skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Waste sand could be saved from landfill with new form of concrete
For the stationary cameras to sense persistent movement that wants another camera angle on it. Skydio's focusing on the security/surveillance market and sells docking stations like GP is thinking.
It’s definitely the interest rates in combination with incessant printing into inflation.

How do you think the principal got higher, magic?
I think .25x is a bit slow, as .5x replay also looks reasonable, but you are right there is something like a 2.5–3.5x speed up. Makes the robot’s smooth motion much less impressive.
Please don't post flamewar rhetoric to HN. It leads to predictable, dumbed-down discussion, and we want the opposite here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> like no compelling reason to stay on Unity

One benefit of Unity is moddability.

But yeah, thats not really worth the drawbacks for something like KSP.
Then again, the Apache2-licensed OpenOffice is not lost to the world even if it sits in attic.apache.org. If and when someone wants to maintain it, it can be resurrected.
Nothing unreasonable about that.. so long as work or the grocery store isn’t too far away.
I think a meaningful "sustainability" goal could be to build devices that can last longer and be used longer without the need to buy the "latest" gadget. Building robust software and hardware should be part of that thinking.

On a side note a younger kid in family used this unix tool called "sed" and asked me if such advanced tools existed during "my time". I told her I was not born even after 10 years had passed since its invention.
And tumblr, when they announced they would no longer support creators of "adult" content.

And (nearly) OnlyFans, when they announced they would no longer support creators of "adult" content (aka, "did a tumblr"). They just about backpedalled quickly enough, and had enough stickyness (no pun intended) from followers, to contain most of the damage.
This is a link to a Twitter announcing a YouTube coming in 1/2 hour. Does / did the YouTube contain the announcement?

Now that Twitter has gone subscriber only, we can't see any context around tweets. I think they should be DOA now when posted to HN as they do not allow for follow up or rtfaing.
For brakes at least, electric vehicles should permit brake emmisions to be reduced significantly. First, you've got regenerative braking, so no real need to use friction brakes except when braking too hard for regen. But as you've got a good supply of electricity, most of the rest of braking could be handled by the combination of an induction brake [0] and actively powering the motors in reverse, perhaps leaving friction brakes just for emergencies.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_current_brake
I feel they could have used a more convincing example to be honest. Yeah it's cool it recognises so much but how useful is the demo in reality?

You have someone with a tool box and a manual (seriously who has a manual for their bike), asking the most basic question on how to lower a seatpost. My 5 year old kid knows how to do that.

Surely there's a better way to demonstrate the ground breaking impacts of ai on humanity than this. I dunno, something like how do I tie my shoelace.
Payroll.
I've considered Red Hat a bad actor for a number of years now.
At any scale, especially at the scale where the aggregate personality is going to become visible, the collective behavior will dominate the individual behavior. You won't be able to separate the two unless you modify the experiment to include another part with meaningfully isolated individuals.
We have climate scientists to help us try and predict the future of the climate. For how humans respond in tough times, we have history.
Kinda a diff topic but if anyone else read "Doom Guy" - what did you think of it?

I know it's not what this interview (blog) is about but I feel like compared to Masters of Doom this one had a little too much "narrative" and "drama" and felt like it was an answer to certain things discussed in Masters of Doom which he wanted to set the record straight.

Another weirdness - i.e. early into the book John Romero says that he has a super-power like ability to remember everything perfectly...which to me sounds like some big ego bullcrap? Because there are a lot of things that he conveniently did not discuss in the book but which fans know happened! So what kind of super-power
What if you use a web browser?
For context, Rich Sutton is one of the founding fathers of reinforcement learning. He is also known for his 2019 essay, "The Bitter Lesson": http://incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
In my very first reply to you, I wrote the answer: "smart contracts can be made immutable."
It's kind of the opposite: Intel and AMD are burning power racing to 6 GHz while Apple targeted a more efficient 3-4 GHz.
How do you maintain distribution centers with a rapidly declining customer base? Distribution centers closed because customers canceled their subscriptions.

