skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The specifics are a matter of culture, but every civilization has transportation and trade. That's universal.
Macs = loaded media producers

Sun = goverments, big corpos and universities with tons of money to burn.
This is pretty cool!

How are you tracking workouts/bike stats? Is that manually tracked somewhere or done automatically?
GPT4o certainly gave it a good go (prompt: "What cartoon character would you say this SVG code renders most closely to?"). That's maybe a little too "prompting" tbf:

"""
The SVG code you provided creates an image with three circles:

A large circle at the center (at coordinates 100, 100) with a radius of 50.
Two smaller circles at the top left (at coordinates 50, 50) and top right (at coordinates 150, 50) with a radius of 40 each.
This configuration closely resembles the head and ears of Mickey Mouse. The larger circle represents the head, and the two smaller circles represent the ears.
"""

Slightly more generic prompt: "What is this code drawing? Can you suggest what it might be representing?"

"""
What It Might Represent:
Mickey Mouse Head: The arrangement resembles a simplified "Mickey Mouse" head, where the large central circle represents the head, and the two smaller circles represent the ears.

Abstract Art: Alternatively, it could be an abstract design with three overlapping circles of different sizes, suggesting some form of simple geometric art.

The circles are positioned such that the smaller ones are symmetrically placed above the larger central one, which is a typical representation of a head with ears.
"""

And more generic "I've been sent this code, what is it drawing?" ends with:

"""
You will see three overlapping circles. The largest circle is near the center, while two smaller circles are positioned above and slightly to the left and right of the center. The arrangement may resemble a basic representation of a Mickey Mouse head shape, with the large circle as the face and the two smaller circles as ears.
"""
Isn't the yeast also producing urethane?

And metabolic pathways are very complicated, you can't really judge whether something is a problem by looking at intermediates that exist in tiny quantities.
I saw those for the first time in 2022 and I was amazed that it existed. What a strange creature. I thought it was actually a hummingbird at first, and then its details emerged to me and I realized what I was seeing. So strange. And huge, for a bug!

It was cruising around at dusk feeding on nectar.
Recursive Descent Parsing [video]
When I worked at Subway as a teenager in the early 90s in Seattle... our manager was the owner. He was a real stickler for bathroom cleanliness. The bathrooms were inspected and tidied up every hour, and cleaned every 4 hours. He always threatened to fire "the whole team" if he ever stopped by and found a bathroom that he would feel "embarrassed to have his mother use." (I don't think he ever fired anyone, he would just call you over and make you re-do something if it wasn't done right. Honestly he was a really good boss for a kid to have.)

I think there's been a big shift away from the franchise owners being the day-to-day managers, and they just hire someone and near-minimum wage to be the manager now. Gut feeling on it anyway. Doesn't feel like anyone who works there cares or takes any personal pride in the cleanliness of the bathrooms. (Ha, is this what getting old feels like?)
I will admit that I already had some familiarity with the topic, but I feel you did an amazing job at explaining specifically the constraints you're under as a composer, and in elucidating how having digital tools doesn't magically solve the problems you face in harmonizing in just intonation over the course of a piece. I had not really understood that before reading your article, and at least suspected that we might transition to hearing mostly Just Intonation eventually as digital tools became more widely used.

Of course you could make it more accessible by starting from some even more basic principles and elaborating further on those foundations, but then you risk losing some of our audience that's already familiar with those. For me at least you struck a good balance. (No pun intended!)
Isn't it possible to create a valid and stable HDMI signal based on two inputs? I can imagine that some memory is required to synchronize both signals. Is there an IC that can do that?
Yes, I added them together, because that was the same comparison being made by the parent comment. The reason federal spending on them is low is because transportation and education are mostly within the administrative purview of the states.
Absolutely. I was working at a newspaper when it got started. This is a near-verbatim conversation I had with our publisher:

“Hey John, I was wondering about our classifieds revenue. How much of our money comes in from that vs. display ads?" [those are the designed ads with photos and graphics etc.]

