skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's wild to me is that almost all the individual devices a smartphone represents, not even counting the phone itself, would have been confiscated if used in class, for my generation (and I'm a millennial!)

Flashlight? LOL, they might not even wait for you to use it, just assume there's no way you're not going to do something dumb with it, and take it.

A handheld gaming device? Insta-yoink.

Note-passing? Notes confiscated.

Basically an ordered-from-a-back-of-magazine-ad spy kit of a miniature camera and voice recorder? GONE. And you might be on the way to the office for a chat, and parents called, if you'd actually been using any of it.

A glossy fashion magazine, seen out at any point that's not explicitly totally-free time? In the teacher's desk. (and that's on the tame side of the kind of thing one might be looking at on one's phone...)

A portable mini-TV or small radio? Jesus, of course you can't have that in class.

But smartphones? Nope, they can have those. Which is the exact same as having all those things above, and way more.

It's such a crazily-different direction for policy.
Even Google search is pretty bad, as they don't have synonyms for the norwegian language when doing search. For example Høyskole -> Høgskule, Barneskole -> Barneskule (high school, elementary school)

These exact same words results in completely different search results. It so annoying when you trying to find something, you have to search multiple times. This is also relevant for many other languages. I absolutely belive you if spend some time implementing a smart synonyms-mapper, you could absolutely take web search 5 steps forward.
I need this combined with Alltrails or some other trail map data! My 4mo old absolutely hates direct sunlight which makes finding good walks/hikes in a carrier very challenging.
This! Don't use an ultrasonic humidifier unless you fill it with distilled water. Tap water will just create a ton of white dust everywhere.

If you absolutely need more humidity in your home, get something like the Venta LW45 which has a half-submerged rotating disk and blows air over the still wet surface. Works with tap water (requires regular cleaning and a special additive).
If it still has bitcoin or anything crypto related, it is a scam.
Who's paying for this IP, then?

The consumer, who bought the device? Surely the cost of development of said IP is in total recouped from device sales? The device doesn't work without said framework.

The developers who provide a reason to buy the device? Why should they be forced to use a monopolistic platform only because Apple's marketing has successfully clouded consumers' heads?

Humans are terrible at actually boycotting, but I'd love to see what would happen if 90% of app store devs pulled their apps from app stores. Would people buy as many iPhones? Ooooh, now we realise the value proposition that devs are _offering_ Apple, not taking from them.
The changes in UEFI are mostly for hardware manufacturers. There's only so much user facing functionality in boot firmware. One other thing it did better enable, through better support of modern hardware and the standardized extensibility, is GUI firmware interfaces. If you get into fancier enterprise hardware use cases the modules are also nice.
In general, modern Czech owes a significant fraction of its vocabulary to a certain Josef Jungmann, who published a big thesaurus about 180 years ago and "borrowed" new words into the up-to-that-time somewhat archaic language. Sometimes directly so, especially from other Slavic languages, sometimes via a calque from German/Latin/French etc.

Thus, sloka (stanza) is from Sanskrit, vzduch (air) from Russian, okres (county/region) from Polish, zeměpis (geography) a calque from Ancient Greek, and duchapřítomný (quick-witted) a calque from German geistesgegenwärtig.

I am not sure if vorstellen / představit is his calque as well.
I received an email from TotalAV telling me my details were included in a Naz.api data breach. I'm not sure I've ever used Seagate for anything.
It is much worse. Binaries can be analyzed and AVs do it very efficiently. It is hard to even imagine an AV for an AI model.
The landing page after login resembles Gdoc but that's ok.

One small thing, when signing up with Gmail, it still asks for my Name and Surname when supposedly it's something you can get out of the OAuth APIs.
> Notably, other EV manufacturers don't seem to suffer from these issue

Is this actually true or are Teslas just more numerous than other EVs so the anticdata supports that claim?
What's worse, in states with voucher systems, parents can remove not just their kid from the school, but their tax dollars too--so the teachers have to tolerate the phones or funding will dry up for the other students who are trying to pay attention.

I think coupling where your kids go to school with where your tax dollars are going severely misunderstands the point of having there be tax dollars for schools in the first place. Having kids shouldn't give you special powers re: how your taxes are used.
You can make that argument if you wish. But then it goes both ways, and you must stand against Academia's actions in all this. You have to be consistent and have integrity. Academia I believe targeted college students. They are all fair game.

Or...

I don't support Ackerman targeting students. See? It's that easy to not be partisan.
A developer's second brain: Reducing complexity through partnership with AI
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I did! I started by going to vast.ai. I was able to look at the specs of the top-scoring machines. I started with the motherboard (as I knew it could support my 3090s, because some PCIe busses can't handle all that data). Then of course I copied everything else that I could. I ended up using PCIe extenders and zip-tieing (plastic, I should use metal zip ties instead) the cards to a rack I got from Lowes. I'm not too pleased with how it looks, but it works!

