skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> currently the only options are proprietary devices that cost several hundred dollars AND a subscription plan that will run you $12 a month or more

Consider a 406 MHz PLB [1][2][3]. Several hundred dollars. But no subscription fee.

They're terribly marketed, a vacuum Garmin et al happily fill. And you can't send text messages. But as an emergency beacon, they are best in class. (Garmin transmits at <2 watts. Cell phones maybe 125 mW. 406s, meanwhile, scream at the sky at 5+ watts; that's in class with a cell tower.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=37850377

[2] https://www.sarsat.noaa.gov/emergency-406-beacons/

[3] https://www.rei.com/product/161982/acr-electronics-resqlink-...
If I am about to die, and you repeat apple, pear, banana in my ears in headphones, I will haunt you from the afterlife.
Thanks a lot!

I'll definitely update it!
QX82: Tiny JavaScript game/experience engine inspired by retro 80s computing
Kdb with ease, but down 500k on licenses and the cost of people who can use it. :)
I know we're not supposed to editorialize the titles, but this one really buries the lede.
> why on earth are we assuming that a self-hoster who can setup her own IDP cannot also create this app registration herself, and add a client_id/secret to a configfile before starting my app?

Excellent question, and it gets into the meat of why I made this in the first place. obligator is the first piece of the puzzle I'm trying to solve to make self-hosting as easy and secure as running an app on your phone. In that world users cannot be expected to pre-register OAuth2 applications. But above and beyond that, registration creates friction that I feel is unnecessary and doesn't add enough additional security (and as mentioned can even reduce security when implemented poorly) for me to want to bother with it myself, so I built a server that doesn't require it.
All of One Piece in Hebrew (I know)
One piece, translated to Hebrew. I'm as thrilled as you are.
that is interesting, but the "un-training" shown by EricH. is simply re-running some fine-tuning on the same public base model, regarding "refusals".. and it is expen$ive to do that, too.
http only site, also very editorial/opinion style writing.

https://archive.ph/NtXft

> [Assembly Theory] is a neat and simple model for the combinatorial generation of innovation in rule-based abstract "worlds" of recombining objects. It is a model of how evolution (or other higher-level processes) can lead to complexification.

Assembly Theory description links:

- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06600-9 (original paper)

- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03061-y ("very well written news & views article (with a terrible clickbaity title)")
Sweet is usually contrasted with savory. I think "savory syntax" rolls off the tongue well.
Show HN: A platform crafted for maintainers seeking insights into their projects
>>> Item 8.01. Other Information
On October 11, 2023, Microsoft Corporation announced the receipt of Notices of Proposed Adjustment (“NOPAs”) from the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) for the tax years 2004 to 2013. The NOPAs were received on September 26, 2023. The primary issues in the NOPAs relate to intercompany transfer pricing. In the NOPAs, the IRS is seeking an additional tax payment of $28.9 billion plus penalties and interest. As of September 30, 2023, we believe our allowances for income tax contingencies are adequate. We disagree with the proposed adjustments and will vigorously contest ...

So MS income for 2023 was 211 BN, EBIT on that was 88BN.
So being asked to give back 28.9BN is a big hit on anyone's scale, but it's "just" 3BN a year (2004-13) on annual profits of ~88BN - so it's not like it's their whole business model.

Intra-company transfers are a tricky way to move assets and liability around inside a firm - because it's not "really" selling there can be a lot of creativity. For example Starbucks was accused over many years of having foreign subsidiaries "purchase" coffee beans from Seattle at a price that co-incidentally matched the foreign subsidiaries operating profit - essentially meaning only the seattle firm made a profit and so only they had to pay tax.

Something similar is being suggested here. It's not clear what.

However it's worth noting that some years ago Biden announced major new funding for IRS to go after big firms. If this is part of that and if this comes to some agreement in a few years it will pay for that whole initiative several times over.

