skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This raises a more fundamental moral issue: if I want to be stupid and I'm only endangering myself - why should't I?

I firmly believe that it's not the government's or automakers role to keep me from harming myself - but it is the governments role to protect others from being harmed by me. Consequently, I believe the government should outlaw drunk driving as it endangers others, but it should not force me to wear a helmet on a motorcycle.

Just to be clear: I absolutely believe you SHOULD wear a helmet while motorcycling - but I believe if I choose not to and by doing so am only endangering myself, that's my choice.
Amusingly (or enragingly) one of the effects of the Sad Puppy voting slate in 2015 was that it pushed William Patterson's magisterial and definitive biography of Robert A. Heinlein -- who the Puppies mostly adored -- off the shortlist for Best Related Word (a Hugo category usually occupied by scholarly works of SF history and criticism) in favour of utter garbage like "Wisdom From My Internet" by Michael Z. Williamson because the Sad Puppy organizers were so out of touch with events outside their bubble that they weren't aware the biography had been published.

You can take this as an illustration of the risk of an organized voting slate scoring a huge own goal.

Sad Puppy 2015 slate: https://www.scifiwright.com/2015/02/sad-puppies-3-announces-...

Patterson biography, volume 2: https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Heinlein-Dialogue-Century-1948...
I use Slack outside work, and it's less buggy than Teams but the feature count is dramatically lower. Maybe as I use it mostly with non-technical groups. Feels 'fine' but people seem to clamor for Discord.
In quantum electrodynamics there is this problem: if you imagine an electron is a little sphere like the ball on a Van de Graff generator, there is a certain amount of energy in the electric field around it. As the radius gets tiny the field in the space immediately around it gets stronger so if you integrate it the energy of the EM field becomes infinite as the radius goes to zero…. We’ve got no evidence that the electron is more than a point, however.

We use a trick called renormalization which, in this case, is recognizing that the mass of the electron has a term from the EM field. We’d assume that the EM theory is not completely true but that below some distance the theory breaks down. Working in momentum space there is a certain momentum that corresponds to the cutoff distance so we just don’t integrate beyond that. You can vary the cutoff and also vary the other parameters of the theory (such as the bare mass of the electron) so the theory gives the same answers at macroscopic distances so it doesn’t matter where you put the cutoff.

Thus it does not matter much what the “true” theory is whether space is discrete or the electron really is a little ball or the EM field merges with the other forces at high energy to make some different force that (slowly) eats protons or quantum gravity or whatever.

Discretization is problematic in a relativistic world because it breaks Lorenz invariance. That is, if I am moving quickly I would see the gap between the “pixels” get smaller. Now maybe the pixels can be non-Lorenz invariant but can “fake it” at low energies and large sizes but when the energy gets large you’d expect to see some evidence of the grain. Even if the gap was the Planck length you’d probably see things get weird at much lower energies, such as those of the highest energy cosmic rays. There has been a lot of research on that and there is no clear evidence of relativity being broken but it is still highly mysterious

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greisen%E2%80%93Zatsepin%E2%80...

for instance Lorenz violation might allow particles to bypass that GZK limit.
If you want to go above 13 overtones or make other waveforms, I quickly whipped this up for square/triangle/sawtooth/impulse trains:

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/eioaj93rzr
Somehow you skipped step 2 that says: "Enter the address http://fritz.box" which is the expected way to connect to the device and that worked for me even before Internet is set up. What you quote is the alternative method.

It does look like the domain fritz.box is not owned by AVM, the manufacturer of the device. Apparently they didn't manage to register this domain once .box became available. So in the future they might want to use fritzbox.internal, if this proposal gets approved.
There's still a difference between having an account manager at a company, in charge of implementation and support, and an active sales force that goes out of its way to sell stuff, lie to prospects, wine and dine them, etc. Stripe, Webflow, Shopify, etc. have the former - they don't really have to sell themselves.

Enterprise needs a different "sales" channel, because most enterprises are bulky, cumbersome sloths who need handholding. At the same time, there isn't anything in particular that's stopping enterprise users from using these products on a lower tier - I've used Zapier before with blessing and no issues, on the company card, at my old job at a megafund (where we had strict restrictions on a lot of software otherwise). No questions asked.
The Search Engine Wars are coming.
People aren't shitting on GTK for no reason. We/I do it because new releases are flawed and GTK is often what you get if you buy a laptop with Linux preinstalled and hardware-certified. Even several months ago, if I scrolled to the bottom of Nautilus with a MX Master mouse, I couldn't scroll back up.

