skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great news!

> Starting with Cachix v1.3, we’re enabling multipart uploads directly to storage.

I would be interested to hear more about the design of the new system.

E.g. does it make use of Cloudflare R2 for storage? How is authentication handled?

Would be great to hear more, if you can share!
Thanks, I see now and agree; per user, per comment, each user is able to see the the sum of current “upvotes minus downvotes”; to get the average karma per comment for themselves, simply sum the karma of all their prior comments, then divide by the count of prior comments.

Am I missing something?
Fill your gut, then trust it
It's really shocking how ineffective things like pitcher filters are when compared to a quality cartridge filter. The pitcher filters really do practically nothing.
You're conflating what ChatGPT does with fact checking. It's as much a fact checker as a human is a fact checker. It's not their purpose to be either a grammar checker or a fact checker, so you can't make assumptions about the models they have just yet.

You can instruct a human to do fact checking, just like you can instruct ChatGPT to do it. You can instruct ChatGPT to structure text. Have you compared its output in both cases? Does it affect both parameters the same (from what I've seen, I don't expect that)?
Palomares bombs: Spain waits for US to finish nuclear clean-up
a common example from my robotics experience (mainly mobile robots) has been getting something powerful enough to run our image recognition/interpreting sensor data. We often have something like several microprocessors (think:arduino equivalent running c++ or c) which run all the motor control etc and a high level system (used to often be raspberry pi, now more often nvidia jetson nano) listening to all of those and using most of it's computing power on some kind of sensor data, usually image recognition or processing TOF camera/lidar/radar data etc. We often have to optimise hard to get a couple of cycles or "frames" per second with these, which really puts limitations on how robots respond (250ms delay is veeeery noticable, especially if it's in obstacle avoidance - relatively common)
In general, I agree! But there's limits. We can't even come up with a stupid thing that Putin would have believed, for this to make sense on his own terms.

Then there's the question of capability. We're supposed to believe they do extremely stupid things, but also do it with such superhuman competence that we don't have a clue afterwards.
No, Harvey Weinstein went big, he had a private offshoot of Mossad at his disposal.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/harvey-weinsteins-a...
We received emails last night stating that our account was transferred to "kamiya@n-messcud.jp" and see on Twitter that many others received identical emails. The site is now 504'ing
May not be possible to respond but it is possible to develop a social cloud map.
One time I decided that I wanted to edit the dictionary used by Teams because I was tired of getting a spelling underline when I use contractions. Apparently, the dictionary didn't include contractions.

Anyway, many rabbit holes later, I found out that Teams uses an undocumented hard-coded call to the dictionary used by Google Chrome. You cannot edit the dictionary, you cannot supplement it with a custom dictionary, and you cannot modify the hard-code address or use a different dictionary. You can't even turn off this call.

And don't get me started on how Teams ignores every UI standard that other Windows programs use, and it's basically not modifiable in any way.

Thanks, I hate it.
> Does anyone have some material recommendation about using nix for building binary releases of packages / libraries?

Here's a very easy guide using Github actions:

https://nix.dev/tutorials/continuous-integration-github-acti...

See their other tutorials:

https://nix.dev/tutorials/#
> Well, there is 'Feersum Endjinn' which you have to tune your ear to the language.

True up to a point. Not limited to Iain M Banks, though: the Bridge does much the same.

The key thing to know is that Banks was a Scot, and sounded like it. (I met him quite a few times.) If you read the phonetic passages aloud in a cod-Scottish accent they are much easier and clearer, IMHO.

> 'Excession' had a lot of talk between Minds/Ships which was quite dense.

I can only say that I did not find that. It's widely rated as many readers' favourite Culture or IMB novel.

I though that, for instance, Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon The Deep was harder work, and much as I love Vinge's work, I found Rainbows End unreadable and DNF.

> Also there is a lot of descriptions of hyper-advanced weaponry, drones, etc

Personally I lap that stuff up.

> even though I enjoy the books, it can be a bit much sometimes.

