skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
strangely, Wikipedia disagrees [1][2]

It appears as though several countries were happily selling Iraq WMD components and materials. Including the US.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_chemical_weapons_program....
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destr...
I've spoken to a number of people lately that have had to take their Audi/VW/Mercedes/ other to the shop for repair because of the electronics.

One was charged thousands to fix a snow sensor. We don't get snow in Sydney.

Guy who runs a fleet of luxury vehicles said the sensors are cheap and simply fail after five or so years.

My own VW Passat randomly failed to start occasionally with some mysterious light on. (I forget the details). I sold it.
I’m just collecting people and use it to contact folks and figure out who knows who. It’s like a 1980 Rolodex.

The content is useless unless you are into reading business and self help books. Nothing wrong with it, but learning about whatever is “humbling” people is meaningless to me.
The number of ticket sales has been flat to declining since the '90s: https://www.the-numbers.com/market/ and I've read that the heyday of movies was in the '40s and '50s.

The simple answer is likely the quality of TVs: 65" OLED TVs with good sound aren't that expensive any more. The quality delta of going to a theater versus watching something on TV used to be massive.
how does that work? ophthalmologists would say that it's impossible, but it feels like most physicians are probably 10-20 years behind the bleeding edge...
If I were to declare a religion on my Census or other data - it would be "OTP"

Elixir to some extent is just syntactic sugar on top of Erlang.

Elixir is to Erlang as Kotlin is to Java. At the end of the day, it's the same thing. There are some conveniences added, like less verbose ways to deal with GenServer or other abstractions on top of it - but all-in-all it is pretty similar aside from the syntax parts.

You might consider taking it for a spin.
you deserve a 1000 upvotes :)
It's touch and go with VSCode. Just about the only reason I'd touch VSCode.
There are two key cases: when you are forced to deal with your insurance company because no one else is at fault. In that case, you get what you bought.

When another driver is at fault and you elect to not use your insurance company for whatever reason. In that case, you didn't have any opportunity to pre-arrange with this other driver's insurance company and you have to fall back on the law as a backstop.
This. There is _so much_ fraud.

People blame the payment processors, and they can certainly be opaque sometimes. But perhaps fairer to lay most of the blame on the fraudsters.

I’m sure Stripe would love the revenue from this enterprise, but they can’t have it without making KYC as complex as banks and losing a lot of their value prop.
This sounds like crunchbase?
I still go to cinema like 2-3 times a week, sometimes even more. Local chain has an unlimited pass for ~100€ (1 year). As a single person it's my favorite pastime, and I just like films
From a strictly "marketing" point of view, if you want to grow the language and ecosystem, it seems the successful move is to stake out a place where you're likely to win.

I think often this happens more or less by accident rather than conscious design - but think of something like PHP which made it really easy to whip up quick web pages, or Rails which drive Ruby adoption for a better, more structured, but still dynamic and quick web programming experience.

And I suppose part of those happy accidents are people just hacking on something they think is cool, so I wouldn't stress too much about the "marketing aspect". I'm just curious what drove it.
> Now that women may

Thanks. I guess I thought this change happened much earlier than in ~2000+ - more like 1960+ - so was wondering what was that specific which happened relatively recently.
https://archive.ph/mhZDF
IF, and this is a big if - self driving cars prove safer than human drivers in all conditions - governments will mandate it in all new cars and in 12 more years they will be the majority, and a few more years and governments will ban everything else (if not directly insurance via high rates).

However right now they are not ready for that. They don't work in all conditions and we don't have unbiased safety studies.
It’s a watchable warmup before rewatching the previous one :) and that one still looks fucking epic.

Personally I think Chris Hemsworth was a big miscast and just plain boring and weird. If they would get somebody like Rob Zombie it could’ve been much more fun and menacing xD.
Otherwise it just doesn’t take you on an emotional journey. They tried to cramp as many story lines as possible, but it just has diluted the whole experience. They didn’t use any dynamic and rememberable soundtracks.
Technically they did a great job and many moments were quite similar to original one.

But at the end I left with only single thought. That this is gonna be a future of LA with all water supply issues, AI taking jobs, and poor actors, models, stand up comedians and homeless people inheriting the land xD. If only Hollywood won’t come up with an entertainment so epic that they will be able to compete with passionate creative people creating new kind of movies using AI for pennies.
Ive actually did some market research into this. Turnkey container houses, built out on trailers (with enough facade to make it look good, but since its not a permanent dwelling you don't have to pay property tax on it).