“Almost exactly half. Like 49-51% depending on the month. Why?”

“Well I was talking to some guys from the SF Weekly, apparently there’s this guy out there named Craig…”

I explained that there was nothing stopping "Craig" from cloning his site in every market, and developed a clone that we could license to other papers around the country before Craigslist could get traction. Unfortunately, a new publisher came in, and when he got word of my project, axed the entire operation — “This would destroy our classified ads revenue!”

Years later, Steve Jobs said that he was happy to “cannibalize” iPod sales with the new iPhone. Really wish I had the wits to explain that as well back then.
Given you an upvote, thanks for the apology :)
Forbes 30 under 30 inductee charged with fraud in the same week (2020)
Obviously this would be an absurd thing to try and police. You may as well try to make it illegal for people to give money to each other. You would see insane interpretations of this sort of ban, like "I can't pay my teen an allowance because that counts as a tip, but I also cannot employ them and pay them as an employee because they are underage, so I guess they don't get an allowance

I would like to see it made illegal to pay someone lower with the expectation that tips will bring up their income to make up the difference

And at the same time I would like to make it illegal for companies to automatically add an expected gratuity to your bill, and illegal for them to insert a tip solicitation into payment processes

No more "how much would you like to tip" screens on checkout
I'm partial to the Death's-head Hawkmoth and the Ceanothus Silkmoth.
Must be the quickest turnaround yet.
If the cost goes up, then the cost will come down. It doesn't happen overnight, and yes a browser is a minimal part of the market.

However if everyone paid cash for browsers, browsers would also be quite cheap. If you sell 50M copies a year, even $1 goes a very long way.

Firefox seems to spend around $200M/year1 on 'software development', but they also have lots of side projects (pocket, proxies, other software like thunderbird, etc) so I bet $50M could easily fit the bill. And Firefox doesn't even use a shared render engine, or HTML/etc parsers, it's not a chromium based browser.

1. https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-invest...
I was very surprised there is no 9000 with X3D.

Also how hard it was to find this page: https://www.amd.com/en/products/specifications/processors.ht...

AMD should have an ark.amd.com website.
Yep and will more than likely happen if any superpowers engage in direct war.
Original article: https://www.ft.com/content/de751907-c870-4b8c-b86b-317483f76... (https://archive.is/wxqsC)
Scammers prey on young Chinese desperate for jobs in bleak economy
There's a slippery slope there. Is a Word document a program? Is a PNG file?

A computer program is a data structure, but data structures are not necessarily computer programs.
It’s difficult to tell what they’re proposing from the title or abstract, but asking questions about an SVG image, given only the source code, seems like an interesting challenge.

There are a lot of ways to generate the same image in different ways, or to slightly change the source code, resulting in a very different image. This could be used to train a deeper understanding of program-like text.
I wasnt aware that Excel was first written for Mac.

Thanks for teaching me something today :)
Brief, simplified explanation, with examples, diagrams and pseudocode.
Building a GATT Server on Pi Pico W
They are being out competed by other places like Jimmy John’s and Jersey Mikes , at the same time they have not focused on the quality of the food and the experience of having the bread be smaller in diameter, and the slices seem thinner and less tasty than others.

Everything appears to be done as cheaply as possible with no regard to what the customer wants.

Funny how all the store owners have been complaining but only now that the corporate office is suffering is there an “emergency“ .
And/or Amazon Trust, per their DNS CAA record. SSL test gives them an A+.

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=secure.login....
I never thought I'd say this, but Cox is right. What if you have a kid or relative who is downloading something illicit and gets the entire family disconnected. Or something gets flagged as piracy that wasn't.

