skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unsurprisingly, so is HP's CEO.

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My serious response: get yourself something nice, like a Brother B&W Laserprinter, with a TN-450 high-capacity toner cartridge. Mine is bulletproof, prints for years, doesn't GAF what brand cartridge you throw in its filthy little mouth.
The signature is the whole point of the QR code though, otherwise someone could just trivially create a QR code that has their name and "vaccinated = yes".
I don't get how you claim CPUs are the same as 20 years ago? Maybe the clock speed is the same, but they are demonstrably denser. Lithography continues to improve as extreme costs, so wins are eaked out. The numbers don't seem to change much, but that is because we are approaching a limit of what a transistor can do with current approaches, and alternative approaches are literally millennia of engineering hours behind. Intel and x86(_64) has had a hold for two decades, but GPUs and AArch64 are making inroads addressing memory bandwidth issues.
Why would this be different with a net that only handles the input? It would be the same. All v12 does is learn control outputs directly from camera data instead of, for example, learning to detect a traffic light and then have some hand rolled logic. If the input is unpredictably new it would have failed in either case.
Fair enough, though there is a hook to provide your own on Linux: https://git-scm.com/docs/githooks#_fsmonitor_watchman
Per the wiki article I linked, they are actually federal police officers, it's just that Canadian Pacific appoints them:

> They are duly appointed and armed federal police officers that gather their authority in Canada via the Railway Safety Act as well as other acts.

Canadian Pacific is nearly 150 years old, I would bet that the Canadian government didn't want to be on the hook for policing such a massive geographic footprint for a private business, but at the same time did want to ensure that an industry that was vital to national security was secured. The alternative was probably nationalizing the entire business, which they likely also didn't have the stomach for.
There are plenty of Wayland compositors that supports X backends, so app support for X is moot because 1) most of the apps I run are my own - the only thing I really depend on is browsers, and 2) once Chrome and Firefox abandons X entirely, and no other browsers based on their engines supports X, there are options to run them with a Wayland compositor with an X backend in "kiosk mode" that basically gives them a single window just like before.

So that leaves how long I will have a working X server, and frankly I suspect I'll have ended up writing a display server years before that becomes an issue (whether that'll be X or Wayland or a mix, who knows, but I doubt I'll be able to resist very long).

It's just not a concern that's anywhere near the top of my list (or the top 100 of my list)
My son was just arrested for using this in his hacking club at high school. Be careful if you have kids with one. According to witnesses in the room, he was showing it to kids in his hacking club and they all thought it was just turning off Apple phones in the classrooom. Apparently, it turned off phones including several teachers in adjoining classrooms. Anyways. The police came to the school and arrested him and are threatening him/us with federal crimes. They also executed a search warrant in our house and took all electronics. Its been a little traumatising to say the least.
Agree.

This is rebutting a gratuitous, false, and racist comment claiming that addressing structural racism would "accelerate" "everything... getting shittier and more dangerous" and the "Decline of civilization".

We shouldn't have to rebut that kind of racist claptrap in such a technical discussion, but evidently someone calling himself "the_doctah" thinks it's appropriate to include and defend.

Yup, the trash stinks while it's being taken out.
Shouldn't it be the other way around: 'Earliest Alaska hunting camps tied to woolly mammoth movements'?

The article itself states that the camps were set to capitalize on the mammoth movements - 'It looks like these early people were establishing hunting camps in areas that were frequented by mammoths.'
Because, as the article goes on to say, the problem isn't that genAI repeats copyrighted material. Rather, its automation and massive scale upends the labor incentives that copyright is intended to provide, in a way that a human synthesizing knowledge from multiple sources can't.

In other words, it doesn't really matter whether ChatGPT or Bing Chat or DALL-E are tweaked so that they no longer violate the letter of copyright law, if they deprive -- at scale -- all their data sources of the views, recognition, and revenue that incentivize them to go gather and produce this valuable data in the first place. Why bother researching and writing an article if you're never going to get any pageviews for it, because Google places your main point atop the search results page?
Yes, the resistance to something as simple as padlocking a hatch baffles me - it's like their integrity is being impugned by taking a simple and common sense precaution?
There are plenty of articles about writing simple job queues in Postgres using SKIP LOCKED, and I personally like that version quite a bit for cases where you don't want to add another separate component just for the queue. But I haven't seen anyone addressing fairness in such a queue, e.g. for the multi-tenant case.

Is there a simple way to get a very rough kind of fairness between tenants in this case? Doesn't have to be actually fair, just fair enough that no tenant gets fully stuck behind a large block of jobs from another tenant.

