skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking of coax -- does anyone know if there's a way to hang multiple wireless access points off of coax run through the home, or would one have to get multiple modems to make this work?

I've run into a couple of housing situations for myself and family where wifi does not covers the whole household well (combo of wall composition and local interference). In these conditions repeaters sometimes don't help as much as you'd like. But in every one of these conditions, there's been coax already run through the walls to support TV-cable hookups in different rooms... so if there's a way to hang other wireless access points off it, the problem could be pretty handily solved at least the 100MB/S order without having to run new CAT.

(Some of these places also have phone/CAT3 but I'd guess that's not 100MB/S even if I could get equipment that'd run ethernet over it, and I know there's also networking over household powerlines but would also guess that's 100MB/S across different household circuits in the house which usually coincide with WiFi coverage obstacles)
Classified documents from Biden’s time as VP discovered in private office
> I think a big part of the delayed reveal of the skeleton only version in T1 is pretty simple: once you reveal that, Arnie is no longer in the movie

Not true: they could have revealed the skeleton earlier and still have Arnie, e.g. via opening scenes set in the future, or via a Reese flashback (flash forward?), or showing the process of hybridizing the T1 before it was sent in time.

The articles argument seems congent to me: the movie FX and story reveals are carefully structured such that the terminator appears less human over time, until it is not human at all.

Add to this the fact that the T1's red-hued HUD is not shown early (this could have been shown with no loss of Arnie as the T1, but wasn't) shows that the robotic nature of the character was being intentionally being hidden at first.
Calling the organ rep "drab church hymns" is an unfortunately common misunderstanding. Both because the hymns can be beautiful and varied (both in compositional and performance style -- registration, improvised counterpoint, etc), and because there is a lot more beyond hymns: hundreds of years worth of preludes and fugues, toccatas, concerti, organ symphonies, and various other forms. Most of the placed I've lived, I've been able to find a nearby church that does a (secular) concert/recital series that often features the organ. Try finding one of those if you are interested.

As for getting access to an instrument, I second others who have replied to you: many of the organists I've encountered were queer in some way or other (though mostly gay men by far), and the rest of them were well aware and understanding that many of their peers and teachers were gay. I think if you reach out to a church organist they will likely be understanding and helpful.
Why should it be embraced? It can be avoided I suppose by using in class blue book written essays. I’m guessing universities are still doing that?
No reliable technique exists for AI LM text detection assuming that the LM can be fine tuned and that the decoder settings are available.

I doubt a reliable technique for this is even ever possible.
oh my god i loved that game. I WILL TRADE YOU MY GIRLFRIEND FOR A SQUAB ON A STICK CMON DO IT
My career has been in video games and I agree that many medium sized studios are not greedy, they probably have higher motives in general. A lot of these projects are made for love not money and stay that way. But there are types of video games that take a lot of money to be made. They would never be made for love, or by a community, because you can't run a creative project on that scale except as a business. There is no open source model for movies, novels or video games in my opinion. You can say those people making games as a business are greedy but in my experience they have pretty similar ethics to people in any business, for better or worse.
I wouldn’t feel bad about doing it to Meta, but Meta isn’t every company and every company isn’t Meta. You shouldn’t “punish” every company for the misbehavior of one giant one.

Though I would still say it’s probably usually fine to back out of an offer. Just take the normal care you otherwise would and be kind about it. Don’t just ghost them or be a dick.
And yet Apple run iCloud on Linux servers on Microsoft Azure. Is it really that different? (EDIT: Google says they moved to GCP in 2018, but doesn't change the point)
Rule #1... Tell somebody reliable where you are going and when to expect you back and who to call if you don't come back. (Could be local police, park ranger etc depending on where you are going).

Then make sure you let them know you are back.

Far too many people get lost and nobody knows where they have gone.
Well maybe the article was written using ChatGPT.
When they said not to fixate on looking back, that was not a suggestion to fixate on these indicators instead.

