skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One possibility is to replace your SkySensor computer with OnStep. This is an Arduino-based system for GOTO scope control. It has ASCOM (Windows) and Indi (Linux) drivers so can control it from a PC or - if you add wifi - a phone app. It also has autoguiding support. It can run on most common microcontrollers and even cheap 3D printer control boards.

IIRC the C8 was often sold with a Super Polaris mount, or something similar. There are many builds for this mount.[1]

If you're not in to DIYing a solution there are companies that sell pre-built conversion kits.

[1] https://onstep.groups.io/g/main/wiki/4414
HN is not a jobs board, please stop posting jobs and see the posting guidelines
Elon did his usual "escape forward" trick but in the end this iteration does not deliver what was promised.

I reserved a $40k truck in 2019 that was supposed to be much easier to manufacture than regular cars - hence the relatively good price. No expensive paint shop, much easier line to make body panels of cold rolled steel bent into shape. Exaskeleton from a single. Industrial design, no side mirrors, no wipers. 6 passengers.

We should ask ourselvelves are the original promises still possible under a different package? And please make it road legal for Europeans with a regular driving licence.
I guess I'm just anti-sprawl.

My mother used to live in a small village near a small city, an exurb. Now, it's becoming suburbia, but not the good kind, the 'full detached home' kind (not joking, there isn't even a single semi-detached home here). I see how it changed everything, in the wrong direction. It killed the local bar/dinner in exchange for a monstrosity old people cannot access. It killed the community, the traffic tripled, you had to attach yourself to waste management (and now they have issues). My mother had to add a wall/fence to break the sound of the road, when trees and plants were sufficient, and during rush hour you still feel like you live in a city, without the city access advantages.

I would typically call most of Seattle suburbia. It does not seems as sprawly than Stockton (that I actually visited unlike Seattle), but it doesn't look good.

Also, high rise is as bad as suburbia in my opinion, I hate it with less passion because I only had to live in high rise building temporarily. But the cost each time you rise 3 meters is exponential for everything (except electricity), so if your city is 10% high rise, 80% detached/semi-detached homes, no shit it'll be expensive.

Is Boise, ID a suburban sprawl? Or is it a fairly dense city without a shit ton of high-rise units?
As a spacecraft integration engineer I can confirm that most spacecraft are about 80% kapton tape.
I am not sure that extending the first amendment to what could be foreign adversaries isn't a bit different from a domestic application of the first amendment. I don't know enough of the history, but, for example, did Nazi Germany or the Empire of Japan enjoy first amendment rights during WWII in the US? Was that a "thing"?
What about the thing where Basecamp leadership kept a list of “funny sounding foreign names” in the company?

That should go over really well with the university community where pretty much most of my professors and their TAs weren’t from America originally.

Also, just because a word appears frequently in a Wikipedia article doesn’t mean that the thing it is describing is that word. The word “debt” appears 11 times in Donald Trump’s Wikipedia article but that doesn’t mean he’s poor.
Finally, I’ll be able to act out my Abe Lincoln sex fantasy.
Of course it's Porto Alegre lol. I was curious to see the text of the law [1], and it obviously looks fine - it's short and shows good command of "legalease". I'd love to see the prompt...

[1] https://dopaonlineupload.procempa.com.br/dopaonlineupload/49...
Only until they figure out how to make Severance a reality. I'm sure the C suite would love that to bits.
i have lenovo legion with 3070 8GB and was wondering should i use that instead of my macbook m1pro.
Light rail is ~$27 million/mile and subway is ~$290 million/mile, if you look at the numbers for the latest finished projects in Finland. American infrastructure is unreasonably expensive because, for a number of reasons, Americans lack the ability and interest to build it efficiently.

Dense cities are common around the world. In most of them, the infrastructure is not particularly expensive.
Okay, Basecamp leadership is super duper tolerant. That’s why they made a list of funny sounding non-Anglo names and kept it documented at the company. How tolerant of them!

