skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you (or others) give me details about how your access is failing

Well, I click the link and get the access denied page. Do you need an IP address (93.135.167.200), user agent string¹, timestamp, or what would help?

Randomly noticed my accept-language header is super convoluted, mixing English-in-Germany, English, German in Germany, Dutch in the Netherlands, Dutch, and finally USA English, with decreasing priority from undefined to 0.9 to 0.4 in decrements of 0.1. I guess it takes this from my OS settings? Though I haven't configured it explicitly like that, particularly the en-US I'd not use because of the inconsistent date format and unfamiliar units system. Maybe the server finds it weird that six different locales are supported?

Thanks for responding and relaying!

¹ Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; Pixel Build/QP1A.190711.019; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.132 Mobile Safari/537.36
Until "everywhere else" bans non-competes, like California does, California is unlikely to lose its position as the leader site and state for innovation: https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/18/silicon-valley-keeps-winni..., despite California's many policy missteps from housing restrictions to failure to enforce basic law and order.
You're unlikely to get a better experience with Siri if she becomes equipped with a 7B or 13B LLM, unless Apple figured out something revolutionary.
At the beginning of the conflict I noticed my feed was fully leaning towards supporting Israel, even if it was only the posts of 3 people. Somehow the 30+ people demanding the stop to the bombing of civilians didn't really start appearing until late November.

They were posting the entire time, but Meta's algorithm decided not to show it to me.
The browser devtools can give you a disassembled view of the WebAssembly byte code (basically the wasm2wat output) and also allow to set breakpoints and debug-step through the disassembly.

Since WASM is a "structured-programming ISA" with code blocks that can be intended, it's actually quite convenient.
And their replacements were adding new code just last week.
In Plato’s Timaeus, atoms of the elements were proposed to be the simplest possible geometric forms — the Platonic solids. Furthermore, it was proposed that the geometry of the forms determined the material properties of the elements. For instance, cubes were earth because of how well they stack together.

However, atoms don’t have Euclidean geometry. For instance, a hydrogen atom can be described with spherical harmonics. However, it seems that the intuition seem to bear out:

1. that the elements are composed of variations in the simplest geometrical forms.

2. that the properties of the elements are derived from their geometric forms.

Curious if anyone has a good piece of evidence for or against this platonic perspective.
Tigerfibel
"The UN says more than 1 in 4 people in Gaza are starving because of war"

https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-12-21-2023-...
If a murderer lives in your house for decades and you knew they were a murderer and were plotting more murders but you did nothing to root them out yourself, maybe you’re an accessory.

It probably doesn’t justify the death penalty, but it also doesn’t help.
STL models of the Johnson solids ready for 3D printing. (click on an stl file and github will even render the solid for you) https://github.com/gecrooks/shapes2stl/tree/main/shapes
not what I said, but I will rephrase for you.

the law is inherently always complicated, because it, by definition, must provide general and categorical solutions to a wide range of particular instances.
Hyundais are fantastic. Their self-steering and adaptive cruise both work really well in high and low speed situations on highways.
They said it themselves before. Windows 10: the last Windows version you'll ever want.
nah. But it will mean 100M even-more-vulnerable consumer PCs and a Big Business providing aftermarket support for 140M business PCs.
This is inevitable. With human drivers, I check to see if they are looking at me, or at least in my direction, before turning across them. There will need to be some way for autonomous vehicles to signal to other drivers, pedestrians, etc. that the vehicle know they’re there.
The only reason I know about Pinterest is because it ruined Google images and it destroyed curation on a much better platform.
Can I take one of these songs and register it under my name? What's the copyright here?
> This is interesting with the recent work showing that models using different architectures, but the same dataset converge to similar capabilities. It makes the case that the data set itself and the compute over it is the secret sauce for these models.

Yes, I go as far as putting 99% the merit on the dataset, given a compute budget. Humans with similar cultural exposure are also remarkably close in intelligence, even though brains are very different at micro level.

