skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether or not software should be political is kind of beside the point. Even if we assume that software should be apolitical, there's still the issue that it is the Tanzanian government that is imposing political restrictions on participation. The entire debate here is about the fact that the government of Tanzania will not not allow a software conference to exist in Tanzania that is divorced from politics.

If you truly, really want to be apolitical, then it shouldn't matter whether an attendee is openly gay or not. If it's really separated from the politics, then gay or anti-gay, trans or anti-trans, they should at the very least be able to participate while feeling like they're physically safe. And if they're not safe, then it's not apolitical.

If someone feels unsafe participating because of their identity, that is a political conference, it is a conference where people are being excluded on account of someone else's political views.

The PSF is not asking for everyone in Tanzania to say that they're fine with LGBTQ rights. But regardless of someone's political views about LGBTQ rights, LGBTQ people should still be able to participate safely in the conference. We're not talking about whether people can take part in a software conference while holding anti-LGBTQ views. We're asking whether or not it's reasonable for the political environment to threaten LGBTQ people and through that threatening environment prevent them from participating.

An apolitical conference is one where it's safe to give a tech talk regardless of whether or not you're openly trans, because regardless of whether or not people are offended about your gender, ultimately the technical content of your talk is the part that matters. A political conference is one where in addition to the tech, you also have to think about how you look and what clues you're letting slip and whether or not you're doing a good enough job pretending that your partner isn't your partner and whether you're using the bathroom people expect -- all just so you can avoid legal consequences from the government.
> disadvantage of banning noncompete agreements is that it discourages employers from investing in training workers

Is there evidence Californian employers invest less in their workers than the rest of the country?
i've taken mechanical design courses where we kept a sketch book and had to do a sketch-a-day kind of thing. it's something you'll just naturally improve at the more you do it
Honestly a lot of these tax breaks are for local taxes so other than the county/city they are in, other than the local paper and the county courthouse I'm not sure if they have to be anywhere else.
People shit on them, but they really are easier and more convenient.
A lot of companies have started doing this because a compromised account can be used to attack the service (logged in sessions avoid rate limits) or other users (spam). They aren't necessarily trying to protect you.
To add some color to this, the culture for a very long time would reward folks that came up with novel solutions to problems or novel products. These folks would dedicate some effort into the implementation, land the thing, then secure a promo with no regard for the sustainability of the aforementioned solution. Once landed, attention goes elsewhere and the thing is left to languish.

This behavior has been observed publicly in the Kubernetes space where Google has contributed substantially.
They have many orders of magnitude more money and attorneys that would work full-time on such a case to ensure that even if they lost the court battle, the person or company doing the thing that they didn't like would be effectively bankrupted, so they still win in the end.
The Fountain Pen Network Forum
I'd say IBM's downfall was directly related to failing to monetize Deep Blue (and similar research) at scale.

At the time, I believe IBM was still "we'll throw people and billable hours at a problem."

They had their lunch eaten because their competitors realized they could undercut IBM on price if they changed the equation to "throw compute at a problem."

In other words, sell prebuilt products instead of lead-ins to consulting. And harness advertising to offer free products to drive scale to generate profit. (e.g. Google/search)
The data should be accurate though. Any data-driven decisions can easily miss the original intentions if they're made with bogus information.

Looking at browser usage data from GA when Firefox specifically blocks it quite often is useless.
I mean, couple it with one of these, and it is...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09LlZhlcJTU
> Wouldn't this invalidate the FCC certification on the prebuilt modules?

MAC is at OSI Layer 2. FCC concerns about radio power occur at the PHY layer, OSI Layer 1:

> On the ESP32, the PHY layer is implemented in hardware; most of the MAC layer is implemented in the proprietary blob. One notable exception to this separation is sending acknowlegement frame: if a device receives a frame, it should send a packet back to acknowledge that this packet was received correctly. This ACK packet needs to be sent within ~10 microseconds; it would be hard to get this timing correct in software.

* https://pics.zeus.gent/vYXyQm2t9pJCzpDdWFvq9oWR2DACoUJoTsYf8...
This is not normal. When someone makes a point about conferences in places with terrible human rights and you miss the point completely to talk about something unrelated, it is not normal conversation.
> No, I think this shows that adding customisability features to please a small minority of users into low level components can be a huge security risk

Customization of the POST boot logo image should be as simple as burning an image to a simple flash ROM which remains untrusted and data-only (no-execute) - the fact that performing these ostensibly harmless customizations will introduce a security issue just leads me to believe an intelligence agency is involved somehow...

