skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently, performance is hypothetical. This and DRAM both work by charging up a little capacitor; this tech uses tunnelling so that the capacitor can be very highly isolated. That's why it doesn't discharge.

The smaller the capacitor, the faster it can charge/discharge. This tech has only been tested at sizes ~1000x large than the state of the art, and the speed advantage assumes it scales perfectly with the scaling laws. Reality is never that kind, but it might be mostly that kind.

It's still theoretical, though. There might be some manufacturing quirk that makes it not work as well at small sizes. Defects that don't matter now might be huge at that scale. If power requirements creep up, they may kill longevity, which may require them to sacrifice speed... everything has to go right, or it can become a balancing act.

Assuming everything goes great, it's still somewhat more complex than DRAM- more layers. It will certainly cost more than conventional RAM, but with ICs in particular it's very hard to know if that will be 10x more or .1% more.
Interesting. My initial feeling is this is weird - acl in ORM. But it kinda makes sense with a second thought. Rules are closer to the source of the problem (schema). It can probably remove lots of headaches securing things at an upper layer. Not sure how well this scales when you have tons of rule though.

Is there any plan for Drizzle support?
European Telecommunications Standards Institute Discloses Data Breach
> nonterrestrial networks made up of low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites and uncrewed aerial vehicles

I get the LEO part, but UAVs?! Unless they mean balloons maybe, I don’t think UAV is any useful, as they cannot be part of an infra.
The ad space is data. If you chose the right categories you can reasonably identify someone. The whole purpose of behavioral advertising is to identify groups, you can make those groups =1 if your clever. Look up deanonymization. It's one of those problems that also affect researchers because it's hard to keep db data anonymous too.
> $17k should be in the affordable range if you make $100k.

Hmm, I'd disagree.

$100K salary takes home $78K, i.e. $6,500/mo.

I don't know that a watch that costs nearly 3 months of every cent of my take home pay is "in the affordable range".
Can you expand more on the ffi piece? Using CGO has never been fun. Will this expose threads and allow for C interop that is easier to reason about? Can I dream of using this version of Go for all of my "wrap this C lib in a nicer Go experience" use-cases?
It references previous famous blogposts. Much like "$THING considered harmful" titles. You'd also have a hard time working with computers in the modern day without running into unicode.
If you look at the number of official government announcements, emergency broadcasts, breaking news, communications by politicians and various state and local bodies etc. from all over the world that are posted exclusively on platforms like Facebook and Twitter, you can easily make a case that free access to them is necessary.
Promoters claim self driving cars are safer than human drivers.

This is based on a rosy interpretation that deflects the blame for most of the accidents they are involved in.

Self driving cars are in accidents much more frequently than human drivers. However, most of these accidents are rear end collisions --- naturally blamed on the human driver.

But the reason human drivers rear end self driving cars is the fact that these cars are programmed to hit the brakes any time they can't comprehend the current situation --- which apparently happens quite a bit.

The reality is, human drivers can't comprehend or anticipate a driverless car hitting the brakes for no apparent reason.
Why would OpenAI want to make a phone?
>The kind of person that spends $17k on an Apple Watch

On any watch.
ACTH is used to test for primary & secondary adrenal insuficiency yes? It can indicate where on the HPA axis is damaged? What effect does Cortisol insuficiency have on vagus/autonomic nervous function? Can hydrocortisone and ACTH supplementation be used to improve damaged HPA axis?
Odd phrasing, but: the part where I've worked on OpenType parsing for decades and love seeing people with a passion for digital typefaces make new and creative tools in that space. Typically folks don't stop working on a cool tool after they write a blog post, they're still refining and extending, so you never know how far someone is trying to take a tool without asking them.
Ask HN: Hasn't Microsoft done the same thing with their office suite monopoly?
You’d probably still need an L1 cache. L2 and L3 might be superfluous or you could have massive L2/L3 caches made with this rather than traditional SRAM that sit internally within the CPU to avoid the memory bus. Contention for the memory bus could also be a reason to still have SRAM caches that are slower than main memory.

