skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1. Firefox's marketshare is completely irrelevant for preventing Chrome's monopoly;

That's why I use Firefox and will continue to do so.

> 2. Activism doesn't work;

Sure it does.

> 3. ...wake me up when Firefox starts blocking some ads in Google's search or on YouTube, out of the box ;-)

ublock origin is a click away. You do it once whenever you get a new machine and you pretty much forget about it.
Apple cancels electric car project
I actually think there is an important difference.

Happy hours are designed to increase demand.

Surge pricing is designed to capture some of the value that high demand loses to limited supply.

I agree with your framing, but 20 hours of happy hour is a tough sell for PR, but worth getting right.

I also disagree with everyone here saying people will just go to an alternative restaurant, when the entire point is that all the drive thru’s are already full during these periods.
I know this type of music writing as "shape note singing" and I've never actually heard it referred to as "sacred harp". There is a tradition of shape note singing in some Quaker circles -- quite a bit different from the Southern Baptists, but probably similar repertoire.
Does DisplayPort support audio?
You can run DP over USB-C. It's a use case they specifically support. However, if you are the cutting edge you will be using the actual DP cords. DP2.1 uses 80Gbit/s and Thunderbolt 3 USB-C is only 40 GBit/s. Once you start pushing high resolutions (at least 4K) and high framrates the entire system will be bottle necked by the cable. Top end displays are always designed to take advantage of the latest DP port, and use the entire bandwidth.

USB4 will push 120GBit/s. This will be enough for 8k 120hz/4k 240hz but not much more. This will probably be enough for high end consumer displays and GPUs for a decade out or so.
> HDMI is not packet-based and so when it uses USB-C it takes over the entire cable (alt-mode)

What does this exactly mean? I have an USB-C 4x1 Hub with HDMI that works at the same time as using 2 x USB-A 3.0, 1 x USB-C. Thanks!
> Quite the contrary, though, I meant to express that yes, diagnostic labels can bring positive results

This makes sense. By saying:

>Why bother?

You were describing how helpful a diagnosis can be.
Just don't give it access to your location. Not like I've widely sampled all of them, but Apple's weather app I do currently use does not require location services. I can simply tell it the zip code I care about knowing the weather for, which may or may not be where I am physically located at the time.
New Zealand fuel stations, nationwide outages, leap year glitch in software
> HDMI is fixed timing and used to be much simpler hardware.

What do you mean by 'fixed timing'? The fact that the transmission data rate is proportional to the pixel clock?

We're talking HDMI 2.1 here, which uses FRL (fixed rate link) and thus has pixel clock decoupled from the pixel clock just like for DP, with data split into packets. There's not a lot of difference between DP and HDMI in terms of functionality and complexity.
Sadly cancelled
This is a much better set of general terms vs the original, which currently is heavily oriented towards LLMs/Gen AI
A quick glance shows that they developed their own Bios to do this, Yuzu specifically requires you to insert a copy of the Switch's firmware, it won't work otherwise.

It seems a bit grey as that would mean it's really the users who broke the law, but at the same time, the piece of software is quite literally useless without it. Even if they had their own absolutely terrible firmware with bad compatibility it'd be an easier defense to me. As is, their code is useless without an illegal-to-add addition.
You are seriously naive, or dishonest. In China, you can’t own land - you lease it. In China, corporations must have a CCP representative. All roads in China leads to the CCP.
Change likely wasn't the right word. Rather, Twitter "enables" him to be the worst version of himself, as you allude to. Point is, he's no longer focused on any big inspiring project and instead spends his days fighting stupid culture wars and posting shitty memes on X.
> the modern civilized world could only emerge —for better or for worse— when Western Europe could free itself from the fetters of medieval scholasticism

I can propose an alternate view of things. Not that I'm going to argue that it is the only true statement in the world, but I think it is necessary for a thought to progress to have an alternative hypothesis.

So the proposition is: formal symbolisms can deal only with those problems that where already solved in imprecise human's languages.