Chill.
This could be useful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhzg0XWFq4Y
I'd hazard a guess that the person is using 120vac 60Hz instead of 230/50. 120vac is not as dangerous as 230 w.r.t. this kind of accident. I agree that they seem to have only held the fixture with one arm and probably standing on the leg with the arm outstretched or at least biasing weight to that leg to help reach. the current likely didn't go deep and didn't go across the heart. i agree that there wasn't a hard connection but must have had a path through the fixture that wasn't pure... likely a wire rubbed off the coating a bit but not quite fully so there was not a good connection to shock him with much current.
What is wrong about the statement? (Besides being useless trivia I mean). Isn’t 100 defined as the center of the bell curve? Honest question.
Hmm, can you clarify how did you manage to send request in your original article? I copied as curl from network tab and tried to sent the request from curl. However, there was no response. Are they using fingerprints or cookies shenanigans?
In addition to being thought of as a wind or keyboard instrument, there's another component to all pipe organs that makes each of them unique in a way (almost) no other instrument is - the room they are installed in. With very rare exceptions, pipe organs aren't mobile, so the acoustics of the room matter almost as much as the pipes do.

Here's Rob Scallon exploring the largest pipe organ in the midwest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeB3JnKp8To

Here's a more in depth look at all the sounds of that same organ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1S42E1BW9w - this channel has documented a number of organs over the years.
I would love for better options for this -- the place I live now took nearly two months to find!

Comparing address listings against the various provider websites is a ridiculous chore

It's frustrating - depending on the street you may have 2/1 gigabit fiber... or DSL.
(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34316898)
In elementary school I was accused of cheating on an essay for using the word "malevolent". I feel bad for any kids being falsely accused of being GPT because they're trying too hard or whatever...
A corporation is an organisation. It has internal processes, both documented/formal, and undocumented/informal - 'the way we do things here'. There are teams and departments, and relationships between them. There are contracts and commitments to and from other organisations. Handshake deals. Unspoken agreements. Expectations around whose turn it is to get promoted. Culture. History. Group identity.

And sometimes these are bad and need to be dissolved.
>In reality, the justice system almost always takes causes into account. Just not all causes. The interesting question is why some but not others.

Absolutely. Circumstances are usually relevant and should be examined.

But GP[0] claimed that "progressives" argue that understanding the causes for the commission of crimes should "excuse" those actions.

Which is an unsupported assertion and I reject it because, at least AFAIK, no one takes that position.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34317453

Edit: Added the missing link, cleaned up prose.
"Nobody lays in their deathbed regretting..." Not everybody gets a deathbed. Some people get an 'oh no' and then it's lights out. Some people just get the lights out.
Maybe it's a problem with living in a city? I live in a suburb and have had fiber optic internet for nearly 2 decades. Currently I pay for a 1 Gig plan (up and down - unlimited data - I use my own router/modem), but 2 and 5 Gig speeds are also offered.
The problem isn't money, it's getting a large group of people to agree on...anything.
my partner (a professor in a European university) and I had a chat with gpt3 for 5 minutes tops, even though we were having some beers while we were doing that, we noticed instantly the “rhythm” of the output.

Don’t pretend, we will see you ;)

exams will show what you’re really capable of.

lol
oh I guess I did. thanks. should have said "I wonder if its better".
I can’t see how this will be useful unless the false positive rate is 0%. Can you imagine how demoralizing it would be to legitimately write a term paper and have it flagged as being AI-written? How do you disprove it?
School is not about getting an "education", this is pedegological propaganda.

It's about maximizing your college admissions chances, which then leads to better jobs.

Id rather be stupid and rich than "educated" and poor.
Some people are putting a lot of hope in AI text detectors to prevent ChatGPT usage in contexts like student essays, etc.

While these detectors are of course interesting from the hacker/academic points of view, I don't think they will really solve much in practice.

