skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have studied CRDTs at a deeper level for a few weeks and implemented several small prototypes. They are fascinating. As an eventual consistency model for data management, CRDT inspired techniques (op-based or state-based) are useful.

However, for building user-facing applications with CRDTs, their importance is unclear.

The question with CRDTs and local-first paradigms has always been the pressing need (or the lack thereof). The only one plausible 'need' that CRDTs serve is real-time collaboration and that too with a squinting eye.

Real-time collaboration support translates, in practice, to text-editing and picture-editing collaboration. Google docs and the ilk have solved that problem (using central solutions). A CRDT-inspired central-solution like Figma is inspiring, and maybe that's the only place CRDTs fit in their survival quest when combating against central-solutions.

The rest of the claimed advantages seem to not withstand the test of times. This articles talks about 7 features of CRDTs [1].

Fast: Things are already fast with central solutions.

Multi-device: There is multi-device support with almost all solutions (if you decouple the real-time collaboration aspect).

Offline: It's rare, at least in first world countries, to be in a need for offline access (except maybe in airplanes).

Longevity: As can be seen from another comment here, longevity is actually a problem with CRDTs because data model updates are not easy.

Privacy: With BYOK encryption pattern, privacy is not as much an issue.

User control: Even with CRDTs, user is not in control of their data - other peers can mess with your data.

[1] https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/
i wasn't bringing in China just for the sake of it. if you read enough threads here on HN, you'll see people making comments "i'd rather the CCP have my data than the TLAs of the US, since the CCP has no jurisdiction". it's a strawman privacy argument. invasion of privacy is bad regardless of the "who" is doing it. all of the pervasive tracking that is occurring has so many levels of knock-on effects that just get ignored or overlooked or whatever other term for being allowed is just not a good thing and should be something not allowed.
They don't do that now[1], why would they do it in the future? There's literally no incentive for them to do it. It's obviously bad for business, since the 'customer' isn't the user, it's the advertiser.

[1] such as https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/almost-60-per...
i think the significance of the car being electric is that the driver had no clear way to stop ignition of the car, which is very easily done with a combustion engine.
I'm worried that the reluctance of the Ruby community to adopt some typing, might push it further into obscuration.

For me, full time Rubyist for over a decade, it was enough to "jump ship" to Rust and TypeScript. It's one more reason to forego Ruby, I fear.
prime takeaway here is to never use financing when purchasing a waterbed
That gets "analogies" rather than "spatial awareness" per-se.
Not specifically the "energy source", but the overall method of controlling the car.

"the entire dashboard lit up with faults." --I don't think this would happen (or matter) with a convential ICE, where you could always just turn off the engine with the key.
Why did the article exclusively highlight offensive examples then? Why not just "Facebook's AI stickers can generate Mickey Mouse"? Why did they show that it can generate child soldiers? That's not infringing on IP.
Is there anybody else who is sick of chat GPT wrappers?
Look, that's what I got:

https://www.neimagazine.com/features/featuredealing-with-cra...

What source do you have?
I really wish there was an open standard for something like this.
So you are saying this grew out of a tradition that is specific to some ethnic group. Tell me what is the "tradition" in the south that excluded black people while white people are having a party?

The answer might give you some clues.
Maybe it's because I don't live in the 2% of the land area where 30% of people are dogpiled (if like 5% of you moved someplace else the Republican party would be gone, baby, gone...) but in my area AMZN deliveries are always UPS or USPS or FedEx delivered so insofar as AMZN deliveries are reliable it is because those systems are reliable. (I've seen an AMZN delivery truck driving around in a particular neighborhood between home and the office but it has never stopped at my place so far as I know.)

