skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Water in plastic pipes is pretty stanky at first, especially the first couple months/weeks.

This is mostly from the glue used at the pipe joints, which has a lot of volatile components.
Reminds me of Meteorjs. It would let you sync a subset of your data to the client and then the client could query it any which way it wanted. They called this “Minimongo”.
has a straightforward software interface without any glaring misfeatures (I'm looking at you, RTL8019AS)

I wonder what that's referring to; the '8019 is quite common in a lot of other retrocomputing projects. One even showed up on HN not long ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25293650
I believe "code" here is being used in the sense that you retrieve YouTube (the website - made of code) with the intent of watching X video. But you don't want some parts of YouTube's code (the bits that display ads) to run on your machine.

One could argue that you should, indeed, have the right to block whatever parts of YouTube's 'code' from running on your machine. Currently, this is the case.
Not in US but I feel much better having an RO system and drinking that water
> if someone buys this and feels emboldened in terms of firearm defense it probably won’t end well

Ok. So what though? What exact scenario are you worried about here? You don't clarify.

That someone intentionally getting into a shootout will be unsafe? That someone will let their friend shoot at them as a test? Maybe it's cruel, but I find myself missing sympathy in both cases. Something else?
All environmental sources of lead that can readily contaminate humans should be removed. This is a good move. It would be great to see an international treaty on this, with goals and enforcement for signatories.
This remarkably old advice from a time before modern water treatment, sacrificial anodes, and automated temperature control is also why so many recipes instruct to "fill a pot with cold water" before it's boiled.

Although, seeing the inside of an old water heater is all anyone would need to convince them to leave the hot water for washing.
It is formalisms all the way down.
There is also an Edge extension store, which could conceivably keep MV2 extensions alive, and allow for a smoother update experience.

However, as someone who manages a couple extension, I rarely update the Edge version for one and didn't bother ever uploading the other.
let me repeat what you just said...

You'll wanna grind leetcode 'reds' with extra ghee and cumin to ground your muladhara sub-routine
The '& 0xfff' eliminates the highest byte, so it doesn't matter what it is.

Your code doesn't handle the 'length' parameter, so the problem isn't the highest byte, it's bytes beyond 'length'.
Great idea, well done! First I thought about developing something similar. But luckily a friend pointed me to your project and YT video :)

It would be great to have some docs ;) Is it possible to add API endpoints like for ChatGPT?

PS: I am wondering why so far it did not gain more traction here at HN?!…
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Yes, but that's the only way I know of to legally stop others from making money off "ideas". Copyright isn't a good tool for this as oracle recently found out.
I am saying that "dealer parts" aren't a frustration that is caused by electronics. They're caused by the aftermarket not making them.

The design of Nissan's fault detection doesn't have anything to do with it being a dealer part. Something dumb like a cupholder is 99% of the time going to be a dealer only part.

And on top of all of that, it's not like 'electronics' is enabling Nissan to force you replace all the coils. Automakers have done this mechanically for decades too. Just make it a single part: https://www.amazon.com/ENA-Compatible-Econoline-Thunderbird-...
also..is this a HN worthy statement of questioning???
Floats were ugly but once you did enough of them, you could nail it every time. It shouldn’t have taken months if you had an experienced team.

The only issue with floats was that there were a lot of edge cases that happened in only certain browsers, so you had to be careful. Lots of browser bugs.

Job security.
I'd say you're biting off way too much by framing it as users "cheating". If anything Youtube is "cheating" by pushing users into running malware that undermines users' own interests.

Furthermore while I don't necessarily agree that users have a "right" to Youtube, I do believe that sensible antitrust enforcement would require Youtube to make its service client-agnostic, and prohibit this current practice of bundling a proprietary client with the service.
The dumpsters of businesses that have lots of incoming merchandise provide free boxes. Try Walmart, for example.
I have several laptops with Nvidia graphics that can't run proprietary drivers because not only has Nvidia deprecated the drivers, no platforms even package them anymore, while newer drivers exist in distributions' package repositories.

So you can end up in a situation where you've installed proprietary drivers via package manager and then a year later the packages are gone entirely.

