skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's actually ecologically and ethically better to have "barn" chickens, which live in massive steel sheds on trays with roosting boxes and perches about 50cm high, miles and miles of racking.

They're free to move about at least in their "bay" and have the company of other hens that can wander about too. Sure, they don't get the marketing feelgood "sun on their backs and wind in their feathers", but they also don't get raptors, foxes, or rats.

You can get rescue hens and they're just about savvy enough to figure out - after you've lost one or two - that predators are a thing, and you'll get an egg every couple of days per hen. They'll eat all the bugs in your garden (and most of the herbs, and the tops of your carrots) and shit everywhere.
I lived in Japan for a while. My name contains sounds that just didn't work for them. No one pronounced it correctly.

I was not upset, annoyed, or confused. It's just the way language acquisition works. You learn the sounds you need and the rest are hard to acquire later in life.

Be strict in what you send, forgiving in what you receive.
Note that competition in the browser space is different from competition in the engine space. Even then, Chromium remains open source, we already see things like Brave committing to not shipping the adblock-killing extension changes that Google is pushing.

As to Mozilla, their combination of incompetence, user-hostility, and complete dependence on Google renders them controlled opposition at best. They are not a serious player in the browser space, continuing to treat them like one is directing limited resources and mind share into a failing enterprise.
I built a terminal-based gpt client for myself. It uses a sqlite db to store conversations and uses bubbletea for terminal drawing. I use it frequently while I'm writing code. It uses another library to render markdown so that code snippets gpt produces look pretty. It's not perfect by any stretch but it feels great to use it because I made it. https://github.com/collinvandyck/gpterm/
If your moral compass is a boolean switch I guess.

> feed (less energy expended from movement)

Less muscles, more disease, worse health, lifespan of 4 weeks, &c.
Idk if this counts but I built myself a Rubik's cube timer and eventually made it public:

https://cubedesk.io

It was a weekend project which I used for several weeks before sharing it on Reddit. The feedback was so good I decided to make it public.
Even if it's not ADHD, a professional, and at least tell you that, and then provide coping strategies to help focus. And honestly it doesn't hurt for a teen to have someone who they can talk to who is not their parent/authority figure, and has their shit together.
Are you saying you eat tofu made this way? Or are saying you are eating commercially made tofu, but feel better about it because the tofu could also be made in a rustic manner?
I rewrote the UI for an off the shelf WiFi digital photo frame so that it shows the latest raw images sent back from the Perseverance Mars rover.
https://prbs23.com/blog/posts/picture-frame-from-mars/

The picture frame secretly ran Android under the hood. Which meant I could replace the app which showed pictures pulled from the manufacturers server, with one which pulls photos from the NASA website. Fortunately they left ADB enabled with root permissions, so it was trivial to replace their startup app with my own.
All the source code is public here: https://gitlab.com/prbs23/mars-photo-stream
Combine this with the sibling thread about lead acid battery voltages (2.1V per cell, 3 cells gives 6.3V), can we then say that this is the reason 5V circuitry is so common? 6.3V from battery ancestry plus a linear regulator?
It's completely supported, you can get keyboard replacements on the app store.

It's just less secure to use them than the one built into the OS because the third party keyboards might run input through some web service instead of keeping it completely local.
It's not a second system but instead a rewrite, since they are not making new architectural decisions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Grove#Only_the_Paranoid...
Yeah, I wish the author had spent a paragraph shoring up the flawed analogy. Here's how I did it in my head:

Normally, chains have their links in series, in which case the chain breaks when the weakest link breaks. Now imagine two objects connected directly by many links, i.e. a parallel chain. This is a "strongest link chain" where just one strong link, or a few strong links, can hold the two objects together even if most of the links break.
Excellent. Some of the theory here goes back to Oct/2021 and beyond [1].

The riffusion.com [2] guys made this practical. Also, my video showing high-level overview and examples [3].

1. SpecVQGAN: https://github.com/v-iashin/SpecVQGAN

2. Riffusion: https://www.riffusion.com/

3. Riffusion high-level overview: https://youtu.be/olkLVGcvib8
Semiconductor fabrication is winner takes all.

Intel won.

Everyone else but TSMC gave up in logic. Samsung mostly focused on memory.

TSMC got Apple as a customer.

Intel choked its lead by paying outrageous dividends and cutting R&D expenditure.

TSMC has done well. They've also done a Steven Bradbury.
I haven't written anything up, but I might do that.

Asterisk is extremely powerful and reliable with good documentation. Because so many companies use it, I knew if something wasn't working that it was definitely on my configuration. Once you have Asterisk running on the LAN, you can you use any VOIP softphone app to connect and make "calls" to your scripts for testing.

I bought an analog telephone adapter (ATA) to connect the phone to the LAN as well. At that point, the ATA is the bridge between the PBX and the physical phone and it can now make and receive calls (to destinations reachable by the PBX).

