skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comment from Eben Upton of the Raspberry Pi foundation:

> We received a proposal from PlatformIO Labs in October 2022. While we absolutely empathise with the challenges of funding open-source projects, we were unable to justify paying the very substantial recurring fees involved. We indicated that we would not be proceeding, and have subsequently made some investments elsewhere

What am I missing here? Is PlatformIO rejecting this contribution from a community member (not a Raspberry Pi employee AFAICT) unless the Raspberry Pi foundation agrees to pay them substantial recurring fees?

I understand PlatformIO is a business, but it’s bizarre to see them trying to extract fees from a company that doesn’t appear to be involved in this open source work.

Am I missing something?

The PlatformIO team’s responses all feel like they were written by a team of lawyers and PR people, or at least someone trying to pretend to be a team of lawyers and PR people. I don’t entirely understand what’s going on with this whole situation but from what I’ve seen I think I’ll steer clear of PlatformIO in the future.
If you don’t, you might not be online nearly enough.
Incorrect. The program under inspection could halt or could not halt; undecidability is a statement about Turing machines inspecting that program and unable to make a determination (via a clever proof by contradiction).

The Halting Problem is a truly interesting result, and for the most part uninteresting in practice.
Other manufacturers haven’t had time to scale up production. Also the direct you consumer model has been a real winner in preventing dealer price gouging due to shortages
Nintendo blocks Dolphin's Steam release with DMCA
I don't believe it's easy to make up 30 different signatures without them having similar style.
This is something I’ve long struggled with: how you capture assumptions tied to decisions so you can revisit the decisions when the facts on the ground change.
Daniel didn't really sabotage the Rust project though, like he did Copperhead; he just stopped making contributions, in a dramatic way.
Ask HN: Full text search for audio files?
I was wondering if anybody knows open source projects that implement transcription to provide a grep-like functionality for mp3 files?

Of course I could write it myself, but I'd rather not want to re-invent the wheel here.
Sorry majority of HN readers, but no protection was found for men, only women.
Probably the best programming advice any anyone could get.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of 1-1 Learning
Technology is operated by humans now, but I believe it is a mistake to think that technology could not evolve to the complexity that it can operate itself.
India has some of the best stories.
Dear Intern
So why would someone choose observable plot over other libraries, for example chartjs? I don't see any comparisons or arguments in the docs [0] that acknowledge the other big js charting libraries.

If you want specifics, I tend to use chartjs for real time data visualization. I often find it tedious to add markup graphics in real time (for example, to draw attention to or highlight anomalies).

[0] https://observablehq.com/plot/why-plot
It took me a while to grok the situation solely because of how bizarre the pushback from platform.io people is.

I understand (but would still be vupset) if rpi org was disallowing this on the grounds of commercial reasons, not the other way around.

But this is just on a whole another level.
firefox and before that name firebird/phoenix did not gain explosive growth due to central marketing efforts, it did because it was a great product that worked for people.

also,

> It would be hard to switch to a place where I had to work to convince myself that I was net contributing to humanity.

Not sure you are now, but okay. a halfassed solution like what firefox is now, is allowed to live forever without addressing it properly. If it wasnt there anymore, perhaps a real solution would emerge
also dogs

https://http.dog/418
If you're going to click the link expecting some interesting information about Cybertruck, don't bother. This is just article about how sketchy we already know Tesla autonomous systems can be, with a clickbait headline.
I dunno, I suspect hosting and cloud became one and the same thing some place in your post.

From what I understand you need both a large or complex computational load and a lot of traffic before clouds should become the weapon of choice.

But Im not entirely sure.
Over 20,000 teapots out there:

https://search.censys.io/search?resource=hosts&q=services.ht...
> It can easily take 1-2 years of serious effort to get through the material.

