skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cell tower time. Modern cell communications use time-slot multiplexing with transmission slots in the scale of a millisecond and need the beginning/end of transmission to have microsecond-scale accuracy so that you don't miss stuff and don't step on the toes of the previous or next transmission, they need to adjust for light speed propagation, etc.

So as a byproduct of needing to continuously sync time with the cell tower in order to function properly, your phone has quite accurate time; your computer might easily be half a second off of 'true' time, but your phone (at least on the broadband chip level - the main OS can not care) can't be even a millisecond off.
> Code is simply an unfortunate vehicle to do so.

I disagree a bit. Code is the precision vehicle. A majority of our job is problem solving; some problems can be solved generally, other problems require precision. Not all programmers will ever encounter a problem that requires precision solutions.

> I also maintain that for a lot of the programming that makes the world go round, it's not that hard. People just convince themselves they won't be able to.

I also disagree on this. I've taught a good number of people to code to different degrees and I can confidently say that not everyone is going to have an appetite for this as a job or hobby. That's to say, hobby coding is different from career coding, the incentives are different, and attract/require different personality characteristics to be successful. I think infantilizing programming does no one any favors.

I like to describe it as a job where you solve many, many tiny problems and put them together. You must like breaking big problems down into small ones, coordinating and communicating asynchronously and clearly, and have a good head on your shoulders to tolerate the literal endless stream of failure that you'll encounter along the way without being too dissuaded. Lastly, you'll constantly be learning something new; sometimes learning about the same old things, other times learning things far outside your domain. The single most important tool in a programmers war chest is not knowing all the things, but where to look and how to discern good information from bad or so-so information.
I passed the audio through birdNET. Either posting onto the website at https://birdnet.cornell.edu/api/ or just running locally via https://github.com/kahst/BirdNET-Analyzer
In the absence of any good ones you start one?
Tell HN: Suddenly there are ads in GitHub pages
I found this in a https://cutefish-ubuntu.github.io/
Brother 9130 is great
At what point do you realize that you've become one of those collectors of weird railroad information that isn't really useful but somehow interesting to know? And how do you realize it soon enough to catch yourself before you bore your friends with it?
A simple, arena-backed, generic dynamic array for C
Except the Jerry needs a raise story has been floating around for a while now. The obvious choices have been mined out.
Pretty sure the emulator community would be pretty psyched about a consumer priced fpga.
There’s a crate for tokio, so it’s not automatic but might still be interesting: https://lib.rs/crates/tokio-splice
What do you if pi doesn't create a nice curve?
I just installed a new NOS toner cartridge in a 20 year old HP 4050n. The big caveat with those is that the old cartridges have long been out of production and the dried up rubber seals on them crumble into bits after removing the OE sealing strip. You need to fill in the opening to prevent toner from vibrating out into the machine.
I mean, people are certainly being replaced.

Maybe they don't want to be?

The conspiracy elements of it are entirely unnecessary.
Self-Healing of Fractured Diamond
Cloudflare workers is adopting Ada URL parser
aich tee tee pee colon slash slash slash dot dot org

All jokes are contextual and require cultural understanding.
It's been well over a decade since Monte Verde became widely accepted (2008-2010ish). Only a couple more years till it can vote.
Properly executed, it should act as segmented cache/cookies/storage, so you can clone, delete, etc isolated versions of your sessions with misbehaving (or potentially misbehaving) services.
I bought a used T530 6 or 7 years ago. The machine is 10 years old and it's still my daily driver. My desktop is of a similar vintage, probably 2011 or so.

It's perfectly fine. I do wish I had more CPU cores, but it's probably better for me to get up and step away from the computer while it runs a big C++ compilation or something
I need a reminder from time to time that the internet has become a dumpster fire. These add fuel to the internal debate I am always having as to whether we ought to just toss the whole stinking thing away and go back to a world dominated by radio [1].

[1] (Not that I have of course any means to do that ... but I can drop out I suppose.)
Doesn't pi by definition make a nice curve?

(Dumb geometry joke, sorry. I know what you mean.)
How much actual effort has been spent mining this space?
ChatGPT Makes a Game for $1
Dude just piss off please. This site needs a block feature.
AST SpaceMobile (redirected from Bluewalker 3)
Is there a stereoscopic viewing option, like sketchfab.com embeds?
Micropayments, which are now possible if you accept cryptocurrency (specifically Solana) as the intermediary instead of Visa/MC, work. But how that would work is that you'd scroll past an article and pay for scrolling down. Instead of doing that, we put an ad in so when you're scrolling down, it costs the advertiser a micropayment and sends it to the ad agency (Google) at the expense of the viewer's time.
I dig the consistency of your "bizarrely hostile pro-google" vibe
I scanned a copy of my signature probably a decade ago and have yet to find anyone who can tell the difference between my adding that to a doc and sending it back, and actually printing, signing, and scanning it back.
The original article, constantly referenced by this limited piece, is probably a better submission? https://www.404media.co/4chan-uses-bing-to-flood-the-interne...

