skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The tidal waves alone from loss of tidal forces would wipe out all the coastlines of everyplace everywhere.

As I understand it, we have tides because while the moon is fairly small with fairly low gravity, it's comparatively close to us so the moon's gravitational pull between one side of the earth is larger than on the other side, creating a kind of "sloshing effect" that we call tides.

The sun also does this, but less because it's further away (inverse square law).

Not a scientific analysis, but intuitively, it seems to me that stopping this wouldn't really be a calamity? There would probably be huge effects for ocean currents, climate, wildlife, and all of that, but no Emmerich-type spectacular calamities. Things will just stop "sloshing" and that would be that.
I’m sure Kodak had the same problem with the digital camera.
What's the scam with the water filter?
I've had this before at a University I used to attend. I had a password with either a % or a & and I found I couldn't log into one specific system. I changed my password to a different one, but still had one of those special characters. I was curious and tried a more "basic" password and I was able to get in. The system just wouldn't accept certain characters in your password. The main University password manager did disallow certain special characters, but clearly not enough of them.

It never makes you feel very confident in an institutions security when they can't even figure out how to get a username/password to work properly on their systems.
That's worth writing a book for. A short, straight-to-the-point guide in simple language would probably sell really well.
(Oodle maintainer here.) This issue only occurs on some small fraction of machines, but on those that we've had access to, it reproduces with BIOS defaults and no user-specified overclocking. It turns out several of these mainboards will overclock and set other values out of spec even at BIOS defaults.

I don't have a problem with end users experiencing instability once they manually overclock (that's how it goes), but CPU + mainboard combinations experiencing typical OC symptoms with out-of-the-box settings is just not OK.

This appears to be an arms race between mainboard vendors all going further and further past spec by default because it gives better benchmark and review scores and their competition does it. Intel for their part are themselves also dialing in their parts more aggressively (and, presumably although I don't know for sure, with smaller margins) over time, and they are for sure aware that this is happening, because a) even had they not known already (which they did) they would have learned about this months ago when we first contacted them about this issue, b) technically out of spec or not, as long as it seems to work fine for users and makes their parts look better in reviews, they're not going to complain.

However, it turns out, it does not work fine for at least some small fraction of machines. I have no idea what that percentage is, but it's high enough that googling for say "Intel 13900K crash" yields plenty of relevant results. Some of this will be actual intentional overclockers but, given how boards default to some extend of out-of-spec overclocking enabled, it's unlikely to be all of them.

Meanwhile we (and other SW vendors) are getting a noticeable uptick in crash reports on, specifically, recent K-series Intel CPUs, and it's not something we can sanely work around because the issue manifests as code randomly misbehaving and it's not even when doing anything fancy. The Oodle issue in particular is during LZ77-family decompression, which is to say, all integer arithmetic (not even multiplies, just adds, shifts and logic ops), loads/stores and branches. This is the bare essentials. If it was an issue with say AVX2, we could avoid AVX2 code paths on that family of machines (and preferably figure out what exactly is going wrong so we can come up with a more targeted workaround). But there is no sane plan B for "integer ALU ops, load/stores and branches don't work reliably under load". If we can't rely on that working, there is not enough left for us to work around bugs with!

I realize this all looks like finger-pointing, but this is truly beyond our capacity to work around in a sane way in SW, with what we know so far anyway. Maybe there is a much more specific trigger involved that we could avoid, but if so, we haven't found it yet.

Either way, when it's easy to find end user machines that are crashing at stock settings, things have gone too far and Intel needs to sit down with their HW partners and get everyone (themselves included) to de-escalate.
In fact, Hello Robot already shared a teleoperated demo of folding shirts! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtG8nJ78x2M&t=180s But yes, a second arm is needed.
You should read the Edge terms of service and privacy policy. /s
I found C++ code to be simply difficult to read. When code "in the wild" didn't compile with my compiler, it would often take a long time to find the problem and understand what went wrong.

Probably the most time consuming and frustrating aspect was trying to be compatible with Microsoft's compiler. Much of the way it worked was quirky and ad-hoc, and took a lot of time to figure out.
I disagree, it's a great take and it is a shame that people in power don't share my view.

