skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rancher Desktop is great!

We use it as a free replacement for Docker Desktop and it works very well.

Unfortunately, we cannot use the Kubernetes part of it because it comes with "steve" (used for dashboards), which uses and blocks (!) the same ports as our application, and those ports are not configurable.
So, please please solve this request here: https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/18...
Could’ve been a hoodie!
Not a misunderstanding, mostly rumors [1]. When Loon shut down [2], they made a non-assertion pledge for roughly 200 patents originated during the project's lifetime [3]. Part of the platform was an LTE stack [4], and those patents aren't in the non-assertion pledge. The interesting bit is:

> To support ongoing innovation in the High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) communications industry, Loon transferred a number of stratospheric ballooning and networking patents to partners working in similar fields.

Hard to say for certain of course without any public records with regards to an IP transaction or patent/FCC filings showing the transfer of patent assignees. Google and Fidelity invested $1B in SpaceX previously (2015), which leads us to the thesis that Loon died because of Starlink.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37806035

[2] https://x.company/projects/loon/

[3] https://storage.googleapis.com/x-prod.appspot.com/files/Loon...

[3] https://thenextweb.com/news/google-celebrates-project-loons-...
In this video[1] he mentions +- 9V tolerance of the switches: “each connection can pass plus minus nine volts at fifty megahertz and are tested up to a hundred milliamps”

[1] https://youtu.be/_k0aKM68Xl4?si=xjVgkdbT7TK3dkTD
Thanks! I thought 10MW average off a 16 MW turbine seemed optimistic.
"You know, like when you're driving in your car."

"He uses "you're/your" correctly! Get him, he must be a bot!"
Specifically while doing this exercise, I imagine that the additional padding and weight spreading is more comfortable than doing so barefoot, since the goal is to create lifting force between the floor under your your feet and the cable via your hands. I also imagine that many astronauts do frequently "kick off" objects and walls to start their propulsion/movement around the space station.

More generally - I often wear socks and slippers around the house while otherwise half dressed, because my toes get cold. Warm feet is a luxury.
> The over the horizon satellite uplink the entire town shared could only allocate 56k speeds to each client and had horrific packet loss.

I found your uplink. IDK the date of the photo.

https://uploads.alaska.org/blog/Carl-Johnson-Blog/Kotzebue/_...
Who do you use?
TFA's author is arguing that it seems to be possible to do this, but as a font-author he finds it disreputable (you have to read to the end). He's arguing, I think, that fonts only became copyrightable when font files came along, with the arrival of PCs with GUIs. And that what became copyrightable was a font file.

He argues that this is a weird anomaly; and I agree. But I draw a different conclusion; the introduction of copyright on font files was seriously annoying to me at the dawn of the PC age, because fonts were among the first digital objects that were copyrightable (that I had access to). With the exception of fonts, I could copy and re-purpose anything I found. I suspect fonts may have been the battering ram that led to the present situation of copyright maximalism.

I don't mean to talk down the effort, judgement and skill that goes into creating a typeface; but I've never had much time for maximalists. I'd go back to author's lifetime, and I wouldn't allow immortal "persons" (corporations) to have copyrights.
Craft similar to painting which AI has overtaken. What we consider programming will go the similar route.
You can also express the "programs as state machines" view in terms of programming language constructs, namely monads (for Time, State and Non-Determinism). If you take a strictly mathematical view of the topic you'll call these 'modalities' or 'modal operators' instead but it's the same deal.
So basically app developers should build low bandwidth apps - that would be a win for high bandwidth users too. Everything transfers massive amounts of data exhausting even gigabit fibre fast.
> Professional video cameras aren't stacking multiple exposures to construct a single frame

We are talking about video.

> and don't have anything like the computational power of the iPhone 15

They have far more, because the processing is done in post with powerful workstations. For stills you have a point because of multiframe techniques you can't easily do in post, but that doesn't work at all for video.

