skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People in Finland bike everyday during winter in the snow, there's nothing really stopping you from doing the same except for winterproofing your bike (proper winter tyres basically).

I don't get that argument, if an e-bike can replace 60-70% of the trips people would use a car for, it's a very compelling car alternative.

> replacing a car with an e-bike would require a lot of sacrifices that I don't see the averge American being willing to make.

Maybe the issue is the American lifestyle, not e-bikes.
I knew this was a joke from the start, but I wish so much it would be true! I'd rather have just plain old .deb packages.
> I think Garmin's days are numbered in this area

Garmin and similar devices have proven reliability anywhere in the world.

SpaceX may prove itself to be a better proposition but it won't be anytime soon.
Show HN: A simple QR code scanner app on Android built using flutter
I have started learning flutter and created an app that is basically a code scanner supporting multiple formats. Ability to share and save scans.

Please give feedback and suggestions on improving
If it quacks like a duck..

Really, if it always produces output that conforms to "expectations of a reasoning actor", isn't that defacto a "reasoning actor"? What's the use of making the distinction?
I recently just got my self an SM7B. I love the thing. I don't do WFH so my work mates won't ever get to hear my wonderful voice on it but oh well, eventually they will! I love it. You do need a beefy interface to power it, I have an Elgato Wave XLR.
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I feel you. But the challenge is supporting ancient apis and abis over time greatly complicates the underling runtime. There’s a natural tension between flexibility for the evolving system that adapts to modern needs and techniques and hardware and one that runs ancient runtimes in perpetuity. Things have gone back and forth over time and the winner tends to be the simplest one, which is apis stay stable over some lifetime until some well advertised horizon then things stop working if they don’t make the effort to evolve. Just like I don’t expect to be able to plug in a old mainframe RLO drive into my MacBook M2Max and have it work, you can’t plausibly expect ancient runtimes to work forever. That said, a lot of effort goes into writing emulators, and I’d expect this specific software will see a second life at some point
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It's supposed to be the mad squealing from them running around on fire, if it were just the fire they'd use torches and fire arrows.
It does and it is called Mass Entity.
You can say you wouldn't mock the prophet Mohammed because you fear some Islamic terrorists might come after you. I understand that. But you can't say that's why someone else is choosing not to, as I explained - I wouldn't depict the prophet simply because I think it's disrespectful to Muslims. You shouldn't impose your reasons on someone else. Personally, I don't think you can point to 1 terrorist incident almost a decade ago and say that somehow that's changed everyone's behavior. If it has, that would be weird - we don't avoid criticizing Mohammed bin Salman or Vladmir Putin despite knowing for a fact that they've both ordered the assassination of their critics/enemies.
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Dang, I don't have a laptop, can I also run it on my desktop...?

;-)
This is great, I've found four shows I never knew about in the first 30 seconds!

Now I can add them to my endless list of things I need to do =)
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2023-04-03 Emacs News
I always get red flags when you send someone curl example and they ask for postman
I love my e-bike. I can cycle along the canal to the nearest town in one direction and the next village in the other. I can easily climb the hills that surround my home and I can get up on the hill tops to get away from it all and decompress.

There are roads with few cars weaving the countryside so I don’t find it too stressful. And the canal, while slower, is much nicer than the road that is adjacent.

I wish I could sustain 15mph on the roads but the massive potholes make it too dangerous. But traveling slow has its benefits too.

Admittedly fairly often I do miss having a car but I just rent one when I really need one
There’s a dedicated button right at your thumb that increases precision on demand. :)
Just as a counterpoint of anecdata, I saw more or less the opposite behaviour when I was at Dropbox during the pandemic -- I heard from my coworkers more than I ever did working in-office, and was better-connected to the work they were doing. I personally felt more productive, and most of my team seemed pretty productive.

The downside is that a junior teammate was probably less effective than they could have been because of a lack of in-person mentoring -- their learning was slower than I would have expected in-office, but, then, that could be this particular person rather than remote work.

I don't doubt your experience, to be clear -- I just mean to say that I think the situation is more complex than "people are less productive" or "people are more productive."
I'd recommend starting with https://mewlips.github.io/nx-remote-controller-mod/ - it's easy to install / is part of NX-KS2 mod and gives you an immediate benefit.

All the other hacks for NX1, including NX-KS2, are listed at https://github.com/ottokiksmaler/nx500_nx1_modding
I believe it's a step backwards. If I cannot open your project locally in my favorite IDE, then you are handcuffed to a specific vendor... and that will hurt you in the long run.
Yes, Big Knob Passive is literally its product name, you can search for it (edited original post to capitalize it)
I like that theory but the question still stands that why can parrots do it? And they're no monkey
> But the original statement from parent comment was: The employee bears no responsibility, and it's the manager's fault if someone isn't delivering. ??

