skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way commercially packaged jalapenos are now is closer to no-heat than low heat. You could swap them with chopped bell peppers and most people probably wouldn't notice the difference (and many like my father would still complain that the dish is too spicy.)

Particularly the chopped and canned/jarred jalapenos; I used to buy them for pizzas and chilis but they're just not worth it anymore.
- 1B in donations at 5% APR conservatively invested will yield 50M every year.

- At yearly tuition rate of 59K the earned interest is enough to pay for 850 students without drawing down the invested principal.

- Albert Einstein college of medicine admits about 150 freshmen every year and medical school is 4 years long. So at any given time there are 600 students studying medicine at this school.

It seems to me that simply earned interest on this donation should be enough to allow students to attend this school free of tuition indefinitely.
The Swans of my youth is the reunion Swans, so my perspective is probably warped by that. Swans' catalog has a pretty wide gamut of abrasiveness, for sure.
> I read somewhere that MFC originally was similar in concept,

This is what AFX was. They reused some of the core pieces, so the AFX name persisted into MFC.

> but faced too much resistance internally, thus the outcome and was rewriten.

The concern was that developers who had just ascended the Win16 API learning curve would now have to ascend another totally different learning curve to understand the framework. MFC developed from a (supposedly) nice object oriented framework into a way to avoid explicitly passing handles to API calls. (It also replaced message cracking and a few other things.)

By the time Visual C++ rolled around, Microsoft started adding higher level abstractions to MFC and building it back out a bit, but the underlying damage was done.

> And to this day Microsoft hasn't been able to deliver a C++ framework that is as nice to use as those from Borland.

ATL was supposedly quite nice, as was the mostly unsupported WTL derivative (that supported complete app development).
If you're just making a fermented hot sauce, why not just use serranos? The serrano is basically the consistently hot jalapeno you're looking from; it's just less plump and so less useful as a popper or whatever. And, of course, if you really wanted heat, you'd be using scotch bonnets anyways.
Apple has had "AI chips" in the iOS devices for years already. I wonder what you define as an AI chip, though, since we could be discussing different sorts of custom accelerators.
Royale with cheese
Really, though, the true innovation in brussels sprouts was figuring out that you could roast them with bacon and some maple or balsamic glaze. ("Yes, that would also make the box they came in taste good")
that is what i meant by 'easy enough to see them'
Replying to a peer respondent:

Chile lovers definitely want reliably spicy. Quite a few in my family and friends.
I'll let you fly the plane whose software is written without requirements, updated on the fly, and released without regression testing.
Probably getting too political here but I fully agree. The fact that this is such a remarkable story is a sign of how rare it is.
I wasn’t aware that brussels sprouts had changed (I thought we just learned how to cook them) but sure enough:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/fr...
You were looking for good, well-informed writing on a topic, and went to Reddit? That’s, uh, optimistic.
Well, technically, capsaicin is the end of the reaction.

Some might argue that all carbon acid amids are - as the name says - products of carbon acid reactions with ammonia.

At least in a natural, non synthesized, environment.
Intellectual property itself is a bad concept. Capitalism works for squeezing margins for bulk commodity production (largely on the expence of the worker), but for zero-marginal cost stuff it's a huge hinderance for progress.
Anecdotally, my young children both love brussels sprouts. They're actually one of the very few greens I can get them to consistently eat, other than green beans.
True, elected officials could have bought a stealth jet for that kind of dosh!
Yes, donating stocks does not trigger a taxable event (YMMV, consult your tax attorney, etc). Not sure if it is possible to figure out how to donate pre-tax income (vs pre-tax gains). If you do, please share your knowledge.
This is kind of a big deal, but also not really? UUIDs are not IDs. And IDs are not always indices. This is a common design flaw in many distributed systems.
If anyone else has this problem: https://www.memtest86.com
You’ve got the cause and effect the wrong way around.
all the men ruining the world have tiny dicks!
I understand the concern. What would "hosting it yourself" look like for you?
> Then came the grand promises. Boring unveiled another machine, dubbed Prufrock, and said it could work six times as fast and tunnel a full mile per week. Five people who’ve seen the machine in action say that’s nowhere near how things worked out, particularly with the latest version, Prufrock 2, which dug the Encore tunnel. Although the machine could dig faster in theory, they say, it required more employees to manage it. Including pre-tunneling prep work, it took 18 months to finish the first section of the Loop, totaling 1.7 miles of tunnel, then another year to build the spur connecting the convention center with Resorts World, giving the company a rough speed of 1 mile of tunnel per year.

Lax safety, and they aren't even going fast.
Some examples here of what it can do:

https://sites.google.com/view/genie-2024/home
I like the frozen ones because is means I always have an emergency veg when I am out of fresh stuff.

