skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I usually start off with a YT video or three. Simply because someone has done the same work and can give you tips to make it easier. Sometimes you need to start disassembling further away than is obvious. Like on 1997 Pathfinder the headlights are tiny but to remove them you have to remove the entire grill and bumper trim assembly first. Or with a timing belt on a Subaru; you can access the timing belt without removing the radiator but you'll probably damage it at the end unless you remove it. These are things that you don't want or need to learn the hard way.

Also, dedicated forums (think pre-FB PHPBB message boards) are excellent. They are not as popular as they used to be but the style is more conducive to problem solving conversing than Facebook groups. There are dedicated forums for most brands and models of vehicles and the people on there are usually experts. Like, "I own 7 of these cars, let me send you some parts" kind of experts. They genuinely want to participate in a community. Their car is their hobby.

Obviously Facebook groups and subreddits are out there for every topic but I find Reddit to be more for karma whoring and Facebook is more argumentative and punitive.

Most basic instruction manuals can be found on parts store websites like Auto Zone and Advanced Auto parts. They usually have basic schematics, walkthroughs, and exploded parts diagrams you need for reference. For example, when bleeding brakes you have to bleed the components in a specific order. A quick call to the parts store can provide you with the proper order, as each vehicle is different.

I also avoid buying car parts at non car part stores. Like Wal Mart. Also, cut open the box containing the new part AT THE PART STORE COUNTER before you leave. Countless times you get home and open a used part that someone stole out of the package and returned the old one to the store. It sucks buying new parts, getting home and they are actually used. Returning them in that state is always fun. It happens enough that you should really open the packages before leaving.

Alternators and starters, even if brand new should be tested on the tester at the parts store before leaving the store. My buddy bought 3 alternators for a Bronco just to install them and find the first two defective. We wasted a whole day on trips back and forth to the parts store.

Even better, starters and alternators can be brought to a rebuild shop instead. Usually you pay about the same as a replacement, but the rebuild shop does a nicer job and gives you a guarantee with a dyno print out proving the part works properly.
Very true, thanks. It's on my to-do list.
I'm an aging (late 30s) writer with a fair amount of mathematical exposure, so let me give my perspective.

There's a tendency for exceptions to drive the narrative, which leads to a sense of mathematicians peaking earlier than they actually do. Mathematicans do indeed peak "young", relative to other fields, but most often in their early to mid 40s. Of course, at that point they're ineligible for the Fields Medal, but that doesn't mean they're no longer productive.

Writers peak around 55, but the drop-off can be steep, not because they lose the ability to write, but because revision and publishing can themselves be brutal processes. Revision is brutal because of perfectionism combined with the inability to hold a whole book's worth of context in your head. You can't look at the whole thing in one sitting, as with a painting. You have to edit at specific levels (themes and story arcs; then subplots and characters; then scene structure and transitions; then paragraphing and flow; then line edits; then copy edits; then grammar) but they sometimes compete for your attention. Writing work that's good enough to publish and sell is easy; writing work of literary quality is much harder. Publishing... well that changes every generation. These days, self-publishing is the right play for 99% of authors, but that brings its own challenges.

With age, the thing that gets hard the quickest is long-form context switching. Very few people can (or want to, or should) dedicate their lives wholesale to one pursuit. Once you start to get recognition and are invited to the parties, it gets harder to focus on writing. You spend a lot of time around non-serious players, and you become one. Lots of people turn stupid once they get popular and spend too much time with the fun people to have real thoughts anymore, and that's certainly not limited to the old. The difference is that the young can retool themselves more quickly. A 27-year-old can bounce back; he can be on cocaine-fueled benders in January, courting the nonserious players necessary to get the "tastemakers" to support one's career, and be back in his writing room by March or April. When you're older, this gets a lot harder. Older people are great when they establish momentum (leading me to question the "old people are less creative" hypothesis) but do not bounce back as well from periods of distraction or excessive comfort.
They were bought up for around a billion dollar from the Israeli company kape technologies (formerly called crossrider). Who also own CyberGhost VPN and Private Internet Access. Screams data mining to me. Then again, i like my tinfoil hat.

On a side note, crossriders former CEO and cofounder having worked at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_8200 in the past. Left long before the takeover though.

edit: With both expressvpn and PIA being among the most widely publicized providers that had their servers seized for non cooperation.
If you're buying a sandwich in the UK it's probably as part of a meal deal, that's a sandwich (or sushi/some other main), a "snack" and a drink. Usually for about £3 - £3.50 depending on the chain.

They're basically a loss leader to get people into the stores, they usually include things like energy drinks that are over half of the price of the meal deal if bought individually.