On the one hand, our (teachers') adversary is not ChatGPT. It's ChatGPT + a human, which will be aware of these techniques and can tweak the text to avoid detection.

On the other hand, even if we could detect generated texts with high accuracy, are we going to fail a student just because a black-box AI model says so? Doesn't seem very ethical to me. It's funny how some people worried about ChatGPT's ethical implications seem to be OK with this, just because it goes against their personal demon.

I don't think there is any realistic alternative to just assuming that these systems will be used wherever text is required and you can't physically watch the writer, and living with it.
This is a reformulation of the Great Filter argument. Are there any good counterarguments?
Do you code like this as well or is this specific only to writing docs? If it's just docs, then honestly, it sounds like you just really hate working on them even though you can do a good job.
Just my opinion, but the kinds of writing assignments ChatGPT excels at seem to me the least useful ones for assessing student understanding.

Why are we making kids write entire persuasive essays and research papers when in the real world these are almost always the result of collaborative effort?
> (ideally)
Really useful info, thanks. I've never heard of this.

It's really disappointing. I have wondered if there are any very-high-quality cameras you can connect to a Pi, but found none. I guess this is why.
> that place was 38°C in my living room with all windows and doors open in the summer

You want to leave your windows open at night when it's cooler. Close the windows and curtains in the morning before it starts heating up.

Managed to get through the heatwave last year by doing this.
Binance is a crypto exchange, not a bank.
It’s the same thinking that creates “studies” where they run an old, faulty burner with no ventilation for 3 hours and compare results with running a new induction stovetop and marvel and how much better induction is for you.

There’s a combined effort to demonize gas ranges by some climate extremists and it has been picked up by some media. They can’t convince people to change (because gas is superior technology) so they cone up with badly designed studies to scare people.

They won’t be happy until you’re eating dehydrated beetles and grasshoppers.

I can’t wait until they tell me to stop using my wood burning (gasp!!) fireplace every day.
Maybe my IQ is too low to understand this, but isn't IQ derived from a presumed normal distribution, which is symmetric about the mean, and therefore contains a set of 50% the population that is below the mean?

Or by "making claims" do you mean the claims of the premise of an IQ test? That is, it's ludicrous to assume that "actual intelligence" (whatever is being approximated by IQ tests) would fit perfectly into a normal distribution, and it's therefore ludicrous to claim IQ can measure intelligence?
> way more than I believe I deserved.

Respectfully, it sounds like you didn't know your worth and should have held out for more. Large companies have seriously big bags of cash to give to their people. Money's only worth as much as you can eat though, you can't take it with you.
Which was a very handy device during the transitional period from VCR to DVD.
This cartoon misled me until I realized that there is no observation without touching. Even "seeing" a particle implies that you bounced a photon off of it... and since we're talking about observing individual particles it makes sense that bouncing a photon off of it would have an effect on it.
This video [0][1] (made two weeks ago) will answer your question and go beyond.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34143174

[1]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8Xr9X6cbQ68
I don't know what's going on with your account, but you've unfortunately been posting a ton of flamewar comments lately, and breaking the site guidelines badly in other ways as well.

If this keeps up, we're going to have to ban you. I don't want to ban you, so would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and go back to using the site as intended?
Fyrox Game Engine 0.29
I noticed this in fundamental physics research, which has been stripped bare of the best and brightest, as if a plague of locusts had gone through every university.

Pretty much everyone who does really well in physics ends up as a quant or something similar because the pay starts at 10x what you get as a researcher and goes up from there into the stratosphere.

The only people left behind are those that didn't-quite-make-it, or truly deeply love physics and simply don't want to get an extra zero on their pay-cheque.
(May 2021)
True. If a structural engineer designed a bridge with supports made out of balsa wood and held together with duct tape, they would get in big trouble when the bridge inevitably collapsed, and the engineering company they worked for would be liable. I don't have high hopes that this level of negligence will have anything firmer than a slap on the wrist for Experian.
The Blaire White tweet she retweeted was pretty transphobic.
How to use this in React?
I tried Verilog at first but found myself liking vhdl quite a lot more. It just fit my mental model better and helped avoid some really silly errors I kept making as a beginner.

