skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm all for that as well, except I have become slightly more sympathetic to the warranty aspect. Yes, we absolutely need "void if seal broken". I would love for something to be released that was fully intended to allow tinkering, but once you do so, you get no warranty service as there's no way to know what mods were done. I think that's totally acceptable
Aaand they just got better at that.
Can they trade off storage for compute by applying ML based compression JIT?
It is pretty clear from the FAQ that it is paid for by pixies and fairy dust.
1. none of the exams at Caltech required memorization. They were open book and open note. Memorizing simply wouldn't have helped. For example, one physics exam question was: "Assume magnetic monopoles exist. Derive how Maxwell's Equations would then look." If you didn't understand the ME derivation, you'd be completely lost. The same for FFTs, where the exam question was derive the hyberbolic transforms.

2. one winds up inadvertently memorizing things used often, like I knew all the trig identities from excessive use. I never attempted to memorize any of them. Just like I know a lot of the hex opcodes for the x86 :-)

3. we were not expected to use the Laplace transform until its derivation was demonstrated. This applied to all the formulas used. FFTs too.

4. I've forgotten an awful lot in the 40 years since. But I took an online MIT course and was pleasantly surprised that it was still there, it just needed a bit of oiling.

> most undergrad engineering curricula will not teach you the math needed to properly understand the Laplace transform

Which is why some engineering schools are better than others. I applied to
the USN&WR list of "top 10 engineering schools in the US". Caltech was #2.

I'm sorry you were left behind because of your insistence on learning it thoroughly. You were doing it right. You just were in a school that didn't value doing it right.

BTW, I did not mean deriving a formula from scratch every time you used it. That would be silly. Just that at some point you did, and thereby understood where it came from, hence understood its limitations, and knew how to adapt it to a situation not in the book.
I think the metaphor here is that "sqft of house is visible" is less a pipe and more of a river?

Random ways I can think of to harvest sqft of your house:

1. Satellite

2. MLS records and/or building plans

3. Don't amazon drivers drive past like every single house at least once a day at this point? could probably do something with that.

Plus, I would be shocked if "amount you spend on amazon per month" doesn't nearly linearly correlate with your income, if that's what they want. Plus doesn't equifax et al literally sell these datasets for this explicit purpose?

I agree in principle that in general I do not want amazon to have an internet-connected LIDAR thingy mucking about my house, but also I struggle to figure out what specific privacy delta is happening here that would be a watershed moment.

TBH still kind of reeling that most TVs have microphones on them with no clearly policy that they're not always listening (vs phones get a lot more scrutiny) and things to that effect. If I were going to try to improve my privacy, moving to a dumb TV is probably something I'd do well before I got rid of my amazon-roomba.
I write Java and for me it's not exactly "expected" versus "unexpected".

There are unexpected errors for sure. For example "StackOverflowError" which could be thrown from any method call.

There should be unexpected errors handler which does some sane thing in given circumstances. Usually it involves logging error and its details (stacktrace, may be something else) and returning some kind of generic error to the caller (e.g. HTTP 500).

But the thing is, this handler very often suitable for handling errors that I expect but I don't want to bother handling them. For example those errors might be rare enough that writing code would be a net negative (every line of code is maintenance burden and error handling code is maintenance burden power 2). And I'm totally OK with those errors being handled in generic way.

Even if it's user input sometimes. For example user could be me. And I know input format. I don't want to write error handling for myself, all I need is to prevent data corruption. Getting HTTP 500 InvalidNumberFormatException is totally fine in some situations.

And language should provide means for writing that kind of code. At least that's my opinion and that's what I truly miss in those languages with explicit error handling of every function call.

You might call it lazy coding. I call it reasonable coding.

Exceptions for the win!
Schools should harden students against idiot-traps. Perhaps a class of "History of scams" would be appropriate
Protip: You don't need to be a VC to offer onerous debt financing.

I know individuals that have made a killing offering loans to distressed publicly traded companies. They typically convert to MASSIVELY larger amounts of equity and dump that. Resulting in a death spiral for the company (unless the company's laughable prospects actually panned out), or result in a lien on assets that are also far greater in value than the loan, which is the same in actual bankruptcy, or they get paid back at a nice premium.
> I’m also guessing Japan doesn’t have ubiquitous wifi, but not sure on that.

They do have "free" WiFi (usually limited to an hour), but you still need to register... usually by using your phone number (and of course the "anti-social forces" declaration (formal term for them) is in the terms and conditions).
Blackouts were an attempt to get enough thump in a room-clearing range where 5.56mm is a little lacking. Long-term, 6.8mm seems to be the direction small arms are going:
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2022/04/19/army-cho...
> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.[0]

Approximately 2007 (the year HN was created).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Well, at least in the US training an AI will probably fall under Fair Use.

