skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No marketing strategies kind of does work on me. The standard psychological manipulation tactics have been so badly worn by now there's a lot to be said for just offering a meaningful product and not acting like manipulative scum. May seem too simple, but sadly it's an easy way to stand out positively from most of the competition.
but in this particular case:

The EPA move came after the agency determined that types of PFAS created during the fluorination process “are highly toxic and present unreasonable risks that cannot be prevented other than through prohibition of manufacture.”

so using some legal loophole to work around the EPA in this case seems pretty "bad", no?
I was not aware of that; I thought that it was pretty deterministic.

Nonetheless, for this particular case, comparing jpegs decoded into lossless formats is unnecessary -- you can simply compare the two jpegs directly based on the default renderer in your browser.
Recent announcement during GTC was Blackwell would do x2 on nvlink, 900GB/s => 1800GB/s. And iirc nvlink can do multi-node (gpus in different servers) too now... so... no?
I mean, based on the observations in the article, there's really no way to know the accident rate with any certainty. No one is even keeping track. It's all reliant on self-reporting to a lobbying organization that most these places aren't even a part of.
This attack works like normal Sales calls. Hit enough of them and you'll find someone that's new, or in a rush, or distracted or ancient or challenged or a Republican idiot, or, or.

That's why it's still in use today. It works, but takes a lot of "cold calling" via phishing to find targets.
You need to watch both of them: Jodorowsky's Dune and H.R Giger's documentary "Dark Star: HR Gigers Welt". Giger was a true artist to the bones, his house was like a macabre gothic castle from dracula, full of statues, books and art.

Jodorowsky hired Dan O'Bannon, HR Giger, Jean Giraud Moebius, Salvador Dali, Mick Jagger, Pink Floyd... not to mention his own son.

He and Moebius created L'Incal and Metabarons, one of the wildest rides in the realm of european comics. Moebius was one of the most talented artists in the history of the Franco Belgian comics scene of France.

Surreal that Jodorowsky's Dune never materialized. I think it would have been truly amazing and far better than Lynch's Dune. I won't even mention the modern adaptation. How can the guy who made Blade Runner 2049 fails to deliver something so important for Science Fiction? Villeneuve was saved by legitimate actors on blade runner.
Wow, so the naval drones carry a starlink terminal?
To your closing note, one interesting narrative (lie?), "Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time" https://www.theguardian.com/news/oliver-burkeman-s-blog/2014...
Nav systems have been able to get you to gas stations for ages?
New tools for production safety – Gradual deployments, Source maps
MAOIs are less used because their side-effect and risk profiles are so bad. But for a "we've tried everything else" alternative to euthanasia or suicide, sure.
Reminded me of when I read 1984 and thought "how would they ever get a camera into everyone's house" and the answer is "the people put them there willingly"
> * If the URL is personalized, it tells the attacker that the address is active. This is probably pretty limited help to the attacker. But it might tell them if your company emails follow a particular format, right?

I just asked chatgpt and it knows what email format the company I work for follows, so I'm not sure this is of particular value.
First off - congrats!

This is the first I’ve heard of langflow. From the link it looks like an open source, visual … editor … for running and possibly training models? Or doing prompt engineering? Please forgive my ignorance.

My question is actually about the acquisition. What was langflow’s business model before the acquisition? Why would datastax acquire instead of donate? Essentially, is there a specific direction datastax wants to take the project, or was this a special deal to acquihire the talent?
thank you. also, what does "GP" mean in this context? mistyping of "OP"?
That's interesting: I've only seen "point in case" being used, never "case in point" (although it does make a lot more sense, now that I think of it).
Used 2023's are not eligible for any tax credit. New EUV's are eligible for $7500 tax credit. Used EV's must be at least two years old to qualify for the $4,000 tax credit. There are no new 2023 EUV's available in my local market, nearest one is 50 miles away. The price was at the lower side of retail KBB, so it was a fair deal, not a huge bargain, no. I'm happy with it, I basically got the $7500 tax credit baked into the price at point of sale.
> collectively humans have stopped imagining alternate socio-economic-political systems

...right that's why it never stops being salient on social media like an undead beaten horse and you're talking about it right now.

