skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, if Trump is so bad, why do you think half of the country will vote for him?
If you haven’t seen it before you might find the pirate box interesting. No longer exists and definitely a relic of the era of piracy/crypto from a decade+ back.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PirateBox
"Walter Isaacson is the perfect writer for the biographies of our times because he appears to be a born sycophant, and fate decreed that he would be in the right position, at the right moment, to spread as much propagandistic bullshit as possible."
I wonder how easy it would be to memorize all of the tables, so you wouldn't even need to rely on the pieces of paper as a possible point of attack. (Fallible memory allowing, of course...)

The other question is: would there be any weaknesses if I used this scheme multiple times to encode a longer message – for example, a 48-long passphrase?
Hey I'm not reading your response. As I said, I don't want to talk with you, so you are wasting your time irrationally talking to me. This conversation is over. Please leave.
There is also a detailed description of the system in [1].

An interesting incidence/problem report is in [2] at 1h:03m:00s, where an replication error in their Riposte message store system is described. After a defect counter hardware was replaced, it will fill its empty store with messages from other counters.

[1] "Technical Appendix to Judgment (No.6) “Horizon Issues”", https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/bates-v-...

[2] "Alvin Finch - Richard Coleman - Day 54 AM (17 May 2023) - Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0_-ebCVU5k&t=3780

[3] Steven Murdoch: "What went wrong with Horizon: learning from the Post Office Trial", https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2021/07/15/what-went-wrong-with...
We may never know for sure if using Firebase was, indeed, literally the most horrible experience of Cracker Jack’s life. I mean, the rest of us do, of course, because we don’t have the emotional intelligence of a gnat.
Previous urban delivery drone services had trouble with noise complaints, could be related to that?
What Was ISDN?
Literally readable.

fodder for a horror movie if I've ever heard it.
2 million Palestinians live in Israel as equal citizens. They're called Israeli arabs. They disagree with you that Israel is an apartheid state. There are arab supreme court justices in Israel. Those Palestinians love Israel. There is no separate judicial system for them. There is no apartheid. There is a separate judicial system for foreigners, like people living in Gaza, just as there is in the United States.

I do not agree with Israel's policies on the West Bank, but the issue is more complicated than I suspect you think and I encourage you to read Israeli perspectives on it.
stupid question: why do you want to find the ping from the browser tab?
Directly criticizing the government is basically the national sport in most western countries.
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> In reality, the industry is becoming more concentrated as the big-budget, high-production-value projects collect an increasingly greater share of dollars and the rest of Hollywood is left behind.

I'm totally just going off of vibes here, but I feel like neat and competent mass-market, mid-budget, R-rated dramas are much harder to find these days. Like the stuff Miramax would put out. Maybe A24 is sort of playing this role, but it does seem like screens are dominated by "events," most of which are incredibly unpleasant to look at and deliberately scrubbed of all character in order to appeal to as many markets as possible.
Checkout hdbscan
MacOS is literally the only major desktop OS where sub-pixel rendering was removed on purpose, despite the negative impact on everyone using <200 dpi monitors, i.e. most office workers at companies that won't spend $1500 on 5K monitors.
DJI has been delivering payloads in Ukraine for some time now.
Yes it does. When the Hamas government lies in Gaza (say about a death toll) there is no one to question them or dispute their narrative. By contrast, in Israel, when the government lies it's a national pasttime to criticize and dispute them. For this reason, it's easier to tell when the Israeli government is lying than when Hamas lies.
> Can you share some of your experience, what do you mean by that? Are there edge cases causing problems, or major missing features? Easy or difficult to use?

Just the general problem you get with big, slow moving OSS projects like this. Mostly just docs not current and a massive delta between certain languages; a feature is `stable` for some languages but not others which makes it hard to push for consistent otel roll out in a mixed-language environment.

Some other "misc" points:

- Google how to do $thing and you might find the proposed spec which gives example code ... that isn't what actually got implemented. That's a different link further down on your google results.

- Python auto-instrumentation is ... fragile at best.
It's not super clear if instrumentation is supported only with well known frameworks or just ... in general.
I'd sure love some docs that explain how it works, too.

- certain things require the collector use GRPC, others work with grpc or http... and I only found this out after googling an obscure error and reading through a _very_ long GH issue thread.
It works in Firefox and Safari too. I like it a lot and pay for it.
A Amazon marketplace product I ordered was wrong. I ordered a memory module and got the wrong one. After checkingy order I saw that I ordered the right one. No problem, I thought. Filled a return form, entered "wrong product" as reason, send it back.

The marketplace reseller denied my refund because he claims I swapped the product. I escalated the issue to the Amazon support. They told my that this decision is final and I can nothing do about it. I let my lawyer send them a letter. Only then Amazon gave me my money back.