I could probably pick up Verilog now a bit quicker, I’d jump straight to system Verilog though if I did.
>Mandating technical decisions that cause waste ...

What you mean waste?

The same infra that lets you download, lets you upload.

Also, if only you knew the cost of wholesale bandwidth ...
There's money to be made day trading the volatility but I haven't the time, nor the experience, to predict each movement with reasonable certainty. I know the medium-term is down, and the long-term is up. If your outlook is long then you stay the course.
it's a disappointing choice of words to say the expertise is getting diluted. it's not diluting, it's spreading, getting disseminated.

to say that it's diluting softly implies that it's getting lost, that we're running out of a specific 'innovation' when in fact, it's getting adopted, integrated into our regular lives. Of course it's initially imitated, this is part of how it's getting spread (copied). People will imitate it so to learn what the 'innovation' (as a noun) actually is.
Great project, 40 years late though.
No, even ideally it's still wrong. Educators are the arbiters of competence. It's their subjective opinions of you (marked with grades) that literally decide if you eat lobster thermidor or if you eat raman through your life.

The greeks had an ideal. It's been so corrupted by the modern system that even the ideal is dead.
https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/ras.html#module-paramete...

Search for "edac_mc_panic_on_ue"
Yes, we can forgive them if a vendor refuses to release specs or source (Broadcom, for example), but implementing their own DRM to prevent others from making compatible cameras seems hypocritical and needlessly anti-user.

Is there some legitimate, user-serving benefit to this move that isn't apparent?
So you've been involved in crypto since 2020 and not only are you at the top of the comment thread, you feel the need to "sanctimoniously" chair people on the subject? LMFAO. Yes please tell me more about how USDT is a scam and USDC isn't.

Wouldn't your name start as "Special Agent ----"?
Are you Rembrandt? Anyway thank you, I will.
I feel like this a pretty non-issue so long as you document both that the dependency is required, and how to install it. Just is much easier to install than Python!
I took an accounting class and it required you to come in on Saturday for really long tests.

My guess is that students just have to spend 3-5 hours on a Saturday writing essays, doing programming assignments etc…
How would you keep the Outback green? I'm no climate scientist, but I've wondered why it is the way it is. Is it due to the lack of a mountain range on the Australian west coast, so the air doesn't get pushed up to cool?

Edit I forgot in this imagined world we have 'free' energy, so you can just pump water in.
would you rather be stupid?
think of all the things you would have wished to know before you die.

seems like a pipe dream to me.
It's a hidden "buy-in" to future authoritarian control. Flying under the radar, hearts and minds approach. Spoil you with mandates you believe to be in your interest inthe now, only to be duped into acknowledging those that control what you later become dependent upon.

Create a problem, wait for a reaction, then provide a solution that favors the tyrants ability to control. Have a quick search for "problem, reaction, solution" and you'll be able to extrapolate from there.

The world is controlled by competition and greed, and the majority participate blindly while those that see the utility of it create the games where their opposition cannot win.
I also have problems staying focused when writing code, but it's not as present and problematic.

But that's the thing, I don't hate writing (at least technical documents, the career stuff and others are always boring). For my blog I even do it willingly (and it's less of a problem because there's no expectation there anyway).
Gridspace IAP speech ML talks started today, starting with sound and acoustics
The schedule for the Gridspace IAP program:
January 9 - Sound, Acoustics and Voice
January 11 - DSP and Information Theory
January 12 - Machine Learning and the JAX Library
January 16 - Morphology and Words
January 18 - Syntax, Semantics, Embeddings and Lexers
January 20 - Large Language Models (LLMs) & InstructGPT
January 23 - ASR: Automatic Speech Recognition
January 25 - TTS: Text to Speech
January 26 - DS: Dialog Systems
January 30 - Emotion, Dialog Acts, Personality and Lying
February 1 - Conversation Design and AI Ethics
February 3 - Deploying ML and NLP in the Real World

