skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We already solved this problem decades ago with certificates of authenticity and standard record-keeping, which if I understand correctly, Rolex (and a number of other high-end watch companies) already employs.
You don't need NFTs to do this though, you can just use signed commitments stored in some public log.
"Work from home" is an unfortunately inaccurate label for "work from anywhere the f you want".

As for the whole muh'productivity, I feel like we've beaten this horse to death many times over the past few years. The only reasonable answer is: YMMV.
How safe is the contact that is uploaded to the iCloud? How safe is the contact from being modified by some app on your iPhone? The contact containing the verification code seems to be one of the weaker link in this whole thing.

If Mallory can change the verification code in the contact to their own, the communication between Alice and Bob is no longer protected.
I believe RAG is more appropriate for this! While you can certainly fine tune on a pdf, you are essentially fine turning with batch size == 1, so you should not expect good results! Also you need a label (for example summary) in order to fine-tune!
You must be looking at very different market data versus the rest of the economy and players.
How does having a “digital twin” of the physical object prevent the object from being counterfeited?
Such an excellent essay about those falsehoods.

My biggest frustration about names though, is that even if I “do it right” more or less by allowing a full name to be a single column with loose “validation,” the next thing I’m confronted with is some stupid integration point whose API demands exactly “first name” and “last name” and we’re stuck parsing our nice single name field up into random slices. Mostly because someone wanted to get cute by uselessly greeting you with a “Hi, Bob!” or they think those circles with exactly 2 initials are a good substitute for putting names on the screen.
What would stop someone from selling the digital twin to scammers to make better fakes, and just keeping the watch?
What about dimensions? It's a good starting point, but which software can use this to alter the dimensions precisely? This should have been called Text-to-3D.
Wouldn’t that make it easier to make fakes, if everyone could trivially look up what the serial number and features were supposed to be?
While the LAION data set is sloppy in a whole bunch of ways, this is also just a mess in general. The researchers found apparent CSAM hosted on a bunch of mainstream sites - Reddit, Twitter, Blogspot, Wordpress, XHamster and XVideos. Also apparently a whole bunch of "teen models", nudism, and Japanese "junior idol" content which... well, let's just say that a lot more things used to be legal in the relatively recent past that probably shouldn't have been and leave it at that.
> completely free

Not according to my calculation. For low request rate it is likely more expensive than GPT4.
I have fantastic noise cancelling headphones from Bose, but that doesn't reduce the sound for folks listening to my microphone or for recorded audio in my videos. I do also have a pretty decent microphone (Elgato Wave 3) with a pop filter and arm, which definitely helps, but you can still hear my partner in recordings.
It isn’t really 30-60 minutes though. I’ve never had a charging session go over 20 minutes, which is too long to sit in the car and too short to grab more than something at the convenience store or maybe to go from a fast food restaurant. But I always charge to 80-85%.

Maybe an L2 charger at a park or mall is better for a longer term stop, since unlike an L3 charger, it takes an hour or two to make any decent progress.
I've ranted about this before. Everyone would like to have infinite time to write the best possible code and do everything right. In a business, particularly a time constrained or financially constrained one, the art of running the business entails deciding which corners to cut, what tradeoffs to make.

Ironically, startups hire inexperienced people who often over-peform but sometimes underperform. A less risky approach would be to spend more (cash or equity) to hire people who are more of a sure thing. This could be called "execution debt" but it is accepted as visionary and associated with believing in people and being able to sense talent.

Tech (architecture, code, devops, etc.) is no different. A highly skilled team will be able to make the right tradeoffs and cut the right corners.

Tech debt is usually what people call something that appears in hindsight to have been the wrong corner to cut, however one would need a time machine to understand why the decision were made and what was competing for time/attention/resources and why.

Engineering is the discipline of managing tradeoffs to create something.

When working with a codebase that appears to be technical debt, the important thing to ask is what the options are today to address it. It may be beautifully written, clean code that uses the wrong abstractions, or it may be a solid architecture with some ugly code and style that needs to be addressed. Lots of people have biases due to their own preferences, but the thing to rememeber is that chances are the code was not made by someone with infinite time and perfect knowledge.
Is gvisor considered sufficient when running 3rd-party code? Are there other measures that should be taken in addition to using gvisor?
This is essentially it. Boomers got all these nice things and then as they no longer needed it, decided to pull the ladder up behind them. Boomers got to enjoy great levels of union participation and then turned out later on in life when it wasn't as important anymore and voted in 'right to work' laws.
I have seen both tactics used by same person fitting to their agenda. In the end this is just another logical tactic ( or fallacy, pejoratively) and we have to keep cool mind to not be tripped by cheap tricks.
There was (is?) a huge problem with Rolex watches being listed online for scalping prices by authorized dealers so that they would be sold before they were ever even really in the store. It was really hard to just buy a Rolex officially.
The digital owner of the item needs to be synchronised with the physical owner of the item. The authenticity then can be confirmed by crypto.
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> You also get that intangible "separation" of your work life from your home life that your commute used to give you--hard to explain. A brief walk outside to and from the office allows me to reset into work-mode or home-mode.

