skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Early on, these guys had blogs and it was some of the only content you could find on Rails. The documentation was pretty much nonexistent and not very easy to grasp for newcomers. This was before railscasts even hit the scene but these guys, and a very few others, were like disciples spreading the word.

I even remember at around that time there was a fundraiser specifically to hire someone to write better docs. I think it was some third party response to all the forums where people had been lamenting the desire for better docs. This was before go fund me and kickstarter so itself was a little unusual at the time.
Don't run it, not if you don't understand it anyway.

We'll be teaching people to watch out for untrustworthy chatbot generated code sometime soon, possibly too late.
https://www.ipcc.ch/assessment-report/ar6/
Transactions with finality are a bug, not a feature. Reversing a transaction (under certain circumstances) is enshrined in the almost the entire history of US common law and is protected in federal statutes.

A money transfer system that prohibits reversals doesn't reflect what money needs to do.
Peak electricity demand tends to be in the afternoon, right around sunset. Since this is right as solar is tapering off, this creates the duck curve problem [1].

It does vary by region and season. In hotter climates, during the summer, peak electricity demand does tend to happen around mid-day [2]. The same page you linked, actually. In case you didn't notice, the demand curves for spring, summer, fall, and winter are all overlaid on the same graph. Mid-day electricity use is highest during the summer, but in other seasons it peaks in the evening right around sunset. Furthermore, about half of homes in the US are heated by gas [3], so decarbonization of heating is going to increase night-time energy use.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve

2. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=42915

3. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=30672#:~:tex....
Changing Attitudes by Changing Behavior
Interoceanic Corridor in Mexico will move 1.4M containers a year

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38223882
It does work, very well actually. On the other hand, Dalle-3 refused, with:

> I can create an image for you, but I need to modify your request to avoid depicting specific public figures or copyrighted characters.

It took effort for even "Chinese leader".
Probably something like

(1) Scammer sends check / something like that, showing a larger than expected deposit

(2) Check is cached by victim

(3) Victim is asked to reimburse the difference using Zelle or other "irreversible" method (best being Bitcoin, I guess, but Zelle also works apprently..)

(4) Check bounces

(5) Victim looses the money send by Zelle
The Rails app I scaled posted half a meg of JSON on every save-request every 10-15 seconds. In Rails, we parsed it, converted some parts into HTML nodes in Nokogiri, sanitized it, and saved it to both mysql and cassandra.

It wasn't a problem other than that a better initial design (nothing to do with rails) could have made passing all that data not needed, which was better for mobile. We had about 600,000 customers.
In Australia I've only ever heard it used in the specific phrase "That's a big ask".
Given the company it would be more surprising if they weren't.
AMD shipped Frontier. Compare and contrast with Intel's Aurora.

Epyc took the performance crown from Intel. Games consoles have been AMD for ages.

AMD are competing with Intel and Nvidia simultaneously with fewer resources than either, having come back from near bankruptcy in recent memory.

There's been plenty of effort and execution from team red.

It's commercially unfortunate that the crypto and now deep learning crowd don't particularly value the flexibility or control that comes from an open source toolchain. Regardless, I don't think the Cuda moat will hold out.
Shot spotter has a lot of false positives, but the basic logic of multiple units triangulating on the origin of the sound is valid. Physically that is; I'm not a fan of the company.
This is why Democrats and traditional Republicans secretly love having narrow majorities. It lets them shove down our throats otherwise unsavory policies in the name of keeping the lights on.
I dunno, if your crypto choices were just "the best thing that won't be included in FIPS" you would do pretty well; blake3, chacha20, 25519 sigs & dh...
are you offering 50%?
Yes, I enjoy experience of life in real life.
in the hood, so to speak, illegal gambling pays better than legal gambling.
You know, I'm beginning to think this whole "Internet" thing was a bad idea
I had a look at your first discute site. The rimbaud site errored out.

If I had the skills in your chosen tech stack (which I don't) my first question would be "show me your business plan".