You're forced to use PPAs that don't work or packages on the AUR which also don't work, and you're restricted to distributions that support either 3rd party packaging solution if don't want to install things manually, which also doesn't work.
You know those studies saying that a cup of wine a day is good for you? Huge numbers, compelling evidence. Turns out they were all wrong due to a pretty simple and 'obvious' bias. Plenty of people who stop drinking did so due to health conditions, both diagnosed and undiagnosed. And so when you just compared drinkers to non-drinkers, you were biasing towards healthy individuals in the drinking side, and the effect was significant enough to create a statistically significant 'discovery.'

All large scale observational studies are subject so such biases, and the one you linked to also seems a likely suspect there. The hidden confounders are pretty much infinite. The users of many of the worst of sorts of drugs, such as heroine and amphetamines, tend to be average to lower weight. They will die disproportionately young, which will drag their weight cohort substantially down. Another could be increases in things like body building, which show increases in BMI without the corresponding increase in body fat that it's supposed to represent.

I'm not saying any of these are the silver bullet, but rather that when you see a big observational study like this, that sort of skepticism should be the first thing to enter into your mind, as it's extremely often the case when you read about a [shocking discovery] based on big observational studies. Correlation is not causation, even with really big population sizes.
Second-hand stores have suitcases, or find free ones posted online or at the curb.
>Note to younger self: stay away from loud concerts.

Or try those "concert earplugs." They reduce the overall sound level while better preserving high and mid sounds. It also reduces the booming sound ('occlusion effect') when talking.

I paid $15 for a pair recently, but experimentation shows it's mostly just silicone earplugs with a hole through the center and a small mesh screen.

Removing the fancy "audio filter" and stuffing a tiny (tiny!) wisp of cotton in the hole seems to do the same thing, honestly. You can probably reproduce these using 30¢ HF silicone earplugs if you find a way to "drill" a hole through them...
Coming soon: AI detector detectors.
Realm Sync, Mongo + Kotlin MP will cover basically all platforms (server, web, mobile, desktop)... at a cost. Actually interested by alternatives.
Will this be part of your article?
Be careful about that. Just last week he lied about open sourcing the original roadster. Musk very clearly said "all design and engineering for the original roadster is open source" but that statement is false. There's a few PCB designs available and one diagnostic program, but there are zero mechanical designs and I suspect there are missing firmwares, among other things. Given these glaring omissions (and Musk is certainly qualified to understand what "all design and engineering" means), I suspect there is a trove of other "design and engineering" documentation that is missing as well.

I believe none of the cars shipping today contain any open source electronics. Teslas are notoriously full of very expensive proprietary electronics. He has indeed released some "goodies" but is nonetheless as bad as every other shipping car manufacturer today.

It is honestly hard to say he is making an effort when he is so blatantly lying about the roadster and his other vehicles are completely proprietary. Not saying he is worse than the other companies, but I can't give him credit for something he is not doing.
You can refuse ad exposure on YouTube, it just costs money. Phone service and internet service cost money too, and government services use them extensively, yet nobody suggests that phone and internet service providers be obligated to provide service to anyone for free at their own cost. The government does subsidize access in some cases, so the equivalent suggestion would be government subsidized YouTube Premium for those who can't afford it. But I think you'll have trouble convincing people that's a worthwhile use of government money vs. just letting people watch a few ads.
Is it? I've seen ad blockers try that "privileged ads" model. It's hilariously unpopular and unprofitable due to product market mismatch.

Maybe I am cynical about the law, but I assume the only reason they don't block other networks is because it would be their same advertisers, and they would be furious enough to take action.
I can't tell if this is supposed to be a joke, or they are really trying to be the XSLT of the 2020's. At any rate, they should add jq path expressions or similar
Shoutout to Lev from ingredientx and Tales of Mere Existence from the same era, also Monkey Dust but that was a BBC production that felt like modern day YouTube.

Here's a nice clip called "We Are the Cyclists":

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zBFFrsvgu1Y
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Mine reminds me of the high-pitched sound made by old, tube TVs. I think it was called the flyback transformer. 16Khz.
Nobody should downplay this very vital need. Isolation is worse than almost anything; better to be hungry with friends/family than fully fed and isolated.

