skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$9 RISC-V Linux board: Milk-V Duo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqUtGk0DHbQ

And that's a genuine $9, as in you can buy 10 or 1000 if you want, unlike the "$5" Pi Zero which was one per order, plus shipping. (It has a genuine, higher, price recently, and the Pi Zero 2 is a great deal if you want a low end Arm board).

And yes, the Oasis looks very promising, hopefully this year.
Even modern C and C++ code generally ports just fine as long as you avoid things with unspecified behavior like exotic casts and weird pointer tricks. Have to watch endianness too but that doesn’t actually come up all that often. Also AFAIK there are no longer any big-endian architectures in common use.

Newer languages are even easier. Rust and Go almost always port with zero issues. Obviously the same goes for scripting and VM based languages like Java.

The architecture matters less than it used to.
Yea I think all of the wonder of AI being able to critically think is wasted if it can't take meaningful action. This seems like a logical next step. We've been toying with the idea of AgentHub automations being tools for autonomous agents. We even shipped 'agents' on agenthub which are basically chatbots with access to your automations.

We thought that was the best feature we'd ever put out but our core users mainly stuck to running automations the standard way.
> the least painful way to develop for Windows on Windows is to just use Linux

Eh? Even as a joke, I don't get it.

1. Download Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition

2. Select and install the workloads you need

3. Fire up any boilerplate from the Welcome menu

4. Press the green play button

Sure, it's no `pacman -S base-devel && g++ main.cpp && ./a.out`, but it's not as bad as everyone puts it.

It is a GUI-first operating system, and if you want to write a fast, HiDPI-aware Win32 application today that supports everything from Windows XP to Windows 11 that's < 50 kB, you absolutely can.
Cursory search suggests prices ranging from $400 to $1,800,000 per round for what I assume are wildly different types of 155mm ammunition, though I'm willing to bet the $1,800,000 figure is the total cost of a canceled production program that planned to deliver a large number of rounds, amortized across the small number of rounds actually delivered before the program was canceled.

At $1,800,000/round, firing hollow rounds loosely packed with $100 bills and a note promising another volley as soon as the target agrees to stand down would probably be a more cost-effective option.
Looks like a modern version of https://man.archlinux.org/man/extra/bsd-games/atc.6.en
Can't you already do that today with cmd.exe?
This is a good point. Not everyone immediately bonds with a newborn, either father or mother. If you're not feeling something you think you're supposed to be feeling, that's not unusual.

And they definitely get fun later on - but you'd be surprised at both how long it takes, and at the fun things you can find pretty early on.
That's a fair point, but at this point, there are a lot of browsers with open source browsing engines and they don't have the baggage that we see here.
Yes, the reasoning is definitely the problem with a lot of recent decisions. One thing that stands out in my mind is the majority opinion in the prayers in school case that stated that part of their reasoning to rule in favor of the coach praying was that he was doing so in private and players could voluntarily join him. When, as noted by the descent, the case itself included photographs of said coach, kneeling in prayer with his team at center court.
I initially didn't get that vibe but then I re-read it. Yikes.

> Gerv challenged me, infuriated me, impressed me, enraged me, surprised me. He developed a greater ability to work with ambiguity, which impressed me.

This is manager-speak describing someone who is incompetent. Someone who, only thanks to management, become less incompetent. Should that be in an obituary?

On the whole, Mitchell paints Gerv as a great programmer and an unruly religious nutjob. A good worker and, as she conveys, a bad person. Frankly, I'm unsure why she didn't just say a few parting words and leave it at that. I don't think she was his friend, and he probably didn't think of her as his mentor.

I suspect her stock in Mozilla depended being seen as a "great community leader", and that this was an opportunity to signal her goodness over a report she couldn't manage and whose views her people hated. It's self-serving, to say the least.
Look, I'm genuinely curious and we happen to have a MS dev here who could provide interesting first hand insight.

