skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
we are faced with the assertion that the washing machine was sending 3.7 gigabytes per day of data

someone asserted that that is an unreasonable amount of data for a washing machine to generate

i'm pointing out an easy way for a washing machine might generate 2000 times more data than that

the fact that the network interface is possibly insufficient to send the data out is irrelevant to the question of whether the washing machine can or cannot generate it in the first place, which is what was being discussed

however, i will point out that if it's using tcp, unless it opens a new tcp connection for each telemetry message, the tcp stack will batch together many telemetry messages into a single tcp segment, probably about 1500 bytes worth

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of course you can control a washing machine with an 8051, or an eprom and a register clocked from the power line (see jeff laughton's printing press controller at https://laughtonelectronics.com/Arcana/One-bit%20computer/On...), or for that matter a mechanical timer or, as i've done, by unplugging the power cord and pulling a rubber drain plug when you think the agitator motor has been running for long enough. but more powerful control systems enable new functionality

historically it is true that manufacturers have used low-spec microcontrollers because more powerful ones were too expensive. today digi-key will sell you a 500-megahertz i.mx rt1010 cortex-m7 from philips/nxp, with 128 kilobytes and dc/dc conversion on-chip, for under four dollars, roughly π dollars in fact https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/nxp-usa-inc/MIMXR.... home appliances and motor control are two of the application areas the datasheet claims it's 'specifically useful' for. unlike an 8051, you can program it in micropython and single-step it over a debugging umbilical, and once it's deployed, it can send you surveillance data over the internet. and you can get cheaper and better chips on lcsc if you can read datasheets in chinese

oops, did i say surveillance data

i meant telemetry. telemetry, telemetry, telemetry

for better or worse this unlocks a lot of temptation for manufacturers to put ridiculously powerful cpus in things where they only serve to cause headaches to the consumer

other comments in this thread have even pointed out non-evil ways this could make manufacturers more profitable
https://archive.is/t0lZc
A list of Nitter mirrors and their uptime status for those looking for alternatives: https://status.d420.de/
There are some interesting points in there, but the author sounds like a bit of a narcissistic jerk.

> In many contexts, the way to get good feedback is to give people a way to provide it anonymously. Anything else creates friction by layering on social dynamics. To get honest feedback, you want to make it as comfortable as possible for people to give it. You also want to make it easy to find -- I have a link to my feedback form in my Twitter bio, and get a few comments a week through it.

> I imagine resistance from some people on the grounds that anonymity frees people to be assholes, but in my experience they rarely are. 90% of what I get in my inbox is either nonsense or nice -- I get lots of “keep up the good work!” type messages

So 10% are assholes, and the rest are "nonsense" or nice - does she get any actual criticism in her "feedback inbox" (kind of a strange concept in my opinion in itself)?

Also, all of the accomplishments she bragged about in the intro are from business. Impressive as they may be, it seems a bit narrow minded to be only focusing on that part of life when recounting what you are most proud of.
the secret of success is sincerity, once you can fake that you’ve got it made

Arno Gruen wrote about this in ”Der Wahnsinn der Normalität”
> we seem to have a tendency towards polar vortices of worldviews

First past the poll voting with primaries encourages (forces) politicians to go to the extremes. Ranked choice voting can reduce extremism. It’s also cheaper for tax payers as it eliminates expensive and wildly discriminatory/disenfranchising runoff elections.
City of Houston warns residents of ParkHouston scam websites
Not too tricky to navigate after you've got tenure.
> Good luck to these guys on trying to bring life back to it, but frankly I think at this point most people have given up and moved on to alternatives like Rust, Nim, Zig, etc...

And back in 2015, folks were saying the same thing, but with different alternative languages. I remember twenty years ago when C++ was dead. Oh, and remember the good old days when Java was dead?

I'm not sure why programming language discussions always turn into quantitative statements that have no data, but fully support the commenter's position.
Inference of Mamba models in pure C
That's right. The Earth's escape velocity is just over 11km/s or 4000km/h. If you have a rocket that only has enough force to propel you at say 100km/h away from the earth you can go anywhere you want in the universe - provided you keep applying that force through thrust. If you stop the rocket you will be subject to gravitational force to bring you back (or until the gravitational pull from other bodies of becomes dominant)
Show HN: #!/usr/bin/env docker run
Looks very tied to MS Windows which is more than a little off-putting in 2024.
ESLint Stylistic – stylistic formatting for ESLint
> D's community is actually very welcoming but man, watch some of the DConf videos...

