skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mine is slightly different from the other responder. I do mow my front yard (HOA requires it), but in the back I only weedwhack the areas that we actively use and a path to them. The gondola does have a square of cheap Home Depot astroturf under it, mostly so I don't have to weedwhack it every time we want to use it.

My back yard is primarily ~knee high hedge parsley at the moment; the flowers are beautiful! I will have to weedwhack most of it here shortly though. Hedge parsley grows burrs after blooming, and it's a huge pain to pick them off all my clothing and furniture after my dogs roll in them and then come inside.

My dogs love to run in it, and it brings in ton of wildlife. I'm on the edge of urban and suburban and get deer, rabbits, tons of birds, squirrels, raccoons, field mice, and more insects than you can shake a stick at. The mosquito population is surprisingly moderate as well; my suspicion is that the natural plants provide enough food for herbivorous insects that my house has a standing population of carnivorous insects flying around.

I vastly prefer it from an aesthetic standpoint, though I grew up rural and prefer the organized chaos of nature over the unsettling uniformity of manicured outdoor spaces generally. It's also much less work than routine weed-eating and what not. Some people may have allergies and hate it.

My only major concern is with attracting dangerous wildlife, primarily snakes given my geography. There's nowhere particularly warm for them to bask, but hiding spots are innumerable. Humans would likely be okay (the hiding spots are not close to where we hang out), but I do worry for my dogs. They really like sticking their snouts places where snakes would like to hang out.
In context, this means “self-inflicted harm”.
Vista had two major problems: Microsoft understated its minimum requirements and allowed it to be shipped preinstalled on machines that were far short of what it actually required, and UAC was specifically designed to make poorly behaved software unpleasant to use, which was a major problem when every Windows program was poorly behaved.

The first could have been easily avoided, but I genuinely don't know how MS could have avoided burning a version on UAC. Maybe if they had shipped it in a service pack first so that XP SP4 was the thing that got a miserable reputation? That clearly wasn't a reasonable option after the Longhorn disaster, though.

There were also a lot of small problems that got fixed on the way to Windows 7. 7 did feel a lot like Vista SP2 with some visual tweaks, but it would have been a really impressive SP.
Gigacasting is regular old casting but in a Gigafactory™. Just like gigafloorwiping or gigadustbinemptying.
It may not completely offset the battery weight, but electric class 8 trucks have an additional 2000 pounds of GVWR allowed.

I would say the biggest headache for Tesla in the semi space is that they were not first to market and there are multiple competitors shipping trucks now. And while Tesla has decent battery production, CATL makes way more and is evolving the technology much faster. Everyone else will just use those batteries. Maybe Tesla will too, if they keep trying to make the Semi a viable product.
Responsive, high-contrast, low bitrate, low complexity
I definitely understand your struggle, which is why I created whereto.stream. We hope to find even more effective ways to help people stream or at least understand how to navigate these and similar obstacles that are preventing them from doing so.
Most influencers literally don't even know their own worth, and don't really know how to negotiate, and have weird feelings about monetizing what is often a creative endeavor in general.

So most brands actually get a HUUUUUGE discount from influencer advertising, because it is explicitly more effective than most modern forms of advertising and you can get your product or service in front of half a million people for low 5 figures. You don't have to do anything, the influencer will take care of shooting and editing and all the hard work.

Also, nearly everything shilled through influencers is extremely cheap garbage, with significant profit margins that they just pump into more advertising, like raycons or other practically whitelabeled products
You are seeing enemies where there are none. I am merely commenting on AI evangelists insisting I have to be psyched about every paper and poc long before it ever turns into a useable product that impacts my life.
I don’t care about the internals of your field, nobody does. Achieve results and I will gladly use them.
This argument is often brought bu but has a critical flaw - English is not not the working language in most EU countries. The ability to speak english is moot, what matter is the language of business and law which is not english.

The point about university graduates is also moot because they are not the majority, even in a country like france that had the most number of university degrees awarded in 2022. Only about 35% of the french working age population has a university degree.

Language, is, in fact, a much bigger problem than many want to admit.
vim-based
Maybe there was some blanket advice in the past to enable it? Idk, this got me alarmed for nothing.
On HN last week - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40130684 - with 21 comments
Most people think of one of the MS BASIC dialects when they think of BASIC (at least in the US). The original Dartmouth BASIC had matrix primatives, including MAT READ, MAT PRINT, MAT INPUT, and functions like MAT A=INV(B) (yes, matrix inversion), MAT A=BC, MAT A=B+C, MAT A=B-C, MAT A=B(2) (scalar mult), MAT A=TRN(B) (transpose), MAT A=IDN(5,5) (5x5 identity matrix), MAT A=ZER(5,5) (zero), MAT A=CON(5,5) (fill with 1.0).

