skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A tip:
If you intend to commit fraud or other illicit activity
dont host / store your code on Microsoft GitHub.

Hmm in fact dont use git at all.

Law enforcement only need to find a single developer pc/laptop/whatever
and they will have the entire history, comments, who did it, and code.

Having it all in a centralized system that is configured to be easily
nuked is safer, than trying to nuke every laptop/pc/whatever that has a
copy.

Of course, the entire code base will probably be available on any laptop/pc/whatever that LE can seize, but it is less data than with git.

I wonder if you could do the development all on ram drives on the development
machine, that way if you shut down all the code is gone.
Just make damn sure to stow/check in your code before doing so.

I have partially done this myself a several years ago, but that was only
to try and speed up compile times.
Scroll down to "Send your local member of the European Parliament an e-mail with the drafting help of GPT-3!"
Or obstacle avoidance and hints of advancing capabilities for learning and adapting? (Apparent) autonomy in general?
It’s in the paper:

> The standard model of coin flipping was extended by Persi Diaconis [12] who proposed that when people flip a ordinary coin, they introduce a small degree of ‘precession’ or wobble—a change in the direction of the axis of rotation throughout the coin’s trajectory. According to the Diaconis model, precession causes the coin to spend more time in the air with the initial side facing up. Consequently, the coin has a higher chance of landing on the same side as it started (i.e., ‘same-side bias’).

[12] Diaconis P, Holmes S, Montgomery R. Dynamical bias in the coin toss. SIAM Review 2007; 49(2): 211–235.
OP stated he doesn't have enough disk space for everything on one computer. So it would at least be a bit of hassle (i.e. having the backup spread across multiple Time Machine backups.
Thank goodness. I will not be alive when humans are doing labor work and coding will be done by AI.
>That is also quite an assumption

And, as I understand it, one that is already demonstrably false: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11644
If they were actually reasoning, tests like the GP's would show it. They don't connect dots, they can be prompted to select different pathways through their static model and that selection can be based on a pretty small context but nothing about that model changes. Tomorrow's conversation is only different based on rand(). LLMs have a very large static model and confusing that with reasoning is fairly common but still incorrect.
Japan only really started doing that as their population began to fall. It's a situation lots of Central Europe is starting to experience too. Before then, the land the Tokyo Imperial Palace occupised was worth more than (theoretically, at prevailing market rates) than all of California.
> Can't be done in North America. "Fast public transit" means subways (or trains on elevated tracks), and these are really expensive to build and maintain, so the economics don't work out unless you have a lot of ridership, and that only works if you have high enough density.

No, it can be express buses with 100% dedicated bus lanes and fewer bus stops. Of course, that will require removing some standard lanes and converting them into said dedicated bus lanes.

> But in a typical American city, everything is SO spread out that it just won't work: it's too far for most people to walk to the station, having to drive to the station just adds more overhead plus having to deal with traffic with everyone else going to/from the station and looking for parking, etc.

This can be solved with multi-modal traffic with a mix of bikes and buses. This again will require removing standard lanes and converting them into protected bike lanes, and while that's happening and considering the width of the average lane, a green shoulder with trees that separates the road from the bike lane and from the newly added sidewalk.

> Honestly, I don't really see a solution; too many Americans think this kind of thing is anathema anyway, so the political will to make any of these ideas a reality is unlikely to materialize.

However this is what kills any of these proposals, in practice :-)
I work in a world-famous publicly-traded company and previous top head was unceremoniously fired when their superiors realized we're years behind competition on a lifeline product.
I don't feel bad because of some silly concept like "self-worth." More money means I wouldn't have to feel squeezed when the pharmacy sends me the bill at the end of the month. Money means freedom, and only after some point does it become a penis measuring contest.
PyHIDS 0.9.0: Bloom filter export feature
It’s kind of a trip seeing people noodling around with stuff I hacked together 20+ years ago showing up on the HN front page at the same time. i enjoy kismet.

