skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean by "actual real sugar"? Do you mean a specific chemical like fructose or sucrose, the source of the sugar, or something else?

Fanta, Sprite, Dr Pepper and Pepsi all reduced their sugar content to around half (~5g/100ml) following the sugar tax. Coca Cola still has it up at ~10g/100ml. They all still have sugar in their nutrional info. I'm not sure that the source of the sugar has changed, but I don't know what the source actually is. I know that in the US they tend to use high-fructose corn syrup because it's cheap, but that the EU restricts import of this. Would be interesting to see whether any changes have happened here as a consequence of Brexit.
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Yes

You are diving into another topic: "fine-grained permissions"

In my opinion, fine-grained permissions is a very good idea for application-attached role: your lambda can only do "this", your ec2 instance can only do "that". For humans, they are a mistake and shall be avoided.
Highly efficient and stable solar cells can now be mass produced like newspapers
Hm - so this would instantiate a variable for each key in the class namespace? I admit I haven't seen anything like this but sounds very interesting
Yeah this is ESA's see-we-have-domestic-launch-capability pointless SLS tier project basically, my tax dollars at work.

I'm really puzzled at the lack of investment into any kind of reusable launch vehicle that could even come close to competing with SpaceX. Launching on this expensive relic of the past makes zero sense unless your payload is a military spysat.
That is fine. Government should still be reasonably efficient. Not as efficient as possible by any means possible, with the ethical problems megacorporations have. But reasonably efficient.

So it's worth keeping an eye on things and making comparisons. I at least, don't say any dollar more than SpaceX spent by Ariane is bad. But if they spend multiple billions more... maybe we could build some trains or something for that money.
> That would trigger politically-impossible lay-offs in France.

And yet, that seems like the model ESA is moving to. Not exactly - it's more NASA style letting companies bid on launches instead of directly funding rockets. But close enough.

I don't think ArianeGroup is in trouble in the near term.

But Avio - the makers of Vega - are very unhappy about that direction, since the current crop of Rocket startups more directly competes with them.
For a big sync this is definitly the way to go.
But for a simple daily sync we found the tool more usefull.
Especially when syncing to a non AWS S3 provider that does not offer a inventory feature.
> SpaceX benefits from massive taxpayer support and uses facilities built by the military and NASA

So does ArianeSpace [1]. (It’s majority owned by the French state. EDIT: It’s not.)

> no clear public indication of how reusable its rockets really are or their refurb cost

Refurb rates and turnaround times for Falcon 9 first stages are publicly documented [2]. Refurb costs are more opaque, but they’d have to be multiples of what SpaceX charges to approach Ariane 6’s cost projections.

Ariane 6 is obsolete on arrival; ArianeSpace’s CEO admitted as much in asking the ESA to fund a reusable heavy booster like Falcon Heavy [3].

[1] https://www.space.com/europe-ariane-6-rocket-debut-launch

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_first-stage_b...

[3] https://www.illdefined.space/arianespace-the-only-fish-in-th...
Being in top 50 of anything seriously competetive requires monk-like existence. You can't just coast, many atlethes who don't have the true monk mindset tried to coast a bit after a couple years of ruthless grind that got them to the top. It always results in decline of performance.
I'd be impressed if they could even revive a mouse.

I can imagine rich people living past 100, maybe even 130, but you have to be pretty narcissistic to think you'll be able to cryogenically freeze yourself and be revived 500 years later.
Final text from the decision: "In sum, the Court dismisses Plaintiffs’ Section 1202(b) claim, this time with prejudice. The Court declines to dismiss Plaintiffs’ claim for breach of contract of open-source license violations against all Defendants. Finally, the Court dismisses Plaintiffs’ request for monetary relief in the form of unjust enrichment, as well as Plaintiffs’ request for punitive damages."

