skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The goats are the stars in this thread
Thanks god it’s not boring
https://archive.ph/l1LBJ
I fully agree with your first paragraph, but I have too little trust and the system has too little transparency for me to buy the picture you paint in your second paragraph.
Most of the existing entries look like annoyances for pedestrians and cyclists.

When these nuisance topics come up on existing community forums, like NextDoor, Reddit, or City-Data, somebody usually knows somebody who knows somebody from city planning that confirms that it's an known annoyance but a compromise solution for a complex or expensive problem that needs to meet many needs.

This crosswalk light needs to accommodate some critical car traffic issue, that bike lane inefficiency is the optimal solution given the inability to expand the road any wider, etc.

How does your catalog go from being a wiki of annoyances that highlight intractable problems to something in dialog with the civil engineering professionals who need to weight many constraints?

As a software professional, my nightmare would be somebody maintaining a permanent, public, antagonistic list of all the forced compromises I'm already frustrated with in my software. I know they're there and I hate them too, but that doesn't mean they're accidents.
We are the ones we have been waiting for
Yeah I have the Dropbox packrat plan which I think covers basically everything discussed here.
To be clear, this is not comparable directly to llama.cpp -- Gemma models work on llama.cpp and we encourage people who love llama.cpp to use them there. We're also launched with Ollama.

Gemma.cpp is a highly optimized and lightweight system. The performance is pretty incredible on CPU, give it a try =)
Properly controlling for "time spent with material" is obvious confounding variable. I doubt this effect is real.
Fair enough; good to know.
Neither of those sources back up your claim that paper (or a USB drive, for that matter) is required in certain cases. The court case cited in your second link even lays out the conditions under which a website can be considered to satisfy the requirements.
Isn't Vector just a weird MLM sales channel for Cutco? It is unlikely anyone will make money off it, but from what I understand it is not impossible. You just won't make money selling knives at least.
Here’s an archive of the GitHub repo: https://web.archive.org/web/20240219192850/https://github.co...
We're getting a little off-topic, but even git-add will put it in the object store without even committing! I once saved my boss's bacon with that. He had git-added a presentation file he'd been working on to commit it, but accidentally nuked his changes with "git-reset --hard" before comitting. He mentioned his mistake in chat, and we were able to recover the lost object by sorting files in the object directory by last-modified and cat-filing it back out by that ID. He bought me a beer for that after work that day. Good times.

Read gitcore-tutorial(7), folks. You too might save someone's bacon, some day.
I find the original discussion to be far more interesting than whatever I just read in TFA: https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=sLz0CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA13&lp...
Time spent on material...
I wonder if this is partly related to the LGA1700 frame problems that tend to bend the heat spreader.

There are two after market contact frames that drop the temperature around 10 Celsius and ensure flat contact with the head spreader. The stock frame causes the center of the head spreader to dip.

I wonder if the turbo boost is controlled by a Proportional–integral–derivative controller.(PID)

The idea that the parameters are fine tuned to slow down processor speed as it heats up but before it overshoots its maximum threshold.

If those PID values are tuned to assume flat heat spreader/heat sink contact, I can see where a bent heat spreader could cause the cpu to overshoot its safe limit and cause errors.
If 'the public realizes that "dating apps" are just fancy wrappers around ChatGPT built to "drive engagement"', they'll salt the earth for any future dating apps. Fertile ground is not guaranteed.

This distrust is already building around us right now, it's not a theory. I don't live in Silicon Valley and I think that can sometimes help serve as a counterpoint to an excessively SV-view of the world here on HN sometimes. The normies in my life are already talking about this sort of thing, unprompted by me. Dating apps may be the vanguard but there's plenty of things charging behind them.

Game theory does not guarantee that everything turns to shit; that sort of glib summary makes me think you don't know what the tragedy of the commons even is, or the obvious application to a race to the bottom in this particular segment. Again, it's not like it's some brand new hypothesis that dating apps do scummy things to drive engagement; I gave an example. I find people's touching child-like faith that a known-scummy portion of the market won't do some other scummy thing once the opportunity presents itself to be simply incomprehensible. Plenty of people aren't nice, especially people already doing scummy things. Psychopaths are real and do real things to real people in the real world, not some sort of hypothetical construction dreamed up by disconnect ivory tower psychologists as a theoretical test case.
Obligatory RAID is not a backup.

3-2-1 is a backup strategy.
I'm all for more transparency and less conflict of interest.

But what you're saying is we still need to trust the congress person, otherwise they can just hire a list of names provided by the lobbyists.
Is the Justice Department Following Its Own Policy in Cybercrime Prosecution
Nihilism is not "a need for chaos" (and no, that's not called anarchy either). "We cannot fix the problems in our social institutions, we need to tear them down and start over" is markedly NOT a nihilistic viewpoint. And that's the problem I see with this article and most people's understanding of nihilism: they have none.