Still faster than my CS degree.
There is no shortage of numbers. I wonder if it would make sense for every web-server ot have its own status-code if up and running? Of course they would have to be registered somewhere.
Appears to be an EC2 instance
Wired.com ran the first ever banner ad. True fact.
Nice use of phoenix liveview (I'm assuming). The app is really smooth, and executes rust faster than the official rust playground
Or it's one side of the story.
I honestly use this a lot when I'm testing, because it's basically the only response that can show up where I know god damned well that it's only happening because I programmed it to happen under certain conditions.

edit: a common one for me is that if any test passes a post request without a csrf token... sorry, I'm a teapot, because I forgot to add a csrf token to that form.
Why Don't Rich People Use Phone Cases?
I have been considering going through this book/program myself. I do have a CS degree, but I really need to brush up on somethings, and I will imagine I will learn a lot of new things too.

However, I noticed there are two versions of the book. Do you think the version matters?
Not really. Lots of template engines escape and/or sanitize interpolated expressions, according to the context, by default.
Is there something like penetration testing for projects? i.e. a business unit that is working fulltime on identifying “what could possibly go wrong” in very complex projects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes
Rust is exactly the kind of movement where everyone is going to take themselves very seriously at every turn, this is bound to happen.
"Nobody ever generates JSON using string interpolation." Oh boy, you just took me back to my first ever PHP project. Feast your eyes: https://github.com/oxguy3/phpStageManager/blob/master/events...

This file generates a feed of events (rehearsals for my high school play) to be rendered by the FullCalendar JS plugin. FullCalendar required a particular data schema that didn't match the format of my MySQL table, which meant I couldn't just json_encode() the MySQL results. I guess I just didn't conceptualize that I could create a new object that matched the FullCalendar format, and then call json_encode(). So, I generated JSON with strings.

Honestly it's a toss-up whether the JSON generation is the worst thing about this file. It looks like I also made a separate database query for every single row to get the username, because I apparently didn't know how to do joins. Could probably spend an hour listing some of the other little nuggets of awful in there. But hey, it got the job done! :)
There was a popular conception (like taught in textbooks even) that one hidden layer was enough since a neural network with one hidden layer could approximate any function. Deep learning became a thing when it was found to work great in practice.
Look up whitewings
Is there a way to scare them off? Some sort of sound maybe?
That's OK. You are mostly only in it quick enough to make your quick buck and exit.
If VM "like" means "doesn't do the one thing that VMs do aka run a separate kernel" it's not a very useful term
> The person you responded to accounts for uncurved classes in their argument, that cheaters in uncurved classes "inject false signal into the difficulty feedback loop".

We both understood the comment very differently. The "inject false signal" is for curved classes. When you have a curve, your grade depends on how well your peers do. If they are cheating and you are not, you are unfairly at risk for a lower grade. In an uncurved class, your grade is independent of whether your peers cheated or not.

> The person you responded to accounts for uncurved classes in their argument, that cheaters in uncurved classes "inject false signal into the difficulty feedback loop". The person you responded to accounts for uncurved classes in their argument, that cheaters in uncurved classes "inject false signal into the difficulty feedback loop".

Ah, I see the confusion. For me, this is just "curving by proxy". By uncurved, I meant: The professor decides what students should learn and be able to do with the material, and designs the exam accordingly. If almost everyone gets an A, then it means almost everyone learned the material adequately. Most of my professors did not modify the difficulty of the course/exams/HW based on how well the students did.

The exceptions were when the whole class did poorly and no one would have gotten better than a C - then they adjusted to ensure some people got at least a B - but usually not based on a distribution. I have taken at least two courses where no one was granted an A, because the professor felt he had made fair exams, and no one met the bar he deemed to be an A.
How many people will give a runaround before answering the question?

It's meant to run on a laptop. In an existing site that people will already be using. It's free software. If you wanna build a native client, too, be my guest. I might at some point.
But to be clear, in this case they werent asked to give a specific talk. The speaker came up with it.
They weren't measuring the effect of getting the vaccine directly, just the effect of being eligible for the vaccine. That is, they looked at rates of dementia by birthdate cohorts, not by got-the-shingles-vaccine cohorts.