Shifts like this are so impactful it’s hard to predict exactly what good designs will look like until we’ve had 5-10 years hands on for the industry to shake out how the Hw topology will looks like (maybe more since HW dev cycles prevent fast iteration and testing of ideas)
I have great respect for what actors bring to a story.

The benefits of isolation do not negate the benefits of collaboration.

The difference will be that both ends of the spectrum will be possible.

Individuals will be able to do it all.

But people will continue to be able to collaborate with anyone. Co-writers, actors, set designers, etc.

An actor who brings a lot could now inhabit several characters in the same story. Or every character!

A creative set designer is no longer limited to found or built sets.

Starting with one writer, there will be no limits on tasks they can do, or who they collaborate with, and how they divide up the work.

Collaborations of all kinds will continue.

But teams will generally be much tighter.
Electronic watches can last a long time too. My 40+ year old Casio scientific calculator watch still works.

The biggest problem with longevity of modern portable electronics (watches, phones, etc) is that they usually use the internet. That generally means they need security updates when bugs are found, protocol updates as the net evolves, and sometimes they depend on specific network services that the provider drops.

Sometimes the electronics themselves fail. For example I've got a Casio MG-510 guitar [1] that I bought in the late '80s. It still works great as an electric guitar, but its MIDI functionality no longer works.

From what I've read this is almost certainly due to a bunch of bad electrolytic capacitors. Someday I'll have a go at replacing the capacitors, which other people have reported fixed theirs.

[1] https://spinditty.com/instruments-gear/The-Casio-Midi-Guitar...
> It's interesting that the state in many circumstances cannot supply exculpatory testimony on your behalf, even if they have it.

Really? How do you mean?
Is it something like this manipulation device that fools the "pulser" in the pump to alter the price?

Couple reports over last years from Orlando, Texas etc with a cheap homemade device being used...

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/05/24/gas-pump-...
With this tool: no.

With a next-gen tool: if you do some pre-processing on the images, quite possibly.
Purism doesn't do anything to secure the connection between their supplier and themselves, so I don't think I would consider them the best example: https://www.reddit.com/r/Purism/comments/my8u2l/psa_librem_1...
At $100k per year many people can probably have whatever they want in life after a few years. Why not pop $17k on a watch? Of course this particular one is a bad choice, but buying a good watch could be considered an investment.

Probably affordable was a bit of a stretch, I meant that it's not out of the question of buying, like a $50k Rolex.
My idea seems more generic (or less specific) than the topic, perhaps it is of use:

1) The number of people with control over you should be as small as possible.

2) The number of people held responsible for your actions should also be as small as possible.

3) The number of people trusted with your security should also be as small as possible.

If you are going to give up control in favor of convenience you should carefully consider if it is worth it and for how long. Control also means you can pay a huge price at any time. There is a certain risk for the deal to suddenly not be worth it.

If you are going to have others be responsible for your writings and actions you should also carefully consider if it is worth it. The responsible thing to do could be to preemptively shut you down when in doubt. The legal situation/law may also change and require critical analysis of things you wrote long ago. Each word you write is a ticket in the false-positive lottery.

Then when all of the above works out fine you still have to trust people, all of your documents may end up publicly available after some breach out of your control or encrypted behind a ransom paywall. It is going to be different from putting things on usb drives and keeping them in your vault physically.
My thoughts exactly. Chinese phones have great repairability and come a lot cheaper than this. And advancements have kind of stagnated so it's starting to make sense to buy older models. For 700 I don't care if it's repairable because I could've bought 3 separate phones for that price.
> Self driving cars are in accidents much more frequently than human drivers

Source? (I’ll believe it for Cruise.)

