skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems I'm getting old. What's the trick here? Is this a trick? Yeah, that is who have done things in the past. That's when I learned programming and then "hacked in" the hex codes on a hex keypad on a Z80. That's when I learned programming on my first 8086. You tried to figured out what caused the least overhead. That meant saving space on instructions and in processing power/speed. But then I learned that this is called Spaghetti code.
There are pocketable FF camera with prime lenses and pocketable 1” sensor cameras with zooms. Those old 35mm film pocketable zooms had terrible apertures but a RX100M3 with a 1.8-2.8 aperture has a comparable effective aperture to some FF mirrorless with kit lens.
> Two-hundred books were taken out, presumably without anyone having to log their names.

The article states that every book taken out was returned. I see two alternatives:

1. The staff conducted a full inventory a couple of weeks after the incident and confirmed that every book is still there. (By the way, at what rate are books smuggled out even during regular opening hours?)

2. The books that were taken out were borrowed against a library card using some sort of self-checkout station.

I find option 2 much more likely, which meant the names were logged.
Ask HN: Suitable LLM models for an agent for user guides and docs?
Hi, i would like to implement an AI agent for my user guides and wiki (about 100 pages), so users can easily come in and interact with it. I expect the amount of content to increase quite a lot over time.

I would prefer it to the model to be self hosted, so I dont worry about how much APIs cost etc. My website content will be relatively small for a long time.
> Sony says doesn't compromise on ISO performance or dynamic range. [..] Sony isn't quoting a DR figure for the camera.

Who are they fooling?
More specific information about why its closing down are lawsuits of groomed minors.
press coverage of 1 case: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64618791
Now imagine a world where realtor fees are 1% instead of 6%. On a 300k house, that's 15k you don't pay to the realtor. In this world, your realtor doesn't bring you an extra 12k from the buyer, but you still come ahead. And the buyer pays less too.

That's a win win world for everyone (except the realtor, who are redundant middlemen in the internet eta).
FTL. See NiagraFiles.
i just noticed that you're linking a page about panel prices

two problems

one, pv modules are typically about a third of the cost of a utility-scale solar farm; things like installation labor and power electronics are also part of the cost. so roughly we should expect solar projects to cost about 80 cents per peak watt based on that number

two, that page ends in 02021, but pv module prices have fallen by about a third to half since the beginning of this year https://www.solarserver.de/photovoltaik-preis-pv-modul-preis...

in particular solarserver's 'mainstream' category was about 25 euro-cents throughout 02021 and is now at 19, 24% lower, and the lowest it's ever been

it seems like the price-fixing cartel announced at the beginning of 02019 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-davos-meeting-solar-gcl-i... has finally collapsed

solarserver's 'low-cost' category is at the staggeringly low price of 11 euro-cents per peak watt; if the other costs didn't change, that would lower the solar plant cost from 80 cents to 65 cents or so per peak watt, though in fact they tend to increase somewhat because of the larger area of solar cells required to reach the same wattage (that's why the mainstream pv modules are more expensive)

a third problem is the capacity factor, tho; nuke plants typically run at about 90% capacity, while solar farms run at closer to 20%, because of problems such as night. in very polar countries like germany it's 10%. so 70 cents per nameplate watt works out to more like 3.5 dollars per delivered watt

which is still cheaper than 4.9 (or 5.4 dollars per delivered watt assuming that 90% capacity factor) but not implausibly cheaper anymore

if solar farm builders can find ways to reduce the costs of solar farms proportionately to the vertiginous drop in module prices, which sounds implausible but has always been done successfully before, we should expect the price to drop to half that
Heat radiates as IR and other such, even without air.

Fun fact, black both absorbs and radiates heat faster.
Cant get it to work, tried even with google but its always a cloudflare error...
Assuming AVIF was the issue, should be working now!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anish_Kapoor#Vantablack_contro...
Good write up, and encompassing a lot of the frustration people that deal with this feel.
You're mistaking hammer for a screwdriver
How Artificial Intelligence Is Impacting the Lego Community
More clearly (title is partially misleading):

> The Seattle-based appellate judge ruled that the practice [of recording and intercepting customers' private text messages and mobile phone call logs] does not meet the threshold for an illegal privacy violation under [Washington] state law

--

Now since the argument seems to have been that

> the interception and recording of mobile phone activity did not meet the Washington Privacy Act's standard that a plaintiff must prove that "his or her business, his or her person, or his or her reputation" has been threatened

one wonders what juridical hook the judge would have found to determine a breach of rights if the plaintiff took the judge's personal assistant and started browsing its contents.
It's why Starlink satellites already switched away again from black painted satellites (that light up like christmas trees on IR anyway), to having sunshades that reflect the light away at angles pointing away from Earth, to keep the light away from both astronomic observation and the sats.
usually not in your run of the mill public library though
I always feel somewhat awkward reading blog articles like this.