In 100 years they will, and the wind will see my piss in your face. Have fun experiencing that.
I have long felt that organizations that require password rotation for employees should, when the users are changing their passwords, record and post the old password to an internal site (without any identification of the user) for educational (and mockery) purposes.
Interesting that Music notation even seems to be a “challenge” to do with a computer, speaking as a complete layman. It seems like there is only a few note symbols to draw, at fixed positions. Can someone explain what makes good engraving good?
A large motivation behind this line of home-robot work for me is thinking about the elderly, people with disabilities, or busy parents who simply don't have enough time to do it all. I am personally hopeful that we can teach AI to take the jobs that no one wants rather than the jobs that everyone wants :)
There doesn't seem to be anything there except some struct definitions and a placeholder main function. Yet it got 10 upvotes.
Varda capsule proves you don't need astronauts for gravity-defying science
This is an old form of grift: "Pay us $X per month and we'll protect you from thieves. (Except for us of course.)"

Apple is doing the same thing today: "Use our products and we'll protect you from people who would snoop your private data. (Except for us of course.)"
I think the retrieval is still going to be important.

What is not important is RAG. You can retrieval a lot of documents in full length, not need to do all these chunking/splitting, etc.
That depends on where you live, and doesn't include many (any?) of the places in Africa where humans were evolving in the relevant time period for starting to eat fermented food.

And I bet there was plenty of work to do anyway, even in winter in places where it is cold and dark, enough that hunger is still a more likely motivator than boredom. I'd be interested to see hard facts on this, though.
I used to post on this forum called LivingWithStyle (LWS) in the 2000s and it was great. There were forums that covered everything and I actually got to know people and make friends over the years from it.
This is great - taking scalability to the next level
Two weeks ago, I stated that we should expect the ECB to seek the power to enforce quasi-bans for Bitcoin and BTC mining. Some doubted this prediction.
Still have doubts?
“It seems wrong that Bitcoin should not be subject to strong regulatory intervention, up to practically forbidding it.”
I've also had pretty good luck using the GH topics for finding obscure projects https://github.com/topics/atprotocol https://github.com/topics/bluesky https://gitlab.com/explore/projects/topics?search=atprotocol (empty, but I usually check there, too)
MoE (Mixture of Experts) is an effective way to scale transformers. Gemini 1.5 is already doing upto 1 million tokens. I have not seen any large scale mamba model, so not aware of its shortcomings, but I am sure there are tradeoffs.

It should be possible to combine Mamba with MoE, I wonder how that would look like... a billion token context?
That seems a bit long winded since this situation is a direct result of Bayes' theorem. It seems to me equivalent to say:

Bayes' Theorem holds because it can be proven. Therefore, situations can be constructed where considering identical data without considering priors gives nonsense conclusions. For example if we happen to know as a prior that P(outcome of experiment is a certain ratio) = P(experiment is completed) then that must be considered when interpreting the results.
Small business doesn't know how to require upfront payment?
Indeed kills their RSS feed
the latency to serve the end-user esp with chained calls impacts ux quality
The Dictator's Best Friend
I've been developing premium themes for Hugo & Jekyll for many years at https://www.zerostatic.io so I have tried quite a few Git based CMS.

My favourite was Forestry (RIP) which was replaced by TinaCMS which simply didn't solve the same problem and it was for React websites anyway. CloudCannon now offers something similar to Forestry but requires you to host with them. Netlify CMS had potential but always felt poorly built and fragile, it was turned into Decap CMS when Netlify abandoned it. I admit I have not tried Decap, maybe because I never liked Netlify CMS.

Forestry was right in the sweet spot. It had the following.

* Able to be installed "over the top" of a markdown based site at any stage of the project without deep integration into the codebase.
* Does an OK job at inferring content types from folder structure+ssg type and fields from frontmatter, writes config as flat files to git. You can edit these to refine/improve the inital schema.
* no lockin to a specific hosting provided.

Look forward to trying Pages CMS
A Panoramic Tour of Factor
Check out Taskbar for macOS: https://lawand.io/taskbar

I have been developing this app as a Windows-style taskbar because I completely agree that this is a better way to multi-task than the dock. I also made sure to show the windows of the current space only, so the problem you mentioned is solved. Check it out :)
> We need some sort of uniform traffic code that requires such vehicles (either driverless or manned) to only stop in marked short term spots or regular parking, but not simply block the street.

Yeah it's been illegal to just stop your car in the middle of the street and get out and go into a restaurant since streets were invented. No new law's required here.

The question is, why are people suddenly doing this?
And the dominant entity in human societies is the state with military and police forces. If we continue with this line of thought, the state has the natural right to decide who is allowed to use which piece of land, under which terms. And it has also the natural right to change its mind.
Western notation is a complex written language developed over centuries. It's easy to render the symbols in isolation, but not the meaning they convey to the musician who's expected to perform it. Even something like whether to render a flat or a sharp depends on context and intended use.
Not a fountain pen, but the LAMY Safari (Rollerball) and Zebra Sarasa Dry (Gel) pens will each dry fast enough to write left-handed with most papers.