I am curious if some legal-minded person knows what the implications of the non-dismissal of the breach of contract is-- it reads to this layman as if damages will not be awarded, but leaves open some future suit that could be brought against Microsoft and OpenAI?
I mean, I imagine it used a lot of their public code, like VS code, typescript, the new windows terminal, or anything on https://github.com/microsoft . They didn't use their private code, but they didn't use anyone else's private code either.
typical Gell-Mann amnesia. I write a lot so I see this when I've used AI to generate writing.

If I ask it to generate something that I understand: "Wow this is the most surface level garbage anyone could create by reading one SEO-optimized article"

When it's about something I don't know anything about: "Wow it's impressive how far AI has come"

What I do find AI super useful for is finding stuff like metaphors.

"I want to find a metaphor between product-led vs. sales-led growth strategies for startups. Please give me a list of 10 i could use"

Those prompts are incredibly useful. I reckon there's some type of analogy with coding here.
A bicycle(ebike) can be reasonably and with not too much effort accelerated manually past the speed limit(at least here in Uk/EU with the 15.5mph limiter) and in fact I'd say it's a very common occurance. The same cannot be said about any car, even if technically it's true that if you had some other source of prepulsion the car could go above its own speed limiter.
I can read, thanks. There is no benefit to it. If the desire were to look at them out of curiosity, a microscope would do.
> “The Russians and the French are not going to abandon their rockets and entrust their nuclear deterrent and early warning system to SpaceX.”

The United States is certainly happy to (launch military payloads with SpaceX). Having access to far more launch capacity, far more cheaply, is surely a significant strategic advantage.

Edit: Added text in parentheses for clarity.
Ariane 6 is quite heavily subsidized, with ArianeGroup getting €340M per year to operate it [1]. With an expected 10 launches per year, that's about €34M/launch.

But in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter: Europe needs to be able to put its own military satellites (or anything else critical) up there. Military satellites sold to third party countries also won't launch themselves...

[1] https://europeanspaceflight.com/arianegroup-to-receive-e340m...
FSD working better for youtubers in OK!

For they are the aristocrats of our time. The rest, mere peasants and shareholders can drive themselves,and buy the stock. And be happy those prolific video makers, and musk driving up the stock price with perpetual FSD excitement.

The reality is that Waymo and Cruise use huumans in the loop, to make those businesses run, no one has magic AI - and musk will have to do the same when he launches the robotic taxi service (24/7 huumans remotely overseeing/troubleshooting the fleet).

If it works out, Tesla will eat into Uber's massive revenue - much larger than Tesla's. This will go a long way to grow Tesla's top line while EV sales are slow.

Shareholders don't need actual self driving AI cars, or honest marketing, they just need revenue growth and the stratospheric stock price - that's why our favorite car company employee is apparently getting a $44B bonus (may come in handy with any FTC,SEC,DOJ legal fees).

There are good and smart people working on AI elsewhere, tesla seems just fine as is.

(as an aside: Tesla dipping into Uber's revenue, with a tesla taxi service- might be safter bet than the simmilar strategy of Starlink dipping into Telecoms' selling of local internet access).
I actually once tracked this claim down in the case of stable diffusion.

I concluded that it was just completely impossible for a properly trained stable diffusion model to reproduce the works it was trained on.

The SD model easily fits on a typical USB stick, and comfortably in the memory of a modern consumer GPU.

The training corpus for SD is a pretty large chunk of image data on the internet. That absolutely does not fit in GPU memory - by several orders of magnitude.

No form of compression known to man would be able to get it that small. People smarter than me say it's mathematically not even possible.

Now for closed models, you might be able to argue something else is going on and they're sneakily not training neural nets or something. But the open models we can inspect? Definitely not.

Modern ML/AI models are doing Something Else. We can argue what that Something Else is, but it's not (normally) holding copies of all the things used to train them.
> it's not clear how Flutter contributes to their bottom line in a meaningful way... focus on Kotlin/Compose and let JetBrains do the heavy cross-platform lifting.

