skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once had an issue with my LG5 phone who entered in a boot-loop (also a common issue with LG4). I don't have a head gun, so I put it in the mainboard of the cell phone in oven for maybe 10 min at 150°C to reflow the soldering. At least I could reboot the cell phone and copy the important files. But after about an hour, it enter again the in boot loop and was broken for good.
Don't be a dick, you know what is meant.
I'm asking how you sensibly fit three points to a model with at least three free parameters.

(I'm aware that the emission spectrum for (their specific chosen model of) PAH dust has a fixed shape. That's not my confusion).
I'll try to explain it. I want to demonstrate that something can be used incorrectly and cause issues. To reach a wider audience and make the claims comparable, I wanted to show the same logic in C++ and Rust. For ValWithPtr there was pretty much only one way to do it in Rust, so I used that as the baseline and tried to mirror the semantics and layout of that type. Does that make sense?
Let me guess: impossible to opt out for AI crawling your stuff?
Someone at Google needs to support the top 80% desktop market.
Epic is changing Unreal Engine’s pricing for non-game developers
Interesting to hear your comparison to Django and that you wouldn’t say they’re on par, at least for you, today. Any particular reasons for preferring Rails over Django?
China is very high on the economic freedom scale (setting up a business, taxation etc.); probably much higher than the US or Europe.
Economic freedom can only be enforced with police, meaning the state protecting the assets of the rich. So no, it's not as simple as you say.
China Is Becoming a No-Go Zone for Executives
>Imagine the implications.

> exceptional circumstance appears

> no network

> implications
Please elaborate. Curious.
VPNs are illegal in China in general, but China isn’t a rule of law country so that in itself isn’t very meaningful (free speech is guaranteed by the Chinese constitution for example, but that’s irrelevant). VPN usage is rarely prosecuted unless they want to get you on something (a basic thing in rule by law).
I got a free XBOX in 2004 via this method. Keeping the HDD cold allowed it to work for a few minutes at a time so I was able to softmod the console and extract the drive-specific key. Then XboxHDM could prep a replacement drive. A modchip would have been way easier but those cost money :)
> "However, they gave no evidence of a back door, and in the two decades since that time no one has found a way that a back door could be inserted in DSA (or ECDSA)."

ElGamal/DSA is fragile and difficult to implement securely in a way that doesn't reveal secret k. ECC (and somewhat particularly NIST curves[1]) is also very difficult to implement securely from side channel attacks[2].

Consideration of "backdoors" should be broader than just mathematical equations on paper. "backdoors" could also include deliberate choice of algorithm or parameters that are fragile and difficult to implement in a secure way to minimise risk of side channel leakage of secrets. This is especially important in a whole variety of applications such as passports, payment cards and TPMs.

[1] https://www.hyperelliptic.org/tanja/vortraege/20130531.pdf#p...

[2] Specifically, implementation of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_point_multiplic...
Evidence can easily be cross referenced and if the link LLM gives is dead it means it's lying.
literally just finished reading both "sled driver" and "skunkworks" and wow, those guys knew what they were about.
Dagobah!
To get out of the prison you just need to fill in this form and hand it to the guards who’ll then approve or reject it at their discretion.
In most of EU, the tax authority first asks you nicely to fix your mistake, and only if you don't, they confiscate the owed amount plus a small fine (given that it's your first offense and they don't see it as intentional fraud).

I used to have my life in serious disorder and they confiscated the owed tax three times from me. Never got fined more than $100, though I had to call and apologize the second and third time to have it reduced from ~$500.
GPT4 Storytime Share: Huffman Coding: Origins and Algorithm
I kinda love this story :) I wish GPT4 had given a bit more of a personal account (relative to Mr. Huffman), but that's not the way GPT4 works :/... For a first draft, it's good enough. Cheers! :)
> At the point where we find an intelligible English string that generates the NIST P-curve seeds, nobody serious is going to take the seed provenance concerns seriously anymore.

GP is making a different argument along the lines of last week’s Twitter fad generating intelligible English sentences which spell out the first few bytes of their hash.
Sure. That doesn't change the confusion between Capitalism and Market Economy as orthogonal (or even antagonistic) concepts.
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Or printers that would accept refilled cartridges, good times.
It’s funny but I’ve done something similar with putting my laptop into the oven for a short period as it wasn’t getting any charge at all and I guessed after trying everything lose that the board where the power connector was misbehaving.

It actually worked after but it was pure luck I think.

Another time I did it with a graphics card that had been overclocked and definitely was having some board issues, took it apart and did the same, it seemed to reseat the solder and it was working fine for a few months after but obviously none of these are long term solutions, but it’s interesting the major impact temperatures will have on your hardware!
For a pretty trivial software at that
> And where in the world do you think this would not be the case?

I think their point is precisely that this Chinese case might be more similar rather than different to the rest of the world.

