skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what I am using for this exact purpose: https://github.com/jomjol/AI-on-the-edge-device
> Mummification. On a bet. With the motivation being to demonstrate utility.

Without any variant of the phrases "it's weird" or "just because", why exactly do you feel so strongly about mummification after death, regardless of what motived him?

I don't care what happens to my body after death, because I won't be using any more. Do you expect to keep using yours after you die, or something?

Also, rereading your earlier comments: what exactly is your belief about the brown M&Ms story? Why do you think Van Halen asked for M&Ms with the brown ones removed in the first place?

> That is seriously enough to recheck everything because it seems to have blown up the founder.

It was rechecked, and popularised, by John Stuart Mill.

My issues with utilitarianism survive this new person, because they aren't ad hominem attacks on eccentric personalities.
Alan Watts was my 'gateway drug' into accessible spiritual texts, that led me further to Jiddu Krishnamurti, Ram Dass, traditional Buddhism and Advaita.

To be able to search for specific topics or phrases in Ram Dass' talks, I built this little search engine that finds the search phrase in the subtitles and gives you the context and a link to Youtube: https://ramdass-search.net/
See:

https://www.hetzner.com/cloud

But if you want just storage:

https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box

Though, I don't know how competitive ~ 50 EUR / month for 20TB is.
> I also thought you were implying that system virtual machines for targets without hardware assistance (your other comment seems to suggest this) require full CPU emulation, but perhaps that was not your intent.

In fairness, I did write my comment that way. So I can see why that's the conclusion you drew. Sorry for the confusion there.
It being FOSS is an advantage to some folks. Obsidian doesn't allow you to use it for business for free unless you meet specific criteria like having 2 or less employees.
I can install Chrome add-ons to my YouTube mobile app, which I use for about 80% of my YouTube watching?
> What exactly does "dy/y = dx" mean?

As I understand, dy/y = dx means that the derivative of 1/y with respect to y equals to the derivative of 1 with respect to x.
Not using title case also removes ambiguity in some cases and is generally much easier to read. Not sure how or why is it so popular around here.
Dunno about "great" - "For 6 out of 10 mini-app+compiler pairs, Arm has a shorter path length, with the overall average difference when weighting each benchmark equally being 2.3% longer for RISC-V."
>when the only thing to cover up is a contract for some poorly written software?

There are a lot of programmers who seem to think it would be a horrific miscarriage of justice for somebody to be held responsible for the behavior of their own computer programs.
These researchers are already based in the EU (Deepmind's Paris office) and are staying in the EU.
Oh man, posting screenshots of your desktop brings me back.

It was waasy more interesting back when actually methods for OS customization existed beyond “favorite color” we’ve really lost so much.

I never had that complicated of a setup but still found it fun

https://www.deviantart.com/donatj/art/Screenshot-9-of-Mine-i...
At least you don’t give money to Redmond…
A Judge in India Prevented Americans from Seeing a Blockbuster Report
There was a report recently that Facebook users have their data sold to 1000-5000 companies, and Facebook takes input from up to 100k companies when compiling data on people.

Supermarkets are also into the data game, exploiting the gold mine of data that is shopper loyalty cards.

Smart TVs are in the data game, selling details of what you’re watching on to other people.

Cars are recording visuals, audio, telemetry, and selling that on.

I think it’s reasonable to assume that energy companies are selling the data they’re collecting about you onto data brokers (aka shady companies and/or criminal organisations)
> What really bothers me is that the CEO of the Organization at the time was also a Christian priest/deacon

Why does that bother you? It's just a bunch of lies too.
They are just making it up.

Security people seems to be of the militaristic type ofent, so I guess they add a slive of war mongering to it to to play ball.

Iran, North Korea and what not. Very convenient since it is not falsifiable in practice.
> within an heavily constrained terminal which cant be reused for anything else.

