skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Linux users will benefit the use of these chips

But will the Linux kernel be locked forever at a specific version because it was heavily forked by Qualcomm to make it work with this chipset, and will the chipset require a lot of proprietary blobs, like in the Android world?

I would very much like to have a power-efficient and powerful laptop, but this would reduce a lot my enthusiasm for such laptop powered by this chipset.
Bridge of the Gods (Land Bridge)
Tbf, as much as anything that's probably the lawyer doing their job properly as much as it being a necessity for the application.
Quiet cities. Clean air.
Read access can't really be partially restricted in git, because git is content addressed. Without the data you can't construct the sha hash, so there's no way to address a commit at all. You could publish partial data, and you could generate new partial commits for that data, but it would probably not be very useful outside of a very niche use case.
I found the "What are quantum computers?" section to be a good introduction, especially for those with web experience!
> I hope to dog that they make laptops that are as nice to use as the MBPs.

Judging from previous ARM laptops, I can't see that happening. There is no way to make Windows be as nice to use as macOS.

> First class Linux support would make a "must buy" device.

That'd be my only hope, but I'm not holding my breath.

Unless it offers significantly better experience for the same amount of money, as much as I dislike the x86, it's hard to beat. Apple does it by offering exactly that.
I've used Windows 11 and the new Outlook for a while now, but I've never seen a single ad. Not one. Is it because I have Office 365?

If that's the case, Microsoft's strategy is that one way or another it wants some money from you: either the subscription, or the ad revenue. I'd be concerned if I had to see ads while being a paying customer.
OTOH Microsoft partly did this to themselves by encouraging native proprietary software. That's where they pushed their ecosystem.
but if you live in an area with a nicely sustainable population density and there are no subventions (e.g. for cars/roads) involved this seems quite impossible to ever be the case

Which means it's probably will be the case for the US as most of the us is either has a less sustainable, too low (e.g. "typical" US metro area, and well the endless rural areas(1)) or too high (e.g. city center) density.

(1): Through very rural areas might not be substainable for any self driving car service either, so people there will most most likely still have their own car. And for reasons of serviceability much more likely a non self driving car.
I think this video (102M views) answers all questions honey badger:

https://youtu.be/4r7wHMg5Yjg
I can tell you that German bank thing I signed up in 2023 and can't be older than ~5 years asked for my FULL name as written on my ID, in my case it's "First Second Last" but I go by "First Last" but in their infinite wisdom they decided to ask for the full thing (which I understand, it's bank stuff) but never think about what they call me in their stupid email.
No one's ever called me "First Second" - not even my parents. And I can't even be mad, but I'm still disappointed. (Fortunately my name is ASCII and since we can do more than 8+3 I've never had problems.)
Not according to me asking Toyota's website to build one.
If I remember correctly, in 2010 or so Bank of China was using EBCDIC + a specific codepage by IBM to store successfully Chinese names in COBOL systems. Communication with those systems would happen using IBM MQ Series, a message queue system.

The codepage was very specific, it was not part of the standard Java JDK but it was included in the IBM Java JDK.
Kolide's 30 Line Rails Multi-Tenant Strategy
The quoted bit stops too soon; the original goes on to say that in the "near future" they'll be upgrading all their systems, after which it can deal with accents, and a bit further it says that they expect it'll be ready in 2020. That's why they didn't modify the existing system: they didn't feel it was worth it since they're working on replacing the lot.

This wasn't accepted as a defence with "it's 2018 and you're still using a system from 1995 wtf?!" so they still had to pay a (small) fine.
But then ASCII can't even represent proper US English.
IANAL but from what I remember from my module on law at Uni, they are likely suggesting there's a risk of "passing off" by you as them. Ultimately I think this is absolute nonsense but the law doesn't always follow logic and common sense.

Speak to a lawyer for sure before doing anything beyond the below:

You may wish to add a thin banner at the top of your page that says "Looking for SCMP S.A. Sandro fashion brand? That's not me click here to be redirected to their page". By doing that you're at least showing you're acting in good faith and before its even been suggested by them that you should be compelled to.

You may also wish to put some visible text that says "This website has nothing to do with fashion and is focused on software development".
OpenStreetMap is for currently existing features (or currently existing remains, ruins can be mapped). So if for example sign remains, it can be mapped. But once fully gone: it is not mappable in OSM.

