skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I picked up an N900 for next to nothing as-is. The charging port was damaged (but that wasn’t really an issue, this was when you could swap batteries so I just kept two with an external charger) and the software was... damaged. For some reason a lot of packages were broken or removed. Not sure what the previous owner did.

But I didn’t really care. No calculator? No problem, I just fired up Vim while I was bored in class and wrote my own. Contacts book would crash? Again, a simple program I wrote let me quickly grep through a CSV file and add/update/call people.

It was such a joy to use I would carry it around even though I ended up using an iPhone as my daily driver.
1.7 trillion patients? We're going to need more hospital beds ...
I would relate fair share to how much value the worker is bringing in compared to an average applicant who is willing to take the position for a lower salary
> Cookies was a simple concept that politicians could glom on to and legislate around, but, yes, they're quite unimportant in the grand scale of things.

GDPR absolutely does not rely on specific implementations. Even earlier things I'm pretty sure don't, but GDPR has a much more general coverage. It's extremely important people understand this when they're writing software.
Red Hat employee here. They most certainly are not. The people on the phone have been through a lot of training, they are all whizzes on the command line, we have an enormous in-house knowledge base that's updated continuously, and there's a clear escalation chain as well (as an engineer, I get customer cases that resist known resolutions, so I will be the one "on the internet", searching for known MariaDB issues, things like that).

RH would not be of much value if the support staff were not any more effective than the average end user.
Indeed.

Companies hate unions because they increase labor costs and benefits.

Does anyone really think corporate anti-union talking points are in their workers' best interest?

Unions have their faults (e.g. bureaucracy), but corporations aren't fighting them for their employees' benefit.
It was intended as philosophy (“just saying stuff”) rather than neuroscience. i.e. a black box rather than white box perspective on the mind.

The point is that you don’t need a recent external environment to grow your knowledge in certain ways.

For example, if you locked a sufficiently gifted and immortal mathematician in prison with no knowledge of the outside world after 2021, he can still prove new theorems forever afterwards (provided he has enough coffee). He doesn’t need access to recent mathematical results to keep proving theorems and growing his knowledge base - that’s simply an accelerant. In fact the longer he stays in prison, the more new theorems he can prove because he has ever more lemmas.

Whereas if you locked a sufficiently gifted and immortal chemist in prison with no knowledge after 2021, she might be able to synthesize some new knowledge at first (meta analysis, etc), but eventually that would run dry and she wouldn’t be able to say anything new about chemistry anymore without any equipment.
Benchmarks I've run with a Ryzen 7950x, 128 GB RAM with Nvidia GeForce 3060 12 GB VRAM show a slowdown less than half when not using the GPU, with LLama.cpp as the inference platform and various ggml open source models in the 7B-13B parameter range.

The Ryzen does best with 16 threads, not the 32 it is capable of, which is expected due to it having 16 CPU cores.
I learn something new everyday.
I’ve been on a team doing fingerprinting research (specifically entropy sources). It’s amusing that you’re 100% unique and browsing HN commenting about fingerprinting. (You’re exactly a demographic that would be unique.) Most people aren’t unique, far from it. Consider iPhone 14 Pro Max users browsing through a 5G connection. All the users in the same cell look exactly the same.

If I had to guess, based on what I know about you (what I mentioned in the previous paragraph), I would guess that you built your own computer. This almost guarantees a unique fingerprint.

With the deprecation of 3rd party cookies, we will definitely see an increase in fingerprint-based tracking. That being said, it’s going to look different than unique cookies (and it doesn’t explain OP’s situation.

(Or it might actually be that simple. Your fingerprint might be unique between IP re-addressing, and that’s all it is.)
https://usefathom.com/blog/import-data-from-google-analytics has an importer for your old data even. It's not free.
Well my G500s is working fine for last 10.

Also that controller is getting like 1/50th of use it would get under normal gamer so that's insanely weird detail to focus on.