In my area AMZN deliveries are 5 days which is nothing special compared to the 1-3 day deliveries I frequently get from Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and every other online store. In fact, I regularly order stuff from Japan on Ebay that arrives faster than AMZN deliveries. (As Flavor Flav would say: "I ordered from Amazon Prime a long time ago, Amazon Prime is a joke in 'yo town")

I hear a lot of zip codes that have huge AMZN warehouses in them have 5 day delivery too but if you are Jim Cramer or a Congressman or something they have to have you believing AMZN is a little better than average as opposed to a little worse. If they had slow shipping in Hollywood you'd see sitcoms making jokes about slow Prime deliveries.

As for payments isn't AMZN just having Mastercard, Visa, and American express do all the heavy lifting?

As for easy checkout, checkout has very few clicks on Ebay. I check out from stores like Best Buy, Adorama, etc. and they all are pretty easy, in fact they don't make me click 4 times saying "NO I REALLY DON'T WANT TO SIGN UP FOR A FREE TRIAL OF AMAZON PRIME".

Product listings on AMZN already look like a scene from Idiocracy; often I see the same bullshit listing spammed hundreds of times, listings that are word salad and make so sense at all (and that AMZN doesn't want to investigate unless you bought it.) I am not worried that AMZN is privileging a $5.99 product over a $3.75 product, I find it highly stressful to filter through product listings that are obviously 75% bogus and call into question if I can trust any of them.

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Maybe if you live in Manhattan they send a bicycle messenger backwards in time to deliver you packages as soon as you order them but from my viewpoint as someone who lives four hours away from a big warehouse in PA, AMZN is the Dollar General of e-Commerce and the retailer of last resort which I'll only order from if I can't find the item elsewhere. So far as I can tell Amazon Prime is a big Jedi mind trick that makes people think it is all OK because they want to watch Rings of Power that bad or maybe that Xanth series that AMZN bought the rights to but will stay in development hell forever because it's just too squicky.
please see response to sibling comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37770386
DREAM: fMRI-to-image method for reconstructing viewed images
Their 'offering' is totally artificial. Prices are low because suppiers aren't permitted to offer lower prices elsewhere. They have a history of blatantly abusing their monopoly position. The law even includes personal criminal liabilities for CEOs in these cases.
I'm intrigued by it. To be clear, it reads surface temperature, not ambient temperature. The demo gave the example of a hot pot on the stove, I think, and they mentioned they've submitted something to the FDA to take your temperature (to see if you have a fever).
Those aren't part of the model though. The model is just a representation of the world. An abstract representation can be useful, but so can more concrete ones. A representation that is amenable to logical reasoning is also useful, but the reasoning isn't part of the model.
Empty spaces and hybrid places: The pandemic’s lasting impact on real estate
> Damn i hoped we would one day get a customizable fpga into our CPUs. I hoped that it would make sense to install certain instructions on your fpga depending on your workloads. I guess this either kills that possibility or pushes it into a very far future.

Depends on what AMD does with Xilinx.
If TFA were by a nobody I might agree, but TFA is by DJB and/or Tanja Lange, and they're not nobodies. These things need to be at least somewhat adversarial partly because that's what it takes to do cryptanalysis, and partly because of past shenanigans. It goes with the territory and the politics. It's unavoidable.
This thread looks like a relevant one to mention an issue with the Mac Studio that causes large inrush currents when you plug it in. The power connector arcs badly enough to trip a domestic 30mA RCD, it's reproducable with several units and on different electrical circuits at both home and office.
Much of what Amazon does is what other retailers already do. Amazon just does it more overtly and with smaller businesses. In fact, various aspects of this where pioneered by WalMart and Costco.
1. WalMart determines the expected product and expected price and tells vendors to take it or leave it. The agreement often has a stipulation that the same product can never be cheaper elsewhere which is sometimes easy as WalMart gets specific SKUs.
2. On the other side, Costco makes the majority of its money from memberships. The membership is a significant sunk cost and maintains brand loyalty from a mass affluent customer base (notice the similarity to Amazon Prime). Existing vendors will work closely with Costco to tailor products to this desirable market (see Costco specific SKUs for TVs, routers, etc). Upstart brands will go even further to get their wares in front of an audience with ample disposable income.

