skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who’s worked on both embedded and Linux-based smartwatch firmware, yeah it’s mostly battery life. The nice part about developing for a lower power microcontroller is that you can basically aim to squeeze as much performance out of the chip as possible, and the power draw will still end up pretty good. On Linux devices, you need to an architecture early on for how you’re not going to blow your power budget immediately. Even stuff like entering/exiting suspend can be problematic in how many Joules it takes.
20/8704 says 200 meters. Did that get modified? I don't see anything more recent than that.

Edit: ah, it's in 20/10426. "in range of sight", "sight is ≤ 100m".
> Like there are types of memories specific to the sensory modality.

My understanding was that this was a myth... what's important is to actively pay attention, which seems to be the point here: "It’s very tempting to type down everything that the lecturer is saying, [...] but you don’t process the incoming information. [...] But when taking notes by hand, it’s often impossible to write everything down; students have to actively pay attention to the incoming information and process it [...]".

So it's not directly the fact of writing with a pen on a piece of paper, but rather the fact that it makes people "actively pay attention".
Curiously, in #217 Satoshi used "gotten", which doesn't exist in British English - it's a word that is normally only used by Americans.
So what is the counter culture these days?

I go to underground parties all the time and I actually don't see many people that seem younger than mid to late 20's.

Mostly late 20's early 30's millennials, and the crust punks of the 70's and 80's/
I thought it was well understood that the most likely thing is just different physics we can't measure or predict? And in a quantum-mechanics type agnosticism we decided things that aren't measurable aren't worth trying to understand.
If I were to have to repeat it, odds are I would most definitely not.

I consider it a miracle that I got in. I thank God every day.

Did the interview matter, in terms of technically assessing for what I do day to day? Very little.
Appreciate the link. Looks great. Thanks! Alas this post did not get the votes to get more links like this.
Agreed, and a fair observation. Consider if it will be available prior to deorbiting. That's the question. Snatch them orbital goods before the gravity well consumes.
The biggest hurdle for clubs will be that they need dedicated property that fulfills the necessary security requirements. Running a club partly or wholly from a private residence is explicitly forbidden.
Well, who doesn't?
The EU regulation was the central obstacle. It does not allow for commercial legalization of Cannabis beyond small trial projects. Originally, commercial legalization was the core of the German proposal, but it had to be revamped to only private and non-profit legalization because of legal concerns connected with EU law.
Here's his central point:

>This event is significant because it is major demonstration of someone giving a LLM a set of instructions and the results being totally not at all what they predicted.

Replace LLM with computer in that sentence, is it still novel? Laughably far from it, unexpected results are one of the defining features of moderately complex software programs going all the way back to the first person to program a computer. Some of the results are unexpected, but a lot are not, because it's literally doing what the prompt injection tells it to. Which isn't all that surprising but sure anyway...

>Obviously it's still very theoretical and can't do anything like that, but the point is more that perhaps Google doesn't have the culture necessarily to truly interrogate their actions.

Oh that's definitely true.
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I'm kind of old - I actually remember the whole Nixonian "silent majority" thing. At the time, it reeked of propaganda and gut feel. The pro-Nixon people were fairly vocal, in the gate-kept venues of the time. I'm not sure about this article - it kind of has the same eau de gut feel aroma about it.
1. You save $501 when you break it twice, but you still save $501 when you break it 3, 4, or 5 times. You don't get any additional benefits for the additional breaks, but you're still ahead overall.

2. all of the above analysis only covers glass breakage. More costly breakages also changes the equation.
I’m one of them, but as long as the jobs are good I don’t see a problem.

Colleges aren’t trade schools, their purposes are different.
That's not what crazygringo means. ñ can be represented both as a single unicode U+00F1 https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+00F1, or as an n with a combining tilde https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+0303, which looks like this: ñ.

Python 3.10.12 (main, Nov 20 2023, 15:14:05) [GCC 11.4.0] on linux
>>> "ñ".encode("utf-8")
b'\xc3\xb1'
>>> "ñ".encode("utf-8")
b'n\xcc\x83'

A naive hashing algorithm will hash them to different things.