Nihilism is creating your own meaning out of things because there is no inherent meaning to anything. Life's whatever you make of it.
Elon Musk Targets Google Search
I think of this idea

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

where the idea is you throw in all your municipal waste and the organic material is converted to

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

which can be burnt to make (much) more electricity than it takes to run the torch and heavy metals get immobilized in glassy slag that can then be broken down and incorporated into building materials such as concrete and roads.

I have this vision though of a civilization that does this for 100,000 years and gradually poisons itself the way we did with leaded gas.
I am waiting for someone to write an APL descendant using Linear A... there is already a keyboard for it: https://shop.keyboard.io/collections/the-keyboardio-model-10...
I've been on the lookout for that, but I was struck by some particular "conversations" that involved re-direction. "Sorry" "How about something else" "Mommy - Sick" and so on. There was some back and forth there that I could not quite discount.
Apple has iCloud natively that works mostly fine
I guess if you're someone always eager to try something new and quickly get bored when asked to finish whatever project you currently work on, Google is the place to be. A dream come true.
There has been more interesting work on using transformers for robot motion planning[0]. Getting a robot arm from point a to b without hitting stuff is a very difficult problem, the problem is both high dimensional and continuous. Previous planning methods are both computationally intensive and not very good. This is one reason why robot motion appears 'unnatural' and robots generally being bad at many tasks we'd like them to do. This approach appears pretty competitive with other planning methods, planning near optimal paths faster.

[0]https://sites.google.com/ucsd.edu/vq-mpt/home
> is this made for a specific context of APIs, like connecting all of “your company’s” email and messaging APIs?

Correct - our product is for connecting your internal systems.

If I understood the problem correctly, your client can choose not to rely on the "minimum implementation" Company 2 has built to connect to Company 1. Instead if it is possible, your client could use our platform to directly build a better integration between Company 2 and Company 1. Of course, we would need to understand the specifics, but in general our product can be used to build whatever business logic is necessary to connect systems within an organization/company.

Happy to chat more specifics if you reach out to founders at getstrada.com
Spiral – High-Performance PHP Framework
I'm actually more bothered by more and more 'Remastered' tracks. I don't mind these alternate versions--what I don't want are original recordings disappearing and being replaced by these remastered ones that are so smooth as to lose their character. They may be more suitable for new listeners but why do the original versions have to disappear?
"Stealing your nudes, getting your passwords, stealing your bank info... none of these things require a kernel-level driver," Chamberlain says. "All of that is possible with a regular application that you install on your computer. I don't need a kernel driver to stealthily record your webcam. I don't need a kernel driver to get your credit card info."
Bizarre. When I checked on mobile their was no free pricing tier. A/B testing?
I run Windows 10 LTSC IoT edition on my gaming PC and it’s been pretty great. No crapware and no annoying update notifications. Should be the default windows version.
Yes, and I wonder what a hundred thousand small-claims would do upon UPS or Fedex.
Yeah, that comes down to the nib. Not all pens are scratchy. I sorta like a sweet spot of a little bit of scratchiness.

I have an old pilot metropolitan that is almost too smooth. I even dropped it once and had to re-form the nib. I usually use a pilot v5 rolling ball pen with the water based ink which is a little scratchy but requires very little pressure compared to a normal ballpoint.
Ladapo is essentially a politician disguised as a doctor, no surprises here.
I interviewed there in 2013, they were most interested in my experience in some scammy mobile business. And they were actually pretty up front that most of what they do is not cracking viruses but collecting what apps people have and selling that data off
Discovering Small GitHub Projects for Contributing to FOSS
Not just that, but also “this is all your fault for buying cheap trash!”
I get a kick out of the mismatch between delivery estimates and tracking information.

They're telling both that my package will be delivered this afternoon, and that it's in a distribution center 3000 miles away.
This is not even near the truth. An expert (under Daubert) is someone who convinces the court they can say something relevant and reliable based on a technique that passes a test concerning:

Whether the technique or theory in question can be, and has been tested;
Whether it has been subjected to publication and peer review;
Its known or potential error rate;
The existence and maintenance of standards controlling its operation; and
Whether it has attracted widespread acceptance within a relevant scientific community.

The expert does not “know.” The expert is the only witness who can give an opinion, more or less. Because the opinion is backed up by something, the court considers it useful.

The technique they use is what’s important, not whether their opinion contradicts a fact. I think you will find in many expert trials, two experts get the same facts and come to two completely contradictory opinions, neither of which is perjury.
Companies are notoriously bad at determining how long software development will take, hence the entirety of Jira et al. How accurate do you think their "2-3 hours" estimate really is?

