skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a 20 year old APC start misbehaving on me a few months back, and new batteries didn't fix it. After messing up the repair on the first one, a second one started doing the exact same thing, and I immediately took it apart and, now an expert on how not to fix them and what the root cause was, I swapped every cap on the board that my ESR meter claimed was bad. It's now back in operation, and while I was testing it, I realized it's so inefficient that about 10% of its max rating is just going up in heat. The replacement for the first one, I assumed, would be much more efficient, and it is, but it's still dumping about 7% of its energy into heating the transformer.

OTOH, the older UPS behaves much better with apcupsd, going so far as giving me the firmware versions, battery replacement times, better power monitoring/etc. While the new one works its missing most of what the older UPS could do (although its not a APC).

So, i'm sorta on the fence about just using "backup generators" from Amazon/etc because one of the ones I have has about 5x the capacity of the new UPS and seems to be able to switch without the computer plugging into it having an issue. Plus, its power waste is less than 1%.
low quality discourse imo
Counterexample: the sudden population reduction of the Black Death produced progress by encouraging exploring high-productivity paths instead of following tradition and just throwing more people at various problems.

Obviously some populations are too small (eg the N=6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lykov_family spent their lives with an ever-dwindling tech tree) but at 8 billion the slope is a long way from being slippery.
This is the same group that got a quartz disk with a copy of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy into that Tesla Roadster that was blasted into space in 2018...

https://thenewstack.io/how-to-build-a-billion-year-library-o...
It's on hn because it sounds similar to the so called Q* algorithm, the supposed secret openai algo that has seen a huge amount of speculation.
New languages are so much more expressive.
I am really curious if part of the reason why oxide is leaning into racksize is that joyent has scared them from attempting a 1U/2U solution.
“RNN-mode inference” is also extremely exciting because you can precompute the hidden state of any prompt prefix (i.e. a long system prompt, or statically retrieved context) and continued generations pay the same cost irrespective of the prefix length.
Early access means NDA.
Don't get me started on Dropbox web app... the worst cluster*uck of an user interface:

- super slow; scrolling often leaves you in a blank space for seconds when it's catching up; elements showing up on the page after you navigate there pushing things away from or under your cursor

- breadcrumbs in the folders sometimes showing, sometimes not

- different directory tree browsers in different parts of the app

- folder settings split between multiple different places. For something you have to go to Admin console, for something you have to go back to normal viewer

- multiple types of flash messages, showing after different actions, often doubling themselves

- actions in dropdown menus for the same thing ordered differently based on where you currently are

I'm so happy that we are migrating away to our own solution
On the Military Failures of Fascism
One of the extremely rare cases where modern technology can actually do what was trivial decades ago.
What Texas can teach San Francisco and London about building houses
It's in the name isn't it? Colonies. There were already people there who shouldn't have any rights to the land.
It's more common for people to move from government to industry, and then utilize their insider knowledge and contacts to benefit their company.
This is in the Bay Area so more like 1M each. But still I was also very impressed.
I think the hard part of programming, or programming related things, is environment setup.

Even with things like Docker, you can still run into SO many issues.

Programming by myself is always easy.

Programming within a company can be difficult because of this. There are definitely places out there that make environment setup super simple. Even then, you can still run into something that hasn't been encountered before.
Carbonite keeps two full backups. And deletes the oldest cycle after that.

Timemachine also keeps backups until you start running out of diskspace.

Neither service deletes files from your backups.
Might indicate poor support for JPEG2000 in Archive's software? That's what you get when you click the download link for "Original" files. Sadly it's not easily readable that way but at least someone could use them to assemble a better PDF with some cropping, rotation, and white-balance: https://i.imgur.com/IdBujgi.png
The right to roam movement is explicitly about responsible access rights to most of the countryside. As a whole hearted supporter, I agree that the situation is indefensible and needs fixing.

