skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, these are foundation models. Companies want to be able to put in guard rails that are applicable to their application, not start with a model lobotomized according to US tech company values. The censorship is about telling people how to think, like it always is, not for the good of the people using the models.
I just had the presence of mind to look. I get medical, so the label on the packages has my name and license number on it.

So, presumably, that could be tracked?
There is a little bug icon in the toolbar of your open notebook in both user interfaces. The bug only appears if you have a kernel that supports debugging (e.g., ipykernel). So if you see the little bug on the right-hand side of the toolbar for your notebook, when you enable it, you should start seeing the variables in your memory state and you should have the ability to click in the gutter to add breakpoints.
The best MPG you can get on the highway is just the slowest you can safely go without confusing other drivers, making people angry, or getting pulled over by the police. Drag is proportional to velocity squared, so every increase in mi/hr wastes more energy pushing air out of the way of the car.

To answer your regenerative braking question: braking is inefficient by default, so just avoid tapping the brakes in situations where you could coast.

With regenerative braking, you'll never get back 100% the energy because of thermodynamics. There's always wasted energy any time energy is moved, transformed, stored, etc.
iOS 17: What's New with Autocorrect and the Keyboard
> Imagine a hard drive head as a 747 flying over a grassy field at 75 miles per hour. The air gap between the bottom of the plane and the top of the grass is two sheets of paper. Now, if we measure bits on the disk as blades of grass, the track width would be 4.6 blades of grass wide and the bit length would be one blade of grass. As the plane flew over the grass it would count blades of grass and only miss one blade for every 25 thousand times the plane circled the Earth.
> could easily be dropped and expose conduct to prosecution back as far as the statute of limitations.

If a law is changed, there is protection from ex-post-facto prosecution.
Ubuntu on WSL is really bad about this and you have to end up using chattr to make /etc/resolv.conf immutable to prevent it from fiddling around with it. Really makes you appreciate Slackware/FreeBSD.
Yes, that's true. It depends on your use case. I'm almost always focused on the largest items, e.g. for space recovery. But also, being able to zoom in and out negates that issue in every case for me personally.
At least the ones I've used also had their own IP address (for the config interface). Hell, one even had a switch built in! (It was a home router with a pretend-to-be-an-extender mode.)
I think the article is somewhat incorrect. I really dislike all these custom chatbots. But it is also fairly easy to measure how good they work. And for the sites I work with at least the chatbots perform better than other options and they do offload work from the support teams.
I didn't watch the whole video, but found the summary to be helpful. You can see it at 37m21s: https://youtu.be/fvwOa7TCd1E?t=2241

spoiler: Of the 6 cars they tested, Tesla Model Y had the best performance in terms of miles per kWh and total range. But it still clocked in at only 81% of claimed range.
They should build a hypothetical business with unproven revenue instead of the one with $600k MRR and growing?
Yes. Jupyter kernels all talk over zeromq channels, irrespective of the front-end user interface.
Growing up, the columns were daily reading for me in the newspaper. I don’t know what about them was so addicting.
Yes, check out: https://huggingface.co/chat/

You can easily opt out of the data sharing.
Right, in which case asking a broad audience will be, at best, noise.
I once stepped in some 'non-human biologics' on a walk through my neighborhood.

It was disgusting, but it wasn't alien.
Sorry, you're right, I was thinking of the newer stuff (flip-chip, wafer-scale, nearly-bare-die, etc). It's also interesting just how few leadframes are magnetic these days, even for something ancient like a SOIC-8. I don't know what they use; I guess it's not very important if there isn't much power dissipation.
except outdoors when it's sunny .... where dark mode tends to be unusable as long as you don't have a very bright screen (which many phones have today, laptops often less so)
I feel the need to note that if we can't hold that amount if water for power why is it we seem to think we can do so with mining tailings?