A lifehack that I learned here on HN when I was working from home was to actually leave the door, then walk right back in and work. If I needed to do any housework, I would again leave through the door, and return "home".

This reduced all temptations to mix work and home life. It also made it clear to the other people in the house that daddy is now serious, and that even just a simple "hi, how are you" would require me to get up, leave, and return to answer. And then leave and return to go back to work. The social friction was important.
Not surprised. The portion of “shrink” attributed to shoplifting has hovered around 36% for quite a while. The notion that 50% was all organized is silly.
I’ll add Raycast, which is a launcher but does so much more (including window management)

https://www.raycast.com/
Ah, yes I would imagine cost to do the work in the Bay area would be pretty significant unless you can do much of it yourself. Being nonstructural it's not high risk to DIY but with small kids around that's a big project.
I read that article, and it's not that convincing. The article goes over some attempts made in the '50s and '60s. And that's it, the conclusion is SMRs can't work now. It completely ignores that naval nuclear reactors are nothing else but SMRs and they work just fine, and are not expensive compared to civilian reactors.

Of course, the article was published in 2015, so it could not predict that China would build and put in operation two fourth generation SMRs in 2023[1]. And that they would state they intend to build 6 more that would drive a single 650 MW turbine.

[1] https://www.neimagazine.com/news/newschinas-htr-pm-demonstra...
Show HN: Real-Time Transcription and Translation
Here's something I have been using to break the language barrier. Last week, my Russian-speaking parents were visiting, and they wanted to communicate with my Portuguese-speaking girlfriend - they found my app helpful enough that they started asking me to turn it on. The app also allowed us to watch films together.

Unlike many other apps that already exist (e.g., Google Translate), this one does transcription and translation in real-time, without having to wait for the speaker to pause or click the "translate" button.

Unfortunately, the services I am using for transcribing (Deepgram) and translating (DeepL) are quite expensive - so you'll have to input your own API tokens for this to work. However, once you set the tokens, you can pass the URL around to less tech-savvy people so that they can enjoy the web app. The reason I settled for these expensive services because I only get reasonable enough results with these.

Due to technicalities, it works best on Desktop Chrome, which uses the latest audio format for the microphone stream. The app is deployed in AWS London; I might deploy it to the USA too. Enjoy!
The common models in service haven’t really changed much since the 1970s.
I...don't see how that is "100% out of line". Again I am very confused by the sentiment here - unless you are ignoring how much time the Lufthansa bird actually spent on hold (34 minutes before the statement you're quoting) and/or the regulations on (as well as the physical reality of) fuel consumption, jumping to the conclusion that the Lufthansa pilot is bluffing is very strange.

On top of that, the idea that the controller has carte blanche to "call [his] bluff" is patently absurd. So is the framing of diverting them to their alternate airport as "calling a bluff", when diverting to Oakland is exactly what the controller should have done from the beginning instead of giving them an ultimately wrong estimate and forgetting they were there.

Then again this is a board targeting the software dev industry, so I don't know why I'm surprised.
>Now the outspoken lawyer has fresh ammunition for his effort to repeal the law: The National Retail Federation earlier this month retracted its April assertion that nearly half of the $94.5 billion in merchandise that went missing in 2021 was stolen by retail rings. The true percentage was only a small fraction of that amount, about 5%.

It's still an _absolutely insane_ amount.
I'm not calling those things the same at all. I actually draw distinctions between them. But there's a historical record of how they happened together after not happening separately for thousands of years.

There's a principle of charity when reading that you may want to consider.
Europe is not a single entity. There are definitely tired-feeling parts of Europe. What I've seen of the US felt like Ireland or the non-tourist parts of Poland to me.
It's worse, they're forced to sell in a channel they don't want
But this doesn’t apply to self-hosted, o?
History >300 yrs… China & India might have something to say about historical commercial centres of the world
I think the catch is it's not Rolex that isn't selling the watches online, it's preventing affiliated dealers from doing it. They are controlling other people's business interests. I can see both sides on this one. Rolex feels like it could devalue the brand exclusivity and the dealers feel that it impedes them from doing legal business.

I'm not sure how I feel about this one.
Do people really want train a LLM on CAD models treating them as text? I would be more interested in trying to work from the conceptual model behind the exchange file format.
First sale doctrine presumably applies? If the retailers have purchased stock from a manufacturer, then they own it and they can do whatever the heck they want with it.