These take homes are also only one of the many ridiculous asks made of candidates. I've seen "Talk for an hour about a project you've worked on," as one step in the process.

[Edit]

Let me tell you, their estimates are not accurate. Just like the job descriptions, they throw a bunch of stuff in and see what they like.
P=I * E

2880w = 60A * 48VDC

It checks out.
I predict you are wrong and there will be returns. It's not really a question of stupidity, but of what options are available to them.
Wait what? 1B in mortgages per year, even at a nice fat 500k per is what 2,000 closures or something like 10 per day every day.

It’s not impossible but, wow, that’s grinding it out day after day.
It's not that hard, but that's not what DJI offers. Their business (and, who knows, maybe political) incentives are different, so they chose a closed, guarded system. By the way, it's what everyone did in the 80's/90's, so why would some contingent of companies not be that way now.
Tell HN: Equifax free credit report dark patterns
For years, I have been obtaining free annual credit reports (annualcreditreport.com) which must be provided by law. Recently, for the first time, when I tried to obtain my Equifax report, I was prompted for an email address and a mobile phone number, a new requirement that apparently cannot be bypassed. The other two bureaus, and Equifax previously, confirmed identity by asking knowledge based questions. They do not need my phone or email for anything.

Next, trying to obtain the report by phone instead of web site per instructions, I got to the point where I entered my ZIP code on the phone keypad, the voice menu system correctly repeated the number back to me, but every time I press 1 to indicate it is correct, the system acts like it got an invalid response and only gives me the option to enter further information by voice, not by the phone keypad. Just as with my phone number and email, they do not need to record my voice to provide my report.

I wrote a complaint to the annualcreditreport firm earlier this week, no response yet.
It’s the same argument for the cloud. With Backblaze, I pay $x/month and someone else deals with OS/Software updates and hard drive failures. If I don’t outsource, I handle it myself for less.

It’s just a trade off based on how much time and comfort you have as a personal user.
There are some pages that are not linked, wondered what happened to these products

https://www.radgametools.com/granny.html
https://www.radgametools.com/iggy.htm
https://www.radgametools.com/milesperf.htm
Full color. Look at the sticker on the second page, the right edge and the letters make the difference very obvious. The PDF looks extremely compressed.
The typcial NAS doesn't offer geo-redundancy. You can colocate it to get that, but that also significantly increases cost, which makes cloud competitive again.
I am not a fan of a lot of what Google does, but congratulations! That’s a massive undertaking and it is bringing the field forward. I am glad you could do this, and hope you’ll have many other successful releases.

Now, I’m off playing with a new toy :)
You're reminding me of the time I realized that Schwab (a massive American bank/broker) truncated all passwords to 8 characters.
(I don't work at bluesky)

It's MIT/Apache 2.0 licensed, so yes. However, because it's also an open protocol, even if it wasn't, you could write your own under whatever license you want.

> What's the difference with Bluesky?

BlueSky is built off of an open protocol, called AT. https://atproto.com/ BlueSky is a particular app built on the protocol. As such, there's no way to "turn off the API," as BlueSky itself is a participant in the open protocol.

They could like, re-write everything to be a central service, port the user data over to it, and then pull out from the network, but then two things would happen:

1. stuff would break, as it's no longer part of the network.

2. since there is true account portability, users could simply swap to a different PDS and client, and re-route around the damage.

Also given that it's against their entire stated mission and goals, it would be social suicide.
I appreciate it - it is an important distinction!
That is true and also lots of people use OCaml
That's a simpler explanation but one that I think misses the point completely. A huge reason "Google is getting their butt kicked by OpenAI" in the first place is because they had lots of people internally who acted as nothing but "vetoers", demanding the pace of AI slow down less it accidentally show too many white people. And this outcome is wholly unsurprising given that Google's second most important AI principle is "Avoid creating or reinforcing unfair bias.": https://ai.google/responsibility/principles/

In other words, you talk about "50 known issues with Gemini", but this issue was not a result of technical underperformance, on the contrary, is was the result of Google making things more difficult for themselves in an effort to satisfy a (false) idealized view of the world.
The next bottleneck (after software engineering)
> “insane racist, anti-civilizational programming,” Musk claimed, repeating a trope that “woke” diversity initiatives are somehow destroying Western culture and civilization.

This is coming from a guy who has no issues with nazi paraphernalia in his own platform.
Exactly. Temperature measurements are a lot like available memory measurements in that regard. People wonder why the OS uses up all available memory, and it's because the OS knows that empty memory is useless, while memory used to cache disk is potentially useful (and can always be discarded when that memory is needed for something else). So, the persistent state of memory is always "full".

