skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Losing the imitation game: "we are eating our own seed corn."
The financial value of open source software
Justice Department Looking into Boeing Door Plug Blowout
Add some attack and release to eliminate the pops when audio starts/stops playing
Standard solar installs for households are designed to pay themselves off in 5 years. After that point they represent a net saving to the home owner.

Source, Australian government via: https://www.energy.gov.au/solar/switch-solar-power/solar-hou...
Having talked to friends who currently work at G in Mountain View - "lost any grip with reality" is an understatement when it comes to the collective ethos of G employees.
I'm not sure how Rocky fits the same pattern as The Karate Kid. Even at the very start of the first Rocky, Rocky is a journeyman boxer, who's been in the game a while, and goes to the gym on a... ok, on a semi-regular basis at best. Yes, he's undisciplined and doesn't have an amazing track record, but when he gets picked by Apollo to get a title shot, it's *not* like he's learning to box from scratch. He effectively has a training camp with Mickey to get him in top fighting shape and mix up his form to throw his opponent's research off - but that's how a lot of professional fighters prepare for a fight!

(I mean, it helps that his fighting style is mostly "let the other guy tire himself out by punching you in the face for 10 rounds straight, and then get some decent haymakers in when they can't lift their arms any more" which any fool with an iron chin can try to implement, but even so, the implication is that he starts off with plenty of practice at it.)
If it's not the same article, it's not a dupe. Different articles can provide different insights into a news event.
Amazon's expansion into healthcare is already distressing patients and providers
Prison long stopped being about rehabilitation, assuming it ever was in the US. This is about punishment.
Humans aren’t special

But it seems so much more fun to believe otherwise. So why not?
Amazon Just Got Banned from the EU Parliament
> perhaps you can't have a weapon on your person while doing certain permitted recovery things

Oh, duh. They're surveilling themselves.

Drone needs to keep last X hours of footage on file at all times. If you're caught, the ranger manually reviews for a moment, takes a copy of the tape and your information, and thanks you for your time. If during the spot or extended review it's found you were stalking an animal with the drone, you're fined. Pay for it with a hunting-drone use fee.
This could be a natural phenomenon. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_resonance
Looks like some DP2.1 monitors were announced at CES this year too, so things are finally coming together!
On top of that LFP battery cells are about half the cost they were when I purchased in August
It's possible for sure.

It's just worth recognizing that SQL itself is a tool that doesn't do a great deal promote understanding what goes on under the hood. (I've witnessed that firsthand many times.)
So the change is that players knowledge keeps in “modern” versions and in classic versions, your memory was largely useless?
Why the Davos Smart Set Sounds Dumb
I think there are some stories about how developing nations didn’t have to setup copper wiring all over the back country for the rural development of communication network and could just set up using cellular towers. Sometime using 10 or 15 year old tech is greener than what the west was doing at the same economic development point.
> I guess you need to learn to apply those sharps and flats though, of course.

Yeah, there's a big difference between fingered instruments and singing. When you're playing on a fingered instrument, it's quite easy to apply incidentals – you get a feeling for the shape of the scale (and you practice scales to help with that). But unless you have perfect pitch, you're only _ever_ singing intervals. And good luck when the key changes from F# Major to Eb Minor halfway through the piece!

Another factor is that these singers likely do not play any other instruments, so they don't have any visual or tactile reference for sharps or flats – all keys are sung exactly the same way. When you're singing "by ear", you place the note in the scale you're singing.
> It's entirely possible that an acquisition company was a more profitable idea than an an engineering company, but still.

I think the primary criticism engineers have against "MBAs" is that they make money, but frequently destroy value.

So "during his time as CEO at Cisco, sales went from $1.9 billion to $49.2 billion." is clear evidence of making money, but is not at all clear evidence of producing value and not any evidence at all of producing more money or value in the US in aggregate.

I don't think very many engineers would agree that "value == money," but it wouldn't surprise me if that was a core axiom of many people defending "MBA" leadership.

This is very very left field, but when the US went off the gold standard, money ceased to have a hard relationship to value because money could be invented and thus money games became more profitable than producing. It's worth contemplating China's strategy. Our money first businesses sending production to China made china the place where value is created. So when covid hit and we needed masks, we had money, but not value and people started to understand the difference leading to many of the efforts we see now like CHIPS. War is an economic shift where value is everything and money is nothing, and since the world is heating up (metaphorically and literally), it's worth centering arguments around value produced rather than money made.
Speedy SD Express cards have gone nowhere for years, Samsung could change that
By saying why bother, I meant to discourage diagnosis, while acknowledging its benefits and costs.
I am surprised no one has created a torrent yet.
Canada would likely be more than 13% except there was an abundance of easy hydro electric projects.

