skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. To me it sounds like bad voice-over actors reading from a script. So the natural parts of a conversation where you might say the wrong thing and step back to correct yourself are all gone. Impressive for sure.
Solar PV operates 10-30% of the time (depending on location). Without storage, this naturally limits direct solar contribution to about 20% of energy demand. Going beyond requires expensive storage solutions.
Checking if a string is a email (or at least looks like one), if it's a number, etc. is such a cheap processing, that setting up and tearing down a connection to the server to process it is a waste of resources. Client side validation has its uses, it's more responsive. The problem is that we want all these custom behaviors when it's actually some rudimentary data input validation.
And what biological test can one conduct that proves this, and is unchangeable over time?
When a CEO takes full responsibility for these things it doesn't mean that they submit themselves to the punishment that internet users might want. It's the CEO telling their impacted employees that, no matter how well you did as an employee, you would still have been impacted. It's the CEO showing you empathy for the hurt they cause you for having failed to steer the company in a viable direction.

These messages are obviously never going to be well received, but at least people can find comfort in the fact that it's because Dropbox is shifting direction and strategy and not because they were bad employees. Stuff like this happens in business. Maybe you've focused on private sales and want to shift to enterprise sales or fund investments at which point your company no longer needs it's sales and marketing departments because the company mission will be radically different. Changing course is a CEO taking responsibility for the company.

It is what it is.
I love mine, it has a fresh battery OEM battery as well. Runs the latest OS with OpenCore Legacy. But it's starting to get a bit annoying. Usable, but it is starting to feel slowish, the fan kicks up frequently.

I might still keep it another year or so, which is a testament to how good it is and how relative little progress has happened in almost 10 years.
Yeah, the stakes for the two sides of that transaction are completely different, so equivocating rational responses on either side makes no sense. OP lost me there.
> And yet jaywalking accounts for the majority of pedestrian deaths, despite being a fraction of the number of crossings.

It's because some people think jumping out of bush at 11pm wearing all black to cross right in front of a car is a good idea.
Both windows and macos (the operating systems) have this built-in under accessibility. It’s worth a try and I use it sometimes when I want to read something while cooking.
No, ajross is very confidently making false descriptions of how async Rust and io-using operate. This website favors people who sound right whether or not they are, because most readers are not well informed but have a ridiculous confidence that they can infer what is true based on the tone and language used by a commenter. I find this deplorable and think this website is a big part of why discourse around computer science is so ignorant, and I respond accordingly when someone confronts me with comments like this.
> it is vastly safer than crossing at intersections

Why is it safer?
I still don't get it. Is it 500MW averaged over the _whole_ year including nights, or 500MWp?
Positioning is already a huge part of the game, and every wall, corner and box to duck behind has a strategic purpose that one must be aware of, just not based on lighting but geometry and game strategy. So adding a whole other mechanic to it wouldn't be interesting.
The "exhausted low hanging fruit" model IMO has been wrong since the industrial revolution. The fundamental problem is it's based on the heuristic of fixed demand + technology saturating the demand. It's really the opposite - technology is an ever expanding fractal, and the larger the surface area, the more things are needed. For example compilers are having a huge boom now because hardware is increasingly performance demanding and heterogeneous.
Copy and paste into grayscale with few lines of code in the browser
AWS Workers Pen Open Letter Protesting RTO
"Wouldn't it be better for all parties if they just focused on maintaining the best possible version of their core offering at the lowest cost?"

Yes, absolutely.

There is value in new features and functionality but there can be so much more value in a predictable, stable tool that can be depended on and returned to.

There are people who cancelled their first account with us before dropbox existed and have returned, post-covid, to find a familiar tool to be picked right back up again.

This has been immensely valuable to a great many people and we wouldn't dream of ever changing it.
The Supreme Court did not say that no Federal agency can do anything, ever.

You can tell by the way the Federal agencies are still, you know, there. Doing things.
K-9 Mail is on F-Droid, if you want to give it a try.
These days "rubber" could just be some synthetic plastic like in car tires. It's less likely to be natural rubber.
It's because it's probably trained with "professional audio", ads, movies, audiobooks, and not "normal people talking". Like the effect when diffusion was mostly trained with stock photos.
The Yakuza/Like a Dragon series doesn't even try to hide this. They lift entire locations straight from the country. Kamurocho is Kabukicho without the trademark infringement. Sotenbori and Ijincho both have their real life counterparts in Japan as well.

In various Yakuza communities, one of the more enduring posts are those of people taking pictures of the real life locations and comparing them against the in-game counterparts.