There's a pretty decent range of stuff included

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/shop/fresh-food/chille...
Yeah. Fairly obvious applications in teaching/education devices. Though I think it should be noted that a lot of what schools want to teach with devices like this is precisely the pin connections and circuits this thing elides.

But I am not sure about the rest.

And what you don't see in demos like this are the practical limitations that the demo avoids. I didn't watch all the way to the end but I had questions about how the device communicates its limitations and handles situations where, for example, it cannot supply enough power.
If I remember correctly, by 2004, you would have to show a uniform cop your order receipt before allowed using McStabby's toilet.
- Never trust any kind of input without validation.

- Assume that the caller might not be a browser, so don't assume anything regardling workflows between calls.

- Keep up to date with OWASP, https://owasp.org/
I have a feeling in 10 years I will be a criminal in the whole anglosphere.
The discussion was not about wants, predictions, or evaluation of pros and cons. It was about whether or not declaring a no-fly zone over a country that requests it is an act of violence.
By that argument, why have laws against stealing (criminals will just take stuff), or grevious bodily harm (criminals will just hit people), or verbal abuse (criminals will just keep shouting at people).

I don't buy this argument at all -- if we ban encryption, except for government sanctioned encryption, it will be the easiest thing in the world to detect if anyone tries sending it over the open internet.
> An easy, cheap meal.

They're not; combini sandwiches are junk food. So this is a shallow, faddish paean to junk food and deserves to be shot down. Just because Japanese people also eat junk food doesn't mean it should be celebrated (while all the healthy, delicious Japanese food gets ignored).
A private company elected not to carry pro-Russian propaganda during a brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine. That's... very different to state censorship.
Every time I get to use Twitter outside of Tweetbot I wonder how folks can use the damn thing and get any value out of it, and conversely stop wondering why people say to me "I tried Twitter but I could not understand anything".

I guess there must be some (presumably big) audience that likes the algorithm, but for Twitter to derive value for me it must have this element of predictability that the mechanically chronological timeline and properly threaded conversations brings.
Or federated like the Fediverse applications, i.e. Mastodon. It's much harder to squeeze users because they can leave you without loosing their social network.
Ethereum Is the Newsfeed We Deserve
They are already "regulated" in a covert way. If Facebook decided tomorrow to promote pro-Putin content and hide pro-Ukraine content, Zuckerberg would end up in front of congress in less than a week, and the antitrust laws would obliterate Facebook soon after if he didn't course correct.

There's a lot of coupling between the government and big corporations, much more than what is stated explicitly, at this point Google could as well be called the "Ministry of Espionage", it's just more convenient to pretend they are a private company so that they aren't under democratic scrutiny.
Gibson does great opening lines.
Hey, I'm well aware that British food is very bland and beige for mainland European standards! It's a good thing we've developed a strong culture of culinary fusion to compensate for that - it's not all chips and mushy peas any more, we have our own remixes of many culinary transitions, especially Indian, Chinese, and Italian.
> I dont want 15KB, because difference between 15 and 70 is 5 milliseconds.

And I want it, as on travelling or mobile I'm golden if I get 1 MBit/s (= 128 KiB/s) download bandwidth, more often it's around 300-400 KBit/s (37-50 KiB/s), so:

1 MBit/s and one image -> 546 ms vs. 117 ms
300 KBit/s and 1 image -> 1892 ms vs. 405 ms

Most sites have more than one image, say five for some realistic example:

1 MBit/s BW:
AVIF 15 KiB: 0.6s
JPEG 70 KiB: 2.7s

300 KBit/s BW:
AVIF 15 KiB: 2.0s
JPEG 70 KiB: 9.5s

That's both quite the noticeable difference.

In my residence I'm lucky and get 100+ Mbit/s and even 1 GBit/s at work, but there are lots of countries in the world that don't and once one is affected by that, like I on my train travels, it gets really noticeable which sites have low-bandwidth ignorant engineers, causing not only frustration but often actually impacting life in more meaningful ways negatively.
It's so odd to be a Washingtonian from Snohomish, and hear about what a shithole Seattle is. Everett has a lot of the same problems but nowhere NEAR as bad as I hear things get down there.

Broadly speaking I love Washington. I think the people are nice, I think the state is beautiful, I think the towns are generally clean. The experience that I hear Seattleites talk about is not in any way representative of what I see in the rest of the state. And that's crazy to me. It's like Seattle is its own little world, completely insulated from the outside.
> and you know that how

It's obvious, as already explained:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30621764

In the unlikely case that further elucidation really is needed: Poland didn't need to move the MiGs in order to hand them over to the US. Moving them to Ramstein makes a difference only if they then enter Ukraine from another country. So that's what Poland was really after.
Why going full orwell punishing, when it could simply beep some sense into the owner??? Really folks, sometimes the software industry wants to offer the most weird solutions... (and sometimes they even get implemented)
So you have to read the manpage of freebsd-update, understand it, and then find the version name in another document... After a while I think that this is it :

sudo freebsd-update upgrade -r 13.1-RELEASE
sudo freebsd-update install

It would be nice if these two lines appeared in the release notes.
A little off topic, but another thing that pleasantly surprised me at 7/11 is that they sell Anker phone accessories.

