skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anyone want to see an example of graphing use the braille characters (I think) look at btop https://github.com/aristocratos/btop

Speaking of misaligned characters: an upgrade a few months back in some thing (font, terminal, or renderer) caused the characters to be shifted up or down one pixel so the bottom and top now touch between lines
Just fantastic!!! She was amazing! I'm so glad that they managed to get this digitized and released.
So should I not be tipping for normal service? Its pretty confusing because in my country tipping seems to be the expected default, not something reserved to exceptional circumstances.
You're never causing a sub-minimum wage worker to get less than the minimum wage, because their employers are required by law to make up the difference if they don't make minimum wage with their tips. You're only "shafting" them in the sense that they are expecting to do far better than minimum wage.
there's no way that's the case.
No worries, many of us south of that border are baffled as well.

But it's not like you guys are completely normal ;-). For example, Confederate flags are actually a thing in Canada. That's wild to me.
Greenpeace has become this wholly inelegant shortcut to mean the inefficient outrage-based left-leaning movement focused on problems with small impacts on our world-ending climate problems.
I'd always thought that it was about any other data they can slurp from your phone. Presumably knowing your hygiene habits is valuable when correlated with your facebook activty. Just having a list of people that overspend on this type of tech and have the app installed is probably valuable.

tl;dr IDK but they don't do it without a profit motive.
Posted recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41356528
> This is true for most (all?) countries. If there's any country that avoided this fate, I'd like to know.

Tentatively: France, Italy, China, Japan, India (?), Egypt.
I think shuttered businesses are fine. If they can't provide services that are worth the wage of employees they're just dragging the economy like a parasite. I think we're too quick to blame regulations for business failures. This kind of move for businesses feels like trying to cut losses not identify new revenue streams. This should have seemed inevitable when Starbucks opened on every streetcorner that they would eventually have to cut wages and resort to app ordering. The problem with this is it's lowering consumer expectations and new businesses have the infrastructure and financial need to follow their lead, leaving vulnerable service workers in the dust.
That's what ’free as in puppies’ mean.

Free software is typically described as "free as in freedom" or "free as in free beer". (This is probably a limitation of English tho, my language has 2 different words for permissions and costlessness.) GP above proposes the "free as in puppy" variant, which means that it is a burden of maintenance. I can't recall any real examples for this.
Well, he's also on video recently at a church saying, "I need you to come out and vote for me. And if things work out the way we want, you won't need to vote again."
Since you've tried almost everything else, I recommend Things 3 if Obsidian doesn't work out for you. It's the simplest of the ones I've tried other than paper.
i think this is a good approach, but almost everyone who has tried it has gotten bogged down in the usual problems with forth, where you get distracted by writing clever code instead of writing fairly boring, straightforward code that gets the job done in a dumb way. and where things fail in difficult-to-debug ways, so you spend a lot of time debugging. virgil dupras's duskos is the only candidate for an exception to this rule. hopefully you will write a second one!
I was going to joke we shouldn't domesticate creatures with thumbs, only to TIL raccoons don't have thumbs, but 5 dexterous toes, and probably can't shoot a firearm.

https://old.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/q5o9a5/c...
What do you mean by "socialist policies" exactly? Ignoring petty crime is somehow a socialist policy?

You say all of those things and the mention the Soviet Union etc. Which makes very little sense because if modern Western countries have enacted socialist policies then the USSR couldn't have been "socialist" (or the other way around).

Also what do you mean by "productivity"? Because by almost any measure it has been going up by quite a lot over the last few decades.
Another option is to download and compile llama.cpp and you should be able to run quantized models at an acceptable speed.

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp

Also, if you can spend the $60 and buy another 32GB of RAM, this will allow you to run the 30GB models quite nicely.
Just to add on, if you don't mind: the SLS uses four RS-25 engines, the exact same engines that were used on the Space Shuttle (admittedly, there is a plan to improve them later), as well as solid rocket engines that are derived from the Shuttle SRBs.

I actually do think that more than one US-based provider of space launch systems is something important, but it's wild to me that mature US launch systems can basically be cleanly divided into "companies trying to sell the same technology to the government for the fifth time over fifty years" and "SpaceX."
I use org mode for personal note taking and todo lists, and it has been working very well for me. for projects I put a TODO.org inside the docs folder and any TODO and bugfixes goes there (a simple todo.txt can do the same)

paper has never worked for me, it's hard to keep track of it and others can easily read it.
Correct. There's no such amendment like "slavery is okay, up until 11 people then it's bad"

If slavery is allowed then it is. If it's a million or 1 it doesn't matter, it's equally allowed. If we give someone the right to freedom that means ALL get the right to freedom.
We're finally gearing up to have an experimental release of Pidgin 3.0 by the end of the year, but the goal right now only include the IRC protocol. But everything has been updated to support all of the newer chat features so support for other protocols should come quick.
This is becoming a problem in latin america as well and you see people importing culture wars issues that are not really relevant to their local politics and further muddying the waters and distracting from the actual issues facing them
On die communication isn’t free, a lot of things here are sequential and within matrix multiplies the cores have to transfer output and mem loads have to be distributed. It’s really fast but not like one cycle
Well, if you have some other revenue through some full-time then any time horizon is fine, but is it really fair to put yourself in the same type of conversation as your competitors who've raised money?
Felt the same. I agree with the whole "why is there even an app" thread, but it being 300mb doesn't seem like that big a deal to me.
> Nope.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/18/business/japan-boj-negative-i...