> repeating abstract theoretical points over and over again

You don't have to. There are dozens of practical comparisons done on dozens of smartphones over the past years. No one has really done it on the iPhone 15 (yet) because it just came out, but there is no reason why it would be different. People have done the comparison with the iPhone 14 and even without log formats results are far worse in anything but perfect light, even compared to hobbyist-grade video cameras costing less than the phone. This will be even worse for log video by the nature of the logarithmic transformation.
Oh wow, that's super fascinating. Definitely not what I learned in school. Thanks!

For others: the video explains that not only does our tongue not merely detect a single "bitter" but rather ~25 distinct versions of "bitter", but that it also seems to respond to flavors that were previously believed to only have an olfactory response.

And so that definitely answers my question as to how ammonium chloride might simultaneously be picked up by what we classify as sour receptors, but also might be a different kind of sour. But at the same time, the article still provides nothing to suggest it is a "sixth" basic taste -- e.g. if we detected 10 kinds of sour (I'm making that number up) it might be an 11th type?
>Now we need app developers to log off their fiber-served wifi when writing messenger apps, and log into a high-latency, low-bandwidth, high-packet-loss network instead so Messages will actually open instead of whatever it's trying to do to upload my location history and download contact pictures...

FWIW, it's perfectly possible to simulate arbitrary levels of bandwidth/latency with a variety of tools even while having a fiber connection. For example, Macs have long had the "Network Link Conditioner" tool as a free utility included with the Additional Tools for Xcode package, which then allows simulating configurable bandwidth, latency, and packet loss. There are similar tools for Linux as well, tc is powerful. Most firewalls with quality traffic shapers also allow at least the first two at the network level, I used that on OPNsense to simulate a VSAT connection with 750ms latency and 4/.5 to a specific VLAN so that we could just connect systems and then see how applications worked. It's been awhile but it was eye opening. A nice thing about that approach is that then you can just connect devices to a given VLAN, which makes testing back and forth super easy. Wired is trivial of course, have a switch where each port is a different test VLAN, but even for wireless if you have WAPs that support PPSK/MPSK, then hopping between test VLANs just means reconnecting with a different password. Simulating packet loss with a network device seems the be more niche and complicated and I don't know if any firewalls put a GUI on it. tc queue disciplines can be used though so any Linux device with two network ports can sit inline and modify the traffic to simulate loss/latency, an RPi would be fine for that.

I agree it'd be nice if more app developers would test under less than ideal conditions, particularly since it's so trivial to do so. I think most simply don't think about it though, same as many GUIs (web or local) not testing for stuff like various types of color blindness.
With all these models trained on a corpus of texts from the Internet[1], what's going to happen in 5 years when the internet is full of text generated after January 2022, the current cutoff data for ChatGPT? As an increasing proportion of training data is either pre-2002 or LLM-generated confabulations, when will it all collapse in on itself? Do these companies have any plans for how they are going to get accurate and factual input after their output dominates?

1. Corpora: https://commoncrawl.org/, https://www.english-corpora.org/
Say what you will about Elon but man Starlink and Spacex really seem like amazing products!
AFAIK it works like that in most modern languages with pointers: Rust, Zig, even Go will implicitly deref pointers on attribute access.
My point is that I've seen very, very few situations (I can think of two in my entire career so far) where a "hyperscale NoSQL database" was actually the right choice to solve the problem. I find that a lot of folks turn to these databases for imagined scale needs, not actual hard problems that need solving.
You’re totally right of course. Thanks for the feedback, just what I needed to hear.
Is this a serious argument in favor of doing nothing to protect children because they're already being screwed up? "Why not let it get worse"?