Imagine forgetting a charger on a trip, going into 7/11 out of desperation, expecting to get some generic garbage that may or may not fry your electronics, and being pleasantly surprised to find accessories from an actual reputable brand. Something you will be happy to continue using after your trip.

Just one more example where the quality in Japanese 7/11 is surprisingly good.
>This seems pretty arbitrary and anecdotal, and there are famous counterexamples

It's summing up a rather lengthy lecture in one sentence, and it fully admits to exceptions. The lecture's theme seems to be that an artist usually loves to work in their medium, while a writer rarely finds the same joy in the pen/typewriter.

https://www.amacad.org/publication/artist-grows-old
Your theory is reasonable and probably partially correct, but the Einstein example is quite a simplification.

I suspect the ego/arrogance thing works both ways. When you're younger you're often more willing to show the finger to existing paradigms and are perhaps arrogant enough to think you can "revolutionize physics." Naturally, most people can't do that but some make history.

(Also, I'm talking out of my ass and should probably add some history of science to my reading stack).
Just two other examples:

Goethe: West–Eastern Diwan (age 70), Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years (age 72) Marienbad Elegy (age 73).

Thomas Mann: Doctor Faustus (age 72)

I have randomly picked a few people from the list of Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature[1] who have made it to old age, and most of them seem to have been quite productive even then.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Lit...
M-427 Russian online/offline encryption device reportedly seized in Ukraine
augmentive BCI is literally the only route for humanity to conquer problems like death.

this guy will go down in history as one of the few that paved the way for humanity to evolve beyond the horribly fragile flesh-and-meat sacks that we are today.
# freebsd-update upgrade -r 13.1-BETA1

# freebsd-update install

Which may ask to manually merge some configuration files or accept the automatic merge.

Reboot after new kernel has been applied

# shutdown -r now

Run freebsd-update to update userland components

# freebsd-update install

Rebuild and reinstall applications and reboot into the new userland

# shutdown -r now

Remove stale files

# freebsd-update install
It's especially problematic for cars to be consumer electronics products, because the lifetime of a car can easily be twenty or thirty years. That's not the expectation for most consumer electronics devices.
When it's mass produced food like these sandwiches are (basically an industrialised process) then yes, it is a valid criticism.
The magnetic connectors is what makes it an expensive toy. The pluggable grid layout is nice but it could be achieved with a daughter board with pins sitting on top of any cheap SBC.
Aren’t taxes already done automatically. My taxes here in Norway have been filled out by the government for as long as I can remember (I am 44). All I got to do is look over what they have filled out and correct it if I think anything is wrong. If no it is automatically delivered.

Dealing with taxes takes like 5 minutes each year. It is all electronic. Just like you can sign anything electronically using encryption keys for any nationally reckognized ID system in Norway. I just electronically signed papers to start a company. 15 minute process online.
There other variables in cron besides MAILTO, such as MAILFROM and SHELL. Checkout "man 5 crontab" for a concise listing.

If cron runs on more than one host, it can be useful to add some randomness to the time to avoid the same job being run on exactly the same time everywhere. Red Hat-family distributions have RANDOM_DELAY variable for this. Or just add the delay when Ansible or a similar tool installs the job from version control. (Which you use, right?)
It's not in any way a meaningless search and one of the main goals of decent search engine should be to figure out common shorthand searches like this and show meaningful results for them.

When I search "best toaster" it's shorthand for "show me roundup reviews of toasters + forums where people discuss toasters + very highly reviewed toasters on shopping sites". It's not shorthand for "show me loads of ads and SEO bullshit".
Location: Malta, EU

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No, but willing to visit intermittently

Technologies: Machine learning, computer vision, python, Tensorflow, Keras, Numpy, OpenCV

Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PLtQcTjatMhff86OZ67erpTYC7W...

Email: kindly see CV

Github: https://github.com/erikasbailey

I graduate from University of Malta in a few months, with a strong second-upper class degree. My main focus for my dissertation is machine learning and computer vision. This project has lead me to seek a career in this field. I am excited to embark on this journey, and I am seeking for a company willing to give me the opportunity to learn.
I want to agree, but I have low expectations for a good outcome. The regulators would be the same folks in Washington who are running the nation’s propaganda machines. At present, they all seem 100% aligned behind overseeing Putin’s downfall. My guess is they’d approve of this FB policy.
Those Nazi groups may have been established by a certain foreign nation primarily to discredit the civil movement and to establish cause for military intervention.
“..because they take resources and knowledge to manufacture, and are physical objects that can be tracked. Taking these away by law works.”