The idea behind SKIP LOCKED is that you just get the first free job (potentially ordered by e.g. a priority column). Doing that in a way that switches between tenants doesn't seem straightforward. You could execute the query once per tenant, but that would be rather inefficient for many tenants. Is there a reasonably straightforward way to achieve this?
no there is not general apathy here in California. What is happening is always-on vehicle tracking on new car models, and constant bridge and tollway license plate readers. .. approved by a certain current California Governor and a very large security bureaucracy. It appears to me that the new order is the worst of both worlds -- cars constantly stolen and also ordinary citizens tracked constantly with an interface to surveillance capitalism.
That's fair, maybe I could have explained it better.
I have a sub-zero and it performs better than any refrigerator I have had in the past. It’s only 3 years old but have had 0 issues with it and everything is easily accessible to clean, vacuum, repair. The warranty on the core components is 12 years, unheard of these days. It has very few bells and whistles but the thing is built like a tank. Definitely paid an arm and a leg for it though.
If it's of huge concern to you, then go for either one of the big reliable instances, or your own instance, yeah.
Engel, Miele, and any industrial brand.
Does anyone have solid recommendations of reliable household appliance brands? If all the consumer brands are shit, would it be worth going commercial?
HotkeyP: Create keyboard or mouse shortcuts for apps, documents, folders, macros
I did recall vxworks BSPs were of worse quality compared to QNX. QNX had way fewer of the boards supported tho
Now it just needs a Meta account, totally different thing.
> "here's a copy of my entire phone book"

I don't know how or why that was ever legal in the first place, and why Facebook and LinkedIn haven't been sued to death over it.

The contacts-matching system is how Facebook and LinkedIn'ss ultra-creepy "People you might know" list works, and I have no-doubt this will have led to things like journalists' confidential sources being discovered and harmful outing of closeted people, and worse.
You refer to the post, but did you read the PDF linked to it? There's a conclusion section that's easy to digest.

As far as a connection to Putin's regime, you should read up the thread and note that nobody here mentioned that. Regardless of their supposed affiliations or lack thereof, I'm not interested in sending money to the Russian economy by purchasing a product from a Russian company. It's that simple. I think others would want to know that same information so thanks to pnw for mentioning it.
What if your target cpu doesn't have, say, floating point operations, or integer division. Will Zig refuse to compile any code that uses these operations? Will it inline the emulation code? Or gasp generate a call out to a library function?
Fake Joe Biden robocall tells New Hampshire Democrats not to vote on Tuesday
I consider myself an anarchist - an anarcho-capitalist specifically. Hence the username.

I do my best to live by my values, but there was an inflection point for me where things fell into place and allowed me to live a "normal" life in society without compromising my values.

I realized that the whole point of anarchism is that order is emergent. We already live under an anarchic system; it's just that the order that has emerged is one based on coercion.

If I could wave a magic wand and all of the governments in the world disappeared, I wouldn't. Nothing of substance would change. A power vacuum would exist, which would be filled extremely quickly. While in a few cases we'd probably see communities coming together in a non-coercive way, in most cases it would be filled by the people most willing and able to use violence. Historically, coercive systems have scaled more readily than non-coercive systems, so the only reasonable thing to expect would be for these new proto-states to annex the non-coercive communities. Through military force if cultural forces are too slow to satisfy the ruling class.

In other words, trying to change the system is a fool's errand. The system we have today is a consequence of our society's culture.

I still believe in the NAP (Non-Aggression Principle), and that humanity would be much better living in a non-coercive and morally consistent way - but I recognize that our culture as it is today will not only never lead to that, but would not tolerate it.

So I do my best to limit my interactions with the state, and instead of trying to tear it down I spend my energy on changing society. I believe that introducing the concept of mutual consent to a single person is more impactful in the long run than directly attacking the state - even if by some miracle that attack "succeeded".

Every example that I can recall of successful anarchist or "anarchy-adjacent" societies arose organically from a small communities of like-minded people. With that in mind, if I want my descendants to live without the shackles of a coercive state, I must help mold the direction of society down a path that will ultimately lead to the conditions necessary for non-coercive governance to emerge.

To put it another way: the majority of the dyed-in-the-wool anarchists in America today are too busy writing F/OSS software and homeschooling their children to bother with anything as pointless as revolution.
> The Tesla v12 software update is expected to introduce what CEO Elon Musk has been calling “end-to-end neural nets”. The biggest difference with previous FSD updates is that the vehicle’s controls would now be handled by neural nets rather than being coded by programmers.

