skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, that's what politics are for: making societal decisions, some are good for businesses, some are good for people

btw the iphone has ±30% of the EU market, in the US they're closer to 60%. Mac represents ±7% of computer sales in Europe, ±15% in the US
PSVR2 only has two games in the pipeline
Also batfi - https://github.com/rurza/BatFi
> The more productive workers are, the more free time they’ll have to do whatever it is they want to do to make themselves happy.

In a profit-driven business, the more productive the workers are, the more work you can throw at them. Free time doesn't enter into the equation unless business owners need to manage a compliance issue regarding labor regulations.
I am happy to make the decisions myself than have some random tech company decide on my behalf.
Can we all agree that OpenAI should be banned from any kinds of corporate acquisitions? Ditto for Microsoft/Google/Meta, obviously
Destin (from Smarter Every Day Youtube channel fame) has concerns about the next NASA mission to the moon (named Artemis): https://youtu.be/OoJsPvmFixU

Read the comments (especially from NASA engineers). It's pretty interesting that sometimes it takes courageous engineers to break the spell that poor managers can have on an organization.
I would happily trade this for them dropping the Core technology fee and last say on what third party store apps can run on phones via notarization
More evidence against the "ecocide" theory of Easter Island
It seems... practical? But not really rocking the boat. Just using Jira though seems like a big step for a government organization. I wouldn't eat my hat but I'd maybe nibble on it and play with the prompts more.https://chatgpt.com/share/13585d1b-a781-49fc-aa42-a7322b6f32...
Yes I confirm it works - I’ve been using this very behavior for years
This is a press release. It's signed by the head of the specific FDA department, who's ultimately responsible for the decision.

The FDA documents its process with a bunch of memos. They name the committee, and their supervisors:

https://www.fda.gov/media/179486/download?attachment

The actual committee members are rank-and-file FDA employees. They're GS-scale civil servants. You can go look them up if you think they're somehow biased.
I know right? The DMA resonates closely with what Apple supposedly highlights as their values. It seems they’re not so good after all. For one, I’m happy about Apple Intelligence, like Microsoft Recall it felt kind of creepy.
I'll always remember Rockset for their ridiculous comparison page: https://rockset.com/real-time-analytics-comparison/

Maybe they should rename it to their migration options page. Or maybe I'll just ask ChatGPT what the best alternative is...

Still, pretty useful stuff, but it also feels like Rockset had been moving a little too slowly in recent years, but congrats to them on finding a new home.
permaculture a good place to investigate a basis of the essential conflict at work here, which is that perma-anything and "innovation" are orthogonal forces over the same domain. Would any culture be capable of improving on the resource rivalry -> technical conflict -> cultural domination/consolidation model?
I tried to use Langchain a couple times, but every time I did, I kept feeling like there was an incredible amount of abstraction and paradigms that were completely unnecessary for what I was doing.

I ended up calling the model myself and extracting things using a flexible json parser, I ended up doing what I needed with about 80 lines of code.
Let me guess: Stigler didn't invent that.
> The most brilliant devs I've ever met were people nobody would call "rock stars"

That sparks my interest. Could you elaborate on what constitutes a brilliant developer from your perspective?
PDF was originally designed for printers, wasn't it? So making it accessible to screen readers is tricky.
"Our method points to a promising approach for the automatically generation of Artist-Created Meshes, which has the potential to significantly reduce labor costs in the 3D industry, thereby facilitating advancements in industries such as gaming, film, and the metaverse. However, the reduced cost of obtaining 3D artist-created meshes could also lead to potential criminal activities."

That last statement is worded in such a weird way, lol. Funny Chinese->English transliteration.

"The FBI has issued a warning for potential criminal activity resulting from the automatic generation of low-poly models. The public is advised to minimize outdoors exposure and report any suspicious activity."
Random comments: I’m the same age and I was a generalist too. You become a specialist by surrounding yourself with specialists, you work on the same tasks and this allows you to learn specific topics. Finding a job is one way of finding those people. No one is born a C++ master except a few crazy guys who got lucky at birth, I know that because I worked with a few of them, at most 4 people in 20 years.

