skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ive recovered a few drives through the freezer trick. It took a lot though. Freezer for an hour, use until lock, freezer for two hours, then rinse and repeat until data recovered completely. Doesnt have to be overnight, just long enough to get the metal to contract, and theres a point where that change no longer happens and keeping it in the freezer is only wasting time.

On the topic of reflowing in your home oven.. **DONT**!!!!! Thats how you get metal poisoning or other non fun diseases. If you plan on reflowing, use an oven that can go to the scrap yard after, or that will be dedicated solely to reflow. Reflowing can cause vaporization of metals in the solder and the chemicals from flux, etc, and thats just not fun to eat.
I don't care what majority of people agree with. If majority of people don't change their ways, we all gonna die.
Weakness is a comparative thing. I’m European. Compared to Europe, American unions barely register. You gave an example where one union did something big one in the US once. Still small and weak compared to Europe. Unions can stop the economy of whole countries for 2 weeks if they get really pissed. Often with support from the rest of the population.

I’m not trying to downplay how things are in China by any means, and I believe that the “brainwashing” accusation wasn’t merited. It’s a “elephant vs dog vs ant” situation.
Good thing that Ruby is actually strongly typed.
"social movements."

LOL, try harder. NGOs paid by the westerners are a thing, but you sure know that. If these people did not get free money for their actions, they would be silent.

"Do people under authoritarian regimes have any agency?"

"Authoritarian regimes" usually have popular support since a huge majority supports the ruling party.

Otherwise, the country would not be stable and vast sums of western money would not have to be sent there in order to ferment a color revolution.
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Why is Microsoft doing ads? Does that make any sense, or are they just really stupid?
> By not lasting very long I mean I’ve seen 3 die between 2-3 years of heavy use.

YMMV. I have EPSON ET-2850 EcoTank all-in-one for about a year with moderate to heavy use and so far no problems. Being able to refill ink by simply pouring it over from an ink canister is so refreshing. No DRM, no chips, no nonsense.
When I was a kid I had an laptop that would overheat when playing age of empires. So I had a bicycle pump setup under my desk so I could quickly blow in some air every 3-4 minutes... If I was to late or forgot the whole thing would just die and all game progress was lost. I remember laughing at the whole situation whenever I had to pump in air.
At some point I bought one of those laptop stand with built-in fans.

Thanks for reminding me of those good old days :-)
> [...] modulated the logic behind the Weighting methods.

I fail to see how this is not literally the case.

The 'logic behind the weighting methods' refers to something like cross-entropy loss minimization via AdamW (or insert optimizer / loss function of choice) over some dataset. I read that as 'the process that decides the weights'.

If the model is unaligned ("too racist"), fine tuning with rlhf or alternative of choice is a modulation of the aforementioned 'logic behind the weighting methods'. It is a modification to the process that is deciding weights.

Judging by your response, you read 'logic behind the weighting methods' as 'the weights'. I don't think this is a reasonable interpretation unless you're trying to construct a strawman to argue against.

Sanity check via chatgpt:

> In the context of generative pretrained transformers (GPT), "logic behind the weighting methods" refers to the rationale or reasoning behind the techniques used to assign different weights to words or tokens during the model's training process.

- https://chat.openai.com/share/8af4ce45-2c4a-485a-ae8a-e1e016...
I think illegal (unlawful?) content is its raison d’etre. With the odd exceptions of thinks like linux distros, LLM weights etc. to take pressure off centralized servers.
I live on the 14th floor, so "going through a window" isn't an option. I keep a spare key hidden on my vehicle where it can't fall out but can be retrieved with some effort.
Indeed. And from what I've heard the lack of nude people is probably highly dependent on which after parties you get invited to. Somewhere there's a venn diagram showing certain alternative communities with wide overlaps with CCC attendees.
Wow what a great read. Had no idea about the Fund or how it worked.

"So that, in a capsulized form, is the way the program worked. The
recipe for success was pretty clear: make very generous payments;
outreach to the families; keep going after them and corral them; let
them know that there are no tricks, and that there is nothing hidden
here. This is a transparent attempt by the American people to help.
Offer due process considerations. Give everybody the opportunity to
be heard. Make yourself available. Reach out to these people. It
worked."
> The orbiter failed because inches were interpreted as centimeters. But as both datums were stored as floating point numbers, which they always would be, in any reasonable implementation, static typing wouldn't have caught anything.