Maybe one problem is that imagination qua alternatives tends to stop rather short, and idealists too often consider the details and consequences to be an afterthought (everything just gets sorted if only you're rid of Capitalism). Or disregard history in some cases.

It's comforting that the suggested approach by those who aren't fond of State Socialism (e.g. ancoms) is some variation on "do anarchism/syndicalism until communism happens", which seems harmless. They can get the worker-owned coffee shop out of their system.
It's a bit more interesting in its historical context of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1bpxs0c/the_word_for...
>Given how many stories there are of people wandering around looking for chargers, it is clear that Hertz did a terrible job of informing customers of how their cars worked.

If that was the core issue, that's solvable. They didn't fail because of that either.
Comparing water's 4.18 kJ/kg-K * ~75 K (25 °C -> 100 °C) to the sand's 1.1 kJ/kg-K * 900 K?

I think you can (or it's easier) get more useful work out of a lesser amount of hotter stuff, even if the thermal energy or total heat is the same. Unsure of that, I don't know what the specific principle is. I'd vaguely gesture at the 2nd law of thermo as if I poured a cup of boiling water into a pot of room-temperature water, the total heat leaving the pot would wind up being the same as the heat leaving the cup, but less useful?
I always just use a systemd or open rc service to run my stuff, pretty much a shell script and voilá. As long as you know to set proper firewall rules and run things as non-root your pretty much ready.
According to Crunchbase [0], Perplexity has raised over $100M.

You built this in your spare time?

The following things jump out to me:

- How much a hype cycle invites insane amounts of money
- How trash the entire VC world is during a hype cycle
- What an amazing thing ingenuity and passion are

Great job!

0 - https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/perplexity-ai
Beats collecting stamps or getting way into lawn care or something.

This is basically public service work.
And also encapsulates a problem embedded in the way the author expresses the differentiation.

Luck is not just about recognizing opportunities when they arise, its also about being in a position to act on those opportunities.

I've read several times that professional poker players are very good at doing math in their head to evaluate how good a bet actually is. Basically, you take the apparent cost of an operation (maybe the raise from a previous player), multiply it by the odds of losing, then decide if that value is above or below what you can "afford" to lose. So if the fee to stay in is $5,000, and the odds of losing the next hand are 3 in 5, then the gambler has to decide "can I afford to lose $3,000 right now?". If the answer is yes, then bet. If not, then fold. The hard part is ignoring the apparent sunk cost.

So if I'm chronically unlucky, either I'm garbage at recognizing opportunities, or when I do recognize opportunities, I'm not in a position to act on them. It can certainly be the case that the former contributes to the latter. But it can also be the case that you just never get an opportunity to get in the game, so to speak, in the first place. Everybody needs that one big break to get in the game. Not everybody gets that break.
Or just make your prices have the credit card fees built in just like normal businesses. Your system is a ton of work for very little benefit to anyone and it’s probably lowering your revenue and it’s as annoying as places that charge for takeout containers — missing the point that takeout containers encourage people to buy more food.

It’s an unsophisticated approach to business. That’s why it’s common in mom and pop places — mom didn’t go to business school and pop is tripping over dollars to save a nickle — they see the “expense” but they can’t see the revenue that aren’t getting.

There is a reason most small restaurants fail — they don’t know how to be more profitable. So they start to add on these little fees when they begin to struggle and don’t realize that they’re making the problem worse. In other words, most people that start restaurants don’t know what they’re doing in the back office even if they’re great in the kitchen. Restaurants fail for many reasons, but not controlling costs is the biggest — however, they’re naïvely choosing to control the wrong costs.

One of my good friends owns a chain of 30 Tex-Mex restaurants in Texas. After several burglaries of the safe at several locations, they went cashless at some locations. The cashless locations, without exception, saw sales increase by over 12%. He quickly made all of his stores cashless and sales increased among all stores. My anecdote isn’t data — but there is plenty of data out there.

