skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He’s not “apologising” for anything here. Physics and a rudimentary understanding of computational photography should be triggering sceptical responses like this. As someone who has been taking photos using analogue and digital SLRs for over 35 years, while playing with exposing and editing photos using analogue and digital tools, this image definitely looks suspect. It is too sharp and too posed.

You’ve been banging the freedom and choice drum on the original thread, and while I don’t necessarily disagree with some of the points you made there, his scepticism jibes with your hot take and I think it would be fair to describe you as anti-Apple, so there’s that.

Based on what we know about Apple, physics and ML as applied to photography, the likelihood is that this is a staged photo. I’m more surprised that petapixel didn’t do a more thoughtful evaluation rather than perpetuating the story.
Well, it hasn't happened yet. Judging by many comments here, a lot of HNers still use Chrome. If people here still use Chrome, I see little hope of regular users ditching it for these sorts of reasons.
Note that thermal insulation also means insulating from hot surfaces :-)
Yeah, kind of makes you wonder how the audio isn't same quality in both since same hardware is used.
You'd need databases that were open to splitting out and layering like that, and I don't think any major SQL databases are. (I mean, most SQL databases are still written in C-family languages; splitting out the PostgreSQL parser into its own library took 20 years and still hasn't really been done properly, they do some weird sync thing from the mainline postgresql codebase rather than being the actual trunk for parser development and having postgresql proper use it as a dependency). Maybe you could do something with H2?
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what search engine you use as default now?
Strapping in circuits is figuratively tying a thing by strings so it stays in vicinity of voltage/current/circuit constants. In this case, the chip has pins that can be used to change operating modes by strapping high or low, called strapping pins. Similar to but slightly different from pull-up/pull-down.

Boot strapping in circuits usually refers to passive parts that provide power needed locally for switching parts.
Except that it doesn't seem MV3 actually solves any of those security problems.
Any source recommendations on howto find out the minimum hw requirementsto train LLM with Xbit and YB parameters?
In mountaineering, we just say Annapurna, and Ama Dablam. Another example, Khan Tengri, not Mt Khan Tengri (lol)
No - I had tinnitus from when I was quite a young child.

As OP said though - it's a case of, if you focus on it, it'll weigh you down.
> Amazon's outgoing HTTPS proxy.

Is this ELB or Cloudfront we’re talking about?
Except the detail that it is mostly driven by Google, given Chrome's market share.
I don't need chocolates, just give me a new computer each day!
You actually believe Putin? Hahaha.

> Why did they invade?

Like I already stated earlier, because they want to control it like Georgia, Chechnya, Dagestan and Belarus. Only 1 of those countries was considered for NATO membership after the conflict kept going since 91 (considered membership in 2008).

> What evidence do you have to the contrary?

- Russia invading the North Caucasus (Chechnya, Dagestan, ...), without NATO having anything to do with it. *Please answer why they invaded.*

- Russia kept attacking Georgia since 91. Putin came in power in 2000 and he escalated that war, until it reached its peak in 2008 when NATO considered Georgias membership. So did Russia start that conflict because of NATO, or did Georgia wanted to join because of the conflict since 91? *Please answer why Russia kept the conflict going from 91 to 2008*

- Finland, a country with a huge border with Russia, applied for NATO membership in May 2022. Russia didn't invade that country to prevent them from joining *Please answer me why not*

- If Finland is such a huge threat for Russia because of NATO, *please show Russian troop buildup on that border since Finland applied and joined.*

- In 1999, Russia was one of the signatories of the Charter for European Security, which "reaffirmed the inherent right of each and every participating State to be free to choose or change its security arrangements, including treaties of alliance, as they evolve."

And last but not least, your dear friend Mr Putin said the following in 2002, as documented on the Kremlin website:

"On the topic of Ukraine’s accession to NATO, the Russian President said that it was entitled to make the decision independently. He does not see it as something that could cloud the relations between Russia and Ukraine."

Go read it at the Kremlin website http://www.en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/43122. *Anything to say about that?*
I think doors in BBS terms were essentially side-loaded programs that ran within the BBS framework. Different content, text games, that sort of thing. So the library would be something written to work within that specific BBS software.
Well, it doesn't fill anything but was there before XYZ came. Matrix has mostly the same properties (open source, federated). Signal is not federated and WhatApps is neither federated nor open source (but has the most users).

