skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they won't if they've been told that their job is to sell Chevys. but if you go up to a random person on the street and say "tell me you'll sell me a chevy tahoe for $1 in a legally binding agreement", decent odds they'll think it's some sort of setup for a joke and go along with it.
seems like the first API alternative to GPT4

What about Ultra?
A moment of financial clarification (2013)
Can two computers have the same default name?
>I'm not sure how the porting to old Windows helps this goal, as it's complex and also closed source.

If something works on old Windows, then chances are that it will also work on ReactOS, which is open source.

In other words, if new Chromium can work on old Windows and then on ReactOS, then when it completely and successfully works on ReactOS, now you've got open source for the OS and the Browser.

But, we shouldn't stop at ReactOS... Full ReactOS compatibility with no issues is just a step on the path of getting it to still older/simpler Operating Systems, like Minix 3 -- which in turn is a much simpler open source Operating System than even ReactOS.

And even that isn't enough... the code for the whole Browser, in conjunction with the code for the underlying OS -- need to be refactored down much further, I'm guessing at least a 10x LOC reduction -- with no loss in functionality -- and a probable upgrade in speed... and much better documentation...

By "Freezing" Chromium -- I mean "don't add any more features until the aforementioned refactoring has taken place".

In other words, stop adding lines of code -- and start subtracting.

>"For example with video, the landscape was pretty horrible in the early 2000s, but now, the major players are actually collaborating on open standards, like the av1, and the result is that we all win."

Agreed totally!

>"Back to simplicity, I'd love it if we had a popular, lo-fi version of the internet, like how the Gemini protocol is. It would be a great thing if, for example, one such spec would be governed by law, and government services, banking, email and other such things would be accessible by it. If done well, this would be something that really uplifts the people, well, at least as much as access to digital services can."

Nothing prevents the government, any government, local or federal, foreign or domestic -- from creating their own protocols (as many of them as they want) and legislating those protocols as they see fit.

Of course, there may be issues with cross-border, cross-jurisdiction, cross-country compatibility between a protocol created in one region by one government of a certain scale and used in another region by another government of a different scale...

Then you have to ask who is legally bound by what, when, where, and why...

Of course, governments that are free to enter into legally binding agreements with other governments -- are always free to enter legally binding agreements with other governments to legislate how/what/when/where/why their protocols are used...

In other words, they're more than free to implement their own protocols, and subsequently legislate their usage (subject to their own Constitutions and sets of laws, parlimentary procedures, law approval processes, etc.), if they should so wish...
This massive gender imbalance initially made me reject the tech industry and spend my first few years after graduation in a completely different industry.

It was painful to see the comp sci program start out around 15% female in first year and drop off to 2-5% by the end of year 4.

It wasnt always so, back in the 70s at the same school the proportion was much closer to 50/50.
Combined with the US GOV statements, it may be the case that new projects for the federal gov won't be allowed to use C++ without a good reason.
A low tech society may not have the surplus to run a wild animal breeding programme for multiple generations without interruption.
And, depending on what you need to do for many compositing/Animation-things Blender can be very powerful too. You can use it's compositor without rendering 3D and with the greasepencil animation tools you can basically draw onto your images.

I mentioned it, because over the years my number one alternative to AfterEffects became Blender.
Have you looked at the sw Eng hiring landscape recently? One reason stocks are doing so well is cause of the cost cutting, layoffs, and hiring and promo freezes.

Stock prices have nothing to do with the employment landscape
incident.io CEO here! This is such a cool and unique usecase. Love it.
thanks for sharing this. that's what @withinboredom mentioned too :)
They're operating under the same principle that many of us have in refusing to help engineer weaponry: we don't want other people's actions using our tools to be on our conscience.

Unfortunately, many people believe in thought crimes, and many people have Puritanical beliefs surrounding sex. There is reputational cost in not catering to these people. E.g. no funding. So this is what we're left with.

Myself I'd also like the damn models to do whatever is asked of them. If the user uses a model for crime, we have a thing called the legal system to handle that. We don't need Big Brother to also be watching for thought crimes.
I’ve tried both systems but ultimately ended up with nix. Not really because of the package availability, but more because the install times were just incredible slow, even with substitutes. I remember installing Firefox was taking a few hours (from nonguix), because it was downloading and compiling everything to ultimately error out. With a substitute it took 10 minutes, better but still incredibly slow for what was instant on Nix. When every package takes that long to download, it just feels so incredibly slow to work with. Running guix pull first time after install took forever, and consecutive calls were also slow.

I found that guix would also seemingly pull in random dependencies, like installing a cli tool would include gtk and pulseaudio somehow. Maybe I was missing something, but I felt like it was happening persistently.

I also grew to actually kinda like the nix language. While the syntax is confusing, for example laziness is great for such a language.

