skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked in accessible tech for the blind for a few years. It's awesome that these guys are doing something that could be genuinely useful to a swathe of society who really needs the help, and I do wish the space got more attention and money.

However, and I hope I'm wrong here, this is looking like another case of techies with a nifty looking device that will be "available soon" but, more importantly, already tried multiple times and either never caught on for practical reasons or doesn't present a real improvement over what's already out there (0 - for three such mouth trackpads).

I wish the investors and incubators that take these companies to market would do a much better job of coaching the founders on product/market research with target users so they can focus on truly novel solutions to genuine problem spaces that are ignored, but would make a real material improvement to quality if life.

As an example, in BlindTech it was the "smart cane", which is dumb for so many reasons and will never, ever catch on, but every 6 months or so... Here pops another start up with a seed of $0.1-1M to go to market! That money would be better spent just buying "dumb" canes at a volume discount and reselling them... Or, if you insist on developing a BlindTech solution, an app that could tell a user when they missed a button on their blouse or shirt (I never worked in the paraplegic space, so I'm not sure what other challenges the users face).

(0) https://www.disabled-world.com/assistivedevices/smart-mouthw...

https://spinalcordinjuryzone.com/info/17816/glassouse-worlds...

https://quad.life/
I think you are probably right and that there are many things in the environment, that also have influence. However, I would say that there are some tricks one can try:

Reading stories to children for example. If the story is interesting, the child will want to know how the story goes on. As soon as they can read, they will be tempted to grab that book and find out.
Could be, but I would imagine if they were able to certify this as a medical device that it could be covered in part or in whole by insurance in some (non-US I would imagine) countries.
> but leadership says that we can't scale further before we have microservices

These are depressingly common alarm bells.

There are companies with valuations over 12 figures which don't do microservices, so the scaling justification is dubious at best.
> The homepage of duckduckgo contains a lot of information about their products

How many people read these pages?
Open Source at AWS
Because AI development is the most dangerous thing humans have ever done? Respectfully, have you been under a rock?

"Progress" doesn't mean "every massive change to the world and humanity is good." There are undeveloped technologies that we are currently not capable of being responsible with.

Google differential technological research.
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Computers don't have zero situational awareness anymore, look at what Tesla is doing.

But even strict limiters without intelligence are commonplace, here in the EU most trucks are fitted with them. Which can be annoying because it causes trucks to overtake each other ridiculously slowly sometimes. It's not something that causes major safety issues though.
The irony is that in a normal Rails app workloads are already split by default (requests and background jobs are handled by different processes that share the same codebase).
> Because you say so?

Chill my friend, no need to get personal. We are talking about ideas. It’s OK to disagree. I am simply dismissing your initial claim. This usually happens when you present a scientific argument based on personal beliefs. If it’s not magic, then we should be able to doubt and examine it and it should eventually pass scientific muster.

> No grounding is required… It evidently managed to learn a pretty decent approximation.

Well, last time I used an LLM it suggested that I should lift the chair I am sitting in. I guess OpenAI has a lot of work to do. They have to eliminate this inconsistent world model for chairs, tables, floor, My dog, my cat and all the cats living on Mars…

edit: added a missing word.
> the asphalt and keeping it clean around it.

In Germany, we already pay taxes for this exact thing, so that shouldn't be factored into the cost of the charging itself.
Simulated terrible drivers cut AV testing
Global military expenditure reaches new record high in 2022
There’s an easy way to do this. Buy out the contract.

Companies offer foolish lifetime packages all the time. I think it was American Airlines offered lifetime unlimited first class flights. They can’t claw this product away from the few remaining die hard users, and they only sold a few dozen of the things.

I expect the reason for wanting out of the deal is the same.

Airline seats and supercharging time share a scheduling problem. Having even a few customers with unlimited rights to a limited resource creates intractable scheduling conflicts.
Right. Presumably, they’re worried that some Tesla owners are being dissuaded from trading in for a new Tesla, because they would lose their unlimited supercharging. This offer is an attempt to soften that blow.
Things like local hardware access require things like entitlements, ongoing consent, external accountability, and at least rudimentary protections from supply chain attacks - all things the web is historically bad at managing.

Web Extensions for an example have all been pushed into stores for auditing purposes, because otherwise their functionality can and has changed via automatic updates, going from useful functionality to horrible privacy trainwrecks.

> Sure, I agree, not every site should have access to these sensors/capabilities. There are privacy risks of turning them on. But they're also excellent capabilities, that really help users do interesting things.

Sure, but they are still harmful. For instance, there is no body that says which websites are allowed to manage USB because they are Arduino Maker sites dispatching firmwares, and which ones are not allowed to because they'll attempt to zero day some mobile phone OS while it charges. And there is no technical protection against the former site suddenly becoming the latter via acquisition or exploit.

