skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not a stranger here. I looked through your submissions for one about the specific issue at hand, didn't see anything about OpenNLP. Even if it doesn't stay on page 1 for days a Show HN is a submission, and people can look for it in your submissions.

Things like that. It's an example of not helping them find it. Maybe you don't even need the code, or all the code. Maybe it's a common enough issue that a blog post or Show HN with _just that_ would be enough. Heck, a Twitter thread: less is more!
Keep an eye on those skateboard batteries. I left a few of those charging and burned down the house. Get an ammo crate for them!
Lets say that you invest in 100 promising technologies. If one of them becomes a black swan, even if all the other 99 failed you still would be winning big.
May as well read $615
There's a yocto layer for Jetson - which gives you highly customizable OS. Yocto does have steep learning curve, so that's a showstopper.
There was a demo of a Linux OS that simply boots to vim and that’s the only thing you could do on that machine. It would be perfect for this use case.
The READY Model 100 is the most recent commercial one to my knowledge, that was crowdfunded initially and then sold via their online store, but is currently unavailable to buy further units of.

There's other things like the Freewrite if you just want a word processor, but I'd recommend the much cheaper (albeit discontinued) AlphaSmart Neo 2 over that, especially for the battery life.

Everything else these days is largely hobbyist DIY projects who occasionally make a PCB or chassis/case available.

I'd love for the segment to grow again. It's admittedly niche, so that's quite unlikely.

Loved and love Psion!
A Thank You Note Is a Small Gesture with a Big Impact
People have latched onto this idea that penalties should be relative to the size of the company.

Well then, this is what you get.

Penalties should be relative to the scale and severity of the crime.
Something that you might want to consider, but which hasn't really shown up in the comments, is... Do you actually _want_ to do the finishing?

Are you taking on these projects because you want the end result to exist, or because you just really enjoy the initial phase of learning and discovering and mapping and planning? If you are getting joy/mental stimulation/a creative outlet from this, then perhaps it is serving its purpose already.

Sometimes, doing something you love, even if you leave it incomplete or do it poorly, is exactly what you need to refresh you. Maybe your hobby isn't building software. Maybe your hobby is just... Dreaming up new projects, and learning about new technology. And if this is your hobby, and not your job, maybe you don't actually need to finish projects at all. Leave the finishing to your day job.
XVIII Airborne Corps gets LLM deployed on a classified network
Marvin Minsky wrote SciFi with Harry Harrison about emergent AI and they discussed not unsimilar scenarios.

Arthur Clarke wrote juvenalia in the 50s which had higher mentalities inquiring of robots with barriers invoking Deus Ex Machina to get around the walls.

The fiction space here has been a full pipe for all of my lifetime.
The Oculus was the Valve headset and software. Abrash took the patents and code with him when he left Oculus. This is not some secret.
Neither is nuclear. And solar PV is vastly easier to scale up. The peak rate of fission power plant nameplate capacity construction was ~1985 and at that peak rate it would take something like 60 years to build what is needed globally.
They also have "all of youtube" when it comes to video based learning. And GCS and Gmail, Google's moat is actually enormous.
Slightly related, I sometimes open an empty meeting with camera on to see my face reflected to me.

It surprising how often I catch myself yawning, leaning on my hand, picking my nose, looking grumpy, ...
This is a complex issue, no way around it, and I'm not an expert in the field. My thought in response to this is to consider the way coal, oil, copper, uranium, silicon, [...] shape human activity and culture. More specifically, I wonder about:
- major oil spills
- "mining towns," boom & bust
- generally any of the costs associated with resource extraction (copper's mined with diesel, they say)

It's complex because it's hard to tell if any of us are making apples-to-apples comparisons in these discussions (broadly). And...

I hope we figure it out before our current energy generation makes an entire planet uninhabitable.
Pretty sure everyone uses a VIPT L1, what evidence is there that it's PIPT?