If your hypothesis were correct, the vaccinated cohorts would have lower-than-population-average dementia rates, while the unvaccinated cohorts would have higher-than-population-average dementia rates. This wouldn't cause any measurable effect on the total dementia rate for a given birthdate, as presumably something like 47.2% of the population born just before Sept 2, 1933 would _also_ be doing lots of health things right.

That is, your hypothesis doesn't explain the data they found, which is not categorized by vaccination status, and showed that people born just after Sept 2, 1933 are significantly less likely to be diagnosed with dementia than those born just before Sept 2, 1933.
Starcraft 1 is over 20 years old and still has cash prize tournaments today.
I was lucky to take a tour of the Livingston, LA facility. It's within about an hour's drive north of New Orleans. Very much worth a visit.

https://goo.gl/maps/9fLFCVqjumx1LSkXA

As someone who's worked on laboratory ultra-high vacuum systems the ~2m diameter by 4km long arms that are vacuum chambers are quite impressive.

A "fun fact" from the tour was that they had a road grading company construct the underlayer for the support of the arms. They asked the company to set the angle of the grading to equal the negative curvature of the earth as the arms have to be straight in space while a surface that's graded "flat" would end up following the curvature of the earth.
Otter browser

https://github.com/OtterBrowser/otter-browser

Ungoogled Chromium

The Android version https://github.com/macchrome/droidchrome/releases comes with customizable adblock filters e.g. easylist, I don't care about cookies, EasyPrivacy etc. that I'm no longer forced to put up with Firefox's jank just for some decent adblocking on my phone anymore.
Han unification was such a silly mistake
No. Shingrix is the most recent shingles vaccine, AFAICT. It requires two injections for folks age 50+ or with weakened immune systems. Zostavax required one, but was withdrawn from the US market in 2020.
What programming language do you use? Are there SDKs for interfacing with the sensors and motors?
I guess maybe someone might use chatgpt for this. But your argument and the 10 year old article defining the term scapegoat is far from convincing me that this is common.
Well that goes far beyond what I think of as "string templates", now you're parsing the string into HTML.
Habadakus.
FWIW, the site presents a variation of the origami design of Prof. James M. Sakoda of Brown University "winner of the origami award in the First International Paper Airplane Contest" in 1967 as published in that book.
> "I use ChatGPT daily to make my job 10x easier" but these anecdotes are dubious at best.

It can do things that I have to google first, but would rather offload. Still don't use it regularly, may be it or something like it one day. We are just at the beginning, it's only a few months since we've got something coding.

> Imo, the real winners here will be Nvidia and Apple,

NVidia already is, just recently it's stock jumped +25%+. I expect it do go further up as there is no real strong competition. When robotics pics up NVidia will be a winner again. They invested a lot in hard- and soft-ware.
This is awesome. As a complete noob, it would be nice to hear the correct note once I swat the fly. There isn't a lot of positive reinforcement with this and it's really hard
I don't think it's useful to consider a rare (0.2%) neurological disorder in this discussion, unless you're suggesting that Neanderthals had voids in their brain matter. This would be an extraordinary claim, being unlike any other primate or mammal.
Woman Born in 1878 Talks About Her Childhood in Los Angeles in the 1880s
This has nothing to do with servers though. It's in context to the requested resource. If you want to check if a server is alive it's happening several layers below an HTTP request.
The Superchargers in the Bay Area are often full. And now that all Ford EVs can use Superchargers my point is that experience may change for the worse.
> They can and do repeat copyrighted training data verbatim. It's absolutely copyright infringement when that happens.

My brain can do this too with music. In my 20's I used to be able to hear songs crystal clear in my head as if they were coming from the stereo itself.