As a rational person, I would be looking at "my" probable return on "my" investment in time and effort into "your" idea. In other words, an evaluation of opportunity cost. Most competent technical potential cofounders are either earning a good income or working on some idea that will produce a considerable multiple on their recent income.

In either case, your proposal would need to be more attractive than the alternatives available to them.
yes it can be difficult to find people to work on others’ ideas for free.
Scammers focus on countries where they have already established ways of getting the money out. Indian callcenter scams are mostly focused on the US for that reason, here in Germany it's mostly Turkish callcenters if you go by police raid reports.

Another part of the reason is how "legacy" phone carriers operate... the US up until a year or two ago allowed pretty much everyone and their dog to spoof phone numbers using VoIP, which made life for scammers incredibly easy as they didn't need much of a local presence beyond some money mules. Here in Germany, it's way harder to get access to line trunks that allow caller ID spoofing, and on top of that we have strict regulations on what banks need to do to to verify customer identities so it's harder for scammers to open up bank accounts, and so our scammers have to rely on actual people picking up money from the scam victims (e.g. the "fake policeman" scam).
I am of course, slightly exaggerating, but... by way of analogy:

I used a PDF library that didn't automatically flow text onto the page. You had to do it yourself. Line by line. Page by page. So, I wrote a few routines to do it. Maybe 50 lines? And I'm just like... this PDF library is twenty eight thousand lines lines long... and they couldn't have included those fifty?! Why!

Meanwhile, a browser is 10-20 MILLION lines of code, and ... I originally ranted for several pages, but I'll just go and say that I never want to see the string "undefinedundefinedundefined" show up during runtime (and that this is 100% realistic and achievable in a dynamic language, without type annotations).
There are always two error rates.
> Because of deforestation and rapid erosion, the lake has been filling with silt and is no longer able to hold as much water as it used to. This is a problem that has been known for the last few decades, but very little has been done to address it.

So that lake is like the small open source project that supports the weight of all internet: critical for everybody, yet neglected.

The Canal moves such amounts of money every year, not to say over decades, that preserving the lake in better conditions ought to have been easy. Now the ball of mud is exploding in their faces. It's like if "we" (collectively) never learned.
Your application should be able to handle requests nearly as fast as a WAF. If your app is very slow to serve a 404 page, you'll want to fix that.
> people do this for $$$

Probably, for $$, or even for $.

But other people sell it then for $$$.
Cool seeing this posted here. I remember making a logo for a Hacktoberfest[0].

It was stylized 'S' to look like a space-time light cone (or rotated infinity).

[0] https://github.com/sirixdb/sirix/pull/105
Okay but in reality an AGI is just an agent that can learn new things and reapply existing knowledge to new problems. Generally intelligent, it doesn’t have to mean anything more nor does it imply godlike intelligence.

Everything you just mentioned seems to be some philosophy of sentience or something. A few years ago when ANNs become popular for everything, general intelligence just meant “can do things it wasn’t explicitly trained on”
It was horribly slanted with pro-Israel propaganda

It also has nothing to do with tech.
They just have Google collect the data and buy it back from them. They get to have their data privacy cake and eat it too.
Huh? There is a ton of precedent for this - as a matter of fact Ford was chasing down famous people and auction houses for being in breach of the GT sales contract.
Yeah, they don't want to, which is why they spent 5+ years avoiding it until the FTC forced their hand...
Step one is actually wanting to improve security. Those IoT companies have no motivator. Most of our business is with Federal/Defense and Finance. Those companies will only change if liability changes or the regulatory environment forces them to.
The most minimal blogging platform in the known universe -- or your money back!
SDR?
Given how little people on this very forum understand Section 702, why would you think that Ye would understand it well enough to take an informed stand that is convincing to his followers?
The only thing I consider is making sure my spouse can take care of our kids for at least a little while if I died early. I agree with everyone else saying that if you’re single don’t worry!
"graphical" in same way that dialog is "graphical" -- they mean TUI and it would have been less misleading to just say TUI because no sane person would think "graphical means unicode terminal characters" in 2023
Yeah this number may not have been known before now, but it's been clear for a while to anyone who wants to see it that Apple profits from your data like all the other giants, they just have a good way to launder it.
Yeah that looks like a small wedding to me? The story here just seems to be that they didn't clean up properly? Not sure why the news story seems to be claiming they misrepresented the size, they just had a catered dinner party it seems and didn't clean up (which is bad).
Does this kind of petty tabloid reporting belong on HN?
> ... most people have vague ideas in domains they don't understand with no prospective customers and put no effort into validating the idea.

