skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Liability. If someone installs the battery or wiring harness incorrectly there's any number of things that could go wrong. You don't want to be sued over a battery fire if someone shortcuts wiring or venting things properly. There's a double standard in that you can buy a Ford 532 crate engine and it'll come with the wiring harness and fuel system with an "approved for off-road use only" disclaimer simply because people have been doing engine swaps and self repair since the dawn of the automobile.
Greedflation: Corporate profiteering 'significantly' boosted global prices,study
SpaceX May Test Propellant Transfer on Next Starship Flight
postgres jsonb if I had to, but rarely do I feel the need for noSQL
From https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/tag/v255

"A new component "systemd-bsod" has been added, which can show logged error messages full screen, if they have a log level of LOG_EMERG log level. This component is experimental and its public interface is subject to change."

First step is to log something with LOG_EMERG level. Then maybe make the system crash?
You know those memes where AI keeps escalating a theme to more extreme levels with each request?

That's what Apple keynotes feel like now. It seems like each year, they're trying to make their presentations even more essentially 'Apple.' They crossed the uncanny valley a long time ago.
Actually not really, the ads on the rest of the strip are by far more obnoxious than the ones on the sphere. Whether it’ll stay that way, I’ve doubts, but for now in a city of gimmicky shit, this is in good taste.
This is impressive and fun but completely impractical, for 2726 reasons. (That's how many Euro they are selling it for.)
Jobless claims inch up to 220k, layoffs still low
Training on copyrighted content isn't a copyright violation. Sarah Silverman is currently learning that the hard way.
It absolutely is a real question. I routinely see different standards applied when consequence are on the line and selective enforcement is made based on criteria that make one question the very foundations of the country that is not willing to live up to their espoused ideals.

Since you mention little children, I would be remiss not to point out that kids do pick up on that particular, shall we say, inconsistency rather quick usually to the embarrassment of the adults, who are, after all, in a polite company.
> And I’m an IPv6 evangelist.

Nice! Learning ipv6 is on my bucket list, any resources that you like to recommend?
If higher voltage leads to benefits, then why 48 and not 120 (US) or 230 (EU)? Or higher? What are the tradeoffs?
Yea, no good way around IDE extensions. Hopefully if Wing gets popular enough the community will create extensions where there is demand for them.

Also, thanks for taking the time to give us feedback
> The board’s mandate is to “humanity,” not investors.

Somebody put her there, told her "you know, say it's for humanity or something" and she actually believed it.

No, it's for people to get rich.
> Are you claiming that if a company experiences a 10x (!) increase in valuation, that the dilution fully destroys that upside and the average developer experiences no increase in their comp?

Not the person you are replying to, but it depends on how diluted it gets. If they print 9x of currently outstanding shares as the value goes 10x, it would result in those original shares being worth exactly the same as before the 10x jump.

But I agree with you overall, in terms of the actual reality. I don’t think any company with half a brain would do that.
Nobody pays for Teams, but everyone pays for Office, and if you get Teams for free with it ...
All true, which brings up the question how much better will the world be with a new elite. Also, maybe today’s generation of revolutionaries will do something different.
Ruby is absolutely worth learning. It's a nice combination of OO and functional programming, and I find it nice to both read and write. It's very expressive; I find it easier to model my ideas in Ruby than many other languages.

The job market seems healthy and stable, but I'm not a reliable source on that.

Outside of web development, Ruby is an excellent scripting language, that's perhaps where it excels best.
Iran Launches Bio-Capsule to Space
Inside Malaysia's Chinese-built 'ghost city'
Starlink's IPv4 is behind CGNAT, and their IPv6 prefixes are not stable.

The good news is that it's relatively easy to punch through the NAT. This blog post describes an approach that is working well for me: https://www.jordanwhited.com/posts/wireguard-endpoint-discov...
I've had three phones' (two Nexus 5Xs, one Samsung S21) USB-C ports fail on me unexpectedly, and without wireless charging suddenly I can't charge the phone. I'm unlikely to buy a phone without wireless charging for that reason.
>I don't know how anyone can call the board's action a "coup." Calling it that seems to be a propagandistic abuse of the term.