Godspeed Cox Cable. Get this ruling overturned.
paper is much cheaper than animal parchment, and although animal parchment is longer-lasting than paper, paper is much longer-lasting than papyrus, so a given level of manuscript production can preserve many more texts. there are definitely many greek texts that were lost in europe during the dark ages because the only copies were on papyrus that deteriorated under conditions where paper would have survived
There are many reasons why Facebook would want to push videos at the time. There was probably a strategy shift to video at the board level then it trickled down into this.

Facebook gets paid for showing ads and videos were playing automatically on hover. It looks like more engagement but the call to actions is lower (no one clicks on a link).

The strategy probably worked better on instagram.
I tried to write a POC Firefox extension in pyscript but ended up having to fall back to pyodide. Was a fun experiment anyway.

https://n8henrie.com/2023/06/write-a-firefox-extension-in-py...
>I think the real question is if someone other than Steve Jobs was running Apple, would they have gone the same way the companies you listed go as well?

John Sculley already answered this, no?
We spend enormously on education; in most municipalities it's going to be the majority of your property tax bill†. The distinction is that education is primarily funded locally, and the military is entirely funded federally. If you add up all-source funding, they might be neck-and-neck.

† People get tripped up on this because school systems are often their own taxing bodies, so they look at their city budget or whatever and see huge line items for police and fire and nothing meaningful for schools, but if you go to your county you can probably get the breakdown of all your local taxing bodies on one page and see where that misconception is coming from.
VS4Mac is MonoDevelop. Well, it was - VS4Mac is dead now as it has been stagnating, and at the end of its life was likely more harmful to .NET adoption by developers using macOS.

Its niche is now replaced by VS Code, particularly after base C# extension switched to Roslyn LSP from Omnisharp, and, of course, Rider which has been a strong cross-platform offering for a long time.

With that said, I heard only positive things about MonoDevelop back in the day and my impression from the feedback is that it was something its authors really put care into. I suppose it is part of history now.

On Blazor - both Rider and VS Code support it. Contrary to the belief of slowly but surely diminishing group of developers that think .NET is still stuck in Windows land, there is nothing that ties you to Windows here.
If teh LLM saves the SVG vector graphic to a raster image like a PNG and prompts with that instead, it will have no trouble labeling what's depicted in the SVG.

So, the task is "describe what an SVG depicts without saving it to a raster image and prompting with that"?
Link-in-bio comes from social platforms where you're allowed 1 url in your profile but need to show many links (also in situations where some of the links may go to content that could get you banned if placed on site ie OF).

I'm not sure of the value of making it more than it needs to be.
No shocker. The talking point on sexual assault is generally, "there is much more than is reported" because victims for a variety of reasons do not like coming forward.
And every time I answer your questions logically and correctly you seem to ignore it and change the angle of what you are saying.
Can GPT generate random numbers?
It is a little known fact that any restrictions on AI might cause the whole world to become stagnant, like one of those overgrown ponds. It is true.
Thank you! I'm so glad to have that confirmed. I feel like I do hear them, and actually have come around to liking them. They feel quite different from what you get with a pure harmony in Just Intonation -- maybe the ephemerality of the flow of energy back and forth between different subharmonics adds to the excitement somehow.

It's hard for me not to think of the electric guitar in this context. I love the purity of an acoustic played in a plangent tone like Django. But the incredibly rich spectrum introduced when an amplifier saturates and tons of additional harmonics and subharmonics that aren't supposed to be there gets introduced -- that's it own kind of excitement. Like falling into an abyss aurally.
Whether intentional or not, it’s a common rhetorical trick when talking about the US budget. You can make anything plausibly related to health and retirement or general welfare look huge by lumping it in with social security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

Including Social Security in contexts where it probably shouldn’t be included is also used on its own to make other parts of the budget look smaller. Its funding source is separate from the general budget, so including it sometimes doesn’t make a lot of sense, depending on the topic at hand, but you’ll see it dragged in to make the pie larger and make other spending look smaller.
https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/private-taxi-for-my-burri...
> One thing I really want to try out is the FUTO keyboard

I've been using it for a few weeks and it works well. It seems to require some learning period because it started out making unhelpful suggestions for the predictive typing but is now pretty good.
A huge percentage of these cases would be prevented if they simply had male and female E1-E3s housed in entirely separate sections of each base/ship.