Basically, RGG studios are doing their best to make the single most Japanese game they can.
Credit Unions are typically better, but not always. Fees can still be high and interest rates low. You still have to comparison shop and do some due diligence.
The main reason for keeping AI static is to allow them to be certified or rolled back (and possibly that the companies can make more money selling fine tuning) — it's not an innate truth of the design or the maths.
Not sure "acquisition" is the right framing in the open source space but one could certainly think of more partnerships, coordination and/or sharing of various components among the various big players and ecosystems.

FOSS on mobile is a basket case anyway (the dark side is too strong here) but the decades-long linux desktop story is not too hopeful either.

Things like deep interoperability, look-and-feel, UI conventions etc could go a long way towards making all those important applications feel like a coherent thing rather than a random patchwork stitched together with tape.
Wow, really good that Tesla has received no government subsidies then. :)

https://www.ft.com/content/8179bd8a-4d96-43a9-a8f9-074f9a275...
I created a site that generates Instagram content ideas from a video URL
Hi everyone,

I'm Mattéo Kocken, and I wanted to share a project I've been working on called Script Short. It's a tool that helps content creators find new ideas for Instagram by simply using the URL of an existing Instagram video.

Why I created Script Short:

As someone passionate about social media, I've often found it challenging to consistently come up with fresh and engaging content. I wanted to simplify this process by allowing users to get inspired from content they already appreciate.

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1. Enter an Instagram video URL: Provide the link to a video that inspires you.
2. Content Analysis: The tool retrieves the video's transcript using OpenAI's Whisper and then generates content ideas from this transcript using the GPT-4 API.
3. Receive Ideas: You'll get a list of content ideas based on the themes and topics identified.
Technologies Used:

Frontend and Backend: Built with Next.js for server-side rendering and client-side interactions.
Content Analysis: Utilizes Whisper for transcript retrieval and OpenAI's GPT-4 API for idea generation.
About the Beta:

The tool is currently in beta, and there's a free offer available without the need to enter a credit card (to avoid spam). I'm open to making more features available for free if you request them.

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- Your feedback on the utility of the tool.
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pumped hydroelectric is storage; right now it is like 99% of world storage capacity.
Games Engineers Play
Certainly, but they are not profit motivated in the same way a commercial bank is. Do your due diligence.

https://mycreditunion.gov/about-credit-unions/find-join-star...
That’s interesting because I would’ve thought having strong local compute was the old way of thinking. I run huge jobs that consume very large amounts of compute. But the machines doing the work aren’t even in the same state I’m in. Then again maybe I’m even older as I’m basically on the terminal server / mainframe compute model. :)
AnandTech did bandwidth benchmarks for the M1 Max and was only able to utilize about half of it from the CPU, and the GPU used even less in 3D workloads because it wasn't bandwidth limited. It's not all about bandwidth. https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc...
U.S. military makes first confirmed OpenAI purchase for war-fighting forces
Du you have sources for this? Now I'm not much better but I actually think there are several studies that show correlation between layoffs and worse than average performance.
Then this https://sindresorhus.com/command-x

(same guy)
I suppose it's largely a matter of perspective but I would argue that fewer more stable jobs would likely be better for both the companies and employees.

Also, you're missing another obvious argument. Most tech companies that are doing layoffs could afford to keep their employees. Dropbox hasn't done 3 rounds of layoffs because they're on the verge of bankruptcy but rather they're just following the trend and pleasing shareholders or whatever.

So I'm not arguing for less jobs but rather less corporate bullshit.
I'm referring to what Activity Monitor app tells me in its memory tab - not the underlying malloc/whatever implementation being used.

It tells me my computer is using 8gb of RAM after a restart and I haven't begun to open or close anything.

Yikes?
I'd be more impressed with a fossilized dinosaur port, motorway or garbage dump than a crater in the Gulf of Mexico tbf...
Maybe they have friends and family on Spotify
Custom colored accounts exist in FairMail (Open source as well)
Same here. I live where there’s ton of sun, but power is cheap and install is expensive and not subsidised. Dad lives in northern europe, power is 2x more and install is 2x and subsidised. In december he generates like 20kwh per month from 8kw array. Still already paid itself after few years.
Interesting, because for my apps, I implement all those validations. The form wide validation are done on server. Basically I have a bunch of layers of validation that leverages everything. Chrome having a shoddy unaccessible design is Chrome problem, I would file a bug report.

> it's the spec

This one? https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html#concept-elem...

I don't see anything that defines how validation messages should be presented (not even that they should be present)
For that argument to work, wouldn't you need to have the assumption that people don't value the old games? Because people clearly do value being able to play these old games. Otherwise, emulation wouldn't even be so popular in the first place.

Remember, capitalism is all finding the maximum amount people would pay in order to be able to do something they value doing, and then charging them that. Or to put it another way, it doesn't matter whether Nintendo thinks it has any value, just that you do. And the way Western governments are set up kind of facilitates that.

