skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have not read the books, so I guess I'm the target audience. It was very hard to watch. The actors were fine, actually better than fine, but the writing was painful. There are lots of standard adventure and fantasy arcs that are just impossible to carry forward with the type of "modern" they wanted. For instance, you cannot have the most diverse village in the history of villages anywhere, then later the Orc (?) stares at one of the kids once and goes "you are not from this village, you are certainly from this other village because of how you look". How? Aura color? At least change it so the kid has a tattoo or some birth mark then. I could go down a long list of dumb stuff like this that makes me come back to reality instead of allowing me to stay with the flow and enjoy the fantasy.
Former Bench user here - I selected to opt-out and download my financial data over an hour ago. I still haven't received it and am getting concerned. Has anyone actually received their data from Bench yet?
I did not claim there was no functional alternative.
I guess that's what "fuck your own face" looks like represented as a chart.
> Yes please? If only TV and movies would show the full range of human sexuality and not just cater exclusively to the vanilla fetish crowd

Did you watch the video? The flaps on the face had nothing to do with “sexuality”. It was Bond slapping women to get information out of them.
2024 may not have been the year of the Vision Pro as I anticipated. But I have a good feeling 2025 will be the year of the US third party.
Sometime around 1994, when I was 14, I remember using QModem to connect to my best friend's computer down the street. We spent all day sending text messages back and forth. Then I discovered BBSs and eventually an early version of the internet offered by my towns local library BBS. A whole world opened up from that moment.

Your father's work had a big impact on my life. I'm sorry for your loss.
JetKVM just announced the release of the source code for the JetKVM hardware and their Cloud API. The little device has been much nicer to work with than the only other sub-$99 IP KVM I've used (Sipeed's NanoKVM), though Sipeed offers a PCIe slot option now, too.

It's nice seeing more software options for these devices besides Pi-KVM. Despite it's age and wide usage, being the only open source option meant other tech stacks weren't able to be had off the shelf.

I believe JetKVM is a project from BuildJet, which is backed by YC: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/buildjet
The weird thing to me is, that knowing full well how important every dollar is, most people in this sitution would blow that $2k on frivolities, rather than save it or try to make it last. It's part of the psychology of being poor. Money is something that never lasts, so when you have some, you're inclined to spend it immediately.
Well, science moves. It is because of research like this is will be outdated.

Great you enjoy more foundational work!
The consequences of acts of God are typically held to different standards than that of Man.

That said, if your phosphate mine's tailings pond wasn't built to handle the expected consequences of a hurricane, failure to handle said hurricane is no excuse for negligence.
If you do any less typical files Google Drive will balk at you at all times, at least for the other users who use the browser UI.

What works bad:
* folder with lots of medium size files
* large ZIP
* video bigger than a few tens of megabytes
Sure, you just need to go through the 74 quintillion possibilities. Every day.
I also never heard it. In Brazil I only have heard SQL pronunced as sequel in NoSQL. SQLite is mostly pronounced S-Q-Light here, with the S and Q in Portuguese (weird, but it happens often)
I love the concept! I see a big potential in it (I haven`t heard or researched about competitors)
I’ll give it a try for Dutch and French
> the commits produced

Maybe this is the problem ? I quite like using LLMs for coding, but I don't think we are in a position where a LLM is able to create a reasonable commit.

For me using LLMs for coding is like a pair programming session where YOU are the co-pilot. The AI will happily fill you screen with a lot of text, but you have the responsibility to steer the session. Recently I've been using Supermaven in my editor. I like to think of it as 'LSP on steroids', it's not that smart but is pretty fast and for me this is important.

Another way I use LLMs to help me is by asking open-ended questions to a more capable but slower LLM. Something like "What happens when I read a message from a deleted offset in a Kafka topic?" to o1. Most of the time it doesn't give great answers, but it generally gives good keywords to start a more focused Google search.
But when they are faced with two options, one of which is confusing and requires figuring out, and another one that does not, with the first having no clear advantages over the second, why would they bother spending time figuring it out?
Buy a Tesla, lay off an American.
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I'm doing a yearly update to my free open source consulting agreement template, and seeking suggestions please for any improvements you may see or want.

