skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not exactly sarcasm. From a purely theoretical perspective vinyl actually does have a higher dynamic range and wider frequency response than CD. The dynamic range of CD is fixed by its 16-bit format to ### decibels (I'm not going to bother looking it up). Whereas _in theory_ there is no limit to the dynamic range of vinyl except for the size of the atoms in the needle, which is much higher than a CD. In theory. Similarly, CD's are physically incapable of producing sounds with a frequency higher than 22kHz, whereas a vinyl record can in theory wiggle that needle much faster than that with atom-sized variations.
But in reality this is absurd.

So I'm mocking the die-hards who think the old technology is better. Because even though the vinyl-lovers have a point in theory, in practice they're just wrong.

I assert the same is true here. I assert that most people prefer interpolation in both space and time to "preserving the original content". If you play a DVD on your 4k television, do you really want big perfectly rectangular blocks where the pixel boundaries are? And do you want those staying exactly the same for 33ms and then jumping to the next set of square blocks? Cuz that's the original content. I think most people would prefer to have something intelligently try to infer what the original content likely was before it got sampled (in space and time). Then you get smooth edges and smooth motion.

Feel free to disagree with me. Important people do - I know there are big names in cinema who think 24fps is the best for some reason and it hurts their extremely well trained eyes to see smoother motion. But any gamer will tell you that higher frame rates look more realistic and natural and just better. I like my tv's frame interpolation because it looks smooth and buttery to me.

But I assert my opinion (that having software interpolate both space and time) is what most people in the world prefer, which is why the tv makers do it.
And the friends you work with can refer you to another job while you all still cowork.
The same job as every public company CEO: Keep their job by prioritizing the stock price, board happiness and keeping activist shareholders from causing problems
Was that typical for the tour area?
Tangible assets will survive the transition to the next monetary system as they can be revalued. Government debt will go to zero. I'm not sure that this is a get rich opportunity, rather a try-not-to-lose-your-life-savings event.
Personally I am a die hard tooter.
They already have one -- it's the iOS spotlight Web search
It remains to be seen what it ships with, but you can add films and coatings to the glass to make it much more resistant. I don’t think that would affect certification, although I could be wrong.
A visual exploration of the softmax function
Your numbers for your situation is way nicer than mine. I live in the California Bay Area. Right now Regular 87 octane Gas is $4.8/gal and electricity is $0.38/kwh.

Nissan Leaf advertises 105 MPGe which is 3.12 mi/kwh.

10,000 miles / 32mpg * $4.8/gal = $1,500 a year for Corolla fuel
10,000 miles / 3.12mi/kwh * $0.38/kwh = $1,218 a year for Leaf electricity

This is ignoring things like charging losses but also oil and filter changes.
No doubt by pushing the clients to use inappropriate vendor-locky-in serverless tech stacks that are inappropriate for the workloads.
It's single-click if you use Lutris.
Google looks to have 100 billion in cash. IBM has been slowly shrinking for years trying to buy into new markets and maybe they have with red hat finally. Google doesn’t have the amount of employees ibm had either. They may shrink and loose search but have a long run way to buy or pivot. Microsoft is back on top after 10 years in the 2000s in their lost decade. Apple crashed out at least twice and came back, once because of cash and low debt. I would not count google out just because of their cash position and getting rid of their ceo probably would be a good first step.
Or.. use non-conductive coated wire to wire up every possible path, with all the wires connected at a start and finish point, and then see which wire gets hot first.

It's not going to save you any time, since wiring up every path is basically the same as brute forcing every path anyway, but it would work.
The automatic transition would not cause additional harm in the compromise scenario and would in fact marginally help. A client which has not got an out-of-band revocation/update of the host key is subject to complete mitm'ing and impersonation either way: tricking it into accepting a new fraudulent host key doesn't actually make this scenario worse, it only means the first attacker locks out his competition :). (An out-of-band key update still fixes the client.) OTOH, if the client happens to connect to the authentic host first, then it is saved. So, no net harm, marginal net benefit.
I highly recommend you go read a summary of the Indian constitution before reading comments on here. I will offer my own opinions on the matter, but you'll likely find that my answers are in stark contrast to some others on this thread.

