skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> German Brot has rather different connotations from the nasty stuff Brits call bread, but I don't think there's a better word available, and a straight-up borrow would feel fairly weird in most context. Much weirder than borrowing 'sharding' in a technical context.

I'm absolutely puzzled by this. Not British but I've been to both countries and can't say I noticed much difference in their bread.

What do you consider to be the key distinction between German and British bread? Why do you think it is such a dramatic change that you can't countenance using the same word?
> In short, these platforms are places for manufacturing consent.

Like Hollywood, then.

In other words, some of the Westerners’ hypocrisy when it comes to the views they hold on their socio-economic system never ceases to amaze me, especially now, as we’re in the middle of a new translatio imperii phase.
Prime numbers so memorable that people hunt for them
You do realize that you are posting on a thread whose OP thesis is that cursive is unreadable for most people.
Thank you for sharing an actual prompt thread. So much of the LLM debate is washed in biases, and it is very helpful to share concrete examples of outputs.
For the reason you stated in the last paragraph I eventually opted against getting a Hyundai Ioniq in favour of a Toyota.

The Hyundai felt like driving a regular automatic, so it would occasionally lunge awkwardly and spin the engine in situations where Toyotas switch to EV mode.

Sure it had better fuel economy, but I can't stand having a car not react immediately to my input or make noise when it shouldn't.
My front end to mermaid is usually claude. I can’t count how many times trying to convey a complicated idea (last week, a one time use token in a 3 party where my backend can’t talk to the client) has been made simple to explain with a quick diagram claude made.

I am a paid mermaid account holder but claude is still my first front end, because it’s the tool I’m in most of the time anyway. What I’m excited for in the GUI is I can take that quick diagram and add the styling, colors, and hopefully move some of the boxes around such that the arrows are better than the auto layout drops them.

From reading the blog post, the first thing I’d like which is changing the visual colors and styling of individual boxes in the diagram might be missed. I find that the most time consuming thing to do manually with the code, I would love to see rich tools there.
Trump wants to use it as his own mouthpiece
An optimist's life is still subject to roll of the dice. To say pessimist's do not notice luck is utterly foolish. In fact, I would say they cherish it more than the optimist who thinks thing swill always work out for the best.

I am neither optimist or pessimist. I only know that I should not use my luck to rule over the less lucky.
Every study over the past 50 years has demonstrated that active stock managers cannot outperform a passive stock index over time (eg 10 years).

What gets some people confused is: if you check a listing of all mutual funds/etfs with their 10 year performance, you will always see some that outperformed the S&P500. But the secret is: those leaders change every month or year. Remember: if you fill a football stadium with 100,000 people and everyone tosses a coin with those tossing tails required to leave, someone is going to toss heads 16 times in a row and be the only one left standing. Everyone would consider her a god of coin tossing. The problem being, do it again tomorrow and it would be a very bad bet to bet on her being the winner two days in a row.

Long story short: active stock picking doesn't work. It has been proven it doesn't work. Active fund managers cannot beat passive indexes, which is why passive index funds now control over 50% of the mutual fund market. And who exactly are the people raising arguments about the "dangers" of passive investing? Answer: the stock managers who engage in active stock picking and who are competing against passive indexes, and losing. It's actually quite pathetic.
Not a challenge, but a plea: where's your source(s) for this? I'm about where you were, but would love to know more about the internals so I can make an informed choice when my current (ICE) car dies.
I learned cursive in 2nd grade and was very strictly REQUIRED to use it up until high school, where they stopped requiring cursive.

1) My cursive was always slower than print. I was happy to go back to print so I could write fast. I went to school in the "analog" era, so 100% of all assignments were hand written and not typed.

2) I noticed that literally only 1 person in my school stayed with cursive when printing was an option. It was so unusual it stuck out.

3) I only know one person who writes cursive now in every day life even though 100% of us learned it in school.

4) That person is my dad and he writes in the style of these documents. If you gave me one of these documents and told me my dad wrote it, id believe you.