Interesting
Yes, but QPS vs. "queries to the API". The difference is the time slice. I should have been more explicit. The key here really is the time function between the numbers. That the AWS blog calls out trillions of API calls isn't relevant because there wasn't a specific time denominator. The 126M QPS is the important stat.
Ironically, the road that many consider to be “The loneliest road in America” - Rt 50 in Nevada - isn’t on the list.[0]

Different criteria for sure but anyone that’s driven the 50 through Nevada and considered buying a “loneliest road in America” fridge magnet at Champs in Austin (NV not TX) usually feels the loneliness.

Another NV loneliness stat: The state has more ghost towns than live towns.

[0] https://loneliestroad.us/
Jamboard had paying customers, and they discontinued that on short notice, so paying only gets you so far.
Hi I’m Keith, Buildkite CEO.

You caught us! Well spotted.

We had such little success with the $9 plan. When people upgraded, they generally chose the more expensive option. Knowing this, we removed it to see what happens to upgrade rates. We might even increase the free offering to balance it out, not sure yet.

Pricing is dark art of science, economics, research and “making shit up”. I dunno if this iteration is any better, but we’ll see!
If you're on Linux, you can use PR_SET_PDEATHSIG to accomplish exactly this goal.
> Because when your docker server gets smoked, what happens?

In the context of local or home servers: my raspberry pi currently has like a 3 year uptime now, but if it randomly croaked I'd just buy a new raspberry pi, docker pull the image, and get it up and running again.

So you are saying the main benefit of k8s is that if some of your hardware in the cluster dies then your services are automatically still up and running? Isn't a home k8s setup vulnerable to the same failure as well if the master node gets smoked?

Seems like a lot of complexity cost for something that happens extremely rarely in a home setup at least (I could see how it would be useful for high reliability cloud systems).
A Survey on Deep Generative 3D-Aware Image Synthesis
Yubico and Okta make passwordless onboarding easy with FIDO Pre-reg
Takes a bit to load but looks straightforward and useful!
Indeed, but I am talking about the sum of all disease.

Polio is a good example of the opposite, because polio today is effectively zero. Most other types of disease trend the other way with much more significant margins.

Polio lead to some level of paralysis in somewhere between 0.5-0.2% percent of people, many of whom died and needed no further healthcare.

Today, a far larger percent of Americans have lost the ability to walk due to obesity and diabetes.
I perceived and saw everything around me, except for the banana! : )
Amazing. And thanks for clarification
Sure, but is the pre-AI law still adequate? We can discuss what the law says, but we can also discuss what the law should be.
Zuck got the same letter today which kind of leaves a pretty large hole in you conspiracy theory angle https://x.com/ThierryBreton/status/1712126600873931150
M1 has (fast) unified memory between GPU and CPU, so something being memory bound ought not to have much bearing on whether it belongs on CPU or GPU… at least in theory. I’m a total noob here though so I may be wrong.
Hello dinkblam, thank you for discovering this elaborate scam about agi. I am going to tell my marketing people that Christmas won't be the same this year.

Take care
That's not what it implied to me. To me, it meant that they adopted an internal managed Spanner with its own SRE team, instead of running their own Spanner. In the past, Gmail ran their own [[redacted]]s and [[redacted]] even though there were company-wide managed services for those things.
"Microsoft Middle Manager 2.0" - it's getting closer.

Time to re-read Marshall Brain's "Manna".
Microsoft Wants to Teach You How to Install Linux
Google Cloud's current CEO spent 22 years at Oracle before taking this role.
I have tried to use signal in a location that had voice, but no data (a very old, very rural tower in the middle of nowhere) a few years ago, and signal was completely worthless. Even though it can read and receive SMS, it seems to require a data connection to send..
Have you had a look at LLDAP for a super simple LDAP backend with SQL behind?
That or kanidm if you want OIDC built in.
Actually no, but nice try, and I'm sure your extremist uninformed view of what's a "cult" is representative of the SEC's general posture.
Have I been refuted?

