skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These things have always been around. I guess the Internet and 3d printers means that people who weren't inclined to read a book and use a few hand tools now know about them. What the article doesn't say is that while they do work, they don't work very well. Semi-auto converted guns are prone to jam when using an auto sear. More reliable to use a crank on the trigger, which are also illegal and have been around forever.

The real problem in this story, which is only included at the end is this

Caison was not the intended target. In late June, Hakeem Collette, 17, pleaded guilty to battery with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He will be eligible for parole in two years.

Seriously? Only 10 years and possible parole in 2. The only reason it didn't result in the death of the victim was due to incompetent. 17 or not, this is a laughable sentence. Where is the justice for the family? Where is the warning for others that there are meaningful consequences?
OK please show me the equivalent code in C then
there are thousands people on that list, many are participating in questionable activities, of course some got murdered, but majority just arrested and put to trial.
So it's like photogrammetry, but you can do it with a phone video and it's significantly higher quality than previous implementations before cleanup. I wasn't able to find the compute requirements on the page, hopefully not too onerous. Something like this could be significantly beneficial for 3D asset production for games if there's less cleaning up of the photogrammetry models by hand, and for films it might actually be even better if they just remove the cleanup process altogether for small CGI detail in backgrounds where this sort of thing wouldn't be distinguishable from a photoreal model.
You've confused American values for those of Stan Kelly. Here's an actual founding father:

The citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy—a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship.

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of as if it were the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights, for, happily, the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.

I don't see anything about "Bangladeshi or non-Bangladeshi" in there.
Yes, this is why it's important for all students to be given the chance to be challenged, so that they can't skate through HS, which sets (some of) them up to be caught off-guard by university.
The pods are harvested by hand right?

It has to be quite an undertaking to harvest 15 acres of tiny pods by hand in the middle of the night without the landowner noticing...

Besides, if theft really was a huge problem and the goods really that valuable, you'd just leave someone to sleep in a tent in the middle of the fields during the critical harvest time.

Something smells fishy about this story...
Get rid of golf courses first. I saw many on my road trip from one side of the state to the other.

We also need more water storage because we just had a ton of rainfall and let it run out to the ocean this summer.
Pretty amazing results. It would be fun to work as a traveling 3D capture artist, going to novel locations and scanning assets to use in fantasy worlds.
The piece is a long, confused complaint.

Things are the way they are because of what we allow and what is incentivized. Not everything is scarce, but it is good to focus on the scarce things because they're where the profit is.

But then the author flitted away to bemoan wealth not alleviating the stress. This is untrue: wealth is both the cause of the distress and the balm against it.

"I don't understand, but I am distressed" is a valid feeling. It's just a terrible thesis for an essay.
yes, coal energy is worse for the world than thalidomide was, and the chip on your shoulder is enormous here

if you have any reason the analogy doesn't apply, besides acting offended that it does, feel free to cite it, otherwise it just seems like you're bitter about coal being bad for earth
Userspace locks are generally per process (or process group), so it shouldn't matter. There can be IPC dependencies and file locks and what not, but none of that matters if you only run something you control and therefore can ensure have no odd dependencies.
COPY and XCOPY cannot copy a copy protected program.

The Amiga's X-COPY, on the other hand...
Oh, wow! I was just about to comment "I really want this series upscaled with some nice ML." Looks like WB did something along those lines in 2021.

This is the only sci-fi series of note which I have not watched all the way through. The time has come. Thanks for the post OP.

https://www.space.com/babylon-5-remastered-streaming-amazon-...
Having never developed a browser engine, my naive question is why is it so hard to develop a new one? We have decent free and/or open-source software in other areas, why is it hard to reproduce this experience with the browsers?

Or, is the problem in the complexity of the modern web browsing experience, and the walled garden created around it by current major browser developers (new standards, etc.)?
> They differ only in target and vector.

I'd love for you to expand on this. I'm seriously interested in your opinion, so please don't pretend it's obvious as a way to evade answering.
I Was There as the World’s Widest Glacier Split Apart
640% inflation and -10% GDP growth?

Yeah, it wasn't far off that.
I think you concluded with a very key point, though.

> And who guarantees that the fork will further exist without weird funding?
How is banning political parties as they become popular 'protecting democracy'? I don't agree with most of their politics, but am more afraid of draconian control of the political process 'for our own good', than some biased actors who should already be constrained by the rule of law.
I was looking through our server logs the other day and spotted the openai bot going through our stuff ... however a decent bit of our content is now augmented by GPT ...
oh damn thats unfortunately :(
You are correct but it should be noted that most factories in China provide food and a dorm so rent is not an issue.
Thanks for laying out the C++ situation. Your concern makes practical sense.
On the other hand, there are laws against false advertising and (in this case) sabotage, where the action is illegal regardless of what a plaintiff thinks. If I went around offices and sabotaged their printers, the district attorney could prosecute me regardless of what the office owners thought (assuming they wouldn't lie and claim they authorized my sabotage).