It was submitted 8 hours ago, although it didn't get much notice https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37779810
Yes, some people do have more or fewer, but it is uncommon.
The original article is here and linked in the first paragraph of the ArsT one:

https://www.404media.co/4chan-uses-bing-to-flood-the-interne...
Apple Launches SF Symbols 5 with 700 New Icons for Developers to Use in Apps
I hadn't heard it before. Whether or not it's an old story is secondary to visibility/mass awareness.
London Underground announcements in certain stations seem to break Bluetooth really frequently. I suspect that at some point, the message is being transmitted by radio and this must be at a frequency that interferes.

Also seen on platform WiFi messed up in a similar fashion - this causes the most grief when calling over WiFi kicks in, you make a call only to find it get wrecked the moment they start announcing. Luckily in some stations you actually get a better signal over mobile, so simply turning off WiFi resolves the problem.
Hugged to death?

500: INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR
Code: FUNCTION_INVOCATION_FAILED
ID: arn1::tpcjw-1696548167206-a333e98b1ba8
I think it’s time to recognize that the web browser engine needs to be a trusted, hardened system-level component to protect user security: these engines deals directly with executing untrusted code being served from potential attackers.
I thought github was injecting ads into pages now, but I think you just mean that someone built a linux distro and is hosting the main page on github pages? Is that it?
Will you join my Webring?
Indexing what is available for download is useful for research into piracy even if you don’t engage in piracy yourself.
Win the right to sue X for payment, more like it. Let's see.
There are—or rather, were—lots: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22uber%20for%22
Which airlines charge to print a boarding pass at the airport? I haven't ever encountered this charge, but maybe it's a regional thing? I've ways been able to walk up to the self-serve kiosk, enter a few details, and print the thing right off.
Or when Netgear flooded the University of Wisconsin by hardcoding their NTP server's IP address into some of their home routers:

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/
I don't know about Copilot specifically, but for Widgets, no matter where you disable them (Settings app, registry, group policy) that only hides the UI entry point, while Widgets.exe and WidgetsService.exe happily continue running in the background, taking up RAM, CPU and -of course- doing network activity.
> But BB is an uncomputable function. You've not escaped undecidability at all. You cannot write a program that will compute BB(n) given n as an input.

I think you're going down the wrong path re "uncomputable". BB(n) is easily computable, just write a little program that enumerates (generates) and runs all n-state BB machines. BB(n) is the largest lifetime of any those n-state machines. BB(n) is known and easily computable for small n.

The problem is that the number of machines increases very quickly with n, and the time taken to evaluate each machine often increases quickly with n. So for even moderate n, it is completely impractical to brute-force compute BB(n). But impractical is not uncomputable.

Just because you don't wait to wait past the heat-death of the universe, doesn't mean that you wouldn't have got an answer eventually. And eventually = computable.
What is "Linux-y stuff"? Is Linux defined by having to use a terminal?

Android is basically an entirely different OS stack running on top of a Linux kernel. ChromeOS used to have it's own rendering and window management pipeline among other things, but as time has progressed their stack has gotten progressively more FOSS. You can run Linux apps, open a terminal, play Steam games via Proton, all from the default window manager/UI.

It's rootfs is locked down by default, but so is Fedora Silverblue or SteamOS. It can be optionally locked down further and turned into a managed system, but so can any distro. In terms of UX it's much more Ubuntu than it is Android.
For years mine was:

“all uppercase no spaces”
Isn't this more of a problem of Google being too permissive about trash browsers on their store than an issue of whether a browser can have its own JIT compiler?
Same thing could be said about TLS (well if you ignore kTLS) yet it’s ubiquitous. All it needs is a openssl-type of library that’s easy to integrate
It is actually useful to respond to things someone said rather than making shit up and then responding to the shit you made up. One is reality, the other is fantasy.

> This is some bs American exceptionalism.

I didn't say or even hint at that. In fact, I think that American exceptionalism is complete horseshit.

You need to go look-up what that term means my friend.

> In the meantime, your opinion is that you’d rather continue being scammed by insurance and healthcare providers?

Again, don't manufacture something I did not say and then disguise an accusation inside a question.

I never said that. At all.

The perspective you propose is very interesting.

Was my family being scammed when we were paying $600 per month for excellent insurance?

Or, are we being scammed NOW when we are paying $1,800 per month for worse insurance at triple the cost and triple the deductible with less coverage and less access to doctors?

And, was the nation being scammed when the US President --that I actually voted for-- promised, dozens of times, this would not happen and even added emphasis with "Period!" in some of those promises?

Where is the scam?