The Amazon policy basically says that the vendor must offer free shipping. Coincidentally, nobody can offer shipping for less than what Amazon offers therefore Amazon(FBA) is by default the lowest price. The only other company that can fight this with a logistics network of its own is...WalMart.

Then you have Chinese vendors who sell through networks of dropshippers and resellers at Amazon and other venues. It's why you see many vendors of seemingly the same item.

One thing to note is that it's mostly small and medium vendors of relatively low margin items that are the most hurt by Amazon's policies. Seller's of high margin items just eat into their margins while large vendors push back at Amazon and sometimes win e.g. Toilet Paper that comes directly out of a Georgia Pacific warehouse instead an Amazon warehouse despite being labeled as Prime and sold by Amazon.com, not a third party.
I think this is what's being criticized
Apparently, those are not the important details.
Will figure a way to show this. The changing words on landing page was an attempt to fix for a similar request. Will find a better way. Thank you for the feedback.
This is the classic "Uncle Bob" style false dichotomy.

Whoever said you can only pick one of the two approaches?
It makes me so happy to read summaries of project like this. Thanks for sharing! I did almost the exact exercise a couple of years ago, except hand soldering the controller board together with an ESP32. It was an Core XY design with timing belts, also completely over-engineered. It suffered from hysteresis from too many plastic 3d printed parts (I only had belts, steppers, linear rails, and ball bearings). Would love to do it again some day, but properly. Definitely going for a pre-built CNC controller board, as that was a pain. P̶e̶r̶h̶a̶p̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶M̶a̶c̶h̶3̶ ̶o̶r̶ ̶M̶a̶c̶h̶4̶ ̶b̶o̶a̶r̶d̶ Probably just make a PCB version, unless anyone know of a general ESP32 based 3-axis GRBL board with SD card?
It's not the WiFi you're replacing, it's the wired connection behind it, right?
Report: I had the phone off from 2:10 through 3:30. When I turned it on, there was no alert. Emergency successfully avoided!
My fellow comments aren't actually getting to the point: The original release of the Pentium 4 used Rambus RAM, instead of the JEDEC standard of the time.

This Pentium 4 was released in the year 2000.

So, yes, Rambus, the company, is a known quantity. Just weird they're into crypto now, because trying to wiggle into this already crowded patent landmine is certainty an... interesting choice.
Somebody who helps you make right choices is called a mentor
Lack of keys is not limited to EVs though, many ICE cars have buttons or alternatives.
Electric cars are "drive by wire" much more than conventional gas cars.

On a mechanical transmission, shifting to neutral would disconnect the engine from the wheels. Even on some automatic transmissions with physical shifting cables/linkages, shifting to neutral would achieve the same thing.

Besides the transmission, most older/lower-end cars without keyless ignition have the ignition switch physically disconnect power to the engine management electronics, which a gas engine needs to keep operating.

Gas cars are unfortunately also moving away from the above (some automatic transmissions are fully shift-by-wire, and ignition switches no longer do any electrical switching), but enough of the past persists that generally you'd at least still have one of those.

Fully electric cars have none of that legacy baggage. This is good for many reasons, but unfortunately they seem to have forgotten the cardinal rule of any heavy machinery - a big fat "emergency stop" button that physically disconnects power to all actuators. I guess regulation hasn't caught up yet, because until very recently it just wasn't required since the ignition switch fulfilled the same purpose.
Research on this topic is beyond impossible and should be completely disregarded. You cannot possibly attempt to control for variables sufficiently, and I don’t think even the most fervent supporters of type systems would argue that they are a dominant factor in code quality and correctness.
>I hope they are not on the x.com website typing in updates and clicking post.

Is there any form of API access exposed to third parties anymore on notTwitter?
Lets say I live alone with somewhat infrequent guests. Is there any real reason to pay for two internet services, when my phone could do all the heavy lifting?
> Some bitter people here.

I am in awe at all the "I gave to my 8 years old daughter my original iPhone 1 and she's still delighted by it every day, it's stille great" folks.

