skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can confirm that screenshots are totally fine on Apple TV+ on Firefox + Pop OS. I don't know what the quality is, but it looks at least 1080p and as great as I would ever want to my eyes.
You got me well. I am a user of translators but through their APIs, not interfaces, and something currently missing in the space are models capable of grasping the context and deliver very good translations. DeepL is the best on this but in my experience it fails 50% of the time. Google Translate only gets it right 20% of the time. My agent, like 90% of the time. That’s huge. And it actually costs a fraction of Google’s and DeepL’s prices.

That’s the 1-2 features you talk about for this project. I’d also like to be able to add (1) glosaries, (2) formal, informal and custom tone, and (3) infinite context windows. But seems less important than the rest.
Not broadly a fan of what this admin is doing, but re: USPS: my family gets one, maybe two important pieces of mail a year. We get several pieces of worthless junk mail every day. Virtually everything the USPS delivers goes instantly into the trash.

The same is true for my company. In fact I'm not sure we received one piece of physical mail in the past year of any consequence.

Obviously this isn't true for everyone, but some reduction in frequency of delivery could save a lot of money. Either that or raise the cost and kill junk mail.
It sounds like you are not considering rental income (the argument I made in my original comment). You only need growth of rental income to exceed growth of cost for it to be profitable to be a landlord. Am I incorrect?
There are maybe 2k people in the country who are proud of being fat at most.

Also everyone is getting fatter. America is just 30 years ahead of most of the rest of the world in terms of obesity.

Take whatever country you care to name and the population of that country 30 years ago would call the population today lard-asses.
Being canadian, you just described different styles of pancakes that we just call all pancakes.

Thin, thick, size of a plate, sand dollar size, size of your hands... just all called simply pancakes.

I find the thick ones not good.

Theres a chain of big pancakes size of plate restaurants called dedutch pannekoek house, or just dedutch.
Do you think there is a role for the federal government to employ engineers for any purpose? 18F was a general purpose engineering group that built software for many agencies instead of having those agencies pay vast amounts of money to Deloitte/Accenture/Booz Allen etc for a worse quality product.
I understand that on population level we can't just tell everyone "get on a diet", but when talking to you in particular, why couldn't you... just get on a diet?

Personally, I love food. I can't live without stuffing candy in my mouth. But I also have a tendency to get fat, so I weight myself every day, and based on that I either have a diet day or a cheat day. Moreover, I do a lot of physical exercise every day. The idea of having to depend on a drug to live is scary to me.

Having said the above, I'm sure that one day we'll create a drug that makes life of majority of population better, and we'll be able to administer it to everyone without major consequences.
I love your optimism about steps 4 and 5.
Is it possible to develop schizophrenia from sleep deprivation? I always thought it would be acute psychosis.
My most prominent memory of Jason was seeing him park his Tesla in the “no parking” zone in front of the building where his startup conference was happening. My boss at the time thought it was “so badass”, but it was so obviously an arrogant elitist LARP by an insecure man.

The older I get, the more I see through this awful behavior.
“We’ve had years to fix it, all the experience and knowledge we’d need, but we’ve tried basically none of it and we’re at a loss as to why our product is still garbage! It’s truly a mystery” - Azure leadership I assume.
The inbetween doses are just used for titration. They were not studied as long term doses like the maintenance doses. It’s stupid, and you can get exceptions if you are persistent. I preferred 7.5 mg over 10 mg for example.
i hope they add this, even Instagram added this feature
Many body builders go through bulk and cut phases.
Why do we need to do this? Let me ask it another way, do you think Russia and China are happy with cutting the fed bureaucracy to the bone? Or just the Heritage Foundation?
Except that the debt levels are unsustainable, mostly because of lack of competition, probably...
The engineers at DeepSeek seem extremely smart and well-funded, so my guess is they looked at the alternatives and concluded none of them would allow them to make their models work well enough.
Yeah not many people know about this.

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/30081

This Netflix support page shows that 4K streaming is only available in the Edge web browser on Windows devices and in the Safari web browser on Mac devices.

If you use Chrome or Firefox you get locked in to a lower resolution when using Netflix even if you are paying for 4K streaming.
Do you have any idea of how many calories you eat per day?

I get so confused because the small amounts of food that people talk about eating on GLP, don't seem like enough to sustain themselves long-term.

Are they exaggerating? Or do they talk about not eating dinner, but that's because they had 1,700 calorie lunch at the burger place? Or is that just during weight loss, and then once a target weight is hit, they're eating like a normal (healthy-weight) person again?

I just genuinely don't understand how people are surviving with the diets they describe.
2016-2020 was the wakeup call. We got Biden instead. Dems won't be fixing this problem.
Why are you focusing on purely hypothetical Russian security concerns instead of the very real security concerns of countries that have been attacked many times in the past [...]