I mean, it makes sense: one can probably convince the leaders of Hamas or Cuba that it's worthwhile to let the 14yo great nephew twice-removed of an inner party cadre member to replace their laptop's capitalistic imagery from ASUS/Acer/Razer/Dell with some JPEG with far more revolutionary appeal - they'd never suspect a thing...
I didn't mean their social presence, I meant their activity as a standards org in recent years.
Because if the dev wants to fix the site for your browser, knowing what browser to target is absolutely essential.

In this case, it sounds like the devs specifically targeted Safari to not be supported. You could try to get around this with a user agent spoof, though.
I say ban all the plastic. If even 1% of is disposed of improperly, you get a deluge of plastic litter that accumulates in the environment. I've picked up hundreds of bags of this stuff, personally. "Properly disposed of" bothers me, because I've seen far too much of accumulating in ditches, waterways, roadsides, etc, to ever believe that fairly tale. People are trash monkeys and will. not. dispose. of. it. properly.
> Want to smoke weed? Check (lowest prices in the world)

One of the biggest reasons I'm happy I moved away from my home in Oregon. The second-hand weed smoke is gross.
It's a waste of time.

Chat interface is used to talk to people. If you talk to a machine, there is no point to mimic human behaviour, especially when current iterations of AI can't reason. There should be a better way to do this.

Like 90% of the time I want to chat to customer rep, because I want to let them now there were missing items in the delivery and I want re-delivery or refund. That could be a simple expert system with a few buttons. But businesses want to discourage people from returning anything, so they are building those time wasting widgets hoping a % of people give up.

Like if my time costs £200 per hour and the wrong delivery was worth £50, I am not going to spend more than 15 minutes on this, unless it is critical to the business.

This has nothing to do with helping customers, but to save money.
Tooling for this was announced on HN 3 months ago, it now does a lot more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37125118

Here is an plugin for one of the popular tools for running multiple local models (it is a tool that presents an OpenAI-style API for downstream consumption, as well as presenting its own Web UI for direct interaction with the models.):
https://github.com/hallucinate-games/oobabooga-jsonformer-pl...
I don’t know. Maybe a couple of months ago I would have agreed but Google is back baby.
One of the things I enjoy about doing a painting is that it doesn’t involve technology, just me, a canvas, and paint. Machines equipped with mechanical arms are no doubt going to soon be churning out fine painting after fine painting, but nevertheless, it’s an enjoyable human activity, made by humans for humans.
Adequate is the key word here. The company I work for has two office in the same city, one has a Keurig and the other has a large drip coffee brewer and a large can of Folgers. The pods are always drinkable, while the drip coffee will vary depending on who brewed it and there is a good chance it will either be far to strong or far to week depending on the amount of grounds put in.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems holds the thesis that you need stronger magnets so that you make the reactor smaller.
I’m impressed that it’s multimodal and includes audio. GPT-4V doesn’t include audio afaik.

Also I guess I don’t see it as critical that it’s a big leap. It’s more like “That’s a nice model you came up with, you must have worked real hard on it. Oh look, my team can do that too.”

Good for recruiting too. You can work on world class AI at an org that is stable and reliable.
The section on trying to attenuate outside wifi signals interested me.

There is a bunch of hand wavy information on building faraday cages online, some people suggesting to utilize a microwave oven, since they operate at the same frequency.

There are even wifi faraday cages for sale on amazon.

However I can't really find much actual benchmark data online about how well these various approaches actually attenuate signals.
Now that it’s firmly entrenched as Microsoft branding you may want to reconsider. Soon, people searching for “AI Copilot” aren’t going to be able to find you.
Scan lines?
> the foundation likely being an US nonprofit, so integrating foreigners in the board may be extremely difficult.

As far as I know, it's not a problem. At first glance, PSF board and officers bios appear fairly international currently.

A foreign controlled, foreign benefitting organization that sends nearly all contributions to foreign organizations might not be tax exempt in the US, but that doesn't sound like the PSF.
Some people, when they see a problem, think “I’ll use a new bureaucracy.” Now they have two problems.
They are about 10X the cost of bulk pre-ground coffee like Folgers.

For anyone tempted to bad mouth Folgers, try opening one of your K-cups and look at the ingredients inside.

You do want to know what you're drinking don't you? Some of them are not just pre-ground but pre-brewed crystals --- aka instant coffee.

