skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure why you’re being downvoted for pointing out the obvious explanation of covid escaping from the coronavirus research lab near to the wet market.
Fascinating, thanks for sharing. Hilarious to see a capitalist report on “advancing worker voices” and “ensuring worker equality” without a hint of awareness. Gee, I wonder what mechanisms might be useful for this…
Funny, I have career issues and dating is easy but that’s only because I was willing to stake my whole life on it and use everything in my power to change it (except changing my looks - I look mediocre).

Happily married right now. Feel free to email me to exchange some career advice for dating advice.
You’re replying to the author of the post explaining why he would have to do more in software to emulate RISC-V than MIPS and that would be more effort and run slower, and you’re telling him “that’s extremely subjective”?

How is that subjective?
Remotely Control Blackmagic Camera App for iOS
Is that all you hear? I don't hear that at all. People around me didn't change the battery when it was easy either. I was always like an alien when I suggested it.
I sometimes feel we are in a similar time to the "let a hundred flowers bloom" period in Mao's China, where dissent was tolerated for a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign
ok, but visit a beach in a country where the people put the plastic in a bin, and then visit a beach in a country where the people don’t put the plastic in a bin.
Enhancing Learning and Retarding Forgetting
'AI godmother' Fei-Fei Li raises $230M to launch AI startup
>> "Self-worth, what is that?” Because I’m not sure if I have any?

This almost made me laugh. I know where you're at. You got a long road ahead so get started! Tell your psychologist when these things pop in your head. Have a laugh, but then reflect on it or whatever.

Let me offer some alternatives to "autistic": Anhedonia, schizoid personality disorder, avoidant (attachment OR personality disorder). There are many things, but it's not super important to define it, lest you let it define you.
It's simple, readable, editable, composable

I'll eat crow if wrong, but I'm guessing I know more about GNU make than
you do. It is none of the four things you claim. Also, people who say
"on the tin" need a good ass-kicking.
I like self hosting random stuff on docker. Ollama has been a great addition. I know it's not, but it feels on par with ChatGPT.

It works perfectly on my 4090, but I've also seen it work perfectly on my friend's M3 laptop. It feels like an excellent alternative for when you don't need the heavy weights, but want something bespoke and private.

I've integrated it with my Obsidian notes for 1) note generation 2) fuzzy search.

I've used it as an assistant for mental health and medical questions.

I'd much rather use it to query things about my music or photos than whatever the big players have planned.
Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. -- Mark Twain
> So until game developers will completely ceise to target the powerful dedicated GPU of today and limit themselves willingly to technology 10 years in the past, we won't see the death of dedicated GPU.

I think that one of the problems is that a lot of game developers go for a baseline level of graphical quality and don't allow the users to customize the game/engine towards anything less than that, instead trying to use as much of the graphics budget as they can.

For example, a game called Vigor recently came out (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2818260/Vigor/) and was initially optimized to run well on a Nintendo Switch and that also meant that by the time it finally hit PC it was optimized better than most recent releases! I can play it on my Intel Arc A580 with a stable framerate and essentially no stutters, which I cannot say for a lot of modern games, even if it got bad reviews for other reasons.

Probably most of the current games could be played on integrated graphics, if the users had the ability to customize which shaders and effects are on, what resolution of textures and shadows is used, all of the models had LOD levels that go lower with a customizable LOD bias, in addition to upscalers being supported in every title (DLSS, FSR, XeSS). I'm not saying that integrated graphics would always get smooth 60 FPS, but 30 might be doable.
I know, I said I've (unintentionally) built software which only works with v4, not that the current best practice is to only work with v4.

