skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose you should consider the cost of the new timer vs the cost of the electricity at that point.

If a new timer is $20, and you're paying the US National Average for electricity of $0.165 / kwh. The new one is 0.6 and the old one is 2.3, for a 1.7 watt difference.

Doing the math, $20/$0.165=121.212kwh, or 121212 watt hours / 1.7 watts per hour = 71301.2 hours / 8760 hours in a year (not counting leap hours) = ~8.1 years for the device to pay for itself in savings.

If you're worried about the environment, then it's wasteful to take a moderately efficient system and upgrade it. If you're worried about cost, then you're not saving that much money. If you're worried about overall value for your effort, there are better things to focus on.

Even if it were perfectly efficient (0 watt standby) then it would still take 6 years to pay for itself if it were $20.
The context is more around the pool of applicants for a role rather than the entire tech industry.
They are high in energy. carbs used by muscles for energy first over protein and fat
I've never understood why websites need to be able to get a list of installed fonts.
+1 for Winforms unless you're on a *nix platform. Drag and drop, C# (or VB, if you prefer) is easy and flexible, and the app will work on basically any Windows device.
I'm in my 50s and still don't know this answer. But that is OK. Your life will have different chapters, and there is nothing wrong with that. Do what works for now... change when it stops working.
May be most curious fact, so graphics-tied Apple, spent huge resources on hardware and for now avoided to be tied with Nvidia :)

- Looks like, when Apple choose Intel as CPU supplier, it was not fortunate move, as AMD hardware have significantly more performance for less money.
Disabling is what it says on the tin, giving you the chance to re-enable the account later. Nothing GDPR-violating with that. As long as you are also given an option to actually nuke all your PII.
The risk of being affected by this is so small as to be insignificant compared to the many likelier causes of death and injury that you can also do much more about.
> the number would be shocking
Yeah but if you send a message like that before boarding a plane you should know what you can get...

(not a prosecution though maybe, if it wasn't members of the group who thought it could be true)
"Fewer than 0.5% of Brave users are using Strict fingerprinting protection mode, based on our privacy-preserving telemetry data."

I think this is likely because people who go on their way to switch to using strict mode are more likely to disable the telemetry as well.
FWIW, there is some effort to let QT applications survive compositor crash in a way that would be even more resilient than with X11: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-Wayland-Compositor-Restart

Of course, that's a new feature they're working on, only helps QT apps, and requires the toolkit to track state (and by the same virtue, looks like it would have worked fine with X11 if they wanted to). So this is more of an interesting related tidbit rather than a disagreement.
Thanks. Crazy how fragile that system must be. Don't they have reclosers?
Note that though the video is new, the bug happened 9 years ago in 2015. And I'm pretty sure it was fixed quickly, though I didn't immediately find the fix commit when I had a cursory glance at the github issue, because there were so many drive-by comments from the time to wade through.
MPs demand urgent action to tame fetid farts aboard planes (2019)
TL;DR:

police combines unproven technology in criminal investigations without oversight.

"what precedent they'd argue allows this. Is this same as grabbing small part of fingerprint, using AI to complete fingerprint, then looking for match against fingerprint database? Or is this reaching beyond that? What are odds of a false positive in this case?" -- https://nitter.cz/KimZetter/status/1749504703371862452
That's only a "happy path" attitude.

How well would a moncular path with headlights moving toward it at night operate? How about in rain, snow, or fog?

I'm not saying LiDAR is the only way, but I don't see a reason to use this as a solution.

I'm not saying this isn't valuable. I used to work in 3D/metaverse space, and having depth from a single photo, and being able to recreate a 3D scene from that is very valuable, and is the future.
My experience was sadly the opposite and it greatly exacerbated my depression and invented the thought of suicide in my mind. It’s hard because there are many people online who get angry at any mention of negative outcomes, but I have to share my side of the story too. Thankfully it is slowly improving, but it has been quite a ride since then. Maybe exactly what I needed? But can’t say those 5 years weren’t absolute Hell
> I can't fathom why anyone would use downvoting as disagreement

That’s often one of the primary uses of downvoting. Here or anywhere else that has downvoting on discussions. What would you use it for? E.g. inappropriate content or content that doesn’t belong is rather flagged.