If you want to make your scripts and devices accessible to the "real phone system" (PSTN) you can hook your ATA to a phone carrier (some ATA support this with a secondary port) or have asterisk connect to an external provider. I have not done this step.

There is definitely a bit of steps involved, so it would make a good write-up. A lot of potential to do some fun things with it.
if you are going to invest 100's of millions probably better to do it right. Current idea is a bridge far away from the central station which is even more silly.
are you going to have a printed version of your book?
I agree they are but what if you can't afford to spend 800 or 900 on a laptop?

There's also plenty of people who use their laptop until it's dead. Infact, I'd argue it's probably more economical to purchase a repairable laptop and replace parts as needed.
I explained here that AI models which have no transparency over their data policy will get a big trouble on their heads.
Only to be laughed at and downvoted to hell.

For a tech community, the lack of critical thinking here is disturbing.
Things were more professional and rational in the 2008-2014 period on HN.

Since then, one must browse the downvoted comments to find some objective criticism.

Adobe obviously have a strong legal team with Firefly and are thinking ahead.
Just saying.:)
Because, for example, your application is not tied to the JVM? You are uncomfortable using closed source software for such a critical piece of infra? As far as I can tell they don't even have a searchable bug report database! I'd hate to be the one debugging an issue involving datomic.
Neoliberalism's Final Stronghold
So it's an art installation reminiscent of a sundial, not an actual sundial.
> There's no political force to make actual improvements in London, or in the UK as a whole.

HS2 was an attempt at an infrastructure project for the long term greater good but quickly devolved into nothing but bad news cycles.

Everyone is too busy flinging shit and whipping out soundbites to actually do anything, in part because anything worthwhile is hard and mistakes are more punishing than not trying?

It all just feels so inevitable and I don't understand what stops other countries getting into the same spiral of short termism
Do you hate the word, or the people who use the word?
Haven't read the report, but accounting tricks like deferring revenue to the next period and writing down receivables would affect revenue/earnings.
It's odd that Siri was better under Eddy Cue, for some reason, even though he is mainly the content guy, then under Craig Federighi or the AI/ML experts like John Giannandrea.
The Toys That Made Us: The First Hot Wheels Sto and Go Playset
Farming animals doesn't use more energy than farming vegetables. You use a truly staggering amount of petrochemicals making fertiliser, spreading fertiliser, cultivating fields, planting seeds, harvesting crops, and all the rest of it.

Even if you grow silage crops specifically for feeding livestock it's not nearly so much faff and you use a relatively small amount of fertiliser and fuel.
If you're looking for value and durability, you can buy a used business laptop like thinkpad or dell latitude.

You can get a used thinkpad with an 8th gen intel and 16gb ram for $200 maybe.

Sure the cpu will be slower but with 8gb ram on a mac you're not going to be doing much anyway.
That's not a laptop so you still need to buy a screen, keyboard, and mouse.
> Problem is, there was never that many of us.

Never has been as many obese people nor food waste. We can and should eat less anyways

We're clearly not producing for sustenance, but for profit
Both..

First and foremost it shows the incompetence of leadership, and misaligned priorities when it comes to public finance. Why was there only one factory, were funds not allocated properly to ensure a more robust supply chain? where political favors exchanged for the monopoly? As a result of the monopoly was the military paying more per unit of product since there was no competition? That is just off the top of my head for questions from the story.

Hiding things like this ensures corruption will follow
Any chance you could share this? I made something similar for an investment decision once and i just discovered the realtor i worked with uses it all the time with his clients. I feel like others might like what you’re doing.

I just put pause on a project because i couldn’t figure out a revenue model: mappedby.com
It's a very common task in embedded development to need to reduce sleep or idle power consumption but in my experience it's never basic nor easy to do it right. Lots of times engineering teams just punt the issue and the customer gets less than great battery life or some other poor compromise is made.

Generally the hardest part is simply making sure that the device can wake up correctly and quickly enough under all situations. Also, tracking down unexpected power draws gets into a nice crossover between electrical and firmware design teams which can either be great or extremely frustrating for either side of that interaction.
They are opting to remove a historically popular, and good quality range to make more of the historically less popular range that also sacrifices ergonomics to conform to the brand/design language (Surface's blockiness).

Politics over product as usual
Maybe I'm better off... until I try to put it in my pocket. Unlike a portable CD player, my 00's portable MD player is tiny! The footprint is not much larger than the discs themselves.

Regarding music management, I've never seen any portable CD players that have any music management features, unlike MD recorders that have all sorts of music management features. However, that's not really relevant in either case as I manage my digital music library on my computer. With modern software, copying tracks to MD or CD is essentially the same: connect the device to usb and drag'n'drop the tracks.
AgentLLM – PoC for browser-native agents
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I made a quick SDK for an API I built in C#, not too long ago. VSCode was surprisingly a much better experience.
As someone who has given a lot of tours through a brewery and wineries, a good amount of people are in fact disappointed by the abundance of stainless steel tanks.
I had a similar experience.

