skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but those aren't world-changing, paradigm-shifting revelations. Arguably, they're just ruts the world got caught in. Hopefully we'll be out soon.
And that's fine as long as you realize that it isn't physically possible for everyone to do that in many cities. It cannot fit into the land area of the city.

And nobody is proposing a law that requires you to knock down your house and build a multi-family unit that fills the lot, but if that's what somebody else wants to do on their property, just let them.
I feel like we are over simplifying. This all rides on the existence of tachyon particles.

Math used in certain ways can validate or simulate anything, but it doesn't mean a scenario of a dimension greater or smaller than ours exists except by theoretical representation. I am fine with that it is fun to think about.

Dimensions beyond what we can perceive even if it is less than or greater than our own is pure nightmare fuel. I will simply leave it to math.
I now come to realize that if you don't want to drive it's better to have public transport. For the real fun part of owning a personal vehicle: sport car, road-trip... I doubt you would want a robot to take over.
I gave two of them away at a hacker con last year. During the event it was used to open up the charging lid of a Tesla and to remote control a fog machine.

I'm not competent of interested enough to make full use of them but I get the impression that they still have a lot of use in a large part of the world where simple RF is used to open gates and garages.

And of course you can copy and store RFID but you still have to get your hands on the tags. And that's where it falls down in certain more developed countries because they've mostly moved to RFID.
No. TCJA requires all software development costs to be treated as r&d, and capitalized over 5 years (or 15 years). Guidance from pre-2022 no longer applies.

https://www.grantthornton.com/insights/alerts/tax/2023/flash...
Sounds like BS, the two are orthogonal. Would help if you had a link.
Preach,my friend! This is the most reductive and disgusting distillation of the human experience I've read here recently...and I've followed quite a few EA threads as their founders were imprisoned ;)
> Best not confuse your personal preference for macros with a requirement for the global programming population.

I didn't. I said don't use Gleam and then said why.

I care about having ergonomic DSLs and a RAD web framework that's maximally productive for individuals and small teams. Others care about different goals. As I said above, I'm also glad Gleam exists and people have more options.
If Washington had done nothing else but refuse to seek a third term he'd already deserve a substantial amount of praise

He's been dead an buried for centuries, it doesn't really matter how he was as an individual because he, and all other historical figures, aren't really discussed as individuals but as ideas.

He was no genius as a military leader though, not sure if that's what you meant or if he's considered to be so in the history you're referring to
> also for several userspace components

True, though from the filing it's clear that Linux is the most interesting to them (it's the only one that is described separately, in paragraphs 41-45 of the complaint).
I've studied in not-so-elite math/physics/CS high school in Russia. It has a focus on full coverage of school program so alumni would crush the exams to get into universities they want. The entry exams were hard because in the first year they cover the entire program of specialties without cutting the corners (i.e. van der Waals equation, nearly all known to science properties of triangles and 4-side polygons, methods to ease brute force a polynom of Nth degree) with extensive homework. This is an impossible task for anyone who isn't already good because there's so much to learn and only 24 hours in a day.
> the government's own lawyers argued that it would not be legal to discriminate against companies based on their past performance

That in itself is systemically concerning.

If you hire a guy to renovate your bathroom and they leave a broken mess, shame on the guy. But if you then hire the same guy again for your kitchen renovation shame on you for not being smarter.

Now i understand that everything is much much more complicated with government contracts, but saying that you are not allowed to do the sane thing by law is not a good excuse when it is your job to make the right laws too.
The Bering Strait, which is between the Russian Far East and Alaska, is nowhere near where the Crimean War was. Do you mean the Black Sea straits?
If its solar powered, then it should work to some capacity.
This sounds incredibly fun. I wish morr government programs like this received more funding.
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Within cells, useRalativeImagePath?

This is the first time I've come across glitch tokens. Fascinating really; I wonder what the equivalents (if any) are for other models? Is there any overlap?
As a driver you not only see cars. You apply theory of mind to each car, assigning a personality to each moving car, even if you can't see the driver.

Let's see you see a car full of bumps, marks and broken lights. You might think: this car has crashed before, I am going to avoid it. Or a car with racing parts and decals and tinted windows, you know that car likes to accelerate faster than usual and may be unsafe to be around. Or you see a SUV with baby on board stickers, you'll know that if you are going to crash you may try to crash that car last because it has babies inside, etc...

So humans don't see objects they see the whole situation, unconsciously even.
>Fairly self evident.

Not even close

>Far fewer married people, many want to live in apartments

This has nothing to do with owning a home.

>others enjoy renting houses for a few years at a far cheaper rate than being locked into a dwelling

Source? In my 40 years on this Earth, I have not once met a single person in such a condition for more than a few years at most.

