skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting how for electronics projects, injection-molded enclosures can dominate non-R&D/salary costs unless scale is very large. Ie, the PCB, electronic components, SMT assembly are probably not that expensive, especially with some of the ops out of Shenzhen available. Shipping materials, shipping costs to you and the customer add cost. Unintentional radiator certification adds cost. Intentional radiator certification adds more. All these together might cost 10% of the injection mold.

One escape hatch is custom machined and printed ABS or metal enclosures, like from Polycase and Hammond. It is limiting and forces you to design around the enclosure, but is much cheaper for small/medium runs than injection molding. Ie a few hundred $USD upfront depending on turnaround time, enclosure size and material etc, then not much more than the plain enclosure per-unit.

If you are injection-molding, hopefully you can use a 3D printer to prototype, but you may still end up screwing up the first (or more) mold due to issues highlighted in this article.
It's not about "ownership", it's about parents having a right to raise their children how they see best. No one argues against parents naming their baby (well, some on the insane far-left do, going as far as to call gender assignments at birth being wrong).

A parent's job is to raise their child well, to keep them safe, healthy and morally grounded so they can develop into good human adults. Their job isn't to sit on the sidelines and let the state make decisions in these arbitrary situations. Otherwise the only "child ownership" will be the State owning our children, in the long run.
IANAL, but if the license isn’t materially compatible (which perhaps is the case for LGPL and MPL, I don’t know MPL enough to say), I would imagine this is the only legal way to do it. When I contribute to a project, I release my code on the agreed upon license. You can’t change that without my permission.
Where do you get the energy to move that amount of mass?
Tora: A Tool-Integrated Reasoning Agent for Mathematical Problem Solving
Thanks for noticing -- I'll make a small update now
There is no one true meaning to the word meditation.

We can say there's real meditation, and we can discuss what that means to no end.

But simply the word meditation means different things depending on which stage you're at. The trick is not to be contrarian like you're coming off despite your probably best intentions, but rather to accurately assess what each meditator needs at their stage of the practice, and see how your words can propel them like the wind on a sail.
Is it? It would've been a great joke if it were true that \0 can arrive out of order in a ZeroMQ socket. But as it can't, it's just confusing.
To Fight Big Tech, We Must Seize the Means of Computation
I think your on to something, but I don't think it's just media. It's something more culturally wide spread.
The WSJ had an interesting feature on the efforts by US investors (particularly Jeff Yass) on lobbying to keep Tik Tok in the US:

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/jeff-yass-tiktok-bytedan...
Works with international 17 digit VINs as well
A couple more examples of urgent but not important:

- Buying a pumpkin for Halloween: the stores are going to sell out of pumpkins and Halloween is going to pass, so it is urgent to buy a pumpkin while there are still pumpkins.

- Commenting on a controversy on social media: very quickly, the attention will move on to the next thing and you will lose the opportunity to comment on this thing.
So, Pepsi did indeed make the right decision to spend $1 Million on their logo redesign!
"... know both the first and second place bid prices."

Really?

Maybe for a public auction but done using Google's hidden "black box" system, how would you know that the second place bidder wasn't Google?
on #5 - you can certainly move your DNS zones to a proper registry/DNS service company for between around $0 and $10-$20 (for all 6) a year. This will let you have complete control of MX and all other records, and you can still use whatever site hosting providers you like. i feel like the cost of a standalone DNS service small negligible compared to the name fee itself and it's an easy and beneficial one to unbundle from everything else.

as to the rest - just because you are right about it doesn't make you not paranoid
Good plan!

I didn't have that option as I was born shortly before Douglas Engelbart did the "mother of all demos". Mice hadn't really been invented yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

Sadly for me I crippled my right arm in a bicycle crash in April and now it's quite painful to use it for a mouse, so I use it in my left hand mainly now... but I am working on it.
Pieter teaches me a lot through his writing. The books ZeroMQ and Confessions of a Necromancer still sit on my bookshelf.
> that the firm you'd hire would come with a built-in person to look at your design and say "no, this isn't gonna work, try again."

Reputable product manufacturers actually do have that person.
Could you give a few examples of what you mean as "a lot of legal scholars have had their doubts"?

A key question is if different aspect of a work should be considered separate independent works communicating with each other or as a single copyrighted work. In games people often talk about DLL files (in terms of modding), game content like images, video and sound, game engines, game and sever code. How much and what aspects can be modified without the permission of the copyright author?

There are generally three arguments I have heard in favor of a "single work". One is that everything will eventually be copied into memory, and thus while independently they may have individual copyrights the combined work which the author calls "The Game" is a single work.