To invent calculus and orbital mechanics you need first to talk for a several centuries (or thousands of years?) about what is position and velocity, you need to talk your way upto acceleration, and then you need to find a way to measure them and to define in a strict geometric terms. Ah, and infinity, it was a very counter-intuitive idea, Xenon invented some of his paradoxes specifically to point at counter-intuitiveness. When Newton came all these talks and debates did the most of work for him.

> the ability to understand the human tongue is insignificant compared to the power of math.

But the fun is: you cannot know if someone understands math if they do not understand human language too. You cannot teach math to those who cannot speak human language.

Math is a cream on top with a limited applicability. What math can say about love? I do not like to sound like Dumbledor, but really behind all we do there is an emotions motivating us. Math cannot deal with emotions, because it was built that way and because non-math talks about emotions hadn't bring a good model for emotions, which math could express in a formalized language.

> Dijkstra says

I wonder when he said it? Before AI concluded that expert-systems based on logic were acknowledged to be a failure or after that?
Thanks, i havent had much luck lately and honestly need something asap
HuggingFace Is Down
It's not langauge-neutral. But I suppose one could imagine zig at the bottom level on the bare metal and other languages being able to call into that zig layer.
Yep, and they're literally worse than Stalin in this regard.

At least he had an appreciation for statistics, and accurate body counts.
It means that your hub uses DisplayPort to talk to the computer and then has a converter chip to convert to HDMI.

Pretty much noone used HDMI Alt Mode on USB-C and is now deprecated IIRC.
The #1 thing that GA brings is the ability to divide by vectors, which makes working many things out on paper dramatically simpler.
Because SQL is a nightmare.
(Standard is in thousands of pages; nobody fully implements it; not actually a single language as usually each db has deviations and extensions; nonmodular, composability is hard - an afterthought)

And the worst part: nothing better exist; single’ish bad language is better than dozens of new shortlived ones that have quirks in various other places.

But somebody needs to be idealist and keep trying.
I’ve read 5 of the books, I’m fine with the adaptation. The books all but make it impossible to have continuity of characters in any real way, which would make for a weird show, IMO. This is fundamentally different than LOTR which does have continuity (and even the hobbit), so I feel like that explains the character smearing (Gaal, Hari, Cletus) and time compression.

The original books are great but honestly the characters aren’t even in the books long enough to really develop them beyond the crises at hand, it’s more like a collection of short stories (and I love short stories, but beyond Black Mirror I can’t think of any other sort of short stories series I like much).
Not true anymore, but it also highly depends on what your definition of "a good one" is.

Many people find Mistral 7B to be excellent, around gpt-3.5 level of good.

Mistral 7B normally requires like 20gb VRAM, but with llama.cpp and quantization, you could even run it on your phone (albeit bad quality).

Quantization >= q4_K_M seem to provide nearly as good responses as the unquantized model, and q4_K_M only needs ~7GB of VRAM.

See the table here:

https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2-GGU...

Using ollama you can get up and running even a bit faster than with llama.cpp directly (ollama uses llama.cpp under the hood).
What's "weird" is i think we were taught in school that July and August were added by the Caesars (with their names), causing the 2 month shift you mention. Now i wonder where that idea came from, after this neat article.
What sort of small business do you run?
How many TV manufacturers actually use DisplayPort?
Wendy's, burned by CEO comment, vows no price surges for burgers
Are there? This seems to be one of those illusion of choice industries where the different brands are only relabeling of the same factory reference designs.
It doesn’t help that the outfits that are profitable have been strip mined by private equity.
Could very well just be about Slootman retiring. He is considered one of the most savvy and aggressive tech ceos out there and is arguably impossible to truly replace.
GPT-x can't add, or subtract, or do anything else of the type... it can APPEAR to do so, because that's what it was built to do.... act like the text it's seen previously and predict what the next text would be.

If you include a large amount of properly solved math in its training text, it gets MUCH better at that kind of math.