The Indian constitution (and its amendments) is one of the most liberal and social-justice oriented constitutions of any nation in the world. It was primarily drafted by independent India's most famed social justice proponent: Dr. Ambedkar and the blessings of Gandhi and Nehru, who'd fit right into the sociology departments of academic universities in the US in 2023.

In broad strokes it attempts to empower states with federalism on social issues and governance, but central economic and national policy. It tries to allow social insularity of communities, linguistic or religious. So, religious minorities get to have their own personal civil law (marriage, inheritance) and independent institutions (religious schools, churches, mosques, hospitals, etc) and land ownership. On the other hand, it is paternalistic towards the Indic religions (Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, and partially sikhs) taking full ownership (for better or for worse) of issues pertaining to those religions. Similarly, its individual states get a lot of power over how bills are implemented on that ground, meaning that a strong central govt (like Modi's) is still quite weak and can be completely blocked by a uncooperative state govt. (TN, Kerala, WB, Delhi, etc).

India was formed as an insecure nation, desperate to show how secular it was, as a counter weight to Pakistan's religious fundamentalism.

Here are a few accommodations in the constitution that stand out:

* Article 334 [1] of the Indian constitution explicitly grants affirmative action in all govt. institutions to those that belong to lower castes.

* The judiciary is FULLY independent. This means, that unlike the US, the Indian Govt. cannot pick judges, with the judiciary internally handling issues of selecting judges all the way up to the Supreme court. [2]

* The standard fundamental rights. They almost entirely focus on protection of minorities. [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-fifth_Amendment_of_the_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiciary_of_India#The_Constit...

[3] https://www.clearias.com/fundamental-rights/
So assuming your code is 5 times worse that still fits within one rack

> I'm saying those folks are atypical)

Calling "write not shit code in language that's not dog slow" "atypical" is sad state of our industry.

Also in many cases you can get a lot out of caching if you do it smartly.
Are you drilling 1/8" holes or driving in small screws a couple of times a year? The batteries that came with your tool should last many years.

Every type of user wants less expensive batteries and more opportunities to save money.

What about consumers who use cordless blowers? An increasing number of towns and cities have ordinances banning gas engine blowers.

Cordless chainsaws are increasingly popular with homeowners, and their power requirements can be very different from those of a cordless drill.

Every brand now has cordless trimmers, mowers, and more.

A universal interface would all but require most users to start having to geek out over battery selection unless they stuck with their tool brand's options.

Even if all the technical hurdles are knocked out of the way, what's to stop brands from designing their tools to only deliver their full potential when powered by their own batteries? At least one brand already does this.

So you might not care about geeking out, but what happens when you buy the wrong battery and your cordless mower can't cut tall grass when it can with the batteries it was sold with?
Shout out to nom, a fantastic parser combinator framework for rust.

Love the result, and can't wait to see it in multiple colors.
"Nintendo can do anything they want" is technically true even if they signed a license agreement with you, because they have a billion dollars to spend on lawyers. That doesn't change that they made an implicit agreement with the community by saying 'do this and you're good' and then issuing arbitrary takedowns on people who followed the rules.

This reign of terror stuff is part of how they sell licenses, presumably.
GPT-4 seems capable of creating CycL output from a text prompt. It might be an interesting guard against hallucination - much like a student being asked to show their work, you're forcing the LLM to go through the steps of framing the problem logically, in a way that's interpretable by the teacher independent from the student's thought processes.