If language data is actually the source of most of our acquired intelligence, if intelligence is a collective process, if it has an evolutionary drive, then isn't it silly to discuss so much about models or brains while forgetting about its crystallized form - language and text.

It is a repository of past experience spanning millennia, and a self replication medium for ideas. All our important knowledge is encoded in language. We (and more recently LLMs) draw heavily on this recorded experience. It cost a lot to be earned in the first place. If we lost all this knowledge, it would take us millennia to recover. It's smarter than all of us.
I'm the OpenERV guy. It's been a long road and it's not very open source any more I'll admit, however I did publish a bit Wikifactory article with all the cad etc. for a quite efficient window mount unit. I now have the know how to boost the flow through that thing by 2.5x or so so it could actually be a viable product/machine. However it's not a good business proposition.

There is a whole class of energy recovery ventilators called decentralized, ductless or sometimes push-pull which are quite amenable to DIY. All you need is a good reversible fan and the regenerator and a pipe.

I have shared elsewhere how to 3d print a regenerator. I use a 0.3 mm nozzle and it takes about 24 hours to print a regenerator that can do about 45 cfm at about 80 percent sensible efficiency. Basically just take a cylinder in Cura of the desired diameter, and use lines infill, no top layer, no bottom layer. That's basically it. Make the lines as thin as you can and the line spacing as small as you can while getting the desired airflow. About 2.7 mm on center spacing was about right for me and a typical fan with 6.5 mm stall pressure. The operating point was about 3.5 mm h2o and 45 cfm at maximal fan power.

These devices do capture some water vapor during cold weather because the water vapor condenses on the heat exchanger then re-evaporates.

I have tried sprinkling zeolite and silica gel in there to get good latent heat recover as well and it seems to work pretty well. You don't need much, only about 5 grams of silica gel, more for zeolite 3A molecular sieve.

I have built two window mount units. One for myself, the mega sized one, which there are pics of on my twitter (@open_erv) and also one for my friend Alex, whose landlord wouldn't let him use it, so I sold it for the cost of the parts.

It took forever to sell that thing even at the cost of the parts, so clearly window mount units are not a great business proposition. Also for other reasons, mostly people don't think of them as long term propositions so they aren't willing to amortize the cost of manufacturing a good machine over long periods.

There is one called the purifresh, for windows too.

The ductless models for houses include the lunos e2 for about $1800 CAD and only 25 cfm, and the blauberg Vento (there is another related one called Twinfresh), however I don't believe their noise or efficiency claims, and I have investigated.

There are many cheap chinese knockoffs and some of them aren't too bad Holtop makes one. But mostly they are very poor.

Ultimately I would like to make a hackaday or something that explains how to do all this, with a raspberry pi pico etc. Also an anemometer based on thermistors and the hot wire technique is useful to regulate flow, any extra flow in either direction hurts efficiency.
Article implies that Microsoft failing to support all hardware forever means they are responsible for the full lifecycle of the hardware.

Which isn’t totally wrong; these are devices which would probably never run anything other than some version of Windows. But this article could be written at any time, with any version of Windows, and any $SCARYLARGE number of affected PCs.
60 Years of Stock Market Cycles
I've been putting Pop!_OS on old Apple hardware and I think it's a lovely combination. I think most people could probably use it as a daily driver, but I'm pretty comfortable with Linux, so my perspective might be biased. The only thing I really miss is iMessage.
For most it is just an excuse to buy new things. Most ecologically conscious person I know had an old toyota pickup despite being able to afford whatever Tesla or such. He knew the car was a sunk cost
Paleotronic's 12 Years of Retro-Christmas (1980-1991)
There's so much wisdom in the Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rot principle that people don't want to hear.
From my past experience (during COVID when everyone was trying to get access to do hobby projects) they were providing access, you just had to email nicely and ask. Maybe that's now changed again, I've not tried since.
Not everything is a product that needs to be sold.
It does not. The war is being waged with the intent to destroy Hamas (which has itself stated that its goal is to destroy Israel, if given the chance), not to kill every last Palestinian. See also https://youtu.be/L9n77DPJ7AE
So you would kill civilians, women and children on a "maybe" and would indiscriminately judge 500k people the same way.
Is it just me or did they include as many buzzwords as possible in technical writing?
What exactly are you trying to say
2024 is the year of the Linux desktop?
cookies and trackers in a website that promote the idea of using a digital wallet, what a future
Both sides in every violent conflict ever have probably used this same line of reasoning, simultaneously. It doesn't help.
I already had that bookmarked from using it several months ago to try and figure things out. It's been very helpful. Thank you for creating it!
> I know what I’m doing, it will be fine

