skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't mean the current laws are not contributing to a problem that is prolonging a war that kills people and has a very nasty environmental impact.

Winning wars fast is good environmental policy.

Just because environmental laws made aid to ensure humans to poison our planet, doesn't meant the current policy is perfect, effective, or the best policy possible.
I'd think a world War needs to be hot, not proxy.
In the midst of rapid technological progress, encompassing breakthroughs in AI, chips/semiconductors, alongside the unsettling surge in global geopolitical tensions and the transformative impact of certain social media, particularly affecting Gen Z & Alpha, I find myself constantly pondering the trajectory of our future. The relentless pace of change prompts me to question what life may entail in the next 10, 40 years, or even beyond 2010.

Personally, I am inclined to think that as time unfolds, the complexities of forecasting the distant future intensify. Just a month ago, the notion of individuals donning AR/VR headsets while walking down the streets seemed far-fetched. However, with the release of the Vision Pro and folks using it in public places as it was a phone, I realized I would not be able to predict much in the coming future and just live the moment and hoping the best for humanity.
I use ChatGPT 4 daily (usually one of my custom GPTs). 3.5 is next to useless on anything I'm reaching to ChatGPT for.

For pipeline / LLM project stuff- sometimes I can use 3.5, but again most interesting things I take on requires 4. 3.5 is so unreliable, is terrible at detailed / specific prompts.

Fine tuning 3.5 helps massively though. Especially for things like using it as a general classifier.
> It's surprising that there are no PC fan controllers that would use some variant of PID control with a temperature target.

They actually exist (such as ARCTIC F12 TC) but not very common. Separate controllers such as Adafruit EMC2101 are also available.
Bugs I've filed on browsers
Hi! Note that this thread is about Windows, which definitely doesn't use Coretext. ;)

If anyone actually has an XP machine handy, I really am curious whether colored emojis work in Supermium. If they do, I would assume Chromium (or at least Supermium) isn't using the OS font renderer.

And I'd honestly be pretty surprised if emojis didn't work. Passing web fonts off to be handled by the OS (in anything above the most trivial way) just doesn't seem to fit how Chromium does things, for the security reasons we are discussing if nothing else.
Are you saying that most light olive oil isn't olive oil?

I guess it's possible, but there's profit without doing that too. All the research I've heard (eg 80% fake) is for EVOO. I guess it could be like the subway fake tunafish scandal (debunked?)*. You can get a lot more oil out of olives after the first press, but you don't get the flavor or smell, and it's certainly a lot cheaper to make

Seems like there's more money in suing a reputable producer for an allergic reaction than cutting $5-10/liter extra light olive oil with $3-5/liter corn/soy/peanut/canola. That's gonna kill somebody!

*
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/judge-in-subway-cas...
I bought an A1000 when it came out. I then became good friends with the original team in Los Gatos, CA as we worked through pushing it into new places. My "day job" was a Sun, and my Amiga could do more than my Sun 3/50 could and cost a lot less.

One of the under appreciated challenges was that as amazing as the silicon was, it really couldn't run at a high enough frequency to give you both acceleration AND a 640 x 480 non-interlaced display. That lead to workarounds like the "flicker fixer" because in the US at least, often the 60Hz interlace of the display and the 60Hz power line frequency "modulating" fluorescent lights meant you got some rather annoying "beat frequencies" on your screen. I had a long persistence monitor but it was an artifact from a different age and not generally available. (also kinda lame for animations because smearing).

I always lamented that Commodore was set up as a giant tax dodge rather than a computer company. And I got frustrated when Jean-Louis Gasse would announce some new "revolutionary" feature of Macintosh that the Amiga already had.

It definitely would have been different had Commodore been a "real" computer company. I tried to get Sun to buy them but alas, by the time that was possible Sun was already running away from the desktop workstation into the server room where they hoped to make a stand against Windows NT.
Surrealism Is 100
> Another observation is that we've abstracted away the robot-ish nature of a lot of these machines.

