skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue with climate change is exactly that: change. Doesn't matter if it get colder, dryer, wetter, warmer than it used too. It is a huge undertaking to change the built environment to handle conditions that were once seen as exceptional. Houses, streets and waterways are normally replaced/adjusted on the scale of multiple decades or even centuries. Significant climate change is affecting areas everywhere on a single decade timescale. So infrastructure is now outdated much more quickly, and needs to be replaced/upgraded at a higher pace. This if hugely expensive and will lead to more waste and more emissions. And that is just for the built world on which we have a lot of influence. The natural world doesn't always have the ability to adjust; lots of habits are suffering and species are going extinct.
Beware the Lides of March
Weather =|= climate. Or one cold day doesn't make winter. Nor does one hot day make summer.
How do you just buy guaranteed classics. i.e., I want the heinz ketchup of wardrobe items. Consistency. I mean, Levi 501 is an example... but beyond that, everything I wear is so basic but it keeps changing. Even Nike Airforce One's keep changing so much. I just want a black shirt that stays black, black pants that actually fit and don't rip, a black sweater that doesn't pill much, a black jacket that I can beat the hell out of... etc.
"Healthcare can't be a free market" is an assertion rooted in sound logic going back at least to Adam Smith.

Making it more transparent won't change it.
Its 6 degrees in Oslo right now - in February.
It’s possible to come up with many strategies and different companies will. Why are you so sure that Nvidia’s strategy is right for AMD or Intel who need to offer differentiation to get over the CUDA moat?
On the subject of electric cars, I would argue that the _components_ in an electric vehicle are far simpler than those in an internal combustion engine.

From the wheels, working inwards -

1. Brakes are used less because of regenerative braking, so less wear and tear.

2. Brake vacuum is provided by an electric pump, cheap part to replace. If you use an iBooster you eliminate master and slave cylinders - much less complex.

3. You don't need a gearbox of any kind because you don't have to keep the engine RPM in an optimal torque band - it's all constant torque.

4. Therefore no clutch required. Even if you want to keep a gearbox, you don't need one because an electric motor has so little rotating mass that you can clutches shift.

5. The motor is vastly simpler. No combustion, no timing issues, no fuel delivery issues, vastly less wear and tear, less fluids.

6. Vastly less heat generated means simple, easy to repair coolant system.

7. No gas tank, no fuel lines to block or corrode.

8. Battery is a single unit, if you've got a good BMS, cells are protected so you can replace bad cells.

9. Controlling all of these things need not use zillions of wires which are impossible to trace. Either these components work just fine in failover mode (i.e just give them power and they work) or are simple to control with CANBUS. Canbus is scary because it is unfamiliar. It's generally an eminently hackable system, and you just need to route 2 wires from the CANBUS spine to the component. It's actually waaaay simpler than, say, Ethernet.

All in all, I would argue that an electric motor is a vastly better technology to base a _simple, repairable personal transport solution_ on top of. It's just that no EV producer has identified 'repairability' as a market need.

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ah cool I understand what you mean now. Thanks for the explanation!
I had been waiting on that for a couple years since they first talked about it in their blog. Congrats!
But like... why? If you wrote for Mac, you'd also probably follow the news and updates from Apple, which didn't exactly hide the direction they've been pushing things in.

You also _should_ write to a third party folder, preferably `~/Library/Application\ Support`. It's what it's for, after all.
Nintendo goes after Switch emulator yuzu in new lawsuit
Website just gives me "Error establishing a database connection".

(Did he achieve AGI internally?)
I think grandparent’s concerns were not with using Docker in general but instead with how the Testcontainers library orchestrates it. I assume there’s an alternate approach behind the critique, and that’s what I’m interested in.
A door without a lock or sign saying "keep out" is not "effective for all intents and purposes." Further, you can buy a switch and never agree to any EULA or other contracts.
Thus you should hire proper BScs :)
- overwintering pests and diseases
In what ways do so many people who try to teach approach it like it’s 1878?
So, following your logic, as a German I have no right to opposse genocide? Strange logic, to say the least. And using some climate engineering fantasy from a book as a basis for discusion, really?
Not in decades.

