skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Surely they'd spin up as soon as the BIOS started probing the bus to init the hardware, long before the kernel was running, or they'd be infamous for being "the HDDs you cannot boot an OS from"...

Depends on the market they sell into, might not be a big deal for enterprise drives that you don't expect to boot from; especially if you're attaching them to a controller that you also don't expect to boot from. I had some giant quad processor pentium II beast after it was retired, and the BIOS could not boot from the fancy drive array at all; and even if it could, the drives were on a staggered startup system, so it would have had to wait forever for that.
> They are some of the most capable and ambitious pieces of software ever written—and yet it’s commonplace for small teams of developers to toss aside large pieces of built-in browser functionality in favor of doing everything from scratch.

The author highlights something very important here. There's no substantial offline mode for HTTP. The request-response nature of the HTTP protocol has no standard or policy for what to do if the request can't be sent. Browsers have grown to include some ability to operate offline, but it's an afterthought. Firefox's offline mode doesn't do much more than allow for browsing cached pages, which isn't much good if those pages run javascript that needs connectivity. Much of the rebuilding-from-scratch in SPA development is to supplement or extend the browser's functionality to be offline-friendly.

As the author notes SPAs arose at a time when connectivity was much more intermittent. Today, the areas of the world with poor connectivity are of little to no interest to businesses that profit from being on the web. Browsers don't support offline mode better because there's no financial demand for it.

This leaves offline mode as a niche where the's little or no money to be made, so hardly anyone cares any more. It's not possible to serve up targeted ads through real-time auction bidding when the user viewing the page isn't connected.
>>[the] weapon proved effective in neutralizing multiple targets even though it had never before been tested against the types of drones used in the trial.

Presumably THOR was tested against American and/or foreign-made retail drones, and not foreign military-grade drones. Hardened electronics aren't a new concept.
California’s current water rights and investment
First of all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_of_force

Also capabilities have to be made public to show what tax dollars are being spent on.
I wonder how effective this is against a microwave resistant design. microwaves are incredibly easy to deflect, 1mm sheet steel at the right angles would be interesting to see.
1M USD start up drone company inquire here.
Understating capabilities could have utility, no?
Or following updates in any other subreddits.
As you said "in the short term". Once the competition is destroyed the consumer is at the predator's mercy.
It's interesting from a theoretical perspective, but the novelty relies on using a really strong definition of security:

> In this work, we consider the information-theoretic model of steganography introduced in (Cachin,1998). In Cachin (1998)’s model, the exact distribution of covertext is assumed to be known to all parties. Security is defined in terms of the KL divergence between the distribution of covertext and the distribution of stegotext. A procedure is said to be perfectly secure if it guarantees a divergence of zero.

In a practical scenario, the attacker likely does not know the distribution of covertext and therefore cannot detect a theoretically imperfect steg implementation. It's an area where the steg user has a huge advantage, as there are a practically infinite number of ways to do steganography and it's non-trivial to even detect that it is being used in the first place. And if you obtain the covertext distribution by say hacking the computer generating the steg, then why not just exfiltrate the plaintext directly?
Why wouldn't they? They are just EM waves. "Light" is used colloquially for the visible spectrum but microwaves could be considered light waves
> A human is able to figure this out because they can see what those objects are.

What if you couldn't see? What if the interaction was limited to just text? Would you be smart enough to ask for an image of those objects?

Do you think an LLM can "reason" to ask for additional information, like images of the objects?

A sufficiently large LLM can be trained with a wide range of training data, to the point where it can answer some questions where its seemingly generating new information, but that new information is simply a combination of existing information. In the same way, when you ask it some question about code, it may put together two snippets of code never seen before into something that is new. The key factor there is all of that information is encoded into the network, so all the network is doing is essentially a somewhat complicated graph lookup.
Maybe not, since the Star Wars program taught us that propaganda of capability is a good enough deterrent.
That's not necessarily true in all jurisdictions, as the elements defining degrees of murder are not universal. But, interestingly, in the case of Michigan (which applies here), you may be correct, insofar as a "premediated killing" is construed as a killing performed "in cold blood".

Michigan's statutes indicate that first degree murder includes any willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing. [1] Whereas second degree murder includes all "other kinds" of murder which do not fall under the specifically enumerated conduct rising to the level of first degree murder. [2]

While the second degree murder statute does not expressly describe what circumstances would precipitate those "other kinds" of murder, the statute outlining the scoring system for crimes involving "intent to kill" suggests that second degree murder would be committed where the offender had unpremeditated intent to kill or created a very high risk of death knowing that death was the probable result. [3]

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[1] http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(cdcjvuv1er3twxx1crhz3tb3))/...

[2] http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(cdcjvuv1er3twxx1crhz3tb3))/...

