skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's nothing new though, a lot of the big name artists' albums are a collection of most of their singles (idk how the album vs single market works); e.g. Taylor Swift with 7 singles made from the 13 tracks on '1989'.

I don't know what is normal, but releasing singles or EPs before the full album seems like a common way to generate hype beforehand. Also, the Spotify model - assuming against what the previous comment says and every stream counts for the same revenue - doesn't differentiate between singles, EPs or albums, so it's whatever from that point of view. I've seen a few artists start releasing demos, songs-that-didn't-quite-make-it, and all kinds of unusual material that wasn't good enough for a full album onto streaming platforms, which then ends up in the long tail of their repertoire. It ties in with the article though, in that these songs will also start appearing in the playlists related to those artists.

Another interesting one is a single artist releasing songs under different names; Devin Townsend comes to mind, who can fill up a related playlist with songs released under his own name, Strapping Young Lad, Devin Townsend Band, Devin Townsend Project, Casualties of Cool, etc. And given he does many different genres, he'd appear - theoretically - on many different styles of playlists too, although I think the algorithm would get confused when the artist name gets associated with both hourlong ambient tracks and seven minute chaos metal genre mashups.
Hey there!

It's totally fine to ship fast, but you gotta ship smart too.

Just because something's an MVP doesn't mean you can skip security entirely.

Nothing against Marc Lou and levelsio this is more about the general approach some people are taking.
Sure, but he brought 100% of this on himself with his previous petty-tyrant tantrums. There was absolutely no reason he needed to be on the business end of a lawsuit.
Artificial Performance
"How can this be the case if for something far more direct-to-the-gut like cooking, the process of heating your food to about 75°C for at least a few seconds is enough to kill every known pathogen (except maybe prions, not sure about them)."

Microorganisms are more stable than you think. Yes, 75 degree celsius kills some of them, but it is a log function. A few seconds won't help you that much.

And then there are some real bad ones that don't mind being boiled: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endospore

And we are not talking yet about extremophile organisms. The endospores will survive boiling water. Extremophiles can grow above 100 degree celsius. Obviously we are talking here deep sea level so that a hot spring can have over 100 degree without going to the gas phase. But these extremophiles are unlikely to be found in your kitchen.
Depends on your cost of electricity. In most places, a solar setup pays for itself long before the warranty runs out max 5-10 years typically (depending on a lot of factors). Even in the US which has a lot of extra cost related to people making things needlessly complicated and costly, lots of people are installing solar and earning their money back.

I can actually get balcony solar here in Germany for about 240 euros. Here's how that works:

- I buy a kit on Amazon. I found several nice ones. This one is rated for 850w and includes cables, inverters and other bits and bobs needed.

- I zip tie the panels to my balcony

- And I plug in the equipment and connect it to a wall socket

The idea is that this would offload some of the power used by e.g. my fridge. Not the same as a rooftop setup obviously and in my case quite pointless since I don't have a lot of sun on my balcony.

But I might actually qualify for a rebate if I do this and get all or most my money back. The government is sponsoring this and landlords can't stop you from doing this. Nor do you need their permission, a permit, or special insurance.

The point is that this stuff is cheap, easy, and pretty much plug and play. Roofs aren't a whole lot more complicated than this from a technical point of view. You need more panels and more expensive equipment and you probably need some professional electricians and installers to do the work.

The rest is just nonsense that relates more to your local government and legislation than anything being inherently expensive or difficult. I'd suggest reminding your local politicians of their responsibilities during the next elections and maybe voting for the ones that aren't being jerks on this front.

Otherwise, solar panels are pretty reliable and generally covered by long warranties. Repairing them is mostly not a thing, somebody would come and simply replace them. I doubt that a lot of solar panel companies and installers are suffering a lot under the enormous burden of this happening all the time for the simple reason that it this isn't a thing.
Really the lack of stops and parking places is, and would be even worse for self driving vehicles deployed in numbers. Unless it's self driving motor bikes or such small personal transportation.
Probably a bait comment... so here we go:

Literally all of the issues you've mentioned in terms of compatibility is fixed if you buy hardware that aims to have Linux compatibility out of the box.

Before you say "ah, but I didn't even need to think about it, I just bought some parts and assembled a computer."

So the companies that have done it, did for you, made it "work well on Windows", think about it. But as this is the norm you think that Linux compatibility is bad, rather, it's the reverse. Those companies didn't care about Linux and that's why its compatibility is bad.