>A careful glance at any of the academic research around housing corroborates this.

Bullshit. Show me a single instance of such research. You are making some truly outrageous claims.
I've been enjoying "copyright's highway", it gets into each evolution of copyright law by looking at the details of each case as well as the personalities (and associated egos etc) that decided the outcome: what happened after sheet music, then radio and records, xerox machines, then home cassette recording and so on. Really opened my eyes on how much of the law is a compromise between interests and not some argument based on morals or righteous principle.

I just looked up "who owns this sentence on ebay" and see there's the new hardcover for ~30$, and a few paperback advance copies for $5 that are not meant to be put up for sale. Weighing the ethics of that decision, would be ironic to pirate a book on copyright, I think I will support the authors tho. It's cool that they co-authored with a lawyer, I guess the 30 bucks would buy about 5 minutes of his time so it's very gracious of him to offer his findings in book form.
These seem like wild takes to me, but thanks for sharing your opinions on them, it gave me another perspective to think on a bit.
A random aside... I have a friend who works as support for a major credit card issuer and they did the same outsourcing. She says that pretty much every call gets escalated and the customers are just madder than they would be if someone had handled the situation competently in the first place. But it's like business school 101 to outsource, and so they do. (It's pretty new for them, as they have a hard time retaining people. The low pay and interacting with the general public pretty much guarantees that. My solution would be... just pay them more? You're getting 30% interest for years every time they buy gas. If someone has a question and then pays their minimum payment, you're just creating free money out of thin air. Send them a Christmas card too!)

Yeah, now that you mention it, the whole SADA thing is pretty transparent. I don't have any major complaints; it just feels weird to me is all. Despite what HN thinks, Google can offer good support. I've seen it done! But it is apparently not their favorite thing.
His greatest accomplishment was stepping down from power when he didn't have to, setting a long precedent for peaceful transitions of power.

And in this case, although history is written by the victors, it was also written by the defeated, since they were the British Empire and still held a lot of power.
>demand can be specific to a price point

This only illustrates that you don't know what demand is, in the context of economics.
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You can already experience self driving cars by taking an Uber or a taxi, or being chauffeured if you are richer. None of that is new, the self driving aspect just promises to make those experiences perhaps more accessible (or at the very least, not less accessible than they are now). For example, I took a taxi to and from work every day when I lived in Beijing, which came to about 100 kuai/day for a 20-30 minute drive each way, which is affordable to a lot of people (although only possible due to cheap labor). I wouldn’t mind being driven to work here in the states, although it isn’t really economically feasible (and perhaps should be replaced with direct public transit if that was time competitive, which it isn’t, but could be).
I’m sure all the fake vents and diffusers are needed.
My inspiration for the idea was VicScreen[1], an Australian Victorian state government agency that funds film and interactive media projects. In the past they have funded half of a project's development budget but I'm unsure of their procedures as of now. Cult of the Lamb[2] was partially subsidised by VicScreen as an example. There is a selection process but the money comes with few strings attached, mainly attribution.

> The profit motive might not be aesthetically pleasing to you but it provides the vibrant indie marketplace we see today.

At what cost? My main point, ignoring my objectionable proposal is that video games could use better patronage from actors that aren't entirely profit driven. Having spoken to indie developers myself, there is a palpable constant stress living proposal to proposal with their business hanging in the balance at all times. That may very well be the nature of the market and some might say, so be it. I feel removing that stress to perform would probably offer better results, but who knows.

I am idealistic and I don't think art should be subject to the same conditions as the average business because the inherent value proposal is intangible and varies wildly to all that experience it.

[1] https://vicscreen.vic.gov.au/

[2] https://www.cultofthelamb.com/
It's not like people can generalize either. There are lots of famous drivers who ended up dead while driving.
You can emulate any tonie figurine for the toniebox.
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Where is the source code? It looks like they only host releases on github, but the license is MIT
> LLMs do not constitute "AI" let alone the more rigorous AGI.

I have a textbook, "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach," which covers Language Models in Chapter 23 (page 824) and the Transformer architecture in the following chapter. In any field technical terms emerge to avoid ambiguity. Laymen often adopt less accurate definitions from popular culture. LLMs do qualify as AI, even if not according to the oversimplified "AI" some laymen refer to.

It has been argued for the last several decades that every advance which was an AI advance according to AI researchers and AI textbooks was not in fact AI. This is because the laymen have a stupid definition of what constitutes an AI. It isn't because the field hasn't made any progress, but instead because people outside the field lack the sophistication to make coherent statements when discussing the field because their definitions are incoherent nonsense derived from fiction.

