skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is totally unresearched, but my gut says it would be much higher ROI for Europe + North America to independently source solar from their respective nearby deserts, paired with batteries?
I recognize myself in your description. So probably I need to diagnose myself? /s
It's sad to hear that the new app encrypts everything.

A long time ago I worked on hacking airplay support for sonos speakers and it wouldn't have been possible without inspecting a lot of plaintext wireshark traffic.
Exactly such a project is currently being explored, while a UK-Morocco line is continuing development:

https://www.current-news.co.uk/uk-us-transatlantic-interconn...

Weirdly enough the latter is projected to cost less than the now infamous Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant.
That's terrible. Maybe if you downgrade?
There's no reason to use Sonos anymore. When Sonos came out, I bought them because 1) I wasn't sure which speakers were good, and 2) Sonos would allow me to have a multi-room audio setup. Regarding #1, it turns out that speaker technology doesn't seem to advance much. Many audiophiles seem happy to buy literally 30 year old speakers. The Sonos Play 5 has not changed it's speaker internals significantly since 2014 IIRC. Regarding #2, Airplay 2 means that you can just buy any airplay 2 enabled speakers and use Apple Music or Spotify or your iPhone to cast to all of them at the same time (sync'd) and set varying volume levels.

Meanwhile, Sonos requires you to login to their server with your real identity or your speakers are bricked. And they have the worst apps ever. I've wasted a lot of time trying to get them working.

If I may rant on a more macro level, to pump their company valuation, Sonos and many other brands (Phillips Hue, for example) want you to have an account, to use their software, etc. But I don't want to have to have an account or use an app to use my lightbulbs or play music from my speakers. I don't want to maintain a relationship with the manufacturer of my floor tiles or plastic spatula either. Just make your thing work and get out of the way. The best service in areas where customers do not want a relationship -- which is almost all of them -- is to be invisible.
I remember, I was around back then. :) Panorama was in some ways ahead of its time. The UI was nice visually but also somewhat heavy handed / not very beginner friendly to say the least, which contributed to it being used only by a relatively small share of our user base.

We're cautious about not repeating history. We're implementing tab groups from scratch and directly in the tab bar. Our Firefox View feature (Tools > Firefox View) may later get a more visual surface for managing groups.
Uv: Like Cargo, for Python
I wonder if that cap you are seeing is not a temporary measure, for storage and transport purposes.

I agree, it does look like it's shorting out all the pins. Maybe it's intentional, to avoid any weird currents or whatever forming while the chips are not installed? Possibly an early form of ESD protection?
I just sold my last x86 machine. I suspect emulation will be a long-standing concern.
> proposing unrealistic nuclear solutions to seriously focus on renewables.

they're doing unrealistic nuclear proposals, because they know it takes a long time to ramp up, and in the mean time, their buddies' investments in the coal industry gets time to exit and profit properly. It's designed to prevent losses in fossil fuel investments.

Not to mention that australian nuclear cannot be profitable imho - not when solar is so cheap. Their current proposals for nuclear basically requires taxpayer subsidies.
It makes it ingame now.

https://x.com/shadps4/status/1825669017392107971?s=46
the browser wars are heating up again! nice
Get structured typed, and validated JSON outputs from AI
> We the people. We the 90% who have no representation in media or politics.

My point exactly. And without that representation, we have zero leverage to hold anyone responsible.
The hype dying off will be good for literally everybody except the investors. It'll mean fewer people trying to jam it into products as feature bloat where it has no business being, or trying to make it do tasks that it's unsuited for.

The sooner people start to find it boring, the sooner we can stop wasting time on all the hot air and just use the bits that work.
If you look at the picture that GP linked, you'll see they are referring to what looks like a loose metal cap that fits /around/ the entire chip, and it clearly looks like it shorts out the pins all the pins. It's not the hermetic cap you are referring to.
Can you add Youtube channels to the feed?
Lawfm – scientifically proven music to help you focus
I would hope Europe has learned a lesson not to depend on unreliable partners for its energy.
Power cables are getting cheaper and cheaper. The expensive part used to be the voltage conversion stations at the ends, but with mass production of MOSFETs for EV's these have now become far cheaper than the JFET's and other exotic silicon that used to be used.

