skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About 15 years ago, I got frustrated that the National Weather Service issued its alerts in all caps. So I built a service, IntelliCAPS, that attempts to convert all caps to mixed case using both a custom dictionary and user-submitted feedback. It worked pretty well! I could convert most of the NWS bulletins to a more readable format with about 98% accuracy. I bet LLMs could probably do way better these days.
> If you want "<" to be right associative, that's exactly one of the things that's easy to do with a Pratt parser, change the binding power on one side for the "<".

It's not about associativity at all. "a < b < c" is a ternary operator that compares three operands.
It's worth saying we still haven't seen a single model trained post-hype cycle from openAI. GPT-4 was summer 2022 stuff.
I have left many coffee shops just after enter without ordering because they only have QR menu and no WiFi.

It feels insulting that I need to spend my limited Data package just to help you earn money.
Even when the waiter offer to show me the menu on his phone, it felt overcomplicated process and I cannot imagine a business delibrately making it that difficult to order without expecting profits to decrease.
The idle power draw at 5W is a little surprising to me, actually - the M1 mac mini draws ~7 idle. The max is a whole lot higher, but I'd also suspect the max performance you're getting is a whole lot higher, too.

I really like the pi zeros for low power budget computing, but I think once you're getting into this kind of power envelope, you're kicking into "real computer" territory and I'm not sure how much benefit the SBCs are giving you.
The article claims that accepting 'invalid' UTF-8 can be a security risk. Can someone explain how?
There are supposedly a lot of government jobs for interpreters. If you receive any communications from an agency, it may have 2+ pages in different languages which explain your rights to receive translated materials and to request someone to interpret into your native language. The same with court proceedings.
I also met Daniel!!! Unfortunately my phone/mic/whatever crapped out right we started talking about genealogy
Trilateral Commission
The compactness refers to the length of the url. Most mobile oriented stuff prefers portrait orientation.

Not to mention colors, fonts etc. QR avoids all these issues. Maybe something better will come along but will have similarities.
> It comes down to the fact that a poorly educated public and a ruling class of parasites has made it so NASA has negative room for failure.

Both basically true yet overdone. Fundamentally the US has an extremely strong punitive blame culture. Too strong, in that it is a distraction, a spectacle, and inhibits resolution of an actual problem, if one even exists. I don't mean this just in government: it's a fundamental part of the American Weltanschauung, one oddly rarely discussed. It seems to be so fundamental that it's simply taken as a given, like the old "fish doesn't know it's wet" metaphor.

FAA is a good example of an organization that implements an opposite approach: crash investigations follow a "what happened so we can address it, not punish" in air crashes, sometimes causing people to complain that "nobody was punished." But without the threat of punishment people are more willing to speak freely, so that hardware or procedures that need changing can actually change.
I'm sure I misunderstand something then, so please correct me: doesn't Gmail pub to a server you choose, and you sub from it?

Are there no servers with free tiers, is it impossible to run your own, does Gmail refuse to pub to a server outside Google, or what's the problem?
It depends on what you deem as a failure. We are talking buying something for about $13 US and reassembling it to theoretically up to about $17,600 US.

Even if only, I don't know, 1/4 of the pieces are there, the potential to turn $13 into $4.5k isn't bad at all.
> This is entirely not the point.

It's not the point for you. Fine.

For the record, I'm not advocating for laws or banning AI. It's an impressive technology you can use in a myriad of ways. Ethical ways would be preferable.

Using AI does not make you an artist, just as having a pencil in your hand doesn't make you a qualified draughtsman.

AI's whole value, the dada, was obtained without living artists' consent. That's a fact. Without data, there are no images, no spirals, nothing.
The unfortunate side effect is that, at scale, it devalues these artworks.
Prompting AI tools, you get a synthetic substitute for art made by real people.

If that is what you want, why not?
If you sell this spiral as your art, it becomes slightly more complicated.