I’m sure that nobody working for a university would have a problem with that, since basically no professors or TAs or students paying full tuition have foreign-sounding names, right?

Some reading material for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Do you have a source? I can't find anything about it
Well done on the launch! I have been using PowerSync for several months already ( although our own app hasn't quite reached production yet, due to other reasons).

Very happy with PowerSync. The docs are detailed and well thought out, and the technology is solid. One can see it builds on a decade of sync experience from the Journey team.
Very well said - even with open source there seems to be a general lack of willingness to actually read code, let alone crack open the disassembler or attach a debugger - the skill is apparently not taught anymore
Ostensibly the United States Constitution does not grant rights, but only recognizes natural rights, therefore in theory they should apply to any living human, not just Americans.
Look, a couple of hundred thousand people commute across the border on the island of Ireland and there's huge cultural issues around basically everything. The Republic of Ireland would never be in a different timezone to the UK as long as part of the UK is on the island of Ireland. It's just not going to happen.
:) Yeah Sinéad saved him more than once. It was said at the time of her passing a few months ago that is was ironic she should go before him. Not ironic at all if you're getting saved by Sinéad.
In their wonderful duet "Haunted", she aptly sings about him "you've got a way of talking".
Not a bad writer herself if you read her autobiography.
Because doing that is a core part of Grammarly, i.e. they can argue in court that the user should obviously expect grammarly to send the data to their servers. Sending crash report data is not so, as it is not essential to using the service.
There's a lot of software that only exists in binary and whose vendors/maintainers are long gone, and that is used for decades because it just does its job.
We've been able to create images and video of things that didn't happen for decades.
> For example, tell an LLM this: Write a list of ten essential laws for a newly formed country

Here's what I got from ChatGPT (paid version). Didn't look too bad at a first glance?

But it might be argued that the "ten essential laws" should all be constitutional, from which everything else flows?

---

1. Constitutional Law: Establishes the framework for the government, defining the structure, powers, and limitations of different government branches.

2. Criminal Law: Defines illegal acts, prescribes punishments, and establishes procedures for law enforcement and the judicial system.

3. Civil Rights Law: Protects individual liberties and rights against infringement by others, including the state.

4. Contract Law: Governs agreements between individuals and entities, ensuring enforceability and remedies for breaches.

5. Property Law: Outlines rights, responsibilities, and legal processes related to ownership and usage of property.

6. Labor Law: Regulates the relationships between employers, employees, and trade unions, including work conditions, wages, and labor disputes.

7. Environmental Law: Provides regulations for the protection of the environment, including air and water quality, and land use.

8. Commercial Law: Governs business and commercial transactions, including company formation, bankruptcy, and commercial transactions.

9. Family Law: Addresses family-related matters and domestic relations such as marriage, divorce, child custody, and adoption.

10. International Law: Sets principles for the country's interactions with other nations, including trade agreements, diplomatic relations, and adherence to international treaties.

---
Yes, there is an enormous interest in this kind of thing, not the least in larger organizations with tons of PDF documents in various forms.

Even though this would only cover a small part of the needs or use cases, it will still be hugely useful if it works well.
If you examine the core of that argument you realise that the theory underlying it is that US citizens are more truthful than foreigners. That is a belief that is profoundly at stake with liberal ideals. Not the modern ones, but the whole free-speech-be-good principle.

There is absolutely no reason that foreigners should be denied free speech. The point of speech is the more of it happens before we act, the better the results. There is no race or national aspect to that. If Us citizens would listen to foreigners from time to time they might waste less time killing them. I mean, help us all the whole non-English-speaking world doesn't have to be as US enemy. The Chinese are suspicious but they are actually pretty responsible in terms of how they act. People can listen to them and profit from it. Maybe copy some of their ideas around how to run Shenzhen and the other industrial districts. Or, as mentioned, the trade-not-bomb approach to securing oil.