The purpose of this consulting agreement template is to jump-start your own contracts, intended to for for United States startups, consultancies, and independent contracts.

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OP is saying that the old Bonds (Connery, Lazenby, Moore) were suited to male tastes that haven't changed since, thus the attempt to modernize Bond is misguided at best.

What I'm saying is that my (male) tastes have modernized, that the male tastes that made old Bonds popular are tastes I find gross and unrealistic today, and I don't feel like I'm alone.
The reason why the change to 16gb was such a big deal was at least in part because it meant people didn't feel forced into shelling out 200 dollars (or whatever it was) for an extra 8gb of RAM.

It creates this weird dichotomy of having arguably the best value computer on the market in the base mac mini with 16gb of RAM and 256gb of storage and some of the absolutely worse value upgrades (like spending $400 on 16gb of RAM or $200 on 256gb of storage).

There's not much to explain here; they price gouge upgrades because they can. People that want/need MacOS for their work will pay for it, even if begrudgingly. I'm not necessarily happy about paying that much for these spec bumps but the benefits of using a Mac still outweigh the cons for me.
Ditto. I bought a new low-end Thinkpad this year (L13 Gen3) and I probably paid $700 for a $500 laptop because I wanted the Trackpoint.

If they want to cede this market, I'll probably have to wait until Framework offers a Trackpoint keyboard drop-in and go there instead.
Yes it’s a shame that this is not leading the discussion, works very well and surprisingly efficient in our experience compared to manually setting up docker containers or docker compose
A Brief History of Mechanical Furniture (2016)
> An intelligence agency that only employs straight male secret agents is an intelligence agency doomed to fail from the start. I have to hope someday that the Broccoli family grows a spine someday and shows us a Bond who is a woman, being just as much of an arrogant slut as Sean Connery’s Bond. They did a great job with that Bond, and certainly that’s a desirable archetype! It’s just gotten boring and overplayed to see that leading Bond role manner only played by the same boring and overplayed white men for decades now.

There was a scene in The Americans where the husband and wife Soviet agents talked about / reminisced about their training. And that to the Soviets, sexuality was just another tool in the box. If you're seducing for the job, what does it matter? The husband was taught about seducing men, and the wife women, as much as the opposite sex (this is not an attempt to simplify / reduce sexuality, just how it is portrayed in the show).
How does $3,000.00 become five figures?

Do you mean four or that four figures feels like five?
What do you mean by dualism?

From the article, emphasis mine: "But we should not be looking for a homunculus in physical systems to serve as a subject. *The subject is the whole system*, or better, is associated with the system in the way that a subject is associated with a brain."

Is this dualism because it retains the idea of the subject at all? But Chalmers states "the subject is the system", and so seems to reject the notion of mind/body duality. I haven't read about this in much depth, so I don't have a very sophisticated understanding here.
QModem was my first modem program and I can still hear the sound of that little DOS-based 2400 BPS modem ringing in my ears. My best to you and your family and I'm so sorry for your lost.
A for-profit business might be run by people who do care about ethics at any particular point, but one thing that we've learned over time is that there's absolutely no guarantee that those people will still be around tomorrow.
There are hints in the novels, but Fleming usually went with the default intolerance of the time.
Top comment:

What on earth could be the motivation for this not-lawyer? A malicious thrill?

"The goal is to take the monetization of videos. You get enough 200k+ videos under your belt for a form letter and bot writing in requests. For little work you can get in the 100K per year income, providing you don't get shutdown."