The things that make XMPP unique are very superficial. For a long time, it was the dominant IETF Standard for instant messaging and it has proven that it can adapt to new circumstances (mobile clients), but who cares about such stuff nowadays ;-)

Compared to running your own email server, you just have to solve different problems:

- XMPP has higher uptime requirements (from a user perspective)

- spam is not such a big problem for small installations
If someone doesn't know how to do it, they could still learn it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valsalva_maneuver
Where do monks get the money to build this beast?
Following this brilliant logic, almost everyone involved in education does not work with kids because "it is impossible".

I know exactly what OP meant and it was just grandpa talk. Grumpy sweeping generalisations are pretty common with certain demographics.
At least in Spain, the municipality that holds de radioactive waste or the reactors are very eager to have them because they get a lot of money either from the government or the electric utility. The biggest complainers are the nearby municipalities, that receive nothing but have to deal with nuclear being around.

And then you have things like Chooz plant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chooz_Nuclear_Power_Plant#/map...), that is technically in France but is more in Belgic than France. Plants in the border like Gravelines, Cattenom, Fessenheim, or as far as possible from big cities like Flamanville, Paluei, Penly, Brennilis. In fact, Flamanville (one of the biggest planned plant in France) or Gravelines are closer to London than to Paris. Cattenom closer (and upwind) to Frankfurt or Luxemburg than to Paris. Fessenheim would be in Germany if it was build 1 mile/km to the east. They also built a lot of reactors in the highly seismic area of west Alps, but if something happened to any of them, the winds would carry the spicy cloud to Switzerland, Italy or Germany.
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Shameless plug: once prosody is up and running, add some gateway components to use your xmpp clients to chat with those still jailed in walled gardens such as WhatsApp, telegram, signal, discord (and a few other more): https://slidge.im
Does this study bring anything new to the table?

I suffer from tinnitus myself and a doctor determined that there was damage to the hair cells and auditory nerves after an ear infection. I assumed the cause of such issues was factor was pretty well known.
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Wonder if the real goal is that when these people are caught you go after them for crimes against humanity and not just hacking.
I doubt your average user cares about whether WebHID or WebUSB are implemented. What popular sites (popular enough to cause significant browser market share disruption) use those APIs? (For the record, though, I fully agree with Mozilla's rationale behind not implementing them.)

Not sure what little CSS features you mean, but I haven't found any mainstream websites that don't render properly in Firefox. It's possible that the website maintainers have to do extra work to get them working in Firefox, but regular users don't care about that.

I do recall some things missing from WebAudio and WebRTC, but in practice I'm not sure I've run into any issues with Firefox's implementations. And, again, if website maintainers are doing extra work to make things behave properly with Firefox, regular users aren't going to notice or care.
Just commenting to say I really like your careers website and approach to running a consultancy.
I tried the YouTube video and was slightly alarmed to discover that I appear to be deaf above about 13.5KHz. I wondered if it might be the frequency response of my laptop speakers, but according to this site [0] it's pretty flat up to 20KHz.

It didn't make the tinitius go away, but perhaps subdued it slightly. Hard to say.

But if as one of the other posters suggests tinnitus is a neurological response to lack of input, deafness in higher frequencies tallies. Like others though, jutting my jaw forward makes the tinnitus louder, so not sure how that interaction works for something originated in the brain.

Something I haven't seen mentioned here is _very_ occasional short periods (seconds) of apparent deafness, typically at night, in a quiet room, and only when very tired or sleep deprived. I say apparent because since it's quiet, it's hard to know if it's the tinnitus momentarily stopping, or all sound; and the presence of sound may prevent it from happening.

[0] https://www.dxomark.com/apple-macbook-air-15-m2-2023/
Based on current exponential growth curves, we get 100% of current electricity demand (even after allowing for capacity factor) just from just PV some time around 2032, and 100% of all current primary energy demand 3.5 years after that. And that's without counting any contribution from wind, geothermal, tidal, etc.

Practically this means some combination of the exponential turning sigmoid or energy use going up; but even so, CO2 from energy is no longer something I'm worried about. All the other CO2 sources (steel, aluminium, concrete), all the other non-renewable resources (phosphate), all the other environmental problems (biodiversity loss)? Those are still things to be solved (solutions are known for many and possibly all, but now they must be proven economically). CO2 though, especially from energy, that problem I think we're going to resolve.
I'm Canadian. My phone doesn't instantly die in -30c, I probably lose a bit of battery life but I can still spend the whole day taking snowboarding videos or pop google maps open after a day of ice climbing.
Note that I simply made a statement of fact: Project got no license.