> human drivers can't comprehend or anticipate a driverless car hitting the brakes for no apparent reason

Human drivers tailgate. If you have a safe cushion in front of you, an erratic stop won’t cause a collision.
Why are we wasting any of our time with concept cars…
Not really; Cloud Run is just a container with port 8080 exposed; there's no special code or dependencies.

You can move it easily to AWS App Runner, Azure Container Apps, or your own K8s cluster.

I build for clients using Cloud Run (faster to deploy during testing), but then ship to AWS App Runner or ECS for customers.
You're talking about running image detection on the video footage and correlate with payment system receipts?

You could probably hack that together in python in 15 minutes, but I doubt there's commercial software offering that functionality. Which means nobody (outside a digital forensics firm) is doing that, and certainly not for $60 worth of gas.

And still, that requires the station even noticing missing inventory. I really wonder how long people have been using that hack, you'd probably check for leaks in the underground tank before checking whether your pumps have been compromised...
Ask HN: [USA] Why is it impossible to schedule a doctor's appointment?
I have a very good employer-sponsored health insurance plan for a national insurance company with tons of in-nework doctors.

I've been looking to schedule an appointment for a minor issue, and have called over a dozen offices in a very populated metro area. The answers I get range from "there are 0 appointments, try to call back to get lucky for a cancellation" to "Our first available is 6+ months out"

Am I going crazy? Or is this the new normal? I really don't want to go to urgent care or the ER for such a minor issue (but it does require an in-person doctor visit)
> Is a spreadsheet even necessary on the go? Might be better to just have a calculator and store values in a text file?

You might be right technically, but one of the features of a spreadsheet is that it stores formulae. (Like a programmable calculator.) Even better, it does it spatially (which fits the way many people remember things), so after a while you can train yourself to put "kilometers driven here, amount of liters of gas there, and your gas usage per 100km is over there" etc. You can do this in a text file, too, of course (see e.g. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/calc/Emb...), but a text file is essentially 1-dimensional, which may be a drawback here.
Interesting. I diffed the original with the current. They added this paragraph:

> On Monday, they were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their research.

And added "Long Overlooked" to the title.
So, if I understand you correctly, it was less a question "does it do x?" and more an indirect form of "hey OP, would be cool if it did X" ?
Am I understanding this correctly?

Someone did a plant survey in Angola in order to determine the ratios of bioavailable strontium isotopes in the region, and that data is to be used in comparison to the ratios of strontium isotopes found in "human enamel" (teeth? bones?) in the skeletons of slaves? And this data can suggest to researchers the origins of individual slaves, and at a larger scale can tell us about the mechanics of the slave trade?
There's a huge difference between "pictures of letters" and "writing text" though. Ask stable diffusion to write text and it'll generate hilarious weird-looking results. But, ask it to generate individual letters (e.g. "Show me an ornate uppercase letter b") and it'll do that for you with (mostly) no problems.
You need to read up on how online advertising works. Or better yet spend a couple of dollars and try it yourself. None of what you are saying makes any sense.
There was a sparc port. I don't think it was ever public though.
"Rituals of all sorts have no doubt taken place amidst the stones, not the least of which is the modern tourist rite of taking selfies."

I like this reminder that we're just passing through.
Like, say, serving a million MMO users?
And if you do the money gets clawed back in the bankruptcy that comes immediately after the company has handed over all their free cash.
This kind of release schedule totally ruins the entire premise of their products. The Fairphone 3 is barely four years old and you already can't get replacement parts for it anymore. And for what? Only because they slightly changed the chassis, instead of offering a new base version with more modern components. On top of that, the 3 will also lose security updates in 12 months. So you will be forced to trash your phone after 5 years tops. Compare that to Apple, who still support their seven year old iPhone 7 with parts and security updates. The problem is that a "real" Fairphone, that actually stands up to its values, is a terrible business idea. So no profit oriented company will ever be able to fulfill that promise.
The default connotations can vary a bit between countries, I noticed.
This isn't a concept car.
> There is a world of difference between poor enforcement and completely legalizing theft, which is what OP was advocating for.