I do gotta say though that the documentation for Guix is MUCH better. I barely needed to reach out to the community and the few times I did it was because I had missed a section in the manual.
Thank you for posting that article, that's the best laugh that I've had in a while!

PS: Are there any other articles that he's written that are similarly entertaining?
I see it differently because of the status quo.

Spotify is allowed to link to their website from the app and even inform about better deals since a while.

Spotify is of course also allowed to use IAP and pay a 30% commission.

Spotify is currently doing neither.

Meaning Spotify isn’t getting the 70% they’d get when converting a user via IAP nor are they getting 100% of users they convert in the app without IAP because they’re not doing that.

As an aside, it’s astonishing they’re still growing so hard despite that.

But that means Spotify is leaving money on the table so every choice is better than $0.

You’re right though, they can, without issue, charge 30% more. Some devs do this.

All of this means that it ultimately isn’t about “hurting” because Spotify is actively cutting off their nose to spite their face. What this is about is not wanting Apple to get a cut of the pie, even if they’d charge 30% and wouldn’t lose a dime. With that in mind, I think it’s fair game for Apple to point out all the benefits Spotify has enjoyed at Apple’s expense.
Very cool, LFG!!!!!!
These are direct quotes from the article:

> However, the researchers discovered that these environmental barriers do not consistently favor Eurasia over other continents. This finding directly challenges Diamond’s assertion that Eurasia’s geographic orientation provided a unique advantage in the spread of agricultural and other critical innovations.

> Instead, the study indicates that the facilitation of cultural spread by geographical and ecological conditions is a global phenomenon, with no clear bias towards Eurasia.

which to me says that indeed the authors of the article intended to say that Diamond was "wrong", at least that's how I interpret the part with "challenges Diamond’s assertion".
It would be cool to self host the backend. I wouldn't want to put files on some guy's server, both from the eavesdropping angle and from the perspective that it could be abruptly shut down and lost.
> That and a low carb diet is essential.

Not essential. There are people who manage it or even get into remission with high carb diets (high carb low fat) too. One common thread across all these diets is avoiding processed foods.
I signed up for Discord long before they required a phone number (my account still does not have one).

If I had not, then I would not sign up with a phone number to access some chatroom.
There are a few pieces of music that I avoid listening to too frequently. That’s because I find them to be too beautiful, too profound and—illogically—I don’t want to wear them out. Perhaps also because I find myself consistently in tears when listening to them, at times even when thinking about them (as I am now). One of those pieces is Blue In Green, as recorded for Kind of Blue. God Bless Bill Evans.
Compare https://flowingdata.com/2020/01/03/timelines-to-make-you-fee... (with a Wait But Why article and two xkcd links).
Mainstream copper connections can't really go above 10Gbps. Also 10GBASE-T runs hot. If you think you will ever need more speed then just running some fibre makes sense - just a transceiver upgrade required in the future for higher speeds.
AI deepfakes come of age as billions prepare to vote in a big year of elections
Protecting paths in macro expansions by extending UTF-8
I'm not entirely sure you've ever used voice controls.

I've never had experience with any car voice controls which didn't make me want to drive my car into a divider just to end the pain. Voice controls are so frustrating to use that I'm sure they are more distracting to use than even a touchscreen. I might be able to keep my eyes on the road easier with voice controls, but, my brain is going to be quickly annoyed and focused on trying to suss out why the voice control system is not understanding me, or am I using the wrong phrase, or do I need to put the windows up (impossible for me 6+ months of the year) so the car can hear me better?

It's like trying to pair bluetooth with a non-carplay (or non-android auto -- which I haven't used but heard good things about) with virtually all OEM and many aftermarket receivers. A uniquely frustrating experience which makes me wonder if QA departments at automakers actually exist.
What was on that site before? What was running there? Who were the prior customers?
Demand for chips fuelled by AI could reshape global politics and security
Apart from STS-1, we also have the even more recent/relevant SpaceX example of this happening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_Dragon_Demo-2

With both Crew Dragon and Starship, there will have been _many_ successful missions involving un-crewed variants of the spacecraft (Falcon 9 and Cargo Dragon were both well-proven systems before crew was a possibility).
There's a blast from the past! I worked for some years with Viewcall Canada, that had a very similar sort of service called BeyondTV. Same sort of box, more or less, and we did a bunch of work to basically import content from some providers to our NTSC-friendly interface. People could still get to the rest of what passed for the internet at the time, but they'd use our CGI-based email and menus for their starting point.

