skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is such nonsense because you're claiming that these companies are actively imposing these activities in support of "left-leaning values" when there is absolutely nothing genuine with their support for those initiatives.

Companies don't push hamfisted DEI committees and diversity program because there's a leftwing bias, they push it because its good for marketing to have even just the thinnest veneer of supporting these movements (because outside of marketing, they are in fact popular. Having more diversity is a popular stance and has nothing to do with "left-leaning" values if you're actually using the left-right wing spectrum in any meaningful sense to describe a range of Marxism/socialism to capitalism/libertarianism. "Diversity" isn't a core part of either of these wings.

Companies don't practice anything from an ideology that isn't rooted in one simple factor: profit motives and advertising. All the various "*washing" phenomonens are just facsimiles to cover over the rampant racism, sexism and horrible products fo rthe environment. Pretending these are genuine ideologies is completely silly.
It was NCM for a reason: LFP was patented in the USA. The patents applied to China too of course, but China ignored them. But now patent has expired Tesla can sell LFP into the USA legally it's happening.

Off topic rant. This is a fine example of the patent system hurting rather than helping a country. It's not the idea of rewarding the person taking a risk getting a reward for it that's the problem, it's more than a single term (20 years) works for all areas. It's probably fine for pharmacy. But that moves at a snails pace, and generally patents don't overlap. Batteries don't move much faster than pharmacy, but nonetheless the USA has almost no hope of overtaking China in LFP now and the USA in invented the technology. In fast moving industries like computers the current patent system the current patent is a disaster.
The UIs of the 80s and 90s were designed to be learned, and carefully refined through focus testing. These UIs used consistent visual affordances, and contained contextual help. Constraints on memory, resolution, and color depth discouraged the inclusion of visual elements that did not contribute directly to usability and functionality.

The UIs of today are largely designed by people who have experienced GUIs for their entire lives, and assume that everyone is already familiar with conventions. Focus testing is seen as slow and expensive, so designers lean on A/B testing and telemetry, randomly breaking live user experiences in small batches to creep toward local maxima. Needing a help system is viewed as old-fashioned; users should paw at UIs like a puzzle box to discover features. Computers and displays are powerful enough for every application to be a unique "branded experience".
On the topic of wrappers, as someone that's forced to use GPT-3.5 (or the like) for cost reasons, anything that starts modifying the prompt without explicitly showing me how is an instant no-go. It makes things really hard to debug.

Maybe I'm the equivalent of that idiot fighting against JS frameworks back when they first came out it but it feels pretty simple to just use individual clients and have pydantic load/validate the output.
I live in a poor, developing country where seat belts aren't mandatory. Also most people get around on scooters going 25-30mph and helmet laws are almost completely unenforced.

I am constantly amazed at the number of foreigners from first world countries who don't wear seatbelts or helmets the moment there is no Big Brother forcing them to.

Road fatality rates are 10x what they are in Germany, Japan, Ireland. 9x what they are in Australia. Until this year drunk driving laws were unenforced and drunk driving was widespread.
When win2000 was still in testing (was this called Memphis, can't remember) the UI elements like the X to close the window would light up in blue. Never made it to release.
while it may be structurally true, that doesn't say anything about the development of impulse control

https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/brain-development-25-ye...
It uses some special pumps and valves to maintain that pressure. The volume is under five gallons so it's just a matter of building a pump big enough.

It only houses animals that can survive the brief trip from deep sea into the tank.
Thanks! Wdym by warm up your ips? How does mailreach relate to the setup?
I’ve used libaco with a lot of success in the past (mixing uv, curl, and zlib in a way that made the zlib loop easier to manage (since it looked like a normal read, decompress loop with all context stack local).

Any notes about why I would try Neco in the future?
Minecraft, Physics, and ML
Mistral AI Launches New 8x22B MOE Model
The Apple USB-C to audio jack connector is excellent. Objectively and testably excellent. It's nine bucks, and it works on anything with a USB-C port.

There's no grift here, shameless or otherwise. Apple stopped shipping a headphone jack on their phones for iPhone reasons, and the other manufacturers eventually followed suit because, for all the people on HN who complain about missing headphone jacks, consumers don't actually want them anymore.
Training is provided and a JD is not required.