The "nothing" stopping me from contributing is that GNOME source is in an inconvenient location, is more difficult to understand coming from non-GUI microcontroller programming than for the core devs, and is a hassle to build. When I try to install or compile dependencies, I seem to encounter a new error every time, like GNOME Builder not respecting a corporate proxy while using WSL even though my environmental variables are set correctly. (So now, you're learning about "curl -vvv" and maybe installing MSYS instead of figuring out why your mouse doesn't scroll up. Make sense yet?)

Beyond that, I don't want to turn my computer into a machine with Flatpak and multiple GB of devel files just so I can fix the scroll bar that should already work and might be caused by libinput or kernel source.

Something is fundamentally wrong if the GTK scrollbar---one of just a handful of available widgets that would be put in countless GTK programs---doesn't work in a GNOME app.

The last 3 Linux devices I've owned have been an overpriced garbage heap of Certified hardware---running too hot with GPU glitches, OS hanging, everyone's special take on application packaging (aka No More Ubuntu for me), awful sleep and power management, terrible peripheral support, having to learn about journalctl and a laundry list of kernel parameters...

The thing in common with those terrible modern devices that weren't around on my much-loved XPS 13 9370?

Wayland

GTK 4

Pipewire

S0ix

Kernel 6+

I'm not necessarily blaming one specific new technology, but I just today took a video of my laptop (2500 euros, shipped with linux by a major manufacturer) evidently having graphics glitches just from opening Firefox (on a Radeon, just to clear up that not every GPU Linux problem is Nvidia and everyone using AMD is enamored). I have no idea if it's a software or hardware problem---it also happens if I change the UI scale to 125% or plug in a dock---but it's not even the first of ten major problems this laptop has had.

I'd gladly RMA the thing, but then I don't know what to develop on except maybe an Android tablet cross-compiling to x86 plugged into a dock.

My grandpa's 286 was more reliable than an off-the-shelf Linux or Windows laptop today, and the only MBP I ever used left a sour taste.
Does Mozilla not maintain this ppa ? ppa:mozillateam/ppa
What? Tires are the way cars touch the road. If you're slowing down from engine breaking or from friction breaking, the force between the tires and the road will be the same. It's not like engine breaking has some alternative connection to the road.

And that says nothing about the fact that EVs use regenerative breaking, where the motors turn that kinetic energy into electricity to charge the battery, slowing things down with the friction breaks.
https://archive.vn/uPIVg
Can you please explain the mechanics of this? Engine braking, ignoring a semi jake brake style, is using the weight of the engine to slow the vehicle down. The mechanics of an EV using regen in my head seems pretty similar. You are generating electricity which is creating resistance, similar to how turning the engine without using petrol is creating resistance.
I actually did do garmin watch for 5 or 6 years before recently jumping to apple. In most ways I did like my garmin better.

My only day to day upgrade with apple watch, is it allowed me to stream music to my airpods on a run without my phone. But I think Garmin has since released phones that can store music..

I'm not using my apple watch to run "apps" past podcast/music/running tracking.
Thank you for posting your summary! I appreciate summaries because each individual finds something different to emphasize about the text.

Have you looked at the book "Handbook of Systems Thinking Methods" (2023, Salmon, Stanton, et al)? It's all about applying systems thinking to safety and talks about the STAMP-CAST model.
Oil company revenues derive from the aggregate of consumer demand and behavior. Big Oil’s villainy in demand-generation campaigns and climate change denial is inexcusable, but this is a relatively small aspect of their nature. The majority of their activities are done because we consumers collectively ask them to do it.

Pretending that there’s a small number of bad-guy oil bosses is attractive because it makes the problem seem tractable. The inconvenient truth is that the collective action we seek amounts to collective change in our own lives.

Sent from my luxury smartphone.
With a light switch you can immediately verify that the switch is in the correct position by looking at the light you want to control. Text/labels/positions don't add anything of value. Also, it's usually safe to experiment with the toggle until you get the desired state.

In software often none of this applies.
But all the bits might spill out!
That's not what PP and Derek Veritasium Muller are harping on.

It's not about the misconception about "AC is vibrating so how can electrons be delivering their energy from the power plant to the light bulb far away?"

They are talking about how the electric field is outside the wires almost entirely.

Their argument is that in the water wave analogy, the wave wouldn't be in the water at all, because it's "actually" transmitted via an invisible field in the space above the water, which pushes back on the water farther away.

Most respected electricity/physics YouTubers disagree with Veritasium's emphasis on this perspective, by the way. The think he conflated the first misconception I mentioned with the second idea, which is about how you model electric circuits.
Show HN: A protocol for sharing knowledge via semantic lookup with use in LLMs
A great way to enhance chatbots is to allow them to look up information for context, typically using a vectordb.

If you have writings you would like to share with others, you can offer a server that allows others to do semantic lookup, and that way anyone can have a chatbot which can pull from your writing.