A lot of employees feels the problems that lead to them not delivering are completely outside their control. In the cases I've seen this, they're mostly right.

Some are outside problems, true, problems outside of work. But mostly, they either have bullshit jobs, or are being sabotaged.

So they don't feel very responsible. A lot of them tried feeling responsible, and doing something, but were punished for this. Most compensate by moving on, which can mean a new job, but mostly it means just stopping to care about their job.
Are you using a mac? If so then the perfect combo is streamdeck + keyboard maestro. There are several great plugins for streamdeck that makes it easy to run keyboard maestro automations
I'm working with an ECS at $dayjob. But I'm starting to question one aspect of them. Composition of functionality makes sense. And systems acting independently and only on objects with related components makes sense.

But dynamically updating the set of components for an entity in order to "send it" to some other system, and relying on the ECS as a query database to coordinate all this, seems like questionable practice to me. I'm seeing more and more of that in our systems.

I think ECSes are becoming too dynamic, and will start to eat perf, and hide relations. Like some message bus.

Anyone else with the same gut feeling?
Mathematicians invent new ‘Einstein’ shape
Cats don't even meow or purr at each other much. They just stare each other down and, as my parents told me when I was a lil kid, they speak through mind reading. I still believe that.
Mandating a medical treatment may be in some cases ethically acceptable, but it should only be done if absolutely necessary. In our current context, this is probably about the COVID vaccines. They don't seem to stop transmission, so mandating them on populations that aren't at risk is hard to justify.

Personally I think if someone only increases risk on themselves, it's the same as refusing cancer treatment or anything else, that's their choice. If it imposes risk on others there is some threshold where mandates might make sense, but I don't think we met it with COVID, given the insufficient safety and efficacy data we had at the time of the mandates. It seems for at least some populations it is a pretty risky (relatively, not absolutely) vaccine.
not necessarily. also need to stop calling it AI because it is not. It works on existing knowledge. Anything new or unfamiliar it will not be able to help you.
Emacs in Odd Places (2020)
Huge fan of the Ergo. I pair mine with the keyboard in the same family, both of which allow you to connect to and switch between multiple computers. It’s just perfect.
We predicted this would happen when cloudfare blocked sites at times for their own political reasons. They proved to the countries of the world that they are not independent or neutral, they do take sides, they are not impartial and they will censor.

Ironically the CEO of cloudfare explicitly and publicly recognised the danger the first time he did this, and then possibly forgot as they continued to do it as they preferred to be able to censor.

My own opinion is that it's necessary and often good to censor but it's worse to pretend and lie that you are some independent platform above such things.
In New Zealand a lot of immigrants get residency via the skilled migrant category. They are generally well educated, well informed, and often reasonable well off. The skilled migrant category chooses those attributes, including a category if you are just wealthy enough! Current scoring system I think: https://rnz-ressh.cloudinary.com/image/upload/s--mt6iKVzS--/...

Also due to the number of applicants, I believe there is definitely a filter for the more capable immigrants. They might be poor, but they work hard and usually show us locals up (at least that is what I have seen). Many immigrants might not integrate well, but their kids are usually totally kiwi New Zealanders.

The same thing occurs for tradies going from NZ to the UK: it tends to be the focused hard working and highly skilled that emigrate from New Zealand.
My team and I are deploying a zero trust independently verifiable secret forwarding system on AWS Nitro Enclave, please ask me anything.

The idea is basic secret forwarding - you want to send a secret to many destinations, but find it too cumbersome to encrypt it with each destination’s public key, or you might not have all the public keys in hand.

To address this, we provide you with a code base running inside a Nitro Enclave. You have a KMS account, and you configure it to allow access only to 1) our code base hash AND 2) only when that signed code is running inside a certified Nitro Enclave.

The enclave bootstraps itself on first run by generating a key pair and encrypting the private key with a data key from KMS.

You can then send a secret to the enclave encrypted with its public key, and verifiably know exactly what’s going to happen. Only trusted code running inside the secure confines of the enclave would be able to decrypt and operate on the secret.

There’s lots of gotchas - if you make a server in the enclave remember to use a server that binds on the VSOCK AF and port; on the host run socat or a systemd socket unit to translate HTTP/TCP calls into the enclave’s VSOCK. Make sure you enrich all requests passed into the enclave with all the data and encrypted artefacts it needs to work. Make sure to send the encrypted artefacts out from the enclave and store them safely.