Which makes me think we all somehow were taught cursive wrong or practiced it wrong. My cursive was never fast and never looked like these documents.

Anyway, I found this, which summed up my feelings learning cursive perfectly

https://nautil.us/cursive-handwriting-and-other-education-my...

>Reading and literacy expert Randall Wallace, of Missouri State University, says “it seems odd and perhaps distracting that early readers, just getting used to decoding manuscript, would be asked to learn another writing style.”

I found it so frustrating that I just learned how to write one way and then they tell me that's not the "proper" way to write and we need to learn this other way to write.
For the training part. Generating art off someone’s art is nuanced. Let’s say you generate art off Darwin’s kid’s art.

- First off most people won’t ever know, so you don’t even have to hide the theft.

- If you copied a well known style, then you would have to hide that you did so by layering another style on top

- You don’t have to worry about the first two points if you are not stealing and just commission an artist.

- Or you are oblivious and uncaring about all of this, and all is sound in your mind because you bought the fake gem currency fair and square to generate your image.

So, we are talking about taking. Some people have issue with the word stealing.
I feel like I was lied to about what kubernetes is and comics like this sorta partake in it.

The sales pitch is basically akin to "mongo is webscale" but "kubernetes is scaling/portability/reproducability."

Maybe my workplace just did it wrong, but the way they've set up kubernetes is exponentially more work than just scaling up (akin to an AWS autoscaling group). It has its own networking system, competing languages for manifests, competing auth mechanisms, multiple ingress/routing mechanisms, different CI/CD tools, helm/kustomize, multiple different competing scaling mechanisms that can sometimes be used together. And don't get me started on CRDS and such.

In some ways it's closer to build your own AWS than it is just autoscaling. Which sort of doesn't make as much sense to me if your company is full of 10-year experts on AWS and you're suddenly reinventing the wheel on all of this.

Which isn't to say it's strictly bad, but when I see what my work team has built it's very clear that local testing is well out of the realm of possibility and their work has already lead to multiple outages. And most of the administration isn't "clickops" but IMO it's even worse -- people typing admin commands at their console with no review -- type-ops.

It wasn't the UI that made click-ops bad, it was the fact that it was a bunch of manual admins changes not using PRs and automation.
Can you expand and on this? Do you think EU should force every successful US company to divest their EU branches. I do not know where I stand on this but you seem to have a clear idea on this..
Site is flagged by basically everything for phishing.
I don't think you can, but you could open a popup over the target to hide the authorisation page to make it a little less obvious. JS also has a window.close() function for opened windows, but I believe browsers might show a warning when you try that on an external origin.

One could also confuse the user by spawning a whole bunch of tabs for other services after clicking the authorise button, making the user think something weird is going on and closing all the tabs that just popped up without realising they clicked the authorisation button.
What’s wrong with BMW’s platform?

The technology (e.g. heat pump, carbon fiber/aluminum body), user interface and fuel economy (not range) of my old i3 are all competitive with the 2022-2024 EVs I’ve driven.

Unless they somehow regressed 10 years, the only obvious problem with the new BMW EVs is that none offer a third row.
FeedMe on my Android phone pulling down feeds from FreshRSS on a VPS.
That’s very nice, but why on fucking earth doesn’t tiktok make “longs” already!!!

Its algorithm may be wonderful and useful but I don’t want short content in a watch-it-all feed.
Isn't it easier and cheaper to validate than to classify (requires expensive engineers)? I mean the skill is not as expensive - many companies do this at scale.
No contact page?
I typically don’t argue in favor of big corporations but I believe them, kind of. Apple includes a lot of things into their SDKs for free, which are paid on Google's platform. For example Apple Maps, Apple Weather, etc. components are all free and can be extremely expensive on Android (Google charging per view for Google Maps, for example). That is of course if you use these things in your app.
No, he upholds his own values which are basically his own interests.
I'm curious why this space hasn't been patented to death.
Probably the latter, if viewed narrowly, but the whole point is to preserve democracy in the end. This ban is the lesser of two evils.

