skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This one at least, is just edgecases that werent deemed necessary in testing. Its likely the chair is causing an emi spike way out of the usual bounds of testing.

Regarding the vanilla icecream one, shoddy design led to vapor lock, because the fuel lines run too close to the engine. But again, it was an edgecase, short drives, which are generally bad for cars, and mfgs dont do short drive tests that would catch that as part of their testing

Regarding the 500 mile email, again, another edgecase, where timeouts were reached due to distance. Distance wasnt factored in to testing, as it was not a necessary datapoint.

The phrase you probably want is just "edgecases".
Thanks for that! It seems trivial to enhance a DB wrapper to begin a transaction on the first query, and commit when the program finished without error. Like honestly, unless I totally missed something, why is that not built into everything it could be built into? Or put differently, is there ever a good reason to not use transactions?
Goddamnit where is the spray bottle?

Psst psst psst. NO. Bad kitty.
Dark Reader extension does basically this (I think they either change colors or add the invert filter depending on what looks better?), but also has builtin CSS override rules for many sites. Love it.
Reolink and Ubiquiti have good options that don't need the cloud.
Thanks for the hint. Even if the resulting binaries are pretty fast, it's still slower than a native C++ implementation of the same algorithms (but not much), see https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon/blob/master/testcase...
Excel has a solver function. It’s called “Goal Seek” for one unknown or “solver” for multiple.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-goal-seek-to-...

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/define-and-solve-...
Yea I definitely think it's the case here. The thing about the delivery van is that it doesn't go away, we just add additional noise with the delivery drone. Delivery vans can be made to be electric as well to bring the noise down further and so you actually just get loud drones and quiet delivery vans.

But the delivery drones are just one aspect. We're also going to get these flying taxis and those are going to suck too. Why invest or pay to maintain roads or highways or to build and improve sidewalks, bike lanes, busses, or rail lines when you can just take your air taxi directly to your landing spot and make sure to avoid contact with any humans along the way.

A good lens that you can use to examine this technology is whether the drones and air taxis are additive or subtractive. Good technology tends to be subtractive, i.e. an iPhone replaced a lot of unnecessary things (of course it had some downsides). Sidewalks and bike lanes are another good example of subtractive technology.

Additive technology would be something like a heated seat subscription, or these air taxis and drones. We're not really improving anything we're doing today, we're just adding to it. It's like feature creep.
General purpose compressors and information distance measures have become super interesting to me while I've been investigating alternative language models.

I've been playing around with an attention mechanism that combines the idea of using normalized compression distance (gzip) with discrete convolution between candidate sequences (sliding window of N bytes over each). Another round of normalization over the convolution outputs - accommodating varying lengths - allows for us to compare candidate sequences for relevant information on equal grounds.

The NCD formula I am using right now:

NCD(x,y) = (C(xy) - MIN(C(x),C(y))) / MAX(C(x),C(y))

No weird parameters or any other things to tune. The only parameters are the source documents and the input context/query.
At extreme ends capitalism manifests itself like communism: oversight, concentration of power and capital in the hands of few, and so on. Proper capitalism means that capital flows freeley around all layers of society. In corporate communism and communist socialism capital clogs. Doesn't flow naturaly, it's slowed down, stored, accessible to and managed by those few.
Full body scans have quite some history. If they were effective at routine preventive detection, the NHS would deploy them in a flash, because its cheaper right?

The problem is the false positive rate is >> catching unknown bad things.

its the same with breast cancer in the UK there is a 3.1% false positive rate. https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/sta... which requies follow ups. Now as breast surgery is reasonably uncomplicated (source: wife did breast surgery in training) its not _much_ of a risk and is worth it.

However, if its something in the liver, brain or spinal column, the risk its pretty high. This leads to a higher chance of injury from surgery vs stopping something unknown.

This is why something that actually identifies cancer cells is much better than looking for smears on an image. Unless you have monthly MRI scans, from birth, you are going to get nasty side effects from invasive investigations.

EDIT: also most people don't really understand the difference between CAT and MRI scans. CAT scans are much cheaper, faster, and better at finding cancer (you can use dies and junk). given the difference in cost, time and comfort, a lot of people will choose a CAT scan instead. However regular CAT scans will give you a much higher risk of cancer. Something the kardashians pushing whole body scans will neglect to tell you.
Intel seems pretty excited about glass substrates
> I could, however, imagine you buying a "$BRAND hub" for your "$BRAND camera" and other $BRAND IoT that ostensibly set-ups a tailscale kinda thing you can access via the $BRAND App, all while not touching the cloud.