Before slow dot matrix printers we used line printers -- print a whole line at a time rather than one character at a time. I remember working as a night computer operator taping the end of one box of paper to the start of the next, then taking a nap while the line printers churned out reports no one would read.
Talk about good timing. The guy was not even doing anything related to LLMs before 2020 and his first relevant publication is in 2021.
By enforcing quality standards?
Thanks!

Well, to make local happen I'd have to learn more about local app development.

I'd also be worried about having to support a bunch of different platforms, and being beholden to ever changing rules made by App Stores and OS makers. I actually work on a 2015 Mac with a 2019 operating system. There are many great looking AI apps that I'd love to run but can't.

Besides, it seems to me that making this centralized makes economic sense. I can just keep the GPU busy with lots of videos from many customers. I'm sure that's what most people think who build something: "The world would be so much better if everyone just came here and used this." :)
This is part of a three-article series that explains transforms. Each article is associated with a hands-on notebook.
Dutch mega-trial exposes brutal gangland underworld
Correlation does not imply causation. There is no inherent reason why a serverless architecture would force a provider to have insane high traffic costs, hence it doesn't make sense to put blame on the term "serverless" for that.

On the other hand, if one could explain such causation, then I would be very interested in hearing about it.
Their, at the time, blog post announcement about Pingora: https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-built-pingora-the-proxy-t...
I mean "inexact results" is essentially float's life motto.

That said, I don't really see why you would necessarily want float and integer division to behave the same. They're completely different types used for completely different things. Pick the one that is appropriate for your use case.

(It seems like abs(a % b) <= abs(b / 2) might be the right choice for floats which is pretty clearly not what you want for integers. I also just learned that integer division // can be applied to floats in Python, but the result is not an integer, for some reason?)
On the other side of the coin: it is often said that the difference between bravery and stupidity is whether you're successful.
> The natural world doesn't always have the ability to adjust; lots of habits are suffering and species are going extinct.

To me this is the much bigger issue than us humans adapting. For us to adapt it demands a lot of labour, and associated costs, it will make life harder but it's doable.

Nature doesn't have this ability, animals can't get together in an assembly and find technological fixes to support them living in their environment when it changes, they either move to another area where they are adapted to (if it exists) or they die.
Bitcoin is currently trading within the range of $57,150–$57,500.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs witnessed remarkable activity, hitting record trading volumes of $3.05 billion.
Bitcoin (BTC) continues its upward trajectory, rallying toward the $58,000 mark amidst heightened demand for spot Bitcoin ETFs. With BTC ETF trading volumes surpassing $3.05 billion for the second consecutive day, the market witnesses significant activity, notably with IBIT setting a new record of $1.32 billion in trading volume.

The Bitcoin price surge has seen it breach key resistance levels, including $57,500, reaching as high as $57,537. Currently, Bitcoin is trading above $57,150, maintaining stability above this crucial level of $57,100. Also, the on-chain indicators point to continued strength, with whale accumulation persisting over the past week.
> At least H&M won't poison you or the environment

The only difference between H&M and Shein is that H&M invests in "green" PR, while SHEIN doesn't (yet).

So some people believe there is a difference in a way both companies conduct business.
It sounds like even then, you'd have to agree to (or read) an EULA to know that this is some magical thing. It is certainly possible to implement something without ever doing either.
Went through this recently.

Spent around 4 hours doing a coding homework, followed by 7 interviews, then ghosted for a few days. Chased, and it was then a "thank you for your time, no ta" email.
To be fair. The whole concept falls apart if you drive there with your car.
Yes, Malaria north of the Alps! And then people about some hypothetical killer virus from the melting arctic.
> From zero to 2 billion valuation in 9 months is impressive.

