skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experime...

If you're referring to this, which is what I'm referring too, it says "Giant AI experiments" not a pause in all AI research. Where did Elon say that ?
No I haven't. Maybe I'll try. I'm happy with industrial tofu tbh and never thought about homemaking.
Other links for those reading Dutch

https://archive.is/p4UJA

https://www.at5.nl/artikelen/220208/amsterdam-zet-miljoenen-...
ya exactly. For my close friends who I've known for decades and still hang out with, none of that seems weird (except the Olive Garden part).
Why wouldn't they ?
In the not-too-distant future Intel bootguard et al. will enforce 'secure booting' of the tabloid microkernel.

/s ...unless..?
For what it's worth in hobby projects it's time to throw linear regulators into the dustbin. There's 7805 pin-compatible switching modules now!

Stuff like this. [1]

[1] https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/cui-inc/VXO7805-5...
> I didn’t say it wasn’t!

Sorry, I got the impression that you felt it was being slowly deprecated in favor of VS Code.

I don't think that's the case, is all.
You can keep Windows 10 until 2032: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot/iot-enterprise...
Caution for other readers in the US getting an idea: the flipper zero can read radio fan remote signals, but the FCC doesn't allow it to transmit them. I was hoping I could have an "all the remotes" device with the zero, but radio is fairly limited. Perhaps someone will region unlock these.
It's not personally useful but I wanted to see if I could design and build a navigation controller designed for a satellite with different configurations. I started with a sandbox simulator that emulated all the hardware sensors down to the noise (according to their data sheets) and a microcontroller emulator that ran real code compiled for a microcontroller I chose for the task (STM32G431).

I tested different control schemes and thrust firing plans, added support for different types of thrusters, errors in sensor readings, atmospheric drag depending on altitude, weird anomalies in the earth's magnetic field, simulated bit flip events and hardware lockups (I left the internal watchdog out of the hardware lockups which is probably not realistic).

In an effort to stress test my simulator I ended up writing a genetic algorithm solver for thruster, magneto-torquer, and reaction wheel placement on arbitrary craft bodies with different mission plans and let it solve it.

I ended up designing a physical circuit board matching the simulator, flashing the board with the same code that was running in the simulator and it worked! I roughly made an approximate cube sat (10cm^3) (had a mechanical engineer friend design me a frame and manufacture it for me) with some small cold gas thrusters out of pressurized CO2 cartridges, controlled by solenoids, and placed by my genetic algorithm.

I dropped it off a cliff that was ~600ft high (best I could do for a "zero gravity" environment that was away from people). It was able to completely arrest its angular rotation before slamming into the ground which is better than I was expecting.
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I just tried it. It is surprisingly good, especially the accuracy of the speech to text, is it based on openAI's model Whisper?
do you think most companies know how to securely store and transfer data?

do you want them storing and transferring your identification papers?
I have been thinking about doing exactly this for Saturday morning cartoons to stream anime to my PVM once I can figure out how to stream 480i from a modern device to RGB.

Would consider sharing how you set it up? I’d love to do something similar!
is it? I'm not so sure about that

it could also be a non-belief that turned out to be true, so that kind of shoots down that theory

yep, "belief" is definitely the wrong word to use here, "truth" or "reality" would work since climate change is true & real, and having "different beliefs" is definitely not the same thing as having your own truths and reality, which is why climate change deniers generally get mocked by people
Yes, there are lots of nice charts. Other libraries also have lots of nice charts too though!
We do these kinds of things a lot of the time because of the same reason "Because we can..."
That's good. I used it a few months ago and without ChatGPT I would have given up on it. It "documentation" was mostly dozens of random examples and the discussions within.
The teams working on the kernel and the team working on userspace have always had different priorities and quality of work, to the point that it's not obvious that they are made by the same company. I find lots of things I don't like about Windows userspace (with a few nuggets of greatness in between), but the Windows Kernel is pretty great.
AMD's 5nm chips outperform the M1 and M2, although they are not as power efficient, they have a very low TDP, run cool and idle at basically nothing.

Given them another node shrink and they'll be even better.
I have so many strange devices since my adventures in computers began. This has inspired me to dig them out of the plastic containers i have relegated them to and get some running again. Thank you for the write up!!!!
That may or may not work. It can come off as condescending, or not as bad, but still annoying, disconnected from reality.
But they _promised_ the emails won't be used for anything else. Nobody ever lied on the internet, right?
There's something about open source UI apps that just screams amateurs.
It's actually a fascinating topic, I wish I could put a finger on it and tell specifically what I don't like. Inkscape just feels and looks... slightly off.
it's going to require a completely new type of hardware and software system from scratch. I don't think Tesla did that but they could have.
This sort of performative outrage, telling people to "have a normal one", to "touch grass", to inform them that this is, in fact, a Wendy's upon encountering something they don't read 24x7 on Reddit - whats this supposed to add to the discussion? Are you telling us you're "a decent person"? Inform us exactly how wide your Overton Window is? This type of Aggressively Conventional tone policing is befitting of a schoolmarm hall monitor, not HN.
wealth is all relative.
That's not sarcasm, that's the upcoming cyberpunk future.