Not welcoming for everyone apparently. I don't know much about D, beyond seeing a post from some dev rage quiting D every few months, due some people in the community being terrible and the leadership not stepping in to limit that.
I generally go to cited papers in Wikipedia articles
I think you misunderstood the NLRB article entirely. The change is that in cases of election violations, the default remedy is now forced bargaining. There don’t appear to be any open elections, only the increased possibility that a union is formed by default.
Are there any examples of forks going in a different direction than the original and being (more) successful?
Permanent Newness: Surrealism at 100
Exactly. Launching is easy. Launching something stable and making incremental improvements is hard.

Twitter doesnt seem to be doing the latter.
Yeah, Alaska operating as Sky West. It's kind of like outsourcing.
It reminds me of my Catholic childhood. In church we regularly had to say prayers and creeds, which involved everyone confessing to having sinned, and reaffirming the absurdities we allegedly believed in.
For those keeping score. There are roughly 9-11k bird species. So these binos claim to be able to ID +90% of them.
No stylus support on the external monitor for the most part though.

The only one I'm aware of w/ a decent stylus which is reasonably affordable (the new Wacom One) is not that great in terms of pixel density (don't want to compete w/ their Cintiq line).
All the fly catchers? And ALL non-red tailed hawks?
Birds have an annoying habit of not sitting still, so there is still an opportunity to identify birds by behavior or sounds.
He started out with an unpopular but semi-interesting viewpoint, then immediately went down the rabbit hole to somewhere terrifying.

Notice how he deleted a bunch of comments (perhaps justifiably, but who can say now...) and then closed comments. How dare anyone disagree with him...
Change Costs Money
Huh. Just tried submitting the same comment with the same result.

Minimal test, if I try to edit this post removing the asterisk, I get the "banned" page

nc* 192.168.2.100
We got told to accept a less promising candidate for an internship program based on their "racial diversity". It was discovered later on that their wealthy father knew the CEO from when they both went to Harvard. Our DEI program had just given an opportunity to a child of a privileged background, apparently based on the color of their skin, and this was something we were meant to be proud of and totally wasn't nepotism. After that I've refused to engage in DEI schemes which don't consider class, and there are few which do.
My entry into birdwatching was a superzoom camera and the AI identification tool in iNaturalist. These days I don’t need much tech to ID a bird, but it is what helped me enrich my world in a wonderful way. Smart binos like this just lower the barrier to entry more and I am absolutely thrilled to see it.
I refuse to believe the only thing that can be broken up at Boeing is its planes.

Maybe no one has the guts to take proper action.
I don't really understand people who cannot fathom that people can enjoy a hobby in a different manner than they expect, as if their way is the only 'correct' way.
Let's call it E.
My understanding is that diversity statements are typically asking what you plan to do build/maintain diversity. Like, “I’ll start a science club at a local elementary school with a large population of underrepresented students”. It’s not just a description of how you have some uniquely desirable combination of identities.
Elon has to be one of the least enigmatic people I've been aware of
>I told her that she was a really inspiring person, and that I would keep her in my life indefinitely whether or not we ended up together

Whats wrong with men
So what are the alternatives to Njalla?
Capitalism is also incompatible with meritocracy, otherwise how to explain that the children of rich people will have better education and socialization than the rest of the population? Do they have more merit simply because of the womb they came from? Are they better than an equally capable person born in an underprivileged neighborhood?
It’s a sort of mechanical analogy. In markets, prices serve to equalize supply and demand. By definition the seeding and leeching data quantities must be equal in the entire torrent system so any torrent tracker will need to “clear the market”.
In fact, many men with literary or scientific aspirations aimed for careers in the clergy for just this reason. It was a lifetime scholarship.
Good floor cleaning robots are effective. Your anecdote doesn't prove otherwise. It's like a 4-5+ billion dollar market.

If you look at demos from this article, ALOHA, Tesla's bot, Asimo, etc. you will see more and more skills being demonstrated.

The biggest thing missing from most systems is probably strong fluent motion with integrated sensing and actual hands. But the Tesla robot for example has made a lot of progress on those fronts and does have hands with touch sensors.

What are the skills that your average human has? And let's see if we have robots that can do that. Maybe not quite as well YET, but still the same skill.

- can walk around. Check

- play soccer. Check

- locate and pick up objects from a flat surface. Check.

- assemble objects together. Check.

- put dishes in a dishwasher.check

- play the piano.check

- climb stairs. Check.

- do a front flip. Check.

- open doors. Check.

- drive a car. Check.

- write a computer program. Check.

- draw or paint. Check.

- put clothes in dryer. Check.

- understand and produce natural language. Check.

We are really at the point of just making these things work better and be deployed. And there is rapid progress.

The large multimodal models provide a new level of generality that is accelerating this.

I believe that within say 2-5 years you will see an explosion of robots with more skills than any human could ever hope to achieve in their lifetime. Just like you can download LoRAs that make LLMs more capable in a certain programming language or art style, there will eventually be adapters to instantly provide any type of skill desired.