The integration of women into the service was a good thing, but there's been a lack of realism from leadership about the actual realities of dumping a bunch of 18-22 year olds together when a significant minority of them are from extremely dysfunctional backgrounds and half of them barely made it through high school.
AI, DNA, morphology. Biodiversity is vast, and diverse. Figuring out the clusters within it (there a huge range of concepts of what a species [== clusters] is), and figuring out how that cluster can be meaningfully applied to issues that affect humans takes time, a lot of time. We commonly say in our research group that all of these are just another tool, we should embrace them all, but we can't escape the time it takes to work with the data at all levels. All the sequencing, AI, and even plain-old pictures in the world doesn't matter if you don't know how to catch the beast. And there are millions and millions of things to look at, all over the world. Again, in working with data at this scope on a day-today basis, not even big data, just broad, I'm struck with how little we can relate to this vastness, and I've been trained for decades to work with it.

We have videos from last years conference that highlight the tech that tries to rapidly barcode species, that can give you a flavour of the complexity involved. This is perhaps the world's leading taxonomists exploring how, practically, to do such: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX_1wdmROhU.
There's a technique to it and properly done not painful but pleasurable from the oxygen restriction.
Flow appears to be unmaintained unfortunately.

This space is always a massive graveyard it seems.
So this gave me as a consumer much more choice. I can now install Fortnite using the Epic store and … well just the Epic store. I am so glad that as user I can now choose which shop I spend my money and give my credit card info.

/s
This is proposed as a way to measure "true" reasoning by asking a certain type of trick questions, but I don't quite see how this could be a basis of a sustainable benchmark.

If this gets attention, the next generation of LLMs will be trained on this paper, and then fine-tuned by using this exact form of questions to appear strong on this benchmark, and... we're back to square one.
Yup, pre-signing is fast and local, without any I/O. It’s just math. You could likely pre-sign thousands of URLs per second if you needed.
What's Inside the New Pentax 17 Film Camera
Putting their search in front of people instead of others is advertisement. It doesn't prevent apple from doing anything.
I remember the first time someone pointed out this lack of bug splatter to me and I was a bit scared about humanity's fate, but then someone else pointed out that our cars are a LOT more aerodynamic now. Not sure which side to land on here.
A reminder that "money for weapons" is also a major 50-states jobs program; there are reasons having nothing to do with bellicosity that kind of spending is sticky.
I've heard Richard say several times that SQLite looks like it's coded in C, but it's actually coded in TCL/TH3...because the C code comes and goes but the test suite is eternal.
Yes, I would certainly recommend them if you are personally motivated. I've previously studied at Imperial for my BEng and then did a Mathematics BSc and then followed up with an MSc with the OU and certainly as a mature student, I have loved my time with the OU.

You get out of it very much what you put in. The materials on the undergrad side are excellent, at the MSc level you will basically be given a list of textbook resources, the odd OU prepared summary material and then a few online video tutorials (live) and then you get on with it.

There are forums and you have direct contact with your tutor though speaking myself, I never really engaged with them. You'll have a few "TMAs" to do (tutor marked assignments) and that's where you'll get direct feedback on your approach and questions but you are encouraged to message tutors if you need some guidance, and when I have I have always had a good experience.

My email is in my bio if you want to reach out, I'd be happy to send you some of the M838 course notes for you to get an idea of what you can expect.
This is pretty cool. Can we supply our own shapes? Can it rotate them? Can we specify edges that we prefer stay vertical or horizontal? I often need to CNC things out of plywood and it takes a surprising amount of time to lay out while making sure that the bit won't cross through an adjacent piece, but at the same time you may need to pack them into a small area to not waste wood. Good packing can make the difference between needing an additional $150 sheet of wood or not.
Nice article. I have some questions:

Do you think an AI scientist would be a set of decentralized models, or a big foundation model that only a few companies can make, like we see with LLMs?

