skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wacom makes Centiqs which are very popular pen on screen monitors if you prefer that style, so the iPad doesn't bring much there.

I would say the vast majority of artists do not travel and do not need to draw mid-meeting. Certainly there are exceptions but they are just that, exceptions.
He's a nice guy. If you want your company to buy his product, you send your boss a link to the product's home page (which doesn't say "open source") and tell your boss that this product is great. Your boss looks at the pricing and description, and says ok.
Wikipedia said semaglutide was approved by the FDA in 2017. With later approvals in the EU, Japan and Australia. Was it approved earlier elsewhere?

Use for weight loss is relatively new as well. Approvals for that use are more recent, but off label use preceeds approval.
It’s better than the iPad Con
>License plate scanning technology has been around for decades.

While this is true, the big optical character recognition breakthrough was Yann LeCun's use of Convolutional Neural Networks in the 1990s, which I think most people put in the definitions for "ML" and "AI." But of course, as John McCarthy said: "as soon as it works, no one calls it ai anymore"
"A person who is ticketed would have access to the recording, Territo said, and the ability to challenge the violation — a process that can take months."
Good thing tollways already price per axle. I think the going rate in New York is something like $10 to cross a bridge, $5 for every additional axle, and more for vehicles over 7000lb.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were federal or state laws that would already account for that on noncommercial vehicles.
This is a “do both” situation: those “honest people” are still knowingly trying to cheat their neighbors, so while they pose less of a threat individually than the people with fake plates the aggregate cost is quite high due to greater numbers, and fining them is done by a separate group of people so it doesn’t take any resources away from the police you need to go after the hardened criminals.

Cameras actively help that process, too, because they collect data showing how widespread the problem is and individual fake plates will collect tickets showing how dangerous those particular drivers are.
Get rich, get out of the game, or prepare to shovel shit until you can.
Good point, I've only started consuming bivalves recently (having never purchased them in my life before) and live on a marine coastal city where bivalves naturally wash up on shore in addition to being farmed, so I didn't consider that the prices I see would be significantly different than a non-coastal place, especially since I also often purchase mussels, clams, and oysters which are harvested in other countries and shipped here.

For me, I may spend the same amount on bivalves as I would on an equivalent (by protein content) amount of mock meat products or veggie burgers. The bivalves are no doubt much healthier, but have fewer calories which is either a good or bad thing depending on what you're trying to optimize for.
If I'm still breathing, I can still have another go. At least at things I'm not legally or culturally barred from due to age or diagnoses, e.g., no flying planes for me because ADHD.

But I think it's rare for anyone to end up where they had planned, and even rarer for them to get there the way they had intended.
The alternative that exists today that I can buy and all the apps I need for work will actually exist and function correctly is called…
> For instance, the NHS. Poor or unemployed people get the same access to healthcare as I do.

Sure, and the Conservative Party, who has enjoyed a very long period of uninterrupted rule, has been gradually sabotaging it with the obvious hope that is falls apart and market reforms can be implemented. Most of these differences have more to do with the legacy of the post-War period than anything about the current political situation.

The UK is also significantly whiter than the US is, which is something of a counterpoint to the idea that they're less bigoted, in my view.
https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/loans/auto-loans/average-...

The average monthly car payment is $738 for new cars and $532 for used. Several factors determine your payment.

The data source is Experian, so I give it some credence.

If you think it’s high, consider that all the low payments you know of need an ‘equivalently’ high payment to balance out the average. People spend huge amounts of money on cars.
First of the GLP-1 receptor agonists was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exenatide in 2005 (with clinical trials prior to that). Safety profile is reasonably well understood with two decades under our belts.
Also, I agree with you with some buts - as someone who has lots of vintage electronics, I'm not sure thats 100% true - cheap consumer products always had issues - the higher end gear came with a good manual and an errata sheet - so I dont think its new. The lack of repairability, is a frustration point, but its also a function of the price of the goods being so much lower, if you want repairable stuff, it will cost more, and thats the trade off.

That however is not why I slid into this comment - you replied to me some weeks ago about your time with RCA, but alas, I didn't catch it until it was out of of the reply window. I really enjoyed reading it, and you're a great writer, you could write a book - or should blog if you were interested.

Also, on the RCA Electro Optics Handbook, there is a PDF online - https://www.ok1rr.com/tubes/burle/Electro-Optics-Handbook.pd...

You mentioned AWA which made me think about something, the product I work on was originally developed by AWA, which became someone else, which became someone else, and eventually we acquired it.

I'd love to chat more, if you're amiable, feel free to send me an email at aloha <at> blastpuppy <dot> com.
What you as specifically talking about is a Unified Kernel Image, aka UKI (kernel + initrd/initramfs + stub + ...). It can be used as an actual "usable" system, where instead of `switch-root`ing into a mounted filesystem it just stays in the initrd. This is then refered to as a Unified System Image, aka USI.

