skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had it working on several Google Pixels, Nokias, and Sony Xperias. With the eID of myself and several friends.

Try if you can reliably read and write simpler NFC cards (e.g. a Mifare card as common for eTicket or university cafeteria cards). I'd like to see if it's something NFC-related or related to the eID specifically.

I'll make sure to continue to check this thread for a reply from you, as I'm now genuinely interested in what's going wrong here.
well, the law explicitly says mandatory. Defaults tend to stick.
Can any of this be done using an open source design? that is, would it be possible to create open source engine management kits for vehicles?
The original blog post [1] is a summary of the talks at the "REAeS Future Combat Air & Space Capabilities Summit"; the summary of the AI talk is 2/3 of the way through the blog post. So either:

* Col Hamilton leaked information he wasn't supposed to, and now the AF is trying to deny it

* The person who summarized Col Hamilton's talk was really confused about what was said, and the AF is generally trying to shut down wrong impressions

* Col Hamilton and/or the summarizer made things up. (Was the blog post written by GPT-4?)

[1] https://www.aerosociety.com/news/highlights-from-the-raes-fu...
I don’t think anyone is outraged at the idea that the standard authors should be remunerated.

The problem is that the standards have to be bought. They should be in the public domain. But someone can still be paying for it (eg a government, or an international organization funded by various public bodies).
> banned Sunday shopping only recently to pander to the religious voter base

More like to the Catholic Church corporation, to ensure that before next elections, church goers will receive proper instructions during Sunday masses, on how to vote.
> in Germany, where land is much more sparse

So, in Germany, there's less land per square mile?
I have a 16:9 screen in portrait orientation, excellent for reading/writing etc. One small annoyance of 1080 as horizontal resolution is that it is just slightly too thin for some web layouts.

Sat next to it is a 32" 2560x1440 unit (they have near identical pixel pitch, so I don't have to worry about oddities like differential scaling between screens) that most of the time is split into two halves or ⅔+⅓ (under windows, the FancyZones util in PowerToys is handy for this).

I liked the arrangement so much at home that I've replicated it at my own expense in the office.
Not if someone takes the cookie and just passes it back to the app from their own browser to steal someone's authentication.
And power consumption is a —among other things— a function of transistor size and process. A lot has changed in 30 years, but our methods of programming these things has veered towards incredible wastefulness.
Damn, I have to sign up to see the code?
According to python. Every language can have a different definition. C#, for example, defines the blocks to be Char objects, which is based on UTF 16:

> The Length property of a string represents the number of Char objects it contains, not the number of Unicode characters.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-...
I searched job listings from HN “Who’s hiring” posts with some third-party tools, filtering to only show me jobs where they were looking for people with experience in my favourite programming language.

I read through the job listings and contacted the ones that seemed interesting.

Among them was a company of whom I am a customer, and who I like.

That company ended up hiring me and I’ve been working for them as a contractor for 11 months now.

I hope that I can stay with them for several years :)
Very very hard to believe.
> and to even know if such a thing is possible before pursuing it

I'm not the creator of that magnificent piece of programmatical art. But I can take a stab at this. As long as the languages are Turing complete it is possible.

Any Turing machine can simulate any other Turing machine so once you step up to that level the challenge is keeping your head through the maze of nuances between many of those languages. I think the logic behind it goes something like this, if a language is complete (eg in the Gödel sense) then you can have it produce things that are nonsense in its own language.

Anyways I would expect the bulk of the work to be making those incremental step of going from each language to the next. In terms of data shape, I am thinking a linked list. So the final step is to call them all in a nested fashion, bootstrapping each up onto the top of that stack as you go.
This 100% sums up my point. If it's a standard then it should be freely available. Standards bodies or governments or whoever can pay for the work that goes into it but how is anyone supposed to study and learn from a standard and maybe even not come up with a new one when one already exists if everything is behind a paywall?

edit: was referring to scrollaway's comment
Mis-specified optimization problems tend to create "interesting" solutions - nothing unusual.