> As a volunteer, you are responsible for gathering facts surrounding a child’s case, reviewing reports, finding out the child’s wants and desires, visiting a child’s home, school, or placement, and providing the court with an unbiased recommendation on what is required to serve the child’s best interests. The volunteer assists in providing the judge with the information needed and what the child wants, so the judge can decide what is in the child’s best interests.

https://guardianadlitem.org/volunteer-with-guardian-ad-litem...
For the kinds of books that were handled by SPD, the cost of POD will eat up all the publisher’s and author’s margin. This episode of the Other People podcast https://getpodcast.com/podcast/otherppl-with-brad-listi/how-... is an interview with Chelsea Hodson who started an indie press, Rose Press, which discusses a lot of the issues and is well worth the couple of hours listen to hear about how some of this works with some rather frank discussion of economics and logistics (Hodson, incidentally, decided not to use distribution and instead to only sell directly to consumers and bookstores).
Haha sorry I meant lucky as in not having to use Teams.
What was the material? Wet wood or staples/nails?

I believe you can temporarily turn off the feature if you’re cutting questionable material.
Thanks! Any guide wrt using dkim / dmarc and such to ensure it's bulletproof? Any customizations you did beyond the CLI script above?
There's a whole list of weird Windows UI remnants from previous versions on github:

https://github.com/Lentern/windows-11-inconsistencies
New Old Thing goes in-depth about the windows under windows.
I suspect Go is probably better, but as a long time C# developer I cringe at the idea of implementing a DB with GC language. It seems that you would be fighting the GC all the time and have to write lots a lot of non-obvious low allocation code, using unmanaged structures, unsafe, etc., a lot. All doable of course, but seems like it would be starting on the wrong foot. Maybe fine for a very small team, but onboarding new devs with the right skill set would be hard.
Since they actually make a product using their patented technology, they would definitionally not be a patent troll. Even if they’re litigious, that’s exactly how the system is supposed to work when you’ve invented a valuable technology which you sell to recoup the costs of R&D plus the profit of your invention.
Late comment, maybe you'll see this.

Severance is a slow burn, but the show gets really good at the end of season 1. I highly recommend you give it another chance and watch til the end. IMO, it got better and better every episode until world class level episode in the final 2, 3 episodes of the season.

Its among my favorite shows of all time.
My brother died of colon cancer at 42 in 2017 and my grandmother died of the same disease at 62. I started getting colonoscopies at 35. It's good that more information is out there now.

My parents never told us to start getting screened early. I think it's mostly because it just wasn't talked about very much.
I would recommend getting started with hand (non-power) tools. You can still make amazing things (see Paul Sellers) at a much lower risk profile.
Is this Mistral large?
(9:32 PM ET) Update: "gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09" now shows the updated 4096 in the playground too. Thank you for the fix! :)
They Just announced their new model on Twitter, which you can download using torrent
Cool idea, hope it grows!
Ironic how seatbelts aren’t mandated on public forms of transport like trains and buses, yet one is required to wear them in one’s own vehicle. If it truly is based on safety then it should be an all or nothing approach to requiring seat belts on moving vehicles.
Lithium rechargeable AA cells do exist, and they're perhaps even more mind-bogglingly complex than you'd ever imagine: https://paleblueearth.com/products/pale-blue-lithium-recharg...

In order for them to function: They've each got charge circuitry, buck converter circuitry (to get down from 5v to ~3.7v lithium voltage for charging, and from ~3.7v lithium voltage down to 1.5v to be compatible with end-user devices), and each one includes its own USB C port.
^ This.

I've found success generally better with Textract and then passing the OCR'ed text to OpenAI and using Pydantic to get it structured.
Not sure trying to download the torrent and checking it out
In general I’m a fan of the aesthetic of Win2K’s icons. Strikes a nice middleground between old and new, and as you’ve described it’s just satisfying somehow.
DOS filenames are uppercase.
That came from CP/M.

In early days, computers just don't do lowercase.

When you do case-insensitivty, storing names in uppercase make sense if all older filesystem are uppercase only
Providing examples generally helps me. Have you checked out the Instructor library too?
Yeah it really needs notebooks and automatic venv discovery for me to use it for python. Having to define the venv in each projects config is just not needed in other pythons ides
Windows 2000 introduced layered windows (mouse pointer has a drop shadow!), transparency effects, and other features into the Shell [0]. In my opinion, having used Windows since 3.0, 2000 is my favorite in terms of icons, shell, etc.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/ms997507...
Might as well be. Little to no RISC-V content here, and it's not even depending on the page table format, just blasting through physical RAM.
Technology helps both sides. It leaves behind those unwilling to change.

None of the other issues moves the needle. The italian mafia lost power that was grabbed by other groups who might have committed more crimes. Cashless societies get bank cards stolen or cards read as you purchase. Dangers a cash only society didn't have.

