skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Turns out that downloading over HTTP is just as slow (few MB/s) when using iPXE so I'm not sure what I'm gaining.

iPXE should be able to max out any gigabit NIC that has a decent driver. If you're using a BIOS UNDI driver (undionly.kpxe) or EFI SNP (snp.efi/snponly.efi) you may be experiencing the misery of a crummy driver supplied by the built-in PXE ROM.

If your NIC is supported, try using the bin/ipxe.pxe or bin/ipxe.efi build targets[1] and chainload that instead. If they work at all, it'll mean you've got a NIC with a native iPXE driver, and using that driver may speed things up.

Alternatively, the opposite may also be true. Some of the drivers aren't great, and UNDI/SNP may perform better. If you're already using those builds, try it the other way around.

[1]: https://ipxe.org/appnote/buildtargets
Are you trying to convince your company to move away from closure?
This sounds like something the browsers could standardize.
Vitamin d supplementation studies are a lot more ambiguous than this though. And this also matches my "feel". Getting sun makes me feel good in a way that vitamin D supplementation never does. I was once at a dinner and sitting at the table with the head of the Office of Dietary Supplements for the US government and asked him this question- "How should I get vitamin D and how much should I take?" He answered quite quickly "Get it from sunlight." Your skin autoregulates how much vitamin D is made this way.

"The health effects of vitamin D supplementation: evidence from human studies"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41574-021-00593-z

I do think the question is complicated by the fact that humans have wildly different skin tones. What is applicable for skin types that are very pale is quite different than darker skin tones. This question has been complicated even more by recent migration of humans into zones their skin was never meant to be exposed to. It feels like the dermatologists all made their guidelines based on people with porcelain skin that live at the equator. The truth is more complicated than that, people with darker skin develop low vitamin D status follwing those guidelines. Humans love to have blanket rules they can follow without regard to extenuating circumstances like different skin tones, but that isn't reality.
I was responding to the contention that you made: "Much of the issues Boeing has are as a result of government involvement."

The government hasn't been involved, that's the problem. We elected people who want to deregulate everything and this is what we get.
Australia's sun recommendations have become more nuanced, taking into account skin type:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-13/sun-safety-position-s...
I've found it to be like talking to someone who pretends to know things, but lacks understanding when you probe further.
This is part of a good route design - most bus stops should be "mandatory" - which means the bus stops there no matter what. Some bus stops are "optional" - driver only stops there if there's somebody waiting or if somebody in the bus presses the "STOP" button near the doors. It's marked on the timetable which bus stop is optional.

It's not worth it to make every stop optional because then the routes become too unpredictable and scheduling is hard. Usually there's like 5-10% of optional bus stops on each route - only in the places where very few people get in/out.
> Open source but don't accept external contributions.

That's not the key to the SQLite model.

The key to the SQLite model is that their 100% code coverage testsuite is proprietary. You can't credibly fork SQLite3 w/o a similar testsuite because everyone knows that SQLite3 has that testsuite and so it's simply better unless your fork has one too.

This works very well for SQLite because it is the single most widely used piece of software ever. And that is because it solves such an important and universal problem (a local DB RDBMS) with such convenience (embedded, server-less).

The reason that SQLite does not accept contributions is not so much that they don't want to, but that contributors can't contribute changes to the proprietary testsuite, and writing those is harder than writing the contribution, therefore contributions impose a big tax on the SQLite dev team that they prefer not to pay.

Very few other pieces of software have similar universal usage/applicability/convenience stories. Therefore it's not easy to apply the SQLite model to all the things.

Sourcegraph could have a business source-available option. If all you want is to be able to be able to debug problems and/or make contributions and you're a paying customer, then why would that not be enough? SQLite is essentially source-available given that you can neither contribute to nor credibly fork it.
Interesting. I didn't know about this.

What would be a good material to use to make the wire resistor?

I currently use long soft potentiometers for building controllers but they are expensive and could possibly be more expressive if I could make my own.
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I don't know why you quoted this snippet to ask this question when I addressed it literally in the next sentence of my original comment, but I guess I need to reiterate it. Automatic transcripts/ closed captioning suggest Google heard what was said. This feature suggests Google understands what was said.

Think of it like reading a foreign language that uses the same alphabet. You can give me some French text and I can read it well enough for a French speaker to understand it. That doesn't mean that I myself understand what I read. Transcripts are the former and this feature is the latter.
The post contains a pretty strong assertion that dogs cannot perform mental reflection:

> In the authentic happiness Shadow finds in the most banal of activities, his commitment to life and action is one that we humans find so hard to emulate. This is because of something that happened to us: a great schism in consciousness that we know as reflection. We humans are the world heavyweight champions of thinking about ourselves, scrutinising and evaluating what we do and why we do it.