I don't think anyone is truly a programmer until they've learnt the hard way the outcome of "what could go wrong"!

Thanks for the update, happy holidays mate!
I believe that's the point the parent commenter was trying to make, although as the leaked Google document noted, "[Google has] no moat and neither does OpenAI".

This is more evidence that Apple is investing in building a MLLM as good as anything OpenAI and Google can build, albeit in a more Apple-y way (privacy-first, licensed content, etc.).
> Lots of companies have been forced to do provide free services to non-customers; consider almost any industry classified as a 'utility'.

Where do you live?

Essential services or utilities are NOT free in United States. Everyone has to pay for water, heat, gas, etc. There's no free access to it.
Hence OpenAI is looking at hardware themselves.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-owner-openai-is-e...

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/27/openai-is-reportedly-in-ta...
Catching headline to say that old technology will recycled downstream. As computers age the find new uses. Linux will still be there for these PCs as well as some will just continue with Windows 10.

This is a weird way to shame Microsoft, who traditionally, has very long support cycles. Plus they gave free upgrades from Windows 8 to Windows 10 and Windows 10 to Windows 11, no subscription required.
I’d have to know more details. There is one type of asbestos that causes silicosis, and two that your body can manage (at least when aspirated). I’m not sure how easy it is to select one over the other and avoid getting sued, though.
Don't think they have AR Glasses just yet.
Quantum computing's reality check
These devices were largely sold as "Windows Computers". Soon, they will no longer be "Windows Computers". Instead they will be expensive paperweights. Microsoft is 100% responsible.

> But this article could be written at any time, with any version of Windows

Completely wrong. Previously you always could install the newer Windows. It might be slow, but it'd work. Microsoft has now gone out of their way to specifically forbid installing Windows 11 on old hardware so they can enforce DRM.

The only reason for any of this is because someone managed to convince microsoft that they should only support hardware with a modern TPM which the typical user will not benefit from. Instead it benefits those who wish to push DRM and "trusted computing", which is not the end user.
Have you ever actually used Siri?
Words have meanings. You truly think the current targeting has absolutely no distinction from just chunking bombs into a population centers at random.

If you actually want to engage people on this topic, you are going to have to learn to moderate your language. Saying Israel is not using enough discretion when picking targets and the number of civilian casualties is too high, actually invites a nuanced discussion.
That could be the case. Here’s a meta study with links to all of the individual studies if you want to look deeper.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5215146/

But I know plenty of people who say the exact same thing about Kaiser. I know plenty of people who say the exact same thing about medical care in the US in general.
That can all be factored in. By initially charging so much for the phone, it left value for the previous owner to recoup by selling it to you. Apple can (and I'm sure has) factored in these second hand sales, owners per iPhone, etc. They do have the stars to see how many iCloud accounts are created/used per device over it's lifetime.
Dig the moat out, I think you mean ;)
15-20 years ago, you'd run a tightly-coupled monolith in a colo and do scheduled downtime every few weeks to deploy everything.

Everything was more error-prone and fixing errors could mean a physical trip to the colo or downtime in the middle of customers' workdays.

