skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am pretty sure material science went a long way. No need to put a foot of lead behind the reactor. The space race provided quite a bit of funding toward lightweight protection. It was too late for those plane project as they were already ramping down in the mid 60's.

Neither that or the plane powerplant are unsolavle problem, it's more of a "why would we invest this much to solve something this silly". Apparently the russians are trying to resurrect their SLAM clone and tested one. How much of this is a realistic military project versus propaganda isn't super clear to me. It's up there along with the manned military space stations in the scale of pointless deterrent PR.
$200-$300. You can DIY the impressions or get an audiologist to do it.

Westone is the major brand if you want your audiologist to do the whole thing.
I think there’s also an interesting angle around how and when it becomes open source. You could imagine an escrow-type model where someone selling, say, law-enforcement software might not be required to release it publicly but would be required to escrow every version used by clients and make it available to auditors or defense teams. There’s an interesting balance between allowing people to keep competitive secrets while still allowing oversight and that’s going to require some adjustments over time.
Yes... and? Both Cave's letter and my comment are directed at songwriters.
All these recordings can be out should be accessible in court. But everyone knows that won't always be the case.
In addition you might not know they need to be accessible
They're not custom made, but I recently bought a couple pairs of "Vibes" and "Loop" earplugs and they are easily the best <$50 purchase I've made in the last year. I prefer them to Etymotics (one of the other commonly recommended earplugs). I carry them everywhere with me and even wear them at places like restaurants to mute the noise. I can't recommend them enough.

Vibes: https://www.discovervibes.com/new-products/vibes-high-fideli...

Loop: https://us.loopearplugs.com/
Probably quite a few, I refer to some cities as their acronyms only such as NY, DC, ATL, SF, etc. - admittedly they still have their old name, but ELO and Elo still have their name as well
Proton isn't an emulator, though shaders do need to be compiled which can be problematic when it's happening constantly. For many games there is next to no overhead -- some games even run better in my experience.
This is built on Langchain and I think it’s also possible to build this on top of Haystack now. I’m torn between the two and I’m wondering if this project provides a good example of why Langchain can be a better fit in certain situations, just not sure what those are exactly.
What would be a non anonymous social network, Facebook? This very much applies to them too, iiuc..
So it wasn't anarchist at all? Just a capitalist money-making thing? Come on, where's the rejection of hierarchy?
No, these systems are not secure in any configuration. There are exactly zero large scale commercial IT companies that can deploy systems that can protect against commercially-motivated criminal attackers let alone well-funded intelligence agencies. These companies do not have any super secret secure smartphones, or super secret secure routers, or super secret secure configurations. They are all just plain easily hacked, routinely get hacked, and the government agencies and companies using them get ransacked regularly.

Companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, Apple, etc. are just systemically incapable of deploying or even developing secure systems. They have no knowledge or expertise in that field and for their employees to develop that knowledge would take both prioritization and years to decades of learning and experimentation.
Truly a modern heresy. I'd add the culture of parenting "technique" micro-analysis as another toxic drain on the potential of childrearing. Way too much thought given to dubious "science" of parenting decisions that cause parents too focus too heavily on things that ultimately don't matter.

Related modern heresies: https://www.secretorum.life/p/20-modern-heresies?s=w
Being a software engineer why else would you add a star to a known ML term?
I can see how that is an issue, but I still think bringing the E2EE argument in here is completely beside the point, and I think your point here serves to illustrate that: if a private chat didn't contain potentially sensitive information, it wouldn't make it any more reasonable to argue against being able to encrypt it. It may very well be that what the NYPD is doing is ultimately the right way to go, but you can't get there by comparing it to the typical E2EE debate.
Interesting side story about Bill “helping” a friend who had his life completely stolen back in 2012. So strange the thieves knew just where to look for things: https://www.ajc.com/news/local/atlanta-man-struggles-continu...
The main reason prices are so high is indirectly due to the civilian restrictions on encrypted radio. There's no real competition because the market is a relatively small B2I environment with no ability to defray costs by rolling out to civilians (plus they wouldnt be able compete on price with cheap Chinese radios anyways).
True, echo * will print all the filenames on one line, with a space between pairs, but for data processing purposes, the two snippets are equivalent, because as per shell behavior, newline, tab and space are all treated as space, unless quoted. Like the definition of whitespace in the K&R C book. After all, Unix is written in C.
What are people using now?
Do I think he cheats? No.

Do I think it's possible to cheat at his level, it would be an art to cheat in rapid and not get in trouble at the rate he plays. But sure, I'll bite, why not.