As the population of Canada grows past the point that the hydro projects provide nearly all electricity, I expect them to start burning more and more natural gas.

Initially this will show as New York state using more natural gas since Canada produces a huge amount of the total power there.
This is great, I've been meaning to build something similar for some time. I tried to run the queries from the tutorial but hit lots of CORS errors loading the datasets, is there any way that you have found to work around those?
A more accurate rewording of Nintendo's statement (keeping their point of view):

> A video emulator is piece of software that allows a user to run a video game on a platform different from that for which is was written. Many people use emulators to play unlawfully obtained pirated games.

Wording something as definition implies that the statement both contains no falsehoods and is complete.

Saying that the purpose of an emulator is to play pirated games is not true. I use an emulator to play Super Smash Bros Melee on my computer, with the ROM obtained from the disk I own. People have modded the Super Smash Bros Melee game to allow for online play, something that would be impossible without an emulator. People used emulators to find a bug in Ocarina of Time that would allow them to beat the game (played on original hardware) faster.

But the statement is written to confuse a non-technical fact finder into thinking that the only purpose of an emulator is to play a video game without paying for it, or to help others to do so. And it's done so because that Nintendo doesn't believe that you own the game you buy from it.
and my grandad was a chain smoker yet did not die of lung cancer. the question is do you want to gamble where you will be on that distribution?
Why would there be a single species displaying homophobia. I bet you thats not true.
France is having massive problems operating their reactors and had to shut them down in summer the last few years.

It's also most expensive.
Compare the heat shield in the pic here (before launch): https://x.com/VardaSpace/status/1671621386065027072?s=20

To here (after reentry): https://x.com/VardaSpace/status/1760726397889466792?s=20
Nokia purchase, Longhorn, Vista, Windows Phone
People will claim this isn't possible, or will never work, but they often miss the fact that we don't need to sign every video. Only source videos of certain people need to be signed.

For example, Tom Hanks was used to shill some dental product (I think). He's a public figure. He, and we, would want to be able to validate that anything using his likeness is actually him.

For me, nobody cares if a video of me is me or not, so it doesn't need to have a signature.
The thing is, if GM just made a $30 a month connected car
subscription package to unlock Car Play and 5G assistance
or whatever, I think they’d sell tons of it. People would
complain but I know that I would pay the money in a second
versus trying to pair my phone with a non-Car Play infotainment system

Would you pay it, or just avoid GM?

I really can't imagine significant numbers of people paying for it and I don't know that a 5G bundle makes any sense. I don't understand why anybody would want their car to have it's own 5G connection when they already have their 5G phone in their pocket.

Even my elderly borderline-technophobe parents are able to understand (with some effort) the concept of CarPlay since it's more or less the existing phone interface that they're used to.

Maybe the real killer issue is that on one hand, clearly many people value CarPlay enough to pay for it. But it has always been free, and will continue to be free from quite a few other auto makers, and that's a big obstacle to getting anybody to pay for it. That has historically been difficult for any sort of good or service...
Related musings: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1572260363764400129?lang=en
https://archive.is/dgB7G
You’ve already been called out but I feel like confessing that I thought the “no kids” decision was selfish until I had kids.

For various reasons I won’t bore people with, I now go out of my way to tell young people that they should feel absolutely no obligation to do have kids. Yes, as animals it’s our collective responsibility to bring up the next generation of our species, but that doesn’t mean every individual should, and it’s awful to feel forced into doing so if you aren’t comfortable with the very real risks. And the risks are worse than I ever thought. And I don’t even have it the worst.
I don't think so and I don't see any mention of it being compared to a jet engine.

The article compares it to a sledgehammer, ambulance siren or a gunshot. A gunshot of which is not a continuous sound.

Regardless, it is impressive that a 12mm fish can produce such a loud sound regardless of whether it is continuous and/or throughout our frequency range of hearing.
Remainder goes with division, and respects invariants

Modulus doesn’t. I believe that algebraically equality module N can exist without division
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Falsification of the CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within the Frame of Physics (2009)
Amazon and Google both seem to be speedrunning the usual corporate arc in which companies are founded on innovation, become wildly successful, and then spend decades on a profitable slow decline while they become more and more ossified and bureaucratic, ending in either acquisition or collapse.

I wonder if there's something about them that's caused them to become so awful, so quickly? Or has technology just accelerated both the business cycle and the visibility of their failings?
Because he’s not a hick with a spot light in his beat up pickup, he’s cool to use spotlights? Somehow on a drone it’s fair to chase deer with a spotlight at night?

The reason why they cited him was clear in the article. People didn’t like the law, they’re trying to change it.