That said, it certainly seems like there hasn't been recent work on hosting the OpenCyc knowledge graph in a reasonably modern way, much less the more recent closed-source work by Cycorp (https://cyc.com/). And it's likely GPT-4 doesn't know the full capabilities beyond whatever tutorials were on the web at the time of its training. If I were Cycorp I'd be seriously looking at developing this kind of hybrid model, with an agent model having access to recall their closed-source examples, as a paid cloud offering; there would likely be many who would desire this best-of-both-worlds.
These kind of comments have me update my priors so I downgrade them in relevance. Two days ago we were talking about AGI and Altman was letting himself be cuddled, knowing full well it was mindless hype. Now he's trolling the other way. Ok. My weights have been updated.
> Unfortunately for them, right now Bard is unambiguously worse.

FWIW, I tried dingosity's example (my prompt was "Can I get a list of QUIC implementations?") and the answer I received was unambiguously better than a Google Search for "list of QUIC implementations".

If Bard had provided direct links to the sources the model used to come up with the answer so I didn't have to subsequently Google Search for them in turn, it would've been a near-perfect search transaction.
They would be subject to federal criminal contempt of court charges. Lying during discovery is serious business.
People frequently reference WW3 in regards to Russia.

They can't get through eastern Ukraine. What world war? They have no means (and the mediocre means they had before the beginning of the war in Ukraine, have been slashed in half, to say nothing of vast degradation of still quasi-operating hardware), they'd get stomped by NATO within a month and throw the nuclear card on the table to end it.

Iran? Trivial to contain within their own borders, and we'd ignite an armed revolution by flowing massive amounts of weapons into Iran.

Belarus? Barely has a military worth mentioning in this context.

And there's good reason to be skeptical of China joining Russia in a world war.
Ask HN: Will you stick with Android/Pixel if/when Apple allows “sideloading”?
I've been a long time Android user and supporter as it is the only legitimate mobile operating system these days that allows me to install applications outside of a walled garden. Once this is no longer the case, I fear I'll be eager to jump ship to the OS written in proper C (I suppose Obj. C would be more accurate) without the encumbrance and tech debt of Java at its core, and as much as it pains me, all the good mobile UX patents, such as springy menus (without graphical scaling) and proper page turning + text scaling in the Books app.

I have to admit, as a very long term Android supporter, that there are a lot of desirable things about iOS that Android can't or simply doesn't have. I also have to come to terms with the fact that "sideloading" is the one killer feature Android has that has prevented me from using iOS in any meaningful capacity.

I'm putting sideloading in quotes because I feel like it's been used recently as a slightly disingenuous term to frame what computer users used to simply call "installing" as some kind of hack, or "loading" software around the "side" of the garden wall. In the past, "sideloading" was simply called "installing". But that's a completely different topic that I'll leave to another day to get into.
Yep, agreed! I'm not even so sure the Miller test makes much sense:

```
(1) whether the average person applying contemporary community standards would find the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest;
(2) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law; and
(3) whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
```

I feel like all of this is downstream of the same trans panic that's going on right now. And all of it is exactly the same as the 70s and 80s gay/satanic panics.
If it is not a get rich opportunity there would be no incentive to push for it.
Los Alamos – Goodbye Black Hole (2022)
A (classical) analog computer is not a quantum computer and various conjectures on complexity say that they should all be efficiently (polynomial-time) simulated by a probabilistic Turing machine.
> Why wouldn't we have already seen spiking networks contribute something by now?

This presupposes we've explored this space thoroughly, and we haven't. When everything you do with NNs improves results (how it mostly is now), that means not enough people are trying out ideas and new things.

I don't think you can invoke EMH-like reasoning quite yet. Give us a nice long winter like physics has had, and then we can use this heuristic.
>>an EV is still cheaper

> I can't buy an EV for $10,000

Again, cheaper with respect to total cost of ownership. The point remains that that TCO is cheaper even if you can't find some super cheap ones in up front costs (yet).

> recharges in less than 10 minutes

May I suggest a horse? If this is your qualification for an EV you are tilting against windmills.