You will just say "I would like a martial arts lesson" and your android helper just looks off into the distance for a few seconds and then says "I.. I know Kung Fu!" Then launches into a demonstration worthy of The Matrix.
> What fun is bird watching if you don't even bother to learn about the birds before going into the field?

Different people experience hobbies in different ways.
”it's poor people that loot”

This always seems to be the defence despite is not being true. Poor white people evacuated and helped who they could. Poor black people waited to be helped, looted, murdered, and played victims.

It’s amazing that facts are now racist. We can’t identify a problem and try fix it. We just stand back and say “no that’s racist”.
https://archive.is/B3XDX
What's Walther's take on the many gripes with the D leadership?
I'm a podman beginner, trying to install ollama-webui(1) using Podman on M2 MBA.

I started up Podman Desktop, and did a terminal command "docker run -d -p 3000:8080 --add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway -v ollama-webui:/app/backend/data --name ollama-webui --restart always ghcr.io/ollama-webui/ollama-webui:main" based on Github's instructions, but it gave a error message something about "host".

the exact error message was ""Error": "failed to create new hosts file: unable to replace \"host-gateway\" of host entry \"host.docker.internal:host-gateway\": host containers internal IP address is empty""

Do you know what is the problem and how do I overcome this?

If I run the above command using Docker Desktop, it runs and installs Ollama-WebUI just fine.

Thank you.

(1) https://github.com/ollama-webui/ollama-webui ("Installing with Docker")
I've been wanting one since before Lenovo dropped their Yogabook 9i.

I'm hoping this will become a form-factor/product/class of its own.

Currently, I'm using a Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 because it was the only computer I could find which:

- had a Wacom EMR stylus

- high resolution and large/expansive screen

- full OS support

(replacing a Samsung Galaxy Book 12, which I really wish Samsung had stuck with)

I need to have a stylus so that I can draw/annotate/write, and I prefer a tablet form-factor (but will accept a convertible/foldable if need be) --- the thing which kills me is the keyboard is completely disabled when the screen is folded back --- it would be nice for the keys along one (or both) edges of the keyboard to be usable as programmable/modified keys for when one is drawing.

Such a device with Wacom EMR will be an insta-buy for me.

It's really nice to be able to go from taking a note on my phone or Kindle Scribe, to drawing/annotating on my Galaxy Book.
Thanks, yes, that was the joke. Not a very good one apparently!
What's interesting about this is when you use Njalla you give your domain to them. So it seems in worse case they could just keep the domain with no legal recourse too? Given from my understanding nitter is simply a proxy service too this makes it odd.
as well you should, and also on restarting failed tasks, but maybe somebody forgot
Lenovo Yogabook 9i is the product which defined this class of device.
People born in Soviet Union are very good at detecting propaganda, because they learned to recognize what the system did to them. Americans have never learned this important skill. As someone born in a foreign country (not USSR though), I have a very well developed sense of when the government is lying to me. In my opinion, Americans are extremely easy to deceive.
Yes, but so was mine a sarcastic / humorous comment, which should have been obvious (except to fly-by dumbass downvoting donkey commenters), because who can predict what someone will invent in 5 years? Hence the italics I used.
The mistake here seems to be the somewhat naïve suggestion that the Soviet Union only took its path because the wrong people happened to find their way into leadership, rather than recognising that attempts at coërced ideological purity always seem to follow the same path historically no matter how well intentioned the ideology might have been.
That’s a subjective matter of taste.
I can think of a few reasons.

- Russians like poetry that actually rhymes

- "The Jungle Book" and "Riki Tiki Tavi" were very popular

- The controversial pieces like "The White Man's Burden" weren't translated until after Kipling's death

Also, "The White Man's Burden" is viewed with a bit of distance. Few in America remember the context in which it was written, and that context is as important as the text of the poem if not more so. It was an argument for America subjugating the Philippines. Mark Twain wrote a poem to counter imperialism and that argument. Later Americans managed to both defeat the Philippines and cancel both poets :)
Built-in what???
Amazon Q is powered by an LLM that is not very capable (there are no official benchmarks, AFAIK, but the community consensus seems to be that the level is akin to GPT 3.5).

I wrote a Chrome extension that allows you to use GPT-4 Turbo from Chrome's side panel. It (optionally) gets context about your data if you choose to share your screen with it.

https://github.com/petrgazarov/cumuli-aws-console-chat
How well does Sidecar work?

