skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Flagship means "the finest, largest, or most important one of a group of things".

HN rules also say assume good faith and respond to the strongest interpretation of an argument, not the weakest, [just for a cheap jab].

Yeah sure, if you wanna be pedantic about it, the S23 Ultra is the most flagship of the flagships (the weak argument), but that's an entirely different class of devices to which Asus has no competitor as the S23 Ultra is bigger higher resolution screen and has a pen making it a phablet, so the nearest closest flagship competitor for the Asus is the vanilla S23 in size, specs and price to the Zenfone (the strongest argument)

>Maybe you live somewhere where the prices are different.

Yes they are. In Europe, cheapest prices on Geizhals:

- S23 is ~650 Euros @ 5 years of SW updates

- Zenfone 10 is ~717 Euros @ 3 years(?) of SW updates

S23 wins hands down just for giving you more years of SW updates at a lower price for same specs. Nuff said.

If you enjoy throwing away devices sooner because of ASUS's ridiculous update policy, then go for the Zenfone.
I agree. It's hard to wade through the headwinds of Scrooge McDuck piles of money working counter to you.
I read it as "people will die if there is a breaking change in the software"
> but as a simple matter of factual data it's been two decades since US Republicans could claim a slight edge on US Democrats in the popular vote (percentage of entire voting population) and four decades since they had any significant support.

That certainly comes across as you suggesting that Democrats have broader support. Intentional or not, I found your comment misleading by not incorporating the substantial size of independents.
The radius of the universe is closer to 46 billion light-years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe
Yes, swapped ‘like’ for ‘and’ as I realized it wasn’t clear what I meant.

I meant Numbrino (Cocaine hydrochloride) which was approved in 2020 is used in place of Cocaine the same way Hydromorphone etc is used in pace of Morphine. Cocaine is a useful topical numbing agent, but tweaking it slightly is beneficial.
> I am doubtful of the optic nerve regeneration because of the absolutely insane density of the nerve fiber. Seems like something that will be beyond the grasp of science for the foreseeable future

It's been done quite successfully in mice [0]. Last I checked, it was being tested on primates. The method relies on activating the Yamanaka factors used in stem cell research.

[0] https://hms.harvard.edu/news/vision-revision
But still - it unveils the "present" to just as well be an illusion of human categorical thinking, an abstract concept, not more. It is super useful to have none the less, just interesting to know its fragility.
During the height of COVID, they were offering remote-friendly positions -- glad that their overall negative reputation stopped me from taking them up on it.
I stopped using rinse-aid entirely on my 10-year old Bosch, and barely notice a difference. Maybe plastics come out a tad wetter than before, but they were never fully dry even with rinse-aid.
Do these kind of things ever actually expire though?

All the 'temporary' powers granted with an expiration period have been renewed or expanded for the last 30 years. Often as little-noted riders on lesser bills of questionable relation, or bundled as side notes into major debacles like threats of government shutdown.
Queue image: Obama puts an award on Obama.

At this point both organizations are just different Microsoft's tentacles.
My doctor suggests I take Vyvanse on the weekends, 7 days a week - I feel like after taking it so long (almost a decade) I don't know who I am anymore off the pills - like I'm a different person almost?

Did your doctor suggest weekend breaks, or is this something you've tried yourself and found works for you?
Yes. This was because HiQ was creating fake accounts to scrape member profiles, which was deemed to be in violation of the TOS.

Legal has reviewed our approach in comparison, and we're good.
Its a simple project and yes, microbit will be fine!

Good luck!
To me, it's a pressure release/ROI question.

There are tons of incredibly beneficial computing improvements that it doesn't make sense to spend IT resources on, because there are better ROI opportunities for them to focus on.

But! That doesn't mean the things they can't handle aren't valuable.

My preferred method is (1) require documentation (using a standard template) on all processes implemented by non-IT (what it does, how it does it, what value it delivers to the company, what the fallback manual process is, etc.), (2) store these process docs in a centralized location, which then becomes IT's backlog, and (3) any change control / regulatory requirements.

The grand bargain is then:

- Anyone is authorized to improve processes, if they generate the documentation

- IT has the authority to force decommissioned of an existing solution *after* they've delivered a working replacement

That seems to align everyone's incentives more clearly on "the good of the company."
Cloud Compute Orchestration for ML with Covalent
I was wondering if it's possible to fit a non-trivial language model on a microcontroller. Turns out the answer is some version of yes!

This project is using the Coral Dev Board Micro with its FreeRTOS toolchain. The board has a number of neat hardware features not currently being used here (notably a TPU, sensors, and a second CPU core). It does, however, also have 64MB of RAM. That's tiny for LLMs, which are typically measured in the GBs, but comparatively huge for a microcontroller.