Using gethostbyname turned out to be pretty easy by the way, I wouldn't say it was a lot more work than using getaddrinfo
By certain angles it is even less important than spiritual, community and philosophical purpose. It's not something that you can measure directly but by many possible proxies (Amish levels of depression, the Roseto effect, various studies on happiness of underdeveloped countries), people need very few material things to be happy. Perhaps it is a kind of mass delusion or confirmation bias that happiness must correlate linearly, or even logarithmically, with disposable income.
You forgot about the health and safety regulators
what was popular 5 years ago is no longer popular.
Features the Flipper One needs to be as successful as the Zero
It was funny when Sun proudly and unilaterally proclaimed that Sun put the "dot" into "dot com", leaving it wide open for Microsoft to slyly counter that oh yeah, well Microsoft put the "COM" into "dot com" -- i.e. ActiveX, IE, MSJVM, IIS, OLE, Visual Basic, Excel, Word, etc!

And then IBM mocked "When they put the dot into dot-com, they forgot how they were going to connect the dots," after sassily rolling out Eclipse just to cast a dark shadow on Java. Badoom psssh!

https://www.itbusiness.ca/news/ibm-brings-on-demand-computin...

"The Network Is The Network and The Computer Is The Computer. We regret the confusion."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34256623

>Oh yeah, don't get me started about NFS! (Oops, too late.) I'll just link with short summaries: [...]

>NFS originally stood for "No File Security". [...]

>The network is the computer is insecure, indeed.
Then wouldn’t “register” be a better term?
It looks like the patent describes a weird hybrid of a conventional 4-stroke and a uniflow 2-stroke.

At the bottom of the first power stroke, the cylinder drops lower to expose scavenging ports. That both forces air in (at the bottom of the cylinder) and helps push exhaust out (through conventional exhaust valves).

Uniflow 2-strokes tend to have high thermal efficiency, but poor emissions, especially particulates. So the idea here might be to gain some efficiency without another emissions-gate.
> it’s common for engineers to mention in the interview process that they’re looking for something at least partly in person.

How can you tell this is not because they're aware of present market or even your specific company's preference / conditions and are simply trying to increase their appealing to you and increase their chance of getting an offer?

It's common interviewing advice and CV writing to market yourself according to the job you're aiming for - that includes "company culture", "company values" and whatever other crap helps bias the interviewers in your favour.

> it’s nice to be around humans

Yep. That's what family and friends are for. Work is mainly to make money. Until the time comes when work stops being a requirement for survival, that will always be its primary function.

Making friends can be a nice side-effect sometimes, but is not a requirement.
OpenAI APIs for GPT and Dalle have issues like non determnism, and their special prompt injection where they add stuff or modify your prompt (with no option to turn that off. Makes it impossible to do research or to debug as a developer variations of things.
The alternative to Roundup is labor. Mulch, weeding, interplanting, and others. Similar for many pesticides: instead of spraying chemicals, you use different planting techniques, including more diversity in your fields.

That was the original definition of "organic" farming. It's not the food that's organic; it's the farmer.

That has since become captured by agribusiness, who wrote the rules to exclude the kinds of small farms that practiced organic farming before it became a buzzword.
I sometimes think "algorithms" understand me more than other people. Through my actions, they can diagnose me better than any doctor. e.g. meme therapy pages on facebook and tiktoks. I believe a constant stream of "best matched tiktoks/reels" to my situation" would be equivalent in value to going to a 3-star michelin restaurant and having their best dishes. It is available to everyone.
Every user on HN has a score (up votes vs down votes) based on reactions to comments and submissions.

How many of us will not be our authentic selves in a comment because of fear of how others might react? I know that I have done this.
> Likewise, Texas doesn't maintain enough generation and robust infrastructure to make it through every cold snap unscathed.

Correction: Texas, the state, doesn't require producers to maintain adequate reserve generation or robust infrastructure, and since they are not (except for a couple of small exceptions) connected to other regional grids, they can't be made to do so by the federal government. This is by design. It's a bad design, but one that greatly pleases corporations.

> People say one thing--"we require 100% uptime"--but do another--"but I'm only willing to pay a fraction of the price it would take to achieve that, and then I'll complain bitterly during the inevitable power outages."