I'm confused by the use of the word "ostensibly" there. Do you mean that the makers would claim that it would set up a tailscale kinda thing for you while doing something completely different to avoid the cloud?
I made an ugly app to let people burn money for fun
I have a bunch of wyze gear, given the price I never assumed they were meant to replace a security system. What I have been doing with these cheap little cameras is getting me closer to nature.

We have a bunch of these outside and we've been watching the cats, possums, raccoons, and even turkeys frolic as they cross through our property. We even set up a little victorian style dog hours with solar panels in the backyard and the wild animals have been using it to rest. We have a ton of video of these little animals just relaxing and stretching out in the dog house too. The family loves it, every morning we get to see what the critters were up to.

Before that we were doing hydroponics and we had cameras on the fruits, the instruments for things like ph, ec, and a camera in the reservoir so we could monitor water levels.

I don't use them to watch my home, but they have been pretty solid in terms of watching other things that aren't security related or sensitive.
Precise Robotically Implanted Mind Enhancer

Seems like the obvious choice
In this comment thread, the context is specifically cities with apartment buildings, not suburban houses.
I don't think you understand what I am saying. I am responding to the use of the word 'biology' in the parent post.
I’d suggest adding:

- Cannot charge patient for treatment.

That way nobody can actually sell snake oil.
Take a look at the EMNIST - Extended MNIST dataset. It has both digits and letters of the alphabet.
OpenSSL 3.0.11 and 3.1.3 (Fixed: POLY1305 Mac corrupts XMM registers on Win64)
Under the hood it's doing something more similar to solid, but the API exposed is a step in the direction of React (it doesn't expose the signals to the user). It's not quite React either because there's no 'setter', just a different way to opt in to reactivity which also (IIUC) makes it possible in .js/.ts files
Show HN: Mana Pool – Market for Magic Cards
Hi folks. I launched my first startup on HN 15 years ago (see my profile), and I wanted to post here again now.

Like my last one, this project comes from one of my life's passions. I have played Magic: The Gathering for 30 years.

My co-founders and I think Magic deserves its own market, and this thinking will lead to dozens of ways to make a great app. We consider what we have an MVP, and we are all going to MagicCon this weekend in Las Vegas to walk around in our Mana Pool shirts and talk to people about the future.

If HN likes the site, I would appreciate you crashing it before we head out tomorrow night!

https://manapool.com/
I’d argue both do it at the the same intensity, but one is using a false veneer of prestige and respectability as a cloak to try and give itself a legitimacy it no longer deserves.
I use Silverblue and it works like a charm. The only problem I found is that you need to install your IDE locally instead of using a Flatpak to be able to launch it from within a toolbox. Also, toolboxes can not be upgraded across major versions (eg Fedora 37 -> 38) and have to be recreated instead.
Unfortunately Ubiquiti now requires you to buy into their proprietary NVR :/
Well, all the playing happens with the positive/negative coefficients. Without explaining that you can cancel them out with each other, it will not be clear how all-positive probabilities collapse to some basis states.

In fact, classical stochastic computational models have exactly this deficiency. You can't pump up probabilities of some unknown states. They can only tend towards a uniform mixture.

Everything is in the minus sign.
The fact that Israel is a nation propped up by $3.5 billion of arms spending by the US, yet makes sure to oppress the Palestinian population in their country in the guise of maintaining their "Jewish mess" is a direct affront to your "western values in alliances" nonsense.

Alliances are based out of pragmatism and a common enemy/threat. They have always been the case since history, whether it was the aggressive Assyrians' neighbours against them, to the Franco-Ottoman alliance, to the Axis alliance in WW1.
Do you have an association with them or just a happy user? Either is fine of course
GitHub Copilot Chat beta now available for all individuals
Lucy?
You get there by either getting congress to pass laws or by setting legal precedent in the court. That’s the goal of the legal arm. Not to fight every bullshit civil liberties case, but to fight the last one that doesn’t get thrown out in court.

If you don’t think they look forward to those cases, I think you’re the one who has read them wrong, not me.
They are of Indian origin so they knew doctors directly in India.
Large language models don’t know what they know. Asking them what they know is often going to give you an incorrect answer.

$ llm -m 4 "Quote the declaration of independence:"

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...

(Note: The full text of the Declaration of Independence is quite lengthy, so I have included the most well-known portion here. The full text, including a list of grievances against King George III and the signatures of the signers, can be found elsewhere.)
See also https://u-root.org/
> not the language that's fast, it's its implementation

And specific language implementations are identified:

C gcc 12.2.0-3ubuntu1
C clang Ubuntu clang version 15.0.2-1

> how it's used

And specific source code is shown:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Wyze is honestly great. These cameras are a fraction of the price of everyone else. Their cloud service is a couple dollars a month per camera.

I have 2 looking out my windows at the front door and car. I move those to watch the dog when she stays home. I have one over my pool table to record shots. I've used them in the past to watch stray cats outside.