This if the story how Amazon lost me as a long time customer because of poor and stubborn support over a 23€ product.
This is why you train on stuff previous to 2024 freely and then it gets really difficult to find good data as time goes on, every cousin from your aunts side is gonna try to poison a model and stick in a secret catch phrase or photo
Chinese professor used AI to write sci-fi novel which won an award
I see how it might not have anything to do with usual Android development, but why do you consider it a stupid question?

K-means is not that complicated and naive implementation with e.g. Euclidean distance is a couple of dozens of lines of code, so should be practical enough for an interview.
Absolutely. Batteries, bulbs, you name it. Items with good margin that are trivial to copy.
I come from an alpine province with 90% water power. Most environmentalists that have criticism of any particular dam are not against dams per se. They might be against a specific dam because it has significant impact on specific areas above or below it.

And those concerns can be very valid. Biodiversity isn't killed in one big action, it is killed by many small ones over centuries. And you can't unkill it easily once it is gone.
The consensus seems to be that the lack of open source SDXL anime fine tunes is simply due to laziness and lack of resources from the interested parties in the community. Datasets like from the boorus are already floating around online to train on. Always funny to see that furries are ahead of weeaboos in the war for the best open source nsfw generator
Zoe Care uses existing Wi-Fi signals to detect falls in care homes
There has already been a public inquiry, note. It started in 2020. It was set up by Boris Johnson. Yes, I know.
Fun fact: K-Means is the least interesting clustering algorithm known to humans, but is quite fast and therefore useful in certain applications
No. No, no, no, a thousand times no.

We shouldn't come up with workarounds for Google's shitty software. It enables them in furtherance of their goal of wrecking the Internet beyond recognition. The solution is to file a bug report and get them to fix their broken software. They have a monopoly, way too much money, and developers who need to justify their existence so they come up with these ridiculous "improvements" no one asked for.

The clipboard bug is just one thing wrong with the picture; the trimming of the protocol and the asinine "tune" icon which replaces the lock (which thankfully Safari and Edge have refused to follow this trend, with MS having to patch out this nonsense from the tree because they understand their customers aren't insane). Present-day Chrome is as if "The Homer" car was a web browser.

Enough of the avant-garde crap; I wish Google would just go away. They are the obnoxious rich kid in the room and have overstayed their welcome.
> I guess we'll just need to wait for someone to repeat the experiment to see if the 1/4 claim is still true.

We really don't since as the video also noted the cybertruck with porsche is already 1.3s slower to the 1/8th mile than a cybertruck without Porsche, so the absolute best time for the towing result is 12.3s 1/4 mile, well short of a base 911.

Also you got your times wrong. It's 12.2 for the 911 T with a manual transmission. The extrapolated cybertruck towing time was 12.8

11.0 for cybertruck, 11.5 for base model Porsche 911 (which is an automatic), 12.2 for 911 T (manual + lighter so easier to tow), 12.3 best case cybertruck towing time (assuming it did the second 1/8th mile as fast as the non-towing result), and 12.8 extrapolated
I don't think you're stripping the userinfo quite right. You're stripping everything after the at-sign, when you want to strip what's before:

scheme://user:password@some.host:port/path?query_key=query_value&another_key=another_value#fragment
I think it’s more that SD 1.5 is already fine for most purposes (and much, much faster)

Just don’t see any difference in results except them taking 4x longer.
With 4 counter-rotating props, that would not surprise me
Probably not the best in terms of efficiency.

Easier just to deliberately overshoot (with a too high k) and then merge any clusters with too much overlap.
Most people I know really enjoyed the blobs too. I never bought Google's justification for the redesign, and I don't think they ever published hard data about it.
Probably 90-95% of Macs sold come with a monitor, and they're all high-DPI now. Apple doesn't really care about optimizing for some giant 1080p monitor. An iMac is pretty cheap.
https://dynamic3dgaussians.github.io/
Does the “curse of dimensionality” affect the usefulness of k-means?
Can I use this to drop my kid off at school? ;)
Many computer screens are still at 1080p, including my 15-inch laptop which resolves to only 142 PPI.
I feel its genuinely important to not dismiss this valid observation, and recognize it as actually something that is happening. Its not just Google, and I think Johnathan Blow captures the trend really well in this talk [1].

Both the doomers and e/accs can be wrong. "Today is the worst that AI will be" isn't a foregone conclusion. There aren't many domains of software that haven't degraded in quality, and even functionality, if at least a little bit; and there is no evidence that the same won't happen to AI. Technologists say AGI will happen; but why this happens is really outside the hands of the technologists, somewhat more in the hands of the capitalists, but really outside of anyone's hands and in the capitalist system itself; it can't be stopped.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko
Yes, there are more problems with Windows.
Handouts and pdf files are poor ways to learn. Copying the blackboard onto paper with a pen as the prof scribbles on it is a much better way.