The difference is that was restricted to just computer lab. Now kids have computers on their desks during many more classes. I don’t think it is reasonable to expect they can stay focused.
Which actually does make a difference for JARs because the bytecode is portable and modifiable, not trivially so but definitely way more easily than native code.
Literally independent validation and verification. https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/independent_verification...

In some domains, doing IV&V to see how well your software really works is required by regulations, in others... we just guess.
Mathematics of Radio
Luckily it doesn't rain (or snow) inside of tunnels.
Attacking the hardware is always "possible" but can be made unreasonably difficult to pull off in practice, and we've reached that point with game consoles now. The Xbox One and Playstation 4 survived their entire generation without falling to hardware hacks, and the Xbox One didn't get hacked via software either.

Microsoft is so confident in their security model that they openly explained how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7VwtOrwceo
I don't know I got it to explain the ambiguity pretty well. You just have to ask it to:

Prompt: My boss said he was afraid he was going to have to let me go. Why is he afraid? Explain multiple meanings.

Answer: When your boss said he was "afraid" he was going to have to let you go, it can be interpreted in a few different ways. Here are some possible meanings behind his statement:

Expression of regret: In this context, "afraid" could be used as a polite way of expressing regret or disappointment. Your boss might feel bad about the situation and is using the term to soften the impact of the news. It can be seen as a more gentle way of saying that he has no other choice but to let you go.

Anticipation of negative consequences: Your boss might be genuinely concerned about the potential fallout from letting you go. This could include the impact on team morale, the workload for remaining employees, or the possibility of a negative reaction from you. In this sense, "afraid" reflects his apprehension about the consequences of the decision.

Uncertainty about the decision: Your boss could be feeling uncertain about the decision to let you go and might be using "afraid" to express his hesitancy. He could be unsure whether this is the right move for the company or whether it is fair to you, which could make him feel anxious.

Empathy for your situation: "Afraid" could also indicate that your boss is putting himself in your shoes and understanding how difficult the situation must be for you. He might be fearful of the impact that losing your job will have on your personal life, finances, or future career prospects.

It's important to consider the context and tone in which your boss made this statement to better understand his intended meaning. To gain more clarity, you may want to discuss the situation further with your boss and ask for more information about the reasons behind the decision.

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That isn't a particularly massaged prompt either, I just asked for multiple meanings.
You could buy a laptop with 16GB to 32GB of memory and more than double the storage space for $800, and you can buy laptops that you can actually upgrade the hardware on. You can also spend less and get a similarly spec'd laptop. I just picked up a new laptop with 16GB/1TB and 8 cores for $500 and upgraded it to 64GB of memory for $100.

I bought a low end Mac in 2015 with the same 8GB/256GB specs, 8GB wasn't enough even for browsing/chat/media/etc at the same time, and the storage space gets eaten up by the macOS base system and apps.
Google's demonstration was kinda "Hey! We've got this great feature where our personal assistant will piss off everyone you interact with in order to save you 10 seconds making a dinner reservation". I'm not surprised it went no where.
2007?! They were putting CD players in cars in 2007?! Are you in the US?
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At the very least, make it work in the car! I have an iPhone and a Pixel and my car supports AA and CarPlay. When I travel, I much prefer AA because the Google's voice assistant nails AA interaction.
The milk most people drink is proceeded in facilities that look much the same, because whole batches of it are ruined by a single germ, since it has no immune system either.

We also have to pasteurize it. Or we don't, and germs from cows are hundreds of times more likely to make us sick, despite generations of selective breeding.
Same: MDs were so cool for their time. I have japanese family and MD was big there, so every time my brother would visit me, he'd bring back fancy tech. One year the fancy tech was lots of MDs and two MD players.

Everything about it was so cool: the form factor, they were satisfying to manipulate, the portable players were cool. So were the "full sized" players/recorders you could hook up to your HiFi / stereo stack.

I'd rip CDs to MDs and for years and years MDs were my goto medium for music (nowadays I rip CDs to FLAC files and sent these FLAC files to a DAC). The discs were often good looking too (sadly I never had these glowing in the dark ones!).
To be fair this video was recorded before the tunnel officially opened.
Does anyone know if JPL have "local copies" of Voyager 1 and 2 that they can test things like this hack on? Or do they just plan it out and try on the probes themselves?
Not the person you asked, but: this would certainly bring more benefits to Linux and its users/community than to Microsoft...
Are you sure about that? Many computers used ±12V in the 80s/90s when LDOs weren't common at all
Cool read, but was a wee bit disappointing not to have it fully figured out by the end! That's just the reality of life though :)
> That's less than $15/month if it gets thrown in a bin in 5 years

My mom uses a cheap Dell laptop that is 10 years old. I bought at the time for around 350 dollars is memory serves (it was in a different currency, so it is hard to do the conversion).

