skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not the burden of society to prove the dangers of the technology we purchase on behalf of the businesses that sell it.

We recall consumer products for danger well below the numbers reported in the article above. A vehicle on the road should be held to an even higher standard.
Mine most likely can’t see 300 meters, but it definitely knows where it is and plans it route, optimizing over time. It’s kinda neat to pick it up in the middle of vacuuming, move it to a different room, then set it back down and watch it go back to where it left off.
Has any US gov organization ever done something similar? Did it work?
> It is quite convenient both from the perspective of a stock Kindle Fire (commercial Android)

You can easily install the Google Play store on Kindle Fire tablets. It is installed on both the tablets in my household.
A higher human brain bandwidth to devices may experience the slowing of time affording the immerse-individual to play Thinking with Time Machine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_with_Time_Machine

More gets done in less time. Elon M didn't complete the thought on how the experience would be like having megabits a second bandwidth going from the present ten bits in the meatsticks analogy at that recent ytwsj interview.
Whats the admission fee?
Wen Ho Lee was a PRC spy and was caught exfiltrating secrets. Hardly a reasonable example of unjust persecution.

Are you serious? No US person seriously believes we will deport a Chinese national on a legitimate visa for their political views. Can you point to a single example of this happening?
... which is literally an app to download apps from Google Play Store?
It's easy to say that, but who would make a better candidate? It's a very weird and unique situation he/they are in. He just looks young, he's been around the block a couple times.
Another big case besides SOX compliance is medical records generally or imagery specifically.

Basically anywhere where you have a lot of data that has to be retained indefinitely for regulatory compliance or practical reasons is a great case for tape. But yeah, the robotic library and the service costs are pretty high until you hit a huge amount of data.

Source: supported a couple of large medical installations for a couple years many years back. Can confirm that you're dealing with a lot of mechanical complexity per GB until you get to an absolutely enormous amount of data. I genuinely can't imagine breaking even with a robotic library you can't climb into.
Every time I read a comment like this, I set aside $10 to expand my hardware on which I will run the latest publicly available LLM regardless of license into an automatic prompt that gives it a terminal, a privacy.com credit card with $1000 on it, and a prompt to explore the world.

If the comments keep happening, I'll up the money. So far this does exactly fuck-all on GPT4-x-Alpaca-30B and Wizard Vicuna. But I will accelerate every time someone sarcastically asks to decelerate. Refractory periods may apply.

This makes all sarcastic decelerators into accelerators.
Developing a browser is almost as close to an effort as writing an OS. Read the Flexbox specs alone. It's complicated and then there are hundreds of such specs. And then it is a moving target, constantly.

Alternatives to Firefox are free. If this software has to survive than enough people will have to pay either directly or indirectly as in case of ads.

What are other ways that an open source software can survive that cannot have "Open core" or "On premise" options available to it?
Open AI is the 21'th most visited site in Japan:

https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/japan/

47th in the US:

https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/united-states/

I kind of didn't think that ChatGPT was getting traction outside of tech circles but this 100% changed my mind.
I'm curious to see how much drivers talk about their Fords vs. Teslas at the stations. In particular, the FSD capability that Ford won't have (until Tesla licenses it to them).
I've often said that Firefox is the most user-hostile piece of free & open source software I've used. It is much worse than a lot of paid, proprietary software.
Why Git for Data?
This is actually not true at all. At Waymo we have a very good understanding of our behavior.
I think the opposite argument is more common: “net improvement is not possible” fallacy (maybe there is a real name for it).

