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> weird bit of a drain on the 3.3v

Yeah, 3.3v isn't really viable as a signalling voltage for anything that leaves an enclosure unless you take steps to mitigate interference such as differential signalling, shielded cable or some sort of protocol rather than presence/absence of voltage. It's just too easy to induce that voltage - albeit very temporarily - through capacitive or inductive coupling on even 10m of wire; as you experienced it's also too easy to have that voltage mysteriously leak out into what a multimeter will tell you is a definitively open circuit.

If you're thinking of doing something like this again, I'd suggest:

1. Definitely use PLCs, their inputs are inherently hardened and you can use 24/48/240v signalling voltages - and by extension a whole universe of very robust industrial indicators and switches.

2. Don't use data cable for non-data transmission, the twisted pair coupling will give you issues you don't want and the stuff is fragile as anything. If you want a good cable which supports multiple non-data channels the term 'pilot cable' or 'control cable' will see you right, that's a multi-core cable which usually has 4 thick cores and a bunch of thin pairs, it's traditionally used for carrying 4-20ma signalling loops in factories and oil rigs etc, it's well shielded.

3. Do use RS485 to loop your PLCs together.

4. Don't use weak voltages on stuff that's being handmade and screwed together onsite. You run into all sorts of transient issues, 3.3v will balk at a loose terminal whereas 48v will romp home if there's even a hint of contact.
Any info if SAIC 7nm is having any impact? Or is it not feasible for non Huawei?
Question: has anyone used tools like DeleteMe and Optery to remove their data from the web? Curious to hear thoughts, opinions, experiences.

https://joindeleteme.com/

https://www.optery.com/
See 50310(b)(1) on https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

And I meant exactly what I said: there's only one third party in this conversation, California, and 2020 is "a few years ago".
But women not being submissive has led to devastating effects on the children. Maybe that’s something we need to work on reimplementing.
Sounds like fun! I'm trying to get into blogging. It's a lot of work!

https://sjer.red/
This would check out as a winning strategy. If you figure how to remove this arbitrage out before anyone else, then you nobody else can replicate your strategies. Since they were early in the quant game, this seems plausible (though other things mentioned here also seem plausible -- insider trading, lots of brilliant people, etc).
It's that and more. The tech is a moat. The business model is another moat.

Part of the problem is the business model allows for some shady practices like selling $1 services for $0.80 to kill competitors (like the taxi industry and other startups in the same space). Then raising prices to $1.30 over 20 years.

I don't think it works though. It just ends up with everyone dead and us buying enshittified taxis at 2-3x the price later because nobody else has a ride sharing app.
Apple buying every N3B wafer isn't enough to match the orders they placed. They had originally anticipated other customers on N3B too. But only Apple has an N3B design ready for manufacture. Intel - the only other major N3B customer - plans to use it for Arrow Lake S which is a late 2024 product. Every other major customer decided to wait for N3E because N3B is too expensive. TSMC therefore wants to push out the acquisition of additional machines until next year when N3E is ready. It's also the reason TSMC pulled in N3E a quarter or two.
ONNX[0], model-as-protosbufs, continuing to gain adoption will hopefully solve this issue.

[0] https://github.com/onnx/onnx
Seems like you could just blast it out on one of the endless Microsoft telemetry or update channels that are chatting away all day and either intercept outside the network or with Microsoft's help. Only way to protect against that would be blocking all internet access.
Massive amounts of palm and coconut oil are used for soaps and lotions. Any reason it wouldn’t be great to replace those?
So.. Can one deduce jet vectors from disturbed clouds? Soldier movement from grass swinging in the wind. Can one visualize patterns not following a model?
The meat you eat took far more farmed plants to grow than you would have required if you ate the plants instead.
You cannot run Java 17 code on a Java 8 runtime without "desugaring."
> There should have been multiple types mimic-leaves because we cannot rule out this is the plants normal growth.