The easiest way to execute a program in a UKI/USI is just putting it at /init which gets executed first if nothing is specified in the cmdline. So that is a way you can have it execute something. But initrd's are mostly read-only and would need to be extracted and repackaged if you want to add a file and also stops existing (for the most part) once `switch-root`ed, so I honestly am not sure if that could cover the possible intent behind such a mechanism described in the article (tho I also mostly just skimmed the article, so I very well might be wrong on that though).
AI is making Meta's apps basically unusable
Wait till they are all replaced by midlevel NP and PAs like is currently happening in hospitals everywhere. The quality of care is going to be even more fractured by their lack of education to med school trained docs.
Kevin Kelly: 101 Additional Advices
They are taxed on revenue.
They actually wrote and I'm paraphrasing as well:"It's not a problem and it would also lower the overall power prices as the cheaper nuclear power would push the gas plants out of the merit order system." But this was never communicated to Habeck (Minister for economic affairs) [1]

And in the department of the environment a report was completely altered from "can run for years" to "is impossible to use them at all" by a single person that shares the ideology... [2][3]

Interesting how official documents that have been made available clearly show how experts have been ignored and their reports have been altered to fit a political and ideological scheme.

[1] - https://assets.cicero.de/2024-04/2022-03-03_BMWKFachreferat....
[2] - https://assets.cicero.de/2024-04/2022-03-01_Atomaufsicht_Ver...
[3] - https://assets.cicero.de/2024-04/2022-03-03_Atomaufsicht_Ver...
I can't wait to use Google's own research on AI for content identification to strip out all ads forever.

Even inline ads and submarine / subliminal advertising can be detected and excised.
The article suggests that this act will effectively destroy any open source AI initiative in California. After reading the act, this seems to be the correct assumption. But, is Open Source AI even a thing at this point?

By the way, this is how the EU does things and that's why we're always behind on anything tech :)
Pfaffian
The way it is done, people take them for the rest of their lives. It is not something you are supposed to get only for a while, it is not a cure in that sense. It’s still miles better than the alternative, which is staying obese.
Hypertext Review (2006)
> If you have good insight into why informing about tobacco worked to the degree it did

My point here was that we seemed to approach tobacco/alcohol a bit more methodically - taxes (i.e., increasing costs for cigarettes), regulations (i.e., where alcohol can be sold), education (i.e., scary cigarette packaging) - whereas we seem to be saying, "Well, we did very little and got no results, so let's go nuclear!" when it comes to obesity

It seems to me that, if obesity is so harmful to society, places like McDonalds and other (provably) unhealthy food shouldn't be as cheap or as easy to get as it is.

> The problem is so frustratingly silly and solution is so obvious and simple — just eat a little less, move a little more — that I understand how hard it is to accept that it might just be the completely wrong approach.

It certainly is frustrating, and I feel that more than I probably should. Probably something to reflect on.
This is not how it works at all. Companies do not sell stock except in specific circumstances that are tightly regulated. Often they don't sell stock at all once they're public, because that increases the number of shares outstanding, causing the share value to drop, something investors generally do not like. I don't know the last time Google sold stock, but it would have been long ago because you only need to do this when you want to raise cash that you cannot get through operations, and Google has had billions of dollars in the bank for many years now.
Again and again people complain about this. But it remains a fact that essentially nobody actually wants this.

Developers certainly like to have their completely integrated, connected and universal computing platform (the web). And users do not seem to particularly care about performance as long as it is good enough. And that is exactly the standard that is set, software is allowed to be so bad that it doesn't really annoy the user too much. Management doesn't care either, certainly creating good software isn't important when good enough software has already been developed.

Sure, I would like things to be different, but until one group decides that a drastic departure is necessary, nothing will change. There are also no real incentives for change, from any perspective.
They don't explain it because it basically never makes sense to daisy-chain a UPS. If you want redundancy in your power supply chain, use a dual-PSU computer. If you want longer backup times, get a UPS with a bigger battery.
Do Not Try to Upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS at This Time
I found this site when doing research on older hypermedia systems and thought it was a great resource for understanding the background of hypertext and hypertext systems other than the WWW.
Boom XB-1, which is funded by YCombinator:

https://boomsupersonic.com/xb-1

Note that they're targeting a very different market segment from most commercial aviation - they're going for supersonic overseas business travel at a premium price point. Hence, relaxing some constraints. Even then it's taken 10 years to go from seed funding to first flight, and they're still far away from a commercial flight.
> I think this point is a bit obscured by the article's use of this "fragmented thinking" terminology, which does not do a good job of defining before building an argument on top of it.