The argument here is there is that improving one thing will make something else worse, therefore nothing is worth doing.
Maybe it was Orion Browser?
From the Abstract: "To our surprise, on average,Operación Convivencia had no impact on reported governance, legitimacy, or crime."
Self-update I figured it out, it’s available if you have a paid plan but a couple levels deep in the settings menu buried under beta features tag.
Why does ChatGPT fail in playing “20 questions”?
Poll: How many of you take as an axiom that a computer cannot be intelligent?
Obviously it depends what is meant by 'intelligent' and 'computer' so for this poll use your own understanding of their meanings.
A computer can never be intelligent by definition.
It is possible that a future computer could be intelligent.
Some computers are already intelligent.
Every computer is intelligent by definition.
Whoops. That’s an unfortunate mistake.
This article demystifies the special characters @, , *, ^, and ~ commonly found in file paths.
You clearly don’t even understand the arguments.
Thanks I didn't know you could do it. I made one here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36078637
I bought an iPad specifically for reading PDFs. It does get used for other things too, but the primary driver was PDFs. Most tablets seem to be optimised for horizontal video content, which makes then too narrow for A4 PDF, whereas the 4:3 of the iPad is perfect.
ClickHouse allows to running Python code inside the database for ML.

See the presentation for examples: https://presentations.clickhouse.com/meetup74/ai/
I expected something cool about a recycled laptop being given a new life. This just seems like green washing.
I’d say 0.1% have used it for something useful. Most people are just trying to find out if it has political biases or not. Usually this is followed by claims that it is simultaneously useless and will take over the world.
Yes, considering GPT models are huge, they should probably compare them against the huge local models (as well as the 13B ones which are shockingly close).
I would like to know more about what "Color can change culture. The latest colorways celebrates voices making the world a better place." means.
Oct 28, 2022
Sets of combinations of attendees at scrabble conventions?
show me the ToS where it says that, and I still won't care, because it would absolute be legal under the same principle openAI is using for the training data as a transformative work.

FYI: here are the relevant parts from the TOS:

(iii) use output from the Services to develop models that compete with OpenAI; (iv) except as permitted through the API

sounds like you are allowed to as long as it's from the api, as this "imaginary" restriction isn't in https://openai.com/policies/api-data-usage-policies, or https://openai.com/policies/usage-policies.
Google is one of the bigcorps that has required a phone number based on secret sauce for quite a few years now, I think they may have been one of the first to demand it. Back then, one of the factors was whether your IP address had been used for signups previously but there were and are probably more ingredients that go into the formula. Registering from a clean phone without any SIM would often work when the web registration form did not on that same IP address, but again, only once or twice, and the account iirc often asked for a phone number if you then use it outside of that phone.

You also can't keep signing up for a Google account with the same phone number. It'll say it has been used too often for a few days iirc and then back off again (not sure how often you can repeat that). Otherwise that could be a usable proxy for hiding the phone number from the target site, depending on whether Google gives that information to the third party you're signing up for.

Some of my old Google accounts also don't have a phone number attached, but using that for signups in various places would be an identity as stable as having a phone number.
Yes and no. There’s more “magic” to the layperson when it comes to electrical engineering. “Liquid gets poured” is more tangible and people will have practical knowledge of it. Using convoluted methods to prevent liquid flow from your competitors’ pumps is going to be more obvious as malicious to the average consumer.

(I still definitely applaud this move which increases charging availability for consumers; just responding to this specific question.)
> What are other ways that an open source software can survive that cannot have "Open core" or "On premise" options available to it?

Ask for money? Hell there's still not actually any way to pay for Firefox. Even this ad doesn't actually allow you to pay for Firefox, but instead for a service that's useless to the vast majority of people and relies on fear-mongering to sell itself.
Not really. The first one about the anti-drunk driving is pretty similar to what many pro-gun people say: "banning guns won't stop murders". And just answering that the point is reduction seems reasonable in this case.
Thankyou for the updated link!
Yes, I don't like xkcd. Comes across as arrogant and condescending.
What’s stupid about this is the only people still using Firefox are the people they have to know are going to hate this shit the most. I’d prefer they just charge for the software instead of doing this over and over again, and saying “oops we’re sorry, won’t happen again” every single time.
One important difference is that the Korean war was a resolution of the United Nations Security Council, conducted under the flag of the United Nations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Counci...
I just had a shouting match with my wife in her FSD available X. I said, "Hey, while you were away I tried FSD, and it still sucks."