> They are a GREAT statistical parlor trick for people that don't understand statistics though.

The people who believe that LLMs constitute AI in a formal sense of the word aren't statistically illiterate. AIMA covers statistics extensively: chapter 12 is on Quantifying Uncertainty, 13 on Probabilistic Reasoning, 14 on Probabilistic Reasoning Over Time, 15 on Probabilistic Programming, and 20 on Learning Probabilistic Models.

Notably, in some of these chapters probability is proven to be optimal and sensible; far from being a parlor trick it can be shown with mathematical rigor that failing to abide by its strictures is not optimal. The ontological commitments of probability theory are quite reasonable; they're the same commitments logic makes. That we model accordingly isn't a parlor trick, but a reasonable and rational choice with ledger arguments proving that failing to do so would lead to regret.
Have seen this and later experienced it. Not going to go into anecdotes / details.
yeah, for sure, but it's not just Google.
I mean, there are certain projects that do that, eg. I'd consider ripgrep to be "grep but done right"
LIDAR is rapidly falling in price, which will enable lots of interesting applications even if Tesla’s bet pays off.
I've been using GCP for many years and have always had fantastic experiences with all aspects of it. I don't get the HN hate for it, but it is what it is. Their loss.
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I'm 2/2 on getting hired as general labor in small/medium biz and then approaching the owner to help them "automate that repetitive stuff that they know how to do by heart". Now I have a contract with them.

The reason this works in contrast to the owner going out and hiring a "software contractor" is because now I know their entire business and they don't need to explain to me what they need, I already know and can then just build it. That's a huge barrier for any owner/founder - they don't even know where to start with trying to explain to someone what kind of software they need and are weary of getting taken advantage of. But if you've been inside their business, then this is eliminated.

I jokingly call my consultancy "HAI" (hesitation automation information, also "yes" in Japanese).

Find a small business you actually like the product or service of personally, get in at the bottom, perform all of the different roles, and quickly evaluate the owner to see if there's potential. Work your way out of the initial responsibilities if you get a contract.
And prime minister of Singapore was a senior wrangler at Cambridge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hsien_Loong : "His college tutor, Denis Marrian, later described Lee as "the brightest mathematician he had admitted to the college". Béla Bollobás said that Lee "would have been a world-class research mathematician", but his father did not realise this and persuaded Lee to leave the field."
the web was such a mess back then trying to evolve to where we are today, so many great techniques got lost in the process
I don’t know why you’re being obtuse, just say what they’re taking.
I use an oxygen generator in my airplane when oxygen is required by the FAA (above 12500 ft for 30+ minutes, above 14000 ft at all). This has a visual flow-meter on it, but oxygen generators have an additional failure mode where gas is flowing, but is not oxygen enriched, so regular blood oxygen monitoring makes sense. I also monitor when above 12000 ft but before oxygen is required, to decide if I want to get on it early. I actually use a fingertip reader as my primary, but upgraded my Apple watch to an oxygen-capable one to have a backup instrument.
It's a very subtle and complex "thing" so I'll disclaim that this is only part of it, and it meshes together with other parts, but Management is also for decision making, direction provision, and, to some degree, parenting (see last paragraph for where that somewhat crossed over).

Where it really stirs up the concepts into a fine mud is that, in order to be able to make decent decisions, you need to know both business direction from above as well as decision / direction practicality from below, and the more that management becomes removed from on-going engagement with below (eg. outsourcing performance monitoring, lack of involvement in SCRUM) the further their decisions are removed from understanding the practicality.

Surveillance, as the terminology used, is loaded to create fear, which probably serves the needs of bad managers. Good managers should be engaging with their reports to know what they're working on, and to know them psychologically, so they know to ask more probing questions if someone is hiding an issue for fear of upsetting "the boss". Good managers know up the ladder and down the ladder and should be constantly working on finding the balance between each in order to maximise both the productivity of their reports and the progress made in business directions.

One of the reports I had (albeit briefly) was very emotionally attached to his work, and took it personally even when there were requests to make changes to fit it into changing requirements. I love the guy, but he needed fairly regular vent-sessions to talk him through, and out of, the (unnecessary) emotional state in order to reach "oh, this is what I'm paid for".

(funny story: I once got so exasperated with him that I called him my son's name - man that was embarassing for both of us).
Maybe you missed this section?

https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/#scaled-trunk-based-develo...

Trunk does not prohibit feature branches or code review.
> If you're serious about your code, you will turn on -Werror -Wall -Wextra and anything else you don't like the look of, use static analysis and so on that makes this class of complaint moot.