First rate hike in 17 years this year.

> Negative inflation rates, impacting the ability to borrow further.

Government doesn't set the inflation rate.

> The expansive welfare system that allows 2% of the poorest Japanese to get direct benefits transfers (it's a great program, but very expensive, so other priorities are lower).
Price controls on utilities and some crops like Wheat.

Those would lead to higher inflation, not lower.
I love this. Definitely using this next time someone tries to guilt me into becoming maintainer of some abandonware foss project.
Every program I've seen like that is terribly inaccessible. "Doesn't expose headings to screen readers" levels of inaccessible. And yes, you can do a whole lot of working around that, but you know what I'd do?

<h2>Section heading</h2>

I like Rust, but please don't write a website in it.
Like if the average user uses it for 15 seconds, it might signal them that the existing brushes need to be wider/longer/arced, so users can clean their teeth efficiently in that timeframe.

And yeah, the usual electric toothbrushes are terrible slow since the brush heads are in the size of one teeth, instead of 3-4.
Yeah we're still here and trying to get an experimental pre-alpha release of Pidgin3 out by the end of the year. Unfortunately basically everything had to change to support modern chat features, so initial protocol support is going to be very light.
These data points are not a good indicator of AI being useful because we don’t have a baseline to compare it to.

The baseline is the same IDE tooling support we see with copilot but with more traditional tech like search engines and API docs search. Dev productivity without relying on AI is a market few cared about until AI money came along looking for problems to solve.
electric and sonic toothbrushes are completely different things. get yourself a sonic one, thank me later
I'd love to believe it's true but I suspect they're overstating the result, or it's a fluke. Presumably teams at large firms like Meta would have put a lot of effort into checking whether not-synchronise-every-step training could match synchronise-every-step training before investing hundreds of millions of dollars into the low-latency, high-throughput network hardware necessary for the latter.
I asked a similar question a while back on here regarding a toothbrush with an esp inside. I think one of the answers I got captured it nicely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ4W7yB9Mow
UltimateAntiCheat
What kind of sane person is downloading a toothbrush app?
It used to have issues, they have improved since, but I don't consider Telegram to be encrypted or private (and I'm also not a crypto expert, so the details elude me anyway) so I haven't really kept track of this.

Honestly, the issue was not about their crypto at all, but about the attitude and how they reacted. It's literally as if someone says "dude, I know a thing about crypto and you might've made a mistake there" and Pavel immediately goes into offensive defense, preaching how they have the best ACM champion PhDs and shifting the burden of proof, basically a canonical Putin/Trump-style of evading an argument.

That's what makes me wary of this guy, not his product.
A more in-depth post will be coming soon. I'm working on the first draft of it tonight on everything that happened.
Thanks - please leave us any feedback on github to make it better. We will share study results in about 30 days as we get more data from other users.
raccoons are not in the weasel family I don't think,
closer to bears if I recall

but I have to run so no citation
So the problem is that people aren't being paid slave wages? Estimates are that labor is 35-40% of the cost, while materials are 50% of the cost. That seems a little high but not unreasonable

> That isn't really happening because new houses cost even more!

Could it also be a factor that wealth is extremely concentrated at the top, and the people at the top own a vast outsized share of the land. 25% of the properties in Australia is held by the top 1%. People who own a lot of property are getting fabulously wealthy when the median home price is $950,000AU, just not people who need to put a roof over their head.
Easy now. This is a good joke. It's all pretty funny. In fact, the whole oliviali.me site is pretty funny. We've got fusion in an apartment in NYC, Martian number sensibility, some microbial voodoo, etc. But, the effort, the immense effort to put this together is impressive - just look at the bibliographies and reference. Well done!
This sounds like another startup that is ignoring all of the edge cases, testing, calibration, and certification that make this kind of product expensive.

In this case it's a good idea. And they know exactly where their market is. I hope it takes off. :)

There are plenty of applications where the reliability requirements are it works most of the time.
> Their transducer will convert energy into acoustic signals (and vice versa) using a modified device that’s typically used to listen to marine mammals and costs about $400.

