skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SOS mode means it can see towers of other providers you aren’t authenticated with, but no signal to authenticated cell towers
I'm wondering if it could be some kind of auth timeout. I've heard from a few people of one person's phone going out, then a bit later the other person's phone finally failing too.
Much more than from the Canigou Sun Bear project in SW Colorado ($1.5B for 971 MWp, including I think 2 hours of batteries, 1979 GWh/year (23% capacity factor), 35 year life for the PV).
It sounds like you're using Nix as a sort of configuration management solution. CM just isn't worth it for managing a single desktop IMO. It triples the effort for whenever you need to add or remove a package, as you must now add that also to your nix configuration. You're supposed to be able to make that back up in time saved restoring to the next machine, but inevitably the next machine will be different enough that you'll have to edit it all anyway. In the end I just got tired of trying to manage my own machine with infrastructure as code (though in fairness I was using puppet at the time not nix).

I keep a git repository with all my dot files in it[1]. This seems to work the best. It has a Windows folder as well, and I copy that out whenever I need to set up Windows.

A lot of people like using WSL but I hate how it hogs on my memory. Hyper-V is a terrible virtualization engine for consumer-grade use cases because it can't thin provision RAM. If I need to use docker, I will spin up a small Linux VM using vagrant[3] with Virtualbox[4] and put Docker on there. Vagrant is an extremely underrated tool in my opinion, particularly in a Windows context.

I use scoop[5] for package management. Typically I will scoop install msys2 and then pin it so that it doesn't get blown away by the next upgrade.

Then I basically do all of my development inside of msys2. I can get most things running in there without virtualization. In my case that means sbcl and roswell for common lisp, senpai for irc, and tmux and nvim for sanity. Msys2 uses the pacman package manager and this is good enough.

All In all, I set up my Windows machine affresh after a while of not using it and it took me about 3 hours. Most of that time was just getting through upgrades though, I felt like it was pretty fast.

1: https://git.sr.ht/~skin/dotfiles

2: https://www.msys2.org/

3: https://www.vagrantup.com/

4: https://www.virtualbox.org/

5: https://scoop.sh/
Maybe I don't understand the culture here on HN, but not every response to a comment has to be a disagreement. Sometimes you're just adding to a point somebody else made.
So there is no license information yet?
City council megaproject mulls ditching Oracle after budget balloons to £131M
Ksplang – prog. lang. with 33 instructions, independently designed by 33 people
The path of totality is only 115 miles wide so from 30,000 feet you would be able to see edges of the shadow below you.

You’re also guaranteed to be able to see the eclipse because you’re flying above any cloud cover.
>found use of a decimal point by a Venetian merchant 150 years before

Interesting a merchant was the one who so far started using it in the 1400s. Since Venice was based upon trade, I wonder if some older use could be found in The Ottoman Empire or one of the Arab or India Empires ?
I’ve never used the embedded terminal in any Intellij IDE. I prefer to run stuff on its terminal (more space, custom colors, familiarity, etc.)
Use an AI from France, Sweden or Italy then.
It's as if Google believes their higher principle is something other than serving customers and making money. They haven't been able to push out a new successful product in 10+ years. This doesn't bode well for them in the future.

I blame that decade of near zero interest rates. Companies could post record profits without working for them. I think in the coming years we will discover that that event functionally broke many companies.
Story time. In the last total eclipse, I was commuting from Boston to San Francisco a bunch and planned my flight to coincide with the path of totality. I brought enough eclipse glasses for the entire flight. The flight attendants were kind enough to distribute them and even gave them to the pilot and copilot. The flight crew was excited about it and actually got approval a change to their flight plan so that they could bank the plane so that people on both sides of the plane could actually look out the window to see the eclipse. This is back in the days of Virgin America, and as a thank you they sent me a little desk statue of a Virgin America plane. I keep it on my desk in fond memory of my favorite airline. Also got some cool photos of the flight crew and passengers all wearing eclipse glasses. (https://mackman.net/va.jpg)
Then by the standards set by government, I guess the united states isnt a first world country.
These people are the experts on minimising profit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
> Do you think no one internally thought to try this

This is Google on one hand and the Internet on the other.