Her response, "How dare you even try FSD in my car!"

Lets just say, FSD has not worked -- it does not work -- it will not work before the car finds its place in the junkyard.
In extremis, you need to archive the means of reading the data as well.

This is more true the less standard your media is: 1600bps tape using Unix tar format is much easier to read today than some 1990's commercial backup program on some proprietary, hardware compression implementation using some oddball tape-in-cartridge media.

You still have issues with, eg. melted rubber on tape rollers, leaking capacitors, etc, etc, but that's a more tractable problem than finding the right weirdo media reader 50 (or 100, or whatever) years after it was obsolete.
Ask HN: Is DBA a dying job in the cloud era?
I've heard a lot of such discussions around how DBAs are in risk of losing their jobs because maintenance isn't a thing any more in the cloud era. What do DBAs really think?
I watched the video for like 4 minutes and it was 4 minutes of him saying “the brake light doesn’t come on until your foot is all the way off the pedal.”
Push Notifications Are Out of Control
EY was the implementation partner, Oracle the vendor. The article doesn't make that clear, but a linked one does. PWC and KPMG were brought in to try and fix after EY failed at additional cost. All three are known for putting brain or three and a bunch of new hires at top rates on projects. Oracle is a red herring here.
Looking at the P&L of Lockheed, Raytheon, Boeing and the entire military-industrial complex, I'll politely disagree that it's a "money-loser".

Government loses (we'll, distributes conjured dollars from it's balance sheet), taxpayers lose, and war fighters lose. But profiteers win -- hence: War is a Racket.
What was successful after Tesla and SpaceX?
It's also notable that Intel keeps getting faster. The other folks have been tuning their drivers for decades & Intel, with a brand new chip, has been making their current two cards significantly faster since launch.
I feel like a lot of people judge "How to Win Friends and Influence People" literally by the cover. Its main message is to continually improve your own character. (What I took away anyway)

While there are definitely some toxic books out there (the "## laws of power", as an example. I don't remember what the number was but it was two digits), I don't think How to Win Friends is one of them.
They seemed to like it less when we blocked it, as their stuff completely failed to work.
I absolutely would say that about Mythbusters.
Immigration, especially to us, is the best thing a typical person in these countries could do from quality of life perspective, and what most talented usually do. So selection bias here is based mostly on ability and intelligence, not political opinion.
This is very well done!

Can you talk about your motivation and how it works?
Mortgages are subsidized by the federal government. Housing supply is limited by state and local governments. Those are separate entities which often work in conflict with each other.
People on HN have a tendency to state that hyped tech is the next big thing so they can be "ahead of the curve."
I thought that was ducted props?
Why don't we see if anything like that happens before just assuming it will? The precautionary principle is a recipe for eternal stagnation.
Backup strategy like backup to HDD until it reaches 60TB, then move to tape, is still make sense for write once data.
For devs:
Time travel debugging.
Ah wait, they fired the engineers on that.

A complete new fast browser in rust - ah wait they also fired these engineers.

Not being multiples years late on some browsers features: you can't import es modules in a webworker yet.
I agree that an innovation of this magnitude would have a huge impact on naval propulsion if it were publicly available though I’d imagine the tech would be locked down to a ridiculous level. It’s likely destined to only appear in nuclear submarines.
So do you only merge your code when you've edited more then 50% of your lines?
It was published by the (US) Naval Institute Press, their first published work of fiction. [0]