(I'm not a fan of capitalism. Can you tell?)
By "learns" do you mean "just shove the entire codebase into the context window", or does actual training-on-my-data take place?
People bring up the old naysaying comment about DropBox from some HN user years ago like it was a bad comment.

Maybe people like bad products, and make bad products rich all the time?

You can make a good product and go out of business, sometimes through actually no fault of your own too.

I agree, Dropbox is a feature - and it shouldn't be a product.
Companies become myopic past a certain stage.

New products take time to mature into revenue generating things.

Cost savings from layoffs are immediate.
Why Zellij? The story of Zellij and its creation
Interesting, I have a M2 Pro Mac Mini and I hit limits literally every day
You got my hopes up -- I thought you meant Mercury the programming language (which resembles Prolog and Haskell).
> So it is very frustrating to see the discourse focused on inaccurate statements about async Rust

> No, ajross is very confidently making false descriptions of how async Rust and io-using operate. This website favors people who sound right whether or not they are, because most readers are not well informed but have a ridiculous confidence that they can infer what is true based on the tone and language used by a commenter. I find this deplorable and think this website is a big part of why discourse around computer science is so ignorant, and I respond accordingly when someone confronts me with comments like this.

They had an inaccurate (from your point of view) understanding. That's all.
If they were wrong that's not a reason to attack them.
If you think they were over-confident (personally I don't) that's still not a reason to attack them.

Again, I think ajross set out their understanding in a clear and polite manner. You should correct them in a similar manner.
Saving 1.5kWh is not going to be impactful.
That site is kinda bad. They show the same number for '21/'22 and don't have any data for '23/'24
So every user of a computer that doesn't create their own home-grown ML models is a boomer? This can't possibly be a generational thing. Just about everyone on the planet is at a place in their life where they don't make their own AIs.
On May 3, 2021 I wrote a note to myself about the type of people OpenAI was hiring and this was the note: looks like OpenAI is getting into the military business by hiring a former CIA clandestine operator Will Hurd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Hurd. Seems like I was right but this should be expected because every corporation is in one way or another linked to the military industrial complex.
Max 9: new coding and livecoding, new visuals, and Ableton's sound tools
FYI cache lines are 64 bytes, not bits. So Apple is using 128 bytes.

Also important to consider that the RTX 4090 has a relatively tiny 384-bit memory bus. Smaller than the M1 Max's 512-bit bus. But the RTX 4090 has 1 TB/s bandwidth and significantly more compute power available to make use of that bandwidth.
When I was visiting Finland in 1990, my friend told me the police were so bored there that jaywalking was very likely to result in a ticket.
Isn't this also the case with mortgages?
probably whoever makes the loan will hedge, maybe by shorting the stock. or buying puts, but then whoever sells them the puts will hedge by shorting the stock.

if they decide not to hedge, then it must be because they don't think they're exposed to much risk, which basically means they like the stock and would be willing to own it. it feels like it mostly works out.
>As Žižek teaches us: everything happens twice -- first as tragedy, then as farce.

That line actually originates from Karl Marx's The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte: "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice...the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." Žižek often references this concept, but it’s Marx who coined it in his analysis of historical repetition.

You need to really work on the depth of your historical understanding and get off of Mastodon or Lemmy, which I'm guessing is why I mistook your addledness for Twitter.
Election Skeptics Tell Voting Officials That Certifying the Election Is Optional
The actual article title is:

> Election Skeptics Are Targeting Voting Officials With Ads That Suggest They Don’t Have to Certify Results
It's something a regular person would say to a Unix greybeard, which in and of itself was always and still is a very niche hobby.
Of course not. Gregorian Calendar didn't drift, it just fixed drift in Julian calendar, which was like a couple of weeks by 1582. And "new year" in Julian calendar was 1st of January, same as now. It was inherited from previous Roman tradition, because Romans already had the custom to mark 1st of January as a new year, because since 153 BCE it was the date when consuls were inaugurated. So it's an entirely political thing and makes no real sense whatsoever. We are celebrating the day of Roman consulate inauguration for more than 2000 years now.

And before that they they started years from 1st of March, which is much closer to one of the Equinoxes, which is what all sane people (including french revolutionaries) consider to be the proper start of a year.
What games are unblocked in Lee county
At today’s prices, a Tesla Megapack is estimated to cost about $1 million for 3.9 MWh, or $1 billion for 3.9 GWh.

Based on that, my back-of-the-napkin math says the cost of charging and discharging the pack every day for 7+ years would be about $0.10/kWh.

That’s at today’s prices, but prices are still falling an average of 12-15% per year.