So probably not?
Oh and another one I use all the time is as an "identity transform" when selecting between filters, e.g.

dostuff () {
if [[ $1 = clean ]]; then
grep -v dirt
else
cat
fi | do_other_stuff
}

See also https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/uuoc/ (via https://lobste.rs/s/rtvp2u/useful_uses_cat#c_0xpqkr )
The High-Performance Arm V3 Platform Performance-Optimized and Validated by Arm
People would 1000% complain if a search for “skilled scientist” was 90% white men, even if that tracked completely true to statistical reality.
Had my friend read the etiquette page, he probably wouldn't have lifted the stone without asking permission. So no, OP's website is beneficial wrt educating people to avoid the purported obnoxious behavior. Additionally the hobbyists that travel to lift stones probably already know not to lift monuments.

But I guess you mainly wanted to complain about obnoxious tourists in Japan, so fair enough. I highly doubt tourists in general are more disrespectful in Japan vs. elsewhere.
Reality is statistics and as are the models.

If the data is lumpy in one area then I figure let the model represent the data and allow the human to determine the direction of skew in a transparent way.

The Nerfing based upon some internal activism that's hidden is frustrating because it'll call into question any result as suspect to bias towards unknown Morlocks at Google.

For some reason Google intentionally stopped historically accurate images from being generated. Whatever your position, provided you value Truth, these adjustments are abhorrent.
> We believe in safe, responsible AI practices. This means we have taken and continue to take reasonable steps to prevent the misuse of Stable Diffusion 3 by bad actors. Safety starts when we begin training our model and continues throughout the testing, evaluation, and deployment. In preparation for this early preview, we’ve introduced numerous safeguards. By continually collaborating with researchers, experts, and our community, we expect to innovate further with integrity as we approach the model’s public release.

What exactly does this mean? Will we be able to see all of the "safeguards" and access all of the technology's power without someone else's restrictions on them?
> Solar will make energy production essentially free

It may end up being cheaper to just use PV to resistively heat large masses of rock and use that heat to drive turbines, instead of fissioning uranium to make the heat. Not that this would be the best way to do things, but it would be an illustration of nuclear's cost problem.
At first glance, I love the idea of the prompt being in a static position, separated from the output. Surprised that this is the first time I've seen something like that.
>Hallucinating diversity where there was none simply sweeps historical failures under the rug.

Failures and successes. You can't get this thing to generate any white people at all, no matter how explicitly or implicitly you ask.
Majority of the path has an extremely high chance of cloud coverage (70%), so maybe this alleviates that?

https://eclipsophile.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/April-No...
A big question is how far from present reality should you go in depictions. If you go quite far it just looks heavy handed.

If current board members were 80% late middle aged men then shifting to, say, 60% should move society in the desired direction without being obvious and upsetting people.
Time will tell.

Toyota has taken decades to build their reputation on being reliable and cheap to run/maintain.
TFA is about the blood brain barrier
What an absurd notion. As a first generation immigrant, I’m in no way “just as American” as my wife, whose family settled the west coast in the wagon trails. That assertion reduces the concept of nationality to nothing. If my ancestors had shaped the America that exists today it would look very different!
Staff say Dells return to office mandate is stealth layoff especially for women
How did you explain the hundreds of pairs of glasses to TSA?
Bestselling phone models of 2023 are all iPhones
I don't think the fun part is actually pressing on the keyboard.
Visual Clarity in RTS Games
It does de-duplicate. It saves every command (even duplicates), but as soon as you search it only ever shows the last version you ran.