Interesting. For me the reverse is true. I find they make most other SF seem a bit dull and lifeless.
Bazel-Zig-cc moved to github.com/Uber
Shredding/sledgehammer is likely the best option for secure disposal of mechanical drives, but SSDs are a different animal and are likely reusable given some of the suggestions in this thread.
ShutNet
ShutNet, is a virus that will automaticly delete every system event log and network log from every ip connected to your wifi and shut down every device connected.
Well the main point of a Brita filter is to remove the chlorine so you tap water doesn't taste like it was mixed with pool water.

But this is why you replace your Brita filter every 2-3 months and wash the container.

Refrigerator filters generally need to be replaced every 6 months.

It's both because they lose effectiveness and because bacteria builds up inside them.
> I'm more worried about white supremacists gang

Why? Does it feel nicer to be beaten or murdered by cop depending on their political affiliation?
As others have mentioned, use encryption. But that has gaps as someone can hold onto the drive and wait for impossible to break to become somewhat expensive to break to broke by mistake through bad encryption implementation.

Put the encrypted drive into a hydraulic press and flatten it into a thin sheet, then run that sheet through a chop saw, or just use tin-snips if your hydraulic press was powerful enough. A hydraulic press and a chop saw are a few hundred bucks whereas drive shredders can range from $30k to $200k.
Is there any publication that has never published a false story? You need to accept stories from all media outlets on the merits of the story itself. There is clearly a lot of corroborating evidence with regard to gangs in the LASD.
Lived in China from 2017-2020. What you described wasn’t true in China but true in western mass media.

I’ve written about how my friends in China were confused why the US was so hostile to China. They didn’t understand. They didn’t have the same negative perception about America as America had of them.

Not sure about now though. Perhaps their perception of America is trending towards negative now that it’s clear to them that America does not like them.
> After the Bulldozer fiasco who would think AMD would be where they are today?

I mean... for people who remember AMD's original breakthrough with the Athlon, it's not super surprising.

Although it feels a bit like a problem with Intel as well. I think, too much time wearing the crown can be bad for a company. Although some companies don't seem to suffer from that problem - Nvidia and TSMC being 2 pretty good examples.
BeaglePlay from BeagleBoard brings fun to building with computers
How is that not new? Especially for a class of sugar, not just a brand. The market is very immature.

You just have to go Amazon to see the availability is limited compared to Erythritol/Stevia. And almost no commercial food/drink products use it in their recipes.
This is why I block all updates I can block. The security narrative is the piggy on which the control fantasies ride.
7-zip has already been mentioned, but I want to mention Notepad++. It's not as featureful as a full-on IDE or most modern extensible text editors, but it's fast and has a simple classic UI. When I just want to edit a basic text file I tend to use N++, as long as I'm on Windows and I don't want to boot up VSCode, let alone a full IDE.
Whether or not a language is weird is just a function of how comfortable you are with the quirks. You could fill a textbook with just the unintuitive hacky shit you had/have to do in JS.
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> An apocalypse list without climate?

The topics listing isn't great, but there's been a lot of discussion about climate change on the forum:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/climate-change (239 posts)
Nothing anymore.

Originally it measured a specific dimension on the transistor. Then transistors started shrinking non-uniformly, so they adjusted it -- "how big the transistors would be at equivalent density if they had shrunk evenly". That's an easy thing to play with though, and so you see more and more departures from reality.
Sheriff is county wide, police is city/town
Just a nit, this is talking about the LA County Sheriff and not the LA police department.

The language might be a bit confusing to outsiders but the gang problem in the sheriff's department is well known to angelenos and isn't confused with street gangs. It's been going on for years.
I’m not trying to be flippant, but why do we need a blood test for this when we have a test already, eg “Do you have anxiety? Do you have any of these symptoms?”
Anyone ever been to Bolinas, CA?
I have been using similar models like LLM for helping draft fictional stories. The community fine tuned models are geared towards SFW and/or NSFW story competition.

https://github.com/KoboldAI/KoboldAI-Client To read more about current popular models.

https://koboldai.net/ is a way to run some of these models in the "cloud". There's no account required and the prompts are run on other people's hardware, with priority weighting based on how much compute you have used or donated. There's an anonymous api key and there's no expectation that the output can't be logged.