No it doesn't. No-one has ever come up with a concrete set of rules for how to build C and not have embarrassingly basic security bugs. It's always some vague "oh, if you use enough warnings and static analysis it's not a problem", and if you have security bugs evidently you weren't using enough, and if it's impossible to write anything or use any libraries then evidently you were using too many. A C language that actually works is vaporware.
The newer versions of the Wind River compiler is based on Clang under the hood. I wonder how the comparisons shake out vs with older versions which were more custom.
Just for context, the language in the US constitution said "limited time" and was codified as 14 years in 1790 [edit: hey, 14 years after the declaration of independence, never noticed that before [subedit: just a coincidence I guess, UK statute from 1710 was also 14 years.]]

Personally I think that's pretty good and anything longer IMO is unconstitutional. If you're making royalties off something published before 2010 I'd say that's actually helping you sit on your ass as opposed to encouraging creativity.

On one hand I don't love putting a paywall on legal protections, but it's not without merit. I think it's neo-georgism that holds that you should pay for the right to monopolize - whether that's land, natural resources, or intellectual property. If you're keeping something walled off from the public, then you should be taxed so the public still seems some benefit from it. Encouraging only monopolizing the truly profitable.

I'll also add that copyright was intended to protect publishers until they could recoup their investment in the printing of some work. Now that they cost of publishing is zero I don't really see the point.
That's a great question. Whichever project it turns out to be their governance and leadership will be well worth studying.
I would check out the Proxmark3 Github repo [0]. They have a cheatsheet [1] with the basics on how to get started. I also did a talk about RFID security last year about the basics [2]

To get started, the basics are: low freq (LF) is usually around 125khz and is rarely encrypted (HID Prox is the most common in the US). The data is often encoded in Wiegand format for access control systems (something to keep in mind when reading the raw data).

High freq (HF) (aka NFC) is ~13Mhz and is readable by most Android phones with NFC. Not all tag data can be read however. HF cards support a lot of different options including data storage (normally in a block layout with permissions to read and write depending on keys) and encryption (iCLASS and SEOS being the HID offerings and very common). Some can be cloned (like hotel cards) while others (like SEOS) require a downgrade attack to work correctly (SEOS -> normal SEOS reader -> Weigand data -> older style card like HID Prox).

[0] https://github.com/RfidResearchGroup/proxmark3

[1] https://github.com/RfidResearchGroup/proxmark3/blob/master/d...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKOAywZqisc
Indivualized advertising is already a thing in political campaigns. That's what Facebook and all these other companies have been selling for almost 20 years now. I'm not sure whether throwing an AI chatbot into the mix really makes much difference, as the indivualized marketing itself doesn't seem to make much difference. It's just more noise in the political system.
This is often said, but isn’t labor force participation at the lowest level ever? And aren’t a good fraction of jobs so called bull shit jobs that could be eliminated with often a positive net result, particularly gov etc.
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This generally describes every software only company I’ve worked at for the last 8-10 years.

Anyone can spin up an AWS app and so they do, and aim junior engineers at a vague “billion dollar market” waiting for those juniors to spin gold from the BS an empty eyed MBA emits.

I am done with software “brands”. I took a job fixing cars for a little less pay (fortunately for me I grew up fixing cars and have an EE BSc, not a CS degree).

I tinker at home on AI and LLM projects but will never work for a company focused on software development as their main business ever again. Such a joke and waste of human effort.
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HN may dislike it because it's an old protocol and it's more reliable than the newest crap today's developers are promoting, but I like PrimitiveFTP for this task. The .apk file is available at f-droid.org. MacOS should have tnftp(1) which is a preferred program of mine. Type ftp -h on the Mac to check.

The entire process can be scripted according to preference.

There are many way to do it. The following should work

Put phone and laptop on same network

For example,

192.168.1.1 is gateway

192.168.1.8 is phone

192.168.1.9 is laptop

Start PrimitiveFTP on the phone

On the laptop use tnftp to retrieve the photos

# get list of the photos, where PrimitiveFTP has been set to use port 2121
echo ls DCIM/Camera|ftp -P2121 ftp://192.168.1.8 > photos.txt

# get the 1st 100 photos
(echo cd DCIM/Camera;sed 's/.* //;s/^/get /;100q' photos.txt )|ftp -P2121 ftp://192.168.1.8

# get all photos created/modified in 2023
(echo cd DCIM/Camera;sed 's/.* //;/2023/s/^/get /' photos.txt )|ftp -P2121 ftp://192.168.1.8

The file attributes should be preserved.
Yes. And `int name() { ... }` now is same to `int name(void) { ... }`.
Thanks! I've just bought a Proxmark clone, so this will be very useful.