Is chemotherapy not unhealthy now because of cancer, or is it unhealthy but that’s OK because of cancer?
I rode in one when I called an Uber once and was über amazed... it's so spacious too! Pics really don't do it justice
Or this: "A former forensic scientist intentionally manipulated DNA evidence during her 29-year career at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, casting doubt on at least 652 criminal cases she handled, including some of the most high-profile trials, according to investigation findings released by the agency Friday." [0]

[0] https://coloradosun.com/2024/03/08/yvonne-missy-woods-cbi-in...
The idea was that people got hoodwinked by whisper campaigns, conspiracy theories and outright lies by public figures.

Did fact checks curb the spread of misinformation? Hard to say.

What makes mis/dis info hard to combat is that the people targeted by it already want to believe it.

You could construe fact checking as another top-down solution to a bottom-up problem. This is not necessarily bad; top-down is sometimes more feasible.
Article says 550 nits “doesn’t compare” to traditional screens, but that’s not true. Most desktop displays are 300-400 nits. HDR displays get up to 1000ish nits but not for the whole screen.

Phone screens are brighter because of outdoor use, but 550 is more than enough for indoor monitors.

(Not to… nit pick)
“Covering costs” is just a different way to say “we like money and we can get some by enslaving that person.” It’s not a moral justification for anything.
I wish this technique worked for me. I can transcribe something verbatim and then have absolutely no idea what I've written - I have to go back and read it to actually parse the text.
> I did not make an appeal to authority. I made an appeal to expertise.

Lol

> I’m saying listen because experts have spent years of hands on experience with things like getting NLP working at all.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

Upton Sinclair

> Barely know anything about it, but you’re okay hand waving away expertise bc you got a toy NLP Demo working…

Yes that’s my point. I don’t know anything about implementing an NLP but got something that works pretty well using an LLM extremely quickly and easily.

> And I know you didn’t compare the results against classic NLP to see if there was any improvements because you don’t know NLP…

Do you cross reference all your Google searches to make sure they are giving you the best results vs Bing and DDG?

Do you cross reference the results from your NLP with LLMs to see if there were any improvements?
Maybe Amazon will elevate its kindle game now. I just want a large-enough ePaper display for PDFs that’s just as comfortable to hold, has light so I can read it in the dark, and is waterproof. The lack of serious smartphone-like capabilities is a feature, not a bug, but the awkwardness with PDFs is a bug.
> Terrible in snow and ice

Are they worse than most front-drive cars? (And what about compared with a Trans Am?)

> No way to defrost your windshield, unless you're already driving

I've wondered about that. The Prius still gets its cabin heating from the ICE?

> Poor rear window visibility

Agree completely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_TikTok

All the usual trigger topics like Tiananmen and Tibet are suppressed on Tiktok at the behest of the CCP.
I meant more that nuclear is basically 100% nameplate capacity at all times. If by peak you meant it can vary its load based on peak demand, there are load following plants although historically they don't work well. Gen IV MSR might fare better, but peak capacity is better handled through renewables particularly since this matches with their own peak power supply.
More aid in general - yes. But in the battlefield US was much bigger part. While non-lethal aid is important too, without lethal aid there may be no need for non-lethal support anymore.

And even talking about lethal aid, some European countries loved to play the numbers (hi Estonia).
You need a domain expert either way. I mentioned in another reply that one of my niches is implementing call centers with Amazon Connect and Amazon Lex (the NLP engine).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42748189

I don’t know the domain beforehand they are working in, I do validation testing with them.
I think you misunderstand me: I'm not in favor of banning tiktok on its own. I think you're right that that misweights things, further consolidating power in the hands of those who hold the remaining platforms.

What I'm saying is that all of these platforms are fundamentally anti-democratic in that they exist to predictably change individual behavior with a high degree of precision, through custom tailored information feeds that can be shaped to alter someone's perspectives on the world in the interests of whoever controls the feed.