For way too much information on this, see: https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/

Even a lot of Unicode-aware code written by a developer aware of at least some Unicode issues often fails to normalize properly, most likely because they're not even aware it's an issue. Passwords are a case where you need to run a Unicode normalization pass on the password before hashing it, but, unfortunately, if you're already stored the wrong password hash fixing it is rather difficult. (You have to wait for the correctly-incorrect password to be input, then you can normalize and fix the password entry. This requires the users to input the correctly-incorrect password; if they only input an incorrectly-incorrect password you can't do anything.) I'd suspect storing a lot of unnormalized passwords before learning the hard way this is an issue is the majority case for homegrown password systems. You hear "don't roll your own crypto" and think reaching for a bcrypt or scrypt library solves it, but don't realize that there's some stuff that needs to be done before the call to those things still.
I personally never found "programming" difficult, the difficult part is understanding large systems and finding the correct abstractions and most of all communicating these thoughts to other programmers. If programming starts to feel difficult its usually because I failed in one of those other areas or was forced to work on legacy projects where other people failed to make the best decisions.
EV certs were intended for that. They should always contain info of the company who they were issued to. They were mostly a trainwreck, and now almost completely abandoned.
Yeah, I guess the words "hard" and "easy" are oversimplifications of what I am trying to say... a lot of the stuff does take deep thinking, trial and error, multiple failures, and many hours of work... it is just that the concentration and focus to do that hard work comes easy to me. I don't have to force myself to focus on the hard thinking, it just comes naturally... I would have to work to STOP myself from thinking through the problem, even if it takes hours or days.

On the other hand, it takes all my willpower and mental control I have to finish filling out that OKR or the weekly status report or whatever.
This is the source of the truth, it’s the place where the statement that could be covered by a hypothetical blog post or story would be coming from.

It’s also the post that lies beyond the title of this post on HN. Really, I don’t know what would beat the linked content: it’s the source of the statement.
That's not my experience. Modern power supplies in desktop PCs either don't work or trip up non Pure Sine wave UPSs. I don't know the technical specifics but it has to do with Active PFC on power supplies.
> And if we are entering illegal, anyways laws won't help with this.

Laws are the only thing that will help with this, notwithstanding a monopoly on violence.
My device ended up with 6x1GbE, 4x2.5GbE, 2x10GbE.

Since it’s a general purpose computer (some cheap Xeon plus 64GB RAM plus SSDs), it could perform other workloads too.
the show used to be good fun. general banter, silly conspiracy stuff. it started sucking well before Trump and then the election made it so much worse.

haven't listened in years but somehow i ended up with JCD as a connection on LinkedIn, so every time I log on there's some no agenda hot take in the feed somewhere.
Expected rate cuts are generally already priced into longer-term bond prices, so trying to get in just before rates go down is basically exactly as hard as market timing.
>> Why would anyone disagree with “wokeness”?

Do you really expect universal understanding and agreement with a word/term that you felt necessary to put into air-quotes?

How about a proper definition to start with? Simply so that one can be clear on what they are agreeing or disagreeing with.
> I'm really curious what the cost per byte would be to make it worthwhile to offer a "host this byte forever, for one up-front fee" service.

https://help.archive.org/help/archive-org-information/

> *What are your fees?*

> At this time we have no fees for uploading and preserving materials. We estimate that permanent storage costs us approximately $2.00US per gigabyte. While there are no fees we always appreciate donations to offset these costs.

There's some discussion about this idea on this thread, including comments by ?id=markjgraham, who manages the Wayback Machine, thoughts from John Carmack:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29639222

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1473327982605385735

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1473327982605385735.html
A path out of bloat: A Linux built for VMs
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11842176

Vvvv – a live-programming environment for easy prototyping and development (June 5, 2016 — 187 points, 36 comments)
The people who don't know what an even number is probably won't vote. It's already a challenge to get people to vote in national elections as it is, let alone local elections (in the US).
I vaguely recall motherboard vendors ignoring Intel's power recommendations a couple years ago, which was causing weird thermal/performance issues (was it Asus?). I get the impression that's what's happening here, again.
Biggest thing is that you can now at least legally possess it. They never cared where it came from before either. Smoking it isn't illegal, just somehow buying it and having it. Truly an insane situation. Now at least you can own a reasonable amount of weed without being in this absurd limbo.
"We’re also keeping some of the newly released business and enterprise features (funnels and ecommerce revenue metrics at the time of being) exclusive to the business plan subscribers on our Plausible Analytics managed hosting."

"To provide a better service and experience to people who pay our bills, Plausible CE will continue to be community-supported only."

It sounds like they don't plan on upgrading the Community Edition...
I had some fun inputting the American Psycho transcript into this. Made a little video [1]. Insane how fast this is, great work!

[1]: https://x.com/TobiasWhetton/status/1761038697074466868
Speaking as someone with 10+ years experience with C# and TypeScript, coding is in general pretty easy.

What’s hard is managing complexity and dealing other people on large projects.

This really isn’t surprising when you think about it by comparing writing of code to writing of spoken languages. Just because you’re excellent at grammar and spelling, allowing you to write great emails and possibly even essays, does not mean you have the expertise to write a good, cohesive, long novel.

Similarly, making a short video by yourself or with a few friends is achievable for most. But making a full length feature film requiring the collaboration of 100s or 1000s of individuals while keeping to budget is no trivial task.