There seems to be an obvious contradiction extant in the markets....
Modern cars with variable valve timing and other goodies can achieve very good combustion under low load. Looking around, it seems ~30km/h would be the sweet spot.

It would be slightly higher if you run the AC on high, increasing total consumption by ~10% and moving the dial a bit.
I’m not sure how this logic applies when having insurance is mandatory. If you don’t have insurance, you’re not driving legally.

Are there really people out there who wouldn’t otherwise buy insurance, but they choose to do so only because the cost of repairs is too high?
And posted the link to your subscribers only medium page twice in this thread
This is such a weird disconnect between middle class white collar workers and the rest of the country. I know a bunch of people working 60-80 hours a week, usually doing multiple jobs, just to make ends meet. It feels strange to be offered the chance to work less than half as much as another human and receive substantially greater rewards for my efforts. It would be interesting to see what this does to social cohesion.
Amy Winehouse could have sung the phonebook and it would have sounded great.
The USB logo is pretty well pointless. All you're paying for is a license for the logo.

Despite USB-IF's efforts to associate that logo with "good" or "safe" or even "compliant" USB devices, I doubt that many consumers know or care.

Part of the reason is that their licensing is pretty pricey unless you're already at the mass manufacturing stage. You have to pay an annual fee for the logo, an annual fee for the VID, and you have to pay to get your widget certified. All so you can use a logo that consumers don't know or care about.

On the other hand, you can implement a USB device without paying a dime to USB-IF. It's super annoying without your own VID, but that's often not even necessary.

So we get cheap Chinese devices with no certification because why would they even bother?
The linked article says Fabien loves it.
Talking to Jeff Sutherland
If secure boot is enabled on the motherboard, Fedora can be installed and used without going into the motherboard firmware and turning it off, but that is different from secure boot's providing to the Fedora install the kind of security assurances that secure boot provides to the other mainstream operating systems (Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android and ChromeOS).

For instance, initrd is not verified: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36717975

>The page you link goes into custom secure boot keys, which are usually unnecessary.

You might be right about that.
https://cem.al/ - Mine is simple but not helping a lot in terms of getting jobs/interviews
No one wants to talk to customer service either. Even with humans, I'd much rather not try to explain my problems to a person who may not be a native speaker, who may not understand well the problem domain, and who may not have much power to do anything.

But even talking to an actual pro is most of the time something I'd rather avoid -- it's after all best if whatever I need is doable without needing extra help.

I think a chat bot is going to be very rarely seen as an actual perk by an end user, except in some specific domains like game NPCs. It's more likely to be used as a first line of support or similar to save costs, as something better than a phone menu system.

I can see them also being a perk for users of very large systems like AWS, where reading the docs can get overwhelming, and search may not work well because you may need to know the specific terms you have to search for.
Amiga 4000T Upgrade Part 1
If you want to take an approach that is literally the opposite of the scientific method then, yeah, sure. This is HackerNews though, and we tend to stick to verifiable evidence here.
Have him go through this tutorial at the start of every week until it's second nature: https://learngitbranching.js.org/?locale=en_US

Having some visual intuition of what the commands correspond to really helps.
I still remember fixing people's PCs who had Chrome installed, and they had no idea what Chrome was or how it got on their computers. I saw it hundreds and hundreds of times. People didn't give a shit that Chrome was slightly faster, most people had turd computers with not enough ram and didn't even know what browser tabs were and the speeds were indistinguishable for most people.

This feels exactly like the whole Mac M1 thing. Every techie person seems to think that the M1 was going to cause all sorts of people to switch to Macs. Guess what? Nobody gives a shit about a 5% faster processor except for power users.