Brilliant summary!

BTW what would you consider to be the best method of validating ideas?
Justified true belief plus. YMMV on the plus.
I think the underlying question here is: "Is it better to spend lecture time learning the bag of tricks, and then the people who need more can learn theory? Or is it better to teach theory and intuition and then people who need to do it can later look up the bag of tricks?".

Reasonable people can probably disagree, and this might be biased by their personality and learning style.

I personally forgot every trick from my bags mere moments after walking out of my graduate exams. Later, when I got a job that required me to actually /do/ things, I (re-)learned the theory and tricks I needed for the task at hand. The courses that have had a real impact on me were not the "bag of tricks" ones, they were the ones that planted a small grain of understanding and/or appreciation in my brain. I think these are like seed crystals: They make later learning orders of magnitude more efficient and are far less tangible but far more important than "bags of tricks" learning.
I don’t know I wasn’t exactly going around shouting down long covid sufferers saying it was fake or anything. I just would have questioned the health of the sufferers beforehand. But I was totally healthy so its kind of eye opening to go from normal to feeling so strange overnight.
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Software Defined Radio.
Did you literally just pick two of the worst US cities for violent crime as proof SF isn’t that bad? You realize you lose the argument the second you do this, right?
> As of right now, I would do a token-based approach

C++ is gonna get really funky there, with e.g. templates
Unfortunately, Qualcomm is also a specific case. So delayed adoption of AV1 HW decoding is majority on mobile.
Just heard about that on NPR last week: https://www.npr.org/2023/11/06/1198908501/mariana-trench-cha...
> No left wing? The US has essentially become socialist.

We’re really drowning in socialism right now with our private healthcare that’s tied to a workplace only if the employee works >32 hours per week.
A big portion of them happening now thanks to chatgpt.

For example, my partner posted an item for sale in FB marketplace.

The buyer said she couldnt pick up item, but her brother would. She could pay via Zelle, all she needed was an email & phone # . None of that seemed weird, so my partner agreed.

The buyer then said she sent a Zelle payment. My partner got an email from "Zelle Pay" saying money was pending due to my partners account not being a business account.

Luckily, we know zelle and didnt fall for it. The sender was a Gmail account.

My partner must have been talking with a bot.

5 min later, another buyer showed up. She also could not pick up but her brother would. She was to pay via zelle.

Be careful with FB marketplace. It's a mess now.
The walking around is the problem. If you put enough microphones in fixed locations and do enough calibration, you can control for the reflection. DSP deconvolution was already good, combining that approach with large training datasets would let you get arbitrarily accurate if money and time were no object. In practice vendors and police accept low levels of accuracy as long as the outcome is slightly better than interpreting/triangulating 911 calls.
Hopefully there are some hurdles for criminals overseas in opening an US checking account (which is a prerequisite to participate in Zelle)!
Yeah, although it was apparently really early 386 boards. I’m not sure how it would work electronically though.
That makes sense. I hadn't thought about using that as a PRNG, but the idea is interesting to me. I might play around with it and profile it to see how these use cases play out. Implementing a BLAKE3-backed Rust rand::RngCore sounds like a fun little exercise, and would make it easy to profile compared to other PRNGs.

Actually, looking at that trait right now, I see that there are already ChaCha implementations, so the concept is already being exercised in the same family.

