skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe one day we'll speak about these silos and systems the same way we speak about the communist bureaucracies of old. Minus the crimes against humanity and all.

Perhaps centralization is the problem? I can't help but think all those people in crypto that said "we buy into the protocol, not the coin!" were onto something after all.
Today the disclaimers in most software and the non commercial nature generally insulates you from liability unless they can demonstrate some extreme situation like maliciousness. A regulatory framework that doesn’t carve giant holes in liability for open source will stifle it, as it will erode the giant hole being used today. In the context of the topic (memory safety and other issues in software used widely) you can’t divorce that from open source and just hold commercial software culpable for their compliance. By introducing some sort of regulatory structure around software quality you necessarily either exempt open source, leaving a huge surface area untouched, or you essentially kill non commercial contribution.
"the gates" --> "another gate" then. :-)
>If you pay for software it generally comes with some warranty and guarantee of fitness for purpose.

Unless it's some sort of bespoke software with a detailed contract (the details of which aren't available), I don't believe that's true.

Every single software license (as well as websites and other services) I've ever read (over the past 30 years or so) has had some similar disclaimer.

Would you provide an example that doesn't follow that pattern?
Depends on how DIY you want to go - i got a Dahua VTO-something doorbell that is powered by PoE that in turn is bridged into HomeKit/HKSV via Scrypted - works pretty darn well :)

Scrypted supports quite a few cameras, doorbells etc...
With USPS, not to put too fine a point on it, there's also "I'm saying we're not doing this right now, because I don't want to do this work right now."

(With deference to all the other, amazing USPS folks I've worked with!)
And they're more than $1.1m now.
Yes, my theory is that the Qualcomm monopoly makes it cost prohibitive. The question I asked is if anyone has evidence for this.
ryan (co-founder) here.

calling ourselves motherduck means we can either embrace the duck, or shy away from it. we've embraced it.

tino's board slides do refer to it as the Produck team :-)
I typically use lead-free solder unless I'm dealing with some annoyingly massive thermal mass like a joystick anchor, but I use the same rule whenever I'm dealing with solder, fishing weights, and ammo: wash hands before they go near my face after handling lead products. Inorganic lead is not readily absorbed through the skin (that's not to say it cannot be, or never is), so generally speaking as long as you avoid ingesting it (hence wash hands after handling it) there's little to worry about.
That's the point: these drivers should get updated. Obviously the low-level component manufacturers don't want to do this, but perhaps we need to find a way to incentivize them to do so. And if that fails, to legally force them.
You are mad that they took money away from someone you don’t like?

And moreover that they used this money for something that you do like?
Good to know. I'm surprised. Thanks.
Neat! Do you happen to have the analogous similarity queries with a default embedding? Curious to see them side by side.

(I know I can reproduce myself and I appreciate all the code you posted there - thought I'd ask first!)
Fast Feedforward Networks, 220x faster than feedforward networks
why does it have to be 100% reprocessable? Why is it always in absolutes as soon as we're talking about nuclear?
Investigate the important linear algebra theories applied to a range of computer science domains
I agree, in general, with the point of the article. But why does everybody have to make fun of Biden's speech issues (Stuttering)? That's a pretty low blow, bro.
Adding more clean energy will not stop fossil fuel, history thas shown that energy sources stack on top of each other, they do not replace each other.
> So, here I am, in need of some real human input.So, what's the deal? Is it an issue of AI awareness? Or is the business world still skeptical of AI's ROI after so many empty promises? Your insights could really help me figure this out.

How long did you take to develop this integration? How many thousands of hours? If just a few, do you really think that some code snippet you patch in a few hours is good enough to take over the world and make people go out of their way to try your software? It is not that good yet, I'm sure of it. Isn't it just a ChatGPT wrapper after all?

Most people extracting value from it are doing it directly on openai offer.
Just call your broker.
https://loops.so/pricing

Click "view pricing tiers" for all tiers up to 100K :)
I'm not sure what experience you have, but I've run both their Enterprise licensed database on prem as well as migrated to Atlas and there have never been any licensing issues preventing vertical scaling of databases. One of our clusters on Atlas right now has machines larger than 256GB of RAM -- you're more limited by what your cloud vendor has available than Atlas.
It's just the way it was done, unsympathetically, in front of the whole world. I wouldn't do that to an employee, let alone my own child.
The memory caching, AFAIK, exist on different sides of explicit load and store instructions than CPU caching. It introduces subtle issues. You can see on page 4 a number of cache friendly benchmarks show little benefit for the HBM caching: https://www.servethehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Inte...