You talk about money but that’s not what I want first. It’s better to work with good people around you in a respectful environment. And anyway, C++ jobs always have a better salary than other jobs.

If you want to be better on your own, read and use good code in C++20: cppreference, the core guidelines, GSL, etc. Do all the exercises and understand what you do. Add some CMake and Conan and you’ll be able to work everywhere. The only common thing with experts is that they know most of the C++ and the STL, there is no additional secret.

If you want to learn graphics, do a bit of everything to get a feeling of how that works. Use OpenGL, Vulkan, and VTK. Not all at the same time of course.

I worked for awful companies who had great projects (or at least they lied about it). Finance is not always stressful and can actually be fun. Games can be awful. Medical software is very fun in my experience. I helped a team switch an embedded piece of old crap to C++20. Good projects are actually random and may not be where you expect them.

I talk about medical software and devices because I actually love it. I hate the human body and its flaws, but I accidentally found a job working on some robot and it was very fun. I knew nothing about that field but I learned in this job and it’s great. Specifications are mandatory and you always know what you do. Also it’s not gloomy and filled with sick people and diseases, no one thinks about that part. We want to have fun while writing good software. You may want to try that.

That’s all for now I guess.
Good ol' survivorship bias...
> "Your inability to adequately track my team's weekly or monthly performance is not my problem."

I'm an engineer and I can certainly understand and empathize with where that sentiment comes from.

However, when people say things like this the first thought that goes through my head is "there is a culture problem."

That sentiment underscores an adversarial relationship between teams and leadership/management. That adversarial relationship should never exist (it does all too often, but it shouldn't).

Tracking timelines and deliverables is something that requires communication. That communication can be automated, but it's not up to leadership or management to implement that automation. They are not the engineers.

So if the process that is in place, which has worked for them despite inefficiencies (which they may not be aware of) is suddenly disrupted then no, it is not only "their problem." Some team went and did something differently than how things are usually done. The team [rightfully] recognizes that it is an improvement, but it was unsolicited and the communication / warning of the upcoming change was likely lacking.

Companies are called "companies" for a reason. They involve multiple people with varying skill-sets, responsibilities, understanding of how things do and should work, they have their own pressures and reporting structures (they need to hand things over to their management who expects a certain status quo as well) and most people have a default low tolerance for change.

This is no one person's fault. The company culture needs to facilitate iteration, improvement and innovation.
Yes, this seemed pretty striking to me: the author clearly wanted the LLM to perform well. They started with a problem for which solutions are pretty much readily available on the internet, and then provided a pretty favorable take on the model's mistakes.

But the bottom line is that it's a task that a novice could have solved with a Google search or two, and the LLM fumbled it in ways that'd be difficult for a non-expert to spot and rectify. LLMs are generally pretty good at information retrieval, so it's quite disappointing.

The cookie thing... well, they learn statistical patterns. People on the internet often try harder if there is a quid-pro-quo, so the LLMs copy that, and it slips past RLHF because "performs as well with or without a cookie" is probably not one of the things they optimize for.
I'm not sure what the point of cramming 54 people into the cross-sectional area is as a demonstration. After all, if you give each person one square meter, you could fit the entire population of the earth into the state of Connecticut. (with some room left over)

54 people in the module volume even seems like it would be quite cramped and unpleasant for anything more than a short trip.

Also, is enclosed volume really the thing that needs to be optimized? Presumably the ISS has so much less enclosed volume for its size because its mission demands more external surface area and/or other things like modularity that are at odds with maximizing enclosed volume.
> Do tell me if I'm completely wrong but isn't part of the problem there that you're simply expecting too much from MOND?

