skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
private != profitable

As long as business is not going as well as owners want, the same economic problem exists in private software too - in fact, the private companies get acquired all the time too, and they get shut down, causing DOS for many of their clients.

(See for example: https://www.tumblr.com/ourincrediblejourney )

One difference is that closed-source source usually much less efficient; I cannot imagine "100K+" customers from a commercial org with just a single developer. And when there are dozens or hundreds of people involved, it's unlikely that new owners would turn to outright criminal activity like malware; they are much more likely to just shut down.
What makes the one spacecraft safer than the other?
The distillation is done on-policy like RLHF -- the student model is generating the sequences and teacher is providing feedback in terms of logits.
starting to see symptoms of something that could lead to Kessler Syndrome
The humble pallet is the red blood cell of civilization.

There's a ton of really cool optimization ideas like this in Industrial Engineering - factory production schedule optimizations, path optimizations, lots of knapsack problems. What a treat that there are people willing to pay for this kind of work.
It's multilingual. Genuinely. Compared my results with some people on reddit and the consensus is that the 27B is near perfect in a few obscure languages and likely perfect in most common ones. The 9B is not as good but it's still coherent enough to use in a pinch.

It's literally the first omni-translation tool that actually works that you can run offline at home. I'm amazed that Google mentioned absolutely nothing about this in their paper.
Can be pretty fast if you know your tools well :)

Just tried in VSCode; 2:38min using its fabulous multiline editing. 1:34min on second try due to practice
Pretty much any $30 HP inkjet printer at Walmart seemed to work with Ubuntu, so I set it up for some elderly friends years ago. Much more stable than windows and I was able to make the desktop icons and wallpaper look the same as they were used to on windows. No tech support calls either, everything just worked for them.
I think the argument is against the Sacklers personally and their actions, not based on their ownership stake of the LLC. So this wouldn’t involve piercing the veil.

Only if suitors were going against Sackler assets to pay off Purdue corporate stuff.
Insisting a particularly exotic flavor of HTTP(2) is its most severe design flaw, I think. Especially, as it could have worked in an agnostic manner, e.g. on top WebSockets.
Show HN: Simple AI Voice Assistant Starter Project
A simple Voice AI assistant starter project with minimal frills & runs well on commodity hardware. Comes out of the box with support for many TTS/STT models and just needs an OpenAI API Key to get a full end-to-end configuration running.

In using it, the best performance so far I've been able to achieve is ~1 - 1.2s RTT before it starts speaking back.
Anyone can. But why waste your precious time looking at that Ugly UI in your limited life when you can use MaC OS.
"Shortly after 9 p.m. EDT, @NASA instructed crews aboard the space station to shelter in their respective spacecraft as a standard precautionary measure after it was informed of a satellite break-up at an altitude near the station’s earlier Wednesday. Mission Control continued to monitor the path of the debris, and after about an hour, the crew was cleared to exit their spacecraft and the station resumed normal operations."
No no, Dawkins is just a old scientist and even though I admire him, he is just repeating the same old lines. These days there is research and qunatum effects in the structures of microtubelins was shown by other research groups also:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c07936

It is best to really do the research and not rely on people who already have made up their mind (that Dawkins guy for example seems like he really wants Materialism to be true).
Supreme Court Rejects Liability Shield at Center of Purdue Pharma Settlement
And it can answer in LaTeX.
https://archive.ph/wFwku
I could be wrong here but I want to say that a driver's license ID number would even be protected under the pre biometric data privacy laws.
> It was my understanding they have a forcefully independent judiciary.

That may have been true ten or fifteen years ago, but is extremely not true today.
How is that different from junior devs writing bad code previously? The more things change, the more things stay the same.

You handle it by teaching them how to write good code.

And if they refuse to learn, then they get bad performance reviews and get let go.

I've had junior devs come in with all sorts of bad habits, from only using single-letter variable names and zero commenting, to thinking global variables should be used for everything, to writing object-oriented monstrosities with seven layers of unnecessary abstractions instead of a simple function.

Bad LLM-generated code? It's just one more category of bad code, and you treat it the same as all the rest. Explain why it's wrong and how to redo it.

Or if you want to fix it at scale, identify the common bad patterns and make avoiding them part of your company's onboarding/orientation/first-week-training for new devs.
> The incident illustrates what NASA officials have been emphasizing about the Boeing Starliner spacecraft, which is more than three weeks into what was expected to be a 10-day Crew Flight Test mission. Starliner is on a test mission with two astronauts and is authorized to leave the ISS in case of emergency. (The other two crewed spacecraft docked to the ISS are a SpaceX Dragon carrying four astronauts, and a Russian Soyuz with three people on board.)
I would say some regular culprits are viral internet memes that say something crazy. My SO and I are ideologically aligned, for the most part, so are both right-wing. I don't know if you spend time in right-wing internet silos but there are a lot of [redacted] memes that go around claiming something wild that are almost always false. Maybe it's the same on the left, I have no idea.