The LLM implementation itself is an adaptation of llama2.c and the tinyllamas checkpoints trained on the TinyStories dataset. The quality of the smaller model versions isn't ideal, but good enough to generate somewhat coherent (and occasionally weird) stories.
The article mentions that vision has been at least partially restored following transplantation in animals.
So someone could sabotage LLMs by writing some scripts to fill GitHub (or whatever other corpus is used) with LLM-generated crap? Someone must be doing this, no?
I just received mine. It's indeed great!
Steam deck in the bedroom, watching starwars with the wife... in the bedroom, has a pitbull, pitbull bites your infant in the face, terrible startup ideas, and the wife airs the dirty laundry on business insider - for startup reporter clout.

Are these people a meme, is this story even real, and just what the fuck in general? This article isn't even really about a failed startup but rather a pair of messed up people on both sides who now expose their infant to their insanity.

What a pair of foul individuals.
When used in a narrow sense "acting X" can capture it, but then sometimes people start to use it somewhat interchangeably with "interim X" etc. and it depends on the specifics what happens in successions etc.
As a peer post of yours pointed out, NIST changed guidance to discourage password changes years ago:

https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html#memorizedsecr...
The hotel was effectively a rent controlled apartment.

This story becomes way less interesting, and way more common (NYC), once that info is understood.
My own repositories:

- bookmarked entries https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database

- mostly domains https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database

- all 'news' from 2023 https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2023

I am using my own Django program to capture and manage links https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive.
The homepage (https://github.com/marketplace/watermelon-context) states that Watermelon supports "C, C#, C++ and 7 other languages", but I can't figure out what these other languages are. Has anyone found this info? Is TypeScript a supported language?
Lua allows full control over which APIs you want to expose to a script you embed in your application. With some effort you can even expose only a constrained version of the `os` module for example which only lets you access a few resources. Why do you believe WASM can do better here? In fact, as far as I know , there's nothing in WASM that lets you sandbox it yet once you've given it WASI access (unless you're talking about host specific features, which are NOT part of WASM spec itself).
I know that the common perspective on HN is that remote work is good. Certainly, as a senior engineer and parent I appreciate the flexibility that remote work provides.

However I think there’s a huge problem that’s silently growing. New engineers are falling behind. We’re growing a generation that isn’t developing some critical social skills. They’re not learning how to effectively learn from their peers. Maybe this is simply a set of skills they’ll develop later, but I worry about their future careers.
I don’t know the reasons that these big company’s are choosing to force RTO, but I do know that colocated teams have a better culture and perform better.
From the Director of the FBI, I would expect better than this.

> query applications either would not meet the legal standard to win court approval; or because, when the standard could be met, it would be so only after the expenditure of scarce resources

That is exactly how it's supposed to work, right? If they don't qualify for a warrant, then the warrant will not be issued and it is the responsibility of the investigators to do the work and find probable cause to justify the warrant.

> To be sure, no one more deeply shares Members' concerns regarding past FBI compliance violations related to FISA, including the rules for querying Section 702 collection using US person identifiers, than I do

Based on the next quote, I do not think he shares any concern over abuse whatsoever.

> hold our personnel accountable for misuse of Section 702 and other FISA provisions, including through an escalating scheme for employee accountability, including discipline and culminating in possible dismissal.

If he did share the concerns about abuse, why not have the discipline process culminate in personal liability including fines, prison and more?
True. I installed a L2 charger for <$1k all in, and basically only charge once, maybe twice a week at $0.115/kwh. Superchargers are generally $0.33-60/kwh.
SkyOS is another good example of that too. At this point in time it’s probably safer to remove SkyOS then assume anyone is actually running it.
This is awesome. Could be less vulnerable to vendor lock-in.
Maybe a recruiter could see the cost of maintaining such a website/database as a business advantage.
COBOL on Dreamcast when?
New York ramping up social media surveillance
The effect I'm referring to is extraterritorial. It's sometimes a surprise to foreigners because there can be a mistaken belief that specifying a particular non-US datacentre for cloud services places the data stored therein under the domestic (local, non-US) legal system and outside of US jurisdiction with respect to s.702 monitoring. Section 702 requests are still used, even for countries like the UK and Australia who have signed their own executive agreements under the US CLOUD Act. (The new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework and its Data Protection Review Court is a different ball of wax.)
Currently, we're running an experiment where we provide teams with 500 free PR analyses each month. Beyond that, we charge $16 per month for each seat.
> 7k pounds

It’s over 2 years, but nonetheless impressive yield on an acre of land. I wonder how it compares to the standard 1 acre lot for corn or soybeans.
Seems like then rather than an above board monetary transaction you'll just have some other quid pro quo and Google will end up at the top of the list of four choices. It would also introduce a lot of friction into onboarding if you have to choose provider for the several different categories of default app. People already pick iPhone (at least partially) because of the simple and "it just works" perception.
My standing orders are to donate whatever organs/pieces that are still viable after I've finished trying to destroy them with my lifestyle. Take the rest and wrap it in linen and bury it without a box in the backyard. We have registered with the county as having grave sites, so it's perfectly legal.

