skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tradeoff isn't just about documentation, but complexity. A tedious, manual build process is still tedious and manual if it's self-documenting, but a more streamlined build process without as much documentation might still be less of a burden overall. It's also not like Make doesn't have its own thorny edges too; one person's self-documenting use of a feature is another person's inscrutable magic invocation. If you're working on a team project and already require a certain level of expertise in the ecosystem you're using, it's arguable that using the native build system (warts and all) will be a better tradeoff.
It hasn't been killed off. Microsoft has confirmed publicly that Windows 11 will have an LTSC release.

Curious what they will do about Microsoft Store apps in such a release. It's becoming more of a pressing concern. Maybe Windows 11 LTSC will have a "filtered flathub" situation similar to Red Hat / Fedora?
Contrarian opinion ahead. We live in a very unique period of history - a bubble really - in which governments are not able to intercept certain communications or decrypt certain records, even with the full force of the law behind them.

While I recognize and appreciate, on a personal level, the freedom that this provides me, freedom exists only to the extent that there is a government enforcing boundaries on freedom to prevent it from turning into anarchy. I'm afraid it's not going to be hard, over the years, to find enough pedophiles and terrorists to make a compellingly popular case for more regulation of encryption.
Archived version: https://archive.is/SuAf2
If possible, collect fingerprint information through a side channel such as WebRTC or WebTransport, and use the info to correlate payments. Or, if the attack is executed from a non-browser environment, you can pattern match the order of TLS cipher suite to that sent by the attacker and block them straight away.
Yeah, and its a waste. Nvidia runs the A100s in a relatively inefficient power band (300W or 400W), and tons of power is burned on the interconnect huge LLMs need to fit in memory.

And the servers cost a fortune, with a huge profit margin.

Its not sustainable... in fact, its probably less efficient than the crypto mining boom, as miners were downclocking GPUs (and building simple ASICs) to run at more efficient voltages.
This is a you problem. It is not an everybody problem.

Sure, there are other people who struggle in the same way, but your experiences are not universal, and you are arrogantly preaching at people as if they are—as if because you couldn't do this, obviously no one can.
Of all products, a book written by an LLM raises the "fake review suspicion" index in my mind.
> please don't compute derivatives as (f(x_i+1)-f(x_i))/delta

Isn't this exactly what finite differences means? Sure, it's not optimal in all respects, but it's incredibly general and easy to remember.
We don't have anything to nag us, but the grandparents and aunts and uncles all have Nixplay[0] frames that we regularly update with photos of the kids.

[0] https://www.nixplay.com/
Leadership is always busy. No way I’m try to impart anything else on them.
At Amazon's scale, chances are that for any product someone decides against because of reviews, a competing product is going to get bought instead - also on Amazon.

What would however be a big problem for Amazon is the marketplace becoming unusable and untrustworthy in the eye of users.
Bullet Train is so great. Even for non-saas apps, the sensible defaults make things so much easier. Things like adding new webhook handlers, api routes, complex models and views are only a command away. It's like rails for rails.
This video by Sabine Hossenfelder is probably more informative on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALc8CBYOfkw (it discusses this paper).
Don’t retail stores in Europe use in-store analytics? These often employ cameras to track shoppers when they are in the store. They use sentiment analysis to figure out what shoppers like, the cameras look for people lingering more than usual and alert security, they use it to track how people move through the store to optimize layout, and when you finally pull out your credit card and buy something, they can link up your real world identity with all the footage they’ve just captured.

I think it’s pretty gross, but without government actions like this it will not stop.

> neither seems well-defined enough to easily ban

Seems like it would be easy enough to define. If an image or any other kind of data generated from an image is used in the process to identify a person, then you are doing facial recognition.
Show HN: Homemade rocketship treehouse – hardware to custom OS
(This was previously submitted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2246856)

The Ravenna Ultra-Low-Altitude Vehicle is a backyard rocketship treehouse nestled in the Seattle neighborhood of Ravenna. Click the link to see a demo video (http://rocket.jonh.net).

The hexagonal treehouse is about 6.5 feet (2 meters) across at its widest point. The frame is welded mild steel with riveted aluminum siding. It contains nearly 800 LEDs forming dozens of numeric displays spread across 14 control panels, each with an acrylic face laser-cut and etched with labels such as "Lunar Distance" and "Hydraulic Pressure". The pilot controls the rocket using a joystick and panels full of working switches, knobs and buttons. Underneath the capsule are three "thrusters" that shoot plumes of water and compressed air under the control of the pilot's joystick, simulating real positioning thrusters. Takeoff and docking sequences are augmented by a paint-shaker that simulates the vibration of a rocket engine. Sound effects complete the illusion, with a powered subwoofer that gives the rocket a satisfying rumble.