I have repeatedly stated that both sides have good reasons for what they want, either joining NATO or not wanting NATO at the border. That is why there is even a conflict, because two parties want opposing things.

Your claim is essentially NATO is the good guy, so Russia being worried is irrational and nobody needs to care. That sounds more like focusing on one site to me. The USA is worried about Chinese military bases in Solomon Islands half way around the globe, so why can Russia not be worried about the USA in Ukraine?
You should visit a food processing plant sometime. What they are doing with food is not what your grandma does when she cooks it from ingredients you can buy at the grocery store. And I bet your grandma doesn’t have a food chemistry lab to fine tune her recipes.

Similarly, fig trees don’t make Fig Newtons. They make figs.
Go norway!
Feels totally deserved, to be honest.
URL <https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/onedr...>
"I've pinned the gas and feathered the brakes but I'm not slowing down. Clearly my brakes are broken"

Also US national debt is literally on live billboards, get your numbers right if you're going to be a troll.
I am guessing that ship sailed for at least 2 years. Probably more as people voted for this with open eyes so the people probably approve. Unless the economy tanks this year.
> It's the age old privatization "starve the beast" trick
> 1. Defund and cripple gov. services

Probably? Government jobs pay below market and was like that way before the current president and the company.

> 3. Hand out contracts to your buddies.

I mean, Microsoft is getting about 15B from US government alone.
Is Microsoft 'buddies'?

I agree in general that those tricks are old. The only difference I see today that they are done is less elegant way.
> For reference the USPS delivers over 100B, yes billion, parcels per year.

This must be pieces of mail per year? To me "parcel" means more like a package.

Some web searching confirms this and also says a little over half of that is marketing mail. 60B pieces of spam per year. And I don't know about you, but excluding marketing mail, I'd say about 90% of the remainder still goes directly in the bin for me. And even though I open probably less than 5% of what is sent to me, maybe less than 1%, STILL much of that could have been an email.

I don't doubt the USPS provides a whole lot of value and I don't want them to go down to 1 day per week or anything. But that 100B number looks like it includes a whole lot of negative, zero, or low value items.
"Big food corporations" lol. You think every professional chef doesn't know the same tricks? There are basically 3 things that taste good. Fat, salt, and sugar.
Dear America,

you are under attack from your own government.
Good luck with that, academic cheating is a massive market.

No matter the crackdown, the demand is always so high that someone will inevitably find a way to market services (such as Chegg or essay-for-hire services).

The best counter against it is designing courses so that cheaters get minimal benefit while students that study get rewarded (such as closed note exams and lowering the value of homework assignments).

Otherwise, whether it's ChatGPT, Chegg, or paying a friend who took the course last semester for their homework solutions, there's no real stopping it.
The actual quote is the other way around. What evidence does the parent have for intentions to harm instead of just making stupid cuts, completely inline with their well documented history of simplistic, sledgehammer solutioneering ?
Inference Math, Simulation, and AI Megaclusters – Stanford CS 229S [video]
Is this person an expert of any kind? They throw around dozens of numbers without any sources. For example,

> 'A movie theater chain recently analyzed their user data and discovered that 72% of their profits came from concessions, primarily from impulse purchases made by people who swore they "wouldn't buy anything."'

This combination of non-descript source, precise numbers, and 'quotes' looks like the usual bullshit one reads in self-help books. I conducted a quick online search but couldn't find any direct source for this claim (although the number might be in the right ballpark).
Most of these workers had better-paying jobs in the private sector. 18F existed specifically to hire top tech-industry talent to work on federal-government modernization and efficiency projects. The people there almost certainly took a pay cut because they wanted to do with that was good for their country.
So strange too, their other comments seem normal, but suddenly they decided to post a gpt comment.
It appears they have a well functioning war economy [1]:

> Despite all of this, Russia’s economy has not collapsed. But it does look very different, and is now entirely focused on a long war in Ukraine – which is actually driving economic growth.

> In fact, the IMF expects Russia to experience GDP growth of 2.6% this year. That’s significantly more than the UK (0.6%) and the EU (0.9%). Similarly, Russia’s budget deficit (the amount the government needs to borrow) is on track to remain below 1% of GDP, compared to 5.1% in the UK and 2.8% in the EU.

What signs do you see?

[1] https://theconversation.com/russias-economy-is-now-completel...
I am a second-generation American and actually have been told "go back to your country" and been given the "you don't belong here" before, too. The people who say that shit are assholes and are worth ignoring (it's very easy). But thank you for informing me that disliking the people who jump the line invalidates my perspective.
> e.g. the N1 had a lot of smaller engines rather than a few huge ones - so they could be mass-produced.

American Saturn-1 had 8 H-1 engines on the first stage - Wernher von Braun wasn't against putting a bunch of existing engines when he hadn't have a bigger one.