That does beat the next cheapest option, the Waterlinked M16 that's $2.4k for 1km range and 10 bits/s. They don't list any specifics about capabilities though.
"Also paying taxes is a public good, even if you’re exceptionally wealthy."

Can be a public good if it's spent well. The US has spent how many trillions killing innocents the last 25 years? How many trillion were spent building ridiculous layers of redundancy on our nuclear deterrent (that we then smashed)?

Public good!
At pretty much all levels of news (and discourse in general) it seems like all we really care about now is who the President is. Secondary to that, maybe the party (though I'd say it's less about party and more specifically about culture).

Local politics get very little consideration unless something really controversial happens. I think the reverse should be true -- state, county, and city laws have way more effect on my daily life than federal.
I'm not a gamer so forgive me if I see connections that aren't there. Does this in any way impact game emulation? Isn't wine part of proton or stream attempts to run windows games on Linux? I suppose .net and clr play some time in win32, how is that usually emulated?
Exactly: sorry that you might potentially lose a benefit that was gained only by an arguably broken system but them's the breaks, kid. Deal with it.
The pet industry is projected to grow from $320 billion to nearly $500 billion by 2030 (Bloomberg Intelligence, 2023). Domesticated raccoons could carve out a significant niche in this market, potentially rivaling the popularity of dogs.

BRB, filling out my YC fall batch application...
Alternate RNA decoding results in stable and abundant proteins in mammals
I dont think this makes sense. What value would even be written off here?
Is that a claim they've made or has that been externally proven?
As much as I liked the team, there is really no information other than the loss graph :(
>You can't deduct personal expenses from a business. I realize the rich do it, but if that is the problem let's go after that.

We have gone 'after it' again and again, making the system more and more complex. So much that you can now out-lawyer the IRS if you have enough money. There is no 'personal' expense, everything is somehow a business need. There is no simple solution to this really. Whatever you do to hurt ten billionaires, the ten million small business owners will face the brunt of it.

>Also if you sell stocks you always pay tax on the capital gains regardless if there is a loan or not.

That is the point, you don't sell stocks that makes you a billionaire. Instead, you find more and more creative ways to leverage that stock for loans, for deals, for power/control, etc etc. Also see cross collaterals where the same asset is used for multiple purposes at the same time!
And still a better experience than going to xitter directly. I, for one, appreciate the link.
> The easiest way to control this phenomenon is using the “hallucination” tokens, hence the construction of this prompt.

That's what I'm getting at. Hallucinations are well known about, but admitting that you "hallucinated" in a mundane conversation is a rare thing to happen in the training data, so a minimally prompted/pretrained LLM would be more likely to say "Sorry, I misinterpreted" and then not realize just how grave the original mistake was, leading to further errors. Add the word hallucinate and the chatbot is only going to humanize the mistake by saying "I hallucinated", which lets it recover from extreme errors gracefully. Other words, like "confabulation" or "lie", are likely more prone to causing it to have an existential crisis.

It's mildly interesting that the same words everyone started using to describe strange LLM glitches also ended up being the best token to feed to make it characterize its own LLM glitches. This newer definition of the word is, of course, now being added to various human dictionaries (such as https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hallucinate#Verb) which will probably strengthen the connection when the base model is trained on newer data.
Can China Challenge SpaceX's Starlink?
The Falcon Heavy can ship can ship 16.8k kg to Mars [1] and that's at a higher delta V distance/cost than TLI. In general the SLS can carry around 50% more than a Falcon Heavy, but the Falcon Heavy (fully expended) costs 5-10% as much.

[1] - https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/falcon-heavy/
There is actually a reasonable way to fix this as currently implemented. Engage with the platform in some popular areas that have their own targeted advertising. My feed is filled with STEM projects and gardening with a spritz of actual content from friends.

When the product is used as intended, it does a lot better than with zero engagement passively. The product is very tuned to people actually using it, which the average hacker news reader isn't.
Quake's Oldest Record Was Finally Broken [video]
Because they are sheds, most sheds are undecorated. They are unremaked upon for the same reason.

But to be clear, Venturi and Scott Brown’s distinction is in the context of architectural practice. Learning from Las Vegas started as a studio in Harvard’s GSD. The radical idea was looking at actual buildings built for ordinary reasons in ordinary ways…the radical idea was valuing the study from contemporary vernacular architecture.
Ah I heard today in the (swedish) news that they were advising parents to check which apps the kids are using.

The main issue being "an encrypted messenger". So whatsapp=gang… unclear if telegram is ok since it's normally not e2ee.

I am skeptical this will achieve anything useful.
Yet in the US we don't tip teachers.
Eh, not so impressive. The text reads like LLM output, so low effort.
References (the ones that I checked) appear to be real links, so there's that effort.
This is the answer. It needs the big green checkmark from OP.
How Chrome Accessibility Works
Canada is being "Americanized", and the media and entertainment landscape is at the forefront of that.