One day people will smoke on the streets and will comment "Wonder what happened to the tech wizards, we really could use some of them right now".
Some good points, including the well-known confusion between security and safety, as well as the confusion between alignment and safety.

The whole white paper is here:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trailofbits/publications/m...
This a great story about why not to get married.
You didn't fall for the scam. That doesn't mean it's not a scam.
You can also use the API and explicitly set the system message. I have some examples here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35740754
Yeah, with the dinner the payment is influenced by whether you come and what you order. With the vacation home it's already paid for.

Friends of ours literally invited us to come visit them during their vacation and stay at the rented vacation home because it had a spare bedroom. It didn't feel as awkward as the author makes it out to be, though we did feel the need to ask for reassurance that we weren't inconveniencing them. We also didn't stay for the full term.
>I cued AI Joanna up with several things I knew Chase would ask, then dialed customer service. At the biometric step, when the automated system asked for my name and address, AI Joanna responded. Hearing my bot’s voice, the system recognized it as me and immediately connected to a representative. When our video intern called and did his best Joanna impression, the automated system asked for further verification.

They used an AI to impersonate the author (probably a women, based on the name and picture), and were surprised that was more successful getting a man to do the same? That's not really a conclusive experiment. I'd at least try impersonating with another women.
Ugh I wish v4l2loopback was in the upstream kernel...
What sort of civil society groups are there advocating for this kind of infrastructure in Norway?

I’m always curious how people organize to achieve these outcomes. I live in a medium sized city in the US that is badly in need of better cycling infrastructure. There are a few organizations here, but vision is lacking or has been beaten out of them. I’d love to have some sort of organizing / policy toolkit that factors in experience from successful campaigns for systems like this.
Just don't get Genius, or they won't do shit.
It’s also like real estate where tax strategy drives the bus. Oil is a capital intensive business but by isolating each layer or spinning off the layers alot of the margin is essentially a transfer from the government.

Oil is one of the original businesses that developed these strategies. John Rockefeller was surprised to have made money post Standard Oil!
This is incredible. I’ve been thinking a lot about personal software systems and a hypothesis that I have is that simpler code sharing/versioning mechanisms is key to greater agency in programming environments. I’m already a huge fan of unison (we had Rúnar on devtoolsfm) so I’m eager to explore scrap further.
I love this, thx for sharing :)
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The increasing blatant Apple product placement in Ted Lasso is really really getting to me. It’s utterly tasteless.
Context is already lost on posts past a few years given the proportion of deleted accounts and comments. I'm not sure if there's much to be gained from archiving the images themselves.
At this point, I'm wondering how they can make it worse.
how much time and effort (not money) do personally invest to spend time with your friends.

Exactly. If you're worried about the money, then you're not friends, you're acquaintances.
I made a safe-to-wake light for my son out of a Raspberry Pi. It serves up a responsive website on the local network so you can manually change the lights or update the schedule.

Been running like a champ for over 3 years now, which has been the most pleasant surprise. I'm used to ecosystem entropy causing things to break.

I documented my adventures in a 6-part series: https://ajpierce.com/2020-01-04_safe-to-wake-pt1/
Ah, well, if Shrinking has Ted Lasso-tier product placement, I’ll probably move it further down my list.
NY built this bike system in about 10 years: https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/nyc-bike-map-2022.... It's pretty impressive and works well.

But yes, the Subway is criminally underfunded (it's ran by the State of NY actually). Nonetheless, despite how bad NY is, it's still the best in the US.
Generosity is an aspect of success and wealth, as it increases the likelihood of building a strong network of people willing to help you achieve your ambitions.

People tend to nurture plants that give something back, enriching their own lives in one way or another. Generosity shows others that you are such a plant.

Understanding the importance of having a good network may be key to know whether a wealthy individual is generous or not. I believe that a wealthy entrepreneur is more likely to be generous than a wealthy engineer.
You certainly can predict icy rain -- this is why grids get winterized. You may not be able to predict exactly when, but you can predict that it will happen.
The vast majority of humanity is living in places where basically all food can be grown locally, with some exceptions for luxury (tropical fruits in high latitudes) and seasonality (not alle produce does store well fresh, though practically all can be frozen, dried or canned in some way).

There are some extreme exceptions like the United Arab Emirates etc. but they are home to only a fraction of the world population and building a city like Dubai in a desert was probably not a great idea to begin with.
> May be we can program other humans with carefully constructed prompts alone.