This was not my experience when I lived in Texas. There was a brief moment in time for me (~2017 – 2019) where it was actually substantially cheaper, but only if you had the time and knowledge to scour all of the available plans and run some kind of modeling on them, since some had a lot of weird rules. Around COVID, that changed, and the cost savings evaporated. I check periodically, and it still hasn't recovered. Cheapest I could find for where I lived was 10.1¢/kWh, but that's just the base price. In contrast, my base price in North Carolina, on an REMC, is an annual average of 7.48¢/kWh.

All that to say, Texans were/are paying more than many others for sub-standard service. I bought a generator while there, and had to use it many, many times. I have used it precisely once here in NC, and that wasn't even a real need – sunny, pleasant afternoon, and someone hit a transformer with their car. Lost power for about 2 hours. Could've easily just done without and been fine.
That required a war. Turning off gas to Eastern Europe does not.
Hugo! Compiles Markdown down to a stack of static HTML files, with a ton of flexibility. Currently i have it powering https://andrew-quinn.me/ , https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/til-site/ , and https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/selkouutiset-archive/ , all of which serve different niche purposes.

As for hosting, hosting HTML pages is super easy. The lowest effort for Hugo is GitHub Pages. Netlify is another solid option. https://andrew-quinn.me/ runs on Azure Static Web Apps, but that might take more cloud familiarity than you want to invest in. Or you could just run `hugo` and SCP the resulting directory to a VM!
This app reminds me of the marx brothers quote, “Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.”
Those gases are not "harmless" by any metric. They must be promptly used or they are a much larger problem than the plastics.

But the GPs point seems to be that only those two specific kinds of plastic vaporize into those tractable gases. Most of them become all kinds of things, from wild poisons to chemical nightmares that will destroy your equipment.
Microsoft to use energy from Three Mile Island nuclear plant
> Microsoft used LLMs to write millions of short stories and textbooks in which one thing builds on another. The result of training on this text, Bubeck says, is a model that fits on a mobile phone but has the power of the initial 2022 version of ChatGPT.

I thought training LLMs on content created by LLMs was ill-advised but this would suggest otherwise
It's not just non technical people. Even programmers around me are worried. Some think AI will replace programmers soon, some think partially, mostly everybody thinks that a lot of stuff will change soon.

I am personally not worried. Any outcome is great. Either I keep a well paid job and it becomes even more well paid, or AI is so good that there aren't any jobs at all anymore, which sounds good too.

Let's define soon - I understand it as "within a decade or so" in this context.
I've had it both ways. As soon I leave, I don't hear from those people ever again. On the other hand, I've also made good friends that have lasted for years beyond the employment.

The tone of your post doesn't really help. You're not a child so you don't go looking for bonding in the workplace? Haha okay Mr Adult. Jesus Christ. Forming relationships is such a basic human thing.
The impact is not necessarily very slow but even so the exact geometries of the impact area with respect to center of masses etc. would change the trajectories in different ways. Since these would be effectively random, the resulting trajectory changes would also be random: some would continue is near the same stable orbital trajectory, some out into space, and some in a decaying orbit that eventually hits earth.
No needles required: The FDA approves an at-home flu vaccine
It's kinda funny how nowadays an AI with 8 billion parameters is something "small". Specially when just two years back entire racks were needed to run something giving way worst performance.
Go off king!
Wikipedia is often brought up in these discussions, but it's a really bad example.

To a vast majority of Wikipedia users who are not logged in, all it needs to do is show (potentially pre-rendered) article pages with no dynamic, per-user content. Those pages are easy to cache or even offload to a CDN. FOr all the users care, it could be a giant key-value store, mapping article slugs to HTML pages.

This simplicity allows them to keep costs down, and the low costs mean that they don't have to be a business and care about time-on-page, personalized article recommendations or advertising.