This case is exactly the same. Don't be fooled - despite HP's name on the printers, they're not HP's printers anymore - they sold them, and have no more claim to them than I.

Tangentially, and orthogonal to the issue of if settlements should be allowed, undisclosed settlements should be banned. The public has a right to know what terms are reached through the threat of and with the sanction of the legal system. Because in a democracy, the public is ultimately responsible for reforming or maintaining that system, and how can they do that when they don't know how it's being used?
It's also an ostrich policy. Instead of asking why 20% support them just decree that they are wrong.
>Security researchers accessed an internal camera inside the Deckmate 2 shuffler

Welp
I am 100% remote, I socialize after work by playing golf, going to the gym, or going to tech meets. I also get to explore some research topics outside of my day-to-day work by attending some special topic zooms during lunch times. I think the flexibility staves off burnout and helps my problem solving by enabling creativity. If I wasn't remote, I would lose all that to commuting.

The basement gremlin comment is unnecessarily judgemental, especially considering that some people have movie theaters, gyms or marble floored, spa-like basements (yes, even the remote, non-elite ones may have that).

But I respect that other people's way of work is not for me. I just don't mind if someone else goes to the office, and I would just expect the same courtesy.
Sure, unions can in theory demand whatever they want, but if they don't show enough teeth, as in actually having strikes, they usually don't ask because the corporate overlords will say 'no' anyway.

Unions in Germany are usually a lot more submissively than in France and rarely fight for gaining new perks, they just look after maintain the existing ones, moistly following the "don't bite the hand that feeds you" mentality.
I feel like the UN is going to ratify some new rules of engagement when this is all over.

I don't know about for dams, but definitely for nuclear facilities.
Got diagnosed this year with mitral valve prolapse. It won't be an issue medically for some time, but it is definitely sobering to feel the heart beating so strongly.
very true. What about if you want to start fundraising to expand?
Regarding the original llama2.c as I believe the value proposition is to have simple implementation that can execute the inference locally on wide variety of platforms. What if we can execute fine-tuned Llama7B on our phones?
I'm curious about your opinion: you honestly think that neither party is willing to make the world worse for a large number of people, if it will make the world better for a smaller number of people?
The End of Boredom
Is this a full, standalone deployment including GPT-3 (or whatever version) or just a secured frontend that sends data to GPT hosted outside the enterprise zone?

Edit: Uses Azure OpenAI as the backend
The problem is that you cannot donate to Firefox's development.

Donations all to to Mozilla, and if the article is to be believed, Mozilla won't use the extra money or FF for Linux.

Hell, in the past we've seen Mozilla divert funds away from Firefox to support unrelated stuff.

There is currently no way, right now, to give financial support to Firefox development without forking it.
I feel the same way about Lexx. It’s awful, I’d never recommend it to anyone. But it’s also always very weird and interesting and the setting is fascinating. It feels like anti-utopian sci-fi. Like sci-fi for misanthropes lol
How were Caesars' legions “private”? Are you sure you're not confusing with the fall of the Roman Empire, with autonomous military leadership in the provinces (but even then, calling them “private armies” would still sound anachronistic)
Where? I'm in southern Ontario Canada, and my orders usually take 2-3 days and I'm not even using Prime.

Turns out there's no value in holding something in a warehouse when you have it ordered.

I think all Prime gets you is:

1. if the product is in a distant warehouse, Amazon will bring it over by plane instead of rail/truck.

2. Your orders are de-prioritized if they're over-subscribed (e.g. Christmas holidays, pandemic online shopping, Prime day)
Can you give a quick summary of what meals you eat for $50/week?
Laser is great but it doesn’t solve the visiting grandma wanting to print photo album pictures.
HashiCorp does not have the capacity to maintain the ecosystem on their own. In fact, Terraform is kinda stuck for years, because only a handful of people work on it - others are too busy maintaining AWS, Google, and Azure providers - I believe companies pay them to do so. You could look at the years-old issue about having dynamic providers or changing the syntax of count - years of discussions, tons of developers complaining about it, and nothing except lame excuses that it's hard to implement those or that the lead is not accepting anybody else's vision.

Anyway, nobody will use Terraform if it only supports the 3 major cloud providers! The beauty comes with the GitHub provider, maintained by GitHub, with the PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ providers, maintained by a solo developer, the MySQL, Cloudflare, Opsgenie, Pagerduty, and tons of others, not touched by HashiCorp. Those third parties do this, because of the open nature of Terraform. Now that HashiCorp is changing its model, because it's unable to sustain its business due to its high TFC pricing that doesn't even support its own CDKTF, I suspect a fork may happen, or Terraform itself could be reimplemented with better core than the current one, which is maintained by a couple of developers.