I think we should be extremely sceptical of any definition of "freedom" that prioritizes the ability of big, wealthy companies to restrict the actions of smaller firms and individuals.
They could make them safer without making the game worse, though.
This would only work if the NFT was signed by a key kept on the real watch in a Secure Enclave of some kind, but then you don’t need the blockchain, just a database maintained by Rolex. The blockchain doesn’t buy you anything here.
The gotcha is that these stores aren't theirs.

Rolex is very happy to use retailers to sell their watches, they're just not happy with retailers having the freedom to sell their watches as they deem appropriate.

It's basically retailer freedom to sell as they wish vs Rolex's freedom to prevent the retailer selling as it wishes, and I tend instinctively to support the little guy in these fights.
And what prevents them from faking the association to the digital token?
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It is too late of an apology. I can’t count how many times it has been used as a justification against minorities, homeless etc.

What is the penalty for lying purposely against a population that cannot afford lawyers for filing a defamation suit?
> 24-core cpu

Pretty sure it's an 8-core CPU, or at least that's how they're using it. Their demo videos show only 8 threads in use, probably because the "efficiency cores" would negate some of the performance win.
That's a good point. I should clarify that no such verification is necessary in classic BPF due to the absence of backward jumps -- you can trivially show that the maximum steps executed by a BPF program is 4096, since you'll execute each instruction at most once, and there are at most 4096 instructions.

Meanwhile, the verification that an eBPF program terminates is dependent on the correctness of the verifier, and similarly there's no guarantee that a program with appropriately-bounded complexity will be accepted by the verifier.

To be clear: I'm not trying to throw shade at the verifier; to the contrary, I think it's an impressive piece of software. But there's a difference between being able to prove in one sentence that a program always terminates, and needing to rely on the correctness of some verification software.
chronic acid reflux and resulting post nasal drip since covid/vax for me too, its not fun
Synchronized how? Confirmed by whom?

This has the same oracle problem that all these blockchain-for-X dreams do.
> I had a 12" x 10" building put in

Was she filming a remake of Spinal Tap in such a small building? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=071cXxCNj5A
The described system is point-to-point from shopping center to office park. People in office park, that aren't closer to shopping center, would need to go to the hub to pick up their package.

It sounds like the company is focusing on company to suppliers. They mention networks but no details on that would be implemented.
How do you "print" the association in the physical object? What would prevent this association to be faked?
Did you read the article? It's not Rolex, it's the affiliates. Rolex isn't being forced to sell online, they are preventing dealers from doing it.
Naval nuclear reactors have the world's least price sensitive customers, run on highly enriched uranium, scuttling the vessel is deemed a safe outcome and military staffing is completely different from civilian.

That does not match reality on land.

China is barely building nuclear anymore. China added more wind and solar the past nine months than all of its nuclear reactors under construction will provide. Yes, that includes capacity factor.

https://twitter.com/yo_ean/status/1718633487454904718

You also do the common misstake of always talking about future nuclear plans. They will be the savior, as long as the costs are marketing material and not real. Because we can't look at the existing batch of botched nuclear construction the past 20 years in the west, that would spoil the rosy image.

Better trust our future to Powerpoint reactors. Rather than competitors delivering day in and day out.
A container is a security boundry. However, no security boundry is perfect and more boundries must be put in place as well, depending on your threat model.

edit: typo
People just keep repeating the same assertion, over and over, without elaborating on exactly why containers shouldn't be used to run untrusted code. I think that's what the GP is complaining about.
Steelman of this concept:

• Make holes in the lane right under the pins, where the pins are each sitting on a little two-sided door with a hole in it just wide enough for the string to go through to the bottom of the pin.

• Knocked-over pins pull on the string, which causes their door to open, the pin to get pulled down into the now-open hole, and the door to close after them.

• Once you've cleared all the pins, the doors all open up, the pins are pushed back up, and the doors close.

• Throw in an optical sensor that notices any pins that are out-of-place but not tipped after a bowl, and brute-force resets them by swallowing them and then spitting them back out. (Or, alternately, swallow all the pins, then spit back out the remaining pins, after every bowl.)

In a way, it's still a pin-setting machine. But it's more like ten little individual pin-setting machines, that can't interfere with one-another.

The pins' strings could still get tangled, though. So it's not a perfect solution.

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That being said, my own favored solution would just involve a regular pin-setter "sweeper", plus a robot arm behind the lane that does its re-setting using Computer Vision using top-down and side-on lane cameras.

In other words: have a robot do exactly the job that a human pin-setter did.