BTW, depending on where you're at in your ML journey, Jeremy Howard from FastAI says you should focus more on using hosted instances like paperspace until you really need to get your own machine. Unless, of course, you enjoy linux sysadmin tasks. :) It can get really annoying trying to match the right version of CUDA with the version of Pytorch you're trying to get running for the newest model you're trying.
“Not that much” as in a billion dollars? Ten billion dollars? 100 billion dollars?

Nobody has been able to build a new browser engine in 25 years. So what would be the dollar estimate of a similarly complex UI framework along with high quality device drivers, development tools, services frameworks like iCloud, etc.?
I like to imagine the following nightmare scenario: we write a compiler from scratch that it can bootstrap itself (like this one, or Stage0), then we do the same bootstrapping process for hardware - eg. write a FPGA that for a simple CPU that can run the compiler and build other stuff, we do all of this and then start building reproducible builds of everything we use today - gcc, clang, Linux, etc. Eventually we build an 100% open source machine where to run everything. After this step is done, we start running in parallel all the tools and compare the outputs between the reproducible builds on the open source stack and semi-open one. And we discover slight differences ...
> Instead when the company is liquidated they can buy the airport slots they so direly need without all the extra debt -and- they get to pick through anything else they want like airframes

I'm not familiar with how the process works, would JetBlue now have to compete with larger airlines for these assets if Spirit goes under?
Not just classical. There is an episode which has Futurama's "Pop a poppler in your mouth..." as a background music.

But it could just be that the Poppler song is also based on some classical tune. ;)
>Comparing a GPU cluster and a printing press then staring the GPU cluster not limited by natural resources is just silly. Where does the materials come from to make the processors?

Probably mined from 3rd world country slaves (in the literal "owning people" sense). But still, these servers already exist and scale up way more than a tree.

>well. I could see a picture and then ask AI whose style it is. Then I could go look up more work by that artist, increasing their visibility.

Sure, and you can use p2p to download perfectly legal software. We know how the story ends.

>Is this a complaint that something got cheaper to make... not just artists and the path forward is the same as it’s always been with technological advancements, increase your skill level to above the median created by the new technology.

It's a complaint that people even woth more efficiency still can't make a living. While the millionaires become billionaires. I'm not even concerned about software wages. Some Principal SWE going from 400k to 200k will still live fine.

Artists going from 40k to 40k (but now working more efficiently) is exactly how we ended up with wages stagnating for 30 years. And yes, it is affecting everyone even pre-AI. The median is barely a living wage anymore, which is what "minimum wage" used to be.

If we lived in a work optional world I don't think many would care. But we don't and recklessly taking jobs to feed the billionaires is just going to cause societal collapse if left unchecked.
My understanding is that this particular Supercharger station is broken and either not putting out any electricity, or putting out way less than it should
Fortnite isn't available on iOS at all. It doesn't represent an app that would be in the app store if another option weren't available.
I do write for a living, and I found Zettelkasten too high friction to be worth using. Plus, as Cal Newport has argued, it solves the wrong problem. The whole pitch of ZK is that you can jump into your notes and quickly generate new ideas. But experienced writers and researchers rarely struggle to come up with ideas—rather, the real challenge is execution.
On the Something Awful forums, you can buy custom avatars for yourself or for others. Buying for yourself costs $5, for somebody else it's $10.

Multiple posters have purchased hateful / doxxing avatars for themselves in order to make themselves appear persecuted, so they could blame the purchases on their "forums enemies". In at least one case, though, they were too cheap to use the totally anonymous $10 buy-for-somebody-else option, so they bought the hate avatar on their own account and just hoped the admins wouldn't look at the logs.

Basically people make terrible decisions all the time in service of their obsession.
There's little between the M2 and M3 at this point with regards to LLM work, and given no M3 Ultra exists yet, the M2 Ultra would be the way to go considering this task in isolation, and indeed the only option if you wanted to go up to 192GB RAM. If you needed to be portable or had budgetary concerns, then your choice may differ.
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> Obsidian's response to users' complaints about this was not reassuring

This is my main worry about choosing Obsidian for the long run. The devs seem very opinionated about a system that is meant to be customizable to each user's workflow.

Their Vim implementation does not support setting hard line breaks, making modal editing a little funky (every paragraph is just one long line and any action working on a line will work on the entire paragraph, such as "dd").

Came from Vim-Wiki (and Org-mode and some other short-lived note-taking systems) and I think the plugin hell of Vim/Emacs (or VS Code) is much worse than Obsidian. You can get by without any addons in Obsidian as it's built to be a notetaking system first, not a general text editor. You can't do the same with Vim (hence needing "Vim-Wiki" plugin).
Are you saying that's the risk of providing the website URL? Or that it's the risk of the HIBP?