Terraform is a huge missed potential and it has so many limitations like not being able to use variables in a bunch of places, the orchestration with depends_on being so limited, the unstable chaining of resource outputs to provider configuration, etc.
Compliance and customer trust. Azure can sign a BAA, for example. If you are Building LLM capability on top of your SaaS, your customers want assurances about their data.
I'm kinda at the point where I think someone needs to kickstart an (Semi)open Solid Ink printer design.

1. The tech has been around long enough that any/all patents should be done with.

2. In general they are much more eco-friendly, the 'cartridge' is just a specially shaped wax block.

3. Prints wind up being extremely robust due to the wax ink, I remember when salespeople would spray photo prints with water and show it just run off.

Of course, the challenges would be providing a sufficient filter for ink, any foreign particles can clog up the print heads after all, as well as making sure users understand that there are processes in moving them.
In a hilarious and ironic turn of events, at my last job in which I was 100% remote from a different continent, I made an effort to meet my boss in-person for the first time while traveling internationally as a break from the grind. We went out for pizza, and it was completely out of the scope of expectations and purely an effort to play that card and get to know one of my colleagues better. The ironic part is that not had the startup been purchased by a commercial real estate behemoth, but I'd face increasing demands and pressure upon arrival back home, then a layoff. He even paid for the meal even though
it wasn't technically a work expense.

Communication got incredibly toxic from his end; every sentence infused with inexplicable resentment. It was a very confusing result, and now I'm even less likely to bother meeting anyone in the future. I'm happy I avoided burnout by simply ignoring the toxicity, as petulant behaviour probably resulting from stresses in his own life, but still.
You're simply trusting the Microsoft pendulum to not swing back towards how bad they were. It's a cycle.
No project has ever been cancelled due to building codes.

Permitting can be time consuming (though largely this is a function of zoning and what variances the developer is looking for in order to get to an economic density - which is nearly never “as of right - and what level of community involvement exists in approving these variances) but rarely would permitting on its own be a barrier (it would be the underlying zoning and the NIMBYism that prevents the variances).
> Something unnatural about it.

That's the uncanny valley I mentioned above.
there's something to that

as a side note, i have a quibble with your definition of 'byte'. lots of computers have been word-oriented, with words being generally the smallest addressable unit

word sizes in word-addressed computers have included 12 bits (pdp-8), 16 bits (nova and tandem), 18 bits (pdp-7 and ga144), 20 bits (mup21), 32 bits (zuse z4, chifir, and maybe some ti dsps, not sure), 36 bits (pdp-10, ibm 704, ibm 709), 60 bits (cdc 6600), 64 bits (cray unless you count the parity bits), and so on

it was not normal practice to describe any of these words as a 'byte'; more commonly, you would divide the word into (possibly variable-size) 'bytes', each representing one character, even though you couldn't load those bytes individually from memory
In one of his lesser-known roles (Apollo 10 1⁄2), Jack Black plays a kid whose family is involved in the space industry. It takes place in my hometown, Clear Lake. Even though it takes place a few decades before I was born, I was able to recognize a park I used to visit and a nearby elementary school which were accurately recreated in the film.
I'll rephrase the above comments: having seven figures of assets or income confers material wealth but not political control. Political capital is far more expensive. At a minimum, you need so much money that hiring a team of lobbyists to confuse your local congresscritter is a petty cash drawer expense. Ideally you will also want to forefeit your right to privacy and become some kind of a public figure.

A case study here would be Louis Rossman: rich enough to run a MacBook repair business but not rich enough to bribe/tip Congress into passing a right-to-repair law.
Rainbow capitalism has repeatedly failed my people -- from Dylan Mulvaney through to the workers of Grindr.

Large tech companies (especially west-coast tech companies) have taken to using LGBTQ+ people as a sort of ornament, or worse, moral offset -- sure, BigCorp might be a ruthless monopolist, but oh gee look how many _N_ they hired, for several different values of _N_. Sure, we might be throwing whole sectors of the economy into monopolized penury, but OMG we have RAINBOWS and we are NOT AFRAID TO FLY THEM.

The backlash against queers has as much to do with the use of my people as props by the ruling class as it does with the (still significant) freestanding prejudice against us.

We will not get free until #GirlBosses are treated just the same as regular bosses: socioeconomic 'guards' in a globe-wide Stanford Prison Experiment.