All the Keurig machine does is add water. You can empty some of K-cups into a mug, add water and heat it in the microwave with the same results.
Carrying around a bag of sand to throw your laptop into is wildly impractical though. What's your plan?
Anyone know if they're using TPUs for inference? It'll be real interesting if they're not bottlenecked by Nvidia chips.
If you only want one or two cups, a stovetop maker might be a good alternative. Slightly more work, but less waste.
Why are you emphasising native code? Is there something about native code being bad that I am missing?
I can't help but think that by the time they release this closed source Gemini project they brag about, the world will already have the same thing open sourced and better/comparable... ChatGPT beat them last year, and now we have a similar situation about to happen with this new product they speak of, but have yet to release anything.
>Soviet computers in 1970s calculating ICBM flight routes 30 minutes faster

That's hilarious. That sort of computation has to be completely trivial with modern computers. It's so crazy to think that plotting a ballistic trajectory ever took more than a few milliseconds, much less hours
My parallel to the iPhone was a reference to the horrendous conditions at Foxconn from 2006 to 2010, and the West's insatiable need for iPhones didn't draw any much support until it blew up in the media, and Apple looked evil. I think the formation of a union in Shenzen, China mirrors early unions in first-world countries, however, my belief is that unions in first-world nations are now more like extortionists and are not as needed and do not truly represent their members.

Tesla is a big seller in Norway, then Sweden, followed third by Denmark in Scandinavia. The governments push them legislatively and via financial subsidies. I am not fully informed of the metal worker's gripes in Sweden, nor the labor structures in Scandinavia, but the mob of Norway dock workers and others in Denmark unions all joining in, because Elon doesn't agree with unions or forming them, seems more a first-world problem (like people not potentially getting their iPhones), but with the iPhone nobody boycotted Apple from 2006 to 2010, and then in 2012, writers, not unions, started to raise consumer consciousness on the issue with suggestions of boycotts on Apple.

I hope Elon tells Scandinavia to F-off like he just did to X advertisers. Sweden is one of the world's most unionized nations, but it is a fairly homongenous society. The percentages are going down as they accept more immigrants into their society. In addition, Scandinavia has bought the EV craze hook, line, and sinker, even though EVs are turning out not to be the cure for all the ills of the world as many thought they once were. They are heavily invested in many ways. I am curious to see how this plays out.

[Edit] I don't think the consumers are personally buying Teslas to financially support Elon personally, but by choosing to buy a Tesla they are voting with their wallets, and I think pro- and anti-union are two valid stances. Neither is the product of being brainwashed as some have commented here.
Neither is the case for him... when we were first talking about the long term, he was willing to consider living in the US for at least a few years, since he's always enjoyed his visits. Then I talked to enough acquaintances who had Green Card drama for German citizen spouses who had only ever lived in Germany that I dropped the idea.

People complain about German bureaucracy, but I've found the residence permit process to be relatively straightforward and well-documented, and reasonably priced. They were clear about what documents they needed from us and when, and even helped me out when I nearly got stuck here because I applied for a renewal a bit too close to a trip to the States.
> “FIPS mode” is a thing provided by OpenSSL that, well, makes it more secure

A well-configured system would either be unchanged or be made less secure by enabling FIPS mode. Nobody should ever use it without a legal requirement to do so.
Neither are breaking changes in a minor-according-to-semver bump.
Instant is great. You can also buy higher quality instant coffee these days at a fraction of the cost of ground beans (the down market options get pretty bleak). I have taken to bringing instant in to work simply because it is substantially better than the numerous poorly maintained machines in the office.
Speaking from experience, there is a big performance difference connecting your eGPU over PCIE and connecting over Thunderbolt. Usually people just take the performance hit with Thunderbolt because of convenience and they are usually using overpowered desktop GPUs but there are eGPU PCIE connectors for people who want the most performance.

Because this is already using a mobile chip with lower performance, Framework probably didn't want to tank performance any more by going with the lower bandwidth Thunderbolt option.
You just have to make sure you don't accidentally overstay your visa in Canada with either country since they probably check this by entry/exit dates on a specific passport.
I feel like the second part is a bit exaggerated. Humans inherently also aren't "made human" by something, there's no universal standard for morals and behaviors. You could also get reasonable "murder instructions" from an average person - it's not exactly forbidden knowledge, with how commonly it's depicted in media. Hell, I'm pretty sure there are detailed instructions on building a nuclear bomb available online - the reason why they're not viewed as some extreme threat is because the information isn't dangerous, having access to machines and materials required is.

As for the last paragraph - if the effects truly keep scaling up as much as people expect them to, I'd want society to be restructured to accommodate wide-reaching automation, rather than bowing down to a dystopian "everybody must suffer" view of the future.
No, SBB has the unifying database for all trains across all of Europe. The job is already done.

What does SBB or trainline.eu do that Google or Apple can't do?

Or do you think Europe is one country?
Some rubber is less dense than water, and certainly the type in a rubbery ducky would be
Show HN: Signal Generator Written in Go
We're using some tool at work that recommends putting SQL into dedicated separate files, one file per query. Or you can use the query builder which is just SQL but with extra steps, limitations, and caveats. It's so annoying.
Thanks, this gave some good insight to GPT4. If I provide the entire Wikipedia page contents but blank out the movie name and director name it can't recall it.
https://chat.openai.com/share/c499e163-3745-48c3-b00e-11ea42...