When it was built in 2011, rocket operations were controlled by three Atmega328 microprocessors on custom-fabricated printed circuit boards, running a small operating system, RULOS, built just for this project. A trench running from the house to the rocket carries 12VDC power for the lighting and electronics, water for the thrusters, compressed air, and several data signals.

Since 2011, the two-person team has upgraded it, here is a recent update from the makers:

One of the most visible changes is replacing the primary 4-line display with a slicker 6-line display (i.e., 6 rows of 8 columns of 7-segment LEDs). The audio synthesizer has been upgraded to a PCB that can generate 50khz, 16-bit audio. The interconnection bus, which had been flat IDC cable carrying individual on/off lines, was upgraded to a true I2C-based networked distributed system with over a dozen individually addressable targets, all interconnected by standard cat5 cable that carries both our I2C protocol and power. We also moved much of the electronics from 8-bit atmega328s to newer, 32-bit STM32F3's. RULOS has been expanded into a pretty general purpose embedded systems platform ported to 5 major lines of CPU (atmega, attiny, stm32, nxp lpc, and esp32). We've used it for dozens of other projects in the last 12 years, including a nanosecond-accurate timestamper, a GPS datalogger, an air quality sensor, various little electronic control boards for toys (e.g. these, and this), and an autonomous boat (that sank). It is all available on Github: https://github.com/jelson/rulos.
I was heavily inspired by Bullet Train to build https://nextlessjs.com using JavaScript ecosystem.
...but probably not that also run whatever software he's got (or wants) to run
I can't wait until you get laid-off/fired unjustly. I had this same attitude until I got laid off even though I was a high-performer (4/5 and 5/5 on all my bi-yearly reviews).

Now, I'm in it for me and only me. Fuck these companies, they don't care about you so why should I care? I perform to the expectations of my job description but forget going above and beyond.
> Interesting how our leaders see their role not as representing our interests, but in shaping our interests.

I mean that's what "leader" means at the end of the day. Of course, though, leader isn't the only way to refer to politicians. In German leader translates literally to Führer ... which isn't really used since the ultimate demise of Herr Schickelgruber. We also use "Repräsentant" whose English counterpart is obvious. Also some people believe that politicians are supposed to know what's going on and what to do - even me - question is where a line is crossed.

> But in the long-run, people will become more familiar with these tactics, such that they will become less effective

I doubt that given those tactics have been continuously applied since ever.

> e.g. waning trust in the media

yes, but the result is simply new media channels and outlets which are supposedly more trustworthy. those abusive politicians we are talking about here will play those media entities like an instrument and simply switch where ever they expect to get the most attention.

> They are burning through the cultural & social capital which sustain these institutions (like the MSM or academia), and don't realize that once it runs out, they will no longer have these levers and buttons at their disposal.

They won't need those levers and button anymore. Abusive power hungry politicians belong to an elite whose end game is a totalitarian state for them to parasitize. At that point everybody has to believe or at least shut up ... or men will come and take them away.

> At that point, the only way to increase compliance is with force.

Exactly.

> And once you go down that road, it becomes extremely clear to those wielding that force, just how precarious their situation is (e.g. Maduro assassination attempts).

One can argue that most totalitarian states end badly but that can take a while. Criminals also do criminal things despite bleak prospects. One might argue they are statistically stupid for being criminal just to have a good time for a while. But that's just your sane point of view. For people who _are_ of criminal mindset (and I consider politicians with totalitarian inclination effectively to that group) really enjoy their life style.

> That is how totalitarianism takes root, fear of the people.

This and fear of the goverment.
There's also LitePub, though development seems stalled (?)
I believe this actually has a ton of unexplored utility,

Like what specifically?
I wonder if we’ll ever see significant improvements in e-ink contrast, which is still very poor. There hasn’t been much progress over the last decade. I’d love to have laser-printer-level e-ink.
> I think the main/only reason to go out of your way to use `make` as a task runner is its ubiquity.

In fairness, that's a pretty big reason.
It's an extremely common argument from renewable opponents that storage is just too expensive and will never be economical. If you manage to get them to write a number down it's always something like $500-$1000/kWh because that's what some old fossil fuel study from the 90s used.
This is where you’re wrong. Inconvenient rules don’t apply to them. They can engage in insider training and enrich themselves. They can disarm the public while they are protected by armed security. They will lay our secrets bare while maintaining theirs.

They will use national security as an excuse to keep their encryption while taking ours away.
Companies like tailwind

Engineers learn to work with it due to that simple fact.

It's OK tbh, and it's easily interoperable between stacks so not really hard to pick up and useful if your project already uses it.

I tried to fight it at first, but I've only seen it being used more and more. Why fight the stream if there's no good reason for it?
Isn't it almost impossible to become an apprentice electrician if you don't have family connections to unions? A few comments from this Reddit thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/104fooe/america_...