This is why the native app security and privacy models are fundamentally different from the web models - a store can require entry into a private contract by a real-world entity who is accountable (potentially criminally), of software under audit control.

Websites can be by random people outside any legal accountability.

On iOS, one of the major differences is that there is no expectation that people will doing ongoing management of granted permissions to a website. For this reason, things like geolocation access have to be re-granted periodically. This is also a reason why push notifications (as a more durable permission) require the PWA to be "promoted" to an app on the Home Screen on iOS.
Cheap near-realtime data ingestion and transformation pipelines on AWS
I don't agree with many things he's said, however, having his his own opinions or expressing them, or running his companies how he believes will make them a success doesn't strike me as bad behaviour. Certainly, he's excelled going his way so far.
I wonder what % of this value is based on luxury perception versus manufacturing assets, real estate, etc.

Does the idea of luxury ever change rapidly?
It does say a lot about your judgement if you value a piece of paper more than 10 years of someone's work in the industry
> or the workarounds that had to be implemented for the lack of PC keys (Home/End/PgUp/PgDown)

Those keys are not lacking, but on laptop keyboards they are hidden behind the fn+arrow keys. But they also are not workarounds or replacements for those keys. On macOS Home and End scroll the document to the beginning or end, not the cursor to the beginning or end of the line. That can be done with cmd-arrow.
Maybe ABRP isn’t aware? If I route a Tesla 3 base, it sends me through Cumberland. I’ve also had it route me through Hagerstown with non-Tesla. In both cases, it wasn’t charge time that was the problem - it was getting to the charger.

https://abetterrouteplanner.com/?plan_uuid=8c9a884e-0429-42c...
The equivalent OS for desktops is the Windows 11 Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) release, which is what you described but with desktop pricing and a few minor differences.

I once used an older LTSC version for a virtual desktop fleet because it’s a lot better behaved at scale. You don’t want to use a “normal” release because Microsoft will randomly push a critical 4 gigabyte update… to Minecraft. When 60K VMs update at once on a single SAN array, it’s not pretty.

That, or Microsoft will randomly decide to install TikTok by default on virtual desktops used from terminals in operating theatres.

I had a Microsoft consultant review our system and I swear his report said “we don’t recommend LTSC, you should use Current Branch” at least fifteen times.

That’s when I realised that there was some serious KPI pressure within Microsoft to get users onto the full-telemetry, riddled-with-ads version.
Ironically, one of the qualities of the Mac is the consistency of the interface styling and UX irrespective of how specifically the task bar works, while Microsoft just keep adding layer on top of layer so that depending on which bit of the system you are in you get UI styles ranging from win11 through win2000 (plus, if you dig, a whole bunch of pixel art icons from win98).
There is possibly a small penalty for the intermittent, high-power use.
Have you worked with Go codebases before?

Standard practice is to wrap all your entrypoints - the start of a web request, the moment you begin to run a job - in a defer recover() which will catch panics.

Sadly, recover won’t apply to any subsequently goroutine’d work. That means even if your entrypoints recover, if anything go func()s down the call stack, then if that function then panics it will bring down the entire process.

We were aware of this but ended up including one by accident anyway. It’s very sad to me that you can’t apply a global process handler to ensure this type of thing doesn’t happen, but to my knowledge that isn’t possible.

Worth mentioning Go doesn’t really encourage ‘frameworks’, and most Go apps compose together various libraries to make their app, rather than using something that packages everything together. Failures like this are an obvious downside to not having the well reviewed nuts-and-bolts-included framework to handle this for you.
Sometimes I wish I was in the Americas because it is the center of technological development on this planet but I also like free healthcare and laid back life in Australia, which can feel stagnating at times.
If we analyse the sentiment a bit, we discover that there was no point asking for feedback - the course was already locked in and there was nothing to change. The feedback was useless.

Providing feedback has some risk for employees (maybe they'll get blowback) and it is easy for a manager to "ask for feedback" as a power play because they just want to show they can ignore it. It isn't nice to ask unless the intent is to treat the feedback respectfully and act on it.

I can imagine getting surprising feedback that can't be acted on. But that should be genuinely unexpected.
We have a similar setup with TS/Node.js app and it is very easy to work with.
I don’t think there are many other car brands who provide regular software updates for their 2012 models.
It is when you consider that not even google has accomplished this with android.
Indeed. Whole companies such as Crowdstrike exist just to sit in between automated tools and heavy-handed action based on tool output.
It probably makes more sense to account the costs for building superchargers in car sales and profits, rather than the electricity costs. More cars than chargers, much higher profit margin and it gives brand value driving future sales.

