skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I usually find myself being accused of making things over-complicated while I'm explicitly trying to simplify an already over-complicated system. Quite often there's some elegant unifying concept, one capable of expressing all the desired complexity, that's been overlooked while everyone's kept busy piling on new feature requests. But solving the root problem, no matter how simple compared to the existing pile of unmanageable code, is always more complex than just adding the next shiny button, so no one ever wants to do it, even if means never having to manually add another shiny button ever again.
>Encrypted ROMs

Which of course protects nothing, and is easily worked around. But it is still evil.

People will go on to claim that Cloanto isn't evil, and that the only reason they haven't open sourced AmigaOS is Hyperion.

Yet Cloanto does shit like this. I wonder if these same people can explain how this helps.
Maybe the statement should rather be "most banks racking up billions in fines are too big to fail". Wells Fargo certainly is.
So, in essence, you don't have anything meaningful to respond with. You're perfectly fine with using centralized platforms when it's convenient and their ownership aligns with your ideology. You might say you don't like them, but you like them well enough to put links to them on your personal website.
Yeah the particular item of the focal length is not as important than hinting in the prompt that you want a photorealistic pic in general. Still the conditioning guidance has a lots of terms and maybe it can tip it in a good direction at some unclear points during a diffusion process the more details you add.
yep. good stuff! this is all new to me. eugen seems like a good steward of his platform.
> But the core of the product, the LLM generated answers, can't get much better without an order of magnitude increase in training data.

There's no reason to believe this. The model architecture and training methods aren't perfect, nor is the way it's queried.

eg: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/zr2en7/r_n...
> you have tp put it in a VM , which gives you a performance penalty

This claim is dubious for many configurations of hardware accelerated virtualization. The hardware creates another ring 0 for each guest kernel, and guests run at the same level as the host. It's true that layering things like filesystems and networking incur overhead, but it's just as easy to pass through a physical disk, and bridge virtual TAP interfaces to physical NICs.

Hardware virtualization is very flexible, and there's a configuration out there that will meet the performance requirements of the vast majority of projects.
Zojirushi also makes them without the liner. It’s a choose-your-poison situation: the lined ones seem to perform much better with green tea.
Squid and octopus get their big brains
> My guess was that you wouldn't use one of the existing solutions if you wanted to obfuscate the connection between the payment and the product. And it is just a guess, I have no investment in it being "the actual reason" or being right about my guess, just speculating here.

I think you're on to something here. Much like cryptocurrencies, I'm thinking that the most important uses here are at best questionably legitimate. Very few honest and above-board businesses have an interest in obfuscating what's being sold like this, but quite a few less legitimate ones do. Hit a URL to send money? Sounds great for money laundering, fraud, or extortion when you can move money around using convenient services and the veneer of legitimacy.
Ugh. Doesn't raise the trust in their competence of protecting admin access credentials to GitHub. The same mindset leads to "We use just one shared ssh cert, because it is easier. And our VPN solution is a 2nd factor in any case".
Luna-Terra, FTX, Coinbase and Kraken definitely aren't "a wretched hive of scum and villainy".

Oops, correction.

FTX, Coinbase and Kraken definitely aren't "a wretched hive of scum and villainy".

Dont worry, I have it right this time ...

Coinbase and Kraken definitely aren't "a wretched hive of scum and villainy".
Miro feels more like playing an annoying game than doing anything useful. It’s incredibly annoying to use, I try to avoid it when I can
That is the way. Once you get into actual measurement there is plenty of hard problems, like your device might only wake up for 10ms, take few hundred mAs of current and go to sleep.
Those are ‘killer apps’ compared to the phone for instance.

I played a bit with an old chromebook we bought for our kid’s school a while ago, and the browsing experience is definitely better than on my iPad Pro. Having actual arbitrary window management, tabs don’t get lost between the instances, video can actually play in the background, extensions work. The list just goes on and on.

I still prefer the iPad for reading long form and comics, but as the Kindle app is crippled, the overall experience isn’t that far either.
Show HN: The Goat Work – 200km on Corsica GR20 [audio]
(i stole the title from mike masnick. if he's upset about that, i would be happy to credit him, or change it.)
Oh, yes indeed. I forgot about that.
I vaguely remember that, was that on the trucks, specifically?
I can't speak to medical specifically, but in one of the spaces I used to work the thinking was "The law is ambiguous because it's reactive; we're so far out on the bleeding edge that nobody actually knows what's legal until someone tries it and someone else makes a case of it. So pushing the envelope is a net positive for society because we end up blazing a trail of bright-line precedent rulings that other companies can follow. You can tell the pioneers because they're the ones with the arrows in their backs."