To what extent will an AI science replace human scientists or change their job description?

My personal thoughts: unlike language, science doesn't have a big central dataset we can train everything on. Simulating physics and interfacing with a wet lab are fundamentally different. It seems to me like science might involve more, smaller models compared to LLMs. It's likely that LLMs themselves and other large models will also play a part.
Everything is military spending if you consider anything two or three degrees removed as military spending.
The best thing imo about the clickwheel was it required no training or practice to use. Everyone and their grandmas can pick it up and just use it straight away. Very few hardware interfaces have ever achieved that ubiquity.
Wow! I didn't know this existed. (I'm only a few minutes in, but John Oliver is pretty much always spot on amazing.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDdYFhzVCDM

As a former teenager who worked for Subway... seems like it's fallen quite a bit from the early 90s.
Maybe someone was "visiting" Scotland, and decided that it would look good in their backyard
Key paragraph (from the original FT article):

> The issue has arisen from idle cash sitting in customer accounts at brokerage firms and large banks, which “sweep” otherwise uninvested funds into interest-bearing alternatives in order to generate income. The SEC is looking into whether the firms steered those clients into sweep accounts that paid little or no interest, and whether the financial advisers at those groups had a fiduciary duty to advise clients they could make higher returns if they moved their cash into other accounts.
No, the whole idea of the Pax Americana, and why it has a froofy-sounding title, is that it mitigates wars outside of America. You can say there's no such thing as a Pax Americana and we can hash that out, but this "nobody tells you" thing isn't valid.
Fascinating but also a lot more portable
I’m not sure I follow. Is the argument just that nuclear power plants are related to nuclear weapons because both use fission to do their jobs? Why would such power plants be a primary target for city-killer “strategic nuclear weapons” more than, say, an entire city?

In any case, isn’t the shortest path [0] from the missile fields [1] over the arctic?

For what it’s worth, though, I’d vaguely understood that distribution [2] to involve a combination of seismic instability on the West coast and populations too sparse to be worthwhile in the inland areas of the vast American West.

[0] http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=jgn-jfk

[1] https://fas.org/publication/a-closer-look-at-chinas-missile-...

[2] http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2018/ph241/manuel1/images/...
Have little padlock sybols on the encrypted message, like literally everyone else does?
Design software for Wintel and DOS was actually pretty good around 1993-1994 time frame. Aldus PageMaker for PC was released in 1991 and QuarkXPress in 1992.
I use it for quite a few things and work with it as well, but specifically right now I'm using AI to turn a poem I wrote into a song and illustrate a video for it. Only after it produced the song I got a little offended that an AI is singing my words, so decided to layer my own vocals over the AI music. The problem is I can't sing, so now I'm looking at singing classes. The project is taking longer than originally expected.

I wonder if ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode could provide singing guidance.
Like I keep telling you, have little padlock symbols on the encrypted messages :)
As far as I can tell, the main target in the case is the restaurant. Disney feels they shouldn't be a part of the case because the restaurants are independently owned/run, which is arguable. AFAICT they're pulling this to avoid a legal precedent being set regarding them being liable for any of this.

I just can't see any way a judge goes "yeah this years old free trial agreement also applies here". That's like if I worked in the IT dept at a hospital with an arbitration agreement, then years later after I moved to a different job I was unable to sue a different hospital owned by the same private equity group for malpractice because of that agreement.
You could take that same money and fund jobs to build things that don't kill people
<$1 isn't a micro-transaction imo. It needs to be a fraction of cent.
Why the "haves" come out ahead: speculations on the limits of legal change [pdf]