> They were also pretty efficient.

It's pretty impressive SpaceX made full-flow combustion engine to work. Does it improve things enough to justify the complex development? I'm not sure - the Isp isn't that great comparing with even some kerosene engines, and oxygen-rich turbopumps would deliver similar results with less complex development program. On the other hand Raptors are perhaps a good deal in a long term.
The analogy is perfectly apt. When an AI is trained on work that you've produced, it steals your effort - your work and effort and sweat has been taken by the model and its users.

...unless you think that your employer should be able to withhold wages from you because there's no "physical property" that you've provided to them.
A short history of digital musical instruments
During my PhD, I went a bit out of my way to comment on the history of digital musical instruments. I felt that it could aid in motivating the reader for the myriad of more complex topics to come. The original section, with minor corrections, can be read at the link.
Yeah I stopped believing that during Trump's first term, when the conservatives were pushing for billions of dollars to be allocated for Trump's stupid wall that he said Mexico would pay for, and shut down the government multiple times in the process. This, in combination with huge tax cuts for their donors, seemingly indicates that they're not terribly concerned with the deficit.
Because that would be the smart and sensible way to design a service like that, and those words are unequivocally not associated with Azure in my experience.
If spending is not out of control then how do we square that with nearing 2 trillion in debt added each year?
Is there a trick that makes that state of affairs sustainable?
I love bagging on lazy engineers who just chuck code over the fence without caring about the user experience, but I seriously doubt I would notice this. The sad truth is a lot of video is watched in the background and Netflix knows this. For the specific case of a children's cartoon, I doubt the children watching will notice or care.

If there is user feedback about the quality, then by all means listen to users and at least have an "advanced settings" menu in the app to let users toggle between encoders if they really care.
You're mixing things up.

People have been critical of the US when their admin lied about weapons of mass destruction, did massive amounts of drone strikes on civilians and put people in a concentration camp. "World police" is just a polemic description of that, it's not the content of the criticism.

Now there's country that traded nuclear weapons for protection by the US that is being invaded by a fascist dictator. Meanwhile the US admin is gaslighting everyone and lying about these basic facts and tried to humiliate and personally attack their president in public.
They are going to increase the deficit, yes.

But they will do it by passing tax cuts for the rich, and cutting services and other spending on the working class to the bone.

We're going to see a once-in-a-lifetime (or, luckily for us to date, even rarer) looting of the United States Treasury and our collective wealth, as well as that of our future generations. And, incredibly enough, we fucking voted for it!

Anyway, yes, they are going to cut spending, in ways that will damage and kill many people. And they'll do it while increasing the deficit.
Did you see where I started with "I'm not defending Apple here"?

I'm just pointing out that one of Gruber's points doesn't really hold water.
That's mostly from benefits, defense, unfunded tax cuts, and entitlements, not the type of spending DOGE claims to be addressing. Go look at a broad summary of Federal spending categories, then look at the history of the deficit under the last four or five Presidential administrations.

DOGE is about conducting an ideological party purge of the government bureaucracy. Overall I predict it will cost money, since it'll cause a lot of things to break and/or be replaced by more expensive contractors.
Thanks for experimenting with your body. I'll be sure to check back in about ten years to see how all this shakes out.

Keto + intermittent fasting are my magic pill right now and have been for some years.
sounds like something for Congress to work through isn't it?
That's a fun fantasy to entertain but his actions over the last few years have proven it to be just that.
I sincerely don't understand how devs that use macOS put up with this crap. I remember getting a Macbook M1 from the company I used to work for and the battery life was amazing, but as soon as I needed to install Xcode I just gave up. It's unbelievably bad, fuck that.
Who else then? Republicans?
This irony already existed in the good old DVD age. If you bought one legally you had to sit through several unskippable videos, usually also one about piracy, before the movie starts. If you had pirated that same movie would play immediately, so the user experience was better.
They both brought in great private industry talent to make digital services better. 18F in particular did this in a cost-recoverable way. So killing 18F saves literally $0
I actually don’t, can you explain it?

Doesn’t the AI model basically take an input of context tokens and return a list of probabilities for the next token, which is then chosen randomly, weighted by the probability? Isn’t that exactly the definition of a Markov chain?
> I don't have the numbers off hand but I wouldn't be surprised if NY would be a red state if you excluded Manhattan and the other boroughs

"Other than that Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?"
> vim has 2 implementations of slime.

Which are both buggy and one of them is abandoned.

> Lem is a new editor written in Common Lisp that has slime "built-in".

"Lem" is not (neo)vim, has Emacs RSI bindings and even if by some chance it included some "vi mode", it would simply be an emulation, not an actual vi editor. Same issue with Emacs using "evil mode".
This, but with added cruelty.