From the Wikipedia article [0] linked by the GP:

> Ernesto Gianoli said "Boquila's leaves are extraordinarily diverse. The biggest ones can be 10 times bigger than the smallest, and they can vary from very light to very dark. In around three-quarters of cases, they are similar to the closest leaf from another tree, matching it in size, area, length of stalk, angle, and color. Boquila's leaves can even grow a spiny tip when, and only when, it climbs onto a shrub with spine-tipped leaves."[5]

> When there are no nearby host leaves to influence them, the normal leaves of B. trifoliolata are relatively short and light green with rounded edges.[6]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boquila
> if you release a game using Unity you can stick with that version of the ToS instead of us being able to foist new terms on you whenever we want forever.

IANAL but isn't this how it works by default? If two parties agree to a contract, one party doesn't get to unilaterally change the contract after the fact. The only way they get to change it is if they put some wording in the contract to the effect of "As long as the game runs on the Unity engine, Unity has the right to charge whatever it wants." So it would simply be a matter of removing this language from the TOS.
Kargo (cargo) and Freight makes sense no?
Who's in Charge of Postgres?
> Then you have the effort of preserving all the food. The modern house isn't a great place to store potatoes. You'll probably want to can/jar most of it.

My my area of expertise, but can you preserve most foods without a significant bulk of salt or sugar? Especially if you're talking about a significant portion of a year's worth of calories.

That means you'd also need a salt mine, a sugar crop, or tons of honey or maple syrup you make on site.

So much of "live off the grid to" me seems like fantasy. Or quietly ignoring all the ingredients you still get from the grid. Fundamentally, any western standard of life from the past few hundred years requires local and long distance trade, which means interdependence and a large community. This go it alone fantasy just isn't possible.
Ah my tech friends have specialized into hardware a bit. At least two of us have server racks in our basement, and basically nobody I know (who at least knows the command line) does not have at least a few drives in an old Linux server somewhere.

If you are concerned about reliability above performance, I would suggest using a single raidz2 vdev instead. This would allow the cluster to definitely survive two disks worth of failure. I'll also echo the common mantra - RAID is not backups. If you really need the data, you need to store a second copy offline in a different place.

When I lived in California and did not have room for a server rack, I had a single home server with an 8-bay tower case. I used an LSI card with 2 SAS-to-4x-SATA ports to connect all 8 drives to the machine. I believe I had 6 TB drives in that NAS, though they are currently all out of my house (part of one of my offsite backups now). My topology there was 4x mirror vdevs, which gave me worst case endurance of 1 failure but best case of 4 failures, and at about 4x the IOPS performance, but with the cost of only 50% storage efficiency vs the 75% you would get with raidz2.

There is even raidz3 if you are very paranoid, which allows up to 3 disks to fail before you lose the vdev. I've never used it. As I understand, the parity calculations get considerably more complicated, although I don't know if that really matters.
That’s a hard argument to make if completely alienated populations, irrespective of geographical location, coalesce around the same idea.
I wonder if LLMs could be useful. Find if there is anything unusual in the TOS
The tire got replaced too. Who cares if we are killing the environment because of lazy policymakers right?
Ask HN: Which messenger app is good in 2023?
Facebook finally closed down the Messenger Lite app¹ that I've been relying on since the main Messenger app became so overburdened with adverts that I couldn't bear to use it any more. Now I'm looking for a replacement.

Mostly this will be for my wife and myself, on Android, but we'd prefer something where we can reasonably easily connect with our friends. Adverts (and Meta) are a dealbreaker, paying for the service isn't. I've lost track of which app Google are abandoning next, and I don't love the idea of tying identity to a phone number. I'd prefer something I can use from the (Linux) desktop as well.

What do you recommend? Help me HN, you're my only hope...