> if folks want to be in an echo chamber, there are plenty of places on the net for that

Unfortunately that’s most social media. Including HN (possibly to a lesser extent, but still true).
Lots of processor types are programmable, not just GPUs. Apple is well known for making purpose built chips for their hardware. Main point is that they reuse the cores across different chips. A chip with 12 camera interfaces doesn’t sound like a general purpose GPU to me.
Like most things in ML, the answer of which layers to use come down to empirical evidence more than theory. In a typical Lora training pipeline, you freeze the contents of the base model and just adjust the Lora layers. The more layers you convert to lora layers the more degrees of freedom you have for the optimization.

There are some finetuning regimens that only recommend finetuning the last layer since this is theorized to have the "highest order" representation of the inputs. Other training regimens will finetune all layers. It's largely data and problem dependent. Lora just mirrors this convention.
Thank you so much for the kind words! Glad you find them useful - I’m always open to feedback :)
> What cozy games are showing us is that a world with tons of “free stuff” — universal basic income, universal health care, free education, free housing — will not result in a breakdown of our society because “no one wants to work”. People love to work.

The difference is that Dark Souls and Factorio can synthesize the mental feeling of work and success without anything being provided to others. I could work on a construction site all day and still count down the hours until I can get home and play Powerwashing Simulator. A lot of our hobbies have become pornographic versions of work.

I'm not morally opposed to a world of "free stuff", but while we still need bread and cars and QC on airplane door plugs we still need people who are motivated to do menial and boring jobs.
> I'm very surprised to hear that a Miele appliance failed so spectacularly. What did customer support have to say when you first reached out?

There are several circuit boards and a display/keypad board in the unit. The Miele factory repairman tried replacing each one (at a cost of about $1000 apiece) and it still didn't fix it! (The unit was out of warranty)

The actual culprit: The heating element behind the back (used for convection) is wired (in the US) to be between the two phases of the 220 volt line. One phase is always connected to one end of the element, the other side is switched. The element developed a fault somewhere in the middle and shorted to ground. (This line had no GFCI on it). So 110 volts was flowing through half the heating element at all times. We discovered this ourselves after the repairman left with the unit unfixed (they were "waiting for parts") and we looked at the circuit diagram he left behind.

The Milele repair technician didn't check for this--a $75 part that failed--and wanted to replace all the electronics inside.

We reported to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission because we thought this was a serious design defect and they did get involved. Miele conceded that they didn't need to replace thousands of dollars of circuit boards and display boards inside the product.
Honestly I can't envision that conversation happening between two real people. What is much, much more likely to actually happen in my experience:

"I found this phone."

"Ok." takes it

You go in later "I lost my phone, do you have it here?" and they hand it to you. For particularly fastidious store clerks they may ask you to describe it before handing it over. And you likely have to wait while whoever you ask asks all the other employees if they found a phone.

It's not clear to me that letting the phone just sort of drift through the ether toward the Waymo Depot while who knows how many other passengers use the car is any better than putting the phone at some other fixed location behind at least some cursory level of security.
Unless one flies out at 750mph, hits a critical part of the plane somewhere else.
Thanks for the recommendation.

After reading the article, I watched the Margaret Mead bit on “The Rejected.”

Hope your book does well. I’ll buy it on Audible :)
I have been a runner for many years, and I do habitually glance at running shoes.
Slug slimes aerospace biz AerCap with ransomware, brags about 1TB theft
I think we're getting there. It took us centuries to get from the first car to a self-driving one. With RISC-V devices coming one after another combined with the minimal locked down immutable OS space I'm optimistic. A completely free and open source phone with off the shelf parts and a software stack you can compile yourself is around the corner.