Is that not what reasoning is in a debate?

> May be hypnosis is just a prompt injection attack.

No need to go into hypnosis. Mere prompts can inject false memories. This has been proven multiple times [1].

[1] The Brain: The Story of You, David Eagleman.
In that scenario, as with Android dominating on smartphones, probably Linux. But desktop Linux isn't yet equivocal, and IMO, likely never will be.
My advice is, don't spend your money on low quality stuff unless you absolutely have to(i.e. maybe you will do some data entry stuff to buy food, then maybe you can spent a few hundred dollars on a laptop but if you are not in that kind of a situation save up buy something of good value later).
systemd userspace-reboot
Disagree, macOS is way ahead. Windows code signing is a half-implemented joke that doesn't do much and apps can easily tamper with each other at will (unless they're installed using MSIX which not much uses), whereas macOS code signing actually works and will stop apps tampering with each other completely.

The macOS app sandbox actually works. On Windows nothing uses the app sandbox due to serious bugs and performance regressions. Chrome rolls its own sandbox for example.

SIP successfully stops macOS getting screwed up. The number of Windows installs out there in some bizarre half-broken state is incredible. It's routinely the case that API calls which work on one Windows system don't work on others even at the same patch level for no clear reason at all, which trace back to weird configuration differences to the OS.

Windows still relies heavily on client side virus scanning. Apple do malware scanning server side and then lean on their code signing and integrity systems instead, which is one reason Macs have great battery life.

And then there's all the other more well known security things Apple do with secure processors and the like.

Windows is just so far behind and they're so drowning in tech debt it's unlikely they'll ever catch up.
I wonder if you can opt-out of that? You're right that it seems insanely unsafe, my bank have been legally forced to use two factor authentication for more than 10 years.
Na, they will be too busy trapped in AI created unskippable commercials taking over their audio and visual cortex on their neural linking device to remember there was anything better in the past.
Nice try, Microsoft. You'll need to do more than just use more Rust to get me to downgrade to Windows 11.
> As a cyclist, I don't have an issue sharing space with other traffic, but I do have an issue with the hyper-aggressive drivers that seek to scare and/or injure cyclists by not giving them enough space when overtaking

I haven't generally seen that in Germany, although I have only lived in cities with a generally good biking infrastructure. The only time when I get uncomfortably close is either due to fundamental infrastructure constrains (intersection squeezed in between buildings) or if some stupid delivery van parks on the bicycle path so I have to overtake it by crossing into the road. I wonder if more cyclist would normalise the situation so that abusive drivers calm down.
" Often overshadowed by newer and flashier database management systems, many overlook the continued innovation and evolution of SQLite."

Absolutely, the last improvements of sqlite are just incredible.
This sounds awful to google for, I guess if you do "Clojure Morse" it might work. The other nitpick is, if you're ever introducing a new language, regardless of context, throw some code samples, like a simple applicable "hello world" at a minimum.

And because someone has to...

"Can I look at your Morse code?"
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Imagine if there was a cycling culture like this in the South. Places like Chattanooga with skinny cyclists all over the place.
> In the end I sniffed the USB protocol of the windows driver and was delighted to see how they abused the control endpoint rather than setting up proper data endpoints.

Is there a better way to implement this? They seem to use it for any non-standard feature. My laptop's keyboard uses the control endpoint to control the LEDs.
I've simply stopped taking any notice of sales prices, unless it is on something I buy regularly in which case I might bulk buy at the offer price.

If I need/want something and there happens to be an offer somewhere, that is just a bonus. It may also alter where I buy it from (or exactly which it if there are similar products available for the same need). At the point where I'm parting with money what they think the item is worth means nothing to me and I won't be swayed by it – what matters is if the current price is good enough compared to how I value the item/service.

Never let yourself think you will miss out be not getting a sale item now – it or something else will be at that price again in future. Closing down sales, especially online, are almost always something that sets my scammy sense a-tingling for various reasons.

Always assume a special offer is not so special unless you have researched the market. If you don't have time to look into the details then it isn't that good an offer, and they are trying to rush you so you don't notice until you've paid.

I may occasionally miss out on a genuinely good offer this way, perhaps on something I'll develop a true need for soon, but I'm sure this is incredibly rare.

tl;dr: sales and marketing teams are, overall, lying scammy reprobates and should be treated with extreme suspicion unless you have unequivocal evidence that they are one of the very few “good ones”.
That's because the bugs are also implemented in rust.
I think mentioning that you're paying the cheque is tacky. Just invite them and pay for their meal silently as a nice surprise to the end of dinner.
> You need to be thinking about performance from the very beginning, if you're ever going to be fast.

