skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The refrigerated shelf life of spinach is 10 days.

How long do you think it takes to ship spinach from wherever it grows to every grocery store in the US?

Not overnight.

How long do think it sits on shelves before it sells?

Not <1 day on average.

This has much less to do with automation and more to do with spinach being available almost everywhere in the US at almost all times of the year.

It is a modern miracle that you can buy fresh spinach in the dead of winter in North Dakota.

Do you remember hearing stories of your grandma doing the same?
When I think cheap and works out of the box, Mac is the last thing on my mind.
The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt.

Its opening text reads as follows:

Finally, here you are. At the delcot of tondam, where doshes deave. But the doshery lutt is crenned with glauds.

Glauds! How rorm it would be to pell back to the bewl and distunk them, distunk the whole delcot, let the drokes discren them.

But you are the gostak. The gostak distims the doshes. And no glaud will vorl them from you.

And what you have to do over the course of the game is not merely solve the puzzles but work out what all the words mean. (The grammar is just that of English, as are a lot of the little function-words. More than that would have been impossible.)
Slight off topic self rant: I tried this (dropshipping etc), went against all the good wisdom and rules of creating honest and passionate business. Failed miserably. Funny how brain works, I knew in 3 months that this is not honest, it feels spammy but then orders were coming in so I convinced myself that half the amazon products are doing the same thing. There is market for it then why should I not do this. This nagging voice in my head never went away and I paid for this later on. This matters when you have to work through night to get the marketing campaign out or you have double down the investment for certain product during holiday sale. Dealing with daily email of customers or tracking lost orders. I eventually lost energy and any sort of desire to grow my business. I was not making the kind of money I was promised by the field of dropshipping without adding way more money in spamy marketing and I had not passion to sell the product I Was selling. Certain folks who seems to be making 1m rev per year are also pivoting through spammy products every month and just dumping 100s and 1000s of dollars in facebook ads. It is more of a spammy marketing game then implementing any sort of creative or intellectual skillset. If anyone is thinking of doing this then I would encourage or first figure out how attached you are to money and the work you are doing. I was pulled into this because I thought I am smarter than rest and I can crack this because of my skills in technology and design so I dont to pay anyone to setup website, taxes, marketing etc however I missed out on how much soulless you have to be to run such a business. I dont mean soulless as a bad thing here, if you are robot or a you can setup a bot to do this then by all means try it but I just could not. This had a double impact on my life. Not only I failed to make money, wasted time but I also hate myself of even getting stuck into this. Lost my confidence and self respect which probably was unfounded anyway. Only thing I can tell myself is that hopefully this lifted some sort of delusion I had about myself and I learn and become better at life through this.
In my experience, I don't see any desktop warning until the battery is very low indeed, such that it might be too late for me to do anything about it. Probably depends on exactly when it runs out, and if you happen to be actively using the computer at just the right time.

There may be some way to make the current battery levels display more obvious than the default; I've not looked into it much.
You've convinced me, but it really shows the limitations for 16:9 when these are our options. Two largish 28" 4:3 monitors would be a nice middle ground.
Promptwright: Generate large synthetic datasets using a local LLM
Hey Folks!

Us folks over at Stacklok, needed a means to generate large synthetic datasets using a local LLM, over say OpenAI or a cloud service. So we built Promptwright, a Python library that lets you generate synthetic datasets using local models via Ollama

Why we built it:

* We were using OpenAI's API for dataset generation, but the costs were getting expensive for large-scale experiments.
* We looked at existing solutions like pluto, but they were only capable of running on OpenAI. This project started as a fork of [pluto](https://github.com/redotvideo/pluto), but we soon started to extend and change it so much, it was practically new - still kudos to the redotvideo folks for the idea.
* We wanted something that could run entirely locally and would means no concerns about leaking private information.
* We wanted the flexibility of using any model we needed to.

What it does:

* Runs entirely on your local machine using Ollama (works great with llama2, mistral, etc.)
* Super simple Python interface for dataset generation
* Configurable instructions and system prompts
* Outputs clean JSONL format that's ready for training
* Direct integration with Hugging Face Hub for sharing datasets

We've been using it internally for a few projects, and it's been working well. You can process thousands of samples without the worry of API costs or rate limits. Plus, since everything runs locally, you don't have to worry about sensitive data leaving your environment.

Checkout the examples/* folder , for examples for generating code, scientific or creative writing

We'd love to get feedback from the community, if you're doing any kind of synthetic data generation for ML, give it a try and let us know what you think!

GitHub: https://github.com/StacklokLabs/promptwright
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What I don't understand, is why the upstream audio doesn't just buffer while the downstream thing processing it is blocked. Why should that result in audible artifacts, can't it just catch up with the rest of the buffer later?

