skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re Telling Me in 2023, You Still Have a ’Droid?’ Why Teens Hate Android
On Usenet RAR/PAR is still the standard
The drugs trade and sex trade will figure out alternatives within minutes of cash disappearing, and that'll enable other black markets.
Probably only for research at the moment.

I expect people will look into why eye scans work and how to make them work better.

I also expect them to use this to catch potential Parkinson's patients early and see if they can find out more about early stages of the disease. Maybe they'll find something that works even earlier than eye scans.
What do you mean? Dedicated means the core is not shared with other users.

Also AMD has already released microcode for the "Inception" vulnerability, if that's what you're referring to.
In MA, they'll take debit for a fairly small transaction fee. I don't think they did initially when they started opening up.

>Of course, being such a potentially lucrative target for thieves, each dispensary has security personnel who will only grant admission after ID is shown.

I assume the state law just doesn't allow anyone under 21 to be admitted.
if there were, globally, no copyright at all in any "ai" generated images, and one confidently thought there never would be, then simply using the images, in the case that one only needed one or two images, would probably be fine.

however if there were large nations in which the law was still in flux or unclear, or one wanted to generate new images on the fly without fear of rate-limiting or refusal of service, then one would potentially wish to work out an arrangement.
Last discussion from 3 weeks ago lists some alternatives https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37015768
I agree with the GP. "if let" is just such a weird contruct that it doesn't feel justified to be in the language. it just screams of over engineering. now "let else" is cool.
https://archive.ph/Nc8bM
I use WinRAR because 7zip's handling of tar.gz/bz is abysmal. It first opens the .gz so you have a list containing the tar. Then you can double click the tar to browse it, but it will need to extract it fully to the temp folder first.

WinRAR opens a .tar.gz like any other single-format archive (zip, rar, 7z) so it's much much faster, but also more intuitive.

Even though I use WinRAR, I only create ZIPs for compatibility with others. I would also stick to ZIPs if I were to use 7zip.
Is there any evidence, even anecdotally, that reducing datacenter costs had any significant relevance to the development and rise in popularity of single-page apps and JavaScript UI libraries like React and Angular?

My own memory of the history of the web is that early web sites with a lot of client-side interactivity benefited greatly from the huge leap in interactivity, and came out several years before JavaScript libraries were widely available for ordinary developers to build web sites with similar functionality. (I'm not counting arguably "non-web" technologies like Flash and Java applets.) The earliest such web sites I can remember are e-mail, calendar, and mapping apps.
Unpopular opinion: python is getting worse and worse with every release.

Back then you couldn't run scripts that were written with python2 - sure, they made a major version bump, that's how semver works in practice.

But now you can't even trust python code to work between minor versions. There was a python3 script that read out bluetooth details (like battery level) that I used a few years ago. Some months ago I found it again, but it stopped working due to some dropped api. I see that this version removes some apis also (the "deprecation" section should be actually "breaking incompatibilities with previous versions") - whatever you wrote with python 3.11 (or earlier) using these apis, all of those programs are broken now.

Whatever you write in python runs today - but no one promises that it will run tomorrow also.

(And I won't even get ranting about the overall direction, that makes it resemble more to C++...)
Any chance you could not be vicious tech haters? There's a hole for Michael Arrington era TechCrunch reporting which just focused on factual information about companies and people. What the innovation is, how far the company has gotten with it, what people are trying to accomplish. If a company is boring instead of making a hit piece out of it just don't write about it.
I'm sorry. Are you implying I'm not supposed to know about any of those things you cited? That it's "sensitive" information, not meant for people like me?

Your post is the exact reason why we need uncensored models running in a distributed manner.
Prior to the iPhone there was Palm, which I would certainly call a general purpose computing platform, where it was easy to download and install your own pdb with no vendor restrictions.
It’s a good start, but you can’t generally get even remotely close to hardware potential in Rust, let alone Python.

I had to implement a separate C99 library to always trigger the newest SIMD intrinsics, occasionally leveraging SVE on more recent ARM CPUs, that compilers don’t know how to generate.

That library is in turn used in USearch, which is designed for Approximate Search, but some users recently reported that they use it for brute force as well… where it performed 20x faster than FAISS.

https://github.com/ashvardanian/simsimd
I've been curious about ZFS ever since it became stable in Linux, but haven't made the jump yet because a) I have an irrational fear of data loss, and ext4 has never failed me, and b) I have an aversion towards complexity, and ZFS is much more complex than ext4. Features like snapshots and checksumming can be accomplished with userspace tools, though in arguably less elegant ways, so I didn't have a strong need for it either.