It seems lazy to hunt an animal knowing you’ll need electronic assistance to take control of the dead animal.
Any minute now!
Ah the exceptionalism, the trait suits to the privileged ones. Try doing it living with a minimum wage and you have my respect.
Likely the high sodium content in the highly processed cold cuts and sauces balance out the sweetness.
If this dude is running a business, he should act professionally and not break the law even a little bit.
Interestingly, that "rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are", this totally works with Korean too.
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4681964-meghan-mu... for example.
This is a question to ask on /r/LocalLlama on reddit
It was unethical to hunt prior to the cheap availability of drones? How about not killing the animal unless you’re sure you can recover it.
From a game theory perspective, Sundar's approach is actually probably the safest approach. If they didn't add the "over the top" diversity and inclusion filter, Gemini would probably not be given a second chance if the twitter-verse was able to generate anything remotely objectionable as presently the diversity and inclusion crowd has somewhat captured social media, etc. and is quite vocal and experienced w.r.t. canceling people/companies/things.

If Google adds the diversity and inclusion filters and the social media influencers/stock market want it to be less filtered, then Gemini gets to live another day. The Gemini team can go in retro-actively and remove the diversity and inclusion filters and Sundar can write an apology letter.

Then if the Gemini team goes too far in the opposite direction, there is precedence to apologize again as they fine tune it.
It's been a while since relational algebra so I don't feel confident saying "Yes" or "No" (I guess you could say my reply is Null) - but that seems like a really good base approach - especially having a state for being uncertain whether something is nullable or not... having an operator embeded fallback approach also seems to be a lot more usable for the developer.

Also, this is an aside, but is your thing named after Snake Plissken?
Dmitry is right. The vast majority of Googlers lean somewhere between against and apathetic to the DEI nonsense that's infected the company, but no one's willing to be the nail that sticks out and complain about it visibly.

Two anecdotes:

1. memegen had downvotes, and well-known instigators would continuously complain on plus about their shitty polarizing memes getting enormous numbers of downvotes, and get nothing but hugbox replies in the comments. The creator of memegen who was ideologically aligned ended up regretting adding downvotes at all, under the theory that people were conspiring to downvote instead of there being a silent majority of people that disagreed with the memes in question: https://www.mcmillen.dev/blog/20210721-downvotes-considered-...

2. Someone made an anonymous survey about whether people thought the Damore memo stated facts, had sound logic, was a good idea to post, deserved firing, etc. It was taken down shortly after because people didn't like the results and the implication that the majority of people that filled it out didn't think that the post was worthy of being immediately fired, etc.
Then perhaps a method emerges out of this to make training faster (but not inference) - do early training on highly quantized (even ternary) weights, and then swap out the weights for fp16 or something and fine-tune? Might save $$$ in training large models.
Good analysis. I think the strongest point is the ne about the baseline — 60% of people not caring about politics, which the graph doesn’t show.

That triggers the data-vizualization nerd in me. How can this be vizualized?
What a great achievement of our society. Inventing a financial instrument to buy and sell debts.
Me too. I’ve lived in a small town and know how that works. I accidentally shot a deer one time when I was out hunting coyotes but the warden knew me and so I got “taking game out of season” instead of “poaching” - I actually didn’t know there was a difference, but I guess there is. If you call it in and report yourself you get some courtesy.

I did make the local paper, so it was kind funny when all my friends started calling me about why I was listed in the police blotter section of the local gazette.

Good times.
There are cases which aren't ruled as entrapment which a reasonable person would see that way. Like providing weapons to an edgy teenager posting online and then arresting them for terrorism.

This is not one of those cases. This is open-and-shut buying-drugs-from-the-known-drug-dealer not-entrapment.

Whether what he was doing should be illegal is a more interesting question. Entrapment it is not.
The filing said that Bankman-Fried's Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) would make him "uniquely vulnerable" in prison, noting that he "has an exceptional IQ, but difficulty with conventional styles of communication, especially around emotion."

Do lawyers get embarrassed when writing stuff like this? He made no shortage of public appearances. He is also going to most likely serve in a lower security facility.
This introduced an interesting concept

Any ritual that cultivates consistency is useful

So a ritual of saying the day’s name in a cartoon voice

Or burning a blade of grass

If religion is the indicator, the greater the difference from every day life the better

I have actually found that simply making a new choice daily, one that I can’t remember having made before, does wonders for my sense of possibility & curiosity
Thanks for the suggestion; however, this is a video production device which aims for different functionality than the broad one I had in mind.

The simplest useful app would be: watching a movie together with friends, have them type their comments on their phones and display them on my TV, in a lower third. The chat part is trivial but how to get that from a server to the video stream? Maybe there’s a simple way to do it using a device like the Mini Pro but when I search I do t see it.
> We have 100+ build jobs running on Jenkins and most of them have some Testcontainer tests.