Assuming it's actually worth $2b, of course.

I'd argue the fact startups are able to compete in just 9 months suggests there is little to no moat here and others will be able to do the same. I'd also argue there's a lot of speculation around the value of these products right now so it's debatable wherever it's actually worth $2b even if there is a moat. Not saying it isn't, but I don't think anyone really has a good sense for the long-term value of these new AI products / companies just yet. The valuation is mostly a result of speculation and AI FOMO.

But regardless of valuation, it's still insane that Google has become so dysfunctional that they're now struggling to compete with tech offerings from 9-month old startups. And this article does a disservice saying "big tech", because this is specifically a Google problem. Meta has had no problems pivoting their focus towards AI, creating a strategy and releasing interesting products and models.

And it's not even just that Google's products are bad, their announcements always feel rushed and clumsy, and their AI strategy seems to be nonexistent. None of this is a result of a lack of talent at Google, it's all down to crappy leadership and bureaucracy.
I really, really think the first poster is expressing a sentiment about the sensory awe from experiencing an eclipse, not about a faulty and extremely literal temperature model.
Another option is Koyeb (disclaimer I work there) - you can deploy 1 managed PostgreSQL database for free.

I also wrote a quick comparison of different PostgreSQL databases with free tiers: https://www.koyeb.com/blog/top-postgresql-database-free-tier...

Will need to drop ElephantSQL from the list :(
Haven't tested, but having it built-in is more convenient, and convenience is why I'm using these tools in the first place (as a replacement for StackOverflow, for example).
> Prolonged caloric deficits often trigger an (irreversible) drop in thermogenesis [1]. In the long term, this adaptation leads to a new energetic equilibrium with a slower metabolic rate, which requires an even greater reduction in calories in order to lose any (more) weight

But this is quite intuitive, isn't it. It's the lasagna paradox: feed a man three lasagna trays a day for his whole life, he will be very fat. But once you start feeding him two, still well over the TDEE of a normal man, he will lose weight until he will plateau again.

If you condition your body to work with 2000Kcal from the 2400 it needs, it will adjust. If you then want to lose more fat once it is adjusted, you have to scale the caloric input even more.

This does not mean that dieting is ineffective. It's just your body adapting to keep you alive.

Besides, from the link:
"Adaptive thermogenesis can make a difference in the ability of obese individuals to lose body weight"

In OBESE individuals.

I often find that weight loss discussion here on HN errs on the irrational side.
Netherlands/Belgium cost at least 15 euros, there are others too but I don't remember the costs.
If by "nice" you mean the usual 20°C most of the time but with regular heat waves of 35-40°C from May to September, sure!
There is math.floor for rounding towards negative infinity, which has the advantage of being crystal clear.
Show HN: Unofficial polling library for OpenAI Threads API
Is the Netherlands becoming a narco-state? (2019)
Yep. It's evidence that "AI" isn't automatically the saviour of Bing's search results, because in this instance it gets a pretty basic Google-able query (that an LLM can handle and be cajoled into handling correctly with enough RHLF) wrong. Google's "AI" results aren't much better at not being regularly wrong tbf.
Windows 11: The February 2024 security update might fail to install
I think the "Quantity" type is a neat idea. I'm wondering how to implement that as a utility type in Typescript.
There is no one label but there are good brands. Only very few in the big picture that care about sustainability other than pure green washing.
Really annoying too. A few years ago Amazon.de was great for buying stuff just not available in the Netherlands (Germany has a much larger market for people doing various crafts at home, and some home improvement products are a lot cheaper there if they are German-made), but it has really slipped. We have Amazon.nl now too, and it sucks just as much with vague listings and it seems to be mostly resellers.
I'll never understand why Microsoft, with all their resources, never made Bing a better search engine.

They don't have to be conservative. It's not their only cash cow. They can experiment.

