skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t accept your ridiculous slippery slope.

“We should allow AI to have unilateral access to licensed works for free cause then we will have to restrict human artists otherwise”

We already have separated digital and human artist laws and the law has, thus far, not had too much trouble accidentally thinking that humans are CPUs and vice versa.
It's _GLIBCXX_DEBUG (one leading underscore) and it's not a good idea to use it in release builds, unlike the original comment's proposal.
Better than 0
> Drive by wire kind of scares me

Physical linkages break too.
Sadly, iirc, turbo vision was pascal first then ported to c++.
They don't believe we can leave the firmament so never been to mars, no satellites, and never been the moon. Feel free to answer that other comment in this thread mr smart.
Instant torque makes lots of people grin.

Most BEVs also have low center of gravity and even mass distribution, so they’re not as bad as a heavy ICE car.

On public roads, 0-30mph acceleration is probably most fun you can have within realm of legal and sensible driving. Handling is not an issue at speed limits of public roads.
Sports Betting with OpenAI Assistants API
I made an AI Agent using OpenAI Assistants API for sports betting to do research and recommend picks, based on a betting strategy that the user puts in. It has 6 functions it can call and so far seems to be working pretty well... hitting at about 60% on its first 100 bets. Any feedback is appreciated!
different game
48v AC and steering pumps are commonplace in hybrids and EVs.
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> Unripe avocados are inedible. Over-ripe ones (within reason) taste perfect.

Grew up with a grove of trees, I always felt the opposite. Over-ripe can have a definite funk. With unripe, it's mostly the texture that is wrong. It's not ideal, but you can make a perfectly serviceable guac with nearly ripe avos.

> brown spot don't matter, at all

100% agree
Could have been 7 or 9 wonky planets, then some fell into their sun and maybe one flew off or was torn apart then these remaining six wiggled around a bit from all that into resonance.

Space has, like, infinite possibilities.
A second fun one.

In a previous life, I was paid to build storage systems for some HPC-ish workloads.

So I was testing a bunch of cheap-ish desktop drives that had really nice (for the time) sequential throughput, supposedly, and threw together a Supermicro system with a Xeon, ECC RAM and some SAS HBAs and several external enclosures full of these disks, made a couple of raidz3s, and started trying to stress it.

I quickly found that rarely but somewhat reliably, I'd get correctable checksum errors, and because it was raidz3, it always had a lot of spare recovery bits, but the numbers kept going up...and went up even after a scrub finished and "corrected" all of them.

Well, SAS has checksums over the wire, so I'd be seeing disk errors if the wires were eating my bits, and it was across all the disk controllers, so either they were all bad or it wasn't the controllers, ECC RAM and no correctable or uncorrectable events fired...

This predated ZoL, so this was originally on early illumos - I then tried FreeBSD, and it did the same thing.

Huh.

So, the drives in question were Samsung HD204UIs, which, it turns out, have a really spicy firmware bug, where if you send them a SMART IDENTIFY request with data in the write cache (e.g. it already told the OS it was stably written out), it just...dropped it.

So the background smartd I had running for collecting data on the disks was causing them to eat some of the writes whenever that lined up.

The funniest part was, though, that Samsung released a firmware update, but it doesn't change the reported firmware revision, so you can only know by testing if the disk is going to eat your data like that.

I believe smartctl still prints a big warning to this day about all this if you ask it about those drive models.
Are there issues with EVs on dirt or gravel roads? I've lived in a rural area where driving on both was neccesary and we never gave any thought to what car we were driving.
Those that "aren't monitored by Mozilla so be careful" (pretty much all of them) which obviously means one should build it from the published sources oneself rather than downloading a pre-built package.
Yeah, I'm aware. Tesla should at minimum be legally required to pay interest to anyone who requests a refund.
What happens if the engine shuts off (and the alternator stops spinning)? Does the steering just run off the 12v system?
Broadcom adds silicon AI features to speed new Trident networking chip
While it is difficult to land safely on the Moon, the really hard part is to return back to Earth.
The idea that everything that comes after initial unpaid technical work to get to where you can bring on investment is "all upside and no downside" is so divorced from the reality of anything I've ever seen in any company that I'm having trouble processing it.
Gotta virtue signal! I don't know Elon's views - nor do I care.

