skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are torque specs and torque wrenches to solve this problem in manufacturing.

For day to day, 95% of the time you can tighten a screw gently until it stops, its head fully against the surface, then just "snug it up" a bit to seat it.

"Snug it up" is of course vague, so refer back to line 1.
> But when put into practise, it's never that.

What do you mean? Where has police abolition been ever "put into practice"?

> I mean, you don't need to delve very far into academia or lefty twitter to find extremist people saying exactly this, that defund does actually mean abolish

If you're trying to find the point of view of stupidest leftist in existence to say “the left is stupid” then sure. Of course there are idiots/teenagers/trolls on Twitter that think that abolishing the police is the way, but that doesn't mean it's some shared position from everyone on the left or that the others are clueless.

Also, by doing this your message is violating HN's guideline.
I posted something shortly before the crash https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32077583

Security exploitations are oversold in the tech community. Probably out of a desire to be cool and hacker-like. If you wanted hundreds of millions it was there for the taking.
I guess both, one hand they don't have the time to come up elaborate ideological concepts/fantasies and on the other hand they don't really have the power to change anything. If the most egregious thing you can be accused of is "publicly dumping cases of Bud Light", I don't think you are at the same level as the inventors and executioners of the cultural revolution for example.
Well he said the things and they have hard proof for all of it - whether or not he remembers doesn't change that.
Abortion was also legal once upon a time
If it's just a fixed amount refunded to all employees, agreed there's no huge admin expense. If employees have different amounts (depending on their circumstances) that they get refunded, there is a lot of complexity required to set rules around what is acceptable, track receipts for these expenses, and have someone review and approve these.

For example, we used expensify at a previous company, and ignoring the human admin cost, there was a $20 / expense report fee the company had to pay.
“I found myself reflecting on how smart the average person is. Maybe they don’t know calculus. Maybe they’ll never read Ulysses. Maybe they can’t code. But they definitely know how to identify bullshit when they see it.”

How could anyone believe this? “Average” people fall for bullshit all the time.
Tangential question...

I often see all these fantastic CLI enhancements and tools that I am always tempted to try.

However, I have an overwhelming fear that doing so would compromise my system and those that I connect to through countless and unpredictable ways. And even if can 100% trust the author/maintainer, they may still one day become subject to a supply-chain attack or similar.

I feel marginally better if they're integrated into another, more popular means of distribution (terminal app, brew, etc), but still feel rather uneasy.

Am I just being alarmist and paranoid?
It was tasty : )
Apparently this was an architectural fad in the middle ages: rich families built "skyscrapers" to show their wealth and look out for enemies. At one point, Bologna had more than 100 of these towers [1]. Today, the small town of San Gimignano [2] is well known for these structures which do not seem to have a name in English (in German, they are called "Geschlechtertürme" and have their own Wikipedia [3] entry).

Also, I encourage everyone to visit Bologna, it's an amazing city!

[1] this is a figure you will often read, but it seems to be a bit inflated - apparently it's double counting towers from different time periods

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Gimignano

[3] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschlechterturm
What is that saying? Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of harddisks. I guess this is the solar equivalent.
Sure, but as is a big discussion in this thread, that public private distinction is quite messy. We don't have just private chats and old twitter style where everyone can see everything. Facebook has posts which you can share with only friends, or with even more limited groups. This changes your perceived privacy levels and expectations. We have various group chats with widely different expectations of privacy.

But RTFA, because what it is discussing is not public facebook/twitter posts. I'm not sure why the discussion keeps moving there as if that's the only case. Besides, a public facebook post is still only visible to those on facebook. It is as public as a private country club, even if it's easy to get access. What about what you write in copilot? What about your code on github? In a private repo? The article mentions this is already protected under current law as personal information.

The fundamental problem here is about consent. What would a reasonable person expect? 10 years ago certainly no one expected this. Mass gathering of data was only for the biggest of tech and governments. Now it's in the hands of anyone that wants to train an LLM. Things changed very fast and I think a lot of people are forgetting that.
And having the event early evening (which is super odd for a press event), to demonstrate the low-light capabilities.
To this comment’s replies: The dev of HTMX has said and is well aware that HTMX/hypermedia-based approaches don’t work well for every type of web app, but claims that it fits well with the vast majority of them, so the chance of it becoming bloated for want of fitting every single use case is pretty low. Greg says that a developer’s most valuable weapon against the complexity demon is limiting features by saying “no”, so I think the chance is pretty minimal.