Robots don't exactly have great dexterity for this kind of thing, but you can make it easier on the robot by putting electromagnets under the lane at each pin position — and a bit of a light ferrous metal on the bottom of each pin — so that the pins can just snap into place when brought close enough to the target zone, rather than needing to be set down carefully and exactly. (This would have helped human pin-setters too!)
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It's a bit sad that something like an iMessage client for Android gets so many people here passionate about the ethics of access to platforms, but you get downvoted pointing out that certain tools/strategies for building software can leave whole classes of people out of computing due to factors entirely out of their control.
If it's spitting out STEP files, just about any of the major CAD packages will do it.
Because your watch will go down in value since people will assume it's fake when you try to sell it and you don't own the corresponding NFT.

Same reason I wouldn't buy a certified Jordan autograph and then sell the certificate of authenticity.
I have struggled to use Elm because I rarely if ever need what it offers in my personal projects and at work we are a Lit shop.

Love CLJS though, I use that sometimes for personal work when I have an urge to lisp.
All of these escapes rely on some obvious explicit reduction of the isolation guarantees. If you know how to escape a simple docker container invoked with default parameters such as `docker run --rm -it ubuntu /bin/bash` I'm sure many people would be interested.
Here's my "guest bathroom desk": https://twitter.com/perryfromsoma/status/1351396588615204872
A common complaint people have is about their (landline) phone or cable company for the same local monopoly reasons. Comcast, etc. famously have high prices and bad customer service in the US.
There's probably mileage in just generating python that calls the FreeCAD API.
I think it’s less about forcing Rolex to sell online, and more about forbidding them from preventing their partners from selling online, if I’m reading it correctly. Rolex can sell only in B&M (if they wanted to sell direct) but they can’t make that business model a condition of their partnership program.

There are probably ways to make it very onerous for partners to sell online though.
Cars don’t need to have credit card details onboard.

Hypothetical standard: Charger lets car open a low bandwidth internet connection. Car uses it (or cellular) to open an encrypted channel to a 3rd part service (Tesla/Visa/whatever) saying it’s VIN, password, and the charger’s ID. Charger gets payment from 3rd party.

PS: I would rather chargers just had working credit card readers, but individual chargers don’t do many transactions per day so apps are a cost saving thing.
I would not be surprised to find that the numbers provided to insurance/media were not accurate. I suspect a little bit of fraud on the merchants side. While I can't provide proof of any kind, I just suspect after reading that this is what a lot of jewelry stores did upon robbery.
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What's a large amount? I haven't inserted my card at Costco for a very long time now. Just tap.

If the pump pre-authorizes an amount (many non-Costco gas stations I go to make you choose an amount to authorize) it simply never captures more than was actually used.

Now why would any of this be fundamentally different for EVs? You have a rough gauge for how much "fuel" i.e. "juice" you need, pre-authorize enough money but only capture what actually got used. Done. Why do EVs need to be special?
Not going to lie, as much as I agree with this idea - even just going down to my busy street store in the morning wakes me up somehow - this comment does also read like a great prompt for a comedy skit.
> Rolex’s competitors have not used the same tactics despite facing similar risks.

It's interesting that competitors can be used in such a case as a benchmark of what is a legitimate strategy. Which makes it all the worse when they collude or fix a market.
This was pretty fun. It was a challenge to find a link that got up to 6

https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Korea%20Squash...
Well, as you can see from the article, there wasn't an increase in crime.
> ... blockchain doesn’t buy you anything...

Near-universally applicable lemma.
At first i thought this was a pretty well done satire, but after reading over it multiple times, i am not sure.

And it imo says more about the general state of discussion of crypto/nft, rather than about your comment specifically.
it's crazy how good this is - if all self-checkout was like this, it'd be so much better (not sure how possible that is)
this is gonna be worse than clients who send jpg pictures of hand drawings
It says they're generating a STEP file, and that's just a text format. Fine-tuned LLM would be my guess.
Show HN: fx-upscale – Metal-powered spatial video upscaling
Hi! This is a quick lil CLI I've created for upscaling videos using Apple's MetalFX (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/metalfx). There are a few improvements I plan to make, such as HDR support and a progress bar, but if it sounds interesting, please give it a try and let me know what you think!
This rings true to myself. While I thought I changed for the better, I did, but sacrificed all the things I really enjoyed doing. Best thing I did after 15 years was find myself again.
What I can’t discount is I’m a better version of myself than I was prior.
I wouldn't say "designed from the start", I would just say virtual machines are naturally more isolated than containers. Since virtual machines are simulating hardware, compared to containers which are isolated user space instances.

But I guess that doesn't mean virtual machines aren't easily escapable without extra work, same as containers.
Been my thought for awhile now.

Can you recommend where I can learn more about hardware requirements for running Mistral/Mixtral?
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inkscape is pretty go at everything except simplification.