> This schism breaks us in two. Henceforth we are all divided into one who thinks and one who is thought about; one who sees and one who is seen; one who reflects and one who is reflected upon. This bifurcation in our consciousness robs us of the possibility of a certain type of happiness, the happiness that accompanies being whole. Shadow is whole in a way that a human can never be.

...

> Being undivided by reflection, being whole and entire, a dog has only one life to live, whereas we – in whom reflection’s canyon is deepest – have two. For us, there is both the life that we live and the life that we think about, scrutinise, evaluate and judge.

It's one thing to assert that a philosophy of living in the moment may be good for people, something completely different to assert that dogs are incapable of living otherwise.
There's another much, much larger issue, which is the complete lack of specification around the word "correct".

OK, so "a simple analog circuit like a passive 1-pole low-pass filter (see figure above) can have output values where digital emulations can't be sure if the result is correct". Sure, why not. But, stick another "passive 1-pole low-pass filter" next to it. Is it "correct"? Because it sure isn't "the same". That's the nature of analog circuitry like this.

"A person who has one analog circuit knows what the correct output is. A person who has two does not.", as the old saying about clocks goes.

The article is written from a mental perspective of there being a "correct", an exact, singular point that represents the one and only valid "correct" output for a digital simulation, and if the digital fails to capture that "correct" then it's just wrong. And it simply goes without question that if it is wrong obviously the music created with that wrongness has been destroyed or something, which is actually a pretty complicated topic of its own.

But "correctness" is actually a range in the world of analog... how are you going to prove that the digital simulation doesn't exist within the range of possibilities for a real circuit? Obviously there's plenty of "not even close" values. But digital getting to "close" can be hitting the bullseye because even if it doesn't match analog circuit A, it may well match analog circuit B with what is nominally the same design. (Which also suggests you can always expect that any digital simulation of a bit of analog gear you own will always not be quite exactly the same as what you have... but as long as it's in the range of the differences you can expect from another instance of your physical gear, which will also not be the same, it's basically "correct".)

Article also strikes me as written by someone who has at least some of the "Sampling fallacies and misconceptions" mentioned at https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html . Doesn't come right out and say digital samples are jagged stairsteps but I think it's implied.
I'm essentially assuming the UK lottery (from 96-200x) rules, where players:

Pick 6 numbers from 49, so odds are independent, and roughly 1 in 14m.

The prize jackpot is determined from a set percentage from the ticket sales, and is shared between jackpot winners.

How much the jackpot prize is therefore determined by total sales and how many winners there are.

I'm also assuming your individual ticket contribution doesn't materially affect either the prize pool or the number of people playing. For a large N, small p, this holds true.
I can believe that it happens. People are gullible, unfortunately :(

But I don't think the fix for that is for banks to change how they render text. Users can get fooled with just a few IMs. I know people who lost thousands to Zelle/Cash app scams purely over Craigslist emails or messages that way...

Making banks render text as images won't magically fix that. Especially since many people these days use phone apps instead of browsers for banking anyway.
Microsoft's Copilot falsely accuses court reporter of crimes he covered
How We Test Airbyte and Marketplace Connectors
Social Security's insolvency was created by it being a rotating door of money rather than an actual pre-funded retirement account. Its funding only ever worked so long as there were more contributors than withdrawers (i.e. the population keeps growing, and retirees don't live too long).

I also think Social Security's implementation is regressive, and this only makes that worse. Social Security is a payroll tax, so it only gets paid on payroll. I suspect that millionaires and billionaires pay very little in Social Security and would continue to pay very little because their income is almost all investments, which doesn't require Social Security tax.

Highly compensated employees are often paid largely in stock, which I believe also doesn't get hit by Social Security (but I could be wrong there).

We are talking a significant swing in tax burden for people in the upper-middle/lower-upper. At $200k, it's about close to a 3 point increase in overall tax burden (i.e. from 20% of income to 23% or what have you). At $400k, it's close to a 5 point increase (~16% increase in overall tax rate). It also double-dips because employers pay half of that; at a $200k salary, it's about an extra $4,500 in taxes from the employee and $4,500 from the employer ($16.5k from both at $400k). In reality, the employee will likely pay for both with withheld raises/bonuses that the company uses to pay for the new tax.
Can you elaborate on what "blessed packages issue" is?
At its deepest point, it’s also higher than the Eiffel Tower. It’s a nice bridge for sure.

But, Millau is not exactly in the center of France.

To this day, cities like Guéret, Montluçon, or Clermont-Ferrand to a lesser extent, are poorly connected to the rest of the country.