I cut my teeth on Wang 2200 BASIC, which was an extended Dartmouth BASIC, so it had the above MAT statements, but also a bunch of wild ones that did searching and sorting on arrays, merging two sorted arrays into a sorted output, and more.

Here is a statement that searches a character array A$() in columns 1-5 for a string in Z$: MAT SEARCH A$()<1,5>,=STR(Z$,1,5) TO B$ STEP 5. Every match writes the location to a descriptor array (this case B$), where each pair of bytes was the offset in the A$ array where the match was found.

Despite all that power, it still was quite limited: all variable names had to be a single letter or a letter and a digit. All variables were global. GOTO and GOSUB were either the line number or a "label" where the label was one of '0 to '255. Strings were statically allocated, not dynamic, and the max length was 64 characters (BASIC-2 extended that to 126 bytes). On the other hand, before the program started running everything was allocated there was no possibility of memory overflow during runtime, and no garbage collection, and any references to missing line numbers was caught up front.
didnt harvard also reinstate their need for standarized tests?
nah i'll take the crime thanks
In both cases it tends to be capital holders that win.

The middle class grows when there is stability and neither inflation nor deflation. The constant instability we see only benefits the capital holders who can profit off both the ups and downs.

I’m not sure how many more years of a quasi government organization (that is far too buddy buddy with major capital holders) imposing a tax on existing (inflation) we’ll have to suffer before we get a central bank that exists for the American people and not capital that operates in America.
s/fracturing/having to use older libraries in the existing manner/
Musk is obviously the best thing that has happened to Tesla. Tesla the auto company is near worthless, Tesla the "making dreams real" company is worth money. Musk is the reason Tesla is the later and not the former.
Postgres Storage as a Transaction Journal
If you live a half mile away are you impact at all by a setback covenant being altered? If you're a neighbor you almost certainly are.
Court directs Texas judge to decide CFPB credit card fee case by May 10
the code is sandboxed on openai servers. it doesn’t run on your machine if you use chatgpt interface
It’s more of a stream or a pipeline than a queue.

Wait till you realize optimizing data flow through an API process serving multiple requests is the same meta problem as optimizing value flow through a development team. :)
It is too bad we cannot come up with a better name, so people do not confuse it with everything else we call rent.
networked spreadsheets would have been ideal
I got a similar one once, like a fully working mocked banking system with currency exchange in 3 hours.

I just didn't proceed with the interview after that, if the staff can't manage to plan how long a test takes, there's no chance that they can plan anything accurately in the company either.
I wouldn't make too many assumptions about someone who's cheating. Sex doesn't have to come with love: You can want to spend your life with someone and still desire sex outside of the marriage.

As a married dad, a few years I suspected that a married mother, at the bus stop, was feeling me out for an affair. I was both flattered and terrified.

A year later she and her husband initiated divorce.

The thing is, if my wife and I were different kinds of people, jumping into an affair like that would be totally fine. We aren't, but I don't judge people who do. (If you're religious, think of concepts like Free Will and Non-Judgement.)

(It's one of the reasons why I never went back to Burning Man, I was really creeped out when an old, married couple propositioned me and a girl I was hitting on for an orgy.)
But how do you know if the LLMs agree, when all of them word the response differently

For example

LLM 1: Yes, it is true that fireworks were invented in China

LLM 2: Fireworks were indeed invented in China
Oh thanks, this looks like the kind of thing I was searching for — will read up on it
Agreed. Almost all of the quotes are from Microsoft competitors shilling their wares.
Tesla is in a valuation trap. Elon can only continue operating as he has if Tesla is valued as “not a car company.” AI, robotaxi, whatever. They are running out of runway from a valuation perspective, although Tesla would be fine going through Chapter 11 if needed. Would continue as a going concern and not be parted out imho. But Elon’s wings would melt and he’d fall back to Earth.
I've been toying around with an ssh based casino recently.
ChatGPT's chatbot rival Claude to be introduced on iPhone
Impressive! Really well done, Andrew.