The big issue that I found is that people aren't actually interested in cheap houses, they just want something that is affordable at a discount but will grow in value, just like their parents did.
Looks very cool - but will be curious to see how the results from this end up comparing to Blackmagic's excellent (and free) pro iOS video app (https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagiccamera)
Maybe you would use if you were filming a hacker movie? Or something like that
bby is such a disappointment every time I go in. Inventory is out of date. Stores often in disarray.

For any computer electronics, I prefer Microcenter (if available), or buy it online.
> HR makes it clear we’re not to hire anyone with similar interests and life experiences.

Huh? If you're in the same industry for a long time, you by definition have history in common, and it's pretty likely you've got similar interests if you both ended up at the same place. I don't see how HR could or would want to have an affect on that.

> At any rate, my reply is under the context of wanting to go to the office for the social interactions. I am not here to socially amuse or validate anyone. Those seeking social fulfillment at the office are exhausting, and they create active stress for those of us with lives outside work who know that work is a thing you do to get paid.

Indeed, this is a great example of why forced-RTO is a terrible policy for everyone, including folks who like coming in to the office!
> With AutoMotion, Kino automatically choses the best exposure settings for cinematic motion blur.

The part I've italicized above should be "chooses".

Great looking app though!
Safeeyes is a timer for Linux that every 15 min tells you to perform a simple eye exercise.

(I'm using 10m intervals and slightly longer exercise time and my eyes are better the more I spend in front of PC working - program doesn't stop movies and games).

Doesn't help with astigmatism tho, bugger :\

There is a mac alternative called Eye Leo

If anyone has a Windows version, pls post it. I'd love to get my mom on that.
Looks interesting, but I think you are going to have a hard time holding on to the name "Siri Ultra."
Somehow the people who often take umbrage at this are also the same sorts who are free market absolutists or oppose public health care, and then we are here on a VC discussion board which leans that way frequently.

Explain to me how willingness to take disease preventing treatment isn't just a feature of Whatwhaaaaat as an employee, that makes one more or less desirable on the free market? We are able free to work "at will" most places and any employer who will have you based on your marketability and desirability. Whatwhaaaaat could even start your own company where you mandated people not be vaccinated (and then die the first time someone sneezes).

More seriously, because this is a serious topic even if Whatwhaaaaat isn't a serious person:

We should all have a right to be healthy, where such things are within our power to understand and effect.

Whatwhaaaaat should have a right to opt out (even if I think it is childishly stupid).

The only way to make those both fit in reality is to have those who opt out of the incredibly but not quite perfectly safe and life saving vaccine in contradiction to all the evidence, is to have them opt out of activities where safety is desired by the majority. So you have a choice: opt-out of both the vaccine and some professional activities, or opt-in to both.

Note how this isn't a choice that Whatwhaaaaat, as a possible unknowing carrier of covid, is willing or even capable of offering immune compromised people in a work place. This is the only sensible way to structure a society that isn't literally forcing vaccines on people like Whatwhaaaaat.
As a former happy Halide user, I bought their previous new app Spectre on launch, but sadly haven't found a good chance to use it.

(Why "former"? I switched over to Apple's Camera app for the bulk of my casual photography when Apple introduced Live Photos, since I really like the added vividness of having a video moment attached.)

I don't do many videos, and the Camera app (along with their Action Mode software video stabilisation) seems to do everything I need it to, so I'm not sure if I would be able to use any of the "pro" features here at all.
I agree, a transmission is really only good for around 200k miles. However, you can buy a used transmission in most cases for under 3 grand, and again labor for this thanks to automation is likely less than $500.

The real blocker I dont mention is time. Your shop will need that car for a few days and shipping will take time too. At some point the wait isnt worth it anymore. The upside is, 2 used Toyotas are still cheaper than a new one new Toyota
I used to go all the time, just walking in there gave me this good feeling. like many industries, the internet killed it.
I know you know this, because you mentioned the Bill of Rights, but just to be more precise, we have a constitution, but our charter of rights is overridable in certain circumstances. The constitution is more than an enumeration of rights in both the US and Canada, it also defines the structure of representation, government, and democracy, none of which is subject to the notwithstanding clause (obviously, because the notwithstanding clause itself is part of the Constitution).
There's no sales_ord_delux_hdr/1... also sales_ord_delux_hdr/0 is the smallest partition... that's strange :/
"Microsoft: best Linux salesperson!"
On a tangent, I wonder how many car manufacturers would actually sell a self-driving car if they were able to build one. Creating a taxi fleet and charging for usage seems much more profitable.

