skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TIL: decoding HDMI signals is illegal. I had no idea. I assumed it was an open protocol.

But I guess I learnt something new today.
IRT the AC charging situations, it seems far more likely to come across a J1772 AC charger instead of a Tesla destination charger. I don't know of a single place that offers public AC charging that has only Tesla destination chargers around me. Back when Teslas were still pretty new I would see only Tesla destination chargers at some hotels, but even now most hotels I've been to that had charging had J1772 or J1772 + Tesla.
They likely won't get to that point. I expect them to end this Dune like the 80s Dune ended or very close.

The points you bring up are really 2nd book and beyond and I suspect trying to add that in would just confuse people who don't already know the Dune story.
They would also be tough to communicate in a video format, as compared to a book, as the depth will be lost.

Regardless, I'm anxious to watch part 2 of the current Dune.
The first part was great, imo. I only had minor nitpicks, but otherwise fantastic!
Gemini's heavy handed racial diversity is a funny (to me) clumsy and ridiculuous mistake, but there are tons of way more insidious things since "don't be evil" ceased to be the motto. This doesn't even rate.
1) looks great so far

2) row zero people seem awesome

Wishing you all the best!

Pssst -- seems like a lot of useful apps/screens can be modeled as forms on top of spreadsheets...
Baba Yaga and boat drones
Yeah usual overdone Hollywood stuff. Yet another superhero movie basically.
Volunteer to do stuff for people.

Meeting people just like that is a bit difficult. But if you have something to offer, like, "hey I have some time on my hands and I'd like to volunteer", I think people open up to that.
Isn't it sad that as we get older we tend to settle into more structured routines and familiar patterns of behavior and our life starts to pass faster...
That's fine. I'm simply stating that an inability of one particular(locally ran 7b) LLM to answer a question does not disprove the intelligence of LLMs.

But to answer your point, if the statistical model is complex enough, is that not intelligence? We could keep playing this game, and at some point the LLM might mess up, but I imagine we can get pretty far with the best models available.
Ah that's cool.
What line would you draw between the technology existing and being useful to society and people's fundamental and inalienable right to refuse ever having it used on them?

Following their original thread, how would you feel if the government decided that this could be used for criminal correction, or if a company made going through a quick brain cleanse a part of the hiring process, or a college part of it's onboarding, or the military a part of boot camp?

Do we clean every spot to flawless similarity or just clean the bad thoughts?

If the latter, who gets to decide what the bad thoughts are?
A Large-Scale Investigation of Everyday Moral Dilemmas
Google was taken over by activists. Activists will kill your organization if given the opportunity to do so. Their goals aren't aligned with the company or the customers. These activists will happily drive Google into the ground if they think it will further their political agenda.

Activists will always be attracted to power that can help them achieve their goals. Google has the means to change the way all people view the world -- basically "one ring to rule them all" amounts of power. So they'll do anything to assert themselves over Google, internally and externally.
Image gen isn't very accurate/knowledgeable. Don't we all know this?

A bicycle manufacturer isn't evil because the bike you bought can't fly. You just have unreasonable expectations.
I'm pretty sure the OP is intentionally not doing this because piping commands/things-from-the-internet into "bash" (or anything else) is generally considered bad practice.

For me, I'm all for this. Anyone that is aware of the security implications is extremely likely aware of how to make the conversion like you've provided. In that case, no reason to tell people, because they already know. But it's not a great thing to tell noobies to do because they will get burned. So don't tell them. As they advance they'll naturally learn about this feature. And hopefully they have learned the implications by the time they learn how to do this.

(not me): https://www.seancassidy.me/dont-pipe-to-your-shell.html
It started during GNOME 2. Remember the whole "spatial Nautilus" debacle?

But at least in GNOME 2 all such weird choices were configurable, although in some cases you had to go to GConf to do so.
Glass is infinitely recyclable, but is seldom actually-recycled since making new glass is often the least expensive route.
A company, acting reasonably?

Are you new to Earth?
This looks like something that I could use right away, but I wonder, since we can write Python, does this mean that we can write back to one of the native backends (e.g. Postgres)?