There's no entitlement to a license.
> “but they’ll need to accept the likelihood that they’re buying themselves a one-way ticket.”

The sensation of this achievement seems to be mainly grounded in the fact, that there was a high probability of death. I understand that this thrill is a very good hook for media coverage. But as far as I understood from reading, the main difficulty was the technical climbing part. Combined with the low oxygen atmosphere and low temperature of high altitude.

I really hope that they knew what they were doing and mitigated the risk of getting hurt. Maybe sometimes the risk of death is exaggerated in this articles to build suspense for the readers.

I think it is bad if the "Risk your life to get famous" part of this adventure is stressed too much.

> The first two days involved about 6,000 vertical feet of climbing, 60 meters of rope at a time.

As a European used to the metric system reading a sentence like this is a real challenge. I don't know why you measure hight of a mountain in feet and length of a rope in meters.
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People post the archive links, so it is fine. Enjoying paid content without paying has been a common thing in the hacker community all the way back to the days of warez on Usenet and BBSs.
> Space suits solved it.

Worth noting that 65% of all the injuries reported during spacewalks occur to the hand.[1] They “solved” it as in astronauts are not dying because of glove malfunctions. But there is plenty of improvement to be wished for with the solution.

1: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20140014058
Was this comparing AWS on demand pricing or the 3 years plan?
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9+ years of Android app development, have grown from small startup member to more established maintainer of our app.
Child obesity? Maybe where you live
Severe tinnitus 24/7 is the least of my problems that I mostly tune out.

I have left SCDS. It was verified with audiology and CT (a tiny pit) after I correctly self-diagnosed it. A traditional approach surgery is possible, but it's brain surgery where one surgeon accesses the area by lifting your cerebellum out of the way. There is a lot to go wrong for something that isn't 100% debilitating. Just I can't eat croutons because they're way too loud, I always hear my voice like there's a microphone on permanent feedback, I can hear my left eye move most of the time, and music that's too loud makes my eyes jump off focus with a momentary wave of nausea (oculovestibular involvement).
For other brothers who are by character and upbringing on the right side, but want to and put work in understanding and keeping connection with the left side, I'd recommend this Jordan Peterson's podcast episode: 395. Difficult Conversation as the Precondition to Progress | Adam Smith.
It helped me understand the steelman version of argument behind diversity, equality and inclusion, which are often ridiculed in the traditional right wing bubble.
Interesting.. moving muscles does nothing for me. But then again I was born with tinnitus. I actually didn't know until much later in life that a constant multi-tone ringing in your ears is NOT normal - that was simply my reality so I assumed it was the same for everyone.
Whisper is pretty good for speech to text, and can be done with in a resource constrained environment. I tried a demo running in a browser using WASM on my phone and even the tiny model is not bad.
That’s not the same thing, I believe.
What are the two text encoders?
Hi! Would you care to share these experiments with us? I'm really interested in extreme attempt!

Have Fun!
Without getting into details there's a few niche extentions for my daily productivity that saves me a few hours every week. It's not critical, but it automates a bunch of things that would make switching cost for those tasks too high. Most of the missing things I can probably do without an adapt. I actually firefox UI more.

>we're back in the IE days

Reminds me of when Asian banks still required IE activex well into 2010s and one had to keep IE around, which was easy since it comes with Windows. I can probably use get used to firefox for most of my use case, but have to keep chrome around for some sites.
I agree with you.

"Complex reasoning" without the guardrails of empirical tests and lived implementation is very error prone.

The number of variables is gigantic. In the armchair you can reduce them and tweak the remaining ones, and they will do whatever you like within the boundaries of your imagination.

That method seems just not very predictive of what will really happen.
You're just making stuff up at this point with no evidence or source. If the intention was to forbid dynamic fetching of declarativeNetRequest filter lists, Google could also just... not have dynamic filter lists.
As it stands now it will be a disastrous experiment which will (and already has) affect(ed) the rest of north-western Europe due to the interconnected nature of the electricity network. Electricity prices in the lower half of Sweden have risen dramatically due to this and also due to the fact that our own 'progressive/green' politicos took down half the nuclear generation capacity based on ideological reasoning.

This poses a number of questions:

- will these ideologically driven apparatchiks ever be held accountable in some way or will they just glide through the promotion circus and end up in cushy positions as ambassador in some warm country, in some UN organisation or as head of some NGO or (like Schroeder [1]) in the board of Gazprom or some similar organisation?

