skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tried this screenshot trick once on a Windows server that was shared. So stupid. We lost a full day restoring it.

Now I leave the trickery to games at company socials where nothing valuable is at risk, except my ego.
How does an article like this not mention that if you rent you probably don't have a water spigot and area you can wash your own car. I'm not saying this is causal, but it seems like a reasonable question that I'd want addressed. Is it related? Bloomberg has not previously been shy about discussing the decreasing rate of home ownership and renting.
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For those interested in a pilot's view of this incident, check out MentourPilot's latest video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5K9HBiJpuk&ab_channel=Mento...

About 45 min into the video, he quotes a technique called WSPR that can use radio transmissions to track flights. Super interesting, if validated. A less easily digested paper on WSPR technology is available under the video.
Or, more likely, there are legitimate concerns had by part of the town even though another part of the town uses and appreciates them. Both groups can exist at once without astroturfing!

A new car wash recently popped up on the main road near my house, and it has definitely had a substantial negative impact on the traffic patterns surrounding it. Basically every time I go that way I have to maneuver around people clogging up the road waiting to turn into it.

It's not enough to cause me any real pain, but it's definitely enough to make me feel less than kindly towards the proliferation.
Ah.. I'm not sure now.. It was a long time ago and i can't really remember which it was. The name Schwarz is familiar. Maybe it was that.
That may depend on region. These still exist in the suburbs outside Birmingham, AL. Last I saw the prices varied from $15-30 for a wash, wax, detail, and hand dry.

They don't offer an oil change though, I've never seen a wash+detail+oil change in the area. At scale I'd assume they could do it for closer to $50, if $35 was a 2005 price that's on par with inflation and beating inflation for some industries like food.
If infinities don't exist then R and N don't have cardinality so that's not really a problem.
When Uber entered the market, what they were doing was technically illegal (the taxi industry was regulated, Uber wasn't a registered provider, its drivers didn't own a taxi permit (which no longer exist), etc).

You can generally sue for illegal behavior that causes you losses.
Taxis are regulated and would be barred from operating if they fall out of compliance. this specific story is about taxi licenses which are of limited availability and costs a lot of money to get. Since Uber lobbied the govt for permission to operate without these, their value have freefalled and Uber is compensating the holders of those licenses.

That protectionism hasn't stepped up properly the past ten years only shows that maybe governments found they would benefit from letting the taxis get slapped around a bit. There will probably be more stories like this in the future as Uber has become entrenched and now will be pressured to get more proper.
Not really sure about point being made here.

Ukraine has no f22, f35, super carriers etc etc. If it would have them, then it would stomp over invading army.
Soldering doesn't involve boiling the lead in the solder. I worry more about the fumes from the flux than I do the solder. I just wash my hands afterward to make sure I don't ingest traces of it.
The salesperson learning that one should pose in a specific way is not value add to the customer, it's a sales trick.
Yeah, that's a really hard problem to solve, though. Some problems don't have pretty or hideable solutions, and that doesn't mean we should just not solve them.

Homelessness is probably even more difficult in this regard: homeless men are dirty, smelly, and scary, and that turns a lot of people off from wanting to help them, which is why almost every program for the homeless I know of is geared toward making them less visible, even if doing so actively harms the homeless.
But it’s not a ban…
Requiring a company to publish their production database for free is delusional. I haven't mentioned musk anywhere in my comment, you must be obsessed with him.
I consider the weights a binary program and the source code is the training data. The training algorithm is the compiler.

I agree this isn't standard terminology, but it makes the most sense to me in terms of power dynamics and information flow.

We know from interpretability research that the weights do algorithms eg sin approximation etc. So they feel like binary programs to me.
Look for SuperResolution. These models will typically come as a GAN, Normalizing Flow (or Score, NODE), or more recently Diffusion (or SNODE) (or some combination!). The one you want will depend on your computational resources, how lossy you are willing to be, and your image domain (if you're unwilling to tune). Real time (>60fps) is typically going to be a GAN or flow.

Make sure to test the models before you deploy. Nothing will be lossless doing superresolution but flows can get you lossless in compression.
> It'd be much easier and have a bigger impact to just go plant-based.