Plenty of stuff is already restricted as "adults only", it wouldn't be unprecedented to also restrict this. I can imagine various arguments for it - for example, "since it's generated by AI nobody can be held accountable if the content is inappropriate for children and there is no way to ensure the AI adheres to content restrictions, so it can't be shown to children"
Shapes Constraint Language (Shacl)
There's plenty of abstraction libraries available including for example webgpu. Why do you want immediate mode specifically? It's not a very useful balance to strike between just using an actual 2d library vs. learning how shaders work which you're going to need for anything slightly non-trivial
So we will have two providers in the near future: SpaceX and AST SpaceMobile
> What frequencies does this operate at?

That part is answered on the website:

> Direct to Cell works with existing LTE phones wherever you can see the sky. No changes to hardware, firmware, or special apps are required, providing seamless access to text, voice, and data.

It's also notable that this service isn't available yet, it starts (optimistically) sometime in 2024, probably very late 2024.
They pay tech company salaries? That's about it for why it's in FAANG.
Cameras, cops and paranoia: How Amazons surveillance alters neighborhoods
The legal term for the glyphs is "typeface" [1]. Last time I looked at this, it also implied that emoji images that are used in a font, for example Apple's emojis, were potentially not copyrightable either, at least when used as text [2] (and not for example, as a UI element or by themselves on a t-shirt). I recall that at the time, Telegram had completely copied Apple's emoji images into their own font, but I'm not sure if they still do.

[1] https://nwalsh.com/comp.fonts/FAQ/cf_13.htm
[2] https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=2ae2643d-f307...
Password managers completely solve #3 and #4. They also largely solve #1, unless the leak happens from a company that stored them in cleartext or base64. But since the password was unique, it doesn't matter in practice except for that single backwater site so who cares. Not a threat.

Password managers don't solve #4. But you left out the huge one, losing access to the account. Which for most people is a larger risk than all the others put together.

For just about every person and account, the near-zero chance of getting personally spearphished is much less relevant than the risk of complete loss of access.
A slightly improved approach is being used for some modern robots.[1]
If you have independent split screws on each side, you can drive the thing sideways on hard ground and still steer. Sort of.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG8J6H5C0Ik
Both comments that you've made in this story have been horribly off the mark. The reason for reusable rockets is: they're cheaper than non-reusable rockets. As a result, no one can compete with SpaceX's pricing. And that other comment where you implied that SpaceX doesn't have much of a target market only demonstrates that you have no idea what the quality of internet service is outside of metropolitan areas or how many people live in those areas.
>It’s the N of the FAANG

Which was 1.) Basically a stock market thing when the term was coined by Jim Cramer and 2.) Netflix was doing a bunch of cutting edge things with tech to enable its streaming platform at one point. Now, a streaming platform isn't something you just buy off-the-shelf but it's not a particular differentiator, relative to content, either.
There's only a few thousand satellites up in orbit right now. Maybe 4000-5000? Half of them are on the other side of the planet at any given time... The service is already strained in a lot of areas. It's not gonna be easy to give bandwidth to another few million phones.
It just struck me that using Disney character names (given Disney's record on copyright) for Debian suddenly feels jarring? (saying that as a 20+ year linux verteran).
Imagine if they were compensated much more and therefore could take on a lighter case load. It's such a sad reality how the people who do important jobs in society are squeezed to the point of breaking, while so much wealth is hoarded so by few.
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Yeah, it says so in my AT&T contract as well. And I was concerned when I first signed up. But I haven't ever actually seen it happen.
'iterative statistics', what exactly is 'learning'
Greed is part of human nature, sure, but so is empathy and selflessness and a sense of justice. We certainly didn't need to build a society that rewards people for giving into one of their most selfish and cruel impulses.
> Before Apple revoked Nvidia's certificates, they in fact did support CUDA on Apple hardware. You needed an Nvidia GPU to run it, but Apple hardware and software is a perfectly usable client:

> Now you're going to yell at me about how this is an unrealistic workflow, but plugging your iPhone or Mac into a TV, DAC or external drive isn't.

So how large do you think the market is for an external GPU on a phone? If there were a market for it, why isn’t anyone doing it on an Android phone?