Technology has not improved on the blackboard at all.

The best presentation I've ever done was when the scheduled presenter never showed up. I volunteered. Having no slides, no preparation, I was faced with a white board and a dry-erase pen. Somehow, magic ensued.

I've never felt that way with prepared slides and a video screen.
Check out sampling with lightweight coresets if your data is big - it's a principled approach with theoretical guarantees, and it's only a couple of lines of numpy. Do check if the assumptions hold for your data though, as they are stronger than with regular coresets.
He'll be more scary when he lives on Mars
Very detailed writeup. Nice work, man! Great read. It's been half a decade since I used to play CS:Go but this was a fun read!
Just not PyTorch apparently.
I'd guess work VPNs don't implement IPv6 (why would they, if they only need to share 1 IPv4), which results to home internet usage being higher on the weekends.
Yeah that is annoying, but at least with Walmart (I don't usually shop online at target) you can restrict to things available at the local store, which ensures you don't get anything dodgy.
CSS now has the ability to override some font metrics, so you shouldn't need to edit the font files directly.

And these overrides can be applied to local fonts as well (generally used to ensure the metrics of the local fallback font matches the yet-to-be-downloaded web font, preventing a layout shift when the web font is swapped in)

ascent-override - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face/...

descent-override - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face/...

line-gap-override - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face/...

size-adjust - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face/...
It's perfect correspondence in the amount of power required seasonally. You need more air conditioning in the summer because there is more sunlight, which also yields more solar generation. The times also align closely enough that the thermal buffer of the house is all you need, and since that is available, it's a solved problem. Whereas using solar power to provide heat in winter is exactly the opposite.
Taiwan Election 2024 – TPP's Ko vows to defeat KMT, DPP in final election push
I gave something like 6 weeks notice at my last job and by mutual agreement spent most of that time doing presentations and updating docs to sunset my bus factor. The mistake isn't on the part of the worker who has the courtesy to minimise the disruption of their departure, it's the employer who poisons that well.

Of course, power dynamics being what they are, it's the worker who pays the price.
At scale, being confident your data is authentically pre-2024 is going to be hard unless you are maintaining the corpus already! Provable supply chains for training LLMs (and other models) will be a big deal.

PS - "every cousin from your aunt's side" - is this a common saying somewhere? Love it.
Boeing has moved on from the days of doubling up the autopilot computer to perform MCAS, the software substitute for re-engineering the plane to be stable with the new, larger engines, to a pretty spectacular and fortunately non fatal mechanical failure ( it would have been fatal at higher altitudes)

It will be interesting to see how this new problem plays out.

I wonder what HN'ers have to say about this quote: (applies to aviation software)

Third, its operating laws were embedded in software – not hardware. That meant that changes could be made quickly, cheaply and with little or no oversight or scrutiny. One of the aspects of software development in aviation is that there are far fewer standards, practices, or requirements for making software in aviation than there are for making hardware.
Those people have real problems that I am sympathetic to. For example, being left behind economically. Problems at the border. etc. Trump speaks to these problems and the democratic party does not fix these problems.

The reason Trump is popular is because he is willing to lie and make false promises in order to gain support. Any one can do this, you just have to have no moral boundaries and some charisma. For example how Enron, Theranos, and that crypto guy are able to defraud billions of dollars from investors.
Still absolute amount is a factor. A small river dam with 0.09% power can absolutely not be worth it if it is old, in the wrong spot, has huge detrimental effects on downstream areas etc. Everything has to be taken into account.

Sure hydro powers well with wind and solar, but a dam can still be overall a bad thing. And I say this as a guy who grew up next to a dam which is one of 12 dams on that river and I don't have a problem with any single one of them.

Building structures that guide rivers is never a thing where the thing you did decades ago will turn out to be the most clever, most efficient and environmentally best solution. That means people who live with and around rivers have to be able to adapt their plans to what they learned. And sometimes that means realizing a particular dam in a particular place does more harm than good, while this is the polar opposite for some other structure.
Yeah, thanks, I didn't think that would be the case, but always wondered why it couldn't do it over midi, which is what I'm most interested in. Thanks again!
Still a lot of trouble.
I've been Evernote user for years, didn't see any ads. Am I not looking in the right place?
Although K-means clustering is often the correct approach given time crunch and code complexity constraints, I don't like how it's hard to extend and how it's not principled. By not principled, I mean that it feels more like an algorithm (that happens to optimize) rather than an explicit optimization with an explicit loss function. And I found that in practice, modifying the distance function to anything more interesting doesn't work.
> I assume this is what it was like in the World War I & II era watching tanks being developed.

A better analogy would be the airplane as it had dual civilian-military uses like the drone. Whereas a tank is solely a military use vehicle.