>The board was in charge, and it's not a coup if it fires a subordinate (the CEO). If anything, the coup was getting the board ousted.

The CEO was a member of the board and the ones that fired the CEO also fired the Chairman of the Board, so the board went from 6 to 4. So far there's been even less of an explanation for the firing of the Chairman of the Board - who they offered to let remain as a regular employee - than there has been for Altman, though I see the removal of the Chairman as potentially the most egregious and coup-like.
> but had to immediately demote the new CEO (Mira) after she rejected their plan

According to reports, Mira was informed of the decision to fire Sam the night before Sam was fired. There's no indication she was against it and she also didn't inform Sam. So, I don't get this "she rejected their plan".

If the board informed her they were going to fire Sam, it seems logical that they also informed her they were going to give her the interim CEO position. I have no knowledge of this (it just kind of makes sense to me).
> I've been taking Pixel photos for years, and my phone is always the one people ask to use for group shots at social events.

If the average social gathering is more than two people, this is already a minority use case.

If the average is even just 10 that's only at most 10% of cell phone users like you.

In short, I believe you've just written the first formal proof of obscurantism on HN. :)
My company uses Meet. It works great! I like it more than Zoom.
The problem with both is that they were both designed long ago, without much regard to bad actors. They have been around so long replacing would be a herculean effort.
Preventing atomic-context violations in Rust code with klint
Good points. I hadn't really thought through the economics of it. I wonder... if the testing could be automated at high speed, would that make the economics work? That would enable being able to service entities that buy larger quantities of parts, reducing the impact of shipping costs. Those don't have to even be companies -- I already buy most of the parts for my hobby projects in larger quantities, in order to get bulk discounts, free shipping, and to have sufficient stock on hand that I don't need to order things every time I start a new project.

Now my imagination is running wild...
> It simply spits out whatever output sequence it feels is most likely to occur after your input sequence... but to optimize for factual correctness is a completely different endeavor

What if the input sequence says "the following is truth:", assuming it skillfully predicts following text, it would mean telling the most likely truth according to its training data.
After asserting it's a rubber duck, there are some claims without follow-up:

- Just after that it doesn't translate the "rubber" part

- It states there's no land nearby for it to rest or find food in the middle of the ocean: if it's a rubber duck it doesn't need to rest nor feed. (That's a missed opportunity to mention the infamous "Friendly Floatees spill"[1] in 1992 as some rubber ducks floated to that map position). Although it seems to recognize geographical features of the map, it fails to mention Easter Island is relatively nearby. And if it were recognized as a simple duck — which it described as a bird swimming in the water — it seems oblivious to the fact that the duck might feed itself in the water. It doesn't mention either that the size of the duck seems abnormally big in that map context.

- The concept of friends and foes doesn't apply to a rubber duck either. Btw labeling the duck picture as a friend and the bear picture as a foe seems arbitrary (e.g. a real duck can be very aggressive even with other ducks.)

Among other things, the astronomical riddle seems also flawed to me: it answered "The correct order is Sun, Earth, Saturn".

I'd like for it to state :

- the premises it used, like "Assuming it depicts the Sun, Saturn and the Earth" (there are other stars, other ringed-planets, and the Earth similarity seems debatable)

- the sorting criteria it used (e.g. using another sorting key like the average distance from us "Earth, Sun, Saturn" can be a correct order)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Floatees_spill
48V still counts as "low voltage" for safety purposes. The lower voltage gets them increased safety when working with exposed wiring.
Two-Envelopes Problem for Uncertainty about Brain-Size Valuation
What: I'm using Cakewalk Sonar, but any DAW that supports VST3
Either doing a graduate degree or quant funds
As the other comment mentions, yes there is a seed attribute, also the algorithm for the randomness function is defined in the specification as 186 lines of C code[0], so in theory different implementations should behave the same.