Because he does provide the email and the leak name... He even provide indirectly where to download it from his blogpost.

Providing the website won't give more dangerous information, that's exactly what he usually does when it's not a stuffing list, he say where the password come from (Linkedin, Facebook, etc...).
What does this have to do with the suicide debate?
Yes, but a big progress nevertheless.

Life expectancy at 20 was also substantially different to today for males (https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde..., second graph)

However, that is still a world with a lot medicine in there (just take simple things like sutures, inoculations, or setting broken bones). Very difficult to say what life expectancy for adults would have been with zero medicine in the world.
The rover is expected to land in 5 days: https://twitter.com/SORAQ_official/status/174680914003773861...
The leaked dataset Troy refers to wasn't the real Naz.API list, and the "illicit.services" website Troy says is defunct is actually online at https://search.0t.rocks/. You can use this to see if you're in the real Naz.API dataset (which is way scarier than the data shared on breachforums). Those who are particularly interested can abuse the wildcards for search to scrape passwords associated with some email/username and create their own Naz.API "mirror" (as far as I know, there are only a handful of people with access to this dataset), though the rate-limiting may prove to be an irritating obstacle. The site owner may find issue with this too, as it certainly wasn't intentional, but when I tried it a few months back it worked perfectly.
Agreed, but I don't understand the point you're making.
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only in tech...

can you imagine if selling a replacement bulb for a ford headlight required you to pay 30% to ford.

only in tech can this be considered fair.
What database are we talking about? Oracle best runs on ASM which is basically it's own filesystem.

And most journaling filesystems actually get in the way of databases which try to commit their own changelog to disk.
Whenever there's an Obsidian fanfare going on here on HN (and it happens quite often :P) I wonder around among the comments looking for a simple, minimal, and clean knife (or maybe a light bow and arrow) while people are discussing their AWPs, customised Dragunovs, and bespoke Abrams. Good fun :)
It depends on how the laws are written. Legislators are often wrong about tech.

But if you are saying Amazon and other cloud providers should be sued, I agree, companies that use parts not fit for the application they are going for should be sued out of business.

That said, the existence of the parts isn’t a problem and I hope manufacturers keep making high performance parts for those of us who don’t use them for crazy and inappropriate things. Manufacturers could be slapped on the wrist for selling their consumer chips as server chips, but I think this is less of a problem because anyone who falls for it is already a walking catastrophe.
Depending on your needs, Typst might be what you are looking for.

[1] https://github.com/typst/typst
Your entire business looks to me like SEO spam, specifically about generating it
mgmt sees their positions threatened.
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On the other hand, I'm a professional academic, and I haven't ever met a highly productive scholar who uses ZK.
Solving Olympiad geometry without human demonstrations
I say this with sincerity, not judgment: You (presumably) made a choice to start a family and be a homeowner. Why not embrace it?

You can always yearn for another life, but if you pursue it, that usually means giving up on family and and home time. Is that worth it in your heart?

I knew a few older men who focused on their careers and personal aspirations more than their families, and it didn't turn out well for the families. They found success and prestige outside the home, but also turned into lonely, somewhat broken men later in life. I also know a few men who decided, fuck it, I'm not single anymore, and there is no more "me"... it's the family life now. They dove headfirst into dad-dom and loved it for all its challenges. Nobody outside their family really cared, but so what? They were happier.

I'm not saying the family life is for everyone. I'm nearly 40, unmarried, no kids, no house, a lot of freedom. I spend my years exploring, working, learning random hobbies, traveling, going back to school, backpacking, etc. But frankly a lot of those are young people's activities, and I'm out of place everywhere I go. That's okay by me though, because it was my choice to live this life. I'm now in a long term relationship with someone with similar life desires. That might make us more outwardly focused than homebody couples and families, but they don't find us that interesting because they have their own lives. We also don't spend too much time thinking about their families and private lives.

It's just different after your twenties. People tend to settle down and become less adventurous.

Sure, there are people who manage to juggle work and family and climbing Everest over the weekend, but they're pretty rare and usually very intense, for better or worse. That doesn't sound like you.

It's your choice whether to have a midlife crisis (lol), but if you love your family, maybe just try to find some fun hobbies to do with them? Go camping. Try tabletop games (many are wonderful these days, not just like Monopoly and Chutes and Ladders, but hundreds of new excellent titles). Take them skiing or biking or rafting. Start crafting projects, learn to 3d print or blacksmith or crochet. Play some D&D. There are many things you can develop an interest in without giving up the life you chose. Just find things with a limited time (and time away) commitment if you want to keep the family close. There's still a lot you can do in 2-4 hours a week, especially together.
Maybe once at most. Re-submitting more than once within a few days will likely get it flagged by users.
It could help to look into ansible to manage systems, if you only change your system through it, you can really go from new to productive in little time
Yes, I made a similar keybinding for xonsh, using fd and fzf. I press Alt-c, and fzf shows me all the subdirectories rooted where I'm at.