To sign up to watch live, there's a form on iap.gridspace.com.
> were surprised to learn about IEs limitation

IE was all about limitations Nothing surprised me about IE limitations.
> With AC having your heart beat 50 times a second can also cause you to die hours or even days after receiving a shock

Can you point to any source for this? I have not been able to find any report of someone suddenly dying from cardiac problems days after an electric shock. It sounds kinda plausible, but I wonder if it is an urban legend.

People lose limbs or die from severe electric burns, and people can die from cardiac arrest immediately after being shocked, but are there really cases where people have cardiac arrest days after an electric shock?
ChatGPT is similar to a calculator. We don't let 3rd graders use calculators on their arithmetic homework, even though there's no way to detect if they used one. The point of a 3rd grader adding fractions is not because we care about the result of 3/4 + 1/3, but because the 3rd grader should learn how to add fractions.

If you think of ChatGPT as a fancy calculator, you can just apply the same techniques we've been using for a while: tell students not to use them on homework, make homework only a small % of the grade, and rely on in-class, paper only exams for most the grade.
It's nice to know that in some small way we may actually be morally superior to the people we're executing. But I'm not totally convinced.
Teachers will adapt. Some are already giving students a question, allowing the students ample time to research, then writing papers with a pencil in class.
The early 2000's called, they want their ASP pages and IIS license back
I find the texts written by AI systems so clunky and superficial that I would be disappointed if they aren't immediately obvious to an educator.
Hasn't the Innocence Project saved a non-trivial amount of people from death row?

The sad thing is a percentage of these last words are made by innocent people. The US justice system isn't perfect, not even close.
No one thinks their bluffing, the market WANTS this, it depresses wages bringing costs down. Corporate profits are responsible for at least half of inflation, and wage growth is a good chunk of the other half. Profits are good reasons to raise prices, but wages isn't, and the market wants to put workers back in their place. They WANT a short recession.
This pattern can be seen in golden age vs current kitchen utensils: the former[0] perform admirably today; the latter often are so poorly constructed that they break or have to be thrown away within a couple of years.[1]

[0] at least: the utensils which still have attention drawn to them today

[1] to be fair: it’s probably survivorship bias.
> but I can share a makefile with confidence that any Linux/Mac OS/BSD can use it without needing any additional software

I'm sure you're kidding, but in the case that you're not: Make portability is gross.

We have ./configure steps precisely because Make is difficult w.r.t. portability, but even if that wasn't the case and you were just using make as a command executor: you still have enormous warts.

Oh, and yeah, you'd need whatever additional software too.

Be it: headers, linters, formatters, libraries or test suites that you've bundled.

Valgrind is a popular make target, but "Make" does not bring in valgrind (for example).

Honestly one of the most backwards things the Go community did was adopt "Make", it's so kludgey even as a pure command executor that I can't really take anyone seriously who argues for it's use.

I'm not saying "Just" is a replacement, I don't know what is.

Most of the arguments for using Make boil down to "I enjoy typing `make <something>`" and "you probably have it installed already?".
Applications for early stage quantum startups are now open
Koin is all about Android. I tried it briefly, but all the examples don't work for me, e.g. 'by inject()` looks cool, if it worked, but it doesn't, because it requires a Class parameter. Inconveniently, no examples show what to "import" as well.
Maybe it's a voltage thing (120V vs 240V)? In Australia you can pick up a Bosch induction cooktop starting from $899 ~$620USD including tax.
There are real wars happening all the time because of fossil fuels as well as a lot of dealing with horrific petrostates which inflict misery on everyone because of our dependency on fossil fuels.

What you're talking about is the home front of that war. Agree on framing it as DEI is largely non-sense but I'm curious what you specifically mean by poorly thought out.