I microwave the frozen ones and fry in a cast iron till a they are a little burnt on the outside.
That's super weird, right? Because they could just dope the sriracha batches back to whatever level of heat they want. I make fermented hot sauce once a year, and I end up doing that too? And I'm a dummy?

Are we sure this isn't just a market shift thing? Like: maybe they lost some heat unintentionally or unknowingly, but then sales went up?
Mary Poppins film age rating raised over 'discriminatory language'
Mistral just doesn't seem like an interesting company to me any more.

They started off as the kind of people who released their models as magnet links and made them actually user-aligned instead of California-aligned. This is what I like to see from an AI company. Now, their models are no different from Open AI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and everybody else.
Each of these chiles have very different flavors friend. Serranos and jalapeños are much closer than habaneros but still cleanly separated by bitterness, brightness and acridity.

Eg a grandmother’s salsa ranchera with jalapeño only is a much sweeter affair than when supplemented with serranos, and equally much less fruity than when pequins are used.
Hi, this is my article. I think it's silly that newspapers dress up ordinary criticisms and disagreements with this overly dramatic, violent language, so I started compiling them and the list just goes on and on and on. It's kind of an art piece critiquing headline trends.

In my head I imagine all these spokespeople bodyslamming each other at every opportunity. Now that would be news!

Thanks for finding my page interesting enough to post and let me know if you have any questions.
Yes, what is the normal way to unit test stored procedures? Dev teams used to Node, Python, Ruby or whatever language have tools that work with ORMs to setup a test database, run tests and zero it. I did wrote some stored procedures in a Rails migration many years ago but that's not the place where one would normally write code. Furthermore there will be many migrations like that, almost one for every change to the stored procedure. The problem is in the frameworks, that are not designed for that. So, what's the recommended way to handle them?
What's with the "⏎"?
We also generally know how to prepare them better. Most people these days recommend and prefer them roasted and caramelized, and that is a world of difference from the boiled to death sprouts of yore.
I used to work at Bloomberg. They do use plenty of open-source software, but they also open-source some of their own work, and they do support other projects, e.g. sqlite.
It's enough not only for that, but to gradually expand the number of students they can afford to admit tuition-free into the future (strictly on interest), as well, should the desire to do so ever arise.
What a wild affliction! (no sarcasm)

We've rescued and live with four cats also, and a feral ancestry dog, and I've worked with hundreds of feral or stray cats with others with no obvious problems.

I believe what you describe and it makes me wonder, you may have just had horrendously bad luck.
What an approach.

It is very simple math

If the savings on hw/compute are greater than cost of adjustments, then it is probably worth it.

So, if you prefer to avoid spending e.g 1 month on adjusting and testing just to keep using e.g 1.x more expensive hw, then it is your loss in long run
You can see this as an endgame of 'commoditize your complement' (https://gwern.net/complement): you're happy to contribute to commodification while you are the small scrappy player, but at some point, if you are really successful, you will want to pull up the ladder after yourself, as it were.
I feel like this can be trivially worked around by fine tuning from the initially copyrighted weights. They’re not demanding copyright, they’re just keeping them secret. If Meta keeps releasing high quality open source models, I don’t expect the closed source models to have an advantage for long.
Model developments have become seriously capital intensive endeavors. Probably Mistral found themselves cornered by this commitment and they won't be able to secure any serious investments without changing this stance, MSFT in this case.
Interesting! Does anyone know how this affected their application numbers, selectivity, or ranking?

> We award Full-Tuition Scholarships to all current students and future matriculated students, regardless of merit or financial need, that cover the majority of the cost of attendance, provided each student maintains satisfactory academic progress in accordance with NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s Satisfactory Academic Progress Policy

I wonder what it means to cover a "majority" of the cost of attendance. Does this mean they cover tuition, but living expenses (which are not trivial in NYC, but which are less than tuition) are not covered? Or are they just referring to their own fees?
They taste better roasted now, though, because they have fewer bitter compounds.
Be sure to check out Spanish Padrón peppers, if you haven't already. They're often served fried in olive oil and salted (see photo in Wikipedia article), as a very popular tapas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padr%C3%B3n_pepper
That is too simple. There is a whole academic discipline that makes such serious arguments -- or rather couple of them like the different kinds of literary studies, philologies and philosophical hermeneutics. Not to speak of all sorts of publications, tv talks and other places where people make serious arguments about based on their different perspectives. Tens of thousands of people make a living from that and a lot more study or follow it.
The 7840U is the same die as the 7940HS. AMD only did two mobile processor dies this generation; Phoenix 2 is in the Z1 and the larger Phoenix is in the Z1 Extreme, 7840U and 7940HS, among others. So they're doing a lot of product differentiation solely through adjusting power and clock limits, which is confounded by the leeway OEMs have to further adjust those limits.
What makes it "much more obvious that it is possible" to simulate the human brain? If you're thinking of artificial neural nets, those clearly have nothing to do with human intelligence, which was very obviously not learned by training on millions of examples of human intelligence; that would have been a complete non-starter. But that's all that artificial neural nets can do, learn from examples of the outputs of human intelligence.