Although looking at the cod, it uses floating point math, which I believe is implementation defined, so maybe it could behave differently on various platforms.

[0]: https://drafts.fxtf.org/filter-effects/#elementdef-feturbule...
>their actions were reckless and ultimately backfired.

What should they have done to accomplish their goal?
Sorry if this was a joke and I didn't spot it. Chrome was based on WebKit which was itself based on KHTML if memory serves. Chromebooks are based on a version of that outside engine running on top of Linux which they also didn't create.
I think this remains to be seen. It's possible that certain less individualistic cultures exposed to individualistic modernity will adapt in a robust way.
Well, thank you, you made me discover an alternative to shazam! I never thought of looking into the description of a youtube video...
That's certainly a possibility, but none of us have enough information to say for sure.
From my experience, in a majority of real-world LLMs applications, prompt injection is not a primary concern.

The systems that I see most commonly deployed in practice are chatbots that use retrieval-augmented generation. These chatbots are typically very constrained: they can't use the internet, they can't execute tools, and essentially just serve as an interface to non-confidential knowledge bases.

While abuse through prompt injection is possible, its impact is limited. Leaking the prompt is just uninteresting, and hijacking the system to freeload on the LLM could be a thing, but it's easily addressable by rate limiting or other relatively simple techniques.

In many cases, for a company is much more dangerous if their chatbot produces toxic/wrong/inappropriate answers. Think of an e-commerce chatbot that gives false information about refund conditions, or an educational bot that starts exposing children to violent content. These situations can be a hugely problematic from a legal and reputational standpoint.

The fact that some nerd, with some crafty and intricate prompts, intentionally manages to get some weird answer out of the LLM is almost always secondary with respect to the above issues.

However, I think the criticism is legitimate: one reason we are limited to such dumb applications of LLMs is precisely because we have not solved prompt injection, and deploying a more powerful LLM-based system would be too risky. Solving that issue could unlock a lot of the currently unexploited potential of LLMs.
I saw someone else mentioned his books, but he also was one of the main people behind the CSS 1 test suite (1998) that gave browser manufacturers tests they could target to ensure they were properly rendering to the CSS spec. That went on to eventually evolve into or inspire (can't remember) the CSS acid test that was used for CSS 2 and 3.
(VST beta tester here)
Seems fine so far over 24 hours. Typically VST's cause spiking and audio glitching right away, so this build seems good, albeit 1.0.0
IPv6 for IPv4 Experts: https://sites.google.com/site/yartikhiy/home/ipv6book
Thanks! It'll stay up past the end of Hanukkah.
You’re the one who picked the goddamn comparison. Then I said that the comparison isn’t valid since it’s worker-governed and owned. And now you complain that I’m choosing a particular subcategory against your will... for the thing that I said wasn’t a valid comparison to begin with!
Search Avoidance and extraneous warnings aren't about avoiding Western Cancel Culture, it's simply to avoid Japanese peer cancellation IRL. Female doujin author space used to be and still is crazy toxic, and they go extra miles to stay away from crazy people, some of them being men and some women. Lots of artists themselves are in fact also clinically insane/depressed as well, which is also contributing factor to these behaviors.
I laughed out loud for this one
Either OpenAI leadership was playing lip service to it's non-profit mission in hopes for riches and fame or they are profoundly naive. Google learned this a long time ago, that they tried not to care about stock price or monetary incentives but always the most pressing thing Googlers cared about was that their stock price went up, when they had $200k - $10m compensation on the line. OpenAI hired people with huge pay packages and surprise surprise when the primary thing on those peoples' minds is making their stock go up, the primary reason OpenAI was founded to prevent.
Tesla's greatest innovation is simply leadership. Everyone knew castings were the way to go, but noone did it. Now people like Volvo are doing them, and I expect a lot of others to do it as well.

Everyone knew that 48V would be a big benefit, but noone did it.