You could if you had the technical prowess create an Nvidia breakout box for the Mac right now Apple doesn’t stop you from doing anything you want. You brought up Apple stopping you from running CUDA on Apple hardware
Starting from a problem and making a solution requires that you understand both your problem domain and the domain of the solution very well. Much harder than taking a hammer and hitting everything that kind of looks like a nail
"wherever you may be on land, lakes, or coastal waters"

I wonder why the limitation to coastal waters? They've been cracking down on offshore sailors using Starlink with the RV/Roaming plan, too. By all accounts it worked fine, but SpaceX wants to charge significantly more for an offshore plan.

It certainly can't be a congestion issue.
If you go back to their roots, they weren't racing sports cars, but regular sedans and coupes. In this day and age, that means they'd be racing around in a bunch of crossovers with CVTs. Oh an no safety equipment like roll cages, harnesses, fire suppression, etc. Racing a stock Mustang or Camaro or Supra isn't really NASCAR roots either. I think they miss the spirit of what a stock car is. Unless we start building regular coupes and sedans again, I don't think we can go back.

Here's an interesting timeline of NASCAR stock cars. Pretty much the latest gen cars are the only ones that buck the trend.

https://www.nascar.com/gallery/the-evolution-of-nascar-sprin...

However, If you want some racing with actual stock-ish cars, you should check out the SCCA runoffs on YouTube. There are classes for just about everything you can think of, and the coverage is actually pretty good!
I’d be happy with nitter as a paid platform with pre musk moderation
Google Cloud, AWS, and Cloudflare report largest DDoS attacks
You can't copyright a dress. You have presented a bunch of articles (that you didn't even read yourself) where artwork associated with a garment such as logos and textile prints may be subject to copyright in certain circumstances. It is not a matter of fashion having the same protections but under different codes. You simply can not copyright a dress. Fashion designers do not have that monopoly of reproduction.
I ported the go version to c++ but it's very slow so I excluded it from the charts...as that'd be misleading.

It's in the repo if you want to take a look. I have very little experience with c++.
Graphics look amazing and the game looks fun. I get the feeling the player in the first video has played the game many many times lol.

Are they still making those new Amiga systems implemented on an FPGA?
Fuel injection is electrically and computer controlled while carburetors rely on air pressure changes and is completely mechanical.

Why did they stick with carbs for so long? Lots of reasons but a few: Fuel injectors allow for more power so giving every car a boost was a delibrate decision - NASCAR already has other speed-reducing technology on purpose. Switching also meant every team spending millions and redesigning their entire engine to take advantage of the new tech. Carbs had ossified so teams were pretty level on this front indepenent of money so switching also would give teams with money money a bigger advantage.
Yep. Metal was a little early.

Why they should?
Because it it would improve portability for their platform and Linux. And it weakens Microsoft. What we've instead, three competing APIs. Apple labled OpenGL deprecated and many rely now upon MoltenVK. At the same time Apple switched to ARM. Both in combination are problematic because AAA-Titles are closed-source. For the same reasons Apple supports OpenGL they also support Vulkan.

I wonder about the reasons of Valve to the decision to support Linux (Vulkan) and Windows (Direct3D) with native ports of CS2. But not MacOS. I'm happy because Linux is supported but the Mac people are obviously not so happy. AFAIK Source2 was already used in the past on MacOS.

PS: Thanks to Valve for the native port of CS2 on Linux :)
LLM observability strikes me as an extremely, extremely crowded space. And YC has funded an enormous number of them.

What do you think is the key differentiator between you and everyone else? Is vendor lock-in really that huge of an issue?

[0] https://hegel-ai.com, https://www.vellum.ai/, https://www.parea.ai, http://baserun.ai, https://www.trychatter.ai, https://talc.ai, https://github.com/BerriAI/bettertest, https://langfuse.com
This made me chuckle:

"And of course the many high-school students doing Duke of Edinburgh’s Award hikes, often with looks of total dejection and sadness, and certainly with much stink, but always with an impressive commitment."

Been there, done that, got the blisters. Totally worth it looking back, got me into walkin, but not sure I understood it at the time.
> you get an emergent evolutionary impulse to maintain internal narrative.

I suppose it's just an implementation detail that it works for near-death experiences?