That said, it's great reading its success stories and praises, and my next system will use ZFS. :)
Of course. It didn't have Matt Damon along to cause an accident.
They have a tour on YouTube. Their cooling solution is pretty chill.
Really the true wonder! Compare this to the US's SLS plans! The budget is mindboggling.
No cars on the roads works for short periods of time, but with 15 million people living in e.g. the London metro, you need something to move 15 million people's worth of living logistics (food, goods for sale, garbage removal, etc.). Those are all carried by wheeled vehicles, whether it be cars, vans, or lorries. The niceties of the suburban or urban areas aren't possible without them.

Even if they were all electric or powered by unicorn farts or whatever, it's still millions of multi-ton steel vehicles zipping around leaving as much trace as a multi-ton moving thing would. I grant you at least the air quality would be better without internal combustion.

In the end, all Europe is filled with cute little walkable towns, yet people still congregate to the congested, filthy, car-filled metros, for some reason. And at a certain level of built-up population density, you just can't have a very nice natural environment; the brief moments of peace you observed during the Covid lockdowns or whatever can't last, because that would mean the city itself dies.
Really? This is the most controversial idea in the world according to the author? If the interview was about the largest strawman one could attack then maybe they would pass it, otherwise probably not.
There's no such thing as stochastic terrorism. It's an imaginary problem invented by people looking for a plausible excuse to restrict freedoms that they don't like.
I haven’t used MacOS native dictation, but I thought it could be used anywhere text could be input. Does your script have different functionality?

Edit: looks like Mac native runs locally only with dapple Silicon, and maybe has a more limited geographic/linguistic reach?
Some may provide a little extra safety. Some seem to make things worse. A hammock for safety? LOL.
Xi’s Age of Stagnation: The Great Walling-Off of China
This is a GAN, so you can just project the image of yourself into the latent space (which will give you a near-pixel-perfect reconstruction), fix the identity-relevant variables in the _z_, and edit it as necessary. (No workarounds like finetuning necessary. Just one of the many forgotten advantages of GANs.)
>Whereas if you declare it and have a reasonable story/sufficient paperwork they can’t/shouldn’t take it.

The law in the US is that, the police can take anything they want from you, with zero judicial process needed, slap it into their department's slush fund, buy whatever toys they want, or even as someone posted above, MAKE IT PART OF THEIR YEARLY BUDGET PROCESS TO "EXPECT" MILLIONS IN STOLEN MONEY, and unless you can AFFIRMATIVELY PROVE in a court of law that you obtained the property through zero criminal or near criminal activity, you will never get it back
Yes. They didn't have a live feed from any cameras, as far as I can tell.
Or wait for the incumbent to get big fat and lazy before beating them using a 10x faster, dumb, "unsuitable" interconnect loaded to only to half its theoretical bandwidth.
The default in Chrome is 4 IIRC.
Where did you get that figure from? The article linked to previously ( https://jamestown.org/program/russian-space-spending-for-202... )says the current annual expenditure is $3.7 billion and Russia is planning to invest around 6.6 billion dollars in its GLONASS (global gps) project.
i think you never listened to what socialists are saying, but its not like our point of view is ever platformed anywhere
Where are the grounds going to be stored?
Important questions:

- Are you going to build it? OR

- Are you going to act as the general contractor? OR

- Are you going to have a builder build it?

I just finished the lattermost process. In that case, you can get ideas from open source plans, but getting a builder to build your plans will be a full-custom build with the corresponding costs.

We looked at the plans several builders offered, modified one we liked, and then had them build it. From what I can tell, this route saved a lot of time and cost (assuming you are going the builder route).
The conservative is only right in the sense that he'd rather throw the cake into a furnace than allow someone to have a piece. Then he'll turn to you and say "see? I told you we couldn't share cake!"
My refrigerator generates heat. Well, not generate, but moves the heat from inside the fridge to outside the fridge. Can I use that?
Fantastic job. A lot of inspiration for 75M.
I gave up on rechargeable batteries. They break down after about half a dozen charges.

Then I wanted to buy alkaline batteries. Nobody could tell me how much charge the different models have. Corporate has managed to omit this important information and prevent an informed buy.
I haven't been to a Coinstar in ages even though I have a big bucket to cash in. (Basically on rare times I get coins I just toss them in when I get home.) As I recall, you can often get gift cards (e.g. Amazon) for the full value. I should look next time I'm in the grocery store.
As an indian I am proud that the ISRO - with a current annual budget of around 1.5 billion dollar - succeeded in its moon mission.
I'd like to see HNers actually fight back against the monopolistic tech aristocracy and stop relying on the modern petite borgiouse that can impose their political views on you bc they have admin controls over your "free" chat room...
I'm not against spending more per prisoner on actual rehabilitation efforts but I am very skeptical the US would see anywhere near that improvement. The circumstances that lead to crime in the two countries are quite different and those US prisoners end up right back in those situations when they are released.
Viewing one’s “computer” as a unified whole is a strange illusion we keep chasing after. Apple tries, but it just doesn’t work like that.