While the author is certainly fighting a good cause, their writing style is very self-righteous and shows lack of self-awareness. Is it working in politics that makes one so jaded and fond of their own prose?
They make 100B of PROFIT in a year, but still sell 1k+ computers with 8GB of RAM. I mean it is partly the reason for the profit, but when a company doesn't invest their profits into better product for their customers it's better to buy from competitors...
Naturally, in an ideal world no houses would ever be bombed. But given the status quo we are in, my question is: would you prefer they don't call?
"It all started when Kapoor landed the exclusive rights to use the pigment Vantablack, billed as the world’s darkest pigment and said to absorb 99.96 percent of light."

* https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artist-bans-anish-kapoor-g...
Yes, almost 500 when you can get a cheap android for 150/200. Thats a big price increase.
I don't think so. You've posted a link to Wikipedia in an adjacent thread that clearly says that photo finish cameras do NOT use traditional 2D sensors, but a "1D" single-strip sensor with very high refresh rate. They intentionally use an effect similar to rolling shutter where instead of the currently exposed row moving up and down the sensor, there is just one row and the photographed subjects move against the camera.

Yes, you could capture a similar photo by aiming a global-shutter camera at the finish line and firing the shutter exactly when the first contender triggers a laser beam or something, but that would be much more complicated and expensive than just capturing a single slice of space and letting time flow along the perpendicular axis.
Bad luck Mozilla and Google. A slight loosening of their stranglehold.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38187301 1 day ago, 51 comments, [flagged]
Hahaha IIUC Anish Kapoor, a British spectacle-based celebrity pop artist, did some silly bullshit where he arranged an exclusive contract for purchase of one of one of these blackest-ever paints (might have been Vanta?) so that the only way you could experience it was by visiting his exhibitions.

I guess the person making this new paint thought this was, well, bullshit, so this is a response to that :)
Did they ever resolve the question about how it’s supposed to be pronounced? O-mee-GLE, O-mI-gl’, Om-hi-GLE?
Ok, so why do we need stackoverflow anymore?
Intel Macs aren't relevant anymore. As for apple silicon, running a ubuntu VM doesn't count. You also need to use Parallels, which is not free. The Asahi Linux method is still very buggy because its essentially a reverse engineer of Apple. And its not guaranteed to ever not be buggy, because Apple. And Apple will 100% kill it if it ever gets to popular because it runs well, because they will lose revenue streams they get with MacOS.

So the definitive answer is no, Macs are still pretty much locked down.

I get that people like the battery life and the hardware of Macs, which is fine for personal use, but objectively for a laptop that is going to be used for development, you get much more utility out of buying a "non mac" laptop of your choice in the form factor, and installing Linux on it.
I did that with my house. But I had to publish on the listing that we would pay a buyer commission otherwise, no one would come. Luckily, another unrepresented person bought it so I didn't have to pay the commission.
Vitally though chess is played for entertainment
> In the future though it means we can do away with the mechanical shutter

The future is a year ago: The Nikon Z9 and Z8 cameras have no mechanical shutter, and their electronic shutter speed is so fast that there is no practical issues capturing even fast motion.
I love this writing style. I would love to be courageous and impassioned enough about something to write this way.
I suppose that seals it then. What was meant to be science is just priestly words repeated by those anointed priests. It is no sin to simply repeat the words of priests even if what they speak is nonsense.

When people say “trust the science” this must be what they’re referring to.
That's an extremely simplistic way to dismiss the problem. Depression wasn't something that was invented or discovered in the last decade.
Bash pipes? The free flow of information through composable tools.

The commercial web? Not the above.

This is just a baseline. I’m sure that an LLM can help the issue but the biggest problem is that these varied HTTP-with-datastores are islands passing messages in bottles back and forth while a bash pipeline is akin to fiber optics.
That seems to be an argument also for religion. Plenty of people also survived extreme hardship using their beliefs.

Not saying there is anything wrong with this thesis, but I want to point out that this is not what philosophy usually thinks of itself, and it may not transfer. The philosophy the helped X may not help Y under similar circumstances.
> There have been benchmarks that kept 75% of the memory outside the server and the performance degradation was only 10% compared to keeping the entire data set on a single server.

Performance degradation would greatly depend on how much data was actually touched by the workload outside the server and not solely by the fact that 75% of the memory was attached through CXL, no?

NUMA latency I measured last time on a dual-socket Xeon (Haswell) system was around 130ns for non-local memory access and 90ns for local memory access. OTOH some numbers I found seem to imply that the CXL latency is ~200ns.

