually have (some) evidence, in that lottery winners are usually "poorish" and apparently go bankrupt pretty frequently.

However that doesn't mean we can't help even them, by normalizing certain levels of various things no matter what the wealth. The main issue is tragedy of the commons style issues, like free bathrooms in SF being destroyed or otherwise used improperly, driving costs too high to continue.
Every American social media company is a front for NSA surveillance and CIA propaganda, what's your point? I thought we were supposed to believe in free markets and competition around here.
I was the first to order a Yikes! 400MHz G4 tower from my local Apple reseller when they first came out. I loved this ad campaign! I was also smitten when Apple dropped the speeds on all the SKUs by 50MHz as I had gotten mine before that happened.

The Yikes! G4 was basically the blue and white G3 hardware (chassis, mainboard, everything) just with tiny circuit changes to give 66MHz PCI for the graphics card while all the other G4 towers had a completely different motherboard with AGP graphics. I really liked that machine, but I ended up selling it around 2008 as I no longer used it much.
SEEKING VOLUNTEERS: Robot Operating System (ROS) and Gazebo Simulator

ROS is the open source software powering robots all over the globe. The project needs volunteers in every capacity, from core robotics software to visualization, data logging, and developer resources. Gazebo is our sibling library used to simulate robots prior to deploying code. Many of our repositories have "Good First Issue" tags for new contributors.

Source code and community resources for ROS, like Discord and Discourse, are all listed here:

https://github.com/ros2

Source code and resources for Gazebo are available here:

https://github.com/gazebosim

To get a sense of what people are doing with ROS check out the videos from our yearly developer conference ROSCon.

https://roscon.ros.org/2023/

If you are looking for some help getting started swing by our Discord server:

https://discord.com/servers/open-robotics-107782554369892765...
Fulcrum | Senior Full Stack Engineer | MSP | $145k - 168k+ + benefits and equity | Full-time, ONSITE | https://fulcrumpro.com Our mission is clear and staggeringly important: we're building the manufacturing operating system of the future from the ground up, one that’s engineered to create network effects as we grow. A beautiful, sophisticated quantum leap forward for the most important core industry in the world.
The market tells us we’re on the right track and we're growing. Currently seventeen developers. (Many from HN!). Series A-2: https://fulcrumpro.com/ignite

We’re serious about doing great work and we empower people to make it happen. Our favorite tools include C#, Angular, Vue, and serverless TypeScript. We’re primarily interested in finding intensely smart people with talent at their fingertips, regardless of what tech stack you come from. We value autonomy over routine, and empathy over ego. We want to make products that are so elegant that our users feel constantly amazed. If you have at least 2 years of professional experience building all parts of modern webapps, and are interested in helping us develop the next generation of software in a massive market, we’d love to hear from you. The future is ours to build.
Answers to your FAQs: Immediate 401(k), with 5% match after 90 days through Vanguard, immediate vesting. health, dental, and vision benefits. Unlimited vacation (15 day mandatory minimums). Remote and flexible work. Typical process: culture screen - tech screen - tech interview - offer. To get in touch: careers@fulcrumpro.com or apply at https://fulcrumpro.com/team-careers

*
Manifesto
Manufacturing is important. It’s the fundamental industry on which everything else is built. We take it for granted. In 1989, 35% of the entire software industry was manufacturing systems. Back then, services, hand holding, customization, and consulting were necessary to get the systems to where they are today. What was the first massive burst in productivity from technology has stagnated into incremental diminishing returns and exponentially increasing complexity. We can only continue to add complexity for so much longer until the whole system collapses.
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
Manufacturing is important. We must deliver a touch of technological genius to reintroduce simplicity, efficiency, and integration.
Act II of Arc Browser [video]
The jobs all run curl commands to a specific API endpoint with a specific bearer token. Those tokens are loaded through an env through SealedSecrets.

They all use the public curl image where I override the command in the Kubernetes cron job definition. The job container itself starts almost instantly since there's no app to boot.

If I had a case you're describing I would use the main app's image and run a specific command, in this case I'm assuming if there's not an API endpoint it would be some callable script that lives in your app's code / image.
I dont think Ive worked at a company that used commit messages to record what is changing.