Regular people don't care about Chrome being "better," either and that's not how it got market dominance.
Moved to Cloudflare a while ago and have no complaints.
It's an example of large domains where natural language does not work well enough, as a counterpoint to the arbitrary, niche CEO example of a situation where it might work. It is responding to the entire thread, not just your comment.
Strange choice of words as in the pharma industry a biologic is specifically a medicine created from an animal or human source.
Helpful. I was thinking today about when it makes sense to fine tune vs use embeddings to feed into the LLM prompt and this helped solidify my understanding.
I had a heart attack because I talked about Java's @Override annotation in my Git commit comments, but GitHub displays them as the user @OverRide. e.g. https://github.com/nayuki/DEFLATE-library-Java/commit/ee01de... , https://github.com/OverRide
S3 is more than storage. It is a standard. I like how you can get S3 compatible (usually with some small caveats) storage from a few places. I am not sure how open the standards is, and if you have to pay Amazon to say you are "S3 compatible" but it is pretty cool.

Examples:

iDrive has E2, Digital Ocean has Object Storage, Cloudflare has R2, Vultr has Object Storage, Backblaze has B2
Tangent: reminded me for some reason of the lengths (ha ha) clock makers went to to account for the expansion and contractions of the clock pendulum. To keep consistent time the length of the pendulum too needed to remain constant. Enter the brilliant John Harrison:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridiron_pendulum
Honey bees and social wasps reach convergent architectural solutions
Lead? Improbable.
Ah I missed that!!
Sounds like an urban legend to me. This guy supposedly knows "exactly where it is" yet isn't willing to reveal the location, except it is "outside the US." Has he seen it? Nope. Let me guess: even if you go to the building, you won't be able to find anything because it's in some secret below ground level a normal person can't access.
Done by tricking people, and sneakily bundling itself with everything. Sleezey, scumbag achievement.
Okay, so if I give you all the data from my car, and say it has 10.3 gallons of gas, you’re telling me you can predict how many miles it will go to within a percent?

No, you can’t. Because I might go uphill or downhill. It might rain. It might be hot or cold.

The car is doing something tricky (aka lying) as discussed above.
> We rented one on a trip recently, super annoying to realize the dozen or so chargers in this beach town were actually incompatible or just too slow for real life.

Where were you that has a dozen chargers but no superchargers?
Doesn't matter, we're all talking about McDonalds now.
Yup. Advance the foundation models as far as possible to create a representation of the internet/human experience and place safeguards on top.

Don't want your LLM to be used to create erotic fanfiction? Instead of gutting the LLM, just put a detector on the query and answers feeding into the LLM. Thankfully, with a non-neutered model you have access to a tool than can be used to perform such detection...
Show HN: Diablo 2 runeword calculator in C++ using wxWidgets
I have programmed this a few years ago and I use it while playing. I decided to publish it because it might be useful to others. Feel free to give feedback! I am also interested in people who have used QT and wxWidgets, because I have never really used QT and would like to know about pros and cons of QT vs wxWidgets!
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transc...
If replicated, those are gonna be footnotes to LK-99 and its likely many derivatives and close cousins.
ALPRs with a live querying capability to the registry of motor vehicles will now flag cars with expired safety inspections around here. It's an easy ticket for the police to grab their town some cash and several local towns are fairly aggressive about ticketing for expired inspections. (You could get away without fixing airbags on a pre-OBD2 car by taking it to an inspection shop that will look the other way, but even those have to connect to OBD2 on equipped cars.)

I suspect that most people who need airbags are still buying them; they're just buying them at the end of a chain of fencing stolen bags.
Yes? Would you not want this for you? I would, this would allow me to work on whatever is meaningful for me, what I believe is worth doing, and engage in other enjoying activity. I'm working towards having the most meaningful "paid" work possible, but as long as I have to cater to customer or company needs, it has small chances to be fully aligned with what I want to do. I also believe a lot of useless crap gets produced, we don't need to work as much as we are doing and we would be better off on many aspects reducing this amount of useless work we impose ourselves as a species. So of course 0 days of work per week for everyone is not conceivable, but reducing the hours is largely imaginable.