I wasn't really weighing in on the OP, I was weighing in on the person I replied to:

> The entire point of living in a society is that the government maintains a monopoly on force, and therefore can provide security to it's people.

Which is not to say that that NEVER happens but it seems clear the monopoly on force is used as much if not moreso to maintain a status quo that benefits the power structure that wields it. "The sounds of children screaming have been removed" comes to mind, where police are in a place they are needed and resourced appropriately to respond and simply don't, because they don't have to. And the flip-side of that is, you have clear cut cases of people being harassed by cops because they're homeless, or outright killed by them for stealing food because they literally cannot pay for it.

There is absolutely a need in society for a police force, but our current one has demonstrated it's inability to meet that need over and over.
Yes, and?

GC was a kernel service, and there were low level primitives, including Assembly level Lisp forms.

Parenthesis all the way down to microcode.
Wrong characters for the LCARS-like interface!
Mandatory arbitration is deeply problematic but that isn't the problem.

Some better sources :

Katherine V.W. Stone & Alexander J.S. Colvin. (2015). The arbitration epidemic: Mandatory arbitration deprives workers and consumers of their rights (Briefing Paper 414). Economic Policy Institute. https://www.epi.org/publication/the-arbitration-epidemic/

Sternlight, J. R. (2005). Creeping Mandatory Arbitration: Is It Just? Scholarly Works, 57(280), 1631–1676.

- arbitration tends to award lower judgements than the courts

- it's harder to find a lawyer as a result (contingency is riskier)

- arbitors are not required to follow the law. There is almost no meaningful appeal even for substantive mistakes.

- arbitration is more informal and thus less procedural protection

- arbitration combined with class action waivers mean that each individually aggrieved person must sign up.

There are many other problems and sources but that's a decent start.
> what does democracy have to do with the value of innocence

The jury is the democratic organ. The value of innocence is what motivates the undemocratic check of a unanimity requirement. You complained about one person upending the system. That’s the cost of valuing innocence.

> the tyranny of the minority is largely considered undemocratic

Yes, supermajority requirements are not perfectly democratic. Nobody argued juries are perfect democracies. Just that they’re more democratic than systems in which a judge decides everything.

The value of innocence is technically orthogonal; you could instruct a judge to bias one way or another. But that’s structurally guaranteed by a jury in a way it cannot with bureaucrats, even a panel of them.
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>Americans finally have some privacy rights. Permission Slip makes telling companies to delete or not sell your data simple. Really.
I agree, this is absolutely true. The first time I was introduced to this was actually an excellent old Qt Quarterly, wherein they discussed good API design. Thankfully, it seems most of that information is still online.

https://wiki.qt.io/API_Design_Principles#The_Boolean_Paramet...

> An obvious solution is to replace the bool parameters with enum types. This is what we've done in Qt 4 with case sensitivity in QString. Compare:

str.replace("USER", user, false); // Qt 3
str.replace("USER", user, Qt::CaseInsensitive); // Qt 4

It's undoubtedly easy to forget how great Qt was nowadays, after its changed hands many times and honestly lost it's lustre. If anyone remembers what GTK+2 used to look like, it was really funny comparing Qt APIs to GTK2 and Win32. (The GTK developers definitely improved GTK+2 throughout its long life though, so nearer the end GTK+2 was a fair bit less awful to use IMO.) Either way, in my opinion, they were quite ahead of the curve in terms of API design, and I found their API design guides to be immensely helpful. To this day, I also agree with their principles on e.g. naming getters.
AI is really becoming the new meta or crypto. Suddenly everybody is thinking it will change the world and be integrated with every existing technology we have.