So the cycle spoken of would be broken at this sentence. “SJSLib grows complex because it has to support all the web things.”
The Gum Problem
I naively think there is still a chance his parents get implicated for assisting the scheme.
Except it's reportedly run at heavy losses atm https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/11/github_ai_copilot_mic...
There should be a term to describe those who hurl accusations of virtue signaling as an act of virtue signaling. Virtue countersignaling, if you will.
That's the Mozilla Foundation, the Mozilla Corporation is the for-profit developer of Firefox that's owned by the Foundation. If Mozilla never established the Corporation I'd give them more slack, but from a "it's nonprofit" perspective it's on the same level as IKEA, which is also owned by a nonprofit foundation.
Don't use ANN for vector search in personal data
Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context
Hi HN,

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The current 7th-generation Phind Model is built on top of our open-source CodeLlama-34B fine-tunes that were the first models to beat GPT-4’s score on HumanEval and are still the best open source coding models overall by a wide margin: https://huggingface.co/spaces/bigcode/bigcode-models-leaderb....

This new model has been fine-tuned on an additional 70B+ tokens of high quality code and reasoning problems and exhibits a HumanEval score of 74.7%. However, we’ve found that HumanEval is a poor indicator of real-world helpfulness. After deploying previous iterations of the Phind Model on our service, we’ve collected detailed feedback and noticed that our model matches or exceeds GPT-4’s helpfulness most of the time on real-world questions. Many in our Discord community have begun using Phind exclusively with the Phind Model despite also having unlimited access to GPT-4.

One of the Phind Model’s key advantages is that it's very fast. We’ve been able to achieve a 5x speedup over GPT-4 by running our model on H100s using the new TensorRT-LLM library from NVIDIA. We can achieve up to 100 tokens per second single-stream while GPT-4 runs around 20 tokens per second at best.

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There are still some rough edges with the Phind Model and we’ll continue improving it constantly. One area where it still suffers is consistency — on certain challenging questions where it is capable of getting the right answer, the Phind Model might take more generations to get to the right answer than GPT-4.

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If your business is so successful that building or renting a nice office is a rounding error then that's fantastic. I just know that, like a real time strategy game, if you spend some resources on something, you aren't spending it on something else. It's called opportunity cost and it's the first thing you learn in intro microecon, which, despite being a developer, I have taken. Spending X dollars on an office is a decision to not spend that somewhere else in the business. That might be the right decision, I don't know, I'm just a developer. But yeah, I guess it's more complex than that, as I suppose one wouldn't want to slip into a scarcity mindset, either.
The article seems to suggest https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co... was silently killed, yet it appears to have been merged in January, am I missing something?
My mistake there. Confused it with the idea of deducting taxes for work expenses.
Well, they said the hacker was going through the workstation, not sure why... but seems reasonable to drop the workstation if that's the case (but the real question is did the boss pull the computer power cable or the monitor power cable)
Ok as someone who actually likes coming in to the office (definitely not for the productivity - for food, social chit chat, gym, getting out of home etc). I still call BS on this argument. The idea that your "expert designed environment" can cater for "everybody" is a bit naive at best. I am surprisingly productive at home (even with family around etc as COVID has taught us all to establish boundaries). Now you could argue that you are trying to hire employees with minimal ties who don't have houses/families and for them your environment offers a sanctuary. So much for inclusiveness (or older employees) then!
It also doesn’t (nor can it) load images, which is #2
Really it’s the lighting that’s everything.
They may not, but pressure from large corporate interests often works wonders.
I wouldn't expect GoDaddy to care, unless they'd had a compliance fear of G-d put into them.

But if the proper US authorities were knowingly permitting that material and activity to persist on a big US company's servers, one theory would be that they're using it to map out people who produce, distribute, and seek that material.

This resulting in more people encountering the evil material might only increase political support for this and other surveillance efforts.

Or maybe this is actually small potatoes among the tasking of the authorities, and they don't have enough resources for all of it, so they have to triage.
All of the major browsers are probably fast enough for now. It would be nice to see the emphasis shift to decreasing power consumption.
With a 75 MBPS connection, FF loads everything I need instantaneously.

Who cares about benchmarks?
Has anyone ever actually triggered the Halloween problem in their database?
That's insane!

> After "tinker[ing] with different combinations of lenses and film stock," the production obtained three super-fast 50mm lenses (Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7) developed by Zeiss for use by NASA in the Apollo Moon landings, which Kubrick had discovered. These super-fast lenses "with their huge aperture (the film actually features the lowest f-stop in film history) and fixed focal length" were problematic to mount, and were extensively modified into three versions by Cinema Products Corp. for Kubrick to gain a wider angle of view, with input from optics expert Richard Vetter of Todd-AO. The rear element of the lens had to be 2.5 mm away from the film plane, requiring special modification to the rotating camera shutter.