Or at the very least, the price would go up a lot. Who cares about the cost, when the value of the sold good is so high? Why sell it cheap? I note that Waymo has no intention of selling the things.
A factor I don't see talked about:

All those countries killed their manufacturing and offshored it over the last 40 years. Factories and manufacturing meant good jobs located far away from major cities, and towns/communities built up around those jobs.

Now all the jobs are located in large cities so housing prices there are going through the roof. If you are young you almost have to move to a major city if you want to start your career. Meanwhile there are "ghost cities" and other dwindling towns where you can buy a house for pennies.
I got a new Corolla and felt that it fit the bill.

It still has newer features like lane centering and radar cruise control. However, it's a good, simple, reliable car at a much more reasonable price point.

As for feature creep - this is inevitable because all 99.99% of consumers care about are features and price. It's like people asking for a "non-smart TV". It's not going to happen, ever. Consumers who care about that aren't a percent of a percent of the market.
I suspect the reason we don't see more of that is because most game code is very distinctive if not outright unique. For companies inclined to retaliate legally, its probably pretty easy to come up with a plausible set of people who might have had access to it.
My perspective is likely skewed on this because of an anxiety disorder I'm still learning to deal with properly. But I wonder how widespread this mechanism I'm dealing with is. It basically goes like this:

The world is freaking terrifying. Social media makes you constantly aware of this from the minute you wake up to the minute you fall asleep. All other media channels (which seem to largely hang off of or reference social media trends anyhow) aren't much better. Its literally impossible to escape. Constant argument, aggression, threat, and doom.

Some kinds of brains cope with this by diving headfirst into fantasy realms. Disconnecting from reality by attempting to swap it for a different one. Video games, movies, anime, rpgs etc. Huge with that crowd.

Other kinds of brains like mine, simply shut everything the hell out. Scripted drama becomes an uncomfortable reminder of the impending doom that you're already drowning in. Alternate realities can become just another trigger.

I hardly watch TV, or movies. I write code pretty much. That's my escape because while there may be frustration, there is no aggression, no conflict, no drama. I imagine less nerdy people probably take up other crafts or hobbies.

granted. seeing through my own lens. But I also know I can't be the only one coping this way. I wonder if that also isn't part of a larger trend.
Ah didn’t realize it was every language. Yes I’m using a light weight open model - but also my use case doesn’t require anything super heavy weight. Wikipedia articles are very feature-dense and differentiable from one another. It doesn’t require a massive feature vector to create meaningful embeddings.
Yeah, but it really doesn't matter. Majority of my friends are not in tech space, and not a single one would care about it. It's similar to how I don't care about some sports team winning the championship, or Taylor Swift, or a relationship between two reality TV stars. You can call those "superfluous interests", but those people would say the same about our interests. And since things you've mentioned doesn't negatively affect the things they care about, it just... doesn't matter to them. I wouldn't even call it an abnormal behaviour, since a person can only think about so many things during the day.
> but the blog opened some doors for me (and continues to).

Is there any advice you have in that regard? How do most people contact you?
There's rarely if ever two movies a month I'm interested in watching let alone going to the theater to watch. Even if there were the ancillary costs for going to the theater push those costs up.

Theaters have to compete with my living room. I don't even have some crazy setup but I have a big screen and comfortable seating. I can not turn the audio volume to deafening levels. I can pause if I need to use the bathroom. I also have access to food and drinks that don't cost a small fortune.

Back when watching a movie at home meant a VCR connected to a 13" TV with an iffy coax signal, a theater was a very good option. Unfortunately for theaters my home option has gotten better and their offerings have gotten worse. At the very least their offerings have diverged from my interests.
"one simple principle: make good products and charge money for them."

Thank you for the one-time purchase option. It's a win already on today's software world.
"Dear Policy Holder,

We regret to inform you that..."
Era3D: High-Resolution Multiview Diffusion Using Efficient Row-Wise Attention
Microsoft's Copilot is now on Telegram
You will also often see big chinking warnings that the site is no longer updated pointing you to homepage of current docs site, despite the APIs you're looking for being still current.
Like 8 gb roughly
What humanitarian organization did you work for that pays its employees in cash?
If you have a large engine and a small engine producing the same amount of power the large one will have a lot less load and so will last longer (assuming all else is equal - which is never the case). However it doesn't matter in practice as a modern car body and suspension system will wear out long before the engine in most cases.
I can't help but feel like they've handled things poorly. They could have expanded their services business, really made their membership program into something special, and tripled down on e-commerce.

All three of those areas have been handled poorly and the effects of cost cutting are starting to show clearly in their actual physical stores.

