skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I "fixed" an appliance that was nuisance tripping an AFCI breaker by wrapping the power cord one turn through a ferrite choke.
I'm objecting to the use of the term 'liability' because in accounting/finance in particular, a liability is strongly implied to be a net negative once you weigh all the benefits and costs together.

Here you're saying code is a liability because it has costs. But a car or a house have costs, yet they're almost always classified as assets, because the benefits outweigh the costs.

So you're left with a few choices:

1. Accept that code isn't always a liability, at least according to the dictionary definition of the word

2. Argue your way somehow to code nearly always being a net cost (seems unlikely, otherwise why write code?).

3. Redefine the meaning liability for this particular application

I think 1) is the most reasonable choice here.
My organization has a firewall policy straight outta the 90s. They'll only allow for for static IP to static IP traffic rules over single ports. This is in conflict with modern cloud CICD where you don't know ahead of time what IP you're gonna get in a private subnet when doing a new build.

Our work around was to configure HA proxy to be a reverse load balancer and do creative packet forwarding. Need to access an Oracle database on prem? Bind port 8877 to point that that databases IP on port 1521 and submit a firewall rule request.
"More than half (54%) of Americans between the ages of 16 and 74 read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level."[0]

Outdated LLMs a smarter than the average person, at this point.

[0] https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/08/02/us-literacy-rate
> Google opting to not fix it

Source?
TL/DR: I rearranged the address lines on an embedded controller with a razor knife to "fix" a bug on a bus translation chip.

I was writing the motor controller code for a new submersible robot my PhD lab was building. We had bought one of the very first compact PCI boards on the market, and it was so new we couldn't find any cPCI motor controller cards, so we bought a different format card and a motherboard that converted between compact PCI bus signals and the signals on the controller boards. The controller boards themselves were based around the LM629, an old but widely used motor controller chip.

To interface with the LM629 you have to write to 8-bit registers that are mapped to memory addresses and then read back the result. The 8-bit part is important, because some of the registers are read or write only, and reading or writing to a register that cannot be read from or written to throws the chip into an error state.

LM629s are dead simple, but my code didn't work. It. Did. Not. Work. The chip kept erroring out. I had no idea why. It's almost trivially easy to issue 8-bit reads and writes to specific memory addresses in C. I had been coding in C since I was fifteen years old. I banged my head against it for two weeks.

Eventually we packed up the entire thing in a shipping crate and flew to Minneapolis, the site of the company that made the cards. They looked at my code. They thought it was fine.

After three days the CEO had pity on us poor grad students and detailed his highly paid digital logic analyst to us for an hour. He carted in a crate of electronics that were probably worth about a million dollars. Hooked everything up. Ran my code.

"You're issuing a sixteen-bit read, which is reading both the correct read-only register and the next adjacent register, which is write-only", he said.

Is showed him in my code where the read in question was very clearly a CHAR. 8 bits.

"I dunno," he said - "I can only say what the digital logic analyzer shows, which is that you're issuing a sixteen bit read."

Eventually, we found it. The Intel bridge chip that did the bus conversion had a known bug, which was clearly documented in an 8-point footnote on page 79 of the manual: 8 bit reads were translated to 16 bit reads on the cPCI bus, and then the 8 most significant units were thrown away.

In other words, a hardware bug. One that would only manifest in these very specific circumstances.
We fixed it by taking a razor knife to the bus address lines and shifting them to the right by one, and then taking the least significant line and mapping it all the way over to the left, so that even and odd addresses resolved to completely different memory banks. Thus, reads to odd addresses resolved to addresses way outside those the chip was mapped to, and it never saw them. Adjusted the code to the (new) correct address range. Worked like a charm.

But I feel bad for the next grad student who had to work on that robot. "You are not expected to understand this."
We canceled our prime membership several months ago and have experienced zero difference in the delivery times or the benefits from Amazon. It makes me wonder what we were paying for before.
This would be fucking dope. I'm currently backpacking and have a Patagonia Nanoair as my sole mid layer and even that still takes up a sizeable amount of room in my backpack. If anyone has any other suggestions please comment.
It's important to know stats like this dislike counts, because youtube is such a large and public platform that it borderline a public utility.

from the article:

> It’s possible that YouTube will object to the existence of this resource or the methods we used to create it. Counterpoint: I believe that high level data like this should be published regularly for all large user-generated media platforms. These platforms are some of the most important parts of our digital public sphere, and we need far more information about what’s on them, who creates this content and who it reaches.

The gov't ought to make it regulation to force platforms to expose stats like these, so that it can be collected by the statistics bureaus.
To be fair, that waiting game has happened in the general auto industry before. But this is something that shows a novel risk that can and will definitely change buyer's minds for the whole industry.
The Rise of the Forever Renters
Wow. How do design decisions get made that result in these types of situations in the first place?
Crank-Nicolson is probably the least objectionable part of the method, but I prefer ADE.