The second argument is that all this technical details doesn't matter for a judge or jury. What matter is what those people perceive as a single work. Technical aspects like did the copying arrive there through the internet, a CD, a DLL file, or what have you isn't that important in determining the question about a single work vs interoperability between different independent works. It is all about the experience for the end-user.

The third argument I hear is that DDL files or programs that dependent on them are not independent. One can not run them independently, they are generally not developed independently, nor can the "single work" even start if parts are missing. Putting files into DDL is just a form of splitting the work into multiple files for technical convenient reasons, which is not a basis to form a legal distinction between a single work and multiple independent works. If the technical aspect would allow this then anything sent over the internet would loose copyright, since content is split into thousands IP packages which individually might not be large enough to be copyrighted.
They are not opposite at all. The insight is that they are not synonyms either. They are just not related at all.
The linked article specifically mentions Lotus Improv as the app that had this functionality in it. Interesting how Steve Jobs was able to get Lotus to make it a NeXT exclusive app initially.
ToRA is a series of Tool-integrated Reasoning Agents designed to solve challenging mathematical reasoning problems by interacting with tools, e.g., computation libraries and symbolic solvers.

Weights: https://huggingface.co/llm-agents/tora-code-7b-v1.0
@alex_lav: Your SQL query here is exactly what I meant!
In SQL, this is easy, both to write and to optimize perf.

Implementing this with GraphQL resolvers (how folks typically write GraphQL servers) is hard - there's a users function and an articles function that are both called, so it's hard to implement those 2 functions contributing together towards a query plan. This was my point.

In fact a REST endpoint that takes a list of users and runs this query with the `IN` part parameterized is easier to build here. But the GraphQL version is a pain.
How is that relevant? GP was talking about the threshold for misdemeanor vs. felony crimes, and the fact that the threshold is higher in Texas than in California.
You're the target consumer, all right, but you're not the customer.
> 1. That completely ignores my first point, that engaging backend demos are inherently more difficult.

:shrug: I guess? I don't really agree but don't really see the validity in debating perceived difficulty.

> 2. In nearly 20 years of doing this, I've never seen an org that got backend demos right, which to me says more about demos than it does about the organizations.

Again, :shrug:, I have not experienced the difficulty you're describing across a wide range of companies and teams.

> The word "demo" implies that you're going to see some live use of the thing,

Maybe herein lies the problem? Because I don't agree with this statement at all, nor have my teams and companies.

> No one wants to do "Power Point Presentation Driven Development"

I do. I have. I will continue to, as I would call these "demos", and they continue to do well. Although I will add that I prefer jupyter notebooks to powerpoint for some types of demos.
I have the same question too, say on ebay if I bid for something for a $1.00 but the second highest bidder was $.80, would i pay the $1.00 or $.80? (Its been a long long time I used ebay or did any bidding)
Well no matter how extreme, it always seems like other people are smarter. For me personally I don't like playing where it's all about latency either.
That is similar to how Feynman explained it in his Lectures:

“The reason for this unexpected behavior is that when the atoms in contact are all of the same kind, there is no way for the atoms to ‘know’ that they are in different pieces of copper. When there are other atoms, in the oxides and greases and more complicated thin surface layers of contaminants in between, the atoms ‘know’ when they are not on the same part.”
It's pretty simple, but in trying to demonstrate why, the author misses the point:

When an individual with something to gain asserts some probabilities, disregard that assertion.

Forget about medicine or criminal trials. Think of a sales professional - their assertions are commonly disregarded (rightly) as fluff. But put a white coat or nice suit on and people get deferential. A prosecutor in the courtroom is little different than a car salesman.
Hey look, it's another online-first startup reinventing media mix modelling!

(Sorry for the snark but this is a very well studied technique in the offline world that gets completely ignored by online advertisers, rather like AB testing gets mostly ignored by offline advertisers).
Also, "science" is the research and learning phase. The output of science is theories, reports and models. The output of science is not "stuff you use". "Engineering" is the production phase, and "engineering" is always a little bit "art".
Because it makes them more money.
How to debase medieval coinage in order to pay for wars
What exactly is the problem with AGPL if you just want to use it within your environment/company? It is no different than other OSS licenses in that sense.
Yes. Or use a vertically-integrated service like Polycase that will do that for you. But you lose the customization of a fully custom enclosure, so it's a tradeoff. And if you're doing high volume, it's more expensive. Upfront costs are only a few $100 for ABS; more for aluminum, or if you want full-color printing.
Society doesn't need an honest ad market. We do need honest security markets.
BMD does amazing work for the price, but it's decidedly still not Arri quality and only Sony is competitive there. I work with footage from all these cameras as well as celluloid etc and have for over a decade. While BMD absolutely can look fantastic, it's typically much more work to get it there. If you're in a difficult situation, then it's not even close to how superior Venice or Alexa are.