We are not talking about a 1 or 0 day work week here though. Various studies and experiments show that productivity is not quite reduced from 5 to 4 day week workdays, while making people happier. Assuming it's true, it's worth it and we have little reason not to do it.
It really depends. If the chat is high quality and actually doing something helpful, then I want to talk to it. The adoption rate and usage stats of ChatGPT disagree with the tile.
The summary does a good job of demonstrating the performance issues.

But, just browsing around the web, I noticed that my experiences don't match the criticisms:
Amazon is fast, Mastodon is fast, Twitter is (still) fast although a bit flickery, HackerNews loads slower than TheVerge for some reason. JetBrains Space is fast, Jira is a disaster. Static sites like GitHub and GitLab have been testing my patience recently - I wish GitLab was an SPA. The React pages that feel slow are often just poorly designed (momondo.com) or load ten times as much data than React could be responsible for (booking.com, icloud.com).

Admittedly, I'm not in a lab. I have content blockers, a fast computer and decent internet. But personally, I don't see a significant correlation between the framework and the perceived speed. Other aspects, such as the design of loading states seem more important.
In "My Little Pony the movie" Twilight Sparkle explains to Celestia and Luna how she wants the Sun and the Moon organized. She uses mathematical formula written on a blackboard. I can't recall what the formula was, probably wavelength calculation.
visiting an embassy is not mandatory to get a lot of visa (even a Chinese one) most of the time you just ship your passport with a form that has less invasive question than an ESTA. Nobody but the US require you to give the handle of all your social network account…
The Science journal article has a lot of information if you click through.

I don’t see in the results section any conclusion that users “hate” chronological feeds.

Their results say things like less engagement and clicks, less time spent in app etc.

How did they measure whether people or hated the change? I don’t think they did.

I personally think chronological is a way better system and Meta et al would do whatever they could to disprove this so they can control the feed with manipulation.
If anything, it's quite a success story.
> That is a surprising revalation; that iptables filters traffic depending on Linux implementations details. One could imagine the outcry if firewall vendor X suffered a similar “feature”. Or is this well known for Linux iptable users?

All of these major Linux firewall features have been around for over two decades and the use of multi-stage rule routing with filters is day-to-day for anyone in network ops. Cisco switches I messed with in the 90s had DHCP helpers for relaying packets across VLANs among other similar features. FTP helpers were extremely common before SSL/TLS/sftp became standard due to NAT and how the port directions work in that protocol.
It's crazy how many features Twitter is pumping out with so many fewer people.
Gemini and Desire
I mean, we were doing the wrap-around “trick” in 1981 on the BBC Micro - and I didn’t know it was a trick so much as in the manual. The Defender and Scramble clones on the beeb were super smooth.
They're probably doing something like mapping the embedding of the query to the nearest neighbor in the search given how the front-end of their search infra works
We really need to somehow separate a bias towards accuracy as distinct from some bias towards say, a sports team.

Using everything would be like taking a bunch of students final exams and then claiming the most common answers are the correct ones.

This isn't how expertise and accuracy works. Most things worth doing are not only genuinely hard and complicated but something that only a minority subset of accomplished people can do consistently well in.

Listening to everybody and incorporating their thoughts is only going to lead to wrong answers.

Being selective is the key here unless you genuinely want say, answers about to space to involve aliens and UFOs - because way more people believe in that then there are qualified PhD astrophysicists in the world.

Similarly, way more people believe in vaccine conspiracy theories then there are people with significant viral epidemiology backgrounds.

This pattern is true in every field.
A related item: Children are often taught that if they get lost in a public place they should look for a mother with children to help them.
Their PPMS is limited to 400K. There's nothing they can do about that. So yes, it is a nitpicking. I've used the same instrument, that's the max temperature quantum design allows without forking over more money. It matters to get the results out there and be first.
Walking is a Natural Right, that is one given by nature, whereas using a car is a result of human production, and in now way a Natural Right.