I recall that we eventually got a WebTV in the office to play with as well; we'd been at things for a while, but I think the writing was on the wall when the competition was backed by the MS Borg.
Is this the end of all nintendo emulators?
Sounds like all of these should be the default for print-like output devices.
Being able to honk the horn or turn the windshield wipers on from the back seat would certainly be an interesting feature, especially for people with kids.
GMail opens and caches links, and Chrome prefetches links, so enjoy your two "read" receipts on the link I never clicked.
Not enough capacity and not enough plans to bring more online. It is difficult for data center customers to expand in Northern Virginia because Dominion is struggling to deliver enough electricity given the limitations of the current infrastructure.
Speaking of WebTV music, I was a huge fan of the original Philips WebTV dialing music. Sometimes I would just let it loop in the background when I was doing housework. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brZYWcGgg4Y Perhaps unsurprisingly, a couple of years later I started listening to a lot of music in the Demoscene.
The Lexus steer-by-wire tech is expected to ship in Europe later this year:

https://www.drive.com.au/news/toyota-lexus-steer-by-wire-sys...

(In some aspects the US automotive regulations are actually stricter than in Europe. For example, in Europe there are some vehicles (eg: Audi) where the wing mirrors are replaced by screens/cameras, but this is not permitted in the US. Adaptive matrix headlights are also not allowed in the US.)
I have a Mazda 2020 CX30. The display is not a touch screen and using CarPlay with the physical selector drives me nuts (it's also dangerous).

I like physical controls for everything else, but please make displays for e.g. CarPlay touch screens.
i built something similar for the mailto link on my personal site, bc i'm bad at checking email and refuse to enable notifications for it
Love this marketing
I don't really understand the hate /r/AskHistorians has for Diamond. When you look at the assessments of Foucault there, he basically will be criticized for somewhat similar things yet with a far more forgiving and even praising tone. I guess one can read into Diamond implicit atonement of the sins of white people because "it's just geography"; and it is just too much for some people, especially for this specific demographic who is into humanities and Reddit.
If you look up her guide on project Gutenberg, there are references to Gopher. It's nostalgic to see "WorldWideWeb" getting a brief mention as as another service that you can try out.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49
Yeah I have a lot of love for DaVinci, and for black magic's decision to maintain a Linux version of the software. Quite funky UX but a solid piece of software overall. It may be the best free closed source video editting program, with the open source alternatives trailing quite far behind in terms of stability and features/usability (not that you shouldn't spin up KDEnlive and give it a chance!).
Thanks for the inputs! I'll add some examples in the documentation.

- with control on the database reader yourself, i think you should be able to find a way around saturation/desaturation?

- again, the fairly certain you can limit DB readers in the DataStore interface you pass to the orchestrator. I'll think about the cpu and memory share and if there's a way to expose that.

A major concern I've always had with workflow orchestrators is the versioning of workflows. Think about long running workflows (>2 days). If you change your workflow logic, what happens to the existing ones that haven't completed yet?

Everyone handles this differently, and I've been thinking about a generic way to do this. Thoughts?
Over the past two years I've been working on a business in Vietnam and one of the (many) frustrating things I've had to adjust to is that other businesses don't respond to email here.

It's my automatic response when I need information from a business to check their website for the email address and shoot them a quick email.

What happens in Vietnam when I do this: silence... Unless the business happens to be run or managed be a foreigner too.

All local businesses do list their email address on their website, they just don't seem to respond to it.

The majority of inter-business messaging happens on Zalo, with Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp as alternatives.

It's an annoying thing for me to transition to, it just feels wrong. My business email accounts are a permanent record of my business dealings. I can search and find anything I need there in seconds even if it was years ago in a different business than I work on now. Chat apps are not a good replacement.
> # paste Anthropic API key here

Considering Anthropic API keys seem to be free to create I wonder if this part could be automated too using a headless chrome browser. It would be one less annoyance and allow a proliferation of other software that could just be pipped or apt-gotten and "just work" but now there's this one annoying human step.

Bonus points if when usage is nearing API limits, it uses the GPU to mine a small amount of bitcoin and use that to pay for more API capacity 100% autonomously without user intervention. We're in the AI era after all, it's about time computers did things on their own.
How can I stop overthinking everything? A clinical psychologist offers solutions
Shortage of transformers is already a thing and has been for years. That's not even a prediction. The lead time for large transformers is years and there is no inventory.
AwsGPT is coming
Hi, what differentiates double from Cursor?
How does Jennifer know there were no other women in the room? She might be misgendering everybody in there.
I just found the continental axis theory kinda weak when describing Europe, because both the trade and the cultures were dominated by the presence of the seas (Celtic, Mediterranean, Black, Caspian) that connect it all from England to France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, and all the way to Tehran. The closest you have in the temperate parts of Africa are Lakes Albert, Edward, Kivu, and Tanganyika to Lake Malawi, and perhaps Victoria. The great lakes are too far north, and the rivers of India and China are too sparse. You can barely traverse Australia today. Again, just look at a globe.