It has a very deep set of intelligences that are alien to us, that allow it to predict and ACT LIKE us, when it comes to generating the next word. You're only seeing the output of those intelligences through a very lossy channel.

As a side note, there are structures in human language that apparently encode much more information that you might think at first glance. The fact that Word2Vec had such mathematical properties, despite it's relative simplicity, astound me to this day. Throwing a bunch of sine/cosine values on top of that to represent position in a sentence to enable LLMs is also amazing in that it works.
We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub.
Nice thought, but I recommend learning how to solve algos quickly, over honesty and integrity. The latter are not traits being selected for.
Do you mean that NULL <> NULL and NULL infects boolean logic?

NULL is always an awkward thing to deal with - how you want to handle it depends on the specific thing you're trying to accomplish. I'd probably prefer it if NULL equaled NULL when dealing with where conditions but it actually makes join evaluations a lot cleaner - if NULL equaled NULL then joining on columns with nulls would get really weird.

At the end of the day IS NULL and IS DISTINCT FROM/IS NOT DISTINCT FROM exist so you can handle cases where it'd be weird.
> I'm envisioning a wristband with no screen that is used as a device that passively listens to your conversations

How do you make it reliably listen to your conversations give that you may move your hands around, wear a shirt or jacket covering it, have them below a table, etc?
For tech3 based stuff, maybe try Netradiant (forked from GtkRadiant), or more specifically its fork (!) NetRadiant Custom (https://github.com/Garux/netradiant-custom).
That one introduces some, er, Trenchbroomisms to its workflow, mostly to do with editing straight from the 3d viewport and the texturing tools.

As far as I can tell from using it with tech4, it also appears to have developed quirks with some basic functionality that I don't remember from other GtkRadiant derivatives (although in tech3).
This might be from the incomplete tech4 support inherited from both its parents, or just from NetRadiant, or just new altogether, I have no idea or urge to find out... but still, friendly warning : maybe keep GtkRadiant around and go back and forth just in case.
The challenge is to avoid cribbing from Blade Runner, or modern popular works influenced by it (such as Cyberpunk 2077 - whose original tabletop game Cyberpunk 2020 was in the same wave of '80s cyberpunk). Gibson hadn't yet seen the film when he wrote the book!
I’m sure it’s been done before, but I wouldn’t mind free synopsis, pay small per-article fee for full version.

The tease paragraphs used on every news site always feel “mean” to me in some way. The text fades out, or it cuts off mid-sentence.

If there was a bespoke intro+conclusion that actually communicated something valuable, I would reach for the Apple Pay button to drop 3$ for the added context and analysis.

Could even have a little marker in the full article, a little past the full fat intro: “Single Article subscribers should start reading here”

There’s no easy solutions though, I’m not going to pretend that works, even if I would like that.
Using the drones to track deer seems unfair. Take an extreme example: imagine using several drones with thermal imaging cameras to follow in real time the location of every deer in an area. The hunter then uses their phone to select the largest and best of them to take. The drones sweep in and frighten the target deer in the direction of the hunter, who is waiting beside their truck on a nearby access road.

People say "just having a rifle makes it unfair to the deer," but I think even if you believe that, using drones seems unsporting to the deer, and unfair to other hunters who don't have access to the same resources.
A family friend of mine is in his 70’s and is having hand mobility issues. He bought one to replace his iPad because it allows him to still do all the things he used to do, but with a minimum of hand movement. He’s really happy with it for the past weekish he’s had it.