Why do you think Kotlin MP would contribute to JetBrains' bottom line when at the same time you think Flutter does NOT contribute enough to Google's?

I get it, Google's bottom line is on another level, but at the same time, if someone can afford to invest on technologies that do not bring in any profit, that's Google if it thinks it increases its reach, which Flutter/Dart do in a way that Kotlin cannot, given Google controls them but not Kotlin (though you could make a case Google effectively controls Kotlin, at least somewhat?).
I'd love for fine-grained permissions to be optional. Not an insurmountable barrier to the actual service.

Like let me start the development first. I'll get to security later. I came here for object storage, don't force me to learn an incredibly complex auxiliary service.
Read Kafka's The Trial [0]

The protagonist just turned 30.

[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7849
Same experience here, I've never been able to use it for anything worthwhile. On one flight I was able to send an email by manually telnetting to an SMTP server and I eventually got an email out with a single line of text but that's been about it.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40918284 (57 comments)
Memory Management in DuckDB
It accidentally a whole scandal
SoC RAM let's the vendor abuse the user. The 8GB needed to go from 8GB to 16GB on a MacBook Air cost Apple less than $10, but it charges the customer extra $200 for it.

Don't see how Apple makes more money is a good thing - it means millions of their clients have less money left.
Yup, as an engineer the "nuts and bolts" of all this stuff is the really hard part.

The stresses, forces, environment etc that these machines face mean that it is always impressive the don't blow up.

And its silly talk to say that the ESA shouldn't have its own rocket programmes.
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If I would be begging for new development money from the parent org after just launching a new product, I would also say that the new product is obsolete and we need to work on a replacement ASAP... especially in a pork-barrel org
> The competitive, zero-sum conquests

Controlling country like Afghanistan is not zerosum game. It is a blackhole that burns money, resources and men! There was never great plan to conquer India (as British believed).

> leaders of the international order want to prevent nuclear proliferation

"Leaders" are happy if they find their way from podium.

Current situation is more similar to Cuban missile crisis, not some great chess game. Sadly we do not have anyone like Kennedy!
Was this better with the crazily fast-loading chonka-chonk slam-slam nature of a Pioneer 6-disc cartridge changer, or with something slower and perhaps more-civilized like a period-correct Technics 5-disc changer, with its nearly-silent and relatively exquisite, seemingly-careful demeanor?

(Both have their merits, but I unfortunately have neither at hand. And I only have one of these 2 albums. And one of those albums is the original Broken, which only has 6+2 tracks across two discs instead of 99 tracks on one disc.

And how do the 91 silent tracks on a more-common release of Broken affect things compared to the 26 musical tracks that the original 6+2+18 track-count ensemble may entail, in terms of inter-song delay or any other such thing on a real multi-disc changer?

I know TMBG fairly well, and NIN very well, and I enjoy the fuck out of gear, but I have so many questions.)

(I vaguely jest above, but Spotify only shows me 18 tracks on Apollo 18. And only one of them is Fingertips. Am I looking at this wrong?)
Yeah, it seems impossible for ESA to act rationally in this regard when bound e.g. by French veto. The only opportunity would be for individual countries (like Germany) to fund such rockets alone, but that seems unlikely due to cost (and the fact that they already pay for ESA). Without substantial investment, companies like RFA don't have the means to create a larger rocket, due to heavy international competition.

Not even NASA could resist developing their SLS rocket, which realistically should have been replaced with funding private heavy lift rockets. And that is despite the fact that they are much less politically constrained than ESA.
> If EU pays 10x or 100x more to launch satellites the world isn't going to change all that much.

