skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed...I fail to see how macOS is an improvement. I mean, you have /Applications, but you also have /Library, ~/Library, and so on.
For people -- admittedly, like me -- who have a strong knee-jerk reaction to GoboLinux's design the twenty year old "I am not clueless"¹ document contains a fair amount of interesting background and reasoning on the concepts. I don't think I've overcome the reaction entirely, but it isn't so strong anymore ;)

¹ https://gobolinux.org/doc/articles/clueless.html
The choice isn't unit tests vs . end-to-end tests, its between testing things you don't really care about and those you do.

You care about real use cases and verifying design constraints are met. You don't care about internal implementation details.

The nuance is that there are often things one cares about at multiple levels.
This is one of the best thought out UX I've ever seen. It's extremely well laid out and simple to navigate through, all the design choices are very meaningful, UI elements (like the unit conversion) are available inline when you need them...

Not to mention the content itself is great.

I'm taking notes.
It's a pretty limited take on the BoLS dataset. Could do with having some parameters on the graphs.
My long held feeling: A fleet of autonomous busses traveling predetermined inter/intra-city routes. Think, greyhound replacement. They were never going to be operated by humans.
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definitely not the forced medical intervention
I am the author of Msty app mentioned here. So humbled to see an app that is just about a month old that I mostly wrote for my wife and some friends to begin with (who got overwhelmed with everything that was going in LLM world), on the top of your list. Thank you!
This is a refreshingly optimistic take about the current state of fast fashion. For all the lack of quality and waste consumers are still coming out ahead by a huge margin.

Technology and scale made it so that boot story actually comes out in favor of the person buying and replacing cheap boots.
Imho Teslas feel very much like a car that Apple could have designed. Lots of aspects of the whole experience are fundamentally different than other cars. Maybe I'm not thinking radically enough, but then Jony Ive is pursuing other career options, too.
I think there are a couple of pitfalls in looking at healthcare as a free market.

* People often have to make uninformed decisions or have decisions made for them in an emergency. This naturally puts them at an economic disadvantage in the market place. We consider it unfair because it's the sick, injured that are disadvantaged.

* We have strict regulations about ensuring access to health care. People aren't turned away in an emergency. Sick people aren't treated differently for insurance. There are thousands of other regulations we do that shape the 'free' market.

* Food is far from a free market, although it might look that way from the consumer standpoint. The government helps in both ensuring a strong supply with farm bills and giving $114B/yr in SNAP on the consumption side.
> not going to take on Ford or Mazda or Honda.

Very odd, why would you mention these? These brands neither have the brand recognition Apple would strive for nor the scale they are interested in.
Except that this is not a civil war but an old-school war of conquest. If the war ends in a way that doesn't include Russia withdrawing behind the 1991 borders, it goes a long way towards restoring the pre-WW2 world order, where conquest is a legitimate reason to start a war.
The healthcare system in the United States is so hard to navigate. I recently switched to Sedera (https://sedera.com/). They to have much better incentives, better prices and service. We'll see how it goes
Are you suggesting that VLC is also now illegal across EU, in addition to the US ??

https://wiki.videolan.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions/#Is_lib...
It’s like a bicycle for your body
I mean this in the kindest way, but this is sort of run of the mill 5th grade science fair material. It’s like the author interviewed his nephew about his project and passed it off with clickbait as something major in the world. I was a lot more interested in this:

Most recently, the TV show "Mythbusters" took on Archimedes' death ray three times and never managed to make it work. In 2005, an MIT professor ignited a wooden boat with the technique, but a second attempt failed.

https://web.mit.edu/2.009_gallery/www/2005_other/archimedes/...

Edit: the summary was wrong. The first attempt failed and the second succeeded.
> Regular people don't give a crap about that, they want to circle the item (or otherwise identify it) and click "remove." When the computer removes the selected item they're happy, and generative AI is working on THAT type of solution.

This feels dangerously close to a lack of empathy for the user. I understand that's not your intention, in fact the opposite. But in order to accept the notion that users actually want an intelligent employee instead of a tool I have to believe that everyone truly wants to be a manager instead of an individual contributor. I don't believe it.

Take a simpler case, hammering in a nail. What I want from my hammer is for it to disappear and become an extension of my arm. I just want to hammer in the nail. I don't want to negotiate with the hammer about how it's going to strike the nail, all I want is to hit the nail. There's no amount of "clever" the hammer can be which will help. Cleverness can only hurt my user experience.

In your example, what recourse does the user have if the AI didn't do the job the way they wanted? Removing something from an image implies (probably? or maybe not?) that the void is "backfilled" somehow. What if they're not happy with the backfill job? Do they have to argue with the tool about it? Will the tool take their feedback well or will it become a fight?