Other kinds of apps (like social media or messaging) have very different usage patterns and can't use this kind of structure.
Yea the graphic/map with source of plastic pollution per river delta is pretty eye opening.

Which I suspect is why it's not better known or distributed.
Know nothing about automobile engineering but somehow this feels like Wordpress releasing a version for DOS when windows already captured most of the PC market.
my understanding of integrity means that you do things that are guided by a shared moral compass - keep your word, avoid cheating, etc. Those signals seem to be all external (you do them because you don't want to violate your contract with another person, etc). I don't think that's in any way related to self-worth (which is a measurement of value to yourself, independent of others)?
I’m actually quite stupid.
London saw a surprising benefit to fining high-polluting cars: More active kids
I came across them while reading Feeding The Machine:
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/publications/feeding-the-m...

Very insightful book so far.

They seem very aware of issues around AI, I'm wondering why you think otherwise?
But were said people well-informed to begin with? Voting can only work if everyone's on the same page regarding both the policy being implemented and its consequences, thus being able to defend their best interests. If the people have been consuming provably false messaging pushed by a fossil fuel industry lobby and sensationalist media, can they be trusted to make a choice that affects not just themselves their entire city, nation, and planet?

The representative democracy does attempt to solve this problem; you pick a representative you understand is aligned with your interests on the issues you do understand and trust they and their experts will do well on the rest.

It's not a perfect system, but unless the populace can be given free time and education to consider individual policies based on reliable evidence and not hearsay from biased sources, it's the best we can do.
The best way to manage on-call is to not have on-call. On-call means the organization is understaffed. Hiring new positions to handle off hours, will solve the problem. Good luck.
> tab-autocomplete

bin/ also perfectly tab-autocompletes, don't understand what you mean.

If you're having only one bin/do.sh script -- you're doing it wrong.

And if you know $1 can only be either "prod" or "dev", then create scripts build-prod.sh and build-dev.sh.

Simpler, installed on all systems, no quirky syntax with tabs and phonys.
Know nothing about automobile engineering but somehow this feels like WordPerfect releasing a fantastic version for DOS when Windows was already capturing all the market.

Btw they did that. Rest is history.
A natural defoliant? Would be what, rubbing alcohol? I think they have to pull the weeds or lay a ground cover
'Eye of Sauron' would probably work as a 'Gorgon Stare' successor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare
Another one is McKinsey for their role in the opioid crisis.
Thanks, that's it.
It has been introduced with GNU Make 4.3, January 2020 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2020-01/msg00004...
Damn, I can’t access any of the articles about this. Anyone know more than Wikipedia mentions about what exactly a “co-living community” is, if it doesn’t involve socialism? Is it just goofy marketing for luxury apartments, or do they at least share meals or something? Something tells me it’s code for “you’ll have a ton of roommates and pay a ton of money for a bunk bed”, but fingers crossed it’s better than that.

Side note, I wonder what kind of woman lives in Saudi Arabia and is interested in “co living” silicon-valley style. I know they have slightly more rights now, but aren’t those rights 100% dependent on having a male guardian (husband/father/brother) to live with and direct you? Maybe this is for rich immigrants?
>> Also suppose they’re ‘gravitationally bound’. This means their total energy, kinetic and potential, is negative. That means they couldn’t all shoot off to infinity even if the sphere wasn’t there holding them in.

This seems like an invalid assumption. We know that clusters of stars can eject some of their members. Lot of hand waving in this one.
I think this could be helpful for those who are especially shy or on the spectrum. It is not optimized for viewing on a phone.
> others (who I think are the silent majority).

[citation needed]

But let's go to the core of the argument: there are 2 groups, one values social interaction/bonding at work and the other doesn't. One group likes to have a mental image of who other people are, the other group prefers to focus on their work instead. The first group may even find it more difficult to work with someone with "no bond" whereas the other group just goes on with their work.