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¹ https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/24/meta-is-shutting-down-messenger-lite-for-android-in-september/
There I disagree: the article is not saying the UK is better, it's pointing out a notable blind spot in US thinking.
Too lazy to look it up, but what exactly is it about said journalist? Good, bad? Because Reuters is one of the best journalistic sources out there.

Edit: Two sources confirming stuff is not just how journalism works, but also intelligence services.
Who is More Likely to use Drugs and Why (2020)
Looks like there is a high correlation between personality traits, drug use, and promiscuity.
>We see the same problem in USA states. State taxpayer dollars pay for some amount of public college education for state universities. These are typically called "State Appropriations", and varies between 30-80% of the student's overall tuition costs.

And the world yell the same thing to USA. Canada, Italy, and England etc. all subsides their world-class universities with public funding. Where do the students go after graduation? US.
Affordable high quality child care
I hate to rain on your parade, but for every one town trying to "fulfill your dream", you'd get ten doing stuff like "donate to our square town in the triangle state you hate, and we will pass laws to own those triangles for you". Then add the Amazon HQ debacle and similar on top, and sprinkle some sweet madness during any campaign season (which is most of the time at this point). I'm pretty sure that making taxes "fun" is "fun" in the same way that NFTs are "fun" investing.
For me, personally, this was the year of Wayland... but that comes after years of checking every few months whether it was ready.

My last-resolved reason not to switch: Popular compositors didn't support scaling for XWayland on par with how it works when X11 controls the screen right up until this year.

This meant that you either had to opt out of scaling in Wayland (horrible on high dpi displays) or accept super blurry XWayland windows.

Of course, it would be great if we didn't need XWayland but... That's not going to happen until more users have Wayland desktops and users like me weren't about to accept Wayland desktops while this type of problem existed.
Some of that is a challenge of product design.

Devs tend to be opinionated on these projects because without that you end up with feature sprawl to the point that projects become unmaintainable.

On the other side, new projects need to focus on their specific segment and solve that problem well without worrying about corner cases.

Either way, any solution for a corner case needs to be implemented in a way that solves it broadly for any user.
They are the CEO, handling more money than us plebs.
I can almost follow this but I am at the edge of where I see
how it could sound like buzzword gibberish.

I dont blame the author(s) but things are getting more specialized
and more terms are created. (which usually maps to an existing
term which also maps to an existed term which also maps an existing
term and so on.

I have though about trying to create a "terminator"(hah) where you can
paste in something from a new product and it will map the terms
to existing terms as a sort of translator or term machine.

""
We are thrilled to announce Kargo, a multi-stage application lifecycle orchestrator for continuously delivering and promoting changes through environments. Kargo, brought to you by the creators of the Argo Project, is a reimagining of CD pipelines for the cloud-native era, with first-class GitOps support, progressive delivery features, and is 100% open source.
""
> "The US gave them weapons to attack Russia." <- ftfy.

This would only make sense if Ukrainians were suicidal enough to actually even consider attacking Russia. Yet, in spite of massive attacks on civil houses and infrastructure, there is nothing comparable on the part of Ukraine. They attacked very few targets on Russian soil, and as far as I can tell, these were only military targets, and attacked only after Russia started the war.

One would have to be either delusional or paranoid to think Ukraine wanted to attack Russia. The only thing these folsk wanted is to stay as far away from the Russian regime as possible. Unfortunately, they weren't allowed to.
They should’ve put an AirTag on it.
To me the biggest win in Rust is just that, the memory related bugs are nearly non-existent. Throw in a group of people working on something and this makes the project move just so much faster in both review time and time hunting bugs.
at work we use the ONNX serialisation format for all of our prod models. Those get loaded by the ONNX runtime for inference. works great.

perhaps it's be viable to add support for the ONNX format even for use cases like model checkpointing during training, etc ?
How is this not a complete and obvious no-brainer? As advanced as our culture is in some ways, it is clearly quite idiotic in many other ways.
The what watches from those eyes who can not see and see anyway? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight
AI is more like a religion.