People have to stop buying into these fabricated tech hypes.
In the article one of the attendants says "I hit stop on Pump 3 and nothing happens" so they are at least seeing the pump is on and running. Whatever is happening must be either locking the attendant out or is leaving the attendants machine in a bad state with the pump running switch "on" so to speak.
I wonder if it's actually NFC. It'd be interesting to see what a Flipper Zero would come up with.
I still haven't figured what a vector DB is, beyond something something AI.
Your argument is reasonable, however, you haven't explained why a purpose-built vector database is more scalable than any other DB with vector search support. Why is Elastic much slower than Pinecone? Is it because Pinecone is optimized in ways that Elastic cannot be? Is it because the Pinecone team has much better understanding on how to optimize vector search algorithms? or is it something else?
How is he selling hopes when he has like 4 products that have revenue?
Instagram is the same, right?
hey HN, repo is here: https://github.com/xataio/pgroll

Would love to hear your thoughts!
on purpose, they could sue me otherwise
I don’t think the studios see it your way though. There were quotes from executives where they wanted to essentially starve out the writers and come to more agreeable terms for the studios.

Just last quarter they were bragging how the strikes were saving them money.

I legitimately don’t think the studios wanted to agree till they saw their next quarter numbers.

And I guess maybe I shouldn’t say “the studios”. They apparently had a couple holdouts in their corner which caused negotiations to take longer than the majority of the studios would have wanted
This is not the place for starting a discussion about whether context and subtext should be implicit or explicit in written English. That's what https://philosophy.stackexchange.com is for.
Here is what they should be looking at instead:

https://www.rideapart.com/news/618464/erex-one-stroke-engine...

This is the simplest, lightest, most efficient ICE yet.
I totally understand that, statistics really is a double edged sword. I think a good journalist can do a lot of wonderful things with data. If we end up living in a world where journalists are banned from using data at all, that would be very disappointing.
Your comment must be more about the environment of the web browser you are using?

The site is a staticly published version of a Pluto notebook, which uses modern web features to enable interactivity, reactivity, code syntax highlighting, etc. etc. Tradeoffs to enable those features but requires enabling your browser features. The underlying file that the notebook is based on is just a basic `.jl` file, so you could happily run the notebook from a Julia instance instead of the browser-based notebook environment.

Julia itself will be happy to run however you'd like it to of course.
One of Go's big selling points is the avoidance of the "red-blue problem" (https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...). The standard Go implementation does that by using lightweight
"goroutines" that automatically suspend themselves whenever they do some operation that might block - there's no need to use an OS-level thread for each thread of control.

I wonder how the authors plan to accomplish a similar thing while remaining fully FFI-compatible.
The app:

https://permissionslipcr.com/
>I found a few months ago that the gpt-4 code interpreter is capable of converting a black and white png of a glyph to an svg

:) Easy there, let's not make all the naysayers who say it only just predicts plausible words sweat.

Your phrasing almost makes it sound like you're sharing a clear example of it analyzing and completing a complex task correctly, while perfectly understanding what it's doing.

Perhaps we should say it only just predicted words that are plausible responses to someone asking to do that, while also predicting plausible words someone might say in response to an error message along the way. It might not actually be doing any converting, just predicting words and tokens without really doing anything.

My favorite part of its predictive capabilities is how it is able to predict the other half of a conversation that literally goes "didn't work, try again", "didn't work, try again", "still didn't work, try again", "all right you finally fixed it good job" - without even telling it why it didn't work or quoting the error message. Somehow it is still able to predict the other half of the conversation so that it ends up with "finally, good job!"

Who knew that to get results that look like it knows what it's doing, it's enough to predict what could make someone say that!

We are truly living in the golden age of statistical prediction that does not involve any degree of thinking, analysis, or understanding.

Truly our age of applied statistics is going better than anyone could have, er, "predicted". :)
Similarly you could ask why we're wasting time building software prototypes. Just like in software, building prototypes in other industries can uncover unknown unknowns, solicit feedback and help build marketing hype.
What Excel calls the Data Validation feature?