TBH, in a few years, we may be saying similar things about drive-by-wire without a mechanical backup. But it is too early to say definitively.
Come on, that playbook is ancient by now. Deny facts and call people liars, then when irrefutable evidence is shown say "Oh, but it's a good thing!". I just stated the truth, and if you think it's fine or even great that this happens, then sure. But why deny that it happens then? Why is that still in the playbook? If people think it's great, then say so. We're in the information age, anybody can look up stuff easily.
Are you aware of the history and governance structure of OpenAI?
What stops you from asking the same question multiple times, and seeing if the answers are consistent. I am sure the capital of France is always going to come out Paris, but the name of a river passing a small village might be hallucinated differently. Even better - use two different models, if they agree it's probably true. And probably the best - provide the data to the model in context, if you have a good source. Don't use the model as fact knowledge base, use RAG.
How single-iteration InstCombine improves LLVM compile time
The trumpet on my prophesy ain't half bad but yes I concede that point.

For synthetic sounds however, at this point I think it's mostly a question of workflow. Like yes you can take time to program all those imperfections into a digital sound. Or you can take time to make an analog device which has them inherently.
It was rice but rice is a filler. Don’t know that the ratio is but let’s say 1:4 non-rice to rice. Dumping the rice skews that a lot.
That’s probably legal in many places yeah.
> That's never caused any regulatory problems for Ma Bell, despite OSHA saying 50v is the cutoff.

I'd be surprised if the wired phone system is not allowed to do a lot of things that would not be allowed under current codes and standards. By 1920 about 35% of US households had a phone. Upgrading all of that to keep up with evolving safety standards would probably have been way too expensive, and so I would expect that there was a lot of grandfathering.
> Again: nobody has said this

You said it. You said that's what the cryptosystem should do. It's a bad design.
Hard for me to gauge how earnest this comment is - if the media is being fair about it, you wouldn't take their coverage as evidence of extreme polarization. But maybe you are being tongue in cheek?
Why’d you bail on Tabu? I remember it being one of the more entertaining silent movies I’ve seen. As well as having a very memorable ending.
You were replying to a user who asked me a question and you were explaining my views to them…
It's a bit worse:

> The RFSOC 4x2 is currently only available to Universities and Research Institutes.

And you're almost right. RFSoC XCZU48DR-1FFVG1517E costs $22742 (not in stock) and XCZU48DR-2FFVG1517E costs $31840 (not in stock).
Well there is only 1 courier available for legal reasons and none of the other couriers would deliver them either. :p
People should agree that if there is no consensus reachable within the group of experts, an external advisor (e.g. Bruce Schneier, Ross Anderson) should be consulted. They may not be automatically "right", but such an agreement could re-stablish focus and avoid division or, worse, ending the worthwhile group's activities.

Nothing is worse than open source people not reaching consensus and moving on, because nothing will make the enemy of privacy more happy.
More generally, these are instances of Lostwave: https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/
> Eve's Hollywood by Eve Babitz, if you want to fall in love with a Los Angeles even more, great writing

Goodreads recommended me this after I read Slouching Towards Bethlehem (which I really liked). Now I have a second opinion so I'll check it out. Thanks :)
It's bad if the makeup of the company doesn't reflect the diversity seen in the marketing, because it doesn't reflect any genuine value and is just for show.

Now, I don't know how diverse the AI workforce is at Google, but the YT thumbnails show precisely 50% of white men. Maybe that's what the parent meant by "surgically precise".
>and 2) virtually all the profitable sources were already being mined

There have been massive investments in lithium mining over the past few years, especially in Western countries, partly for business and partly for strategic geopolitical reasons. So there's nothing rational about that assumption and I don't think any serious investor made it either because all this is public knowledge among insiders and easily researched. The price spikes are simply based on demand and speculation. Short term there was/is a serious shortage and that's reflected in the price. Also once production of EVs really ramps up, this could repeat. There's definitely no sign of overinvestment in terms of mining and processing.
If you use fast wired charging, which most phones do, you're causing significant wear to the battery. With daily fast charging, I've seen phones chew through their battery in under a year.