DNA would have the biggest impact. Abortion matches the stats/timeline.
Yeah I wouldn’t use a radial arm saw if you paid me. A friend had one he wasn’t using in his garage he offered to give me and I politely passed.
Given that every commenter eventually leaves a discussion after reading/replying to some post, doesn't that mean that a that what they're actually measuring is how long discussions are?
While I can agree that tablesaws are quite dangerous, I just don't understand how we get from: "tablesaws are dangerous" to "the government should regulate tablesaws." There are safer saws out there. Sawstop. Buy one. No governmental intervention needed.
What's crazier is that my grip on the push stick never wavered, and still managed to knock my other hand into the blade!
My entire script is here.

https://gist.github.com/johnnydecimal/e7b1a03e26b79239363b5d...

Though I've since updated that to include a .txt file as the body vs. typing it out in the email. But that's easy enough.

I might have added TXT records to satisfy DKIM etc., I don't remember. There are guides on the Amazon site; I'm a bit of a dummy when it comes to this so if I worked it out it must have been obvious enough.
No control group; that's too bad.
In open source there are only two likely outcomes when someone notices a security issue: either they plan to hoard it for their on gain, or the tell the world about it and earn the kudo's. The ability to earn kudo's is a right proper pain in the arse because a lot of things that have little to no impact on security are loudly touted as security bugs and so a lot of time is wasted on triage of non-security issues in open source.

The problem with closed source is there is a third possibility: ignore the problem and save on the cost of fixing it. The responsible disclosure regime we have now is because companies almost always chose this option, ie denied it was a problem and refused to invest to fix it. When the discoverer then released the bug anyway they we so enamoured this this approach tried solving the disclosure problem by suing the researcher.

If you think companies still don't ignore security issues when they are given a choice, you are kidding yourself. The problem compounds because when you do find a bug open source makes it easy to see if you can use it to create a security issue. In proprietary code that's much harder, so I'm 100% certain a fair number of potential security issues don't get patched because it isn't obvious how to exploit them. Nonetheless they are chinks in the armour, so they give the bad guys a excellent set of starting places to start looking.
Windows 98 was from a time where the assumption a user was familiar with the computer wasn't made. We've since lost that assumption, and a lot with it.
I’m pretty sure my AirPods Pro have only about two hours battery life, but that’s probably because they’re at least three years old by now. I still love them though and would buy them again in a second if need be. I also don’t use them for music, just meetings, podcasts and audiobooks.
The primary linux interfaces for invoking programs with arguments (both in libc and the syscall level) have each argument be its own string, so it's possible to invoke a program with arguments such that no escaping or unescaping happens at all. If you want escaping, you have to either invoke /bin/sh (and give it your escaped command+argument string as an unescaped argument), or use 'system()' (which is literally defined to just be a short-hand for that /bin/sh invocation). The kernel works entirely in the unescaped proper list form, which allows you to even do horrible things like make arg 0 not be the invoked binary, or not even have a 0th arg.
Coroutine is definitely appropriate here. Any implementation that has one function (routine) executing while others are paused is applicable. It always means cooperative multitasking, which this is. No meaning lost whatsoever.
Mine did take a week but I have an actual website and active forum that I could point them to so perhaps that helped.
It's inherited from CP/M. That's also where the 8.3 character limits came from. Interestingly, CP/M's filesystem did support lower case characters, but CP/M's CPP would convert whatever commands you gave it to the upper case before they are executed. DOS's filesystem was case insensitive, but they otherwise followed CP/M's conventions.
A specific person isn’t the average homeless person who tend to be dealing with addiction, physical or mental illness, past incarceration, etc.

So talking about the average outcomes of a random homeless person doesn’t really apply here.
...also known as "the good parts".
IIRC you could actually run XP themes on 2k3 if you started the theme service. Under the hood they were almost the same exact same kernel (I think server / 5.2 had a slightly different IP stack and some server tweaks for task scheduling, shadow volumes and memory caching).

Likewise if you wanted the non XP (Luna I think it was called?) styles you could just stop the theme service and it was effectively win2k style.
No, but you can use the API via Postman.
After two close calls I went ahead and bought a SawStop knowing it would be cheaper than an emergency room visit.
Well, with a manually managed language you have to do those things pretty much all the the time, but with a GC you can pick which parts are manually managed.

Also I suspect this project isn't for holding hundreds of GB of stuff in memory all the time, but I could be wrong.
TechCrunch reported this as a $125M purchase and previously texts.com for $50M
Little of column a, little of column b. Yes, nostalgia is a factor, BUT:

- The lack of overhead required by security and 'features' like querying an internet search when you click the start menu or showing advertising in the calculator or better memory management in general, meant that overall UI response in that era used to be much _MUCH_ faster than it is today. Once upon a time you could operate your O/S with the speed of a Starcraft tournament winner; this simply is not possible any more.