We do this for cinema movie distribution - filmmakers just send their movie’s encryption key to this system, and it sends it out to the public key of each projector in each screen in each theatre in the world. And big studios can verify that their billion dollar movies aren’t going anywhere other than their chosen rules.
> Postman Flows is a generation leap in software development.

that's a bit of a stretch
SCSI, SFP+ cards, FireWire audio IO interface, BD-writer (wanted to try XDCAM, but too expensive), USB Floppy disk drive :)
Leaders in marketing perhaps. For that kind of money it'd always be a bosch/shimano mid-drive for me.
> Are the people who can't spot the flaw just "looking like they are reasoning", but really they just lack the ability to reason?

Lacking relevant information or insight into a topic, isn't the same as lacking the ability to reason.

> You can't just spout that an LLM lacks reasoning without first strictly defining what it means to reason.

Perfectly worded definition available on Wikipedia:

Reason is the capacity of consciously applying logic by drawing conclusions from new or existing information, with the aim of seeking the truth.

"Consciously", "logic", and "seeking the truth" are the operative terms here. A sequence predictor does none of that. Looking at my above example: The sequence "Mike leaves the elevator first" isn't based on logical thought, or a conscious abstraction of the world built from ingesting the question. It's based on the fact that this sequence has statistically a higher chance to appear after the sequence representing the question.

How does our reasoning work? How do humans answer such a question? By building an abstract representation of the world based on the meaning of the words in the question. We can imagine Mike and Jenny in that Elevantor, we can imagine the elevator moving, floor numbers have meaning in the environment, and we understand what "something is higher up" means. From all this we build a model and draw conclusions.

How does the "reasoning" in the LLM work? It checks which tokens are likely to appear after another sequence of tokens. It does so by having learned how we like to build sequences of tokens in our language. That's it. There is no modeling of the situation going on, just stochastic analysis of a sequence.

Consequently, an LLM cannot "seek truth" either. If a sequence has a high chance of appearing in a position, it doesn't matter if it is factually true or not, or even logically sound. The model isn't trained on "true or false". It will, likely more often than not say things that are true, but not because it understands truth, but because the training data contain a lot of token sequences that, when interpreted by a human mind, state true things.

Lastly, imagine trying to apply a language model to an area that depends completely on the above definition of reasoning as a consequence of modeling the world based on observations and drawing new conclusions from that modeling.

https://www.spiceworks.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/news...
I have a hard time seeing how this is relevant for what I wrote. Can you doublecheck to be sure you didn't misunderstand the context?
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> The ruination began not long after I left Benares. Criminal gangs specializing in kidnapping and extortion had already filled the vacuum created by failed industrialization in the region. In the 1990s, mafia dons from nearby districts began to shape local politics and to build shopping malls of glass and steel near the river.

Yet BJP/modi is bad. The author very well knows how fast organized crime in the country and at the state level has continued to declined since the rise of bjp in the center and the state.
Ask HN: How to get started in building casual, practical hardware?
Hi HN!

I have a very broad understanding of software development, including the hardware that constitutes a computer. I do not know any electronics directly however, e.g. how to calculate or circuits or the like. I am familiar with gates and could build a basic theoretical CPU with them though.

For a long time I've been wanting to learn how to build something that "bridges" the software with hardware. Examples such as automatic dispensers which can be controlled from a microcontroller, turning the coffee machine from a microcontroller -- that kind of "hacky" home stuff.

Usually I never have any issues learning the basics of a hobby, but for some reason this have been very daunting for me and I never get a good intuitive grasp for it and have a hard time even getting started.

Do anyone have any success stories with learning this as a hobby? Do you need to understand circuits and electronics? People usually say "just start on a project you want to do", but with electronics I find it really hard to even know what questions to ask and get comprehensible results from it on Google. It would be nice to go through 1200 pages of The Art of Electronics, but it's hard to justify it and it's probably not the happiest/most valuable experience for me (I assume?).
I always wanted to look into the Sony Android API, but I'm too heavily invested into Samsung NX right now. Do you know what functions are exposed? Can you actually write a custom camera app for time-lapses, modify exposure and WB, or is it merely a "Share with" integration to post your photos to insta?
Sounds like they got a more pitbull with the singing and the howling, and you got more of the chihuahua with the shaking and huffing.
You need more Prompt Engineers and LLM Ops than Deep Learning engineers
It's important to note that it doesn't do "correct". It can do whatever, it doesn't care about truth. Setting the stage is very important. If you don't it doesn't know if it's doing improv on stage or academic research.

Input:

You are Math AI. An advanced pattern finding AI.

This is your sequence: 0, done, 2, free, 4, hive, ... ?

Find a sensible logical pattern and explain.