Buffer overruns feels very 1996-cd-burner-ish. Ope, burned a coaster, let's try this hellaciously real-time-bound thing again with inadequate buffering and I/O devices that have unpredictable latency.

What am I missing?
Cryptocurrency, if you accept it and its ecosystem as an industry, would certainly not exist. And as for privacy, a fairy dies every time some someone praises bitcoin for being anonymous.
nice! lots of new suggestions... I recently picked up torn again and remembered old text-based or interactive fiction games... I'm gonna play whatever is available online. thanks!
How Taiwan Sees the Chip War
This is gonna turn into next-level bossware. Microsoft is already providing Office usage statistics to managers. They're not gonna leave on the table the opportunity to sell detailed usage data on everything that happens on the corporate PC fleet, in nice neat dashboards so IT doesn't even have to grovel through it, to managers.
Might it be on purpose, to low-key making immigration more difficult / discouraged? Europe seems to be under huge migratory pression.
> So what is the threshold past which even Israelis would acknowledge that what Israel is doing is both morally repugnant and illegal? What would that look like, in terms of actions on the ground?

I can't speak for Israelis in general. I certainly think some of the things Israel is doing are morally repugnant, especially some of the actions in the WB (or lack of stopping settlers from their actions), and especially any of the things Israel has done to withhold aid from Gaza.

I don't think that makes the war itself a crime or most of the things happening in it crimes. I do think, like most Israelis do, that one of the reasons the war is going on so long is because of Netanyahu's particular political needs, which is obviously extremely immoral.

It's war. It's complicated. There are no easy answers.

> The problem is that the crimes do not appear to be one-offs, but systemic, especially when viewed in the context of public statements by senior leadership of the Israeli government explicitly advocating for violence and destruction.

Some officials have made clearly awful and genocidal statements. Most of the ones in charge have not, except for the first few weeks after the Hamas attacks, and have made thousands more statements that explicitly speak against any kind of genocidal intent. I think it's important to look at statements in their totality.

> It might be "normal" for soldiers to pose for pictures in a combat zone, but soldiers committing war crimes while doing so should be prosecuted in accordance with international law....and for some reason IDF soldiers do this quite often, from posing while burning down libraries, to scrawling graffiti such as "Nakba 2023" on walls with a smile, to making instructional videos on how to blow up mosques on TikTok.

Those soldiers are obviously doing terrible and stupid things, and often face some form of military trials. This is unacceptable behavior in my mind and is rightly condemned.
It's important to note that this article has its own biases; it's disclosed at the end that the author is on the board of Bluesky. But, largely, it raises very good points.

> This is the part that 230 haters refuse to understand. Platforms rely on the immunity from liability that Section 230 gives them to make editorial decisions on all sorts of content. Yet, somehow, they think that taking away Section 230 would magically lead to more removals of “bad” content. That’s the opposite of true. Remove 230 and things like removing hateful information, putting in place spam filters, and stopping medical and election misinfo becomes a bigger challenge, since it will cost much more to defend (even if you’d win on First Amendment grounds years later).

The general point is that Section 230 gives companies a shield from liability for manual curation, automated curation, and algorithmic recommendations alike, and that removing 230 would result in a wild west of we're-afraid-to-moderate-so-you'll-get-unmoderated-content that would be far worse than the status quo. But it's unfair to say that the NYT article is completely wrong - because, in such a case, recommendation algorithms would be made more carefully as well.

Realistically, the entire web ecosystem and thus a significant part of our economy rely on Section 230's protections for companies. IMO, regulation that provides users of large social networks with greater transparency and control into what their algorithms are showing to them personally would be a far more fruitful discussion.

Should every human have the right to understand that an algorithm has classified them in a certain way? Should we, as a society, have the right to understand to what extent any social media company is classifying certain people as receptive to content regarding, say, specific phobias, and showing them content that is classified to amplify those phobias? Should we have the right to understand, at least, exactly how a dial turned in a tech office impacts how children learn to see the world?

We can and should iterate on ways to answer these complex questions without throwing the ability for companies to moderate content out the window.
There’s definitely value in being able to steel-man the opposing view and then dismantle it anyway. For one it can mean sending fewer people to meetings if you can trust a person to present your side fairly even if they disagree. If an I Told You So moment comes later they are still on record as dissenting. Which is enough for some people.
I wanted to share one of his pieces with a friend, so I sent the URL in a text message, and my friend (a network technician) responded with "Uh, is that link safe?" The title of the piece was "Free Public WiFi" which makes it look even more suspicious, haha... https://computer.rip/2023-07-29-Free-Public-WiFi.html
> but why driver's licenses?