I will say though, weighing in on a neighbouring nation while only having visited one of its provinces strikes me as a little bit conceited. A visit to BC is not going to give you much of a perspective of the diversity of this country.

Also: our health care is amongst the worst of the western nations at this stage. Subsequent governments have carved it away to be a shell of its former self.
> If you want to lower crime, ask a Finn or Norwegian how they did it.

Has crime there ever been high? If not how can they tell you anything if they never had to do anything to "fix" it?
> or with the EU threatening to imprison Musk for allowing Trump to be interviewed.

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Seemingly, the most mundane possibility here is they exist, they're not rare at all, but "not rare" on the global scale of all galactic and larger superstructures in the observable universe doesn't mean you're necessarily going to find them in South Dakota in some specific 280 day window.
Shingles may increase risk of cognitive decline
You know the underpants gnomes, it's like that:

Step 1: collect data

Step 2: ???

Step 3: Profit

Hopefully you sell the company between Step 1 and 2.
I know the author, this came out of some interesting academic work he did.
>all we really care about now is who the President is

With extra emphasis on who the President is, and none at all on what they do!
Wouldn’t this be an argument for domestication? They can easily be treated if they’re pets. If they’re carriers it’s far better for them to be treated than wandering around outside your house shitting wherever they want.
Of course, you don't know what the distribution of applicants looks like. Though I do strongly suspect that some groups (by gender, geography, even athletic credentials, etc.) almost certainly have a better shot than others all other things being equal.
Ouch .... from the research:

"From the data gathered on our configuration, macOS is considered the most versatile system for operating with Docker containers."
Mono implemented the GUI stuff like Windows Forms, do the latest windows cross platform stuff support that? Can you run .Net GUI windows program on linux without Mono but using the latest .Net thing ? I know it was not possible in the past.
People are so dumb! Who the fuck installs an Oral B app!
Some examples of Canadians thinking they're Americans include the Convoy on the Canadian right larping as right wing Americans, and the "assault weapons ban" on the Canadian left larping as American Democrats.

Both of which aimed to solve for problems faced by Americans in America by doing something in Canada, when the same problems don't apply to Canada.
They don't even need superficially American news channels to get the American viewpoint, since the overwhelming bulk of Canadian "news" outfits other than the CBC are owned by American vulture capital firms, including all of the ones that advocated for the link tax.
American news is unhealthy and unhealthy for you.

Local news is dying.

We have wealth management to thank for all of it
The difference is that other domestic animals do not have wild counterparts with rabies that live in our backyards, constantly trying to socialize and mate with (infect) them.

There is hope though, the feds have been working to eliminate rabies in raccoons for a couple decades now.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240618204646/https://www.natio...
Well, say the app requests access to your contacts... so you can link up with friends! Or your files... so it can save your data locally! Or your location... well i don't know. The app doesn't only check your bruhing habits, it's 300mb! At any point it could be updated to do any amount of spying and you'll never be able to tell
Ozempic maker defends high U.S. price: It's 'helping' reduce the cost of obesity
Wine Is Not an Emulator

but it is indeed the basis for Proton
i don't know when visix galaxy existed, but springs and struts are how tex did text layout in 01978 and how tex and latex still do it today. 'visix' sounds like a name from after 01978, though i could be wrong
Assuming that judgement is in any way involved in situations like that is a mistake. At the very least for ADHD-i people like me.
I hear there’s a vaccine for rabies.
Engineers make tunable, shape-changing metamaterial inspired by vintage toys
I went to Vancouver last year. It my first time in Canada and I was surprised how similar to an American big city it felt.
Via wine-mono

Games themselves typically aren't .NET but ancillary components, like launchers or map editors, are.
Microsoft security tools questioned for treating employees as threats
As a Canadian I appreciate his concern but kindly ask that he mind his own business. I will decide for myself how much U.S entertainment.. I mean, er, "news" is unhealthy for me, thanks.
For what it's worth MiniJinja lets you render individual blocks if you so desire: https://docs.rs/minijinja/latest/minijinja/struct.State.html...
KLEE Symbolic Execution Engine
Engaging in passive news consumption will quickly turn one into a brainwashed zombie. Active news searching on a specific topic you have some interest in and a at least a small amount of background knowledge as to where to look is a far more rewarding use of your limited time. e.g.

site:oilprice.com canada | canadian

Try it with ft.com or nytimes.com too. And then try it with rt.com and globaltimes.cn to get the Russian and Chinese spin. Somewhere in there you might get an accurate picture of reality - unless they're all on the same page about something they want to hide from public view. Don't forget to look at the negative space in the image.
I have a todo.txt for work, but otherwise, I just Google Keep for everything. Not gonna have my physical notebook everywhere with me as I go, so I need something cloud based. Keep is just simple AF to use. No rich text editing or anything more complIcated than a checklist.