skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the second amendment was written, guns were primitive and not much of a problem. Law and order was less institutionalized. People were afraid of being occupied by a foreign government because they recently had been. I agree that if they knew what we know now, they probably would have worded it better. But repealing the second amendment now won’t make things better. We made drugs illegal, how’s that going?

The article you posted said that 97% of the cars on the road are crash tested by the government. I think my statement on that is substantially accurate.

In America, most large urban areas do not have extensive trains. I’ve lived all over this country, the only places I can think of where most of an urban area can take any sort of train from most of the city to the airport are NY, Boston, Chicago. There may be some I’m missing, and even in those cities, they don’t cover the entire area. Probably at least 75% of the country can’t walk from their home to a train and take it to the airport.

America’s infrastructure is entirely beyond my ability to control. I can take a one hour bus ride and read I am sure but I’ve got stuff to do with my day, so I’ll take the 30 minute Uber with no nutjobs yelling at thin air.

I think you’re also getting confused between population and population density. The US has a population density of 1/12th the Netherlands. You can bike just fine around our densely populated areas, though our poor bike lane design makes it far more dangerous than driving. The Netherlands has a small population but they live much closer together which is what matters for public transport cost. It would cost an order of magnitude more here to provide the same level of service, so we don’t. Maybe we should but when I need to get to the airport that’s not really on my mind.
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Git cli UX made be not great, but the git datastructure of representing commits, branches, trees and blobs as immutable pointers and merkle trees is a phenomenal invention.

I don't agree with every command needs to hit some REST api. That seems like throwing the baby away with bathwater.

The most powerful thing about git is that I can work fully offline with a partial clone. And sync the commits when I get online.

Git got popular because of it's distributed nature.

I remember when our svn server used to hang and the entire team was blocked from even making a commit.
I don't care as much about the immediate risks as I care about punishing Boeing for their management culture -- and I don't care about the model as much as the Airbus/Boeing tilt of the carrier I'm booking with.

This does mean that this utility isn't really that useful, though, and its simpler to just book with e.g. Delta over Alaska.
I'd consider it a public transit service. We wouldn't be upset about people using shuttle busses to get to the parks, would we? I think long term footing the bill for an open platform with principle beneficiaries who use it is fine so long as it provides a net benefit.
As Nokia alumni it was incredible how much of the Google fanbase believed in Dalvik's performance fairy tail.

ART is another matter, though.
While this seems weird, it actually somewhat qualifies as an insecure 4 eyes. Ofc the eng director can act without another party, but for anybody else this usually involves at least a short "sure, what are you trying to do?".

Google voice and other "non-traditional"/VoIP services are sometimes blocked by websites sadly.

P.S. dishonorable mention: Apple Business Manager uses SMS 2FA only, at least you can have multiple admin accounts
The word "automaton" was coined to emphasize that the thing was inflexible. The word "robot" was coined to emphasize that it labored.

I don't think those were equivalent at first.
My point is that this has already been done. It's not a question of if. Once that's done, these things can spread around.

And I'm also saying you don't necessarily need to hack another group to find their tools.
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From what I can tell Bluesky doesn't have an algorithm. It just seems to show you the posts/reposts from the people you follow in chronological order.
Plus, for a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.
> Members of the public and the media do not need a permit to film or photograph in public places and police have no power to stop them filming or photographing incidents or police personnel.

https://www.met.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/ph/p...
Keep reading to the extract from Čapek himself. The primary thing that he emphasizes about his robots is that they were biological in nature, and the primary thing he disliked about where they went from there is that robots became a word that referred to mechanical technology. The scale of the robots didn't matter to him as much as the fact that they specifically were not mechanical.
More and more flights (maybe 25% of my flights lately) have internet that is fast enough for and allows streaming video. This trend will continue I'm sure. Obviously downloads are still really beneficial but it's becoming less and less of an issue on flights.
Yes, but according to Wikipedia, Boeing refers (or referred) to it as "737 MAX 200", so the suspicion that Ryanair insisted on renaming it to get rid of the tainted MAX moniker is warranted...
Both Boeing and Airbus planes have had mechanical issues, and I don’t think it’s in any airline’s interest to start slinging shit about passenger safety.
I'm not sure about #1. Password managers are a centralized place where a lot of your world lives. They have had issues and leaks in the past. I do not trust password managers or key vaults. For example:

https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/12/notice-of-recent-security-...
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It certainly doesn't.

https://source.android.com/docs/core/runtime/dalvik-bytecode
I'm having trouble following, because the biggest instance would be the 'One Obvious Choice', but that choice seems lame to you? What could federated services do that would make the obvious choice not feel lame?