Even crossing France West to East, from Bordeaux to Lyon, is inconvenient by train or by car.
Lumber prices are cheaper than they were during their pandemic highs, sure, but they're still roughly double the price of what they were on average pre-pandemic.

While immigration has increased, it hasn't increased at a rate to replace Americans leaving the labor market. Overall, the amount of labor in the United States has decreased. That dramatically impacts labor-intensive industries, such as construction.

So, we're still faced with a high cost of materials and a shortage of labor.
"verified" being the (rather confusing) keyword here.

https://openai.com/index/introducing-swe-bench-verified/
I think it's the other way around. It's definitely easier to walk around under some sun shopping groceries and occasional brunch, than go to extremes and hide under some cover all the time, or sunbathing the whole day.
This is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_bunching
Wouldn't banks have content security setup?
> Publishers at large won't know what hit them once searchgpt drops

A multi-billion dollar cheque? Voluntarily relinquished or via a settlement?
The scientific process requires you to make specific, measurable predictions, and then conduct unbiased experiments that test for those measured predictions in a way that can be replicated by other people.

This is a well-established process that Stockholm Syndrome has yet to undergo (much like the polygraph - also a favorite of the FBI). The fact that it's "regarded as real" is immaterial - in fact, that's PRECISELY WHY the scientific process exists. It used to be "regarded as real" that homosexuality is a mental disorder - by both the BOI/FBI and the psychiatric community. Everyone just somehow "knew" it to be true...

> Not to mention the many high profile cases where victims clearly demonstrated symptoms.

Such as?

If this is indeed a real thing, then there should be so many recorded instances by now that there's enough data to perform an actual study and publish a paper demonstrating the effcet (gaining the author some serious recognition in the scientific community).
Do you have any strategy for prompting? I've found I need to spend a lot of effort coaxing it to understand the problem. Hallucinations were pretty common, and it lead me down a couple believable but non-viable paths. Like coding an extension for Chrome, but doing things the permission system will not allow.
> Many of those you mentioned are still part of the goal of getting a human on the moon.

Some of them were for getting more detailed information about the Moon prior to sending the Apollo missions there. But most of them were general solar system exploration.

> That's like saying Starliner's Demo flights don't count as human-rated because they were uncrewed.

No, it isn't. The counterpart in the 1960s to these missions would be the uncrewed flights of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft that were done prior to the first crewed missions. I did not include those in the unmanned missions I listed.
Zed AI
Ah, thank you, navigating the nesting on here is difficult sometimes and this has proven a very contentious topic!
Winners at life dont make good gamers
Let’s imagine that exposure to UV gives you more statistical QALY than melanoma and skin aging remove. I believe this is false but let’s imagine it’s true.

Okay but there’s many other things that also give you more QALY, things that don’t increase your risk of a horrible disease or looking like a prune when you’re 40. Maybe we should do those things first and only come back to double-edged life extension techniques when we’ve completed all the benign techniques.

After all, caloric restriction also increases lifespan, but the cost is so high in terms of life enjoyment that few would be tempted. There’s more to life than time spent living.
Yeah, its kind of a bummer. Dropbox doesn't really have a cohesive vision for their productivity suite? Dropbox Paper doesn't seem to have progressed and there haven't been any other notable new products released.
> That's why I was clear about "my" friends, which necessarily limits the scope of what I'm saying.

This post:

>I don't know a single artist that's doing commercial work that isn't using AI to speed up their delivery times. They're all using AI tooling because it's useful.
I know this because they've all reached out to me at one point or another and asked about tools/hardware/services/etc, and I've done my best to point them in the right direction. One that I'm particularly proud of bought himself a 3090 and is running his own models and doing inpainting stuff to great effect.

Does not include the phrase “my friends”. The first sentence could be interpreted as a broad statement as well.
The car affordability can't explain it alone, since European cities/towns don't really suffer from these problems. Density is higher, sidewalks are everywhere and American style suburbs are quite rare.

(OTOH there are other problems, many people live in tiny apartments)
This copmment is NOT about the "free market" mythology 8-)

The big takeaway: the kidult generation is finally understanding that they too will continue to age. Not as an insight, just admitting to what's already happened.

This is also not a new phenomenon. The "boomers" were of course the "don't trust anyone over 30" generation. (Talkin' 'bout my gen.. gen.. generation)

Children always perceive themselves as somehow a separate species from the previous generation. Then they grow into it.

Another glaring example is the Sunrise Movement (which I wholeheartedly support!). Greta and crew where touting the "grownups ruined everything" mantra. Now they're all adults (at least legally).

Most everyone gets there, and the alternative is grim.
One of the things I've found far more often than makes sense, is that many paraphrases also change the statement they are paraphrasing.