I tell them that I want simple with my remains, don't go nuts. That way you can spend all that extra money on a 30 foot marble statue of a sword wielding archangel Michael that shoots fire and shouts my name occasionally.
A bit of advice if you are aiming for FIRE: Don't buy Starbucks, buy instant coffee you make yourself, and stop buying stupid avocado on toast at cafes, and a whole laundry list of other luxury items. Basically you should refrain from buying any luxury item unless it's a treat and you set aside time and money for treats, not have treats and luxury purchases all the time. FIRE people need to exercise incredible restraint on their purchases, then that money that was saved can be pooled into your retirement fund. It's hard, I know, but that's life!
More feedback Quantity becomes quality
There are two groups of issues, ones that stem from the core defining beliefs of the groups that cause individuals to self-label as members in the first place and everything else. You'll see a lot of unity on the former and surprisingly little unity on the latter outside of transient political coalitions of convenience. Once you stray from things that are rooted in the core values of a group you'll find huge amounts of disagreement and that individuals have extremely varied views taken holistically.
It's been going on for a long time.

In one of his memoirs, the science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke recalled his days as a young man working for the British bureaucracy (something to do with teacher pensions, as I recall). His particular job involved consolidating huge lists of figures into reports. He observed that the numbers in the reports were rounded to two significant figures, well within the accuracy of his slide rule, and started using the slide rule to do all his work.

He could finish his daily quota before lunch and take every afternoon off.
Minority Report isn't a bad idea. It's just difficult to actually execute in a fair, unbiased, way. Think of manual memory management throwing an exception on an access violation vs flat memory DOS crashing the whole system with a blue screen because the infraction is first allowed to happen. Would be nice to view source on entities while walking through reality. What better defense against criminal intention could there be?
> Denmark is a state-sized grid by US terms.

See my addendum comment about Germany for example. They had to burn coal to keep up with the demand while their 200% overprovisioned renewables could only generate 20% of required electricity.

Today the only countries were renewables worked at close to 50% installed capacity were UK (wind) and Greece (solar). Everywhere else at best wind and solar were at 30% production. The entire Europe was busy burning gas, coal, or hoping that neighbours have enough nuclear and hydro installed.

> Norway has no nuclear. 99% of generation there is hydro.

Yes, this was my mistake. I should've said: propped up by stable energy sources: nuclear (Sweden) and hydro (Norway and Sweden)
While I agree that much of what is wrong with society boils down to a lack of civic participation and familiarity with institution-building, what I think this article perhaps misses is that social and technological changes militate against the effectiveness of a robust civil society. As conglomerates and governments can expand their reach through communications and management technologies, it becomes more feasible for institutions to manage large jurisdictions at a distance without intermediaries. And that same ability to grow to a large size also prevents smaller organizations from arising and seeing any effectiveness in their efforts.

I also disagree that Silicon Valley represents any kind of solution to this issue. The centralization of power in the Valley is almost more extreme than in the "old world", as multinational companies dominate the industry and destroy competition. Most people will do better for themselves financially by joining the elect of the fiefdoms of FAANG than by fruitlessly attempting to build a smaller company or product, and the big companies keep it that way through massive networks of financialization and regulatory capture.

In order for civic and social institutions, or small self-built institutions, to be attractive to Americans, people who join them have to have some experience of succeeding in their aims, and I think this is less and less the case, as the institutions that already exist suck the oxygen out of the space of potential action.
> they'll just buy you out

That would require you to sell. And if one is confident they can win in the marketplace then why sell to them when you can eventually flip the scenario and have them asking to be acquired?

Fully granted that in my experience, in the USA for the past long time, it's felt like Corporatism has made this scenario far less likely. But, perhaps that's more of a sign to start your company elsewhere. Perhaps America is no longer a good place to start a company.
Have you tried requesting burial in New Orleans? Although you might float out before you fossilize.
This piece hasn’t aged well. What worked for China in the beginning of the pandemic had the opposite effect later on. While the West was opening back up and getting on with life, China was in the throes of a second wave while at the same time battling serious internal resistance to “Covid Zero” policies. In the end, the government relented to the pressure.
If you want to know more, BobbyBroccoli has an entire channel full of extremely gripping videos about scientific malpractice and how it gets caught: https://www.youtube.com/@BobbyBroccoli/videos
Given the constant abuse of surveillance and the lack of care from these agencies. How about more dialogue on how we can put Data Sovereignty, Self Sovereign Identities and surrounding technologies into practice. Isn't this something the IETF along side the EFF could champion?
This falls within rfc7258 and could be done via the PEARG. That specific working group even references rfc7258.

