skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mate you can just go outside, it’s free.

How is any of this balance for being a _peasant_?!
There is a very long-running joke in AI, going back to 1970s (or maybe even earlier?) that goes something like, "quality of results is inversely proportional to the number of linguists working on the project".

It seems that every time we try it, we find out that when model picks up the language structure on its own, it ends up being better at it than if we try to use our own understanding of language as a basis. Which does seem to imply that our own understanding is still rather limited and is not a very accurate model.

On the other hand, the fact that models get amazing translation capabilities just from training on different languages (seriously, if you are doing any kind of automated translation, do yourself a favor and try GPT-4) implies that there is a "there" there and the Universal Grammar people are probably correct. We just haven't figured out the specifics. Perhaps we will by doing "brain surgery" on those models, eventually.
Tesla Superchargers are carrying the US' DC EV fast charger ramp: NREL
The questions is how deep should you go of each subset ?
There is an entire field of study covering this topic called Organizational Theory. If you are still in school and have a chance to take an intro course I recommend it
Not really changing my opinion that they're just being childish, to be honest.

The ddos argument doesn't hold any water either because they don't actually refuse connections with a referrer from the offensive sites - I guess because that would prevent showing a little JavaScript alert box to make the full weight of petulance known.

This person could have just ignored that any of the offending platforms exist, and optionally blocked their referred users from making connections at all if so desired.

The best part is that they complain we aren't discussing the original article's content... you know, the article we can't read without jumping through a hoop.
Seems Meta’s (or at least Messenger’s) RE defense is quite lenient here. Should be trivial for them to drop IsUsingSandbox() from prod builds entirely, that’s before we get into advanced obfuscation techniques.
@page probably works for some things but when I tried to do page numbers it definitely didn't.
I ended up hacking something together (absolute positioning a number every ~700px or whatever so it sat on the same place each page).
> The only way media companies can make a profit today is to engage in either right wing (Fox, Newsmax) or left-wing (MSNBC, Rachal Maddow) commentary.

This is not something new.. In Holland we've had left wing and right wing newspapers forever. And their focus was a lot more pronounced. But this was about political news. Facts were relatively untouched.

> Where do all these nutty ideas come from? They come from media companies who have found out that telling people what they want to hear is more profitable than what they need to hear.

This is the root cause of the problem IMO. It's not the lack of fact checkers. That's only a symptom. The problem is that news services no longer care about the truth. Because they're commercial entities too and they thrive by selling people what they want to hear. And of course engagement at all costs including inciting hatred is something they learned from Facebook and the other social media.

This phenomenon is more pronounced in the US but it's making it way to Europe as well.
> But considering how much potential BYD has to steal EV lunch why is the stock price not been reflecting that?

Its as simple as being a Chinese stock. Whether justified or not, that’s the concern. Even among Chinese people. The stock market is seen as gambling in China.
https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody
Ooh i want to edit money images that sounds fun
Intel's NPU Acceleration Library goes open source
Pin Save – Decentralized Pinterest
Pin Save is a decentralized image, video sharing and content aggregation platform where users can not only control the content but also the platform itself.

The decentralized feed reinforces the discovery of content and feedback.
Decentralized Identity, which provides anonymity and data protection.
Upgradeable, resilient, and open decentralized storage.
Smart contracts to securely serve web experiences directly to users.
There are benefits for sure. Maintaining a good record on your credit card will help your credit score, though that only matters if you plan on regularly borrowing large sums of money.

I haven't rented in a while so I'm really not sure on that one. Most places I rented over the years assumed you paid by check every month, though its been about a decade now so that very well could have changed.
I'd rather cut $10 out of my food budget than my search engine budget. As it stands, I spend a lot more than $10 each month on food.
What is telemetry. What is its function. Its function is to share information with Mozilla. Without telemetry, Mozilla does not have access to this information.

But what if the computer user does not care to share information with Mozilla.

Information such as:

(a) IP address

(b) the software is used/when the user is online

(c) the user's preferred websites

(d) how the software is used

(e) settings the user changes or does not change

and so on.

This is information sharing with Mozilla by default. It is not "opt-in". It is "op-out".
What era is 37signals in?
My perception is that the parent commenter is referring at least partly to "subcriminal" or nearly subcriminal behaviour. There is/was nowhere to "put" this kind of individual when they come from these settings, for a whole host of reasons, ranging from: something like "it's your neighbour's mentally ill kid, you really gonna call the cops for THAT?" to "what cops?".

School shooters and "crazy people acting violently" are probably incredibly rare by comparison. Sub/urban environments probably reduce the impact of the mentally ill on their surrounding neighbours in a whole host of ways, in fact -- in no small part because treatment is much less available in rural areas. (There's more of them in a smaller area and they're more visible and increasingly less criminalized, so people get the idea that poverty and health issues of that variety are modern, urban problems.)