Currently #27: The anatomy of a smart bulb
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37808230

The OG smart bulb I made back in March of 2003
https://web.archive.org/web/20090923154300/http://www.oreill...
> Getting people to pay income tax on income they don't earn might be a good solution to unemployment.

That's not equivalent, I hope you're being sarcastic.

People who can afford not to rent out an expensive property are almost by definition multi-millionaires.
Excellent ig nobel prize contender here
I have zero ability and interest in managing client out reach and lead generation. As an independent shop, I would make close to $0/mo.

I love my job as it allows me to solve puzzles and get paid for them. It’s worth letting someone else take a cut to bring me the puzzles so I can focus on puzzle solving.
> disseminate (usually sanitised) versions of their messages to a wider audience

I think we’re heading to the no return point related with neutrality and/or objectivity on social platforms; and maybe the best heuristic as media consumer could be go to the 2 standard deviations on whatever the message it is and think critically on the between.
Codenamed "N10", or N-Ten.

8086 - 80286 - 80386: the common element is 86, thus n = 86.

So, 86 but an order of magnitude higher: 860.

86, times 10.

The original native platform for OS/2 3, later renamed OS/2 NT, later renamed Windows NT. Now just known as "Windows".

NT stands for N-Ten.
OK I think that wins the "largest H-bomb anyone has thought of" prize!
Why is there always someone commenting about survivor’s bias? Should people not even aim for it because many will not make it? Is that the purpose? I find these types of comments super annoying. The crab in a bucket mindset seems strong. Either way 20k a month is peanuts, and definitely doable. We need more stories about how rather than stories of why you cant.
Membrane Core v1.0.0-Rc1
Here comes the second release candidate for Membrane Core 1.0.0! Compared to v1.0.0-rc0, this release does not contain a lot of changes in API, but it introduces many bug fixes, improvements and optimizations in the Membrane private modules!
> Of course the only way to win would be by pushing yfour enemy back down the stairs and then with whoever is left above you, retake the entire castle.

I see we're dealing with a castle siege expert over here. As I have visited many castles in Europe (I also live in bicycle driving distance of at least 5 medieval castles) and have heard this explanation many times, I was wondering about the authors counter arguments. Unfortunately there weren't any. I cannot tell for sure since part of the article is missing after "Of course if the enemy ". Now I will never now this another obvious fact.

Reminds me of moon landing denier arguments: "Of course we didn't land on the moon. Duh! It doesn't make any sense AT ALL. Pfff!"
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Absolutely 100% illegal in the EU to force acceptance of third party cookies.

Even though Elcomsoft have a long and storied history, why should people trust their data to the software of a company which already shows such disdain for privacy?
I make more than I need and way less than I could. Nothing is more valuable than waking up and doing exactly what I want to do that day. Everyday.

No idea why so many people always aim for more money instead of more freedom
right, and then you get into effort vs duration game.

so every task now takes 2 weeks duration because it will get approx 2 days of effort in that window.

then the next side effect is any remotely challenging task gets avoided because the duration of a 1 week task becomes 5 weeks and.... forget it.
This is really awesome, I love the way you integrated the live camera feeds.
The upshot is that as long as you only stake $1 at a time, you're unlikely to lose more than $50.

On the other hand, /if/ you do, you'll have to play for 6000 more flips until you can be fairly certain that you're even again.

What's worse is if, after having lost $50, you're down to your last $50, there's almost a 1/5 chance you'll blow all of it trying to recover if you wager $1 each time.

If you grow wise and start Kelly betting you'll get back to your starting $100 on average in 5000 flips, though. If you can take out a loan of $500 first, you can Kelly bet your way to even much faster, in an expected 700 flips. Whether this is worth the interest on the loan depends on how quickly you can find challengers to bet with.
It's almost as if farmers were inclined to borrow water from their descendants some centuries down the line, isn't it?
You are getting an awful amount of downvotes for a would be hackers and painters forum. Your statement is true, but crabs would rather you get back in the bucket.
Boom, crackle, pop: Sounds of Earth's crust
Same on macOS for at least a few years.
This is incredibly puzzling.