I drive a Jeep - and couldn't care less about the executive's political views & wouldn't be insecure enough to place it on a bumper sticker.
Curious what they dislike about Signal.
Yes, he wrote Turbo Pascal while he was studying at DTU in Copenhagen.
I thought they did it because they figured paying the tax was maximizing revenue. But I hadn't considered the antitrust advantages.
The entirety of this comment is ad hominem.

Do you have a refutation to the idea expressed in the grandparent? I.e. that anyone extolling the virtues of diversity ought to be open minded toward people/orgs with views differing from their own?
Are you perhaps thinking of Web SQL? Web SQL was deprecated but Wasm SQLite with IndexedDB or OPFS as the underlying storage layer is gaining more adoption. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/from-web-sql-to-sqlite-was...

PowerSync can currently be used in web browsers (powered by Wasm SQLite) and also in Flutter and React Native, for which native SQLite libraries are used.
> People are unreasonably tribal about file systems.

I think it's probably worse than usual with ZFS, mostly for two reasons: a lot of hype (justified or not) early on its life, leading to hype aversion and/or backlash, and a "sour grapes" effect because its license ensures it will never (or at least until its copyright expires) be merged into mainline Linux, so those who can't or won't use it (due to a need or desire to run only mainline Linux kernel code) feel left out and/or get annoyed at seeing it pushed as the best thing since sliced bread all the time.

Adding to that, its main competitor (btrfs) is known for having had (real or perceived) reliability issues early on its life, making its use more controversial (and its proponents more defensive at seeing the same reliability issues being raised all the time).

And file systems are important, since people are reasonably concerned about the integrity of their data. They are also not easy to migrate (other than a rarely used tool to migrate in place from the ext2/3/4 family to btrfs, migrating filesystems usually requires dumping and reloading the whole data), making the choice of filesystems an important decision.
When did Broadcom become a private equity firm? I thought they baked pies.
I can't answer your question but I can at least confirm the tech exists!

They do exactly what you're proposing here in the UK (at least, the ones that have been recently upgraded in the town I live do) - if there's no cars around it'll instantly cycle the road lights to red (via amber) and then the pedestrian crossing goes green. Pretty much inside the 3 seconds requested too.

Even the ones with multiple directions. No cars? Ped can go as soon as the road lights are red.

The traffic light system before these upgrades was locked into the same cycle you describe - pressing the button would just add a "pedestrians can go now" phase into the normal light pattern.

Having said all that if there's no cars around I'll just cross the road without interacting with the traffic lights at all lol
Current SUV’s are crossover monstrosities. The 1996 Ford Explorer in forest green was absolutely beautiful. Nobody makes vehicles in forest green anymore. It’s sad.
Maybe you were referencing this and I'm just behind the times, but I read your comment and thought "surely someone has done this before..." And indeed, here's a remix of the "wait" sound (it's not the only one, either - apparently remixing crosswalk noises is a whole subgenre of house music): https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundclou...
I remember videos (on youtube likely) of thermal paste replacement, that was upgrade to stock card. So, average person should be able to do it. It'll cost a few $$ for the paste. I would go with local workstation, then don't have to think much about while running stable diffusion. Plus, if it's used from ebay, prices cannot go much lower, you'll get something back at the end. Also, for image things training dataset can be quite big for network transfers.
No. But you’re a person, not a computer that has been specifically told to copy.
Rummy has a million variations and it's great. I'm partial to Brazilian Buraco, but only the specific variant my grandpa taught me ;-)

https://www.pagat.com/rummy/buraco.html
I highly encourage you to read Google's statement on how it supports and handles news. The word "often" is load-bearing in your comment, and this provides the details.

https://blog.google/supportingnews/#overview
> the pedestrian is expected to run the gauntlet, hoping that turning cars will see you and not mow you down

This goes for us in Canada too. I tell my kids to "be quick or be dead, but be safe". Probably kind of morbid, but an intersection is not a place to hang out.
Discussions of the strategic rationale, from a game theory perspective, of permitting or staging attacks are considered extremely distasteful, but historical precedents exist.

