skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also see the early 2000s-era Nike Triax watches, designed for runners:

https://www.gq.com/story/nike-triax-watch
Its funny to me that with the current state of Russia this guy could have died with absolutely zero interference from the state and the rest of the world will assume he was killed no matter what comes out of Russian media, purely due to their track record with this sort of thing.
Sam Altman diverting the salaries of folk replaced by AI into his own pocket: "Yeeeerrrrs… I think we should replace those salaries with taxes paid by the people who still have jobs left and don't y'all think I'm just such a wonderful guy for saying such a socially progressive thing?"

What the hell is everyone smoking? Is there no systemic awareness left in the world?
>if I have someone steal something

A person still owns that "something", that's the big difference, the legal system is claiming that no one owns AI generated images, that's the whole point.
Why is food different from roads? Schools? Police? Fire departments? Have these people ever made an insurance claim? Set foot in a state/national park? Cashed a stimulus check? etc.

My point is, someone saying "I don't want to pay higher taxes to support other people" has already lost the plot. They are already receiving benefits paid for by someone else. If they weren't already convinced that this is a good thing, they're either not paying attention (in which case, why would they start now?), or care more about keeping poor people suffering than improving their own lot in life (which, in my experience, is more likely).
Getting UX right is a lot harder than people realize for several reasons:

- You have the usual BigCo problems in software with prioritization and incentives and pressure to deliver new features

- Front-end work is less mathematically complex and is generally undervalued by large companies that rely on complexity as a metric for difficulty/value

- When you use a piece of software all day for months/years, you learn the happy path to get things done and you forget all the rough edges because "it works fine for me"

- It requires a lot of detailed thinking about how other people perceive your work which is not something that software developers tend to excel at

- The user story which led to the UI/UX is not explicit to the user and the ways that users will try to use your UI are almost infinite

- Writing tests for front-end code has historically been more difficult

- There are a large variety of devices out there and testing on them all is time-consuming and painful

- Software is hard. People are hard. Combining them is harder.

- Small companies have a small surface area (people x devices x products) to cover and thus get more focused attention from their devs. Large companies have team reorgs and turnovers and many people who might have different priorities working on the same product

- Large companies know that people will still use their products even if the UX is worse because breaking out of the Apple/Google/Microsoft ecosystem requires significant tradeoffs

- Bug reports from the general public are given lower weight at big companies because of scale. When you have 10 bug reports to sort through it's not that hard to prioritize and ignore, not to mention that early adopters and small software users are more likely to be good bug reporters. When you have 10,000 bugs of which 9,000 of them are filed by people who don't know how to explain the problem: "my X doesn't Y", you become numb to new bugs unless they are show-stoppers, which many UX bugs are not.
The problem is the street overall is blocked off for the duration. Sure it looks like only one block is stopped, but in reality people who have to travel that block are backed up all the way, and so they will look for alternate routes for the duration.

If you could build the entire thing in 2 weeks (per year) people would be happy with a full road closure - they would all take vacation for those two weeks. This is for the entire city - close all roads to non-emergency traffic for two weeks, fix them all up - everyone not involved in road work or essential services would just go on vacation. You cannot do this of course, but that is what people really want.
State of jextract
It's great that Godot keeps improving. AFAIK it is still mostly for indie devs though. I don't know why valve isn't open sourcing Source 2. They barely even make games anymore and it would make them money in the long term if it means games could be made cheaper and better. UE5 on the other hand is leaps and bounds greater than both Source 2 and Godot judging from the few games that have released with it so far. There's also O3DE which last I checked isn't ready.
Make them transferable and I agree. If I get the food stamps and can easily transfer them to my adult kids, that would be great. Yes, it would probably mean drug dealers will take food stamps, but whatever.
A Capitalist Road to Communism (1986) - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24015173_A_Capitali...

and:

The capitalist road to communism: are we there yet? - https://books.openedition.org/pucl/1853?lang=en
> 70% corporate tax rate will get you another Reagan.

What do you mean? We still have Reagans, they never went away.

> It's a fast track to destroying entrepreneurship, reducing competition to introduce new, better products or lower prices of existing products.

Right America wasn’t even remotely an economic power until the 80’s. How could I forget?

> Furthermore, even if you went full Stalin and confiscated the entire wealth of all the billionaires, that's only $12T [1]. Sounds like a lot? It's a whopping $1500 per person in the world. You'll completely obliterate the economy for the ability to give everyone a check for $1500. One month later, 95% of that money will be spent and back in the hands of innovators and value providers.

It’s not confiscating, it’s tax. Tax everything above one billion at 100%. It’s not one time, it’s every year. And it’s not like we wouldn’t still have incredibly rich people, we just wouldn’t be permitting them to lock up entire GDPs worth of money in nothing.