I can't see it being "intentionally" evolved, first because a large (most?) number of NDEs actually make people less afraid of death (which evolution should technically be selecting against), and also because until modern medicine/resuscitation, the NDE behavior was very unlikely to change the evolutionary outcome of an individual since if they get into a stage when they're having an NDE, actual death would always follow, thus the evolutionary fate of the individual is already sealed.
I don't remember the OIDC flows very well, but basically my question was whether I can use Obligator as an OIDC provider and Google as the client.

Ie can I log in to Google with Obligator? Or do I need to set up each client beforehand?

I skimmed the related article but didn't get it entirely, I'll need to read it more thoroughly.
I wonder why there is no remote control web interface. It would be just awesome to flip a switch to jitter/disable proxied connections and a slider to rate limit the connection. Should be easy, right?
I would argue that the Minds enable The Culture's utopia. Special Circumstances may theoretically have the capacity to direct events within The Culture, but their efforts are near-exclusively directed without and in the only example to the contrary, those efforts fail rather spectacularly (Excession).
Is that a thing? I kinda want to search for it ... but if I'm not seeing any ancient alien shenanigans, I want to keep it that way.
As an intern 20 years ago I wrote a lot of VBScript code to automate the generation of a bunch of Excel reports. I ran into my old boss 10-12 years ago and he said the scripts were still humming along. I've sometimes wondered how long those scripts would last, I guess they're end of life is coming up (if they haven't been rewritten by a new intern already).
I was surprised by that too. They are running the same function and I/O is excluded so I believe this might just be a comparison with v8 and jscore.
I think it is steerable, or can be steerable, see page 19 (page 38 of the PDF): https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:ky237km2272/Margaret_...

The stationary power supply is a feature because batteries are heavy and flammable and usually not flexible. If you want to send a camera or something through a small hole, or underwater, or into some hazardous environment, it's nice to not have to send the power supply with it.
That's his ego talking.
But I bet a lot of that is in long term treasuries which, if you want to use them as legal tender, are kinda down in price right now (if you don't hold them til maturity). And if they need to take a loan to pay it, those bonds are going to be at fairly high rates. Overall, it's gonna be a stock price haircut for sure. I'm guessing at least 10-20% because of all the money they could have MADE with that money.
It's called a search engineer, and this isn't left to people's own discretion because they don't have the time or inclination to make their own search engines / recommendation engines.
Reminds me a little bit of PICO-8 conceptually. At first glance I thought it was just a set of premade assets more than an actual game engine, but looking at the API more closely it actually does seem to resemble quite a bit the set of primitives that the PICO-8 console provides you, although without the pretty in-console IDE.
It's way WAY more than just Infra Spanner vs Cloud Spanner. Cloud spanner doesn't support protobuf, which is annoying, but that's not a dealbreaker; it's still just a DB. The issue is really all the various internal frameworks (such as Apps Framework for Java), deployment systems (Server Platform, AKA Boq/Pod/Urfin), and so forth.
Then I'm not sure what you're worried about, if it really isn't a cult as you imply. Either way, I don't understand your position on the matter, are you personally affected by the SEC going after cryptocurrency scams and WSB style stock traders?
> and there isn't an obvious way to get more than 100 nodes per table

By node you mean partition, and a partition is limited to 10GB. Store more than 1TB and you will have at least 100 partitions
This is before any negotiated settlement, if they are found to have to pay at all, which will be, in all likelihood, substantially lower
Absolutely not, no. I can think of no basis to demand that non-pet owners pay taxes to subsidize pet owners.
One of Bun’s key features is low startup time, which prob trades off execution time.
It will need to be further refined to determine more clearly how it applies when humans are transforming another human's work with AI.

But in general, the overarching concept that humans have rights and machines do not still very-much-so is applicable. With any law (not just IP), the end goal should be to protect the rights of humans in the context of how humans are human and do human things, regardless of the tools they use.