See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nonexistent_features

In addition we cannot import data from Google Maps or use Street View due to licencing terms.

https://www.openhistoricalmap.org/ collects also objects gone without any remains remaining visible. Not sure about their handling of licensing.
Restricting read access is one of the missing features in monorepos. While they make a lot of stuff easier and trackable, I don't feel comfortable having every temporary consultant having access to all code at once.
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That is why we built an integration to our data exploration tool Spotlight that allows you to interactively explore Hugging Face datasets with one line of code.

Spotlight lets you leverage model results such as predictions and embeddings to gain a deeper understanding in data segments and model failure modes.

Currently, many many NLP, CV, Audio and multimodal datasets are supported both locally and on the hub.

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Happy to hear your feedback!
As a german I'm so jealous for the smart actions of our neighbors. We are always at least 10 years behind.
Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't notice that extremely important part.
That is... more than kafkaesque. I thought the conversation was around marketing, not user posts.
you can also use okular for visually select a table from a pdf and paste it in sone excel kinda software and okulars table select tool is not too bad
I can accept this, but who decides what is too silly? Like here it is already clear from the allowed names list (reviewed, extended every year actually, and contains some quite silly entries already in my opinion.)

Also we have the idea of "nameday" which is minor occasion for celebration and giving small gifts every year, based on the person's given name, and the calendar contains the mapping between names and dates, one without an official name would be in trouble getting that free a bottle of wine :D
Re old folk driving I think that may be a problem that could be solved by self driving tech. The trouble with just banning oldies when they are getting less good is that a lot of them rely on the car and cause less deaths than teens driving who are much less reliant on cars. I'm wondering if the tech will kick in in time for my mum who's 86. My other relatives have had to stop around 90 due to hitting stuff.
That last part reads like an activation phrase for a sleeper agent
No...

seldom good ever happens in ... the universe

Goodness is a human invention, and a rather young one at that.
It is strange that you chose China! Have you seen how many kilometers of urban freeways they built in the last 30 years? It is crazy. Look at the Beijing ring roads -- a traffic clogged hell space.
The funny thing to me is how these inofficial transcription rules differ from country to country. Seems most people with ö or ü from a Turkish name are happy to drop it to o and u (cf Mesut Özil) but Germans are absolutely not. (Not saying this is a rule, just what I observed.)
Imagine this continuing for another 20 or 30 years, holding back our financial institutions even longer.

Maybe it's time to force the banks to replace code they cannot maintain.
TLDR; the guy didn't pass Toptal Codility test.
There was a Swedish comic like this, "Bamse". Probably the most popular comic for children in the 70s-80s. It's creator had socialist leanings and had no interest in licensing the IP. He passed a way quite a while back, and suffice to say, his children did not see it the same way. Now there are plenty of opportunities to buy Bamse merchandise, meet him in special parks or buy his meal at the burger chain.
In case anyone wonders how a voronoi diagram looks on a wall, here's my living room https://tomk32.de/assets/voronoi-wall.jpg

The process to create it is as simple as you might think, select points, draw the center lines for all pairs of close neighbour points and the corners will appear naturally. Tape all edges and paint the wall starting with almost white, mix more of the three base colours into for each of the cells.
I heard stories where parents thought this and ended up naming their kid... Joel.
That was an amazing read, it left me wanting to read more. What happened next, how long did it take them to solve that mysterious font issue mentioned several times? Are there other articles about similar time periods?
> Do people really think that if they restrict access to methods of suicide people will magically get better?

No, but we have good evidence that as part of a package of measures it's an effective way to reduce the numbers of people dying by suicide.

Your post contains a number of flags that show you're not familiar at all with this topic. (eg, use of the phrase "commit suicide"). If you want more evidence based information you could look at the UK's NCISH. https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/
Sara Soueidan's Practical Accessibility Course
> Your dear leader is the one you suppress speech about by labeling dissent as derangement.

Where in that sentence is the "trying"? It's not even implied; it's just not there.

TDS really disables any rational thought.
Looks interesting, I wonder if the method of marking functions as 'having side effects' is going to be easy to make fool proof. For instance, I assume that in the example the random number generation is a side effect because it comes from a RNG provided by flawless itself. Would this have worked with a regular Rust function as well?