I think, generally, giving users tools that scale like hammers is the way to go. A hammer in the hands of a skilled carpenter, blacksmith, or cobbler with 30yr experience is no different than the same hammer in the hands of a 2yo child learning to drive their first nail. But that hammer's utility will scale with that child's skill for their entire lifetime. There's no "beginner" vs "advanced" distinction. What makes us (as computer hammer builders) believe that we can distinguish between "beginner" or "advanced" computer hammers? Or "regular" vs "special" users?

EDIT: or maybe we're not building hammers, instead we're building dishwashers. Dishwasher users aren't supposed to be skilled beyond loading and unloading the dishwasher, and hitting the start button. Do "regular users" really want an appliance, or do they want a tool?

EDIT: another way to phrase it -- are computers "bicycles for the mind" or are they just a bus?
Yes, it is, and your snarky response misses the point and misunderstands my comment.

Obviously CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions are what's driving climate change. But climate scientists have been surprised by the recent (like post-pandemic) big spike in heat, especially in the North Atlantic, and they hypothesize that low sulphur shipping rules that went into effect in 2020 reduced the global warming "masking effect" that these aerosols previously had: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-low-sulphur-shippin...
The main historical reason why some root level directories were moved to /usr (which was originally the user directory like today's /home) is that Thompson and Ritchie's first hard disk for the operating system was full. The rest seems to be mostly retcons and backronyms.

source: http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074...
There's a McDonalds near me, where if you go at 2pm on Saturdays, you are going to be waiting in the drive-thru queue for around half an hour.

I'd imagine if they put the prices up by $1 most people would not care. Of course they would lose some customers, but the overall profit for the surge period will be higher.

This optimization is commonly done in SaaS businesses - it's better to serve 10 customers at $100 a month, than 50 at $20 a month.
Microsoft, open platform, what? With all that Trusted Computing and Pluton stuff?
I've never used webgl -- what's its advantage over normal 2d canvas drawing for a project like this?
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The real problem is that "bubble" is a poorly defined word.

We shouldn't use the same word to describe the tulip bubble and the dot com bubble.

The tulip bubble to me is what we really think of as a bubble. A collective mania causing price to go up in a completely irrational way.

If we can agree the valuation of a company should be all future discounted cash flows of a company then it doesn't strike me as irrational for the price of stocks during dot com or today to go through the roof. Valuation is really hard and really uncertain and then all the harder for something new and highly disruptive. The problem with using the word bubble in the tulip bubble sense with AI is there is surely no guarantee the price of NVDA is going to fall sharply from here as if it was a tulip bulb selling for the price of a house.
Is this not just structured logging? I’m wondering whether the author has used tracing tools much, or whether they’re truly trying to understand modern observability through OpenTelemetry documentation.
Hugging Face is very supportive of the open source machine learning community, both in the work they do with the transformers library, as well going above and beyond in developer and community relations to build an all around great product offering and user experience. Microsoft does the opposite of all of those things and has only made GitHub worse and more unstable since acquiring them.
Mostly for things leading up to it; during totality you just kinda look up, and that's it.

The kids won't really notice much until pretty soon before totality, so it's nice to have some activity to occupy them :)

Especially things like pinhole viewers to see the partial eclipse image without glasses.
It’s out of touch because you provided an exception? I don’t think that’s how tropes work.
> A primary hypothesized reason for the literally-off-the-charts heat of the past 15 months or so is that regulations that cleaned up the amount of sunlight-reflecting aerosols in container ship fuel was having the effect of letting more sunlight reach Earth; the idea is that the aerosols had previously been limiting the amount of global warming that would have shown up earlier.

I see this repeated a lot on HN, but it appears to be incorrect. It seems that climate scientists are aware of aerosols and can model them, but 2023 is still a baffling outlier.

> These include continued accumulation of greenhouse gases, the evolution of El Niña and La Niña, and the 11-year solar cycle. It also includes two new factors that emerged during the decade: the 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga volcano and the 2020 phase-out of sulphur in marine fuels. Both of these are estimated to have relatively modest effects at present – less than 0.05C each – but with large scientific uncertainties.

> Similarly, the phase-out of sulphur in marine fuels occurred in 2020. If it had a large climate impact, it would show up in 2021 and 2022 rather than suddenly affecting the record in 2023. While it definitely has had a climate impact – alongside the broader reduction in aerosol emissions over the past three decades – the timing suggests that its likely not the primary driver of 2023 extremes.

https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/2023s-unexpected-and-unexp...
Fabulous, thanks. Great to learn how ASML gets around wavelength and numeric aperture limits - just gotta see a different angle on the problem!
Love this! Just purchased. I am constantly harping on decentralized AI and love seeing power in simplicity.