Walking is equivalent to breathing, whereas driving a car is at best equivalent to riding a horse.
Yes, I remember tcp checksumming coming up as not sufficient at one stage. Even saw S3 deal with a real head-scratcher of a non-impacting event that came down to a single NIC in a single machine corrupting the tcp checksum under very specific circumstances.
We already have gold and silver coins minted by the government. Why not start with these?

https://catalog.usmint.gov/coins/coin-programs/american-eagl...

Dealers will sell boxes of 500 silver eagles for around $18,000.
Yep! I saw that he mentioned it and was trying to get some more perspectives. Who am I kidding? I should just buy it. :-)
I'm junior myself and this is so weird.
The universe is thought to be about 13.8 billion years old. The Earth is about 4.6 billion years old. I don't think humanity has even been around for 500k years.
All you need to know about timeouts
it is known since the dawn of react that reagent is the only way to stay sane.

good ide support these days too between emacs, intellij, and vscode.
> US tech company values

Which do broadly align with the values across most of the world.

But if you want to build something that has different values then go ahead.

But you can't expect companies to be complicit in doing something which is unethical or illegal.
Nematode resurrected from Siberian permafrost laid dormant for 46,000 years
Having liability insurance is mandatory. Having collision insurance is optional (unless your car is financed, in which case it is likely required by the terms of your financing, but not by law).

I don't carry collision insurance on my daily drivers (the newest of which is 9 years old), because it's too expensive for the coverage offered.
Don't build your house in another man's land.
New title: Weizenbaum, "AI Pioneer" - Computer Power and Human Reason (1976)
I always recommend "the Masters of Doom". Probably mostly accurate. Perhaps a bit exaggerated at times. But definitely a great story, and well written.
Are you sure about the Thinkpad X1 Carbon? [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/xht880/most_usbc_...
This isn't mentioned in the article (or I hope I didn't miss it) but did they try to dig into the patches to check if there are termites or not? They said they measured moisture at different levels beneath the surface, but that can be done without actually digging.
(When) Photocopiers Terrified the Publishing World
As someone (not me!) said, what's new is old again.
Discovery Park in Seattle is built within an old Army base dating back to 1920 or so.

While exploring some hidden corners I ran into a metal detectorist, and we got to talking about other fun places in the park.

His best tip for finding the site of old military housing was to look for yew trees. Apparently it's a very old tradition.

Sure enough, you go back and look at old photos, and there's a yew tree outside every door.

Edit: another one from the PNW; holly trees oftentimes coincide with the location of old logging roads. The berries have a size which would easily lodge in cat tracks and other nooks within earth movers and were easily transported among sites.
I put a 10-digit padlock on the fridge for a week, told my family the combination, then took it off.

According to engagement and usage metrics, my family loves the padlock, and hated it when I remove it! Refrigerator engagement went from 57 seconds down to 3 after the padlock went away!
They have been talking about being a foundary for external use for a while, years... yet i have not heard of a single customer yet, just an announcement today that intel and ericsson have a partnership.

It feels like yes they want to become a external foundary, but they just havent fully committed to that task yet.
I don’t have towing needs or any real desire for a pickup truck, but the F150 Lightning is what I would buy if I could even slightly justify it. My beef with the X5 is that it’s the opposite of an engineering triumph: its efficiency and EV charging rate are so unnecessarily terrible that I no longer take BMW seriously as a firm that operates in the EV/hybrid space. (And more critically: I am worried that if/when they do become serious about EVs they will toss the whole X5 eDrive drivetrain design in the trash, making it expensive to repair once it leaves warranty.) But if you’re able to make it work for your specific needs, it’s still fun to drive and very comfortable.
or to people with astigmatisms where it creates burning lines after images and headaches
> it seems rather strange […]

Not really. That’s the point. Data replication is hard, especially when you have to consistently update from the same data source.

Bugs happen.
Budget will rent if I use one debit card but not another.