At one point in time it was unclear whether things like tape recorders were legal. This is just that, with a different technology. Eventually we'll have better case law, and we'll know exactly how we can and can't use this one to protect the rights of other humans.
Thanks! Related to what you're saying, I was actually expecting some reactions from devs who'd ask "why is it a separate repo and not part of opentelemetry from day 1?".

And for that my answer would be that I think having a separate repo would allow this to evolve in a more natural way, and faster (whereas OpenTelemetry, given it's massive adoption already, evolves much slower, with committees etc.).

Then, at some point when this is stabilized and useful - we can merge.

Kind of like Tesla's NACS vs. CCS
There is no such thing as zero to hero for formal methods. It’s a dense and difficult field.
> Very few people are capable of hearing the difference, ... I don't think it's reasonable to call something of this quality "crap".

But some people can tell the difference. Therefore, the roll off is crap.

Granted, if you only give yourself ~3.5 bits / sample, MP3 is quite impressive for what it does.
They are like little doodles in the text. They don't convey any more information than is already in there. Things which are urgent are generally best written with as little adornment as possible. If someone isn't already for the cause it can cause them to not take your writing seriously.

Imagine if you're the parent of a child and they send you this message:

> "Active shooter at school "

The time taken to get the emoji undercut the seriousness of the message. They are apparently trying to communicate something important but deliberately wasting my time.
'Just good business'.
It's probably not necessary to mention that the treatment of case and whatnot is default behavior. That can be covered in an advanced chapter about read tables. There we can say, oh we lied when we said that foo, FOO and |FOO| read the same; this is actually highly programmable.

The student will not encounter that unless they explore someone else's code, or discover the features like readtable-case and experiment.

Just talking about the default behavior, if it is stable and portable, and doesn't mysteriously flip behind your back, is fine.
Yeah, within AWS. I'm not sure about other parts of Amazon
Just want to add: As far as I know, the "V" in Vulkan is actually supposed to represent 5. As in, the next thing after OpenGL 4, which will be the last version of OpenGL. That, and the volcanic theme to fit with Mantle, the AMD experiment that sort of... inspired Vulkan? Got merged with it? Not sure on the organizational history there.
I feel bad for people with the notion that there's no such thing as bad pizza. I've had pizza that the cardboard box it came in would be a) more flavorful, b) less tough, c) more nutritional.
The footpaths and Ordinance Survey maps. Combining those with the fact that most of the UK can be walked by a moderately fit and healthy person is kind of special.
Don’t use human. Many systems have API users, and with subscription cycles, humans can wind up with multiple users.
IDK about ML part, but equivalent performing Ryzen mini pc cost me 3x less over m1 macbook (yes im aware you get more with macbook)
So... Amy Hood is out, right? Accountability and all.
It is kinda bonkers that after 30 years Linux still doesn't some kind of inescapable and recursive process group mechanism. How many tens of thousands of hours of programming time would have been saved over the years if there was a way to:
1. Your process can create a new process group ID (and write it out to stable storage if it wants)
2. add an argument to fork so the same process can pass that ID into fork and the child of the fork wakes up permanently in that group, and any child processes later created by that child will also be in that group
3. Any new groups created by any process in the group are always contained in the original group, you can never leave a group but you might be in multiple groups.
4. There's a way to kill an entire group and verify that everything for an identifier is dead.

I think Solaris and some of the BSDs had something like this, so I wish Linux would add one too (though, I guess Linux has managed without one for so long that maybe that's proof enough that it's not really needed, and worst case you can always just reboot the box - nuking from orbit is the only way to be sure)
I worked in a Digital team 4 years back where the team was building voice channel apps for our customers on both Amazon Alexa and Google Dialogflow. Alexa NLP engine was less sophisticated we had to give it hundreds of prompts and intents. Dialogflow NLP engine required a handful of prompts for the same thing. But when it came to integration with backend APIs and support Alexa was far ahead. Despite having Dialogflow enterprise Google support would suggest to ask in StackOverflow. Amazon support on the other hand was excellent. We needed support for mTLS with the backend APIs, Amazon supported it as they understood enterprise. Google just shooed us away, their support wouldn’t even escalate this.