You can see that Hikaru has the ability to calculate and anticipate standard play far above his opponents, he calls out their moves before they make them. He clearly calculates both, he calculates the human line for him and his opponents.

You can also see the tilt in chess vs say LoL in almost real time. You can begin to spot fatigue in an hour-long video, multi-hour stretch, you can see Hikaru get tried and change the way he plays, slow down, go for positions that are easier to play because he knows himself very well.

Hikaru taking 2900s to town on chess.com simply looks like he is playing above the field at that pace. In a real tournament, with 90+ minutes, 2500-2600s give both Magnus and Hikaru trouble because there is so much more time to calculate. I think the reason why Hikaru is so strong, pattern recognition at this speed, instinct, and time spent playing, not strength necessarily in classical chess. (e.g. he has never been world champ)
08/25/2010 Bandundu,Congo Democratic Republic

A passenger brought aboard a crocodile hidden in a sports bag. The crocodile escaped, causing a panic among passengers who all rushed to one end of the plane. This caused an imbalance in the aircraft which led to loss of control and a crash.
The (adorable) science of how dogs use 'puppy eyes' to influence humans
bjarne stroustrup, underrated hero of many facets of society, imo
I live in the SF Bay Area, and in my sub-region, everyone uses the same P25 trunk system. By everyone I mean fire, sheriff, city police, medical, animal control, public works, park district, other fire departments, and even the mass transity agency has a hookup too.

I listen to it via SDRTrunk which is fascinating, but challenging with so many channels of so many different things going on. That being said, half the police chatter is encrypted. Not by default, but they have the option. And that's totally fair.

The police deal with a lot of sensitive situations and personal information. If it was my information that they were reading across the radio, I'd rather it's not generally available for any random person to get. Plus I've seen first hand what happens when the criminals have scanners tied to police radio. My favorite was 4th of July in San Francisco - everyone was setting off illegal fireworks all over. Some of the bigger displays would go on for quite some time then, as soon as there was a police dispatch call for that location... the fireworks show would stop and no one would get caught. 15mn later... the show would start again.

Clearly people are listening and using the information for illicit purposes. There are not a huge number of benefits to the public having real-time access, but there are some huge detriments. Note: I said real time. Recordings obviously should be kept of everything.

And remember, cops have cell phones. If they really want to say some shit and not have it recorded, they know how to turn off their body cams and use their phones. It's not like the public listening to the radio is gonna keep a bad cop from doing bad things.
Makes you wonder how can they have a concept of "meat", let alone such a dismissive one. We call "meat" the animal tissue that we eat as food- so either here "meat" is an inadequate term for "organic matter", or we have the curious case of an alien lifeform that eats organic matter while not being itself organic.

In any case, being non-organic, it's not clear where they might have gained such contemptuous familiarity with organic matter- although it's clear from the story that they know about it much less than they think.
Current governor seems to like throwing money at tech just to show how tech-savvy he is (coincidentally, it’s all for the PD). Keeping the libraries open on the weekend would’ve cost a lot less!
The article says you are correct, but the original dose is 325mg instead of 300 or 350 because the dose is 5 grains.
It could be a problem. Though I think attestation more than encryption would be good.
This suggests that we can't make it to space so that's a new worm of crazy.
A little bit of snark, not directed at you specifically. Several people now have pointed out either the red text at top, or that the numbers aren't an exact match, or both, without themselves bothering to read through this thread to see if those had already been discussed.
Much more than that. Insofar as we are talking about public law, I'd argue that ML for granting welfare benefits, calculating taxes, loaning books from a local library, ticket reserving for public transport, and whatever else goes on in mundane public administration should be open source or at least transparent, including with respect to training data and basic performance metrics like ROCs etc. Note that the argument about trade secrets, by definition, cannot apply in this context, although a practical problem is that public administrations have outsourced their stuff to the private sector (sometimes with catastrophically bad outcomes). It will be interesting to see whether people will increasingly challenge public sector algorithms through FOIs in the future, as I am pretty sure they'll do.
The catch with deep brain stimulation currently is that it's only SOTA for implanted electrodes, meaning it's incredibly expensive, and while DBS implantation is very safe for a brain surgery, it's still a brain surgery. tTIS is very investigational and neuromodulatory focused ultrasound is still quite a bit away from clinical applications. (Ablative focused ultrasound is FDA approved, but that's only for very specific indications.) There's also the Brainsway H series TMS coils that claim to stimulate deep structures, but the activation of large amounts of cortical tissue makes the claim a little hard to verify.
These are two sides of a rather naive understanding of technology that is yet surprisingly common in "tech".