The decision isn't really that massive, a lot of users have alt accounts on different servers and it's not that difficult to migrate between them.
Because keeping accounts isn't the same as keeping track of 'bad people'.
More comments here:
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Yeah, we have open offices at work because, well, people go there to talk to others. The rest of the time we're just in flow from home.

I don't actually mind it this way. The peeps at work are great to hang out with, and working 100% remote has a mental hit. But on some days you actually want to be paid to get work done. So I feel like this hybrid mode will be it for a while.
Running bytecode instructions in hardware essentially means a hardware-based interpreter. It likely would have been the best performing interpreter for the hardware, but JIT-compilation to native code still would run circles around it.

During years when this instruction set was relevant (though apparently unutilized), Oracle still had very limited ARM support for Java SE, so having a fast interpreter could have been desirable -- but it makes no sense on beefier ARM systems that are able to support decent JIT or AOT support available nowadays.
If you were solely doing reverse image search (submit image, generate embeddings, vector search) yes.

This is LLaVA -> text output -> sentence embedding -> (RAG style-ish) search on sentence embedding output based on query input text (back through the sentence embedding).

You could skip the LLaVA step and use CLIP/BLIP-ish caption output -> sentence embedding but pure caption/classification model text output is pretty terrible by comparison. Not only inaccurate, but very little to no context for semantic and extremely short so the sentence embedding models have poor quality input and not much to go on even when the caption/classification is decently accurate.
Just for the record, the 2nd amendment is not a 'law' - it is a right guaranteed by the constitution.

while it is a simple process to change a law - rights guaranteed by the constitution necessarily and by design, have a much higher bar that must be crossed in order to change - and there is currently not even close to enough people in favor in enough states to revoke the 2nd amendment.
Well, breaking the socket into two pieces would add complexity. It would create a new requirement for non-trivial programs to add bookkeeping to track the two bits together and make it easier for the two bits to become accidentally permanently estranged from each other. It would add new states to the already complicated TCP set of states.

Then again, in most of my "non-trivial" network code I already end up cracking the socket into two pieces anyhow, and while I take advantage of the pun that closing either of them closes the other it would be trivial for me to add this behavior to the separated sockets if that's what I wanted. Partially this is a result of my "non-trivial" network code being in Go so I end up running a goroutine each for send and receive, but still I imagine this would be a common structure one way or another in a lot of non-trivial network servers.

But the additional states on the TCP socket would definitely bite some people. Even in its current simpler state it still confuses people and there's a post about how some server turned out to be leaking sockets because it didn't properly close them shows up with some frequency on HN.
That's what I ended up doing recently [1]. I'm doubtful I would even know if someone did end up breaking the license agreement though.

[1]: https://pl.aiwright.dev/about/license/
Remember when for a while Azul tried to sell custom CPUs to support features in their JVM (e.g. some garbage collector features that required hardware interrupts and some other extra instructions). Although they dropped it pretty quickly in favor of just working on software

https://www.cpushack.com/2016/05/21/azul-systems-vega-3-54-c...
We're using S3 storage, lambda and ECS compute, and serverless DBs. It allows us to build a scalable product much faster, and leverages cloud features like multizone backups and distribution without having to develop these ourself.
It also allows fast transfer of data between Diversion and other cloud systems.
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Ha! I love your level of snark. It is refreshing. Made my day!
The article is mainly about IPv4 and IPv6.

The Wikipedia article is much more informative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Stream_Protocol
>> If you hate the format of these kinds of article

> You mean long-form articles?

I think the grandparent meant blabbering to get to 3k words.
Because there only is the average person.

Corporations are extensions of the desires of the average person.

If you give people the rundown on helium, of course they will be incredulous that gas drillers are just venting it.

But if you tell them that capturing it will increase their energy bill by a few dollars a month, suddenly they will find sources that say the helium shortage is blown out of proportion and not really something to worry about.

Everyone wants to do the right thing, but only a handful are willing to sacrifice even an inch for it. Corporations are just the physical manifestations of this behavior.
A combination of cycling and beer posters, all from limited runs and framed… I also have some of my photography on canvases and a photo of Liam Gallagher smoking a cigarette on a plane.
Good to know!

I've been using Omnisharp for ages, but I could never get netcoredbg working.

Last time I tried te integration with emacs-dap it kept segfaulting for no obvious reason.

But I may give it another try now!
Honestly, I think a better idea would be to write a program that can act as an intermediary, sending the stdin data through TCP, and writing out the data it receives back through stdout.

...can curl already do that?
Even despite how displeased I am with Apple right now, I can still clearly the edge it has in technology, how neatly integrate their software/hardware stack is etc.