64GB of HBM2e as ram is more performant than 128GB of DDR5 with HBM2e cache, and often the cached variant has no speedup compared to a standard Intel configuration.

Also OpenFOAM loves cache: https://www.phoronix.com/benchmark/result/amd_ryzen_7_5800x3...
Terrible Meetings Took over Corporate America
Dominantly inherited Alzheimer's runs in my wife's family and they've faced some similar experiences to those described in the article. Alzheimer's specialists treating her dad initially dismissed the risk of his kids getting it. The vast majority of AD patients don't have any specific known genetic predisposition for it, and among those that do have genetic risk, the most common is APOE mutations where your risk is increased, but it's by no means a sure thing you'll get the disease. The forms that are dominantly inherited and ~guarantee you'll get the disease are maybe 1% of total cases.

For that reason, even some Alzheimer's doctors seem inclined to treat people as if the dominantly inherited forms aren't worth worrying about until symptoms start. It took quite a bit of pushback and multiple doctors to find one that would refer him to be tested for a EOFAD (early onset familial Alzheimer's disease) causing gene. And of course, just as anyone in his family could have told you, he came back positive for a known pathogenic mutation with ~100% penetrance.

His kids, all youngish adults, are now in the process of deciding whether to get tested. But if they come back positive -- outside some clinical trials going on with the new antibody drugs (Lecanemab, Donanemab) -- there's nothing to be done other than wait to get it in your 40s or 50s, decline and die. It's a terrible, terrible position to be in.
Thanks for making my point -- in the "real world" they produce mundane robotic arms for warehouse work.
Yeah, but with the ability to change the colour as well, and stuff like that. i.e. basically do everything you can, except without an app.

Something like this: https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1bweoSVXXXXbHXFXXq6xXFXXXG/New...

Maybe I missed it, but from the material that was available to me without actually buying one of these things, this seemed impossible: the boxes and stores didn't have any remotes, and I couldn't find anything on the website. If it is possible, then it's hidden pretty well and people are steered towards that app pretty strongly.
Have you ever tried the lead free stuff as compared to a good 60/40 or something like that?

It's horrid to use. And the lead-free stuff is far worse in manufactured equipment - how many devices have failed early due to BGA solder joint failures that basically didn't exist before RoHS requirements? I think the nVidia 8600M issues were traced to that, and plenty of other BGA equipment since 2006 or so has failed rather early.
Ok, I'll bite, what even could be the alternative here then? You want something without big funders, totally OSS, and extremely friendly for grandmas? Feels like one of those "you can only pick two" type things to me, but would love to learn that's not the case.
is there any other way to spell it?
The USPS in-person method is an exceptional flow; it's only used if other options are unavailable.

If someone is ill, then you should use the remote options that are already available for ID verification. ID.me has tip for friends & family that are helping with this:

https://help.id.me/hc/en-us/articles/4589202735639-Helping-f...

If a person is ill, and the normal (remote) methods don't work, my suggestion would be to reach out to the Postmaster for your local area (if you have multiple post offices in your area, there may be one Postmaster for all of them). Meet them in person and explain the situation. Before you reach out, get documentation from a local doctor to back up your case. Ask what options are available.

If someone is incapacitated, then identity verification is not going to work, but that's the point: If you don't currently have the capacity to participate in transactions, that responsibility falls to someone else (spouse, next of kin, power of attorney, court-appointed person), etc..
>"Why should we care?" That isn't a popular question in communities like HN, but it is how the average person thinks.

This is an oft repeated sentiment that really needs to be questioned. And I don't mean by posting some survey where the questioning is as nebulous as the privacy policies and EULAs that the average person is manipulated into accepting without a clear understanding of the implications.

My one piece of counter data today is that I was at the gym and saw a TV commercial for DuckDuckGo that was painting Google for the privacy thieves that they are.

Daytime TV is a demographic of boomer average users. DDG is actually paying for airtime to target them with a value prop of "we don't invade your privacy like this big thug over here does."

Maybe there is a sea change coming and we might soon see what average people think about how much value they put on their privacy.
That's a good one.

I've never been a Jiro fan though, there are many sushi makers in japan that can be considered artists in their craft, but their cultural impact is mehh at best.

Studio Ghibli, both Miyazaki and Takahata, on the other hand...
That seems like a non-sequitur. He's saying that new fittings contain lead. Step one is to ban those.