Im not saying that I am disagreeing with you on that point. I’m just sharing my experience

We tend to rely on the diff and PR for the ‘what is changing’

The PR doesnt list the commit messages anyway, just the last commit message and the PR description

We add links to jira/confluence a lot in code to give direct access to the dev. Commits are tied to features or bugfixes

So effectively commit messages are not useful anymore

The only one that might be useful is the merge commit message

Again, not disagreeing, just complaining lol
I remember seeing it too, and my eyes rolled so hard I almost broke my eye sockets.
I don't have numbers to oppose, but do yours take in account that the government is paying interests on its debt ?
For better or worse, my experience as a GitHub cofounder and author of several Git books (Pro Git, etc) is that the Git commit message is a unique vector for code documentation that is highly sub-optimal.

The main issue is that most of the tooling (in Git or GitHub or whatever) generally only shows the first line. So in the case of this commit example would be the very simple message of a generic "US-ASCII error" problem. Everything they talk about in this article is what is great about the _rest_ of the commit message, which, given modern tools, is _almost never_ seen by anyone.

The main problem is that Git was built so that the commit message is the _email body_, meant to be read by everyone in the project. But for better or worse, that is not generally the role of this text today. Almost nobody ever sees it. Unless it's discussed in a bunch of patch series over a mailing list, nobody reads anything other than the first 50 chars of the headline. It's actively difficult to do, by nearly every tool built around the Git ecosystem.

Even if you're _very good_ at Git, finding the correct invocation of "git blame" (is it "-w -C -C -C"? Or just _two_ dash C's?) to even find the right messages that are relevant to the code blocks you care about is not widely known and even if you find them, still only show the first line. Then you need to "git show" the identified commit SHA to get this long form message. There is just no good way to find this information, even if it's well written.

This is one of my biggest complaints with Git (or, indeed, any VCS before it), and I think why people just don't care much about good commit messages. It's just not easy to get this data back once it's written.

If you want an example of this, search through the Git project's history. Run a blame on any file. It's _so hard_ to figure out a story of any function implementation in any file, but the commit messages are _pristine_. Paragraphs and paragraphs of high quality explanation for almost every single commit. Look at any single commit that Jeff King has done for the last decade. Hundreds of hours of amazing documentation from a true genius that almost nobody will ever appreciate. It's horrifying.

I don't know exactly what the answer is, but the sad truth of Git is that writing amazing documentation via commit message, for most communities, is almost entirely a waste of time. It's just too difficult to find them.
if by historic you think this statement is somehow extremely wrong, i don't think you realize how big canada is, how many cell towers it takes to get good coverages in mountainous areas, and how many small communities exist in the middle of nowhere and how remote they are - many of these towns don't even have cell coverage.

Cell coverage is simply is never going to happen for these areas and the roads to get to them as the telecommunication company will never recoup their costs.
My knee-jerk reaction to this comment is confusion, as it sounds like you're saying you agree, but then immediately say something that directly goes against what I said.

But I think you're making a distinction over what someone believes and the content they want hosted. For example, someone who waves Nazi flags simply wanting to run a non-political website about guitars.

In that case, I agree. They're not hosting Nazi stuff, they're hosting guitar stuff, and the provider should not be refusing service.
No, no figures to back it up. This is just based on anecdotal experience, having never seen very many businesses that actually prioritize consistency or testing or validating it. The fact that Kyle keeps on finding these massive problems in popular databases is part of that anecdotal evidence.

Obviously people want correctness; they would like their databases to not randomly lose data. Hence the fact that it's a highly advertised feature.

But when it actually comes down to selecting a database, convenience and performance seem to be what people actually compare on, there are very few places that actually hire someone like Kyle to dig in and verify the the consistency claims about a database.
More people end up using the wider road. In some cases it can clog up again if the increase in traffic is big enough. Many factors involved.

It's certainly not a rule that "adding lanes never helps traffic", that's insane.
OT. Can we ban "may" and "could" from submission titles ? It will greatly increase the quality of articles on HN.
My understanding is that analysts frequently include not just the debts of China's central government, but also all of the provinces, which are much much more heavily indebted. Under the argument that the Chinese central government is going to cover their provinces' debts in a pinch. (Not defending the specific numbers quoted by OP, just a general observation)
I assume you know this is just an expression, and you know that I know that animals indeed use tools. So I'll refer you to community guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Zoom to Cut About 150 Jobs This Week
I could not see the point of this article. It seemed like an elaborate
argument against nuance and multiple complex causation. Very
regressive.
Oh, don't mind. Fossil fuels will only get more expensive, as they have been doing for all of this century.