We are talking about iPhones - not Macs. If you can engineer an Nvidia breakout box for ARM based Macs, there is nothing stopping you from turning off System Integrity Protection and installing an unsigned driver and you doing it yourself.

> Failing that, Nvidia still maintains BSD-style drivers if Apple did let them install their drivers.

You can turn off SIP right now and do it, good luck getting that working on an ARM based Mac where even Apple hasn’t architected a method yet to use third party GPUs.

> Sure. They exist, nothing on the technical side stops Apple from implementing it. My point is not that they must add the feature, but that it is totally possible if Apple didn't arbitrarily limit userspace drivers. Draw your own conclusions about it, I couldn't give less of a shit.

If there were a market for it on phones why doesn’t it exist for Android?

> If changing the iPhone to Thunderbolt and supporting eGPUs in software is equivalent to a "Homermobile" in your head, get a grip.

Yet no Android supports an external breakout box for eGPUs. Maybe it is a Homermobile?

The iPad Pros do in fact support Thunderbolt.
For the same reason that C/C++ allow inline assembly? Languages come in roughly 3 speeds. Slow (e.g. python/R), mostly not slow (e.g. Java/Go), and not slow (e.g. C/Rust). If you want actually fast code (e.g. the speed of BLAS/FFTW etc) you need the combination of a not slow language, code generation, and often hand-coded assembly for the most performance critical parts.
SpaceX says FAA is wrong about Starlink satellite debris falling to Earth
There was a scene in the movie "Don't Look Up" where Leonardo DiCaprio's character talks about losing the family dog. He says, "I've never cried so much before." That was pretty much my experience after losing my first dog. I felt pretty terrible for a day or two, but the grief went down over a week or so. My wife also pushed pretty hard for getting a new puppy, which helped with the "empty house" feeling.
high-dimensional non-linear math
“Usually, at our age, we should be managers, not developers.”

There’s a lot of assumptions and bias in here.
Certain communities will, but it requires people have a third place to pick up good habits. Eg you probably won’t disconnect per a work goal, but Catholic groups have already instituted digital Lents for almost a decade already.
Ada, at least, uses begin...end in part because it prevents certain kinds of errors. In its syntax you have to specify what you are ending, reducing the risk of invalid matches and increasing the likelihood of the error report system guessing correctly what you intended. E.g.:

if X > 0 then
Y := 0;
end if;

Curly braces are shorter, but a close curly brace will match any open curly brace. Such is the nature of trade-offs.
Thank you :( Your words make sense and I appreciate it. I havent really cried much in the last 10 years, maybe 2 times. So it feels very weird. I just started crying in the car while driving thinking of this post, and that is really new to me.

I am very sorry about Abbi
Doesn’t seem like a fair comparison.
Attention is scarce. The Attention Economy is about allocation of scarce Attention.
It's not happening right now because Americans confuse Free Speech with Free Broadcast.

When everyone broadcasts what happens to Attention?
The upcoming version of Datoviz features an asynchronous low-level rendering protocol that works nicely with real-time data streaming. It allows you to send data to the GPU in real-time from any thread.
My ResQLink does not require a subscription.

https://www.acrartex.com/resqlink-personal-locator-beacons/
Those are great!
Found the term: https://cloud.google.com/terms/service-terms

> 7. Benchmarking. Customer may conduct benchmark tests of the Services (each a "Test"). Customer may only publicly disclose the results of such Tests if (a) the public disclosure includes all necessary information to replicate the Tests, and (b) Customer allows Google to conduct benchmark tests of Customer's publicly available products or services and publicly disclose the results of such tests. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Customer may not do either of the following on behalf of a hyperscale public cloud provider without Google's prior written consent: (i) conduct (directly or through a third party) any Test or (ii) disclose the results of any such Test.