Conversely, the rather slow charge rate of wireless helps extend battery life quite a lot. This is why I never use fast charging, avoid wired charging in general, and limit my battery to 85% max charge. It's been three or four years and my battery is still at ~80% health.

Which is worse, wasting a small amount of power or trashing your phone's battery in a year or two? One has significantly higher monetary and environmental costs.

Besides all that, wired charging is not nearly as efficient as you think. The charge circuitry in your phone is optimistically 80-90%. The wall adapter can be anywhere from 50 to 90%, and scales pretty closely to how much you paid for it. Efficiency also goes down with faster charge rates.

I design switching converters and lithium charge circuits for my job. They're pretty great, but not nearly as good as you'd think.
Rice has a significant climate footprint due to the methane produced by the agriculture. It also requires a lot of fresh water to grow. (How much of an issue the latter is depends on the local conditions, of course.)
> Now, it's possible that if you took transactional email out of the picture, and just stuck with interpersonal communication, WhatsApp could beat email

Everyone I know uses email. No one I know uses whatsapp. A couple of people I know use Signal. A handful use iMessage.

> But that doesn't matter, because in this discussion, the figure of merit is encrypted email,

Ok, let's consider one case where encrypted email is commonly used: reporting security vulnerabilities. Do you really think any of these would be a good medium for that? Do you see companies or other organizations putting a whatsapp username as the contact in their security.txt?

I do want there to be a more secure replacement for email. But most of the newer e2ee messaging systems can't really fully replace email.
I didn't buy a fairphone 4/5 having previously bought a fp3 that got broken mostly beyond repair. I didnt buy the updated version as it didnt have a headphone jack. I opted for a used phone instead.

It flies in the face of claiming to care for repairability and sustainability. Wireless earbuds (maybe including the ones they sell) I by and large dont have replaceable batteries. That isnt sustainable.

If my USBC jack breaks from wear and tear being in my pocket with a cable attached to them, I no longer have a working phone and need to buy a part to fix it, if the headphone jack breaks, I can live without headphones and still have a functional phone. If the selling point is sustainability, they miss the mark by creating extraneous rubbish, even if its not direct
> Once you screw this up to such an incredible degree, how can anyone really trust that you were doing the rest of your job well?

As someone who pretty harshly described the board's actions, I agree with the first part of what you wrote, but I don't agree with this.

People can be good at critical aspects of their job while lacking the maturity to understand large group dynamics. I thought this quote from the article said a lot:

> The board members weren’t prepared for the fallout from their decision. The members, including Toner, were taken aback by staffers’ apparent willingness to abandon the company without Altman at the helm and the extent to which the management team sided with the ousted CEO, according to people familiar with the matter.

It's pretty hard to me to think, based on the board's initial press release, that there wouldn't be a huge fallout from this decision. The release also made me think that Altman had done something truly egregious/malevolent, and that wasn't the case.

What I saw this as was a group of people who had real concerns about Altman's leadership, and some of those concerns ended up sounding pretty valid, but who didn't have the experience/maturity to understand how to go about the next step. OpenAI's "frankenstein" org structure, with a board beholden to the nonprofit's charter but also responsible for billions in investor capital, also helped contribute to this cluster-f.
Yeah, I feel you, especially reading the "I would buy a fairphone if..." Thread here. I really appreciate what you are doing.

Google is planning 7 years of Security Support for their Pixel 8...which really doesn't help much when the battery is glued in...
Euro folks here: Oh, this thing again.
Yes lots and lots of work, but we enjoy doing it :)

About ballerina, there are similarities to wing, but at a high level it is focused on simplifying networking whereas Winglang is about simplifying the use of cloud services.
Not sure if it was 2022 or 2023 but I read “master and margarita” by Bulgakov after hearing a tear-dropping description of the story by Alessandro Barbero.

Even with all the spoiler, a really great book.