They would not always be stored as flat floats. You could have type aliases for both values (type alias inch = float, the same for cm) and have not a flat float but an inch or cm as a type. Or, even better, F# has type support for such values: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-ref...
> I found it curious the overall very poor first impression experience that these small niche (or not so small) websites tend to offer

Because PWA is largely just hype with nothing to show for it. We've been hearing about how they are just as good or better than native apps for years now. And yes, the only thing we get are poorly packaged barely working mobile sites.
See also: An easy-to-implement, arena-friendly hash map https://nullprogram.com/blog/2023/09/30/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37720976
i think the pandemic is really over, it is endemic. I wonder when we will get back to baseline or whether we will have to live with deadlier virus than what's usual for some time. Just keep in mind that the flu isn't as harmless as it's usually portrait. Older or otherwise more vulnerable parts of the population died every year, with some really bad years. It's in some way part of life, a risk is always present.

But looking at the statistics in your link it is not that obvious, as it looks like the excess mortality slowly converges to zero.
LLMs do have the ability to imitate someone who did understand similar concepts back in the day, and those who cared about it.
People aren't using devices like that. Most users barely even turn their phone for a horizontal video, let alone a web browser.
> For example having database migrations built in etc.

I actually went the exact opposite route, at least when possible: https://github.com/amacneil/dbmate

Pure SQL migrations, regardless of the back end technology that you use, completely decoupled from how each framework/library views things and therefore not dependent on them (you could even rewrite the back end in another technology later on, if needed; or swap ORMs; or avoid issues when there's a major ORM version update).

It's really nice when you can generate entity mappings based on a live database, like with https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2022/01/31/entity-framewor...

So in my case, I can have:

* a DB that has migrations applied with dbmate, completely decoupled from any back end(s) that might use it
* a back end that has entity mappings for ORM (if used) generated from the live local test database container during development, used for an API and not much more
* a front end that's typically a SPA using the API, but is otherwise just a bunch of prepared files that can be served off of any web server

Of course, if you need SSR then things move around a bit, but that decoupling works great for me (but might not for others)!
Gmail still supports standard IMAP and SMTP: you can use Thunderbird, Apple Mail or whatever right now to read and send email with your gmail account.
> I think you can see why both options suck?

Do they suck more than losing spacecraft?
> how many hours does a pilot need on a 'type' to fly unsupervised?

Excellent question. And the answer is between 45 hours and a few hundred million years. Hear me out.

45 hours is because that is the minimum amount of flying you need to get a private pilot licence: https://www.takeflightaviation.co.uk/ppl-guide.html

(Ignoring here ultra lights and paragliders where you sometimes don't need a licence in some jurisdictions.)

So that is the straightforward answer maybe you are looking for.

Then we might say that all pilots are required to be at least 17 years old to obtain a private pilot licence. So that is 148920 hours of pre-training in preceiving objects and movement, and coordinating one's actions with perception.

Then one might also say that one requires to be a human, and that comes with hundreds of millions of years of pre-training where all of our ancestors were evolutionary selected to be good at perceiving and moving. (At least good enough to survive until they could propagate their genes.)

Now this answer might come of as flippant, and maybe it is. What I'm trying to say is that it is hard to compare "training hours" directly between computers and humans. And it is hard because of these two things which humans have "pretraining by lived experience" and "pretraining by evolution".
When I was young I could entertain myself by arguing for the flat earth theory. I never for a second believed it to be true. I simply found it entertaining to frustrate people with stupid opinions. I dont know why I found this entertaining, and I dont know why I changed when I got older. Perhaps I hadn't fully developed my empathy at that young age, so I didn't see frustration in others as something bad. But this is just speculation. The only thing I know for certain is what I actually did, which was to pretend to hold stupid opinions.
Pretty cool!

> My research goal is to train models using various hardware telemetry data with the hope that the models learn to interpret sensor inputs and control actuators based on the insights they glean from the sensor inputs. This research direction may open up exciting possibilities in fields such as automation, space, robotics and IoT, where L2E can play a pivotal role in bridging the gap between AI and physical systems.

This part was easy to miss but quite interesting, could you expand a bit here? What does L2E stand for?
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> Krita makes my days difficult.

Or maybe the huge goliath that gives less than 0 shits about interoperability makes it difficult?
I would not bet on it. But there is pretty low constraints on what you can do and can not with an NFC chip.

Your budget in term of compute and memory is extremely low. I would be surprised a proper RSA/ECDSA signature from an X509 certificate can hold there.

Very likely I would say no. And that's why the home made crypto.
Same here... played it on an Amiga.
... not sure how I passed the questions at the beginning each time either.