Except for botnets and/or spying. Some of those boards already contain MEMS microphones and cameras (the box in the picture even shows the camera objective). I'd have took apart the device to take a look inside, or at least run some diagnostics to explore which hardware was installed/detected.
11 seconds downtime - looks like devops had a break for smoking
If you're looking for something simple to try work it out, I bought a smart plug a few years back which could record usage for around 20USD, you can then move it between your devices getting a sense of each's usage.

Long term tracking usage of individual device energy usage is nice, but just knowing from past measurements how much a device tends to use is already very useful.
Did you look at their H3? It's pricier but it has two 2.5Gbits ports (along with a NVMe slot and an Intel CPU)
The Timeless Way of Building, by Christopher Alexander.

It’s about designing houses, and in a more general sense spaces for people. There is a powerful philosophy that he conveys in this book which applies to software engineering as well.

Some notes of caution though. The book is not an easy read. It’s also not very direct and quite philosophical. Also, don’t try to reduce it to just software patterns. There is a lot more in there about a sense of beauty, quality, and essence which people miss when they mechanically reduce the message to the patterns.
In Praise of Difficult Children (2009)
Not really. Most consumer motherboards have a limited number of SATA ports, and server hardware is more expensive, noisy and requires a lot of space. Consumers usually go with branded NAS appliances, which are also expensive and limited at scaling.

Setting up a cluster of small heterogeneous nodes is cheaper, more flexible, and can easily be scaled as needed, _assuming_ that the distributed storage software is easy to work with and trouble-free. This last part is what makes it difficult to setup and maintain, but if the software is stable, I would prefer this approach for home use.
Thank you for educating me! :) It also immediately highlights the original problem even better.

Funny how the French do the same thing as us (Dutch people) again though, I wonder if there is a quirky consequence of some historical event "encoded" there?
I’m highly suspicious that the whole 90% of restaurants fail thing is largely because small business owners don’t know how to manage their finances and maintain adequate buffers for lean months. I expect even the highest revenue places to just fall over suddenly because of it
Which left wing governments has the US defended against right wing coups?
- "Sorry. This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://www.reut...

I've never seen this before!

edit: Here's a working link,

https://archive.is/B1T2P ("How an Indian startup hacked the world")
B2B SaaS in the AI era is impossible?
The ultimate application for an enterprise inevitably involves access to all the internal data for the AI to do its magic.

However, companies are extremely afraid of having any data leaving their company to be sent to some AI APIs or stored in some other databases, which makes almost any sale impossible. Which is stupid because they already have all their data, like Confluence, Notion, Slack, Zendesk, etc., on external servers.

How can a startup convince B2B clients to use AI product as SaaS and not a weird self-hosted/self-deloyed monstrosity that looks more like consulting than SaaS?
Nice, but as others pointed out, this uses a webview to render the underlying text. My note-taking app, Plume[1] is written in Qt C++ and QML, without resorting to webview, rather, rendering using my own custom QML components. Plume's model is written in C++ while the view in QML, allowing for a very performant (benchmarks on the website) yet fluid experience with beautiful animations.

[1] https://www.get-plume.com/
There were tear downs showing this tiny little iPod shaped SoC shoved into the case and connected to a massive battery. The SoC was underpowered considering it was running a 1024x768 screen and support was dropped almost immediately.

The iPad 2 teardown showed an SoC which seemed a lot more custom designed for the iPad, and the "big iPod" criticism died around that point.
> "what's so special about x
?" Does f(x) mean one function, whereas f(y) means a completely different function?

This looks like the difference between parameters of a function and arguments. In the definition, you have the parameter x, used internaly and, when calling the function you use an argument - located in the calling context.
In python: def f(x): return 2*x ## x is a parameter
x = 3
y = f(x) # x in an argument

For partial derivatives, it may be ok to use 1 and 2 to show they are the first and second parameter, but maybe they could also be named by some convention, like x and y or alpha and beta or whatever
Seismic sensors would definitely benefit from this. Scientists have to get clever to estimate the direction of events when using a single sensor like on the InSight lander.
> ready and available

This is key. I've had software contacts where I was on retainer to provide service if needed. I wasn't needed, and got paid just for making myself available.