It is just as clear that there is one more ability that human brains have, than the ability to learn from observations, and that's the ability to reason from what is already known, without training on any more observations. That is how we can deal with novel situations that we have never experienced before. Without this ability, a system is forever doomed to be trapped in the proximal consequences of what it has observed.

And it is just as clear that neural nets are completely incapable of doing anything remotely like reasoning, much as the people in the neural nets community keep trying, and trying. The branch of AI that Lighthill almost dealt a lethal blow to (his idiotic report brought about the first AI winter), the branch of AI inaugurated and championed by McCarthy, Michie, Simon and Newell, Shannon, and others, is thankfully still going and still studying the subject of reasoning- and making plenty of progress, while flying under the hype.
Loan forgiveness like other tax incentives merely distort the market. Just pay the doctors what it costs to get them there, we are probably over paying by giving loan forgiveness.
My wife is a physician, and of the friends we made when she was in medical school, only one went to serve underserved populations. A big part of the reason he did so was because they would pay off his loans!

So maybe this will actually lose an effective lever at getting doctors to serve those populations?
In many PDs, "most" is debatable. Do a quick experiment: in how many cases of police misconduct did the other cops in the PD with together to remove a miscreant among them, compared with the cases of cover-up, collusion, delay, denial, etc.? Do a search. What's the prevalent case?
The economic prospects are grim. Couple that with creating a world where humanity is both at the whim of these tuning systems, and fundamentally unable to observe and learn about this golem, where IP keeps it as magic in our world: it feels like the most infernal of machines.
Please test: FreeBSD 13.3-RC1
You don't have a camera phone, then?
Competition is for losers.
Honestly this is a really great start for a federal project! Yeah, it's not going to beat FreeTaxUSA or TurboTax on year one; the goal is to beat them on year five, and I'm okay with that!
> if you have an open source project, why do you need a TLD? Why is that special?

It's not really a matter of whether it's a TLD, though that makes more sense in this context because putting it under some existing TLD like .org would imply to most people that it isn't a separate namespace. And you can see how forcing their names to be of the form myboard.chan.example.horses is putting the alternative at an unnecessary disadvantage vs. just myboard.chan or even myboard.chan.nic when neither .chan nor .nic are existing ICANN top level domains.

You also want it to be designated as a separate namespace, because it is. That makes the stakes much higher than they are for an individual domain name so it shouldn't be possible to lose it in a divorce or to a stickup artist if someone fails to renew it etc.

> That's exactly the point I was making: the goal is to get the cheap way out trying to register part of an existing landscape rather than inventing a new universe. If the new universe is that much better, then everyone will want to deploy it anyway.

Of course they don't want to invent a new universe. Who is going to use a web browser that can only resolve names in a new namespace and can't resolve youtube.com or wordpress.org? And why would someone want that, instead of being able to do both?

To provide a practical example, Tor Browser can resolve both .onion sites and ordinary web pages. Then the .onion sites can link to ordinary ones -- or vice versa, if the ordinary site is inclined to provide a link that only works in Tor Browser.

An upstream nameserver couldn't do that because it onion sites don't have an IP address to put in the response for an ordinary browser, but Namecoin sites do. Which is why there isn't a separate "Namecoin Browser" -- you don't need one.

> As the web browser market will tell you, their applications (the only ones that most people care about these days [not me, mind you]) update ever 3 months. Getting them on board with a new universe should be trivial!

I detect that you're deploying sarcasm because you know that is non-trivial. But then I'm not sure what your point is supposed to be. Are you insisting that people do the thing you know makes their endeavor more likely to fail?

> Green-slate designs are often much cleaner and better when people aren't trying to do a mix of revolutionary and evolutionary approaches.

This seems like telling someone who wants to make electric cars that they're wrong to want them to work on the same roads as gasoline cars.
You have interesting articles. You might want to set up an RSS feed for your 'writing' page, because I definitely want to keep updated on new posts.
Very us focused, why would you pay for university if you qualify? What else could be more in your country's interest?
> However, this did not lead to a victory for Zeidenberg, because the circuit court held that copyright law does not preempt contract law. Since ProCD had made the investments in its business and its specific SelectPhone product, it could require customers to agree to its terms on how to use the product, including a prohibition on copying the information therein regardless of copyright protections.

Specifically this part:

“it could require customers to agree to its terms on how to use the product”.