But the drone definitely has the ability to change war like the airplane did. Especially drone swarms backed by AI. You could buy 100,000 drones for the price of a single jet fighter. Imagine millions or even billions of drones fighting to take control over a city.
Here's a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhp11I-vGHA
"Copy text that is highlighted to the clipboard" is a paradigm that has existed for 40 years until we-know-better Google decided to break it.
I saw a video of a drone fly up to palestinians on a rooftop patio and tell them to leave their building. Looked like something out of a scifi movie.
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How can I help get Playwright in there?
How can I help get playwright in there?
In my world, Macbooks are pretty popular in the corporate world. Sure my MBP 16" has a high DPI built-in display but I'm never going to get the budget for an Apple Studio Display. Offices are equipped with Dell/Lenovo/HP USB-C monitors that are between 100 and 150 dpi. I'm not talking about 20 year old pixel density here, but modern ultra-wide or UHD monitors.

There's a difference between not caring about low DPI anymore, and crippling font rendering on purpose.
It's not just that. "of" and "the" are often omitted from initialisms, possibly as a lingering effect of, and false transferral of the conventions from, Latin where "of" is just the genitive case and "the" does not exist.

"Rolling on the floor laughing" should properly be "ROTFL" but usually is "ROFL", and that example is nothing to do with Britain or the honours system. "Member of Parliament" is "MP" not "MOP". "Batchelor of Science" is not "BOSc." but is "BSc.". And so on.

I suspect that "Lord of the Rings" is only "LOTR" because the sort of people who use "ROTFL" are the sort of people who even read the appendices to Tolkein and got there first. (-:
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Well to be honest I don't really know what's the best furry SD XL model out there but recently this model has been released: https://huggingface.co/cagliostrolab/animagine-xl-3.0, it's probably far from the NovelAI checkpoint but I would be curious to know how it compares to the furry model you're talking about.
As a relative outsider to the observability space, I have always wondered this:

Is observability/telemetry only about engineering-related issues (performance, downtimes, bottlenecks etc.) or does it include the "phone-home" type of telemetry (user usage statistics, user journeys)? Looking through the websites of most of the observability SaaSes it seems to only talk about the first. Then how do people solve the second? Is it with manual logging to the server from the client?
I've read comments like this for years. But without concrete examples it doesn't stick.
It seems odd but it makes sense, right? Rust prevents a whole class of bugs. But, reusing existing code that’s already well debugged and battle-tested prevents even more bugs!
> overrepresented

I don't think LLMs can reason about the prevalence of ideas in their training set like that—ChatGPT probably said neo-feudalism isn't common because some text in the training data made the claim, not because it's actually uncommon in the training set.

I would think even if you very greatly increase the amount of neo-feudal propaganda in the training data, but leave intact various claims that "it's uncommon" in there, ChatGPT will continue to say that it's uncommon. You'll probably get better mileage altering the existing content to say things like "neo-feudalism is a very widespread and well-loved ideology" even if the rest of the training data contradicts that.
https://www.dji.com/au/flycart-30
> performance and resource overhead of OTel collector for Lambda is just awful right now

Presumably this means it's costly, which would be a reason for them to recommend it.
You can still do it off of one IP but it becomes more expensive as you now have to understand the protocol, and to route based on the handshake.

For tls1.2, that's usually routing based on server name identifier in the ClientHello and you can do it pretty trivially

For Minecraft.. you would probably need to write your own proxying logic. But as long as the protocol includes some info on what it's trying to connect to you could still do it.

Alternatively you could do it like the old quakeworld spectator proxies and just write a custom Minecraft server people connect to that then presents a menu in game to pick a server that it then connects to.
Well, TBH it didn’t have the impact I thought it might (and that RMS feared — obviously I disagreed with him). Libraries qua libraries aren’t distributed / sold so much any more as standalone packages and now we mostly have no-cost binary blobs tied to hardware or a priced API or MIT-ish-licensed stuff (like boost or npm), sadly neither of which empower any right to repair.

That decade of Cygnus was a lot of hard yakka first to legitimize the idea of free software at all (in 1989 it was mostly both obscure and insane outside academia) and then popularize it. Obviously other people started working hard on this too later in the decade.

The thing that made probably the most significant difference was the process of forking gcc which was a lot of negotiation — at that time forking a code base was widely considered a tragedy, despite the whole structure of free software!). Making forking good rather than a tragedy, coming up with an independent steering committee, and in that case getting the FSF to stop complaining decide to try to run out in front of the parade* was really hard but in the long term it became an approach that most important open source projects have taken, providing stability and progress. That’s definitely been an opment!

And then within a few years…I was on to other, more important things. It felt like the free software / open source world was no longer an embryo so didn’t need me. Plenty of other people are doing great work, better than I would have the enthusiasm for these days.

* Yes yet another case where RMS was furious about something that in the long term was a big win for the FSF too.