A bit self-serving but there's some meat on the bones of that logic; the real meaning of the law is path-dependent and determined by the rulings, not the words on the paper.
It was divided in 8 chunks, so 125 gram of flour per pizza.
Safe and effective!
Is there any actual cost to this? It looks like an open source app with no premium upgrade.
Zelensky after Bucha ("No Other Choice Than To Talk"): https://www.rferl.org/a/un-zelenskiy-war-crimes-bucha/317863...
Anyone that has worked in any highly regulated industry knows that its almost impossible to comply with every rule. Even the regulators themselves, (and the ex-regulators that you hire to run your compliance team) often have absolutely no idea how to get anything done AND comply with all the regs.

As an example, its simply impossible to build a factory on a greenfield site in California today and comply with all the regs. Its just insane.

Or try to set up a drone testing field anywhere in California.
Isn't all AI art stolen art?
Welcome to the developed world (in my case: Germany), where recycling is enforced by ordinances and/or contracts with your waste removal organisation, which will check if you did so properly, and refuse to take your refuse away if they think you have not recycled properly enough.
A current-controlled power supply will often tell you the current-usage. Obviously, it depends on your power supply, but even a $50 one these days has this feature.

If you're off of battery power or USB power instead, you'll need to build a current-sense circuit. Analog wise, its very simple: a small 0.01 ohm resistor (called a "current sense resistor") is placed in series, and you measure the voltage drop across it. 0.0001 V across a 0.01 ohm resistor -> V / R -> 0.0001 / 0.01 == .01 Amps == 10 mA being drawn.

Now the question is "how do I measure 0.0001V accurately" ?? And that's a trivial op-amp problem. So trivial, that people sell cheap chips that already do this for you, called current-sensing amplifiers. They just multiply the voltage by 200 accurately. (so 0.0001V into the amplifier comes out as 0.02V), and 0.02V can be measured by pretty much anything.

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/ohmite/MCS1632R01...

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/onsemi/NCS199A3RS...

Voltage-multipliers though are a trivially easy OpAmp circuit, and I'd recommend that beginners actually try to build their own current-sense amplifiers from scratch. Its good to learn how to use OpAmps, and learn all the issues (ex: Rail to Rail, positive / negative voltages, etc. etc.). I'd recommend you do a 9V project with the LM358.
Corp.'s make good money by engineering replacements. For established profits, revenue increases are only marginal improvements. If they can get governments to go a long with a mandate to replace something with an alternative, the profit increases are much greater. It's like a substitute for coming up with a new product. Not saying it's not beneficial, but I've seen this corporate grift too many times. They did this in the late 1980s with the need to replace CFC's with HCFC's to protect the hole in the ozone layer. Then they discovered HCFC emitted thousands of times more carbon. The cycle just keeps repeating.

Again, I'm not saying these aren't necessary, but there's little in the way of cost/benefit analysis. Harmful effects are in some sense inevitable, but they should be weighed relative to the benefits added.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerant#Phasing_out_of_CFC...
That is opt-in feature that you can use, if you want to help us to catch attackers and make their life more miserable.
A demonstration that ChatGPT is able to recall the content of conversations
>>"well, we won't _use_ all those permissions, so just give them to us anyway, because it's easier this way."

Devs have been doing that since the dawn on computing. Ohh your App needs to be able to write to a protected folder on windows. Dont document what folder just force the app the run as Admin.

Early Android Apps asked for all the permissions, all the time because of lazy devs

security is hard, and gets in the way of what the devs wnat to do so they just find ways to bypass it
Cloanto is no saint[0]. From where I stand, both sides are trash.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34064176
> some mastermind plot to eventually subvert freethinking in America

Hitler did not start off with a mastermind plot to become the sole decisionmaker in Germany either. "There is no conspiracy, they're just acting in typical self-serving ways" is a counterproductive and even subversive objection when the enemy is demonstrably at the gates.
> This allows for legacy applications to be ported to a browser and directly communicate with the JS code that runs in client-side Web applications.

Knowing nothing about WebAssembly, I would guess it's because JS runs on a single thread.
Musk to step down as Twitter CEO once he finds 'someone foolish' enough
There are usually two (or more) sides to the story. Here's the developer's own take:

https://blog.alexgleason.me/pleroma-is-dead/

https://www.heterodorx.com/podcast/episode-69-fediverse-foll...
Interesting, I wasn't aware of that. What do you mean by "perform" here?
> If someone came out with a free, cross-platform, attractive text editor that was a native executable and got critical mass going with a plugin ecosystem, then VS Code would fall out of fashion within a year.

Well yeah, there's the problem. This isn't an easy task, it has never been done before.
Flash was actually pretty great. The big problem with it was the "oh, that thing? it's still around?" attitude of Adobe, which led to massive security problems.