This means that on average CXL latency is almost 100% larger than NUMA so I think it is not realistic to have only 10% performance degradation unless most of your workload fits into L1/L2/L3 cache plus that 25% of local memory or your workload is more CPU bound rather than memory bound.
Flash doesn't have to be faster. Max flash sync speed means up to this speed the shutter is guaranteed to be fully open when exported flash signal triggers the flash. Below this speed is totally fine, above this could result in partially lit images.

e.g. A camera's max sync speed is 1/60s, and you connected a flash unit over sync cord, and set the camera to 1/250s, ignoring the lightning bolt sign on the dial. You take a picture, and alas, top half/left half is pitch black and only bottom half/right half is shown correctly, because you exceeded the max speed and mechanical circuit to trigger the flash did not close until image was already partially taken.

Or, e.g. A camera's max sync is 1/80ksec., with a random flash unit on top. You set it to that 1/80ksec, push down the shutter, the camera triggers flash, flash starts discharging energy onto Xenon gas tube. As the light intensity goes up, the image processor on the camera pulls down internal !global_shutter_trigger signal to lock image data onto per-pixel RAM on the sensor. 1/80ksec. later, the signal is released and intensity is recorded for retrieval.

These faster sync speeds are useful for situations when a) you want to use flash && b) the room/environment is too bright for a flash. Now you can keep ISO value to not way low, aperture kept open to F2.0, etc. without overexposing the image(can't do F0.3 at 1/80k; aperture is limited to up to F1.8 with some body recognized lenses attached, according to product pages)
Everyone always misses the corollary to this "groupthink is why we have dark matter" theory which is that academics are very heavily incentivized to try and overturn conventional dark matter because it would be an absolute career-maker to have a credible alternative (and get credit for upturning a widely accepted theory). And in fact lots of people have tried various MOND theories etc but the reason Lambda-CDM persists for so long is because it still fits the data the best.
Haskell Weekly – Issue 393
I know there are stores like this in Sweden. Haven't been to one myself, but an in-law of mine apparently found it very convenient during her University years.
Framework: Building an Open, Reliable Laptop (Ubuntu Summit Presentation) [video]
That's what journalism was, back when print media had more reliable sources of funding.

ClariNet was awesome; it was articles like you describe, delivered over a lean protocol (NNTP) designed to do exactly that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClariNet
I first saw this talk of DSLs with Ruby, where it is/was popular to use missing method and others to build your own "language".

I do not mean it in a negative way, but at the time it seemed like calling a utility class DSL was excessive. It just seemed like regular programming, using the language constructs. It also was not enforcing many boundaries (there are escape hatches).

Looking at all of this, would it not be easier to encode the DSL in something like json, and turn it into a data/format problem? Something like terraform. The implementation can then be in any language that can read json. One could imagine, for example, regex defined in json as a DSL.
> But given the status quo we are in

Why that’s a given? Why should we not try to demand a correction on the root cause of the issue instead of just accepting poor patches on top?
It can be in our DNA as much as the browser on which you typed your comment is in the bits on your device's storage. That is true regardless of the fact that bits only code for binary 0|1 and 1s and 0s have nothing to do with displaying a DOM, taking user input, and sending it over a network. Equally, the fact that your device storage shares so many bit sequences with other devices does not imply it cannot have its own characteristics due to its own specific sequences.

In any case though, the expression that something is "in one's DNA" is a common metonymy to express that it is the result of inheritable characteristics.
.NET Hashtable is roughly the same lousy bucketed hash table from C++ std::unordered_map. So, the hash table trick gets you to one of N linked lists (the buckets), and then you walk that linked list you found to see if a matching element is in the list.

Writing sometimes needs to "re-bucket" everything and during that process it's mayhem if you were stupid enough to be simultaneously looking something up (but in .NET this will be prevented†) but before and afterwards even write operations "just" add or remove elements to linked lists, which you're correct in a GC language it's not crucial to care that some reader may look at an element which you have meanwhile removed [in C++ that would be a use-after-free]

> Enumerating through a collection is intrinsically not a thread safe procedure. Even when a collection is synchronized, other threads can still modify the collection, which causes the enumerator to throw an exception. To guarantee thread safety during enumeration, you can either lock the collection during the entire enumeration or catch the exceptions resulting from changes made by other threads.

So, you know, congratulations you played silly games and you have won yourself a stupid prize.

This has basically the same "cool uses" as with an RwLock, AFAIU the readers aren't actually allowed to look at the hash table while it is being rehashed, they're silently held by the implementation.

You could do the "Reclaim data only once nobody is looking" in a non-GC language with any of the other concurrent reclamation techniques such as RCU or Hazard Pointers and in many cases you'd be fine with a reference counting approach (not always which is why these other techniques exist).

Edited To Add: † Huh. Maybe under GC they get away with doing all the work and then just pivoting to the new hashtable after rebucketing with a single writer? So then readers just get obsolete data for a while and it's the poor GC which has to cope with the mess.
So she got you $12k over asking, but cost you $15k+. That math doesn't support your conclusion.
Buyer’s agents should logically cease to exist. They’ve been replaced by real estate websites, they’ve just been hanging on through an artificial monopoly.