We are essentially excluded from land through centuries old stitch ups intended to exclude the common man. It's stuff that goes back to the Norman conquest when the elite essentially carved up hunting lands for their own benefit, with subsequent enclosure after enclosure that destroyed commons rights.

The intent of the Right to Roam movement is to reclaim some of what was taken from us as a whole.
Odysseus moon lander didn't deploy camera during historic descent
How artists are fighting generative AI
I don't know if this counts as 'purely historic' or not, but I think the pragmatic answer is simply that it's the law. The land was bought by its present owner knowing that the public had a right of way across it. The law could change, but there's no particular reason for it to any more than there is to argue for it to exist from first principles.
I’ve had an ultra cheap Eaton 5E (900 VA) for a few weeks. Because I still don’t entirely trust it, I’ve tried cutting the power to it several times (like 10x maybe) and it’s been fine every single time (it talks to a Debian box with NUT). The whole thing was around $80, if it doesn’t burn the house down, there are no downsides.
On the other hand, smart dogs can be much more difficult to train.

They can easily pick up what you're training them to do, but when you want them to actually do it the results can be far more mixed. This is because they're so smart that they seem to know whether doing the thing they were trained to do is worth it to them.

Source: I have a Shiba Inu, which is simultaneously one of the smartest and most primitive of dog breeds. From the beginning he picked up tricks and other training extremely quickly, usually within a handful of repetitions. But he can be very independent and stubborn. He seems to know whether something is worth doing or not. Almost.....too smart.
Why? As long as the fine is a fraction of the profits, it's just the cost of doing business.
if they're not looking for you then you will probably be disappointed

I'm certain they are not. Honestly I am not getting my hopes up. It's just a wild curiosity to fill some gaps and unanswered questions.

I'd start with people I know they've worked with

I will give this path a shot, thankyou.
MBP device pixel ratio is 2 after all!
Guessing there are a few of us in a position where we are frustrated with our past experiences with ROCm software, (e.g. being awful to install, in the past there were long guides with loads of steps to follow, and not the greatest clarity / simplicity in the instructions, and the only option they suggested if you messed it up was to reinstall the operating system, and there were multiple guides / pages and it wasn't clear which was the latest one, and then it only supported older versions of tensorflow / pytorch / jax, and only supported recent / higher end cards, etc. — it may be better now, this is my experience from I guess a few years ago); but who at the same time recognise that it would be great for GPU compute to be more affordable, and for there to be good competitors to Nvidia.
Well, that's no fun at all.
How do you tell it which password to type?
You're on to something; old cars lasted over 200k miles just as much as new ones do, if you're willing to spend the value of the car on engine and transmission rebuilds more often. (and fight rust proactively)

Maintenance vs Value is not that strange of a criteria; it tends to be the criteria warranties (and, in case of accident, theft, or flooding: auto insurance).

But newer cars do last longer, 200k miles pretty easily for many brands (the Ecoboost head gasket and collapsing lifter issue that destroy a camshaft being the American outlier of the last decade).

Timing belt is a great example of making maintenance easier and more cost effective than a timing chain, and is one of the major factors that took automobiles from 100k to 200k miles. (Timing Chain / Timing Chain tensioner early failure was an issue on Fords for a period of time)
Glicol is awesome!
I really like the non-linear edit/run loop you've created.
In certain computer science problems, a suboptimal action at time t may give rise to an optimal outcome at time >t.

Why wouldn't this be the case for research generally? Has our community really devolved to the point where things should only be noteworthy insofar as they optimize for SOTA for a given problem?

What a sad thought.
I recently had someone submit a fraudulent loan application using my information. I went through the process of freezing immediately after, and I would highly recommend you do it. It was the easiest thing possible. I just went to the links on here https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/finance/how-to-freeze-cre... and was done in like 10 minutes for all 3.
Banks have to hold up their end of the customer agreement (contract), and the terms of that agreement are enforced by contract law.