The credit card surcharge scheme is endemic among small business owners who actually haven’t done the math. Or, more accurately, they’re doing the wrong math.

Credit card users spend more than cash users. So you make up for the “savings” with lower sales volume. And credit card users that have to pay higher prices will go elsewhere. Or, if they pull out cash, they’ll spend less of it.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83488-3
Logical states for fault-tolerant quantum computation with propagating light
Surf the web like it's 1999 with these old-school cursors
> Why we would we fund Matrix when XMPP and IRC already exists?

A common sentiment I’ve come across, here and other corners of the internet, is dismay that more organizations have been adopting closed communication platforms such as Discord and Slack. These platforms (probably Discord more so) make it easier for online communities to be set up and offer relatively polished user experience compared to Matrix, IRC, or XMPP.

There was a post shared on HN a few weeks ago by a technical user and their onboarding experience with Matrix https://blog.koehntopp.info/2024/02/13/the-matrix-trashfire.... As someone who uses Matrix, I’m hoping they bridge the UX gap sooner than later.

XMPP and IRC are even further away from being viable alternatives.
Earthsea was written targeted for children/youth; it’s the same author but in a different register so you may find you enjoy her other stuff more?
Wouldn't the FAA or FCC in the US have some jurisdiction over such a setup?
Which brand? I know all bike chains come with factory grease but I don't know if I've ever seen it indicated what they are lubricated with.

Of course there are plenty of commercial bike lubes that come with Teflon aka PTFE mixed in.

Completely unnecessary, there's a movement to move towards simple paraffin or natural waxes in the cycling community. In fact, wax wears chain less via less contamination and is vastly more efficient than many of the teflon drip lubes.

https://zerofrictioncycling.com.au/lubetesting/
>Sure, but a bug in Rust's vec is unlikely at this point & thus as long as you're in safe Rust you have no possibility of a memory error

It has nothing to do with the built-in data structures because it doesn't even exist in the same space as them. The flaws themselves are in an algorithm's reasoning, it's not an issue that exists because somewhere in the codebase there's an out-of-bounds access on a vector. The issues are caused by said flawed reasoning generating bad machine code with erronious pointer arithmetic. Note that it's the reasoning itself generating bad pointer arithmetic, not pointer arithmetic that exists explicitly in the codebase.

It's the kind of problem you need proof systems to solve. A substructural type system (or a near-approximation like Rust's ownership semantics) is simply not robust enough for the problem domain, you need full blown dependent types for this kind of thing, something that can guarantee logical safety.

ATS can handle the job, but Rust can't.
The article gives a reading of Ursula Le Guin that falls from one merely political way to see the world (conquest) into another (global warming and human hubris) - plus a heavy dose of corresponding judgementality.

To me Ursula Le Guin's books are different still: I see them mostly as prompts for my emotion and as people living their life. One's life is only loosely tied to the political thought or environment around us. We are allowed to make our life one and the same in a political militant fashion but that is an option, a choice. We don't have to. In the books, we are presented worlds (often through the character growing up in it) and then we are presented the characters trajectories through them. Many sci-fi writers want to present political ideas through created worlds, of course. That is not Ursula Le Guin's dominion. And her worlds are certainly not reaching for "free from harm"! Where in the world does that one come from?!

What I read them for:

1) I love that many of her characters are paying attention. They are not simply surviving passively in the sense of always reacting and living past the current hardship. They are also not just as mindlessly choosing militant action or conquest.

2) I love above all the writing style. Immensely calm. And the language: poetic, smooth and emotion-prompting. Ursula Le Guin stands out for me in that direction. Perfect tone is rare, instilling emotion in me to this degree is very rare.

Just as The Magicians is written in a style that perfectly matches teen angst (as opposed to Harry Potter.)