That may be true for a few military satellites. But ESA is talking about putting up a Europoean mega-constellation. In that context, launch costs do really matter.
I had a Rammstein ablum, that if you rewound before track 1 there was a black box audio recording of a plane crash were everyone died. It was pretty macabre. I think the CD cover was like a plane's black box if I remember correctly.
While that attitude makes sense for ArianeSpace , I doubt they will be successful.
Would anyone be willing to explain the take-away points from these videos/how to spot someone who is drowning? I would love to be educated about this, but I don't have the stomach to actually watch these right now...
It still seems wild to me that laser products powerful enough to chemically alter objects are sold or allowed without a sealed protection system. I guess product safety standards aren't what they used to be.
That's not valid. And almost no one would except it. The real digital version is still in the making.
They're not "inherently trained to duplicate"; I think that's a bit of a disingenuous oversimplification. They're trained to learn abstract patterns in large datasets, and remix those patterns in response to a prompt.

"You train them by comparing the output to the original." To the best of my knowledge this isn't correct; can you expand or cite a reference?
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The German navy bought starfighters? Did Germany already have an aircraft carrier in the late 50s? And the star fighter could land on a carrier?
Because extra money spent could be better invested elsewhere. Eventually, the high cost will harm the general expertise and readiness.
The marketing of EDB is as a drop-in replacement for Oracle.
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Lol it is. More money means less money some place else. Europe is not as rich as it was 40 years ago. General competency will decrease due to lack of money.
> despite cow milk being much less healthy than soy milk

How could that possibly be true? One is a fluid that exists in similar forms for millions of years in order to supply all growing mammal infants with all the nutrients they need ... and the other is just some plant matter from a random cheaply cultivable plant (by currently dominant species at current tech level) dispersed in water.

Is soy milk healthier in a sense that no food is healthier than too much food for a person who has western diet?
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You technically can have spam filtering with e2e encryption by using confidential computing. It's just really hard and there isn't much market demand.
Even if the chances are low, it's still better than the alternative.
He goes slightly more tinfoil hat than the headline here suggests:

> the system is designed to make it impossible to prove fraud.

Who designed it this way Elon? Was it the Jews again? The ones you claimed were conspiring to import inferior immigrants?

Also, worth noting this isn't a one off, he's said similar things about voting and immigrants repeatedly, echoing existing conspiracy theories.

I like this refreshingly direct take:

"Elon Musk keeps tweeting bullshit about Arizona’s elections"

> Experts like Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer are trying to teach the tech billionaire, but he doesn't want to learn

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/elon-musk-tweeting-misi...

edit to add an exhaustive factual debunking of his claims on elections:

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2024/elon-musk-immigra...
> So does ArianeSpace [1]. (It’s majority owned by the French state.)

True, but the EU has tight rules about government subsidies (TFEU art. 107-109) which don't have equivalent in the US.

> Ariane 6 is obsolete on arrival; ArianeSpace’s CEO admitted as much in asking the ESA to fund a reusable heavy booster like Falcon Heavy [3].

This is true though.
Massive taxpayer support for such frivolous projects as the first and only global broadband (battlefield capable) communication system and the only working american human-rated launcher, both for quarter the cost the next guy would like to charge. Truly, shameless leeches.
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The UK stills makes good cars, but the management at British car plants is now Japanese. When the management was British there was a lot of industrial action. No longer.

What does that say about what they teach at places like Eton?
> I'm wondering how much of a market there is in the end for a super-heavy lifter like Starship. But I guess we'll see soon.

The biggest market is probably internally for Starlink. But itself, that'll be quite a lot of launches. Especially if SpaceX ends up pursuing an enlarged constellation size.

For the same reason, it's almost certain that ArianeSpace won't get any launches in the 2nd Kuiper tranche - New Glenn should be more efficient and capable than either Ariane 6 or Vulcan. Even if it isn't up to the task operationally, Vulcan will probably receive the balance of launches.
Ariane is apparently so obsolete that they are behind rockets that haven't even launched yet!
A thing which can nearly get into orbit. It never quite reached it (probably intentionally). But more importantly, the recent Starship tests ran with no payload whatsoever, and they definitely didn't deploy anything into orbit.
>SpaceX benefits from massive taxpayer support

Ariane 6 was funded by European taxpayers to the tune of €2.815 billion.