That's probably why you can and do use it, Jenkins. Jenkins let's you install w/e on the hosts where as more modern systems default context is a docker container or at least speak it natively.

> Can you specify what issues you had?

Some of my devs have coded tests containers into their ITs. These are the only pipelines we can't containerize, because test containers don't seem to work inside docker, and won't work in k8s either.
> All of the labs that work with ritonavir are contaminated by a more stable form ("polymorph") that rapidly converts any ritonavir crystals into a less-useful form.

The incredible case of the disappearing polymorphs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_polymorphs

It's an actual virulent molecule!
> how we can draw those planes without the iterative training process.

Sounds interesting, but this is the part I would need more explanation on.

Just started reading your linked blog, I see it goes into some details there.
No Audio on Firefox/MacOS either.
The headline is a little surprising since DNA only survives intact for relatively short time but the fragment analysis made it possibleto go back 5000 years was kind of wild to non expert here. Also my immediate reaction was how could this be good genetic thing to pass on but all the matches were children either under one year or died prior to birth.
Australia is not a great example as no matter how cheap wholesale prices are, the consumer still gets destroyed by high electricity prices. It's a scam like most things in Australia.
Man I wish I had the time to read all these novels. Just from the title alone i can tell it’s a science fiction classic.
Hunters without drones.
It sure looks like this might pair well with ternary optical computing advances:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9720446
and then also remove timezones. Why should everyone have a different number to represent their time depending on the sun's position relative to them. I don't mind, for example, waking up at 2:00 and sleeping at 18:00 if these numbers just happen to match my current sleeping routine.
I went back to my county's site, and that definitely would not be possible. I doubt that that would be possible anywhere, because the owner would typically get a single tax bill for the entire parcel-of-record.

Maybe there's a legal mechanism for carving off a piece of a larger property that you've been "openly and notoriously" squatting for the requisite amount of time. If so, you'd pay the tax bill post facto.

But... I don't really know anything, let alone cross-jurisdictionally. Those are educated guesses.
FreeBSD Journal – 2024/01-02 – 10 Years in Publication
It's worse than that; I'm half a mile from a major Obama-era fiber loop with open access rules for any ISP to buy service there. There's no significant ISP selling connections to it. (There's a couple of tiny neighborhood co-ops like the Beckville Network.) Classic last mile cost problems combined with terrible regulation of the monopoly providers like Comcast and AT&T.

We have a pretty robust local WISP. But that's expensive and not great performance. Starlink is really my best option.
The state believes recovery of a deer is part of “search for and locate”.
There is also the Kusto Detective Agency site where you learn by pretending to be a detective investigating leads using the the data. You also get a little certificate at the end. https://detective.kusto.io/
That's very true, I dislike how Apple, etc. don't uncover the manual controls for things. So when the smart tools stop working it gets frustrating because there's no manual way to continue.
It depends on what priors you put on things like planetary size and orbital periods. If your prior is uniform, then it is just as likely for this configuration to exist as any other and because the probability mass is uniformly distributed (e.g. every outcome is equally likely) then there's probably only one of it.
Solar plus battery solves this problem.
And yet support stated that they usually still bill 20% in those cases.
I tried to use SymPy for a similar problem: computing the Jacobian of a complicated integral using quaternion rotations.

Problem was that the symbolic results were way too complicated and the simplify function didn't help much. So, I got back to manual differentiation.
> CO2 production ... African

This is so hypocritical it is breathtaking! Tiny UK alone has, historically, produced more CO2 that all of Africa has done so far!

Furthermore, USA & West perceives themselves to be leaders in technology and innovation. Cleantech was a perfect opportunity to sell world-leading products to the rest of the world, and make bank. Instead we dithered and delayed, missed the opportunity, and now African leaders are making fun of us, "Why do you come to our country only to complain about China? That's all we hear from you!'
A few examples of the difficulties I've had with testcontainers:

- Testcontainers running in a DinD configuration is complex and harder to get right

- Testcontainers needing to network or otherwise talk with other containers not orchestrated by testcontainers

- general flakiness of tests which are harder to debug because of the library abstraction around Docker

In general if anything else in your workflow other than testcontainers also spawns and manages container lifecycle, getting it to work together with testcontainers is basically trying to reconcile two different configuration sets of containers being spawned within Docker. I think the crux of the issue is that testcontainers inverts the control of tooling. Typically containers encapsulate applications, and in this case it's the other way around. Which is not necessarily a bad thing (indeed, I am a huge proponent of using code to control containers like this), but when you introduce a level of "container-ception" by having two different methodologies like this it creates a lot of complexity and subsequent pain.

Compose is much more straightforward in terms of playing well with other stuff and being simple but obviously isn't great for this kind of unit test thing that testcontainers excels at