Anecdotally from my social circles: youth already hang out online, with any or all of their friends at the same time. Why go somewhere just to see fewer people? And once you're there, are you going to do something besides chat and play games, which works fine online?

Older generations saw a driver's license as freedom, but younger generations don't see as much appeal in what a licensed driver is free to do.
> The amount of normal people I've heard use Volt/Bolt interchangeably is incredibly high.

Yes, this is / was a real issue and might be the biggest fuck-up for GM. I’m an EV nerd and when I talk about these cars I emphasize the first letter like I’m moderating a spelling bee…
> But, I don't buy the argument made here:

> > To call gravity a force, is to privilege flat space as somehow being special.

> Flat space is special, and we didn't make it special.

Neither is curved spacetime. Metrics like the Schwarzschild metric merely let us map between the two. They inherently do this, so flat spacetime seems like inherently as real as -no more, and no less than- curved spacetime. And in flat spacetime gravity is very much a force.

We should really not teach that gravity curves spacetime, but that there are equivalent representations of what massive objects do to their surroundings. The reason we should teach both alternatives is that humans have a hard time wrapping their minds around "curved spacetime". Giving a person two different ways to think about the same effects will increase the likelihood that they will understand, and only at a very small cost of increased cognitive load (but since understanding eases the cognitive load, the overall effect should be to reduce cognitive load).

Pedagogy matters.
Moondream raises $4.5M to prove that smaller AI models can still pack a punch
I'm also working on an ESP32 open trivia button platform. The project was for a small class of high school age students I teach in an after-school program but I no longer volunteer there. Part of me wants to just finish it.
I find the whole "summarize" use-case bizarre. The core problem with too many emails and messages isn't that I want to read all of it but it's too much. It's that most of it is stuff I fundamentally don't care about, from people who just invited themselves into my comms. I don't want a summary of random email blasts. I want my email inbox to only contain messages from people I actually want to hear from in full, and that's simple enough to do with filters, stars, and "high priority" tags.
Why (and how to) avoid dark patterns in customer service
I used to always buy MBP's, but the new gen are all those super thick and heavy models. I tried one and couldn't get used to the thickness or weight. At that point I may as well get a desktop.

I ended up buying M2 new MBA (from intel MBP), screen size similar enough, thickness good, weight good. And M2 is fast enough for 99% of the things I do. I did max the RAM to 24GB and wish there was more sometimes, and would love a faster SSD. Bot overall very happy.
It wouldn't be that terribly dark. Lighting technology may have been primitive prior to the last 200 years or so, but people, being people, don't like sitting around in dark places if they can improvise alternatives. I think we get a bit fetishistic these days about painting the past as overly dark (both metaphorically and, in this case, literally)

Curiously the 2015 horror movie "The Witch", which takes place on and around a 17th century New England farming community, was supposedly filmed entirely using natural light and lighting appropriate to what was available at the time. You can see everyone's face and gestures.
I'd love it if the local city park near me had some neat vending machines near the bathroom pavilions. How relaxing it would be to get hot ramen and a tea from the vending machine while watching the swans and ducks migrate through. Instead I just have to make sure I tote all the family's snacks and refreshments when we go to the playground.
I am building a web framework in Go that has all of the nice advancements in development experience that React has. Having spent a significant amount of time writing js, I get frustrated when things break and my developer momentum comes to a grinding halt. For everything that Go is, it is not a language that breaks because time has passed. Building this project is my long term bet that with the right tooling, Go can become a competitive language for writing full stack websites.

https://github.com/breadchris/share
oh awesome. I wasn't around when it was released but did play it on an emulator years after and was amazed at how magical it felt when the game understood what I was typing in plain English.
> By that logic the centrifugal force has to be a force.

Are you trying to claim it's not?
Why use RL for this instead of plain old supervised learning?
weird implication that millennials only did it originally out of a desire to be cool, and are still doing it "to be cool"

some people just like it more than alcohol, wtf
Oh thank god. Not a day goes by when I'm not thanking the powers that be in Europe for pressuring Apple to add USB-C to iphone.
> Is this heuristic wrong?

I would say it is, but in a subtle way. There is only one way in which gravity curves spacetime, and also one set of effects it has when seen from the lens of flat spacetime.
Thanks!

That would be the perfect spot for a thumb wheel, it's a cool idea.

I myself did not do any statistical analysis, the effort was done by the neo layout project (https://www.neo-layout.org/) and the hybrid English/German variety called noted. I modified it slightly to fit my hex grid.

