skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They R&D and design in Shanghai [0] and recently laid off the Sweden R&D team [1] while opening a new design studio in Shanghai [2].

A lot of the supply chain in EV manufacturing is also largely automated compared to ICE manufacturing - a major reason for the UAW strike.

Kinda interesting how Scandinavian unions are up in arms against Tesla but said nothing against Geely/Volvo moving R&D jobs to China.

Not a Musk fanboy btw. He clearly needs to step away from the public spotlight to help his companies perform without scandal.

[0] - https://www.just-auto.com/news/china-volvo-and-geely-open-ne...

[1] - https://www.motor1.com/news/665644/volvo-cuts-1300-white-col...

[2] - https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-gb/media/pressrele...
I miss that game so much.

What's the server population like these days?

What is your load out? I was a Jet main.
I've been collecting a bunch of counterfeit chips to hopefully do a write up on at some point. If you are ok they might sit for a while, I'd love to collect them for that project! Feel free to email me JohnDMcMaster at gmail.com
a "researcher"? that's what you call her?

Those who can, do. Those who can't, write about it.
I've done similar things by manually inserting and updating rows in the database etc to "demo" some process.

Like you say it can be useful as a way to uncover overall process or UX issues before all the internals are coded.

I'm quite open about what I'm doing though, as most of our clients are reasonable.
That seems rather rude.

The discussion was about the need for tools to make it easier to handle cases where you couldn't automatically handle repairing them, and your statement was that zdb is very useful, which is true, but it doesn't fix anything.

fsck for various filesystems has a bunch of common cases like "this is an orphaned file, should I save it or mark it free?", and something similar would indeed be useful for a number of failure cases in ZFS which require more explicit instruction on what to do about it because you can't easily automatically resolve it.

`zpool scrub` is very useful, but ZFS could still benefit from automated tooling to handle some common failure modes, not just let you write bespoke tooling every time.
You'll "get hate" for it because it's garden-variety racial supremacist language.
I feel like we haven't yet come up with the right models and vocabulary to express these kinds of risks, or maybe I just haven't heard it.

Especially because your credentials to AWS are likely stored somewhere that would also store your credentials to your separate backup vendor -- so why would two cloud vendors provide any more protection than two products within one cloud vendor?

It's clear to me how to model hardware failure, or accidental data loss. It's not clear how to model "hackers gain access to one set of credentials but not another" or "provider closes your account and won't give you your data".
I remember an analysis of the plate tectonics of Middle Earth and coming to the conclusion that it doesn't really work, but you can't blame Tolkien for this as the entire field of plate tectonics was invented a few years after he made the map.
Probably more efficient in some ways, definitely better for the environment.
Make sure you apply to other schools too. You'll have options. I thought I would get into Stanford and did not.
I demo'd a full browser office suite in 1998 called Office Wherever (o-w.com). It used Java applets to do a lot of the more tricky functions.

Shopped it around VCs. Got laughed out of all the meetings. "Companies storing their documents on the Internet?! You're out of your mind!"
The industry term is “art of the possible”.
I don't have a single mono/dotnet application or service installed on Linux, and I can't think of a popular one.

Edit, also happy to provide stack traces from the ones I tried, it's not as portable as it wants to be.
At which point its always better to just pick it up yourself unless you absolutely cannot go do that for whatever reason. Not only is it significantly cheaper, but the food is also significantly hotter.
Beancount for Personal Finance
Yeah but there are some nearly objective truths that should easily bring you to the 95%ile.

Like, spend conscious time with your kid (play with them, read to them, etc) over letting them watch YouTube or TV.

Or, don’t invalidate their emotions when they share them.
Just don't try that with wet hands.
I recently read "Quiet Street" by Nick McDonell, a memoir of growing up with extreme privilege. It's eye-opening, though rather short.
> TCO includes purchase price.

Which is true, but that doesn't mean TCO and purchase price are one and the same. The page you originally linked discusses purchase price, not TCO, so it's not very useful for analyzing outside1234's claim since it only provides one part of TCO.
Right: in this day and age there are an almost unlimited array of inexpensive, easy ways to spin up an HTTP endpoint that can receive a POST request.

We have a lot of experience scaling those kinds of endpoints (and making them redundant) too.