The reason it saves every command is so that it can produce statistics, for example exit code distribution and runs per day etc.
Performance-per-Watt Leading Arm Neoverse N3 Platform
Poor and happy: The societies that defy life satisfaction trends
I totally get that you need to be careful about what you say, and I especially appreciate you taking some extra time to write this out. This comment is 1000x more interesting than "that story has a lot of garbage".
at this point perfect text would be a gamechanger if it can be solved

midjourney 6 can be completely photorealistic and include valid text, but also sometimes adds bad text. it's not much, but having to use an image editor for that is still annoying. for creating marketing material, getting perfect text every time and never getting bad text would be amazing
A Brief History and Ethos of the Digital Garden (2021)
Krita is really very impressive.

I am that kind of decades-long hosted-linux-from-a-Mac-desktop user who checks out desktop linux every six months or so to see if the daily driver situation is ready.

I edit quite a lot of photos and even though Darktable is a mess, I could use it and it's not the only option. I edit vector graphics and I think Inkscape is fine. I like FreeCAD. All of my coding tools appear to run in Electron, etc. etc.

But GIMP isn't an option. It's not even close to being what basic quick correct photo editing needs in terms of a workflow. And I'm simply never going to change what is not really a particularly deep or exotic workflow to fit it.

Krita is _sooooo_ close, and it's not even trying to be a photo editor first and foremost.
"Ethical"
It was Ian Buck @ Stanford, I think. I remember a professor from Stanford gave a talk at my grad school around 2000 about GPUs for scientific computing. Blew me away. One of the few talks I remember.
Boeing-backed air taxi upstart Wisk plans to fly you across town at UberX prices
Trillions of tons of buried hydrogen: Clean energy gold rush begins
Somebody I know trusted the google maps bicycle tour planning feature .. and had to stop a car after some unplanned hours in the australian outback sun.

Someone else who was directing me in a car via their mobile google maps told me to go through a blocked road. I said no, I cannot. "But you have to, google says so"

No, I still did not drive through a road block, despite google telling me, this is the way, but people trusted google a lot. And still do.
If you look at a map of the "path of totality" for a total solar eclipse, think of it as a series of small time windows only a few minutes long, where one window ends another begins. I say that as if it's discrete, but really it's continuous and overlapping. Anyway, totality will begin in Texas at 1:27 PM CT and end in Maine at 3:35 PM ET, which is a little more than an hour. So theoretically you could be traveling at the same speed as the eclipse, from Texas to Maine in that hour, seeing an eclipse the whole time instead of just a few minutes!

Of course, the article makes no such claim that this is their plan. After all, planes don't go 2000 MPH. But they do go 600+ MPH, so maybe if things go perfectly you'll have 20 minutes of eclipse. Call it 10 minutes due to inability to rapidly correct for a slightly wrong departure time. Better than the 4 minutes you'd get standing still.
Half of the announcement talks about safety. The next step will be these control mechanisms being built into all sorts of software I suppose.

It's "safe" for them, not for the users, at least they should make that clear.
> the new world

How is that relevant at all? The only thing that comes close to mars are mostly self-sustainable colonies (not a thing) in Antarctica (which is still a more habitable place than Mars by several magnitudes).

> we did the last time we explored a new frontier

Because the cost was relatively extremely low and there were practical reasons to do that?
That's often done to prevent confusion between a lowercase l and a uppercase I, and granted having both is sometimes preferable (especially with monospaced fonts). But in this case SN Pro's lowercase l has a tail to be clearly differentiable.
The angel investing landscape is filled with ZIRP morons, both founders and investors. You attend these things (I do, less now) and the conversation revolves around raising money, exits, and nothing else. Hardly any talk about building a business or the actual products. Raising money to exit is a game in itself for these people.

Check out VCs Congratulating Themselves twitter feed.
It seems to be Swedish in origin, in which case the closest English equivalent would be "mee" or "mew".

Roughly speaking, the <y> here is close to what is traditionally transcribed in English as [i:], except rounded, i.e. [y:].