> Be very careful that in banning AI learning you do not also ban human learning. A law that covers one might also cover the other.

False equivalency.

And again, I'm not advocating for banning anything. AI art, or imagery, if it's not art, who cares, is not going away. Whether AI output is stunning, incredibly beautiful, or cheap, synthetic, the equivalent of junk food, is already pretty clear. The question becomes: who owns it?

Perhaps artists will find ways to make it better and truly impressive. That said, it's not unreasonable for artists to ask back some of the value they unwillingly provided. Or just for their work to be removed from the pool of data scraped by AI companies.
The same, but without matching
Well first are you wearing just haptic gloves or are you also wearing a mask? In the first case nothing would happen obviously. In both cases the system should be able to distinguish you exerting a force and matching a counteracting force to give a sense of pressure vs VR contact that can be simulated through significantly less force (eg a haptic buzz).
It’s times like these I’m so glad we allow resubmissions. This is such cool piece of work and the HN-specificity of the audience means that the only real path to success is via a submission that makes the front page
Are IDF soldiers allowed to travel with their weapons, or did they smuggle this chemical agent?
Afterward, I want to be able to hear the "notable-moments" gist in a span of 2 minutes.
For each such "moment", I'd like to know when, within the podcast, it was said, to be able to find it again if I want.
I think QR code menu's can be a great.

You can show your menu in every language imaginable.
You can let guests filter for allergies or dietary restrictions.
You can easily update your menu's if something runs out or changes.

There are many benefits. But please, people. Have a normal menu, too. You are not McDonalds, and if you want to be I expect McDonalds pricing too.
> Especially in laptops, a lot of hardware / firmware issues are simply "solved" by baking a fix into the pre-installed Windows version. It's a solution for 99% of users, so why bother spending time looking into the root cause?

I've never really seen a single example of this. Could you provide some?
That's a pretty lazy take. You could look out the windows and see the reflections of the house. You could build some kind of RF gun to probe the house. You could use sub or supersonic echolocation. You could build a camera and stick it out the window etc.
People to people information from direct witnesses will go up in value because faking physical environments is expensive, while untrusted or unverified sources will become pretty much useless. In person settings will matter more again - back to older models in a way.
Receiving a fine for failing in due diligence to protect personal information definitely costs money.
Makes sense! I wonder if there is a way to dynamically watch the Windows call, to compare it with the Linux one, to avoid the tedious reverse engineering. Or if the syntax of Windows GetNextVariableName() use is generally understood/documented?

This could happen either through somehow getting logging from the Windows end, or somehow changing the UEFI to be one you control and logging there, or finding a different BIOS/OS that can read the vars and getting it to log its work.
It used to be a bigger deal. Yes, housing prices (in some US geos) have gone up a lot but so have standard deductions and interest rates are still relatively low historically. Absent relatively large charitable donations, big mortgage interest payments, etc., itemizing doesn't make a lot of sense for many people.
iOS Firefox drops connection when phone locks itself
Seems about right for "Science and Technology", a variant of this question also shows up in German IHK (chamber of commerce) exams for software developer certifications, with a similar expected answer.

Although you do sometimes get weights… the important part is explaining that you evaluate some weighted sum and take the best result.

How much impact would this question have on the final result for the licensure exam?

IIRC during my own IHK examination this was worth around 5pp, which is almost enough to drop you an entire grade.
> (sadly, reverse engineering that is a pain), and that the Linux kernel is most likely the place where an actual fix has to happen.

You did most of the work already, and it's super interesting (or at least, it's the kind of things I find super interesting lol) so you may want to finish fixing the issue?

It's funny how outside RU.EFI, there're no nice tools for such a basic features as tweaking UEFI variables, so if you are into this kind of things, you may also be interested by writing a better efibootmgr: many people (including myself, and now you) are dissatisfied by the issues it can create: https://old.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/18j6o7x/rfc_what...
This being native is super nice!