Streamers do have unparalleled access to films and TV. Instantly. No waiting for DVDs that are out of stock.

Ignore the fact that streaming costs more. Why does that matter? It’s a better product.

Spotify disrupted a free product in pirated music.

Price is not the only consideration when it comes to product choice.

The US alone has almost a half a million active streaming service subscriptions. Netflix DVD has 1/500th of that subscriber base.
True. My MIL is still using that Nexus tablet thought it is completely battered but she only needs Candy Crush.
> Anecdotally, we've seen a number of larger "open-source alternative to X" projects posted on HN of late that are technically self-deployable, but require so much up-front knowledge that it's not actually accessible to those who might truly be liberated by such software.

Any self-hosted application really needs someone technical unless you're providing something like the DigitalOcean deploy button.

Docker-compose requires technical knowledge to run locally. Sure running "docker compose" is easy but installing it often isn't. As someone quite technical I'm honestly not sure how that would work for deploying on to AWS or GCP even though I know it's possible. I would have to look into it.

Ansible scripts require technical knowledge. Again running the command is easy but installing ansible isn't.

How DigitalOcean's deploy button is really easy as is shown in my demo video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbInyGtqLCs&t=1s. Note there is 10 minutes of my app demo inbetween starting the process and me using a deployed version. You can even try it out at https://github.com/BillaBear/billabear it's literally super easy. It's also silly easy to actually build. "DigitalOcean's app platform is so good it makes BillaBear looks good since the deployment is so easy" is literally what I've said to people.
The military does use a grid square reference system, Military Grid Reference System (MGRS), and to resolve the issues when sufficiently far north, the grid squares stop being aligned with the latitudes and longitudes, but rather just sit lined up with the 0/90/270/180 longitudes, as a sort of circular cap cut out of grid paper. (Properly speaking, it's Universal Transverse Mercator (which is a series of 60 Mercator projections) between 80S and 84N, and Universal Polar Stereographic near the poles).
That looks like a cool project!
Anyone needs reminding that you can't trust what Google promises especially when it comes to their products?
Myopia is the cornea slowly becoming football shaped instead of round. While the effects can be lessened through various methods, the myopia will indeed eventually overcome such methods.

Can’t make a football into a soccer ball without surgery.
Can any plane land in a foot of snow?

i.e. Why would there be an expectation that a military plane would be significantly different in this hypothetical?
The counterargument by Chan misses Curtis' point - people with higher RISK of developing depression. Depression goes hand in hand with high trait neuroticism, and both the internalizing and externalizing branches of neuroticism contain subtraits related to lower self-control (though we're mostly with the internalizing one here, I'd imagine)
The merger makes a ton of sense — Unity was super late to the game building their own Demand-Side Platform for ads, and that’s how you make money in mobile games now, so they had to buy their way out of the problem.

I mean, it’s horrible for consumers/gamers/developers, obviously, but from a business perspective it was the correct move.
The interposer is the only way the dies can communicate.
"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

There's also the uncollected-garbage problem, which this case is a good example of.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Google Soundstorm had the best demo so far. It takes few seconds of original audio and continues it with the same voices. Just hearing those examples you wont figure out where original finished and generated one started.
I just wish they were advertised for generative tasks and not retrieval tasks. It's not intelligence, it's not reasoning, it's text transformation.

It seems to be able to speak on history, sometimes it's even right, so there's a use case that people expect from it.

FYI I've used GPT4 and Claude 2 for hundreds of conversations, I understand what its good and bad at; I don't trust that the general public is being given a realistic view.
This is a good resource:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FaJaCgqBKphrDzDSj/37-ways-th...

Most fundamentally, it is a combination of set/category theory and ~linguistics, but culture and consciousness play very big roles too.
> Not sure if they can remove Perl; it's tangled up in standard C libraries I think

Indeed.

char *cmd = "/usr/bin/perl -e 'print join(chr(0), @ARGV), chr(0)' -- ";

(https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/Libc/blob/2ca2ae7464771...)