Is there a minimum number of rotations per coin flip to consider it valid?

If looks like the bias was not evenly distributed across people. How did you protect your experiment from skilled bad actors who could influence the data with a few bad/skilled flips? Did strangers on the internet fare any differently than in-person attempts from trusted people?
If you want to do it properly:

1: GND/sense
2: DATA +/-
3: VCC
4: DATA +/-
5: GND/sense

Have the host side connect only pin 1 to GND and leave pin 5 floating, but have the device side connect both 1&5 to gnd, with individual pullups for 1 & 5 to VCC.

The device will sense LO on 1 and HI on 5 if either both sides are plugged in straight or both sides are plugged in reversed, but it will sense HI on 1 and LO on 5 if exactly one of them is reversed. This allows the device to detect when inversion of D+/D- is needed.
After reading this the first thought I had was how do you stop people flipping the same way? Like, give me a baton and I could throw it at varying heights and control which side I caught it on. In theory the same applies to coin flipping. You can get quite consistent with your positioning and power.

You could probably control for it by making people alternate which side was face up before the flip.

That's my intuition anyway.
Its another saas product charging per seat per month, doesnt even begin to replace an actual competent developer, it’s glorified autocomplete. If it goes any higher than 20-30 bucks, I’ll have my company drop it.
Runway Chronicles: Melding Art and AI in a Transient Tech Terrain
There is almost nothing less stable than the landscape of Generative AI (GenAI). The last week's changes include a sudden $0.3 billion drop by Jasper. It’s not a surprise in a world where apps are built on someone else’s model/technology. But we will be talking about something ‘stable’ today: the Stable Diffusion model and Runway – whose researchers are behind the model development. It’s interesting that Stable Diffusion has also become a bedrock for another unicorn from our chart – Stability AI. But today we concentrate on Runway, number 7 in the unicorn family (so far).

https://www.turingpost.com/p/runway
Digital Empires: A Conversation with Anu Bradford
Based my back-testing of stock market, I found a similar conclusion: if a stock rise yesterday, then today the probability of raise > the probability of fall. P(raise) is about 50.1%, P(fall) is about 49.9%. Vice versa.
Having this theory means you can't rely on a single bet, you have to bets many many times to make profit from stock market. Even though I knew that, I am still working as a developer, I wish one day I have enough money to start stock career.
Samsung expected to report 80% profit plunge as losses mount at chip business
Like attending one of the other meetings that are triple booked in that time slot. I definitely don't make 20k/month.
You did say you were a voracious sf reader, and so maybe I made it all up and you just read some more sf. ;)
As a freelancer, I use Moneybird[0] for this purpose. There is a free tier up to 4 invoices, 10 incoming invoices and 10 bank transactions per month. Most months I fit in the free tier, some months I pay for 1 month of subscription.

Maybe a model like this would work for you as well? The users you are replying to might switch and sometimes pay if they have a busy month.

[0]: https://www.moneybird.com/
Yes, I'm wondering. I thought HN was a startup forum.
When the policy is deployed in the real world only the depth camera is used no waypoints etc.. Scan dots and target heading is used in the first Phase of the training to pretrain a policy in simulation. In Phase 2 a policy is trained end-to-end using the pretrained actor network: "First, exteroceptive information is only available in the form of depth images from a front-facing camera instead of scandots. Second, there is no expert to specify waypoints and target directions, these must be inferred from the visible terrain geometry." For policy training in Phase 2 DAgger which is based on Behavior Cloning is used (with the policy from Phase 1 as the expert), they also use some tricks to make sure no actions that are too different from the expert actions are executed during training. In Phase 2 the network learns to extract environment information instead of from the scan dots from the depth camera. Also in Phase 2 they use the pretrained actor network from Phase 1 but the depth embedding must be learned from scratch. This is how I understand it.
Oh. I'm affected, seeing it several times a day, but I never managed to reproduce 100%. Didn't bother me too much but I guess I could happily do without.