One piece of feedback. I used the sample text and it gave me a sentence about a gold fish's memory and when I checked it, it had three errors. I had to update each error individually and over a longer sentence/thought/paragraph that might get cumbersome. It would be nice if there was a way to see a fully corrected sentence and point out the changes so I can do a one click change for a single sentence.
It's not just casting. Right there in the second paragraph of the TFA:

> Tesla has been a leader in gigacasting, a cutting-edge technique that uses huge presses with thousands of tons of clamping pressure to die-cast large sections of the car’s underbody. On a typical vehicle, the underbody can consist of hundreds of individual parts.

Also, other car companies are copying Tesla.

> Japan

> In June 2023 Toyota announced that it was adopting casting technology for its electric vehicles.

> In 2023 Japanese auto parts supplier Ryobi announced plans to cast large electric-vehicle body parts and expects to reduce car body manufacturing costs by 20%.

> Volvo

> By November 2023, orders had been placed for two 9000-tonnes-force Giga Press machines for a new Volvo electric vehicle factory at Košice, Slovakia.
Show HN: I made ComfyUI nodes for virtual try-on using IDM-VTON
Hey HN,

4 days ago I went through the impressive demo of IDM-VTON on HuggingFace. I found there was no ComfyUI adaptation of this new model.

So I’ve implemented custom nodes in ComfyUI that allow anyone to perform virtual try-ons using IDM-VTON. Simply load an image of a model and a garment, and the node will generate a new image with the garment worn by the model.

I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback!

Cheers,
Tom
That is brain melting. Just storing it already seems impossible. How do they run an analysis over that much?

Is there ever a point where they can safely delete this data? Or do they have to keep it forever?
Interestingly Stripe started life as /dev/payments and I seem to remember the first iteration was an agent on your server that literally processed card payments when you wrote the details to /dev/payments
Thats just a weird unfounded belief.

Scammers are basically invalidating human intuition about any social aspect online.
Why doesn't Google fund or open a school that trains talent? Why is it always "please let in more foreigners who are already trained"? Corps like Google with their attitude are just contributing to brain drain and helping to make those other countries poorer as a result.

Oh right, brain drain is a foreign policy strategy to keep other countries down and America strong. Right, shutting up now.
It always depends on where one's wealth and/or income comes from.

The interests of a working person who rents is different from a working person who owns their own home, whose interests are different from a residential real estate investor's, whose interests are different from a business owner's, whose interests are different from a venture capitalist's, whose interests are different from a stock broker's.
Tesla is not cutting back on gigacasting; it's just sticking to its current model approach, which is one front gigacast and one rear gigacast.

They've talked about some future vehicle platform using a single gigacast, but I never heard them talk about this as a sure thing, or as replacing the manner their current vehicles are produced. Their "model 2" was always described as using the "unboxed" approach, which to me would be incompatible with the single massive gigacast approach from the beginning.
That still doesn't address the main difference between Express and Koa.

In Express, the route handlers send the response directly so your middleware can only be "beforeware".

In Koa, the route handlers update a response object that bubbles back up the stack before it's sent, so you can write both beforeware and afterware (so, real middleware).

For example:

app.use(async (ctx, next) => {
console.log('Request is going down', ctx.request.body)
await next()
console.log('Response is coming up', ctx.response.body)
})
With the stripe api
Why would their backend be different then any other website using stripe
I really like Fellow Drops: https://fellowproducts.com/pages/fellow-drops

It is SMS based. Each week they offer a different bean from a different roaster, and you reply with the number of bags you want. I've discovered a number of great roasters this way.
You can’t policy your way out of a shrinking workforce.
What bothers me the most is that comments will float to the top of a link that's an arxiv paper or uni press where people will talk about how something is still in a prototype stage and not production yet/has a ways to go to production. While this is fine, that's also the context of works like these. But it is the same thing that I see in reviews. I've had works myself killed because reviewers treat the paper as a product rather than... you know... research.
I'm a big fan of Scott + Andy, exceptional technologists + humans ..
I agree that expecting, or worse―demanding―, a specific behavior from a maintainer is out of place.

But at the same time, categorically refusing to meet a user request or expectation just because they're not paying you implies that you prioritize paying users, which corrupts how the software is built. It means that you consider people who use your software for free (gratis) to not have any voice in how the software is developed, but paying users do. This is a very reductionist point of view of OSS to provide only the barebone essential freedoms of the license you chose, without taking into account the people using the software, and the community that can develop around it.

If money is the main issue, there are ways to monetize OSS projects so that paying users effectively subsidize support and requests of non-paying users. But regardless if that system is in place or not, all users deserve a fair treatment, and maintainers should put in _some_ effort to do the right thing.