It's not easy, but if you share what you've tried, people might have suggestions. If you share where you are (I completely understand if not) then you might find neighbors.
Wait till you hear about how modern metallurgy and material science is better than ancient katana hammer smiths. There was a post here earlier today about how an overpriced comb is better because it's artisanal and handmade.
Tinnitus is so strange. It’s like depression. You can’t will it away, but if you start to feel better it also gets better. And if you feel worse it gets worse. And both reinforce each other.

It’s not just perception and it’s not just physical. Physical symptoms make it seem worse and when it seems worse it actually gets worse.

The best thing to do is accept that you have it and try to never hear it, so that you don’t think about it. Then it might actually (not just psycholgicy) get better. It won’t be cured, but it can have a huge improvement.
The original is quite long, but quite interesting.[1] Reading it makes me feel like I did reading A Brief History of Time as a middle schooler - concepts that are mainly just out of reach, with a few flashes that I actually understand.

One particularly interesting topic is the "theories of superposition" section, which gets into how LLMs categorize concepts. Are concepts all distinct or indistinct? Are they independent or do they cluster? It seems that the answer is all of the above.

This ties into linguistic theories of categorization[2] that I saw referenced in (of all places) a book about the partition of Judaeo-Christianity in the first centuries CE.

Some categories have hard lines - something is a "bird" or it is not. Some categories have soft lines - like someone being "tall." Some categories work on prototypes, making them have different intensities within the space - A sparrow, swallow, or robin is more "birdy" than a chicken, emu, or turkey. Apparently Wittgenstein was the first to really explore with Family Resemblances that a category might not have hard boundaries, according to people who study these things.[3] These sorts of "manifolds" seem to appear, where some concepts are not just distinct points that are or aren't.

It's exciting to see that LLMs may give us insights into how our brains store concepts. I've heard people criticize them as "just predicting the next most likely token," but I've found myself lost when speaking in the middle of a garden path sentence many times. I don't know how a sentence will end before I start saying it, and it's certainly plausible that LLMs actually do match they way we speak.

Probably the most exciting piece is seeing how close they seem to get to mimicking how we communicate and think, while being fully limited to language with no other modeling behind it - no concept of the physical world, no understanding of counting or math, just words. It's clear when you scratch the surface that LLM outputs are bullshit with no thought underneath them, but it's amazing how much is covered by linking concepts with no logic other than how you've heard them linked before.

[1] https://transformer-circuits.pub/2023/monosemantic-features/...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/001002...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_resemblance
“Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the nonexistence of God.

“The argument goes something like this: ‘I refuse to prove that I exist,’ says God, ‘for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.’

“‘But,’ says Man, ‘the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn’t it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don’t. QED.’

“‘Oh dear,’ says God, ‘I hadn’t thought of that,’ and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

“‘Oh, that was easy,’ says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

“Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo’s kidneys, but that didn’t stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his best-selling book, Well That about Wraps It Up for God.

“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”
I don’t think that excerpt is false, or a good summary of the book really. My point is unless you understand the Georgist argument well, it is misguided to think there are better policies to prevent rent seeking causing housing crisis. When both heterodox and orthodox economists agree on the soundness of a policy such as the LVT, you at least have to compare it to your novel proposal or have a good reason for why so many smart people are wrong.

I agree with most of what you say about more developed areas having higher wages. But this is predicted in Progress and Poverty: as a society progresses in terms of increasing land value and increasing productivity (in wages and efficiency of land use) poverty arises because the rents tend to eat up all value so that wages become just enough to survive. The best way to reverse this is to tax the unimproved rents. This encourages housing development (efficient use of land) and discourages speculative land bubbles (since you lose money if you do not use the land or let others use it).
This is exactly how I borked my Bluetooth and WiFi.
I'm not sure if there'd be enough volume to justify fabbing and debugging custom silicon. 45,000 missiles have been built over the last 29 years. The newer models probably aren't using the same IR sensors as the ones from 1996, so FPGAs have the advantage being reconfigurable.
Why are we being DDoSed by Cloudflare?
Earlier today we experienced a DDoS HTTP attack, which was automatically mitigated by OVH, so only caused minimal disruption. However it's concerning that it happened at all, as all the ips were Cloudflare ips, e.g.:

162.158.202.23 - - [01/Dec/2023:23:30:02 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 244

162.158.202.23 - - [01/Dec/2023:23:30:02 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 244

172.69.90.116 - - [01/Dec/2023:23:30:02 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 244

108.162.221.143 - - [01/Dec/2023:23:30:02 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 244

162.158.235.85 - - [01/Dec/2023:23:30:02 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 244

162.158.110.143 - - [01/Dec/2023:23:30:02 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 244

162.158.110.142 - - [01/Dec/2023:23:30:02 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 244

162.158.202.23 - - [01/Dec/2023:23:30:02 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 244

162.158.202.22 - - [01/Dec/2023:23:30:02 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 244

162.158.202.23 - - [01/Dec/2023:23:30:02 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 244

(it was around 5800 requests per second to a site that normally gets 1 request per second or less at this time of day, and lasted 21.5 minutes).

As it is http, I don't think it could have been spoofed. I tried contacting cloudflare, but they are impossible to contact unless you are a customer. All their social media chat just uses bots and it is impossible to connect to a human if you're not a customer. I tried calling their emergency DDoS line, but the person just said that cloudflare doesn't DDoS people (even though I explained that the attack definitely came from their network, and someone was likely using their service to DDoS us). They simply refused to direct me to anyone else in their company. The phone number is just for people looking to purchase DDoS protection, and they don't have any other method of contacting them.

So, can someone explain why Cloudflare seems to be DDoSing us, and exactly how it happened?

There is no way to report abuse to Cloudflare unless it is a cloudflare website. (I tried, and it refuses to submit the report). I suspect it may be someone abusing their WARP VPN service, but there doesn't seem to be any way of reporting abuse about it.
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> The cost is not in viewing the advertising or my time but in the pollution of my brain and that's something I take rather personal.

Sure, but at the moment you can avoid using the service.

> But my government posts their stuff on youtube, as does my kids' school, as do the manufacturers of the gear I use, as do the courses that I have already paid for. So it's not like I have much of a choice here.

You could petition the government and school to not put stuff on YouTube, maybe even take the issue to court. You could also rally other people.

But if not enough people care, then there probably is not ever going to become any sort right that would protect you against having to view ads. Rights don't get introduced to protect things that people don't care about.

At the moment you can also bypass youtube completely downloading the videos to view offline, and there are various solutions that will do that and then serve it back for viewing in a browser. So with a little more work you do still have an option to avoid their ads completely.

Which brings us back to the question being should you have the right to do that?
What does upskill mean in this context? I may consider reaching out but I don't want to waste your time either
Tables semantically are meant to represent tabular data and using them for layout became “wrong.”

From a practical point of view too, if you wanted to make separate mobile and desktop views just by using different stylesheets, using a table made it very difficult.

(That said, in 2000, if you were using separate mobile and screen stylesheets, you were in an extreme minority because there were relatively few full HTML web browsers on mobile devices. Instead, most phones, if they could access the Internet, accessed a different version of the Internet accessed over WAP.)
I think the only piece of advice I ever received that was a real help was:

> Parenting is going to be the most challenging, frustrating, disheartening thing you ever experience. But every once in a while there's going to be little moments that make it all completely worth it. Learn to recognize those and hold on to them.

Both the acknowledgement that parenting is a fucking nightmare a lot of the time and you're not just doing it wrong, and a reminder to consciously recognize and remember the precious moments.
> Sorry to hear.

Phrasing…
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SQLite does actually provide the mechanisms required to listen for changes via update hooks. It's unfortunate that many SQLite bindings don't expose that. I'm using it in a very simple way - automatically rerun the query if data in the underlying table changes. It's perhaps not as efficient as incrementally updating the results, but with how fast queries in SQLite usually are, I find that doesn't really matter.
Tin/silver soldering (~95/5) would probably be better than brazing for water supply piping as brazing will tend to anneal the hard drawn copper tubing, which isn’t desirable from a strength standpoint.
Pro says single GPU some places and multi-GPU others. I really hope it is multi-GPU because basically every enthusiast making finetunes is using 2-4 3090s locally or renting 8x GPU boxes on Vast for finetuning. If multi-GPU is enterprise only you will miss out on basically the largest customer segment as far as I can tell.