China builds more coal than the rest of the world combined exactly because the rest of the world combined is building almost none of it, because coal is not competitive anymore unless you have some crazy levels of unmet demand that will absorb all the renewables you can build.

Oil is next on the line. And while it looks like it will take a while for natural gas to follow, is oils stops being competitive and cars get electrified, the cross subside it does to natural gas stops, and gas starts to get really expensive.
I also loved when I found about Markov chains and had a lot of fun playing with them, but have a totally different view on the gap with respect to LLMs.

Markov chains were discovered in 1906. Since then until a few years ago, advances on "building a better Markov chain" have been modest (e.g. smoothing techniques).

Enter the last 5 years, LLMs come and now you have an "uber Markov chain" that actually generates perfect syntactically coherent text, you can even ask it things and if the question is well-posed and makes sense you will get a true answer at least the majority of the time, they can be a daily tool (for practical purposes, beyond fun), help you solve problems and write interesting creative stories. A much larger leap in those 5 years than in the previous century!

I see them as what I always dreamed Markov chains to be, but they couldn't be. The gap is huge.
I'm pretty sure our taxes have paid for those lanes many times over. It's time to take a critical thinking course.

Not to mention that metering and billing someone's driving would be a gargantuan incursion on a human being's freedom of movement -- something so incredibly inherent in who we are.

Let me guess: you think EVs will save the planet -- all the while ignoring most of the electricity that powers them is not cleanly generated.

My goodness...
More utility provided by the road too, though. Can't forgot that side of the equation.
Which is inconvenient, because there is already too much CO2 in the atmosphere.
I really love documentation that lives in the same repo with the code. My favorite is a .md file for every module, class or component. Some mixture of inline code docs and standalone docs is probably ideal. But docs as markdown that don't require some compile step to build the documentation, and doesn't require opening a browser to view them, is just so much better, IMO, compared to any sort of external docs like a wiki or html on a server somewhere that gets re-generated by a CI job.
The Audience Comes Last
If you reduce the cursor animation duration or disable it, the latency improves quite a bit.
You left out the other part of the quote

> at least as far as the consumer is aware and in theory for how it’s supposed to work.

Costs to deliver are one thing, what the consumer ends up paying if they are low income is another. Across the board, controlling for state-by-state variations, poor folks aren’t (supposed to) be paying premiums in cost or quality on their water/heating/sewage. Often, they are subsidized. This law proposes pulling the internet into that basket of approaches. Seems good to me.
> This means there was yet another update since I looked. The previous note at least made the user suspect that there was an attempt to point fingers at some other country. Now it merely corrects the location in China. It is good to link to a higher quality video, but I don’t rule out that the note will with time drift to suit the agenda of the government.

I didn't calculate any statistics but exploring the data I saw are way more "anti-China" notes than "pro-China" notes.

> He killed the feature that labeled accounts associated with governments though.

Yeah because Western government funded medias cried rivers when they were correctly labeled as such.

> If they applied the same algo to weighing tweets and replies, they could’ve gotten the same results but without making people trust blindly. But of course this defeats the point of paying for Elon’s blue checkmarks.

Doing so wouldn't make sense as the algorithm needs prior data from tweets to calculate ratings. What are your expectations? That Twitter hide (soft ban) tweets/accounts that an algorithm labels as misinformation because it was massively flagged? That happened before, it was easily abused, it was censorship.

> I think community notes are not his invention so I don’t blame him for them, but they are very poorly implemented and are strictly worse than tweets themselves.

You could give only one example where community notes were abused to spread misinformation and with time the correct note prevailed.
Alternatives that exist openly in the US would not be suffered to exist in the PRC -- for instance, Signal.
One field that I am not sure is being studied as much as it should be is the recent resurgence of American 'folk' belief. Things like astrology, witchcraft-but-not-actually-Wicca, and other similar traditions have become extremely popular, especially among younger people. I don't know that 'religion' as a whole is going away - I think it's more that the form of faith is changing. The survey even nods to this:

> Most “nones” believe in God or another higher power. But very few go to religious services regularly.