- You could 'queue' commands - clicking the close button on an program and then (before it had finished closing) clicking the minimise button would minimise the program behind it immediately after the closing process finished. In this way you could chain/queue commands rather than being forced to wait for the OS to update between each step.

- Enter and Spacebar did different things. If a prompt had two buttons, one would be outlined with a thick black line that would respond to [Enter], and one would be outlined in a dotted line that would respond to [spacebar]. This is still the case sometimes but is far from ubiquitous.

- The top-left corner of the program was reserved for a 'system' menu used to move/resize the window, or quickly exit with a double-click. Though still used by some MS programs today like Explorer, its usefulness is lessened if not all programs utilise it.

- Don't even get me started on keyboard shortcuts.

These kinds of universally-accepted and _useful_ power-user-oriented design principles are almost absent from UX as it is implemented today.
Is there a more technical writeup? How is the aggregation implemented?
I played around a bit with both Sendgrid and Amazon SES and found that actually my own exim server on a VPS with a small and reputable provider had quite a bit better deliverability than either of those.
Fewer thank you'd think. It turns out the poisonous ones are bad for PR.
Large Panoramic Images Taken with a Light-Microscope of Aspen and Elodea Leaves
Interestingly, CP/M's filesystem would actually do lowercase. It's just CPP would uppercase every command entered at the command line before executing it. Not surprisingly, people tended to use uppercase with CP/M.
8x22b. If this is as good as Mixtral 8x7b we are in for a wonderful time.
125 for Beeper and 50 for Texts
This has support for ARM processors.

It's nice to have multiple options. For instance the interface can be very different.
There's a good paper here on the (95) UI team's design goals and how they were achieved: https://socket3.wordpress.com/2018/02/03/designing-windows-9...
> To improve those chances, there needs to be serious introspection on how to drive down construction costs, prevent construction delays, etc. etc. etc.

Build the same designs repeatedly. No other major changes need to be made IMHO.

It worked for France, Ontario, and Japan ((A)BWRs consistently built in 4-5 years)[1] in the past, and it works for every modern widget we produce in factories now.

Ontario's refurbishment is on-time and on-budget because of a repeatable process:

* https://archive.today/xoQDQ / https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-darlington-...

And sometimes not only on-time, but finishing early:

* https://www.ebmag.com/darlingtons-unit-3-back-online-nearly-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_nuclear_rea...
This is both factually incorrect and not funny at all.

In addition, last I checked, modern medicine cannot reattach nerves so you lose a great deal of functionality of your finger or hand even if you save it.

See: https://youtu.be/Xc-lIs8VNIc?t=1095

I hope I am simply missing the joke if someone would be so kind as to clue me in.
We’re a common law jurisdiction, laws are meant to be generalized to allow them to be interpreted and adapted depending on different circumstances, a lot of which are unforeseen at the time of creation of the law.
I think you need to understand that most people maybe had 16~32MB of system RAM on average circa 1999, while Windows 2000 ideally wanted at least a staggering 128MB as just a sysreq recommendation. Windows 98 was fine with 16MB minimum or even 8MB with some wizardry.

How much did 128MB of RAM cost in 1999? According to a Reddit thread that Copilot found, about $370 in 2020 dollars[1]. Copilot also dug up another thread[2] where people reminisced about RAM capacity and pricing in the 90s.

So in very basic terms, 128MB of RAM (let alone more!) back then would be like buying 128GB of RAM today. Most people simply aren't going to buy ~$400 of RAM just like that, especially when upgrade cycles were also much shorter than today.

There was a very practical reason Windows 9x existed alongside Windows NT until XP merged the lines in 2001 when 256~512MB of RAM and more became much more affordable.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/finsjm/how_much_did_12...

[2]: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=62239
I couldn't tell if this was a joke.
> … 1980s and 1990s …

Leopard introduced the pop-over and HUD elements in 2007, and I think this was the last of intuitive UI that I’ve encountered.
"do as I say...", not realizing that the LLM is actually 1000 remote employees
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More C stuff, I really enjoy learning these fundamentals using C. I did your game physics course in C and really enjoyed it. I'll be taking this course to learn more about 3D graphics and C together.
Pond: A soothing in-terminal idle screen
Residential solar in the US is largely a greenwashing, financialization to exploit homeowners. 99.9% of the time, there is no battery or inverter in these systems and they lack 2/3-way ATCs and instead fail completely without grid power "for safety".

Commercial-scale solar is an entirely different beast, and Texas is crushing it post-snowpocalypse, without much thanks to ERCOT. [0]

0. Similarly-timed press-release with a picture of a large deployment: https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/utility-scale/tex...