I maintain an open source web-based music player called Stretto[1]. It works well as a PWA on Android, but it depends on a chrome extension to bypass CORs.

Allows you to import playlists from Spotify and automatically backs them with a YouTube track (similar to this service). Also supports adding SoundCloud tracks, for those that love their remixes.

[1]https://github.com/benkaiser/stretto
You can bring it down to around 3W with a few config tweaks. Mine averages about that. (edit: wrong board! I was thinking of my OPi5, not the Plus. My OPi5+ looks like it's around the same as the author.)

An M1 Mac is more powerful for sure, but for my use cases (my OPi5+ is being used as a video capture relay with its onboard HDMI capture and my two OPi5's are k8s nodes running Github Actions jobs) it would also be a lot more expensive.
If you are a US business, it’s hard to escape the overly burdensome US taxes.
> default interactive shell

Is that fairly new? I thought the default shell was bash.
This was the trick used by bots on Discord that played music (before they pretty much all got disallowed)

It would simply get the title from the Spotify API and then look it up on YouTube to play.

At some point I actually had set up a rather awful hack where I had a Discord bot that could play webradio and then pointed it towards my own Mopidy server which used the Spotify plugin to have a webpage such that multiple people could add songs and such. It was a great hack though I did not use it for long.
What a bummer of a thing to say.

Those millions/billions of people matter a great deal.
In a lot of places, you just bribe the police and do it officially.

Governments could make these requests a lot easier to verify. Companies shouldn't be in the position of having to guess at who is a real government official.
I think what recently google has started doing is over index on Forbes, medium etc to fight spam which means all the articles are just that typical forbes-y and medium-y lacking any human element or insight.

The problem with spam is so much that they are kinda using these large well known sites as a filter which means the whole point of a search engine is lost as the rest of the internet is not available.
There are tons of marginally-housed people who are just normal folks who couldn't afford rising rents. You just don't see them because they tend to stay in cars, motels, or couch surf.

The people you mention are a tiny visible minority.
What's an HWS? Hot water system...?
The Nam-shub of Hockney?
Here parmigiano reggiano prices range from 16€/kg (12 months old, and on offer) to well above 30€/kg (24 months old and beyond).

...I'm guilty of using too much of it... it often also is my go to snack during late night fridge peeping... but hey, there are worse (and costlier) habits to entertain
Right, but the 'unbounded factor' is irrelevant because the output will quickly trend into random noise.

And only the most interesting top few million art pieces will actually attract the attention of any concrete individual.

For a current example, there's already billions of man-hours worth of AI spam writing, indexed by Google, that is likely not actually read by even a single person on Earth.
What is human level AI? Is it beating world champions at chess or go? Designing new molecules or drugs? Navigating automobiles down streets or spacecraft to planets? Diagnosing or treating common diseases?

These debates are frankly tiresome. Automation has been here to stay for quite a while. Every age has tried to call out the threats and benefits to humans. The pioneers drown out the noise by building the future.
Chinese Espionage Group UNC3886 Found Exploiting CVE-2023-34048 Since Late 2021
Why not treat this as a bug, and fix it in Java 21? For compliance reasons we can only use LTS versions, and the next one isn't until September 2025, according to https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/java-se-support-roa....
Checked out RISC-V yet? That's becoming more interesting than ARM for me.
Before someone starts the usual yadda yadda about the RPi biger community, the OS not having long time support etc. I would repeat one more time: do not rely on board vendor supplied images; this is valid for pretty much all boards. Just go to Armbian or DietPi pages and you'll almost certainly find one or more images that work on your board and forums to discuss about them with very knowledgeable people.

https://www.armbian.com/download/

https://dietpi.com/#download

Those projects are well worth a contribution, as they don't have a giant like Broadcom behind them.
Native copper exists. Sometimes even to a minable degree, as with the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan.
It'll be about as wickedly tool as the ability to get on the internet, e.g. commoditized, transactional, and boring.
Could we also have lists of targets compiled by other nuclear powers?
For reference this GPU is 8 years old.
If I may guess, with a dongle supported by flashrom, soldering wires to the flash chip, and a lot of patience - because doing the same thing from say linux can run into permission problems: the firmware really doesn't want you to read the flash chip.
i'm sure if you read your local counterfeiting laws, this would qualify as counterfeiting
Also questioned myself.