I'm not critical. I don't have enough knowledge on the situation to share criticism on the topic yet.

I could have added "Could you expand on this?" to clarify my intent.
That’s true, the front-facing VMs always need to be there (hence the product I’m working on — so at least you don’t need to run them). The real work is done in serverless, in batches. Basically I think the world needs something like API Gateway for UDP and custom TCP, but that targets serverless backends rather than VMs.
Unfortunately, most of the foundational papers in the field did exactly that, usually without explicitly stating. It was pretty much the standard of practice for all bone analysis prior to ~2010 or so when microstructure analysis became a practical thing. Similar issues in other types of samples exist and it's still common today, it was just what came to my mind as the first example.
Ventoy will also help them, there's absolutely something they could do.
It would probably be very tough to make any part of the Blender 3D program any faster. It's already by far the fastest booting 3D application, and the one with the snappiest GUI. Houdini comes in 2nd, but it's not a close 2nd.
Who will think of the poor corporations and their armies of on-retainer lawyers?

Of course government is incompetent and can't be reasonable in regulation? Is that the idea? How dare these corporations not be given minutely detailed regulations that they can easily tear apart to pollute to their convenience? You mean you want REASON in government and regulation?
Oh, when I said 'green movement', I simply meant it as a synonym for environmentalism in general.

While I sympathise with your support for nuclear power generation, two points:

1) You say : gas and goal (i.e the only other alternatives until a decade ago, and still the only other alternative until we develop better battery tech)

Your claim that gas and coal are New Zealand's only non-nuclear alternative for power generation does not seem supported by the documented state of New Zealand's current power generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_New_Zealan...

"Approximately 44% of primary energy (Heat and power) is from renewable energy sources in New Zealand. Approximately 87% of electricity comes from renewable energy, primarily hydropower and geothermal power."

2) I acknowledge the documented technical and environmental benefits of nuclear power generation, and suspect that plenty of pro-nuclear scientists would not consider themselves "anti-woke" at all. However, and especially in the wake of 2011's Fukushima incident, the fact that New Zealand has an approximate 75% chance of a widespread M8+ Alpine Fault earthquake in the next 50 years, to be of a scale greater than any which has occurred since European settlement of NZ, will certainly be a considerable environmental factor.
This would only be true if Sony offered a physical or downloadable version of the content that the users could keep using after they removed online access.
"Nobody does what you describe" is a very... broad statement. I can tell you that "all devs are local admins" is indeed a very popular policy, and has been the case everywhere I worked in the past, oh, 20 years or so - including Microsoft itself.
The border bill was not what the GOP was asking for. It was a compromise and not enough of one to get the deal done with the most fringe of that party.

We are a divided house.
It has it's own config file and can be configured to do just about anything:

https://www.sudo.ws/docs/man/1.8.15/sudoers.man/
I've started trying to be more specific about what I mean by "work", "hard work", and "play" when I think about stuff.

"Work" is anything that must be done regardless of whether it is enjoyable. That includes things I do for myself as well as other people. Doing the dishes is work, even if I enjoy the zen of it. Automating a repetitive process at work is work, even if I enjoy the flow of it.

"Hard work" is anything that must be done even though mind and body say "this is bad for you, keep doing this only if it's really important" using the vocabulary of pain, exhaustion, boredom, resentment, anxiety, and so on. What's hard work for me might not be for someone else, and what's hard work for them might not be for me. What's hard work for both of us is likely to be a source of struggle to get the other person to do it.

"Play" is anything that doesn't need to be done, regardless of whether it is enjoyable. If you want a "hard work" equivalent of play, maybe striving play? Either way, it is worth distinguishing from work because the condition of not needing to succeed relaxes inhibitions on creativity, experimentation, and novel behavior.

There's a bunch of dimensions in all of these that I need to untangle. But one thing I really like is the detachment of enjoyability from whether or not something is work or play. I have to go to a party to bond with coworkers. I might enjoy it, it might involve games and feelings of connection, but it is work because I need to do it to maintain my security of food and shelter and yada yada, and I will be putting a face on.
> I simply cannot trust a CEO of a company who says outright that we need more deplatforming on the Internet.

