skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another way to get something supposedly more stable than wifi when ethernet cabling is not feasible is to use your house's electric wiring and run data through that. There are kits which offer data rates in gigabits (although based on a few reviews I read the actual speed vary greatly).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-line_communication

https://www.tp-link.com/us/home-networking/powerline/tl-pa70...
I was able to hit >2gbps in speed tests using goCoax MoCA adapters when I used them, but it isn't "full duplex", so you won't see 2.5 down and up at the same time, for example.
I don't believe third parties maintainers packaging software on flathub is a big issue but I'm also not familiar with how other distro repos trust their maintainers. Hopefully more developers maintain their flatpak themselves (or someone they trust) and get their apps verified. If most apps are verified, warning users of unverified apps might be a good idea.

There's ongoing discussion about splitting open source and proprietary apps in to seperate repos [1]. Additionally having seperate repos for verified and unverified apps might make it more obvious where an app comes from in the cli.

But I don't know how seamlessly an app could transition between being in the third party repo and being in the official repo. Having the user quietly stop receiving updates seems like a bad idea, but automatically migrating might not be desirable either.

I also think flatpaks cli interface needs some work. It is functional but far from distro package managers.

Being verified is especially important for critical apps. Recently someone added malicious versions of apps to the snap store [3]. This lead to people getting their cryptocurrency stolen.

[1] https://github.com/flathub/flathub/issues/691

[2] https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/requirements

[3] https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/temporary-suspension-of-automat...
*In Europe
A long time ago when I wrote any amount of Perl, the acronym was TMTOWTDI... Or am I misremembering?
Malcolm Gladwell's take on generative AI [video]
no kidding. I just bought a set of them. 3 levels of brightness and 2 k levels and a few different colors. If you shop around more you can get stuff that is even more complex and programmable. I mostly wanted something a bit more yellow and dimmable. The trick is to look at the kelvin levels. Find the bulb you have find out its k level and pick an LED that is close to that or can do that.
Agents provide value. They do things that many homeowners can't or don't want to do. My electrician also does that.

Do agents provide tens of thousands of dollars of value?
Your local router, if correctly configured should do fragmentation. But in 95% of use cases, jumbo frames aren’t worth the hassle.
Trick is to live perpendicular to the flight path where there is good public transport ;)

As for the trains, no. Standing up with a suitcase between your legs is not uncommon. I prefer Ryanair to that.

When I travel by air I have hand luggage and that's it. Maybe if I do a couple of weeks away I'll have a small suitcase as carry on. Don't pack the kitchen sink.
I remember the John Oliver segment from a few years ago

The added layer that blew my tiny British mind was that the licensing is done by states (because somehow licensing barbers was omitted from the constitution)

The consequence of this is that if you want to move or if you live in a state border city like KCMO, you have to do the licensing all over again with another state. Bonkers, as we say here.
> For non-strength sport practitioners it may make more sense.

Aka 99% of people out there?
Here (England) people like to complain about the system, mostly because either party can walk away for free until the actual contracts are exchanged, but overall it is simple and cheap.

Technically, estate agents are not required, lawyers are not required, etc. Seller and/or buyer could do everything themselves if they wished (unwise but they could) as long as no mortgage is involved (the lenders are the ones requiring that the buyer uses a lawyer). Lawyers are cheap, estate agents' commissions (paid in full by seller since agent works for them) are low, maybe 3%+VAT max.

Personally I prefer this than the rip off that is going on in many other countries where both sides are taken to the cleaners.
That’s one reason why we need a YouTube archive that’s outside of Google’s control.
We use Hue bulbs. They're much more expensive, but we can tune their colours to pretty much exactly what we want.
No. NAT does Network Address Translation. It just changes addresses in packets. The packets are still whatever size they are.

There's fragmentation, but that's separate from NAT and often broken.
"Not making new things" is moreso the default, see: all mythology, religion, etc.
Jumbo frames could be a thing on the internet if there was a meaningful value proposition. Jumbo frames get plenty of adoption in LAN environments.
The $1.5T Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of
I don't normally nitpick in this way, but the single line "Wrong." rubbed me up the wrong way. The claim was:

> Almost No One Pays a 6% Real-Estate Commission–Except Americans (wsj.com)

and you've cited an example which fits neatly into the word "almost", _right there as the first worth in the sentence_
And they're fixing it again today
The extent to which heritability "proves too much" seems like a particularly fertile source of objections.
You laugh, but RDP is actually one of the few things Microsoft does right. It (can) tightly integrate to the window layer, so it's way more responsive and uses less bandwidth. VNC just does screen grabs, and X11+forwarding only works for a few minutes before crashing (that's been my experience).
>I'm becoming more and more envious of those YouTubers with the wall of physical blurays and games as their backdrop.