You could put out a free device with a battery that lasts forever, fast and it fits in every pocket and some crowd woud still make comparisons and have some brand win them.
To become a distribution monopoly.

> Amazon, one of the biggest companies in the world, for monopolization and unfair methods of competition.

Edit: sorry for snarkyness.
Buy the Pixel 8 Pro with Google Fi Wireless
No one is against static typing. This thing that some people, myself included, oppose -- with good reason -- is mandatory static typing. The idea that anyone advocates giving up the ability to catch bugs at compile time if it can be done at no cost is a straw man.
Think of me fondly when you are sleeping soundly at 3 AM~
I love this. I ran Puppy Linux in USB mode, many years ago, for a year or two (Netbook, load to RAM, save changes to USB). It was the most comfortable I ever felt using a computer. I used my laptop's HD as a pure data drive for large files only.

Puppy encrypted the entire OS on USB. So it would boot fine but needed to be decrypted during the boot process.

It contained all my apps, system settings and smaller files (docs, html, passwords, personal docs, etc) that I decided to save in the encrypted OS/USB.

The laptop's mounted HD contained the larger stuff... tons of videos, pics, etc.. basically all the stuff I didn't really need to protect/encrypt.

Someone could steal the laptop and I wouldn't care (all that large stuff is always backed up too on externals). Someone could steal the USB and they'd have to know it was a bootable, encrypted USB. Even so, they'd also need to know how to decrypt on boot. I felt so safe even when traveling.

I could also plug my USB into any laptop and BOOM! ready to go:-) It was like a plug-n-play super-power.

I saw MiniOS listed here and I immediately thought of my old Puppy setup. Looking forward to giving this OS a spin. I hope it considers my use case in their thinking (though I'm sure I can tweak it easily to fulfill my needs).
...Especially considering the trade in values (~320USD for Pixel 6).
The "won't someone think of the children!" on this has already started: https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4218666-ai-girlfriend...
Currently the content is geared towards Indian markets. But will look into customisation based on country (currency symbol, country-specific case studies and financial products).
Objectives for Defending Against Sensitive Information Extraction Attack in LLMs
Thanks.

And the videos I’m talking about are linked from here:

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/etw-training-vi...
yep, you hit it on. I was going to reply the same thing to OP. when companies use AI to determine which resumes/candidates are good, no one can complain, but when candidates use AI to generate cover letters and all that garbage (for the 300 companies they have to apply to) they are literally hitler
I had one Pixel 2 that lasted five years. I had another that lasted only six months before the screen just stopped working at all. We'll see how long my current Pixel 5a lasts.
> These jurisdictions really just keep adding layers of obligatory professionals and it neither changes the reputation of the jurisdiction

It depends. I used to live in Belgium and now in Luxembourg and both countries have been removed from an international gray list of countries refusing to share banking information (they do share now).

Old article from 2009:

https://www.politico.eu/article/luxembourg-and-belgium-remov...

There was a time where people would literally come to Luxembourg with duffelbags full of bank notes and nobody would ask anything.

But these times are definitely gone.

> I’m still of the predilection that states should just give up on trying to police money flows

Having been directly hit by this and KYC/AML making my life miserable I fully agree with that.

Some people have their entire bank account frozen, sometimes for months, because they make one wire transfer of a few thousands EUR to another country: happened to someone I know (who's an AML specialist, which is ironic) for buying a watch in Dubai and happened to someone else I know for... Paying for his wedding (which was taking place in another country than the one he was living in). His wedding nearly got cancelled due to zealots at the bank convinced they found an international drugs trafficker or something...

The worst of the worst is that everybody at the bank is convinced they're some super important person, part of a global elite secret service or something, where nobody can talk. Worse than the mafia. And that they'll lose their job or go to jail if they ever mention to the client why their account is getting frozen.

