skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A clever abuse of terms to match my own, I guess. UV generates localized molecular excited states, particularly in double bonds. The process is basically similar to ionization even though electrons are not actually ejected. These excited bonds undergo Paterno-Buchi reactions and other things that just don't happen without radiation. This is readily detectable established chemistry that occurs in particular known conditions. It's not really ionizing (steal your electron), but it generates excited molecules (that react quickly like ions do) according to similar quantum thresholds to those which govern ionization — it is almost-ionizing radiation.

But RF doesn't do any cool stuff like that. The only interesting bit is that some cellular structures may be of comparable size to the wavelength. But the conductivity of tissue — even myelinated neurons — is poor. Attempts to generate non-thermal microwave effects by literally putting stuff in microwaves has mostly failed, so we are left with this mesoscale hoodoo.
They are having their own kids. What the hell are you even talking about?
"The first version of this document was drafted by my students: …"

So why aren't they listed as co-authors? :-)
Offline-First/Local-First Is a Big Deal, Especially for the Web
the most realistic one is to prevent other scrapers from building their own tools on top of github code search.

by putting login, they can throttle or block it entirely.
Thank you for this, lots to be optimistic about! Forgive my ignorance, but...

> They expect to be able to combine this with solar/wind to get a firm 24 hour renewable base load.

Why would they need solar/wind to get a renewable base load? I know solar/wind can't provide that base load by themselves (at least not in one region), but I expected that geothermal would basically be constant, or at least fluctuate by only small percentages throughout a day? Does solar/wind really bring anything to the table in terms of base load here, or is it just that geothermal would provide the base load and solar/wind could be used for seasonal usage on top?
Well, it ultimately depends on how you want to define insanity.

Most of the school shooters aren't schizophrenic. They usually aren't complaining about hearing voices or hallucinating. When the media claims they had a "history of mental illness" it usually means mild to moderate depression, anxiety, ADHD, things of that nature.

Some of them will claim to have a political or ideological cause but most of the time their manifesto (if they bother to write one) consists of something like "Everything is meaningless bullshit and I am going to prove it by killing a bunch of random people for no reason".
So is IKEA turning into an AI company by deploying billions of new control sensors in a giant time series network?
Based on the evidence you provided the only malicious attack is your own.
> PyTorch fanboys

> But the PyTorch community is something special

The context and request for civility makes sense and makes it look less like and attack in context. Implying that it's some characteristic of pytorch users is a bit more damning. Trolls are out there, I don't think it's using a particular deep learning framework that makes them more trollish, implying otherwise isn't constructive.
In a similar vein, and even more impressive for being done by an 8-bit IMHO, there is a thread[1] on AtariAge that shows what the 6502 and Antic were capable of showing when pushed. It's 190 pages long...

[1] https://forums.atariage.com/topic/200118-images-generated-by...
Originally it did, and some companies still tried the buy-from-under-and-jack-up-the-price thing on what could be valuable domains. Back then I checked the availability of a four-character (letter-letter-number-number) domain and two days later found it taken by “someone” using the same registrar I check it was free on and there was a holding page there offering it for sale at a not-insignificant cost multiplier. Luckily I had other options and just took one of those (from a different registrar). I also checked the availability of other domains on the original registrar, and encouraged others to also. We probably didn't cause enough financial disruption for someone to notice, but I liked the petty revenge anyway!

Later the 5-day grace period was added by ICANN to deal with accidental registrations, a full refund would be given if the domain was released in that time. Supposedly to protect end users against mistakes like typos and other errors, though I'm not sure why that would need five full days. This made “domain tasting” an open season and a great many registrars would do it, even registering a few times to extend the five days. Some actually did it as an advantage for the end user: they were not going to get snipped by waiting a few days and the registrar didn't jack up the price. But many were a bit more nefarious.

They later added a small processing fee to the refunds in the grace period after the first few domains per account per period (or similar) which vastly reduced this happening, so it is now pretty much a historic problem.
No questions from me, just some appreciation and thanks for the release. While it is clearly not founded solely on the pure and selfless love of AWS for Rust, it is nevertheless very positive for the language to have good stable ways to work with major platforms. Writing things on AWS in Rust is now a significantly easier sell.

Thanks for all the work on this, looking forward to trying a few new pieces out!
HackSnack
> Parasoll is a typical window and door sensor that can be discretely mounted to trigger an automation

Discrete sensors are a benefit to IKEA (to help them sell them), but consumers probably care more about them being discreet.
I think people could measure the forward/reflected energy at home, do sum calculations, it shouldn't be very hard, unsure why there's no such a product available.
Well, someone would still have to maintain a huge chunk of X indefinitely for that to work. :P
Certainly: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05720

It's a very interesting paper.