Going on a tangent here but your line reminded me. It's also a damn good idea to download any favorite YouTube videos for local storage and favorite YT videos with music at least as MP3 files. As with all things streaming, YouTube is constantly erasing all kinds of often excellent content, some of it to never be replaced because its creators stopped caring but left it up. Oops.
Piracy, of actual -tangible- goods, is theft.

Piracy of digital content is -literal- copying. The original item is not modified or changed. Copying is not theft.

The politicians, media journalists, and corporations spent enough monies to brainwash children into believing copying is theft. It isn't.

Never was. Never is.
If the endpoints have a hidden fork in between, then what you are shovelling in on one end might not be what comes out the other.
If you're gonna be pissy about not being able to explain something so others can understand it, why even spend the time writing the comment?
we really could save a lot of time if everyone just actually remembered that LLMs are designed to generate plausible output. it doesn't "know" anything, it doesn't "reason", it doesn't "think", it doesn't have opinions, it just takes a text prefix/seed/whatever and generates output, based on training of things humans actually produced.

everything becomes pretty clear then.

should you trust the answers it gave you? obviously not, it just generated some crap.

can it be useful for brainstorming? sure, you an consider the output and take it / be inspired by it / etc

can you use it to generate useful code? of course, as long as you read it and it's reviewed by tooling and humans to see that it does what you thought it did.

should you replace your employees with it? obviously not, a text suffix generator isn't able to deal with complex problems nor be responsible for decisions.

etc etc
> I'd first ask it to provide a list of the top ten reasons reputable historians cite as primary causes of World War One.

And right here you could bump into problems, because how would you know if what you got back is really the opinion of reputable historians? For all you know it could be giving you the opinions of a layman on Reddit.

> Then, go to Google Scholar or similar and look up that document and see what different reputable historians have said about it.

Looks like that could’ve been the first step. Identify the reputable historians and go from there.
> the initial interaction the majority of users had with the model was more conversational and humorous than the type of systematic picking apart the more scientifically inclined crowd tends to partake in

If I remember correctly chatGPT was grilled and prompt hacked for months, it was the Twitter obsession of the day.
It was worth it for me when buying cheap land. Since it's percentage based the amount was quite low; cheaper than a lawyer and I had a license to use the realtor association buyer contracts and connections to helpful people in the title office etc without having to hunt down and get these myself. When I calculate all the time I would have spent hunting down the right people, contracts etc it was a bargain against the buyer commission.

I wouldn't want to use a realtor for land worth more than 50k though. Use the percentage commission to work for you not against you.
I've got the color/RGB Philips Hue bulbs indoors and I find you can change them to a nice warm yellow color which is nice but they also can be changed to act like a candle.

These are Christmas light specific - but Tru-Tone makes LED bulbs that look like filament bulbs: https://www.tru-tone.com/. I've just ordered some so I'll update this comment once I've had a look.
UK watchdog bites back on blockage of $9M fine on US selfie-scraper Clearview AI
Fast custom JSON.parse that preserves large/precise numbers in JavaScript
We haven't even identified all of the bird species, and many prevalent bird species don't have complete life histories.

And that's before we talk about botany, which has vast frontiers that remain unexplored.

So we are certainly not "too late for the earth", unless we drive these species to extinction before we are able to study them.
Show HN: Challenge Your AI Agents/custom GPTs – Can They Survive My Tester?
I've pivoted to create AI Agent Tester, a SaaS platform dedicated to testing and validating AI agents from OpenAI, Character.ai, and FlowGPT.com.

The platform offers:

- Hassle-Free Setup: Get your first simulation up and running in just 5 minutes.

- Realistic Simulations: Rigorous user interaction tests to prep your AI agent for real-world scenarios.

- Intelligent Scoring: Each response is meticulously evaluated, scoring from 0 to 100(GPT-4 smart enough to evaluate it for you).

- Broad Platform Support: Initially rolling out with OpenAI, Character.ai, and FlowGPT.com compatibility.

The link: https://www.spellforge.ai/

Eager to hear your thoughts and discuss improvements!
Agreed. Japan is exceptionally good I agree. Europe not so much. Germany's rail system is a shit show for example. I had to get a taxi to a car hire place a couple of times there.
A power much stronger than a country? So what are they supposed to do, bend down to their "masters"? And shitty European electric cars? At least they don't forget the bolt which holds the steering wheel in place.

Tell me you are a Tesla fanboy without telling me you are a Tesla fanboy.
I read the article and don’t understand the example.

So every time I want to use the avatar component (let‘s say inside a navbar, in a profile page, in an article header etc.) , I‘d have to include the <img> tag. Because it’s basically a required „input template“ of the web component. And when the web component changes, I‘d have to go through all the places I use it and adapt the <img> tag to the new requirements of the web component…? that‘s… ridiculous?
Ha! Super interesting!