I find the typical rollerball to be far more conducive to cursive writing than a ball-point, as very little pressure is needed to release the ink. Kind of a "fountain-pen lite"
I actually prefer this over the other currently available options (Install our app on your phone so you can click "Accept" ... and give us access to scrape everything off of your smartphone!). I just select random questions from their list, and use the same answer for each of the questions. If they don't accept the same answer for each question, then I conclude I don't need whatever it is they're offering as badly as they think I need it, and move on to another entity or form of communication (if you won't make this convenient for me, then fine -- you can send me snail mail correspondence).
Most optical properties of myopic defocus can be simulated on screen. Since the processing is on the retina, screen altering can be effective. Android app is in progress.
Gemma locally on iOS, Android, web browsers, and GPUs with a single framework
My point is that people are incorrectly using the term “populist” to describe people who simply oppose immigration and free trade. In that respect, I agree it’s a category error.

I disagree that populism is merely a “vector for influencing politics.” That makes it sound like a choice or tactic. But oftentimes, particular issues just happen to break down along lines where people who can be described as “elite” converge on a view, while non-elites tend to adopt a different view.

For example in India, secularism is an idea championed mainly by elites, and largely opposed by the masses. Thats what makes opposition to secularism a populist viewpoint, not Modi’s choice to point that out.
The whole Microsoft Office suite online just feels like hacky code on top of more hacky code. And combine with how your account can also be signed into your PC, and then also signed into applications. I have a work email, and two personal emails that all make use of Microsoft products. What a mess it is managing the accounts and the different systems. The business emails and accounts just seem sloppy and seem to work different than personal accounts.

Overall when compared to Google's suite of products, M365 just seems so sloppy.
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Show HN: GPT Search: extension to search through ChatGPT chat history
Hopefully some of you find it helpful!

Features

- Blazingly fast after initial caching.

- Privacy first: no data collection.

- Support for advanced searching.

Chrome Link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/gpt-search/glhkbfoibolghhfikadjikgfmaknpelb

Firefox Link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gpt-search
Suppose you have a torrent client that saves chunks to the filesystem before performing integrity checks. Suppose also that you have an antivirus program that scans every newly-created file for malware… and someone sent you 42.zip. Sure, the torrent client will reject it later, but the damage has already been done.

This specific scenario is unlikely (most antivirus programs can cope with zip bombs, these days), but computers are complex. Other edge-cases might exist. Torrenting is safer than downloading something from your average modern website, but in practice it's nowhere as safe as the theoretical limit.
I'm completely blocked out of equifax ever since their hack. I've even sent them a certified letter and no response. Impossible to call them too. Just says sorry contact us... ok

Been annoying when trying to have a credit check run and the place uses equifax and they deny based on frozen credit. Like ya, I know. Could be worse I suppose, could be open and unable to freeze.
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A little bit of an aside, but the absolute gol CNN website is impressive:

> We apologize, but your web browser is configured in such a way that it is preventing this site from implementing required components that protect your privacy and allow you to view and change your privacy settings. This functionality is required for privacy legislation in your region.

> We recommend you use a different browser or disable the “EasyList Cookie” filter from your “Content Filtering” settings (found under “Settings” -> “Shields” in the Brave Browser).
No, it wasn't an ADA thing. It was a purely local thing. The local authority had adopted some resolution that no further "development" would happen before they added some sort of accessibility. So we couldn't move forwards even using donated money. We could repair things but not make substantive improvements.

Rock climbing areas tend to be inaccessible or at least very rough terrain. Ironically, a vertical rock surface can be made accessible. There are actually many disabled climbers out there. But with a mixed dirt/rock/scree slope you basically need to install a mile-long ramp.
I also recently built a system with the 14900KF on an ASUS TUF motherboard and NZXT Kraken 360 cooler, and so far I haven't experienced any issues running everything at default BIOS settings (defaulted to 5.7GHz). I haven't seen temps above 70C yet, although granted I also haven't seen CPU load go above 40%, and haven't tried running any benchmarking software.

I'm curious about what you are using for cooling, as 90C at 5.4ghz seems way off compared to what I am seeing on my processor, but it could just be that I'm not pushing my processor quite as hard even with the higher clock rate.
If you're good enough that your name doesn't hold you back, good for you.

As it stands, I turn my nose at stuff like Cockroach DB.
They say there is a solution to the problem so regulators let them pollute more and make more money. Eventually we all figure out they lied and it doesn't work or they don't use it and then they get a tiny fine. Business as usual.
This Wikipedia article may point you in the right direction: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage_spike

I'm not an electrician by any means so take everything I saw with a grain of salt, but: in general, electricity flowing through a system has some amount of "inertia" (the technical term for this is inductance), and shutting off a circuit breaker will cause a brief voltage spike upstream of the breaker due to the flow of electrical current suddenly being forced to stop.