Up until now Tesla's software used a neural net for vision (i.e to turn camera view of road into an internal representation of road, cars, people, traffic signs, etc), but used conventional programming (300K lines of C++!) to actually drive the car - change speed, steer, switch lanes etc to follow the desired route given the cars position on the road/etc provided by the vision input.

This new release is now replacing those 300K lines of C++ with another neural net that has learned when to change lanes, how to steer etc. There is still just a vision system that "sees" the road, and a driving system that steers the car based on this vision input.

Too bad the real world isn't a video game or Tesla simulator world ...
Random people are not flying with the Space Shuttle. And when people who do fly go nuts - then everything about this person is helpful to understand the "why" and how to prevent such a situation in the future. Of course NASA did that professionally already long ago - but now it is debated in the open. So some people deeply interested with the field, will want to play hobby psychoanalyst with the given facts. The more the better. You clearly don't want to and that is also OK, but maybe accept that some people like it like this. And just as a suggestion, you can nowdays get a AI to give you a short summary ...
If you’re paying a lot and there aren’t goofy touch screens or other pointless things to break, it’s a good chance it’s high quality. But always good to talk to someone who repairs them to know what’s actually good. Miele is one of these brands, maybe the most well known.
Ontology-Oriented Software Development
1blocker is a lifesaver for me - and saving battery life and my data cap is something it contributes to aside from blocking ads.
> Power does not corrupt, it reveals.

Hmm.

It seems I have yet more reading to do. Thank you! :)
Your drain tube is freezing up. This can be fixed permanently by using a small copper wire to connect the heating element to the drain, for better heat conduction.
This raises a good point worth repeating: realities of maintenance.

Even for the 'best' refrigerators, it can be VERY painful to respond to a reasonable defect maintenance issue for certain manufacturers. And it may depend upon the locale you're in.

Tip: Ask questions about repair ETAs when buying new, for each model.
I don't think I could bring myself to buy an expensive or "luxury" appliance. I've had the same white 2-door fridge for 5 years and it's probably 15 years old at this point. Never once had an issue with it, not even a burnt-out light bulb.

If you want reliability, buy appliances like you're a landlord.
Not as reliable as 30 years ago, but better than most.
Concur; or at least don't use a mix of lower and upper-case, like the radio. I think there would be less mis-assumptions if they had called it "LORA", "Lora", "lora" etc. "LoRA" is asking for trouble.
Note that C++'s design of RAII and Rust's design have important differences.
Is "step function" a term of art I'm just ignorant of in computer science? AWS Step Functions, sure. How it's used here? No idea.

> It enables developers to write declarative step functions...

> With thousands of customers running thousands of step functions containing parallel steps....

> If you're familiar with step functions, you probably already see what's happening here...
Ask HN: How to know what you want to do for the rest of your life.
I am in IT industry since 2015 and doing fine here. But since last 6 months I am getting the thoughts on regular basis that I dont belong here. Sometimes I am just so burnt out that I want to leave everything. I want to do something impactful but I am not sure what I like most and where I want to spend my rest of life. I am already 32.

Do you guys also face existential crisis and how can we really know where we want to spend our rest of life?
Minimize the use of digital technology in all its forms. Focus on meaningful, in-person relationships. Ignore the 24 hour news cycle and participate in local policy and governance. Buy less stuff, focus on developing the quality, effectiveness, and integration of the stuff you already have. Never, ever work to forward big companies’ goals of infiltrating society with their technology.
I've been attempting this but have paused the efforts due to what seems like lack of interest -- giving me an indication that the problem is not that big of a deal.[0][1]

If anyone is interested in my resuming them, let me know at contact at weedonandscott dot com

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/vfx/comments/11s08ne/your_opinion_o...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/11s5haf/what_do_yo...
The problem with blocks is that you can forget them.
I'm not convinced. The entire premise here is selection bias at its worst.

Here are the steps to create an LLM:

1. Tokenize the training corpus

2. Train the model using the tokens

3. Critique the result

4. Repeat steps 2 & 3 until satisfied

We skipped the most important step!

0. Write and curate the training corpus

There is an intense focus on the training steps, but that is entirely ignorant of the elephant in the room: the original training data itself. Where did it come from? What does it mean? What is it for? What does it know?

We don't train models on noise. We train them on coherent data. The very act of writing is where intelligence lies. A model can only present that intelligence. It cannot create it, and it is not aware of it. There is no objective-thought function. If there was, then the LLM could simply tell us about it.

A model is like a coloring book: it doesn't matter how incoherently you stumble around, as long as you stay between the lines. The picture was not invented by coloring it: it was invented by drawing the lines.
This topic got a lot of discussion in "I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38069710
I agree with the "class warfare" quote. But aren't "the rich" pretty much the ones pushing these anti-regulatory sentiments?