There seems to be something about retail that makes them particularly vulnerable to the innovator's dilemma and unresponsive to macro changes (not just jumping on trends but actually restructuring their business when required).
I think of the internet "meme" of calling movies you like "Kinography", or saying that a movie you watched was "kino".

Example: Movie XYZ is pure kino
Cars can be both disposable, but also true we keep them longer. For example, my car's TPMS tire pressure gauge battery died, but the battery is internal to the system and isn't designed to replace the battery. So a repair/replacement is $600-900. But I am not replacing the car or getting the repair. I am simply living with the warning light on.
Sequels, prequels, adaptations from other media, known stories, that is most that have been produced in the last years or decades. With that there are no surprises, no new stories, not a lot of innovation, people get bored or not interested, specially after a few hopeful tries that ended in deception, specially after a big media push.

Making movies are seen as an investment that must have a sure return, there is no risk taking, not a lot of new approaches, and they won't end in black swans but in some variant of diminishing returns. The most surprising thing is that they are getting surprised by the outcome of this kind of approach.
The feel of a CVT in bigger vehicles is weird. Very difficult to get used to.
Especially in ECO mode (Kia) which it defaults to.
> or at least existed in the past. Like yourself (from a a few weeks ago).

That's actually a pretty interesting approach.
Remember that time you spread too much fertilizer in the yard and burned the lawn? Like that, but way, way worse.
(Z-Library) Seized Domains
I have been impressed by Biden's administration, this after having been against a Biden presidency (thinking a lame-duck Trump in 2020 would be the best way to rip off the bandaid and get rid of him, and I had never liked Biden).

I am really pushing my fingers into my eyes thinking about these tarrifs.

We need a serious injection of fresh blood in the American automotive industry. Vehicle prices are completely overboard. Maintenance costs for new vehicles are beyond the pale (after improving for decades) due to back-room collusion between the federal government and automotive manufacturers over fleet average MPG ratings. It's out of control and has moved into the realm of corruption.

Nevermind that these tarrifs are going to be cutting Americans off from desperately needed savings in other areas.

The tarrifs are going to hurt American families more than they are going to help. American superiority will not be helped by keeping manufactures fat and happy. Why not require the Chinese to build a charging network? Or setup dealerships?
One of the problems with electronics has been that there has not been a lot of value add in a lot of categories for a while, and in some cases, there has been value erosion. I bought an LG OLED TV in 2017. Since then, a similarly sized TV costs 50% more and is still more expensive to buy in a sale. (I bought mine in a sale) Meanwhile, there has been not a lot of value add to the TVs in terms of hardware. And whatever software features are being advertised, are in fact the reason why I refuse to replace mine. Mostly because the more poorly written software they add to the TV, the more enshittification of the viewer experience happens.
Yep. I can watch it in a dirty, noisy theater where I have to wear earplugs to be comfortable, or I can watch it at home a few months later from the comfort of my recliner with a couple IPAs and a bowl of popcorn.

The only movies I reserve for the theater are real epics, and those seem few and far between these days.
I wasn't aware of this. Thanks for the call out!
Here is another angle on that "sentimentality" you're talking about. If I've been following the book on every maintenance item, driving gently, and proactively going after any rust that starts to form on the vehicle that is then smashed up in an accident I don't want an "equivalent market value" used vehicle that was neglected and beat to shit by the previous owner just because it's the same make, model, and age. Especially since that previous owner was a chain smoker.
While I obviously disagree with your prior comment, I feel "What" is a pretty much perfect comment here. +1.

What.
A lot depends on the circumstances - the advance-rejection isn't as simple as request-response in a client-server system. So, saying no may e.g. turn into an attempt, maybe unintentional, of public humiliation, with consequences - for example, a loss of credibility in a group, loss of relationship, personal issues - for quite some time. In other words, the environment and specifics of the exchange may matter a lot and range widely.
The linked video is an in depth and step-by-step explanation of Disney's "Principled"[0] BRDF shading model.

The latter part includes a really great explanation and visual demonstration of each of the controllable parameters--which is very also helpful for artists who use BRDF in 3D packages such as Blender.

(Includes math/maths content but presents it in a more accessible manner than one might anticipate.)

Fair warning: Acerola's stylistic choices may be... an acquired taste but the content of the videos is absolutely worth acquiring the taste for. :)

[0] Including why it's called "Principled"--which I hadn't realised I did actually want to know. :)
Orion: From idea to launch in 45 days
Cody by Sourcegraph allows you to do this. It doesn't have Codestral yet but probably will soon.
I give it 2 years before they have regressed to a subscription model.