Used to, I would explain what's going on, which I'm fine with. At a certain point, she became tired of the explaining and decided that I "never agree with her." So, now I have to ignore them, because I'd rather not fight about it.
Oh, you were involved as well. Well then, no wonder things worked out!

(I remember you from your work with asm and emscripten and the various ports you did, which I played around with)

No specific question(right now), I just want to say, I admire your work.
So this is specifically from the point of view of someone analyzing control flow, and how that can be tricky or ridiculous based on how many features of C you combine. Not what I expected but quite interesting. Especially the difficulty in defining a loop.
> Did you read the linked article?

From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please don't comment on whether someone read an article"

And yes, I did, and I truly don't grasp even the 'simple' explanation. I already admitted I'm dumb.

Do you have anything to add to the discussion?
The laws sound ridiculous but they're generally not enforced. For example, I came across some truly disgusting public toilets in Singapore (granted, this happened rarely).

Sex between two men, while previously banned, was not enforced either. It is not uncommon to see openly homosexual men in Singapore.
(2023) HN Discussion at the time (297 points, 531 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34266078
Gnome is smooth and good looking.
I am not aware of any proof that "Consiousness is a emerging feature of our brains complexity". For all that I know throwing around such statements of truth is mere stupidity and anti scientific
>> Out of the most recent 6 decisions

That is not a representative sample of Supreme Court decisions. This is one of the last few opinion days of the year, the opinions being released are the most contentious ones the court is dealing with.

Of the first 6 decisions of the year, 4 were unanimous, 1 was per curiam, and one was a 6-3 split with the dissenters being Gorsuch, Sotomayor and Jackson.

Those 6 decisions would also not be a representative sample.
Oh, this is _nice_! It's not quite what I'd want, but all the schematics and software is there, so it wouldn't be too hard to change things to taste. :)
While knowledge is part of it, understanding is also a large factor. Having to explain things again and again and them not understanding what you're saying.
Sometimes Google Sheets isn't just slow, it completely chokes and hangs on large spreadsheets with thousands of rows containing complex formulas. Excel handles the same spreadsheets fast and reliably.
We built one using acetylene as the source gas generated from calcium carbide and water, ignited by a spark gap from an electric fence. The combustion chamber was a 40 gallon oil drum and the barrel was a 20’ scaffold pole.

Round 1 worked a treat, firing a champagne cork sized wooden baton far away into the distance.

Round 2 was a disaster. Calcium carbide needs water to react into acetylene. Our method involved putting a few pints of water into the oil drum (on its side), then a few rocks of calcium carbide, then the igniter, and finally the scaffold pole resting under it’s own weight in the small, off centre oil drum aperture.

On this second round the end of the pole was accidentally submerged in the puddle and the wooden baton got jammed. This meant the explosion forced water up the gun barrel — a pole just resting there in the mouth of the oil drum — launching the entire pole down the garden. It must have gone a good 50 feet or so. This is a steel javelin weighing a good 30lbs.

Round 3 ruptured the oil drum. It sounded like a bomb going off.
> Other drugs that act along the NMDA pathway

and apparently Gou Teng, used in traditional chinese medicine and for blood pressure control ("and" because TCM wasn't developed with blood pressure cuffs at hand).
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The ability to evacuate in it.
I love it when engineers worth their salt actually do the back-of-the-envelope calculations for latency, etc.

Tangentially related, I remember years ago when Stadia and other cloud gaming products were being released doing such calculations and showing a buddy of mine that even in the best case scenario, you'd always have high enough input latency to make even casual multiplayer FPS games over cloud gaming services not feasible, or rather, comfortable, to play. Other slower-paced games might work, but nothing requiring serious twitch gameplay reaction times.

The same math holds up today because of a combination of fundamental limits and state of the art limits.
I see many trucks like this drive around on the highways near me every night. Think they're shoveling manure out of something like this? Think they're towing much with a vehicle like that?

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/27/b6/3d/27b63db4bd163bc3b1f4...

You know its a work truck when they have painted light-up rims.

https://live.staticflickr.com/1972/45705140252_d81ef13ce7.jp...

I'm sure that finance worker in Downtown Dallas going back to their quarter acre lot in Frisco sure shovels a ton of manure. I bet that software developer in Austin going back to his apartment spends a lot of time towing a horse trailer.