Have many memorable moments. it is one of those games that enhanced my level of English a lot! ;-)
Replacing the thermal paste usually helps.
I really wanted KeyBase to be an open identity source.

I had a daydream about bob@bobhome being hired at alicecorp. Instead of a new ID bob@alicecorp being created, bob@bobhome is invited to the project-devs@alicecorp. Once a member, that user ID is automatically granted access to jira/git/artifactory/AWS/etc etc

Your ID becomes part of your resume, with a record of who bob@bobhome has worked for, with crypto signed endorsements from team leads etc
It's not a yes nor is it a no because man, I'm really not sure what amounts to, "is it okay for teachers to show high schoolers a video game centered around trying to fuck anything that moves" is the right topic to even approach that question.

Everyone in the room thought the situation was funny. There's not really anything deeper to probe there, nor is it a reflection on "TheHE UNiTeteDS TtaTeS HAatTs SEx".
I would include footguns, conf/dotfiles, hardware incompatibilities and workarounds (why does mpv need 1000 flags? ffmpeg? this is hardly even exaggeration!), multiple ways to reach the same goal (e.g. install software), often missing some peripheral support, CUPS, systemd, package conflicts, poor availability of most paid software, need for more technical knowledge (e.g. the standard Linux directory tree, how to install dependencies, run levels), usually less power efficient OS than MS/Apple, and so on.

When I ran ChromeOS (years ago) I recall having only a few intuitively named folders with most everything in "Downloads". I never needed to build my own stylus Wacom definition or switch operating systems to get the entire audio system functional. (In fact, the Gallium team had a lot of trouble getting the ChromeOS audio to "just work" on some platforms, such as Sentry.). Everything that came with the laptop worked. You could always pop up the shortcut overlay to remember how keys were mapped, Chrome browser didn't need weird codec or GPU flags or dependencies, I didn't need any obscure addition to the bootloader, the thing would run for over ten hours on a charge, I had no issues connecting to my school's networked printers.

Sure, ChromeOS still has dotfiles for things like editors, but it's not nearly as newbie-hostile as xorg.conf, /etc/profile, fstab, /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf, GRUB, and all of the other service/module/daemon configurations needed to get something like Arch running on a random old 486 PC or laptop.

Then, the ChromeOS community started to make code editors and compilers accessible without needing crouton and needing to remove a screw from the motherboard.

Around this time, I started using a Dell XPS and stopped using the Chromebook. It developed some sort of memory problem sitting on a shelf. It still starts up but will crash anywhere between a few seconds and ten minutes, otherwise I'd repurpose it as a MIDI player/recorder for my digital piano.

From my recollection of ChromeOS, it seemed more stable and performant a decade ago than Windows 11 today.

Linux? I had rough times with Ubuntu around 10.04, it was much improved by the time I had it on the XPS in 2017, and now when I run Ubuntu on a ThinkPad Z13 or NUC Enthusiast 11, it has far more software and hardware issues than 16.04 and 18.04 on the XPS.
It's the name of the project - Llama2Everywhere.
Because arguments like these don't make sense in the first place. "The compiler won't let me compile my code in a static language after changes" does not mean that the compiler in a statically typed language is a hindrance but rather that the same program in a dynamic language has the same structure, but it's hidden and not checked. In other words, the compiler is a safety harness for those factors it can check - even if it cannot check for semantic errors.
I am as serious as lung cancer. All of this Wokery and and MMT is so much Words Of Opposite Translation (WOOT).

A fantastic game is talked, but Emmanuel Goldstien always manages to tube things. Always...
not if it is you own surely?
The light from the Overton window is less every day…
Unfortunately, this is very true. If we look at public opposition to authoritarian regimes, we will see layers upon layers of NGO pets and very few independent figures.

It is so apparent that they actually discredit the idea of opposing authoritarianism. Democracy is a tough sell if you know your local democratic movement is paid for by other countries which do not have your country's well-being, or existence, as a motivation.