This does leave existing homes with old fittings, but "stopping the bleeding" doesn't require retrofits. The old housing stock will gradually be replaced/updated. Accelerating that trend is the logical next step, but it's a second, separate step.
Changed from https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/su.... Thanks!
You're never supposed to cook with hot tap water. Even if lead is not a concern, there are other possible contaminants that can leech from plastic and copper pipes, or from the tank itself.
The type of behavior you describe might be related to your electricity setup in combination with generic LED behavior.

I've had this behavior on a physical dimmer switch and an ordinary cheap LED. It couldn't be turned off. Somehow the dimmer always feeds it some power, which the LED responds to. If that low power is at the edge of its "activation power", you're effectively rapidly turning it on and off.

This kills any LED. LEDs die from actuations far before they die from hours in use. Hue bulbs are praised for their reliability, so something is off.

In my case, I changed the physical dimmer into an ordinary light switch. That fixed it.
> an active and large pro-pollution element in US politics right now

No, there is not. Rather there is a Democratic strawman that they enjoy attacking.

What there is, is an element that doesn't want energy disruptions, and isn't willing to compromise on that. Look at this table: https://www.fool.com/research/renewable-energy-by-state/ and notice how with the exception of California, all the states with high renewable percentages are conservative leaning.
Idk. I thought the hooker scene and the android test scene were phenomenal and interesting. If the first one asked if synthetic life could be human, this one seemed to argue that it’s arguably inevitable if the beings are living real lives; and the ultimate meaningless of the distinction. I thought that was great.

I agree Ford and Leto were distractions to the detriment of the film. Would have been fine as an independent original film and not blade runner although the reflections of the original did help highlight the themes.
Money for one but there is little actual standarization that have enough clout for it to happen.

99% of IoT devices would be fine with just "here is MQTT address" and a way to push updates (preferably with gateway downloading updates and devices updating only from gateway)
Just curious, which "American running for president"? I googled "Havana Times" and "Globe and Mail" and couldn't find anything about it. Is it an American who would know much about the Canadian news media? Because - as a Canadian who routinely reads newspapers - that's a position that's wildly difficult to square with my reality.

Various groups assessing the issue find it's a little to the right of centre. My personal take is that it's a little more right-leaning than this implies, but I'm just one guy.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-globe-and-mail/

> Overall, we rate The Globe and Mail slightly right-center biased due to editorial positions and High for factual reporting based on proper sourcing.

https://www.allsides.com/news-source/globe-and-mail-media-bi...

> Though the Globe and Mail's political stance has shifted over the last several decades, today the paper routinely exhibits a center bias.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Globe_and_Mail

> A 2017 survey of Canadians found that the Globe and Mail was perceived to be the most biased national news media outlet [...] Respondents had mixed opinions as to whether its coverage favoured the Liberal Party or the Conservatives. A 2010 survey found that the Globe and Mail was perceived as slightly right of centre, in similar standing to the bulk of other Canadian news organizations.
Here I was referring specifically to pulling in a web browser as a dependency. Chrome pumps out security releases regularly for all sorts of issues. If you're essentially making Chromium the core of your application, you inherit those security issues (setting aside the fact it may happen in code paths you don't use). And, consequently, you need to keep up on updating Electron and distributing new builds to your end users, even if you haven't made any code changes.

I'm not suggesting every Electron app is a giant bag of vulnerabilities, just that you have a lot more to keep on than you would writing with GTK or UIKit. And, since everything is bundled with the application, you can't rely on OS updates to fix things for you. You need to cut a new release and distribute it.

If you follow the Electron recommendations on security you'll be on the right path. You'll just find common tasks have become harder than they were back when Electron was attracting people with its ease-of-use. I found trying to do type-safe IPC to be an exercise in frustration. If you read the old docs, tutorials, or books, you'll find IPC used to be considerably more free-wheeling. Locking it down is the right trade-off, I think. But there's been an accumulation of many small changes like that. As a result, I don't think the framework is nearly as easy to work with as when Slack or VS Code adopted it.
There's a temptation to get caught up on quantifiable scores when working on SEO because so much of it can't be quantified, everyone is mostly guessing what Google wants... however, scores are ultimately meaningless and you should be measuring the impact on your business metrics. For example, if your website is designed to generate sales, did reducing your CWV to 800ms improve revenue? SEO is a means to an end, you can spend thousands of human hours to rank #1 for a keyword but if it doesn't improve a metric that matters (e.g: your revenue) it's a complete waste of time.