Marketing is strong on Apple, but they do have great products. They just failed to do anything meaningful since the IPhone.

Don't come tell me about Airbuds, iPad and iWatch, they are all really obvious and soulless products. This isn't anywhere the kind of product innovation Jobs used to push.
Aviation authorities would get upset if some airline has a routine of doing this. This is absolutely something they keep a track of.

But yes, there's nothing stopping them from doing it for you flight. Or even from "permanently" doing it and undoing a day later.
https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/up-in-the-air-meet-the-...

> Up in the Air: Meet the Man Who Flies Around the World for Free

> Meet the Man Who Flies Around the World for Free

> The Man Who Flies Around the World for Free

> A Man Who Flies Around the World for Free

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9916974
What FlowFuse[0] does is market Node-RED[1] as the Open Source offering, obtaining contributions for various devices from the community and incorporate those into their commerical offering.

IoT has the problem that many devices but few users per device. So who is going to make the effect to build an integration for third-party software? The FlowFuse model is to allow the community to do that while they (indirectly) upsell that work.

FlowFuse also provides the SaaS solution for commerical gains.

[0] https://flowfuse.com/
[1] https://nodered.org
Is it a laser printer or maybe is it using LED? Pity they never marketed the LED printer more heavily so everybody's granny would dump their laser printer for a LED printer...
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yup, taking away the computer from my kids (they have no phones) until they clean up their room works for a 6 year old and a 12 year old.

there should be a law that mobile phones for children should not be allowed without parental/guardian guidance and supervision. which would give foster parents the right to control that.
Hook it to a $35 raspberry pi and install CUPS. Become an typical AirPrint enjoyer. I'm using an ancient parallel port printer hooked to my primary file server.

https://www.linuxbabe.com/ubuntu/set-up-cups-print-server-ub...
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The “astronauts on strike” story of Skylab 4, to me, seems like more of a rational response to harsh working conditions, which somehow got exaggerated in the media.

The previous mission, Skylab 3, accomplished much more than was expected—completing something like 50% additional work compared to what was scheduled.

Skylab 4’s schedule was then both lengthened and accelerated. The mission grew by about 50% in duration, and tasks were scheduled for astronauts at the beginning of the mission at a pace that didn’t allow for solid blocks of rest and didn’t account for acclimation (it assumed astronauts would be operating at full efficiency, and didn’t allow them time to acclimate to orbital conditions, didn’t allow them time to recover from errors or deal with equipment malfunctions).

There was no “strike”. That’s a myth. There was a conference between astronauts and the ground to alter the schedule—make sure astronauts have sufficient off-duty periods, allow astronauts time to transition from one task to the next, give astronauts time when they are waking up or falling asleep.

The flight director, Neil Hutchinson, later said that ground controllers erred when they made the plans for Skylab 4. Skylab 4 still accomplished more in space than was planned!
Java is doing just fine in embedded devices.

https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/perc

https://www.aicas.com/wp/

https://www.microej.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BD-J

https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/markets/digital-identity-and-...
The pitch simply wasn’t true. Data was not destroyed and was restored hours later.
> When people realized anyone with a sophisticated police scanner could listen in on cordless (and then early cellular) phone calls, it forced manufacturers to actually implement a bare-minimum level of security on those devices.

Did it?

IIRC, the biggest thing to fall out of that is the US government banned scanners that could pick up the frequencies commonly used by cordless phones.
That ship sailed years ago. We could have had "pipes between hosts" with a distributed OS design like Plan9. But Linus doesn't care, so we've got what we got. Until somebody forks the kernel and goes their own way for fun, it will never change.
Taking a decentralized application like Git back to centralization is a step in the wrong direction, it's exactly why Git was created.
It is quite possible B variant is not enough for some scenarios, earlier version also included the videos search, frames used for indexing were sometimes blur (not having fine-details) and these frames generally would have higher score for naive Natural language queries. I only tested with B variant.

But i resolved that problem upto a point by adding a Linear layer trained to discard such frames, and it was less costly than running a bigger variant for my use case.
On the topic of open sourcing your core business, founders often worry that a competitor is going to take their source code, fork it, and directly compete with them. But, is there an actual example of this happening for real and the fork winning out and killing the incumbent in the market? I mean there’s a fork of Signal that doesn’t require a phone number (which is Signal’s heinous transgression if you poll HN) and we’re all still using Signal. And all you have to do to prevent bigcorp taking your stuff is slap the [A]GPL on it for “free users” (while still allowing others to purchase the source code under a more permissive license should they require it).
SZ DJI Technology Co., Ltd. or Shenzhen DJI Sciences and Technologies Ltd. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJI
Transport tickets, booking confirmations, (censored) ID copies for accommodations, all stuff I prefer to take with me on paper when travelling (even if just as a backup).