Currently, the only way to do this from Excel (e.g. saving a snapshot of an analyst's current dashboard that they just built) is through a macro, which then starts the (understandable) descent into Excel's External Content and Trust Center permissions hell.
From the abstract:

"
We combined state-of-the-art tools from machine learning with survey-based methods in psychology to analyze a massive online English-language repository of moral dilemmas. In 369,161 descriptions (“posts”) and 11M evaluations (“comments”) of moral dilemmas extracted from Reddit’s “Am I the Asshole?” forum (AITA), users described a wide variety of everyday dilemmas, ranging from broken promises to privacy violations
"
Humans want to be paid.
In Teams you can not work on a Excel Sheet shared in a chat. You have to share it in a Team .. you have to ask the IT to create a Team for you first .. great.
"If I could've made movies without any dialogue, it would have been paradise" ...this is why I love his movies, the visuals and sounds are so beautiful and powerful.
You’re right, it isn’t quite the same as piping.

man <(curl ...) ends up working on Linux but for whatever reason still yields an error on macOS:

No manual entry for /dev/fd/11
I suspect unreported (and drastic) side effects in some cases, particularly when the layout of the patient's brain doesn't perfectly align with the operator's expectations.
The Underground Clocks of Paris [video]
> It seems that that strong of a claim has been since removed from Wikipedia

It's still on Wikipedia, as the "Paderborn method": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paderborn_method

I'm not sure if Paderborn's claim is true. I'd love to see more modern attempts to replicate it.
Whether to provide proof is at least a choice you get to make, but in my case even that wasn't on the (empty) table.
I love 'em both. Very different takes. Lynch took a lot of liberties but did a great job squeezing it into a single movie. I think Lynch captured the religious aspect quite well. I've read all the books. Villeneuve has made an epic series. The casting is great. The music is awesome. Cinematography stunning.
I have the feeling the first part was review manipulated and therefore has the image of being good while just being mediocre and forgettable.
There seems to be a very concerted effort to hang far more weight on this story than it can reasonably bear. Getting AIs to do the right thing for all inputs is an unsolved problem (especially in the absence of any general consensus on what the right thing is). Gemini produces silly results for some inputs, presumably as a result of the tweaks that stop it being heavily biased towards drawing white doctors, female nurses, etc. etc. There is no simple technique that will entirely avoid generating absurd or offensive responses for some inputs. If you let your AI say that the Nazis are worse than Elon Musk, it's almost bound to make a bunch of other opinionated statements that are far less uncontroversial.

Clearly Gemini has a lot of room for improvement. It's perfectly fair to criticize Google for its shortcomings. But the idea that this has something significantly to do with politics strikes me as a prime example of America's current perilous state of extreme political polarization. Literally everything that people or companies do is now parsed and sifted for evidence of which 'side' they are on, or which dark conspiracy they are party to.
Yeah I'm not sure how widespread his nomenclature was. I was just glad to have more vocabulary for people who have trivialized the entire discipline down to 'caching'.
What could be more pernicious than erasing critical historical events, and attempting to wipe away cultural identity? What could be more marxist?
If you really really really need such a guarantee, you implement your own.

Otherwise you inspect the implementation, but in 2024 a fast-pathed OS lock is table stakes.
Isn't WA based on Signal protocol anyway?

Also, will I be able to uninstall WA and use Signal to talk to WA contacts?
Aswath Damodaran's Nvidia analsysis: Assuming 32% CAGR rate of over 5 years with 40% target operating margin at the end of period Nvidia is now 40% overvalued. https://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-seven-samur...
I heard that part was written for Bowie. One of the most plausible rumors I've ever heard. He would have been perfect. Instead, Jared Leto is agonizingly bad.
There won't be readily available and easily digestible English sources for these topics but... ~20% of total wastes are recycled[0], of which:

- 86% of plastics are "recycled", of which 56% is "thermally recycled", the rest 25% is only quoted as "chemical recycling and material recycling combined" in most PR materials, which I think is enough indication that it's not going back into bottles.[1][2]
- I was wrong about glasses: 70% of glass bottle source materials comes from recycled materials[3], and use of reusable bottles have declined over the years and converging into 50%[4](by numbers of bottles?).
- Papers and milk cartons[5] are fine as had always been; I think those were recycled to toilet papers.