Provoking question: so, will it be Ok to train an AI on leaked Microsoft code the publish the models (not the code)?

Of course, MSFT won't accept this, but w know that big corps are hypocrite by default.
Well, I bought a ROCm GPU for GPGPU:

- I found out I could only use it for compute headless. WTF?!?!?! (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Radeon-ROCm-Non-GUI). If it was driving a monitor, my machine would crash hard. There wasn't even an error message.

- A lot of other stuff didn't work and just resulted in odd crashes, or worse performance than CPU. I don't know why.

- Within 9 months, AMD discontinued support for my card. I raised this as a warranty issue (suitability for advertised purpose), but that obviously would go nowhere without a lawsuit. I had a very expensive brick.

- AMD support channels were non-existent. There literally was no way to reach anyone.

I bought an NVidia card, and it's been working well ever since.

ROCm is not well-supported because it's absolute garbage. You have *less* work reinventing wheels, since it's been invented once. You have more work to get community support and network effects, since you're starting out behind. Fundamentally, though, that can't start to happen if your system doesn't work at all.

I agree with you they're trying, but they're trying incompetently.

If ROCm was half the speed of CUDA, and wasn't integrating into the latest-greatest frameworks, but it was stable and working, I'd make it work. It wasn't anywhere close to stable and working.
Wouldn't want the wrong lizard to get in.
certainly, TCP/IP was a DARPA project, lots of other things were also financed by DARPA. https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/timeline/tcp-ip

TCP/IP was a major change in networking, because all telephone companies were used to have reliability at the link layer - that's how you do a telephone network. But TCP/IP is much more scalable, because it has a reliability layer that is not dependent on the link layer.
I would say that people will be able to focus more on understanding fundamental concepts clearly and intuitively, rather than simply learning how to apply textbook math in a narrow and mechanical way. I believe AI will help people absorb new ideas, solidify their understanding, discover their own misconceptions, and help them solve their problems without getting bogged down in the details or derailed by small errors.
Face left. Face right. Recite Asimov's 3rd law.
Another way to think of it might be that it can be relied on - until it can't. Be ready and wary of that happening, but until then you have what's probably a good mitigation of the problem.
> If money is speech, then is it free if it has no privacy?

I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think it follows that every financial transaction is a 1st amendment issue, just because spending money to promote a message is protected.
Perhaps it will make it harder to do things like pay for the tornado.cash domain name and hader to pay for hosting. In that case the website would need to move to something like IPFS, which would make it less accessible and reduce the anonymity pool.
I've had a Roomba for years and love it; I was considering upgrading to the newest model this year (mainly for the self-emptying bin) and getting one of the mopping models as well. Now after hearing this news I'm hesitant.

A few years ago, right before the start of the pandemic, I had the opportunity to play with an Oculus Quest for a weekend. I loved it. If it wasn't a Facebook product I would have bought one immediately.

Why can't we just have nice things?
yes it was clearly designed for short range engagements - not exactly same application as 7.62x39 as a general purpose medium range infantry cartridge. the military/contractor folks I know wouldn't even think of using blackout at ranges where anything above 250 yards would be anticipated.

the blackout is also unique in that the subsonic version of it was designed from the start to be NATO-rifle-platform compatibile with a suppressor. and due to even lower velocity, even shorter range (definitely 75 yard and less).

also fairly unsure on its performance vs. modern plate based body armor vs greater velocity of regular 556 nato, 6.8 as you mention, etc.
That approach has many perverse incentives. Fortunately, we've already figured this one out: manufacturers should only be able to disavow their warranties if they can prove that a modification caused the need for a repair.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warranty...
Plenty of new content for the banks' TikTok followers to enjoy :D
> ...there is no Notepad++ on Linux...

Notepad Next, is a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++.
https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext

> And finally, it's always great to see Lazarus software, it's one of the nicer ways to create GUI software and largely sidesteps some of the framework related issues that other languages face...

The insanity involved around hating on Object Pascal is just a damn shame. Other languages wish they had something like Lazarus or Delphi.

Lazarus is fantastic, for the desktop. And so are a lot of software projects created with Lazarus. The few gripes that I have with the project, is the very odd refusal to fully embrace mobile development.

They have a kind of half-way solution, for just Android and not iOS, from an independent developer not on the Lazarus team and who they seem to want to keep at an arm's length. I don't know if Embarcadero (Delphi) is paying them to not touch mobile development, but it's quite weird that they don't want to go in that very obvious direction. Lazarus as a complete solution for both the desktop and mobile, would have people shook. However, the clock is ticking, because there are a number of more comprehensive desktop and mobile development solutions coming. Lazarus should have and arguably could have come out with their combined solution years ago. But, as it is, they are great for the desktop. Nobody can take that away from them.
Stable Diffusion is free and much better than DALL-E at faces. Not open to everyone yet but getting there.
3 looks interesting
It's not an either-or. It's a "why not both".