There are now plenty of companies that have a real focus on providing great computers that works well in Linux, you could go for that option if you don't like to run scripts (which mostly isn't true as you have many applications to configure exactly what you complained about). And your external monitors will work well, I'm sure.

Nowadays with so many PC and Laptop product lines that are great in Linux, if you aren't gaming or using applications that just doesn't exist or work in Windows or want to use the battery advantage that Mac laptops have, Windows is not a necessity.

To me, it's a okay comment if you would say "I use Windows because that's what I'm comfortable using", rather than complaining about things that Linux can do well Today.

Usability-wise Linux nowadays have many distros that are better, don't have all the adware or useless fluff.

I use a Windows 11 at home for gaming and it's a terrible OS. I seriously can't wait until more and more games runs well on Linux so I can completely ditch it.
Gonna have to update the apps on both Linux and Windows and give it a try :)
> The problem is little to no funding.

I honestly don't believe that to be the case. There's a big difference between commercial products like MacOS or Windows and Linux. That difference isn't so much funding (remember that Linux is backed by all major companies), but the fact that Linux itself is really just the kernel, whereas Windows and MacOS aim to be the whole package (with varying degrees of success).

There is simply no such thing as "Linux, the OS including desktop and UI". It's dozens of projects with different philosophies and goals. KDE differs from Gnome, Mate, or XFCE and those have a different approach to the desktop UI metaphor than say i3 or xmonad.

A standardized Linux Desktop experience would help with bundling resources as well as polish and fixing the "boring" stuff. But this would fly in the face of the "make-it-your-own"-approach that desktop Linux tends to take.

The constant dance between stability/maturity and bleeding edge is another big factor. The former allows for little annoyances to be ironed out, while the latter attracts more developers because that's the fun stuff to work on.

As a user you do have the choice to go for a stable, more conservative distro or play with the latest toys on rolling release distros. Specialized distros like SteamOS do quite well in their respective niche, though.

In summary, the Linux eco system is simply too diverse to point at a single issue like funding as the main reason for its perceived shortcomings on the Desktop side of things. The comment above pretty much nailed it - it's developed by Linux guys and their goal simply isn't to emulate Windows.
You’re right. I stand corrected. Thanks.
US-based ultra runner arrested in India for carrying Garmin InReach
Because no the court did not order any such thing.

I'm confused why you think it did.

That was a lie. I'm not confused. It's just that the obvious explaination is not flattering.
Have a look at Daniel Estevez blog. He's a regular user of bigger telescopes (like ATA) and managed to receive and decode Voyager 1. He wrote a GNURadio decoder for it.

https://destevez.net/2021/09/decoding-voyager-1/
This is exactly the kind of thing that causes python package nightmares. Pip is barely aware of packages it's installed itself, let alone packages from other package managers and especially other package repositories. Mixing conda and pip is 100% doing it wrong (not that there's an easy way to do it right, but stick to one or the other, I would generally recommend just using pip, the reasons for conda's existance are mostly irrelevant now)
Try using a unit per person. It starts to look much less rosy for Waymo and also do not forget roads are still public infrastructure that has to be paid for and maintained.

What, you think Waymo will be able to weasel out of road tax or drive without roads?
That's actually a good point for me to further think about how to improve it. Thanks.
Exactly the Linux attitude. Blame the user (◔_◔)
I mean that's not unusual either I suppose, it's a self promo strategy. Spotify does it themselves as well, mixing in relatively unknown artists into generated playlists to give them a bit more exposure which they would never get if "existing popularity" was the metric to include them in generated playlists. The article implies that artists can accept lower royalty payments to get more exposure like that too, so it's intentional by Spotify and the artists themselves. I mean personally I don't care for it, but good for them.

What I really don't like is the spam where they add a random well-known artist's name to their song to make it look like it's a collaboration, but it's either a low effort cover or has absolutely nothing to do with it. At least I've stopped gettring random basement mumble rap in generated metal playlists.
Right there with you, and I’m surprised I had to read this far down the thread to find somebody pointing it out. My high school English teacher, who was of the old school, would have written in the margin, “elves of fire? Give me a break!”
Yes, but you have to know that.

