skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I played around with the api and it is one of the most easiest apis I have seen. Very good for hobby projects as well as advanced usage
Putting a person in a prison, de-facto is a forcible, long-term restraint on their right to free movement. Also known as slavery. If we want to "fully" abolish slavery, it's hard to see how prisons can even exist.

Or maybe we can acknowledge "slavery" is a loaded term designed to cause reactionary thinking.
What'd be the alternative if you had not done the 50m -> 75m trick? Pay x$ more in taxes?
> an alternate reality where VCs invest more thoughtfully based on more careful analysis of companies and they would have a much higher success rate and end up with even higher returns without creating unsustainable wealth inequality.

Unlikely. The problem of that view is that, when you're handling large uncertainty, you don't know which projects are the ones you should cancel and which ones to nurture. Past performance is a terrible indicator for lucky shots.

See the Talent-Luck simulation for instance.[1] You measure a population of projects affected affected by random events and profiting proportionally to talent, and the projects that end better off are the ones that chain multiple beneficial lucky strikes, with talent having little influence past a minimum level.

And the way to maximise gains over the whole population is setting a small flat subsidy for all, allowing everybody to explore their talent even after a wrong turn.

1 https://www.inc.com/chris-matyszczyk/so-youre-smart-but-your...
> less censorship and government interference

This is not true. Like when they censored Turkish opposition.
Yes, or also people on certain common medications, including some used to treat high blood pressure or immune disorders.
OBD-I cars needed a special reader too - a paperclip.
But why is that? Why a sudden jump this year?
> "doing your part" seems embarrassingly naive now.

Yes and no.

I would even go as far as to say that nihilism of no value in doing the right thing has been one reason we have reach this point -- we have lost a lot of collective action because of the sentiment that nothing you will do will matter. Collective action requires individual action.

The major industries don't just pollute for the sake of it, they respond to demand for which we individually share a part of the blame.

I can choose to eat steak from pastures made from burned Amazon rainforest, or I can choose more local, less carbon-heavy food. I can choose bottled spring water, or use my tap.

I can choose to take shorter showers.

I can choose to buy a smaller car and rent when I only really need the horse-power to drag a trailer.

I can choose to take public transport a bit more often.

I can choose to buy fast-fashion and replace my clothes often, or I can repair or buy repair services from a local vendor.

And so on.

Not all options are open to everyone, but like no raindrop is responsible for a flood, no person is responsible for anthropogenic climate change.
Well, there are plenty of maps that show which areas will be impacted more than others.
I'd disagree with your first sentence, which is that the data only contains notes. The original score - the data - also includes note duration, which notes are voiced simultaneously, and a starting and terminal note of the composition. With the model in their paper, all of that information is lost (or ignored.)

That is, I do not believe that your assumption is true, that the original data could be reconstructed from their representation.

I am theoretically open to the idea that perhaps we don't need all of the original information from the score in order to answer certain questions about the music. But I am skeptical that this particular analysis will yield anything fruitful.
TikTok is a Chinese propaganda tool right? Honest question. Truly not attempting to make an unfair statement implying other parts of the world including the US don't have plenty of propaganda tools of their our own. But isn't it?
Climate havens, near the great lakes in the US.
Spotify reports record growth in a year of layoffs and price hikes
Isnt SQL turing complete?
The "funny" thing is that the underlying algorithm is often still TOTP. What the banks do not like is the standard QR-code based mechanism of key distribution and the possibility to export the key.
I like it when programs have a way to specify a command to retrieve secrets.
mbsync (https://isync.sourceforge.io/mbsync.html) e.g. has afaik 3 options to provide a password for IMAP authentication:
If you don't configure a password, you'll be prompted on execution.
You can also put the plain text password in the configuration (impractical if you want to share your configuration).
But there is also a configuration option to provide a command to retrieve the password.
That way you can delegate the password handling to another program, e.g. a password manager like pass(1) (https://www.passwordstore.org/) or some interactive graphical prompt.
Government-run prisons may be badly run, but at least they don't have an overt incentive to exploit the inmates as much as possible.
Rehabilitate our prisoners? And dry up the supply of cheap labor for the corporate interests? Come now.
Chez Scheme v10.0
This is the first release that is based on the Racket development, including backends for RISC-V and ARM64.
I'd love to know what your line of thought is on this (from my pov as the author of that matrix blogpost).