Pretty amazing actually that they might not have specified areas that cannot be targeted, simple conditions really, but instead had some net condition (which are usually tricky).
This is an opportunity for more airline upcharges:

* Reclining seat: +$50

* Seat behind a seat that can’t recline: +$75

* etc

(90% joking, 10% terrified this could happen)
I mean, it's not hard to imagine that scenario in a simulated training environment (though as others reported, this story is misreported, there was no sim, only a thought experiment):

You have a training environment that is symmetrical, you have enemy drone operators, that use an enemy communications network to give commands to units and to control their drones. You could maybe model the ability of each component to function/to contribute to the operation as a bayesian graph.

You equally have the same infrastructure for your own drone.

Now you try to get the drone to pick the right targets to impact the enemy operation maximally - if the operator could possibly minimize the drone's contribution, the operator not vetoing will maximize the success of each target engagement.

You could see similar behavior with all kinds of "reach the goal in this simulated environment" training, where the model ended up using glitches or trivial solutions, if those weren't sufficiently penalized.

If the story as reported were true, the fault would be in the simulation environment - the model for the drone just picks the path of least resistance.
In Smalltalk, the code lives inside the image. You can dump it to a file/set of files using "file-out" operation, and import it from files with file-in. But the code is never executed directly from the files - it's parsed, compiled, and executed on read, which creates runtime representation of the code which is saved in the image. When you break into a debugger in the running Smalltalk image, it works on top of the same infrastructure, giving you direct access to the actual code as well as its textual representation at all times. Smalltalk is also highly reflective, so the compiled code (methods) and objects (classes are objects) is available for introspection and modification. Though it's not the best introduction, this post may help get you interested in the paradigm: https://blog.bracha.org/exemplarDemo/exemplar2021.html?snaps...

It's impossible to do with Python, or any other language that wasn't created with image-based runtime. I tried. This approach only works when the "vertical integration" reaches from the very bottom (compilation, stack handling, memory allocation, object creation) to the very top (editing the source, refactoring, test runners, etc.) It's incredibly powerful when it works and is done right. Imagine your whole OS being built around GDB, with extremely late binding of everything and each method being a separate .so/.dll. It would probably be incredibly slow, which is why Smalltalk and Smalltalkers pioneered JITs - but it would also allow you to override any part of your running system while it's running.
Similarly, I wonder if there is any room for suits over valuation of land predicated on the exclusive use of inaccessible public land. Someone at some point has definitely advertised this as a plus of owning the adjacent land.
Are there really people or companies running Windows on ARM? What percentage of Windows users is this?
How do you know this with absolute certainty?
FYI: A quine is a computer program which takes no input and produces a copy of its own source code as its only output.
It wasn't your point, but it was mine. In terms of raw power this should be in range of AMD hardware. Needs porting work, yes, but I have a feeling the hoops ought to be less insane than all that. It's not "recompile with a different library", quite, but if you take a look at the sort of portability work going on in (for instance) llama.cpp you can see reasons for optimism.
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This title is super sensationalist. Any distracted reader will think that the drone killed an actual human being, which is a lie since the claims was that it happened in a virtual environment.

Anything for a click these days?
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They also already have that computer and most of them have the sensors too. The reason so many cars come with lots of these features is that the base electronic package that the maker uses just comes with it, so the R&D is already paid for and removing it would be more labor than the components cost. After all, it’s a $5 radar, a $3 chip, a $1 camera, and $0.02 of wiring.
CIA planned using women's rights in Afghanistan as way of increasing war support
From the document:

Media events that feature testimonials by Afghan women would probably be most effective if broadcast on programs that have large and disproportionately female audiences.

I thought it was relevant due to the sudden and apparent support of Iranian women's rights
Please stop the nonsensical, useless ChatGPT spam. You’re not fooling anyone and are just going to get banned.
Looking at http://arclang.com/newest, I count 8 in the last 365 days.

The trend doesn’t look good, though. I count 14 in the 365 days before that, 18 in the 365 days before that, 31 in the 365 days before that.
Do they, though?

Didn't Russia have the dead man's hand system where any detected launches would result in a completely automatic response?