(also what do you believe happens with 4k pages on M1, since it does support those, or why did the A7 have larger caches than Zen4 a decade ago, which was well before 16k pages)
People have poor muscular tone because of poor postre and bad habits in the first place. There are people who never work out and are just fine, have no back pain but do have good posture and proper gait.

And there are people who work out with incorrect posture. They have more problems than all, so posture and good habits are very important.
I've heard this a lot but don't understand where this idea comes from. With JSON you can strip whitespace whereas with YAML you're stuck with all these pointless whitespace tokens you can't do anything about.

I would recommend the exact opposite, JSON is just as effective while using less tokens.

This example JSON:

{"glossary":{"title":"example glossary","GlossDiv":{"title":"S","GlossList":{"GlossEntry":{"ID":"SGML","SortAs":"SGML","GlossTerm":"Standard Generalized Markup Language","Acronym":"SGML","Abbrev":"ISO 8879:1986","GlossDef":{"para":"A meta-markup language, used to create markup languages such as DocBook.","GlossSeeAlso":["GML","XML"]},"GlossSee":"markup"}}}}}

Is 112 tokens, and the corresponding YAML (which I won't paste) is 206.

What am I missing?
This was kind of the rural electrification challenge the US faced. Opting to wire almost everyone up was a costly endeavor at the time. But one we take for granted now.

Given where the world is now, given how much easier decentralized solar & renewable are than the massified power generation of yore, I'm more conflicted today than I am comfortable with. The idea of sprawling microgrids, communities giving local access maybe cheap may grow up, but likely undrr diverse & inconsistent & biased policies... Likely as an Uberified enshittifying take on what a public utility ought be.
I think it is. It solves a problem, that is of course very real and urgent in programming, but does so by adding a layer of abstraction. And I think abstractions have to be introduced sparingly and gradually. Likewise functions with arguments. I still find this to be a hurdle when helping people learn Python, and they don't naturally use functions and scoping unless I goad them into it. Many of them won't do anything beyond writing basic linear scripts, which is OK.

My first language was the original line-numbered BASIC. I think a benefit was that you could pretend to think like the computer, and run the program in your head or on paper. Naturally we were led to experience the mishaps that scoping overcomes.

Nowadays, a motivation is showing how they can import a package, and use its functions, without having to understand the internals of the package. The most primitive reasons are named function arguments and scoping.
I agree with this - but my point is that I think the difficulty of compiling to alternative architectures is more of an impediment. If it's easy, then company's will just do it, give or take "we don't want to support that platform".
That varies by model (maybe the Airs all have 2, but certainly the older ones do, whereas a MBP from the same era has 3).
That's pretty awesome news regarding your conversations.

I hadn't even thought of the `reducers` slice property. I meant more all the thunky features around the `endpoints` property and the hooks that are autogenerated as a result. In our components this meant we could have for example a form that takes an api model as input and can modify that model on submit. So like,

...component boilerplate
const {
data,
isLoading,
isFetching,
isError,
isSuccess,
} = useGetSomeDataQuery();
const [updateData, {
isLoading,
isUninitialized,
isSuccess,
isError
}] = useSomeDataMutation();

And then right there is all the state we really need to worry about for a given form as we interact with the API. Though again the missing bits are the stuff managed by Formik, like changed but unsubmitted inputs and etc, but those definitions would also be up top near the RTK stuff and so at least while editing it's visually available. Like you said doesn't necessarily pass muster as an actual state machine unless you have lots of checks in your useEffects or wherever else you're reacting to state changes about the entire state of the component.
An adjustable height standing desk is the best of all worlds: you can stand or sit. You can even be mobile by getting a treadmill desk.
I can get quite a lot of night time light out of a $65 100Whr lipo and a $50 inverter. That sounds much better to me than a generator.
> You won't get a new feature into the Linux networking stack without discussing and reviewing it with the network maintainers, for example

Sure, there are trusted experts in open source development too. Of course you have to get your PR discussed to get it checked in! How would the system be resilient to bugs or hacks or scope creep if not? Of course, you're always welcome to fork it and start your own thing.