The “world” is no different. We have different but often overlapping protocols for all kinds of fundamental verbs in society (payment, government services, communication).

Only a handful of critical technology has seen some standardization. Stuff like electricity, language (to some extend), cars. Everything else is a complete shit-show. I don’t get why “computers” get such a hard time. These things are getting more complex than small societies.
Been having this issue for months. In addition, Safari can't connect to the server at all using iCloud Private Relay.

Seems like an OTT security config.
You're describing Red Hat! After spending multiple years helping with the development of Flatpak, which is a sandboxed environment with file pickers just like you describe, they recently announced[1] that they would no longer be contributing to LibreOffice in Fedora and instead will be contributing to a Flatpak version instead.

Personally, I am not so sure about Flathub (the 'official' repository for Flatpak bundles), but Flatpak itself is a welcome (and large) step towards universal sandboxing for desktop applications.

[1]: https://www.spinics.net/lists/fedora-devel/msg312784.html
grounds are fantastic in an active composting environment. they make really great, nutrient-rich soil. less so for indoor plants with their tiny, relatively sterile environment. Indoor plants usually suffer from two problem wrt coffee grounds: a "that's going to mould," problem and a "that's too acidic on it's own to be useful," problem.
macOS native dictation is not as good as Whisper in terms of accuracy, however that is probably going to change with macOS Sonoma since they will switch the model for speech recognition to a better one (Transformer based iirc).
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Sam Harris is not religious, but he certainly has practiced meditation in a religious way. I'm not saying this as if it was a bad thing, or that it detracts from his scientificism or atheism, just an observation.
I've wondered why apparently no one makes an adaptor that fits where AA batteries fit and holds a NiMH AA with a built in DC/DC converter that adjusts the output voltage to emulate an alkaline discharge curve.

I used to think it was because if the adaptor has to fit in an AA slot and contain an AA it obviously would have to larger in length and/or diameter than an AA battery and might not fit.

But a few years ago some company was pushing an AA to AA adaptor for use with non-rechargeable batteries that they claimed significantly increased the battery life. Electrically it was just an ordinary Joule thief [1] and in most devices would not really noticeably increase battery life so most reviews considered it to be pretty much worthless and because of its misleading marketing probably a scam.

It was a flop for its intended purpose but it did demonstrate that there is enough wiggle room in the size devices will accept for an AA battery that the extra volume added by an AA to AA adaptor would not be a problem in most cases.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule_thief
> But I don't know if I can call things in the Rust world like Axum/Actix/etc. "frameworks" anymore

A "framework" is a thing which calls your code rather than the other way around. You're confusing framework and "full stack" framework.

Actix or Axum are web frameworks in the same sense Flask or Sinatra are web frameworks: they deal with the HTTP lifecycle, and call your code when certain conditions are met (usually around routing).
Huh, I missed that, thanks for the info!
7Zip - the tool not the format - is about as unobtrusive to use as it gets, supports every archive format we deal with on a regular basis, has a very tolerable license and provides better feedback than explorer's zip. It also handles our zip files that explorer is known to choke on.

And because we can assume everyone in the office has 7zip, we don't have to create zips for things that go between windows and linux systems.
No, the feed on the right switched to the animation from the lander's view at 19m above the surface.
Cool OT sidenote about this. I live in an adobe house, and I wondered for a long time what the difference is between concrete blocks and adobe bricks, in terms of their physico-chemical structure. Adobe has comparable compressive strength to concrete blocks, but unlike concrete will dissolve in water. I always found this a bit mysterious.

Turns out that the most significant difference is that in concrete (or any cementitious material), the important molecular bonds are covalent. In adobe the bonds are ionic.

Consequently, adding water to adobe easily disrupts the structure by interfering with the ionic bonds (just as it when salt dissolves in), but does essentially nothing to the covalent bonds in concrete.

Even cooler, perhaps, is that as the wet adobe dries out again, the same bonds will reform, and you get back to the original state again.
I’m not Michael - presuming you are referring to Michael the PM. I was a dev. I’ll add you on LinkedIn.

Great to here you praise auth. I almost forgot getting auth ‘right’ inside Excel was a real time burglar.
There are a whole bunch of vagus nerve manipulations in current medicine. Many are quite common to self treat for things like converting episodes of SVT. Although the effectiveness is mixed. If they could find a non-drug treatment for Afib, I bet that would be big money based on the potential population and the current drug cocktail side effects.
Why? No transparency at all. Show me the images and the video of the Moon.

Every kid today can create an animation.
That might have been an issue with the control room getting the timing of the live feed wrong. No reason to read into it more than that. We have had previous missions where the Prime Minister's live feed was beamed after the event concluded
It is hard to assess, so this is just speculation, but I would guess that it is far easier to keep a facility in good working order, shining, nice and presentable when you don't actually use it but just pretend.