> (such a fine of 100k is probably on the higher end for most places though)

In neither the Chinese case nor on the Swedish case does it seem to be a fine. It's rather a confiscation of illegal earnings, which is then followed by an actual fine.
I'm not sure enumerating the entire domain is even possible in this setting, as the comparison function could return random values for each call.

The idea is that the implementation doesn't promise it will detect a strict weak ordering violation, but it has code that will detect the effects of such violations with a high probability. It's not a sampled approach, but rather as part of the small-sort a bi-directional merge is performed and if the pointers don't line up, the only explanation is a strict weak ordering violation, the result of the merge is discarded and a panic is raised.
My theory is that it will turn out that a) everything about Physics will be consistent with it being a simulation and b) it won't be possible to determine if it is or isn't. Put another way: reality will always appear to be the result of a simulation and that's just how things are.
It seems that, at least in the enterprise world, eventually every software project evolves into a hairy monster "that no one understands", choke-full of traps and side-effects that turn around to bite you at the worst and least-predictable moment.

As a result, projects are frozen in time because everyone's afraid of touching anything, less it triggers Armageddon.

Maybe AI can help? Instead of copilot writing new code, or chat systems explaining a couple of lines, there could be an app that ingests a huge code base at once (spanning multiple languages and subsystems) and

- explains what each part does

- is able to spot potential side effects for each new addition

- suggests simpler ways of doing things / nice refactoring

There are some startups trying to address this but none seems to be there yet (I think); the market is huge though and people would pay through the nose for this.
> I want to like this page, I really do. But please don't use Computer Modern on the web... It's a pretty ancient typeface that's made for paper first, and looks bad on a raster display, even a pixel-dense one.

Looks okay to me (on desktop and mobile).

My take on readability wrt to blog posts is that the font doesn't matter as much as you think it does. Sure, don't use Comic Sans or some handwriting-equivalent, but any mainstream font should work (sans for headlines, serifs for content, maybe?)

The larger factors affecting readability:

1. The paragraph width. It's tiring to read a paragraph that's 250+ characters wide. Stick to 64-78 characters wide. I find setting max-width to 38em-42em best.

2. Line spacing - bump it up a little - 1.25em-1.6em is great at normal font sizes. You need to adjust as the font size increases.

3. Background color - muted colors are nice. Bright colors are not.

4. Foreground color - start with low contrast and increase it until the devtools in the browser tells you it passes the accessibility test.

Only after you have done all that, start playing with the font.
Lockheed did it, with predictable results.

I've been involved with a previous project of theirs in that space, possibly even one that led to F-35 one. If not for contractual issues, we would have rewritten it better ourselves in less time, without things like finding two years into supposed deployment that a core module wasn't a fit for the problem domain, because they copied it from a completely different type of vehicle.
Migrations are easy to do in literally every framework in any language
Good question. I gave GPT-4 the transcript of the video as well as three screenshots and asked it to characterize both the product and the language used. You can see the full exchange here:

https://gally.net//temp/20231006gptpuntranslation/index2.htm...

It does pretty well overall, and it notes the use of “puns and wordplay.” However, its explanations of several of the jokes are wrong. For example, the last one, about the word 帽子 (hat), has nothing to do with the sound of the word まぁ (well). Rather, it is a play on two meanings of the verb kaburu, which appears in the previous line.

In previous tests of GPT-4’s language competence, I have often seen it hallucinate about how words are pronounced. It’s very good explaining the meanings of words, but spelling and pronunciation—probably because of its token-based training—are weaknesses.
And Gaijin is Russian, so...

as others pointed out, finding these manuals is as easy as searching on Google. I would put on my tinfoil hat and say Gaijin might take these documents and send to Russia but they might already have them before someone leaks them on the forums.
Seems like a good method to generate Dashcam footage for fun
Here's the plugin: https://github.com/David-Kunz/gen.nvim
What is this trend of the headline, sub-headline and first sentence being totally identical? It feels like I've been violated somehow, like a mild brainwashing. One less reason to click on the article link.
I hate this on iPhone, I want the GitHub app because of the notifications and the authentication capabilities. But repositories are much easier to read in the web version, and it forces every GitHub link to go to the app. I wanted some control, like only going to the app if I touch hold something ("right click") and purposefully chose this option.
Boilerplate is 1% of time, rest is solving real domain problems
Nice site. Found it a bit counter-intuitive that the selected airline button has a black border while it has a blue blue border in its unselected state. I would have expected it to be the other way round.
That was largely the pilots, same as in Indonesia.
One of these should help with setting up a new laptop to run Rails:

https://rails.new

https://rubyonmac.dev
Because it’s forced upon me by my employer?
Microsoft China has its own line into and out of China via China telecom that isn’t through the GFW, all legal and they wouldn’t be able to do anything in China otherwise. I’m sure lots of foreign companies have similar arrangements.
No PR yet, still have to do some things before that. Sorry for being so vague.
> I came across the drive again while fetching some peas from the freezer a few weeks later. Gave it another try, and lo and behold, it worked!
What is the dot for in your `/.`?
Sure, so economically free, besides the communism part
I don't understand your argument. I concur with the GP (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37780772) that there are legitimate issues around LLMs that need addressing. I say that current legal principles seem inadequate to address these issues. Your "counterpoint" seems to merely reiterate the latter. You seem to agree that these concepts can not be used effectively to address issues around LLMs pointed out, as what the LLM extracts is not copyrightable.