I don't think it's better for that power to be in the hands of Elon Musk or of Mark Zuckerberg. I think that that power needs to be banned worldwide if democracy is to survive. Democracy hinges on the idea that voters will in general vote in their own interest, and the ability to individually manipulate voters into measurably changing their behavior breaks that assumption.

And note that this is fundamentally different than traditional media sources, which have a harder time shaping someone's entire life and worldview. WaPo can control what someone perceives the WaPo editorial board as believing. Only a social media platform can control their perspective of what their friends think.
A uBlock rule for smooth scrolling libraries can do wonders, though on some pages that breaks all JS scripts because of brittle JS assuming certain objects are magically instantiated.
'It was built for this': how design helped spare some homes from LA wildfires
Did I miss something? I thought NAND was you're 'universal gate' ?
https://web.archive.org/web/20250118142525/https://cloud.goo...
i assume they get a transfusion as well?
Transmeta also has 130nm CPUs [0] but they were all meant to be low power. The 130nm TM5800/5900 were ~9W at their highest 1GHz rating including the integrated northbridge. Clock it down to 800MHz and it was a measly 5-6W. That wasn't much power to work with, especially for a CPU that was doing the extra work for the code morphing abstraction layer. The similarly clocked Pentium IIIs going around the same period were ~30W.

I had a Compaq TC1000 for some time and I while I loved it for it's exotic nature and interesting approach, it was slow as molasses.

[0] https://datasheets.chipdb.org/Transmeta/pdfs/brochures/cruso...
I also take magnesium for sleep. I swear by it.

I also believe I have an underlying kidney disorder that was causing all sorts of subtle problems and after researching for years decided to try potassium supplements and it relieved the acute symptoms I was having (daytime sleepiness after meals) and also a whole slew of symptoms I didn’t realize I was having (poor workout performance and recovery, constant thirst from sodium/potassium imbalance, heart palpitations, especially at night when lying in bed, temperature regulation when trying to sleep, restless legs at night, and sleep quality).

Sleep was the most surprising. I used to wake at around 3am and just couldn’t get back to sleep. I still wake up to pee, but I get right back to sleep.

The single most surprising thing is the quality of my sleep. I now sleep like a rock. So unbelievably hard. And when I wake I feel so rested and more clear headed. I don’t need to sleep as many hours anymore and feel better than when i would sleep 9 hours.

Recently several sleep studies started talking about how sleep is not a passive activity, but a ‘washing’ of CSF over your brain. I could get some details wrong since I am going off of memory, but I believe the amount of CSF movement and production basically triples when you sleep. I hypothesize that this is simply your bodies way of cleaning the waste products out of your brain. Do you know what precursors are to create CSF? Electrolytes like sodium, potassium, chloride, and bicarbonate. It is my hypothesis that I was ‘using up’ all the potassium available with the first couple of sleep cycles and once it was gone I was unable to effectively create more CSF, rendering my sleep ineffective.

All I need to take is a couple of 99mg tablets right before bed (along with some magnesium chloride) and I sleep like I did when I was 10. I am 57. To say it has transformed my life would be an understatement.
That's the campaign that was hijacked by Russia. The PR company tried (and failed) to use a teasing campaign to promote another candidate without naming him. The Russian bots were commenting with the far-right ultranationalist's candidate name the day before the election under the unsuspecting influencers' videos paid for by the PR company.

In parallel there were other campaigns in the ultranationalist's favour, paid for with crypto.

He's also linked to a former secret service figure¹ who betrayed NATO to the KGB in the '60s, so he's either a FSB trojan, an useful idiot, or both.

1. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihai_Caraman
Let's pretend regenerative braking doesn't exist.
Nobody is interested in used EVs, therefore resale values are very low.
it’s probably a very basic phone
> The fake chips worked fine

Some of them did. I had some that did weird things with the CBUS pins.
Something that makes it easier to own EVs here in London (UK) are these chargers on lampposts, there are probably thousands of them at this point: https://i.imgur.com/1YdeVwf.png

They're slow (3-7kW), can't be installed everywhere, there are not enough if everyone wants to charge at the same time, and some areas still don't have them, but plug it in when you arrive and you should be fine to go in the morning. It's a good idea and more places should adopt it.
I learnt it here in Australia in my early school years, and hated it because it was both slower to write and more difficult to read. I switched back to standard writing as soon as I was allowed.
Only for the worse if you aren't a defense contractor.
What’s fucking sad is we have people advocating government seizure and destruction of someone’s private property just because they don’t like the rich guy who’s company made the product.
As written here, it’s presented as a specific disadvantage of charging from a 120V outlet, so that’s not it.
It has been. All sides have a pile of patents. All sides violate all the other sides’ patents. If anyone sues, everyone goes out of business.

This is the system working as currently intended. No matter what happens, the lawyers get will rich.

If a small company comes in and doesn’t pay the lawyers, it’ll get sued for violating the patents.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42738464
The thing is that modern hardware is super complicated and you have to have a good vendor that specifically targets the OS you want.
The same way you validate scores given by NLPs I assume. You run various tests and look at the results and see if they match what you would expect.
Huh? It’s a hybrid, by definition, always has been. What is it exactly that you think confused the market?
My 16GB box was crashing due to VS Code. When I went to 32 GB, it stopped crashing. And I'm not running any resource hungry plugins. It blows my mind you can be this junky and still have #1 market share.
That’s true. I did avoid learning traditional NLP techniques because for my use case - call centers - LLMs do a much better job.

Context for the problem space:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3442381.3449870
Great to know! From the description in that page and yours, it sounds like this is a related, but different concept. Specifically, that page includes use of a `Vec3` of the sort I was implementing, done with a `struct` and methods, vice @Vector.
And you just know there are probably a bunch of ex military privates (who are probably currently being denied care) who were just drenched in the stuff to see if they could run harder faster stronger :’(
Is that actually a common configuration? I could find very little on data centers being cooler by river water, and the few I found sounded like they were doing something novel.
I won't be exactly saying what it is to maintain my privacy, but the compute heavy part of it is not your run out of the mill web traffic but rather performs some heavy processing of input files, this part is written in Go.

This function of the website is different from the user-generated content part of the website where the traffic resembles those of regular dynamic websites with database reads and writes.
We also have a carbon tax where I’m from. Since I don’t own a car I don’t pay much into it. However I get a nice big rebate on my tax return. I basically get paid a small amount to not own a car.
Hm. Looks like it is available already? https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/tcl-nxtpaper-11
Construction and validation of a scale for assessing critical social justice
Characters in Moby Dick according to Google ... I don't remember Yosemite Sam
Not all malware is viruses, which brings us back to the subject of the article.
For context, 10M would cost ~$27.

Say Gemini Flash 8B, allowing ~28 tokens for prompt input at $0.075/1M tokens, plus 2 output tokens at $0.30/1M. Works out to $0.0027 per classification. Or in other words, for 1 penny you could do this classification 3.7 times.
What’s next, pitting a fence around some field is also freedom-of-speech issue since some people may want to talk in that field?
I use RSS for many sources, from YouTube also. I can open yt from there.

I do not understand why people keeps suggesting subscription view, as it is a worse experience for me, than central RSS management
That's the levelized cost over the lifetime. Hydrogen storage is expensive to both build and maintain.

The issues include hydrogen embrittlement, constant leakage and safety issues. Containers don't last. H2 is the smallest molecule. It gets into the containers and wears them out and leaks away. Casing and seal damage is constant. Pressure vessel storage loses little below 1% leakage per day.Liquid hydrogen storage is about 1-3% leakage per day. Salt cavern storage much less but they have problem of H2S generation
by Micro-organisms.