The goal of this project is to have a protocol that makes that easy. Strictly speaking, the protocol is for semantic retrieval and doesn't require using LLMs although LLMs are the motivating application.

For far more details and how to get a demo up and running, see the readme.
My favorite phenomenon of which you speak are the guys who haven’t thought about math since 11th grade or physics ever aside from seeing some Joe Rogan clips with Eric Weinstein but will pound their keyboards with fury that “STRING THEORY IS A BIG LIE!!!”
Establishing Qualification Processes for Point-of-Need Pharmaceutical Products
Pretty much how I feel. Do we need Kubernetes? Do we need elastic scaling and microservices and whatever is trendy. I know how to build an app in fairly standard predictable way, but no one seem interested in that when there are so many fads to chase.
I was going to say, there has to be a generic pattern for things like this. Also made me think of AREXX on the Amiga.
I am a bit skeptical about this. I feel like game UI toolkit and desktop GUI framework live in two separate world with different expectation. At least, in my humble experience, having to have used both in my career.

GTK/Qt are usually good/very good with their integration with the OS, accessibility feature, keyboard navigation, handling of features like copy/paste, ... These are the kinds of things that game ui toolkit tend to completely forgo since they don't need it, and focus instead on performance, theming, integration with a game engine, ...

Theoretically, you could say that the renderer is agnostic with this, but in practice, it is not completely true. And also with the simple fact that you have a limited budget to work on feature, and they both rather work on different feature. Having a very fast and accurate renderer is just not as important for desktop GUI framework than for game UI toolkits.
> In my opinion, the individual is best off ignoring all of it, and dealing with their actual lives, rather than taking any of the distracting and manipulative stories seriously.

Sounds like the thing Russian propaganda aims for: "we are lying, q.e.d., and if we can get away with that much lying, would you expect others to be much better? Truth does not exist, just pick whatever lie you feel most comfortable with."

Looking back at the most egregious lies of the last decade (the Bush/Blair Iraqi WMD deception), I'd say media was pretty good at calling it out as a lie. Unfortunately not successful to the point of tangible consequences, but it's not like anyone really believed them.
Bush and Obama already did that surveillance thing. I am still waiting for so called Nazi Trump. But instead getting Nazi Joe and Zelenskyy. You hated the wrong person.
It's not a quine though, as it's not producing curl itself
https://archive.is/fI1RF
It does no such thing. What it does do is send those links through safelinks and link preview services.
> The one big oopsie is “we want a better plane and we also don’t want to retrain our pilots”, which is an oopsie that absolutely was not Boeing’s fault.

Of course it is. Customers always ask for the impossible. Responsible firms say no to unreasonable requests.
Not only am I not Californian, I'm not American: I'm a left-wing Scot living in Edinburgh.
This same exact argument could be applied to the first saying as well.
You may also find this interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oxe4mlsQos&t=120s
This video is literally at the end of the article.
H&FJ's (as it was at the time) Mercury was designed to keep the same spacing in different weights to handle the physical needs of printing a newspaper in different locations and conditions, see the design notes on the typeface [1]. That's the first time I remember this quality being touted in a font (among their set published weights, you couldn't vary it minutely, say, to get a bold-semibold).

While you can try to adjust tracking to make one weight of a face match the spacing of another, the faces are probably individually adjusted to make their own default spacing coherent within the face. It may be different enough between just two faces to sometimes not work, and even less across the entire range.

Adobe Acrobat used a version of Myriad and Minion as under-the-hood variable font substitution to make every PDF readable at least even if you didn't have the original typeface. The promise was you would never see Courier again. Multiple Master fonts made available this idea where you could generate specific typefaces along different axes for your design needs, but it wasn't a live thing, and you ended up with lots of discrete font files. My recollection of Multiple Master was that everyone hated them and were glad to see them die. Maybe the automated adjusting of parameters makes the implementation palatable now.

[1]: https://www.typography.com/fonts/mercury-text/design-notes
Please also add support for different so we can write

—-libcurl example.py
From what I understand the automated part is sometimes a first pass. Just to see if you are there and have something. They will then wait some period of time and come back later with the real attack. Sort of like the war dialer from the movie wargames. Basically try everything get a list of interesting targets. Then go at them. Now some are fully automated and just try whatever exploits they are trying right then and there.
Sadly the wrong kind of companies are the majority. Which is to say, my experience mirrors yours.
And what do you suggest the negative impacts of signaling this to Hungary are?

It seems both sides are accusing each other of blackmail.. bringing this option to the surface seems like a decent place to start negotiations, no?
I use GrapheneOS, even that can't protect you from Google unless you are willing to live 15 years in the past.

Any app beyond the absolute basics uses the (yes, sandboxed) Google Play store. But almost every Google play store app then uses Google Play Services to read your location etc., so you have to give that data to Google's software first if you want any app to work.