Hopefully this type of blatant abuse of the law will motivate some changes. If not, expect whole offices to pop up in developing countries with fake lawyers pulling off this scam en-masse.
Congestion control has always(ish) been in the transport layer.
Let's not pretend that the James Bond franchise is some bastion of high art and creativity that must be protected from corporate interests. The films are as cookie cutter as they come. The same plots, ideas, stunts have been getting rehashed for 60 years now. Amazon can do no better or worse with it than any other studio.

Giving the character a break after the Daniel Craig era is a calculated business move, and a good one. They'll wait for public interest to drum up again in a couple of years and then magically resolve all their differences.
> I've found that replacing the database with in memory SQLite for tests is a sweet spot

Does that cover the first two examples brought up by the article? Constraint violations and default value handling.
I think you're downplaying real concerns people have. Having two different devices is not an exotic scenario
>I found the result to be an absolute mess. That is because these systems are built to cover a broad range of applications and are not adapted at all to your problem domain.

Same findings here, re: legal text. Basic hybrid search performs better. In this use case the user knows what to look for, so the queries are specific. The advantage of graph RAG is when you need to integrate disparate sources for a holistic overview.
Tariffs Can Help America
I'm pretty sure that a lot of people are playing for the blue tick solely because it makes their posts rank higher in the feed.
I guess you're probably not.
Daniel Craig's more bitter Bond is far closer to the Bond of the original books. Dark, morose, bitter, at times very disenchanted (several resignation letters, if not resignations), spends time alone with a bottle, womanizing in the "not sexy" way...
(BBC) US to hold national day of mourning for Jimmy Carter
The first time I slept on the street was during middle school. The reflection we need to be doing is how we've created these circumstances, and why we allow people to continue to suffer them. This is your world too.
Mentour Pilot: Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 (crash caused by Boeing/MCAS) [video]
This video shines a bit more light on Ethiopian 302.

Notably, Mentour Pilot finds that:

1. Boeing refused to answer poignant instructor questions about MCAS prior to the crash, leaving the crew in the dark. This was despite MCAS having already caused a crash (Lionair.) The investigation found that the crash could likely have been avoided if Boeing simply answered these questions.

2. Boeing refused to train pilots on the new plane, even when airlines explicitly requested this, in order to save costs and promote brand image of the 737 MAX as a "drop-in" replacement

3. It was essentially impossible to recover the plane once MCAS activated trim, due to MCAS trim being much faster and aggressive than manual trim

4. Boeing's proposed runaway stabilizer cutoff procedure did not actually solve the problem, as aerodynamic forces would make recovery impossible if MCAS had trimmed the plane too much.

5. It was physically impossible to manually recover from such a high trim due to aerodynamic forces.

Some key takeaways:

- This crash was undeniably caused by poor corporate culture resulting in red-tape around educating pilots, and cost-cutting measures leading to half-backed solutions.

- These were software errors that could have been solved by competent software engineering. Notably: allowing one faulty AOA sensor to crash the whole plane. Keen viewers will spot countless add'l places where software could have been added to systemically mitigate failure modes like this.

- The captain was a prodigy, and these pilots did everything right. They followed Boeing's recommended procedures for MCAS faults. This was irrecoverable.

- The FAA had delegated too much responsibility+power to Boeing, and missed the risks associated with MCAS by allowing Boeing to essentially perform the safety reviews.

Boeing's CEO and executive board faced zero criminal consequences. In fact, the CEO Dennis Muilenburg found a new job, backed to the tune of $240M: https://newrepublic.com/article/161412/dennis-muilenburg-boe...
Comb jellies can fuse with another and become one
It’s likely a mix of private service access, emailed reports, calls and chats if the reporter typically covers this beat.
But the article uses the phrase 'Bezos' approach' as if it's somehow attributed to Bezos or a new concept. For some reason Wall St. and Silicon Valley love learning the simple things the hard way then act like they had some great epiphany when they finally figure it out.
A smart 8yo with a 10 wpm typing soeed could type in the BASIC program without a problem.