Keywords in the literature around this include "community impact" or "community health", but it's not my area.
The UK has both, you can buy digital tickets, you can buy tickets online and pick them up at the station, you can buy them on the digital machines at the station or at larger stations you can buy them at the service desk at the station.
Between the Lanes: Denying Denial of Service
In these area of physics informed machine learning this is refered to as "discovering new physics". Probably there are analogs in computational mathematics, biology, chemistry, etc.
At this point, comments suggesting the code is “unreadable” are bound to be thrown around, but once you learn a handful of symbols, this is in fact significantly more readable than the kinds of formulas I see on a regular basis in Excel. This is proof that one is not more difficult to learn than the other, and that the problem is one of marketing rather than technological.

That logic is broken. Even accepting it as true, "X is easier to read than Y once you learn a specialized symbolic language" is not "proof that one is not more difficult to learn than the other". It is, at best, proof that there is value that may make it worth learning the one even if it is harder to learn, which is very different from proof that it is not harder to learn.
Nice and clean!

As a fellow web slinger, I recently went down the road of trying to build a simple veggie tracker as a PWA.

I realized pretty quickly that the PWA world still feels like a hacky mess, with weird CSS rules to make it feel more, but never fully, native.

Most of the issues from way back in the pre-App-Store days remain.

For example, double tapping on the screen triggers a zoom, and there's no way to disable it.

After a full week trying to make my PWA not feel clunky, I resorted to making my first native iOS app with the help of chatty G.

It was surprisingly easy. It took two days to build, and because it's native, everything just works.

PWAs as a platform have so much potential, this app being a great example. It's frustrating that developments aren't further along than they are. I'd think Google especially would have interest in supporting such a platform
I agree with the "take action" stance, but of course these academics skip right past the reasonable solutions and go straight for pills and surgery.
> Late fees create a predictable minimum payment that credit card companies can account for and create incentives for consumers to keep spending more under control. Consumers may not realize or care how much their total debt is growing if they could charge their CC without having to pay a certain amount relative to the total debt.

You just described minimum payment, which is separate from late fee.
Maybe it sounds great sitting in a modest house in Omaha, but they won’t get far without a charging network.
Sure, desktop use is still a low number. But the desktop in today's world is just a niche market, where Windows has a good share.

In the rest of the computing world, Linux is miles ahead as the major player: The internet's infrastructure is 90-odd percent Linux; the mobile phone world is about 80 percent Linux (Android, Harmony, etc); the smart household-appliance world (you know, the smart fridges, dishwashers, washing machines, microwaves, etc) is almost 100 percent Linux.

In the totality of things, the desktop world is a miserable few percent. Almost negligible actually.

Incidentally, ZDNet's "fragmentation" excuse is bullshit. Just like "fragmentation of brands" on the roads is why nobody buys cars.
Modern network interfaces are safer even in a default config without a local firewall enabled. Not even windows has SMB or the like enabled by default anymore. Theres a lot different sorts of USB devices that thing could pretend to be.
You can use price of Tesla cars as an indicator. It's about 30 - 50% cheaper in China than in US. Depends on different time/sale and different models.
Certainly, a number of Latin adjectives turned into nouns in English, like radical, terminal, solid, tenant, etc. Same even happened to some verbs, like caveat or video.

But what you can expect from a language that allows one to tape a talk, or to circle back about an ask?
I feel like I've read dozens of announcements from Google regarding its efforts to improve search quality. That can't be literally true, but the sense of deja vu inculcates a certain skepticism.

In a links post I just published (https://jakeseliger.com/2024/03/05/links-a-moon-landing-rapi...), I wrote:

Still, the Google search monopoly is under more serious threat than it’s been in the company’s history, and that may inspire real change. Amusingly, I used Google search to try and find a video of Sergey Brin saying that he’s un-retired to come back to work on AI, and Google search didn’t easily find it—but it turned up a bunch of spammy YouTube videos.
My hypothesis is that it's not listening nor is it predicting based on the individual, instead it's reacting to web surfing behaviors of your associates.

For example, you and your partner use the same wifi at home a lot, and you both visit a close friend's house and use their wifi every time you're there. Services that you use in both places (e.g. Facebook, Google) now have a graph where there's a very strong link between you and your partner, and a weaker but still important link between the two residential IP addresses.

Now you're at home, just had dinner with your partner, and you say you are considering buying a guitar. An hour later you open your phone and see ads for guitars. "Honey, did you search for guitars already?" "No, why?" "Oh no! It heard me! Or it knows me too well! Uninstall all your apps!"