Like if you think there are tons of people out there who will refuse to create businesses because we cap wealth at a mere, paltry one billion dollars, I think that’s a those people problem not an argument against that idea.
The day he returned, he released a video about a $1B palace built by Putin with stolen money. Maybe he (mistakenly) believed people will rise to his cause upon seeing the video.
1. it's only a copy, paste, and click to get to Red Square
2. it fits with the .ru transliteration of Volodymyr Zelenskyy
3. it retains any original ambiguity between "red" and "beautiful"
4. it avoids confusing the Union with the Federation
5. it complies with dang's suggestion not to overly spoon-feed each other

EDIT: in other news: https://www.theonion.com/putin-distraught-over-friends-who-k...
> it really is just math

no it's not; it's math + a *ckton of data + massive compute resources

training will likely be made more efficient over time, reducing required resources, but training data will always be a major obstacle
I suspect the article is just an ad. They want to sell a watch for "tough guys" and came up with that story.

The whole site reeks of "Chinese-made watch that we slapped our logo on", with some tacti-cool sprinkled on top. This article in particular is a little too "just so" for my tastes.

But my main objection is that I've known folks that were in the military (and not having served myself), and of the ones I currently know (and therefore, can trust my memory), not a one wears their watch on the inside.

But we've got plenty of military folk on HN, I welcome being corrected.
War enablers have nothing, their families apparently have a lot, somehow. A strict KYC/AML would quickly find connections of their family wealth to Russia, Putin and his regime. However reality is banks forced to go after each and every Russian due to universal requirements which they have to apply to all equally. This makes any sort of comprehensive KYC/AML checks impossible because of the scale they have to applied at. These restrictions really target ordinary Russians while high-net-worth individuals find their ways around. West should dig under specific individual rather than doing what it does today. Navalny’s ACF has a list to start with.
Actually, Spongebob was (originally) a depiticion of a real-life personality; the type of person who is truly so sheltered, optimistic and naive to actually ENJOY his job, even though he is supporting an immoral, materialistic crab who has ptsd from being in the Navy and hoards wealth as a coping method.
We can barely pass a bill to continue funding OUR government. It doesn't mean it won't eventually get done.
Only 130 US homes’ annual power consumption to train GPT-3 is surprisingly small to me, considering it only needs to be done once.
What's wrong with elevated trains?
There are several options to make cut and cover less disruptive. Other options are dig in the sidewall supports, then build the cover over the current road surface, finally dig out underneath. It is still tunneling, but it uses most of what makes cut and cover cheaper than a TBM.
I haven't ever used Guix, but I am a huge fan of NixOS, and my understanding is the Guix is trying for a similar experience. The reason that I've never attempted to really use Guix is because I'm a bit worried that I'd have driver trouble because of the LibreLinux kernel and no non-free stuff in the core repos.

To anyone that has used both Guix and NixOS, how do they compare? Do you feel like Guix is a better experience if you get past the driver problems?
I don’t think any of that is correct.
So valuable we let people park on it for free. As for utilization it's far more space efficient: we have a path in my town that handles a few thousand people while a street that did the same would be unpleasantly busy.
The EIA was recently ordered to start investigating/receiving reports on the actual numbers after a preliminary report indicated it was consuming between 0.6%-2.3% of total US consumption:

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61364
I literally have no idea what you're talking about. Could you explain who has been a victim of this? Please don't say the former president who has worked hard to delay trials.
Yeah, I guess I thought there might be some revolutionary new framework that simplifies it beyond these frameworks. I have been playing with Django, and seen some Laravel code, and it is Ok, but still quite the effort to get something simple up
Learning about debuggers
I'm not sure how to define a Russian win?
Taking Kyiv? Regime change?
I'm a big fan of turning some existing roads into cyclist and local access only roads, and then discouraging extended biking on other roads. Tunnels could certainly be part of that. In general, I don't think it's ever going to be safe for bikes and cars to share the same roadway any more than it would be for cars and pedestrians to travel on the same surfaces. For short distances, sure, but not on big arterial routes where everybody is at war with everyone else all the time.
The comparison to Tylenol spiking is perfectly apt if you consider the whole category of toxic adulterants as the noxious agent. (I know that THC/vit-E wasn't the totality of cases. You can only go so far without drowning in pedantry.) Moreover, it seems to have been a very North American phenomenon. Europe is quite vape-mad and you can count the number of vape-related lung injuries on one hand.
I mean with progressive tax brackets it'd be redistributive even if everyone got the same exact payments
Your comment beats me to it! I used to be in favor of UBI, but every point you make is valid. And the so-called Modern Monetary Theory of printing unlimited sums of money without triggering inflation either doesn’t work conceptually, or requires too many ancillary policy changes to ever be an option.