"Even when trained purely on images without explicit depth information, they typically output coherent pictures of 3D scenes. In this work, we investigate a basic interpretability question: does an LDM create and use an internal representation of simple scene geometry? Using linear probes, we find evidence that the internal activations of the LDM encode linear representations of both 3D depth data and a salient-object / background distinction. These representations appear surprisingly early in the denoising process−well before a human can easily make sense of the noisy images."
I’ve been wanting to jump into home automation for YEARS but the awful mix of incompatible products and standards coupled with the frequent deprecation of products which often require an online presence, and the outrageous prices being asked for these quite frankly beta products, kept me away. Once matter is standard I expect prices to drop and that’s when I think it’s safe to jump in.
Literally none of the issues I listed have to anything with React.

> But in Lit, input fields can't communicate to a form in a different Shadow DOM

Indeed. They break the most basic functionality that exists in the browser. This issue doesn't exist in anything else. And they need a separate new web spec to barely fix it.

Does it have to do anything with React? No.

> That's logical of course because Lit is made to work with modern Web Component APIs

Yup, so modern that they creak basic browser functionality and need 20+ new web specs to fix issues that don't exist in literally anything else.
This is why it is so very important to have your intentions clearly spelled out in writing. Organ donation may or may not create a perverse incentive among those who could benefit from your incapacity. But it's best not to take that chance. Make sure you have a living will and that is enforceable and that your loved ones and doctors know about it.
TensorRT Extension for Stable Diffusion Web UI
IIRC from about 2005-2010 there were intense experiments as to using torrents for video streaming. But, again iirc, the results were that there was too much competition for the earlier blocks. This was because unlike conventional file sharing, streaming is linear and people abandon videos halfway. Ultimately the savings over conventional hosted streaming were small. And so Blizzard and Nine Inch Nails used it, but the video players didn't.

Do I misremember something, or has something substantially changed since then?
There was also "Fox issues DMCA takedown against the original YouTube clip it put into Family Guy":

https://www.neowin.net/news/fox-issues-dmca-takedown-against...
If it sticks my brain in a simulation to keep me occupied, I'm totally ok with this.
Good to see CSS getting some of the granular type controls that have existed in Photoshop/Illustrator/Figma since the beginning.
> Yet the core, foundational issue with this vehicle is that they decided to make it with stainless steel for zero rational reason beyond apparently that Elon was infatuated with the Delorean that was a cool car in his youth.

Online opinions don't matter though. The only "issue" that matters is how many Tesla sells and what is the satisfaction of the owners over the long-term.

For some reason it seems that the negativity surrounding this vehicle is especially ignorant and critical to something that hasn't even been released yet.

The number of super negative words you use like "horrendous", "foundational" "zero rational", "cherry picked", "terrible", "moonshot", "detriments", "fit and finish problems", "curse", "axed", "abhorrent", "pedestrian killing", "complete and utter impracticality" is... how should I put this: literally unbelievable.

The vehicle has not even begun to be sold and people are saying things like this. This is not a believable, rational comment.

The more people are negative about it leads me to believe that it will be a huge success.

I hope commenters like you aren't the legacy automakers trying to slow down the competition for their most profitable segment.

> These are "production" units.

Really? They are driving around "production" units before they have begun to be delivered? How do you know if "these" are "production" or not?
Paramecium caudatum is smarter than any LLM, and it has precisely zero neurons.

Yes, our scientific models of intelligence and information processing are severely limited.
> Can't you just leave that to the countries themselves?

No. A big point in favor of the EU is that countries do not negotiate individually but as a single block. This is an advantage because it gives them more power and the ability of getting better deals (in aggregate). Which is exactly the sort of "bullying" that you are complaining about: by deciding to go alone, the UK is weaker and gets worse deals.

In fact, a well-functioning EU is one of the only ways in which European countries can hope to count anything in a world dominated by much larger economies (US, China, India, ...)
My possibly-incorrect understanding is that in C++ terms, every field in Java is a relaxed atomic. In both languages this gives you very confusingly defined but not undefined behavior.

A non-performance argument against Java's decision is that relaxed atomics have turned out to have much more complicated semantics than was expected in the 90s and 00s, to the extent that most code using them is probably incorrect. Java telling developers that data races are okay leads to people writing buggy code, and because it's legal you can't have something like TSan in Java to trap on data races.