Did my brain copy the song (yes!). Did it receive copyright approval from the artist (no!).
GitHub will defend you, if accused of copyright infringement due to Copilot
Further links:
Under Privacy-General : https://github.com/features/copilot

No. 4 : https://github.com/customer-terms/github-copilot-product-spe...
> For Americans, that would probably increase your exposure

For criminal matters, possibly yes, depending on the circumstances.

For civil matters, arguably not. The US government can ask a foreign government to spy on you, but the results of the spying can't be admitted in a civil lawsuit. Whereas, an American ISP, the plaintiff can get a subpoena, the ISP has to comply, and the evidence is admissible in court. Also, with a civil lawsuit, even if it is possible for the plaintiff to get an order from a foreign court, the added difficulty and expense may make them decide to abandon the suit altogether.

> They can legally spy on their own people via foreign governments.

What if you used a Russian VPN company with a server in Russia? Of course, merely signing up for such a thing is likely to attract the attention of intelligence agencies. But, if the US government asks the Russian government to spy on you, I doubt the Russian government is going to say "yes", unless you are something like a terrorist.
Conclusion aside, I enjoy reading research finding in this format - straight to evidence, short.
I agree it seems like a disproportionate act to take given the situation as the author described it, but this certainly does seem like the kind of scenario that involves a lot of context that goes unmentioned.

One explanation for this sequence of events is that the conference planners had since found a new compelling topic reflective of the project's direction to be covered in a keynote speech, in which case the natural topic to replace is one that discusses a "possible"/hypothetical idea. I'm sure there was a better way for leadership to handle this, in particular around communicating their intentions, but this shortcoming seems much more likely a case of incompetence rather than malice towards the speaker, given the lack of information to support the latter.
Saves me a ton of time in delivering quality writing for reports.
Sometimes I really wish I learnt how to do this sort of cybersecurity/analysis.

I can't even imagine how it would begin, finding some bugs and exploits seem to just rely on dumb luck.

Reminds me of https://bugs.xdavidhu.me/google/2022/11/10/accidental-70k-go...

How does one start this as a career? Is worthwhile employment?
I don't really believe the majority of desktop Linux users have Steam installed. I do believe that the majority of Linux users historically (at least leading into the 2010s) used NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards, for a multitude of reasons. Even today where AMD and Intel GPUs are clearly the better option for stability, that doesn't mean they're the best option for doing work with. If anything, gaming on AMD is pretty comparable today, in part thanks to Valve. Productivity on AMD is where things are not in good shape. I wish it weren't so, but compare the CUDA and OpenCL/ROCm ecosystems and it's pretty obvious. Most recently, when AMD released some pretty enticing GPU options into the market, ROCm users were surprised to find that their cards either were entirely unsupported, or support had not yet been stabilized. That's just not how things work with CUDA.

I'd pay for things to get better here. I desperately hope that Vulkan as an option for compute can mature and compete with CUDA, but I also think that to do so, quite an ecosystem will need to be built up around it, even if the API and drivers prove sufficient to work as a solid runtime.
Brush Script[1] is the ur-classic. Adobe used to give it away so it showed up literally everywhere
when desktop publishing was first taking off.

[1] https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/brush-script
That's why I said it doesn't have tourism. Clearlake area is lower elevation mountains that get no snow for winter tourism like skiing. That makes it a very different atmosphere than Lake Tahoe for good reason. One drive around each lake will very much tell you it's not about "no one else thinks it is." But there is truth in small starting differences being catalysts for positive feedback loop. What starts out a small difference can lead to wealthier people inhabiting the area, becomes even nicer, becomes even wealthier, and vice versa.
For sure! I'm just not sure why it happened
Maintainers are well within their rights to say "Fork it" if your vision of the product isn't theirs, or it would add time to their releases, or for no reason at all. One of my favorite examples is https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-would-like-debian-to-stop... . Supporting a platform is expensive in time and mental energy. PlatformIO is under no requirement to do so.