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

> The lens was designed and made specifically for the NASA Apollo lunar program to capture the far side of the Moon in 1966.

> In total there were only 10 lenses made. One was kept by Carl Zeiss, six were sold to NASA, and three were sold to Kubrick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Zeiss_Planar_50mm_f/0.7
It is exploitation of culture in the same way that natural resources of other countries were exploited: they were seen as something they could take and do what they wanted with it regardless of what the people that were already using it though.

Food is more of an edge case. I know there have been situations where someone who is white opened up a restaurant that sold food of a particular ethnicity. I'm not familiar with the specifics however. I would imagine that people debated whether or not that was cultural appropriation. Again, I don't know any specifics in that case.

I would say that cultural appropriation is less about individuals and more about the overall taking of something that means something to one culture and removing all that meaning. An example that comes to mind are things like turning Native American clothes into fashion or kids dressing as indians for Halloween.

So eat what you want to eat.
Yeah, sorry, but until there is good data on this that does a good job of differentiating along types, roles, and contexts, this just sounds like an opinion worth as much as the next one.
One must hope the pirates don’t get a system with 13 screens.
One cool usecase is https://meshtastic.org/ - been discussed fairly extensively on this site, have a search for it.
Land and territory can. If people don't like their new citizenship, they can leave.
I heard this claim a lot but don't find it true, there is plenty of abandonware with lots of open issues
Why would it not? Compare [0] with [1].

[0]: https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20130710

[1]: https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20130805

Edit: On a more serious note, starting out with noble goals, elevating them above everything else, and pushing them through at all costs is the very definition of extremism.
https://twitter.com/MKBHD/status/1719384434041090452

MKBHD says it was a camera app from BlackMagic. Their software Resolve is used in professional movies, but for some reason it's also available for free with some minor limitations. I've used it when I needed quickly combine some simple video clips and it was really intuitive use. Though the color grading and other advanced tabs looked scary to a noob :)
The killer app for Firefox is it still allows some flexibility in tab management. Sidebery and TreeStyleTab have been my anchors in the FF ecosystem. The experience is so vastly superior for tab hoarders and tab-todo methodology that I really can't imagine using something else. I also use FF on android because it has ublock origin and dark reader addons. This make browsing the web on mobile far better. I actually hold little allegiance to FF as whole, I just haven't found any Chromium based browser that works as well for me.
> that isn't impaired in some way

Sounds like a tall order for SBF
Every US citizen is guaranteed a right to a trial by a jury.
Which is a pretty healthy attitude to have if you're a well-paid professional.

I'll happily let my employer pay for things that also benefit me personally. But I'm also not going to begrudge every equipment purchase or travel expense to buy/do things I want even if they're also connected to work in some manner.
In an increasingly disconnected world, I couldn't agree more. Everything now is automated: car service, groceries, shopping. Activities that used to be social are no longer social: working in person, meeting in person, socializing in general.

We need to get back to building communities, making eye contact, seeing people, engaging in random conversations, getting to know your neighbors. And this includes working in person (albeit not necessarily every day).
I agree that agreeing to be questioned and then saying you don't recall endlessly is mostly absurd.

However, you know he has gone through hours of very recent prep with his defense lawyers about the specific questions he'll be asked by the team. So, it's not exactly fair to accuse him of having perfect recall for his defense lawyer's questions and not as much for the prosecution.
Who exactly are DJI/Hesai copying? They are the market leaders by a mile.
Legality is a concept defined by the governments doing the things. It's funny to see people react to something they perceive as immoral and just claim it's illegal.

I'm no legal expert but I'm reasonably confident one or both of Florida and the USA would find that to be an illegal transaction. Presumably Britain and Mauritius did not, at the time.
I priced out a 14" and chose the minimum options that enable 64gb, and it comes to $4974 before tax with 512gb of storage. 512 to 1TB is that aforementioned $250 extra, or the $750 extra for 2TB, bringing it to nearly six grand before tax. Going from 64gb to 128gb adds an additional $1000.

A lot of that price comes from the required upgrade of the base model cpu to the best cpu.

I'll give them some credit and say that a very mid-tier upgrade from my 16gb ram intel mbp 13" to the now baseline 18gb 14" wouldn't be excruciatingly expensive and probably a great machine, but ram is being eaten up harder and faster than ever. At minimum, as a non-ML (unemployed) software dev, the 36gb is minimum I'd expect to be practical over the next 5 years
Graphs like https://hacks.mozilla.org/files/2023/10/FCPRUM.png which don't start at zero on the y-axis are very misleading.
By coming at the question from another direction step by step leading the person into a trap.
Because Italian cities invented "downtown density" - since Roman times, everyone wanted to live as close to the center of the urbe as possible, driving up real estate prices to the point where "statement" buildings had to be optimized for height. This is particularly true for Bononia where, at the height of its power in the 12th/13th/14th century, families competed to have the highest tower in a town that had literally dozens of them.
I don't think many people were really wondering if this sort of thing "could" be done.