Technology is neither good, nor bad, nor neutral.

Its value is relative. Technology is a means to an end. If you find the end good, and the technology helps towards that, it's good for you. If you find the end bad, and the technology helps towards that, it's bad for you.

Some amount of additional complexity comes from unpredictable consequences of technologies — while someone develops a technology to reach a certain end they wish for, they might inadvertently lead the world towards a different end they don't want as much or even are actively against.

But technology is just a modality of change, a way change happens. And change is neither "good" nor "bad." Some people in technology endorse a "progress" narrative according to which technology is good. It just means that it goes towards an end they like.

That something can be used to do both good and bad doesn't make it "neutral", either. That would mean it has no valence (and probably no influence). Instead, it's both good and bad at the same time for different groups of people.

The atomic bomb, which can arguably be used for "good" and "bad" isn't "neutral." It creates strong path dependence. Now humanity is in a timeline where atomic bombs exist, which is different from ones where they don't. And we can't ever go back to a different timeline (barring some weird time travel shenanigans).

Is it a better timeline? Maybe, maybe not. It seems like it's a more interesting one, in the same sense that people wish others "may you live in interesting times."
Top-Starred GitHub Repos
This is a well written and thoughtful article about the possibility of a Q* algorithm. I am surprised it didn't get more traction.
That only saves it locally, it doesn't save it to archive.org for long-term preservation, which is what the ArchiveTeam Distributed Preservation of Service does.
I never knew of these, but that’s just a fantastic little machine! I sincerely would love to add one to my collection, but the eBay prices for these things are off the charts.
As a casual but persistent user, it pains me to say it - because ethically I support the grassroots side of the equation - but as a path of least resistance to casual, anonymous public engagement on a wide range of topics, there seems no viable alternative. [For a given subjective value of 'viable', naturally!]. So after a period of abstention, I gradually ended up back there, simply because I know of no other sizeable gatherings on certain topics that aren't either annoyingly gatekept (technically, and/or socially), and/or are far more toxic themselves.

Look at HN - simple hierarchical discussion forums with a negligible barrier to entry and no grating artificial limitations, and we quite rightly love it.

In short, I still use Reddit, but there's nothing ideological about that choice.
The stupid keep the evil in power.
The inertia of processes and social systems. Any trajectory change is going to upend lives and be costly, which makes those with something to lost hesitant, and only really appeals to those without anything to lose, or who believe they will lose even more if the status quo continues.

But yes, partisan dynamics can lead to follow-the-leader and simon-says behavior.
AGI might be a modern form of divine 'rest,' taking on the analytical legwork so we can engage more deeply with our creativity. It's mapping our collective subconscious—art, stories, dreams—not as a shortcut, but as a deep-dive tool. This could actually draw us closer together on a soul level, enhancing, not replacing, our collective human journey.
> "When (not if) automatic garbage collection becomes part of C++, it will be optional"

Technically, his prediction (the implied inevitability of GC) came true, in practice, it did not.

Optional GC was added, never implemented, never used, and removed again.
This.

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

― Frederick Douglass
> Why is the rule different online?

Take this with a grain of salt, the law is pretty old in Germany and I have heard different things why it was introduced. Also the eu directive is lot newer.

- you can try things out in a shop, you can't online

- it comes from door salesman
Which liked to pressure people into buying stuff

- was extended to support local businesses as an added cost to sell online

>Could Lands End have kept its lifetime return policy in Germany under this law?

Don't know about that policy/any details, but sure.. why not?
Laws only define a minimum, not a maximum service level
> secure communication for me, but not for thee.

Nobody would be opposed to the NYPD having an authenticated channel for their communications. Having an encrypted one diminishes the public’s oversight during a time of already diminished oversight.

Comparing the public’s right to privacy with a government agency’s desire to further escape accountability is a category error.

(More to the point: the precipitating factor for all of this was Eric Garner’s death at the hands of the NYPD; they would not have been held accountable had someone not noticed their chatter as he was being killed[1]. Timeliness of public access absolutely matters.)

[1]: https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-is-spending-390-million-on-a...
Amusingly, within just a few hours of our exchange, Hyperion popped up in another comment thread[0], where my view on the sequels was reiterated by several other people.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38424008
There are a lot of great options. This paper gives a comprehensive overview on the state of prompting frameworks: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.12785
Reminiscent of the Ampro Littleboard, which was a single-board CP/M computer designed to fit over a floppy drive, and was the direct ancestor of PC-104 and similar single-board computers. I had the pleasure of meeting one of Ampro's retired founders, I don't remember which, at a Vintage Computer Festival (I think) about twenty years ago. It was next over from the Amiga prototype, which was out unattended and I got to touch.
I'm not comparing it to E2EE. I'm stating there is personal information in the messages. The subject doesn't have a choice to how that information is transmitted or protected. There should be a duty for the government to protect that person's info if they have the power to force the person to disclose it.