From what I can gather, PlatformIO is not willing to fund future development on RPI themselves, and reached out to the much better capitalized RPI foundation to try to get funding. They may or may not have been assholes in how they did that, we'll probably never know. Asking wasn't insane, rejecting the patch isn't... Insane per se, even if it's probably shooting themselves in the foot by denying themselves a huge customer base. Their communication has been poor as heck, though.

I am intentionally not warning about JWZs policy on links from HN, because it's funny to me.
I work for Google but mostly interface with GCP the same way everyone else does.

The vms are somewhat hidden in the UI iirc but otherwise you can enumerate them via API and ssh to them and debug/profile (which I was doing to get cross-language profiling on data flow pipelines with py-spy and jvm perf output).

It's just a worker vm in your project.
Keming matters!
Why is the title so deceptive? There is no conflict - PR is blocked because PlatformIO is trying to extort money from RPi and is not successful with it
I just subscribed the other day.

Part of me just wanted to finally test if GPT-4 is as superior as everyone says. I haven’t had the chance to truly try it out though and most of my GPT usage has been outsourcing casual creative tasks.
Improved SpaceX Starship Should Lift 300 Tons Expendable and 180 Tons Reusable
I was very similar to you, a resentful paying CopperheadOS customer. But now that I understand just how troubled the guy is, I forgive (but don't excuse) him. I also almost installed Lineage but it was too much trouble and I took the risk and went with Graphene.

I wonder what the psychophants are going to do now that he's not involved. Are they going to continue the same path? Is the project in the same precarious position as it was yesterday?
On a related note, my favorite easter egg header:

http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/
Any recommended starting points for LORA training llama 30B on a specific niche? Books, tutorials, videos are all appreciated. Thanks for your time!
Isn't that why server side validation exists? What's wrong with letting the user enter whatever they want? It doesn't mean it has to be accepted.
https://archive.md/wzDbw

One of the dumber things I've read recently.

I'd suggest that they reason rich people in TV shows (as well as some celebrities) don't have a case is because they are being paid to advertise a phone.
Even the term hallucinate gives them too much credit. It's more accurate to say they just make stuff up that sometimes happens to be accurate or useful.
We accuse GPT of confidently giving answers on things, but man, it learned from the best.

I cannot assure you that we won't have something like a nuclear apocalypse in the next few decades, and here you are certain it's not going to happen. How can you be assured of this future when the underlying assumptions of things like value of labor will be experiencing massive changes, while asset inflation is on an ever increasing spiral up.
What was the black metal band?
But people in that bubble keep shaming people who aren’t… and react keeps changing, so it’s not like you learn it once, it requires careful study and understanding of all the different permutations that are used in different environments.

You generally can’t go from company A to company B who both use react and have the same calling convention, code structure or tool chains even though they are both using react.
So... if the API I use switches from Apache to nginx, I have to rewrite all my success/error handling?
Kind of devoid of any details, what radionuclides does it actually work on? Same set as DTPA?

And how do you trial this? Contaminating subjects with plutonium would seemingly violate ethics guidelines.
To be clear, that's ChatGPT, not GPT4. GPT4 should be better, but it is still limited beta and I haven't bothered joining. Note that 3.5-turbo (the API) is worse

> They both weigh the same amount, which is 1 pound.

It is clearly a strong example of Murry Gelman Amnesia when we can't trust it to tell us the difference between two simple things but we trust it to tell us complicated things.

It is also a clear example of how it is a stochastic parrot -- doesn't understand what it is saying -- as it even explains the reasoning and is not self consistent. We wouldn't expect an entity that can understand something to be wildly non-consistent in this short of a period of time. Clearly the model is relying more on the statistics of the question (the pattern and frequency that most of those words are in that order) rather than the actual content and meaning of those words.

Despite this, I still frequently use LLMs. I just scrutinize them and don't trust them. Utility and trust are different things and people seem to be forgetting this.
and Vulcan is not human rated. and ULA has said they have no plans to Human Rate Vulcan.

I feel like that is kind of the writing on the wall that Starliner won't fly beyond what they have Atlas boosters earmarked for.