The shovel person's availability is reduced, they can't take another job that conflicts with this contract. They needed to buy a shovel, stock salt, maintain their car, etc. This seems like a pretty normal service retainer.
Turns out there's more possible consequences than company profits being impacted.

Users are more than just things you milk for cash, they're people that trusted you and your product.
Such discussions show that teaching of calculus often tends to be overly algebraic, for no good reason.

Clearly, Leibniz notation does not intrinsically contain any deep insights since at one point Leibniz himself was erroneously induced by it to think that d(xy)= d(x)d(y), which is false. Newton on the other hand thought in terms of simple geometric concepts (areas), which make it crystal clear that d(xy) = x d(y) + y d(x).

On the topic of history of early analysis I cannot recommend enough this collection of anecdotes from Arnold:

https://archive.org/details/huygensbarrownew0000arno
I find this reply incredibly cynical.

GP is clearly saying "this is important because small people will get hurt invisibly" and your hot take is that them being exploited isn't going to impact Microsoft's bottom line, so this isn't newsworthy?

This is vice-signaling.
They mean root access on the production email servers, not access to individual email accounts.
Mate, Apple has been using HEIC for over 6 years, but they didn't add it to Safari until less than a year ago. And Apple doesn't even want you to use HEIC on the web! They added it to Safari so that app devs can use it in WebViews.
As someone who works in IoT, I very much enjoyed your disbelief.

I'd place this right about in the middle in terms of useless complexity. There's a lot worse and a lot better.

A lot better usually only comes from bigger vendors that can afford dev teams with possible rotations.

As a small company or startup, good luck finding a successor to your embedded developer if they leave, so they just slap everyday tech on way overpowered hardware which makes it easier to find devs.
I think this discussion mostly comes down to how we interpret the word “secure”. Do we mean “zero risk”, “nothing can go bad”, “no potential attack, ever”?

Or do we mean “low enough risk for this thing , here, now”? I prefer the latter, even if that implies that statements like “this thing is secure” are somewhat useless due to the subjectivity.
Now if only Microsoft would quit spying on its users..
Retired teacher's pension stopped as provider refuses to believe she is not dead
Yes, ZWave is good too, though I haven't seen many devices in the wild myself - this might depend on your local market.
I’m not saying you are wrong; I am just asking if this is the only way to do business, or the best way.
... So why does it need to "go away" then?
> Call them Synthetic user tests, call them 'pingers,' call them what you will

Can you tell us what you mean more specifically? Is this something like a Kubernetes readiness probe which you can every few seconds, or something more complex that interacts with multiple systems?
STC (Rust-based TypeScript type checker) is officially abandoned
This was a super promising project that made a lot of progress. The pin by the author makes it official.
From the artifacts they leave behind after the attack, broadly speaking.
Beginning in late November 2023, the threat actor used a password spray attack to compromise a legacy non-production test tenant account and gain a foothold, and then used the account’s permissions to access a very small percentage of Microsoft corporate email accounts, including members of our senior leadership team and employees in our cybersecurity, legal, and other functions, and exfiltrated some emails and attached documents. The investigation indicates they were initially targeting email accounts for information related to Midnight Blizzard itself. We are in the process of notifying employees whose email was accessed.

It says nothing about users being compromised.

This is why they won’t do anything about it though ? Do you understand how it works ?

They’re not going to do anything about the consequences for the users until it impacts their profits.

Name one person who is done with Microsoft after this?
This is really cool and incredibly stupid.

Like, who is this made to appeal to? Is this meant to make corporate executive browsing for cybersecurity solutions feel like they're in a spy movie?
Sure you can, you just have to complete the OAuth2 login on a different device (e.g. phone) and then forward the token to the device which has no web browser.

