skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking more in the line of e-Fuel and the like:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrofuel

But sure, if hydrogen can be used, stored and then consumed then I can't see why it couldn't be a good idea, assuming demand. The thing about making petrol and diesel is that there's a guaranteed demand for the product, assuming the price is right.
Coffee engineer? You’ll still be working with Java I bet
"Mount a laser pointed at your window and do complex algorithms with diffraction to listen to you"

No, not legally. Most states have two-party recording laws, laws about recording on private property, etc.

"Use a telephoto camera to look through your windows"

No, not legally. That falls under what is generally termed peeping Tom laws. It varies slightly by state, but you cannot record people in a private setting without permission. You can view the outside of a home from a public space, and even the inside if just with the naked eye.

"Run Tempest and read your computer monitor (pretend we still have CRTs)"

This one is interesting. Side-channel attacks are difficult to find case law about since they tend to be relatively new and involve other steps that are already criminal.
I'd assumed something to do with roasters, but yeah, maybe it's more mundane than that.
It depends on how you look at things. In many ways the point of dreams is more about the pursuit of them, than the achievement of such. Because it's not like you achieve something and finally you're there - it's done, you've made it. Well it might be that way for a brief period. But in short order you'll be onto the next dream.

It's human nature. We're not content, which is probably a really great evolutionary driver, but not really a great driver for things like stability. And it's not all material. Even something like e.g. stoicism is largely a dream. It's a never-ending battle which you'll never win, but the point isn't about winning it, but about finding fulfillment in the journey along the way.
I've been rotating a subset of these for years: jqa mvb whh jkp usg rbh jag caa wht wgh fdr hst dde jfk lbj
where i live, any unnatural aid [eg binoculars] required or used to observe a private property creates an offense s privacy, as well if the point of focus is a bathroom, bedroom, or changing area, the offense is sexual voyuerism
I am considering mounting a bucket and a grabber stick on my paddle surf board. The amount of plastic shit I see in the sea while paddle surfing is depressing.
>Meta does not appear to have a horse in the race

Their horse seems to be "AI-generated ads". I'm still not sold on the idea though. I can see corporate Marketing departments using AI as a tool to ASSIST with ad copy development, but I'm skeptical that they'll let a third party like Meta generate the ad copy on the fly before pushing to targets. Maybe just tiny parts of it for "personalization".
the corollary is that if you download a movie not to watch it, but to train an AI on it, then copyright does not apply.

So when someone knocks on your door and accuses you of illegal streaming, just tell them you "trained an AI" on it ;-)
High School Students Need More Sleep and Later School Start Times
God Mode – no more RSI
How little do you actually pay for electricity?
The Amazon Video app crashes so frequently it's unusable; it's actually more convenient to torrent.

Spotify too has a hissy fit every time I lose wifi connection, I'd keep all my songs locally if I weren't listening to new music every week.

Etc. Etc. While it's true that the cost is a problem to consumers, most won't jump through the hoops for it alone. I try to teach my friends to pirate things as much as I can, and they never want to because they don't want viruses or to go to "sus websites".

Consumers in general don't want to break the law. Only the most dedicated ones with time and knowledge to spare will really go through with it.
> Data is frequently collected with some kind of bias.

you can't look at electrons without some sort of bias; such is the nature of all research.

however "data is biased", and the implied "statistics are racist / classist / sexist" etc., is most often used by those who don't want to see what the data lays out, and have no other way to discredit it.
Soft ‘Electronic Skin’ Mimics Our Sense of Touch
Buy a camera that you can grow into as opposed to out of
God-Mode for Emacs
I think europe had longer copyright terms before the US?
Pretty much every part.
It's only available on mac
Whichever party owns/maintains the poles can usually grant access to additonal parties if they see fit, including private citizens, other companies, the government, etc.
I believe that max demonstrated wave height will have more to do with the height of the hydrofoil than the wingspan / ground effect distance.

Having said that, I'm pretty sure the much larger Monarch (their further future 50-100pax model) will probably have longer vertical supports on the foils.
Deposit schemes for stuff like bottles are great, I don’t know why more places don’t do them
Please let me know how many times Bitcoin transactions per second has gone up in the last 14 years.

I can tell you how many times iPhone has upgraded their specs in approximately the same time period.

One of those is a cult, another a product of engineering. Don't confuse them.
GP pretty clearly used the noun-form “plan(s)”.
> A closure is like an anonymous function.

I like the article overall, but I have a bit of a pedantic note about this opening line.

Using "like" suggests that there is some similarity that can be used to understand one thing from the other, but in truth these are two distinct (though related) technical terms, and I think phrasing this relationship as a simile may actually obstruct understanding rather than enable it.