That same smart 8yo would probably make at least one typo trying to type in the Python program. And they would need to read the error message and figure out where in the file they made a mistake.

I'm considering having my son try this Python MOOC: https://programming-24.mooc.fi/
The exercises can be completed inline. I wouldn't just hand him a python book and a computer. Whereas I could totally imagine him learning something with the Acorn Electron and book I had at 10yo or 11yo.
Just use a separated google account for your channel?
> I feel like I should duck and cover after saying this

For stating the most popular opinion on the internet?
> I don't see why a TPM couldn't be open? Nobody makes open-source TPMs

The main advantage of the TPM is how it is made physically. It should be designed to make it hard or impossible to read the secrets out of it and those things depends on how the components are manufactured on the silicon wafer.

Maybe the manufacturing process could be published, but I don't think it would help much.

You could probably write your own TPM emulator or modify swtpm a bit and compile it to any microcontroller, but in that case the chip could be easily decapped to make all the secrets readable.
A lot of people are just financially illiterate. I grew up poor and the other comments here are super foreign to me. I agree that a couple of grand would be useful but not for buying toys, mostly for fixing stuff.

Especially the idea that money just disappears so spend it whilst you have it. That’s like saying your legs might disappear so cut them off now to avoid the surprise.
The whole thing was a bit of a mess. A good analogy I heard was you have a bunch of people in a room with one TV and have a vote whether to change the channel and 50% vote yes because they are fed up with the current one. But no one has specified which channel to change it to. After the vote they check out all the channels and find they are even worse than the first but can't change back because that would be "betraying the will of the people" or whatever nonsense.

The referendum should have been two part. 1 want to leave or not? 2 how about this specific option (channel) or shall we forget the it all?
sorry couldn't resist...

raku -e '(0,1,*+*...*)[^40] .say'
The post doesn’t definitively answer whether Bond is bisexual but argues for the importance of acknowledging the possibility. It highlights how the franchise’s ambiguity opens the door for diverse interpretations, inviting viewers to see Bond through their own lenses and experiences.

Personally, I don't think Bond is bi.
This is the beginning of a very good movie. It is on my top 10 all-time best movies. I watch it from time to time and see new things each time.

I don't remember where I read the story, but it might have been in the DVD extras. Henry Fonda grew a goatee and dyed his hair black before he flew to Spain for the start of filming. When he got there and Leone saw him he screamed "nooooo" because he hired Fonda to be the baby-faced assassin.

Also, aside from the visuals, the music in this film is probably the best match between music and video ever. Ennio Morricone's soundtrack is pure genius.
Thanks! Let me know if you have any feedback.

Toucan is the main competitor. The advantage is that it's free. The disadvantage is that the reason it's free is that it uses a dictionary to translate individual words, rather than Nuenki's method of using Deepl+Claude to include context and translate the sentence properly.

It's a matter of tradeoffs. Trying to translate single words doesn't work particularly well; single word "sentences" are actually disabled by default for Nuenki because the translations are so frequently incorrect.

Proper translation costs money, but the quality is a lot higher.
I have the same question, what is the different between LLM and Dictionary in the context of compression. Can I not "train" a dictionary?
> All this to say, the first thing to go is the credit card payments, then the car payments, and finally the mortgage payments.

I do wonder how much of these credit card balances are people paying ~$3.50 per gallon to fill up and kit out SUVs and trucks they're paying ~$700 a month for.

As someone who strives to spend/save responsibly and drives wholly owned used cars and is still a few paychecks away from disaster, I do not understand how working/middle class people are keeping up with these costs. I notice our local Chevy dealership is also full to the brim (literally covering all of the grass on their lot) with new trucks and SUVs. I would love to better understand who is buying/leasing those vehicles and how they're keeping them on the road -- for now.
You're right it's not ideal that races shoehorn you into certain classes, but on the other hand you don't want someone's race to be flavortext. I think there's a balance to be struck. I doubt DnD will find it on the first shot, but I'm looking forward to what it looks like for the version after next.
I thought men and women are equal, what bond does to men is far worse
> you can't predict how fast one or another option will run

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it" -- Alan Kay

> You need to actually run both

Always! If you're not measuring, you're not doing performance optimization. And if you think CPUs are bad: try benchmarking I/O.