More highly targeted data about a consumer will never hurt an advertiser.
Gross margin then 65.1% and 43.7% now?
Sounds like a rip-off.
This is IPFS, what makes you think it is a scam?
The point of the Peano axioms is that it codified all the basic rules of Algebra in 8 (now 9) rules.
I'm not surprised that it responded with a random unrelated fact, but it is funny that the second sentence is incredibly awkward, and the last one isn't really coherent English.

Just a total AI meltdown from one simple question.
I'm genuinely curious what point you are getting at. It seems like you are agreeing with the parent post.

>How many of those rated "highly intelligent" (I would be fascinated on how they measured that!) were in an elevated economic group and so now we're reduced to tautology

>They found that who marshmallow experiment was literally kids who have their needs met aren't rushing to consume what's in front of them and that patience pays off.

Yes, this is what they are saying. There are traits that rich people have that seriously help them maintain and acquire wealth.
That's sort of a warmed over marxist critique. It gets presented at lot as fact without any real evidence and I find that hard to believe. As someone who works adjacent to advertising, it just doesn't seem all that effective. Most ads are basically just informational or reminders that a thing exists anyway.

There are a lot of different products because in advanced economies people have a lot of disposable income and credit is cheap. As such, consumer good proliferate.
Thanks :-) It's always been a challenge to explain how the gravity works so in the end I kind of played on that fact in the game. Most players initially think of the "gravity tiles" as essentially directional arrows. So if you want to make the Kells go up, you place an "UP" tile. But what that really does is make the Kells essentially "fall upwards". I hope this realisation gradually builds up over the first 10 or so levels (which are designed to be tutorial levels), until a brilliant "AHA" moment! But I've seen friends reach level 50 still using the "directional arrow" tactic :-)

I'll put all of this into another blog post but in the mean time there is a guide on Steam that explains this (and a whole lot more) in more detail here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=27358...
Well it might be true. They just haven't realised that there are only so many phone numbers, and they change hands.
The web is a completely different beast though. You can reasonably target only one compiler, even if you lose some platform support. You cannot reasonably support only one browser.
you mean the free tier? with bigger tiers you can reserve the device

also I don't understand the 15 minute session timeout

what happens when the time runs out?
I’m not defending Krugman, but in my own defense, no one would have predicted flat screens computers and 4lbs laptops would be available to the general public much less for so cheap. If prices remained steady from 1998, were talking about a computer that costs roughly 2k and there is no online banking. Municipal taxes and courts are also mostly not online as well, but they tend to have fax numbers. Day to day budgeting and bill paying was not online except for larger businesses who also set up meetings and emailed spreadsheets to handle expenses
Given GPT-3, should people spend less time learning to write?
1) Nobody said anything about qualifying what wikipedia is. However, this is wikipedia, as one can see by looking at the domain in the url, wikipedia.org. Even so, there are many pages that cover tesla at wikipedia.org. Besides, if you just google for, "What companies has Elon Musk founded?" without quotes you will get a google listing of companies founded by Elon Musk. The very first of those is Tesla!

2) That was the point of the parent's comment! There are many pages at wikipedia that contain conflicting information.
I agree, certainly wouldn't use it for storing anything private. I wonder how effective IPFS would be, compared to something like torrents, for piracy.
XAR signing is effectively just an RFC 5652 CMS signature plus some minimal data structure manipulation. Code at https://github.com/indygreg/PyOxidizer/blob/faa7dfcea5d66bf5....

Mach-O and bundles, by contrast, require a myriad of additional data structures requiring thousands of lines of code to support. To my knowledge, nobody else has implemented signing of these far-more-complicated primitives. (Existing Mach-O signing solutions just do ad-hoc signing and/or don't handle Mach-O in the context of a bundle.)
Interesting that you bring that up. The most egregiously invasive student and employee monitoring software requires that the subject always face the camera. That seems most ripe for bypassing with the current state of deepfakes. https://www.wired.com/story/student-monitoring-software-priv...
Youtube largely doesn't care about low quality channels. In the end, the videos that offer real value will organically get more views. Yes, Youtube bans channels which are spammy, but then they get called a 'censor', so they have to code their algos carefully to accommodate some amount of spam.
TBH, this seems a little imaginary to me. I'm thinking they get far better data just from knowing my address and what types of things I buy there now.

They already have brilliant insights like, "you buy robot vacuums or accessories for them"? Hmm, maybe we should be in this space.

Reality is pretty boring.
A lot of discussions about how git repos are supposed to be small are totally missing the point. This storage quota applies to everything, including release artifacts, containers, etc. Forget containers or CI artifacts on every commit, let's look at a very common scenario: using goreleaser to build binaries and deb/rpm/etc. packages for multiple architectures every release. This way a moderately sized Go project can easily consume 50-100MB or more per release. That gives you at most 50-100 releases across all your projects.