On the performance side, this decision inhibits some optimizations and while relaxed 32-bit atomics are free on all non-exotic hardware, that isn't the case for 64-bit atomics.
I give all my doctoral students a copy of the following great paper (and I've used a variant of the check list at the end for years - avoids errors when working on multiple papers with multiple international teams in parallel):

How to Write a Paper
http://www-mech.eng.cam.ac.uk/mmd/ashby-paper-V6.pdf
I think websites started competing who can round up most third parties. At least finally "Reject all" button is not hidden and is prominently displayed.
Each one of these is definitely cheaper that my Rapberry Pi Pico W project with my son but not nearly as much fun.
Seems like plugin support is not fully implemented, I added the 1Password extension, but can’t get the button to work in login forms.
Ergonomically, the thing that Go and C have in common about error handling is the thing that the grandparent pointed out - you don't get much language-level support in helping you to remember to check for errors. If you forget, then there's a decent chance that the error condition will be allowed to silently propagate.

Structured error handling is as opposed to exceptions. I think that the most famous implementation these days is Rust, but if you want to see a version that isn't built on top of an ML-flavored type system, check out Zig's implementation of the concept: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Errors
Announcing The Amazon S3 Express One Zone Storage Class
I have only had positive experiences while using Keras in the past, but have not used it in a few years.
> Therefore only MSFT has the ability to change the code (because I suppose they don't have to re-do the whole certification);

This is incorrect. Microsoft does not have free license to change the code and retain certification.

The certification is handled by a separate entity. The certification rules apply to contributions from everyone, including Microsoft.
That's a popular Marxist narrative, and conveniently puts on the blame on "them", but I don't think it's true. Plus, pretty much everyone on this site are "the rich" by world standards, so look to yourself, oppressor-(wo)man!

My observation is that a lot of people are poor because they lack the ability to make money, generally because they don't have any skills. I lived in a city that was pretty poor, and there was no interest in education and no real thought that one could better oneself by learning skills. One girl I met was "homeschooled", which meant that she was unsupervised and did whatever she wanted, which was not learn anything. She was borrowing from her future to do nothing now. When all you have to offer is unskilled labor, you are going to be poor.

I also knew a couple who were also quite poor, but they had a small shop (which they lived in), and were augmenting it through drop shipping businesses advertised on TikTok. The shop was not successful, but between the two of them, their other businesses were doing okay. These people were poor, but they did not have the poverty mindset of the others.
This is great use case for criminals.
They are limited to 60% of CPI growth, so over ten years that adds up to much cheaper rents than market.

It still turns into a huge benefit that no one would want to give up, you have winners (who have rent control apartments) who don’t want to give them up to allow for more density.
I am currently building an AI video cutting tool (10LevelUp.com) and as a launch strategy, I want to add it to a few of those “AI Tools/There is an AI for this” website lists.

They all promise me infinite traffic, money and life happiness. But let’s be honest, that can’t be true

In this post, I am evaluating the different sites, based on their similarweb traffic numbers (which are at least somewhat neutral), social media following and list price. This will help me (and, in effect, also you as the reader) decide which one it is worth spending my hard-earned money on. I am not affiliated with any of these sites, just my honest review!
Is Charles Dickens worth a read. Depends on your time, purpose and taste.
> C++ isn't remotely suitable as a programming language for someone without a healthy understanding of C.

I always look askance at folks who say they know C++ but not C. The C++ abstract machine is built over the C abstract machine and it becomes even more clearer when you go down to the binary level.
All that is beside the point.
And I simply disagree with the statement "PFAS can be used for both good and evil, don't blame the tool for its use." The tool is dangerous and needs to be used with care. And right now it's not being used with care, and it was sent out into the world with reckless abandon and that should be dealt with so that this story stops repeating.
I've got a 12+ hour window every day in which nobody is in the bedrooms.
This happens regularly in my experience :)
Also, when using a SIMD wrapper library, it can actually be quite portable in practice.
From today's page 1:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/left-sided-c...
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
So far people in rich countries just export their dirty business to a poorer place. They don’t give up on those products or processes.

Why is there every reason to believe that we can do those things without environmental destruction? Seems like wishful thinking. If people in rich countries actually cared, they would demand things were made in their country with environmental regulations, not imported from somewhere that doesn't care.
Maybe not AI, but certainly it's a great way to make a side business as a data company.

> detect opening doors and windows, motion indoors and out

If these devices are sending that data back to Ikea, they're surely planning to monetize it somehow.
I use X11 as opposed to Wayland with my Ubuntu desktop. One reason is that if I open a Gnome terminal and start to expand or shrink its size, a tooltip appears showing its size as I am modifying it. IIRC, wayland does not do this, out of the box any how. I remember that there are other things that break for me as well, but I can't recall them off the top of my head.
Maintenance: Of Everything by Stewart Brand (Draft Book in Progress)
I had tried the Sega CD, model 2 I think that attached on the side instead of under. They always failed and we ended up returning them. I don't think it was the optical parts if I remember right, something about a poor connection between the two hardware devices.