The height difference makes it possible to hit the edge of the key without pressing the key below. And you'll find the home row more easily just from the bent layout shape. This should also help with hitting the right modifiers.

I want to try Jan Lunge's Keyboard configurator (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtYJYFMWjNM) for KMK but have not made a final decision. If I hit a road block with his configurator I might try QMK. Either software supports layers.
The authors have feuded with the EHT collaboration for quite a while. Here is a previous reply by the collaboration: https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/imaging-reanalyses-eh...
Yep that makes sense. Would be interesting to do a follow-up that explicitly includes these variables and see if it meaningfully improves the results.
Because NOAA is part of the Federal government, expect job applications to be inspected technically detailed relative to compliance with a mountain of Federal statutes and regulations.

Because people who don't get hired can literally get their Congressional and Senate representatives involved.

This makes getting hired into the Civil Service hard. Internal candidates are usually at an advantage. Veterans always are.
That's a really good point. It's been more than a decade since I last upgraded a computer.
> it can't be local to the project

It certainly can be, in the same repository.
That's pretty much where I'm at, plus a few basic packages for auth, caching, job/queue stuff. I can't remember the last time I had to care about async, but it does occasionally come up when dealing with things like background tasks.

I'm not totally happy with sqlx and the logging situation, but most issues that come up are the "solve once and never worry about it again" type.
Yes except so few games run. Even games I suspect don't need the power.

Examples: Cocoon, ufo50, Outer wilds, Harold Halibut, Noita

> “Does this do enough gaming, well enough, that I can avoid buying a Steamdeck, or that I can get rid of this bulky PC that I use only for gaming?”

I think the answer is "No". I'm writing this from a Mac. In the last year, so many games I've wanted to play while traveling, someone tells me about it, I go check it out, no mac version. I just have to wait until I get home.

Sometimes I get lucky, "A Short Hike", but more often than not there's no Mac version.
Could also be that alcohol is like 2x as expensive over the past 30 years.
The rotten tomatoes of open source is the sharevalue of the company providing a paid alternative.

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/adsk

Here is the usability rating of blender visualized as history.
The last time I checked, sbt was much faster than mill for incremental builds. Mill has a faster cold startup time, but sbt uses classloader tricks to reuse jitted classes so that it doesn't have to reload the scala standard library. When running tests continuously and rerunning on save, sbt was much faster than mill for equivalent projects. I haven't tested in three years or so though. But I would encourage people to make a simple project in sbt and mill and run `sbt ~test` and compare it to `mill -w test`. In the past, I found that after a few iterations, sbt could respond to changes in a few hundred milliseconds while mill would take multiple seconds to retest the same code. That difference really adds up when you are iterating on a problem.

That said, I have come to believe that the jvm is a bad platform for a build tool. Everything that touches the jvm becomes bloated and slow, particularly for startup. I no longer write scala because of my frustration with the bloat (and scala adds its own bloat on top of the jvm).
Question: Two black holes that encircle each other are on geodesic orbits and thus should not feel acceleration. However, graviational waves are emitted during the orbits until they merge. How is this possible when there is no accelleration acting on the masses?
Why would being a teapot justify being a 5xx status? The server hasn’t failed, it’s a functioning teapot, definitely not broken.

I would assume if the teapot were to be broken, then a 518 teacup is empty error would be more appropriate.

But as long as there is a piping hot cup of tea, then it’s a 418 code.

/s
Troubleshooting the high loop digital board in an IFR-500 service monitor. We're waiting on replacement parts.

We just got done with a Collins KWM-1.
I think they are hugely valuable if/when people are in the drivers seat for their own medical care.

If someone wants bloodwork done, to try a drug, or change dosage, it is a faster way to get an appointment.

If they want to get a general inspection and tune-up, it seems less fit for purpose.
I have a 28" 4K from LG and a Samsung 27" 5K. It wasn't that bad, $5-600.
Winners of the 2024 Youth Hacking 4 Freedom Announced
If they want to make money, don’t they need you to stick around? As a side effect of making money, then, aren’t they incentivized to reduce the amount of large categories of content you’d find noxious?

That doesn’t work as well for stuff that you wish other people would find noxious but they don’t: neo-Nazis probably would rather see more neo-Nazi things rather than fewer, even if the broader social consensus is (at least on the pages of the New York Times) that those things fall under the uselessly vague header of “toxic.”

Even if the recommenders only filter out some of what you want less of, ditching them entirely means you’ll see more of the portion of the slop that they’re deprioritizing the way you want them to.
please try googling "raku llm" ... there is a lot of excellent thought leadership work from folks like antononcube
When do we get part 2 of the speaker saga :D

Part 1 was fantastic.