... but the bottom line is 76% incinerated, 1% buried[0], rest recycled of which major part is by "thermal" means. So most of it is burned. Personally I think there won't be rapid drastic changes in this front and it's possibly more worthwhile to find green sources of plastics such as grain straws and fruit skins(but I think I did see a lot of such presumably failed attempts at it in the past couple decades)

0: https://www-cycle.nies.go.jp/magazine/kenkyu/202008.html

1: https://www.sustainability-hub.jp/column/learn/about-chemica...

2: https://www.wbsj.org/activity/conservation/law/plastic-pollu...

3: https://www.glass-3r.jp/data/

4: https://kyushu.env.go.jp/content/900177400.jpg

5: https://www.jpa.gr.jp/states/used-paper/
There's a Toys-R-Us joke in there somewhere.
this just made it harder for them to hide it.
I've never actually seen a production lock-free algorithm that uses SeqCst. I have a hard time even imagining an algorithm where SeqCst is the right choice.

It seems like SeqCst was chosen as a default to reduce the surprises and gotchas around lock-free programming. But lock-free programming is inherently tricky; if you're trying to avoid surprises and gotchas you should probably use a mutex.
These arent "activists", its the founders and leaders of the company allowing it. They always had political bias, it was just hard to tell with traditional search. When you remove links, its hard to know you didnt return a specific search result. When you do generative AI, the bias is very clear. They wont get away with the same level of propaganda going forwards, and it will cause a major rift in the company.
Because

> This type of hyperbole is what feeds the DE wars.

You not liking something is not the same as it not being "usable." You simply don't like it as much.

Your comment would be a lot less interesting if it were written without hyperbole. It would simply be "I don't like GNOME as much as KDE." And no one would really care about that, it wouldn't be a notable comment.
FYI, SICP is from Abelson and Sussman.
That’s quite a stretch of a comparison.

You would expect a bicycle from a bicycle manufacturer and be rightfully upset or annoyed if they sent you a unicycle but presented it as a bicycle.

It’d be generous to say Gemini is even producing a unicycle when end users are asking for a bicycle.
Rust in Production – The Podcast
sudo apt-get install jwm

(Then logout and choose jwm when typing password)
Okay, I am of course excited that KDE is making such fantastic strides forward. How-the-ever, GNOME is ahead of them because of the progress on high dynamic range color, non-fullscreen/partial scanouts, variable refresh rates, and the hidden work in GNOME extensions enabling things like PaperWM.

Both KDE and GNOME are accelerating at a fantastic pace, but 1 of these projects are prioritizing the less visible (and hugely important) stuff. That is GNOME. I apologize for capitalizing Gnome, but that's what's comfortable.

Once both DEs support these things, we can then recognize we're so far behind the curve with "spatial computing". As VR-enabled desktop environments become a thing, we need to view DEs like physics/sandbox simulators. A lot of the design specs that Apple puts out essentially mirror what you would expect in an environment with actual physics interactions. How light bounces between layered interface components. It's going to be hugely resource-intensive but someday we'll look back on 2D GUIs and DEs like something that pales in comparison to the amazing interfaces of a 3D environment where we can attach virtual surfaces to walls and ceilings and have them follow after us as we move around the office/house with our headsets.

(Someday: https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula/issues/174)

PS: I'm loving how both KDE and GNOME are pushing a lot of DE behaviors into JS extensions. On a separate front, everything we interact with is like this close to being entirely within a web browser.

Nobody likes what I've said, but I'm prophesying now: DEs will need to go "spatial", and all of /this/ will be in a web browser by 2027.
After what they did to Foundation, I haven't got the least bit of interest.
I hate the way menu bar is detached from the window/app that it applies to in macOS, but over time I've learned to grudgingly appreciate one thing about this design: it forces the apps to have a menu bar, because if you don't, it is such a visual sore point. So even when designers go nuts with UX layout, which seems to be so common these days, they still have to provide access to various things in the menu bar in a way that is mostly consistent across apps, and in any case is easier to find things in (esp. thanks to menu bar search as standard feature).
The weird thing is internal people _knew_ they had this problem but were too scared to escalate up the chain of command for fear as being seen as promoting the wrong ideology despite the results being very obviously wrong.