No, and the reason is because MOND is a fundamentally flawed path. We're fairly sure unified theories are the way the universe works, MOND sticks out of that like a sore thumb. If MOND wants to explain one thing, then it has to fit everything else that effects or it's wrong. Really, for a theory to overturn a preferred one, it has to be better in some way. MOND isn't, it's explains few things than dark matter, and less well. At no point have I ever heard anyone state that MOND has a better predictive power than any other accepted theory, so I'm not sure what you're referring to there. In fact, that's the primary issue with MOND theories is that they ALL fail to meet dark matter with parity, none exceed it's predictive qualities.
nginx gone wild?
What would be the implication? I do not believe that DMA forces Apple to make iPhone sharing to Windows. How would it reduce "security"?
Infra, devops, and (software engineering) org decisions ARE part of software design. Application layer is not the only consideration worth prioritizing design time over.

Microservices is just a buzz word for an overly prescriptive (thankfully waning in popularity) type of distributed system. When you are developing a distributed system, the infrastructure is a primary consideration that is potentially even more important than anything in the app layer.
This matches my software development process:

https://gavinhoward.com/2022/10/technical-debt-costs-more-th...

Not everyone can do this, however.
It's due to heat produced, gas generated from overvolting the battery, and stress gradients from different levels of charge across the battery.
The question is how one would fix this in practice. Make drug ordering/buying by companies an open bidding process/auction? Or just force the companies to disclose who they buy from for what money?
I wonder if the Windows licences are legit?
Yeah it’s great our EU bureaucrats are protecting us from evil innovations /s

And also this: https://sdw.space/europe-wants-to-end-encryption/
> Seems distributed binaries are missing,

Even with SerenityOS they long were of the mindset that binaries/ISO/etc. should not be produced and distributed by them apparently.
That works on some cars, but I prefer having the phone up high so I can keep my eyes on the road, and I drive a convertible with the top usually down, so like to leave the HVAC off.
> There aren't any open source audio-to-audio models yet

I think that's not true. See this for example: https://huggingface.co/facebook/seamless-m4t-v2-large
It's not general purpose like GPT4o but translation still seems pretty useful
Kaiser Permanente does the same thing.
There are proofs that pi and e are irrational. These proofs aren't entirely trivial (especially for pi), but they're not very long. There are longer proofs that neither number is algebraic (solution to a polynomial equation with rational coefficients.)

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_that_%CF%80_is_irrationa...

The "third" fundamental constant of mathematics, Euler's constant, is thought to be irrational but there is as yet no proof (so it's conceivable it could be rational!)
Thanks, that was extremely helpful.

I don't think I understand your point in (1) that it's less of an issue because development is moving to the LLM. I can infer that maybe CUDA isn't a big part of the moat given your other points that the hard part is making cutting edge chips.
It can affect battery longevity. If you charge lithium ion at cold enough temperatures, you get lithium plating which rapidly degrades capacity and can lead to internal shorts and fires.
Maybe they found stock of those for reasonable price somewhere...
Interestingly, the keyboard has neither the W95 Windows key nor the contemporary one, but the XP to W7 era logo on it. Probably originally produced for some netbook from the late 00s, early 10s?

Now I wonder how many warehouses are still full of new old stock netbook parts. :)
It's also a lot less local.
Basically none of the ones I use look or work normal without it.
LangChain had a time and place. That was Spring of 2023, when everyone was figuring out how to string together llm calls with function calls.

We've figured that out, and the answer (like usual) is just K.I.S.S., not LangChain.

It seems even the LangChain folks are abandoning it. Good on you, you will most likely succeed if you do.
> Are you saying that they are tested horizontally or that they are ONLY tested horizontally?

My understanding is that they are only hot fired horizontally.

Presumably there are many tests done at the component level, although it's questionable whether it makes sense to call those tests horizontal or vertical at that point.
The health insurers (or more accurately, managed care organizations) are loving the blame that the PBMs get.