I was considering this, but wound up w/ a Wacom One for my MacBook, mostly since it uses the same stylus technology as all of my other devices (Galaxy Note 10+, Kindle Scribe, Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360).
I felt the opposite back when I was using D (specifically, D1). It was obvious that everything you can do in C++ can be done in D in so much easier way that it could have replaced C++ in a near future if done right. This is even true when we compare D1 with the current C++20, so I believe D did have a good chance that was wasted somehow.
That’s one of the most trivial imaginable reasons for choosing one language over another.
Just don't try to weasel your way out and put the blame on the person you're laying off? Doesn't seem hard.
This looks perfect for my needs, thank you :)
Not just rocks and dirt. Mining waste is often toxic - heavy metals, acid, that sort of thing.
http://www.erights.org/
Rust is a really frustrating language for me: I understand the safety it provides but find the pain of actually using it makes it uncompelling. Plus, the Rewrite it in Rust movement is very off-putting
Obviously the person in a position to bring their personal beliefs into a hiring decision is in a position of privilege. My point is that there are a lot of people out there that aren’t in a position to be able to afford walking out of that interview.
We are in the process of developing an AI Drawing Prompts Hub (https://drawingprompts.cc/) which is more comprehensive and feature-rich than existing drawing prompt tools.

We are trying to apply some AI models in the field of prompts, including:
Prompt auto-expansion (AI text to text) https://drawingprompts.cc/art-prompts-generator
Generates descriptions based on the image (AI Image to text) https://drawingprompts.cc/image-to-text

Midjourney Prompts related features
Best Prompts examples with image: https://drawingprompts.cc/best-midjourney-prompts
Generator tools: https://drawingprompts.cc/midjourney-prompts-generator
>willfully ignores the likely intent of the questioner,

>Subtle condescension and authoritative declarations

Well maybe we shouldn't ignore the intent of the answer ;)

>SO really does attract misanthropes.

Wow, I think you're reading way to much into this.
In the last decade, we've had many learning experiences around governance of programming languages.

Most of the changing languages that come to mind, I realize, that they, too, had a big upset or oops related to governance.

I now think one of the key things to look for in a programming language is governance -- what they say about how they do it, what they actually do, how that's working out so far, and how you think that will work out in the future.
i think that instead of 120 millihertz you mean 1.2 megahertz? and your calculation actually works out to 8.3 terabytes? otherwise i agree

btw the units(1) program is useful for things like this

You have: 480 megahertz / 400 * 80 bytes * 1 day
You want: terabytes
* 8.2944
/ 0.12056327
I think they meant "corresponds with behavior observed" not "sounds rational."
I'm pretty sure the default is they can see all the cleartext, since their product is based on TLS interception, for example to evaluate page rules.

This is also how they insert extra headers in both the request and response.
llama.cpp supports custom grammars to constrain inference. maybe this is a helpful starting point? https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/tree/master/grammars
I literally started with "I get that it's a great solution for much of the world - and that is fantastic." ... so I think I'm on board with what you're saying. I do agree that the OP sounded a little too sour on it though.

And yes, I think we can all agree that Solar works well where .. it works well.

The issue is many folks are pronouncing it as some kind of a panacea. The reality is that there's a lot of places where it's marginal (and needs effective dispatchable fallbacks) and others where it's just not suitable. Luckily there's comparatively few people that live in those places, so it won't make much of a difference on the environmental bottom line. But for folks like me, these distinctions are important.

And "just add more solar" actually isn't a great idea, as it reduces the ROI on each panel, and there's a minimum amount of dispatchable capacity you need to keep online anyway. Sounds like it really does come down to storage at that level, most of which is still progressing to full productization.
> Not always true. Look at the SHSAT. If you looked at the poor kids and took the top scores, it would be mostly Asians.

But they’re simply gaming the admission systems by studying rather than spending all their waking hours on TikTok and Fortnite.
> their wealthy father knew the CEO from when they both went to Harvard.

Sounds like bog standard nepotism remained intact regardless of efforts to bypass it.

You can at least be certain that had it not been for DEI there would have been some other pressure exterted to much the same end.
Yes, but I think you'll find that many people tend to resist change, including drastic syntactic changes (as compared to how languages like D iterate on previous languages like C++).
Welcome to the world of WAFs. Pattern matching scary strings is big business.
Reading this gave me an idea to extend this even further. What if the AI could look at your logbook history and suggest automations? For example, I have an automation that turns the lights on when it's dark based on a light sensor. It would be neat if AI could see "hey, you tend to manually turn on the lights when the light level is below some value, want to create an automation for that?"
Healthcare, elder care.
I actually quite like that, because it makes it clear that the impl blocks aren't class methods, they're trait implementations.
Maybe they could have chosen a better keyword, but having traits (aka typeclasses) instead of classes helps you mitigate the expression problem[1] and some other nasty things quite a bit.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_problem