Really valuable programmers understand that the actual coding is only a small part of being able to deliver a large successful project, where the real hard part is preventing the complexity of a code base from overwhelming your team while effectively communicating with others to ensure you build the correct thing which works cohesively.
Interesting - I would be really interested in an apples-to-apples comparison between the two of them, but such a thing must be hard to do. I'd fully expect the amount of investment in JVM to have produced a way better result, but I can't find any good articles about it.
I’m a big fan of them too! That was the closest thing I found to my price point and interestingly was the same chipset (Intel i225 2.5Gb NICs).
Disagree. Programming now for 30 years and it's a breeze to pick up new frameworks and ideas.
I do see a lot of struggling developers who are only in it for the paycheck, who learnt their Java only skills 20 years ago who wonder why it doesn't get any easier...
There is a brief window in time where one can possibly play professional football or baseball. If you haven't made it by 30, the dream is over.

Social media has no such limitations. Certain segments favor the young but there are plenty of middle aged and a few older Youtubers making bank. I could certainly see some people holding onto the dream for far too long hoping for a break. A very few might even get it.
Just have to use the pen(cil) more. Make it fun: drawing, lettering, doodling - it all translates to handwriting itself.
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> For example people died while training to become astronauts, because the training was hard

I don't think this is correct. Astronauts died due to equipment malfunction (Apollo 1) or from airplane crashes or car crashes. But those aren't the same as dying because the training was too intense.
The same NIST document (800-63) that recommends against password expiration also recommends against complexity requirements, instead organizations are supposed to develop a list of bad passwords that would likely be used in an external dictionary attack.

People understandably get really fired up by the idea of not having to change their password every 90 days, but forget that the guidelines are a package that contains a lot of "shall"s (no password expiration is a mere "should") that would be more painful for organizations stuck with a lot of legacy software, like the requirement to use two authentication factors and the use of secure authentication protocols.
Invest in webgpu compute. It's not just for web, but it is portable.
What does it mean by "inference" in this context?
In one of the messages Satoshi writes "gotten", which would be unusual for a Brit.

There's also a lot of -ize. My money is on a Canadian, or a non-native-English European living in Britain.
In my kids school it's iPad and Apple Pencil. Great products.
Not OP, but asking yourself who would use what you are building, and then checking whether they will use what you build is a good start. Of course, the "checking" part is hard, even with a lot of methodology.
Safety from what exactly?
No, he showed up way after founding, he might have been an advisor before though. I'm not sure what the founding CEO is up to now but he had worked in AMD's GPU group and might have met Keller during that work.
If you are still on build 26040 like I am on the canary branch and you are unable to update just check the feedback hub and filter it by my build and sort it by latest and you will see that you are not alone and lots of people are getting stuck at 0% or 1% and stuff is breaking left and right. Normal operating procedure just pause your update. But you probably can't immediately so just click pause update and then reboot your computer and then don't touch the windows update panel in settings until the next update drops.

Just don't forget to go back into the feedback hub and find all of the submissions that basically say the same thing that your experiencing and leave a comment and upvote them.
Most of those processes, tps reports, jira and other annoyances is because in a programming environment you literally have too many cooks in the kitchen. Every programmer can create the system from scratch, so to prevent them from doing so, we have to make it super annoying. Basically it's a people problem.

The most incredible work happens in the first 3 months by a lone developer green-fielding with no boundaries. The only way for that codebase to move forward after getting a second/third/fourth person is to increase process, introduce pain and bloodshed.
I would sue everyone tangentially related to the aircraft if my souse was killed through possible negligence. Wouldn’t you do the same for your loved ones?
I watched some of the long-term reviews, and I was shocked how people were cool with crazy stuff like rainwater draining inside the doors and sloshing around permanently(!!!), or dirt piling in the chassis due to poorly designed truckbed…

Talk about the customer honeymoon these guys still enjoy…
This seems unlikely. Even if this were their plan, they surely would do it quietly and not make a press release about it.
This was an M&M (candy) machine. To really know, someone would need to audit the hardware and software, so we're only speculating. Can't definitively say without more info.