It makes the issue just a little more complicated, and thus turns people off from reading into it.

There is no need to refer to health insurers and PBMs separately, they are one and the same with the same bosses for the vast majority of people.

So the complaint really boils down to health insurers not paying enough for medicine.

However, given that health insurer’s profit margins are low single digits, what is actually happening is they are squeezing their vendors wherever they can, however they can, and using these opaque rules is one way to do it. Not really any different than Geico paying Safelite, but due to myriad laws and different insurance plans, the complexity can be greatly increased in healthcare.

Also, Cuban is all talk, no walk. He just wants to try to be another middleman. The real innovation would be building medicine factories and selling medicine for cheaper, but no one really wants to do that since it is high risk low reward.
Android has something similar. A notification pops up when I plug in at night, letting me know that it's charging slowly because I usually leave it plugged in overnight, and that I can disable it (once or permanently) to switch to fast charging.
No, why on earth?
And my personal favourite, Eyewitness Earth Quest! I extracted the pictures of stones from the CD-ROM and used them as desktop backgrounds for a while. I found Castle Explorer, another Dorling Kindersly release, also very educational, albeit nigh impossible as a game! (Thus it also taught me not to consider spying as a profession, be that in Norman times or the present day...)

I think the entire Eyewitness franchise, from the original books to the interactive games, can rightfully be considered a masterpiece both in multimedia and education.
I think (though I might be wrong) charging of Apple hardware detects usage patterns and it would already not charge the battery to 100% if you’re frequently plugged in.
How Techno-Libertarians Fell in Love with Big Government
No, russians are incredibly racists and openly hostile to central asia migrant laborers. Experienced it myself
>If you're looking at cost per calorie unhealthy food will often win out as less costly

What you should be looking for is cost per gram of protein. That's the only macro nutrient you need large amounts of. Calories per gram of protein are important too - oatmeal and dried pasta are the cheapest protein/$, but their protein/kcal is too low.

I think it comes down to 'not caring enough' to try to get it under control. All the obfuscation and noise around nutrition ("healthy food") doesn't help either, but it's doable.

>I found the study on the decrease in BMR. That's pretty wild and if true, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a factor in the obesity problem.

It might even be the main part, at least for men. If your normal TDEE is 2136 kcal and you eat at maintenance, but then your BMR drops by 7.7% (165 kcal) then you'll gain weight until your TDEE is at 2136 kcal again. During this you would go from ~80 kg to ~95 kg taking you from 24.7 BMI to 29.3.

An argument against the study is that it could be due to different measuring techniques. On the other hand, we have found that the average temperature of humans is slowly decreasing, so maybe it's true.
> YT regularly breaks on Firefox

Source? I've never had a single problem ever, and I don't know anyone else that has either.
I think the driving force for the shape of the ISS is actually the available launch vehicles. Skylab was a lot closer to the size of this thing than the ISS is because it went up on the last Saturn V.

I walked through the Skylab replica at Space Center Houston just last week and was blown away by the scale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1sr6aVzW9M
I am a big fan of Notion but lately it's like they have been asleep on the driver seat. If they only offered custom extensions I think they would do so much better. I have recently switched to Obsidian but I am not fully committed yet, so i will give this a try.

My only critic so far... It seems you copied one of my least favorite "features" from Notion which is to force a default "Title" column for the tables. I find that most of the time I don't need a Title column, but I can't turn it off nor can you change it's type.
I think the way to construct these is: find (a) such that all kinds of things can cause it, choose (b) as one of the causes of (a), choose (c) as something else also caused by (b) but also having all kinds of other potential causes different from those of (a).

So this example isn't good, because when people are eating most ice cream, people are using most air con, both being mainly caused by hot weather. (Unless as you point out we're looking at one individual who wants a solution to feeling hot and doesn't need to do both things together.)
It's a BSD3-style license with a statement at the end that butchers the whole point of a BSD3 license.
Always keep a tungsten cube in your pocket!

https://thume.ca/2019/03/03/my-tungsten-cube/
That would be Matrix.
This has nothing to do with drug ordering or buying.