I've yet to see a bank's customer agreement wherein the contractually-defined protections for debit cards varied significantly from the legally-defined protections for credit cards. (I haven't made an exhaustive study of this, but I have read the fine print for every new bank account that I've considered.)

If you can find a customer agreement that is meaningfully different in this aspect, then: I'm all ears.
How do you tell it which password to type? I haven't seen yubikeys with physical interfaces to select a particular password.
I think the problem here, well before even getting to this notion that Google is trying to engineer some favoured alternative reality outcome of theirs, is that it's not clear that the model, relying on the data set available, is even creating a correct representative version of reality prior to Google putting their thumb on the scale.
Guess the video generated with AI
The Build and Distribute parts of the docs are the things I clicked on first. How can I get Tauri mobile apps in Apple and Google app stores? But they're both 'stubs' with no content yet.

https://beta.tauri.app/guides/build
https://beta.tauri.app/guides/distribute
Why would you use this over dart/flutter for cross platform mobile apps?

I chose dart/flutter after searching and failing to work out what would be the best web framework to use out of the ever increasing amount of them.
The amazing thing to me about dogs is the tremendous range of variability we have bred into them. Size, shape, color, intelligence, basic body makeup, senses, hunting instincts, even average life span vary by an astonishing amount.

And sadly, of course, the selective breeding has also caused systematic weaknesses in some breeds (prone to bad hips, knee injuries, relatively short life span, etc).

The genie is out of the bottle but I wish we could breed healthier animals.
I prefer UFO with Ed Bishop.
> How could they prevent the framework become over bloated with semi baked plug-in?

...not sure how they plan to, but how they COULD do it is by making it easy enough to directly access native resources directly from the script language (like NativeScript) or by making it so easy to write native code (Kotlin/Swift are listed as first-class options) that you just write any specific API access code in the appropriate native language.

It doesn't give you the Electron "write once run everywhere" experience, since you need to write some of the code per-platform, but many apps are 95% UI and only 5% platform-specific functionality. So by abstracting the UI by having it be HTML/CSS/JavaScript, you're getting a "write once run everywhere UI" and the minority of the code that needs to differ is all you have to maintain per-platform.

If writing a plug-in is a high bar, then you get tons of semi-baked plug-ins as the (seemingly) only way to access native features. If instead you can drop in native code easily and quickly, then you can focus on app development and cut out the middleware. ;)
I keep hearing about Scuttlebutt for a long time but haven't seen anyone actually using it? Why?

edit: hm, the recommended application on the website itself is ... from 2021, and the github of the app itself is archived now. And there is "bleeding edge" one ... from 2019.

OK I can see that there might be problems
Not sure why the downvotes but this is cool I wasn’t aware of this technology, thanks!
[dupe]

More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39476304
As someone considering exploring this direction, what pitfalls specifically? There is a performance hit, sure, and considerable memory usage, but that's the trade off for having essentially a virtual machine to work on. And with VS Code being Electron based it's at least conceivably possible to make this approach very performant. On desktop anyway.
The nVidia stack seems to work on Windows in various ways, so it's up to AMD to be competitive with respect to compatibility.
There are nice cheap pens out there, but fountain pens are beautiful and separating the choice of ink from the choice of pen gives a lot of flexibility.

What’s particularly wrong with appreciating tools? Why brand it ‘fetishisation’? For me, a good fountain pen is a work of art; the fact it happens to be useful for work is an added bonus.
Here is the page for Hello Robots: https://hello-robot.com/
Ah, I see. "Just avoid holding it in that way" vs. "you're holding it wrong"
No, they want to use light refraction to measure the glucose level.
for comparison my top of the range i9 gaming pc uses 62W idle
How is the idea of telling someone that respectful in any way? You’re just laughing them off without considering it.