Seriously man. Leave the rural bubble for a bit and see what its like in a Southern US city. See all the trucks owned by people parking in cramped downtown parking garages. See all the office parking garages filled to the brim with excessive trucks. Then tell me they're mostly used by people working in trades with a straight face.
I think people are more skeptical with the quality of the article rather than Japanese engineering.
Its not so much that as it is their escape pod if the station has a catastrophic failure.
That's not what the Supreme Court decided, and its extremely misleading to suggest that.

At trial, the government alleged the mayor had "rigged the competition." But the government argued, and the jury was instructed, and the Seventh Circuit agreed, that the government did not need to prove that. Because, under the Seventh Circuit's view of the law, it did not matter whether the subsequent payment actually influenced his official act. So on appeal, the Seventh Circuit upheld the jury verdict on the assumption the government did not need to prove that the competition was actually rigged.

So the case that came up to the Supreme Court didn't have the issue of whether he rigged the competition. The jury was told it didn't matter, and we don't know what the jury would have decided had they been told something else. The question before the Supreme Court was only whether 18 USC 666 requires proof that the payment did or could influence the official act. It did not consider the factual scenario under which he rigged the competition because we don't know if the jury would have found he did that.

Now the case goes back to the trial court to see if the government wants to retry the case, where they actually have to prove corrupt influence.
My thinking is that spending gets split between richer and poorer people. The former buy assets with it, but the latter spend it on living costs. Each time it circulates, typically some goes to richer people and stops circulating.

Various things could disrupt the resulting increase in inequality. The Black Death and World War 2 are both supposed to have done so.
"Anyone" is a stretch. If you need specific software for work or something (Office, CAD stuff, some embedded stuff springs to mind..) you're still kinda SOL even now.
I have both a mooan inkpalm 5 and a boox palma and you can get books look much better in both.

He is using a font size that's a bit too big. And there's too much spacing, you can configure all aspects.

I get about 8-10 characters on these devices, the font isn't too small and the spacing is fine. With my settings I get about 70% of a book's actual page (I use the same book to compare) which is a fair compromise imo.

It's fast to read shorter lines anyway because there's less horizontal travel distance. I actually think this aspect ratio is pretty great for reading. I also have a Kobo Clara 2E which has been relegated to just reading by the pool/bath/beach.

Also, these devices are pretty good for manga reading if you're into that.
If you haven't had a kindle with buttons you have no basis of comparison. They're lovely.
I remember looking at a farm property in NC. After walking the entire farm I noticed that someone had built a home on the wrong side of a creek on the farmland, instead of the other side of the creek on the land they actually owned. I notified the sellers who after talking to the county found out I was correct. They ended up having to change the lot lines. We ended up not buying the property due to other reasons. It is truly amazing to me that things like this get past the banks and county inspectors. The lack of due diligence is astounding.
I'm surprised identity verification by logging into your bank and/or carrier isn't more common in the US.

They have your data anyway, it's much harder to impersonate somebody this way, it doesn't require the verifying company to hire any workers to do the verification, you could even do it without the site you're verifying yourself at learning anything about you.
You can, though, reflect on the juggling you observe yourself doing with sufficient precision and accuracy to both distill the essentials for others and further improve your own practice. This also generalizes.
Client side JS is absolutely no impediment to Google’s web crawler but using an image or svg might work!
It's very easy to replace the battery with a new one. The whole back cover pops off.
You can now detect field presence in several cases: https://protobuf.dev/programming-guides/field_presence/#pres...

This is very solid with message types, but for basic types you can add `optional field` if needed as well (essentially making the value nullable)
Easy thing to do with Unwanted Stamps is Donate to Oxfam Canada. Address to mail your donation to is at this link: https://www.oxfam.ca/take-action/support-oxfam/stamp-out-pov...
People seem to feel that using open protocols for chat is like putting a hand in a toilet. XMPP seems to be mostly used by soliders and police.

Proprietary chat apps on the other hand go bad like cheese. When they start out there is a honeymoon period where they know they have to perfect onboarding because otherwise people won't use it, but once it gets a critical mass they fire the engineers and stop fixing bugs and keeping up with a changing environment.

The story is "want to try a meeting with Zoom?" and people would say "it's got to suck right?" and you'd reply "it works as well as Skype did 10 years ago" and then they try it and say "Wow!" but you know ten years from now it will be legendary that Zoom sucks and there will be something new that people are comparing to what Zoom used to be.