The end game seems to be a state of permanent competitive insecurity for most of the population, with fatal consequences for dissent/bad luck/mistakes, while everything is owned and run for the benefit of a handful of aristocrats who exist in vapid self-indulgent splendour.

If this seems exaggerated, consider that most people are already only a few pay checks and/or a major health crisis away from homelessness, bankruptcy, and starvation.
Not ADHD specifically, but about 12 years ago, the media was hyping Provigil as a "secret weapon" of the ultra-productive.

Despite having a prescription, CVS told me that my insurance wouldn't cover it and it would cost $1500 for 30 pills. I walked away and then went back to buy it. If I could just get 30 additional minutes of billable time per day per pill it would be worth it.

I took about 5 over a week and destroyed the rest. It wasn't good for anything but keep me awake in a semi-zombie low-creative state. This very expensive drug/lesson was effective and making me realize I need to seriously work on my impulse control.
Why is he making any decisions? He's not a confirmed cabinet appointment.
You ever wonder if it is a specific ...I'll call it "business" culture for lack of a better term, like the one around posting on this site, that leads you to have to give credit to these people presuming good faith?

Its almost like to exist in the tech space is to cultivate an intentional naivety about how power works and who has it that is being exploited to run cover as truly bad actors accomplish their goals.
Hopefully it won't be at all. Seems pretty relevant to the tech-industry if entire departments of competent tech-industry folks are getting laid off by the federal government.

While it might be political, it is also economic and directly relevant to the hacker/startup ecosystem.
I/O pads (and their drivers) take up a huge amount of space. For some simpler ICs their die size is determined by their Pads.
There "is bloat in civil servants" "America has gotten fat" etc. sounds like an imprecise, weasly and inflammatory remark. It is a handy soundbite that saves people thinking through a complex situation and to keep voting against their own interests.
The people who know all about “how trade works” shipped all the industry overseas and left the US without the capacity to build anything, so we don’t need any more of your advice, thanks.
Elon. does. not. make. cars. Elon. does. not. build. rockets.

His strength is leading and believing people who do. Lately however, he’s shown he is not mentally fit for that role. He’s on a crusade more for personal reasons than altruism.

His past accomplishments have been seeing opportunities in failing products that seemed impossible. We're not talking about moonshot startups that really don’t affect a ton of people if they fail.

We’re talking about long established programs that are helping people or keeping people alive. He has ZERO experience with managing this.

I’m just as in favor of cutting bureaucracy as anyone else but I assure you the people making these decisions are not interested in cutting bureaucracy, they’re the ones who created it.
The goal is to dismantle the system (of checks and balances) so that it's not in the way of becoming an authoritarian regime. When this is your goal, you realize Russia is not your enemy, it's your biggest ally.
People want warlords because they think they’ll come out on top. That’s why there’s a big overlap between the big national militia groups and MAGA trumpers. They style themselves warlords and want the government to get out of the way so they can form their own government.
Yeah it's anti-capitalist rants at every turn around here. Capitalism is the best system we have to make people happy in a fair way. It's not a system to teach people the benefits of moderation or charity. You're supposed to bring that to the table yourself. There's no economic system in the world that can fix character flaws.
I guess I'm more interested in the how rather than the why. The why is kind of a given.

After Ukraine runs out of fodder for the meat-grinder (already on the verge of this now) who's children get sent to Ukraine? If we are not going to give Ukraine sufficient support to win the war, only prolong it, what is the timeline and the actual endgame?

To be clear, I'm not supporting Russia, I'm asking in clear terms, what exactly should the response be?
I've too been thinking along these lines lately. A month ago I would think it's an alarmist/overblown to frame the situation in such a way but simply looking at the actions and ignoring the "justification"/propaganda must result in updating the model - it's indeed oligarchic takeover.
DRM isn't about release groups, and it never was. Actual pirates have a million different methods to capture video.

DRM is a panic reaction to VHS, designed to making copying so inconvenient that casual users won't bother anymore.
> I'd also point out that one of the big assets of the US government as an employer is an implicit promise of stability, which helps it compete for employees against the private sector despite offering lower wages.

And billionaires hate that people have alternatives to slaving away for them.
A friend of mine who was taking a few Udemy courses last year ran into this issue when he needed to take screenshots for important things he was learning in the course. Ended up working around it by disabling GPU acceleration in chrome.
I would say with regards to bureaucracy, no one has put it more succinctly than Trotsky, though complaints about the bureaucracy harken back to the Ancient Greeks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolution_Betrayed

I have met many, many politicians in my day. 95% of them are feckless, spineless, covetous cretins. But the bureaucrats are worse.
USDS and 18F took people with experience in industry who were also politically savvy, and placed them where they could help the existing government and their contractors (which has grown absolutely terrible at building things) cut costs while increasing service.

DOGE will do worse, in service of bringing about the oligarchy.