> We need more than deplatforming

the article you've linked explicitly states that deplatforming is an incomplete solution and that what should really be happening is increasing transparency.
There are _so many_ deploy issues surfaced by eg developing on a mac and deploying to linux/aarch64 (or, in my case, developing on x86 linux). Anytime you add a dependency on a package with a native component you're likely to have something to fix.
> What's LastPass?

> You and I know, but the great majority of the people in the world do not.

It's literally an app reviewer's job to know that. Having random people on the street reviewing apps would not be very useful. Although sadly, that may be close to the truth:

https://www.wired.com/story/apples-app-store-review-fix-fail... In a deposition in the Epic lawsuit, Shoemaker said that the qualifications needed to get hired as an app reviewer were that a person “could breathe [and] could think.”
Joyriding suggests someone who owns the product loses out - they don't.
Stop Writing Dead Programs.

Maybe I scanned this too quickly, but I did not see any definition of 'dead programs' or why we should stop using them.

'Old' programs are not necessarily 'dead' programs. I venture to state that no program is 'dead' if it can still be run. I myself often use programs that are over 45 years old. They're certainly not 'dead' in my eyes.
Not a strip, the entire thing.
I leave a simple voicemail message: please send me a text.

People that listen to that will... send a text.

It is sad that virtually every form of communication: snail mail, phone, email is overridden with spam and fraud, and the "FCC" does jack about it except a CYA "hey we said it was wrong".

The FCC has been so thoroughly lost to regulatory capture and licentious industry - lobbying - official revolving door that it possibly the least effective federal regulatory agency, and that is saying something
It would be interesting to see these diagrams folded in half and into quarters. Which cities have the greatest fourfold symmetry breaking? Which cities have more streets running north than south? (the only case I can think of would be many small one-way streets in a cardinal direction, and one big counterflowing one-way street)
Ha, that's too funny -- I missed yours somehow or else I would have commented underneath it.
Mozilla Corp is allowed to turn a profit. Distributions of that profit are the primary source of funding for the Mozilla Foudnation.
The customers thought they had bought a DVD and an access code. Just because there was also a physical product in the bundle does not absolve Sony of any blame.
Phoenix Liveview on Pluralsight
The ruling specifically only applies to the initiator of the call. IVR is not covered. Automated calls are also permitted with consent (for instance, if you sign up for notifications for filled prescriptions or backordered library books). It has nothing to do with the quality of the voice -- prerecorded voices are banned too.
> Memory is organized around specific events or episodes, such as attending a lecture or having a family meal, rather than being a continuous stream interrupted by sleep.

For some reason that sentence really irked the critical thinker in me. As if they have the schema for the human brain.
Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED [video]
If they were to explicitly claim an app as a fake copy, and you agreed that said app was a fake copy, what would that application look like and what would it do?
Nope, it could still be a bug - they typically remain silent even when major bugs are causing disruption. Just one of several ways Apple make developing for Safari a nightmare.
Craftsman is as dead as RCA. Those brands are now just trademarks, names sold to the highest bidder, not the company that built the quality products that the words now lead you into thinking they might still represent. At least "Craftsman" is still Stanley-Black&Decker, ...if indeed that means anything anymore. RCA is nothing: Sarnoff weeps from the beyond...
More like "business-interest-limited license".
It's far easier to port Wine to run on modern Windows than to port Windows to run on a Linux kernel.
During Project Gemini, it was pronounced it Gem-in-ee.