An anonymous function is just a function without a name. There's nothing particularly exciting about that, except that they only really make sense as a concept within the context of a language with first-class functions (i.e., a language where functions are values that can be passed around as arguments and such).

A closure is a function paired with an environment. Technically (meaning "in the academic literature"), this can be any function at all --- named functions can be used to create closures. But in Rust this is not the case, since they only use the term in connection with anonymous functions. This is actually addressed in the first couple of lines of the Rust Book's entry on closures [1].

Saying "a closure is like an anonymous function" would be like me saying "a car is like a set of four wheels". While it is true that the four wheels are integral to the car's identity, it is not the case that these things are directly similar in the way that the word "like" suggests they are.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch13-01-closures.html
You'll probably spend more time setting up bleeding edge kernel PPAs and what-have-you than this will save you. If "when will I get?" is ever a question for you, then an Ubuntu-based distro is probably the wrong choice: Ubuntu is about stability, not features.
> I understand that some engineers/developers struggle with this change

This isn't an issue of struggling with adapting to change. If it were just a matter of doing my job in a different way, that would be totally fine. This is an issue of seeing the sort of work that I enjoy -- the entire thing that drew me to this career -- evaporate completely.

But this all makes me sound more upset than I actually am. I'm very troubled, but I also only have a decade or two left in my career, so I think it's likely that I'll be able to find niche positions where I can keep doing what I love to do.

I do worry about younger devs who are in the business for similar reasons as me, though.
> Meanwhile I can't be bothered to pirate games anymore because steam and GOG on linux are just too damn convenient.

this is actually a thing. Piracy declined once Apple Music, Spotify and Netflix appeared, because they were more convenient than handling a torrent client.

Now that every single studio seems to want to build their own streaming service, usability declines and piracy will increase again.
Russian fighter jet intercepts US bombers on first day of European deployment
Check the roadmap, it's macOS desktop -> web browser -> linux desktop -> windows desktop -> nintendo switch (??)
I wish it would default to unzipping the archive to a folder with the same name in the same directory (without the pop-up window asking me where to unzip it to) when I double-click it like on macOS or most Linux file managers, but to also have a context menu option to view the contents without allowing me to actually interact with the files within.
I have for a while, and will for the foreseeable future, name my computers `terminal`. It started as a joke, but has turned into a habit. Every device I own is named that, with the exception of my cellphone, which is named `phone`.
Most non-tech B2C stuff? GDP growth has slowed but it's still positive overall.
If your productivity completely falls apart without good commit messages (or any particular tool, say git), that is symptomatic of poorly structured work and poor planning.
OL3 has a big one for grid support purposes: https://www.tvo.fi/en/index/news/pressreleasesstockexchanger...
The human genome project cost 3 billion dollars to sequence the first genome(s) (with one draft costing about 300 million), you can now have your genome sequenced for less than $1000.

Yes there are differences, but science and technology have moved on substantially. Just because it was wrong the last time does not mean it is going to be wrong this time.
Thanks I will give it a try!
Tested out the landing page chatbot and got one “We couldnt find an answer to your question” and another request timeout. Not confident at all using this with any product.
That only takes one gun

Most people can only fire one gun at a time. There is a point of diminishing returns on stockpiling weapons.
What's the implication of using WebGPU? Better terminals in the browser? Better electron terminals? A quirk for better native portability?
AFAIK German estimates are that ~95% are returned. 0.25€ is for single-use containers, multi-use containers (e.g. glass beer bottles that get refilled) are 0.08€ or 0.15€ depending on type.
Maybe its that governments should train AI models to be fair with copyright.

One could argue that people ingest copyrighted content too and spit it back out too.
WTF! How are these doctors not in jail? The medical system in the US is even worse than I thought
this was my first thought too... could they be used for assassinations?

p.s. there's a joke in there for Marjorie Taylor Greene...
The penalties for permitting more than X robocalls through in a given period including those originating outside your network should be so high that legitimate operators under US jurisdiction are terrified of allowing connections from companies that turn a blind eye to robocall farms—a couple of those stop being able to route calls to the US, and they'll either shape up in a hurry, or continue not being able to route calls to the US, and either way, problem solved.
But someone probably will read those books and make a TikTok about it
> That means the ruling ONLY applies in areas of the US that fall under the 9th circuit.

Ah, thanks. I'm German, I thought federal court orders were binding for the whole country.

> Small businesses are different.

Actually small businesses are exempt. The EU EEA has a threshold of 10 employees/2 million euros balance, and the US ADA - at least from a quick Google - of 15 employees [1]. If you're hitting either of these thresholds, you're large enough to afford a once-off expense and hell, you should have a couple tens of thousands of dollars in reserve anyway simply because your employees rely on you being able to make payroll even if disaster strikes - even at 10 employees and 3000 dollars per employee in total cost, that's 30k in payroll a month total so you should have 60k in reserve anyway.