My pet theory is big companies first shred and after send to be burned (or recycled).

Plus a shredding machine us safer than a fire device.
Agree. It will be like text, which has always been trivial to conjure or alter.

It will be a blip in history that that there was a period in which producing a particular image required its contents to have existed in reality.

What we need going forward is a way to know provenance, where an image came from and what edits have been made. Then people can trust particular sources, as they do with text.

The Content Authenticity Initiative is working on that. https://contentauthenticity.org

This use case is a compelling use for blockchains
https://research.adobe.com/news/content-authenticity-and-ima...
Well, that’s an anecdote among people working at a tech company right?

Steam distributes 75% of all PC games. So obviously the DRM-free offline installer (which is nice and I appreciate) isn’t something that most people prioritize for their purchase decisions.
> Pay-per-view services exist. Customers seem to prefer subscriptions.

If Netflix will let you pay $2 to buy something from them, they sure don't advertise it. So this assertion requires what the customer wants to buy to be fungible. It's a mindset that requires one to implicitly accept the idea of content-as-gruel, and I think most people don't do that.

It also implies that people are rational and responsive actors and habituation doesn't exist, which isn't true either.
And alternatively, what is the cheapest standalone voice-recorder-y device I can buy that is able to easily do the "intermittent voice recording" & "continuous voice playback" aspects of this?
Yeah, deducing the incremental computation to work backwards can take some practice. I take completely different approach to explaining how to do it in https://blog.moertel.com/posts/2013-05-14-recursive-to-itera....
Exactly what I though of when I saw the title. I had totally forgotten about this! I was fresh out of school in 2011 working my first full time job and took a shot at this challenge on my own in my spare time with a very naive approach using Python and OpenCV; I was way out of my depth but managed to get my name on the (very bottom of the) leaderboard :-)

https://web.archive.org/web/20120126014654/http://www.shredd...
Do you believe uprooting and finding a new job and apartment is easy for the average person?

Have you ever talked to someone outside of the FAANG crowd who makes normal wages?
> The main issue with fixing it properly is that I'd most likely have to reverse engineer the Windows kernel or the UEFI firmware itself

Before doing such complicated things, have you tried with RU.EFI?
Which reminds me to mention that the Radxa ZERO 3E [0], which was announced last November, is now for sale [1] (since last week).

It's basically a Raspberry Pi Zero with the difference that it has a gigabit ethernet port instead of WiFi+Bluetooth.

This is not an ad, I've ordered two because my OpenVPN server which runs on a Raspberry Pi B+ (1st gen, 9 MBit/s throughput on Bookworm) needs upgraded hardware.

In that context, it's remarkable that Bookworm still runs on an device as old and weak as the 1st-gen Raspi.

[0] https://radxa.com/products/zeros/zero3e/

[1] https://arace.tech/products/radxa-zero-3e
I recently started a green field project with sprint boot and Kotlin and it’s a joy compared to the many other things I’ve experienced in the last decade. I’m hoping spring remains strong for a while.
I think it's skill issue
What you've described is the literal, dictionary definition of Digital Rights Management - a technology to restrict the use of a digital asset beyond the contractually-agreed terms. Copying is only one of many uses that the copyright-holder may wish to prevent. The regional lockout on a DVD had nothing to do with copy-protection, but it was still DRM.
Below a certain threshold, throwing money at public services is just going to get it diluted. This may not necessarily be a bad thing on its own, but when even the smallest public project seems to cost way more, you're never going to know if your $10M investment helped, or if it just went into someone's paycheck.
Yep. That is why I went with Armbian (even though I did test the OrangePi images while I waited for my NVMe). Can't wait for them to ship kernel 6.x support for this board.
Imitation isn’t the problem so much as it is that ML generated images are composed of a mush of the images it was trained on. A human artist can abstract the concepts underpinning a style and mimic it by drawing all-new lineart, coloration, shading, composition, etc, while the ML model has to lean on blending training imagery together.