On the phone itself the WebView limitation is worked around via deep linking (start Browser from App and once logged in start App from Browser with token).

There are tons of different ways how to do this actively being used.
The Internet of Unprofitable Things (2018)
Why do they say "nation state actor", isn't "state actor" the correct term? I thought Russia, like the UK and many other states, is a multinational state, including numerous languages and cultures.
Related to current top story https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39063242
That was so interesting because around 2015 they built some new apartment buildings in Malmö Sweden and they also included touch screens in every apartment.

Not the same system, but I wonder if that system is as abandoned today as this one was 8 years later.
How would adding a hyperlink to the black line cause the black line to show up more often?
I use two of the ISPs discussed in the article, Three and Vodafone Broadband. As is discusses, Three is attempting to roll out IPv6 right now, but making a real hash of it. My new phone sometimes gets an IPv6 connection, but it's usually slower or non-functional, in a way that causes most apps to hang to for 10-30 secs until presumably falling back to IPv4. Android really doesn't allow you to see what is going on, nor does it allow you to disable IPv6. I only figured it out because my home WiFi is Vodafone who have no IPv6 at all, and enabling a VPN with good IPv6 such as Google One on the mobile connection solves the problem.

I suspect this sort of thing causes a lot of e-waste, as most people are more likely to blame and replace their device.
Single core CPU clock speeds haven't improved, but performance per core has still improved due to micro architectural improvements: more cache, better pipelining, more execution units, etc.

Source: google any cpu benchmark. Seriously.
Are Australians able to fund their retirement in 2050? This is the only question that matters, because Germans can fund their retirement now too.

Investing savings via a fund is not unreasonable, but will it beat the inflation in the long term, taking into account management commissions and taxes? The answer is not obvious to me.
Lossy WebP has some crappy limitations. For example, it's limited to 4:2:0 chroma subsampling, which makes it unsuitable for high quality images. Hell, even if you restrict yourself to 420 JPEG, JPEG still comes out as having a higher quality ceiling than WebP. And yes, it does beat MozJPEG and libjpeg-turbo in file size sometimes, but newer JPEG encoders like jpegli crush WebP in size completely across the entire quality spectrum.
While the criticism is valid, I think it misses the points of the book. It's worth reading both but the book definitely has helpful perspectives that eclipse what's mentioned on that webpage
I think you mean AVIF.
> It motivated me to put everything on a timer that only turns power own in the evenings, since that's the only time they get used.

I was surprised to learn that a timer itself also uses power. I borrowed a Kill-a-watt from the library and found that an 2 decades old timer uses 2.3W while a newer one uses 0.6W. That tells me that I should just keep the old timer for the rare occasions.
Write more, please.

> I almost never comment. At this late stage in my life and career, it just seems fruitless to add my lone voice to the world of mostly-vapid, interconnected noise.

Late stage implies you’re older, and thus have seen a lot. You might get comments from people you’d rather not hear from, but your writing itself reaches people like me, who want to learn from your perspective.
I'm currently reading "Calculus Reordered: A history of the big ideas" by David M Bressoud, which really helped me contextualise all the peculiarities of calculus.

It really does feel like a hodgepodge of poorly fitting parts that could use some revision in terms of notation and teaching, but I feel like that's part of the charm.

I like that it encodes so much history and culture "up front". It reminds me of PHP. There is no way a good language designer would create PHP intentionally but as ugly as it was, it was brilliant in 1999. Index.php and you're done.
Expressions (LINQ) are the most powerful feature available in C#. There isn't much you can't do with them if you get a bit clever. I can't imagine how many total hours of development time these abstractions have saved. I also find it relatively easy to explain these bits of code to non-developers. Performance is a common argument for not utilizing code like this, but modern .NET does all kinds of insane runtime optimization techniques to make sure things go fast (if they need to!).