> It’s hard, because the formally decent paying apprentice programs pay has stayed about the same while working, fast food or whatever has gone up a lot. Working at Taco Bell for $18 an hour is less physically demanding than being a grunt laborer for 15.

> Our local IBEW apprentices start at $19/hr with another 9.50/hr in benefits. First raise is an extra $2 on the check and another $2 in benefits after 1000 hours or roughly 6 months.

> I almost accepted a plumbing apprenticeship when I was 26 but the starting wage was so low I just wouldn’t have been able to live. If I could go back in time though I’d try getting into a trade or automotive work by 18.

> I tried becoming an electrician after the military. No where had any interest in taking on an apprentice.

> One friend of mine saved and left her corporate job to become an electrician, only to find boomer electricians wouldn’t apprentice a woman. Just one anecdote, of course.

> I got out of the Army, and tried to join the local union as an apprentice. It was a 6-8 months selection process before I could even start. It took longer and was more challenging to try and get into a trade then the military.

> The trades pay shite. I’m a third term apprentice and it’s hard work for not much more than McDonald’s.

Maybe the whole journeyman/apprentice system needs to be dismantled.
There's a non-dark side? Mac App Store has been a consistent pain as a user just cause of the login and flaky download process. I dread every time I want to download something and it has to come from there. If something that simple is so annoying, I don't even want to know what app discovery or the developer's side is like.

Found out a little late that Xcode can be downloaded as a standalone DMG from developer.apple.com/downloads instead of the MAS.
A composer has been listening weeks if not months of music and has been reading tons of music sheets, then will significantly extrapolate from those in his/her creative process.

Neural nets are doing exactly the same from digital data usually using random noise as an extrapolation seed.
Yes the Stewart encounter marked the end of the left/right debate format on CNN. Crossfire soon ended and Tucker ventured out on his own.

>I would love to see a show with him and Maddow.

To the person who proposed a Maddow/Carlson "tell the same story from different perspectives" show -- that kind of thing doesn't work when both hosts lack a significant amount of intellectual honesty.

It works a little better with Sagar and Crystal on Breaking Points because they are at least trying to be honest with themselves and their viewers. (I am not saying I always agree with them or they are always right)
Woof $1200! But for a very neat application, certainly, that certainly vendors would have been charging a lot more for in the past.

And it includes the $100 LEA-M8F GPS module... And the $150 SiTIME SiT5721 oxco over controlled oscillator. Excellent parts.

I was going to ask if the Pi had decent ptp support to actually be useful speaking ethernet, but you've already answered that (yes), https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/ptp-and-ieee-1588-har...

I do kind of wish it had a PCIe ethernet controller onboard for the host too, also with ptp tied to the host. Sending that fine timing data across serial & PCIe bused to the host & to the hosts card feels unideal, like a source of some jitter, but maybe it's not really an issue.
Not quite, communism is both china and american woke morality. The same force is shaping and controlling both china and usa.
The regulatory requirements for electricians and plumbers take so long to advance through that if you don't choose it at a young age it's hardly possible to justify doing later.
COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT IS YOUR BEST ENTERTAINMENT VALUE.
No irishcoffee you are not the only one that Inception is not smart and complex, not if you compare it to the movie Expendables of course. Otherwise it would not have such high imdb score. In the end most of the complex movies are generally disregarded by casual audience. Besides every basic working of the system is explained over and over again in every possible turn in the movie which is hilerious. I believe Nolan made a successful thing to make people believe it to be so that is all which nice for the audience as well. They want to think themselves as the few that gets it. It is a very bad scripted movie by the way, charaters are unrelatable and there is no serious character development indeed. Their drama has a very artificial feel. Especially the last scene where the dialog took place in the limbo was hurtful to my every being but not in a good way. Oh, and I will separate "falling to the same Limbo" shit from the things that are explained particularly. It is never explained since it was total bullshit. I can go for 10 pages but I won't
I don't, but suppose on a pure hourly basis they're paid the same. I think that's still unfair, given the amount of value a CS lecturer delivers over an admin.
Technology of water in ancient Iran from prehistory to the Islamic Golden Age
> I like the idea of open sourcing all art and killing copyright

Preach it, sister.
> he author himself says he thinks the experience gave him half an hour, maybe an hour tops of time.

Maybe, who knows? The author cannot go back and do the task for a second time (only for a third time and beyond). So it's difficult to say how long it would have taken them. Either way, gaining half an hour to an hour of productivity, while great, is certainly well outside the hype that we hear about GPT. Indeed, it's not even consistent with the headline, "GPT4 writes Stan code so I don't have to".

I'm pushing against what I see as unwarranted hype. We're hearing breathless reports by both clueless journalists and by seasoned professionals who are using these tools from the perspective of someone with years of experience, who are then extrapolating that experience out across the spectrum of all possible users. My point is that, if the Stan code example required so much hand-holding, then it's not really helping anyone who hasn't already done it before.