I think a good solution looks more like good old-fashioned workers rights laws that we see in Europe, which includes sector-level wage bargaining. And I would also like to see a federal jobs guarantee that would cause upwards wage pressure in the private sector, while providing a livable minimum wage for all who are able to work.
In Big Election Year, A.I.'S Architects Move Against Its Misuse
How about Universal Limited Income?

No one can have more than $X of wealth.

Analogy: Town of houses. Everyone gets help building a house, can fix it up however they like, etc. One day, some person tries to take many house lots, to build a massive temple to themself. As a corrective mechanism, other townspeople repeatedly throw that person into the river, until the person is cured.
We did this during the pandemic and it resulted in inflation that we're still trying to deal with. Exactly the kind of inflation that detractors claim would happen.

Safety net, yes. UBI and other redistributionist fantasies, no.
The argument is that he's not impartial.
Why specifically landlords and not sellers of food, gas, cell phones, etc? Everyone would like to raise their prices, but as long as there's competition they can't do so arbitrarily.
Never considered a cigarillo before…but it’s an intriguing idea
UBI is the weirdest thing. I'm certainly no fan of an economic system which casually threatens each of it's member with starvation and homelessness if personal misfortune strikes. But universal basic income is something different than support for someone in need. It has to be paid by someone, but this someone isn't ever mentioned. It's somehow the government. But government needs to be funded, too. So ultimately it's an attempt make everyone hand over responsibility of our lives and livelihoods to some opaque sustenance function, without thinking or asking any questions.
No. Apples vs. oranges. While UA lacks IFVs, they first need main battle tanks. IFVs without MBTs doesn't comprise a survivable mixed combat element. Main battle tanks with troops with AGTMs is a starting point, IFVs would enhance their mobility but cannot replace the priority of having MBTs before IFVs.
Matt Ferrell posted a video about vertical bifacial solar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqizLQDi9BM) last week that has me hopeful for more demand-aligned solar output.

They absorb more indirect light, but the main advantage is that hot panels drop in efficiency, and standing them up improves heat dissipation substantially.

One of the bits that stood out to me is that it has an output curve that partially lines up with The Duck, because you get a period of low-angle exposure near sunset. I suspect you get quite a drop at high noon, but that's fine as long as not all solar panels in the grid are vertical.
Americans spend 1/3rd of their income on cars, and 1/3rd to 1/2 on housing.

UBI is not going to fix this. It will just move the prices of these nessecities up like we saw durning the COVID stimulus.

America and most of the developed world is stricken with a supply problem. Car dependency is resource intensive and housing is in such short supply that it costs 2x what it would in an efficient market. Any attempt to fix it on the monetary side via ubi or minimum wage is a waste of time. Although, if we did fix it, then UBI would be great, but probably not really necessary.
No way that 7, 15x is realistic. From my previous 2 startups none were sold for more than 4x. And these were healthy growing +10m businesses. I am not sure where you got those numbers from. I am curious.
I see a shallow analogy that isn't true to me on close inspection.

To me, human activities from which we can earn a living wage feels like nomadism as the edge of an ever expanding region of agriculture (technological automation in this case). When you lose some activities to automation, we've always found new ones until now. In the end though, there were no more pastures for nomads to move, and there will be no more new activities from which humans can earn a wage (not to mention the satisfaction of accomplishing something hard). And, while there might be a future with UBI for everyone, the transition seems rough and exploitative.
Did you mean someone else than Orban?
Exactly. When I get to a cut and cover station, it's often just a single flight of stairs down. It's often only 15 seconds or so to reach the track and wait for the train.

Stations along bored tunnels sometimes take as much as 5 minutes to go from street to train. One I used to regularly use had three separate multi-story escalators, in addition to long walkways between them.

So even if cut and cover disrupts businesses and car traffic, I can't help but wonder if decades of extra delays to reach the tracks from many thousands of people a day doesn't wind up outweighing that.
The source press release from NOAA:

https://research.noaa.gov/2024/02/13/great-lakes-ice-coverag...
A personal AI chess coach
i'm building a chess tutor to help me reach 2000 elo on lichess.

i'm currently 1700.

the app is live now, but it's trash. i'll be completely restructuring it in the next few weeks.

sign up to follow the journey and try it yourself.
UBI may sound like a worthwhile endeavor to a great many people, but I can't help but think of what we give up with such a system.

If I politicaly dissent from the majority (whomsoever that is or whatever they believe) what stops them—the government as often described—from stopping UBI from those that are deemed "unfit."
This is something I've been on board with for ages. Just give everyone a SNAP card, homeless person to Bill gates.
Yes. We didn't used to have all this ceremonial crap. I remember having good planning sessions, we'd talk about what were actually going to do, then we'd do it (with some conversations in between as needed), then meet up in a week to see where we were. None of this micromanagement BS.
Bay Area tech giant Cisco will lay off more than 4k in 5% staff cut
Microsoft had a lot of AS/400s when I worked there in 1993. I believe most of the core infrastructure ran on it.