There are two numerically painful parts of the problem: the advection term and the oscillation inducing terminal condition (because it has a discontiuous derivative). I like to deal with advection by transforming the equation to an advection free equation. I'm under NDA on the best solution to the oscillatory terminal condition so I can't give that one away unfortunately.
Yea and apple likely can write almost whatever terms they want.. basically everybody is actively scraping their content for free, and Apple is like, hey wouldn’t you rather get paid? Super similar to the days when Napster was the way people got music online and then Apple said hey wouldn’t you rather get $1 per song? Then once the precedent is set then they can go around saying look at all these freeloaders.. so only the companies with deep pockets can afford to pay the AI license fees..
Hey, sounds like most of my Advent of Code solutions :)
Is there a good list of dark game patterns to avoid? I'm not really up on the latest research.
That reminds me: There’s PC-BASIC available for all platforms that emulates GW-BASIC:

https://robhagemans.github.io/pcbasic/

Since I’m kind of a data hoarder, I’ve put my GW-BASIC files from the early 90s on GitHub:

https://github.com/mbirth/gwbasic
wow! this is nice!

I had a similar idea to find blogs similar to a seed blog and create a list or feed
I think the assumptions are pretty simple: Almost nobody’s going to get past 999,999 points and nobody’s going to be able to play at the speed of level 30, so we don’t need to worry about what happens in level 30 or what should happen when somebody gets 1,000,000 points.
https://archive.ph/1vwiR

This is inaccurate: "The influx of higher-income renters has in part led to a decline in the number of lower-priced rental properties available in the U.S."

Legal restrictions on the number of housing units that can be built led to a decline in the number of lower-priced rental properties available. We've had the technology to build more housing on a given land parcel for more than a century. We should use it!
Because they didn't have capacity a year ago. Gmail was invite-only as well you know.
That reminds me of my terrible spam prevention hack. We kept getting a bunch of spammers signing up for our newsletters, so I made the form require a JavaScript based hidden input to submit. That worked for a while, but then new spammers started executing the JS and getting through. So I added new JS that just waits 15 seconds before putting the right hidden values in the form, and that’s done the trick (for now).
I recently got a Miyoo Mini and I almost exclusively use it to play NES Tetris. I’m hooked and I didn’t know there even was a community!

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805029072733.html
marrowbone
Money and the Public Debt: Treasury Market Liquidity as a Legal Phenomenon
It's gotten to the point we just need an open non-profit search engine.
"High Performance American Option Pricing" by Leif Andersen et al is many orders of magnitude faster than any finite difference method or other PDE / tree method. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2547027

Given the exercise boundary, the American Option Price can be written exactly as a one-dimensional integral. That is the key insight to this superior method.
> return a random video for a certain percent of non existing identifiers.

if you got a video from a randomly generated ID, you can immediately query for it again, and see if the video was the same as before.

If it's not the same, you disgard the result and assume the ID generated was actually non-existent.

If it's the same, then you know it's a real ID.

As long as youtube vidoe URLs are immutable, this method will stop the blocks you described.
The elite (for lack of a better phrase) run NY, not very surprising to see this. It’s sad that non-competes still stand in most states. A one-sided deal that hurts the average employee.
Right. They even print the UPS/FedEx/USPS label in the distribution center in China. They throw the individual boxes in a Gaylord and inject the Gaylords into the domestic distribution network at the destination air terminal.
Based on the article, how do you know they abused the car?
I'm wondering if this is de facto evidence of distorted market and so fuels regulatory intervention into Amazon's practices: Shein is huge. Amazon are only doing this because they have to.
If I had to guess:

Doing it this way = $

Doing it that way = $$$
I did the same. We had a tool that would let you export to pdf. That pdf would be sent to our customers. Initially we just used the print functionality in the users browser, but that caused output to vary based on the browser/os used.

People complained that the PDFs generated were slightly different. So instead I had the client send over the entire html in a post request and open it up in a headless chrome with --print-to-pdf and then sent it back to the client.
I mean browsers are built for and the best at displaying html+css. Given that they are "living standards", very few other programs can hope to keep up.
Yup, you could. Although connecting your own PDS hosts to the Bluesky production network won't be possible for a little while longer. Creating custom algorithms (feeds) is already possible, as it participating in the developer sandbox network, including PDS hosting.