Instead, they opted to nearly copy Google's UI and leave it at that.

I think they would have done a lot better if they invested in a separate company and gave them freedom + lots of resources, like they did with OpenAI.
>Nor does one hot day make summer.

You're not from the UK.
These devices all sound nice, but always fall short of something. The big something for me is accessibility.
The obvious nitpick with the title is it should probably say "laptops", not "PCs".

This looks like a nice device but the little USB modules still feel like more of a gimmick than anything. Give me twice as many soldered ports in the same space and I won't have to fiddle around with (let alone buy) a bunch of these adapters. Sadly my deal-breaker remains - even on a great big 16" slab we still get the horrible half-height up/down cursor keys.

What I really do like about Framework is the ecosystem that's starting to grow around reusing old parts, that's excellent.
Chinese child labourers have better conditions than the Bengali slaves and indentured servants who produce all my other clothes. I think I'll upgrade to Shein as a moral advantage.
Starlink satellites are in LEO, they're much closer than viasat/hughesnet.
Would be cool of it was possible to use this with rustls. But I assume they didn't use it since i rustls o ly focuses on TLS 1.3 and does not support anything lower.
Wow! This is already very helpful and was the kind of feedback I was looking for. Thank you!
Better resources utilization definitely sounds like cargo cult, riiight.
I think the biggest Cloud horror, probably not serverless, is that we have accepted to pay for inter-AZs traffic just in case the Cloud provider fails. In other words, they charge (and a lot) for a mitigation for the problems they might have.
I have even less respect for Apple after reading that they care who some popstar's first band was.
Totally agree. For a warrior race, the Klingons sure don’t seem to do that much conquering when it would make so much in-world sense for them to be Romans-in-space.

They really seemed to make every race encountered to be a relatively peaceful semi-utopian culture.
In Sweden it was like that, but after some prodding and patting by "market forces" on the politicians it's no longer legal, but the tax is still there.
Will this work on an M1 Mac Book Air? Looking for an offline solution like this but wary of hardware requirements.
Can you use free tier under a fake name? To drop ridiculous bills. How do they validate the customer?
Every single shirt I ever bought lives at the very least as shop rag; but it's kinda hard to upcycle pants material
I'm surprised Alibaba sits that much lower than Shein; and Temu in particular. This includes AliExpress surely?
Java programmer argues for another level of indirection, using XML. More news at noon.
It should be noted that in C89, both behaviors of division and modulo are allowed and it's implementation-defined whether division results are truncated or rounded towards negative infinity. This has changed in C99 which only allows truncation towards zero.
Yes. Though I don't like this solution. It breaks the flow. And it also doesn't really fully solve the problem. Overruns still accumulate if they happen too frequently. One second here, one second there... the further you get into the video, the worse it gets.

I think it would be better to either slow down the underlying video or solve the overrun issue on the translation level. A good professional dubber will find translations that will even out in terms of timing. That's something an AI should be able to do better instead of worse.
> as they would be older at that point.

I don't know about The Netherlands but here in Norway children start learning English as soon as they start school at the age of five or six. But quite likely many of them will have at least some English already because of English language television, computer games, etc.
> “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.”

Right

> It literally just says the federal government can’t interfere with the official state churches, which were called “established churches” (and that the federal government couldn’t establish a church itself).

You are down selecting only half of what the simple statement says. You are making a distinction of “interference” not in the text.

No religious establishment based “interference”, yes that is consistent with the phrase, but less general than the actual phrase which includes no such restriction.

It also is consistent with no establishment based “preference”.

“No law…” is the actual clear, simpler, and more general wording.
The creator of the blog is Andres who is also building coolify[0], a heroku/netflify self-hosted alternative. I wanted to give a shoutout to him and his product. I've been running it for a few months and love it. Really was has been kinda the secret sauce of ease of use for me to start self-hosting things like changedetector, jdownloader, vaultwarden, etc.