Are you on Twitter, Threads, Farcast? Would like to tag you when I add you to my decentralized AI threads.
Wait until you find out about how the chocolate gets made.

https://www.slavefreechocolate.org/ethical-chocolate-compani...
Can you please let everyone know where this interview will be available?
I think you might be experiencing a bit of a dunning-kruger effect

Also, in my experience there’s a huge difference between having an intuition for something and having an understanding of something to the point where you could model it.
> What would you even use as currency when everyone has personal money making machines?

Cumals.

You can give everyone as much food as they want (and we already do!), but you can't eliminate scarcity.
There is tons of research if you search for "low sulphur shipping rules", e.g. https://www.eceee.org/all-news/news/analysis-how-low-sulphur...
In DS9, once Jake Sisko gets into writing he's often seen using his PADD with a stylus. It is possible to enter text without the stylus using the controls at the bottom (Bashir enters "GO AWAY" for Dax in one episode when she interrupts him flirting with someone else), but it's apparently cumbersome enough that it's not normally used like that.
You're too focused on specific technicalities that you picked.

If you had a server on a shared medium or a half-duplex connection then DDoS would be exactly the same as shouting over someone. The shouting is aimed at the audience and gets in the way of the server's signal.

Putting the server on a full-duplex connection changes the technical details but it doesn't have any meaningful effect on what happens. The purpose is not to break anything, the purpose is to cause so much extra signal that the server can't get its own signal out. Just like a counter-protest.

The thing being intentionally degraded is the connection. Not the "speaker". Or if it's a higher level DDoS then it's usually the DDoS clients filling the queue. Which is also a pretty normal counter-protest thing, getting in the way and taking up all the close audience space.
Prompt Recovery Competition: Recover LLM prompt used to transform a given text
Some of the best subtitles I've ever seen were on Tom Scott's YouTube channel. They use different colours, indicators for jokes and sarcasm, while also staying relatively close to what's actually been said. They're better than many big-budget movies and TV shows I've seen.

He talked about subtitling at some point, and I was surprised how cheap subtitling services are. I think he went beyond the price he mentioned, but it really made me question why big, profitable YouTube channels aren't spending the small change to do at least native language subtitles that Google can translate, instead of relying on YouTube's terrible algorithm

That said, Whisper seems to generate quite good subtitles that take short pauses for timing into account, but they're obviously neve going to be as good as a human that actually understands the context of what's being said.
Hmmm, from a manufacturing prespective this is probably the safest way too, because you have already scaled production, you arent suddenly trying out all these new manufacturing processes when starship enters production. All your processes have been continuously validated already.
Psychologically primed to do that in a crisis situation due to training + panic in the moment, probably
> Commission Chair Jim O’Connor said he and three Republican ACC members approved the rate plan without knowing the real effect it would have on customers’ bills. Under the new rate hike, O’Connor promised customers will see their bills rise roughly 8%, far outpacing inflation.
You can automate data validation with snapshot tests. I do it this way with a data pipeline and have a function that queries the destination DBs and puts them unto json to be written validated with a snapshot
Teslas are the Alienware of automobiles. Flashy, ostentatious, and aimed at enthusiasts with more money than taste.

Apple would likely have made something that evoked elegance. It would have contrasted with Tesla in the same way a Macbook contrasts with an Alienware.
Very interesting, on Android it's granted by default in both Firefox and Chrome.
It's wrong though. A large, hypothetical scale under the plane would not register the weight of the plane as it flies over. And not just because diffusion but that being one of many reasons.
> AFAIK, one of the things that produces the most CO2, and that we're not doing very much about (or even discussing) just yet, is the production of concrete.

I don't think that's true, I've seen it discussed quite a bit. It's just that there isn't an 'easy' fix, i.e. there isn't a replacement ready to go like there is with electricity production, discounting costs. Same goes for other industrial processes,
> neither did anyone on an away team that needed to take air samples, or scan someone's health.

You're thinking of tricorders[0], GP is talking about PADDs[1]. Tricorders are mostly read-only sensors that need to be pre-configured (with some ability to switch between configurations during use), while PADDs are basically modern tablets with some physical inputs around the screen.