Sega 32X worked at least, sadly it wasn't very popular either.
So is there an indication/documentation which packages are wasm-supported or is this a kind of try and find out type of situation?
Thanks :) We're always curious to hear how it could be improved?
I’m relatively sensitive to noises (analog clocks are a hard no-go because of their soft ticking; it’s infuriating trying to sleep somewhere that has them). But I barely hear our dryer when it’s running at night, and it’s just on the other side of our bedroom wall. As long as we aren’t doing a load with lots of hard buttons and things (which make a louder clinking sound when tumbling) the dryer is totally fine at night.

The washing machine, not so much. The water lines and spin cycle aren’t particularly loud, but they’re loud and distinct enough that it’s too loud for me at night.
quite shitty browser to be honest.
Valve has video distribution service on Steam, why put up this documentary on Youtube, of all the places?
A great video about Another World's graphics and the capabilities of the Amiga it took advantage of...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iz9PJbs5rE
Always perplexed me why nobody else kept up with Nvidia for the last decade in GPUs. Gaming has been a lucrative market. Why is there only Nvidia?
I was initially excited for wayland, and was an early adopter.

I soon soured on the entire thing. It's very clear to me that wayland was an 'ivory tower' display server that had little respect for users or wm devs. You can't just go and break tons of things for security's sake when the harm is clearly higher than the benefits. Disabling screen and input capture should have been an 'opt in' feature for the truly paranoid. They should have also shipped a fully working bare bones desktop wm instead of a 'toy' implementation meant to run on a car entertainment center.

Frankly I can't believe it got as much traction as it has, but we're all stuck with it now as it's clearly 'the future'. This and systemd really showed me that the linux ecosystem is far more vulnerable to the interests of a few corporate sponsored devs than the general community.
Stewart is posting drafts of chapters as he writes them in a way that solicits feedback from readers. So not only can you read the book early, you can influence the book, as many readers have already.
> Heap Memory - new, delete Keywords

Should "modern" C++ even use new/delete? I'm a C++ n00b, but I thought these can be avoided entirely now.
The Amiga didn't have any hardware assistance for scaling sprites, so almost certainly the former.
At least in the US, the 'real' test for a truck is if you can fit a 4x8 piece of plywood in the back.

Has anyone seen any pic/vids of this thing with a 4x8 plywood board in the back?

(Yes, I know, many 'trucks' on the road today cannot do this as is. But that's not my question.)
The one put under an open license is just one of numerous forks. The code on RasPi is a different fork modified downstream.
I'll grant your point, absolutely. Like with most headline legal cases, the actors tend to be marred in all sorts of misery, misdeeds, and confusion. Analogously, free speech cases almost always come down to defending assholes, because they're the ones who cause trouble in the first place.

Probably I'm objecting to your 'procedural misconduct' phrasing, which appears to minimize an ethical disaster into an understandable mistake in the course of a busy day.
The manufacturing process and design was entirely different though.
> Vampire Survivors comes to mind. Definitely a 6/10

That's fighting talk round my way!

There's something they've got incredibly right between the no-thinking gameplay and the gradual progression through the various secrets and unlocks. I thought I'd grown tired of it after finishing the base game and not being bothered about gold farming, but I bought the DLC the other week and I was instantly hooked again.
The truth tends to be in the middle of the scientific estimates
Just to start, lets ban practice of building (almost) irreplaceable batteries into phones, laptops and other electronic devices. The amount of electronic waste generated by forcing consumers to upgrade because the batteries are failing is staggering especially if one counts all the waste produced building those devices. When Apple is talking about its ESG strategy I am laughing through my tears.
>FoundationDB is a free and open-source multi-model distributed NoSQL database developed by Apple Inc.
It's explained later in the course
I use Guix for "personal" production stuff, and it's great. I tend to hop around between bargain basement VPS providers -- the kind that sometimes abruptly cease to be in business. I know this is a false economy vs just using DigitalOcean or even OVH but none of this stuff is critical for my livelihood and I like the bargain-chasing aspect of it.

Anyway, I have a config.scm file that will completely configure all the software I need on the box. Usually the toughest part is determining if/how to upload a custom image.

At my dayjob, I may soon try to generate OCI images with 'guix system container'.
I certainly do not disagree that C and C++ will be in general usage for a long time, if not forever. However, because the industry is still growing, the proportions change, even as the total number grows in size. C and C++ do not have to die, or even shrink, to become a smaller part of the overall pie, and Rust does not need them to outright die in order to grow and thrive.

I agree with you that this is not the first time languages have tried to encroach on the last bastions of the spaces where C and C++ have not yet been ousted as the default choice, but Rust is actually gaining traction in production use-cases in those spaces, unlike many of those languages.
When there's a gold rush, sell the pick axes and dynamite.
Today they ship in early access, which is a better approach since it opens you up to a ton of feedback. The most recent, and successful, example being Baldurs Gate 3.
Optimization by graduate student descent.
Brand turns 85 next month.