Pharmacies buy medicines from medicine distributors, namely McKesson, Cardinal, and AmerisourceBergen.

It is literally all just “paperwork” between pharmacies and insurers. The PBM is just the department of an insurance company that “negotiates” pricing for medicine.
How about Weezer's "Buddy Holly" music video on the Windows 95 CD? Sometimes when I see articles about viral videos and views I wonder where that video would rank if we had the capability to track its plays.
I gotta say I'm so impressed with Ollama. I didn't expect it to be this easy to use, and this performant. I just let it run in tray and forget about it and it does the job of replacing ChatGPT perfectly. Now to find ways to extend it!
I think I remember that California is a tilling state? That'd be epic to have the Sheriff auctioning Meta assets from their own doorstep.
I once wrote some accounting software for a tiny team in an investment bank. The bosses decided that we should use our brand-new platform, which was cheap to develop for, because most (normal) things could be done without code.

All went well for a couple of months; then the customer reported that the system failed for currency conversions to and from Yen. There wasn't enough precision. We had to write an arbitrary-precision maths library, resulting in the project overrunning budget by a factor of three.
do you have source for your claim ?

Russians are the ones who conducted actual genocides:

1. Ukrainian holodomor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
2. Kazakhstan famine - h ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakh_famine_of_1930–1933
3. Genocide of Central Asian people in 1916 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Asian_revolt_of_1916
4. Chechen genocide over two centuries + 2 major wars - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chechen_genocide
5. Transnistria (Moldovan-Russia war) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria_War
6. Russo-Georgian war - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War
7. currently Russo-Ukrainian war

..
countless other russian made genocides I am tired of enumerating

Russia - is a failing imperial bloody state and Russians as a nation are bloody genocidal nation of maniacs.

Russia cannot exist in peaceful state, they always create and incite cnflicts and thrive on other peoples' misery and death

Russia has Cult of Death, they thrive, embrace, and preach for death

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/3864092-russias-cult-of-death/
https://maksymeristavi.substack.com/p/free-press-eristavi-russia-is-a-death
https://wavellroom.com/2024/05/14/the-russian-army-death-cult/
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/apathy-keeps-russias-death-cult-alive
It’s real easy to say this right now, because the EU has only lagged its peers in productivity for only the last decade —- thus the compounding effects of lagging productivity are not yet evident. However several more decades of lagging productivity will eventually result in European living standards being several decades behind their peers.

If the EU thinks that low labor productivity is the path to happiness, going down that path is their prerogative, but long term that path will only lead to ruin. Lagging productivity has never in human history lead to civilizational success. Europe will be outcompeted and eventually dominated by its more productive peers.
Lfp voltages are all over the place and even after charging to 90% the voltage drops back down. They might not care much at all being charged to high percentages. There is no reliable way to know the SoC other than coulomb counting and regular 100% top balancing.
I wasn't picking a fight or scoring points. This isn't Reddit and I'm a grown adult. I'm trying to understand what you're saying and maybe learn something in the process.

> In 5 of my 10 test there were n-gons. There are always starfishes with 5 or more connected verts.

Ok. So you are basing your definition on the number of edges that meet at a vertex. My understanding was that the important metric was "number of edges on a given face"
> Elbonians (A) are disproportionately unsuccessful at basketball (¬C)

Is that not a correlation? A negative correlation, but not uncorrelated.

Though, I think you could tweak it such that they are only unsuccessful to the extent that it exactly cancels out benefit gained from height.
Do you know if it is true that a battery reporting 100% is really only 80% and 0% is really about 20%? I heard that somewhere, but have had trouble confirming it. At least for something like a common smartphone.
A 10x developer _is_ the team. Everyone else is collateral.