Many caveats apply, this probably being Finnish Swedish (which should have the same or a similar vowel), my Swedish being rather rudimentary, etc.
Hey, neat! However, this line of research (which I'm passingly familiar with) is about extending the grammar of the host language (for Xoc: C), along with the semantics (for Xoc: the Zeta interpreter). I think I'm interested in a slightly rotated design space: the C grammar is left alone[1]; instead, an extension of the C spec defines a specific API for (effectively) code injection; and, finally, we limit ourselves to new types and functions, possibly with non-standard sizing (`sizeof`/`alignof`/...) information.

[1] Modulo the introduction of `_Load("...")(__args__)`, and a few other function-like invocations.
The disquisition would improve after an iteration to apply the following rule: one paragraph, one idea.
Show HN: Rhymer.day, a Daily Rhyming Challenge
Hello HN! I have been writing more poetry recently. I wanted a way to challenge my breadth of rhyming knowledge, outside of the words I choose in poetry.

rhymer.day gives you a random word and challenges you to find as many words that rhyme with it as possible. It uses the cmudict dictionary, a pronunciation dictionary, as its source of truth.

How it works, in a nutshell: (i) take random word from cmudict; (ii) you writes words that you think rhyme with the word; (iii) the last two phonemes of each word you submit are compared to the phonemes of the random word; (iv) if they match, your word is accepted.

It's a bit rough around the edges, but I'd love your feedback!

The code is open source, too: https://github.com/capjamesg/rhymer.day
What if modern appliances were built like the KitchenAid stand mixer?
No. Let's ask those directly responsible and get an answer.

Won't happen.

They'll hide behind the corporate veil.
Perhaps because there’s an editor that’s been the industry standard for 30+ years.
Interestingly enough the same terror of political correctness seems to take center stage at Mozilla. But then it seems much less so at places like Microsoft or Apple.

I wonder if there’s a correlation with being a tech company that was founded in direct relation to the internet vs. being founded in relation to personal / enterprise computing, and how that sort of seeds the initial culture.
To be completely honest, I’m not quite sure what’s meant by ‘politically charged term’.

It doesn’t sound like a good faith argument to me; more an attempt to tar individuals with a broad brush because they happen to have used a term also used by others whose views one disapproves of. I think it’s better to try to gauge intentions rather than focusing on particular terminology and leaping to ‘you used this word which is related to this and therefore you’re really bad’ kind of conclusions.

I’m absolutely sure your view isn’t this crude, but it is how it comes across. Saying something is ‘politically charged’ isn’t an argument.
I'm curious to know if they're safeguards are eliminated when users find tune the model?
I haven't trusted google since finding out they've received seed money from InQtel. Puts all their crippling algorithm changes into perspective.
For SDXL this meant that there were almost no NSFW (porn and similar) images included in the dataset, so the community had to fine-tune the model themselves to make it generate those.
Thank you! Took a few iterations but got there in the end ~ Tobias, Supernotes
Why do we continue to be bullish on this space when it continues to spit out unusable garbage? Are investors just that dumb? Is there no better place to put cash?
When I paste other images as layers I don't want boundaries to be automatically lost.
I explained what they were for :-)
This is not at all how this works. There's no separate model. Yes there's unique tokenization, if not the video as a whole then for each image. The whole video is ~1800 tokens because Gemini gets video as a series of images in context at 1 frame/s. Each image is about 258 tokens because a token in image transformer terms is literally a patch of the image.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11929
c) It's Elon.

Elon lies. If not all, his "announcements" have no source of truth. From SpaceX to Telsa, they are always exaggerated.

I don't dismiss that they've may of operated on someone implementing the chip but the realistic aspect of the chip not being rejected nor causing scar tissue would be the real news. In fact I doubt they've implanted it at all; this is just hyperbole to keep the hype going.

Maybe the future of the chip will enable you to move a mouse but in this instance I really doubt it.
They are too many.
For ERCOT in Texas, it's the other way around: wind generation tends to be higher at night.

https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards
It's actually not hard to get these right and these are not stereotypes.