It's the same thing with security, or for that matter portability. Changes in fundamental goals are hard to 'bolt on' after the system has been built.
It's really not that hard of a line to draw. Can you enjoy all of the opportunities of city life without a car? Do most people not own a car? There's one city in the US where those answers are "yes".
There is a lot you can do to improve the quality of the image. This camera has a very early CMOS sensor, which suffered from huge pixel-to-pixel variation. By characterizing each pixel (which you can do by taking dark field and flat field images), you can correct for this variation, and get an image that looks much less noisy. There are also various algorithms to undo the Bayer filtering, with tradeoffs between sharpness, color accuracy and performance.
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Maybe it's the way that's worded, but that feels even more awkward / borderline cringey to me.

A lot of people (arguably wrongly) tie their self worth to their wealth. This can come off as "when you're worth as much as a human as I am!"

Or, for someone in a career where 6 figures do not happen, this is equivalent to telling them that nope, they can never repay this favor!

The only time I could see this working is if you had some celebration-worthy achievement which also had money associated with it. Then, throw a party to celebrate your achievement (say, the company you started went public) -- friends like to support those! -- and then it's socially acceptable that you're using the money from said achievement to fund the party.
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Biometrics is an inherently bad idea. It seems cool, until it's defeated or compromised and we all need new fingerprints or eye-replacement.
They don't have to store it, they can delete it after account creation or just keep a hash in case they want to avoid account farming.

Youtube is already collecting IDs in the EU if you want to view age-restricted content.

Some countries also have ID cards that allow you to digitally prove you are 18 without revealing your ID, maybe that could be used for proving you're human as well (don't know if there is a way to prevent farming here).
I love picking up the check but I never tell my guests ahead of time. I don't want them compromising on their order, or feeling weird until they absolutely have to. I guess this does require friends who'd be willing/able to pick up their own tab, but it's only a few times a year.

I've got a lot more than I need and I'd rather spend it giving friends a night out than on more toys. I don't want or expect the same in return, just a "thanks" and a good time together.
That would be the end of Reddit though - or of any other social network that got this restrictive. Unless governments mandated it (which will probably be the end result of all this - no more anonymity on the Internet).
Debatable as user requirements vary drastically. What might be perfect for one user might be wholly inappropriate for another.
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is
"...I once gave a presentation about black holes to fourth-graders
at my daughter’s school. A boy asked me what would happen to his body
if he got inside a black hole. As I started to explain, the teacher stopped me,
saying that the kids would have nightmares..."
For me the most useful features of Plot over other libraries are the declarative transforms: bin, stack, map, filter, etc. This means that a lot of the data munging that you would normally do before passing things off to the plotting library are done by Plot itself. Why would you want that? Well these transforms are now "facet aware" - if you want to facet on some some qualitative property, slap a `fx: property` on your mark and your transforms will then be run for each subplot.

Secondly, I simply find the API to be very tastefully built. The Geo API (https://observablehq.com/plot/marks/geo) is a particular highlight. I've used Plot for about 1.5 years for recreational side projects - it has genuinely kept me entertained for many hours in no small part due to its interface design.
Enso looks really nice, as does Sit and your about pages.
The most dangerous thing about psychology is not just being full of un-replicable reseach but being forced by governments as a source of common sense with "doctors" licensed as a real doctors. So I feel that minuses in your karma.

Designers can do anything more welcoming by use some special colors and shapes though.
This was... Weird.

Like, none of the "awkward examples" really track as awkward?

I genuinely don't get the point of this article.
I never quite understood why you don't get more detailed measurements for clothes when shopping online. If I knew those I could easily filter out most of the returns right away. If I knew, say, how broad the back of a jacket really is, that would be tremendously helpful as I have a rather broad back and lots of jackets that otherwise fit are too narrow there. I get that is additional effort but wouldn't providing those still be cheaper than all those returns?
The Windows kernel is radically different from Unix-likes. Doing anything like this would cause a riot from anyone depending on any of the Windows-only features, which is pretty much all Enterprise customers.
Amazon feels like spam here in Europe too. Sketchy-looking products from weird brands that I have no faith in. A simple search fails to turn up items matching the keywords I entered (even though those items do exist in their catalog) and instead gives me a dumpsterload of garbage results. Increasingly Amazon is my absolute last resort.
Drunk people, homeless shelters. It's a choatic area in Amsterdam, will attract lots of things and certain people don't care about CCTV, hoodie is enough to cover up. Police is always understaffed in nights of a weekend so they just don't really look forward to a new hotspot they need to go and check up on. Just happened last week that a friend jumped in between a 16 year old boy being beaten up, the police eventually came but left quickly and didn't want to call an ambulance because of lack of resources, he had to go to the ER himself. Turns out it was so bad he needed surgery the next day.