I am least happy with their outdoor cam since it doesn't do continuous recording and it requires a separate hub. I recommend the plugged in ones to everyone though.
I have a script that runs once a week, generating a new dated .md file with section headers (eg particular projects) and core info already populated. Throughout the week I just update notes in the .md file. If needed, I copy over things from week to week to preserve some context. I have another script the moves untouched .md files into an archive directory after some time has elapsed. I can then look over all of the day-to-day/week-to-week notes on a per-project basis at eg the end of the year, and have both a high-level overview and all the details.

When I need to let people know what I've been working on, or do standup, or remember what I did 6 months ago, its all there.
They mean pushing new software versions to production. Now, does the number of VPs at Google have anything to do with the topic we discuss?
Any specific reason it wouldn't work with Angular as well (noticed it was not listed in the Frontend frameworks section)?
They mention a 2023 report about unintentional access of others' cameras but this dates back to 2019 (I know this since I saved a video about it from an owner who demonstrated it, which is no longer on Youtube afaict). The video showed that while the official app couldn't display the feed if they asked Amazon Alexa to, it would.
Eating Prime Air's lunch. Zipline is to SpaceX what Prime Air is to Boeing, often literally because Prime Air has hired so many ex-Boeing guys in the Seattle area.
Boom! Glad you like it - and thank you for the kind words :)
> The second problem with writing logs to stdout

Who on Earth does that? Logs are almost always written to stderr... In part to prevent other problems author is talking about (eg. mixing with the output generated by the application).

I don't understand why this has to be either or... If you store the trace output somewhere you get a log... (let's call it "un-annotated" log, since trace won't have the human-readable message part). Trace is great when examining the application interactively, but if you use the same exact tool and save the results for later you get logs, with all the same problems the author ascribes to logs.
Aren't Amcrests just rebadged Dahuas with all the baggage?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahua_Technology#Cybersecurity...
I mean, maybe. We've seen similar things in music.

But AI isn't a person. You won't find a person that spends every waking moment of their life only studying the works of a specific author, they have lived experience.
> Providing secure, reliable, and performant products and services is our highest priority.

This kind of language always grates on me. It's obviously not true, at what point is this lying or fraud?

For 11 months, they were generating these insecure passwords. Clearly this isn't a priority, can you imaging them forgetting to bill their users for 11 months? I can't.
Wasn't this a whole plot point in the Grapes of Wrath? People starving while the farmers let the crops rot to keep the price up?
LOL. Falling back on metaphysical arguments about 'sparks' and 'uniqueness', is NOT you 'seeing' something nobody else is able too.
Relevant — PowerSync [1] (similar to Electric; disclosure: co-founder) is currently designed to efficiently sync around 1M rows, or roughly 1GB of uncompressed data. More would be possible, but performance may degrade. In the future we plan on pushing it to handle larger data volumes.

[1] https://docs.powersync.co/
So India couldn't extradite him. There are many people North Korea would like to punish but can't extradite.

You seem to be implying that if India couldn't extradite him, they should kill him.
Reolink is great. I'm about to add their PoE Video Doorbell. I already have two of their cameras connected to my Synology.
I said that, no?

> In C/C++, Rust, etc it makes sense to use an array of function pointers as it degrades into a jump table [...]. Same goes for an exhaustive and non-fallthrough switch statement.
I'd like to see a limited version that weeds out anything discredited or without a reasonable basis to think it will work.
Sure, but the probabilities of those beliefs won't be the same as each other, and they will be the same between all users, so that doesn't address my point.
I'm from the USA. Your post alarms me. You berate China and India for using rivers as their own garbage disposal. This seems to be a response to criticize somebody who is making the same claim, more or less.

I am not the original commenter, but let me add here my own observation. In the USA we have a lot of laws and regulations that are supposed to prevent industry from polluting the environment, exploiting child labor, unduly endangering their workforce, etc. You cannot produce a product to place on the shelves of Walmart if you violate these rules. I think most Americans support most of those regulations. But we do not impose those rules on companies from China or India.

This means that a product produced in the USA can cost significantly more than an identical product produced in India. Naturally, USA industry recognizes this and shifts their production out of the USA. You could characterize this as "ship your garbage to other poorer countries." That is, don't allow USA rivers to be polluted but make your money by polluting rivers outside the USA.

I don't suggest that the USA removes its prohibitions from USA industry. I suggest that they impose the same prohibitions on non-USA industry with respect to markets inside the USA. And by this I don't mean raise tariffs. I mean that if a company in Iowa is not allowed to put a product on the shelves at Walmart because their smokestack is too dirty, then a company in Qinghai should not be allowed to do so if their smokestack is too dirty by the same standard.
https://github.com/oracle/graal/blob/master/substratevm/src/...

https://github.com/oracle/graal/blob/master/substratevm/src/...