I assume there is going to be some kind of test harness that allows developers to check their workflows.
I use Windows as my personal OS (1-2 hours a day) and macOS as my work OS (8 hours a day, M2 Mac). I would never have macOS as my personal OS because exactly it has a poorly designed UI for my use cases. I need to spend a higher cognitive load with the UI and my day-to-day activities require more clicks or UI interaction time. Additionally, I have less screen real estate and some applications simply won't work on a Mac. I like the hardware, though, just not enough.
No reason to feel defeated over achieving #2
Strong agree. Competition around personal banking is notoriously weak. If it were stronger the banks would have a strong incentive to offer a good customer experience, but without it they'll stick with an old system that is "good enough" because that is cheaper than replacing it with one that actually offers a better customer experience. Well, now they have a strong financial incentive (fines) to make it better. Good job GDPR.
Recently on HN: The Sun's Magnetic Poles Are Vanishing

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-suns-magnetic...

|2 days ago|4 comments| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37980822

A decade ago @NASA: The Sun’s Magnetic Field is about to Flip (August 2013)

The sun’s magnetic field changes polarity approximately every 11 years. It happens at the peak of each solar cycle as the sun’s inner magnetic dynamo re-organizes itself. The coming reversal will mark the midpoint of Solar Cycle 24. Half of “solar max” will be behind us, with half yet to come.

https://www.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/the-suns-...

Typical Astronomy|Astrophysics paper on aspects of solar cycles: Solar cycle 24: An unusual polar field reversal (2018)

https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2018/10/aa32981-...
Lol I felt the same while being forced to study this but now I'm trying to learn it in my free time. Go figure
Remote Containers which Jetbrains tried but failed to implement.

It’s standard for many projects which is why you use vscode.
Why Britain is so bad at heat pumps
A fun throwback and a reminder of how far we've come
It appears to be responding with Bible quotes, so you won't get much. Most are in Job, which is allegorical anyway.
It wasn't a coincidence, it was a carefully co-ordinated campaign (as Mr Murray documented).
Detweeted: Spammers do not deserve rights
my initial interpretation was 2x10^18 and was very intrigued.
While it is good to be natural I think most people will bounce when they see
nothing.

You could find examples on Reddit etc. to prime some good examples. Then say you got them from Reddit but at least there is something to read and come back for.
That's the place! And I love patchouli :)
I found it genuinely bizarre that my old UK bank's international money transfer system could not handle such wildly obscure international letters as ä and ö in my new address outside the UK. This was perhaps five years ago so absolutely inexcusable.
Saruman's mind was broken directly by the enemy of course, but it came about from him using the highest technology that existed in that world, the ancient Palantir or 'seeing stones' of the Valinor.

In Saruman's past deeds there is heroism and selflessness and traces of arrogance, but NO jerkiness as the article conveniently uses to polarize the wizards. If not for his vulnerability in using the seeing stone in secret (which Tolkien casts as a weakness of arrogance, considering the risk), Saruman may have kept to his science and not been morally swayed. The balance of power of Middle Earth would have been quite different.

I was curious as a teenager that Tolkien presented some casual grading of wizards, with Saruman being the 'highest' of the order and Radagast occupying the 'lowest' position. A later reading indicated that this was likely due to their own desire to administrate and preside. Sauruman most of all, Gandalf not so much but in need, and Radagast not at all. Technicians all with their own specialties but Saruman alone desired to be an administrator.

If there is a parallel to the seeing stones in modern times it might be addiction to television or 'screen time' to the extent where it dulls social skills and mental acuity.
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I'm surprised that Mastodon doean't provide a RSS feed itself? Other Fediverse platforms seem to do that.
Maybe the author wanted more fine control, but still, it would make its solution a bit easier.
They were already upgrading their systems when the lawsuit happened. That's why they didn't fix it: "not worth it since we'll be replacing it all".
I didn't misread it but also initially felt like it was much more. I guess it should be obvious since 2^16 is 65536
There are no nations which are direct democracies.
Ad hominem and an argument from authority in one breath. Or to summarize: Irrelevant.
If I understand correctly, Flawless provides the WASM runtime. If that’s the case why can’t it be entirely hidden to the user? The system provides things like entropy and networking.
I think he just wants office buildings to be valuable. It's his job.
A radio tagged fish that leads wildlife control teams to aggregations of invasive carp is also called a Judas fish.
If people are not willing to drive correctly without being distracted or under influence, that is their fault. We shouldn't have to trade security of everybody for the conveniency of the reckless ones. That whole sense of entitlement is baffling.

Besides cars are more expensive than riding a bike to a place where public transit is available.
This is great. I really hope that efforts like this will spread around more. If smaller companies like Tarsnap can do it, then what stops others?