Ok but this is a non starter since myself and a huge chunk of the western population will say no thank you.
Yes, though ocean ships are not the only source of sulfer (and even low sulfer fuels have some sulfer.) But the duration would be short, we've already been doing it for decades, and the data could be invaluable. Regardless of the politics and peoples perceptions, it seems like the right thing to do scientifically. If you're against tampering with the environment then consider that by switching to low sulfer fuels we have just tampered with the environment in a huge way, without any scientific study of the results or forethought as to what the consequences would be. Halting pollution is just as big an experiment in geoengineering as any other type of geoengineering. This is an opportunity to learn something about geoengineering at low cost and low risk. Best case may be that putting the sulfer back shows little effect. Worst case is it shows a big effect and then we have to very careful about when and how we end other sources of particulate pollution that may have an effect on warming. That would be terrible since it may mean we'd have to keeping putting poisons into the atmosphere to keep from cooking the planet for a while, but at least we'd have a better idea of what we're doing and what effects air pollution is currently causing.
Depends...

Reputable shops I more often see do something more like a 'Prepaid' discount where you get X washes (maybe in the next Y months) for Z dollars, and ideally it's something like you get one wash a month at a 10-20 percent discount.

The profit-gouging ones, either do a 'assume 3-4 washes a month to see real benefit' or assume you are washing once a week in their sub... or do all the other 'tricks' above schemes can allow.
Yes, automatically :)
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Pinch to zoom magnifies part of the page. That’s less helpful for text because you have to scroll the smaller viewport to read a complete line of text.

On iOS, there’s a text scale button in the URL bar which does the trick.
From what I've heard the current way to clean cash is to buy gift cards and then use them to buy items from Amazon/Steam. Sure, the store fronts take a cut but having a 1099 from Valve looks way more legitimate than reporting thousands of dollars of cash.
And yet it’s not enough to curb the desire to tip the scales.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/report-musk-had-...
LLMs can mimic past examples of reasoning from the dataset. So, it can re-use reasoning that it has already been trained on. If the network manages to generalize well enough across its training data, then it can get close to reproducing general reasoning. But it can't yet fully get there, of course.
Note that this does not create a memory leak, since the pointer/reference is part of the root set.

What does valgrind say?
I am not sure what you are arguing with "experience obeys science".

We can already alter our experience by taking psychadelics, or looking at optical illusions. There are many ways we can alter or fool our consciousness.

Phenomenological consciousness is how it is to be you. Only you know that. It's your inner experience. It's how you feel pain in your stomach, how it feels like to eat a piece of chocolate. This is your inner life. And its categorically very different to billions of electrical switches running inside a silicon chip or neurons firing inside our brain.

So there is this big gap between the interactions of physical particles with some physical properties and conscious experience. And this is what David Chalmers called the big problem of consciousness.

And there would be no way to test for that kind of consciousness. Not that I know of, because unconscious AI could behave like it is conscious.
This is honestly a wild and out there claim. The OpenJdk team would never want to see this happen to their user base. They’re some of the most professional programmers I’ve ever seen.

The whole truth is that the Apple kernel team broke user space.
> ‘alpehnerd’ looks like a random pseudonym account to me

And based on karma, it appears to be an account that people have found more helpful than yours!

If this thread is anything to go by, the author seems both knowledgeable and reasonable whereas you’ve been needlessly hostile throughout.
My first impression about this is that your examples lean a lot on survivor bias.

However, with deep enough pockets, you can indeed invest in a thousand hyped things, avoid the worst ones, and see if one or two of these sucker magnets is a moonshot.

And suddenly we're describing traditional venture capitalism. To get rich, you just need to start by being rich!
I want Pine64 to work, but I have a shelf of e-waste because I bought in, hoping. It seems they have selectively alienated some of the developers working with their hardware, rather than feeding the community they expect to produce the software ecosystem that sits around their hardware.
> Twitter is valued at 40 billion

WAS vaulued at 44B.

Now?

Maybe 5 billion.
Take a look at page 79 of the first 'key document' https://www.mauriceblackburn.com.au/class-actions/join-a-cla...

The law said you need a license to provide taxi services. Uber and its drivers didn't have that license. So the lawsuit is for the damages caused by Uber's illegal behaviour.
I have an Aquaris BQ 4.5 Ubuntu phone and it's my absolute favourite smartphone I've owned (compared to a couple middle market Sony phones, Nexus 5, Nexus 5X, and my current Sony Xperia XA2 Ultra, which is way too friggin ginormous, it's as big as my hand). The dimensions are perfect for me and I really like the Ubuntu Touch OS.

Unfortunately I managed to drop it and now the screen has a dead spot in the bottom left. As that is the spot where the important icons are it means I have a device that works perfectly aside from being entirely useless (a device which resembles its owner perfectly).
> has never, ever worked in the history of humanity.

I think you'll find that the majority of humanity (those who aren't libertarians) actually agree that policing the negative externalities of business should be part of government's function.