> Oh yeah, and I don't have to spend an hour per week waiting for it to charge it because it holds what is, at current burn rates, a month's worth of fuel

I'm really confused by your math here: EVs hold on average a "month's worth of fuel" for you so you'd need to charge it every week? Isn't that just an hour a month charging time then if it is a "month's worth of fuel" you are charging?

> Cars that run on gas are extremely reliable even past 100,000 miles, and have been for the past 20 years now (even the American-made ones). I give worse odds to the electric power packs that by their nature are cumulatively damaged when refueled; exhibit A being the Leaf, of course.

Plenty of Leafs have already made it past 100,000 miles on their first and only battery. Statistically the number of replaced batteries in Leafs is insignificant.

Plus, recent Leafs finally have active battery temperature management. The excuse of "but Leaf battery degradation" is on its way out, sorry.
The Making of Teehan+Lax: The Story of Our Company
That’s true. Just… 1965. That’s barely “history.”

This is all so incredibly young and brittle.
This is where it's more helpful to talk about specific nations' laws. Books about making bombs are not banned in the USA, for example.

Here are the books "Improvised Munitions Black Book" and "U.S. Army Unconventional Warfare Devices: Boobytraps" from Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Improvised-Munitions-Black-Book-Unabr...

Originally created for soldiers in guerrilla warfare situations, this handbook demonstrates the techniques for constructing weapons that are highly effective in the most harrowing of circumstances. Straightforward and incredibly user-friendly, it provides insightful information and step-by-step instructions on how to assemble weapons and explosives from common and readily available materials. Over 600 illustrations complement elaborate explanations of how to improvise any number of munitions from easily accessible resources.

https://www.amazon.com/U-S-Unconventional-Warfare-Devices-Bo...

Some of the materials discussed in this special forces guide to boobytraps include:

- Disguise boobytraps in common items.

- Disguise boobytraps in structures such as window frames and stairways.

- Disguise boobytraps in outdoor areas, in bushes and underground.

- Learn the mechanics of the various types of firing devices, detonators, fuses, cords, adapters, blasting caps, and lighters.

Actually following instructions in these books may lead to felony charges in all 50 states. But writing or reading about them is perfectly legal. The same goes for reading and writing about making scheduled drugs, poisons, and other controlled items.
I think it's speculation on how an active ongoing invasion would change the nature of whatever cyberattacks are occurring
Do you really get cancelled for violence? Aren't plenty of famous rappers known for having been involved in crimes? At least here in Sweden it became a discussion after public service gave awards to gang members. To get cancelled, you basically have to do something sex related or have the wrong opinion.
> Suppose that you assigned everyone an 19 digit number. What is the probability that two human beings would have the same number?

If I assigner the numbers, I would carefully print 8 billion or so slips with different numbers, and place them in an urn. For each person, I'd draw from the urn, and then the probability of me assigning the same number to two humans is related to IT failures during generation. How many dollar bills share a serial number unintentionally?
I've enjoyed the below over-the-top presentation many times. It does the tumultuous life of Caravaggio justice

Simon Schama - The Power of Art - Caravaggio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiH_ootDtTs
Well, I think about Harvards endowment, and that they could dramatically expand their acceptance rate and pay for everyone and still have many billions left over. There's still this exclusivity to higher education that I think is a big factor in keeping people out.
The timing is better since they get more back for their buck, similar to how they scheduled Trump's hearing for December at the start of the campaign season, rather than as soon as possible. It gives them more time to prepare, and to do military exercises. War requires planning, you can't just flip a switch and go to war.
This is amazing.

The implications of this will result in some very interesting restrictions in corporate networks.
So your embrace of nihilism is total. Here are a couple of books worth reading:

- On Tyranny: https://bookshop.org/p/books/on-tyranny-twenty-lessons-from-...

- The Road to Unfreedom: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-road-to-unfreedom-russia-eu...
Speaking of moving goalposts...