More broadly, prioritisation isn't about whether a piece of work will achieve its aim, it's about understanding which options are the best use of limited resources. For example, you may be able to say confidently that reducing CWV from 800ms to 600ms will increase your traffic from Google search by 5% but that's immaterial until it's compared against other options -- there's an opportunity cost associated with all work.

Personally, I would be surprised if reducing CWV from 800ms to 600ms is the best use of your resources, unless your business is one of the few that has a strong organic search strategy with organic search accounting for a meaningful volume of revenue -- nowadays, most companies find paid ads are much more effective.
The reality is that optimizing for the common scenario just gives such significant benefits that the worst-case scenario becomes practically infeasible to even consider.

And it's not just OSes that don't particularly care about real-time - modern processors don't either. e.g., in the common scenarios it's possible to load maybe eight 8-byte values per nanosecond (maybe eight 32-byte values if you're doing SIMD), but if they're out of cache, it could take hundreds of nanoseconds per byte. Many branches will be predicted and thus not cost affect latency or throughput at all, but some will be mispredicted & delay execution by a dozen or so nanoseconds. On older processors, a float add could take magnitudes more time if it hit subnormals.

If you managed to figure out the worst-case timings of everything on modern processors, you'd end up at pre-2000s speeds.

And virtual memory isn't even the worst OS-side thing - disk speed is, like, somewhat bounded. But the number of processes running in parallel to your app is not, so if there are a thousand processes that want 100% of all CPU cores, your UI app will necessarily be able to utilize only 0.1% of the CPU. [edit note: the original article has been edited to have a "Real-time Scheduling" section, but didn't originally]

So, to get real-time UIs you'd need to: 1. revert CPUs to pre-2000s speeds; 2. write the apps to target such; 3. disable ability to run multiple applications at the same time. Noone's gonna use that.
Re the link referred to in the article: https://thepointsguy.com/news/why-i-wont-chase-airline-statu...

I suppose everyone has their own priorities, but it's insane to me that someone would willingly take layovers, crappy routes and less desirable destinations just to chase airline status for a given calendar year. And for what? An eventual upgrade that may never come because someone else bought a higher fare class or business is full? Free access to cheap beer and sad sandwiches inside a packed lounge? Slightly earlier boarding, which any $95/yr airline credit card would give you anyway? These so-called perks can't be more valuable than the time wasted gambling on dodgy connections.

At the end of the day, it's easy to hack the system: just do what 99% of the people are too lazy to do. Plan trips early and study routes carefully. Use 3P tools to optimize fares. Pack and travel light. Arrive early at the airport. All these are much cheaper than what airlines are asking to bump your status level and go a long way in making the perks feel like they don't really make that much of a difference.
Why Open Source AI won't win --- because "Big Tech" is working hard to convince technical incompetents in government that AI is dangerous and needs to be "regulated" and "licensed".
> Apple TV which I try to ensure is always my primary HomeHub

How?

I was under the impression that you cannot actively decide which device becomes the primary one?

I 'only' got a wired ATV and a HomePod mini - and the mini is the primary hub way more often that i'd like it to be (like... none of the time, at all :) )
Lead-free solder can be a bitch to work with for some projects due to the higher melting point, and I do keep a spool of leaded wire around for that reason - but generally speaking for most hobbyist uses it's a non-issue as long as you have a relatively modern iron that can output enough heat (and retain it).
I really hate all these stupid loyalty points programs that have permeated nearly every industry. I flat out refuse to participate. I'd rather the vendor just mark down their sticker prices instead of playing these games. If you want my loyalty, here's a tip: treat me as a valued customer not cattle.
Obligatory reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil
Yes, the NIRCam images in the article are from the Webb telescope.
> Can Webb image Europa?

The implication by the presence of "Europa Carbon Dioxide Distribution" (NIRCam and NIRSpec IFU) images on the NASA release is that yes, it can.
This looks fascinating. The full title shown in the document is "A Stochastic Model of Mathematics and Science". As an aside, it bugs me how difficult it often is to get the affiliations of authors of papers on Arxiv. The authors of this one appear to be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wolpert (of No Free Lunch Theorem fame) and http://davidbkinney.com/ (lecturer in psychology at Yale).
I'm in the middle of bootstrapping a SaaS company and spent the last few days evaluating e-mail providers. I think my requirements are really simple, yet I seem to fall outside what most offer. Here it goes:

* A user-friendly WYSIWYG template editor (web fonts = nice to have but not crucial).
* An API that lets me set the to-address and the e-mail content in markdown.

How can this pose an edge case?!