Take the USSR. Did it help the USSR citizens if their government stopped them listening to the US? No. And the US remains to this day a staunch enemy of the USSR remnants.
It's a one page document that deals with a very specific situation - if a human were to write it, I'm sure they would come up with pretty much the same thing. I actually have no problems with this particular case
The mistake is in thinking photography is only, or even primarily, art. It's also measurement. A recorded observation of reality.

People use their cameras - especially phone cameras - for both these purposes, and often which one is needed is determined after the fact. So e.g. I might appreciate the camera touching up my selfie for the Instagram post today, but if tomorrow I discover a rash on my face and I want to figure out how long it was developing, discovering that all my recent selfies have been automatically beautified would really annoy me.

Or, you know, just try being a normal person and make a photo of your kid's rash to mail/MMS to a doctor, because it's a middle of a fucking pandemic, your pediatrician is only available over the phone, and now the camera plain refuses to make a clear picture of the skin condition, because it knows better.

I'm also reminiscing about that Xerox fiasco, with copy machines that altered numbers on copied documents due some over-eager post-processing. I guess we'll need to repeat that with photos of utility meters, device serial numbers, and even scans of documents (which everyone does with their phone camera today) having their numbers computationally altered to "look better".

EDIT:

Between this and e.g. Apple's over-eager, globally-enabled autocorrect at some point auto-incorrecting drug names in medical documents written by doctors, people are going to get killed by this bullshit, before we get clear indication and control over those "magic" features.
> There's no such thing as "oversexualized"

There is, when we're talking about characters made to look like children.
Sorry maybe this is a misunderstanding, I mean it as "you can drive over a [pedestrian] crossing" not "you can drive over a pedestrian".
Obviously actually hitting anyone crossing the road would land you in jail. And yes you also have to stop if anyone is on the crossing. But assuming there isn't anyone and you have the green arrow then you can still drive over the crossing, even though pedestrians have a green "walk" light displayed.
Most people don't get paid out to the end of their contract if they're let go early, or not that I've seen and if you're let go for ineptitude why should they?

This is just different rules for the rich. I'm sure he'd survive much better even without that money than any other employee being let go with their much less generous package.
I think you can with live photos, basically you get a short video included.
That is a very cool gift.

While not exactly the same, I got my wife a framed print of the stars over our wedding day as an anniversary gift a few years after we were married.
It may be a little niche, but I think there is a market for that kind of thing.
+1 to this.

I'm 51, and any advice I'd give would boil down to "always keep in mind that you are (and everyone is!) probably wrong about almost everything"
In Finland green arrow will explicitly tell you that no one else including pedestrians have right of passage. You are still not allowed to drive over anyone, but pedestrians certainly do not have green light at such moments.
You’re right, the sibling to the comment I responded to mentioned this as well and it gave me flashbacks to emulating an Amiga system to get a multi million dollar industrial system up and running.
Out of my last five positions, only two required a programming language I’ve already used before professionally. You just have to know enough to pass the screening and no competent interviewer will reject you based on lack of experience if you are a good fit otherwise. Hence the other skills, like basic soft skills, leadership, systems and ops knowledge and office politics matter more in the long run.
Movi: A fast and cache-efficient full-text pangenome index
> Midjourney still has the edge in quality, but it's a moot point if it takes you 1000 v-rolls to get to your original vision.

I can corroborate this. I wanted about 6 images for a presentation. I rolled ~300 MidJourney images. Most of them looked great, but none of them did what I wanted. I rolled ~50 DALL-E 3 images.

In the end, I only picked DALL-E 3 images. They were qualitatively not as good as MidJourney. For example when you zoom in then you see distortions. Or they're a bad fit for 16:9 format. But only DALL-E 3 was able to draw the things I wanted.
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Doesn't that sound so much cooler than software engineer or programmer though?
C++ is not easy.