That's a good intermediary solution. But the one that totally changed my flow was to combine autojump[1] and fzf. autojump is similar to Z (this submission). It stores all the directories you've visited in an SQLite DB and can show them to you (ordered by visit frequency) with a command line argument. So I pipe that to fzf.

Now I can extremely quickly jump to any directory I've been to before - it really helps that they're sorted by visit frequency. I honestly use this more than any other approach - and I probably go for days on end without using the usual TAB autocompletion.

[1] https://github.com/wting/autojump
If you look at sponsors that might answer your question. Someone is using the software in their product and making money so they would sponsor the developers, probably nothing more to it than that. Think open source can be a way for multiple companies to pull their resources and build software that they both need.
quarto is just using pandoc behind the scenes
"there’s not really a difference between a database and a file system"

The BeOS filesystem was basically a database.

But there are a lot of differences between a database and a file system. A better way of thinking about it is that a filesystem is just a specialized database.

From an old school, a data base is really just a collection of data. An RDBMS = relational database. A filesystem is just another kind of database. etc etc.
> They learned from a lot of older emulator projects

They learned from themselves after doing just that for many years. Lately they have been working hard to get rid of game specific overrides.

They still have a gazillion tho, see here:
https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/tree/master/Data/Sys/...
Though this particular model doesn't sound generalizable, the neuro-symbolic approach seems very promising to me:

- linking the (increasingly powerful) "system 1" tools that are most of current ML with more structured "system 2" tools, like logical proof generation, which can plan and and check the veracity / value of output.
- System 2 chugs along 'till it gets stuck, then system 1 jumps in to provide an intuitive guess on what part of state space to check next.
- Here they leveraged the ability to generate proofs by computer to create a data set of 100m proofs, enabling scalable self-supervised learning. Seem to me the symbolic domains are well formed to allow such generation of data, which while low value in each instance, might allow valuable pre-training in aggregate.

Putting these elements together is an approach that could get us quite far.

The key milestone will be moving away from the need to use specific formal / symbolic domains, and to generate a pretrained system that can generalize the skills learned from those domains.
> (see, eg., google's carbon which iirc, seeks to be ast-free single-pass)

Carbon’s (mostly hypothetical) frontend is actually 3 passes: lexing, parsing, and a semantic analysis pass, each with separate IRs. One of their arguments is actually that they are more efficient as separate passes operating on packed data structures rather than e.g. a parser that calls into a lexer for each individual token. In a way, this is a claim that Wirth’s approach is inherently inefficient on contemporary CPU microarchitectures.
Chicago has half the population of the entire country of Norway, in a space 1/50th of the size. It also has extremes on both ends of the temperature spectrum. It's hardly a fair comparison. I spent 20 years in Chicago, the people there are used to and ready for winter extremes.

Teslas have their fair share of issues, but the real problem in Chicago is relatively few people have access to home charging compared to the number that own EV's. It's one reason Teslas are so popular, as every other EV is a pain to charge exclusively with public charging. Reduce their range with cold, increase their charge time with cold, increase the rate of usage with cold (as it's too cold to use bikes and walk for many people) and yes - you're going to run into supply shortages during extremes. To prevent that, you'd need oversupply in the bulk of the year, and the footprint of Chicago and real-estate cost simply doesn't support that.
In Waitrose (UK) stores at least this is not the case. When you are spot checked the staff member spot checks that a few things in your trolley have been scanned. They tend to check some higher value goods like alcohol.

Also those stores, at least where I live, have no physical barrier to exit.
To be sure, this kind of research, whether ‘craft’ or ‘natural’ is the correct word, is simply too risky to continue. The juice is not worth the squeeze.
> For whatever reason, best practices don't get followed 100% of the time, even if they exist. For cryptography, the situation is better than most other domains.

That’s the point. Cryptography is significantly better precisely because the research effort has gone into systems that are hard for people to fuck up.

Just look at the fight was to get everyone to agree that the model should be, “everything including the algorithm should be public, except for the key”. That’s a socioeconomic argument.

> Even when the technical ideas are perfect, organizations still need to implement the ideas. That implementation tends to not follow allegedly perfect specifications for many reasons.

And that’s why making safe systems where mistakes are protected against is a critical area of research.

Rust is popular because it protects against whole classes of bugs, despite it being no faster than C/C++.
This branch of the thread is about the case where your Bluetooth devices charge by USB, and so you grab your charging cable and connect them to your computer. It was pointed out that Apple's Bluetooth mouse does not work over USB even though it does charge over USB.

My point is that you do not need to get your mouse connected in order to turn on Bluetooth. You just need to get one of {keyboard, mouse, trackpad} connected.