For instance, we tried to propose Matrix as the basis of bluesky (hence https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/18/introducing-cerulean/) - but obviously they went and built atproto instead. Meanwhile, both projects have effectively taken VC funding (Element, founded by the core Matrix team has raised from VCs - although Matrix itself is governed by the independent non-profit Matrix.org Foundation). I'm honestly entirely sure how they contrast together :D
On Twitter, I never use to get spam DMs but now it is a daily occurrence. I never blocked anyone over 10 years but now I am blocking multiple people per day. I used to never see anti-semitic content, but now I run across it regularly (even though I don't follow similar accounts). I still enjoy interesting discussions on crypto and genAI tech/trends but that is probably not a broad enough audience to be sustainable for Twitter/X.
Re your first point: it's not conscious. It has no understanding. It's perfectly possible the model could successfully answer an exam question but fail to reach the same or similar conclusion when it has to reason it's own way there based on information provided.
FEMA has a list somewhere, but IIRC, the top of it included places like Buffalo, a few cities in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ann Arbor. Established cities along the great lakes are supposedly best positioned, but I've seen reports indicating that the age of the cities' infrastructure was a weakness for basically every one of the supposed climate havens
You don't actually need most of that additional tech. Github Actions + Managed Kubernetes + Helm is solid. Everything else can be additive as needed. ArgoCD is largely useful for deploying to multi single tenant customer installations, but overkill if you have a single prod cluster for example.
Where Tesla is a far simpler design for a personal vehicle than ICE, hybrids have even more parts and components than ICE cars.
This must be a scam. The pics for Fred and Leland are identical!

(J/k. I know them, they are twins who love pranks)
but there are real problems with vanilla css. Tipically as a project grows in size you want to be able to abstract something, and avoid a random selector causing havoc in an unrelated part of the application.
Except for the fact that it requires a centralized directory server that you can be banned from at any time, with no recourse. And for users, being independent from Bluesky requires owning a DNS name and paying for it yearly—a big step backwards from Mastodon where a group of users can come together and live on a server run by an admin they trust without needing their own DNS names. It replaces social trust that's more accessible for a lot of non-technical users with a more complicated kind of technical trust that requires a high level of technical sophistication (Can you imagine hundreds of thousands of twitter users all signing up for a registrar and buying their own domain names?)
We just use a headless chrome with a sort of wrapper script to do this at my work with a bunch of settings close to the actual size of paper. It allows me to test all of our reports in media->print in dev tools then print->pdf with chrome and only have to design to that spec. Then in our reports we provide a "save as pdf" button instead of encouraging print in all the other possible browsers which would make the task insane and cause me to possibly quit.
> I think at this point we'd have to punt the POSIX toolchain to get something better; it's hard for me to imagine how we'd build discoverable, conceptually-consistent UX atop what we currently have.

Posix could potentially do this. It already has a bit about conventions and could be expanded. Problem is getting things to adhere to it, plus I doubt the posix authors could be convinced to add a lot more to it.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1...
> engaged in this dialog beyond clicking a button

OK. "anthemic" does not mean what you think it means.

"anathema" maybe?
This is an incredible article, up to Matthew Ball's amazingly high standards of research.

There is no TL;DR for this. There's too much meat. As someone in this industry, there are many accurate and disturbing insights here. I recommend a full read!
WalEx instead of pub/sub (listen/subscribe): https://github.com/cpursley/walex

Supavisor connection pooler: https://github.com/supabase/supavisor
The delusions of Musk fanboys know no bounds.