Operating System (n) -- Mechanism designed specifically to prevent any meaningful performance measurement (every performance engineer ever)

If it's measurable and repeatable, it's not meaningful. If it's meaningful, it's not measurable or repeatable.

Pretty much.

Or put another way: an actual stop watch is a very meaningful performance measurement tool.
Well I think a lot of those areas are even flooded with seawater. There’s not much you can do to preserve a fresh water source if it’s close to the ocean and always in the path of hurricanes.
The potential utility in the research is not so much the results but the benchmark itself.

I haven’t read the whole thing so I can’t really judge whether this specific benchmark is useful, but if it is, every time a new model comes out they can run the benchmark and breathlessly report its improved performance.
If I understand the distinction correctly, I run llamafile as a backend. I start it with the filename of a model on the command-line (might need a -M flag or something) and it will start up a chat-prompt for interaction in the terminal but also opens a port that speaks some protocol that I can connect to using a frontend (in my case usually gptel in emacs).
Holoviz and Panels look interesting. Has anybody here used them successfully in their analysis workflows?
Then we're getting to a point where the proposed law weakens passkeys to the point where they are much ado about nothing.
It is possible to use distinct passkeys per device, but that's a crappy user experience, similar to having a distinct SSH private key per device (which is also often recommended by naive technologists). You generally want to lean towards turning M * N problems into M + N problems.
There’s a biological detective story out there about someone figuring out how to culture the black soot near distilleries. This isn’t the version I read but it’s the same microbe:

https://www.wanderingspiritsglobal.com/whisky-fungus-baudoin...

It doesn’t culture in agar. Unless you add alcohol to the Petri dish and then it does. Things like this are why I still have my fingers crossed that we will have one or more helicobacter pylori (the bacteria that causes 90% of ulcers) moments for intestinal ailments. These obelisks may turn out to be one of them, and understanding could lead to better treatments and prevention.
Eminent domain means that the state/nation/county takes the land with some kind of compensation to the previous land owner.
appreciate the effort but it is no use arguing with a self-loathing liberal.
> And... I think the WoT adaption is fine. It's not exactly how I would have done it, and there are a few choices that I think are just bad, but on the whole I have enjoyed the show and think it captures most of the primary elements of the series.

It's (and I say this as someone who sees themselves quite progressive) a bit too feminist.

It seems determined to make Nynaeve and Egwene the heroes of the show, the badasses on which everyone, including Rand, rely on. Not content with them already having access to the Power, and being among the strongest among the Aes Sedai, Amazon made them even more powerful and heroic than the books.

In contrast, in the books, Nynaeve and Egwene (it may be Elayne - in either case, two of these three) were actually rather "put out" by the fact that Rand was who he was and his access to the Power. Paraphrasing from the book:

"They were shocked, and not a little annoyed and upset. The Tower had told them that they were the strongest they'd seen with the Power in centuries, perhaps the strongest ever, and along comes Rand, barely able to control it himself, and yet even with them both fighting with all their might, he controlled both of them so... effortlessly... and then to say he wasn't even using a fraction of the Power he'd drawn before!"

I do give kudos to Amazon for respecting the diversity of the books, though.
@ababaian. You may want to put your contact info in your bio here, based on your comments and responses. It may be helpful for others to find you an contact you if they ever see anything. Check if they're not seeing ghosts in the data
My condolences. I wasn't a QModem user (my older friends used Terminate/Telemate so that's what I learned from them), but I was a heavy BBS user in the later scene which greatly benefitted from the ecosystem that grew thanks to QModem.