Stuff like "we're destroying the ozone layer," "L.A's air is mostly smog," and "this factory keeps tearing children limb from limb" were effectively solved by government policing these negative externalities, not by "the market."
Yes, unfortunately, Noah's argument rests on at least two assumptions that do not hold:

1) That constraints on compute will mean that humans will have jobs to do that AIs are too busy to do, because they're fully maxed out on capacity doing more important jobs.

This doesn't hold up when the marginal cost of creating and running a new AI instance falls below the marginal cost of raising and feeding a human. Noah believes it will not because he assumes:

2) that the resources that AIs need (compute) are not in competition with the resources that humans need (food).

However, they are. We can repurpose farmland and irrigation water to datacenters, fabs, and cooling towers. Maybe that wouldn't matter if all the AI-created wealth meant that you didn't need to do valuable labor to feed yourself, but:

3) If vast wealth is created by AI, there will be enough for everybody, so there's no need to be rushing to accumulate capital now.

In his article, dismisses the people who are worried that the AI's owners will accumulate all the wealth and be the only ones who can afford food or housing. Comparative advantage provides no reassurance here; there's nothing in economics that prevents productivity gains from being outpaced by a growing wealth disparity that provides all the productivity gains to the top and then some. And it's exactly the outcome you'd expect without government redistribution.
It’s usually not just mud on your car and all the other stuff is also not good to let into the water untreated either
It can make sense if you don't have a garage, and there's a lot of pollen and whatnot where you park. If I don't wash my car ~twice a week, it ends up looking pretty funky.
Yes, inlining (and LTO can take it a notch or two higher) does away with the problem altogether, however the number of projects that default to «-Os» (or even to «-O2») to build a release product is substantial to large.

There is also a significant number of projects that go to great lengths to force-override CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS (usually with «-O2 -g» or even with «-O») or make it extraordinary difficult to change the project's default CFLAGS, for no apparent reasons which eliminates a number of advanced optimisations in builds with default build settings.
i wasn't aware there was a free tier of Copilot, from reading the article it sounds like an entirely different product than Github Copilot, right?
Some do, most do not. I used to make test equipment and so was at many of the dealers within 100 miles to test something so I saw a lot of dealers.
They really cannot. Both SAM sites and CIWs are built for this job, and drones simply aren't. A drone isn't as fast as a cruise missile or as maneuverable as a jet. Most of them boast a radio signature bigger than an F-35 and struggle to outrun a hatchback while delivering a payload smaller than an AIM-9. They cannot be effectively delivered at standoff range, and fail to damage anything but the most vulnerable assets.

Swarm warfare isn't irrelevant, but propeller-driven subsonic aircraft usually end up as cannon fodder no matter how many you throw into controlled airspace.
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Not between them.
The article does mention that, but only in passing! I'm surprised they didn't dig more into it, since the most vocal opponents to more competition would probably be existing businesses!
Valid point. Conventional codecs draw things on screen that are not in the original, too, but we are used to low quality images and videos, and learned to ignore the block edges and smudges unconsciously. NN models “recover” much complex and plausible-looking features. It is possible that some future general purpose image compressor would do the same thing to small numbers lossy JBIG2 did.
I don't know the particulars about your bank, obviously but the thing is, mainframes serve so many millions of clients, and that's clients of the largest money transfer networks (Amex, Visa, Master, everyone really) that if there's an outage it will make the news, internationally, and it will be front page news too. With live updates.

In fact, if I think about it, I don't think I remember any time when a serious outage that was eventually explained in the press was the fault of some mainframe going down. Usually it's something else, like someone misconfigured something or something didn't update correctly etc. stuff that sounds a lot like day-to-day web dev stuff.

So I think maybe it was something else that went on with your bank, that only affected your bank. Like inkyoto says below, maybe some DNS went down?
I wash my car annually, whether it needs it or not!
That and of course every implementation of austerity seems to do long term damage to the economy of countries that apply it. I recall a few articles even saying that the maths that supported austerity was the result of a spreadsheet error, though whether that’s true I don’t know.

What we do know is that tax cuts for businesses and high earners has never demonstrated any gains for the majority of citizens but has resulted in increasing disparity and reduction in the rate at which people can move up the economic ladder.

It remains weird to me that there’s an entire cohort of people who look back with yearning to the 50s-70s where that tax rates were reasonable, but then aggressively complain about any attempt to move even slightly in the direction of restoring those tax rates.

Instead we get “we will fix the economy with austerity” in which we reduce the taxes for people and companies with no cash problems, but drastically increase the costs for everyone else. If need be we will also use the taxes paid by the group that isn’t getting tax cuts to bank roll the people getting tax cuts.
Could be part of Qualcomm too. I wonder if they're willing to release source code for their drivers if you want to get really low level.
I don't think they missed reading that.