But in the reality of an arm's race, I guess the core point is that we either: respond to autonomous weapons with our own and break our principle of having a human in the loop, or accept that our offence/defence with a human in the loop is not fast enough to keep up with an enemy's fully autonomous systems, thereby just completely giving up.

Just as with nuclear weapons, the unfortunate outcome isn't "well they're bad so we don't want them" but instead it's "we don't want these, but we have to out of necessity".

What if Russia was the only country with nuclear weapons and all other countries held steadfast principles of not building any nuclear weapons? Pretty obvious outcomes to be honest.
It would still only be useful for islands that are so small they can't build enough solar, wind or geothermal and at the same time so far away from any mainland that cables are not feasible. How many of these islands do you know?
>The fact that mice don't appear to deliberately jump off high things as a way to get down tells me that they probably do get hurt...

Isn't this how bats have evolved though?
Don't

Mine is now have its hinge broken.

Also its battery is almost dead, have emailed Planet asking for replacement (and how much) - and have been ignored for WEEKS.
Looking at online forums, some have been ignored for MONTHS.

Keyboard feels very sloppy. And some of them must be pressed very hard - while others register multiple clicks even when touched very lightly.

Forget about the camera - it sucks so bad compared to even a cheap chinese smartphone.
Just use it to scan QR codes at most, and even that it have problems from time to time.

And so on, so on.
> You are not the only person on the road, you are creating risk for other drivers and pedestrians every time you drive.

Aren't you notice, my dear safety fan, that the thing you are propagating is effectively adding one more person/actor on the road - a programmer of potentially buggy software, totally not FOSS and without any responsibility for any possible outcomes of possible bugs?
> The fact that mice don't appear to deliberately jump off high things as a way to get down tells me that they probably do get hurt...

They explicitly added the caveat about the soft ground. There'd be very little opportunity for mouses to become comfortable with jumping from high areas as there'd be very few occasions that satisfy the requirement. If the mouse jumped into a cave and can't get out, it'd starve to death. If it jumped off a cliff and fell into water, it would drown. If it fell off a skyscraper, there'd be Asphalt at the ground etc. Off the top of my head, there are no natural places in which mouses could safely get comfortable with jumping. Thus, they'd only do so if they're in mortal danger. And they absolutely do jump off high places if they're terrified
As someone else commented, so do some humans.

But if a system is designed with empathy/rules/etc in mind by an empathetic designer/committee then that system is already > than a heartless individual even if they are human.
Based on this ruling and the cited prior case law I would not want to take that to court. It's fairly clear that the govt will uphold public access to public land, with a fallback of eminent domain (seizure for fair compensation) of private land in order to facilitate public access.

A prior case has a situation where the govt seized land to build a road to allow public access. The ruling was that the govt could not do such a thing without fair compensation.
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The project itself is political
Obfuscation and quasi uncrackable passwords usually. The big problem being that when a .rar file goes missing (and not enough parity files were used), the download is dead forever but is hard to flag as such.
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Indirectly, in a way. A few months ago, I built a small site [1] that parses and structures the "Who is hiring" posts using GPT. It was/is just a personal project to deepen my actual experience in building things with LLMs [2]. After the launch [3], I was actually contacted a few times for LLM-related projects. I am not looking for a full-time job at the moment, but it led to a small consulting/contracting engagement.

PS: The site is still up. Some people think it's a nice alternative interface for quickly skimming the "Who is hiring" posts.

[1] https://www.hacker-jobs.com
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[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35259897
Japan to launch LignoSat satellite made of wood in 2024
Theres not much to it! Like swinging a golf club.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqFyX8-djLM
Agreed, when you see the index size in Mongo vs PostgreSQL, you will quickly understand that a single PostgreSQL instance can outscale a huge Mongo cluster.
The dragon book is a theoretical book. It's like any other (good) OS book out there: good source of information to know the foundations. After reading it, go out and read something more practical (which you probably won't have issues learning it since you now know the foundations)
What's the post-beta pricing going to be?
> I am sure a lot of work (and time) went into this but what's the point? If the model is not as good and the original then the applications are limited and the training time is moot.