IMO that's not the important question.

The question is, did the people who filmed and created the video with the iPhone hardware actually enjoy this process / workflow? Or did this process cause a bunch more pain and hassle to deal with the iPhone as the source camera?

Compared to some alternative they could have used.

Is there actually a compelling reason to use an iPhone for this type of work over the various alternatives?
They might be adjusted, but not because they need to be. It's simply a great excuse to squeeze even more from employees.
You need knowledge for such a penetration. This kind of internal knowledge is usually only available to people working close to the execs.
I follow your logic, I just think your conclusion is vastly oversimplified. Not paying the ransom also means that other people will get ransomware attacks. There is not direct causality here.

There is some game theory, sure (a prisoner's dilemma, really). If nobody ever paid ransoms, there would be very little incentive for ransomware (though still not zero, some people just want to create chaos).

But I don't think in a world-sized game with billions of actors that you can ascribe causality to the actions of a single actor. Wishing that you had driven to work instead of taking public transit (perhaps you missed an important meeting as a result) is not equivalent to wishing for public transit to be defunded (there is an equivalent feedback loop - decreasing ridership corresponds to reduced funding for public transit programs).

Then consider that ransomware is only possible because of cybersecurity failings, and investing money into reasonable (some might even call them "common sense") security measures would also reduce these incidence rates to nearly zero.

To be clear, I'm not advocating for paying ransomware ransoms, generally. I think this coalition is a good thing. But if a healthcare provider loses years of customer health data, that could lead to measurably worse health outcomes, and even excess mortality, for real people. An institution getting financially punished for not investing adequately in security seems like a better outcome than jeopardizing the health of real patients in the name of 'solidarity'. Meanwhile, a dozen other institutions pay the ransom and business continues as usual.
Firefox developer here. There are a few ways to diagnose this, depending on your setup. If everything is frozen on Linux, it's probably the parent process that is having an issue. The "parent process" is the process that oversees all the tabs, it's the top process in a Firefox process tree, the one that has lots of children.

If our crash reporter is enabled, you can also just kill the parent process with `SIGABRT`, this will produce an entry in `about:crashes` that you can look up on restart, and submit. This will then give a link to our crash reporting front-end.

If you have `gdb` and `debuginfod` on your distro, and you're using your distro's Firefox, attach `gdb` to the parent process of Firefox, let it download symbols, and do `thread all apply bt`, this will dump the stacks of all the threads of your parent process.

If you're using one of our Firefox builds, you can use https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/crashreporte..., that will integrate with our own symbol servers. Depending on your distro this might or might not work on your distro's Firefox (some distros submit their symbols to our infra to help diagnosing crashes).

Once you have some info about the crash, you can open a ticket on your distro bug tracker, or https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Core to reach us directly, attaching the stacks, Firefox version, crash report, about:support, or anything else that you think is relevant.

Oftentimes, those freezes (on Linux) are caused by a bug between Firefox and the desktop environment, or by graphics drivers, that kind of thing, and stacks allow narrowing down the issue greatly, sometimes it's just a package update or a configuration flip away!
An obvious concern seems like any LLM-style 'agent' that can use your credentials to act on your behalf (financial, email, file access, etc.)
Well wait, I don't think jeffbee was saying it's bad to enjoy things, but rather that the person they were responding to was implying something, namely "Lynx is (in some way) better than Firefox because it doesn't take telemetry data."

Lynx definitely takes less telemetry data than Firefox, but it also gets substantially fewer updates, including security updates. I think text-based browsing is pretty fun but I don't really use it in no small part because of the infrequency of updates.
Your argument doesn't stand. I'm sure it's possible to paywall articles on those websites, but in every case I've seen the subscribe wall is dismissable with a single click. Annoying, yes, but more of a gate than a wall.
Is it true that pharmaceutical companies do not prioritize antibiotic research due to low profitability? Could new types of pharmaceutical companies, perhaps organized as a network of NGOs, take on this essential research?
Yes, it is immoral. You are taking away someone’s freedom to willingly enter into a contract. Plenty of successful societies do not have a minimum wage.
53$ - a bit expensive but still cool you can buy 8088 compatable 40 years later.