I tend to have the same experience. If I have a role or a function, or some character to play it's much easier. If it's just me being me, serving no special purpose, it's terrifying.
Tumblr is betting big on going small
> I don't know how much value agents added over the past few years, navigating bidding wars, pocket listing access, etc. but I've never understood the justification for spending so much money on these fees.

The question that this raises is even more puzzling: why hasn't there arisen agents that undercut the status quo? Are there guild or cartel effects at play?
Tencent shrugs off effect of US sanctions says Chinese suppliers fill GPU gap
As someone who has thru-hiked the big three, his story was a little off-putting.

Some incorrect statements about trail names and assumptions.

I met a woman while on trail (PCT) who could only section hike. Walking for a short period each time, connecting from where she stopped last.

It'd taken her 17 years to get out of California on trail. A 100 miles of walking a year. Her dedication was remarkable.

The mantra is Hike Your Own Hike

- Lunchbox
Other interesting places

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https://trypap.com/

https://hackertyper.com/

https://cat-bounce.com/

http://omglasergunspewpewpew.com/

https://eelslap.com/

https://findtheinvisiblecow.com/

https://theuselessweb.com/

https://ertdfgcvb.xyz/

http://make-everything-ok.com/

https://zoomquilt.org/

https://www.zzzuckerberg.com/

https://willrobotstakemyjob.com/

https://vole.wtf/

https://hemansings.com/

https://www.webhamster.com/
Bard is pretty good already, it's often better than ChatGPT 4 for me.
> and promises to remotely auto-disable any Tesla imported in a black market manner

This would likely get them banned within the Common Market, so, yeah, not gonna happen.

> Resign themselves to only driving Chinese and shitty European electric cars?

VW group electric cars, alone, outsell Teslas in Sweden, as far as I can see, so people are already choosing to do that.

> A rather stupid attempt to move against a power much stronger than yourself.

It's a consumer products company, not an evil empire. If it vanished tomorrow, well, there's an aspect of "meh, so what".
Netflix supported browsers: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/30081

Netflix computer requirements for HTML5 player: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742
I hope you handle this antique meme with care, as it's become quite fragile over the decades.
> $80/m to not have to think about a physical windows box ever again

they created the problem and sold you the solution! brilliant.
This reminds me of something I noticed: disproportionately, the classics in a given field (ie, the work agreed upon to be particularly important, influential, etc) are disproportionately the ones that were made shortly after a new medium or technique was invented. For example,

It's almost as if we default to tending towards imitation and recycling, and only each time a totally new technology changes what is possible do we really try new things -- but the well of newness is rapidly exhausted and so those artisans who are fortunate to be able to be the first to work with a new medium get to be the ones that create its classics.

The question is why? Does a medium combined with a culture totally determine the kind of work that can be made? Or is the influence of the original classics impossible to escape? In other words, is this situation path dependent?
I mostly use Trådfri IKEA bulbs. In rooms where a lot of light is required, the white-with-adjustable temperature bulbs are good. Anywhere else, the multi-colour ones.

Except for the bathroom and storage room, all lights in the flat are “smart”.
What if instead of a blinking led, it were a warm incandescent bulb, shaded by a diffuser? Bulbs have some on and off ramp time naturally but maybe this could be purposefully exaggerated so it pulses instead of blinks. Wonder if it would be as effective though.
> Do you think the situation will improve

The situation in the example you cited has improved. You're undermining your own position.

Use Firefox and be happy.
The few times I have run into these, the actual performance is terrible. Wifi is almost always better.
A sleeper train takes 0 useful hours, because you’re asleep.

Plus you potentially save on a night’s accommodation.

Last time I took the Caledonian Sleeper was for a morning meeting in Glasgow. My colleagues flew from Luton on the first morning flight and turned up irritable and tired. I got the Cally Sleeper and was fresh as a daisy with no time wasted - in fact I could do a couple of hours’ work while they were trogging around airports and planes.
Yes, it works with splitters. Just be careful because you'll lose signal strength on each split, your splitter should have a number on it for how much is lost.
We should always have several competing licensing bodies.

1 licensing body: never considers the cost of gatekeeping, only the self-benefit.

2 licensing bodies: they are forced to weigh the cost of gatekeeping against the self-benefit, but you might get a race to the bottom.