I'd also imagine dropping ballast would need a controller in the first place.
ChatGPT-like AI to respond to emergency calls in Portugal
Professionally, I'm running everything on Debian because it's always been around, always rock solid, isn't going to make any stupid decisions for profit, and containerizes well. If I'm at a place that's willing to pay for RHEL I will go RHEL, because the support doesn't hurt and they do a great job contributing to upstream projects.

For personal machines, I don't mind Fedora Server (or CentOS Stream) because I can handle the more frequent upgrade cycle.
Not sure there is a way to fall any lower for people engaged in this criminal activity. Literal scrapping the barrel tier individuals here.
when you say up and down you are referring to buying power. And yes, the buying power of a $20 grocery store gift card has gone way down the last few years. Consider how much milk and eggs you could buy in 2018 compared to today.
Netlink sockets in Linux input and output packed C structures. Doesn't get more efficient than that. Such an interface definitely doesn't have to be strings-only. But of course, you cannot use it with just 'echo' in that case.
> write(SIGKILL, "/proc/12345/signals")

Outside of lots of non-obvious problems with synchronization, this is your example that best fits the idea. This interface is probably a good one.

> And of course you can get a peer address from /dev/tcp

You will have lots and lots of problems with access controls if this is your only interface.

> Shared memory can be a file

Coercing random access memory into a serial file just to go and emulate a random access over that file is... not a great way to deal with a high-performance primitive.
Which is a bad idea in any sense. But then, looking at the pictures, I wouldn't dive deeper than a bathtub in that thing, even if I was paid 250k to do so. It looks like a carbon fiber tube with some clued on cameras, lights, propulsion and balast. Which is far, far from being a properly designed and engineered sub. Or boat. Or piece of furniture...
It’s “buying power”
Great! Perhaps one day all ARM64 systems will be ‘system ready’ uefi hardware, just like pretty much all x64 systems are PC systems. But today is not that day and that is why the author of the blog post is running into these problems.
Oh unfortunately there's no interesting tales in a rural area like this lol. I needed a job, stumbled on this listing, sent off an email, got told to swing by the shop some time. Most people here wear at least a little of everyone else's hats. I emulse and burn screens, weed out lots of vinyl, cut and grommet banners, help cover graphic design, and as far as actually making shirts and hats I'm mainly just on the heat presses with the vinyls and transfer films.

And there is, sorta. While our shipping goes through EasyPost, we rarely interact directly with it. Instead our shop uses a web app called Printavo to manage orders. After feeding it the package details it interfaces with EasyPost (very helpfully autofilling the customer's details from the invoice) and displays all available shipping options from USPS, UPS, and FedEx along with prices for all of them. Sometimes the cheapest shipping varies box by box, but in my experience it's always either USPS Priority Mail or (more often) FedEx Ground. And never, ever anything UPS.

Kinda confusingly, I've never seen any of that info on EasyPost itself, just Printavo's wrapper around it.
I have never intentionally paid for prime. I have tried a couple dozen "free trials" since signing up for Amazon in 2000. The process of canceling these trials definitely has the buttons labeled and styled deceptively. You really do have to pay close attention. And the date at which they start charging your payment method is not when you'd think either, it's a day earlier than the 30 days they promise. I've ended up paying them for "free" prime a few times and only received part of it back via-refund.
These image upscalers always seem to remove noise in ways that make the result look terrible. You should be adding reasonable texture, not smearing surfaces in vaseline.
Houston local TV is running cover for Dr. Hotez claiming he's being stalked:

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/06/20/heated-t...

Stalked? Sounds like some cheesy psycho thriller title...meh. He probably is being harassed but that's par for the course for anyone running their mouth about controversial topics.
Historically, mathematics that initially seemed to have little imaginable practical application later become core to various fields of physics and engineering - non-Euclidean geometry as developed by Gauss-Bolyai-Lobachevsky amd Riemann became the foundation of Einstein's general relativity, number theory became the basis of cryptography (to the likely dismay of GH Hardy), etc.