> less censorship and government interference

> Twitter is complying with more government demands under Elon Musk. The company has not refused a single request since Musk took ownership, according to self-reported data.

https://restofworld.org/2023/elon-musk-twitter-government-or...

edit: Not to mention the period bans of Musk's critics.
Apparently those are not available for native executibles produced by graalvm community edition.

Profile guided optimisation for native executibles sounds cool. Too bad Oracle wants to keep it closed for monetisation.
man, the climate apathy on this website discourages me. i thought HN users were smart? yall are blinded by your desire to be a contrarian and skeptic.
> Even if state police are federally funded, why does that matter?

It matters quite a bit to the question of whether federally funded police would ever be allowed. You stated outright that they weren't.

> The use of that funding is still under the power of the state (or else it would be unconstitutional, for the federal government to direct how state institutions are operated).

The normal way in which federal funding operates is that they direct its usage. You're not compelled to do what they want, but if you don't, they don't give you the money.
Founded sapien.ai in 2016 - evolved from web chatbots and voice search SDKs, to custom LLMs and generative ai search, etc. Brought in a co-founder and did the Sand Hill Road Shuffle, met with A16z, Benchmark, Sequoia, Accel, (and a whole bunch of smaller ones), plus made it to the final interview at YC. But then A16Z passed, and so everyone else did too, and then my co-founder quit because of the stress of raising capital - and also because crypto was going through a hype cycle (ICOs). So I went back to bootstrapping and have been profitable ever since. I have been fortunate to work with global brands such as the Olympics, NBA, NFL, Home Depot, Virgin Atlantic, and more.
What

(not an American, been to the US once for 3 weeks)
What I originally envisioned was that we would first dip our toes in the water by quickly adding a very simple, easy-to-implement feature (the "improve my writing" feature mentioned above). If we received positive feedback from customers and management, we would be able to secure a proper budget for adding more complex and cool features based on RAG/function calling. For example, a scenario where a course learner asks a question and the LLM looks for the answer in the company's knowledge base/course library and provides a tailored, precise response. I had many other cool, useful scenarios in mind.

In fact, when we showcased our prototype of the "improve my writing" feature that we quickly put together in one week in early 2023 to a few select clients, their feedback was very enthusiastic. However, it took several months to bring it into production due to several bureaucratic hurdles: clearance from the legal department, the product owner delaying the release because of other priorities, and so on.

Now that the first feature has received a lukewarm reception because of the delayed release, we have neither a dedicated team nor a budget for adding more LLM-based features. Implementing proper and useful RAG is more complex and requires a certain level of expertise (vector DB integration, chunking strategy/indexing, tricks like HyDE, reranking, etc.), compared to just using the command "hey ChatGPT, improve this: %s." It is now unlikely that we'll have anything cool anytime soon without the support of the CEO or product owner (and they probably believe I proved it was indeed a fad). Most teams are currently busy with ordinary features from our backlog that do not require LLMs, and no one cares anymore.
The website definitely looks nice. How does it compare to Strapi or Gatsby?
Not one professional is sad about this.
Perhaps we should have a referendum, so people can show their support in a democratic way...

Nobody is stopping people doing unpopular things to solve climate change. You just have no right to coerce others into that!
Apple Wallet transactions just got added to shortcuts on iOS. You should be able to create a shortcut that adds the expense to YNAB whenever the card is charged.
AFAIK, US prisons aren't making use of that 13th amendment exception and prison labor is voluntary. Prisoners choose it, despite the low wages, because it beats sitting around on their ass all day. There's a very valid argument to be made for paying them the normal minimum wage, if for no other reason than to be fair to the rest of the workforce, but doing away with the opportunity to work for prisoners would just be cruel.