It looks like that is less restrictive than it used to be. I found a blog post from last year mentioning an additional requirement to obtain Google's prior written consent prior to publishing (for all customers, not just fellow cloud providers) which no longer is included. https://cube.dev/blog/dewitt-clause-or-can-you-benchmark-a-d...
I think the vast majority of typefaces can’t really have legal protection from a creative stand point because they’re so close to each other that it’s incredibly hard to argue that they’re original content.

Just compare Inter vs Roboto vs San Francisco. Are they different? Technically yes. Are they different enough to allow for all three to be granted legal protection? I’d say no. And if you say yes, then it comes down to how different is different enough and the entire field becomes a legal nightmare
I've been eyeing Kairos [1] which is an OS lifecycle management system for k3s which looks like a nice way to deploy k3s.

[1]: https://github.com/kairos-io/kairos
> Fuck me that is dark.

I mean we all die eventually. It’s just a matter of when and how much joy and suffering will we encounter on the way. If you look at it as an optimization problem, dying early can be the better scenario.

Frankly there are fates worse than death. To suffer for years before dying is just messed up. I hope that when I go it will be relatively quick. I can only hope it will be relatively painless but I think I will only be able to get that in a hospital setting.
Makes sense. Thanks for the response!
Or you could use DynamoDB for basically free. One month of 1GB of storage, 1kb item size, 100,000 writes, and 100,000 reads, would be $0.39 on DynamoDB on-demand. A million writes and reads respectively would be $1.63. Strongly consistent reads'd make that $1.75, and transactional writes would make it $3.00
Make sure to hit up their IRC first, the friendly folks there will put you into the right path. Krita will always be special for me because I’ve put in a feature that I use all the time. So it will become special for you as well.
Yea there are services. I assume you can hit a vein based on your username?

Only thing I'd worry about is making sure you have extra drugs and know what to do in case your initial dose doesn't work. It can happen sometimes.
Also no refueling either.

Sometimes they adjust the angle of the front wing for better grip during the pitstop since this can't be changed by the driver from the cockpit (aero elements in F1 are strictly regulated) but it is rare in a race.

The only element the driver can activate is the rear flap for rear wing (DRS) that becomes active during special zones on the track for less drag to make overtaking possible.
And food, mortgage or rent, utilities, …
>Amazon being online only

Except for Whole Foods, lockers, admittedly small-scale experimentation in other retail, a fleet of logistics vehicles and partnerships...

Yes it's much more online than Walmart but it absolutely interacts a lot with the physical world.
I think believing random comments off of hacker news without verification or source makes questionable sense. The name "X" isn't unique (which is part of the problem with it) as you're exactly discovering.
My college textbook on AI from 20 years back considered a large enough set of if-else statements (ie: an expert system) as rudimentary AI. Now we'd call it a bunch of hard coded if-else statements but 40 years ago it was state of the art AI and 20 years ago it was worth including in a textbook.
Isn’t Volta only for JS?

I always recommend rtx.
Ok sure, I'm very familiar w the cattle vs pets analogy / meme -- but the (capitalized!) "Machine Cattle" made it seem like a reference to a particular software tool or product.
Not gonna happen. You need line of sight to the satellites.
> Most people aren't abstract thinkers. They are motivated by practical concerns.

Abstract thinking is motivated by practical concerns, namely being able to think comfortably about larger problems without being limited by one's capability for complex reasoning. Most people don't do it because they aren't used to, or they have never been taught how.
Be there.

My family recently had to put down one of my family's beagles who had been with us for 15 years. She was blind, could barely walk, and was having trouble keeping food down, and we decided it was time for her to go to prevent her from suffering. My father, my sister, and I were in the room all together when the vet put her to sleep, and me and my sister held her until she stopped breathing altogether. It hurt, and I keep crying every time I think about it, but OTOH I am absolutely certain us being there made her feel safe and calm, and made it easier for her to pass in peace. The fact that I was able to be there and say goodbye in her final moments is a memory that, although very painful, I treasure tremendously.
Found this lawn mover using similar strategy
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