There was a 2017 report on Linux Kernel Dev [1], it states that "Since 2005 and adoption of Git DVCS, 15,637 developers from over 1,400 companies have contributed to the Linux kernel. Since last year, over 4,300 devs from more than 500 companies have contributed to the kernel. Of these, 1,670 contributed for the first time, or about a third of the contributors."

That's not a centrally controlled and planned engineering project. Microsoft Windows is centrally controlled. Apple's macOS is centrally controlled. What are your odds of getting a kernel feature added to either of those unless you work at those companies? Zero.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/whos-building-linux-in-2017/
Still for sale on Amazon (new) and eBay:

https://www.amazon.com/How-Entertain-Your-Pocket-Calculator/...
There are areas that you have to pay for ID which disenfranchises the voters who can't afford it
Maybe until the novelty gets old but then turns to glimpses here and there.
I'm not super intimately familiar with Fishers work but from what I do know I think he would be extremely disappointed with most modern leftist movements.

Though most of what I've read from him is descriptive rather than prescriptive.
> In fact, several workloads saw less power draw with the op cache was disabled. Decoder power draw was drowned out by power draw from other core components, especially if the op cache kept them better fed. That lines up with Jim Keller’s comment.

There's a hidden problem here: disabling the opcache couldn't possibly improve the power draw of other components. The system is simply doing less work per unit time because it issues fewer instructions in the same time.

This is a common benchmarking problem when the workload isn't fixed, e.g. when a benchmark tries to run as many iterations it can in N seconds. By increasing execution speed (or in this case, decreasing it), you also increase the total amount of work done per unit time.
> McCarthy shares none of these inclinations. His characters ride aimlessly through the desert and kill for what seems like no reason at all. Blood Meridian is a book that reflects a particular moment in history, but his characters have no sense of that history, are otherwise immune to time, and seem oblivious to the forces ordering their world.

This is my biggest issue with all McCarthy's works. They feel like pointless exercises in sadism and cruelty, where the forces of evil are literally superhumanly powerful (like the judge) and nihilistic misanthropy is the only sensible philosophy.

But, in the novel's defense, I grew up after the myth of the west was dead. I have only ever thought the frontier was a miserable, lawless place full of bandits. So perhaps if the novel's goal was to 'bust the western myth', that's why it failed to engage me in any way except utter disgust.
Yikes! I use a charging pouch for sure but definitely think of going further.

I also have a pretty great charger & charge gently, usually 1A on my 4.5Ah cells. Barely anything. And I monitor cell resistance closely to spot trouble ahead of time. That's key.

I feel pretty responsible here, but I also know I am playing with a dangerous dangerous scary scary thing. I still don't feel great about this. I charge while I'm home & leave my charge setup in the middle of open floor, away from flammable things. But oh I know it's still a risk. I should get a charge crate. Thanks. Sorry that happened to you. Terrifying.
Thanks for the comment. Would love to hear more about what kind of fieldwork you've done

> Of course once we first arrived in South America, only about 20,000 years ago, we had quite profound impacts on the Amazon's species composition and distribution, but... that's a mere 20,000 years ago

Consider the fact that only just 12,000 years ago the Amazon transitioned from mostly grasslands to the full-fledged continent-wide jungle it is today. Or that the last African humid period ended just 6,000 years ago during which the Sahara was covered with wetlands, grasses, trees, etc.