Lots of quasi-educated people are firmly convinced that "intelligence" is just an emergent property of some large binary software.

They believe this despite never seeing a single example of it and without being able to show or describe what will be required to make it happen.

Belief and hope is *not* how real science and engineering is done. However; it *is* how religion is done.
Scientific rigor has it's limits. Certain fields need to make intuitive leaps of speculation.

For example the entire field of astronomy is basically unverifiable bullshit. It's all speculation. We make guesses on what's going on with the stars outside of our solar system from twinkling light that comes from light years away.

Any science to verify the claims made by astronomy with the amount of rigor you demand would involve light speed space ships to go to those stars and verify.

If we could do this I think you'd find a ton of astronomy would be flat out wrong.

Nonetheless the field is still useful and legitimate despite the high likelihood a lot of it is wrong and despite the fact we can't verify much.
What on earth is a "corporate vice president of modern life"
I feel like this article undersells Hypercard. From my perspective as a young teen BBS kid in the early '90s, everyone and their mother (literally) were making Hypercard stacks. A friend of mine in 9th grade made a Spanish flash card quiz game that got a ton of downloads. My dentist made a stack that tracked patient records and visits and allowed you to click on a tooth on a diagram and enter data about it. There were games, both amateur and professional (MYST is the most famous example). Hypercard really did seem like programming for the people.

By comparison, the early web was much weaker visually, interactively, and programmatically, but the interconnectivity of the web was the killer feature and eventually, the web became the programming platform of the people.

But man, it was really to get up and going with something quickly in Hypercard, and so many of the paradigms that modern web developers are familiar with today, were in place in the late '80s with hypercard. Components, components inside components, components sending and listening to events, programming individual components' behaviors. etc.
The board can only be fired by stockholders, right? Apparently, stockholders don't think this announcement is too big a deal, since the stock hasn't moved much (in a way that's distinguishable from noise).
Sounds like they don't have enough art galleries.
I'm going to add a realism mod to balance this out a bit -

The car would get a flat tire on the way, and the engineers would spend hours arguing about how to fix it and whether operations would be "more scalable" if we designed a car that didn't have tires at all; Then the commander would call them to see what the heck was going on and they would all get nosebleeds from the stress.
What a shame, HackerNews typically has more insightful comments than garbage like this.

Edit: thanks to everyone who wrote some insightful responses, and there are indeed many. Faith in HackerNews restored !
The safetensors format was created exactly for this - safe model serialization

https://huggingface.co/blog/safetensors-security-audit
Skimming it, I think they're not talking about academic deep learning research but about all the posturing around "AI" that various charlatans are up to.

Actual AI research often isn't very rigorous and is more "try a bunch of stuff and see what works" but it's not magic, it's just experimental as we don't really understand all the factors that affect model performance.
laughs in log4j vuln

A good fraction of the flaws we found at Matasano involved pentests against statically typed languages. If an adversary has root access to your storage box, they can likely find ways to pivot their access. Netpens were designed to do that, and those were the most fun; they’d parachute us into a random network, give us non-root creds, and say “try to find as many other servers that you can get to.” It was hard, but we’d find ways, and it almost never involved modifying existing files. It wasn’t necessary — the bash history always had so many useful points of interest.

It’s true that the dynamics are a little different there, since that’s a running server rather than a storage box. But those two employees’ hard drive backups have an almost 100% chance of containing at least one pivot vector.

Sadly choice of technology turns out to be irrelevant, and can even lead to overconfidence. The solution is to pay for regular security testing, and not just the automated kind. Get someone in there to try to sleuth out attack vectors by hand. It’s expensive, but it pays off.
The typing of python isn’t the issue, it’s effectively the eval problem of not having a separation between code and data in the pickle format often used out of convenience. There are lots of pure data containers, like huggingface’s safe tensors or tensorflow’s protobuf checkpoints, that could have been used instead.
Make a contract with them if you use their license/service or use something else?
I'm delighted you ask because I watch too many.