Don't call us fanatics, we're the early adopters shaping the UX you're too busy complaining about to help improve. :)
I mean, I'm talking from a b2b and an on-prem/world of many differently capable clouds, so I'm most likely a dinosaur anyway. We have established code bases for domains.

We've been looking at lambdas or FaaS for quite a few things and... we kind of always end up with weighing loads of operational effort versus just sticking a method into a throwaway controller on the existing systems. Is it somewhat ugly? Probably. Does it reuse the code people maintain for that domain anway? Very much so. Would you need a dependency or duplicate maintenance of that model code between the FaaS code and the monolith anyway? Most likely.

All in all, we mostly have teams utilizing Pactbroker to work out their APIs usually, deploying decently chunky systems in containers and being happy with it.

The one thing we really do on-demand compute like this is some model refinement. Because here a tiny service can trigger the consumption of rather awesome resources for a short while.
Yeah I think there are fundamental challenges with microservices that are very hard to address unless you're someone like Google and you can invent BigTable and Zanzibar. It used to be you needed to move processing into app code and out of the database because they were hard and expensive to scale, but that's not true anymore.
> If I used every word in precisely the context you expect, then what in the world would I have to say to you?

Lots, I'm sure. / Besides, this is a straw man. And it misses the point. I am opposed to your choice of language, not because I'm trying to "control" how you frame or prioritize things, but because it suggests a deep misunderstanding of fundamental concepts. You claimed that copyright law forces people to believe that one cannot copy things. This is ridiculous. I hope you can see this.

Copyright law establishes probabilistic consequences for certain behaviors. Many people would view copyright law as being _normative_ (in that it defines right and wrong). I agree that it sets norms, even if I don't necessarily agree on the wisdom of the chosen norms. Laws are wise and just only to the extent they align to deeper principles.

You and I probably agree with many of the downsides of copyright law, even if our final takes are different, but that's not very interesting. In another comment, I linked to some articles on the topic by legal experts. I truly hope no one cares very much about my or your points of view about copyright law; I hope people go and read something by the experts instead. Of course, I'm not saying they are infallible. But there is a huge between armchair commenters on HN and someone with hundreds of hours of focused study and experience actively debating with others at a similar level.

Here is what is interesting to me: how have you ended up with these bizarre conceptualizations? Why are you sticking to them? Is it largely inertia and/or ego? I haven't ruled out a high degree of contrarianism as well. Perhaps even just wanting to get a reaction. Otherwise, you seem reasonable, so I'm puzzled.

Another point: Are you familiar with Orwell's ideas of thoughtcrime? That would be an example of law and society attempting to force people to believe something. Even so, as we know from the novel, that twisted goal cannot be fully achieved even in a totalitarian society.
Can we instead have a 'mixed for good audio equipment' option? It doesn't matter
how many PCM samples you have if the mixing engineer expects me to play it on a potato.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oq_Ol3kX1k
I spent some time listening to some Spatial Audio mixes about 1 year ago. Dolby Atmos is a cool concept but I was not able to hear a benefit.

This reminds me of how when stereo first came out artists (including the Beatles) didn’t take it seriously. They would spend most of their time getting the mono mix right and the the stereo mix was thrown together and would often do strange things like having the lead vocals on one side.

Does anyone know of artists that have really taken the time to ensure their music is benefitting from Dolby Atmos?
There are many known real embarrassing videos of both Biden and Trump, so the impact seems low

And there has already been a roller coaster 'fake' news already, these recent years, back and forth, Hillary, Trump, Biden, Hunter, Covid origin, vaccine safety, election interference, Pizzagate, QAnon, Russiagate, Top secret documents, impeachments...