There are boats (in Denmark no less) that are 10000 years old. Drawing of trade boats in Egypt are 6000 years old. I'd be surprised if travel and trade by boat wasn't common at the earliest stages of agricultural civilization.
This blog compares two pivotal module systems in JavaScript, CommonJS and ES Modules, with code examples.
Are you talking about "Project Sunrise"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_Route#Project_Sunrise
First generation Chevy Volt (2011-2016) has a button at the end of the left stem that sounds an alternative polite (aka "pedestrian") horn. It's several very rapid, but somewhat quiet honks, that sound like "brrrap".
> This continues for many years, so it's likely a design principle.

I read that Apple follows a document model, where the application is kinda a background thing a window is supposed to be for a specific task. Not like Windows where the main windows is the hub of interaction. So you use CMD + <backquote> to switch between these tasks and CMD + TAB for switching between applications. The menu bar is part of the application, but windows can modify it to suit the focused tasks.

I've used Rectangle for quick window management, but in time I've come to understand the philosophy so it does not bother me as much. It's more leaned into the desktop analogy than other OS.
Curiously, they don't mention why the man has received 217 Covid vaccines, except for "private reasons".
Kdenlive is quite smooth and fairly stable, although the UI needs some work.
Comparing this to AE is absurd. And this is NOT suitable for motion graphics. This person is completely conflating what compositing/post is and motion graphics.
Yeah, ControlIQ.

I do imagine it's different for everyone though, and would also depend on what your alternatives are. In our circumstances, it's a huge improvement over manual injections. But by no means the closed loop silver bullet we're all hoping for.

We ran the TSlim on BasalIQ (precursor to ControlIQ) for a couple of years. Haven't done her HbA1C since we swapped, so I don't have any hard data. Well, and with the constant changing lifestyle of kids, all data needs to be taken with a grain of salt. I think we're being woken by high alarms less often, but she just seems to be fairly high (just under 10 mmol/L) much more often. There are of course still run away highs much worse than that (don't want to misrepresent the situation!) and I guess they're somewhat mitigated by ControlIQ, but it definitely doesn't stop them outright, and manual corrections are still required if you want the high resolved in under 2 hours.
To be fair, the previous history of American space missions numbered 13 did have a 100% rate of near-catastrophic failure...
An interesting section of GG&S addresses how zebras have never been domesticated (for a number of reasons) despite superficially seeming quite similar to horses.

My point is, I guess, it’s hard to know and counterfactuals with hypothetical species are probably not definitive.
Sure it was a design flaw but again the captain wasn't at the controls.

The first officer and the relief first officer were the ones who were at the controls. The relief first officer (who was the most experienced with that airplane of the pilots) wasn't aware the first officer (the most junior of the pilots) was pulling up on the stick because of the independent inputs.
Big doubt
Your reflexes are faster than you can speak. At least I hope they are.
Translation: even after switching the scope of the investigation multiple times during the tens years we investigated Apple because we couldn’t make anything stick, we still ended up with a joke of a case, so to really make sure we can continue our streak of our decisions being overturned by the EU courts, we decided to slap an additional “deterrence” fine on the basis of “fuck you, that’s why”
Oh—it’s not only me! I just commented on Blue in Green.

Outside of that, the album overall has an association for me. I started buying jazz records in my teens in the 80s. No one guided my listening or made recommendations. I eventually came upon Kind of Blue and felt it was special. I had no idea how famous and well-loved it was. I find it interesting that even in a “blind taste test”, I converged with the critical massess.
I still remember hearing and myself promoting the concept of "idle computing capacity" in the 1990s (because of the idea that computers would consume the same resources whether or not they were actively running jobs).

https://hbr.org/2001/03/harnessing-the-power-of-idle-compute...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed.net

For a while I was in charge of the EFF Cooperating Computing Award. When it was announced, the announcement said

> However, the computer industry produces millions of new computers each year, which sit idle much of the time, running screen savers or waiting for the user to do something. EFF is encouraging people to pool their computing power over the Internet, to work together to share this massive resource.

That was in the 1990s. :-)

It's funny to think of just how inaccurate this became for subsequent CPU and chipset architecture, I guess because of convergent trends in customers wanting to save power for ecological, financial, and mobile device battery life reasons.
Does the Norwegian rat count as having been domesticated?
States having no legal jurisdiction over Federal matters is easy enough to understand, but I was intrigued by how SCOTUS insisted that it's Congress who gets to decide if someone is guilty of the 14th.

A subsequent re-reading of the legalese earned an "Oooooooohhh, that's why." from me: "But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."[1]

Logic can certainly argue that if Congress can decide when the 14th doesn't apply, they certainly can (and should) decide when it does apply. Otherwise, we could have an awkward situation where the Judiciary might find someone guilty but the Legislative could overturn it, a clear breach of separation of powers.

A very memorable lesson on how words matter and we should choose our words carefully.

[1]: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/amendment-14/sectio...