In turn, that means voltages can be higher, letting one use more of the cheaper PVC or XLPE insulating material and less expensive aluminium for the same amount of energy delivered a large number of kilometers.

To be honest, I don't think we're many decades away from the cable+conversion stations themselves cost being irrelevant, and the administration costs, land purchase costs, etc dominating.
How do people design emulators? Is there a good resource on how you can learn to do this?
I sure do love it when a script runs in the background to poll a website I didn't give consent to, doing god knows what, all whilst innocuously pressing the return key....

My PS1 is based on a 20 line prompt I saw on mastodon. It does git, virtualenv, conda, guix, and some path shortening. 20 lines.

https://mstdn.science/@mtekman/111861830339082890
Investors need to stop looking at AI as a path to profits, and more as an enormous risk to the profitability of every other business. If AGI gets hit, it's probably not going to stay monopolized for long, nor is it going to be market neutral. Every business is going to need an AI infusion to compete, which many will get, cutting costs and raising efficiencies of each business in an ongoing competitive spiral to the bottom line - which... will be eventually measured in just: robotic labor, energy, and compute. The profit margins on all those businesses shrink to nothing as they become basically utilities. The net effect? Possibly a massive deflation, and "crashing" of the stock market, even as the total utility and value of the system skyrockets.

This isn't a bull bet, it's a bear. AI would need to be perfectly monopolized to capture all the gains, and it's increasingly looking like that won't be the case - as all the component pieces are already open source at competitive levels, and any final architecture improvements that cross the final thresholds could be leaked in a 50GB file. Whoever gets to it first has a few months head start, at most, and probably not enough time or control to sell products - or shovels. After that it's a neverending race to zero, to the benefit of the consumer and the detriment of the investor.

Nvidia is a great example case. They currently dominate the GPU market, an "essential hardware for AI", yet ternary asic chips specialized for transformer-only architectures are looking quite viable at 1999s tech levels. Wouldn't bet on that monopoly sticking around much longer.
Show HN: Handwriter.ttf – Handwriting Synthesis with Harfbuzz WASM
During the hype of llama.ttf months ago, I was speculating the potential of WASM shaper for even crazier purpose, one that fitter to a font shaper's duty -- to synthesize font at runtime. This project as proof-of-concept implements a synthesizer that generates and rasterizes handwriting-style font, backed by a super-lightweight RNN model (~14MiB).
I wouldn't write it all off on the AVX-512 in this case. As you can see in https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/php and other clearlinux repositories, the difference from other distros is:

1) a number of backported optimization patches

2) few patches in Linux kernel and glibc that were not accepted to upstream

3) and maybe the most important part: PGO for python, php and other performance-critical components. It is a well-known fact that PGO helps interpreted languages. And it is benchmark-oriented: for example, even though PGO helps bash, they don't enable it (maybe until somebody invents bash-bench).
This is a super insightful point that is obvious in retrospect and explains so much.
Prompt injection is highly relevant because you end up achieving the same as the publisher choosing the metadata, but on a much higher price for the user. Price which needs to be paid by each user separately instead of using one already generated.

LLMs are much better when the user adapts the categories to their needs or crunches the text to pull only the info relevant to them. Communicating those categories and the cutoff criteria would be an issue in some contexts, but still better if communication is not the goal. Domain knowledge is also important, because nitch topics are not represented in the llm datasets and their abilities fail in such scenarios.

As I said above, one is not necessarily better than the other and it depends on the use cases.
No, it's most probably the PUBG engine.
Was able to try out now. Looks cool and this time I could test it out.

Initial Feedback
1. Search is easy
2. Can start quickly on notes
3. Too many CTA's and actions in single screen - so a little confusing
4. Find/create looks same as search - whats the difference?
A quick search shows it in the documentation for version 8.4, released July 1, 2009.