Just that regardless, the whole reason for the suit in the first place is just because a new company beat Taxi's at their game and the Taxi companies decided to complain rather than innovate.
No, you make that decision. It's not given to you. You could be out -$4500 after a consultant has told you that they cannot save you the money. They're not robots. But likely most consultants are there because they can save you money, well.
Yeah. Like how they got to moscow in 3 days when the earlier wunderwaffe were provided to them...

This delirious out of touchness is making the West lose the war.
FYI - 2600 Hz is a common handshake tone used in telco.

Hence why “2600” is referenced.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2600_hertz
At the end of the day, Uber broke the Australian laws as they stood (even if you didn't agree with them).

If I had started an illegal gypsy taxi business I would have been fined or arrested. Why are there different rules for large corporations?
Bernie Sanders wants the US to adopt a 32-hour workweek
Let's say you were going to donate stock to charity from either of these sources (ESPP, RSU)

Is there any way to avoid taxation when it becomes yours to donate, or to be refunded the money used to pay taxes that you no longer owe as you don't own the stock?
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Python has idna-encoding built in these days, so I figured I'd do a quick check to see what happens:

>>> "foo".encode("idna")
b'foo'
>>> "fooé".encode("idna")
b'xn--foo-dma'

So indeed a punycode'd ascii domain would remain unchanges by the looks of it.

There's also the "punycode" encoding available, but that does something subtly different that's not quite how domains get encoded:

>>> "foo".encode("punycode")
b'foo-'
>>> "fooé".encode("punycode")
b'foo-dma'
IIRC it was something about CGI not being supported, or maybe FastCGI not being supported, so I had to learn about the New Thing (I hadn't setup PHP in >5 years at that point). I think there was a missing php-nginx-fastcgi Ubuntu package that we had to install, maybe. I don't remember the specifics. I don't even know that I remembered the specifics when I wrote this :)
> I think I misread the original post, and assumed that since they were talking about running COBOL on more modern systems that they were using it to solve new business problems, hence my confusion.

Sometimes, a new business problem can be addressed (whether in whole or in part) by changes or enhancements to an existing IT system; in that sense, some people use COBOL for new business problems even in 2024.
So horizons workspace is for... ?

Or the quest pro for that matter, even though it flopped.
It's very situational. If you're talking about writing a static site generator or handcoding a web page, that's mostly true, although if you're trying to not just be efficient, but as efficient as possible, things like optimizing assets are a small but additional step.

If you're maintaining a web app over a period of years, it takes at least some effort and time to keep it slim and efficient because small inefficiencies here and there start to accumulate and these tend to be more demanding even in the best case.

There are some antifeatures that Dan Luu identifies, like dynamically unloading content, that probably take a considerable amount of time to implement while degrading both the user experience and efficiency, but I doubt avoiding those is enough to ensure good performance on more complicated projects.
The real problem is that none of that spending actually goes to the people.
> I take pride in the fact I haven't been to a car wash in probably 3 years and have likely gone myself less than 10 times total.

You don't come off here as well as you think you do.
Chatbot Arena is not a blind ranking.

Many, if not most, users intentionally ask the models questions to tease out their canned disclaimers: so they know exactly which model is answering.

On one hand it's fair to say disclaimers affect the usefulness of the model, but on the other I don't think most people are solely asking these LLMs to produce meth or say "fuck", and that has an outsized effect on the usefulness of Chatbot Arena as a general benchmark.

I personally recommend people use it at most as a way to directly test specific LLMs and ignore it as a benchmark.
Same article, right?

And there's nothing in there to do with car washes specifically, though? Just general MACRS etc?
Git graph is great, and is something I've used in my workflow. But here's a few features of Interactive Smartlog (ISL) that may make it stand out:

- In ISL, your uncommitted changes are highlighted as a key part of the UI, and you can perform git actions on your uncommitted changes (staging/unstaging, reverting, etc)

- ISL aims to present a minimalist view of your repository, with only commits and branches that are relevant to your work.

- You can view pull request status via ISL (accepted/rejected/needs-review, # of comments, CI status).

- ISL aims to never send you to the command line. When you rebase, for example, you can perform all actions entirely within the UI (though you may need to go into files for conflict resolution).

- ISL encourages usage of the UI for git operations: git actions appear as buttons in the UI (whereas in Git Graph, they appear via a context menu when you right-click on a commit)

- You can easily create & amend commits, and push branches in ISL via buttons in the UI.

Hope this helps! Let me know if I can answer any other questions :)