https://youtu.be/JeAUx6-vSmc?feature=shared
If you know F=ma, p=mv, and by calculus that a=v', all of which is high school level, then the time derivative of momentum is clearly force.
As someone with ADHD which was unmedicated far beyond what was reasonable, passing through a doorway still has some mild but primordial terror, as I remember a time when walking through a door was like being awoken from unconsciousness in an unfamiliar day.
I can say with 100% certainty that Microsoft is not going to extinguish sudo
Genuinely curious to ask HN this: what are you using local models for?
Who cares about another closed LLM that's no better than GPT 4? I think there's more exciting potential in open weights LLMs that you can run on your own machine and do whatever you want with.
On this, we agree. Perhaps some day the governments of China and Taiwan could find themselves congenial enough to have a "special relationship" that builds on the shared history of the people. I think that best describes the hopes of the pan-Blue parties and their supporters in Taiwan today. Unfortunately, the current Chinese government have staked out such an extreme position on Taiwan that it would be hard for them to walk it back and accept a sovereign but friendly neighbor without losing face. I think this mixed messaging is a big challenge for pan-Blue parties who want to convince voters of their vision on cross-Strait issues.
maybe in the "writing code" dimension. I would much much rather maintain code in elixir.
Regulations and regulators existed before 1984 when the case was argued. In my opinion, it's a good idea to curtail the power of government whenever possible. I'd rather Congress specify in a bill/law that a committee of leading experts from the private sector and the advocacy side of any given subject matter weigh in yearly on any topic before regulations can be changed rather than blindly hoping regulators know what they are doing.
Brainstorming and product planning/design sits in an entirely different category than gaming. The needs of gaming don’t really compare.

I don’t think floating head faces are compelling nor do I think it represents Apple’s ultimate goal. This is why I concluded with:

> I think the feature has a long way to go to meet this need based on the early demos.

If they can make the headfaces convincing enough to enable reasonably good eye contact and to portray an accurate representation of facial expressions/emotions, it will make certain kinds of on-site collaboration where such things matter less necessary. If they can extend this to convincing whole-body avatars, the utility skyrockets.
Looks intriguing! Thanks for sharing the trailer
There have been experiments along these lines for some time now. E.g. there's https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/applicati...

And before that, some people might remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_PC#Windows_XP_Mode.
We can come back to that argument after Sony has died.
I don't think my doctor's office can even send texts. They just have landlines.

Same with restaurants calling about a reservation opening up. Etc.

Not to mention the fact that if someone doesn't intend to leave a voicemail, they'll often/usually hang up as soon as the prerecorded message starts. "Hi, you've reached" -- <click>.
Can you uhhh crash the planes into each other?
I'd wager forced too.

She didn't blog about this in https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/. Given that the last 3 blogposts are about company changes, the lack of a post about this event smells of resentment.
For a publishable effect at smaller n, the effect size needs to be fairly large. If you have a huge number of people in a trial, you can get statistical significance of negligible consequence.

The problem with a single study of n=50 isn't the 50, it's that it's a single study.
Looks like the FCC basically killed outbound AI calling companies like Air.ai, and does not seem to affect inbound companies like ours (https://echo.win)

Interestingly they explicitly mention AI generated voices, does that mean voices generated by traditional TTS engines are fine?
See also: Zuck, Jobs, Larry Ellison. Not an entirely atypical arrangement.
Interesting take. I’ve often felt lonely after going ballroom dancing with only strangers. Which I’ve always found perplexing since I never feel lonely otherwise, although I tend to spend my time alone (and enjoy it).

This could be an explanation.
Don't understand your concerns. Symlinks remain for compatibility. No need to change any tooling.
Many of these regulatory agencies were created by Congress, of my limited knowledge on the subject is to be believed.
Could be a variety of reasons. Maybe they point to geographic north instead of magnetic north, or it could be just simple measurement error when the city was constructed, or a natural feature of the terrain, similar to the Manhattan and Detroit graphs
At the time that decision was made, it was the only way to get acceptable performance on typical computers on which NT was expected to run.
How does LiveView compare to LiveWire?
Progressive means things like ‘buy fair trade’ and ‘carbon offsets’ too. And ‘sanction countries with bad human rights’.