Maybe 15 years is "somewhat recent feature". :)
Are there ways to quantify the qualities of engineers, or any "human resource" in hard numbers? What are interesting qualities in particular?

Maybe salary, which is influenced by location as well as negotiation prowess and just plain chance.

Or maybe "experience", which is actually "years gainfully employed" and is at best a proxy for experience.

IQ could be a something to profile on. Which is a proxy for intelligence by measuring ability to recognize patterns.

Number of Github stars then? Which is really influenced more by marketing of the project than how good the code is.

Perhaps they have good stories or anecdotes. But that's not really a hard number.
Analogy is one of the poorest forms of reasoning.
Sort of annoying that really good LG sets have really not good sound.

The remedy is to get an LG soundbar, which sounds great.

...but you can't use it without wifi. Even if you don't connect the soundbar to your wifi, the soundbar will create a visible wifi AP for the subwoofer to connect to.
Postgres feature you aren’t using: SELECT
I had pretty much the same reacon while reading the article. "BlogPosting" isn't particularily informative. The rest of the metadata looked like it could/should be put in <meta> tags, done.

A very bad example if the intention was to demonstrate how cool and useful semweb is :-)
Is that really what Discord, Whatsapp & co are using to display the embed widgets they have or is it just <meta> tags like I would expect...?
> publishers somehow manage to provide something of value

So do the Mexican drug cartels. does that mean they are good? Does that mean they are ‘free market’
The ethical considerations depend on who you are building weapons for. A state with noble goals is better equipped to pursue those noble goals if they are well defended. A state with malign intentions is better equipped to inflict those intentions if they are well armed.

Unfortunately, it’s not always easy to detect who are the good guys and who are the bad guys (but sometimes it is!).
Like some siblings mention, this is the object-relational impedance mismatch. A decent ORM like SQLAlchemy goes some way to closing this gap. Less good ORMs like Django don't help much at all, though.

When you talk about "just" using nested data in your database you seem to be forgetting a whole load of problems that relational databases solve like concurrency issues, write performance, data integrity and consistency etc. The book Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Kleppmann is an essential read.
Japan is an extremely small island. I don’t think a lot of their experience would apply to us. China may be a better example.
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I know it’s not a completely fair comparison, but to me this question is kind of missing the point. It’s like asking “Why take a cab if you know where you want to go?”
Maybe it's the other way around - or at least a feedback loop? That is, because they're cut off from easy access to research materials, most people don't consult them past graduation -- which ensures there's no expectation or benefit from consulting academic work outside of few specific professions, effectively keeping people dumb and stumbling in the dark relative to what they'd otherwise be.
I think you're referring to Panorama View [1], introduced in Firefox 4 (2010). I think there are still extensions that replicate the experience [2].

There are many things different now that might make it work better this time. If not just that it's 14 years later, different UI, and the pattern being familiar from other browsers, might make a difference too. But no guarantees, of course.

(Note: I don't work on Tab Groups.)

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20110613070035/http://www.azaras...

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/simple-tab-groups/ is widely used, but I'm not sure if it does the overview. Other extensions do.
As other people have said, Japan used an NTSC-based system.

I’m in the UK but I ended up buying a Super Famicom to play SNES games* because I didn’t want to play the crappy slowed-down PAL versions and a good-condition SFC was significantly cheaper than a US SNES. The Japanese/European case design is also way cooler than the US one imo.

Funnily enough the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis power supply is a perfect match for connecting a Super Famicom to a UK power socket.

*I know US SNES carts are physically larger and won’t fit in an SFC without an adaptor, but I was using a flash cart with an SFC-sized shell. I had it connected to a CRT at the time so I wanted real hardware rather than emulation.
Let's hope you never write articles about court cases then: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Copilot-turns-a-court-reporter-...