A LOT can change in just a few thousand years

> Before that, there was certainly a highly biodiverse and to all intents modern Amazon pre-dating humans by millions of years

Sure, if we're talking on the scale of millions of years we can include a jungled Arctic which also ended 50 millions ago (around the same age as the Amazon). I did not intend to argue humans were necessary to biodiversity or even to the Amazon's development. Rather just that they clearly left a major impact. From that first paper I linked:

> We found that half of the arboreal species (2,253) are useful to humans, which represents 84% of the estimated individuals in Amazonian forests. Useful species have mean populations sizes six times larger than non-useful species, and their abundance is related with the probability of usefulness. Incipiently domesticated species are the most abundant

Of course naturally people will often use the most abundant species (the paper addresses that as well), but it's hard to deny that the millions of native Homo sapiens acted as a keystone species. The recent advances in Lidar technologies especially have revealed an Amazonian landscape and soil distribution that's been deeply shaped by human inhabitation.

> if we could go back, we could still find regions plainly characteristic of every major present-day Amazonian ecotype, minus humans

This seems like an incredibly hard claim to back up but I would be absolutely delighted to read through any papers or books on the topic if you have them on hand

> This applies even more so to the much more ancient central African and southeast Asian rainforests in which there are also some areas with no clear record of inhabitation

Yes, apologies if I seemed to imply that every corner of earth was shaped by humans. This is certainly not true. I did not mention the landscapes you brought up, but I stand by the claim that there is plenty of evidence that the 3 case studies I brought up are heavily shaped by human culture despite often being portrayed as "untouched" environments

> But to them we're a recent development.

I completely agree with this statement but go back to my first point (and I even made the point without bringing up climate change!)
I personally wonder if some heart attacks have been reclassified as cardiac arrests or other outcomes as our understanding of heart health has advanced?

It's just a thought, I don't have any data to support this. Not sure if anyone has any insight.
You conveniently forgot to mention several things that don't fit your narrative. Why are you so eager to place the blame on Tesla fans for unearthing evidence, instead of calling out Cummings for her unsuitability for the role? Are you actually suggesting that NHTSA requested her recusal based on a simple petition, rather than the hard-hitting evidence it put forth?

Cummings had a seat on the board of a LIDAR company and was paid by them [1].

She has had research funding from competitors in the industry Toyota, Uber, and Volkswagen [2].

She had associations with Tesla short-sellers, which raises questions about her impartiality [1].

Notably, she made public remarks suggesting an inclination to punch Musk [1].

Moreover, her legal team tried to suppress public discourse by attempting to get the petition on Change.org removed [1].

Also, should someone like this really hold an impartial position like the senior advisor of NHTSA? [3][4].

Let's not overlook these potential conflicts of interest just because they are inconvenient to acknowledge.

[1] https://wholemars.net/2021/11/21/missy-cummings-is-fighting-...
[2] https://twitter.com/wholemarsblog/status/1450710771399200769
[3] https://twitter.com/heydave7/status/1450691154299731970
[4] https://twitter.com/TitterDaily/status/1450832510267629570
WhatsApp Caught Using Microphone During the Night
Twitter engineer posts screenshot of his WhatsApp microphone usage. The fingerpointing begins as neither Google nor Facebook want to claim ownership of the problem. Surprise.
You're arguing for the opposite of what you conclude. How does Turkey censoring Twitter help it's citizens?
> . . . people with ADD have a different reaction

Do you have any sources for this? I’ve heard this repeated a couple of times but have never encountered a good source.
There is no doubt that a mixture of over provisioning, a mix of energy sources (wind, hydro, solar), mix of storage, an extensive and resilient grid can successfully replace less-intermittent power sources. What I am interested in is what it will cost, and how that compares to nuclear.

People from both "sides" always make claims that make their preferred solution look more favorable. The non-nuclear people point at measures like LCOE which are misleading. I'm sure pro-nuclear people are doing the same thing.

Personally, I do not have a side, I just want real numbers for replacing coal/gas and getting a similar or better level of grid stability.