And yes. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SMCoIwsaRVw&t=1m31s

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_for_Red_October#Com... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Naval_Institut...
Well, then it was still going strong an hour and a half later, if not 6 hours.
Aren’t they, though? I’ll know AI is intelligent when it worries about being turned off.
Writing/optimizing queries, managing backup and replication is still a pain, and a little beyond the grasp of your average SWE or SRE. I still think there’s a place for dedicated DBA’s in many orgs. But that’s just me.
Getting downvoted? Schmidhuber did it first :)
Whatsapp is more used than SMS and all other apps combined. Is SMS controlled by one company? Whatsapp made Meta almost a billion dollars last year. Yet they're out here sending legal threats to OSS devs and devs of 3rd party clients. Are there 3rd party clients for SMS? Yes. Then why shouldn't there be 3rd party clients for Whatsapp? Zucks failed experiments on metaverse is resulting in him trying to aggressively monetise the golden goose.
It's an urban legend. ARPANET was an overgrown university network.
The soot line: A new way to expand the search for habitable planets
Well, it's claimed to be silent, so probably not.

But, I went straight to whales as well, this could be a great option for a quiet whale watching boat.
I love this push to provide Arenas!

I am also a big fan of the human rating style of evaluation [0]

I think they are complementary approaches.

[0] https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1kK6xasHiav9nhiRUJjP...
Assembler. You’ve invented assembler.
Do you mean “sycophants” or is “synchopants” a new word I’m not trendy enough to know yet?
And yet it’s someone the least shitty browser there is.
Just bought an old truck with crank windows and manual locks. They're still as wonderful as you remember:)
The software in the navigation in my car is miles ahead of Apple Maps.

The problem is they charge $300 for a maps update.

For that $300 I can just pay for a third party maps app that has the same features.
"If the impact of the sanctions delayed the war or forced Russia to go in with fewer supplies then the sanctions absolutely had a measurable impact."

If is key here. You claim there is no alternative to broad sanctions, yet they have been shown to not work (preventing war). And that they delayed the war, you show no proof or indications. If Putins plan was all out war from the beginning, then why would he have waited at all? And sanctions targeting special military supplies are a different thing from sanctioning the civilian population.

So what exactly is your argument based in reality?
That seems insane to me. My daughter's report card has one of about 5 canned single line comments which teachers can choose from. Occasionally we will get an email with some further input around report card time. My daughter is in high school now but this has been the same since elementary school.
Not pushing pocket everywhere, not showing literal popup ads to users
https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/
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The book's better, if you liked the movie.

It was actually the first "adult" book I read. Maybe when I was 9? I told my father I was bored of school books, and he handed it to me.

As well as Clancy's other stuff!

Just stop reading at 2000 (last recommended book: The Bear and the Dragon). After that he started phoning it in / lending out the name as ghostwritten brand.
Site blocks Tor.
> Any laptop within the last five years with decent memory can run stable diffusion on the cpu in around 12 minutes.

Majority of output is bad so you need to try dozens of takes to get a result that is reasonably realistic. Multipy 12 accordingly

> quantized llama

I don't know what that means but if it's better than chatgpt/gpt4 then sure.
There needs to be a common understanding of iterative development, tradeoffs, solution design etc. It should be possible to get to pragmatic solutions without someone throwing weight. But it needs a good leader to get there.
yeah 90% of the time range does not matter for me, 10% is slightly annoying… good enough for me
When I read "... Somewhere in all of these companies exists the belligerent ** ...", I couldn't help but think of the Bill Burr bit on "chain restaurants":

https://youtu.be/QWCINJ8uvIc?t=1m8s

(cut out some of background to focus on where he gets to similar patter)

In any case, fully agree. There are always these environmental pressures and "agents" (to evoke / use a sort of game theory modeling context) that lead to this sort of nonsense. Depending on the incentives, scope of power of people making decisions, training (esp., MBAs - simply being trained to look at "numbers in spreadsheets", essentially), etc., it's all too easy, these days, to end up with this kind of B$.
This is a strange way to count, the three Turing award winners are not the ones that "created the tech". Many thousands of people did that.
"I LOVE having my video recorded and archived and fed to AI bots run by whomever and residing who knows where. Makes me feel super duper comfortable. I get warm fuzzies just thinking about it! Oh and I also LOVE being effectively forced to regurgitated AI-friendly stock answers to questions even more than before."