And I note that Ursula Le Guin's teens usually don't have much angst - unrealistically so - and I'm fine with that - the rest makes up for it.

I highly recommend these books - but certainly not as the one major source of political creativity.
Did you read the page? It's right there.
I learned so much about economic systems!
The discussion was started on the basis that there's only an acceptable depreciation a car should have, whereas there's no such thing and I made that statement as clear and as direct as I could even if others don't like it.
A pedantic engineer has appeared!

This may come as a surprise to you, but I don't care. I don't have time to read manuals and spend time on the welcome documentation.

If it isn't obvious OOTB how to use somettbing like an OS that is built on the presupposition of ease of us, then your UX is bad and not intuitive. We're not talking specializes software here like a DAW or a IDE. It's a desktop OS ffs.
Case study of building an AutoML library that operates natural language
It's like a combination of HuggingGPT, LangChain and Python type inference
Perhaps because it's the best system.

We've had communism in my country, never again.
> Even if you buy the fanciest consumer motherboard out there, you'll find it only comes with one PCIe slot that actually runs at 16x speed, one that's maybe 4x speed (but 16x size), and that's about it.

Maybe in the Intel World, this is true. Intel has always played games at consumer's expense...

Here's the cheapest AMD AM5 socket ATX mobo sold by NewEgg, complete with two (2) 16x PCIe gen 4 slots[1].

Here's an AM5 mATX board with two (2) 16x PCIe gen 4 slots[2].

Come join team Red - the water is warm.

[1] https://www.newegg.com/msi-pro-b650-s-wifi/p/N82E16813144642

[2] https://www.newegg.com/msi-pro-b650m-a-wifi/p/13-144-559
I would argue that larger brands have to have more ads to sway opinion because people are already familiar with their products. Coca-cola is one of the bigger advertisers, but everyone already knows what Coke tastes like and if they like it. Seeing dozens of Coke ads won't change someone's opinion much, compared with seeing a single ad for a new drink can take them from 100% unawareness of the product to knowing it exists.
Amen, like I said Apple psychophants are everywhere.
> I've never gotten a job by applying to it. It's always been referrals or someone reaching out to me.

This is always a bewildering one, but I've heard similar stories on HN, so I guess it does happen! I've never understood how this would work in practice, outside of 1. tiny companies who have no HR department and hire you by having the CEO shake your hand, OR 2. you're applying to be some big shot CxO/SVP guy and they have a special process for you.

Sure, I've had people reach out to me, like recruiters, former co-workers, and so on. They'll tell me about the role, find out if I'm interested, but at some point, inevitably will say, "OK Great! Go to this URL and fill in the application. Good luck!" How the f- do you skip that step? Do companies actually just mail you the job offer after a few chats, bypassing the application, phone screens, in-person interviews, coding challenges, take-home-tests, and so on??? What kind of a Captain Of Industry do you have to be to get this kind of special treatment? I've never seen it, and while I'm no John Carmack, I'm not a schmuck either.
n100 will also last longer and be more reliable. You can run regular linux distro and it will be supported forever as it's x86. You will get better performance with the NAS too (6 drives can go pretty fast!)
There are some third party apps that support mounting SFTP or other remote drives/paths so that they’re accessible in Finder and in other apps. Some of these are Transmit (by Panic Software), Forklift by Binary Nights, and Mountain Duck.
The answer is different because an email is not a standalone webpage and there are a lot of things you might want to do in a website that you won't expect to be able or need to do in an email. You probably don't want to control font sizes or page margins in an email, for instance; you probably do want to control color or override some overflow defaults. Maybe I'm off in the above but the point is that you expect to control a subset of things for an email (same as eg for RSS entries) and media selectors aren't obviously necessary for these kinds of things.
Visual Basic succeeded at this somewhat. There was a market for widgets. You paid for the widgets and your users paid you for the composed application (the users were not free to recompose it however). But that was in the days when people paid for software

Nowadays people don't pay but it doesn't mean you can't compose things from open source stuff like material UI.