So keep plowing away, mathematicians, at whatever you want to, and don't be surprised if some applied science type picks up the results and uses them for something in the so-called real world (but don't expect many of us to check your proofs, no thanks, taking it all on faith is the norm).
What's deceptive about it is you click the first link to cancel your benefits, then each subsequent page is basically a quiz: "which button will boot you out of the cancel flow and which button will proceed to the next page"

I agree it's not actually that hard to cancel, but the flow is so needlessly complex from a consumer perspective.

It should go straight to a page with three buttons and associated explanations:

1) Cancel at the end of the term
2) Cancel immediately and receive pro-rated refund (Since they offer this, I'm including it here - wouldn't expect it in general)
3) Keep subscription
Virtually all companies oppose unionization. Am I to believe that all these companies are doing so out of sheer incompetence?
It was interesting to note some down-voted my comment.
Trying this out, and a word of caution if you use the SSH provider: it does not check host SSH keys, which is sort of a no-no:

[15:25:45] debug Run command provider command: ssh -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no

It also seems to rely on the remote server having passwordless sudo, which is... interesting.

Edit: I've managed to make it work with my own solution (https://github.com/rcarmo/azure-dev-bootstrap). It works OK, but since I'm used to provisioning the back-end boxes by myself and using VS Code Remote, there's little practical difference (also, my setup adds the dev box to my Tailscale network).

Would be really nice if the baseline SSH provider (and assumptions as to how the remote SSH server is set up) were fixed, and if I could get it to work on an iPad with Blink shell (edge use case, I know, but I do use that a lot, or just an RDP on Linux desktop).

Oh, and add B-series VMs to the Azure provider. For burstable use like coding, testing, etc., those are much more cost effective.
Of course using set -e without an exit handler is contraproductive.

We use an exit handler that reports

"$0 has exited prematurely"

in cases the script did not reach expected exit points.
Yes, this is not an uncommon usage of the word.
This picture shown down-thread looks like the inner chamber is not part of the outer hull: https://i.imgur.com/lBWlh3i.png
I don't think so. It does coincide with me degoogling my life, but I was holding on to waze longer than everything else. It's more the product just became bad. When at a stoplight I sometimes want to take a look at directions, not have an ad for Mcdonalds take over my screen. That's an experience that benefits no one, and infuriates me. I'd say that alone made me stop.
I would love to have some sort of statistics on what the proportion of this feeling is. My suspicion is that the practical approach is probably about 90% of the population (who is willing to learn math at all). Would be helpful in trying to figure out how to tune learning programs. (I say this as one who is perfectly content to learn the theory directly and with little-to-no practical motivation, but my impression is I'm very much in the minority on that.)

I was going to say that the curriculum is tuned in favor of those who can just learn by theory, but then I realized that's not even true. It's tuned in favor of those who will simply swallow it without any idea what it is for; it is neither contextualized in terms of what it is practically good for, nor is it contextualized in terms of theory. It's just... there.
Same here. Great memories of Kilburn Building - School of Computer Science.
I'd personally think the Bible Belt as the last place because presumably people from there would consider that to be an unpardonable sin since, y'know, they believe in all that stuff?

Now, amoral and atheistic managers, those people would have absolutely zero qualms about things like that. In fact, I vaguely recall stories about priest impersonation during early Soviet history but I may be just inventing things on the spot here.
It's probably an evaluation in preparation for removing CentOS in ways other than buying RHEL.

Federal agencies can't really use CentOS after 2024-06-30, so everyone dealing with federal clients is working on an upgrade path (CentOS was a major solution due to piggy backing on RHEL certifications )
What makes you think a company with 89 employees that just clones Red Hat's source code would be faster than Red Hat with 19,000?
UI looks identical to https://backgroundremoverai.com/ ?
Build furniture made exclusively from books. Start with a bookshelf.
FTC sues Amazon for tricking customers into signing up for Prime
Gold can be created from heavier elements via fission or lighter elements via fusion.