Also printing guidelines/designs/checklists for woodworking/leatherworking/sewing projects, but that's not something most people do.

I can't imagine not having a (laser) printer in the house.
You would use one of the Generalized Extreme Value distributions. One of those, the Gumbel distribution, is actually commonly used in machine learning to sample from a softmax in a differentiable manner (by reparametrization), and should work for the maximum of normals (it's definitely one of the three).

You may be interested in this theorem : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%E2%80%93Tippett%E2%80...
`And not one of them were ever required to solve a LeetCode problem over Zoom.`

I can see some motivated developers benefit from this. But now those devs are working on someone's "open sourced" company for free thus growing someone's company in exchange for employability elsewhere. I can't shake of the feeling of borderline exploitation when I see the phrases 'my company" and "open source" next to each other.
Ask HN: What materials to consume to gain knowledge about cutting edge ML?
I am a computer science researcher, but do not work in ML. I am interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the cutting edge work being done.

I have taken a graduate level Applied Machine learning course that covered a variety of topics from a cursory theoretical level and then completed programming assignments based on those topics. We covered fundamentals, neural networks, and some selected topics (adversarial ML, privacy attacks, explainable ML, etc.).

If I had a free day to consume materials, what you recommend I read, watch, and play around with to gain a level of understanding past what was covered in this course (with the hope of touching upon the cutting edge of today)?
Super cool idea, I've been hoping for such a thing!

However, terrible interface!

Firstly I hate blindly running shell scripts from third part URLs.

Secondly yours is awful!

It does too much. It would be better to instruct how to set up the wasm environment and download the LLM separately from running the dang thing.

I'm laboriously separating these parts now to manually troubleshoot those that are failing.

Thanks for your efforts however.

If I get tinyllamma working I'll be piping it through piper for some speech output!
It’s nice, but the work to get to 3.0 almost seems glacial now.

We’ve been on 2.5 since it feels forever and it’s now showing its age…

I was rather hoping this post was announcing 3.0 - sadly no.
Here is the actual quote in full: "Every time a customer buys a printer, it's an investment for us. We are investing in that customer, and if that customer doesn't print enough or doesn't use our supplies, it's a bad investment." - HP CEO

Basically, every printer is a loss leader. And recurring supplies is their way to recoup losses.

I think this is an annoying business model. The world has changed. Culture has changed. This may have been great in the 90s. It does not work anymore. (Remember those internet connection companies that gave free junky computers in exchange for internet contracts?)
Smoke kills, the things you’re describing are a lot to do with stopping smoke spreading. The UK shares a performance based approach with the Netherlands whereas the German and Italians do things in a prescriptive way. There’s no “EU way”.
Fair question! A good chunk would cancel, and at a minimum, switching to free sw / paid support would drop our product-related revenue by ~70-80%.

Then again, we could make the software worse to trigger higher support hours, as complained by others in the thread about some OSS companies. Or really lean into it, going to full-blown consulting. However, switching to a consulting business has all sorts of negative externalities that can easily destroy the strengths and joys of a product culture. We actually do provide a growing side of professional services and roadmap acceleration for Graphistry & louie.ai (graph viz, graph AI, genAI, for data-intensive operational / investigative scenarios). By having our product licensing revenue the majority, we get to make sure there is stronger positive mutual alignment between us and our users, and our software and their long-term mission.

As another natural experiment, I was interviewing someone from a company in the same space a few days ago that doesn't have this discipline. While our company is younger, our tech roadmap has been literally years ahead every year, and the software they deliver has no real upgrade path.. alignment helps when you care about your craft and customers. (And for HN'ers, it's a 5X+ on valuation multiple.)
I've got a Brother black & white laser printer that is mostly a UPS label printer. But a couple of years ago bought big Canon color printer. Since then my blank walls have filled up with my favorite art, photos, people and things. I like that having the printer makes me continually on the lookout for things I want to print. I can value and memorialize things that would have been just a passing thought.
Yep, exactly! I remember these "happy" SVN days as well. It sucked, git was much better. Today you're almost never offline though, you even have wifi on airplanes.
Git's datastructures are a masterpiece, for sure
They're all being put together by Spirit Aerosystems which is a company that makes zero gross profit and has interest rate payments which are half of its gross revenue on top of that, which was spun off out of Boeing in order to aggressively cut costs and bust unions and fluff up Boeing's stock price.

That hasn't changed at all.
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