Spinning up an always-on server that can maintain a persistent connection - and reconnect automatically if it drops, and if the server is rebooted with an update and suchlike - is a whole lot harder. Possible, but not nearly as easy.
Which journalists has he banned from Twitter/X ?
I expect Fusion is the only part of "end-user computing" that people here care about.
What’s the point of a repairable phone if parts are out of stock?
Car electrical systems typically run at 13.8-14.4V while the alternator is charging and drops slightly after the battery is topped off. When the engine is off the battery regulates a 12v output
I find Chrome JS debugging pretty awesome. What features it lacks so it’s utter trash?
Blame C/C++ for the switch complaint. C#'s design was to avoid a lot of those nasty pitfalls by making you be explicit about your intent. You don't have to use a break, but you do have to explicitly exit out of the switch, so a return, or throw, or (gasp) goto works also. This means forgetting a break is a compiler error, not the silent execution of subsequent cases, which is probably a trick employed purposefully in C++ like 5% of the time and a nasty bug for every other instance.
Yeah it’s very interesting meeting the youngest Elf. But what happened at the end is pretty clear, I thought, and the series is called the Second Apocalypse after all.
Does bard browse the web yet? Is it possible it read the parent comment?

Wild that we have to ask these questions.
Network in real life. Go to parties. Take classes. Play sports. Do what you love. Get out. Meet people. Follow up. Grab coffee. Reach out to them. Host events. Introduce friends.

An online presence will be a shadow of your real life. If you live a big life, you won't even care when you have thousands of followers.
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This reminds me of the 80's "Tough Love" movement. It destroyed my family. I ran away at 14 and didn't talk to them even once for 20 years because of how that book got them to treat us.

To this day we still pretty much never speak with each other. Only pleasantries at Christmas and the occasionally remembered birthday, and that's about it. None of us can see it any other way. My sister has a similar thing with them, but less so. But they abuse the heck out of that relationship, since she ends up being the default blame and fixer for everything. She and I have a hard time communicating. It's awkward, and likely because of the shame our parents brought on us during their cultish following of that stupid self-help book when we were preteens and teens.

There are a lot of snake oil answers to your every problem out there. Unfortunately there is no snake oil that can fix problems caused by the previous so-called remedies. The parents managed to brainwash themselves into resigning to the stereotypical "If we knew then what we know now," yet not once considering a path to repair anything they did while following that program. It changed everyone it ever touched, and made us all apathetic and even ambivalent to anything that might possibly reconnect us.

The majority of self-help programs are led by charlatans who read a book and figured they could come up with a better plan, to be written in yet another stupid self-help book.

Word to the wise: self help books are not self help. They're a hand-held scapegoat to accepting your own perceived failures, and sometimes a huge amplifier that turns them into real failures.
This blog is blocked by DNS Security solution because of "personal VPN".
Using meetup to find a local running group has been an interesting experience. I am not buddies with them but it is nice to get out of the work bubble.
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Then we digitize everything we win and put it all online for free, without any paywalls or usage restrictions, so that it can never be locked up again.
Routers at Centre Pompidou and software evolution
> The reasoning behind Lavabo was that its a short name and probably easy to remember.

I'm not sure "short" necessarily equates to "easy to remember". I mean, I'm no expert, and feel free to ignore this, as it's probably very subjective. But to my way of thinking, the fact that Lavabo isn't (in English, AFAIK) a "real word" with any particular connotation or association, makes it "not memorable" to a degree that offsets the "easy to remember because it's short" part. I mean, consider, "Inprise" is also a short, easy to remember word, and yet that is widely considered one of the worst debacles in corporate re-branding ever.

> In romance languages Lavare means to wash, and Lavabo comes from old Latin which also means washbasin.

TBH, this sounds a bit like "overthinking things" or trying to be clever for the sake of being clever. Is anybody going to buy your product because of this? If not, then it doesn't matter.

Earthbound seems kinda cool though. Anyway... that that for what it's worth. Again, totally not an expert. I could be totally off-base here.
This is what I do, new Pixel 7 + GrapheneOS. Works great, I highly recommend it.
Let me add toxic developers to my list of complaints. I don't think this is a well reasoned response to my comment. Is this reddit now?

Edit: It's weird you called me a nazi, but I am not banned from Reddit, nor have ever supported the radical right. Please keep your ad-hominem attacks to other platforms, I am mainly on HN because it has less ridiculous noise like this.
It can be fun but its literally a two hour commitment usually to prepare a big meal, eat it, then deal with the hellfire you created in the kichen. I don’t always have the energy for that at the end of the workday.
> printf/console.log aren’t debugging, peasant

You might have missed the bit where I said the tools barf on async code - something a printf debugger wouldn't care about. It logically follows that I am indeed a user of a debugging tool, and not a "peasant". Though primitive tools like printf and memory dumps do have their advantages. Notably, printf is resilient in the face of async code.

You were also practically forced to use VS for C# 1.0, and by consequence a debugger.