[3] http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(cdcjvuv1er3twxx1crhz3tb3))/...
No, you didn’t.

You voted for California rail but nothing high speed was ever proposed.

The proposed rail line you are referring to was a normal speed train and didn’t even complete the SF to LA trip in two hours.

Which is to say: we would have achieved, in 2030, what most of the world achieved in 1990.
Microwaves do travel at the speed of light, all electromagnetic radiation does.
> Microwaves dont travel at the speed of light

Yes, they do, microwaves are just a wavelength of light.
> it will be a rather funny, poignant thing to pass when the earth itself prevents AGI

From one of my favorite all-time comments on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34349582):

> There is a blog called, 'Do the Math' by Tom Murphy. The idea was to take our current energy requires of Earth and extrapolate it at the current 3% year over year growth. I believe it is by the year 3,400 we would use all the energy of the Milky way. The idea was to prove that we cannot grow forever, because in 1,400 years we would somehow use all the energy of a space 100,000 light years across. Good luck with that.

We are still talking about stupidly ridiculously humongous amounts of energy, but the universe itself is a hard limit on energy input. It was real hard punch against my assumptions in life.
You aren't the norm. If you were then Lyft would be doing much better. How many rideshare apps do you check? 5? 10? My guess is maybe once in a while you check Lyft if uber seems high. That's what I do.
Lesson here is to profile your software at some point.

I'm playing a game (Fenyx Rising) and after launching it I always wonder why "Checking for additional content" screen takes 20-30 seconds. I'm pretty sure it should be just a single request.
You should consider the similar reasons why you chose Kysely over Prisma. Prisma has far broader adoption. https://npmtrends.com/drizzle-orm-vs-kysely-vs-prisma
If you can fully shield the electronics with steel then you're probably good to go. The problem is any small gap in the shielding (such as for venting heat from the rotor motors).
Space is going to be industrialized, sooner or later. Since it takes massive amount of capital to do so, you can pretty much limit this kind of thing to wealthy nations or multi-billionaires such as Musk, Bezos and Branson.
> I am waiting for an open solution that will give me the authority to manage and sync passkeys.

Exactly. Hopefully kepassxc will have that as well and it will be possible to use when needed.
Had a manager tell me I needed to be more like another engineer who had more commits. I checked out his commits and it was full of repairing typos in READMEs, capitalizing SQL queries, removing comments from code.

I didn’t work for that manager much longer
When was the last time you tried it? It's been making really good progress imo.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
It changes the whole game. We were almost defenseless from swarms of flying grenades before. Now, the military can handle that threat.
That was similar to my experience with Dvorak, back in the early 90's. Having learned touch typing on qwerty on an IBM typewriter from high school, and learning/typing for several years, I thought I was pretty good typist, but in college, I had the nagging feeling I wanted to try something else, since my wrist didn't feel too good after a long typing session, and I wanted to get even faster.

It felt so weird learning to type in Dvorak layout, but I got used to it and after a month, I was typing ok, and within 2 months, I was probably typing the fastest I've ever been. It felt much easier to type physically and felt more effortless to type. The downside was that every time I went to type on someone else's computer, I just couldn't type on qwerty anymore. Some people just seem to have knack on being able to switch between layouts, but I just couldn't. Being an "expert" on computer as a software engineer, imagine people's surprise when I could barely locate a key... "So where is that B key again?" Also I couldn't use VIM no matter how I tried to remap the keys in vim. Eventually, I abandoned Dvorak for practical reason, and when I did, it took few weeks to get back to re-learning qwerty.
good, but not great.

I love Pavarotti on this one
didn't Apollo also need fuel transfer in space? or am I misremembering?
Please try to make an original movie that meets the standard of, say, The Godfather, with AI.
Most military missions are posturing, there many incentives.
Does he even have a functioning rocket?
The Journey to a Faster Sandpack Transpiler
Satellite Signal Jamming Reaches New Lows
You don't need to sell slaves to have slaves.
It's so brilliant. As a layback person, I wonder how much more of transformers they went, like is it transformers that are brilliant or gpt (essentially)? Both i suppose but then is there a big distance between the two i wonder.
What's the point? Buildings don't cost anything. 90% of the value of these buildings is the land they're on.
It's not just about the danger of leaks. There's no clear copyright — who owns what?
Even aluminum foil can do wonders here.
The drones are going to be vulnerable because they need to have some kind of antenna to communicate externally, that presumably would be pretty broadband. It would be interesting to think about how one could harden them but still allow communication ... I think it's probably possible. Something like an nmr receiver that has diodes that short it out for high power input... I have no idea if that translates practically.
don't fret, most of the brands HD sells will cease to confound you in this way within about 18 months, they stop making noise and the interior and exterior reach a pleasant equilibrium!
This comes back to something I mentioned elsewhere:

What's good enough for an advertiser trying to sell concert tickets is not necessarily good enough for enforcing legal prohibitions.