The alleged low error rate of 1% can ruin your day/life/company, if it hits the wrong person, regards the wrong problem, etc. And that risk is not adequately addressed by hand-waving and pointing people to low error rates. In fact, if anything such claims would make me less confident in your product.

1% error is still a lot if they are the wrong kind of error in the wrong kind of situation. Especially if in that 1% of cases the system is not just slightly wrong, but catastrophically mind-bogglingly wrong.
The box is only unchecked because of the curious decision to allow transferring of a single prop / engine which I'm not convinced has any real value.

One thing that isn't stated is what the state of the redundant thrust slider is when the inputs are ganged together. In the physical implementations I've seen the redundant lever is usually moved to neutral and it's not inconceivable that this was carried into the digital UI. In that case failing to spot the fact that there was a differential thrust involved because of the lack of a checkbox might be much more understandable.
Is it fast,…? Cause all my attempts at keeping the Gcloud proj alongside git branch in the posh prompt failed miserably in terms of speed

(…and on a very decent Ryzen 7 with NVME)
> The first is that large language models (LLMs) routinely get stuff wrong. If you want bots to get it right, provide the metadata to ensure that they do.

Yet another reason NOT to use the semantic web. I don't want to help any LLMs.
This is how it works around me in Detroit. I know the intervals for different routes and for 15min or less it's not a huge deal to wait. There is a major route that runs only once an hour so I will look up the exact schedule or the live bus tracker for that one. The only mandatory stops are the stations on the ends of the lines / bus turn around points / major transit hubs like the train station or the Greyhound/etc terminal.
I heard that finnished software is dead software
What oh-my-posh specific stuff have you seen added to build systems?
Show HN: Locate Moon Objects Game
If you're unfamiliar with Sidebery, it's similar to TST but has a neat tab groups feature as well.

Speaking of, there are other cool new features coming to Firefox - such as vertical tabs: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/here-s-what-we-re...
https://rylev.github.io/DMG-01/public/book/ this is a good read
I make my own peanut butter, it is so much better than any shop bought version.

homemade peanut butter

just the right amount for one jam jar

300g bag of salted peanuts

60g butter melted in microwave for 10 seconds until soft

place peanuts in the high speed processor.

process until smooth or crunchy.

you will slowly see the peanuts turning into soft smooth thick butter.

test to check what consistency you want: smooth or crunchy

add the butter. you may have to add some more for a smoother texture

process until done

add to jam jar

store in fridge

eat before the kids get it
Does not appear to be multiplayer though. So it's more like Sims meets UE5 I guess?

Looks like Sims for all the "real" gamers.
This is the comment!

If so called „prompt engineering“ goes so far that only one solution remains, you don‘t need the LLM.
I laughed at this bit:

"Googlers, if you're reading this, JSON-LD could have the same level of public awareness as RSS if only you could release, and then shut down, some kind of app or service in this area. Please, for the good of the web: consider it."
But also, people are responsible for estimates from the first day of their career. It's the scope that changes.
If you want to learn, I guess look for something well-documented and comparatively simple, like an old Game Boy emulator
YMMV. Works great for me with no bothersome slow downs from the git integration. I do have the experimental Git symlinks and cache enabled though.
The only difference to handle PAL and NTSC is the master clock. The two consoles shipped with two different oscillator. I actually detailed how this works in last month article[1].

And as other have pointed out, Japan and USA both use NTSC.

[1] https://fabiensanglard.net/snes_video/#:~:text=totally%20use...
I consider myself very productive. But I don't care about finished projects. The key is that some get finished. I naturally let projects languish as soon as they lose interest for me. If I lose interest I feel that it's not worth expending effort against the current to finish it. That's perhaps why I'm terrible in a corporate setting but great as an independent. I hate routine.
> Why isn't SAML SSO mandated (either literally or my convention)?