In some ways, this is also limited by the format. It would have been easy for people back then to illustrate a Roomba or a modern sound setup (instead of the old-school speakers), but it would have been a pretty boring picture and confusing to people at the time, without additional explanation at least. The way these scenes are drawn, it's immediately obvious what has changed.
Interesting article. I think (to take it perhaps too seriously) the butterfly used in designs of cushions, earrings, etc. is more a cultural icon than it is an attempt at accurate biological description — it's something analogous to ♡ vs. a realistic depiction of an actual heart.

For whatever reason, we've come to think of butterflies as looking the way they do in insect collections, and I don't think even knowledge of what the dead and alive specimens look like would make me want to draw it any other way. A 'dead' one just looks more butterflyish!

I also have a feeling that it has something to do with the (more cultural than biological) distinction between moths and butterflies. For some reason, the latter are considered examples of exquisite beauty and the former usually an ugly (even fear-inducing) nuisance. Drawing butterflies in the classic 'butterfly' shape is a way to make this difference clearer — even if it's entirely inaccurate.
I wish we didn’t have to stain those beautiful illustrations with a giant watermark.
I’m pretty sure replugging ps/2 didn’t ever crash the system for me. Anything com-port related or vga didn’t either.

Now hotplugging pci wasn’t the best idea, but it’s on the inside of the machine, so you naturally power it off.
Ok I thought they were created around 1920 when skyscrapers started in NYC. Maybe that is wrong too. My apologies.
I appreciate how the author brought up scripta continua as a response to those who dismiss listening to audiobooks as not reading. If you're not struggling to parse out the words like the ancient greeks and romans did, are you really doing all the work that could be done and getting the full experience?

I "read" a lot of non-fiction via audiobooks. Sure, it's not the same thing as visually parsing a line of poetry and figuring out how to say it, and then how to say it again with a totally different meaning. That's not the point of most non-fiction. You're learning about stuff. You are being informed. To "listen" to an entire book on a subject you're interested in, to learn many things about it, and then claim you "haven't read the book" is nonsense.

I would agree that, sometimes, you can tune boring passages out, but you can do that when reading a dead-tree book too. How many students have stayed up late, reading their course textbooks only to re-read the same page again and again because their mind is past its ability to absorb? Just as realizing you've tuned out and turning back a couple pages is a thing with books, so too is hitting the rewind button with an audiobook. Just as sometimes you have to put a dead-tree book down and think for a moment, so to does it pay dividends to hit pause on your audiobook.

I'd argue that there's a bigger difference between being an active vs passive listener/reader than there is between listening and reading.

The one thing I would concede is that there is some information audio just isn't up to conveying. Any book that is heavy on pictures, diagrams, or equations is not going to be possible to convey via pure audio.
in spanish i've adopted the portmanteau word muertiposa for this phenomenon, from muerto/muerta 'dead' and mariposa 'butterfly'. if you're gothy you might prefer that the butterflies embroidered on your backpack be dead

the underground high school newspaper i wrote for was called 'the crucified butterfly'
It's possible to make ice in the desert with this effect. Not too hard to believe.
He did try a basic control with his first version: “i got ice consistently over several nights, even though there was no frost on the ground, and pots of water sitting next to the box cooker did not freeze.”
That sounds like a job ai would actually be good at
That depends on how fancy the IR thermometer is.

A simpler thermometer may have a single IR receiver. In that case its output can be far from truth without an emissivity calibration.

Better IR thermometers have 2 or more IR receivers for different wavelengths and they compute the temperature based on the ratios between them.

In this case the measured temperature no longer depends on the value of the emissivity, but only on the deviation from the behavior of a gray body. With an increased number of IR wavelengths that are measured, it becomes less likely that a calibration could change the results, but cheap thermometers are unlikely to use such a sophisticated method.
Units, dammit!
How about cheap drone ships (with suitable propulsion) just shouldering DDGs?
Aaaaand now I have a new pet peeve to put next to Flag Code, driving norms, and the Oxford comma.
Do you have inside info?