For those who don't, well, please don't operate in a way that externalizes costs and risks onto others - no matter if it's disabled people, your employees or your customers.

> Faced with tens of thousands in expenses, they have two options.

A lot of small businesses don't do their own website, they use social media or SaaS providers - Wix, Wordpress, Jimdo, or (for restaurants) Just Eat and their competitors. For them, the SaaS provider does the heavy lifting, and besides: these sites usually don't have much content anyway.

[1] https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/ada-primer-small-business...
> prohibitively expensive and impossible to validate and verify the metadata of every call

Isn't that what the SHAKEN and STIR protocols fix? Maybe the telco can't validate every call, but even if they at least told me when the metadata has been verified would be great. Most of my legitimate calls originate from another US number and all of those should be verifiable.
AFAIK wezterm[1] and warp[2] are built on top of the WebGPU

[1] https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/

[2] https://www.warp.dev
Looking back at ten years of encrypting the Web with Let's Encrypt
That also doesn't work. It costs more to convert an office building to housing than it does to tear it down and build new condos in its place, which in turn costs more than just building new condos in a different location. All the plumbing/HVAC/electrical systems need to be redone, you need ventilation isolation, there are different load capacities, etc.

Plus if remote work really takes off, there's no need to crowd all those people into the downtown cores of a few cities anyway. It'd shift housing demand to cheaper, more naturally desirable locations.

What'll happen is that a few firms with ineffective cost structures will go bankrupt, a few major cities will become hollowed-out wastelands the way NYC was in the 1970s or Boston was in the 1950s, and economic growth will pick up in other areas, with new startups and new desirable hubs.
"but they can buy that info from the phone companies"

Actually, they are starting to crack down on some of that with the recent SCOTUS case on cell location tracking. I forget the case name, but that was within the last 4 or so years.
Or as someone else put it:

Good looks are a function of 1) Genetics, 2) Effort, and 3) Money -- pick two.

Like, if you ain't naturally gifted it takes a bunch of time and cash (clothes, gym membership, makeup, expensive haircuts, etc.) to compensate -- but you can. Lord knows I'm a walking, talking ogre but can pull it off by putting in the effort.

But lots of effort requires the time and ability to invest the energy -- which implies money -- and then there is the literal 3) Money, which aside from clothes and makeup is also things like plastic surgery, teeth whitening, etc.
Investors buying property to rent it out, are in effect speculating on real estate prices. By speculating, they are providing liquidity to the market and absorbing risk from buyers, sellers, and developers. They make the market functional and contribute to price discovery. Having prices that accurately reflect the value of the asset will encourage developers to build the right amount of housing, so in a round about way, yes they do increase supply. The same applies to ticket scalpers. They absorb risk from ticket sellers, so there is less risk in putting on a show that might not sell all the seats, improving its profitability,
$20m in funding, so lets say a $100m post-money valuation – probably need at least 10k sites running this at $250/mo for that valuation to stack up.
Isn't that what "Star Wars" was?
Very nice project, congrats! How does it perform on rough seas? How tolerant is it to the state of the surface? I expect you have big restrictions on the size of the swell.
Thanks :) My friends and I have made a few jokes about hacking my literal "daily driver". TLDR; didn't excise, mostly sat in my car.

I originally rooted the car using Honda Hack via http://www.autohack.org/. A paid service that afaik uses a webkit exploit and probably an old Android kernel exploit to gain root. Part of the motivation for this project was to encourage others to release open-source rooting tools so they don't have to shell out the $25 for the "pro" version that I did.

Once I had root, I installed a few apps via a USB drive, including a file manager and a third-party app for ADB over TCP (I don't think 4.2.2 had built-in support for networked ADB). Then I connected my car to a Wi-Fi hotspot on my phone (at one point editing Android's wpa_supplicant.conf file directly because it got corrupted). Once I made sure that the headunit would autostart ADB over TCP and always try to connect to a certain Wi-Fi network, I had a decent safety net.

So I spent a good amount of time sitting in my car with a laptop after that though I was able to pull partitions via dd and do a lot of research sitting at my desk, especially static analysis of APKs, native libs, and binaries, stopping back at my car on occasion to grep gpio pins or sysfs values.

I didn't want to risk pulling the headunit from the car; that was (and is) an emergency fallback in case I ever wipe flash or something and need to reflash to the physical board. Fortunately I never had the need. I'd be great to get detailed pictures of the unit though. A quick eBay search shows headunits going for ~$1,000, which imo is ridiculous given that they're glorified Android tablets c. 2012. But if anyone has an extra they're looking to donate, definitely get in touch
It's ironic how you replaced "millionaires" in that quote since many engineers are now millionaires.
> Instead, prosecutors chose an easier, swifter legal strategy: a civil suit.