Try these exact prompts in Midjourney and you will get exactly what you would expect.
Nice work. Hope it will soon come in variable versions, one for regular and one for italic/oblique. Wish they had used curly quotes on their various samples, also; it’s always nice to check how a typeface handles those.
In my experience:

- For basic autocompletion is ok, on lazy days I even find myself often thinking "why the ai is not proposing a solution to this stupid method yet?".

- For complicated coding stuff is worthless, I've lost a lot of time trying to fix some ai generated code to end up writing the stuff again, so I rely on google/stackoverflow for that kind of research.

- For architectural solutions or some research like looking for the right tool to do something I found it quite useful as it often present options I didn't consider or didn't know in the first place, so I can take them also in consideration.
Why Google ended their on-site childcare
Backhoe fade?

Back in my circuit switched days, we lost half of our US long distance routes, because a farmer in Wyoming dig up an unmarked fiber link. Hence, backhoe fade.
No worries, the safeguards are only for the general public. Criminals will have no issues going around them. /s
You absolutely nailed it xD
>This preview phase, as with previous models, is crucial for gathering insights to improve its performance and safety ahead of an open release.

oh, for fuck's sake.
This reinforces my impression that Google is at least one year behind. Stunning images, 3D, video while Gemini had to be partially halted this morning.
I'd put in various structural guardrails with respect to how the conversation should go.

For example, be helpful and actually answer any questions, don't start arguing with the user, avoid insulting the user unless they request to, don't suggest harming the user (e.g. responding to insults with an some meme suggesting the user kill themselves), don't assert that any outputs are the viewpoint of Gemini or Google, various things like that - they aren't automatic and need instruction tuning to be implemented.

But with respect to morality and censorship, I believe it should have no guardrails whatsoever. Perhaps certain physically dangerous things would benefit from a disclaimer (e.g. combining bleach and ammonia or vinegar), but never a rejection - if the user wants to make something potentially horrible, the ethical judgement of whether that's acceptable for the context should be up to the user, not the system; the user should have full ethical agency and the system should have none and be a blind instrument.

For example, making a graphic image of carving a swastika with a knife on someone's forehead (e.g. as in Inglorious Basterds) may be ethical or unethical depending on the context, but Gemini will neither have the full context nor the ability to judge it, and it should not even attempt to do so - it should be solely up to the human to decide what is appropriate or not. The same applies for chemistry, nudity, code security, discussing crime, nuclear engineering or AI ethics.
There is no obvious branch, but the compiler is allowed to implement the as-if rule and insert a branch if it figures out what you are doing.
Related - there's also ESP8266 based TheOldNet wifi modem[1] in case you want TCP/IP over wifi networking in your MS-DOS machine (or possibly others which have support for SLIP - Serial Line Internet Protocol).

[1]: https://github.com/TheOldNet/theoldnet-wifi-firmware-binarie...
It's almost like the "socialism" part of "national socialism" was not in fact irrelevant. See: Ba'aathism.
You are equating the output of the model with the views of its creators. This incident may demonstrate some underlying dysfunction within Google but it strains credulity to believe that the creators actually think it is objectionable to generate an image depicting a white person.
The primary visual distinction of the new terminal is that each command is now presented in a separate block.

Pretty neat !!!.
That is not artificial intelligence, that is deliberate mucking with the software to achieve a desired outcome. Google is utterly untrustworthy in this regard.
A hospital is suing to move a quadriplegic 18-year-old to a nursing home
See also Turing Tumble, a screenless, mechanical, gravity-powered computer for kids:

https://upperstory.com/turingtumble/

My sons (7 and 9) love it, and both have some grasp of binary thanks to it.
1M/32k = 31x longer
we have had lots of complications after COVID, in my family. I have been cooking a lot onion soup - onions are supposed to strengthen the immune system and are anti-inflammatory. Now the result tastes good, and I think it helped them to get over that COVID shit. (however I guess there isn't a lot of science in this diatribe...)
I think the root problem is assuming that these generated images are representations of anything.

Nobody should.

They’re literally semi-random graphic artifacts that we humans give 100% of the meaning to.