The architecture is explained briefly here: https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture

Code/docs are here:

1. AT Protocol (atproto) is documented here: https://atproto.com

2. App Web/Android/iOS app: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app

3. API (AppView) and PDS (Personal Data Server): https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto

4. The Relay (formerly BGS) https://github.com/bluesky-social/indigo

5. Custom algorithm (Feed Generator): https://github.com/bluesky-social/feed-generator

6. Sandbox PDS distribution: https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds/blob/main/SANDBOX.md
Thanks. I'd not heard of that one. Great read for anyone interested. https://www.fastcompany.com/90423457/50-years-ago-today-the-...
>at the expense of the taxpayer and competition

Would taxpayer dollars be better spent collecting $5 worth of duties from a shipment? Or would the customer (who are taxpayers) be better served by having to pay CBP fees for their $20 shipment from china? Would both the customer and the manufacturer (ie. "competition") be better served if the goods had to go through an intermediary in the US to reach the customer?
> Our work has important societal and ethical implications, which we outline in the Discussion as well as in Methods, Sec. 4.1, and SI: Model Card.

Maybe those ethical implications should have led to the decision not to pursue this avenue of research at all, or not to publish the results.

These "ethics disclaimers" are so stupid. It's as if scientists believe that they can somehow free themselves from moral responsibility by waxing philosophical about the ethical implications of their research in an appendix.

That's not how it works, folks. By choosing to publish, you have already incurred shared responsibility for whatever is built upon your work. Claiming that you have "considered" this means Jack Shit.
>Gaylord

I was going to flag this but did a double take: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gaylord#Noun_2
Beautiful. You're so humble, but this is really creative and inspiring.
Big fan of Temu for low-cost unbranded items that I previously bought at Amazon. Exact same products, but without a dropshipper and Amazon adding extra margin for little extra value (better return policy).
But why specifically 999,999? That's not an overflow or anything...
We did that at the previous place I worked!
The only thing I am suspicious of here is their estimated median view count being so high. I would expect the median view count to be zero.
The "For You" section of my youtube search is awful, like terribly awful. It's decided for some reason I enjoy popping and weird skin infection videos. I think this is because I clicked through to an external link to a horse getting a hoof infection shaved once (did not enjoy and did not watch all of it). That's literally the only time I've watched anything like that and since then it's always at the bottom of my search. These videos are never recommended on my front page, though.

There are some weird corners of YouTube.
yes, this is cool, but without vi keybindings it's not very practical for me

now I wonder if I can get or write a vim plugin to do something similar... that would also have the advantage of being in a terminal so it can live in a persistent tmux session and be accessible remotely...
The key here is that it's a current t-shirt, not something that flowed through a typical warehouse model.

I'm told there are people who care about this sort of thing. ($8B worth of other Americans, apparently)
I've always wanted a Smalltalk VM that did this.

Eternally persistent VM, without having to "save". It just "lives". Go ahead, map a 10GB or 100GB file to the VM and go at it. Imagine your entire email history (everyone seems to have large email histories) in the "email array", all as ST objects. Just as an example.

Is that "good"? I dunno. But, simply, there is no impedance mismatch. There's no persistence layer, your entire heap is simply mmap'd into a blob of storage with some lightweight flushing mechanic.

Obviously it's not that simple, there's all sorts of caveats.

It just feels like it should be that simple, and we've had the tech to do this since forever. It doesn't even have to be blistering fast, simply "usable".
Unless they cache the false information…
It's also disingenuous to treat "expected to..." as a certainty. The future will tell whether battery cost will go down. Yes, production is increasing, but so is demand. Especially once EV mandates start kicking in.
This paper seems to me like it's trying to overstate its usefulness. I don't see the 4x reduction in training costs. And it also seems to require that the teacher and the student models have the same number of decoder layers, which for all common transformer models just isn't the case. It also doesn't work to train a transducer (a common real-time deployment architecture) based on a transformer teacher.

In short, I can't imagine ever having a training situation where this paper would be applicable.
Racing to the bottom has never been so steep. I was trying to buy an android auto wired to wireless dongle and all I see are temporary garbage re-skins of the same products from half a dozen suppliers that likely won't exist next year. I've never felt so apathetic about using Amazon. I've definitely moved away from them as much as possible alas. It's starting to stink like eBay.
Another censored and boring Google reader. It lied to me twice in 4 prompts and was forced to apologise when called out. Am I wrong in thinking that the first company to develop an unfiltered and genuine intelligence is going to win this AI game?
I don't understand how people learn to do this sort of machining, PCB design, etc from nothing, with no machines or tools or anything. Any pointers?
Is Tetr.io Legal?
Funny, I had this same epiphany!
NAT's usefulness is that it helps with IP address shortage. If there wasn't a shortage, NAT wouldn't be useful anymore.