And I’m not convinced that even small-scale nuclear will be cost-competitive in the future, but time will tell.
I would not spend 10 seconds of my time writing a product review or answering a survey like that. If Amazon is interested in selling good products they can hire product testers who will do teardowns, destructive testing, and running them through a 5-year simulated use durability test.
If that's true, then why do all the subreddits feel dead? Everything but the big default subreddits will have the same set of posts on their home page for weeks, and the big ones seem filled with bot spam and manipulation. I'm going to consider the possibility that these numbers are advertising fraud, I won't levy an accusation but it certainly seems that way to me.
> machinery, toys, lifts, medical devices, and vehicles

All of those seem high-risk except toys.
Case in point - when it came out almost 20 years ago it was ground breaking.

Meanwhile, every single desktop OS, mobile OS and cloud provider basically has had this functionality in some form for maybe 10 years now.

If you are a home user in Google or Apple ecosystem, its all native and seamless.
If you are a corporate setup in Microsoft or Google ecosystem, its all native and seamless there as well.

Not clear what the standout features of Dropbox would be now.
New York is probably the only place in the US where most of the drivers did not learn to drive here.

It's the most international city in the US, and a disproportionate number of people who use the roads (taxis, delivery drivers, etc) grew up in places that have a traffic system very different that the US's. People in New York routinely run red lights, roll through crosswalks, ride in the shoulder - things that you might encounter in other countries, but are generally considered disrespectful/dangerous in the US. When so many drivers grew up driving in places that tolerate those behaviors (either in their home countries or as native New Yorkers), it creates a road culture that's very different than you'd expect in other parts of America.

In other cities, you can take a "trust but verify" approach to traffic. Drivers will respect traffic lights. Pedestrians will cross where they're meant to. People will (only) use the lanes painted on the road. You have to be alert in case an outlier does something differently, but we generally consider those people selfish exceptions.

The written rules and the practiced culture deviate immensely in New York. You can't just operate by the rules and expect that everyone else will too.
Regarding Youtube, Google is also waging a silent war against Invidious. It's to the point that even running helper scripts to trick Youtube isn't enough (yet). I can't imagine battling active and clever adversaries speeds up Youtube page loads as it runs through its myriad checks that block Invidious.
Illegal in Russia. There is even a common trick during driving exam: examiner ask you to let a person cross in a middle of a road. You do that, and you've failed the exam.
How I upgraded my pet project from Rails 7 to Rails 8 in 30 minutes
Banking with a more local institution can make all of the difference in the experience. It would probably blow your mind if you've never done it. Maybe try a mid-size bank that operates in a few states if you are concerned with going too small.

If you are banking with Wells Fargo or BoA, you are getting exactly what you signed up for. A customer base so large that they have no choice but to treat you like a row in a database (i.e., a piece of shit).
Actually not.

Thunderbolt provides a tunneling mechanism for PCIe, DisplayPort, USB etc. It's also a mesh network where packets are source-static routed from node to node in the network - so the source sets up the route-to-the-destination and the data packet is transmitted from controller-node to controller-node until it gets to the destination, then it's unpacked and presented as data to the system.

You could see some of this on the venerable "trashcan" Mac Pro, where one of the TB controllers wasn't directly connected to the port, but came through another TB node. The latencies on the ports connected to this TB controller were slightly higher due to the extra transit-time.

Latencies over PCIe are measured in tens of nanoseconds (say 70-100) depending on chipset and how much you pay. Latencies over TB can be several hundreds of nanoseconds. TB presents as a PCI interface, but that's an adaptor-type design pattern, it's not fundamentally PCIe underneath.
Other comments have pointed out that intersections are difficult to cross safely because cars are coming from multiple directions, often in non-obvious ways.

Between the intersections you only have two directions to worry about.
If you don't like what banks do, then learn about the technologies that can replace them today.
>Doing an incremental rewrite from C/C++ to Rust, we had to use a lot of raw pointers and unsafe{} blocks. And even when segregating these to the entry point of the library, they proved to be a big pain in the neck.

That's how the project ended up in such a bad state by the end. Instead of having rust-rust linkages that the compiler could check, they designed every function boundary to be an uncheckable rust-* linkage. This would be like porting a C library to C++, but only moving one function at a time, such that every single function had to comply with extern C.

Here is an important warning:

The difficulty of setting up boundaries to unsafe languages are the hidden reason for people wanting to rewrite every C library in Rust. Do not choose a design pattern that requires more than one of these boundaries to exist within your own code!
To paraphrase the great Bertram Gilfoyle, computers don't need to produce fake vocal tics.
Wifi 6 can do up to 4.8Gbps. Even at half of that, you're going to be limited by a 2Gbps fiber line.

The real use is transferring huge files within the LAN.
Great to hear agreement that all this article manages to show is how sensible the AI Act is. No, you can't be irresponsible with AI in Europe, we've learnt the hard way what happens when there's no regulation early on.