I agree, these regulations you're pointing out aren't sufficient. But I maintain, I think the finger-pointing crap is a distraction. Nobody's going to do anything when they can point their finger at the bigger-offender, and feel vindicated in their own inaction. And since numbers are so easily fudgable, everyone feels this way (see: leading U.S. politicians blaming Africa for climate change [1], about as ridiculous a claim as is imaginable)

[1] https://blog.ucsusa.org/derrick-jackson/house-speaker-mike-j...
I use it for a very large monorepo to replace prettier. So much faster! Also have it run on save in my editor now.

Now linting full codebase on precommit and it’s faster than just linting staged files with prettier!
Sub-Zero, Bosch
Is it possible to use redshift of photons from the sun? Say if you know the hydrogen transition line frequency, then measure very precisely the observed frequency from solar photons, you could calculate the redshift. I suppose this would rely on knowing the mass of the sun already as well.
Yeah that's what that YT channel above (Ben's Appliance) recommends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmtLeB4ZplU. I've used them in laundromats. Must be fun having them in your house.

> and even a miswired 220 on the dryer

Wow!
yes, i am sure AI can compose music in the near future. a lot of folks are pessimistic on this one, but i can see the possibility. if we define music (as i do) as storytelling and musicians as storytellers, then we need to teach AI how to tell stories with music instruments.

but that's not the direction i have seen the research take.
For moving, best keep it upright, and allow to settle for 24h before plugging it in.
The best solution isn't AOT vs JIT, rather JIT and AOT, having both available as standard part of the tooling.

Android has learnt to have both, and thanks to PGO being shared across devices via Play Store, the AOT/JIT outcome reaches the ideal optimum for a specific application.

Azul and IBM have similar approaches on their JVMs with a cluster based JIT, and JIT caches as AOT alternative.

Also stuff like GPGPU is a mix of AOT and JIT, and is doing quite alright.

I am not so confident with LLMs, when they get good enough programmers will be left out of the loop, and will have to contend to similar roles as when doing no-code SaaS configs or some form of architects.

A few programmers will remain as the LLMs high priests.
I also bought a house with an ice maker in the refrigerator. I can confirm that it gave us constant trouble until it gave up the ghost. I use ice cube trays in the freezer.
What are the "clusters" clustering anyway... no info on what properties we're indexing here
Miele, it also is "expensive". On the long term is the cheaper option.
I’d count it as an edge case. It is an informal definition anyway, so no surprises that it doesn’t cover everything
That's why we have regulators who scientifically qualify safety, rather than leaning on public opinion. Public opinion isn't an accurate methodology.
> For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

Agreed that de-anonymizing will become trivial. This will be a problem not only for bad actors in research, journalism, creative writing, etc., but for internet commenters who believed they'd done due diligence to remain anonymous, and even for research participants who'd expected anonymity when signing their consent forms. We're rushing headlong into even stranger days!
An easy counterargument is that sockets support out of band read operations: for example, I can call getsockname() on a socket to obtain meaningful information about it after shutdown(). Pipes have no such analogue.

Also, it's a general interface. It's easy to imagine exotic protocols where shutdown() is not so cleanly equivalent to close() as it is for TCP.

TBH I find it odd to focus on a preference for one semantic over the other. The real thing we can all probably agree on is that in a perfect world, they ought to be the same.
Your examples are terrible, which probably proves the point that EU users are getting more than they are losing. Btw Europe != EU.

> Banning encrypted messaging (almost passed)

It's a positive thing that it was brought up and struck down. EU is the actually the one you should be thanking because most European countries would ban it.

> Cookie pop ups

Malicious compliance by websites, but at least users have a choice of opting out of tracking. Again, a positive thing.

> Various regulations harming open source (discussed before on HN)

The most recent changes are so watered down that it basically only applies to commercial open source companies that are turning a profit. It's helping users more than it's harming the open source community.
Paranoia isn't the only factor in a purchasing decision. It seems quite clear to me it's a Russian company trying to hide that fact for obvious reasons. I appreciate pnw posting this and making me aware before I decided to send money (indirectly) to Russia.
I accounted for the cost of production in my calculation.
Basically the reader writes data back to the fob and expects to see it the next time it reads it. This results in either the original or the copy getting de-synced.

One interesting capability that this unlocks is that battery powered, offline readers (think apartment door that uses the same fob as the lobby) can write out things like battery state so that apartment maintenance knows when it's time to swap out batteries.