No, what happened is that last night you were at that friend's house, told your friend about your guitar desires, and all morning that friend has been doing a bit of market research themselves, perhaps to see what you're on about and maybe consider getting it for you. The graph connects the dots, and advertisers suspect that perhaps guitar ads should go not only to your friend, but also to you (by that weak association) just in case you might be the one who buys the guitar.

The uncanniness is a function of you having no idea that your friend was building up this slight likelihood that you're about to buy a guitar, combined with even a very weak signal poking out above the noise given no other recent signals.
The new and shiny cars always look better than everything else. I want to see how these Chinese cars look in 5/10 years, when I might be interested in buying one. A reasonable new car (ie Honda/toyota/bmw) should last 20+ years. I just don't see that in these Chinese cars. I question whether they will be making parts in even five years.
I use OVMS on my 2010 Tesla Roadster and it’s likely a good option for people who don’t mind a bit of DIY to get it installed and to buy a SIM card. It supports most of the functionality of the car so I assume it can do that on a Leaf as well. Leaf is on the supported car list.
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Lower water bills
Claude 3 Is the Most Human AI Yet
Android on the desktop works very well on Wayland with Waydroid and it even supports Google Play store. https://waydro.id/

Great running apps not available on Linux with a touchscreen PC. It only seems to run Android apps compiled for x86, but it is very fast.

There are practical use cases, and it is very usable. I haven’t tried it on WSL2, but it seems like a practical approach without reliance on Microsoft.
ya got me
Idk Macos has terrible stuff too:

No calendar included in taskbar in OS like Windows has, only a calendar app that you have to launch

Per folder sorting in finder doesn't work in the file dialogue, finder never remembers which folders I want by date, alphabetised, etc.

Everything hidden away and abstracted, finding out what's actually consuming memory and swap can be much more difficult than it should, esp for ppl that got 8gb model bc AAPL want to make 99999% profit on ram and ssd upgrades.

Lots of features that are only available when your other devices are also in the Apple ecosystem. If they could get away with making MBs only connect to special "Apple AirTalk™" (WiFi) APs then they absolutely would.
Where to go now :(
Good thing tesla halted building an additional factory in germany for battery , after biden passed the Inflation Reduction Act, If i were to guess they’ll just expand capacity in their Chinese and American plants.

You gotta pay higher german taxes and then get arson attacks from hippies.

That combined with Germany not able to re-acquire a cheap energy supply after nordstream takedown and all of its major innovative companies like Kuka robotics slowly being bought out by Chinese and American firms.

The future looks bleak for germany honestly if they dont fix things soon.

Sidenote, but it is kinda amazing how many new factories are opening in usa left and right with bipartisan support for bringing back manufacturing jobs.
Can confirm. Have encountered this.
I believe that NIH also licenses Matlab for use on BioWulf, but I never see more than a license or two being used at any given time. Pretty much everyone I work with uses R or Python.
When a financial tradition (i.e., money) carelessly morphs into being a "social contract" red flags should be flying. Instead, we close our eyes and pray?
I actually use credit cards most of the time, mainly for fraud protection. If I was in a position where I was regularly concerned with missing a payment, or the fee I'd be charged, I'd definitely consider a different form of payment though.
I just discovered the existence of Javalin[0], a precursor to Improv, that was even more fundamental treating each axis as named 'variable'.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javelin_Software
Absolutely. But it is responsible for our weak response, not our weak/undprepared militaries.
God help us if GW Bush had been the second President.
Just make sure that in the future you don’t look back on the time you have now with the same regrets.
Sure, but for the most-used real-world geometry, n = 2 or 3. So how fast it grows really doesn't matter.

Most maps are 2-dimensional and this is fine.
If consumers aren't willing to risk paying late fees, just don't use credit cards.

Right, if you have an unexpected emergency (like repairing the car you depend on to get to work), just pay for it from your trust fund! /s
Which is fine. A legit buyer wanting to pay cash doesn't really care if the dealer has to file some extra paperwork.
Hey, as long as it gets Sally’s Baking Addiction[0] ranked at the top I’m all for it.

0: https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/
Embedded Swift on the Raspberry Pi Pico
Actually you kind of could. If you imagine making a normal hammer slightly more squishy, thats pretty similar to what they’re doing with llms. If the squishy hammer hits a person’s head, it’ll do less damage, but it’s also worse for nails.
How is being late on a minimum payment a junk fee?
The explanation as to why spreadsheets can be so bad is spot on. It's because of these reasons that porting a spreadsheet to a proper app is a thing. I've been tasked of doing just that and it's horrible.

We're supposed to rejoice and hail the spreadsheets gods because a spreadsheet can take unstructured data and create a map of (key,value) where key is a value appearing in one column and where value is the sum (for example) of the values appearing in another column for that key.

We literally have a simple mapping like that, call it a "pivot table", and it's supposed to be some achievement of mankind.

I beg to differ.