The voters have become so entrenched and polarized, there isn't much that will sway them

But the problem exists, probably social media websites should have a notification for videos flagged late "You have watched video X, since then context has been added: This was AI generated"
I think the analogy is more like: why open a can with a better screwer when you can open it with a can opener. Use the right tool for the right task.
I know what you mean but it’s been quite fine for me. With AWS, you have a JMS compliant message router in SQS, and SNS is okay, just might need an adapter to the message schema. I don’t like some of their limitations that are foreign to me when integrating over Artemis, Pulsar or Rabbit, and Kafka. Lambdas are just runtime system containers, you can use Spring Cloud Functions or any of the myriad of compatible approaches. RDS is but a scaled HA Postgres or MySQL service. Redis, DynamoDB, MKS, Keyspaces, and so on, can all be hosted on-premises. Not really a lock-in.
Interesting that in Ukrainian робота and праця are synonymous. Although, some derived words are different in meaning. Like робітник is a worker but працівник is an employee. I see in another comment that the same is true in Polish.
Assuming a homogeneous cake, I think you can get around this by cutting the cake in half, and then cutting a line perpendicular to that one. Each person takes 2 pieces that touch each other diagonally, which should in theory give each person half of the cake.
https://isdotnetopen.com/

Some other concerns are raised here. E.g. I wasn't aware that the debugger was licenced restrictively and not under the same permissive licence as the rest of .NET Core.

Well I am quite far into this project using .NET. Hopefully it doesn't get worse.
Sierra Space bursts full-scale inflatable space habitat module
All agreed. But I don't think that weighing of both sides trivializes down to

>> So leave a switch to kill all crew available at all times till you think someone is unstable, then lock it. Genius

Reality is more nuanced.

Also, the related rabbit hole is "How do you assure that commanders are maximally reliable?" (or SSBNs, nuclear silo crew, etc.)

Which seems an insane problem to even try to solve!
Google News searches ranked AI-generated ripoffs above real articles
you're not alone,very similar experience here,for both
> allocate a bonus pool for the entire company, from which AWS expenses are taken out of

Also a perverse incentive.

If we use ec2.small, the customer's query will take 3x longer but be half the price. Let's turn off the nightly security audits. We can live with quarterly backups, right? What do we need all these logs for, anyway? We could hack something that works together in 2 weeks, but if we spend 3 months, it could be really efficient, let's do that...
Really? Because I think Hacker News often features posts by hackers and amateurs trying to tackle something normally handled by professionals.

The comments would be a great place to reply with references to the ACTUAL research on how often chemists taste the chemicals they are working with.
Do you believe that meat consumption is the prime causal factor?
You don't get non-zero risk of dying anywhere.

Do you drive or ride in cars, busses, trains?

There are many other daily risks other than transportation.
If you donate DNA, what should scientists give in return? A new model
> demand itself is speed

Ok, let’s substitute that into the original comment, instead of:

> demand has slowed down recently

we get:

> speed has slowed down recently

Nothing to do with the rate of change of speed, just speed itself. In other words:

In terms of _speed_, this would indicate that _speed_ was once higher and is now lower.

Let’s translate that same sentence back substituting speed with demand:

In terms of _demand_, this would indicate that _demand_ was once higher and is now lower.

That statement cannot be true as 2023 demand was the highest ever.
I recently learned you can attach garden light solar panels to audio jacks to turn vibrations in light into sound.

I mounted two in a suitcase to make a DIY synth.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2L2k3ZNBTC/

It's such an easy and fun hack.
Not at all, you can encase everything on an “unsafe” block and live happy.

However you won’t have Rust’s guarantees of fearless concurrency and you expose yourself to other defects related to memory (free after use etc.)

If you understand the language, you even program much of the std libraries with unsafe code in them.

For more info you can consult the Rustonomicon.
And by doing this you reversed direction and didn’t actually measure “one way”
Oh wow. I'd never heard of any of this, but it reminds me a lot of the different methods for voting [1].