Today I pay less than the sticker price every time I use one of the offers from these places (hint the offers are always available). I can’t remember the last time I bought a full priced menu item.

And look at McDonalds, you pay an extra $1-2 per menu item when ordering deliver vs pickup. Dynamic pricing.
I really just wanted to comment on what a nice bit of fun our chat was!

Unfortunately, I was not able to improve on this idea myself and I found that intriguing given it's surprising interest.

Take care.
Thank you all, yes it makes sense to use this as the cost is great for say 3 months worth of tinkering.
Yeah most of what I do is in SLS, I don't really know what the nuances to how the sintered metal powder ones behave vs polyamide etc.

One of the bits SLS can struggle with is long plane or ribbon-like objects. And then as you get thin enough, the surface finish starts being a non-trivial % of the overall thickness in that area. Just was curious how sensitive the strength is to uncertainty, and as a second part of the overall structure aids it by making ribs to mitigate any weirdness in the flat bit.
Both of those are deceptive comparisons: that page will tell you that China has had 90 fatalities in total since 2010 whereas despite being a third the size we have had 13,500 mass shooting deaths. Similarly, while the Bath bombing killed about a third more people than the deadliest school shooting (only ⅔ of the deadliest mass shooting) the difference is that you had to go back a century for that example whereas the shooting toll for any recent decade is higher.

The common factor is easy access to firearms. Every country has mentally ill people, every country has embittered people who are mad at the world, but only the United States has removed the restrictions on gun access which allow those people to engage in mass shootings. That started in the late 1970s and the contrast with our peers is staggering: Australia has many cultural similarities but they actually value life and tightened their gun control laws after the Port Arthur shooting, while we’ve loosened ours and have hundreds of thousands of more deaths.
One of my favourite data structures is sorting the strings lexicographically. It allows prefix search via binary search, it is memory efficient like nothing else, and 100% of the times faster than a Trie in practice. Also, who wants to limit their APIs to searching through a dictionary only by prefix, anyways?
I made a program for all your Unix admin needs:

https://github.com/skorokithakis/sysaidmin
Pride is a powerful force.
Humans have been using this technique (radiating heat into the cold of space) to freeze water in hot places, for a very long time.

https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2018/07/09/how_people_...
is the war still proxy, if the participants send machines (drones, tanks, missile systems) to the battlefields on each side instead of humans? Maybe this is the first post-human world war
> But if what you say is actually true

You can google it if you want. It's all public info.

Isaacson also wrote a book on Musk and there's a chapter about this pay package and how absurd it was.
Yet, Apple.
Lots of theories have been thrown out and replaced completely although no big ones recently. Will the explanation of dark matter require refinement or replacement - most are looking for some new particle or maybe some new wrinkle about gravity but maybe it will require a revolution.
Hey, that's cool. Here's my game- not inspired by Adrian's work (though I contacted him to ask him about a tt-rpg of his own called Bugworld and on which Shadows of the Apt was based). But it's about insects:

https://github.com/stassa/nests-and-insects

Haven't worked on that for a while though.
Sorry, yes, that is the better definition.
Unix Beards
> Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Hamas, Houthi

China is the odd man out in this list. China is emphatically not a friend of Russia. Official CCP policy is that Russia stole Outer Manchuria from China in the aftermath of the Opium Wars of the 1850s. Russia is in fact the only country that still holds on to territory gained from the Qing via the Unequal Treaties.

If China ever arms enough to attempt to retake Taiwan (which is highly plausible before the end of the decade; 2027 is the current aim), Outer Manchuria--including Vladivostok, Russia's most strategically important port--will be the next target.