The Reichstag Fire (1933): This pivotal event in Nazi Germany involved the burning of the German parliament building. The Nazis blamed the fire on communists and used it as a pretext to arrest political opponents and consolidate power. However, there has been ongoing debate over whether the Nazis themselves orchestrated the fire.

The Gleiwitz Incident (1939): As part of Operation Himmler, a series of covert actions intended to justify Germany's invasion of Poland, Nazi forces staged an attack on the German radio station Sender Gleiwitz. They made it appear as though Polish forces had carried out the attack, thus providing a pretext for Germany to initiate World War II by invading Poland.

The Lavon Affair (1954): This was a failed Israeli covert operation in Egypt known as Operation Susannah. Israeli military intelligence planted bombs in Egyptian, American, and British-owned civilian targets, hoping to blame Arab militants. The aim was to create a climate of instability and compel British military intervention in Egypt. The plan was exposed, leading to a political scandal in Israel.

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident (1964): This involved two separate confrontations between naval forces of the United States and North Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin. The second reported attack on U.S. ships led to the U.S. Congress passing the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which granted President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers in Vietnam. Later evidence suggested that the second attack might not have occurred, leading to speculation that it was exaggerated or fabricated to justify increased U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

Operation Northwoods (1962, Proposed): This was a proposed false flag operation against American citizens that was never carried out. It was drafted by the U.S. Department of Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff. The plans included simulated terrorist attacks within the U.S. and against U.S. military and civilian targets, which would be falsely attributed to the Cuban government to justify a military intervention against Cuba.

Other examples: The Mukden Incident (1931), Operation Ajax (1953), Operation Greif (1944), The Marco Polo Bridge Incident (1937), The Manchurian Incident (1931), The Zinoviev Letter (1924), The Shelling of Mainila (1939)
I finally got an invite code to Bluesky. During onboarding, it gave me a list of feeds to choose from. For some reason, they've decided to have no tech whatsoever in that list of feeds. I guess I'm a bit of a loser, but I don't have many interests outside of tech, so I picked nothing and now I have an empty feed.

Is that the goal of Bluesky, to be Twitter for non-tech people? Seems like a surprising approach, given that the first users of Twitter were exclusively tech peeps.
Adoptium OpenJDK is the way to go.
Who said what: using machine learning to correctly attribute quotes
This project was one of the major inspirations for my learning to code a decade ago, and I still turn to it sometimes when I'm looking to make sense of what kind of music a band plays
Allows you to vary the steering ratio dynamically (how many "turns" lock to lock). Means a lot less arm twiddling during lower speed maneuvers, and can gradually increase the ratio as speed increases. Traditional mechanically linked steering racks (electric or hydraulic) don't do this and are the same number of turns lock to lock regardless of speed - they can only dynamically vary the amount of power assist, not the ratio. It's been something car manufacturers have wanted to do for a while.

Another benefit in theory is packaging - you can free up more space for cabin, front trunk or motors etc when you don't have to route a physical steering column.
It is not technically logical to think one can see the future, but it is colloquially logical.

Judging reality by how it appears is a bad strategy, this should be common knowledge by now.

What's concerning to me is that I suspect LLM's will be able to learn and remember thousands of basic facts like this, and ~reason on top of them. Perhaps they won't figure this out on their own, but what if all it takes is one individual to point them in this direction? I bet there are numerous people who know much more about this than me working for our various three letter agencies.
I think the old manta at here and at YC: "Make something that people want" probably answers that.

A lot of us here have been guilty of building vitamins rather than painkillers.

I speculate lack of traction is an indicator of that.
Brb, about to start “Get a Free Truck, LLC.”