> Is it not like Canada? Or Japan? Or Mexico?

Our government? No, it isn't. Not even close. Our government is a disaster. Has been so for decades, pick a number, I'll say at least 50 years. Which means both of our main political parties are at fault.

Did you know out politicians are legally protected if they lie to us?

That, among other reasons, is why government-controlled healthcare in the US would be a massive mistake.

Did you know that, on the other hand, you can end-up in jail with federal charges if you lie to a politician?
Further, is it true that Google factors in whether sites have ads?
I shut all of my computers all the way off when I’m finished using them, which means I have to turn them on when I start using them.
Why on earth would I need, or want, generative AI to write simple documents for me? It takes me all of 1-2 minutes to write most emails (and the ones which take longer, an AI couldn't do). There's no onerous task here that the tool eases.

Moreover, I think that the world is a profoundly worse place if humans no longer actually communicate with each other, and just have a machine to it for them. This is an aesthetic preference so YMMV, but that's just a sad empty existence imo.
If those early people had boats or other means of floating along the coasts they easily could've found their way to present-day New Mexico during the time period in question with or without glaciers in North America. A single family or individual who managed to hug the coast to a point south of the glaciers could easily walk the width of the United States in under a year averaging only 10 miles per day. There is plenty of time for a nomadic person or group following game animals or just walking over the hill to see what they can see to cover the entire United States on foot in a short lifetime. If they have rafts, boats, or any other way of navigating waterways without drowning it is even easier. These people were not stupid and they likely were as curious as we are today. They didn't have the cool technologies that we have today or in the last 200 years but they had a deep knowledge of their environments and could read the landscapes, the skies, the animals, and the plants and understand a lot more than most of today could.

The real question needs to be about how far back we can go and say conclusively that humans built boats, hollowed logs, etc. and used those constructed contraptions to travel over water.
These aren't perfect, but to me they are startlingly good. Even after conversing for hours with ChatGPT now I'm still impressed. Its meme decoding appears to be at least on par with my own and maybe better. It's one thing for computers to be better at math, but for them to become better than me at ambiguous social interpretation is scary. What happens when algorithms become better than us at reading a room? Computer assisted schmoozing?
The issue I see with WSL all the time is long waits as things start up. I have no idea what it's doing, but it is painfully slow starting nearly anything up. It's like drive reads are one character at a time or something! Once it gets going, things are fine.
fta

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But, hey, if you're already paying the price of using protobuf in your projects for some other reason, then why not use it for config storage, too?
‘’’

seems, imo, to be the most important point. otherwise, using it as a config replacement seems suspect.
Kind of silly to ask Stability AI to block offensive use of Stable Diffusion. It's not like they have any control over what models people load into their own instances of it. The base model that they distribute is pretty clean, but even then how are you supposed to stop people from photoshopping hateful messages into them?
Racist content has a bearing on the marginalized races. Ignoring the casual hate on 4chan brought us GamerGate and Trump.
Linear Regression in 5 Ways
It's no longer enough to be a prompt engineer. You've got to be a superprompt engineer, and most companies only hire senior superprompt engineers right now.
Is this sarcasm? Hard to tell on the internet sometimes. Anyway:

* It's scary enough to be hit one time. It's no fun to have one's all passwords, accounts and keys stolen, and sometimes have files encrypted with a ransom demand on top of that.

* Ideally we'd like to have a secure-by-default world, where the mere act of installing a dependency or running a helper script doesn't compromise your whole system. We're almost there with our phones, we just need to rethink our desktops too.

Of course I don't say you should use containers/sandboxes. It's a tradeoff everyone has to make, but there are many reasons some people (me included) prefer to sandbox everything as much as reasonably possible.
The point is, though, that the loop doesn't close either way. If you can't let go of "this person just stopped talking to me one day," is it really any easier to let go of, "this person just told me they weren't going to talk to me anymore one day"?
... or the movie Alien? Altho that's also a kind of pregnancy.
What we learned making a plastic injection mold with a Chinese mold maker
The MBTA uses jet engines as giant hairdryers to melt snow off the Mattapan High Speed Line [0]. I’m not sure if it’s also serving as the prime mover, but even if not it’s still an interesting and unusual application.

[0] https://youtu.be/DL6jKOCeVec
HL-L2350DW checking in here. Zero complaints, zero issues. Just works.
You can read WaPo articles if you turn off Javascript.
I have to agree... I really like the side-notes to get more details/explanation. You can skip the side-notes to keep reading and stay on the main story, but get what normally would be included in parenthesis or otherwise as an in-line comment.... Best of both worlds here I think. If I actively maintained a blog, I'd probably steal this design! :-)
I agree, technically fascinating, but also... incredibly scummy. As if adtech didn't have enough invasive tools in their arsenal
Virtually any Linux distro can be turned into a managed OS.
Like the heat death of the universe, we'll have the spam death of the Internet.
That's a neat way of ensuring that time never jumps backwards on your system!