But if you think about ownership you can spot the bug in a proper code-review.
Smart pointers are about ownership, where a unique_ptr has unique (one owner) ownership.
If you create a second owner, which happens in fun1, then that second owner is cleaning up before (at the end of scope -> RAII), it is cleaned up in by its first owner (resulting in a double free)

A guideline which is often used, is:

pass by reference -> not transferring ownership

pass by raw pointer -> transferring ownership

So having a function with a raw pointer argument flags transfer of ownership, but isn't necessarily so. The transfer really happens on line 44.

A unique_ptr actually guards you from that, because it is move only (cannot be copied). Using a std::unique_ptr on the interface of fun1 would have caught the problem at compile time, because an explicit move would have been needed to tranfer ownership, which would have put the original object in an valid but unspecified state. This would result in the original owner not cleaning up the resource, and therefore not resulting in a double free.

By using the get function on the unique pointer you actually remove the guards of having one owner.

There are a lot of things wrong with this code, which after being solved I don't see how you would need a pointer at all.
Otherwise, you need to know about the guidelines of using smart pointers.

So my conclusion after reading this code is:
This looks like C code with some C++ features sprinkled in. If you want to write C++ you need to know a lot about the language and its guidelines.
Thinking about ownership is hard but necessary in any language. Having the ownership correct would have made it easy to add smart pointers. If the ownership is not clear, using raw pointers will not save you.
I get 10 tokens/second on a 4-bit 13B model with 8GB VRAM offloading as much as possible to the GPU. At this speed, I cannot read the LLM output as fast as it generates, so I consider it to be sufficient.
cough L cough L cough M cough anyone? :)
Someone has to do those jobs, but what offends people is the extent to which that class keep giving themselves more all the time, and exponentially more than what happens to the rest of us. All jobs are important, not just the C suite.

They get paid appalling amounts of money when they're just treading water - it's not fair they also get good payouts when they stuff up so monumentally.
> Sixty-eight percent of Russians support continuing the war, 22 percent strongly oppose a cease-fire under any circumstances, and about 20 percent strongly oppose the war. Meanwhile, 72 percent said they support peace talks, although only 19 percent are willing to make concessions to Ukraine for the sake of peace.

(last paragraph)

It's hard to interpret this as something that could be called "rock bottom"
this is just as ridiculous as the lengths countries have gone near the international date line.

just getting rid of dst seems most reasonable to me but iirc it has been prposed before without any success.

if the world is still ok with adjusting with time like taking 6 hour flights twice every year, then so be it.
This kind of tool should also be built-into the post-processing pipeline of paperless-ngx. Well-parsed markdowns would be better indexable for search.
What's wrong with signalling your virtue? As long as you follow through on your virtue signalling with actions, what's the problem?
In the financial world asset backed securities are typically anything that isn't a mortgage, I think that some crypto would qualify as well as the rights to future profits on some venture.
How does a company make sure a person like you is happy? Genuine question. I always worried when working as a team leader that hearing nothing bad might be bad (and I miss a reason that someone has left). I guess you are not shy in a 1-1 to say you are unhappy about something?
Eventually it will become the norm (as it is around these parts) for the Ai to provide sources for its wild claims.

If the answer is "Neck bone connected to the head bone" im going to want to see a source that isnt Dem Bones
> \1 is a good question that deserves an answer.

The same argument I mentioned above, that subtracting 0.99999... from 1 will give you a number that is equal to zero, will also tell you that binary ...11111 or decimal ...999999 is equal to negative one. If you add one to the value, you will get a number that is equal to zero.

You might object that there is an infinite carry bit, but in that case you should also object that there is an infinitesimal residual when you subtract 0.9999... from 1.

It works for everything, not just -1. The infinite bit pattern ...(01)010101 is, according to the geometric series formula, equal to -1/3 [1 + 4 + 16 + 64 + ... = 1 / (1-4)]. What happens if you multiply it by 3?