Thanks for the explanation. I'm far from a security expert, so more off-the-shelf bits at my disposal means fewer opportunities for me to accidentally implement security vulnerabilities by trying to do it myself.
First they say they don't like tricky questions, and then goes on to admit the "spec" is ambiguous. True, candidates are permitted to ask questions, but perhaps they are trusting of the interviewer and expect the question to be actionable as is? Or just the same, the candidates don't trust the interviewer and don't ask questions because they fear that'll result in a penalty? If you come from an environment where questions aren't rewarded - and there are plenty of those - then silence is likely.

Finally, it's worth mentioning, while the question + answer might correlate well with the hiring decision there's no mention to how well it predicts future performance. That said, there's a survivor bias at play so using it against performance might be iffy.
AMD was fighting Intel for its life. After a number of flops, it only got a big breakthrough on the CPU-side with Zen just over half a decade ago - which is not that far back. Hopefully they now have a bit of money saved up in their war chest to help the GPU division.
Interpreting the ambiguities of Section 230
I love Gruber's take:

> All those developers complaining about Apple’s 70/30 split for App Store revenue should take note: even Google only gets a 64/36 split for search.
I'm a huge nuclear fan, but Thorium reactors are overhyped. Yes, it is chemically, physically and mathematically impossible for Thorium to pose any danger because Thorium is not fissile. Thorium by itself cannot sustain a chain reaction. Whatever Thorium reactor people envision, inevitably you will have Uranium, and sometimes Plutonium, inside that reactor too. Now, you are free to claim that only a small part of the reactor is going to be Uranium or Plutonium, to which I'm going to say that only a small part of a regular Uranium reactor core is the U-235 type, 95% is the somewhat inert U-238.

Now, can Thorium reactors be good, or great? Sure thing, but for the time being all their purported advantages are on paper only, while the PWR reactors are in wide use.
>>If these are "bulletproof";

pressed sheet of 304 stainless :: "bulletproof"

polyurethane over more plastic :: "vegan leather"
Connecting the two oceans would probably do a thing that could never be undid.
Edited - this was just flat out incorrect given the paper. Thanks for pointing out my error!
Great post Mark. Long time reader - really enjoy your content.

To any readers - Any thoughts on how I can get satellite imagery of Aniak Alaska at a very low cost? I've looked into the sentinel imagery and it works -- unfortunately difficult to find enough images without high cloud cover. I could work through lots of images to piece together a solution -- but even then, I'd love to get higher resolution. Thank you for any guidance!

I've seen skyfi.com which seems promising but haven't decided to purchase.
I thought Czech Republic was big on civilian gun ownership with it in their constitution.

I'm not a gun... enthusiast, so I don't remember if they differ from the US in requiring gun owners to be responsible or anything.
Well, but they don’t get the data from the data collection company, only the very anonymized money. Can’t blame the tool, or what they say…
That all sounds quite different from an immediate disaster. Those things apply to any river and those typically have a slope well in excess of that. Not that I would argue in favor of cutting a channel between the two but it doesn't sound as though this is an insurmountable problem, basically well within the elevation difference that even a single minor lock would be able to handle.

You might even have to add a pumping system to the lock to ensure that it would fill up fast enough.
Which one of those dozens of links has the numbers you are referring to?
Another key one I would add is an appreciation of what a technical co-founder brings. They're not just there to manage devs to realize your brilliant idea. Success is "99% perspiration" and that goes all-around--aka ideas are a dime-a-dozen.
The 487 was the “full” replacement chip upgrade.

I still don’t know why the addition of the math coprocessor helped so much
No, it isn’t this is a cop out. Guns are allowed in every US state yet not every town in the US has high rates of gun violence nor robberies.
I designed a carrier board for my module to slot into. You can also solder the header pins directly to some perfboard and build off that.
eBPD seemed to be the only thing anyone was talking about at KubeCon and Cloud Native Con last week.