Do you simply disagree that there are issues worth addressing?

Also, typically the entity that carries ideas can not be owned by a cooperation. So there is a completely new relationship between property and ideas at play.
Ok, it starts to smell like illegal pricing agreements between the two main players in the industry. Somebody in the government should raise the eyebrow fast.
“Scientifically dense” is the first time I’ve heard that particular slur.
Go back to your bubble where no one ever questions authority.
(Boeing is a terrible company for a myriad of other reasons but you picked probably the worst example)
I don't think there is any evidence of this. Open Source tools fully support Lattice (low end) FPGAs, and support for Gowin FPGAs is not quite as mature.
It seems that many of the initial FPGA patents have expired, and that's why many small FPGA vendors are appearing. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Other than learning for fun. Is there enough of a benefit to learning Elixir if you would already consider yourself an expert at PHP/Laravel and JS/Vue ?

At a glance it's hard to see the value or believe that it has the same longevity or $$$ value.
Putting electronics in a fridge may work sometimes, but it may also cause irreversible damage if you're unlucky. The biggest threat to electronics is not just temperature but also moisture. Cooling the air captured inside a laptop may cause water to condense on electronic components and may cause subsequent short circuits, which may burn something irreversibly once powered on. Whether it happens depends on the relative humidity of the air you start with and the temperature delta. In dry areas this may be ok, but really don't try that method in tropics (or even in Europe in Summer - I can see condensation happening almost all the time in my fridge).
That's wild. Even on my "highly unrepairable" MBA M1 the USB-C ports are very easily replaceable (new board costs $20)
My comment clearly, if not explicitly, makes allowance for police.
FYI: for the gradle dependencies section on the read me, both junit4 and junit5 say junit5.
Be aware of two things:

Modern HP is not the HP of the LaserJet 4. The new printers, also the lasers, are crap.

And second, these old printers are workhorses but they waste energy like crazy, the standby mode still uses a lot of power so unless your electricity is free it very quickly makes sense to replace them.
We hate to see it
Exactly. Buy T, X or P series. For non-demanding users L series might be OK, but I prefer to buy second-hand / refurbished T series instead. Avoid E series, or at least don't expect any "ThinkPad-ness" from it.
Also the benefit of using a message queue library is that you don't have to worry about multi-platform incompatibilities as much.
Nice! JSON schemas are really useful, we use them a lot for code generation. Another library that does this for multiple languages is https://quicktype.io/ . It's great, but not so actively developed.
Would like to know this as well. I switched from my last company’s WordPress app over to our Laravel side of things (with Vue/Inertia on the front end) and I really liked it. I’ve heard of Next.js here and there but seeing in the context of “switched from Laravel” I’m very curious.
Sure but also maybe not? It’s weird to lament someone you don’t even know.
I worked at a place that 'required' this, but when I asked what would happen if I didn't there were no concrete actions. So I never did them and I lived happily ever after. Well, I left the place because people that 'require' nonsense usually don't limit themselves to elearnings.
Some people surprise surprise are motivated by, well not dying on the streets. The question is whether spending say 8 hours spamming 100 applications or crafting 2 or 3 is the better route? Given there is no guarantee the job you are applying for even exists… we are indeed in a lemons market.
Cost of car ownership soars in Singapore
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents (or any generic tangent actually) - they make discussion more repetitive and therefore less interesting.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Lockheed tradition for bribery and lobbying goes back to 1950s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_bribery_scandals)
"If you crush a cockroach, you're a hero. If you crush a beautiful butterfly, you're a villain. Morals have aesthetic criteria."

This applies to the context of west vs China. Everything China does is because of oppression and everything the west does is because of democracy and protecting you.
Partners come with their own issues, not least having more mouths to feed.
Google.cn would put you in a penalty box sometimes depending on what you searched for, so would Google.HK, I assume that was happening via the GFW and not via Google itself, but Google could have been complicit? Bing did the same thing, but eventually Bing.cn was harmonized and I didn’t have to worry about penalty boxes anymore.
We will never have self-driving. Any attempt to sell this technology is a pump-and-dump scam.

We have had fully autonomous airplanes and trains for decades now. The technology has been shelved because of legal reasons, not because it doesn't work.