Separately, but not unrelatedly, the leveraging of Buddhist and other appropriated Eastern spiritual cant and tropes as tools of psychological discipline (Mindfulness for layoff anxiety! Yoga for shipping pressure!) is of grave concern as well.

The future that center-left liberals want is a nonbinary gig worker meditating on a rainbow yoga mat on an AI-led mindfulness retreat. As a leftist, and a Buddhist, and a queer, I say: we have as much to fear from this 'near enemy' as from our far enemies.

https://mindfulness-alliance.org/2019/02/09/near-enemies-of-...
Cool stuff. I had similar intuitions- Python allow me to focus on the high-level concepts. Albeit, there were times where I wished I had gone with a statically-typed + compiled language.
I use FaceTime all the time, and I've never seen it do this. Is there a setting for it?
Sounds like a good argument for socialism then :)
Settlements have clauses usually that prevent the same litigation from happening again. Otherwise it’s an infinite money glitch where people keep suing the same company again and again once it’s proven they’re willing to settle.
Yes. Certainly. But it depends if the savings make it worth the extra hassle. The venn diagram must have a small overlap.

The other consideration is DX where these startup infras shine. They make it easy to deploy and that can be tempting. But I am not convinced it is that much easier. Learn the slightest amount of devops (a weekend) and you can script what they did for your usecase. Use github actions or whatever but not too much! Just get that to call a bash script that does what you want.

I think there is a lot of value of trying to keep off locked in paths. But it is a delicate path to tread. And for startups growth is everything. But a few seconds of thought into tech choices and not just jumping into every freemium shiny tech is probably a good idea.
I tried and got nothing useful. What's the difference between GPT-4 and ChatGPT Plus using GPT-4?
Right, you'd think for a company that is all about intuitive UI/UX they would invest more in apps that come installed on all of their computers :/
Unclear to me why you bring up Israel in this context other than provoking a flame session.
You're picking and choosing in either circumstance, and attempting to mold them in either circumstance.
Why not? I’m probably gonna pull my phone out to answer the call, maybe they have something cool to show me?

…Actually the whole “commitment to the call” aspect is probably the biggest reason why we all do this, and why I default to videocalls. It’s OK to answer with your screen off, or pocket your phone mid call, but I can also judge the other’s ability to chat based on the video feed.
https://archive.is/pf5CP
I bet you'd be surprised how much synthetic vanilla someone like Nabisco could go through without making something 'vanilla flavored'. Vanilla in chocolate flavored items punches up the flavor.
The question of why they would use ads is answered literally in the statement about it. You can disagree with it, but it is already explained and isn't a surprising answer.
Don't need to "destroy" Amazon to be successful. Just need a few percent of sales.

What I've noticed from Aliexpress reviews is that a lot of reviews are from places that don't have much of an Amazon footprint (e.g. Russia, E. Europe, Mid east).

The other thing is that ship-from-China circumvents a lot of duties that can be hefty on some goods. And sometimes sales taxes (not in USA anymore, but still true elsewhere).
I don't know why you think anyone suggested every company on Earth should post links to their sites in comment threads. I am not every company on Earth. I am me. My comment was meant to demonstrate me talking as me. Not as anyone else.

I think the disconnect here is that you are assuming everything should scale infinitely. Ie: if one company posts, every company should post. If one company sends out spam emails, every company should send out spam emails. If one company tries to make their website #1 on Google for a given search, every company should do the same.

My whole point about talking to your target audience was meant to directly contradict this. Your target audience can only be a finite set of people, because you can only talk to a finite set of people. Otherwise, you're just producing noise and hoping someone will listen to it.
Hooking up Stable Diffusion to BSD fortune
Can you report some numbers relative to total water use that justify that statement? Golf is a very popular sport and they often use reclaimed water not suitable for drinking. The grass also has a “function” as its the surface for the sport. Do they really account for that much water usage vs everyone having a lawn that does nothing?
A few months ago my team moved to Azure for capacity reasons. We were constantly dealing with 429 errors and couldn't get in touch with Open AI, while Azure offered more instances.

Eventually got more from Open AI so we load balance both. The only difference is the 3.5 turbo model on Azure is outdated.
I also see no rational reason that the average Coca Cola serving contain any amount of real vanilla pods, given how expensive it is and that vanillin is chemically identical with one main flavoring compund contained in real vanilla.

If Coke (or Coke Vanilla even) would cobtain real vanilla, they'd advertise it for sure. I don't remember anything like that
The thing I most enjoyed about the stargate franchise was how the alien tech tree was discovered over time. The series didn’t plan for this (I don’t believe) and in later seasons it all got kinda bizarre and wonky. I don’t know of many other works of fiction that took this approach. I think Perry Rhodan series did (I only read a few installments) and the novel Battlefield Earth had this as an element.