As for it being eugenics, most prisoners are in for violent crimes or property crimes. Imprisoning people for stuff like failure to pay child support (modern debtors prison) is shameful, but not the sort of thing most US prisoners are in for.
For me with any kind of data persistence backend, it's when you go from scaling vertically to horizontally. In other words, when it's no longer feasible to scale by just buying a bigger box.

I don't know that there is a canonical solution for scaling Postgres data for a single database across an arbitrary number of servers.

I know there is CockroachDB which scales almost limitlessly, and supports Postgres client protocol, so you can call it from any language that has a Postgres client library.
> they respond to demand for which we individually share a part of the blame.

I believe a large part of the blame should go to advertising.

Advertising works or it wouldn't exist. And it stimulates consumerism by definition.

Personal opinion, but kill advertising and you solve a lot of problems.
This really doesn't belong on Arxiv. Also, the at protocol doesn't bring anything _better_ to the federation aspect. In fact it does quite a few things worse and seems to he different just for the sake of not being ActivityPub. Like the concepts of being nomadic identity but not really. Zot protocol gets that part right. It's trying to be the solution to a problem that doesn't exist, and doing it _worse_ than AP

_at least its not AP!_
> Why in the world would they delete that data vs just putting it on mute/ignore/etc?

If you're serious it's because having a fig leaf is useful to reduce risk in controversial business practices, especially if the vast majority of people don't take advantage of it.
Which laws are Mozilla using to get the data brokers to remove personal info in the US. I know there is such a law in California but is there also a federal law?
On the Icelandic twitter, Nazis—or at the very least extremely and explicitly xenophobic rhetoric—has been getting more and more prominent. There was a time where you could look past it for the most part, but currently every time I go on Twitter I’ll spot a very hateful comment or two.

It may be that most of my circle has migrated over to Bluesky and the only people left on Icelandic twitter are either public figures or nazis. So the nazi content is just a greater proportion of the diminished Icelandic content. Or that nazis feel empowered inside the current Twitter atmosphere, which honestly is very scary to think of. I tend to think that the reason is a mix of both.
Tangential but I've never seen a http 402 error (payment required), and I sort of wish it would be implemented somewhere.
If you tell people they have to stop all travel and electricity use and plastics purchases, they won't do a thing.

There are no levers to pull besides technological ones.
For the code see: COATHANGER FortiGate IOC Checker at https://github.com/JSCU-NL/COATHANGER
Morningstar Calls Cathie Wood the Worst 'Wealth Destroyer'
Nice. Doesn't even require approaching large stars like in Elite Dangerous!
> Why is warming 1.5C from a prior date not as bad as warming 1.5C from the more referenced date?

You've probably put on a couple hundred pounds of weight over your lifetime. Do you think it would be negligible to put on another couple hundred pounds?
It'd be great to see how democratic support might be different were it not for the concerted, expensive effort to deny and downplay the problem by multiple enormous industries that have repeatedly captured governmental institutions in this effort, as well as changing public perception considerably

Concentration of power underlies a staggering amount of the problems of the current age, and if our species is to survive, insane propositions like "limited liability" need to die
Sqldiff.exe: Database Difference Utility for SQLite Databases
They also censored critics of Modhi's government in India.
As a kid, using this site or some other, I wrote an email to myself and received it some 15 years later. That was awkward. I don't really know that guy.
>why would I want to leave if it's so great?

If you're on an instance in a federated network and the instance's admin decides that they don't want to keep hosting it, you don't really have an option to stay.
GP was responding to a comment comparing it to network IO in terms of bottlenecks in your application stack ...?
In that case seems like nothing that big happened, hasn’t it? No known apocalypse or anything similar.
They already solved this. The eyes are only visible when the person wearing the headset can see YOU.
You are entitled to your opinion, but pro tip: Telling people they're wrong when a system is working for them doesn't get the point across. Often those same people are well aware that each system has its flaws and no system is perfect.
> That climate scientist have actually 'toned' down the doom outlooks. Because it turns people off to much. Like there will be no action if people knew how bad it was.