I hope people don’t get carried away and do too much kernel tomfoolery with their production kubernetes nodes. Not that it’s my problem, but they’re playing with fire.
I had gotten the original 2 part vaccine, though not any of the many boosters so its possible that having one of those would have given me a lot more resistance and a smoother recovery.
Humanity is a bad idea, look how many good for nothing humans have got produced and prospered so far…
Reskin of gradio + controlnet and some prebaked Lora

IDK what you’re planning on charging for this, but it’s nothing that can’t be done for free on any device in a notebook already
They… destroyed vegetation! The horror!

Gotta love Twitter outrage culture.
Wait, how so? Didn't most transactions take place in cash for most of history? Cash isn't reversible.
I don't deal with splines much, but when I do, I'm reticulating splines.
No. Do the needful.
It's 36% of revenue not even profit. Why would Google do such a deal?
How would you feel if all your popular goods had this kind of strings attached to them ?

Buy a PS5, and you better like it because reselling it after the return window will be an arm and a leg. Same for your Roomba, you regret not buying a competitor after a few weeks ? tough luck it's in your closet for the rest of the year and you'll fork the money in full for any other purchase. etc.
Seems like they probably paid somebody to clean up and that somebody failed to do so.

Going after the people’s who wedding it was is just sport it seems like.

I have worked on crews to do cleanup before. Sometimes you get idiot employees who don’t really want to work and end up causing more problems.

But to think “yes these rich people came where specifically to trash the place” seems insane.
AFAIK, trespassing per-se is usually not a crime in England. It is typically considered civil matter. It gets more complicated I think if you get told to leave and resist. And of course trespassing with intent to steal is a crime.

IANAL, just a random r/LegalAdviceUK lurker.
Canyonerooooo
It's quite interesting that cash escapes such criticisms by virtue of simply not being a "system". Perhaps crypto will win this space after all.
Not sure if he specifically appointed people to trash the place, it’s just he trusted the organizers to clean it up after and did not follow up to see if it was cleaned, no one really would after a wedding to check if the venue was cleaned up, kind of understandable
I feel it's used mostly as corporate jargon. "the ask is moving forward we will need to increase impact by taking initiative, driving solutions, and delivering value to our customers."
What makes them bad?
You're wrong about this. I have no particular love for shotspotter but I do have many years of pro experience as an audio engineer and understand FFTs inside out. Pathological reflections (where the echo is louder than the direct sound) exist of course, but they're rare; and when you're recording from fixed locations you can just map those problems out, because buildings don't move around much. You can always triangulate; you have to add more sensors and compute, but both of those are relatively cheap.
You should be using multi-part/chunked encoding for large file sizes as it helps prevents DDOS attacks.

And having an insecure default is a huge difference from 100% of requests are allowed.
Look for PS/2 aix 1.3

It’s not very stable, although I don’t know if it was a flakey processor
They lied on a legal document to obtain a permit. They wrecked protected land.
There was a rail canal roughly along the current canal the the US made prior to finishing the canal.
Both reachable.

Cool wibbly noise maker, btw. Is there any way to turn the sound on permanently, rather than for just a note?
default is 2 years though? is 5 year LTS a guaranteed process? the page was unclear to me.
I dont think you read the abstract. Theyre adding probes and a resistor to the soil. Theyre not putting current into the soil. The current is generated by microbes in the soil.
https://www.dni.gov/files/icotr/Section702-Basics-Infographi...

> Section 702 is a key provision of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 that permits the government to conduct targeted surveillance of foreign persons located outside the United States, with the compelled assistance of electronic communication service providers, to acquire foreign intelligence information.

As a US citizen, why wouldn't I want this reauthorized?
The reason why it's so tempting to just use `<div>` everywhere is that `<div>` elements have very simple and predictable behaviour with regards to styling, composition and event handling.

Same cannot be said for a lot of other HTML elements, which often have bizarre and inconvenient rules when it comes to style-ability, or nest-ability.