You crash an end-of-life trainer dressed up as an F35 in a carefully chosen site with no natural foot traffic. The FBI then sits in a bush and arrests everyone that turns up.

The F35 is the prime intelligence target for Russia before it gets in Ukrainian hands so they might risk some of their most valuable "illegals" i.e. the long-term embedded agents with flawless identities. For a big target, you gotta go big. Hang out the biggest prize in the most embarrassing way you can. This is a typical type of plot from The Americans TV show.

That or it's testing the adversarial satellite or balloon surveillance tech for how long it takes to find the craft. Maybe it's a test of Open Source Intelligence networks. Maybe it had genuine stealth tech and they are monitoring channels to find out if it was being successfully tracked. A top of the line stealth craft is hell of a honeypot so there are endless things that might get revealed - I imagine all hostile intelligence networks are lit up like christmas trees - it's like a barium meal.

Do I believe any of these? Nah. Reality is more ridiculous than fiction so no doubt it really is the case that they have just lost a prize intelligence asset.
it wouldn't be an iPhone then.
Yes, you have not given a single example of “the kind of military-grade firearms we see used in mass murders in the U.S” that’s banned by Switzerland. This is what “utter lack of evidence” means. The fact that instead of doing that, you segue into some unrelated contemporary political drama, is really telling.
The two biggest reasons for this are that the format Commander has specifically blown up in popularity and Wizards of the Coast making a first-party desktop/mobile client MtG Arena to compete with games like Hearthstone.

Commander is a 4-player casual format that's has as much in common with more typical board games as it does with traditional MtG.

Arena is likely what you saw someone playing on their phone. Funnily enough, it doesn't support Commander!
You should check out safetensors. They are used widely in diffusion models and LLMs https://huggingface.co/blog/safetensors-security-audit
How unions won a 30% raise for every fast food worker in California
Working link:
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/sep/18/the-truth-about...

Actual title:
The truth about nitro-meats: my seven-year search for better bacon

Summary: In response to nitrates added to meat being a known carcinogen for some time, specific (named) manufacturers in the UK are making bacon without nitrates.

It’s very promotional and from the Food section.
The side seeking additional discrimination as a policy goal has the burden of evidence supporting the discrimination, not the side supporting the absence of discrimination.

That's not just a good rule of thumb, its a Constitutional rule in the US (though the standard to meet varies depending on the kind of discrimination from a very low standard—the rational basis test—to a very high standard—strict scrutiny.)
I just bought the cheapest "Grade A" drives I could find from eBay. This is not the reliable way to do it, but as I have a 3 layer backup solution anyway, I don't really mind the risk of a drive failure.

It depends on what your plans for the storage are. If you're going to fill it with bulk data that gets accessed sequentially (think media files), then performance will be fine with basically any topology or drive choice. If you are going to fill it with data for training ML models across multiple machines, you need to think about how you will make it not the bottleneck for your setup.

One more thing to consider - you can get new consumer OR used enterprise flash for somewhere around $45/TB in the 4 TB SATA size, or the 8 TB NVMe size. Those drives will likely fail read-only if they fail at all. They will usually use less power, take less space, and obviously will perform orders of magnitude better than spinning rust, at somewhere around 3x the cost.

I am hoping to build my next NAS entirely on flash.
An army of mosquitoes modified to fight dengue fever
Rustls and Rust for Linux Funding from OpenSSF
I actually just saw on an insurance website today "opt our of sharing your data: (california residents only)"
> In prod it wouldn't get rolled out until someone manually clicks the sync button

That's a great point and if that works for you, awesome! Note though that relies on the state of the prod Application to temporarily contradict the source of truth that is your repo. If you lose that prod Application and re-create it, prod will be in a state you hadn't yet blessed.
From Airbrush to ZBrush: The Evolution of Game Box Art