We just recently started looking at using EFCore (instead of raw SQL via Dapper) and it is dawning on me that it was a strategic mistake to not further utilize the leverage that expressions can bring to the party.
Grand jury indicts Alec Baldwin on charge of involuntary manslaughter
In the UK, there's typically one ring circuit and one lighting circuit per storey, a separate ring circuit for the kitchen, and dedicated circuits for large current draws such as an electric oven or hob, shower, or immersion heater.

Each circuit would have a dedicated MCB (Miniature Circuit Breaker) which will trip if too much current is drawn. The standard MCB rating for a ring circuit in the UK is 32A.
I think the confusion lies between the terms "consequences" and "consequences for Microsoft". There won't be consequences _for Microsoft_ but there will be consequences for regular people. Saying there won't be consequences full stop implies you don't consider the damage to regular people as worthy of discussion or consideration
From the same company that charges you to access your logfiles.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/20/under_cisa_spressures...
Also the Yamata no Orochi slain by Susanoo in Japan.

Actually looking at the page for Yamata no Orochi contains a description of both what the parent was talking about and a list of myths where man kills snake-thingy (or Chaoskampf in German, also known as Drachenkampf): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamata_no_Orochi#Mythological_...
LLM interactions can be more than a simple question & answer. Long chats allow the human ample opportunity to steer the model in a direction outside its normal scope.

If they also use RAG or other tools like code execution there is even more ample chance to steer the model outside its original experience.

Then we can use these sessions as training data to re-tune the base model. It's much cheaper than training a new model, can be done on normal computers.

LLMs are not beholden to their training set. They can ingest new information any time, or relate two things that were previously separate to derive new insights.
The derivative of 1 with respect to x is zero, since the derivative of any constant function is zero.

So you must be saying that the derivative of 1/f(x) with respect to x is zero for any f(x), where f is a differentiable function, with non-vanishing derivative near x (for it to be defined in the first place).

That doesn't make any sense.

Please don't respond to this. It's getting absurd.
There are infinitely better things to spend our money on with regards to space.
"The concrete description of what is going on here is spread atom-thin across several websites, all of which expect you to know the terminology. Each of these websites provides you with a tiny piece of the puzzle and you are expected to combine it together on your own."

Oh how I unironically love these types of quests.
Rabbit R1 AI Will Use Perplexity AI for Live Responses Without Knowledge Cutoff
Tesla has batteries. These batteries died. So Tesla’s batteries died. Nothing wrong with the title.
> There seemed to be a culture in Fujitsu where incompetent and judgemental people were allowed to rule the roost.

This also applies to Parliament. They're renowned for it!
I never understand this argument when it's used against Obsidian. First, free != FOSS. Second, while the app is closed source, Obsidian has a large open source community that develops plugins for it. Third, the format (markdown) is open, so you have much more freedom than what you have with other FOSS applications that use custom formats.
SSH Has Secrets
GPT-5/4.5 Demo?
GitHub teased a new functionality called Copilot workspace in GitHub universe 2023.

My guess is this is going to be powered using GPT-5/4.5 and they might've even used the model in the demo.
Interesting thinking, thanks for the details! I’ll have to look into Zig’s async mode, it seems pretty good but I’m wondering what are the drawbacks of this approach (and specifically, why would you ever set io_mode to "sync")
Tried running my site through Checkbot, it's lightweight and helpful. "Indexable" pages has been a pain, can't seem to find clarity there on why our stuff is discoverable yet not indexed.
TIL. Not being Canadian I didn't know this.
On mobile so hard to link, but memory says OpenEnergyMonitor's docs site on pulse counters has a computer vision approach too. Think it reads the numbers from the display.
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Tesla chargers use a fluid in the charging hose to handle heat buildup.
The chargers in question got too cold and the fluid froze to the charger
stopped working. Tesla needs to change the fluid formula for colder weather.

The press got it all wrong. It had nothing to do with batteries.