What about the hyperloop? Was supposed to be a vacuum-sealed tube with driverless pods that go 600 mph. -> tunnel with driverless cars that go 60mph -> tunnel with driver cars that go 30 mph... for a bit... until they hit traffic.

Edit: How do you feel about the California High-Speed-Rail Project?
> Tangible assets will survive the transition to the next monetary system as they can be revalued.

Assuming “the next monetary system” retains the same property system, whhich it might, or might not, and assuming not only that the basic system is the same but that there isn’t a one-time compulsory change of ownership of the assets in question, which is also possible.

Of course, the idea that the US Government is seeking WWIII to prevent the reinstallation of the previous President and install a new global financial system under the IMF and UN is, well, beyond ridiculous, but if I was insane enough to believe such a paranoid fever dream, I wouldn’t also believe that the new system being imposed would both retain the existing system and specific assignment of property rights. That’s just a weirdly calibrated level of trust in the government that the scenario is otherwise so paranoid about.
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train the entire model for a single question.
> This rewrite is still even more work-in-progress than the original one and still does not support block devices.

Unfortunate (if understandable; none of this is criticism!). What does it do for disk, then? Or is it early enough to just not solve that and only use a bare kernel+initrd?
I'm holding out for the MadAtMama model.
> Completely agree that every program (domain model) is in essence a little language.

You almost called them by name: domain-specific language(s).
More layers, more abstractions, more divergence, more interoperability problems, more vulnerabilities.

There's already mature CA support in OpenSSH

https://dev.to/gvelrajan/how-to-configure-and-setup-ssh-cert...

And even OpenSSH 8.2+ supports FIDO2 built-in.

Can add TOTP, FIDO2/u2f, ldap, or kerb with pam also.
Hacker News posters too
I'm constantly telling this to people who don't know what I'm talking about and don't know why I brought it up at a wedding, but I think it's inevitable.
> The implications of this will result in some very interesting restrictions in corporate networks.

Why? Browsers are already capable of running arbitrary code
You're not wrong, you've been suckered by advertising. Watch the video.

The water is there, horse. Drink it.
HN's link dejunkifier seems to remove any number at the start assuming it's a list post. It can be put back if OP edits it.
Hi! I lead Product at Together. We will be releasing a full suite of models trained on this data starting with the first models in the coming weeks. We will release base models and instruction-tuned models. All of the models will be released under the Apache 2.0 license, allowing commercial use.
I want to acknowledge that I know many people who have H1B visas because they legitimately could not be replaced by any worker with a US residency. I wish nothing but the best for them and I hope that any visa reform makes it easier for them to stay and work in the US as long as they'd like.

But as the source article touches on, most H1B visas are sponsored "staffing firms", whose business model pretty straightforwardly involves cheating the system. Could Disney World lay off their tech workers, then turn around and sponsor H1Bs at a lower rate? As you correctly identified, no, that's not allowed. But what they can and famously did do in 2015 is:

* Lay off their tech workers.

* Pay Cognizant and HCL, two staffing firms, to provide substitutes at a lower cost.

* Allow Cognizant and HCL to sponsor H1Bs at a lower rate, arguing (perhaps honestly!) that they've tried and failed to recruit American residents.

Given the prevalence of this business model, and how openly contemptuous it is of the intent of the H1B program, it seems fair to wonder how above-board the program is in general. If you ask a lawyer for help running your H1B recruitment program, are they going to walk you through how to avoid hiring H1Bs unless absolutely necessary? Or are they going to help you figure out all the tricks to get more people so you can hit your headcount goals?
I'm sure they'll find a way to confuse consumers with that the way they have with "Made in USA", vs "Manufactured in USA", vs "Assembled in USA", vs "Distributed/Produced by" labels or even worse the "designed by" labels (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Made_in_...)
Rust foundation apologizes regarding trademark policy
It's the art of bowing to the East without mooning the West. Or was, rather, since Putin finally got the ass end.