Either way, there's no foreseeable way either would ever be cost -effective
> The cry of the ignorant. What is a fair share?

In this case, I'd find out what the union was requesting and consider its fairness.
> No, I'm not talking about the people who talk on the phone when you break something. If you find a bug in a package, will Rocky be able to quickly and effectively upstream the fix, or will Rocky end up maintaining you on a custom patchlevel forever?

I'm intrigued. What makes you think Rocky will be faster than Red Hat? How does Rocky handle that situation? Do they have COPR repos or similar that you add to your system? What do they do if the patch gets rejected upstream?
Thanks for your advice! I am trying to write the book examples using a A6000 (48G video memory), but I may have to go higher end. The hourly lease charge on a A6000 is very inexpensive and I wanted the examples to be "almost free" to run. I will see what is required for Guanaco-65B.
I suspect that certification is not going to be voluntary any more after this.
I am aware of them!

Do you really think that something like this is suitable to be embedded as the core internal communications mechanism of an entire operating system? 'Cause I don't.

Do you remember, for example, that the original plan for the GNOME desktop environment was that components would communicate over CORBA? They abandoned that after version 1.
Etags can be used to track you and likely are, especially at the network level. Additionally your network provider may be adding headers to your requests which enable you to be identified. Finally, your browser and device combination are probably configured in a way that gives you a fairly
unique identifier.
Correct; there are places where a couple must consecutively go through both a religious ceremony and a civil ceremony in order to satisfy the requirements of both Church and State. Sometimes it matters which order they do it in.

In these United States, all Catholic priests (and other ministers who regularly solemnize weddings) are licensed by the state to act as witness in the civil sphere as well. So one of the most important things a priest will do right before a wedding is sign off on the state's marriage license and have the secretary file that with the clerk.
You're quite wrong.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support

VC++ is the only one with good enough C++20 support, and even it, it isn't without issues.

So C++17 is the best one can get for portable code, and compared with traditional C derived languages versus other high level languages, quite productive.
He means culture war-style political issues. I am not Chinese but it’s my understanding that they are way less fussed about being “politically correct” as an American would understand it. Calling someone “a Black” or “an Asian” in American English sounds rude but in other cultures it doesn’t.
> Which implies that transgender people either don't exist, or don't belong to either category.

Which is a bit odd, as the same general sort of people seem to believe it is just the _height_ of wit to refer to trans women as men.
100% this, yes.
It's worse. Few months ago we wanted to buy some specific books/toys from a local brand (we're in Poland). It was a relatively modern, small company, with appropriately modern and slick website - you'd expect everything to go smoothly, right? Unfortunately, we weren't able to complete the purchase, because whoever made their checkout page had a bright idea to integrate with...

...wait for it...

... an AI-powered address validation system, offered by some random local startup. That validation system tried to provide autocomplete and attempted to automatically segment the address in a seemingly free-form field, but something in the integration got botched, and it wasn't able to identify house numbers - and without identifying one, it would not let the check-out process to continue.

I've actually tracked down the startup making this "address validator" (who in the right mind funded them, and why companies pay for this, is beyond me); they had a demo form on the landing page, and it correctly segmented my address - which is why I know it's the integration with the particular seller that got botched. Nevertheless, I'm still in shock - why on Earth would someone do this in the first place? It's strictly worse than having multiple fields - name, street, address part 2, zip code, city, etc. Multiple fields are already bad for reasons discussed in this thread, but a single free-form field that's parsed by "AI" into colored segments as you type? What in the fuck.
Deleting Comments or Posts in HN
I would like to delete, or archive, some of my comments and posts. Currently it is not possible.
You can laser print an image (any image!) onto a projector transparency (overhead sheet) and do a contact print that way. Then you take it out into the sun and use that to expose the paper. Contact prints require very little resolution so a laser print (or an inkjet print) is generally fine despite not being that high a PPI.