From what I've seen I'm pretty sure the world runs on broken spreadsheets, with bogus numbers being presented during meetings, used for decisions (including political decisions), etc.

At some point management realizes the company (or institution) has been taking nonsensical decisions since years and it's not only a minefield of bugs and near impossible to debug "code" (that'd be the "I've certainly spent more time than I want to admit trying to untangle one of those bowls of spaghetti trying to find out why a certain number is computed the way it is." from TFA, which any of us ever having been tasked to port a spreadhseet to an app know all too well)... But it's also a minefield politically: you cannot ask too many questions or point out too many bugs because it exposes the brokenness everything has been running on since years.

Even though somewhere, at some level, people knew everything was FUBARed (otherwise the decision to rewrite the spreadsheet to a dedicated app would not have been taken), it's a minefield. You have to walk on eggs to not piss anyone.

My epitath may be:

"The world runs on broken spreadsheets".
They had sinecures back then (the word dates back a long time), though not for peasants
Think about what ram is used for.

App binaries, sure. But most of what is stored in memory is content, video, image, file cache. These will not differ much from OS to OS, the only difference would be baseline memory usage before I start opening YouTube tabs.
I disagree. AI’s true ability shines when supported by hardware. Or rather baked into Hardware as a first class citizen. A chat GPT level Siri would always win against Chat GPT since it’s the default option.
So the regulation protecting the monetary system is good and the regulation restricting corporations is bad? Got it.
Given that it uses its own OS, essentially, is a fair point. I guess what I meant around my monitor analogy earlier is that it has the capability to serve that purpose, possibly without the sophisticated OS that wraps the store experience, the apps/games, and other features -- specifically with being able to use it on SteamVR or your PC in general.

This makes it a device that's generally capable of using any supported source for its screens, and can pass its peripheral input to other devices, like a PC, not unlike a mouse and keyboard.

VR headsets could treat their "OS" as a minimal experience akin to an OSD on a monitor that lets you switch sources and use the peripherals more generally like a mouse/keyboard with the right drivers on the target machine.

I'm more interested in calling out that Meta missed an opportunity here, and that it's confusing that they offer some semblance of these features (wireless linking for SteamVR...) while coupling that so closely to their OS and online-only experience.
Where do you use a MIDI synthesizer that it needs to be waterproof? In the rain, the ocean, the bathtub?
Inquiring minds want to know!
How many times you had to program recursion with detection and special-casing of cycles? How many times the tree thing you wrote was artificially constraining the domain due to not allowing multiple parents? Those are the cases where graph is the right mental model, and graph structure ought to be considered (you may still hack the solution from special-cased recursion on lists, for engineering reasons).

Also, how much does the control flow jump between objects in your code? There's nothing more core to enterprise programming (at least of C++/Java school of thought) than the object graph. Which is what it says on the tin: a runtime directed graph of objects connected by pointers/references. A lot of enterprise code is, in a way, graph algorithms, just inlined and so smeared out that people don't recognize them for what they are.

Also, how many times the domain model you were using was plain broken, because whoever designed it didn't understand that most things in life don't arrange well into hierarchy - they tend to form directed graphs.
The Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) is no longer accepting applications
// The problem is that news services no longer care about the truth. //

But...(using Elon Musk's 6 levels of asking "why" methodology) Why do the news services no longer care about the truth? Because they can't make money printing the truth. They can only make money by printing opinions.

Why can't they make money printing the truth? Because their old business models have been nuked, and its just too expensive for them to hire those fact checkers and editors.

Why do they switch to just printing opinions then?? Because if you can make money printing opinions, you don't need fact checkers anyways. Its hella cheaper to just put "people are asking...." in front of something than checking to see if that something is actually true.

Why can you make money printing opinions? Because people would rather watch a mammarily- and rhetorically-blessed person who is very articulately telling them what they already believe.

Why do they prefer to hear what they already believe? That way they don't have to admit that those annoying self-righteous guys might have a point....

Why don't they want to admit that somebody else might have a good point? Because nobody likes to lose an argument.

*that* is the problem which Australia's laws are trying to fix....no doubt there is a better way, but I can't think of any.....can you?
If you never pay the bill they take you to court. There still doesn't need to be a late fee.
I tried to look up how many potentially used nuclear powered ships are out there, since you could just drop an anchor and a ton of power all over the world with one, but it seems like a surprisingly short list outside of US navy. I guess it would make sense due to nonproliferation. What a shame though. Imagine if every other container ship had one of these power plants how many remote areas would probably meet a great deal of their energy needs from a battery array in their shipping port, rather than the current paradigm where they must provide dirty fuel for shipping companies that goes on to pollute the harbor.
Food Is Less Nutritious Than It Used to Be
Pangaea: Facts about an Ancient Supercontinent
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Physicists Reveal a Form of Crystal Where Electrons Can't Move