The problem is, each of these groups project their vision of co-operation to the rest, that's why the first group insists on hybrid and the other group on remote-only (fortunately nobody except some PHBs insists on RTO...). If you can't understand the other group, it's difficult to have an agreement.

My take is: work for the company that is in accord with your values and the ways you prefer to work. For me it's remote-only and there is no way I would change it, no matter what.
Agreed in general. Though the points on character design may be a bit too reductionist. Concord didn't really need characters with clear sex appeal. Or even characters people immediately want to be like. The original characters aren't that bad! At least judging from the concept art. They just suffer from extremely poor and downright unprofessional execution.

Take this redesign for example https://www.reddit.com/r/TopCharacterDesigns/comments/1fdz1m.... The results are pretty close to originals and do not pander to any specific demographic. But there are just enough interesting and unusual details in the new designs that make you want to learn more about those characters. That's what the released game is missing entirely.

My pet theory is this had to be nepotism in hiring. I struggle to find another explanation for how they botched the execution so badly that the characters can be legitimately seen as "designed to make people squirm". Which I don't believe could be any executive's intention.
This is a great idea. I use it for Japanese and definitely need it to include the furigana somehow.
> In my experience the maintenance costs is usually more tyres, suspension, breaks, and other similar things that would equally need to be maintained on EVs.

You'll go through tires _slightly_ faster because the cars are heavier. With the exception of some standouts like Tesla's Cybertruck, which reportedly is only getting 6k miles on a set of tires, the wear rate is slightly higher. Low rolling resistance tires are slightly more expensive. Plan on whatever you're paying now plus 20% to cover the difference.

I've never had to change the suspension on any of my cars. I wouldn't even consider it in a maintenance list unless you live somewhere with truly shit roads, but the mileage and repair cost would be the same in EV or ICE.

Brakes last forever in an EV. 100k miles easily.

Oil changes in the US cost $50+, and are done every 3-4k miles (or $75+, 7-10k miles if you choose synthetic oil).

Spark plugs are cheap, but paying someone to replace them is not.

Some EVs have liquid cooling, but it lasts longer than coolant in an ICE.

I'm so used to people around me driving automatics, I forget to consider a clutch - but I get >100k per clutch so it's not a frequent or predictable cost for me.

Most recent cars, even the small ones, seem to have swung back to using timing chains rather than belts, and don't need regular changes. You can consider it if you like, but you have to take it on a case-by-case basis.

Unless you don't keep your cars long enough to notice, your exhaust system will rust. Water is a byproduct of combustion, after all, and steam corrodes faster than liquid water. It's worse if you make lots of short trips - which is where an EV shines.

Also consider non-regularly-replaced things in your maintenance list: oxygen sensors, water pumps, thermostats, heater cores, etc. You can't predict when these things will fail, but over 10 years you'll almost certainly have to replace some of them.

Consider, also, downtime while your car is in the shop getting the work done.

Contrast to an EV: none of that. A new battery in 150k-200k miles for $5k, unless you're still satisfied with the reduced range.
> What do agents allow you to do that `agents` don't out of interest?
Chinese researchers publish in international journals. Peer review is done in exactly the same way it would be done for American scientists.

Nature runs an index of how many papers are published in top journals by scientists in each country and institution: https://www.nature.com/nature-index/country-outputs/generate.... Chinese scientists publish more papers in leading international journals than scientists from any other country, including the US (though it's neck and neck at the moment).
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#49)
What we normalize is not stopping the world every time someone gets the sniffles.
When Lawyers Sing
Extremely simplified, when you drive a sports car, you want to maximize power (work per unit of time), period, you don’t care about fuel.

If you want to go the farthest with a full tank, you want to maximize the total work (proportionate to traveled distance) for unit of fuel.

Reality for practically all cars are between these two extremes, you want to enjoy driving, go relatively fast, and still not wasting 25 liters for traveling 100 km.