That’s to implement wordexp, a POSIX function that probably is best avoided unless you really really need it.

I think the sanest implementation would move lots of code from the shell into the standard C library, but that probably has its own problems, as FreeBSD does something similar. https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=wordexp&apropos=0&...:

”IMPLEMENTATION NOTES

The wordexp() function is implemented using the undocumented freebsd_wordexp shell built-in command.”

OpenBSD actually has the sanest approach. “The only winning move is not to play.” or, in Theo’s words, “I think we should stand up to crap and not ever impliment it” (https://www.mail-archive.com/tech@openbsd.org/msg02325.html)
Why is it stupid and unnecessary? Binoculars give you a very narrow view, limiting situational awareness; the whole point of the line-of-sight rule is so you know what obstacles are near it.

Same reason sniper teams like to have someone on overwatch who isn’t zoomed into a target.
so it's a worthless nft certificate then
> PS/EPS were not native MacOS files until the infusion of NeXTSTEP code into MacOS in the form of OS X.

I agree it’s probably not a big deal, but let’s be fair here. That was 22 years ago. Classic MacOS was only around for 17 (1984-2001).

It’s a native format for macOS starting in 10.0 and prior to that an extra native format for NeXT starting in 1989 - when the macOS lineage began (note the lowercase ‘m’)
Both F-35B and F-35C are the variants that can liftoff from a Carrier (aka: Navy) or WASP-class Assault Ship (aka: Marines) respectively.

F-35A is the one that needs the full runway. This is a big deal, as the F35A has the best performance overall but needs the nicest conditions to launch. If the "hardest to launch" variant can be flown from a highway, then the other two models will do even better.

This is a "steelman argument". We're demonstrating the worst F35 at this job. All other variants will do even better.
Please do not represent your opinions as facts, it causes substantial harm in the world.
Infinite Databases with Nomad and Traefik
The western world is much bigger than the USA.
It’s good of you make this correction, we need to be accurate when discussing the research at hand.

That said, it’s worth pointing out that “adjusting for” a factor isn’t quite as effective as it sounds: https://dynomight.net/control/

Having built some regression models in my time, throwing a ton of extra variables in doesn’t fill me with confidence that I am “controlling” much of anything.
A very few very selected nature parks with no-fly zones aside, most suffer more from GA with engine, cell, wing and prop designs literally dating back to 1955 (Cessna 172), than they'd ever from drones operated by responsible people.
Math is merely a mutual agreement. First an agreement on root principles, and then an agreement on notation for these root principles. The rest is built on top of those. Nobody is forced to accept the premises. (Unless you don't want an F in math class.)
Yes, it was called #IAMSORRY.
Analyze Shopify Data with SQL
Does azure have better latency than directly calling openai?
They've improved support for E cores on W11, though why not just have gotten a 7950x and avoided the whole mess...
This whole analysis seems weak. Fair use is a defense once it has been decided that there has been infringement, and it’s not obvious that there is infringement.
"Paging Hari Seldon... Would Hari Seldon please come to the front desk."
It may be in there somewhere but I don't see a mechanism for talking to banks using standard protocols to at least retrieve bank transactions. Without that, an accounting system is an unusable toy.
Yes, it was announced on the (relatively brief) live stream.
Anyone know if modern military aircraft have something similar? I imagine it would be even cheaper and easier to do these days given the processors and cameras we now have. Seems like a good backup to have.
If I claim to see the drone even if it's very far away, can anyone dispute that?
"I tried to self optimize and got better" is a more descriptive title. The article is just them discovering that self optimization is more complicated than they initially thought, but they never stopped trying.
> will automatically be translated by the runtime into non-blocking IO when it occurs on virtual threads, and no OS threads will be blocked

it looks like it is true for several API you implemented support for. What about other API, for example some JDBC driver which wants to use non-blocking DB driver. How to use virtual threads with that?
Actually with mobile roaming, I believe the implementation is that everything just gets tunneled back to your home carrier; so I think it is not so much the case that US carriers are deliberately discriminating Chinese traffic.
The original claim was:

"No, they do not talk of that".