So there are a lot of people discontent with lack of options and restrictions to freedom of speech and expression, but they do not have a voice. People who have a voice are universally paid agents of NGOs. They get good money to film expensive produced youtube videos and get cited by world press all the time. There is significant mismatch between two groups, but they get compounded and written off by the majority and the regime.
One could say, that they tried really hard. ;)
I think it is the latin based culture that hold the greeks up as the great ones.
picked an internal door lock once. because the key was locked inside. it is remarkably easy to do; taking 5
minutes having never done it before by watching youtube and using a paperclip.
http://alhassy.com/TypedLisp
Been there, done that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99Sk2ZnjGQA
You are not every person. It really takes just the smallest bit of imagination to understand this. You even somewhat said it yourself "This is an aesthetic preference so YMMV". Yes, everyone's mileage will vary. The rest of your comment could have been left unsaid.
This seems very interesting, thanks for sharing! I wonder if something similar could also be a usecase for Bun's macros, where certain code is executed at bundle time.[1]

[1] https://bun.sh/docs/bundler/macros
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The $8600000 Bugatti Centodieci won't be usable for driving from London to New York.
A 4 year old device on a different CPU architecture. The Mac Pro wasn’t a device aimed at developers, it was aimed at creatives. This title is grandstanding.
It still hurts the resale value of the thing, makes it less useful so more likely to end up junked, and even if the original owner “got their moneys worth” out of their purchase, this is still a relatively new computer sold to pro users who Apple should support better for that kind of price tag.
so … productivity is up?
Calls to functions like pthread_mutex_lock() don't magically add memory barriers. From the perspective of the compiler they are regular function calls. They "work" because of escape analysis, but that applies to any function that is called.

It's true that the C specification could have said that the setjmp() function is "special". Then the only way to implement it is to spill most local variables to the stack before the call. I suppose the C authors didn't want to introduce this special case (is there any other function that the C compiler is required to treat specially?)
> But my point stands: the prescribed way of handling assets with Rails is ridiculous

What would the alternative be for a 20 year old project?

I think what we're seeing is a natural progression based on how the web changed over the last 2 decades.

I'd be more concerned if Rails didn't change and `rails new` produced a jQuery / SCSS / CoffeeScript loadout and made it difficult to use modern tools. Now it's easier than ever to plug in whatever front-end you want.
You can't develop on the PowerPC line either, no matter how expensive they were when you bought them.
The creator, Brady, is professionally trained as an engineer (and presumably works as an engineer too -- I don't think he's a full-time content creator), but as far as I know he's not trained as an educator. I think he just has a natural talent.
The fact that it's Intel is what hurts the resale value of the thing.
I'm reading it as "Rails and Phoenix is more productive than other technologies".
The idea is terrible even from the first lines, relying on the hardware key attestation means giving up the id card to Google and Apple approved devices which is absolutely not what you want as a country.
Yeah, but I called a hacker to do it for me (15th floor apartment). He picked the lock.
Yes; that’s what’s used on the VMs, workstations, and Linux laptops.
That may be the first implementation of SMB that isn’t unusably slow. Every time an IT group gives me an SMB share, I beg them for SFTP access, which usually falls on deaf ears.
Ctrl-Alt-X was for LSL3. The original LSL1 used Alt-X.
I think the technical term is "editorialized". The title should be, "VisionPro will require Apple Silicon", which is far less interesting.
If I understand your use case, most loggers (like Logback) have the possiblity to automatically include the name of the method that called the log-statement.

Logback even supports including the call chain in the output, so you could include the parent method, grand parent method etc. This probably uses reflection, so it could have a negative impact for applications that need a high performance.

https://logback.qos.ch/manual/layouts.html
Any reasoning you do about the simulation hypothesis has one gigantic problem - the only thing you know anything about is the universe we observe. You have never seen a real universe and you have never seen a simulated universe, so you have nothing to compare our universe against in order to decide whether ours is real or simulated.

Imagine we have a really close look at space and discover that it is made out of small voxels. Simulated universe! No! Who said that real universes are not made out of small voxels? It could be the other way around, the real universe could be made out of voxels but a voxel-based simulation does not fit into memory, so they assigned a real position vector to every object in order to approximate the real voxel universe. In that case it would be wrong to conclude that our universe is real because it is continuous and a flawed analogy with our own computer simulations suggests that simulations must be discretized in some way. [1]

So no matter what you observe in our universe, you have no idea if it is indicative of a real or simulated universe. Maybe if the stars in the Milky Way would suddenly rearrange themselves and spell out »You are in a simulation.« on the night sky, that could be a good hint that we are indeed in a simulation. But even then, maybe that is just how real universes behave, spelling out messages on the night sky from time to time might just be part of the laws of physics. Admittedly, if that actually ever happened, I would also consider the simulation hypothesis the better explanation.

[1] This is just an illustrative example, whether this is realistic or even possible is besides the point.
> makes it less useful so more likely to end up junked

Only if more than a tiny sliver of the resale market for that product is for VisionOS development (a market segment that does not yet really exist).
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