I used OIDC for my internal sites to integrate with our corporate SSO provider. Why would I need to use saml instead?
Ok, but how do you avoid toasts when you have a lot of 24x24 action buttons in different places like in MS Word toolbars?
Basically author assumes one can add loading indicators into every modal that appears with the buttons, or to the longer buttons themselves, but what if you have no modals and buttons aren't long enough?
Interesting, I'm in Europe; Maghrebis I know tend to look down upon our local Muslims, so it might explain a few things. I might also be biased.
Interesting, font rendering is the number one thing that makes me hate Electron apps (I have so much more reasons to hate Chrome).

It’s to the point that I just can’t use, say, VS Code on a monitor that is not Hi-DPI.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that the font doesn’t look better. Maybe it’s aesthetically more pleasing but to me, it’s just harder to read.

I have multiple eye issues that may not help and which make me more demanding but since I don’t have this issue with OS rendered fonts, I consider this to be an issue.
Googlers are not all timekeeping experts, nor are they all capable of summoning that knowledge at all times when writing code.
> And goddesses (no quotes) if you take Ramanujan seriously

Nicely brought up. Nice catch.-
> especially with the add-on for regex URL matching for container selection

Which add-on is that? It would be quite helpful.
> It almost always is used as a shortcut to save on a data structure, and time and again I've seen it break workflows because it requires that the chain of items is first sorted.

I am not sure I understand. I almost never use transducers to create data structures. I use them as a way to create general processing steps. The standard example is how they are used in clojure's channels. In such a context you need both dedup and dedup-neighbors.

To be frank, I don't really care much for the *-transduce functions. I think a general purpose looping facility is a better choice almost always. For those things I use https://git.sr.ht/~bjoli/goof-loop which is always going to be faster than transducers unless you have very very smart compiler (or perhaps a tracing JIT).

I think that transducers should be integrated into the standard library to make sense so that you can for example pass them to a port constructor.

Anyway, your library looks much more complete, and pretty similar to the SRFI. The differences are mostly cosmetic.
> I don't think this second part you suggest is something the state can just unilaterally do

If the state does not enforce a contract through the courts, what is it really worth?
While both of these points a valid today they are likely going to be invalidated going forward - assume that what you can conceive is technically possible will become technically possible.

In 5 years resource price is likely negligible and accuracy is high enough that you just trust it.
Who do you think is manufacturing the solar panels? Certainly not Australians.
This YouTube video by Modern Vintage Gamer might be an interesting watch, for people interested in PS4 emulators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZvSEdFGyxE
Time to short Nothing. If company starts to be fussy about where it's employees do the job it means there are much more important issues lacking attention.
Thanks. This looks beautiful
But is it dropping faster than the needs of the next model that needs to be trained?
Quitting My Job for the Way of Pain
finally someone did it! i was wondering why we stopped at ps3 emulators, now i can run ps4 games on pc aswell!
but would love to know whats holding the devs back.
I can’t reply to dang’s comment with a Wikipedia article but I was laughing when the link they posted resulted in a toast notification.

https://i.postimg.cc/bvSk0fzj/IMG-7616.png
As I already pointed out, none of the arguments the author brings up are really relevant. Resources and accuracy will not be a concern in 5 years.

What makes you think that I am not an expert btw?

It indeed seems like you appear to believ that what's written on the internet is true. So if someone writes that LLMs are not a contester to semantic web - then it might be true.

Could it be, that I merely challenge that author of the blog article and don't take his predictions for granted?
I have a Phillips Hue and they now want to force me to create an account - for security reasons.

I don’t know if this sounds as insane to you as it does to me - but a device that does nothing else but emit coloured light needs a frickin account for SECURITY reasons?

Of course I know the real reason is to extract all kinds of data from me but man if this ain’t done Brave New World shit I don’t know.
I think this is strongly overestimating the ratio of Americans who would be willing to walk to work, but that’s pure conjecture
Don’t think that article from 2009 is still true. The USA and Israel easily shot down over a thousand missiles from Iran.

https://open.substack.com/pub/noahpinion/p/why-so-many-of-us...
The hard thing is staying focused on finishing things.

New projects are always nice and "productive", because it's fine. It's meeting the end goal that is harder.