I mostly work in Resolve so I'm partial to BM and appreciative of their work if it helps to establish neutrality (though I'm also experienced in baselight, flame, etc).

Reach for the tools you can! BMD can create great looking imagery when treated properly.
Sure, you can't fit a huge graphics card in there (power or space), but I'd argue that if running a full size graphics card and/or multiple 3.5" drives is your goal, a SFF isn't the right case. Pretty sure you can find an equivalent full-tower machine as well, though you do have the Dell proprietary PSU.

I had mine running for a bit with long SATA cables snaked out of the case to a couple 3.5 drives in a makeshift enclosure, but SATA/NVMe drives have gotten so cheap, it calls into question the need for all the power.
I was a Traveller once, then I suffered a qbit flip in transmission the checksums couldn't compensate for. Now, I just love Coca-Cola brand Mango Fantastic soda, and hunting indigents for sport!
Not pro macbooks have 1600res (basically the same)

Notebooks and tablets have different use case and distance they are used at

And while i would like 4k on everything just because we can make 4k phone screens you can't pretend 16k on notebooks

Because then i can shit on the mbp resolution because i can get a 4k dell
The way I see it is this: If war were to break out between the US and China right now, what could they do with tiktok?

I think they could censor victories and raise losses or fabricated stories, sow doubt at a minimum. Make dead american soldiers trend. Whether we like it or not, most teens get news from tiktok. At a maximum they could brick 150 million phones, use them to ddos, use them to hack/disrupt, etc. steal bank information that is also on your phone. In a war these things would not be off limits. If I were in their shoes that's what I'd do.
You can get pretty far just with Python with Django. No need for an SPA and there are lots of libraries to make the file upload and such pretty painless.
It's the obligatory copyleft is not free software astroturfing comment.

Prompt is here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37611571

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More seriously and charitably though, affero is vaguely scary because there's a (perhaps misunderstood, but I can understand) feeling that if you cooperate with it in any way in the backend and then a value-added product of that interaction makes it to a user of yours then you're up for copyright infringement.

This isn't a reason not to release under affero, nor is it a bad thing that entities producing non-free software need to take care what they leverage, but I can see how the decision could be made to avoid using agpl style software whereever possible to err on the side of caution.

A good example is ghostscript. At what point does an app converting PDFs to images (to display thumbnails, for example) as a small part of its workflow become an aggregate of that free software? According to the faq it ends up being a fairly subjective question of form and intent. Syscalls or static linking? Etc.
common use case: get a metric truckload of data from a column store binned per minute (or 5), give the giant sheet to users, users use pivot tables to create hourly/daily/weekly reports as they see fit. (not all users are dumb it turns out)
I wouldn't mind having my face deepfaked into a porn or whatever as long as there was a small watermark or something that indicated it was fake.

I think enforcement should be focused on disclosing what's AI generated/fake, not on banning altogether.
This looks absolutely amazing. Thank you!

Totally minor feedback in case you value this kind of feedback: the website’s layout is freaking out on my iOS Safari. I can scroll sideways like four page widths and then see nothing at all. Same with the front page.

A short video if it helps: https://youtube.com/shorts/2dItDk_FtkI?si=WSsM2fgWR91IR7wU
What's wrong with AGPL?
Dynamically pivoting SQL is a pain in most dialects
I think you're forgetting about the main participant, Google.
I remember in Google Ads, we’d build all these cool looking dashboards but whenever we did user research it was pretty apparent that all they wanted was their data in a pivot table…
"Give your stuff away for free to devs" is a pretty good idea for both free and nonfree software. (And Linux users are, for now, still likely to be developer type people than not).
> Perell has two theories to explain the aesthetic homogenisation: 1) that designers are all using the same software

This makes no sense. Any mediocre vector design tool allows for significantly more than what is displayed.

> Another person replied, "Brands (…) don’t want to pay for the time and skill it takes to create a unique logo."

Again, this makes no sense. Do you know what takes less time, skill, and money than redesigning a logo? Not redesigning it.
Ozempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart Says
Wait, he's not the giant guy made out of metal and drawn poorly with pincer-like hands?
Principal investigator. i.e., the person in contractually in charge of a research effort, often used as a shorthand for a supervising professor who heads up a lab and advises PhD students.
Also: Embedded is almost the only time you really, truly need to care about how many bits a type is, and only when you're interacting with actual hardware.

For almost every other routine task in programming, I would argue that it really doesn't matter if your int is 32 bits wide or 64 bits wide. Why go through the trouble of insisting on int32_t or int64_t? It probably doesn't matter for the things you are counting.

Some programmers will say "Well, we should use int64_t here because int32_t might overflow!" OK, so why weren't you checking for overflow if it was an expected case? int64_t might overflow too, are you checking after every operation? Probably not. "OK, let's use uint64_t then, now we get 2x as many numbers!" Now you have other overflow (and subtraction) problems to handle.