> If you're at a startup which relies heavily on open source software, please take a moment to ask yourself: How much does your company contribute back?

And this deserves emphasizing.
Not working at a competitor.
Well yes, let me rephrase that - I don't see any indication that people would switch to robotaxis over owning a personal vehicle. I see that now already - it would be cheaper for me to take a taxi(you know, normal human operated kind) to work every day and back than to own my own car. Once you add up the finance payments, insurance, maintanance and fuel, I could easily just Uber every day to work and back and it would actually save me money. I don't want to do that though, as I like the flexibility of owning my own car - and that feeling doesn't change even with robotaxis. Maybe I'm an outlier?
In terms of self driving car technology I do wonder once it matures how new entrants will ever be able to get into the market.

Why would you let, by definition, more dangerous cars on the road in order to perfect their software, when perfectly good solutions exist?

Perhaps in the end Waymo will be forced to license the base technology somehow.
That is just an outright lie. Even most of the open source stuff I'm going to assume you are thinking of could never have existed without adjecent profit-driven ecosystems.

Profit drives innovation, and more importantly makes technology accessible at scale. Do you think most of the world would have access to washing machines (which are of ridiculous utility, especially when you factor in their price with profit margins and all!) if it were not for some schmuck wanting to line his or hers of pocket? Because it would not.

At its heart, capitalism is a (greedy) solution to a planet-scale resource allocation problem, and there are no viable alternatives (give or take some modifications/variations).

Tl;dr: Economics 101.
Even right now in modern day Japan I have to canonize my name in katakana (syllabary designed for foreign/loan words), and all the systems strictly expect a singular word First Name and a singular word Family Name. If you have a middle name, it effectively gets thrown out. Multi-word first and/or last names need to be smooshed or cut down.

I have encountered even worse issues digital forms that only accept kanji (Chinese characters) or hiragana (syllabary designed for native Japanese words), the latter of which usually does not support certain voices that katakana supports. Ashley Tisdale, for example, is normally rendered as アシュレイ・ティスデイル (ashurei tisudeiru) - ティ is actually te with a small -i modifier, which does not usually exist with hiragana. Forcibly converted to hiragana, it turns into あしゅれい・てぃでいる - but ぃ is not accepted by the form, even if it exists in UTF-8. Your options are either converting the ティ into ち (chi) or て (te), neither of which are ideal, and may cause mismatches to other systems that properly support the katakana version.

The problem extends further into physical paper forms, where often they provide a very limited amount of boxes for characters, because native Japanese and Chinese names can easily fit within 8 characters. Combine this with the digital systems above and you're bound to have several versions of your name floating around on official documents all mismatching each other.

Some systems that need to print onto physical cards (e.g. getting a 1/3/6 month route pass on your SUICA or PASMO contactless smart cards) are even worse and turn dakuten (diacritics for hiragana/katakana) into their own character. As an example, the character ほ (ho) can be turned into ぼ (bo) using a dakuten, or ぽ (po) using a handakuten. The system will instead render those as two separate characters: ほ゛ and ほ゜ respectively, which cuts down on the number of available characters for the already limited textbox space you're dealing with.

The world is full of presumptions about names even today.
There is a neglected aspect here, which is internal expertise. By choosing to build, even if ultimately you end up choosing another tool from a vendor, your team picked up many important skills to be able to evaluate costs, architecture and performance. They also might be able to better customise the tool to your application. This expertise might end up saving money in the end.

I think this analogy is best suited for training models. Even if you had access to OpenAIs datasets right now, I don't think it would make sense for you to train them, except if you are a 500B+ company. Training costs will likely go down with time though, so at some point this might change.
> But the average for people in the US with insurance is better than it is in many systems with universal coverage,

No, this is actually untrue. People who pay for insurance want to see a return on investment, so they want to see lots of testing. This is why over-testing, over-diagnosis, and over-treatment are so common in the US, and why the rates of harm from these things is so prevalent in the US.

This thought - that insured Americans do better - often comes from a misunderstanding of things like 5 year survival rates for cancer. Imagine someone who will die, no matter what you do, from a slow growing cancer at the age of 75. In many countries that cancer is detected when the person is 73 or so, and they move onto a palliative pathway. In the US that cancer may be detected when the person is 67, and their insurance is drained and then their life savings are drained and then they're eventually moved onto a palliative pathway.