Was trying to make the point that there is a potential justification for the functionality, though tenuous.
There's a custom 8-bit quantization (SFP), it's what we recommend. At 16 bit, we do bfloat16 instead of fp16 thanks to https://github.com/google/highway, even on CPU. Other quants - stay tuned.

python wrapper - if you want to run the model in python I feel like there's already a lot of more mature options available (see the model variations at https://www.kaggle.com/models/google/gemma) , but if people really want this and have something they want to do with a python wrapper that can't be done with existing options let me know. (similar thoughts wrt to API servers).
While I appreciate their point of view, from a consumer pov this would definitely be a failure of their software, since an implicit requirement is that it has to run on the customer machines. People aren't going to throw away their CPU for this, they are going to return the game (if possible), and certainly express the bad user experience they had with it.
Can't spell "hypothetically" without "hype".
The whole episode reminds me of “Give me the man and I’ll give you the case against him”. Given the universal practice of inflating valuations in New York and even lying about square footage on commercial leases, James should be filing a lot more civil suits.
it's a sad, they crashed like 30 miles off the coast in very poor weather. if they had managed to turn back ~15 minutes earlier they probably would've been able to land at HAF. the preliminary ntsb report is here: https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/G...

if you want to read about the crazy stuff that ferry pilots do, i can recommend kerry mccauley's "ferry pilot: nine lives over the north atlantic". he's got a story in there of ferrying an f35 (the bonanza type) across the atlantic when his extra fuel bladder stops feeding the main tanks so he has to pressurize the system by blowing into the bladder. absolutely bonkers stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt2TGjuwv_s
I don't understand your question (if it is made in good faith). Are you implying that a pro version would allow the user to modify the system prompt?

Also, your assumption is that the data used to train the model is not similarly biased, i.e. it is merely a system prompt that is introducing biases so crazy that Google took the feature offline. It seems likely that the corpus has had wrongthink expunged prior to training.
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Agreed. I've said forever that I spend one month a year coding, and 11 months debugging, testing, documenting, negotiating, packaging, releasing, supporting.
Nvidia's competitors are starting to release solid hardware. They just need to release all the libraries with their open source CUDA alternative and nvidia's margins go from 75% to a more reasonable 20-30%. Every big tech company is giving nvidia billions of dollars a year, the incentives to get a cuda alternative working are too high for it to not happen.
I was under the impression that minio with erasure coding did that? ( https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/operations/concepts/erasure-... )
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Because he was the one who bought the bladder and asked for it to be installed and did not have anyone verify it was done correctly and with all associated paperwork. That’s why.
So no tax except 19% VAT and about 30% corporate income tax...
People are hardwired to see patterns before details.
A teacher and my parents both tried to improve my penmanship by forcing me to write page and pages of letters.

My handwriting got worse each time. So I don't recommend that.

I think you have to want it to improve, and to value it. And then you have to practice with that in mind. At that age, I was unable to see a reason to improve it, and it was a lot of work, so I didn't put any actual effort into it beyond that torture they were putting me through. (It hurts my hand to write.)

Lately, though, I've considered finally improving it. I think improving it will involve re-learning how to hold a pen and move my arm/hand while writing. They way I do it is basically guaranteed to produce bad results, and I should approach it more like art than utility.

That all said... I still haven't found the energy or resolve for it.

Good luck!
That's all about the heritage of the person who's work they were forging.

A person of any skin colour could have done what the forgers did with the same success. There's nothing about the skin colour of the forgers which made it better/worse/etc.

> The success of the fraud ring, he says, “illustrates the perpetuation of the problem with the relationship between Indigenous people and colonizers.”

To me, that just sounds like someone making statements to support their own prejudice(s).
This is just wrong and a bad take.
I've been monitoring several dozen APC Back-UPS units for more than 10 years using apcupsd on Debian without any issues.

There were only a few times (maybe 2 or 3 in all that time) when I saw some messages indicating that something was wrong with the battery (though they never were as frequent as in the author's case). In each of those cases, the messages went away after replacing the battery.
To be fair, they're rabidly anti Uni-party.
I guess I'm glad Apple isn't evaluating what I'm spending my $ on and taking 30% of some of my Venmo & Zelle payments/transfers.
Bitcoin BTC tops out at 7 TPS.

Visa tops out at around 50,000 TPS.

This is just an initial target test. Bitcoin scales unbounded.

10M TPS next target.

This is also just layer 1. It's designed for additional layers expressed through transaction script (with all op_codes enabled, which unlocks a complete Forth environment).
Must be American then.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39461226
I never buy APC replacement batteries - third party batteries are much cheaper, and seem to work just as well based on testing by the UPS itself.
"star wars businessman" https://fastsdxl.ai/share/iag9nqd6vasw
At this point we need a website cataloging all transformer related names.
I misunderstand your comment. We have those solvers. I'm suggesting AI would plug into existing solvers. This is a ripe area for research.
It's not really. Odds are it was a lab leak. The Chinese and US governments both want to cover it up, because the coronavirus research was illegal in the US and they both had a part in creating a global pandemic. The absurdities that these scientists come up with to cover for each other are funny as hell. Too bad we still have people urging censorship and worse on this matter.
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From my understanding this is very much still active research, without any clear wins deployed in production settings.