And in any case:

JEP draft: Prepare to Restrict The Use of JNI
https://openjdk.org/jeps/8307341

JEP 442: Foreign Function & Memory API (Third Preview)
https://openjdk.org/jeps/442
Sight, taste, touch are all inputs. An input doesn't mean it takes control.
Yeah you're right, it's totally justified to steal the work of still living artists without their permission to build massive for profit systems to automate their jobs away because some corporations have abused copyright.
The end goal of Neuralink is so short sighted. When Musk proposed it, I first began to question his genius.

At its best, Neuralink is supposed to give humans a chance against AI by speeding up human i/o. But if AI continues to expand its capabilities and speed, then that "advantage" will only last for a short time.

In exchange, we will give corporations and governments direct read/write access to our brains.

Oh, and if AI does take over the world, Neuralink style implants will likely come in very handy to control humans, won't they?

This isn't just about Musk. Ideally, nobody should ever do this. This is the final frontier of agency and privacy.

How is anyone on-board with this?
>If India were located in Europe, without needing to deal with Pakistan and China

Because of the Himalayas, China can't interfere with India any more than it could if India were in Europe. (Yes, I know about the recent deadly skirmishes on their shared border. They involved small numbers of soldiers and even getting large numbers of soldiers to the border would be arduous, let alone anything like a tank.)
I am not, but there's a tendency among those types that categorise people into narrow sets that they can understand. Also your statement doesn't much make sense. Being a good developer means you understand a wide range of issues, not just spelling in a language and adding if statements. The combination of personalities vary wildly. To be fair, LLMs if anything, will help developers become better managers, simply because developers understand what needs to be done. Instead of decyphering what someone meant by requesting a vague feature, you can ask a statistical system - an ai as some call it - what the average joe wants. And then get it done.
In truth, the vast majority of protobuf users do not construct messages in a streaming way anyway; they have the whole message tree in memory upfront and the serialize it all at once.

"Streaming" in gRPC (or Cap'n Proto) involves sending multiple messages. I think this is probably the right approach. Otherwise it seems very hard to use a message as its streaming in as you can never know which fields are not present vs. just haven't arrived yet. But representing a stream as multiple messages leaves it up to the application to decide what it wants in each chunk, which makes sense.
Freezing food takes a fraction of the energy it costs to ship fresh foods before they rot.
Imagine the customer support costs of trying too help users troubleshoot VPN connection issues to their phones when they don't get their alerts.

And the huge mess of bad publicity, when someone breaks into a home, and as part of the theft, steals the device that has all the video of their crime.
Which is what I said, no?

> In C/C++, Rust, etc it makes sense to use an array of function pointers as it degrades into a jump table [...]. Same goes for an exhaustive and non-fallthrough switch statement.

I have no doubt that non-exhaustive (sparse) switch statements can also be optimized in compilers today; the more important portion is the non-fallthrough aspect.
We wrote a bit about SQLite implementations and associated performance considerations for web here: https://www.powersync.co/blog/sqlite-persistence-on-the-web
It would be nice to just have a data service you sign up to personally that basically just gives you an AWS bucket, and products such as this just takes a key and URL to upload/download with.
https://youtu.be/GM-e46xdcUo?si=D8Zmikk8TKsLoHwx
When I was a kid my (not wealthy) family had a Lincoln Towncar that was probably purchased used and fixed up and it ended up with some freaky electrical problems like you describe- most notably (because it freaked me out as a small child) I remember the automatic door locks would start locking/unlocking themselves rapidly, and they were big chunky metal switches that pop up and down and made an awful sound when this happened
Everybody's terrified of the snake oil days, and almost nobody considers the way things were several decades ago, when cancer researchers were allowed to try things on patients without government approval, and we made much faster progress than we did after the FDA clamped down.

For details, see the book The Death of Cancer by Vincent DeVita, director of the Yale Cancer Center and former director of the National Cancer Institute.
I think much of that spark is actually contextual language generation. We're relying on learned language patterns for most of our sparks.
The real story is India forcing its censorship regime on Canada by threatening employees in India.

Facebook should leave India or be forced by Canada and Europe not to cooperate with Indian demands.

Otherwise, the EU is letting India censor its own citizens.
Once you have an abundance of it, you can really just put it in everything. Anything with tomato is better with basil, plus any sandwiches, salads, pizzas, pasta dishes. I have rabbits, so they get through a lot of fresh herbs (especially the stems) and give me fertilizer back in the form of... little round spheres.

Besides that, I preserve it by making it into pesto, chutneys and other basil-based sauces, oils, jars of dried flakes and freezing it.

Anything I have left over, I give away to friends and family.