VS loses track of where the async stack is (the parallel stacks view sometimes saves the day), the Rider debugger outright crashes and takes the process with it - and if it doesn't, completely fails to step into async methods.
They’re certainly given immortality by cenobites, and they do end up serving them to some extent.
Incidentally, a ((Llama Guard) Guard)()

> "A guard for a Llama Guard that adds robust uncertainty quantification and interpretability capabilities to the safety classifier"

...can be easily created by ensembling your fine-tuned Llama Guard with Reexpress: https://re.express/

(The combination of a large fine-tuned decoder classifier with our on-device modeling constraints is, in all seriousness, likely to be quite useful. In higher-risk settings, the deeper you recurse and the more stringent the reexpression constraints, the better.)
Also just realized it could be an FTC violation.
LangChain Expression Language Explained
I mean... I get some of the feeling there, but based on precedent, behringer version would've included midi (pricing vs cloning considerations aside)
I disagree on search: I use DDG most of the time, and it uses Bing. I'll turn to Google (using "!g" in DDG) occasionally if I'm not finding what I want, but for most searches, DDG is sufficient.

However, I'll also say that sometimes the alternatives to Google aren't very good, though they do of course exist. Anything that requires an Apple device is a no-go for me, for instance, so things like Apple Maps are out. Google Maps for me is a must-have, for instance; I use it for navigating Tokyo on a daily basis and something like OsmAnd isn't going to work here at all (Google Maps finds businesses, tells me when they're open, and tells me exactly how to get there on public transit.) Google Docs is pretty useful for some things too; I don't use it for anything too important (I use LibroOffice at home for that), but for something I want to be able to access from my phone or work computer, it's great. The competition seems to be MS Office 365, and I'm not going to use that: I hate MS and I see no reason to pay for a subscription service here when Google's free offering is fine. Google Calendar is really useful too, and lets me share my calendar with others easily.

Comcast is truly evil and horrible, but since the US loves monopolies and lets companies like Comcast establish local/regional monopolies, people there are stuck with them. In better-run countries like where I now live, this doesn't happen, because there's tons of competition for internet service.

YouTube really is pretty close to a monopoly though; it's not like you can just go to Vimeo and find the same videos.
Haha.

What should I have done take screenshots every 5 minutes?

Your response seems so inept. I’m posting on the internet in case anyone has to deal with something similar there’s a trail of evidence. Downvoting would be the same as agreeing with the Nazis.

I don’t expect people to believe me, just putting my experience into the space.
AI in the Workplace
> To me it sounds like a useful thing

To me it sounds like lying...

Context matters a ton though. Are you presenting the demo as if the events are being automatically triggered (as in the OP) or are you presenting as this is your plan? Explicitly. If it is implicit, it's deceptive. If you explicitly do not say what parts are faked, it is lying. Of course in a magic show this is totally okay because you're going to the show with the explicit intention to be lied to, but I'm not convinced the same is true for business but I'm sure someone could make a compelling argument.
> Worse than that, most apps use random google stuff that they don't need, and the developers inevitably forget to check for NULL when they ask for the optional google service.

I say this as someone who's not a big fan of Google. If it's anything like iOS development, there’s a good chance it never dawned on them.

On iOS, there's a slew of things you want to check for as dev due to permissions and the like, but there's so much more we simply assume is there based on the frameworks Apple ships with the OS.

If ever there would be an option to de-Apple iOS, I wouldn't even know where to start to check for nil values, if only because Apple has significantly moved to abstract things away to make it easier on us, and they never allowed direct communication with components to begin with, everything runs through an Apple provided delegate.
Right there with you. Not trying for violent revolution. Just something more creative than what we've seen in the past.
Caption this "Fear"
> > How much Land does a man need

> A lot.

Spoiler: the true answer is the last sentence in the short story.
for whomever needs to hear it, on linux, xscreensaver has a great variant on conway's game of life built in as an optional package
There’s more community outlets than ever before. Try joining a makerspace or a slow pitch softball league in 1950. All you had back then was the church or beers at the elks lodge after work.
> ship the batteries and motors in

That's the issue. Most of those parts are manufactured in an automated manner already.

An ICE vehicle has more parts, and less portions of the supply chain automated.

This translates to more jobs for the various OEMs.

Any attempt at transforming an ICE OEM to an EV OEM translates to job losses as well as lower margins [0], which is why both unions (eg. UAW) and ICE manufacturers (eg. Toyota in Japan) have been lobbying against EVs.

These D- Congress members are all in districts where victory margins were relatively low and where the downstream impact of EV manufacturing could have a similar impact to what NatGas and Renewables had on Coal and Oil.