The "authentic" way would be to create an internegative with an enlarger. You might use reversal-processed B+W film for example (creating a B+W positive), or create an interpositive and then use that to create an internegative (more steps obviously). Either way it's true that the analog process is a bit of a pain, but modern "hybrid" workflows completely remove this.

It's not just platinum prints that have this problem btw. Cyanotype paper is also extremely slow, contact prints are almost always the strategy there too. Given how slow it is, and the particular range of UV-sensitivity it needs, it's difficult to do indoors actually, but fortunately the universe has seen fit to bless us with a large, powerful UV source overhead for around 12 hours per day.

Same for azo paper and some of the other silver papers even... the kodak "postcard cameras" using 122 rollfilm (not 120!) were usually contact-printed and the simplest answer was to do it outdoors. Slow paper is actually easier if you are working outdoors, because it gives a longer working time and exact light levels or split-second timing doesn't matter.

Chemistry was simply much slower in the early days, a "fast film" in the early days was like ISO 8 iirc, and paper was even slower, you had "fractional ISO" in many cases. And a "fast lens" was a rapid rectilinear at f/8. Today we just take it for granted that an exposure is a fraction of a second but that was not at all a common thing in the early days of photography.

The idea of modern cameras with backlit CMOS sensors shooting ISO 256,000 with a f/1.2 lens would have vaporized a medieval peasant instantly. /s

And the idea of internegatives/interpositives has pretty much faded over time too. But this used to be a much more normal part of darkroom work. When you hear the term "unsharp mask" used... that actually comes from the times when it would be a literal mask, an interpositive that you enlarged together with the negative to control edge sharpness.

But yes you are right that analog photography is a rich person's hobby these days... the prices are significantly higher than even when I was doing it 10-15 years ago (which was already into the digital era). Almost all of these processes run on silver or platinum or other organometallic chemistry (with a few exceptions like cyanotypes) and the "metallic" part of that chemistry has climbed hugely in price, on top of sales volumes collapsing. The precious metal prices are why photo stores/etc will often take exhausted fixer for free... there is a commercially significant amount of silver in that bottle, and it all came out of your film/paper!
Former CEO has a big rant on why it's impossible to do things at Google: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-did-i-leave-google-stay-s...

Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26165809
Did they build anything after? Great read
The French research ship Atalante is almost there:

"It carries the Victor 6000 autonomous robot, capable of descending to a depth of 6,000 metres, beyond the 3,800 metres of the wreck's position"

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-send-ship-titani...

Last I checked on MarineTraffic Atalante was about 100NM away from site.
Would it not help?
opposite experience here.. set the sleep to a reasonable value, keep the temperatures and power stable, and the better quality spinning disks (7200rpm) are great. I have had three SSDs fail without warning in the same time period, supposedly better quality SSDs.
> Wouldn't that just mean you have to wait longer?

In theory, yes. The actual values may help. I’ve heard exposure times cited around eight minutes. That’s for contact printing using the sun as a source. I don’t know off-hand how much light an enlarger will deposit on paper, but it is a few orders of magnitude less than the sun. For the sake of estimating, let’s say 3 orders of magnitude.

This gives an exposure time of 5 days. Note that you’d want to make a test strip or two—someone who knows what they’re doing might want two test strips to dial in the exposure settings, at which point it takes you 15 days to make the first print (but then only 5 days for each additional print from the same negative).
Guess my comment is surplus-to-requirements. Waves of 'sadge' aside..

Non-conformists are necessary to keep society progressing. The computing revolution is becoming oppressive. I guess the future rests with Men who have the willpower to keep valuable ideas out of the system long enough to for them to bear fruit.

Isaac Newton studied in private for 15yrs.. He also privately denied the Trinity and refused to take Holy Orders from the CofE. It's very questionable if that is at all possible to do again under constant 'supervision', when a fundamental difference between authority and truth happens again.