I totally agree with you that the article didn't explicitly define it, but I had the opposite experience reading it. For me, sans definition, could very quickly imagine what they were talking about because it started resonating for me almost immediately.

> The frustrating thing about external interruptions is the inability to control them. Things like turning off notifications and putting on headphones are mechanisms to reduce that frustration by imposing control over those interruptions.

This is partly why it started resonating for me right away. I currently share a semi-private office with another senior engineer. Lately he's been spending a good chunk of his time working on higher-level systems planning work and I've been spending most of my time working on very specific complex low-level work. The questions are sometimes frustrating because they'll interrupt my flow state, but... only sometimes. I've been chewing on that for a couple of weeks now, actually, because I hadn't yet figured out why he could sometimes ask me questions and it would have almost zero effect on me while other times it would have a massive negative effect.

The article nailed it, on reflection: the effect size of being interrupted with a question, for me, is proportional to how far away from the problem I'm working on is. If I'm digging into some of the autopilot code and get asked a question about GPS or IMUs, it is absolutely no problem to think about the question and answer it. If, though, it's a question about, say, a battery or the charging system, I'll get the "black cloud evaporating" phenomenon from the comic in the article. And it happens so quickly that by time I can even just answer "sorry, I don't have brain capacity to think about that right now" it's too late.
From William-Sonoma specifically? No, I haven't. In general, absolutely though in those instances I end up always buying from a smaller company as well that actually produces the product.

I'll buy USA-made jeans from Round House for example, but it wouldn't make a difference to me if I saw a sticker in a big chain store selling jeans.
I wonder what % is from ads that are straight garbage. AI generated celebrity voices, information on how to get the latest "stimulus" money, marketing schemes involving things like audiobooks or real estate, health scams...
Take-for-life drugs with random paralysis as side effects that cost $12k per year might not be affordable by governments when half of society is obese.
I interviewed for a contractor involved in building factories for Novo Nordisk. The timelines sounded insanely ambitious.
> there is a limited part of the drug market where curing may not be as profitable as maintenance

That's the same as asking,

> "Is curing patients a sustainable business model?"

The offense in question is letting profits effect a decision to develop a treatment over a cure. You're literally spelling out the bad thing.
I quite like the way dart handles nulls.
In March 2023, Novo Nordisk was suspended from the ABPI for a period of two years, for engaging in misleading marketing practices that amounted to "bribing health professionals with inducement to prescribe".[59] This is only the eighth time in the last 40 years that ABPI sanctioned a member organization.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novo_Nordisk
> angle of attack etc

This is wrong.

The angle of attack is not a parameter of the stall speed, it is the cause of the stall (for a given configuration, assuming well below transonic speed). This is why for example, for precise handling you should use an angle-of-attack indicator (a large majority of fighter jets and more generally military aicraft have it).

> you should also give yourself some margin since you don’t ever really know what the stall speed is until you stall

The manufacter speed already take into account the afore-mentioned parameters into account, and the resulting speed is the worst case scenario, if not told otherwise (usually max weight, max forward CG).

One should not fly with an arbitrary speed margin, but instead use well-known speedq (1.3Vs, 1.45Vs, where Vs=stall speed in the given config) depending on the flight phase, and remember well the bank angle limit associated with them.
Show HN: Pingr – Bcc people on iMessage with a Raycast-style interface
When there is a voltage or frequency disturbance on the grid, caused by lightning strikes or equipment failures, ERCOT expects power generators to “ride through” the disturbances and continue producing power. But inverter-based resources such as wind, solar and batteries — especially the oldest ones — may sometimes not be able to ride through the disturbance and could “trip” > offline and disconnect from the grid. This could lead to a domino effect of other generators tripping offline, which could in a worst-case scenario result in the “rapid collapse of part of or all the ERCOT system,” according to ERCOT.
ERCOT has experienced a growing number of these inverter-based resource failures, particularly in West Texas. In 2021 and again in 2022, more than 1,000 megawatts of solar resources tripped offline near Odessa, prompting the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC), an international regulatory authority, to recommend ERCOT rectify the risk.

Interesting read: Inverters don’t have spinning mass like turbines that can deal with fluctuations in the grid (simplified) (as we learned from Grady’s Practical Engineering) and they follow the grid, but can’t build a grid. But we also learned from him that modern inverters can actually build a grid and behave like a “mechanical generator”.

So as I understand it, a lot of existing renewable suppliers have to do some retrofitting, which is probably expensive, so now we are here.
The interest on that debt will become debilitating unless we inflate away our currency.
Would not

sh -c '. .env; echo $MY_VAR'

do the same thing? (I am not in front of a shell at the moment.)
That Atari didn't do anything special. The MIDI went in/out of a standard interface and the interrupt was - IIRC - on the keyboard line. Midex was a step up, because the messages were pre-buffered, which was a little quicker. But MIDI timing was pretty bad anyway, because the serial line was too slow.