That sounds wrong. They should be giving people the most accurate estimates and the error range, not toning it down (or going the other way).

> So the 'right' is saying all the climate scientist are 'doomer's and causing sensational hype to promote their theories to sell books.

So now it is a partisan political issue? No chance of sensible discussion at all then.
Would love to learn more details about your setup! I use BetterTouchTool, too and wonder how to make use of it + shortcuts + the API
Fair enough on that... My youngest is 21 now. I tend to go on full burn a lot of the time. I've only hit a burn out twice in 28 years though, so not too bad.

The last time,.I started taking regular vacations. The COVID period limited that a lot. I like road trips, but given I was advised by my doctor and medical issues to not vaccinate at that matter it pretty difficult.
I've heard the talking point regarding innovation for awhile now. To me it sounds a bit like an alcoholic with a failing liver hoping that medicine will come up with some miracle cure so they can keep drinking as much as they want.
We don’t need to wait for technical solutions to make things cheaper. We need a revenue neutral carbon tax with dividend. For most people, especially the poor, they’d come out ahead, and it would allow the market price signals to gently steer everyone toward a lower carbon life.
Based on my wife's experience with Douyin (the original product in China), I get the impression that they're trying to roll out products or features that have been wildly successful in China. The store, for example, seems to be very popular there. TikTok needs to adjust to a very different cultural landscape.
One component is that El Nino started. Until 2023 we were in La Nina that was suppressing ocean temperatures.
I'd say -h and --help should return 0 & print help to stdout. Any unknown option should return EINVAL and output an error message and help text to stderr.
There's strong popular support to fix climate change. We know this from polls.

We also know that there are well-organized foreign propaganda teams attacking democracies around the world. The fact that some ill-informed right-wing radicals in France rioted doesn't mean there is no popular support for having a habitable planet in twenty years.
Good luck getting something like that past Eu regulators.
Even if facebook isn't doing fine, instagram is. Instagram is eating the market of younger people who would have used facebook. Either way meta wins.
Jurisdiction is crucial too.

The chances that a Western government will leave you alone during all of this are virtually zero.
We can go quite a bit further back than 80 years for temperature records. https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/our-data/publication/ice-cores-an...

> By measuring the ratios of different water isotopes in polar ice cores, we can determine how temperature in Antarctica and Greenland has changed in the past. The oldest continuous ice core we have was drilled by the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) from Dome C on the Antarctic plateau (Fig. 3). It extends back 800,000 years and shows a succession of long, cold ‘glacial’ periods, interspersed roughly every 100,000 years by warm ‘interglacial’ periods (of which the last 11,000 years is the most recent).
I feel like this take is dismissive and unhelpful. Expecting people to sacrifice their current wellbeing for the sake of a nebulous, far off reckoning is simply unrealistic and a bit of a dead end in terms of climate progress. We would be better served finding lower impact solutions that are more easily adopted than high impact ones that are never going to be accepted.
> except very online people

While those glued to TikTok are very offline people.
All social media apps have users, but users are not customers. Advertisers are.

Longer videos pave the way for non-skippable, mid-video ads, which they can charge more for.

TikTok Shop is for taking a cut of every transaction on your "territory", like Apple is doing with the App Store. QVC for Gen Z.

The sooner people stop believing this BS about social media apps caring about "connecting people" , the sooner the reality of the business model can be made apparent to everyone.
>Can each other’s eyes when you are each wearing them

What?
My Rule of the 6 Spheres
Oh, I agree. I'm the commenter that pointed out the 150 days to 80% efficiency record.

This is a total guess, but 150 days outdoors might translate to a few years of mostly-indoor use. But even then, there is probably need for more QC, etc. I'm just pointing out that there are other potential markets for PV tech that doesn't necessarily make sense for 30 years outdoors. TBD if that will work for perovskites (and honestly, TBD for dye-sensitized cells being a commercial success).