[0] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Tricorder

[1] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Personal_Access_Display...
US enterprise AI search startup Glean raises $200M, plans hiring spree
Your yuzu/ryujinx installation could've become messed up and stopped looking in the right folder but your save files were still there and recoverable, I promise.
Be like Middle-earth...
Sure, I use one system prompt template to make ChatGPT be more concise. Compare these two: https://sharegpt.com/c/fEZKMIy vs https://sharegpt.com/c/S2lyYON

I use similar ones to get ChatGPT to be more thorough or diligent as well. From my limited experience with local models, this type of system prompting is even more important than with ChatGPT 4.
It doesn't look like it's publicly viewable but he has a writeup of his process for patrons at https://www.patreon.com/posts/on-airfoil-99289324
The other problem is that many (most?) people want to decide for others.
What would you like to see here? Could you perhaps open an issue at https://github.com/litestar-org/litestar so we can track and implement this?

If you are just needing a client what you need should be available OOTB, unless you want more hands off.

Here is also a good article for example: https://dev.to/pbaletkeman/secure-python-litestar-site-with-...
Your own source contradicts you.

> Given that there will be a lagged response from the climate to the shift to low-sulphur marine fuel, it is reasonable to expect less than half of the warming resulting from the 2020 regulations to have materialised by 2023, likely only in the hundredths of a degree globally.

> This is unlikely to be sufficient to explain the spike in global sea surface temperature in recent weeks, which is around 0.2C above the prior record for this time of year.
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Freeing rivers can help California ease flood risks and revive ecosystems
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I would argue that API doc text should not be inlined with code at all. It's just noise. It should be in a separate XML file with a minimal schema. Then building the javadoc is just running xsltproc with a javadoc.xslt. Then you also have the option to use your own xslt file to generate pages that integrate with your com / org site (like learn.microsoft.com).
> What about shows set in USA with heroes who are vulnerable to gunfire?

Buffy is more vulnerable to gunfire than the vampires are, but she's not vulnerable in the way that a human would be. She is a supernatural force just like the vampires are.

This is only called out in a few episodes; it seems that the writers would mostly prefer that you forget. But compare e.g. her meeting with Glory in season 5, where the two of them get into a fistfight, and after trading a few punches Glory realizes that a human would have been dead by now.
I've clarified what I mean in a different comment[0]. But to speak to being anti-DRM in particular, I think it's either highly disingenuous or very naïve to argue that all or even anything close to a majority of people who are against DRM simply want to use digital media they've actually bought in any way that they want. It makes no sense to downplay the situation that led to the rise of DRM (and still persists today!) as if IP holders just one day decided to screw over their paying audiences for no reason. It's a lot more straightforward in my opinion to say you just don't care that people pirate games et al and/or that you don't consider it a real harm to an IP holder.

It's not as if anyone ever says or suggests anything to them when their works get pirated other than "it happens, sucks to be you" or even "have you tried pandering to the pirates so maybe a tiny percent of them will buy your work?" - so what then exactly is the point of piracy being illegal?

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39533551
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> Payer profit margins are relatively low and in total only constitute a small fraction of total healthcare spending.

What? The government was forced to make insurers cap their profits at 20%.

Except now that means if they want to make more money, they just raise premiums and negotiated provider payments. Even easier when you're as vertically integrated as UHC.
You know, nobody ever just openly advocates for silencing and suppressing opposing viewpoints. No, there's always a story they hide behind, a moral they put out to justify their actions, they always find a way to do it while portraying themselves as the good guys, that there's a good reason for what they're doing, and it's not bad.

Yeah, you're not for censoring people, you're just for "moderating the loudest people". It definitely isn't censorship that you want to remove the voices of people you disagree with, definitely not censorship, you just want "the loudest voices moderated". Keep telling yourself that.
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Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be coders, Jensen Huang warns
I think you maybe read a little too much optimism into my fascination :-)

I think fast fashion is pretty awful, all around. Clothes are cheaper than ever (great!), but we're also buying more, lower-quality, more wasteful clothes than ever.

(One of the things that fascinates me about this trend is how bimodal the apparel market is: a reasonable but naive assumption is that economies of scale would also lower the cost for clothes made from nicer textiles - especially when manufactured in the same locations - but instead anything that's "nicer" than low-weight cotton gets a quality tax.)
Yuzu is free software, so its source code is already available: https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu
Well Elon did say the "lack of load" that played a part in the last ships crash wont be a problem.
I'm always surprised by periodic stories from my county and local cities blowing huge IT budgets on their web sites due to design and implementation problems. The USA has something like 5,000 cities with over 5,000 people each, and over 3,000 counties. Surely a city or county can find a best-of-show example from all those possibilities that can be cheaply copied or licensed in order to avoid inevitable not-invented-here problems when they instead try to build things themselves?
Really does help to hear this, thank you.
Count your self lucky he is not stealing your packages.
Surely not all would have, but similarly not zero either. I think this is the real implied assumption.
I hear this touted a lot, but I never hear any specific examples. Do you know any?
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