However, if I add the director it gets it right:
https://chat.openai.com/share/a602b3b0-5c17-4b4d-bed8-124197...

If I only give it 1980s film and the director's name it can still get it.
https://chat.openai.com/share/d6cf396b-3199-4c80-84b9-d41d23...

So it's clearly not able to look this movie up semantically and needs a strong key like the director's name.

EDIT: Digging deeper it's clear the model only has a very foggy idea of what the movie is about: https://chat.openai.com/share/d0701f53-1250-421e-aa4b-dc8156... People have described these types of outputs as the text equivalent of a highly compressed JPEG, which seems to fit well with what's going on here. It gets some of the top level elements right and kind of remembers there's some kind of vehicle that's important but it has forgotten all the details, even the date the movie was released. But unlike a human who might indicate their fuzziness (was it a helicopter or a submarine?), GPT4 gladly pretends like it knows what it's talking about. I think it's likely a solvable problem, the model probably has the information to know when it's confident and when it's in a fuzzy JPEG region but the current alignment isn't doing a great job of surfacing that.
I don't believe that Apple is the best at UI, from by limited experience with them. I have close to zero complaints about Android or Windows UI, besides pull to refresh.

Apple is the best at making tech not feel like it's actually tech, and creating a sense that it's just a transparent window to your content, the way that hand tools are transparent extensions of your hand, rather than interpreters that filter and alter your actions.

People who are already really good at doing stuff in the real world and comfortable in 3D space(The kind who probably gravitated towards skateboards and oil painting instead of video games) feel at home, and don't experience and loss of confidence which would cause them to give up.

It's not really easy to use, they have a ton of gestures and shortcuts. Windows/android is like doing what a screen says, Apple is like learning a dance.

If you have a very active mind that always tries to find patterns of logic, Apple gives you clarity and directness, but it doesn't spell things out and hold your hand as much as some stuff.
Based only on my own anecdotal experience... I think the hole the cables go through is the biggest problem in OPs setup. I'd solder the shields to the cage circumferentially around the hole. Shielded USB cables aren't too hard to find, it wouldn't be as good as something optical but it's a lot easier.
An alternative is teaching people how to make simple chains of byproducts. Maybe even incentivizing doing so.

I make a shot of Ristretto every morning from fresh beans in a hopper that's sealed by double layer gaskets. From that I get pucks of coffee grinds which I feed to my worms. 3 months layer with some nitrogen sources I get fresh compost for my plants. I have some ornamental plants, but the ones in my greenhouse grow things like tomatoes, lemons, basil, thyme, etc... To be frank, you don't even need a greenhouse for most of these; adding light and water to counter top plants will often do.
Time doesn't necessarily have to be another dimension. They're just what they are but organized in time.
SQL queries yes, what Bury above probably is talking about is obscure triggers/stored-procs,etc that encodes the business logic inside the database far away from any version control or sane ways to track it.
This is very interesting. I'm keen to get involved but, while I'm very experienced with ESP32, I don't have experience with this type of reverse engineering.

How long did it take you to get the environment and tools set up, so you could start digging in?

Is time or money a more valuable investment at this stage? If it's not too forward, how much would be useful to your organisation? (I can email if preferred.)
I will have a database built. Thank you!
I wonder why there's not an open source hardware and firmware for a simple black and white printer that takes those old ubiquitous ribbon toner cartidges. We have open source robots of all kinds, 3d printers, but I can't find a single open source document printer.
One problem I see with ChatGPT replacing search is, who is going to fund the content creators that generate the training data?
Link to the repo 404s
https://www.flickr.org/tools/flickypedia/about/
https://github.com/Flickr-Foundation/flickypedia
What's legal and acceptable in Japan is rather different than anywhere in the West.

As one example, animated or drawn child pornography is perfectly legal there. There have been multiple legal rulings reinforcing that. Western audiences find that horrible, for the most part.

Actual pornography is censored in Japan however, and many of the people I've talked to there find uncensored real pornography to be far more offensive than drawn pornography.

You can also find parasocial writings where people will post their imagined lives with public figures. There are a ton of topics that fall under this advisory. It's a completely different culture, and many people not from there make assumptions about what's acceptable from what is popular wherever they are from. That rarely looks anything like the reality there (and is true for anywhere that happens).
That’s why I use mine. Grab Costco pod, cup, done. I can go usher the kids off to school.

And the coffee is pretty good.

I’ve honestly not made coffee any other way.