Output:

In this sequence, we can observe a pattern involving both numbers and words. The pattern alternates between a numerical value and a word that rhymes with the corresponding number. Here's the sequence again:

0, done, 2, free, 4, hive, ...

Let's analyze the pattern:

The numerical values are increasing by 2: 0, 2, 4, ...
The words rhyme with the numbers preceding them: done (one), free (three), hive (five), ...

Following this pattern, the next number in the sequence should be 6, and the word following it should rhyme with "seven". A possible word that rhymes with "seven" is "heaven". Therefore, the next two elements in the sequence are:

6, heaven
Less efficient?

Are you saying that data centres are more efficient "space wise" at producing food?

Perhaps you're looking for a better comparison.
That's right! It's a callback to Slackware, which was the first Linux distribution I used as a kid. The release notes for Slackware 4.0 ended with "Have fun! :^)" which I always thought had a great vibe.
I got Stream Deck mainly to control Teams on my work computer, which is Windows 10. Teams does not have global hotkey for mute and video toggle (or on/off) and that would be compatible with the status. (You can use Windows global mute and control video, but that status is not updated if you use Teams mute). The Teams video conference must be active for the mute button to work. The whole point of seperate keyboard is that I don't need to switch to the application. So I never got this to work well enough.
It's mostly for precision, especially in terms of avoiding confusion about the nature of evolution.
> you can go anywhere and dont need to think about parking

I don't know where you are in the UK, but I don't agree with this in the general European case. I'd be very concerned with theft. I have a friend who almost got his ebike stolen while waiting in line in London. It was attached and everything, but apparently some dude went and came back with tools. He was lucky some passerby scared the thief away.

In Paris, where I live, I'd never leave a bike unattended in the street, either. It's the main reason why I don't ride around town on my own bike: if I'm not certain that I can keep it somewhere behind a locked door, I don't bother.
That video where the husky literally says "Woof!" "Woof!"
Yeah, reduces the free-hanging cable weight. Been doing this too for decades.
I set the building on fire. I warned them many times.
tbh I didn’t have a problem with the official Windows app so I can’t say anything about that much

But under Linux I used this

https://timothycrosley.github.io/streamdeck-ui/

Works pretty well by my experience under Debian. There are some edge cases like Wayland (see the issues) though.
In an ideal world stuff would be open and secure. But that doesn't seem to be happening.
They were shaken so much they decided to bomb and shell the living crap out over every square inch of Chechnya to get it out of their system. I'm sure blowing up some of their own apartment buildings that September helped them de-stress. I'm sorry, but the Russian government isn't a bunch of children. They're not that easily rattled.

That was long after the whole mess in Bosnia, so it's not like we hadn't seen a horrible bloody genocidal conflict that the US and European countries intervened in before.
You can already return (confection) clothes for a full refund for any reason within a certain time frame (two weeks is common); even just 'I don't like it'.
Parquet is not better than csv in every useful way.

CSV, being row-oriented, makes it much easier to append data than parquet, which is column-oriented.

CSV is also supported by decades of software, much of which either predates parquet or does not yet support parquet.

CSV, being a newline-delimited text-based format, is much better suited for inclusion in a git repository than parquet.

I use parquet wherever I can, but I still reach for csv whenever it makes sense.
What is IFS?

What parts were the most useful?

Any recommended resources or books?
They are not as confortable as bikes because you're standing, so you can't really travel the same distances as an e-bike.

I honestly think the e-bike wins most of the cases, even if they're more bulky and can't easily get in public transportation.
I really wonder what was in their mind...

I wouldn't take the $15M if:

- I were very sure the eventual settlement would be much higher and relatively soon.

- I were very wealthy already and just wanted to make a statement.

- The legal costs would eat up vast majority of the $15M.
Google: "Only affected a small number of users."

This language really infers that they still don't understand why there was such a loud outcry and bad press. Even if it's just a small number of users, a company can't pull the rug on them without notice - for those small number of users there was no reasonable expectation that this would become a problem, and seemingly now it is no longer a problem.

Also if the number is so small: engage those users directly to find a compromise first.
There was one very amusing bug. The author had clearly put huge effort into building a polished interface, but then added a new button at the last minute. That button is available if you have a flag right next to a straight road. If you pressed it, then the road would be cut in two and both cut ends attached to the flag. It would otherwise save a load of time clicking round destroying the road and rebuilding it.

The bug was that the game didn't check that the road was yours. So, if an enemy had a road running along their border, you could place a flag right next to it on your side of the border, then click the button, and you'd have a new road crossing the border, and the two independent road systems would be connected. And because all the goods were fungible and distributed on a supply/demand basis, your enemy could start supplying you stuff.
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