It also affects Thunderbird.

I had no idea it was a well known, 22 year old bug.
I agree with your point about the political climate and NIMBYism for sure.

I think "fast" is subjective. Depending on city size, car culture, etc. Buses with dedicated lanes could be pretty fast. I suppose what I should say is, comprehensive public transit. And maybe not always out to the rural areas until we have good connections to the suburban hubs.

As far as economics, much like Agriculture, Housing and Healthcare the economics will never really work out. They will run at a deficit and require government subsidies because they are necessities.

Often with these things its a vicious cycle.

People don't use Public Transit --> Because its slow and doesn't cover everywhere -->
Because adding stops and more vehicles costs money -->
And there's not enough money to improve it -->
Because People don't use public transit -->
... repeat

If we improve transit, make it more convenient than driving (banning cars in certain metropolitan areas, making it cheaper than gasoline, etc.) Then likely over years the US could transition.

Though I agree, tis a pipe dream at this time in history.
I am fully aware the module is not 100% working, i.e., it is faulty at a specific physical address. That's OK for my personal desktop though, unless the condition worsens, and UCEs (which will panic my kernel) follow.
It's constantly sending requests from BE to FE - checking IP, checking watch time etc.
Now that op fusion has been implemented for this idiom, the cost of a new instruction does not seem worth the benefit.

The benefit would be only a tiny improvement in code size, and that's restricted to when the compiler can be absolutely certain that the target CPU is going to be modern enough to support it. So, in practice, for many, many years, this benefit would be almost never reaped.

This is not a new topic in the design of ISAs and their implementations in silicon. Idiom recognition and optimization has long existed in x86, ARM, and I'm sure other old ISA implementations. RISC-V can avoid it by adding dedicated instructions because it's just getting started (relatively speaking), but even so, I'm sure there will be opportunities for idiom recognition and optimization that RISC-V implementers will take.
Higher CPU usage paradoxically means better performance. When I last did OPS we used to watch total CPU usage of all services and if it was not 100%, then we started to look for a bottleneck to fix.
Then I do have a cpuple of honest questions:

Why did you go to China, as a two men shop? And not choosing a local company nearby?

And how much experience do both of you have on the hardware / manufacturing aide of things? And running global supply chains (because that's what you have, regardless of production volume)?
On some. But that doesn't help always as you don't know the orientation on the target device, especially when it'a sideways.
Hmm, I personally hasn't experienced any trashing after disabling swap. Instead of the desktop freezing up or heavily lagging for a while until I somehow able to kill some apps to free some memory after 10 minutes struggling to open a terminal, after disabling swap, now it instantly crash back into the login screen when running out of memory.
I don't think he meant that.
that's freakin stupid.

adults in our country assume a $1 and a $5 price tag is tax inclusive. the receipts show it.

how you gonna tell the kid it's priced at $1 but you gotta pay more than $1 because it isn't tax inclusive? lol
The figure is about the overall improvement, not sure why that reads increase.

On JDK 8 we are using G1 for our modern application stack, and we saw a reduction in CPU utilisation with the upgrade with few exceptions (saw what I believe is our first regression today: a busy wait in ForkJoinPool with parallel streams; fixed in 19 and later it seems).

G1 has seen the greatest improvement from 8 to 17 compared to its counterparts, and you also see reduced allocation rates due to compact strings (20-30%), so that reduces GC total time.

It's a virtuous cycle for the GRPC services doing the heavy lifting: reduced pauses means reduced tail latencies, fewer server cancellations and client hedging and retries. So improvements to application throughput reduce RPS, and further reduce required capacity over and above the CPU utilisation reduction due to efficiency improvements.