If the several orders of magnitude (two in this case) improvement can be used to train other models, that's quite a thing no?
First time I’ve heard the 2027 number. Given current fossil reserves 2127 would probably be early enough for civilization to pull through.

Considering the overall tone of your comment 2027 comes across like a favourite straw man.
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To the author of this blog post (if he should read this):

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And it’s even more amazing by noticing the fact that you and your wife go the extra mile and make it an adventure for your kids!

F*%k screens (iPads/iPhones). This kind of attention and adventure is what kids really need and deserve (imho).

I’m a proud father of 3 and I can imagine the joy and curiosity of your kids on this trip.

I wish you as family all the best and an unforgettable time with amazing and memorable moments!
> whereas in democracies you have at least some sense of oversight

Can you give some examples of oversight ?
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Ask HN: Anyone noticed the quality of spam has improved?
Better ask, how many things you could do per watt now, if software had that era's leanness?
> users are given the illusion of security associated with the complete opacity of the system. What actually happens in iOS is unknown to cybersecurity experts, and the absence of news about attacks in no way indicates their being impossible

For this to change the community needs to create the needed tools. I don't think Apple will ever help you with something that can potentially make them look bad.
Nice to see movement in the 8GB space. Not as sexy as the bigger stuff but still matters. As reminder these are steam hardware survey stats:

6gb - 19%

8gb - 28%

12gb - 11%

rest, mostly <6gb

So staying below 8 helps open thing up to a lot of tinkerers in a sorta democratic sense.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
The mapmaking R ecosystem absolutely has been around for ages, and from a cartographer's point of view it is better suited at making actual maps than Python.
Unfortunately, unless the frustrated driver is allowed to drive unimpeded at 100mph+, they will continue to be unsafe and make others unsafe. If there is enough traffic for you to be the slow car on the road, then that unsafe driver will be causing safety problems for all of you. Bottling them up in a line of cars going the same speed may be the safest course of action you can take for everyone.
Why code review beats testing (2011)
"why would it disappear on the long drive home?"

The phenomenon exists and may be observed regardless of whether we know why it exists. We are complex beings and there is probably no simple explanation for this.

"Just because you've tasked some lesser software routine with the responsibility of not turning you into road pizza doesn't mean you're functionally unconscious?"

I am not claiming the driver is functionally unconscious, but that there is a distinct level of consciousness between unconscious and fully conscious where you are able to carry out complex operations without being fully conscious. Obviously you cannot drive a car if you are functionally unconscious. You can also say some subsystem is handling the driving. But calling it "tasking" means you consciously decide to delegate the work. My experience is that I have not consciously decided to delegate the work in such situations.

"The trouble with "consciousness" is that humans can't really define it in a meaningful way, but they're absolutely certain that it's a real thing and it makes them important."

The phenomenon can be observed and experienced, if you are open to it, regardless of whether we call it consciousness or not. And once you have the experience, it is easier to talk about consciousness in sensible manner.
It wouldn't be able to cope with Electron. Or the "modern" Web in general.
I got hired from a "Who's Hiring" post back in 2012 to a very famous, then pre-IPO company that absolutely changed my career trajectory. It prompted a move to SF, followed by NYC. I got to be a part of a "big tech IPO". I got exposed to incredibly smart people and cutting edge tech. And made some money to boot. It put a giant "stamp of approval" on my resume and opened up doors I could only dream of previously.

HN is a wonderful place full of opportunity.

I've also hired ~3 people from those threads, now that I'm in a position to do so. They've all been excellent hires (though be prepared for some resume spam in your inbox if you have a post that catches people's eye)

I also met the guy who ended up building my custom dream home (from which I sit as I type this) via HN.
I assume the norm, or at least what they want to be the norm, is Huawei, Oppo, or Xiaomi. Regardless of what manufacturer or OS you use, it will not protect you from motivated nation states or companies like NSO.

If you are truly concerned for your life, especially in authoritarian regimes, don't carry a phone.