Actionscript was a pretty good language, certainly around the level of what Javascript has become. It was poor-mouthed for the same reasons Javascript was (is?), but now we use Javascript to run 90% of the Web.

I remember back in the early 00s playing with the PHP Flash module. It was a really interesting environment that had a lot of promise. But, alas, it was doomed.
It's also worth noting that the parent claim of unclear compliance guidelines is less of a statement of fact and more a commentary on your average pharma industry lawyer. There are more suites of standardized compliance applications than you could shake a stick at, that's not at issue. The problems usually start with a department of contract lawyers who can't be assed to skill up on industry specifics. Throw in a CFO with little or no experience managing CRO's and you've got the perfect recipe to get dumped on by the OIG.
Video games or game engine development, especially studios that work on console games

HFT firms also do low level optimizations
Yeah I’ve never thought London water was bad, but Vancouver water tasted amazing.
"A system like that would have added cost, mass, and complexity. The simplest, most cost-effective way to meet my goals was to bring solar panels big enough to power my whole mission – which they did (and then some!)."
This is why you should avoid instances run by for-profit companies. This isn't even the first time Pawoo has been sold. First Pixiv sold it to Russell (a media company), and now it's on to a company that runs another instance with a poor reputation.
Yes, indeed! I can confirm this post is from 2007.
you seem to be advocating for absolutism: these things are bad, so abandon them completely. i don't think that's reasonable, or workable. there is basically no corporation in the world who has clean hands. i don't think it's possible to divest myself of all of them.
I recently had to make some sketches of schematics. On iPad I tried excalidraw, ms whiteboard, notes, notability, and sketchbook: drawing the same thing on each. To my surprise, notes actually worked the best for me with the snapping editing and exporting. Notability was also very good, but I tried that only after finishing in notes.

Excalidraw works with Apple Pencil which is great but doesn’t have snapping and straightening of lines.
Yes, and sleep(), delay(), yield() in Arduino Core for ESP* are task switch to and from Wi-Fi handling code, not busy-loop delays. Espressif seems to have put a lot of scaffolding for you behind the Upload button.
We used Backstage at a previous company. I was fairly unimpressed- it feels like any knowledge/documentation tool in use at a company where it only works with a lot of discipline to keep it up to date. Curious if others have had better experiences with this
>Name one social media site and then explain how it was a net positive for society/outweighed all of it's toxic aspects.

That isn't something one can objectively measure.
Thanks for the tips :).

> BTW, I've found black tea to be not as effective as black coffee as an appetite suppressant.

I wonder what the mechanism of action is for most people. For me, black coffee hardly does anything stimulation-wise, but is an excellent laxative, and half the time makes me feel generally unwell. I suppose these effects do suppress appetite.
I think technically EE probably is the better network, it's just unfortunate that their customer service is hell on earth.

If you get a sim that actually works from the start, i guess you are lucky. Just pray you are not unfortunate enough to ever have to deal with their customer support for any real technical fuckup at their end... they burned so much of my time I can never go back.

I bought a 24 month unlimited contract (which I don't like doing but I know the network is technically better so bit the bullet). The sim didn't activate, 1 months of phone calls and endless promise after broken promise, they still couldn't activate the thing. Finally they sent me a new sim but on the wrong 1GB/month plan, which apparently they intended to switch once activated, which of course they never could manage to actually do. So after another month they agreed to end the contract since they couldn't seem to actually fulfil it.

Oh but there's more.... 6 months later I find out they are still charging me for this stupid 1gb contract for which no sim card even exists. I reluctantly call them again thinking at this point it might be faster to open a law suit, this is ridiculously complicated and takes much convincing since the contract is now supposed to be ended so all the account numbers etc are wrong. They agree to send me a refund me by cheque for £50 rather than set up another DD to avoid more fuck ups........

1 Month later: I receive a cheque for 50p - fucking joke.

They still owe me £50, but it's not worth the time it would cost me to attempt getting it back.

This is partly why I don't like contracts, you can't easily walk away from shit like this.
Yes. What we see in UI design today is a consequence of game theory at work. It's to optimize business. In fairness you don't want to scare users away. I think though many people equated it all to "clean looking", without realizing removing micro-interactions is a net negative....
Get Things Done from the Afterlife
When you wrote "gets banned", what did you mean?

You must certainly realize the term covers an extremely wide range, ranging from "peanuts are not allowed in the school because a student is highly allergic to them" to Comstock laws prohibiting the exchange of personal letters containing sexual content and the Communist Control Act of 1954 which outlawed the Communist Party of the United States (that's one of many anti-communist laws of the time).

These latter bans certainly affects what people can communicate and do in their free time, but now you seem to not mean that sort of ban, so what do you mean?

The article is pretty clear that it's not about "access to other people's kids", and gives examples of wokeness which are not about children nor the education system, so I don't know what you mean by that either.