This is not an anomaly, indeed, when you ask GPT4 to produce code for non-trivial examples, you need to already have the expertise in that domain to evaluate whether that output is correct, efficient, and error-free.
https://archive.is/qKH9C
It's closer to blockchain. Unprofitable companies are rushing to jam in something, anything in there so they have something to tell Wall St on the earnings call.
Yup.. the system takes forever to advance through. If you don't start at 18 it's hard to justify doing. Regulations need to be changed but I don't see that happening.
One of the best High Volt electricians we have at work is a woman. She’s an integral part of keeping out data centers working, and we’re actively hiring for an apprentice High Volt electrician!
Sun Ra is one of those artists who I remember listening to for the first time and thinking, "this is what music could be," instead of "this is what music is."

It's a dear experience, to feel your mental territory of music, or books, or art, expand outward in that moment. It leaves a lasting impression - or at least for me it does.
You're thinking of the worst case. The reality is, in a large company, every promotion probably has 2+ people who have the skills and accomplishments. The determining factor ends up being if your boss likes you/wants to work more closely with you.

Yes, there are terrible managers and nepotism type environments, but on par most bosses wants to look good to higher ups which means promoting skills which helps the boss look good. Exactly what happened in your case.
> If people are not allowed to transfer money anonymously, why allow them communicate anonymously?

You can do that in the US though with cash. There might be some transactions that you can't do in physical cash but that is more of a practical/convince limitation and not a legal one.
We could prohibit facial recognition in public and backdoors into encryption. Also, humans can't do facial recognition at scale.
True that. It is so bad that once I sent a irrefutable proof of the seller incentivising reviews, Amazon didn’t take any action at all.
That is not what I'm saying at all.

I'm saying the solution to many "unsolvable" problems might just be in the brain of an unknown person operating within the drudges of wage slavery, like a Subway worker for example [1].

There are countless unqualified people wielding an "infinite source of free money" already. Why should they, while others are left to rot? Why are we all okay with their autonomy to use "free money", players winning in a made up game they created, while others are crushed by the weight of survival?

Most people don't need infinite money. They just need enough to survive and be happy, while also have a direct stake in the fruits of their labor instead of having to turn over all their fruits to people who have free money. An exchange of survival for someone's life work is not an exchange worthy of even considering.

This suppresses innovative solutions across the board. It saps away the energy and motivation people have to contribute their solutions. It is an underlying mechanism to a modern dark age.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitang_Zhang?wprov=sfti1
I hired a small business web consultant.

His big advice was to build content with the intent of getting email addresses. The email address is the gateway to the real sales avenue.

Everyone uses this pattern. You see it everywhere.
On Intel processors, which have strong memory order, concurrency is fairly easy to reason about. On processors with weak memory ordering (ARM notably), things get really treacherous.

I'm still settling in to the horrors of memory ordering on ARM. The one thing I know for sure, is that my oeuvre contains a trail of code that will work fine on Intel processors, but won't work on ARM (or any other processor with weak memory ordering). :-/
Did the first OS X release have great NeXTSTEP compatibility?
Or, we watch a movie like 24 where the protagonist is asking his agency buddies to hack random computers while straight up torturing people to get information - and we cheer for him.
The funny thing is the rate charged to customers has skyrocketed in the past decade, yet the wages for the electricians are apparently stagnant?
> OpenAI hereby assigns to you all its right, title and interest in and to Output

How can it do that? ChatGPT isn't capable of owning or assigning copyright, because only humans can produce copyrighted works (or enter into copyright assignment contracts - typical in employment contracts), and ChatGPT isn't human.

It's giving you something that it doesn't own.
> Huh, didn't everyone stay up until 3am chatting on [IRC/etc.] and then fall asleep in class the next day? haha ;)

Chaotic many-users chatrooms (including, but not exclusively, IRC) and text chat in video games. You have to get fast at typing to use either—in the former, if you're too slow, you'll drop out of the flow of conversation, and in the latter, speed is key because being slow makes you vulnerable in the game, and if you're not pretty damn fast you can't really afford to use it at all.

I learned the basic mechanics of typing from Mavis Beacon, but I got fast because of those.
> Video Games are environments that are designed to teach you how to master them

Pretty much every workplace?
What about making everything else (all the tools) that Sam uses to make the silicon chips? How would you make one of those Nikon projectors? The test equipment? The chemicals? Like some comprehensive post apocalyptic bootstrap.
My brother went to school for residential and commercial electrician stuff. He quit after a few years because of low pay, long hours, traveling, and unexpected layoffs.

I almost forgot the craziest part. The Christmas bonus at his company was funded by all the copper they were able to take from jobs and sell
OK, but for someone who wants to build a useful tool that does what the author wants, "interacting with the Fediverse", such as federating with Mastodon, how useful is doing that one thing?
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