>and uses facilities built by the military and NASA.

Ariane is launched from the Guiana Space Centre which is owned and operated by the ESA. Since you haven't familiarised yourself with the topic, ESA is the European Space Agency and is owned by 22 European governments.

In addition, the member states of the ESA will subsidize the rocket for up to €340 million annually in return for an 11% discount on launches.
> Systemd-boot, any boot loader, that aims to replicate the things that the kernel does is ultimately going to run into the same problems as grub. We're going to have the font CVEs, we're going to have filesystem and storage and memory allocation bugs. All of that stuff is going to exist in whatever boot loader.
> Again, for an individual user, if you want to install systemd-boot, great, go ahead and use it. It's good, it works. But as a general option it's just going to have the same issues, unfortunately.

This is completely wrong though - the main point of sd-boot is that it does _not_ implement any of that - no filesystems, no fonts, no themes, nothing at all, the firmware is used to do all the risky stuff via the UEFI protocols. So it is very much not reimplementing what grub or the kernel do, the exact opposite in fact, it's the number one design goal.
I think they're referring to the Ariane 5 disaster in 1996 caused by a software bug...
A national train company where I live in limits the number of transactions (per user) to 1. Where "transaction" is roughly equivalent to a browser tab - the website will aggressively scold you if you try to open another tab and refuse to load!

I think it's realated to the session mess they have in the backend but it's very annoying (especially when buying train tickets and comparing offers, of all things).
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You know how people don't usually ask for free bites of food at restaurants? But when it comes to apps or online stuff, even if it's $9 a month, everyone wants a free trial. Why is that? Is it because we can't see or touch digital things like we can with food? Maybe they don't realize that it's expensive for companies to run and maintain software. Or do we just expect more freebies on the internet these days? It's kinda weird when you think about it.
Hi, Franz here, creator of FranzAI.

Speaking frankly: FranzAI is accessible simply by writing an email to

gpt@franzai.com

It is ChatGPT-4 with added "Sending Reminders" and "Memory" functions.

For example, you can forward an email to gpt@franzai.com with a note like this: "Hey, I received this very long email. Extract and add all actionable items to my task list and remind me next Tuesday after lunch about them. If you can solve or support some of these tasks, please do so."

I just launched it today. It runs on a Cloudflare worker, emails are sent via Mailgun, and the AI is ChatGPT-4. So, it can do anything ChatGPT can do with text in your email, plus, as I mentioned, it has a concept of time and memory.

Would love if you give it a try (and upvote obviously).

More infos and privacy disclaimer here https://gpt.franzai.com/
Yeah, but govt could find multiple companies instead of a monopoly. Encourage domestic competition.
where have you seen GPT-4 fail at tic-tac-toe?
I read that case.

Absolutely there were a few outliers where a judge might want to look more closely. I'd be surprised if -under scrutiny- there wouldn't be any issues whatsoever that OpenAI overlooked.

However, it seemed to me that over half of the NYT complaints were examples of using the -then rather new- ChatGPT web browsing feature to browse their own website. In the case, they then claimed surprise when it did just what you'd expect a web browsing feature to do.
And still no ECC? And if a memory module has a bad bit somewhere, I have to replace the whole motherboard?
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An individual could sit placidly in the sun gazing out on a field of flowers and arguably be causing taxpayers harm because they aren't exercising and otherwise bettering their physical health (or maybe the pollen is increasing their risk of an expensive lung cancer, who knows).

There is more of an argument against taxpayer funds for the NHS than anything to do with sugar drinks in that observation. It is inescapably arbitrary what unhealthy behaviours are being subsidised vs. taxed.
I view the things you mention as incremental improvements on stuff that basically worked since the 60s.
Copying collectors with block-structured heaps are unreliable
The tip is to look for the ones with the floating devices. They're the ones likely to not be able to swim. Then look for when the child leaves or has that device flipped over.