> But note that even with significant over provisioning solar and wind is still cheaper than the cheapest nuclear costs if you over-provision in the low cost, high generation areas (another argument for transmission)

Can you provide some sort of evidence for this claim? How much does a UHV line cost per KM? How much will it take to build out? How much storage is required? How much over-provisioning is required?
The 1% of the population accountable for 63 % of all violent crime convictions (2013)
Generative UI Concept
I have been thinking what it should be like for a Chat-based interface to be more interactive. A lot of information or interaction cannot be simply replaced by text, especially when it comes to a very clear and specific job. Chat based interaction is better suited for ambiguous and unclear tasks.
The release is marketing, both to customers and for hiring. I have zero doubt they made this because they're using LLMs themselves, not just faking it like for fellow kids.

LLMs are valuable to all companies of any significant size, just for knowledge management. Then for a bank specifically, there a ton of text classification and summarization tasks when it comes to expense management, bill pay and all the other services they offer. There's also internal stuff. Fraud and KYC would be helped a lot.
Bark: A transformer based text to audio system
> Despite this reliance on fire, they also simply can't handle the powerful wildfires of today

Because the California fires of yore would roll through on a regular basis burning the limited fuel on the ground and not getting hot enough to damage the trees.

Now, after preventing natural burning for quite a while, there’s plenty of fuel sitting on the forest floor to get hot enough to kill all the trees.

No humans needed, lightning strikes are all you need to clear the forest floor every so often and keep the trees happy assuming you let nature take its course.

I don’t doubt that humans would clear land by burning but I do doubt that they had enough of an impact to change the entire ecosystem in the limited amount of time they were there.
It should be relative to the size of the companies actually responsible for the fraud, as determined by a paper trail, not the middle-man sanitized third-party vendors:

“Two of the California-based companies, LCX Digital Media and digital marketing company Lead ID, LLC., were hired by the broadband industry…”
https://archive.is/HS1sF
Yes, being desk bound has nasty effects on the body. But proper desk hygiene can mitigate a lot of it except for the lack of movement which has to be compensated somehow: daily 1 hour walking or other type of workout.
I have seen this in the US at rural cafe's or diners. When my wife was waitressing, she'd call them the "coffee-drinkers". Every morning there'd be a group of semi-regulars that filtered in to drink coffee and swap lies with each other for a couple hours before going about their day.
What's the argument against requiring a government issued ID to interact with government systems?

I mean I understand a case for anonymity for whistleblowers, etc. but it seems like if you want to file a complaint with the FCC then requiring you to prove that you're a real person who lives in the United States seems like a reasonable thing?
DIY Laser Projector – Built from an old hard drive
Try the books from the Border Trilogy or Suttree. They're very different to Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men.
I mention that to point out the code density limits of x86 are much higher than what measurements using compiler output will show, while on the other hand I haven't seen the same for ARM and suspect that one can't really get much better than compiler output for it or other RISCs.

Having had to patch binaries on multiple occasions by inserting instructions, it is definitely not hard to do so for x86 as one can easily find "slack" that the compiler left behind[1], but I once had to do it for a MIPS binary, and it was definitely not easy to squeeze in the few extra instructions I needed inline; I ended up having to detour to another area with jumps instead.

Here's an old paper where the authors tried to optimise for code density manually, and you can consistently see x86 beating ARM and MIPS:

https://web.eece.maine.edu/~vweaver/papers/iccd09/iccd09_den...

[1] See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15720923 for an example.
And if you're allowed to make bets of an infinite size, which casinos restrict in part to defeat this strategy (as well as manage their risk).
Rare earths aren't used in solar or batteries, but they are used in the steam turbines of a nuclear plant.
"It just goes to show the best strategy in assembling wood together isn't learning to use a screw driver, its about pounding it in with the hardest and most capable hammer."
I don't think you quite understand what people are saying when they talk about scaling fines. The point is to make this behavior a net loss in profit, which works across any company scale. However much money they made given illegal behavior, fine them some multiple N where N > 1 (and preferably more like N > 3 or more). Even if that doesn't get implemented for some reason, you can have fines like "$max(X * company size, Y)" that also handle any company size.
Brex is launching AI-enabled products: https://www.brex.com/journal/press/brex-openai-ai-tools-for-...
They’re perhaps using GPT internally to automate things.