She is non-technical, and it absolutely suits her needs to this day. Only thing I did in terms of maintenance was buying a new battery.

The cheapest Mac just won't get the same cost/lifespan ratio.

Keep in mind that the vast majority of users are non-technical.
I don’t think another bold statement, phrased as a question, is what most people would consider “evidence.”
Yes it is a cliche/trope/idiom. Surely the embeddings etc. can “get that” about the word “afraid”. But what is really missing is the empathy for the question.

The question implies ESL and it didn’t get that. But honestly would the average HN replier get it?

You probably need chatgpt to ask more clarifying questions.
Or perhaps the lesson is that technology in the classroom is distracting more than it is teaching and we should use, say, paper?
This thread started about “boutique hotels” and now we’re talking about franchisees of major national chains. They’re not the same. Plenty of tiny unfranchised operations can you leave you hanging with little to no recourse.
To paraphrase a well known saying, objects are the poor person's nested maps and vis versa.
The Neon God
Man, I'd have trained them to put coins in a little hopper for the food. Start by leaving the coins on a string similar to how you did it. Then set it up so pulling on the string drops the string+coin into the hopper, triggering the food. Then leave coins on the ground near the hopper. Then... start leaving fewer coins around. Soon, an army of racoons will be bringing you street coins in exchange for peanuts.
I built a simple recipe meal planner and shopping list generator to manage family meals or dinner parties.

The recipes are stored as free text and the ingredients are parsed out of the text so you can just copy paste most recipes or record them the exact same way that your old family recipes were written down.
Also the electrochemistry of sulfuric acid (the other half-cell)
From what I can see, they're not actually duplicated, I would suggest taking a closer look at the windows. But I do agree that it's quite hard to see the difference.

The trains look very clean from the outside. I do wonder how loud is it, to live so near the tracks.
I struggled with procrastination a lot so on top of Pi-Hole I built myself an automatic procrastination tracker and blocker, this setup helped reduce my procrastination from several hours a day to almost nothing (over the period of several years of slowly unlearning the bad habits)
To cross the river in East London you have 2 options: the Greenwich foot tunnel, or the Woolwich one.

Indeed they're great assets but it's incredibly awful when the lifts are broken - and it happens frequently.

Either of them are a huge diversion depending on where you're going as well. If there was a cycle-friendly crossing around where Blackwall tunnel is, I reckon my rides to The Reach would be cut by nearly half.
There's a retrospective mechanism working within human intelligence that is very evidently not in play with LLMs.

Humans are capable of creating cargo cults but it seems LLMs are destined for it.
> It’s clear transformers can’t understand either case. They’re not architecturally designed to.

What does this follow from?

> The emergent behavior of appearing to do so is only driven by how much data you throw at them.

This is true for almost every neural network, no?
The State of Cybersecurity: Insights from IBM’s Latest Security Report
Ideally the model would insert an API call into its output to fetch the contacts first, then make the call.

The scary part is asking the LLM to read your messages. Imagine someone texts you an LLM jailbreak. Siri might not be Siri anymore after it finishes reading.
> I wouldn't date a woman without a college degree either.

I'm curious: Do you have a postgraduate degree, and if yes, would you be willing to data someone with "only" a BSc?

Let's say that someone has a PhD from a top university, for them to date someone without a BSc involves a greater gap than if someone with a mediocre BSc/BA from a community college dates an electrician.

> The background isn't important.

Here I disagree pretty strongly. An undergraduate will not provide the kind of class someone with multiple generations of doctors, lawyers, professors or "old money" tend to be instilled with during their childhood. Of course, those kids will almost always end up in college (if they're healthy).

In my experience, those from working class families tend fake their sophistication (often overcompensating) at least well into the 30s to compensate, if their education takes them into such circles.
I speak midwestern American English and it’s been constantly trying to text the wrong person, which is weird because a year ago ON THE SAME PHONE this never ever happened. If it’s not working for me it’s definitely a degradation. Siri had worked reliably for me for literally a decade!

I’ve also noticed my autocorrect has gone bonkers. It’s constantly trying to change the case of the word “guess” into “Guess”, the brand I guess? Despite me never ever having shopped or mentioned this. The autocorrect has gotten very aggressive and I type so fast that it’ll take me three or four tries to get it to revert to lower case. It also has some weird context sensitivity to proper nouns they added so if I say “I guess James can come over” it’ll change that to “Guess James” like it’s a name (in iMessage only I suppose) and I have to delete that entire “name” and carefully retype!
How do people cheat?