I bought mine as a toy to go along with my quest headset. I have high hopes for the platforms future. I don’t share that same outlook for the meta quest line.
They got their work cut out for them for the <1nm naming scheme. 900pm?
Possibly, but Slootman had a personal brand from his book Amp it Up that came out recently. The book (which he wrote) obviously painted himself as a transformative executive, which I don't necessarily disbelieve. Personally, I thought the book was good though it advocates a sort of David Goggins-esque "Stay hard" approach to company culture, for better or worse.
I don't know what happened, but this def is not the full story. Surely if the company had known it was squeezing the foundation to death it would have been in its best interest to offer a better deal no? I mean it's not like the company has hundreds of customers, and keeping the foundation alive even with reduced to maintain some income and avoid repetitional damage seems like a no-brainer.
Never underestimate the power of metadata. An expired ID that patterns quite similar to a new ID is quite easy to identify.
I know someone who uses a GPD WIN 3 as their primary computer and really loves it. Seems nice from the little I got to interact with it. I also like how the GPD WIN 4 looks like a giant PSVita lol
Most countries have policies that expressly prohibit competition, or make it unnecessarily expensive.

Suppose the government owned the utility poles or trenches along the roads, paid for them in the same way as they pay for the roads, and access to use them was provided to all comers for free. All you have to do is fill out some basic paperwork and follow some basic rules to make sure you're not cutting someone else's lines etc.

People would install it. You -- an individual -- could go out and put fiber in the trench on your street, wire up the whole street, pool everybody's monthly fee and use it to pay for transit.

The reason people don't do this is that it's illegal, or to do it without it being illegal would require millions of dollars in legal fees and compliance costs and pole access charges.
What on earth are you talking about? We give cost of living increases to every employee every single year.
many other DSLs transformed to SQL. And now we have LLMs that can do it much better way.
> This is part of why DP is $$$ compared to HDMI.

Why is that more expensive?

In terms of complexity, implementing DP vs HDMI 2.1 is not materially different. They both have fixed rate links, packets, Reed-Solomon forward error correction, DSC, etc.

But IIRC DP is royalty free, and HDMI is not.
Thoughts on Cursor.sh as a Neovim User
LOL... "Anyone can make a mistake, but to really screw stuff up requires a computer" :-)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2021/02/01/the-outsi...
If you want big resolutions and big refresh rates. For example I have a 4K screen with 144 Hz refresh rate. That sort of bandwidth can only be delivered right now via HDMI 2.1.

Yes there are DisplayPort standards that can reach that, but in practice all the top end GPUs have only the old DisplayPort 1.4 version. That means the only choices are to use HDMI 2.1 or to use video compression over DisplayPort 1.4.

I will say that VESA has been very successful with their Display Stream Compression (DSC). Not that the algorithm is something special, but in terms of marketing. You never see monitor reviewers talk about the fact that using DSC will give you artifacts. VESA markets this compression as visually lossless, which every non-expert explains as actually lossless. In reality the losslessness is defined in the standard as when all the observers fail to correctly identify the reference image more than 75% of the trials. Beyond that, like with any compression, it will fail at high entropy images. Take for example this 2017 study titled Large Scale Subjective Evaluation of Display Stream Compression [1] which found that performance on some images was not visually lossless, however, those images were challenging images with high entropy.

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[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317425815_Large_Sca...
Out of curiosity, why not fence the vegetables field?
Roald Dahl short stories are very fun, purposefully dark humor in several.
You are correct. Pay attention to the conspicuously lacking feature. Odds are there's industrial collusion to keep it that way.
https://prql-lang.org/book/reference/syntax/s-strings.html
Yes. (Although I'm not sure if it supports bitstreaming formats like Dolby Digital, Atmos and DTS.)
What is the crime being committed when Coinbase allegedly has technical issues.

Coinbase has been investigated for criminal activity. For example,

https://www.dfs.ny.gov/reports_and_publications/press_releas...

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/17222-us-coinbase-to-pay-100-...

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-coinbase-insider...

I think it would be interesting to look at whether Coinbase employees and insiders are able to cash out at these price peaks when millions of customers are not, due to alleged "technical issues".
Not speaking to the content specifically, but no where does that article describe what MDN means. I clicked through a few links and they all only use the acronym.
The Windy privacy policy seems decent.

https://account.windy.com/agreements/windy-privacy-policy
The part that rarely gets mentioned - back then, months were only for the 'active' part of the year. The winter, when everybody stayed home, did not belong to any month at all.
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Google tells me that Romans did celebrate birthdays. I'm curious what they did when they were on the calendar that omitted the days between December and March. Surely some people were born on off calendar days.