It seems like what you meant is that you’re respected enough to get away with what you want to do, not that it’s as 2-way a street as you first said.
Define "forever"
Unlikely in what probability space? We only see one version of reality so the probabilities that we assign to any outcome are based on a prior choice of probability space. That is why the researchers' intent matters.
Neither of those applies at all to Gemma, though? I'm still confused -- what are you trying to accomplish with this line of questioning?
IKV: embedded key-value store, 100x faster than Redis
Fully-managed; Eventually consistent; Embedded (no RPC for read-path); In-memory with option to spill to disk.

Detailed benchmarks linked in the Github Readme. Single digit microsecond read latencies.

Written in Rust - available for use in Java and Go.
I don't know what you must be doing because I've been using it for years and haven't had any problems that weren't quickly solved
Inaction regularly is the best move
Avast ordered to stop selling browsing data from its browsing privacy apps
Seems like you just described two scenarios where a deleted file would eventually fall out of the backup set.
I don't see a definitive list anywhere, but it looks like "newer" roughly means RTX 20 series and later? I'm a little disappointed that I can't migrate the older card in my HTPC (ironically, it has a power management issue with the latest Nvidia driver), but I'm glad there's a path forward for nouveau.
Have you heard the scuttlebutt? https://youtu.be/N4ovRhX8XIM?feature=shared
I'm having exactly the same issue with apcupsd and my APC Smart-UPS X 1500, so it's not just an issue with the cheapo units.
I don't think that anyone is trying to whitewash the past. All we can do is look to the future. Fact is that the demand for AI, has forced their hand. As I see it, AMD is trying to clean up their act as quickly as possible, but change of this magnitude, isn't going to happen over night.

These sorts of updates to things, like their blogs, are baby steps in the right direction.
I'm at least as leery as the next person about entrenching large incumbents, but if the data required to make people rich is unavailable because it needs to be appropriately licensed, why is that a problem for anyone other than the few people trying to be rich?

If my content on platform XYZ will create a benefit for me later on, sell me on that. In the form of free usage, or actual licensing $$ now. The "oh I can't make the money I want without other people's stuff" is not compelling.
I love it too but I could see it hurting some adoption, unless it goes the other way. Scuttlebut is intriguing and a sticky name…
This is absolutely shameful spending and another failure by the government… but don’t make this to be a partisan issue. Conservative government wasted $2 billion on the phoenix software fraud.

https://twitter.com/AndrewW43599783/status/17584963625161402...

Governments and leaders in general need to start being held accountable for massive waste, fraud and corruption.
Would a line not contain more than one instruction, on average?
Certain brands like Platinum and Sailor are known for this — it’s somewhat euphemistically known as ‘feedback’ and some people like it. I’ve been partial to it in the past.

Pilot is an example of a brand known for smoother writing. Try one!

There is also the possibility that the nib is just out of alignment. You might need to look at it under a loupe and perform some adjustments… there are various guides online or you can pay an expert to do it.
>> improving things for people with disabilities improves things for everyone

Everything has its limits. Many years ago I was involved in building a series of staircases in a rock climbing area inside a park. There were about a hundred steps in a handful of orientations to get from the parking lot over a rocky hill to the small valleys behind. The project was primarily to prevent trail erosion and falls. These steps weren't going to even have handrails. (Think 2x6 framed boxes filled with dirt and bolted to the rock.) Then someone in government said if we wanted to use donated money inside a park we would have to somehow make the project wheelchair accessible. All stop. Project over. No stairs were built. Access trail remained a mess.

We were going to replicate these stairs from another climbing area in BC. There is no way to make such a thing wheelchair accessible.

https://sonnybou.ca/ssbou2001/skaha01.jpg
Maybe its only EU compliant

.. where Apple has to allow sideloading
If you can recover everything, then the data retention is too high.
If you can't recover anything, then the data retention is too low.

Find a sweet spot where you can satisfy most clients at a manageable cost.
Offer problem clients a higher data retention for a premium.
Reconductoring: An easy way to expand the grid
It’s neat how there can be vast differences both regionally and within social circles. Here in Texas (I’ve been in central, west, and panhandle) dropping by was common through even the mid-2000s. While I don’t do this much anymore, for my parents and their friend groups it is still done.