To get around it every app (or at least the ones like Lyft/Uber and airline apps that you need to move around) will need to be rewritten to avoid Google Play Services.
That is correct. It's just a quote. Real life tends to have more subtlety.
Amazon Drops $1.4B iRobot Deal After EU Veto Threat
I know how much work this is, and I genuinely appreciate that Gtk has finally reached this milestone. It was the last missing puzzle piece.

It's just sad that Gtk used to have this functionality and dropped it when Gtk3 was envisioned, as it meant the ecosystem was stuck waiting for over a decade.
actually using paper for designing objects, especially complicated objects, is an extremely annoying process. lots of erasing lines causing paper to break, areas with internal complexity requiring sub-diagrams, often causing nesting complexity to blueprints on large projects. It makes it so much harder to simply view and talk about the current state of a design when that means sorting through filing cabinets for revision B12 part A.3.1 only to find the paper has torn. Not to mention making physical carbon copies of things.

It's one thing to draw a rough sketch of a part, and have someone else do the creative effort of turning it into an object. But quite another to specify in exacting detail how that part should be, so that given to several manufactories you would get back parts that are even remotely interchangeable. In that way it's a lot like the difference between a specification for a computer program, and the actual program.

When designing parts I often use pencil and paper when in an initial meeting with stakeholders, to quickly demonstrate ideas. But these sketches are not analogous to the real thing. They simply represent a direction work could be done
True. I think as soon as you type a message in to your iPhone you have no way of really knowing either.

I don’t trust Apple at all, naturally, but I possibly like them a bit more than I like Google.

Apple will likely try to violate our personal data and messages at some point if they see Google getting away with it. That’s how it works. One chip at a time. They might even be compelled to do it by law with a gag order.
I love this! Very nice transition for people to move from commandline to the library when they need to!
At the high level, my point was: More skilled people volunteer just as much as less skilled people - but you often can't tell because they often end up doing the same work.

> Could you not work a high paying job for a few hours and then pay minimum wage to multiple people to go do the door greeting and envelop stuffing?

Some people do - you can look up "earning to give" for example.

The numbers look great, which makes it popular with utilitarians and spreadsheet-lovers.

Critics feel it smells of the sale of indulgences, and point to the likes of Sam Bankman-Fried using charity to excuse their greed, theft and drug abuse while living like royalty.
Hackers Earn $1.3M for Tesla, EV Charger, Infotainment Exploits
If they are that sensitive, I can also be sensitive and ask them why they've involved me in a conundrum where I stand to gain nothing.
A lot of great music has been written with this in mind, I would highly recommend Stimmung, for six vocalists and six microphones, by Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Really the whole piece is created from a framework of phonetics, loose vowel sounds as well as names taken from the "magical of otherworldly" traditions of various cultures as well as words taken from the composer's own poetry.
Energy efficiency, high performance, low cost per IC: pick 2.
Sneak Peek into Microtica 3.0 – Phase 1: Enhanced Navigation and Overviews
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Skin Gambling
As long as they're first to the stocks too, we're fine with it ;)
Holy crap! is that on point!

The only thing needed to make that relevant in 2024 is make everything flat.
I think that’s mostly spillover from over social media, combined with the very opinionated nature of us nerds :-)
I'd disagree a bit. Family and friends are centered around a self. There's millions of people who are super generous towards their circle yet assholes towards strangers. I think seeing strangers with more generosity is transcendent.

In fact I'd say this concept is strongly related to how you behave precisely when there's no belonging: to those that don't belong in your perceived group and when you don't feel like you belong in a group.
Self righting combat bots are awesome!
I agree the app sucks (as does the extended syncing process it kicks off), but the watch works perfectly fine if you almost never use it. Alarms can be enabled/disabled on the watch (for vacations and the like), and my normal "wake up for work" alarm has been set to the same time for years.
While I think that was once the case, today, thanks to Tesla's innovation(TM), you can treat passers-by to 100 decibel fart sounds: https://mashable.com/article/tesla-horn-fart

Anyone who _actually uses this_ should be shunned from society, of course.
1. Vertically, with training, drills, cybernetic implants, or performance enhancing drugs.

2. Horizontally, by finding more Anna's, or cloning her (more of a long term strategy).

3. Recursively, Anna identifies other Anna's and imbues them with the same power.
i found the Gavin Belsome (sp?) character interesting in Silicon valley when i first saw him because he was noticeably more dominant than the previous role I saw the actor in American Psycho. Same with the Aviato guy versus his previous sidekick role in Deadpool.
No, they're right. It's not a requirement to sling code to put your opinions out there about open source.
It also gives the parents an excuse to limit their children.

"I'm not being mean, it's the law."