It's all pathetic really.
Not that I endorse cutting more corners, but I personally gave away the 30w dual USBC charger that came with my MacBook Air since I already own plenty of higher powered ones that work with other devices like my work MBP and Nintendo Switch etc.

I think it'd be great if Apple offered a small discount for opting out of unnecessary items.
So far, I've only ever replaced smartphones because they stopped getting software support or had a battery failure. Never dropped lost one to water damage. Never cracked a screen or otherwise broke one physically.

Unless I forgot one, I think I'm on my 10th mobile phone in total since the late 1990s, so averaging just under 3 years per phone. And I think the interval was shorter in the feature phone days and longer in the last 12 years or so where I'm now on my 4th smartphone.

Maybe it's because I learned to be careful with my phones before smartphones existed, back when dropping it might mean the back cover, battery, and main body flying in different directions. As a result, I'm also the kind of person who might drop his phone/wallet/passport into ziplock bags if I was heading outside with a chance of significant rain...
I don't know the percentage of course, but I think you'll agree that at least part of the client base will simply reuse their existing charger.
Unfortunately that's less the case as "fake" ignition switches are much more common nowadays especially on higher-end models with pushbutton start and no conventional keys.
Ah yes, sorry I thought you meant can't we just use plaintext DNS + DNSSEC.
A counter is that nothing has replaced Python for data science. I mean, Julia has talked a good game but gotten very little traction.
Recent and related:

Canada to require registration of podcasters and streaming services - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37728464 - Oct 2023 (22 comments)
That might be a contributing factor. It’s possible the mobility conversion went wrong and the system malfunctions
IPv6 to me is an example of "not letting a good crisis go to waste." The real problem was running out of addresses, but the solution got lots of less necessary changes bundled into it, rather than just adding more address space.
Unfortunately, with a modern ICE you're probably wrong.

The reliance on electronics is more intrinsic on an electric vehicle though.
> Crashes involving light rail are common in urban areas,

That's a good point. That doesn't mean that trains need to be as heavy as they are, though. Having a crumple zone and weighing 3x of non-commercial road vehicles would still be quite a bit lighter, and would provide safety.

> Modern designs typically have very long cars

I live in Switzerland, and it's common to have train combinations that are very long here, even with long cars.

> limit acceleration and deceleration

There are limits, of course, but they can be relatively high if you strictly control "jerk". That's where computer control comes into play, as it requires high driver skill to stop the train at the right position while limiting jerk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk_(physics)
In general, there are certain tells of what constitutes a serious business and advertisement. This makes it easy to the trained eye to filter out the blatant frauds. But coming advancements in AI generated content will blur the line between legitimate and illegitimate. The only reasonable approach will of course be to trust nothing you see on the internet. Very sad.
NSA weakened DES from 64-bit keys to 56-bit keys. The idea was that they could be ahead in breaking it, and that by the time 56-bit keys were too weak in general then something else would replace DES. Risky? Yes, but it worked out, for some value of "worked out". So I wouldn't assume something like that wouldn't happen again.
> almost all of that creativity is garbage

Almost all creativity -- regardless of its source -- is garbage[0]. This sort of creativity that you don't like -- Winnie the Pooh horror and porn -- is prominent because the media has seized upon it. And the reason they've done that is precisely because of how unusual it is for big media properties to have their copyrights expire.

I just don't see the problem here. If you don't want to read Winnie the Pooh horror stories, then don't read them.

[0] Someone else here mentioned Sturgeon's Law, "90% of everything is crap", and I think that applies quite well here.
FBA de-risks the transaction for Amazon and the vendor. You sell a known quantity with a known delivery window. Small businesses often struggle with this and criminals use this to their advantage.

If eBay/non-FBA is a flea market, FBA is a online mall.
If you really want to use SQLite without anything that isn't Go (since this project involves forking and communicating with a non-Go SQLite in a separate process over pipes), there's a Go translation of SQLite's C source. :)

https://gitlab.com/cznic/sqlite

https://datastation.multiprocess.io/blog/2022-05-12-sqlite-i...