It also has a pretty nicely growing community where people are contributing new templates (I added one for Syncthing) and helping each other debug.

The only issue I've had with it is things kinda fall over if you run out of disk space, which happened when I was running on an instance with just 10GB storage. So a little better alerting or prevention around that would be great but otherwise it has been pretty solid.

https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify
The worst thing about HTML as docs is that you have to encode your code. You should just be able to write the code for the programming language you are using directly in the docs. Anything else is just nuts.
Unfortunately, the official documentation is not very good.
KDE Plasma 6.0, and KDE Gear 24.02 released
Unfortunately it's much more limited than an actual "dumb phone" because of some weird choices Apple made. In particular:

1. You can only receive messages from numbers that are in your contact list.

2. You can only send messages and make phone calls to select numbers that are in your contact list, and which have been additionally whitelisted under Assistive Access.

3. The Settings app (which lets you configure the whitelist) is not available.
Yeah, Rust is very complex. But I am lucky that I had several years time to learn Rust, and let me tell you: as long you don't use async, nightly nor unsafe, Rust becomes manageable, at least for me.

This said, I see another big problem of Rust. I think a lot of the complexity stems from Rust does not having a real language for compile-time. I sometimes dream of a scripting language similar to Rust which has as output Rust HIR, wasm or llvm IR. This scripting language implicitly quotes all code and that quoted code gets compiled. But if you don't quote, that code executes and is able to do all the things the Rust compiler does today (monomorphizing, desugaring, effects, state machine generation, etc.). Perhaps Rust wouldn't be as stuck as today, because more people would be able to innovate in creating more well encapsulated compile-time structures. A standard library module would implement generics by monomorphizing, another one module would implement async desugaring, and so on. I also think, this scripting language have simple core primitives and use managed memory. Because it creates tailored intermediate code, in the end we would have a zero-cost native implementation. Of course, to be honest, one downside is that compile-times could be very bad... Just a dream of mine, probably a pipe dream, but whatever, I had fun thinking out loud here.
Depends on your definition of summer: if you apply your expectations from an August holiday in southern France to August in the UK, that is your fault!
On a more serious note, the author is describing a scenario where mocks are generally not useful, ML or not: never mock the code that is under your control if you can help it.

Also, any test that calls out to another "function" (not necessarily a programming language function) is more than a unit test, and is usually considered an "integration" test (it tests that the code that calls out to something else is written properly).

In general, an integration point is sufficiently well covered if the logic for the integration is tested. If you properly apply DI (Dependency Inversion/Injection), replacing external function with a fake/mock/stub implementation allows the integration point to be sufficiently tested, depending on the quality of fake/mock/stub.

If you really want to test unpredictable output (this also applies to eg. performance testing), you want to introduce acceptable range (error deltas), and limit the test to exactly the point that's unpredictable by structuring the code appropriatelly. All the other code and tests should be able to trust that this bit of unpredictable behaviour is tested elsewhere and be able to test different outputs.
Does this use seamless4t or similar projects?
> There is no need to have a battle of science words to debate something which has been understood for a hundred years.

Exactly how I feel. Weight loss is a heated argument here on HN. There's the occasional diet denier, those who apparently gain more weight than calories contained in the food they eat "because of how their bodies work", et cetera. I think that there's no escape from thermodynamics.

Not eating is the simplest thing one can do. Body will still burn fuel to keep you alive and functioning well.
Plus, eat a pizza, ingest 1000Kcal. To run off 1000Kcal, eh...
We believe better software requirements can literally change the world.
As a person who moved to Spain (Barcelona though) from Sweden, I agree. Houses here have basically no insulation what so ever, unless they're built recently. During the summer, it's almost impossible to escape the heat unless you have AC inside. Meanwhile, in Sweden you can usually just enter any house and can be sure that there is at least is a temperature difference compared to outside just because of way better insulation.
Probably LaserDisc would have won, then.