Most recording are not by default public record either. Oftentimes it needs to be censored before being released to protect sensitive information, like subject addresses, license numbers, etc.
So your builds fail if a remote site goes down, and the speed of that site rate limits your CI.
Do note that emoji are a case where the "codepoint" approach fails catastrophically.
Microsoft Font Maker if you have a tablet

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/microsoft-font-maker/9N920...
Were you able to transfer some of what you learned back to standard tuning or did you never go back?
Love of the game. Computers can make chess more interesting, not less! I love working with them.
I have a bench power supply which takes this further by having two stop-less potentiometers on the same shaft with a 180-degree offset to cover the gap. It works quite well!
> AGI might be a modern form of divine 'rest,'

AGI? Are you commenting from the future?
I see. Yeah, that doesn't really have anything to do with what I was replying about honestly, so this is more of a tangent.
This was always what annoyed me about people who took this position before the changes. The goalpost was "Reddit is going to topple" - it turns out that the effect of these platforms is so strong that short of them literally going down you aren't going to see a full on collapse.

I think it's surprising because the collapse of sites like Digg and Myspace in the past, but the internet is a bigger/much different place now.

My prediction was the site is going to lose a lot of its niche communities and deep content will be diminished and the site will hollow out over time. It definitely seems like that's what is happening.
Yes, normally when you make a new thing you start with a small base and then gradually make changes to it, instead of adding the whole kitchen sink from the start and defeating the purpose of making the new thing in the first place.
>Maybe 81 of the 84 comments were either third party bot comments, or a Reddit-run LLM designed to make the sub look more active than it really is

Even if this was true (which I seriously doubt), how can you prove that, and what makes you think the subredditstats website cited above would be able to tell the difference?

The operator freely admits his/her stats probably underestimate real traffic due to the expense of collecting data, and they make no claim to having software to detect real commentors from fake. Meanwhile the real internal reddit stats available to mods show numbers that are both much higher and much closer to the live traffic we can see for ourselves as readers.
For people who can't afford custom earplugs, you can find a lot of earplugs with good sound clarity if you google "musician earplugs" or "concert earplugs". You may have to try more than one brand before you find something that fits well, but it will still be cheaper than the custom option. I like the EarPeace plugs, though it's not because of sound quality but because they're discreet and I find them comfortable.
It feels crowded because instead of being able to increase density vertically the density has to be increased horizontally.
The chip in Taskmaster's (MCU version) head.
8 months of 24/7 usage, so for most people it will still take years.
If you want the most configurability, run your routing on a PC or two. I've got a rediculous setup with two redundant routers and all that. The nice thing is when it's working properly, I can reboot either router for software updates with very little noticable impact. The not nice thing is it took a lot of work, and it doesn't always work that way.

Then deal with the APs separately; you should be able to setup a mesh system without having it do routing and NAT; I only have exposure to ASUS's aiMesh on underpowered hardware and I went back to separating the APs, but mesh makes a lot of people happy, so you do you.
Zero activity on the repo in 2023... we may need to wait a while.
> Have you seen the talks that he interrupts to take the stage for himself?

Links to videos of such incidents or didn't happen.
Running is obviously better, but what if it's only something like 20% better than a a long brisk walk and some stairs? Less injury, cost, more accessibility.

Could be relvant, worth knowing
A new chip architecture points to faster, more energy-efficient AI
>web app security mentality

Having good security is essential to having a good app platform. You can see a real disaster in how malware operated on Windows a couple decades ago.

>I want to be able to easily snoop on and control my GUI

That don't mean that every random program needs to be able to. If a program is to be able to snoop, it needs to explicitly given the ability to do so.
Ah, I see. I think the big difference is is that you're doing it when it isn't purposefully, but spaced out across all the time that you are awake. Those other activities are all neatly compartmentalized and outside of that you don't do them at all. I probably climb two flights of stairs 20 to 30 times every day (and down the same amount) and it's never a planned activity. More like 'I'd like a cup of tea' and that's 4 flights (2 up, 2 down) right there. Door bell rings: same thing. Someone calls from downstairs and I can't properly hear it and so on... it really adds up. Whereas if I would try 20 or 30 times up and down the stairs in a row I'd probably collapse before I got to 10.
JFYI: Adams is the mayor, not the governor.