On my last day there before returning to Canada in August 1993, I vividly remember that Bill Gates had a general meeting where he was talking about how IBM was doing poorly and that he was thinking of buying it, but not the whole company, just the AS/400 division (obviously, that didn't happen).
I am not a doomer. I don't know what the future will hold but I do know that there is less suffering in the world and the world in general is becomming a better place, that seems pretty positive to me.
Is this legit? These prices seem incredibly low, completely different from something like Flippa, where I saw brand new blogs set up with wordpress going for $1,000.
Meaning most Unix command line tools are line-oriented meaning input and output are expected to have a series of text records, each on its own line. Stray too far from this lingua franca and you'll need to get creative to get piped IO to work.

JSON doesn't care so much about lines and doesn't necessarily represent an array of records, so it doesn't fit into this box.
If you give 500 people a few thousand dollars (in cash or in kind) it makes them better off. If you give everyone a few thousand dollars you cause inflation.
Japan’s story is different - Japan has been battling deflation for decades at least partially as a result of a rapidly aging population with zero desire to import workers. Which is not a judgment of Japan, which instead chose to provide a much higher per capita stimulus to its people with a focus on the quality of life of the average citizen.
According to Musk, below:

Almost every company doing AI, from startups to some of the biggest corporations on Earth, was scraping vast amounts of data,” Musk said. “It is rather galling to have to bring large numbers of servers online on an emergency basis just to facilitate some AI startup’s outrageous valuation. Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience."

To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:

- Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day

- Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day

- New unverified accounts to 300/day
Tidal is a pretty good general music app as a Spotify alternative and reportedly pays artists a lot more for plays.

I also fairly liked Qobuz, a French service, but ended up dropping it because it didn't have the kind of "just play something I like" feature that Spotify and Tidal have made pretty standard now (daily mixes, etc). I hate the laziness of it but I've gotten used to it; there are days/times I just want to listen to music of a certain mood while I'm working on something and don't want to think hard about what to put on.
Japan's GDP today is roughly the same as it was in 1995:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/263578/gross-domestic-pr...
This strikes me (a total ignoramus) as the generally balanced and correct take.

One question I have is, how much of that inflationary period has been due to supply issues that would have occurred regardless of stimulus checks?

I share your skepticism about the "lol just tax the rich" approach. I'm not sure how true it is that taxes "hobble our most productive citizens" (what are you alluding to about china?), I generally just think rich people inevitably outmaneuver the government trying to tax them, and that rich people really shouldn't be "earning" that much to begin with (because I think their earnings in most cases has fuck-all to do with their actual "productivity"). I imagine there are plenty of smart people who have thought up other ways of socializing the fruits of economic growth in, idk, better ways.
> And if the users deliberately install it, what's the problem?

And is this a universal principle of yours?

For instance, would you say the same about malware—that anyone should have the right to develop it, and use whatever shady tactics they want to trick people into installing it—and if they do, that becomes their problem?
Body fat is measurable.
How many has Putin had killed now? Anyone keeping a tally?
UBI for very small values of U.
Wait, this is a big deal. Will it work with any package manager or only things that it explicitly supports?

One thing that has become a persistent headache for me with Nix is trying to get reproducible builds with Julia, due to the fact that the package manager doesn't have direct integration with Nix, and `nix build` purposefully restricts network access. I'd happily move to Guix if they have an elegant way to deal with this.
If you think this will be limited to Europe, you are sadly mistaken.
You confuse my goals with your goals. Conservative economics advance my goals fine.
keynote in 2023 at the University of Washington for The Allen School's Distinguished Lecture Series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lBbqH_1KS4
japan is mostly in depth to its own residents, while the us is owned by china.

update: first thing remains true. but china owns less parts of the us depth by now, its more distributed among other countries.
His designer very obviously took him for a ride. If you're conflict averse and running a business, learning to fight for what you agreed is uncomfortable and necessary.
If someone was threatening to kill your family, would you deliver your wife to them? Nothing in the world would compel you, obviously.

Clearly he believed that his family’s lives were exceptionally safe, probably way more safe than they actually were.

The only explanation for his return that fits with the manner of his return is that he wanted to martyr himself.
David Graeber argued that there are bullshit jobs, that keep people busy with tasks that are useless for their development or the society.

He didn’t take into account that there are destructive jobs, whose workers significantly contribute to the destruction of the conditions which render the planet habitable.

The planet would be better off if those folks received a UBI for staying at home