Wow.
Using it through something like TrueNAS with sensible defaults is probably a better idea for the average person than trying to roll their own deployment, no?
Pyrex is notorious for this. The whole brand used to be about it being borosilicate glass, but they substituted it for standard glass which - surprise - shatters under thermal stress.
Looks like a cinema render prototype toy from some unknown random company.
I would suggest listing players "looking for partners" somewhere so I can join their game instead of being specifically limited to finding someone with the exact same variants as me. I may be fine with, say, any number of neutral units, so I could be matched with anyone looking for 15%, 25% or 35% instead of having to guess which number will yield a match quicker
As a Japanese, I just feel that "ah a foreigner adopt a weird word for a product again" and install without worrying.
Cool concept and the UI is well executed. The results themselves were somewhat hit and miss for me - Purity Ring was a nice discovery related to Grimes, but the Lorde results were all somewhat "Eh". I wonder how an Album based version would fare - i.e. focus on Solar Power, not Melodrama.
YMMV:

Tiny11 shrinks Windows 11 23H2 down to pocket size

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/tiny11_2311/

Reportedly pretty much stable after a few earlier iterations - there's no mention in The Register article about boot time - but I'd imagine crap stripping has to speed things up.

But just because you can does not necessarily mean you should. For one, Tiny11 2311 is not free – you will need a Windows 11 license. Microsoft also does not support it, and the company could easily roll out an update that comprehensively breaks the project.
My full hammerspoon config is a mix of things I've collected/written over the years, but the Miro-specific section is simply:

-- window management
hs.loadSpoon("MiroWindowsManager")
-- set to 0.x for animation, 0 for none
hs.window.animationDuration = 0.3

spoon.MiroWindowsManager:bindHotkeys({
up = { hyper, "k" },
down = { hyper, "j" },
left = { hyper, "h" },
right = { hyper, "l" },
fullscreen = { hyper, "f" },
nextscreen = { hyper, "n" }
})
Handwriting Repair [pdf]
In these slides, Icelandic type designer Gunnlaugur SE Briem begins by enumerating some basic steps to improve one's existing cursive handwriting. There follows an overview of historical handwriting styles and an argument in favour of the Italic handwriting revival begun by Alfred Fairbank in the early 20th century. Finally, there are some steps for learning this superior style along with tips for left-handed people.
only buy ones that are almost ripe, they'll ripen
> If all are omitted it's just a single note not a harmony, so there are 2^11-1 = 2047 functionally distinct harmonies. Most of them are of little musical utility, but you could conceivably use and have opinions about them all.

Unrelated but it reminded me of this [0] article discussed on HN a few times.

[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxepzw/musicians-algorithmic...
Which is also why to tow really big trailers, you need a gooseneck / fifth wheel hitch.
Yes, they’re assuming electricity is free.
Probably the fact that the US Intelligence agencies can't spy on it.
Java 8 (maybe 9) is the last version I wrote code for. Having looked at recent new Java features it looks like a completely different language now. I also see a lot less new projects written in Java, at least in the OSS sphere. Just anecdotal.
> On a recent Monday, Eric Natividad woke up around 8 a.m., showered, ate breakfast, and braced himself for a day of being tracked.

Barf. I don't like surveillance culture any more than anyone else, but I especially hate histrionic culture. Surveillance is creepy, invasive and unnecessary-- so just say that. It's fucking surveillance, not the plight of a migrant worker risking death to bring water home for his children.

We're all worked up about companies using surveillance tech, but this hits closer to home than anyone thinks. Micromanagers love enabling email read receipts. "Ask before sending" is the first thing I enable in Outlook at new jobs.

The problems he has with Canvas, iPhones normalize the same behavior. Your wife/girlfriend texts you something you know is going to start a fight if your response has a single word out of place, so you don't respond (or start typing and stop). It's too late; "I know you read it and you ignored me!" Now you have two problems.

I eventually refused to use Hangouts for the same reason. Like, I love you, I do, but back the fuck off. "I'm in a meeting at work and can't deal with your shit right now" never goes over well. Appearing to not have read it is the only safe alternative to responding.