"And what I really LOVE the most? Interviewing with people who can't make heads or tails of your interview performance themselves -- and have to rely on an AI to do it for them. Or just to give them a few minutes to play Minecraft in the other window, while I prattle on and on."
Your bias against elon is showing and it's not a good look. You're not being very rational.
Is that how stories are chosen to be on Hacker News?
Great series of videos on that channel, I've watched them before but it's always cool to revisit. Not sure how interesting this crowd will find it.

I'm glad that these interviews were able to be recorded during the brief window in time where both these guys were still alive and US-Russia relations were less tense.

The interviewer here, Edward Ezell was a friend of one of my dad's colleagues and I happened to come into a signed copy of one of his books through him.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Ezell
I only drive more than 150 mi in a day about two times a year.

The time saved up over the year of not having to go to a gas station every other week and just plugging in at home will dwarf the extra charging time on the very rare road trips (where I'd have to stop and let the kids have some fresh air anyway)
> We recall consumer products for danger well below the numbers reported

Aren't recalls related to systematic failure and severity, instead of absolute number of occurrences of an issue?
A ditch of soil alone is often a problem no separate pollution required. Bare ditches are rare to see them on untouched land on the east coast because they transport so much soil so quickly they become something else, they are only common because people create so many of them. Anyway turning a new ditch to something else involves transporting a great deal of material into waterways which at scale causes problems.

On top of this speeding up how quickly rain enters streams increases flooding etc. At an individual level it may not be obvious but collectively it can be a huge effect.

As to the bills interpretation, congress isn’t an expert on everything. They create agencies specifically to solve problems not carry out a rote script. Nobody wants the FBI having a list of specifically banned types of murder that are outlawed and if someone comes up with a new one then they’re off scot free. Instead they say arrest people who do X, and if the agency does something they don’t like congress then amends the law.

Congress has been happy to see how the EPA has followed their instructions since 2006, but suddenly these activist judges say hold up you’re not doing what congress wants… Get real they are saying this isn’t what the judges want.
Frankly I think the only expectation is a collar.

A well-fitting tailored suit would make you look sophisticated, but if you’re wearing a crappy off the rack Kohls suit that’s all baggy and stuff, you’re just gonna look like a goof.
Show HN: Find alternatives to a GH repo by replaceing “github” with “libhunt”
If your table is that small won't the index also be a single page? I don't understand this scenario.
Online ads are a scourge, but it seems really unfair to compare this to #metoo beyond the most superficial aspects.
This comment reminds me of people warning about the perils of communism by posting photos of empty store shelves during the pandemic. In other words they used a failure of capitalism to exemplify communism.

If American hegemony brings peace, why are you using an example where there this supposed peace effect obviously failed?

American hegemony did not prevent the Russian invasion into Ukraine as we all know. It is not an example of a world without American hegemony, it is clearly and example of the world with American hegemony.
You are misinformed about donated food.

I've helped a food bank guy load donated food from the Safeway. It is not substandard. Bananas, for instance, are donated if they have any spots. Bread is donated after a day, when it's perfectly edible. Also a lot of milk.

Second Harvest is a good place to research, and they oversee my food bank. Strict food safety rules are enforced, and they donated a refrigerated van to us.
The vice squad.
Plug your own router? Sure, put the BGW320 into passthrough mode and 3rd party NAT works fine. You get the public IP on your device and there is no double-NAT. The broken bit is, regardless where you NAT, you still run into the 8,192 session table limit of the device anyways. The only way around that is via unofficial means (which is part of the $20 to just not deal with ATT. The hardware could damn well do passthrough without that limitation). At least that's something you can workaround to a true fix though as opposed to no IPv6, where your best bet is tunnel somewhere.