And for those that say "but security!", firewalls are a thing, and need be no more complicated than NAT.
It would be interesting to see if some other method of estimating YouTube's size could be used to corroborate the accuracy of this estimate.
Do you have any example searches for the Pinterest results you're describing? I feel like I know what you're talking about but wondering what searches return this.
> It's about not using unaudited closed source code which cannot be proven to be secure or private [..]

Degoogling is not deblobbing and Lineage or /e/ use plenty of closed source software during runtime. The top parent and DivestOS author really is deblobbing* to some degree, but forks of LineageOS that introduce measures of "degoogling" hold onto vendor firmware blobs on androids /vendor partition for functionality. Those aren't known for connecting to the Google hivemind though.

* https://github.com/Divested-Mobile/DivestOS-Build/blob/de3ba...

My interpretation of the term degoogling fits the second part of your sentence, "getting away from online services": it is user agency in what network connections can occur, so either by default or optionally users can stop any signaling coming from the device they use. They don't have that freedom with the software the device came with.
Keep in mind that was a global average in 1950. In the US it was like 3%.
Show HN: Unofficial GPT Store in GPT
I think YouTube locked down their APIs after the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Not 1000 iterations of 1 loop, but 1000 loops nested inside each other.
"And that’s when a real problem emerged; nobody knew who I was" and "I felt invisible, like I was all alone in this world. I could have had the best thing in the world, and no one would care": Could not agree with you more on this - over the past many years it has been more and more important to build a digital brand for yourself and have many followers - to be networked with people and know people who can provide you with reach - something which is difficult for introverts and challenging to do now since I have crossed 50. I personally have felt this helplessness in trying to promote a couple of opensource Java libraries I released on behalf of my employer (shameless plug here -> https://github.com/americanexpress/unify-jdocs and https://github.com/americanexpress/unify-flowret). I thought I had done something of value which would be readily adopted by people after they saw it - guess what - first I have not been able to get through to a wide audience and second - I underestimated what it takes to get people out of their comfort zone and their traditional thinking. It is so difficult for people to accept that there may be better ways of doing things once they get used to a certain way. Anyway, I don't think you failed - you learnt and it is never too late to learn and do something new. Something will click eventually and I wish you all the very best.
That's really the key. Most people don't need to care. Bluesky is nice and easy for their needs. They just use the bsky.app website and the official Bluesky phone app.

This is in contrast to Mastodon where people were told to pick an instance and not really guided to any one as the primary one (because Mastodon devs/users don't want there to be a thought that there even is a "primary" instance).

People here on HN can claim picking an instance isn't a big deal all they want, but I can say with confidence it is. I'm in various furry artist Discord servers where people expressed their distaste for having to deal with the multiple instances.
A Chinese woman dunking is unrealistic? I'm amazed that got through the filter.
Except on LinkedIn apparentlt.
Don't worry, the NAT is no better than those firewalls.
I think you are mischaracterizing the emergence of tranq.

"Xylazine proliferated as a response to the shorter fentanyl highs, with drug sellers using it to extend the high & mimic a traditional heroin experience."

https://twitter.com/SyringeAccess/status/1626623755329097728...
>Why would you assume DEI programs led to people who were unqualified being hired?

Because I have seen it with my own eyes hundreds of times.

Are you talking about your time at Reddit? Because that hiring process produced the hire and defense of one Aimee Challenor - I wouldn't be proud of that.
Another important detail is that there are like 10 variats of base64. Remember to use the correct one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64
Nobody is going to cheer for Apple if they just want to kill Nvidia to take their spot. I see this sentiment written so often that I almost wish Apple would just let Mac users have Nvidia GPUs again, because clearly the demand is enormous.
It doesn't have to be replaced all at once. Most of it already has been replaced.
The answers sometimes refer to other answers (e.g. "A and D are true") but it's not clear which answers correspond to which letters.
As someone who knows quite a bit about 3d modeling, using a game controller sounds hellish for getting anything done.
When I googled redactle the first site was some fan site. The second was one of your sites (anybrowser). The third was Reddit which linked directly to your sites.
Then came a pair of unlimited sites. Finally your .net site so not terribly deep and it also came in third in a away. All in all it's not ideal but not 'all spammy advertising sites'
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The Popular Police Scanner Goes Silent for Many
This is an interesting way to attack mitigations to the German Tank Problem [0].

I expect the optimal solution is to increase the address space to prevent random samples from collecting enough data to arrive at a statistically significant conclusion. There are probably other good solutions which attempt to vary the distribution in different ways, but a truly random sample should limit that angle.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem
https://archive.ph/Eyfd4
There is still the HP Prime.
Laptops rely on batteries so... no. Thats a fire hazard to have them connected 24/7
In the undergrad Control Systems course, I brute-forced Kalman Filter matrix to balance the inverted pendulum on a track experiment. Worked fine.