The location collection mechanisms built by Apple and Google that would be effective at a state or regional level within the US have been built for advertising, with secondary purposes of opt-in anti-theft. They weren't built for continuous, rigorous enforcement of legal prohibitions within a given sub-region of the USA.

I think you're asserting that e.g. 90% of TikTok users in Montana would be impacted by the ban, and 10% would find a way around. For advertisers, that's fine. For enforcement of a law? Bzzzzzz! That's gonna be arbitrary-and-capricious'ed right out of the courtroom doors.
Thank you for the resources! I'll add them to my list of bookmarks. :)
Here is Carl Sagan's original essay on climate change in 1980 where he warned specifically about global cooling based on deforestation: https://gizmodo.com/heres-carl-sagans-original-essay-on-the-...

5 years later he testified to Congress about the dangers of excess CO2 emissions causing runaway warming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp-WiNXH6hI

On the surface these two messages may seem contradictory but underlying both is a consistent message that excessive man-made changes to a delicate highly non-linear system are dangerous to our survival as a species.
Sure! I think Kysely is great too, but went with Drizzle for a few different reasons:

Kysely is a little more established than Drizzle, which I think is one of the major reason why it has broader adoption. My bet is that Drizzle is moving really fast, gaining adoption, and might catch up at some point. It's also - in terms of performance - super fast, and nicely layers on top of fast database clients.

Some of the differences that I liked about Drizzle were the extra database drivers being core and developed as part of the main project. It supports prepared statements, which is awesome. The Drizzle API also covers an impressive percentage of what you can do in raw SQL, and when there's something missing, like a special column type, it's been pretty straightforward to add.

I prefer the way that it lets us write parts of queries, and compose them - like you import expressions like "and" and "eq" and you can write and(eq(users.id, 'x'), eq(users.name, 'Tom')) and you can actually stringify that to the SQL it generates. Or you can do a custom bit of SQL and use the names of table columns in that, like `COUNT(${users.name})`. I can't say scientifically that this is superior, and it's almost a little weird, but I've really found it a nice way to compose and debug queries.

That said, Kysely is also a great project and it'd be possible to build great products with it, too. I just found the momentum, API, and philosophy of Drizzle to be pretty compelling.
I lost interest and trust in Raspberry the moment they did this: https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/lbu0t1/microsoft_rep...
I agree. I would love to see more articles on pocketbase. It's phenomenal and ganigeorgiev is an animal about responding to bugs and discussions. He's got to be a hybrid human and ChatGPT robot.
AmpereOne with 192 Cores 128x PCIe Gen5 Lanes and DDR5 in 2023
tin foil hat drones incoming
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Space Company Chosen to Develop Moon Lander for NASA
> For nine hours per day, five days a week, Mathenge led a team that taught the model about explicit content, presumably to keep it away from us. Today, it remains stuck with them.

He was traumatised by millions of unfiltered thoughts shared by millions of folks.

He was traumatised by the garbage, racism, homophobia, child abuse, hatred and biases that some harbour and release when unsupervised.

We focus too much on advancing tech but too little on advancing humanity.

The people meant to advance our way of thinking are marginalised, underpaid, and even threatened by replacement with the very tools that ingested our darkest thoughts.

Are we sure that is the future we want?
How does it compare to Programmer Dvorak?
(supabase ceo)

To give context, Val Town have a particularly write-heavy setup, storing a lot of json strings. The nightly backups were causing write-contention, even at their relatively small size. We didn’t detect errors because they were application-level. We should have moved them to PITR as soon as they mentioned it since the timing was so obviously coinciding with backups. We’re investigating moving everyone to PITR (including the free tier). At the very least, we’ll add more control for backups - allowing users to change the maintenance window, or possibly disabling backups completely if they are managing it themselves.
Tall steel-and-concrete buildings are still structurally sound with all the facade torn off. (After all, they were structurally sound before the facade went on.) There'd be plenty of light and fresh air for these "indoor houses" — at least the ones around the outside — if this was done.

If you want even more light and air, design office towers to have some extra "wasted" central space, beyond just that needed for an elevator shaft and plumbing — i.e. make them into squared-off toruses. Then, post-facade-stripping, it won't be dark in the middle, either.

Or just build office towers that are long and narrow, rather than square, such that if you convert them into residential, you get functional "commie block" architecture where every unit gets not only a window, but a balcony.
Same reason for knowing the U.S. defense budgets, number of aircraft carriers, fighter jets, etc.

What's better than winning a war? Not having to fight one.
Isn't that stability.ai's business model?
We're letting the aliens know the next time they try to invade our airspace disguised as Chinese weather balloons, we'll be ready for them. It'll be like the Battle of Los Angeles for real this time.
British subjects are very rare, and have been since the '80s: https://www.gov.uk/types-of-british-nationality/british-subj...
Is 26.38 Gt a lot?