I think that Bracha's point is that it's always been hard for a user to compose apps and make them consistent etc(although VB was much easier than web stuff). But now the AI will compose them so the promise of VB etc could be fully realised. Power to the people.
Yep, for that 204 (OK, but no results) exists. But if you serve a browser a page with 204 in the header, it refuses to render anything since 204 mandates an empty body, so the browser doesn't even look at it.
I’ve run a Debian server for decades.

But I do use nano and not vim.
Pretty much. If you can put x86 on your (big E) embedded thing, you can shortcut so many classic embedded time- and money-pits. Look up VPX for example for rugged PC platforms. But same here, if you can do without (industrialized PC, 'edge' stuff or even COTS server...) you can shave so much cost, in sometimes very competitive markets.

Edit: of course this works for low-volume. If you're getting millions of objects out the door, it's another story...
this may be related to the performance of the intel nic driver for bsd.
Oh man, I feel for you (I'm at MA in Linz), but the market is quite saturated ;(. Good luck!
I love that book too, maybe my favorite by her, but have found it to be a polarizing recommendation. It's a very unusual format (the novel is interspersed with creation myths, plays, songs, recipes, etc of the people of the setting) and some people just immediately dislike it.

I also think in some important ways it is not as narratively strong as her best works, a necessary tradeoff for what it does accomplish. It's very interesting to consider her being raised by an anthropologist, and her exceptional childhood exposure to Ishi, whom her father had known and her mother and brother separately wrote books about.

A thread running through all of her books is a deep human interest in the ways of peoples, and how their stories about themselves shape who they are and their relationship to a changing world. Always Coming Home is the book of her that is most, almost exclusively, focused on these concerns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishi_in_Two_Worlds
You seem to be an unusually clear thinker, and I have an idea, but I'd fail miserably on a fair number of these metrics, though for non-typical reasons I'd say.
I was not, that's relatively new, though if I'm not mistaken it might make the process easier.

I mean calling the embeddings API and then having software locally that finds and appends documents to your queries.
Which model/s are you using?
Linus Torvalds' rants classified by negativity using sentiment analysis
My feeling is there is the high level classification which is quite difficult to fuck up. After that it’s all adjectives and analogues, which is the fluffed up phoniness that inherently presents itself in the process of converting our subjective experiences of physical reality into abstract symbols.
just to argue against myself:
from inhance's website:
When Inhance first became aware of the potential for fluorination to unintentionally form miniscule quantities of certain PFAS impurities, the Company researched and developed treatment modifications to reduce these impurities in most instances to undetectable levels in the plastic packaging articles it fluorinates. Overall, Inhance’s treatment modifications have reduced unintentional formation of these impurities by more than 90%.

To the extent any PFAS remains present, independent testing has verified that in treating 25 million pounds of plastic packaging articles annually, Inhance’s fluorination process forms less than 15 grams – equivalent to the weight of a few grapes – of PFAS impurities. That amount represents less than 0.00000002% of the approximately 85,000 tons of PFAS generated domestically by other industries every year. Nonetheless, Inhance continues to conduct research and identify additional treatment modifications to further reduce and eliminate PFAS impurities from the fluorination process.

obviously they have a lot of bias and financial interest in this topic but it would be interesting to learn what the real deal is
In the link you shared according to 2022 Gini wealth inequality[1] the UK is right in the middle, not too high, not too low. Who's the one cherry picking statistics? The highest wealth inequality according to that, is in Sweden.

[1] https://equalitytrust.org.uk/sites/default/files/images/hero...
Thistle Gulch: AI SIM Game – Adds Python API to Control NPCs
What if you want to place two divs alongside each other on desktop but stacked vertically on a phone?
Maybe its half serious, to see if there is an outcry or not.
Seems to me sci-fi is still as full of political creativity as it always was? Perhaps it's now more diluted. Single books stood out for that. And perhaps it's harder for single SF books to stand out anymore? For sheer quantity?

I mean, it's not like these books were ever taken very seriously as political works either...