In the digital world, your data is your identity and we should be working to ensure proper rights and frameworks around it.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7258 and here is working group that related to it. https://datatracker.ietf.org/rg/pearg/about/

https://standards.ieee.org/beyond-standards/data-sovereignty...
It's like a maestro, guiding you down with light not sound or words. So, yes. Done at PFC level probably ; )
Thanks but no thanks. Nothing against Teslas, but the issue is that reality is far from the vision proposed by proponents of EVs including governments and entrepreneurs. EVs are not reliable for long journeys.

Besides, I don't like vendor lock-in in my software, I don't like vendor lock-in for my cars.
I have this thing with one of my friends where, if I really enjoy a piece of media and I want to recommend it to the other person, I would watch it again with them because watching it for a second time shows there isn’t anything more interesting right now than the media I’m recommending.
If evaluated both for a client, and while they are separate products, they are almost identical in feature set.

I wouldn't even say that you get "a lot" more control with the Assistant API, as in the end the flow of conversation will still be mainly driven by OpenAI.

The main reasons why one would use the Assistant API is deeper integration and control about context initialization. On top of that, as you are responsible for rendering, you can create more seamless experiences and e.g. provide custom visualizations or utilize structured output an a programmatic way.

Major downside of the assistant API is that you are also forced to build the UI yourself as well of the backend handling of driving the conversation flow forward via a polling based mechanism.

If you want to build something quick without a lot of effort custom GPT + actions via an OpenAPI spec are the way to go in my opinion.
Vector Search with Azure SQL Database
I personally knownof three energy hungry places, two former employers and and one nearby, that runs those really old machines (chemical plants from before the war, WW1 in one case, graphite production of the same age and paper machines at pretty old sites) that are perfectly able for almost a decade now to adapt their production, within certain limits of course, to provide load balancing. They even go as far as adapting production to electricity prices in the spot market and speculate with their long term contract volumes. Litterally making millions, to the point production for zhe waste bin is almost profitable (which renders the whole sustainability angle moot, but I digress).

Morw of that, some storage, bio gas and hydrogen peaker plants, geo thermal and renewables and we are good to go.
Cortical surface plasticity promotes map remodeling, alleviates tinnitus in mice
I would have suggested Flexential until they had a major outage recently.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/cloudflare-claims...
This is such great news!
You pretty much need three-phase service availability to install one, and a lot of C-stores don't have access to that.
Intel chips away at carbon footprint but skims over thirst for water, chemicals
Instead of putting links to interesting websites on a bookmarks page you could link to related content within the main body of the article itself. You or I don’t know if I’d want to read more about a website about ‘humanities’ or ‘misc’, but since I’m reading through this article you know I’m willing to read about small websites. So, if you have read anything relevant about small website discovery, Gemini, or web rings, you could link to it from where you mention it in the article.
I know one case where someone did something like this.

We both worked at a tox lab and there are masses of numbers to be reviewed.
He strung together 8-10 steps to transform, massage, etc. the data for presentation to mgmt, accounting, etc.

What he found was that most of the time, it all ran fine, but when it didn't he had to spend some of that saved time troubleshooting an issue.

They also added more to his plate, since he no longer needed XX hours to accomplish the data push.

In the end, he was more clever than the last person, but didn't have the 7.75 hours of free time that's often touted.

It may exist, but it's rarer.
https://archive.li/s2pRx
I was a road warrior back in the day... if I were going to be in a place for an extended stay - say a month or more - I'd look into furnished corporate housing. Likely more space and better amenities, possibly even cheaper than an extended hotel stay. A step down from that, the "extended stay" hotels with a kitchenette and more space aren't terrible apart from the often frat-like atmosphere.

My trips were always the Sunday night out, Thursday night home type, where probably the biggest issue is the disorientation. One Courtyard Marriott looks just like another, even across countries. Rental cars quickly lose any excitement. Stuck in some suburban office park with your choice of Chilibees or Ruby Garden? You can see where nutrition quickly drops to zero if you aren't really cognizant. And then there's the relationship part. If I'd been single it might have been awesome, but I had little kids at home and it was a tough few years for what in hindsight was limited financial and career gain. Glad we live in an era where more of the work can be done remotely.
open source wrapper around OpenAI or do other LLMs work?
Eleven Turbo v2
It's not so easy. You seem to be under the assumption that there will be just one static system prompt doing all the work that you can customise to your needs. This may be true for some apps but many useful apps will usually do a bit heavier lifting.