There ought to be a law mandating chat interoperability, Facebook Messenger could actually have a longer shelf life if you could talk with Microsoft Messenger because competition and the threat of exit would keep them on their toes.
Why would you pick Google? They support genocide in China.
Japan government paper seeks to promote rural areas to foreign visitors
And yes, before anyone mentions it, I did see the cerebrium.ai demo (super cool btw!):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40805010#40806795

Hoping my project can still provide educational value and/or be a cheaper alternative
Ok, I've grafted on a piece of the subtitle that makes it clearer.
Here are some good tips for a spud gun:
- Schedule 80 PVC where possible
- Use anti-static spray instead of hair spray, it's cheaper and doesn't leave a tacky combustion chamber
- Put a small PC fan into the combustion chamber to mix the fuel and air, this will ensure you get a fuller combustion.

If you're an adult, you can make one out of metal pipe and use an oxy acetylene torch to fuel it. Perfect stoichometric ratio, very very energetic!
They could emergency return to earth right away if needed.
gRPC is meant for backend microservices among other things, and it's still painful for that for the reasons the article describes, all of which could've been fixed or avoided. Internally Google doesn't even use gRPC, they use something similar that has better internal support according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17690676

I also don't see what'd stop it from being used generally for websites calling the backend API. Even if you don't care about the efficiency (which is likely), it'd be nice to get API definitions built in instead of having to set up OpenAPI.
> And used today

In the mainstream, I obviously meant.

Check in on any American Nazi rally from the 1930s to the present day (the photos are all over the place); you'll see the Stars and Stripes displayed very prominently right along Swastika flags. Does that mean the former is, therefore, a fascist symbol?

Check what is the role of fascist militias like Azov in the 2014's Maidan.

Azov did not exist at the time of Maidan.

This is the kind of nonsense world you create for yourself by obsessively reading polemics, and pulling "research" from echo-chamber news sources. Rather than bothering to find out what Ukrainians are actually like, as a people.

The real problem with Ukraine as a nation is ...

The irony here is that you claim to be concerned about the dangers of Nazism. But then almost in the same breath, you dive head-first into weird tribalist diatribes like this.
Also pretty important that they're using a calculator for numerical problems. That should avoid some of the most embarrassing mistakes.
Thank you! Sounds plausible.

China also spends a lot on subsidies for their solar industry (at least this is often mentioned).
Yeah, I imagine it, and still don't see how the flame graph would help?

Shown as a hierarchical bar chart, this would suggest 'b' is problematic.

Where, color-wise (because peak-wise, 'c' would be the culprit here) do I see this issue in a flame graph? Because I fear that either 'main' or 'a' would have the most dominant shade of red here?
Shell sessions and bouncers sort of alleviate the history issue if that is what you really need. I always thought that not having history was part of the magic of IRC.

That said, all your private messages as well as any messages in public channels can be logged and will persist on your PC until you delete them.
First issue - outside of "my IQ is..." bragging rights, intelligence is multi-dimensional. If not fractal. The IQ-ish dimensions are usually overrated - especially by folks for whom that's their strong suit, and by the young. Vs. the emotional maturity, big pictures, and wisdom-ish dimensions are really seldom understood, let alone mastered, until your later years.

There are some old proverbs about the wisdom and (un-)benefits of winning arguments with your wife. Beyond your need to be right about things, how much skin do you & yours have in the game on things that she's "wrong" about? If it's "homeopathy would be better than vaccines for our baby"-class stuff, that's probably worth arguing. Vs. she doesn't understand e=mc^2, or believes most politicians are well-intentioned, or knowns that your favorite football team isn't worth watching? Those really aren't worth fighting over.
You might be confusing medicine with pleasure.
> This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress.
IANAL :

Potato cannon legality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_cannon_legality

in US:
bare minimum it is a dangerous device as in pelletgun or archery equipment.

how/why its used, as well as ballistic features may cross a threshold.

if you construct a firearm, you must not have legal restrictions on ownership.

if the projectile of a firearm,is an actual .50calibre or greater,that is a destructive device and you must be rigorously vetted to construct or own that
I don’t think that follows. Most users of a translation app don’t have any ability to judge the quality of the translations it produces, so the only distinguishing feature is ubiquity - if every language you can think of is in Google Translate, you might never go looking for other apps.

Plus if you want to keep the best linguists employed, you have to give them fun things to do. Hard to write papers making Spanish translations a fraction of a percent better.
Seems like the justices missed a great opportunity here to rule in favor of the settlement and then receive $$$$$$ next year as a thank you gift.

Because buying government officials is now entirely legal.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/06/supreme-court-limits-scop...
Deciding Breakpoints Server-Side Using SEC-CH-Viewport-Width
> why don't more companies just set up their own IRC server

> The pricing for Slack

You've answered your own question there. Because "pricing" an open (as in RFC defined) IRC server is significantly more difficult than "pricing" a proprietary protocol.

So the "companies" follow the money, and setup their own proprietary silos.