The article goes out of its way to call out that sampling the average experience of students. This was obviously different in class sizes. Since there are more students than there are classes, it makes sense that the average size of classes that a student attends is different than the average size of classes offered. It isn't that people are giving you two different answers, they are answering two different questions.

Also, the article specifically says the waiting time paradox makes a stronger claim that the average will tend specifically to 2N. "But the waiting time paradox makes a stronger claim than this: when the average span between arrivals is N minutes, the average span experienced by riders is 2N minutes. Could this possibly be true?" I'm trying to explore/understand how that works out.
My cat says sunbathing on the back of his (it's our, but I don't tell him that) couch is how he's reached his advanced age. He'll be 22 in a couple weeks.
I expected far more comments about how the profit motive so often manages to drown out the scientific evidence; little disappointed how far down the page I was before I saw yours.
I had these issues before for plenty of things, it just hurts the most when it's something non-essential. I've had outtages because silly system updates to slack broke and took things down.
I run metrics and such out through logs these days because UDP don't care.
I couldn’t get the video on bbc website to load for me but this one worked
https://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2024/08/20/video-captures-sh...
Teen builds his own nuclear fusion reactor
Thanks for your efforts. Really interesting choices and I agree with naming conventions. You have comparisons with Tailwind and Tachyons, a bit on UnoCSS might also be good. I will explore more and would definitely try it on couple of projects.
> The written internet is doomed.

As someone who used searchgpt and is also building a competing product, I can say this is simply not going to be the case. LLM assisted search leaves just too much to be desired and there is no future in which this is the primary way for humans to consume information. It needs to be augmented with credible sources of information or rather using LLMs only makes sense once you have access to credible source information in the first place, and want to have an augmented version of the information you consume (and are happy with non discrete outcomes).
Comment above linked line states // Allows us to improve Srcbook, we don't collect any PII.
I ask that you please consider assisting developers improve their FOSS - free as in beer.
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-738
The Most Detailed Map of Brain Connections Ever Made
I want photos to be a record of my perception. I want them to match what I see in front of me as closely as possible. I do not care if data is mangled to make this happen — in fact, the reason I love my iPhone's camera so much is because it mangles the raw sensor data so much. Apple's computational photography pipeline is state-of-the-art, and it is designed to make photos look as close to my perception as possible. All my favorite sunset photos have all been taken on my iPhone.

I do not like these AI photo-editing features. Or rather, I do not like the use of them, and will not be using them myself. The technology itself is stunning and exciting! But it entirely defeats the purpose of taking a photo for me. If someone blinks in a group picture, I want the blink to stay. If there's some obnoxious piece of garbage in the background, I want it to stay, because the whole point is for a photo to be a representation of reality consistent with my eyesight at the time it was taken.

I truly love candid photos. I am open to computational photography and even AI processing, but it should exclusively serve the goal of making the photo more candid. I feel that the AI photo editing features being pushed out these days will only make photos less candid.
As do most people.
Pretty cool attack vector. Kind of crazy how many different ways there are to leak data with LLM contexts.
Ah, thanks for the clarification.

To me, "advice" seems like an attempt to propagate truth and truth-seeking tools. I'm not very good with semantics though.

Either way, if people (or machines) want to try and get such truths through my bone-brain barrier, I'm all for it :)
I wonder how ”moonbrah” Bryan Johnson will take this news
Because this isn't you fine-tuning an open weights model and running it yourself - this is fine-tuning via OpenAI's API and them hosting the resulting model (and everybody else's differently fine-tuned ones) and running it for you.
In my city the buses have ticket machines inside them, there's also ticket machines at the bus stops, and you can buy tickets on your smartphone. Or at small street shops but it's last resort.

Most people that drive often just have monthly tickets so they don't have to do anything - just get in/out of the bus.

Drivers are banned from selling tickets - they only do the driving. And nobody checks if you bought a ticket on every ride - there's a random check every now and then and if you're caught you pay a high fine. But you have maybe 1% chance of being checked at any given ride.
Maybe? You'd hope, but who knows. Still easy to just replace the image with plain text in the HTML, or a data URL (if allowed). Or put an iframe in there. Point is, if they control the HTML they can do pretty much anything.

Edit: Just tried it with Chase, Merrill Lynch, Citibank, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo. Only Wells Fargo had a CSP in place to prevent this. But even Walls Fargo let you just inject a data URL image.
Yea, don't challenge my make believe!
WWI was one of the worst things that ever happened in all of history, it destroyed many millions of lives and scarred an entire generation of people across the entire world and led pretty directly to WWII and the Holocaust. I'm not sure "that's how technology usually works" is a good argument here.
And:

> Whether the positive effect of sun exposure demonstrated in this observational study is mediated by vitamin D, another mechanism related to ultraviolet radiation, or by unmeasured bias cannot be determined.