I got a call from "Bank of America," and they smoothly talked me into giving them my debit card PIN. The trick was they had gotten into my online banking beforehand. "We've detected possibly fraudulent activity on your account." Then they read me real transactions from my actual account. "To be safe, let's lock down the account. For this we need more information for authentication, though." Probably started from a phishing thing that I fell for online without noticing. It was pretty clever of them. Not so easy to steal from a checking account without leaving a trail, unless you have the PIN. Then the main risk is to whomever was on camera at the ATM withdrawing as much cash as possible before the account was automatically locked down.

The next day, I got a call from "Bank of America" telling me that I'd been had. Fortunately they just credited the money back into my account. About $5000.

The main difference is that the first call wanted me to give them information, while the second call advised only "go into a bank branch in person."

The article's advice is correct. If someone asks you for info, tell them you'll call them back. It is almost certainly a scam. Calling back the possibly spoofed number at worst wastes a little time being on hold, and at best saves you or the bank a lot of money.
it can't drive everywhere now, but that doesn't mean they're not designing for that future.
why should DUIs be excluded? There are regular human drivers out there at various levels of intoxication.

I do want to know waymo vs all population. But yes it should be compared in the same areas during the same period.
While I agree with your overall conclusion...

> If it was actually ran by volunteers, he couldn't make any of it stop... because people volunteer their time without being told what to do.

...this doesn't really follow. Just because someone is a volunteer for an organization doesn't mean the people at the head of that organization have no control over what they do. As a library volunteer, for instance, I can't just take all the books off the shelves and start building forts out of them (unless the library board is into that sort of thing).

He can't force them to show up and do things he tells them that they don't want to do, but he absolutely could stop all operations, including those run by volunteers.
> In other words, Spotify has gone to war against musicians and record labels.

Might as well go back to pirating music and keep a cleaner moral ground.
Small typo on homepage/demo - ice 'probabilty'
They „could of“ meant that.

:-)
Having a crazy stable transmitter and clock source allows to detect a lot of interesting (side) effects.
Of course they're not the same. They have the same EV and the strategies do the same thing in a condition that always happens: there's only one color left. The variance is wildly different.
Writing and testing a paginated API iterator in Go
For "something you have" to be true to its purpose it has to be something that has one and only one copy - so either only you have it, or you don't, but nothing in between. The second you have "cloud backup", or activate an additional device, or "transfer to a new device" then you turn the attack into "phishing with extra steps".
I get where you are coming from and you are correct. This is, up to a point, a PR piece of Waymo and we should take that into account. But they are pretty transparent about what they are doing. You just have to read the report. And for their metric, which rounds to "all distance travelled in the interesting ZIP codes", they are succeeding. What I'd take away from this is: If you give them a different metric, they can optimise for that too and they will end up being better than humans.

That doesn't answer the questions: 1) Is it worth it? (I.e. what does it cost to achieve that) and 2) Is a Waymo better in any situation? I guess they don't have the answer to either yet. I'm pretty sure their cost-per-mile is still dropping like a rock (probably though not fast enough for their accountants) and they haven't reached all situations yet either. But I wouldn't bet on "because it's too hard", but rather "because we didn't get there yet" (and yes, they will have started with the easy part, as they should)
Monogamy is one such structure. It seems very tied to the modern idea of the "nuclear family." There are others. Having an extended family all living together is another. Tribes where children are raised communally is another.
WPE lawsuit is not the only legal battle the Mullenweg family is embroiled in
CFPB: Mortgage Companies Create Obstacles for Homeowners After Death or Divorce
Using Cursor + RustCoder to Calculate the Sum of All Odd Fibonacci Numbers in a Given Range
It is funny that "the Web" as a platform has become like the mainframe for banks and some big companies.

It is an ubiquitous legacy, a critical infrastructure of our societies and a spaghetti that cost everybody a lot.

In the end it is controlled by the biggest corporations and various interests. Very hard to disrupt and replace.
The lawsuit exists because he repeatedly chose to force it into existence. He will almost certainly lose it because he repeatedly made bad choices which had to have been against his lawyers’ counsel. He is likely going to lose the foundation’s non-profit status because he repeatedly made bad choices.

I’m sorry for the other people affected and am amazed that he was willing to trash a reputation and business decades in the making, but it was his repeated choice to do so.
IANAL but the hammer doesnt include an ongoing service, but the AirTag is facilitated with a constant service from the manufacturer.
"How to Implement Zero-Trust Security in Software Development", I am surprised the article does not mention OpenZiti - https://openziti.io/ - from NetFoundry. It quite literally provides zero trust security and overlay networking as pure open source software, which developers can embed into their apps via SDKs (or other non-embedded techniques).