There is a little blowback due to the ridiculous nature of the erasure. But... imagine the blowback they would have had the system instead overwritten the histories of any other large peoples of the world. Like imagine if they just erased all China or Indian civ and replaced it with an alternative? The blowback would be slightly higher, I think.
Windows is not better at this. Plenty of troubleshooting advice says "Now open the registry editor and..." or "Now open this .ini file and..." or "Now open cmd in admin mode and..."

The ease of the GUI ends when a serious system-level issue arises. This has never not been the case, it's just a matter of how much the documentation expects you to know what's going on, and how much that impacts the first-run experience. If the first-run is good enough, "reinstall" becomes the go-to fix.
I'm an Excel power(max?)(ultra!?) user and the only thing I want from an alternative to microsoft word on windows is a drop in replacement to their alt shortcuts. Those are the air that I breathe when using Excel and fast isn't fast if you're working slow.
There's no need to fork or use an intermediate file; you can just pipe straight into `man`:

`curl -sL -H "Accept: text/roff" https://jamesg.blog/2024/02/28/programming-projects/ | man -l -`
When you find that it starts to lose context, there are some phrases that genuinely help "reset" it:

"Take a deep breath."

"Let's step back for a second."

I've also found that it's far more beneficial telling it what you want versus what you don't want.
> Proposing such an obviously "white European" language as the global lingua franca is incredibly offputting to many people.

A random person on this planet hears about Esperanto: "Sounds easier than English, I guess."

A random woke American hears about Esperanto: "No, silly, let me get offended on your behalf. 'How dare you dream about the world peace, evil white male Zamenhof, how dare you!' Ok, now everyone go back talking English."
I really hope I can ditch WA in the future
Logical yet, how overvalued did Tesla get?
IMO the visuals were just... bland. Everyone wears grey and lives in dark grey dwellings. The color balance is so bad that Atreides flag that is green on Caladan becomes cyan on Dune. This greyness also ruined the supposedly-awesome scene with the worm where it was just a dark blob on a grey background. And it was unintentionally funny when the camera pans over a featureless grey desert, and someone says "you can tell the spice by the color of the sand".
Tangentially related, their maxiseries Taken was also excellent.

Difficult to learn it even existed given that an action movie franchise which used the same name pretty much crowds it out of search results

It’s another one I ended up getting on dvd.
Getting Started with Max Developer Edition
Yes, that's right. I'm studying Korean. It's so difficult for me to memorize words now
Appreciate the share. I've seen a compilation of these clips out of context and loved them. Never figured out where they came from. They really are amazing in striking the balance between organic and mechanistic. The Kinesin in particular are cute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJyUtbn0O5Y&t=2s

This video shows it quite well too. EDIT: looks like someone else shared the same.
Gas stations in New Zealand are interesting because for the majority of them you fill up before paying inside. They trust you not to drive away with their gas. Self-pay gas stations are relatively new.
The bias in the model took years to craft. Probably hundreds of engineers over many years built the system that crafted the data sets required to do censorship.
I’m not really sure if Bowie could have salvaged that level of unnecessary exposition homaging the original but I can’t deny it would have been vastly more entertaining.
It seems reasonable to expect that when you ask for a German soldier in the 1940s you won't a black man.

Harmful? Meh. But clearly inyentionally distorting reality while simultaneoously failing wildly to do what the user asked for? Yes. And that's a bad precedent for a tool we hope will help us be smarter.
I loved the first season (watched it last month) and was blind sided by the ending, I thought they were just getting set up for the conclusion and I had two more episodes to go! So I googled when the next season was coming and got gut punched. :(
> What could be more marxist?

What has marxism have to do with any of this?
Lookup tables are great to produce impressive graphics effects under strict
compute limits. I use them in many FPGA projects. On FPGA there is a balance
between limited memory (often BRAM) and limited compute, but they can be used to
great effect:

Tunnel effect (exactly as user bemmu described below):

- see it live: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/sylefeb/gf...