Self-driving technology will only last until the first child gets run over by a self-driving car, at which point the technology will be banned. Lawyers will need a fall guy to take the blame, and since tech bro corporations have a EULA that absolves them of all responsibility that will be the end of self-driving.
Just tested it, and it does print code snippets of the related code of the source code of my project, and not just of the test itself.
Your entire argument is nonsensical, but this part:

> With enough money you can buy all the others

is particularly easily falsifiable. A billionaire in China does not have freedom of speech and cannot buy it.
Related:

Adam? …is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1274907 - April 2010 (38 comments)
I attempted to make a small script library to get tap functionality in Adventure Game Studio: https://github.com/ericoporto/tap
The signalling is similar to Chademo which is CANBUS. CCS is PLC
The alternative to Rails is not "cobbled together mess".
I have done this with my mac. I believe the 2010 model. Used to get hot very quickly and had to cool it down. :)
If it's unobservable in principle, then it's beyond the realm of science.

Any such "models" would be philosophy.
I played Larry as a Dutch kid with only a bit of English, and the questions seemed utterly impossible. I needed to brute force them and write down the answers I tried for each.

I learned a lot of things in that game, but not what the mysterious terms "leisure suit" or "lounge lizard" meant...
June actually. This year
My full name is my identity
DB admins get in here...
Russian losses today are not really related to soviet production practices.

To quote some US officers - "Soviet equipment works well - in Ukrainian hands".

Something something maintenance and logistics are king, even if artillery is the queen.
All those arguments were used in Argentina and in every other hyperinflationary economies
So if I understand this correctly: the community accepted those mysterious strings of unknown origin while it would’ve been trivial to replace them with different strings with a known origin, by providing another but known input to the hash?
ASP.NET Core. And database migrations are not uncommon in web frameworks at all.
Me too!

Intel MacBook Pro combined with Microsoft teams meetings does this all the time for me.

I have a gel ice pack in the frezer.

When I put it under the laptop it cools down very quickly and I can work again.
I honestly can’t tell if your comment is sarcastic because my biggest gripe with Rails is that the asset story changes radically with every major release.

Starting with 3.2 and the introduction of the asset pipeline, every new version was “This is all about to change. A totally new way of using assets is coming.”

Every new version is supposed to solve all of the problems of the previous version. It’s exhausting to constantly change to keep up with the new One True Way™, only for it to be replaced with another assets strategy powered by a gem with a cute name.

RJS and Prototype, then UJS and jQuery, then Sprockets and CoffeeScript and Sass, then Turbolinks, SCSS, then Dart Sass, then Stimulus and Webpacker, then esbuild and TypeScript, then Turbo, then import maps but there’s also jsbundling/cssbundling, then Hotwire, then Strada, then “Turbo 8” and TypeScript is suddenly phased out because DHH doesn’t like it, and now Bun.

I’m probably leaving something out and this is certainly out of order. But my point stands: the prescribed way of handling assets with Rails is ridiculous.
That weird to say. Many of the SWEs working on OS in the west are Chinese. They have the skills, but it’s just too easy for China to use Android or Linux, or to get the nice Apple experience, then to spend much investing in making their own OS for nationalistic reasons. They have larger problems in terms of semiconductor development and jet turbines that need gobs of resources and have much more national security impact.
Ruby Newsletter – Issue 385, Oct 05, 2023
It's what you'd use as an arg to `cp` if you wanted to copy the contents rather than the directory, for example.
Most people probably do the intelligent thing based on probability, outcome and game theory. Sometimes you want to do a lot of legwork to apply. For example a web dev job paying $500k because AI goldrush dollarz (cough anthropic) and othertimes you need a job to tide you over and there is yet another business focusses SaaS hiring devs with cliche perks and so yeah I mean at least be polite and use GPT4.
I find it extremely exhilarating when an AI successfully helps me to solve a complex problem. I thought AI was only good for reducing boilerplate and "copypasting" tedious tasks (which it is, through Copilot) but now I get excited when I get stuck and get to talk with ChatGPT about it. We iterate through several solutions and discuss various short-comings as well as debugging them. I love it and it has only increased my passion for programming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_miser Folks prefer simple mental models and tend to place their faith in simpler beliefs. Kahneman warned us. In fact, the replication crisis sort of proved him right (and wrong at the same time?)
'asdf' (a version manager) is great for managing nodejs. I haven't dealt with Ruby before, though.

https://asdf-vm.com/
>The Vice article says Ring is "delivering footage to cops without your consent" but if you click through the links this refers to cases where Ring handed over the footage after police got warrants.

I don't care if they have warrants, my property shouldn't work against me.
Because stuff like that is what makes www.territorial.io possible
DHH removed TS from Turbo, posted a pretty inflammatory blog post about it and then got surprised when people reacted badly to it. Classic DHH stuff really.