The models that run on hardware locally are very basic in the quality of output. Here's an example of a 6B output used to try to emulate chatgpt. https://mobile.twitter.com/Knaikk/status/1629711223863345154 The model was finetuned on story completion so it's not meaningfully comparable.

It's less popular because the hardware required for the great output is still above the top of line consumer specs. 24 gb vram is closer to a bare minimum to get meaningful output, and fine-tuning is still out of reach. There's some development with using services like runpod.
Two issues with that - you have to make sure you dispose of the key(s), and this doesn't let you securely erase just part of the drive.
Show HN: Versionfeeds – Custom RSS feeds for releases of your favorite software
Hi HN!

I am quite excited as this is my second product, launched today: Versionfeeds.

https://versionfeeds.com

What is Versionfeeds? I was quite annoyed by the fact that I had no central place where I could see all the software releases. I use software a lot, be it at my job, to build my side projects, or tools hosted on my NAS at home. It's literally dozens, if not hundreds of tools, packages or even programming languages. And most of them receive updates regularly.
That is why I built Versionfeeds. It allows me to bundle all the releases for the software I need and love, into one dedicated feed. At the moment, all public repositories on Github and Gitlab are available. You can also search on npm (Javascript) and Packagist (PHP) for your software. More providers will come soon.

The feeds adhere to the Atom standard and can be consumed with any feed reader. If maintainers use markdown in their release notes, it will be converted to HTML.

Any feedback, wishes and ideas are welcome. Please share your thoughts with me. <3
I use miniconda on Linux but it's never attempted to install graphics drivers on Windows.
Surprised I hadn't heard of SVGator before, since I've posted about a lack of SVG native animation authoring tools in the past. Appears to have an option to use either CSS-based animations or JS-based (curious it appears to lack a native SMIL option which would offer various things the JS-based option supports and benefit most from authoring tools).

On topic: remarkably the Construct Animate editor/demo works even without cookies/web storage enabled. Nice :)
Most of Musk's antics are just entertainment to me, but publicly shitting on your own ex-employee (and in some cases current employees) is just a shocking lack of grace. He just doesn't know when to stop being an asshole.

There are people out there who's brains are not wired to deal well with wealth and social media at the same time.
Hard disagree. My tap water has a strong chlorine taste, I hate it. In my Brita pitcher, it's totally gone. Just tastes like water again.

It's the total opposite of "practically nothing", it does exactly what I bought it for -- effectiveness 100%.
>> What is with all the hatred for Chlorine?

Ignorant people.

Less dickishly - people incapable of assessing risks as a spectrum alongside other risks - combined with a giant echo chamber in everyone's pocket.
How does UV reduce chlorine? It's a freaking element. It's especially weird inside an ice machine, where the chlorine can't selectively evaporate or something, which is my first guess at a mechanism in open air.
Ha! Kedro maintainer just joined on the hamilton slack, and we were talking it over :) here’s what I was thinking:

TL;DR hamilton is lighter weight and less opinionated about non-pipeline stuff, it also has a different way of specifying pipelines (that we prefer).

I think there are a few key differences in the approach:
- currently, hamilton is lighter weight and less opinionated about directory structure/style guide. It’s just a library!
- Kedro pipelining (from what I understand) has you define the nodes separately to specifying their inputs, whereas in hamilton it’s function-first, and the functions specify everything. It’s funny — Kedro is actually very similar to the framework I first designed to solve the problem and compared with @Stefan Krawczyk’s idea (that became hamilton), I called it “burr”
- Kedro has a whole bunch of additional features that allow it to integrate with the outside world and hamilton is pretty lighter weight here (although we’ll likely be adding more)
I dont want to be that guy, but who didnt know this would eb possible and would happen?
AI is making it easier to create more noise, when all I want is good search
Strongly agree. I just don’t get the hate for JSX.