Therefore, your rebuttal is invalid.
The Asus G series has great cooling, and good keyboards. Battery is great on the AMD CPU version, but you cannot get any semblance of battery life with the GPU active for long periods. Community linux support is also pretty good through the asus-rog community (check out their discord), which I would highly recommend for testing generative AI.

My 2020 G14 is still kicking, no swolen battery or anything (though I ended up building an tiny "portable" 3090 desktop in a Node 202 for AI). If portability is a priority and price is not, Asus has somehow stuffed a mobile 4090 (aka a desktop 4080 die) into one of the new 14" G14 SKUs.

Also, if you are in the US, they regularly go for deep discounts in Best Buy, specifically. No idea why: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?id=pcat17071&sp=...
I had an Alienware 15 when I worked for a place that was developing machine learning models long ago. It worked for that and it plays games well too. My employer was able to get it through their contract with Dell too.

That was in early 2017, my 2013 mac mini gave up the ghost early this year and at about the same time the keyboard panel of the Alienware developed a bulge so it is no longer usable as a laptop but it is going strong being used like a desktop machine.

My take though is that all "desktop replacement" laptops have their batteries go bad and in a year or two they are good enough to run from one conference room to the next after that.

If you want an A.I. dev machine your best bet may be to build a desktop machine, I built one in January 2023 with a 16 core AMD processor case full of perforations, a glass side, RGB bling and an RTX 4080 because that's what I could get.

When I am on the go I log into it from a basic iPad with a cheap bluetooth keyboard and mouse, usually to use my RSS reader YOShInOn which is a web application but with RDP if I want to do something more.
Yeah I also live in Germany and housing affordability is much much worse than in the USA. The ratio of the median income to the median housing cost is significantly worse: https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/rankings_by_count...

Renting in the US also is very cheap outside of cities. You can rent in New Jersey and take the train into NYC, or rent in Vallejo and take the train into San Francisco. Over all the income/rent or mortgage ratio, in my experience having rented and purchased in both countries, is much more favorable in the US. Quality of life is a different story.
I've recently increased the amount of fiber, decreased added sugar and decreased salt. (I check the percent daily value of each on the back of the package. Fiber has to be above the carbs percentage, and the other two have to be below my target calorie percentage.)

I highly, highly recommend doing that. Such a diet has been shown to reduce your risk of heart disease, cancer and diabetes.

As importantly, I feel much better, and am slowly (sustainably?) losing weight and decreasing my body fat percentage, despite eating how much I want, and regularly cheating on the diet.

Following it even half the time is a huge improvement. The only real discipline it requires is at the grocery store, which is easier than when I'm hungry.
It's not only that they are outdated, phone app was officially deprecated this year and I'm pretty sure it was the last one, so now android 'core apps' are officially dead
Satanic? Where did that come from?
We're talking about a viable alternative to proprietary game engines.

Yes, I know it's possible to reverse engineer the consoles, but that doesn't make it a viable alternative for the games industry.
I jokingly thought the .ps format was used by computer science departments to punish Windows users, with the Ghostscript installation process being part of that conspiracy.
My thought when I read it as well. I've owned Nexus 4, 5, 6, Pixel 1, 2, 3, 4 and finally gave up. Half of these phones were purchased because the previous model crapped out. I am not a heavy phone user either. I think I stuck with them because there was always some integration with Google and iPhone that didn't make me happy, but whatever it is must have been solved by the time I got an iPhone because I'm on three years with mine. Probably won't replace it for another three years.
Long time Google/Pixel fan... because I love pain and broken promises.
That's not the point — the critique (as I understand it) is about the way in which it's presented.
"Trust experts" has changed in the new religious movement from "trust experts on stuff in their area of expertise" (which largely makes sense) to "trust politicians who have credentials in a narrow specialty who want to tell you how to live". It's just another manifestation of humanity's now unfulfilled needs for religion.