We probably have the same amount of seat-of-pants, spit-and-bailing-wire problem-solving happening today, but the problems have moved.
I don't think GBU-39 suggested by journalist to be used instead can target deep underground facilities.
Rumors suggest they’re gearing up to make iOS 18 an AI focused release. It’ll be interesting to see if they offer different capabilities for online/offline scenarios, or if their offerings are strictly offline.

Here’s one story to offer some context. There are others. https://archive.is/en3VL
AFAIK Mercedes is the only automaker with the nads to take legal liability for their autopilot.

That's the table stakes: legal liability. I don't want to hear any other automaker, Tesla or otherwise, crow about their "self-driving" tech if they don't take legal liability for it, because it proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that they don't have faith in their system. Kudos to Mercedes.
> all this individual effort did little to stop the flood of new single-use plastics entering the waste stream every day.

That's the i-Frame "The i-Frame and the s-Frame: How Focusing on Individual-Level Solutions Has Led Behavioral Public Policy Astray" <https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=4046264>

> Rather than calling attention to working with what we already have, and simply buying less, it was still grounded in producing and shipping more “things.”

The story called it "consumerism", which again is the i-Frame. The correct word is "capitalism", and the incentives driving it. See "The Gift of Death" https://www.monbiot.com/2012/12/10/the-gift-of-death/
That war is a racket where children's lives are acceptable collateral.
Why should Apple be in the business of providing a proprietary messaging service when many alternatives already exist in the market like you said.

The clear reason why they are bundling this service with their existing products at a loss is to expand their market share at the expense of interoperability.

This bundling is clearly an antitrust issue, I have a hard time believing all these arguments defending the wealthiest corporation on Earth aren’t being deliberately obtuse.
And where's the data?

Like here is the larceny-theft rate from 1990 to 2022.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/191247/reported-larceny-...

This suggests shoplifting is down since 2018 in a large number of cities.

https://www.statista.com/chart/31272/number-of-shoplifting-i...

Again, vibes are manipulated by selective highlighting of specific examples of outrageous behavior. It's often done because certain people profit from your feeling that things are falling apart around you.
I had not heard any of this so it was enlightening for me
> Frankly, given that there have been actual genocides in the recent past that have gone largely ignored, the over representation of Palestinian views in today’s media is likely the work of bad faith actors ...

This argument is made often on the internet, but the Occam's Razor explanation is that people are paying attention to Gaza because it's much easier to do reporting from Israel than from other conflict zones. Israel is a developed country with functioning airports, communications, roads, and legal protections. It's quite a bit harder to report from the Tigray region of Ethiopia, Shan State in Myanmar, or Darfur in Sudan

I read a post a few weeks ago on the Sudan subreddit where an OP asked if people were frustrated with how much attention Gaza was getting compared to the Sudanese civil war. The Sudanese diaspora responses were overwhelmingly happy to see the coverage of Gaza, and they wished they had the same level of information out of Sudan. It's almost impossible to tell what's happening on the ground.

Additionally, people care because America is a party to the conflict by backing the Israeli government. So the conflict in Gaza matters to the international world in a way that other internal civil wars just don't, unfortunately.

The devastation in Gaza is staggering. It is quite a stretch to say that people are paying attention because of bad faith actors instead of genuine concerns. Of course people will care when a war of this size, supported by the U.S., happens in plain view.
You can't dismiss "think of the children" as a talking point when children are actually dying. This isn't FOSTA, this is an actual war with bullets and bombs and dead children on both sides. You should be thinking about the children.
Even "open" Android doesn't have a third party API for RCS. Google wants to lock everyone into Google Messages. The only exception is Samsung, they got special permission from Google.
Released 2 days ago by Apple, a research paper on methods to run larger llms on iPhones.

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/21/apple-ai-researchers-ru...
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.11514.pdf
UTF-8 is a bit more complex than that.