This is a great blog, using Golang as an example - https://blog.openziti.io/go-is-amazing-for-zero-trust.

My favourite quote, "Now, your server has no listening ports on the underlay network. It's literally unattackable via conventional IP-based tooling. Seriously, stop and consider that for just a moment. By adopting an OpenZiti SDK into the server, all conventional network threats are immediately useless."
My brother in christ, he made this happen.
> concurrecy
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are you? somewhere around 60-80% of miles driven are people alone in their vehicles. aside from the car driving itself somewhere, when there's a passenger in there that's the same as your average car.
In ancient times with a lower average height due to less of certain nutrients a person this tall would absolutely be considered supernatural, which could explain those ancient accounts.

Now imagine them in battle armor with a sword asking you to bring a shrubbery.

Even a high six to seven foot person might be shocking.
Show HN: Instruct LLMs to do what you want in Ruby
I’ve been working on this gem part-time for a few months now. The API is not yet fully stable so I wouldn’t recommend for anything other than experimenting. Nevertheless, my company is using it in production (as of today :)), so it seemed like a nice time to share.

So why did I write yet another LLM prompting library?

I found the existing Ruby ones either too abstract — hiding the LLM’s capabilities behind unseen prompts, too low-level — leaving my classes hard to follow and littered with boilerplate managing prompts and responses, or they used class level abstractions — forcing me to create classes when I didn’t want to.

After reading an early version of Patterns of Application Development Using AI by Obie Fernandez and using Obie’s library raix, I felt inspired. The book has many great patterns, and raix’s transcript management and tool management were the first I’d used that felt ruby-ish. At the same time libraries in the python community such as guidance, DSPy, LangSmith, and TEXTGRAD had caught my eye. I also liked what the cross-platform BAML was doing too. I didn’t love the code generation and freemium aspects.

So, with motivation high, I set out to build an opinionated library of gems that improves my Ruby (and Rails) LLM developer experience.

The first gem (this one) is instruct. It is the flexible foundation that the other gems will build on. While the API is similar to guidance, it has a different architecture based around attributed strings and middleware which enables some unique features (like async guard rails, content filters, self-healing, auto-continuation, and native multi-modal support).

I’m currently working on a hopefully elegant API that makes requesting and handling streaming structured output easy (taking inspiration from BAML, but with automatic upgrades to json schema if the API supports it). Along with that, I’ve been working on a conversational memory middleware that automatically prunes historic irrelevant bits of the conversation transcript. I hope this keeps
the model more steerable, but without loss of crucial details.

Thanks in advance for taking a look and providing any constructive feedback or ideas. Lastly, if you’re interested in contributing, please message me.
https://archive.org/details/LovelockCaveLoudAndHarrington192...

6'6" was the largest skeletons found.

MSN article is just one of many online sharing the same falsities.
This story appears to be complete nonsense.

The Wikipedia for the so-ye-cah is better but I liked https://nevadagram.com/the-red-haired-giant-cannibals-of-the...
You are starting to seem dishonest when you resort to outliers and present them as the baseline.

> To the extent we can compare them on capital efficiency

We can not. This logic is stupid. This logic will take you to the idea that the best thing to do is to get everyone a helicopter because helipads are cheap to build and it costs zero dollars to "build roads in the sky".

Yeah, you are right. These things are not competing. Yes, you are also right that proper infrastructure (re)development in North America will take a lot more money than what Big Tech has invested in self-driving cars.

The upsetting part is to see even supposedly smart people buying into the idea that American Exceptionalism is a real thing, and that you can keep holding on to the hope to find a shortcut away of your problems. Self-driving cars or not, the US is still going to be an expensive, inefficient country that can boast about its amazing economy, yet most people living there are at third-world country levels of development.
But.. they would disappear? Not all of course. But some drive under the influence because there is no other convenient way to get home after a night out. And Waymo solves that!

And they are highly aware of their "small number statistics", they literally provide uncertainty ranges. For both SDVs and HDVs. And their values are consistent with increasing data. I.e. they ~only get smaller uncertainties but no significant drift. But they are statistically significantly better (which wasn't the case two years ago)