Since Ubisoft invested money into developing a game they can legally say in their license “at some point you won’t be able to use this software”, which basically translates to “you don’t own software”.
Polyfill.io sold to a Chinese company
I know an artist who is an expert of mixing colors and lightning. He spend his whole life mixing colors. In the past decades he created several color palettes to be use inside and/or outside buildings [1]. In 2013 and 2014 he created 21 works (consisting of pairs of paintings) that contain color palettes experimenting with variations of brightness and saturation of six evenly passed colors [2]. In 2020/2021, he created eight works with color palettes existing of twelve even passed colors with the same brightness and saturation (by daylight) [3].

He complains a lot about lightning in museums, that it deviates a lot from daylight, while many works of art are create by daylight. The light is often too yellow, based on some 'dubious' research that museum visitors prefer yellow light. LED lightning often causes mixtures of pigments that look the same under daylight to look different under LED lightning. LED lightning often is rather weak in the infra-red to red part of the spectrum cause most reds in painting to fade. He found a combination of a reddish and a blue TL-lamps supporting to LED lights to give a better approximation of daylight. When this was applied to some museum rooms, the son of a man who donated a work, asked what they did with it work as it looked again like how it looked at their home when it was hung close to the windows. (Shortly after this the museum director decided to use only LED lightning for the new wing that was going to be build.)

The problem of course is that we are so used to adapt our color vision to the lightning that most people do not see the difference. I guess that people who mix colors all the time, develop some kind of absolute color vision and do notice the effect of improper lightning on art works.

[1] https://www.pstruycken.nl/EnDyn.html?Li,tag=q&w

[2] https://www.pstruycken.nl/EnS14.html

[3] https://www.pstruycken.nl/EnS20.html
> Because our elected officials have been shown to be fantastic stewards of our money?

Compared to the billionaires who currently steward our money? Absolutely. For example, I just flushed a toilet and I'll never have to think about that shit again, except perhaps to marvel at how it may one day fertilize shade trees in my city.
> as long as you're fine with some of the tentacles of Gnome

Ah, herein lies the hangup. GNOME is fine on its own but I find its tentacles incredibly annoying when they make their way into i3. Maybe I just need to learn how to make my own Ubuntu fork and shove my setup into that.
A far better experience than the crappy archive links
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39511530
Why would you even want the body of a teenager? Seems like the late twenties through mid-thirties would be optimal.
https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc506

https://www.irs.gov/instructions/i1040sca (Control-F "Gifts to Charity")
also manage.py shell_plus --print-sql will print the sql after each command you enter

you can also print qs.query, qs.explain("analyze"), etc etc
>If you had 8 minute warning for an earthquake, what could you do

That's not how it works. There may be detectable precursors that could actually give warning, but the 8 minutes referenced is the time it takes light from the sun to reach earth. It's immediate in the sense that it is physically impossible to detect that before those 8 minutes have already elapsed and the light is hitting your detectors. You could try to move your detectors closer to the sun to detect earlier, but any signal you can possibly send back to earth goes at the same speed, so it doesn't help.
The FreeBSD 13.3-RC1 announcement is at https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2024-Febru... but I'd like to get people to test a couple specific things, hence the blog post. Hopefully dang is ok with this and won't change the link to the "original source".
It's basically true for every profession. We even have a word for it, we call it wise. They built up an experience that they rely on during decision making and produce good results. Changing that is hard.
That argument doesn't really work in a world where you don't really see anyone except other private interests spending money in more agreeable ways.
I agree with your first two paragraphs, but not with your last, coming from a country where college tuition is free.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39517016
appreciate it! thanks!
Pretty sure he still does that. Unless ChatGPT can now test and deploy a website as well as generate text.
What if the parent are rich but won't fund their children's education? I guess they are SOL?
AI is the new multimedia (yes I'm old, I remember it was all the hype in the 90ies) - the word already lost any meaning for consumer products anyway.

Personally I'm a little scared because it will probably end with proprietary closed source implementations in hardware and software that relentlessly send all of my interactions via internet to the vendor anyway.

On the other hand hopefully someone manages to exploit the hardware.

Having fast matrix multiplication available would be great but I guess nobody will bother.
> ... what Ershad did in Bangladesh: he changed the constitution from its original meaning, without going through the proper means for amending the constitution.

Tangential: Seems analogous to changing code without changing the documentation — if the change makes things run better, well ....

(And saying, "you're never, ever allowed to change the code unless you change the documentation first" seems to have priorities backwards.)
Octopus Deploy Acquires Codefresh
Meta actually releases the weights though (for now)
MSFT just doesn't say the quiet part out loud these days
Thanks! Here's the link, it's at the bottom of the article list but I suppose it doesn't stand out well enough.

https://voussoir.net/writing/writing.atom
Could you expand more on what you mean by "California-aligned" (especially if you are thinking beyond AI models, though that alone could be interesting).