Similarly, processors convert thermal headroom to performance, until they run out of thermal headroom. So if you improve the cooling on a processor that has work to do (rather than sleeping), it will use up that cooling and perform better, rather than performing the same and running cooler.

(Mobile processors operate differently, since they need to maintain a much tighter thermal envelope to not burn the user. And processors can also target power levels rather than thermals. But when a processor is in its default "run as fast as possible" mode, its normal operating temperature will be close to the 100C limit.)
The CDC doesn't seem to mind all of the migrants lacking vaccine paperwork.

I can see why states disregard the CDC. Any perception of credibility they once had was flushed down the toilet with their blatant cronyism the last few years.
Is it sad? It seems like the natural conclusion of locking down your software and making it (both technically and legally) hard to extend.
It feels like another variation of the Halting Problem. If it is easy to objectively determine how long completing a test project is then it probably isn't Turing Complete or a good test of programming skill, is it?

Time limits encourage quick and dirty solutions, often with much emphasis on the dirty, and discourage candidates with carefully thought out solutions or other "senior engineer" habits like TDD or i18n or a11y or documentation or… The list goes on and if the whole point of the exercise is to gauge someone's experience level the more experience they've accumulated the harder they have to "paint within the lines" of your arbitrary time limit.
My greyhound/pit mix knows my names of many of her toys. She also has a range of expressions she uses to disagree with me or tell me I'm wrong.

Her favorite toy is this kevlar llama unicorn that my mother has resewn for her twice. If I tell her to bring me her lobster (also kevlar) sometimes she'll shake her head, bow, and then stare intently at me. She understands the prompt for, "What is it?" and will lead me to the thing she wants or fetch it. On multiple occasions she's brought me her llama instead. I thought this was a fluke for a while but if I argue with her enough she'll go get her lobster. She has a really big toy bin and she plays with a lot of toys, so selecting these two by name has always been curious.

She also has toys for different purposes. The remnants of a Lamb Chop long lost are her snuggle toy, she doesn't play tug of war with it anymore. If you try to she'll display the same expression for dissatisfaction.
I wish I kept up with them better, I swear every 3 months I see a headline that is "Intel says N nodes in {N-1 duration - 3 months}. I think I just saw 5 nodes in 4 years? And we've had 2 in the last 4? Sigh.
> you discover the evidence wasn’t actually true

Not really going to vouch for the normative Bayesian approach, but you might just consider this new (strong) evidence for applying an update.
A developer's guide to getting started with Generative AI
Real world systems are complicated. In theory, you could do belief propagation to update your beliefs through the whole network, if your brain worked something like a Bayesian network.
You live in a society of variable laws that change at runtime get applied unevenly.
Yeah generally Jaynes book is very nice and easy to read for this sort of material.
Beer is to Bavarians, what guns are to Texans. Don‘t dare to even think of taking it from them.
> Turns out he actually was from the bank and he did cancel the loan application.

Plot twist! Didn't see that coming.

Seems bizarre to me that this would happen, but reading sibling comments just keeps having me shake my head in dismay.
I don’t have unlimited PTO, but it sure is nice to shut my laptop at 5 and be somewhere beautiful. I don’t have that luxury at home and it’s a huge perk with my current job.

When I’m on PTO, my laptop doesn’t go with me. I absolutely use all my PTO every year.
The biggest thing is people have bad experiences with reviewers, and people have a lot of insecurity when their work is scrutinized.

The biggest issue with code reviews as a process is it's always positioned as being adversarial. Often, you set up a pull/merge request, and someone later does a review, but it's not personal, it's cold and blunt data. Even with a reviewer who has the best intentions, it's tough.

Pair programming and review can _help_ with this. Sit with the person who wrote the code, and review together.

I'm with you, code reviews are great for learning, but like you said, you need to see it as a tool to help you succeed and learn, and not as a tool to show you how you're wrong.
Dr.[space]Pepper is a soft drink.[space][space]This is a new sentence. Actually, "Dr Pepper" doesn't use a period so the point is void, but there's definitely some potential semantic (and display) differences between the periods in (eg) N.A.S.A. and the periods at end of a sentence. Not quite as straightforward as you might think.
Get kagi and use the !code bang

Then you're not using AI, you're using your search engine. wink wink
It might not be! One difference between Little Fixes and 311-like apps is that I want to foster discussion among residents rather than offer a place to file complaints with the city. Most of the apps that I’ve seen don’t allow discussion. Perhaps SeeClickFix is different; I haven’t used it.

One difference that I immediately see is that I can see any actual fixes when I go to SeeClickFix’s site. When I go to Little Fixes, I do. And another difference is that I had fun building this one, and I didn’t build SeeClickFix :)