Nowadays, I just use int and move on with my life. It's one of those lessons from experience: "When I was younger, I used int and char because I didn't know any better. When I was older, I created this complex, elaborate type system because I knew better. Now that I'm wise, I just use int and char."
Building a little cabin out in the woods with starlink is looking increasingly tempting honestly...
https://code2vec.org/
I think the phosphors of CRTs usually had a very low persistence in that the decay time was less than a frame time. If you look at out of sync videos of CRT displays, it looks as if only perhaps 1/8 of the screen is illuminated at one time.
torch.compile + NumPy: GPU-accelerate NumPy programs with PyTorch 2.1
Yes, nobody expected to find a positive cosmological constant either. Well except Steven Weinberg kinda.
Yeah suggestions about what to do, sans anything helpful about how to do it, are just annoying, especially when the thing is hard to do.

That said, there’s a very big difference between doesn’t work and can’t work. Humans are pretty adaptable given the right circumstances, so I’d wager we’re talking mostly about the doesn’t category. Your comment totally reminds me of many conversations I’ve heard and read about weight loss where someone says “just consume fewer calories”, as if it’s somehow simple. Other person, annoyed, says “I’ve tried that, it doesn’t work for me” or “studies have shown that doesn’t work for most people”. It’s true that it generally doesn’t work for most people, I believe the failure rates are even higher than 50%, and yet it’s guaranteed that it can work, it’s physics. It’s not because people actually eat fewer calories and it fails, it’s because people generally aren’t able to reduce their calorie intake permanently, they revert. And trying to will yourself to overcome hunger tends to backfire, just like trying to will yourself to ‘just get up early’ tends to backfire. It doesn’t work because they don’t really know how to change their habits; habits are really hard to break, behavior is really hard to change. A lot of people fail to appreciate how hard it is, especially when some people do seem to be able to do it.

I’ve gone through long periods where I was unable to be a morning person and, maybe like you, I could have bopped someone lightly on the nose for saying to me ‘just get up early’. But changes in my life have made it easier; my job changed, my kids turned into teenagers, my exercise changed, my outlook on life has change, my evening activities have changed. I also have a better idea of how to wake up early, and it doesn’t need to involve setting alarms and trying to force myself, it’s much more about how to spend the time, much more about what I want to get done, and much less about when.
"Ethan Schoonover’s color scheme Solarized (2011) was an important inspiration for Flexoki."

No kidding, the first thing I thought of when I saw Flexoki was "This looks like Solarized Light, but with darker darks!"
Yeah, it obviously increases with screen width so wide screen definitely have an issue. Px is still the best.
All solar eclipses will be 'rings of fire' in the distant future
It spooks company lawyers. The AGPL's "license transference at a distance" is scary from a legal risk point of view. Many corporate legal departments forbid it, or at least getting the exception approved by legal is so painful as to not be worth it.
I mean if you want to have that discussion then how do you differentiate fictional death and murder in movies and the written word vs AI generated nudity?

To me, it seems like we quickly get into the AI image equivalent of prosecuting the actor in a movie for committing the murder of a fictional character. We even go as far to have the entire genre of horror movies at mass Hollywood scale based around fictional death and murder.

It gets even stranger with sex and nudity when such a large % of people are online porn consumers. I have seen the figure for men at 90%. It is where I think the market will actually figure out the solution and that the porn consumer will want assurance the person is real and not AI.

What is disingenuous in this debate to me is that chatGPT estimates there might be over 100 million pictures of real naked people on the internet as of 2021 lol. It is like we are pretending these pictures don't already exist of real people at a huge scale and that no one really looks at them at huge scale now. It is only when AI starts cranking them out people will be so tempted and THAT is a big problem.

If anything, this is the much bigger problem that we can no longer discern the magnitude of a problem in the real world vs the R0 of the idea of a problem online.

"Since everyone is posting about AI generated nudity/porn, it must be a big problem."
Criminals will do more crimes if they not stopped by measures. Measures can be punishment and police enforcement or citizens being able to self defend. In California dems are aggressively reducing both.
It seems like this is a lot of the strategy behind pitching things as epics. If tweaks interact to produce considerable satisfaction / delight, then bundling them together keeps focus on what big thing happens when they're all completed..!
But what if it really sucks? There are bands who are "one hit wonders" not because of peoples attention spans but because the rest of their songs actually suck. Detective book series, where the supposed detective starts solving crimes by using astrology? Yeah... no, thank you. Scrubs season 9? The last few seasons of house of cards?

It sucks, there are many other things to read/watch/play, so why not quit the bad stuff and find something better?