The first byte in a sequence basically tells you how many bytes are following by looking at the top-most bits.

0xxxxxxx => no followup bytes, just the 7-bit ASCII code
110xxxxx => 1 byte follows
1110xxxx => 2 bytes follow
11110xxx => 3 bytes follow

The followup bytes then always have the pattern 10xxxxxx.

E.g. the only bytes that have bit 7 cleared are the single-byte 7-bit ASCII character codes.
Sometimes, on the internet, you find blobs that make funny noises (NSFW)
Building synthetic chromosomes from natural DNA
Ah right but that's "you'll get the tactics next game" really. I don't think there are many games where you literally can't know all the rules first time round, or at best after a practice round. I don't think it's reasonable to be able to play well the first time you play any game.

The only one I can recall that really would require multiple plays just to learn the rules is this: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/329716/eleven-football-m... which I tried to play through at Essen but it has a crazy number of disconnected rules. I played 40 games at Essen and that was the only one where the number of rules made it unplayable first time round.
It's ridiculous that a machine that is still fast by modern standards isn't supported because they now require something that nobody actually uses.
If I'm a college student writing an essay I have to "put the ideas into my own words" to show that I understand them or face accusations of plagerism. LLM's will similarly have to be careful to use their own language to express the underlying ideas. Original ideas are extremely rare (e.g. theory of relativity) and any author will have a tough time proving that they had the idea first. The vast majority of writing is reusing ideas that have already been expressed. Even stories that appear unique are similar to stories that people have been telling for ages as Joseph Campbell explained in "The Hero with a Thousand Faces." The burden will be on the copyright holder to prove that the LLM steals their work after LLM's become as advanced as a college student putting into their own words.
Cybertruck Delivers Failure
No I'm pretty sure that there's some deeper meaning, but I'm not sure exactly what. For example, what exactly is meant by "Viral content? Fuck this"? Is this Guardian article the "viral content"? Or the Human Rights Watch posts? Or what? What exactly is being criticized?
This is entirely subjective. Hope you can see how this isn’t exactly a strong argument.
I’m not great at this kind of question, but off the top of my head,

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/

http://www.norvig.com/sudoku.html
Seems like the manufacturer who told you this was a forever computer should share some of the blame. I don't recall Microsoft saying that.
While it can only do american popular music styles its already useful for making samples that are at least not samples of straight up copywrited material
few more!

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Neil Armstrong on the First Moon Walk (2010)
There was a period where I considered DIY for such machines impractical. I now think that to diy all the way through is impractical, the design process is too laborious even for those suitably skilled. However once the design is worked out it is actually pretty practical, with a 3d printer. You definitely have to own the printer, they charge way too much to have things printed at cloud services for some reason.

I have pubished my STL files for an earlier version of the TW4 energy recovery ventilator. It's totally practical to make your own with a printer, but it would take you a few days of labor time for sure to get everything working nicely.

Reliability is very much on offer even with diy. In reality I have looked at many commercial units and they have serious reliability problems for long term like 5 years or more, and we should be planning for 50 years wherever building tech is concerned, imo.
It'd be a bit more tolerable if microsoft was forced to recall all the OEM PCs that came with a Windows license. Same goes for any other company that bricks perfectly usable hardware by e.g. "ending support".
>>spatial referring

I can't seem to nail down the meaning of this phrase on its own. All the search results seem to turn up are "spatial referring expressions".
Even SMS is a paid service in many markets. Very expensive too, when you consider the price per byte.
It’s poor leadership whichever way you slice it. Even with turnover you could implement a culture that prevents this garbage inconsistent architecture but leaders seem eager to trade away any culture for “scale” and “psychological safety” basically so that dont have to be the ones saying “no” to someone. Hey, it works as long as you dont ever have to make money, yeah about that…
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Install W10 Enterprise IOT LTSC 2021. EOL is 2032.

Visit the "Friendly Windows Thread" on /g.