Sorry but it doesn’t even work for physical objects. Guns are completely illegal in some cities (NYC, SF and Chicago, unless you have connections), so I suppose there’s no gun crime there, right? Or, research compliance rates when states have retroactively made certain firearms illegal and asked for citizens to turn them in or face the risk of criminal
charges.

The War on Drugs has also been highly ineffective at preventing motivated individuals from obtaining certain physical objects.
I prefer the graininess of JPEG to the overly noise-reduced algorithmic watercolor effect of AVIF, which reminds me of cell phone camera reconstruction algorithms and pinch zoom. Granted it's not a fair comparison because AVIF has a much larger file size.
My best practice with cron is to not use cron if possible. Systemd has timers with practically the same functionality and you'll never worry about:

- Where to put the logs, they just go into the system journal. Easy to check, and if you already have alerts/monitors/whatever for the journal any new job integrates trivially.

- Cron shell doing weird things.

- Easy switching on/off of each timer.

- Easy monitoring of when tasks are executed and the results.

- Jobs don't get started if there's one already running (I think)

- Better error messages when you mess the syntax.

- More possibilities for scheduling.

- Launching the job now if you need it to.
It's because people want to test whether their command is actually successfully executed by cron because basic functionality like starting a job immediately isn't available and then they forget to revert that change.

You have to use systemd timers for that... It's completely overkill (2 files each with a dozen lines) but it works much better in practice.
I still haven’t figured out how to read twitter conversations / threads and profiles. Everything always seems out of order. Referenced things are just generally missing as well. I don’t think they were deleted but I have no idea.
We don't want to help people not kill themselves?

This is depressive realism taken to a frightening new level.

What DARPA is talking about need not be incompatible with some relaxation around medically-assisted suicide.

But people kill themselves for all sorts of terrible non-terminal reasons. Teenagers, especially. We should try to help them not do it. And research like this might shed more light.

> By this logic, you will eventually even say people's eating habits and behavior should be monitored before they kill themselves by eating food that causes obesity and diabetes before dood addiction starts.

"By this logic" === "Here's a straw man argument"

> When euthanasia pods became a thing in sweden you all lauded it because someone is profiting.

I am not in that particular "you all", thank you.

> To your last paragraph: those people agree to consensual and explicitly stated evaluations not non-consensual psychological examination of a medical condition.

Yes. But as I understand it, soldiers sign up for a lot of evaluations and even some interventions over which they have no choice.
No worries about precision, I wasn't trying to tell you off about the use of terminology. I assumed you meant "symbolic AI" so I made sure to clarify my assumption to avoid confusion. I'm also not a native English speaker, my maternal language is Greek. My second language is French though :)

Yes, "GOFAI" overpromised and underdelivered and that was a major reason for the two AI winters that essentially destroyed the field by freezing funding and shrinking research positions and output.

Personally, I'm neither nostalgic of older approaches, nor dismissive of modern approaches. The important thing is to have a clear understanding of the capabilities available, regardless of approach. It's obvious to me that older systems could do things that modern systems can't do (principally, reasoning and knowledge representation) just as modern systems can do things that older systems couldn't do (learning). However, there are approaches that bridge the gap, such as symbolic machine learning], like the approaches I study that learn logic programs from examples using theorem-proving techniques. There is also, of course, continued research in other branches of symbolic AI, like planning and SAT solvers, that seem to have made great progress in the last years. I think the worst that can happen now is to nip such research in the bud by denying it funding just because it's not deep learning.

Gary Marcus' article quotes Emily Bender about how overpromising, this time by the deep learning community, "sucks the oxygen out of the room" for other kinds of research. This is apposite. Research can't become a monoculture, otherwise the ability to innovate will disappear. For innovation, there must be diversity of ideas. The risk I see right now is that such diversity will be lost and that, in the long run, progress in machine learning will stall. Throwing out everything that was learned in the fist 50 years of AI will not help anyone avoid the mistakes of the past, for sure.
I also grew up in that era and the other part worth mentioning is that Japan seemed to be taking over the world economically. Japanese cars rapidly replaced American cars on the landscape, Japanese electronics did the same. Japanese money was said to buying up the entire country.

It was pretty natural to fetishize a culture that seemed so staggeringly successful and ascendant.
Wrong matrix!
Good suggestion, thank you.