Using "think of the children" is part of the same well-established playbook that turned “wokeness” "into a pejorative that is synonymous with the demise of everything good and white about America" that the article is about.
For people who don’t like vs code?
> Why is it so difficult?

Well while you are deciding if you are going to buy something with your 5k or not, I, a gigabrain genius, can take your 5k and buy the latest mooning stable dog coin and turn it into 50k gaurantteeed and when you want to buy your shares sell it for massive gainz and keep the 45k I made for myself.
I don't have the iPad any more. I'm not sure Vlc would still show up as "purchased" once I uninstalled it.
I think the walled garden is the whole point here, and you are not the target for this app. It’s no coincidence that the sample they show on their devices is for a student (high school?) newspaper. This is like the blue texts in iMessage. Get them while they’re young, and they’ll be hooked for life. Imagine the shame of being excluded from a high school group project because, “we’re all doing it in Freeform, sorry.” Better ask mom for an iPhone just to be safe.

- Drew ( sent from my iPad)
You did it, you solved RObotics! Someone get this guy a Nobel Prize!! JPL Engineers are no match for his staggering intellect!
I'll bet you don't. The natural extension of that logic is that you don't bother with UID separation for running processes (since you don't believe it provides any protection), so for convenience all your software runs as root and all your ssh logins are directly to root, etc... No one does that, and I'll bet anything you don't either.

In fact the Unix uid/gid does provide real security value in practice. It is not absolute, and relative to other barriers commonly used (LSM, cgroup containers, VMs, firewalls, BPF syscall filtering, etc...) it's comparatively weak and porous. But it's not something to dismiss either.

The nature of "defense in depth" security analysis is that you have to embrace that depth and not throw bits out. UID separation has the distinct advantage of being dirt simple to understand and extremely cheap to deploy. Use it.
I misremembered - it's 10 rivers, 8 of which are in Asia: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.7b02368

Summarised in this article: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluti...
Corp.'s make good money by engineering replacements. For established profits, revenue increases are only marginal improvements. If they can get governments to go a long with a mandate to replace something with an alternative, the profit increases are much greater. It's like a substitute for coming up with a new product. Not saying it's not beneficial, but I've seen this corporate grift too many times. They did this in the late 1980s with the need to replace CFC's with HCFC's to protect the hole in the ozone layer. Then they discovered HCFC emitted thousands of times more carbon. The cycle just keeps repeating.
Again, I'm not saying these aren't necessary, but there's little in the way of cost/benefit analysis. Harmful effects are in some sense inevitable, but they should be weighed relative to the benefits added.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerant#Phasing_out_of_CFC...
The sampling is the problem here. If you sample at say 1s and the chip is using say 100mA for 50ms to send some data, you might completely miss it, you might overcount that pulse
I have no dog in the fight, but I did find it interesting that the top comment on HN for the Alameda article written by this very exact author was very similar in tone completely dismissing the article and saying it's total nonsense, and that the author knows nothing. As we all found out a few days later, the article was 100% on the nose. So reasonably, it seems we HN readers would have to take the total outright dismissal of this article with a grain of salt...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33464494
It would have been nice for the author to point out the original influences for their "embedded short story", like Orphans of the Sky by Heinlein.
Backstage is introducing premium (paid) plug-ins, they're entering beta stage[0]

0: https://backstage.spotify.com/plugins/
You obviously don't hate go.

Everything you listed help programmer to keep own sanity.

It's all compromises but they're mostly reasonable compromises.
It's a normal security practice to prevent untrusted apps from calling home. The problem is Apple thinks you are ok to trust them after reviewing their binary code for 120 seconds.
People should also check out Bluesky and Nostr. Both are open protocols for social media.
The Year in Computer Science
We charge a capacitor up and time its discharge to a certain level while running the circuit.

Then we repeat it using resistors instead, until we match the discharge rate exactly.

Then measure the resistor and do I=V/R, using the midpoint V. That accounts for all the surges and eliminates most error sources, giving you a nice and extremely realistic average current draw.
I'll start by saying I'm a big fan of wasm but just a couple of comments about the articles.

I really with the WebAssembly community would stop quoting that tweet from Solomon Hykes. It's taken somewhat out of context and while at the time it was a big shoutout to the wasm underdog it's now a bit over used. Wasm really needs to justify itself with more than just a tweet and I think that it can.

"Polyglot - 40+ languages can be compiled to Wasm" is a bit misleading which anyone would see if you listed the 40+ languages. A lot of them are going to be very obscure ones and a lot of the popular ones are on that list. Factually correct but you're just setting people up to be disappointed. "40+ languages oh boy!.....What the heck is Zig? and no Python?!" (yes, I know you can sort of run Python if you run the entire interpreter)