JSX is objectively better than than the scores of templating systems out there. You get much more: type checking, use of JS for logic, and no need to learn yet custom arcane syntax. If anything, I think JSX is not used and supported enough.

In the general sense, JSX is just syntactic sugar for function composition. That it works well for html-style components is a side effect; it could certainly be used for more than that.

I wish languages like Typescript would support JSX natively, with absolutely to dependency on any React-like library. Let me declare a function using JSX, e.g.,

type Mode = “upper” | “lower”
const capitalize = (str: string, mode: Mode) => mode === “upper”? str.toUpperCase() : str.toLowerCase()
const join = (mode: Mode, …arr: string[]) => arr.map(str => <capitalize {{ str, mode }}/>).join()

const joined = <join mode=“lower”>Bon Jovi /> // “bonjovi”
Article is paywalled, but I always thought that $75k/figure was bullshit, even adjusted for a very high cost of living area and inflation. There is just so much convenience money can buy, so many stressors that can be eliminated if you just write a check. I think happiness is largely tied to "health" and better health can be bought up to a point.
I'm sure the DoJ can find the same reference as I could: "An employer may restrict hiring to U.S. citizen only if a law, regulation, executive order, or government contract requires the employer to do so." I doubt that they failed to consider this prior to bringing enforcement action.
I think you are right in that it is quite impossible to read data that has been overwritten from a sufficiently modern HDD.

But all modern HDDs retire sectors that exhibit a higher correctable error rate and replace them by reserve sectors. Those retired sectors then still contain readable data (maybe with some bit errors) if you know the appropriate factory mode commands. Overwriting the entire disk also won't overwrite retired sectors, except if the disk has an explicit function for it and you trust that function to work properly.

In short, you always need full disk encryption.
I find it interesting that he repeats the mantra 'be like water', which seems to partially equate to 'give users what they want', while also discussing the mozilla/firefox history.

It hints at what I think is a natural cycle of software. Software evolves with its user base, its existence and modification over time proving its value. Then, there comes a time where the weight of its history (and feature set) becomes too much of a burden to its current user base. At that point, something happens to shed the weight.
That's the thing, they actually have less oversight. Criminal civilian gangs are harassed by police. The police have almost unlimited power, who provides oversight? If police leadership is involved, not them. On top of that police have qualified immunity. So they kill someone, and throw a gun on them. Everyone in the police department knows and is in on it. They investigate themselves and find no wrong doing. If a criminal beats you to death, the police investigate. Who investigates when the police do it and the entire department is corrupt?
Thanks for sharing this.

If I wanted to use one of those animations as overlay on a video I have (with transparency), what export would you recommend? Based on your intro video, is seems it would be a series of PNG, or is there some other option?
I would put heritage building laws into a similar category of well-intentioned rules that can so easily be weaponized alongside overly strict environmental review.

In isolation keeping a neighbourhood character by setting rules around the paint colours and trim designs permitted seems like a benign set of laws to keep some interesting older neighbourhoods around. In practice they lock a city at a specific low density, often very close to the downtown core since the oldest development tends to be closest to the action. It can also exclude poorer residents (or even pretty well off people who can afford a $250,000 reno but not the $500,000 it'll take to satisfy the heritage committee).

I love an old victorian house, but not when there are hundreds of people living in tents next door and thousands more terrified they will have to join them because the cost of living is rapidly rising. If someone wants to pay to move that charming house to an area of lower average density, great. Otherwise it needs to come down to make way for hundreds of new units so people can actually afford the city.
The comment you're reacting to is imho talking about the system of transportation, while you're talking about the people managing that system.

Our preferences, choices and decisions have ripple effects.

Maybe if we'd intentionally designed our society/environment differently, we wouldn't need so many highways, and so many people managing them.
The unintended consequences of laws often vastly outweigh the benefits. I am a big proponent of time limiting laws as well as requiring higher levels of support upon renewal, that way laws that have serious unintended consequences will be removed automatically.
Iain Banks, or Iain M Banks?