It was tolerable if you put every synth/drum machine on its own separate buffered line. But when you had four or five devices connected to a single MIDI out on the Atari - ha ha ha no.

The absolute best timing resolution was around 700us, which is fine for single notes - although that didn't allow time for the steam age 8-bit processor in the target synth to wake up and notice it was supposed to do something.

But when you had a four note chord, it never sounded truly tight. And if you added some aftertouch or mod wheel - oh dear.

So you ended up with this weird cultural thing of music that was quantised and on-the-grid but also had quite a bit of timing slop.

Big-name bands often used synchronisers and tracked each synth line to tape in a separate pass.

USB over MIDI is much better because there's basically zero latency and everything (usually) works as it should.
>> Predicting language is being able to tell if input is valid or invalid.

If this were the case then the hallucination problem would be solvable.

That hallucination problem is not only going to be hard to detect in any meaningful way but it's going to be harder to eliminate. The very nature of LLM (mixing in noise aka temperature) means that they always risk going off the rails. This is the same thing Lorenz discovered in modeling weather...
I’ve always been curious if this counts as decimation, espionage or antitrust?
To achieve similar controls over sugar (and specifically fructose) as those put in place by eg the Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act[0] (which mandated Surgeon General's warnings on cigarette packaging), the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act of 1970[1], and the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009[2], we might need to first see lawsuits similar to those against tobacco companies. Litigation played a major role in shifting public opinion and policy, eg the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement[3].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette_Labeling_and_Adverti...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Health_Cigarette_Smokin...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Smoking_Prevention_and_...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agre...
Three times I've joined a team that has a substantial C++ codebase, and three times I've been tempted to use libclang based tooling to automate changes, or at least to identify patterns that could be changed.

This article, while not the nerdy deep dive I'd like, does touch on what happens when you try to do that. You realize that the C++ standard library is really complicated, that your existing code is really fucked up, and that libclang is too limited a tool. You end up writing a XSLT engine in hacked up python, but by a different name.

[LibTooling][1] is probably The Right Thing ("in C++", as the article says), but I never spent the time to get it working.

Somebody write a DSL for C++ inspection and transformations that uses LibTooling as a backend. I bet there are many, but none close at hand.

edit: [this][2] is close...

[1]: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/LibTooling.html

[2]: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/LibASTMatchersTutorial.html#inte...
Some interesting facts:

* ERCOT (Texas) has more renewables generation than every other ISO, including CAISO (California)

* ERCOT is setting new renewables records almost every month, as new renewables sites come online.

Source: https://www.gridstatus.io/home
I've used direnv, but I think a nice property of OP's dotenv is that it's explicit: if I want to pass env vars, I run my program under it. If I don't, then I don't. There's no "hidden behavior" for me to forget about and then get surprised by.
I use Cold Turkey to block my habbit of scrolling time-wasting sites when I should be reflecting harder on what it is needed to solve the issue at hand.

https://getcoldturkey.com/

It's almost like I need some mental space, to meditate on the solution, but that feels exhausting, so I choose sometimes to mindlessly scroll.

Any other tools that I may be missing?
look up “broken windows policing”
Interesting is anyone doing it?
It becomes believable when you consider that your own code is just a very tiny appendix dangling off the end of a massive chunk of included data. For instance just including <vector> results in a 24kloc compilation unit of gnarly template code in Clang with C++23:

https://www.godbolt.org/z/G18WGdET5

...add <string> and <algorithm> and you're at 45kloc:

https://www.godbolt.org/z/Whv73YPYh

...and those numbers have been growing steadily by a couple thousand lines in each new C++ version.

Multiply this with a few thousand source files (not atypical with the old 'clean code' rule to prefer small source files, e.g. one file per class), and that's already dozens to hundreds of million lines of code the compiler needs to process on a full rebuild, all spent on compiling <vector> over and over again.

TL;DR: the most effective way to improve build times in C++ is to split your project into few big source files instead of many small files (either manually, e.g. one big source file per 'system', or let the build system take care of it via 'unity' or 'jumbo' builds).
And I am talking about device-bound passkeys, not portable passkeys which can move around from provider to provider.
This bill sounds unbelievably stupid. If passed, it will just result in a migration of AI projects out of California, save a few which are already tied to the EA movement.

I'm not under the impression that the EA movement is better suited to steward AI development than other groups, but even assuming they were, there is no chance for an initiative like this to work unless every country agreed to it and followed it.
Probably not the typical use case, though ;-)
a mnemonic code?

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawi...
https://iancoleman.io/bip39/