JDK 21 is a much more modest improvement upgrading from 17, perhaps 3%. Virtual threads are incredibly impressive work, and despite having an already highly asynchronous/non-blocking stack, expect to see many benefits. Generational ZGC is fantastic, but losing compressed oops (it requires 64-bit pointers) is about a 20% memory penalty. Haven't yet done a head to head with Genshen. We already have some JDK 21 in production, including a very large DGS service.
So who is providing a place to live to people that don't own a house or flat? Is it supposed to be all sharing of living space?
Has anyone managed to make this work on the inevitable ESP32 (+PSRAM)? This might actually be useful.
Because the hardest part is finding clients.

I could say good buy to my (comparatively) low guaranteed salary to "setup my own shop", but my current employer wouldn't take me as consultant since we have a rule about size of companies we deal with. So I would have to start looking for new client(s) from scratch without any guarantee I will find even one.
> "Fast public transit" means subways (or trains on elevated tracks), and these are really expensive to build and maintain, so the economics don't work out unless you have a lot of ridership, and that only works if you have high enough density

There are lower volume fast public transport mechanisms; BRTs (ie bus systems with largely fully segregated lanes) or high quality standard bus systems with partially segregated lanes. Somewhere in between are trams.

The big downside of a bus system is that it _does_ have volume constraints (even if you have mostly-segregated lanes, you'll start to run into trouble with stops) but it can work pretty well for low-volume scenarios.
Hungary, a country I'd not usually quote for progressive policy has a great solution to this: Women get their subsequent income taxes reduced by 25% for each child they get.

This heavily incentivises mothers to return to the workforce, and couples to plan around this. It is also generous enough to be a real boon to young parents.
You're exactly right, thank you for helping the commenter who asked about it.
This is also not a good question. I had a friend who is freelancer making very good money but was hard for him to even get credit card comparing to someone who has medium salary but has permanent job.

Another friend had hard time getting mortgage credit even though has enough money already in the bank to buy apartment in cash - reason? He earns in dollars but in his country bank requires earning in local currency to get credit.
If only YC members (or hopefuls) frequented these forums this would be a dead place
Spring is a safe and reliable choice I'd say; not the most exciting, but neither code nor frameworks should be exciting, they're used to solve a problem, they shouldn't become the problem itself.

GraphQL is interesting to me, I thought the clients were pretty similar across all platforms, meaning their API usage should also be similar enough to not need the flexible nature of GraphQL. But then, it allows for a lot more flexibility and decoupling - if a client needs an extra field, the API contract does not need to be updated, and not all clients need to be updated at once. Not all clients will be updated either, they will need to support 5-10+ year old clients that haven't updated yet for whichever reason.
AI hype is really problematic in Enterprise. Big companies are now spending C executive time figuring out a company "AI strategy". This is going to be another cycle of money-wasted/biz-upset, very similar to what I have seen with Big data. The thing in Enterprise is that everyone serious about biz operations knows AI test scores and AI quality is not there, but very few are able to communicate these concerns in a constructive way, rather everyone is embracing the hype because, maybe they get a promotion? Tech, as usual, is very happy to feed the hype and never, as usual, telling businesses honestly that, at best, this is an incremental productivity improvement, nothing life changing. I think the issue is overall lack of honesty, professionalism, and accountability across the board, with tech leading this terrible way of pushing product and "adding value".
How are you going to implement the rectifier, though?

The usual implementation is using diodes, but that means you lose twice the diode forward voltage to the rectifier. Even with a Schottky diode that means you are losing 0.5V-1.0V. That's a 10%-20% loss at 5V!

You could use a transistor-based "ideal diode" solution, but that's not going to be cheap - especially in the 90s.
Unfortunately I've not. For the tasks that I've used these types of tools on I found ChatGPT's "Advanced Data Analysis" mode significantly more useful.