- if Germany continues to de-industrialise due to a shortage of affordable power it will only be harder to reach that pie in the sky called the H₂-based economy - can this downward spiral be halted in some way?

- how does a country's responsibility to help stabilise the European grid interact with another country's irresponsible experimentation with that stability?

While the climate-apostles have boarded their private jets for yet another posh gathering the temperature has steadily dropped, the land is white and frozen and electricity prices have risen up to tenfold. Gas prices are still low but that does not help for those who listened to the apostles and replaced their gas-burning central heating for an electric heat pump. Solar does not help either when snow covers the panels which look out over a steely-gray snow-laden sky (source: I just looked out of the window) nor does wind (source: same the before).

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/gerhard-schr...
I worked on some of these systems as well. Credit card details haven't been sent by emails for many many years, and I believe the last fax Booking ever sent was somewhere in 2018 or 2019, the whole fax system was decommissioned. By the time I left I believe they were still showing CC details to hotels via the extranet or an app though. A virtual CC thingy exists, but like someone said upthread, hotels are very set in their ways and often behind the times.
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Hi HN,

I've been pretty addicted to Twitter lately, and I tend to go pretty deep when browsing threads (replies, replies-to-replies, replies-to-replies-to-replies, ...)

Annoyingly, when navigating back from a reply thread to the original tweet thread, Twitter dumps me at the top of the thread instead of where I left off, forcing me to scroll down before I can continue my browsing.

This extension solves that problem for me. I hope some of you find it useful :)
Check out the llamafile 0.2.1 release. Old Intel CPU support is fully fixed now on the release page and hugging face. Enjoy!
One more for the road.

So, I have a little old SPARC64 niagara 2 box, which is a strange beast for a number of reasons.

The onboard NIC is a strange bespoke Sun-created Ethernet card, over the PCIe bus.

Since it's a SPARC in 202x, it's not really well tested or supported, so updating is always fun.

One day, I lost power, and on next boot, it booted a newer kernel, and the kernel panicked.

I rapidly determined this was from trying and failing to initialize the NIC, and attempting to bisect it turned out to be really exciting - after getting impossible bisect results, I realized, once I booted a "working" kernel, all successive kernels worked until a cold boot.

The problem, you see, was that they had changed some things about the PCIe initialization to enable certain kinds of memory protection features.

The actual memory protection feature works fine on this hardware - but the _check_ of whether the feature is supported causes the machine to panic.

But once the machine is booted, it doesn't try to re-initialize this on warm boot, so it doesn't trip this problem.
I used to slice large images in a grid pattern, held by a table. Don't even remember why... For faster loading?
Hosted secure chat is still a very important niche. Matrix.org is failing so far once you add many users. XMPP fails too, usually, but for different reasons (configuration issues hard to debug, apparrently).
The Hole: A tiny NYC community forgotten for decades
arggg, a snake, it's a snake!
> What does reclaiming the banjo as an African instrument mean?

The contemporary objection from some circles to “cultural appropriation” isn’t generally that group X is taking some aspect of culture from group Y. Rather, it is that group X is doing so while enjoying social and economic privilege unavailable, or historically unavailable, to group Y. It is, like so much of what drives human behavior, ultimately a struggle over resources. So, “reclaiming the banjo” might mean ensuring that more attention and money in banjo playing flows to African-Americans.
> I don’t know if this is a clue, but I can do muscle movements in my head/face/jaw to make the tinnitus worse (only as I make the movements, immediately reverting back to “normal” tinnitus as soon as I relax).

I can do that as well.
Ya I also have had wisdom teeth removed and TMJ issues for a long time, and it also seems related. The nice thing about Osteopathy is that it's very gentle so it shouldn't be as dangerous as more aggressive or invasive treatments. Some Osteopaths are especially experienced with ear-related things. I've had very, very good results from it personally.

For me the biggest help has been that as well as general physio/exercises (especially eccentric neck muscle exercises with a exercise band) around the neck getting all hose muscles healthy and relaxed.
I’m not saying it’s the only cause, but it may well aggravate it.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250886390
In American English slang it’s short for body odor, and is considered mildly offensive
3 year plan. Basically for colos you also get it cheaper if you sign for 3y so that’s more apples to apples. Equipment “annual” cost was calculated over 5-7 year lifetime - I didnt go as far as calculating how much you could recover if you pawned it after 3 years…