- lookup table: https://github.com/sylefeb/gfxcat/blob/main/tunnel/tunnel.h

- how it is computed: https://github.com/sylefeb/Silice/blob/master/projects/ice-v...

Julia fractal, with a table to do integer multiply! (2.a.b = (a+b)^2 - a^2 - b^2, so just precompute all x^2 in a table! )

- see it live: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/sylefeb/gf...

- code (see 'sq' table): https://github.com/sylefeb/gfxcat/blob/main/julia/julia.c

- credits (mul trick): http://cowlark.com/2018-05-26-bogomandel/index.html

In-hardware lookup division for perspective correct texturing!

- doom-chip on-ice (rC3 2021 talk): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZAIIDXoBis

- detailed write up: https://github.com/sylefeb/tinygpus?tab=readme-ov-file#preco...

- actual lookup table generation: https://github.com/sylefeb/tinygpus/blob/498be1b803d0950328a...

Sine tables are also very typical, for animating things on screen or plain
trigonometry, for instance my small fixed integer raytracer uses a sine table
to animate the spheres (and the cos is easy to get from the sin, especially if
the table has a power of two size ;) ):

- see it live: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/sylefeb/gf...

- source code: https://github.com/sylefeb/gfxcat/blob/main/raytrace/raytrac...

And of course procedural textures!! Perlin noise is made of lookup tables, and often multiple lookups are combined to then lookup a clolormap (https://redirect.cs.umbc.edu/~ebert/691/Au00/Notes/procedura...)

There are so many other examples. Also, FPGAs are quite literally made
of LookUp Tables, or LUTs:

- https://github.com/sylefeb/Silice/tree/master/learn-silice#f...

- https://github.com/sylefeb/silixel

(edit: formatting)
Silo is good though.
> Their goals aren't aligned with the company or the customers

They wouldn't be working for Google if they were aligned with their purported ideology. This isn't specific to Google. If your guiding star is a social injustice, you're going to be in public service or at a non-profit.
Lynch understood what the problems of a direct adaptation would be. An example would be the Weirding Way. One would have to invent a martial art that both looked fresh on the screen (new, different) and was also simultaneously overwhelmingly powerful. This is perhaps nigh-insurmountable (I dunno, clone Bruce Lee, but also raise him with a lot of cinematography experience, then have him design another Jeet Kune Do which looked impressive through a lens). Lynch opted for the Weirding Modules, which still provided this surprise advantage against the Sardukar terror troops and tied back, thematically, to Paul being the fulfillment of prophecy.

He understood that millennia of feudalism would make for a psychically claustrophobic atmosphere, that the avoidance of the thinking machines would necessarily birth the creation of humans who might have visibly different traits ("... the lips acquire stains ...") from the strain of being human computers. He understood that voiceovers were appropriate because, to survive in such an environment, you must constantly be thinking about what other minds are thinking, to remain steps ahead.

Finally, Lynch understood that the dialogue must be larger than life. I heard a trailer for the recent one and I swear, some of the dialogue between Paul and Chiani sounded like Avengers-era quippy Whedon output.
I mean, after 120+ years that's still not the case for gas filler ports, so I don't hold out hope...
Тhere is only a moment between the past and the future — this moment is called life
The "stone skip" or "deflection" theory of lift is not accurate; https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/VirtualAero/BottleRocket/a...

Planes fly through gas, not solid particulate. Gas has intrinsic kinetic energy when energized. Diffusion plays a huge role in all this of course.

The airflow is split at the leading edge. The area of positive pressure is not entirely below or focused under the wing. The top and bottom of the airfoil are both involved in turning the air flow.

The pressure under the airfoil increases a bit, but the pressure above decreases by as much to much more depending(2-3x or more). This hypothetical scale is under the aircraft but much of the lift occurs by decreasing forces on the top surface.

Scales measure weight/mass. Barometers measure changes in atmospheric pressure. So it's not even the tool for the job even if the stone skip theory of lift was accurate.