Also, the Soviet Union as well as Russia do have a culture of corruption, plan-fulfillment-only-on-paper, diversion of public funds and organized inefficiency on the job. E.g. from the current Ukraine-Russian war, there are reports (to be taken with a grain of salt of course, but there are dozens of confirmed, similar stories from Soviet times) of food shipments containing just canned water instead of canned meat/vegetables because somebody embezzled the money and shipped water to cover it up. I can't really decide either way: maybe all this is even easier, given the secrecy surrounding everything military and nuclear. Yet maybe it is harder, given the increased scrutiny around all things nuclear.
100% off topic, but something that made me laugh. The caption under the image of the founders: "The founders of 404 Media. From left to right..."

So as a question, is Joseph to the left of Samantha in that image? This image is perfect for training data for VAR offside decisions.
Nah, physics didn't change in the years since, and neither has human reaction time, both things that have a much more significant impact on road safety than modern rubber or brakes.
There's definitely at least some truth to this. And even when working on both frontend and backend (on a small team), I find it useful to have a clear separation between client-side code and server-side code, with a well-defined boundary between them. This might be shaped by my experience with ASP.NET and .aspx templates, though; I struggled to understand when and how the client-side code would call the backend to send input or get updated data.
> But C4 seems almost too lightweight to merit a name.

Fun fact ... it actually didn't have a name for the first few years, and was just the approach I used and taught people on my software architecture workshops.
Was the text AI generated perhaps?
That's seriously awesome. Does this require ChatGPT 4 subscription? I can't justify paying to work on open source.
We know that it has an audience because millions of people read our journalism at Motherboard every month. We are making a bet that a small fraction of those people will be willing to pay for accountability journalism and offbeat stuff that people care about (porn, for one, but lots other things) but that might make advertisers nervous.

We are under no illusion that this will be easy but we are excited to give it a shot. The worst thing that can happen is that we tried our best on something we really believe in and enjoy doing, it doesn't work financially, and we ultimately have to go do something else. We are hopeful and optimistic that we CAN make it work, but already we are overwhelmed and thrilled with the response. It's only our second day but we're committed to becoming a vital publication for people who care about how tech impacts humans, and how humans impact tech. We understand we will need to prove this day in and day out for people to feel like they are getting their money's worth, or that their money is supporting a force for good in the world/the internet. But we really want to make that happen. Thanks for the kind words
And there's absolutely no problem with it. Except that it won't happen due to the standard bodies losing face after they made a lot of noise with their decision that HTML 5 was the one true standard that would never get replaced.
> simple:

> Get an itemised estimate of the cost of land, cost of construction (include
permitting and utility connect fees), and cost of housing while under construction

That's the thing: getting these estimates is not simple, especially for a hypothetical build.
My understanding is that crushed rock is inferior, as it binds too much water that weakens the concrete.
> the entity able to put me to death legally

The country that is the subject of this HN post does not have the death penalty.

> That's a weird way to spell "banks and financial institutions."

’Cause I wasn’t spelling that. Within welfare states, public will to minimize tax evasion is widespread. In Europe steps are already being taken to improve transaction processing and democratize this area of the banking industry, so there isn’t necessarily the “gumming up” of the works and regulatory capture that you assume. If things don’t look so good in your country, I’m afraid that’s your problem to sort out.
I am not sure how anyone can claim this with a strait face having lived through 2020-2023.... which is living memory so I do not have to do back into the recorded history to show government failure. I can just talk about my lived experience at how completely incompetent government is at managing "emergencies"

Central planning is always bad, be it for emergencies or economics or anything else
The former of the books is introductory material which is taught at the Bachelors Level while the other book is more rigours and suited as a masters/research level book.
It’s a textbook case, yet the hundreds of times we’ve heard this story before the lawsuit went nowhere. Perhaps reality isn’t as cut and dried as this article makes it look.
> And I love it when people's biases make them so blind they can rationalize the perverse system, that they likely benefit from one form or another, that underpins it and try to sound righteous (we help the poor) in the process. This is exactly what fueled the cult of effective altruism and why it was as effective as it was as it gave grifters a way to rationalize their cons.

Nah, I'm not blind the the perverse incentives but ...

> I'm glad I'm a millennial that never got sucked into these stupid things,

I'm not blaming the poor people for their problems.
Portland- and Oregon in general- is something of a special case, because of its history legally excluding Black people. In general cities are better about accepting people of different ethnicity and backgrounds, but individual history and laws can override that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_black_exclusion_laws
Really being stated is SSR is far simpler (less moving parts, less latency, less things to break, 100% control of environment, etc) and therefore superior, which should make it the first and best choice for nearly all web applications.
Logistics take only fraction of road and parking space that personal transportation takes.

Argument that we'll need to live with 5% or 10% or 20% of traffic we have today, so we can as well do nothing is dishonest.