Reminds me of the same idea but applied in the opposite way in some train station clocks: Their second hands take slightly less than a minute to complete one rotation, after which they stop and wait for a signal sent from a central clock to be released simultaneously.

Making a clock run slightly slow or fast is much easier than making it run just about correctly :)
I see your point, but are they under this site mercy? This site is like a directory rather than a policy maker like app stores, it wont take % of any subscription for starter plus all the pros of lower development costs and what not. Say this site suddenly decided to remove your app? So what, your users can still go to your site and have the PWA, now if Apple decided to do the same to your app, good luck getting anyone to use it. Now is PWA the ultimate replacement? Certainly not, access to hardware, performance wise, games, you will still need them, but other than that, I think it’s a step forward.
Jo Nova has been peddling How to Lie with Statistics anti-AGW blog posts for decades for cash - that's not an ad-hominem, it's just a simple economic fact.

Her husband does more of the same when not talking up mysterious alternatives to Fourier Theory and other rabbit holes.

IF (big if) you bother to read the field you'll find her work out on the fringe and routinely debunked.

If you don't .. well, then you find yourself making nonsense comments defending the indefensible.

As for Ridd, he and Jennifer Marohasy don't make the compelling case for GBR health and anti-AGW that Sky News after dark claim they do when they misrepresent their work.

Ridd's specific complaints against reproducibility in GBR marine studies were answered thoroughly several times over, here, for example:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X1...
I've said as much as to one extra incentive (besides retrain cost) as to why openai has frozen the training period for post-2022. I think it's trying to generate as much data as possible before itself has contaminated its training set. They'll effectively have a monopoly over it; it's interestingly a rare example of "we can only do this once, then it's forever degraded". You really want a clean & discrete start.
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I did a very similar analysis with Llama 65B being trained on 5.6T tokens assuming token length of 4 characters and comparing with a quantized model size of ~38GB.

The 3% number was a conservative rounding of the same calculation, but retaining fp16 rather than quantizing to 4 bits.

Here's my original back of the napkin analysis:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36681440
What we need to do is build a progressive political orientation into all layers of the network, from site content moderation to actual packet routing. To quote Drew Devault, "no Nazis" is a better policy than "no politics".
Revisted 4chan the other day for the first time in years and it was awash in anti-semitic shit. Caricatures of jews with red eyes. It was interesting to see some of the threads taken over by AI generated cats killing nazis so the 4chan silliness was still there.
Indeed.

Admittedly lot of the Safari security concerns (like JIT) seem very extreme.
Yes. In an industry where PHI and PII must be protected at all costs, sometimes it makes more sense to build a desktop app.

That isn’t to say we only build desktop apps, far from it. But the skill set is needed.
The largest european airline does: https://help.ryanair.com/hc/en-us/categories/12488813755537-...?
Guess that depends on your definition of drama :-)

Neither Matz nor DHH have quit, let alone quit due to fighting over an operator:

https://www.mail-archive.com/python-committers@python.org/ms...
Grendel
This seems to be the direction they're heading with the recent Chromebook Plus announcement: https://blog.google/products/chromebooks/chromebook-plus/
I've read that the way to determine if your microwave is properly sealed is to put a phone inside of it, close the door, and then try calling it. I've been unable to get the phone to ring last time I did this ~12 years ago, though if there's some expected leakage, I suppose proximity to the cell tower is a factor
In my case, after one year and an half my HP printer auto-updated (without my consent) and bricked because I was using the ink from a different brand. This happened even if I didn’t subscribe to their shitty Hp instant ink offer.

I’ve immediately returned it, bought a Brother printer and I will avoid any HP product for the rest of my life.

I’m genuinely worried that companies will just perpetually try to get into dark patterns, until laws will be powerless against them. People should spend years in jail for coming up with ideas like these…
That's what I'm saying, though. It's all fun for me. Whenever people talk about boilerplate as if it's an onerous requirement, I can't relate. Because I enjoy writing even the most mundane code.

Right now, I think machine generation of code is not usable because you can't trust it. The current tools are known to confidently give wrong answers, and accordingly I don't trust them (same as I wouldn't trust a human teammate who did that). But I think that's a problem which will be solved, and once that happens it'll be quite simple. Developers who use such tools will outcompete those who don't, so everyone will have to adapt or die.

I'm not worried about not having a job, because I have been in the tech world long enough to know you have to be ready to adapt. I'll adapt, and I'll keep on trucking. But I do think that I will stop enjoying my job, and that makes me sad.
Can that be done without disabling JIT for the rest of us? My app would benefit greatly from JIT compilation, and it's always been a bummer that it can't realize its full performance potential on iOS.