Although I don't think the price has to be exactly the same as regular consumer electricity price, it should cover some maintenance.
I think it makes sense that drawing energy from the grid at a high rate costs more than drawing the same amount of energy from the grid at a slower rate. There is a real cost to supporting that high rate of current draw.
Might be interesting to consider whether you live in a bubble.
Are all of the car parking spots on public roads in Germany? Here at least the chargers are usually at some privately owned and maintained parking lots.
They had a huge failure with Surface Neo and the OS (and the taskbar/start menu) they were making for it Windows 10x. After Neo was cancelled they tried to retool 10x for ordinary laptops. After that failed they took the crappy start/taskbar meant for dual screen/one app per screen devices, slapped it on top of latest insider version of Windows 10, introduced arbitrary cpu cutoff (so essentially screwing a large part of Windows insiders) and called it Windows 11.
Except thay the mars atmosphere contains considerable amoints of dust and weather. Earth's atmosphere at these altitudes is bone dry and homogeneous. Presssures may be similar but the optical properties are totally different.
The reads like an elder abuse story, except the guy was 46.
hey ive got a short guide for removing shorts and other addictive stuff. Check it out https://www.mattpengelly.com/posts/taming-youtube-2023
But is this fixed in win11? From what others tell me the win11 is actually just another skin on the same code. You can still find plenty of UI styles from previous windows in win11
knew a few guys working on an eye tracking mouse (clicking was still manual)

pretty cool
Can't vouch for the whole group but the outside Europe part is 100% not true for Louis Vuitton which is by far the biggest brand in the group. Obviously not true for the wines and spirits and retailing too.

> The Louis Vuitton leather goods collections are exclusively produced in our workshops located in France, Spain, Italy and the United States.

https://en.louisvuitton.com/eng-nl/faq/products/eu-where-are...

Edit: Of course my Europe comment is not quite right as some made in the US too.
I appreciate the keep your monolith argument. It seems like a lot of people have the attitude of let's start with a monolith, and switch to microservices when the monolith becomes painful.

Having seen how much effort goes into getting microservices running well for any non trivial setup, I wonder what could have been achieved if 25% of that resource had gone into improving the monolith.
Getting software updates for a car AT ALL is _really_ impressive.

Yes, they update the maps every now and then when you take it to the service and when they remember to plug the laptop in for the map update. But an actual update that adds new features is next to unheard-of.

Actual new features beyond map updates for a 10+ year old car? Never been done before by any brand ever.
This implies that having other cultures around you somehow destroys your own culture, which it doesn’t
If you’re concerned about the EU speed limiting directive it’s so permissive you can override the control just by using your gas pedal.
(No comment on the how this is different to e-bike and scooters where hard limits are mandated despite the much lower speeds and masses involved)
Android vs. a 3 ton vehicle?
That is just factually untrue. Most chargers are .52€/kWh right now, with a 10 cent surcharge at peak times, which is 4pm to 8pm at all the places I’ve been recently.
They won't be leaked, though. With a large western coompany like NXP, especially being that it's one with crypto-related business units, it's basically guaranteed that the keys will be in an HSM. There's always a slight chance they're inept and the private key is sitting in someone's home directory and they could decide to leak it, but in this case the chances seem very low.

Might have better luck with the Taiwanese hardware vendors - as I recall a major Taiwanese PC motherboard maker got hacked recently and UEFI secure boot keys were taken, so they probably weren't storing them in an HSM and don't have proper security practices in place for cryptographic material.
I've had to contact the carrier to get a new phone approved for a SIM here in the states, so in my mind it is a bit of a wash there.

On the flip-side, T-Mobile has an app to add an eSIM to "test drive" their service on your phone for free, and I look forward to the day I can buy travel SIMs in advance on my couch at home.
Are you doing “extreme” micro services? A esperare database for each micro service, one endpoint for each microservice etc.. or the slightly more sensible - let’s split the monolith up into obviously independent system (very much like the article talks about).
"digital-cp.com" is kind of an unfortunate domain name.
Unsurprising and honestly not the craziest thing. “Infinite” and perpetual liabilities are tricky from an accounting point of view and also hard to model accurately.
It's got an annoying interface where it shows the first however many and you can click "show more"...over and over and over as it only adds a few more each time.

I'm hoping someone will post a breakdown of how many by country at some point.
It's a hard problem that token space only partially solve, because with filling the token space to the brim with documents will dilute the instructions in the prompt.

One may argue that we'd need a separate channel for the instructions, but it would make harder to do anything but zero shot question and answer.

I think it's likely that systems with metadata for tagging sources, tasks separately from the human and ai interaction will eventually emerge. The gptchat api already works somewhat that way, but it isn't following the structure that we'll, probably because it was a later tune and not something built in the model from the beginning.
But then inf, e.g. calculated by 1/0 would be the largest number
I could swear the sky was reddish as I went to bed last night, in Stockholm... it was rainy, but as I turned off all lights I noticed an unfamiliar, slight red tint. I thought that maybe it was some neighbour's light reflecting (probably was) but seeing the Tasmanian skies in the photos made me think it might've been Aurora as the color is very similar!