Did they just count the days of the off calendar time? Move the celebration to some time in the non-sucky part of the year?
This was idiotic on the CEO’s part, surge pricing is universally loathed by customers, only grudgingly tolerated when done by Uber/Lyft.

OTOH, equating dynamic pricing with surge pricing (which the public does) is not entirely correct: you can dynamically price down, too, eg run time-limited campaigns in the store. This is the killer app of electronic shelf labels that’s currently underutilized.
It sounds like you've taken a deep long journey into the mess here: I'm curious, what does it take to be a member of the club?

I hope it's not just FAANGs and blessed hardware OEMs...but it also sounds likely it must be, you can't let just anyone in if you're worried about the specs leaking...but then again that sounds weird too, in that, they used to provide the spec more openly until 2.1?
You can get devices that "hack" HDMI to various other unprotected signals such as SDI. So you get a Decimator or something, covert HDMI to SDI, and then do the needful.

Now that may not help you, as the devices that do SDI overlays run in the $1k range, but maybe something is out there like a ATEM SDI https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/atemsdi
I got my PPL irl last summer. IMO PilotEdge is fantastic for real pilots/student pilots that want to practice realistic VFR and/or IFR procedures.

But if you want to just "have fun" VATSIM is the way to go, at least for me.

Like PilotEdge I always use with a Cessna 172 and pair the sim up with ForeFlight. I'll expand my planes on it as I expand the planes I fly in real life. But the goal is to mimic real training as close as I can.

VATSIM I will always play with jets and fly IFR.
I am not denying the existence of the legal definition. I am saying that the contrast with the public expectation is because the legal definition is a sort of regulatory capture. You are debating with an irrelevant point that only you brought up.

> If you don't want to go to jail or be fined, don't commit the crime, no matter how convenient or easy it seems to be.

This in particular

> If the only thing stopping you from doing a crime is easy access, and a cop provides you that access, and you commit the crime, you were in the wrong.

If you don't see how this is different from the example above, then I can see you are bringing up irrelevant points.
>Real education involves sweat and hard work, not just consumption.

Anything that fits the above as was stated :)
NATO reporting names use common starting letters for different categories of weapons. For surface-to-surface missiles all begin with the letter S. Most of the names chosen wouldn't raise eyebrows: Sapwood, Sasin, Sibling, Stone... Some of them seem to have an appreciative "cool factor": Skyfall, Saber, Stiletto... But generally there isn't a derogatory theme to these code names. For instance, codenames for fighter jets include Foxhound, Firebird, Fencer, and Felon. Some of these are really cool names that could have been given to western jets by marketting while others seem derogatory. There's not much of a pattern here.
> Your peripheral vision will be better able to alert you to movements at night. You will still be better able to identify objects - and threats - with your focal vision.

In other words, you'll notice potential threats with peripheral vision first, so your eyes should not be darting around to all of the dark places as the heat maps show, unless you have cause due to movement or something. That was my point.
I'm also curious about the potential speed gains in automatic differentiation, as there are way less branches to 'go up'. Or am I wrong here?
Where Did Covid Come From?
Things that AI can't do:
open and read this article.
link #2 appears to be broken.
What a blast from the past. That used to be my favorite game growing up. I wish it would run on modern machines semi-well.
That's great, but have you actually seen those artifacts ever?

(DSC also has a great property of making the image delivery significantly more resilient to cable issues and thus much more reliable for most people using high res monitors.)
Same with Silo. They changed it in unnecessary and outright stupid ways. I‘m on team "book is way better".
It sounds like it might be more about "the market will pay more for the packet-based approach, and we shall charge what the market will bear"