Does anyone know of any scholarly (or not) investigations into this?
Your link doesnt have any mention of processed food. Also it starts with that it's not to goal to adhere 100% and its not needed. As such it does contain fastfood and ultra processed food. As being part of healthy diet.

Thus leading to my initial point, a balanced and healthy diet are too ambiguous.

> The Eatwell Guide shows how much of what we eat overall should come from each food group to achieve a healthy, balanced diet.

> You do not need to achieve this balance with every meal, but try to get the balance right over a day or even a week.
I have a different opinion about favourite Git commit messages.

I think commits should be small steps that display the thought process of the author. Every individual commit should be self-explanatory. So the commit message should not describe (again) what the changes are but why it’s necessary. Sometimes the change is not self-explanatory and then I'd put a longer description below.

Somehow I came up with this on my own, so I'd be interested if it really makes sense or if others have a similar style.
I had a Centris 610 with an ITAR restricted motherboard. Even the people at the Apple store were jealous. The Centris 650 could run LabVIEW, but the stock 610 could not as it emulated certain instructions which LabVIEW relied on. Apple sold me the 610 with the claim that it would run any software the 650 would (within reason of course). I couldn't program on the 650 because it was in a hot room and I wasn't allowed to spend a lot of time in there. After much arguing they agreed to "fix" the 610. It took six weeks. To get it back I had to sign a document attesting I was a US citizen. If you ask me LabVIEW was broken, but whatever.

It's not just a Mac thing. My vague recollection is that once upon a time the Playstation ran on defective chips which couldn't be manufactured in certain countries. The Barcelona Supercomputing Center made what amounted to a jailbreak so you could use the Playstation as a development platform.
>And the "how" is already decided: shareholder vote. And the rewards are already split amongst the shareholders, of which elmu is a large one.

Thats not how you negotiate, apply leverage, and determine a middle-ground. That's how you approve a negotiated deal.

>For further discussion, I'd like to focus on the substantive points of the judgement. Some may have personal opinions on the matter, and the judge considered all those personal opinions, judged them, and came to the below conclusions:

To be clear, I have zero interest in discussing the judges finding in the rest of the musk case (e.g. improper disclosure and lack if independence). That seems pretty straight forward to me. What I do find interesting, as stated multiple times above, is the comp negotiations & motivation aspect.

>elmu's stock ownership is enough to motivate him, even without a 50 billion dollar additional stock/option grant

This may be true, but don't think it is fully fleshed out logic. Elon would get his pre-deal portion of profit, with or without ongoing participation. It also ignores the damage Elon could do by leaving, which the company is also paying to avoid. It assumes that if Musk was denied comp, he would fall back to what you called a "non-oppositional-defiant-disorder option". The way I read the judgement, Musk would have a better case if he had been overtly oppositional, threatening, and held the board hostage, saying "pay me more or I will leave and we both suffer".

It seems to bake in the idea that Beyond a certain point, money either has no marginal utility to Musk, or that musk has no more capacity to contribute. The first is wrong because otherwise musk wouldn't be pursuing a deal. The second seems to ignore the difference between vested and conditional equity. The judge partially addresses the second part by bringing up statements where Elon said he had no intention of leaving. However, it seems obvious that there was a presumption that there would be some sort of additional compensation.

This case is one example, but I also want to know how this situation is handled in other instances, as it isn't that rare. There are probably econ papers on the topic. e.g. if you know your partner is really invested in your team school project, what stops you from checking out. Based on what I have seen in other companies, Boards often DO give officers that are already major shareholders more incentives, and dont just have them work to increase valuation of their pre-existing equity.
(2023)

The message cap is dynamic, it's currently about double this. If you find yourself running into it constantly the best option I've found is $50/m gets you 2 team accounts or 200 messages/3 hours (enough for an endless question per minute). If you're looking for dirt cheap instead, Bing Chat.
It's neither fair, nor accurate. While genetics can be a minor factor, all mental health issues are primarily caused by metabolic problems. See Dr. Chris Palmer's book Brain Energy (2022) and/or Dr. Georgia Ede's new book (2024). It's amazing what eating a proper human diet can do for your health.
Pen Pinery Going into 2024
Pen Pinery's community goals for 2024: A micro-blogging platform for published authors.
Why Was Milk Kefir Kept Secret in Russia?