It’s also economic policy.

None of that addresses my points either.
I'm gonna give it a shot and give an analogy with a comp. science audience in mind.

All Quantum Field Theories are effective theories. Effective means that they work up to certain energy-range, they do not intend to be fundamental.

For example, the Fermi theory of beta decay is an effective theory that works only up to the energy of W and Z bosons. Quantum Electrodynamics (QED), the theory of electromagnetism and photons, is an effective theory which is valid up to the electroweak scale (~250 GeV). So on and so forth. All of them are effective, and therefore break at some point at higher energies or, equivalently, shorter distances.

Renormalizable theories are such that we can abstract away the physics beyond that breaking point where the theory doesn't make sense anymore. And capture the physics beyond that point into a redefinition of a few fundamental constants that we can take from the experiment. To rehash the basic idea, the theory doesn't work beyond certain energies. In principle physics beyond those energies impacts our predictions, because in QM you must account for all the processes. But renormalizable theories are nice enough that we can put physics beyond that energy scale behind a black box and we just have to redefine a few fundamental constants like the mass of the electron.

Comp. science audience analogy: It's as if renormalizable theories gave us a neat API that does not leak the ugly internals of what happens at super high energies (short distances). Like you don't need to know machine code or assembly to import Pytorch and build a neural network in a few lines of code.

For gravity this doesn't work. Gravity is mediated by a massless spin-2 field (Einstein's theory). If you try to quantize this theory you will find that it explodes at second order. We can calculate the first quantum corrections to Einstein's gravity but then it explodes. And when we attempt our tricks to hide all the short distance/high energy stuff inside a black box (renormalization) it just doesn't work. It's as if the API was leaky. It leaks the internals to the high level.

To give you a couple of examples of this leakiness. Dark energy, the energy of the vacuum, causes an expansion to our universe at the largest scales possible. So it's a phenomena of super loooong distances and yet, it's dominated by the super small distance (high energy) interactions that contribute to this energy of the vacuum. Another example, black holes are typically hyper massive, huge beasts and yet... they are inherently quantum gravitational objects for which we need the full theory of quantum gravity to understand them.

This is a blessing and a curse. The curse is that it makes our jobs of getting a theory of quantum gravity so much harder. The blessing is that it gives us a chance of peeking at a more fundamental theory of physics. If we could have worked out everything with effective theories we may never know what's beyond those black boxes that hide the internals. Gravity gives us the chance to peek through and understand something deeper.
Thoughts on tech employment
Experimenting, as well as a cheaper alternative to cloud/paid models. Local models don't have the encyclopaedic knowledge as huge models such as GPT 3.5/4, but they can perform tasks well.
Set rules, not boundaries. What do I mean by that? When out for walks, we’d tell the kids that they had to stay on the path, they could go as far as they wanted.. as long as we could see them and they could see us. Oh, and keep a close eye on your parents., they are easily distracted. What happened? When they were 2 they went 5 meters.. by 8 years old they go to the curve in the path.. and come back to tell us we had wandered off again!

It was awesome. We never had to yell at them.. they had clear and simple limits.

That worked really well, but we had to learn the hard way not to set expectations we couldn’t absolutely control and guarantee. Let’s go have ice cream and the favourite place.. oh no. They’re closed.. meltdown. Let’s wander that way and see what we find.. much safer.
Congratulations! Enjoy it!
Seems like it could be done by adding new features/flags to runas?

And then maybe creating alias to sudo in PowerShell like it does for other things.
Yeah that’s a fair point. The protocol may be open but much of the discovery/hosting is siloed in maybe 2-3 services. It doesn’t take much imagination to see where that could lead.
So is this going to be another clusterfuck like 10DLC? I am glad our company stuck with our guts and intentionally decided not to go outbound, but I almost feel bad for the startups that were banking on full outbound.
Back when I used scoop, I uninstalled that right away because I didn't like how scoop installed it on its own.
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