Seems pretty obvious.
China is not sending missiles to Russia
Should have [Ask HN] in the title, otherwise it looks like it's a link to an article.
Ugh. I just spent the past few days reading this exact paper and preparing a detailed presentation on it for my job as an AI researcher, and headlines like this make me roll my eyes very hard.

MEGABYTE is indeed a cool new architecture, but it is still very much just a proof of concept at the moment. The paper shows that the model can compete with (but not decimate) vanilla Transformers on the scale of ~1B parameters in long-sequence prediction tasks. They did not "unleash" anything, and scalability to very large parameter counts and datasets still has not been tested.

I'm certainly very excited to see where this architecture goes as the community gets ahold of it and starts developing it, but to call it "revolutionary" this early on is disingenuous. I personally have a few experiments I want to run with it, but I put the probability of it being a true GPT-killer at <20%. I would love to be wrong, though!
That's still an open question. The AI people here sure claim it doesn't.

The typical workaround is that scientific research is usually exempt from copyright. If you train a model for research, and then use that model for your business, your business didn't take part in the violation step.

Unless the model you trained is a derived work, of course. If it is, you need to pay for every scrap of copyrighted work you use, same as with music samples (fair use probably doesn't apply here but IANAL).

There are two American lawsuits about this going on at the moment that I know of. I think the lawsuit against the stable diffusion people can bring the clearest answer to this question, though I wouldn't be surprised if the case goes through various courts because of the implications for the AI industry as a whole.

Actually having to pay for the stuff you use would ruin a lot of AI startups. Then again, having to pay for the stuff you use also ruined Napster.
Do you mean a graph that contains all neurons from the network in one structure?
Similar to these:
https://gfycat.com/BonyTotalArthropods
https://gfycat.com/BitesizedWeeBlacklemur

That would be wonderful and I have been trying to do this. However, unfortunately some 'assumptions'/shortcuts have to be made. For example, the attention matrix is not known without input, so if just the structure of the network (weighted by the weights) is wanted, you have to put in some value 'p' ('1', '-1', w/e) to these edges. Also skip connections have to be dealt with explicitly instead of just adding them to a block diagonal matrix as one would with an MLP.

I am very interested if someone has a good solution that already has done these things though.
> That's around 3 weeks total annual production of Patriot missiles fired in 2 minutes at a handful of targets with at best partial success.

Its a total success; the purpose of a defensive system is prevent something else from being hit. And, there’s pretty good reason to believe that the reason there aren’t more than about 6 Kinzhals in Russia every-one-to-two-week mass missile attacks is that they simply aren’t producing enough to fire more. Also, there were 18 missiles in the barrage, including other SRBMs (the ground launched Iskander), S-300s used in surface-to-surface mode, and cruise missiles, not just the 6 Kinzhals.

> So it's both correct that Kinzhal is really just an air-launched SRBM not a hypersonic glide weapon, and that our existing missile defense looks at best barely capable of partially defending against very limited numbers of conventional SRBM.

Patriot isn’t the whole (or even the most capable system) of our existing ballistic missile defense, even if it is the most notable system of ours deployed, as of today, in Ukraine. THAAD exists, and is more capable than Patriot.
Sorry for the late reply, I didn't think to check back on this :)

A couple reasons:

Back when I did use them, I got really bothered by sites breaking, and I'd rather have the ads than dealing with "is this broken because of my ad blocker or is the site broken". Now, I've just gotten to the point where I don't really mind.

The other part is there's enough content I consume that is supported by ads that I would like to continue supporting, without having to consciously opt into it (e.g. news sites; I don't want to pay a subscription for every newspaper but am happy to contribute to what little money they get from ads)
From orbit? Surprisingly much. Atmosphere and distance mean dumping a lot of power into stuff in the way.
A charge related to interfering with an investigation, possibly.
Wait, if the CEO is rich, 300k/y isn't a living wage? I fail to see the connection.

Context: I live in $NOT_BAY_AREA and the amount of money you folks make while complaining as if you’re an Amazon warehouse worker really rubs me the wrong way. It seems to me that Bay Area tech people (or at least the ones in this thread) lost all sense of reality.

I get that getting fired is stressful but if your skillset is in such high demand as tech skills are in SFBA, it’s not class struggle.

I don’t disagree that layoffs like these are stupid, preventable and maybe even mean, I merely disagree that it’s oppression. It hurts the people who do get oppressed and not paid a living wage.
Before software I worked a number of blue collar jobs. Despite sharing the same feelings as you, there's no way I'm taking a pay cut and going back to how I lived before.

I would remind you that the grass is always greener.

Here's a thread that was on the /r/bestOf subreddit the other day about finding meaning in one's work:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/13ohn5b/is...
The many traditions of non-governmental money (2018)