It's funny, this used to be common sense but now we're so far gone we can't talk about it anymore without being labeled heretics.
eh, they are called condos or co-ops when they are owned by the occupant in the states. I think they're the same thing, though interested if there is some distinction I'm missing
OEMs have significantly prolonged their update cycles too - both Samsung and Xiaomi are now promising 5 year support for their top models.
>There is a lot of evidence that artificial^W non-caloric sweeteners are terrible.

There is shockingly little good evidence showing this, and these are many of the most studied substances in human history. There are a lot of very flawed studies that got enormous press and attention, however, yielding the "overwhelming proof" illusion.
US Army contracts Kongsberg for 409 CROWS remote weapon stations
Saying "I can swap it out" is different from me actually knowing what buttons to press to make that happen. It is at least partially lack of familiarity, but I'm not seeing how to do that with passkeys.
I cloned intercom in 30 days
I spent 3 years building a video editor in the browser. Managing growth and the technical complexities got the best of me. So I threw in the towel.

Then ChatGPT came along, and many people were building chatbot wrappers that went viral.

This intrigued me, I'm good at building products, customer support has been an interesting space for me.

In order to be different than the wrapper tools, I decided adding real time chat, a CRM, and email outbound tools would jam pack value into the tool.

My differentiating factor is that EchoFox isn't just a wrapper, it's an all in one marketing tool to help users get more customers from their leads.

I love tools like FullStory, Intercom, Hubspot, Customer.io, etc but they are all so damn expensive.

I wanted to build something cheaper than them that added more all around value to marketers, SaaS founders, and agencies.

So over the summer I went to work and cloned many features from Intercom, allowing users to train their chatbot on their site data.

Let me know your thoughts, am I making the right play here, or wasting time?

The tool is echofox.io btw if you want to check it out, I built it as a broke solo founder.
Out of context? I provided plenty of context if you care to follow the links I posted.

The distinction between copyleft and non-copyleft licenses, e.g. GPL and BSD, is different from the distinction between open source and free software, which is mainly ideological. The GPL is a copyleft license but also an open source license, as you can see on the OSI website.

For maximum context, here is a quote from the board meeting minutes [0] where the OSI approved the Free Software Foundation's copyleft GPL license as an open source license in accordance with the Open Source Definition: "The Open Source Initiative is pleased to announce that, based on broad review and acceptance by both the Board and the community, it has confirmed that GPLv3 and LGPLv3 both conform to the Open Source Definition."

[0] https://opensource.org/meeting-minutes/minutes20070905/
another worthless study to add to the pile
There may be diminishing returns on watts per bit, something that 10gbe Ethernet is not great at.
MBA asteroids are well motivated on their own. No need for asteroid cohesion to complain on HN
Yes I know. During normal use it uses it.

But you still can't remove the TOTP and it will keep asking to 'verify' it every month or so.
Something about non-monotonic software clocks?
Sorta. The issue is the traffic and followings from people who are there because you're pretty aren't the correct audience for what you're selling (assuming what you're selling isn't yourself so to speak). A million views from the wrong audience is less useful than 1000 views from your perfect audience.
If you haven't played it yet, you would probably love Prodeus. It's basically a modernization of the Doom/Quake formula, but with satisfying pseudo-retro graphics and really thoughtful level design. It's also made by two people (I think three technically, but the site lists two) who have worked on AAA titles like Doom 2016, the new Wolfenstein, and Bioshock: Infinite

Prodeus also has a shotgun that can snipe enemies at far distances with a long range incendiary mode

https://www.prodeusgame.com/
The important thing is that you remember to pair your samsung fridge with your samsung tv so that advertisers know that their plan to get you to eat the pizza pockets has succeeded.

Remember, anything short of setting that up is stealing.