[0] - https://www.ismworld.org/supply-management-news-and-reports/...
They're just the ones who got caught. A lot of markets have only 2 or 3 major players. With so few players they could cooperate to raise prices without doing anything more than observe what each other are doing and responding accordingly. Price being the only means of communication or coordinating between the players.
Interesting. I liked the writing, I had expected a typical cliché moral lesson, when he showed self awareness and took a shortcut I didn't know what sort of ending to expect. Tension was raised and although the moral lesson was what I initially had thought it would be, I engaged with the story more seriously because it had shown some independence from the necessity to follow strictly one format only.
I started taking more frequent snapshots. Really weird I felt like I was going crazy.
This comment is similar to the comment I wanted to make because I also thought it was pretty nifty.

Joking aside this is pretty cool. One thing about the whole embeddings/cosine similarity thing for people who are struggling with understanding it.

Computers are good at doing lots of sums. Embeddings turn a problem that seems to be about something else[1] into a problem involving lots of sums by turning that something else into numbers.

So when we turn some text into embeddings (numbers), what do those numbers mean? You could imagine a space with a lot of dimensions - the author is using openai embeddings so it's like a thousand dimensions or something - and every point in that space is some embedding, which is actually a numerical representation of the meaning of some text.[2] So things with similar meaning have embeddings which are close to one another in this space. How do you decide what "close" is?

Well one easy way is cosine similarity. Since these are vectors imagine two arrows coming from the origin. To make things simpler imagine it in the two-dimensional plane rather than 1000 dimensions which owuld make your brain leak out of your ears. So you have two arrows going from the origin to some two points. What you want is the length of the line from the tip of one arrow to the tip of the other arrow. For people who struggle to remember their trig, this distance is given by c^2 = a^2 + b^2 - 2ab cos theta. It just so happens that if you take the dot product of two vectors and divide by the product of their norms you get the cosine of the angle between them (cos theta). That's why it's called cosine similarity even though you don't see a cosine in the formula.[3]

[1] language usually in the case of LLMs, but embeddings aren't only about text.

[2] this is why searching embeddings is called semantic search.

[3] The term cosine distance is often used loosely for this although I believe it's actually technically not a distance because it doesn't obey certain properties that are necessary for something to be a distance.
It's not that simple. Feeding power back to the grid certainly helps (and this will likely become ubiquitous; even just tapping into the top 10% of capacity would be a massive benefit). But EVs connected to the grid can even help improve grid stability, even without feeding power back to the grid, through simple frequency-based dynamic demand methods. At peak demand, the grid is most sensitive to marginal loads. EVs that are charging at this time can modulate their power draw, even without returning power to the grid. In effect, if you turn on your kettle, a charging EV can simultaneously lower its draw rate by almost the exact same amount, so that the grid load gets smoothed out. This can be done without any data or networking. It is equivalent to adding additional rotating inertia to the grid, and very helpful for grid stability. It's a technology that is not widely adopted today, but very cheap to implement and likely to spread quickly.
Days after KD Hospital fell prey to a ransomware attack, an FIR was filed on Tuesday at the Bopal police station. The cyberattack blocked the hospital from accessing all its online systems, including CCTV footage, patient data, hospital files, and software, people privy to the matter said.

“The ransomware attack took place at around 2 am on May 13. All server data of the hospital on its online server was encrypted. A ransom demand was made via an email by the attackers of USD 70,000 in bitcoins to decrypt the files. The servers are still down,” said AP Chaudhary, police inspector, Bopal police station.

A top source in the hospital, however, said the hospital’s online system was up and running. “Our servers – containing all our software – were down for a day but we worked manually. The servers are now up and running. We got another server for backup. The healthcare services were not affected. An NFSU (National Forensic Sciences University) team and cyber crime police are also investigating the matter. It will take another week for the audit report. Based on that, we will get to know if there were any system vulnerabilities. We might have to make some rectification in our IT infrastructure accordingly,” said the official.
Inflation is contagious. Once it kicks above a certain psychological level, everyone starts increasing prices and people start accepting the vicious circle by over buying to avoid inflation on their savings. Which makes the situation worse and accelerate the circle.

But it’s easier to blame greedy corporate CEO than your own failed monetary policy.
Signed up for the longer term offering, I'm super intrigued by it.
Interesting to hear about other ppl's experience with warping.

I have some metal combs that I bought 20+ years ago that haven't warped at all (i.e. I have them on the table in front of me right now and they are lying perfectly flat).
Having been on the "other side" of the table, I can kinda answer this.
In my experience, the interviewees who talk too much are the bullshitters (in fact that's a red flag). They usually can't code for nuts. The ONLY way to separate the wheat is to give them a problem and then see how they navigate it.

Those who can talk AND code are worth their weight in gold.
EU top court's ruling spells trouble for scoring algorithms