Furthermore there’s a sort of unavoidable “jitter” in human-produced art that varies between individuals that stems from vastly different ways of thinking, perception of the world, mental abstraction processes, life experiences, etc. This is why artists who start out imitating other artists almost always develop their imitations into a style all their own — the imitations were already appreciably different from the original due to the aforementioned biases and those distinctions only grow with time and experimentation.

There would be greatly reduced moral controversy surrounding ML models if they lacked that mincemeat/pink slime aspect.
Sure. But what if the cropped part is sensitive content? Or if the video is exceedingly long? Then, providing a full source could become prohibitive.
As on example, you could mislead users by replacing valid codepoints (characters) with visually identical ones, for example in URLs.
Not tested is https://www.npmjs.com/package/utf-8-validate (1,624,873 weekly downloads) - which I use.
I compost all of my sensitive information that arrives by mail.

And whenever I need to dispose of something I can’t compost, like an old drivers license, I cut it into pieces and drip feed the pieces into the garbage over the course of a few months.

Call me paranoid but I think there will be a cottage industry in sifting through garbage once this tech gets mature enough!
Redirects to google?
No, it facilitates commoditization. Art – real art – is fundamentally a human-to-human transaction. Once everyone can fire perfectly-rendered perfectly-unique pieces of 'art' at each other, it'll just become like the internet is today: filled with extremely low-value noise.

Enjoy the short term novelty while you can.
Let's stop developer (victim) blaming for soulless billion dollar companies restricting API access.
Wow didn't know Indian co HCL acquired this. My employer, a software company used this long long back. Had my email, internal support KB, Groups etc inside.

Computer associates used to be the graveyard of dead software.. Guess they're dead too.
As someone considering a SvelteKit + SQLite stack, I would love to hear more about the setup. Have you considered writing a blog post on the topic? If this is too much, perhaps you can drop a few words here...
What the recent Argentinian president had proposed for his country would be a good start for the US
> so bent out of shape over mere terrorism

9/11 was an attack on the greatest symbols of American power on American soil. Suffice to say, Americans are not accustomed to that and they went mad with rage and fear. Cue a generation of death, destruction, and the reshaping of the world as America worked through that trauma.

It wasn’t just mere terrorism but also the psychological result of American strategic isolation.
Putting it on paper in the first place is a big mistake because it probably isn't encrypted, it has probably been printed (printers are a bit scary in terms of security and privacy), there's cameras everywhere including in every pocket, and documents are easily duped, exfiltrated and observed, and you would likely have no easily-followed log of any of that. You also have to trust whoever does your disposal/recycling, and where there's people, there's dishonesty. Hence "zero trust" as a concept.
I did mostly the same for a while, but with a Pi 4: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2022/10/23/1700
There seems to be some spots almost directly south (-southeast) from the landing site (300-400m away maybe?) that look like they would be reachable without descending down to the riverbed and ripples. And I think that's the general direction Percy is going towards anyways (mostly west), so it wouldn't even be a huge detour to go check it out. I'd guess it would be mostly matter of how good of a path would be available there, but eyeballing it seems relatively benign.
then it won't be art anymore, it'll just be mountains of shit

sorta like what the laptop did for writing
Mostly, with any endeavour, you never start in advanced state, you have basic solution, then refine and grow it. I guess formula would be: tech skills x organisational quality x budget x iterations already under the belt. Any of these factors can bring down the total result to zero. Not an easy task trying to control all of these.

Nasa, congrats on successful mission, which now ended.