Of course there are some unwritten rules and some people that you do call ahead, but for many it’s still an acceptable practice.
Pestilence Defends Their AI Album Cover, Is Wrong
I agree, a merged dropbox with borg backup / time machine style deduped history going back as far as you want to pay for, with a resolution control. One example: Save every version for the past few days, every hour for the past month, every day for the past 3 months, every week until 6 months, every month for the past X years, etc.

Will also need something to control software that goes really wild with new versions, or some specialized rule sets for software repos, video editing, etc.

Ransomware & compliance escrow would also work great for this, you could have contracts that wont allow deletion after X months no matter what the other organization says to help prevent social engineering or account take over attacks.
Let's imagine that we ran it as a simulation and we ran it a million times. The two people would have a different distribution of results. If you ignore the intention, you ignore reality as if that intention were not a part of it.

Do you not notice that your inference is less accurate using this line of reasoning? Does that not suggest that it's simply wrong?
Well they did specify it was for datacenter use.
See also [1] "NIO's 150-KWh Battery Pack Reveals Its Secrets Ahead of Schedule in New Owner's Manuals"

[1] https://www.autoevolution.com/news/nio-s-150-kwh-battery-pac...
Love it: p(I saw E) and p(I didn’t really see E).

Just move the argument one level down: “I saw E is false” and it turns out so is “E is false” . So then? Add “E was false was false”?

Turtles all the way down.

At some point something has to be “true” in order to conditionalise on it.
The Bartender and the Lost Literary Masterpiece
One thing this proves at least in my head, is that faketoshi Craig Wright was not present.
I actually think Snowden is much more problematic as a case than Assange is.

Snowden released some information which was within the realm of reasonable activities for the organisations he worked with, an he was in fact American, so was not quite loyal.

Meanwhile, everything Assange did was appropriate. He has no duties to the US, not being a US citizen or permanent resident, and political bias is very common with journalists. Maybe there is one or two unbiased journalist in all of America, probably people with very extreme pro-truth and consequences-can't-be-allowed-to-matter mindsets, but there's not going to be many of them.
This is a really good way to frame it that would indeed mean we only remember dozens of individual things, if that. The smell of home remains, as well as the smells of close relatives.. but I can't think of much else.
It is still in your local repository, but it's not pushed to the remote repository. So a forensics on your local machine may reveal it (probably until you do git gc, but I'm not an expert on git forensics) but it's safe otherwise.
> just keep the parcel at the depot for a week until they have a driver who can actually make the trip.

Depot workers can get up to the weirdest stuff. One time I was returning unused product (oil well perforating guns, a UN 1.4D explosive device) via Yellow Freight. I handed over the cases and signed all the appropriate paperwork to handover custody at the depot and went on about my day. The supplier called me ~10 days later saying they never received the shipment! Perturbed, I called down to the depot who basically shrugged it off with "no idea lol not our problem". Their attitude changed when I told them that in accordance with my license and federal law I would be notifying the ATF at the end of the day that there were missing or lost explosives and it would very much be their problem.

A couple hours later they called back and told me the boxes had missed their truck and were just sitting in the corner of the secure cage in the loading dock, forlorn and forgotten. What the fuck, guys.
Then you get into the peculiarity of "corner crossing", where four parcels meet at an infinitesimal point. Can you cross the corner and not be considered to have trespassed onto one of the other pieces? It's.... tricky.
On the other hand, in the US you can buy a piece of forest, build your own private cabin in it if you want and put a fence around your property to keep everyone else out. In the country I currently live in (Germany), you cannot.
Any critical thinking and questioning the hive mind is labeled “far right” without presenting evidence of what is “far right” and “extremist” among the opinions presented by those being attacked adhominem.