I haven't seen anything in the news, but apparently some cities in Russia also reported Aurora sightings pretty far south.
its easy if you use the right extension, i demonstrate it here https://www.mattpengelly.com/posts/taming-youtube-2023
SelectaDNA
Not OP, but same here. I feel I am a sentient person only when fully concentrated. But when relaxed, it's stochastic autopilot, both in speech and actions

I believe I've seen an article touching this topic here, long before GPT. Will link if I find it
Audio signal processing plays an important role in various applications such as speech recognition, music information retrieval, and speech synthesis. Among them, Mel spectrogram is a commonly used frequency domain feature representation method, which describes the sensitivity of the human auditory system to frequency. In this article, we will conduct performance tests on three commonly used audio processing libraries - audioflux, torchaudio, librosa, and essentia - to evaluate their efficiency in computing Mel spectrograms.
Superchargers are usually not located on the street, but at Autobahn gas stations. I'm not sure who pays for the asphalt and cleaning around there. I would have assumed it's private property and the oil company usually pays for that. I could be wrong though.
Just FYI: you can use hyperlinks etc. in the BetterTouchTool expanded snippet. You just need to select the appropriate "Paste Type". You can also enter raw HTML and then select the "Paste Format: Interpret entered text as HTML source" option. When pasted it will then output the formatted text instead of the HTML source.
Time to reconsider using 1Password. Cloud only was a stretch but also adding telemetry getting a bit much now
FWIW with some of the bigger sets they seemed to make it needlessly complex and tedious. You have to assemble little pointless pieces together that they could have easily delivered as one piece. If they really do charge per piece then it makes sense to me now.
You're paying for the convenience of charging at up to 350kW speeds.

If you want cheaper charging, you can use a schuko plug at home or a 22kW charger at a store or parking garage.
I remember reading a while back a study (or theory, or SomeJunkLikeThat™) where dolphins (and possibly whales?) may very well communicate with other dolphins directly in 3D via their sonar capabilities, so that right there could be yet another need for 3D input (and output) in a whole different way than might be expected, presuming they hope to use this idea with dolphins and other sonar capable sea mammals. And then you have bees that communicate with each other through complicated "dances". Fun stuff…
As a point of clarification, this is _not_ for respirators, but for CPAP devices.

Incidentally, this has been awful for CPAP users: Pandemic supply chain issues resulted in short supply of CPAP devices, and combined with a huge spike in demand due to these faulty Philips units, many people were left with a choice to use CPAP devices which had the potential to expose them to carcinogenic foam, or to go without their CPAP, which obviously carries its own severe health risks.
Indeed: https://gist.github.com/motorailgun/cc2c573f253d0893f429a165...

Of course you can also do a cursed setup with 2 partitions: windows on Btrfs and Linux on NTFS just to maximize the chaotic nonsense.
There's a survival show called Alone that recorded several seasons on Vancouver Island. One thing I learned from that show is not to underestimate this island: The rain, the wildlife, the wild!

Most of the seasons can be watched for free, now: https://play.history.com/shows/alone#episodes
It used to be true, at least last year autumn: https://www.golem.de/news/elektroautos-tesla-erhoeht-superch...
It comes down to how you want to do concurrency I guess? Processes? Threads? Event loop? Is there a clear winner? I often see debates or even flamewars
about what is the best approach.
Yes and no.

Compare:

>The system boots from the "system" partition, and then the system boots the operating system in the "boot" partition.

With:
The operating system boots from the "boot" partition, and then it is loaded from the "system" partition.

Or:

The boot files are in the "boot" volume, the operating system files are on the "system" volume.

In any case, you shouldn't put a folder containing the BCD (Boot Configuration Data) in a \boot folder and the BOOTMGR on a volume that you call "system" or you don't call the "other" volume "boot".

About SysWow64/System32 sure it has been done for compatibility reasons but while System32 had to be kept, the name of the "new" folder could have been better chosen, like (say) Old32Sys, or Legacy32, or similar.

Of course both represent not a problem, the naming is not intuitive and allows for a quick laugh, that's all.
The factory in Switzerland was closed shortly after that in 2002. Lego really struggled in the late 90s / early 00s.
Give the monkeys a few hundred years after the genetic experiments make them super-intelligent and they take over the world and yeah … probably …
Seems like a pretty big problem that you don't know when any of your data is valid. What if every single whale or cat speaks a different language? It's not like animals have English class.
Also a gothamchess viewer I see :)
Levy's indeed always making a sport of it to have the most clickbaity titles and thumbnails, but the chess content is really really top notch. (especially for low ELO players like myself)