In the meantime, China is happy to hold Putin over the barrel and wring out Russian exports for bargain-bin prices. Russia is already a Chinese client state, even if it doesn't know it yet.
I’ll gate keep a step further. Only writing the book counts. Everyone reading is only getting a fraction of the value. /s
A time limit identifies knowledge, rather than 'smarts':

An individual who has "mastered the material" can answer quickly irrespective of their smarts: they learnt both the fundamental concepts and the derivatives in preparation for the test, and can commence answering the question immediately from the derivatives.

An individual who has not "mastered the material", but is smart, can start with the fundamentals, work out the derivatives, then commence answering the question: but only given enough time.

So tests which include a time element are, or should be, knowledge tests, and not an intelligence, or 'ability to answer the question', test.
Building an infinite crafting game using LLMs and DALL-E
Logging in, I have to type the 2FA code that is emailed to me because someone thought it would be a good idea to use type="number" instead of type="text". Thanks to browsers being the way they are, this means you can't copy/paste the number from an email, into the field. That says to me that people aren't actually giving you the feedback that you might need, or that you don't care enough to fix small UX issues.

When I see the home screen, I am presented with 3 friends with pro accounts, who have been using your service for years. Some as long as I have. F1: last upload 2011, F2: last upload Oct 2023, F3: 2021. What this says to me is that people are paying for storage and are not actively using the site. The non-paying friends are 1-5 years ago. Those aren't customers, those are people who fell into the trap of paying for something because it was a lower bar than migrating somewhere else.

Of course what I see is different than what you see, that's why I think our perspectives are so different.
You could just give people a pin code. System could be set up so common spelling variations don't matter.

Jon Smith 03/04/1973 Pin 349

Same as Jonathan Smith 03/04/1973 Pin 349

Same as Johnny Smith 03/04/1973 Pin 349

However

Jonathan Smith 03/04/1973 Pin 139

Is a different person.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R211_(New_York_City_Subway_car...

The R211's are finally in service. Thank god these workers don't have to deal with R44s and R46s
It's interesting that he skips over any fancy css tricks to get headers and footers and goes straight to generating from js. One advantage of this is that you can add page numbers and such to each header, which is totally impossible with css hacks. But if you're fine going without that, it seems like there are methods that produce mostly acceptable results with less effort than the javascript solution he proposes.
True, but in my experience the overhead of std::shared_mutex outweighs the benefits. Other approaches include:

* breaking up the lock so different threads can access different parts of your data structure concurrently.

* double-buffering (also called ping-pong buffers) where you effectively keep two copies of your data structure. The readers can access one without blocking, a single writer can modify the other and then swap.

* just accepting that reads will block each other with a std::mutex and work on minimizing the amount of time spent in the lock. This can actually work out quicker depending on your access patterns.

As always, careful profiling with real data is required to figure out what is better.
Lots of people die by the blade in 2024

The US is not a good representation of the world.

"Trained militia", you mean every random citizens and its family (the guns are kept are home) ? Then yes, this is it
I’m not sure what biases the guardian has, but I find it difficult to get past the opening 2 sentence’s casting of 50+ million people as simply delusional. Assessments like this completely miss the mark by disregarding the often reasonable arguments and facts that guide beliefs.
That’s already a thing since the previous year
I'm not arguing that there are more nerd creators on TikTok than youtube or which platform they get more views on. I am just saying that they exist and are a significant portion of the TikTok user base. So much so my FYP is filled with such creators.

If someone like marcus hutchins can get a half million followers or cryptoknight can get a million likes, there must be a significant number of consumers for their content.
Apple still has this program. I haven't worked as an iOS developer for a few years now, but I remember their paid "technical support incidents" were extremely high quality. It was $50 per incident, but I think that was just to reduce spam.

I remember being astounded by the technical depth of a particular answer and looking up the the engineer on LinkedIn. He had 20+ years of experience at Apple - and it showed in his answer.
While not the same, we have national insurance numbers for people over 16: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Insurance_number

Most people will have one of these and they are unique to that person.
>Point is, EVs are following the absolutely normal trajectory of new tech.