After all, at heart there are a lot of parallels -- how do you reconcile different preferences and resources to split up a cake fairly, vs. how do you reconcile different preferences to split up the resource of power fairly, whether to elect a single person (e.g. a president) or a parliament?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system
The original Sound Blaster could only record at 8-bit resolution at up to 12 kHz. The 2.0 could record at up to 15kHz, still 8-bit.

The second generation of Sound Blaster was the first that could record at 44kHz (mono) sampling rate, but was still only 8-bits of resolution.

It wasn't until the 3rd generation Sound Blaster 16 that 16-bit audio could be recorded.
>there is a norm within cryptography to assume that parties will possess technologies which are more advanced than are publicly disclosed

Who? Satoshi? Pseudonymous C++ programmer coding digital cash experiment in his home. Satoshi wasn't a cryptographer[0].

[0] https://cointelegraph.com/news/satoshi-was-not-a-cryptograph...
> are maturing exponentially

What does this even mean?
It's shockingly dystopian to me as an American that you could get a citation for using a cop's name.
"The drunkennes of the pilot doesn't matter really, anyway the autopilot does the job" - that is how the representative of Aeroflot was trying to convince the passengers to proceed with the flight when he was called on board after the passengers refused to flight with the drunk crew (usually Russian passengers are fine with drunk pilots, the situation here was an exception because the actual passenger who felt entitled for sober crew and raised the noise was Ksenija Sobchak - the daughter of the guy who "godfathered" Putin when Putin was just a clerk in St-Petersburg city office)
they did say it on record on the ars interview. one per car. and then they spin it with "they don't drive the car, just provide input".

the cases where the car halt, the system is probably waiting for a supervisor input, so it is technically 1.2 overseer per car.
Well at least people's voices are being heard, not something I can say for every country, federation, or union.
You're talking about people who have committed crimes or fallen out of favour.

You are!
> cloud-native version control

Just how "cloud-native" are we talking here? One chief selling point of git is that you are not reliant on a centralized server. You have remotes, yes, but if one of them goes down, you still get the entire project history.

I am of the opinion that the software world needs to find something better than git. One of my major pain points as a lead are the inevitable, yet unpredictable, git questions I will be getting from new juniors. But "cloud native" sounds like a poor starting point for "better git". Not needing external servers for VCS is one of the things git gets right.
It's a view that's created by a very orthodox approach of the economy. If you look at more modern school of thought the government don't really need taxes to do anything.

So for instance according to MMT taxes create an ongoing demand for currency and are a tool to take money out of an economy that is getting overheated. This goes against the conventional idea that taxes are primarily meant to provide the government with money to spend to build infrastructure, fund social welfare programs, etc.

It's a bit the same idea with another modern approach FTPL but in that case with a more cautious and critical look, saying that low taxes allow high inflation and prevents the government from the need to pay its debt.

In any case the real question all those systems try to solve is how to best allocate resources, maximize innovation, growth, employment and limit poverty and inequalities. Be careful that thinking that poor people are stealing your resources with taxes don't become a shortcut for you to accept the tough idea that you have more resources than you need and some people should have less than what they need to support you.
I guess for self-evaluation and generation, we might want to choose a model that's performant for the job. This means that if the 70B is fine-tuned, that is probably the judge + augmentor vs a generic model.
Also, I think the paper shows the win rate using the Mistral medium on some preliminary benchmark (Table 2)

But, I liked the idea that the reward model is not static, and if the user is provided with multiple options, then the extra score might help break the tie.
I think it doesn’t matter, since Lorentz shrinking of ether in non-symmetric speed of light would shrink the faster direction.
Likelihood: Certainly possible (and out in the wild, see Triangulation and Pegasus), but it seems brazen to waste 0-days and PR issues on the low chance someone might text a bomb threat.
Yeah I agree, it's like saying "oh hey don't worry only a quarter of you guys will lose your jobs... but hey! Not gonna happen tomorrow!". Seems to completely ignore the impact that will have on people reliant on this income.