Have you ever unplugged a running appliance from the wall and noticed a brief spark at the plug? That's the same effect: motors in general have high inductance and try quite hard to fight changes in current.

It's bad enough that when designing circuits that switch power to inductive loads like motors, you have to include a flyback diode (read: one way valve) to allow a path for electricity to continue to flow internal to the load when the power is switched off, otherwise it will generate a voltage spike high enough to damage the switching circuit.

Put another way: it's not the "high amperage short circuit" that causes the voltage spike; it's the rapid stop to said high current that happens when the circuit breaker realizes what's going on and trips.
It's a tough situation as a small business owner. Obviously you shouldn't commit resources you can't afford until you have either a payment or an enforceable contract. There comes a time when you have to spend money to make the customer's scheduled delivery time, and if you don't want any risk you have to decline the order entirely if you haven't received payment by that time. But it may generally seem (and even be) worth hedging your bets in situations like these by extending the deadline a little past that time so that you risk some money for a potential large sale opportunity that you'd otherwise "lose".

This time, that hedging did not pay off. It's an expensive lesson to learn.

I'd say that "Tesla" will also learn a lesson from the media exposure, and maybe it will pressure them into paying for cakes on that future date. But what lesson is there for Tesla to learn? Most likely, some arbitrary employee had no idea that they were putting the small business in a difficult position - generally as consumers we think of things as either "purchased" or "not purchased". Those without B2B purchasing experience don't understand that with large orders there's a middle ground where producers have to "ramp up", prepare stock, plan schedule to make it all work, etc. The woman at Tesla calling about the cakes may not have had any of this B2B experience.

Also, pressuring Elon's companies using media exposure generally doesn't get compliance. More often it gets a scorched earth response. :-(
2/3 of England is owned by 0.36% of the population. Half by 0.1% https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/apr/17/who-owns-engla...
The problem is, as you articulated, they are required by law to provide credit reporting information about you to you. They have no incentive to do this because they make their money by collecting and selling data about us.

They have every reason to use this reporting requirement to collect more information about you.

They have every reason to conflate credit freeze with credit hold, and confuse consumers in order to extract regular payments from them.

They have zero reason to keep sensitive data about you secure. In fact, they have every reason to promote fear and uncertainty in the public that their sensitive personal information is in the hands of criminals as a growth opportunity for their industry to sell credit monitoring services.

They have successfully convinced the public that identity theft is a separate and distinct crime done exclusively by one person to another rather than simply fraud that they are aiding and abetting.

Consumers and credit reporting bureaus have a fundamentally adversarial relationship that no legislation can harmonize. They exist because they do serve a purpose for finance, which is to give an indication of how much money they can make lending money to someone. Regardless, this reporting does not have to be done by for-profit corporations. This can just as easily be done by non-profits or government agencies. Although these are not perfect, they are free of the perverse incentives driven by for profit corporate structures.
All the gear and no idea.

Yeah. I’m a bit of an audiophile (used to be a music producer) and have almost no interest in audio hardware other than how it sounds.

But it seems strange to me to apply the same reasoning to stationery. With sound, there is literally only one thing that matters: how accurately and precisely you can vibrate the air. With pens, it isn’t so easy to quantify. How do you measure what it means to feel nice to write with, or to hold in the hand? Or what makes a particular ink pleasing to the eye? There’s huge scope for personality and opinion that isn’t present in other kinds of what you might call tools.

And, separately: what is meant by ‘fetishisation of x’? Is it synonymous with ‘interest in x’? To me it seems to be used simply to look down on those who have interests not considered worthy; if one disapproves of singing one might as well refer to it as ‘fetishisation of the human voice’. But perhaps there’s more to it than that.
Thank you. I’m really happy to hear that.

That’s a relief.
I've read that it takes _at least_ 3 months of complete withdrawal from what was causing the burnout to fully recover from it. I imagine if you throw autism into the mix, it's probably longer than that haha.

Sometimes it feels like the only real solution is to go back to school and get a degree in something that's not related to tech at all. Or go live in the woods.
Everybody thinks their dog and/or child is a genius. But I've had a lot of dogs. Even within the same litter, some are bright, and some are dumber than a box of hammers. If your dog is smart, that's great, but your next one of the same breed might not be. Some individual dogs also don't take well to training, while others do. It's way more about the individual than the breed.
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