In the context of Neofetch, a popular OSS project, the right thing would've been to not ghost the community, announce your eventual departure, and start the discussion of finding a new maintainer. These are not unreasonable expectations, and require minimal effort from the maintainer. This person decided to abandon software development altogether, and that's fine, but this way of handling things would ensure that users would think twice about using any of their software in the future.
It did have recursion.

>LIST
10PRINT FNFACT(6)
20END
30DEFFNFACT(N)
40IF N=1 THEN =1 ELSE =N*FNFACT(N-1)

>RUN
720
And when inflation becomes a self-reinforcing inflation loop, we get zimbabwae and argentina and venezuela. The US suffered a few years where I lost a bit over 10% of my savings and income per year. Inflation is currently taught as "correct" in schools but I suspect that's just the current trend.
This seems very similar in concept to the finite element method. Nice to see patterns across fields like that.
also, it's easier to fight inflation because you can always increase the interest rate. With deflation once you reach zero there isn't anywhere realistically else to go. Negative interest rate have happened momentarily but it's not like the US fed can realistically set the rate to -1%

In the depths of the financial crisis in 2008/9 I remember Bernanke saying he would fly helicopters and drop bags of money if it came to that in order to fight deflation taking hold.
And you simply can learn from failure
Hate that it's essentially half ChatGPT generated. Especially given the huge explanation of AWS.
what!? sorry, but where did you get this number from?

a kyc check costs 10-15 euros in EU - admittedly, a kyc is more than identity, but still, your price range seems unrealistic - do you have some data to back it up?
Uncovering a 'parallel universe' in tomato genetics
Innovation requires failed experiments. It sounds like they found the practical boundary for casting car bodies.
bingo

I have done my share setting up systems, I just don't have the patience I had when I was younger, put 2 hours into it. Gave up. There are new thing that I don't understand, need to learn that to understand. To much work. Just need to buy that usb stick
>My dad (grew up in the 30s) said that simply "nobody had any money".

People hear this and think "everyone was broke", but there literally was just no money. We hadn't fully figured out modern monetary policy at that point, and the old ideas of austerity reigned supreme for policymakers.
Awesome work, I ended up building a custom invoice builder as part of a larger custom SaaS for my wife & my local business, so this product resonates big time.

My random internet person's opinion: Instead of a 14-day trial, I think freemium is better where you can use it for up to X # of clients and if you want to go beyond some usage then you have to pay (e.g. Vercel, GitHub, etc. model).

For $9/mo, I would also expect React/Angular/Vue libraries to implement this into a larger project or other back office workflow - just my 2 cents!

Thanks for sharing, I love stuff like this.
Another interesting experiment on this front:

https://twitter.com/infobeautiful/status/1778059112250589561

One thing I would have liked to see in the blog post is some attention to temperature. It looks like they're calling ChatGPT through LangChain - what is the default temperature? If LangChain is choosing a low temperature by default, we shouldn't be surprised if we get an incorrect distribution even if ChatGPT were perfectly calibrated! My guess is that even at temperature 1, this result will roughly hold, but we should be careful not to fool ourselves.

If we take the result at face value, though, it's interesting to note that GPT-4's technical report showed that the chat model (the one with the RLHF and what not) had flatter-than-correct calibration on its logprobs. But here we're seeing sharper-than-correct. What explains the difference?
And rightfully so, IMO. Increased pollution from increased weight is a real issue.
They might be some things for cheating on a spouse, but being a coward isn't one of them.

Cowardice, or its opposite courage, are utterly unrelated to anything involving marital fidelity.

I mean, it makes just as much sense to say they found the courage to cheat!
I'd be happy if just made Defender stop detecting all my go binaries as Malware...
Not really that surprising. They won't stop until they generate a recession and higher unemployment and surplus labor.
typical hackernews mindset. weed consolidation is bad, but state authority that would protect the weed industry is also bad?
Do these logs ever get pruned? Is it worth knowing that 10 years ago, Johnny took 1.5 seconds to click the upvote button? Or is it just easier to keep it, imagining some what-if value extraction?
I’m curious about the technical details, but I can’t find any. I wonder if there’s anything to distinguish this from any other streaming service besides the ownership.

For example, does it use multicast? I always thought that would be great for broadcast content but it never seemed to take off.
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Does anyone well versed in economics see a big similarity between [1960s & 2010s] / [1970s & 2020s]? It seems super similar in terms of social protests & inflation that followed immediately after
Sounds like building codes and mortgage regulations need to forbid the installation of all such systems.
Do yourself the favor and don't use Ubuntu.
When can transformers reason with abstract symbols?
My student loan is my pain..