Except that whole mandate thing.

>They are running low on early adopters and must adapt to the desires of the mainstream buyers - or of they don’t, chinese makers will.

The Chinese hate their own EVs too! https://youtube.com/watch?v=DwhnArkZTu8 Unfortunately for them their government is basically forcing them to use those too.
At least for the ones around me one of the buttons to the right of the screen will mute the audio. Just start mashing.
Flag Code, driving norms, the Oxford comma and dead butterflies?
Not sure if you saw my original posting, the thread you're writing in. China is definitely a friend of Russia. On top of what I mentioned, China is the top buyer of Russian oil, and thus its major financial partner. And China just recently said relations with Moscow are at an historic high [1]

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/28/china-lauds-russia-...
Yeah. How could the Chinese out-capital the US if capitalism was at odds with authoritarianism?

But unless it adopts some really stupid ideologies a liberal system should be able to produce more and better capitalists than an authoritarian one. Free markets breed capitalists like dropped donuts attract ants. It isn't like China is getting the best value out of their billion-odd people; the inefficiencies caused by over-centralisation there are still breathtaking and tragic.
They're getting around to it
Local Viewers: Verifying online listings before you buy
Apple appeals to a totally different customer. They want something that they’d needn’t fuss with. The other Apple customer is the developer who’s forced into ownership so that he/she can sell to that first Apple customer.

Edit: until this became the Apple way, Apple was on life support and headed for hospice. The market chose the appliance like computer and explicitly rejected tinkering.
I went to a Sun conference almost 20 years ago. I remember there was a presentation on Solaris internals and I decided to attend on a whim, since I knew so little about it. I will never forget something the presenter said and how smugly he said it:

"If Linux is better at anything than Solaris then that's just a Solaris bug."

Turns out that, looking back, Solaris must have been full of bugs.
I realize you're working on the software side rather than the hardware side, and you mentioned you're trying to support existing printers, but your comment reminded me of something I'd like to throw out there:

I would like to have a thermal printer that plugs into the computer via USB and appears as a mass storage device. When you drop an image file (PNG, BMP) into it, it prints it out. A config file would tell the printer what paper stock you have loaded. This way the computer does not need any special drivers, and it would be so stupidly easy to write programs that generate image files to be printed. I think more hardware should take advantage of filesystem operations as a control method.

If someday you ever think about producing a first-party thingybase printer...
Before recent events where derivatives became the underlying. Different games being played.
i think i tried organic maps - i tried punching in a destination - nothing happened. i can try again - do you use it for navigation?

self hosting music - with a preface that you have drm free audio/mp3/flacs etc:

airsonic works for cloud streaming music.
rune audio is open source - if you have music on a computer/rasbpi with a HD connected to it - it has an android based remote control app so you can browse collection on phone - and press play from phone - then it plays off the physical rasbpi. nice solution imo. Looks good too :) See: www.runeaudio.com
Let's simplify this. Do you think there is a long term incentive for Waymo to not maximize utilization of waymo cars by pricing "correctly" (based on supply, demand and costs)?
Shakespeare on tape really rocked my world. I read the texts only here and there, seen the plays, but hearing them, a multiple times each, is amazing and lets you really get why the Bard is the best, and really get the rhythm and rich poetry of the language, and the wisdom. Probably seeing the plays multiple times would amount to the same or better but isn’t as practical. Also, you get a healthy dose of director mixed in.

Other books on tape also fine. Some better than others depending on the person who is reading them. Some are amazingly good. But for the most part, to really grok a boom on tape (or other medium), you have to listen multiple times. Reading is often better quicker. But like I said, shakes on tape is amazing.
Not my experience. When I report a bug in Chromium, it’s usually quickly verified as legit, and then left for dead forever.