There's 91k cubic kilometers of fresh water in lakes according to: https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/sci...

And a cubic kilometer is basically a Gt, right? .98 Gt?

So 26 / 91,000 = ~0.02% ?

Is that a lot? If it's really 0.02% - wouldn't you expect something to be random noise? How do we know it's not random noise?
When the ground gets too hot for crops we’ll have to build aero farms that float high up in the atmosphere to grow food and then bring down the blimps when it’s time for harvest.
OP’s substack linked in the post (https://roadtoreality.substack.com/) was easier to read and understand the motivation for this project. From the title I assumed this would be a course that would take you through Penrose’s TRTR but interestingly it’s not mentioned. I would love a detailed, crowd-sourced TRTR companion site with comments and explanations.

I’m of two minds about using a programmatic approach to teach mathematical physics. On the one hand, it empowers you to experiment which is easier to do compared to pencil and paper. OTOH, it adds another degree of removal from concepts that are already hard. I would vote for a hybrid approach, where the concepts are mastered the usual way but then computer models are used to experiment beyond for additional insight and aha moments.
TWM comes with X. It is the fastest WM in the west ;)
This is a great thing. AM radio is simple to build and operate, and can reach a long range on low power.

It would be very useful on emergency situations.
When will global warming hit the landmark 1.5 ºC limit?
https://github.com/t3-oss/create-t3-app hosted on Vercel + Planetscale / Railway DB is very easy, I would be surprised if you were miserable doing that.

Mostly that solves setting up Auth and Prisma SQL ORM to your DB, but Next.js App directory with the Prisma setup (2 files / 50 LOC) done is even smoother.
No. In most languages sorting a container is `foo.sort()` or something similar. `qsort()` is much more faff.

I mean, clearly it wasn't good enough otherwise they would have used it, no? Perhaps integrating it was a huge faff.
Perhaps part of the calming effect was being alone with Bob Ross. Adding human characters to the scene might invite people to project their stressful relationships or lack of relationships.

Not quite the same thing, but I do have vague memories of him sometimes adding wildlife--a squirrel here, a fawn there. Am I misremembering? Or maybe he talked about how an animal might enjoy a space, but didn't often actually paint them?
I think it will. Whether we like it or not, the world is ruled by money and I bet Google is regretting helping "OpenAI" right now. The real culprit here is management at closedAI since they went from being open to literally chase the bag.
Why would I do that when I can type ls -lA?
You are not alone. I will likely be migrating from Ubuntu to Debian on my next major upgrade cycle because of snap packages being forced upon me in places they should never exist (headless servers, substitutes for debs, etc).
Level 8 was too easy, used the same technique I used for 7 with an extra (simple) layer that it hilariously ignored and spit out the password anyway.
While pushing for something new and shiny is fine, that only works if the new shiny is better, as it stands on my work machine:

Wayland just causes flickering, alt tab is like a rave and duplicates open windows.

Many applications just do not work at all in Wayland mode.

Lack of hardware/driver support is an issue as I have an older Nvidia which means accel etc is broken.

X has problems sure, but from a UX point of view it's still vastly superior for people on older hardware or don't use the latest rust rewrite of whatever applications they use...

Edit: childish downvotes don't negate reality.
I dunno, I think the person who invented the lever understood the principle well enough to jest that they could move the world?
Great read. Similar to my experience with Hasura. Migrations we’re better there but the row level security was a nightmare. Went to just a custom node backend with prisma and it’s a dream. No more writing tons of json rules and multiple views just to not query the email field.

Seems like these types of services are good for basic large scale crud applications, probably why you have Hasura pivoting to enterprise.

The quote at the end of going back the future is exactly how I felt. Will never use a Hasura/Supabase/etc again. Just makes things more difficult.
Land a man on the moon? Preposterous, they'd sink right through the moon-dust!
Still a good thing that they can stop massively asymmetric attacks (huge number of cheap drones with cheap explosives)
I guess I would have expected the dataset to have only the occasional horrible prompt if it were just user-provided data, but I got the sense from the article that these guys were labelling horrific text all day.
Climate has always changed…it’s a feature of the earth, not a bug…you being born is part of the climate change. When you decompose, that will also be part of the climate change. The magnitude of your so called calculations is minuscule compared to the life of earth and merely speculation just like stocks on Wall Street. Don’t try to control something you did not invent. You’re welcome!
I understand your point but I think it would be easier with AI than without. Many movies are not made to the standard of The Godfather because they don't sell like MCU Movie #53 and if you include more humans in the creation you're more likely to run into the current system's restrictions.

Making a movie as beloved as the Godfather would still be challenging of course.