Using hosted GitLab for open source projects is looking less and less appealing.

I also posted about issue trackers on gitlab.com not allowing search without signing in a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32252501

Edit: An open source program that upgrades the quota is mentioned elsewhere in the thread: https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/ I don’t use hosted GitLab for my open source work, so no idea how many people get approved.
Who said anything about funding north korea? Just make it illegal to do so. Why does that assume violating my privacy?

You actually can't really stop privacy enabled cryptocurrencies. By all means, I'd like to see a concerted effort to do so. (Because poking the bear will just fuel more cryptographic innovation that dodges control :P)
> The amount of process and ceremony required is inversely proportional to the trust level on the team.

True! Though usually the mistrust is management of the team.

> Once we had some difficult conversations and realigned expectations, we found our daily standup was extremely redundant.

And conversely, when the team isn't communicating with one another, that's when introducing standups does the most good. Managers wanting to micromanage leads to heavy process.
FYI, I'm pretty sure they actually do require you to be a resident, though a lot of people get away with not updating their address

https://monzo.com/help/legal-stuff/tax-residency-not-uk
> You're either going to recognize that you're falling asleep, and pull off the road to rest, or recognize that you're falling asleep and decide to power through

You can totally start falling asleep without noticing, because the drowsiness messes with your critical thinking. The beeping will startle you and make you snap out of it for a bit.
> Golden rice

I was careful to hedge myself, with phrases like "associated with" and "sold in conjunction with". I know there are exceptions.

I have no problem with golden rice, except if it's grown adjacent to some organic farmer's plot - that would potentially destroy his business. In fact I'd eat golden rice - but I've never seen it on sale.
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You mean something like git Large File Storage? It comes with git for Windows by default and every Linux distro I know has it in its repos. MacOS also has it in Homebrew.

https://git-lfs.github.com/

It's basically one click/command away.
You should check the connections it makes. From the review of a sister product:

“Now for the bad news. In the last 24 hours my network security blocked: 6,936 calls to AMS ("The Cloud"); 9,523 calls to s000.linkplay.com, 6,050 calls to www.yahoo.com; 6,050 calls to www.microsoft.com; 9,650 calls to Amazon Technologies; 6,049 calls to Aliyun Computing - Beijing China;3,468 calls to Google; That was 94% of the attempted connections outside of LAN.”
Yup. Happens a lot with my Denon. It also likes to disconnect a lot, while my TV (right above it) is streaming YouTube at the same time with no problem.
> Because you're sharing directly from your device, it's important to keep this page open until the recipient downloads the files. If you're sharing with a group, others in the group can help you co-host the files by also keeping the share page open in their browsers.

You still need a pinning service to keep your files online, even after you close the page.
What's up with WSJ's anti cancel culture campaign?

I mean freedom of association means that everyone can, and does, shun certain people. That difficult neighbor who only talks about the gold standard, maybe. Your cousin who just mooches money. In the 50s, there was organized shunning - McCarthyism cancelled academics, actors, screenwriters with the "wrong" politics. We all do this, we've always done this. Sometimes there's problems (McCarthyism seems to have been a power play), sometimes it's legit. The NYT's anti cancel culture campaign seems to be done out of fear that nobody will invite their star opinion writers to parties.
My guess is 1. Because that technology is used absolutely everywhere, eg in cars, and 2. Because it's quite easy: take a transformer, replace the lower-voltage side with a few turns of a _really_ thick wire, connect the other side to mains and make lots of amps flow for a few seconds through two pieces of sheet metal pushed together.
Principia is now free and open source
[From newsletter]

This weekend the full source code for Principia was published on Github. There has been huge interest and the community is getting back together again to create and play. Old bugs are being fixed and the community is planning new features, including modding systems. Apparatus coming too next.
Do personal accounts really have 5gigs of code??? Unless you have a lot of models/artifacts, images, plain text code should be well under 5gb for 100s of projects
How much of the IP they brought is Hardware vs Software? Curious if someone knows and can articulate this (appreciate not easy).
Given Amazon's reliance on consumer data and metrics, as well as their past behavior with alexa and echo I find this viewpoint to be almost stubbornly naïve.
Previous decades herein being the 80s?

Certainly by the early 00s most of my then-teenage circles had IDs sufficiently plausible to get past bouncers into bars. Arguably anti-fraud has improved since then with holographic threads, stuff that reflects certain wavelengths of light etc.

But also all that is still limited by the bouncer weighing have to get the stuff out to check it versus feeling it's good enough they won't get in trouble for letting someone underage in
>including images of objects in your house

is there any evidence that roombas actually collect this sort of data?
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