3 licensing bodies: they are forced to weigh the cost of gatekeeping against the self-benefit, and if they race to the bottom too hard we can decertify one and retain competition until we can bud off a replacement.
I believe Tom Hanks already had some one deep fake him into endorsing some medicare scam product. I'd be more worried about that than the unsavory narration which most people probably would assume was fake.
This is what Path MTU Discovery is for, in principle, or what MSS clamping at your router will do.
The "revolution" in the article is almost exclusively localized to Austria, to be very precise
Blog and library author here. Library source is at https://github.com/jawj/json-custom-numbers. If you can make it faster (and still pass the tests), please submit a PR!
I have an extension with a few hundred users (Reddit Slideshow) that's going to need to be updated in a way that will reduce privacy. Manifest V3 prevents some of the things I need to do for it to make network requests. The only solution is to deploy a central proxy that can make these requests and funnel all client requests through that proxy. Theoretically I could use that proxy to track my users. At the moment I do no tracking whatsoever. I'm sure its going to cause a bunch of users to uninstall no matter how much I promise I won't track them.

A very popular extension, Hoverzoom, does the same things I need to do so its author will need the same solution, or severely limit its functionality. ...and I doubt the author will be able to support a proxy service with the volume it would get.
That was my first thought as well. :)

Context, for anyone who hasn't used Amazon in recent years. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32195987
No, you're overindexing on the name. It doesn't mean that these LLMs are about linguistics and grammar specifically. Clearly, they aren't as likely to generate "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" as "It's important to feed your dog".

Obviously, they're better at grammar than many other things, but it's clear that they contain a vast amount of knowledge. They contain the information that the sky is blue and firetrucks are red, which isn't a matter of grammar or coherence, but is simply information about the world.
I believe this is mostly correct. However, there is still some value in automating bullshit.
MVS 3.8J TK5u1 Released
US business elite welcomes Xi Jinping with standing ovation
archive: https://archive.is/oyYAM
> It reflected a comment Thacker had made early on, that “coaxial cable is nothing but captive ether,” PARC researcher Alan Kay recalled.

From the article on the origin of the name.
> It was £235 standard class to get a train that takes several hours.

Presumably for some people the sleeper saves a hotel night, so there's that.

Pricing is definitely inverted vs long ago because I would take the sleeper (archaic term for what we're now calling "night train"??) from Edinburgh to go to business meetings in London vs flying which was much more expensive, we well as inconvenient. On the train you get to walk off the platform reasonably refreshed after a night's sleep and your bacon/egg/beans breakfast and saunter to your 9am meeting. By plane you'd be getting up at 2-3am.
My thinking here is, that RAM is not a concept normies understand as a value proposition. It's like putting bad wires into something, and charging for better wires. If the devices fail because of poorly isolated wires, nobody would think "ah, that's my bad, I'll buy the wires upgrade next time".

Contrast this with a a better camera in a phone that makes prettier pictures, or a bigger battery in a car, that helps you drive further. There is a tangible value add.

In a world, where users are increasingly uninterested in tech RAM, for normal use seems to be in the wire category. It's just a thing for everything to not fail and feel like shit.

Are there really enough users who would think "of course, more RAM is required" instead of just being annoyed at Gmail crashing for no apparent reason and it being damaging to the Apple brand?
Well this will depend on how you conceive of logical and mathematical facts. If you think of them as abstract "objects", you end up with the problem of how abstract objects can influence the world. But if you conceive of logical and mathematical facts as descriptions of states of possible formal systems, i.e. systems that do not contain a contradiction, then there is no problem. The actual world is simply a subset of the possible world; truths derived from investigating what is possible necessarily and obviously apply to the actual as a subset of the possible.
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Adds Protected Memory Support
People speak differently in different situations, based on their mood and who they are talking to. They may change their voice when quoting another person, they may alter their accent if talking to a stranger, and there's many other details you don't even think about because you're used to them but it'll immediately sound wrong if it's not replicated correctly.

Apple's announced voice imitation feature requires a 15 minute sample if I remember correctly, and you can bet it would be shorter if they were satisfied with the results.

> if in that 3 seconds it hears you say y'all

I can guarantee that no 3 seconds of text of your choosing will ever be enough to reliably differentiate between all existing dialects and accents, let alone differences between individual people.

There's a reason all the decent fake voice clips on the web are based on public figures with hours of training material - and even with those you can tell within seconds that it's fake, even if you don't know how you noticed it.
The chain system is absolutely ludicrous, I wouldn't call it "simple and cheap".

IMO the whole system needs reform, I would wager it would go some way in fixing the housing crisis in the country.
>many of Cluj’s independent cafes began to play loud blooming music to discourage lingering

Maybe because Cluj is an overrated, overpriced Silicon Valley wannabe (sorry to be so blunt), so greedy old-town cafe owners jack up prices to match IT workers' and tourists' purchasing power. In Iasi for example, there's still small neighborhood cafes that sell affordable coffee, you just gotta avoid the old town and city center where all IT workers and tourists gather.

>then you have a very warped perception of Europe overall

Doubt it. Go to Italy, Portugal, Austria and many others, and it's full of small family owned cafes and traditional coffee houses serving just affordable coffee and cakes, not acting like a tourist trap or hipster co-working space.
They also turn up in some sorts of micro-CHP boilers.