I've never got on well with the Iain Banks novels, and devoured the Iain M Banks novels.
Right that makes sense. Ideally you have to build your recipes around low carb sugars instead of the inverse. It's probably still better than alternatives and a gateway.
> Spinning off hundreds of threads when the CPU only can run 8 at a time often does not help and can even be counter-productive.

Depends on how many of those threads become blocked by I/O.

If you spin 200 threads, but 192 of them are blocked by I/O (waiting for disk and/or ethernet), then those 8-remaining threads effectively use the 8-cores of your CPU.

Old-school programmers would remember the days of 1-core CPUs, where you'd need to use a threads (or processes actually) to effectively utilize hard drives or your ethernet connections.
OT: Quick question - does this model (HL-2360...) have a physical on/off switch? I run two Brother HL-2130 series which I turn on and off with a relais to save energy for standby.
Therapy has worked for me in the past as well as some medications (very low doses of psychiatrist prescribed benzodiazepines). Mostly I find that exposure to what makes me anxious makes it lessen, but I've yet to find a way to deal with my generalized anxiety as it'll often go hunting for something else to be anxious about. I cope with the generalized anxiety by trying to be as structured in my life to reduce the chaos and noise.
Difficult to count, in part because Villanueva or his leadership allegedly discouraged investigations into them: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/06/the-la-county-...

> Last week, at a public hearing, the Civilian Oversight Commission presented new evidence to suggest that the investigators’ diminishing focus on the Banditos was directed from above. (Villanueva denies giving any orders that discouraged investigation.) Throughout the inquiry, the lead investigator kept a detailed log of his work. While votes in the election for sheriff were still being counted, in early November, he wrote that he was told to ask witnesses “additional questions about subcultures at East LA.” In a deposition for the case of the eight deputies, parts of which were read into evidence at the hearing, the investigator said that, after Villanueva’s victory, his supervisor had mentioned needing to “check with the sheriff” about the Banditos inquiry. Ten days later, the investigator noted a new instruction from his supervisor: “I do not need to ask about subculture groups at ELA Station.” He explained in his deposition, “We’re a paramilitary organization. He gives me an order; I follow through.”

The financial cost is more well known:

> Since 1990, according to the Office of the Inspector General, settlements involving deputies with gang affiliations have cost taxpayers at least $54 million.

That New Yorker story also describes several ex-deputies with gang connections, including the Paul Tanaka trial (Vikings) and Villaneuva reinstating "Creepy" Carl Mandoyan (Grim Reapers).
Is this just talking specifically about supercomputers/actual compute power? Because otherwise I think it's fair to say that Britain is still a computing superpower. Deepmind alone is at the forefront of its domain.
Especially for tax codes. Every tax break is a richer man's loophole.
> the article was clear about that

It never explicitly makes that point nor backs it up, which is typical Rolling Stone. It’s a fun read. But a better source is warranted.
>I don't think other companies can't replicate comebacks like that.

AMD didn't really do so much. It was TSMC that saved them.
The `ffmpeg` example is unsubtly incorrect. `ls -1` sorts by name. The system reported finding the "latest downloaded MP4 file" but actually grabbed one essentially at random.
Sure, but as long as you change the filter every 2-3 months and keep it in the fridge there's nothing to worry about.

And if you leave almost anything out at room temperature for weeks kept moist you're going to see gross growth. It's nothing specific to a filter.
color has gotten more expensive, but its not that bad. Kodak recently released Gold 200 in 120 format (the type of film that the camera in the brochure uses.) A 5 pack costs USD$45,so $9 a roll. This camera shoot 15 shots per roll so 60 cents a shot. Sure, if you're snapshotting, but usually you get a big camera like this because you're being careful and deliberate composing your photos instead of machine-gunning. You can develop color at home, but scanning is harder without software to specifically remove the oeange mask.