Everything my last realtor showed me was worse than what I found on Zillow on my own, and the formatting of the information was so user-unfriendly that it was basically worthless.
Nice looking shape.

Maybe this was not your point, but the difference with the hat/spectre tile is that there is no periodic tiling (with a reflected hat).
I'm still nostalgic about the pre-facebook internet.
Yeah this is exactly the problem I have with it. Anonymity is great.
I feel you are trying to make some kind of point but I am not getting it.

Sure, start a democracy index by the methods you stated and compile a list and put it somewhere online and I'm sure people would find it useful. Those facts are useful for people looking into the freedoms of different places.

We are talking about repairability here though.

What is the complaint?

I think some confusion here is about "a number" people keep mentioning. Is it a single number that has to be objectively weighted by the facts? Or are we talking "a list of..." or data points which _are_ just facts can people can make their own opinion of?
Sounds like a 19th century robber baron
> and while the public knows full well that the Conservatives are openly shitting the bed on their way out, knowing it will be someone else’s responsibility to change the sheets, they’re not dumb.

The author really believes that Labour are gonna throw out this overreaching set of powers?

They were the ones arguing that the Online Safety Bill didn't go far enough as to include VPNs...
Ha, the good old bad vs evil.

You might want to read Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality, First Treatise.
Very civil of them!

I'd prefer a heads-up before someone had planned on bombing my house.

I wonder if Hamaz would extend the same courtesy?
An abstract generally has the following format, it starts by describing the background of the problem, the problem the paper aims to solve, the method the paper uses, and finally a conclusion. The abstract doesn't assume much prior knowledge, and can probably still be understood 10 or 20 years from now. Whereas you can see how the LLM summarized version totally skips the background and jumps straight to the problem and the method.

Now, I'm not saying there is no room for improvements. The fixed format an academic paper has with abstract and the actual paper may actually be replaced by what is shown here, and I genuinely hope to see more experimentation with the communication of scientific studies, but that is unfortunately not being focused on in the academic world.
That's rather odd to be eating all your RAM, I use my personal M1 16GB with Firefox, Affinity Photo and Capture One all the time to process RAW, never had issues running out of memory. Neither when producing music on Ableton Live and/or Bitwig.
Because it's controlled by the state and the state has an agenda that goes against my freedoms.

I'm not looking forward to my purchases being declined because I ate too much beef already, travelled too much, or was caught demonstrating next to people the state does not like.
We’re all still here. Start a small online community and tell us about it. (I did!)
But would you have moved so far away from your family if you couldn’t have kept in touch with them over the Internet?
Have you ever used a summary service?
Have you ever build or even done something with ChatGPT or competitors?

There's tons of real world uses and you're falling behind if you think there aint.
Economics works in dynamics.

If desirable CPUs are made of Rhenium with an effective production line and that the raw supply is so tight, the price certainly won't stay at $10000/Kg, and probably will align with equivalent computation power/watt of traditional designs. Any investor will see that it will only make miner rich without that much return miles aways, and walk away.
Quietly launching now on langvoice.dev :)
I mean, these are the same people who nickel and dime tenants for repairs the owners are legally responsible for, expecting to get it through bluster.
Because SMS sucks big time: limited characters, cannot send videos, cannot send images, cannot do groups, it was charged by message, the interface really sucked.

So the question is, why won't you switch?

In my home country, lots of people just had a BlackBerry because they wanted to do better chat. Then WhatsApp came, which did not require a BlackBerry worked in all types of phones (Android and iOS included), it used your same phone number, it did not charge by message, could do images, videos, groups, the interface was great, and it spread like fire.
I always felt like it was kind of the other way around? Speaking from experience , most languages where immutability is the default and/or the only option can usually simulate mutability or have it as a stdlib-provided escape hatch (elixir and haskell come to mind), but most languages that are mutability-first really struggle to provide any sort of immutability that is reliable.
Do you mean that the weight of their intangible emotions largely exceed the measurable observations they showcase in their scientific decisions? How unbearable!
Here in France that would be unthinkable, too.

But the US still seems to have some remnants of a high trust society, which has been only a temporary thing in many places, if at all.

Not having such a society adds frictions in all kind of interactions. In the end, that means cost. I can understand why people and company try to shift that cost when it comes up in areas where it wasn't present beforehand.
It’s a nicer experience during development out of the box, without having to do anything manually.

Swift Backtracing is not only about the symbols, it’s also interactive and lets you attach the debugger after the process crashes, which is neat.
2006?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientia_potentia_est
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Are they facts?
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anish_Kapoor#Vantablack_contro...

It's a reaction to Anish Kapoor's exclusive licensing of Vantablack, regarded as abusive in the art world.