...0101010101
x 11
-------------------
...0101010101
+ ...01010101010
-------------------
...11111111111

You get -1.
9Front's 'Humanbiologics' is out: Unix 2.0 programmers still busy bunnies
In Finland there is just a light above button in the box. It will light up when it is activated. Or actually when cycle is activated so also for other side. Decent enough UI for non blind, with blind I think there is sound in some cases.
I see a lot of comments here using the terms ZFS and Open ZFS interchangeably.

But to my understanding, these are 2 different things.

- ZFS is the very stable, non open source project that only works on BSD.
- Open ZFS is an effort to rewrite ZFS in a totally open and free format that now runs on Linux.

This was the idea I had, but I might be incorrect.
Is this just work commuting or other things as well? I can pick up some groceries on my way home, in the US even this activity adds more mileage to your car.
> and even compiler upgrades are not that painful.

…if you do them frequently enough.

A problem with OSS code is that it may lie dormant for years, then get picked up by somebody. Even if they try to compile for the same CPU architecture with the same but newer compiler, getting things to compile with -Werror again can be a challenge. Changing architecture (e.g. integers becoming 64 bit, triggering lots of ‘possible truncation’ errors) or compiler makes it harder.

I don’t think there’s a solution for that problem. Bit rot exists, and the longer you ignore it, the more work it is to get rid of it, and not trying to get rid of it is an invitation for having a serious warning getting drowned in harmless ones.
I wasn't clear why this couldn't be used on all vehicles but that makes sense, thanks.
From the Abstract (below) - obviously this is a very limited study, and only similarly limited conclusions can be drawn from it.

Still, I'd rate the results "moderately encouraging".

> [Intro/background sentences omitted.] The current prospective study aimed to measure the effect of MD on ADHD symptoms, well-being and time perception. Adults with ADHD who had the intention to start MD on their own initiative to self-treat their symptoms were measured before MD and two- and four weeks later. It was expected that ADHD symptoms would decrease, well-being would increase, and performance on a time perception task would improve after MD. It was investigated if conventional medication use alongside MD and comorbidities alongside ADHD influenced the effect of MD. Sample sizes included N=233, N=66, and N=47, respectively. The results showed decreases and increases in ADHD symptoms and well-being, respectively. No improved performance on a time perception task was found. Conventional medication use and having comorbidities did not change the effect of MD on ADHD symptomatology and well-being after four weeks of MD. Placebo-controlled experimental studies are needed to explore further whether there is a beneficial effect of MD for ADHD, beyond the placebo-effect.

[Yes, doing real science requires a lot of such stuff...and in the current legal and social environment, it's pretty plausible that the researchers had limited options.]
It's possible to get paid for writing software that secretly doesn’t solely serve business interests but also and even primarily repects users.
"What am I missing?"

Like the other poster mentionied, you might have missed, that you missed things. It is sadly unreliable for me, too, which is just unacceptable with a messenger.
The Office of War Information censored all news during 1942-1945. It’s notable that it was during a declared war. If China and the US were in a war, then TikTok would be blocked in a heartbeat.
I expected to be very defensive when reading the title but I actually fully agree with the article, thank you for sharing
It was supposed to have two functions: tax dodge + pull the wool over the eyes of regulators. It may fail on both counts now that they've shown that the nonprofit wasn't functional in its stated capacity. Win the battle, possibly lose the war?
https://mapliberation.org/plain/entities/BostonDynamics.html
From the article:

> ”You've probably heard, for instance, that the space shuttle will retrieve damaged satellites and return them to earth for repair. Not so. It can't. Simply and flatly, can't.”

Interesting article, but the Washington Monthly’s sources were wrong here. The space shuttles could, and did, retrieve satellites from orbit and return them to earth several times during their operating life:

STS-41-C (launch) / STS-32R (retrieve): LDEF

STS-41-B (launch) / STS-51-A (retrieve): Palapa B-2 and Westar 6

STS-46 (launch) / STS-57 (retrieve): EURECA

STS-72 (retrieve): Space Flyer Unit (SFU)