There's a fun thread on lolcow.farm about the insane shit women do to spy on their boyfriends/husbands to sniff out cheating and porn usage. IIRC it involves everything from self-taught CIA interrogation techniques to snooping through your shit and even sniffing DNS caches. (I actually learned a couple new phone forensic techniques. Thanks, ladies.) If you spend over an hour in the bathroom or stay up late gaming, you're also suspect.

Mine's tried to use the "making sure you're not a serial killer" excuse on me long ago, but it's all intel collection. They play the long game. Drugs, financial accounts and other artifacts are generally of interest too, so they know where you hide your money and your skeletons long before they withhold sex, catch you watching porn (or cheating), and cash out through divorce uncontested by threatening public humiliation. Bitcoin shook up this scheme for a while by making funds undiscoverable but that market is collapsing.

Watch your back...the NSA and your school aren't the only ones with their eye on you.
Is there anything that doesn't work for you?
Melatonin due to different sun exposure, that is all skin color is. Once you understand that, I don't see any reason to consider it any more than I pay attention to the callused fingertips of a guitarist.

Cultures are different everywhere, varying across families too. Have you seen how differently everybody raises their kids? That we are used to.

Now there is an argument that what happens if someone's culture is violence, in that case I think it's a legal issue and the legal system can deal with that.

I don't know what else you want to learn. Focusing on these things is not as useful as focusing on increasing the size of the pie, making scientific education as well as the dissemination of scientific news (which has historic low amounts of trust now in the general populace) better and just making the world a better place for HUMANS and other sentient beings. It's really not that hard.
FWIW you live on an island with a fraction of the population, and industry of the U.S and a very different geography and urban landscape. Could you haul anything 1000 miles if you even wanted to? Would there be any practical point to point travel where that was necessary without needing to transfer to a boat first? Because in the U.S. there's hundreds, maybe even thousands of trade routes that long.
They almost always only vary the amount of power assistance, not the ratio. The ratio is fixed on virtually all electrically power assisted steering racks ever shipped. There is still a fixed mechanical linkage - decoupling this is what allows the ratio to be dynamically adjusted. To date only a handful of Lexus production cars have had dynamic variable ratio and decoupled steering via drive by wire.

Electric power steering is essentially the same in use as traditional hydraulic systems - they just replace the hydraulic assistance with electric motors.

The big advantage of decoupling and steer by wire is dynamic variable ratio, as well as packaging - no steering column to worry about making space for.
What's the trigger for all the diffusion video projects this week? Are they all at the same conference, or did one trigger everyone to rush to publish? I'm grateful but curious. Animating still pictures from my kids' books is my goal and it seems close to plausible just from this week's advances.
Ah, gotta love capitalism. Putting obscene profits before people since ... well, a long time ago.
I have responsibilities and problems at home that greatly limit my non-work hour freedom. My disability is not a physical one, but a neurodivergent one, so remote would only hurt me more. I would look for another job if I lost this one, but it would probably pay less - again, no real time to upskill. Sure, I've gotten new certs and other BS over the years and started working with new tech. That hasn't been helpful. I've worked roles above my official position and not been rewarded. In fact, I haven't seen any of my hard work or extra responsibilities pay off after my first promotion about 3 years in. I don't expect another promotion for the rest of my career either. That's just the way it is for me.

Not everyone's life is as easy as you make your's out to be.
just select the "Purchase price" tab at the top? not every marketing gimmick is a dark pattern
Range hit from towing in an EV largely a factor of air resistance. Maxing out the weight with a small trailer is often less of a range hit than having a large but mostly empty trailer. Adding a lot of weight will cause some impact from rolling resistance but most of the extra energy use towing is aero drag.

For reference there's almost no range hit for maxing out the bed payload on a Lightning.
> With Olvid, all exchanges benefit from the same security as a real discussion behind closed doors.

> The others promised you that. Olvid did it.

Bold claims. Still, don't see the server side source in their public GitHub. Perhaps I'm missing something.