skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The web has been headed down this road for years. We've all seen reputable blogs sink to publishing "Here are our favourite smart speakers for Xmas", to keep the lights on. What is that but a soulless piece of data-driven sponsored content pushing products with the highest affiliate payout rates?

Google only cares about these types of sites now, because they are the ideal customer for Google Ads. They churn out content constantly, they advertise heavily, with Google getting a cut of every click and impression.

And let's face it, YouTube is basically QVC for electronics, toys and makeup, all multi-billion $ industries that Google is happy to slap ads on top of.
Story time: I worked on Google Fiber. I believed in the project and it did a lot of good work but here, ultimately, was the problem: leadership couldn't decide if the future of Internet delivery was wired or wireless. If it was wireless then an investment of billions of dollars might be made valueless. If it was wired and the company pursued wireless, then this would also lose.

But here's the thing: if you decide to do neither then you definitely lose. But, more importantly, no executive would lose their head from making a wrong decision. It's one of these situations where doing anything, even the wrong thing, is better than doing nothing because doing nothing will definitely lose.

Intel's 10nm process seemed like a similar kind of inflection point. Back in the mid-2010s it wasn't clear what the future of lithography would be. Was it EUV? Was in X-ray lithography? Something else? Intel seemed unable to commit. I bet no executive wanted to put their ass on the line and be wrong. So Intel loses to ASML and TSMC but it's OK because all the executives kept getting paid.

I forget the exact timelines but Intel's 10nm transition was first predicted in 2014 (?) and it got delayed at least 5 years. Prior to this, Intel's process improvements were its secret weapon. It constantly stayed ahead of the competition. There were hiccups though, most notably the Pentium 4 transition in the Gigahertz race (only saved by the Pentium 3 -> Centrino -> Core architecture transition) and pushing EPIC/Itanium where they got killed by Athlon 64 and it's x86_64 architecture.

I see the same problems at Boeing: once engineering-driven people companies get taken over by finance leeches. This usually follows an actual or virtual monopoly, just as Steve Jobs described [1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGKsbt5wii0
The Azure_AI extension to Azure Database for PostgreSQL
I'll give it a shot. Appreciate the effort on keeping it local.
I think that is an ambiguity belonging to enforcement rather than the law, no?
Better together: Getting the most value from AI code generation tools
Is there any kind of usb device that you can put between your usb port and a usb stick that would limit the device to charging or just reading the usb device (but not writing to the computer)?

Or was the digital condom idea just for sh*ts and giggles?

(For charging only I guess being struck about using a usb charger and not a device would be safer? In multi-port chargers can devices use the multiport as a hub to connect to other devices that are charging?)
This is definitely not dropping out of “hyperspace”. Title should be changed.

Very cool video though.
The article isn't talking about public discussion forums at all, it's talking about WordPress and its owner, Automattic. The article is a blog post on a WordPress-hosted blog. It then goes on to talk about consent in software in general.

Personally, I'm not really okay with what you're calling public forum harvesting either. I've put a lot of work into Stack Exchange answers and I am not okay with a for-profit company recycling and possibly outright regurgitating that work without attribution. (The latter would be a flagrant violation of CC BY-SA, of course.)
Amazing that this has 69 upvotes in under an hour and still isn't on the front page.

Algorithmic suppression much?
Or even better, node_modules.

"We have come to warn you. In your effort to create space for node_modules, you will consume the galaxy."
My bad! I fixed it. Thanks! The original title is too long for submission, and I mistakenly deleted the wrong words.
For reals, we thought about putting one in, although the blobs and spires would have been the payload in the center of a solar sail, but we couldn't squeeze it in! [I'm an IEEE Spectrum editor :) ]
It is also fully their fault the game was leaked early. They released the game carts to buyers too early, and their system5 crypto scheme was already broken by the time the game came out. Yuzu didn't break system5, nor do they ship the keys needed to decrypt the dumped game files. They did release patches which specifically fixed issues with Zelda, and that wasn't a good look legally - but it isn't illegal to fix inaccuracies with the software.
It made more sense when I understood that saying it may take up to 10 business days to opt me out was a statement recognizing the legal requirements rather than the technical requirements. I'm sure some companies just wait exactly 9 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds to instantaneously opt me out. Malicious compliance, or as we used to call it, passive-aggressiveness.
I think the authors do not understand how planetary resonances work and how precise (or imprecise) the orbits need to be for the resonance to hold.

Resonances are very common. We have lots of resonances in our Solar system in all different places between bodies.

For the resonance to be stable, two bodies do not need to have mathematically precise orbits in relation to each other. There is quite a wide margin for error. Once two planets are close enough to the resonance, the resonance may become stable due to feedback. What happens is planets will exchange energy back and forth on each orbit in a way, that preserves the resonance. A substantial input needs to be provided to break up the resonance.

What is actually interesting about this particular system is the long chain of resonances. But that is also nothing super special -- once you know how resonances form you can see how all of the planets, when they are close enough to the resonance, will transfer energy between themselves to snap into it and then continue on their resonant orbits.

There is absolutely no reason to suggest that a resonance like this must have come from unnatural origin. It would be like saying that because the period of our Moons rotation is so precisely the same as period of its orbit around Earth that it always faces Earth with one side, that somebody must have put the Moon on the orbit. That's obviously false, these resonances form easily and naturally.
Won't work on my Intel Macbook :-(
resistive heating elements made of carborundum can heat air to 1625° https://www.kanthal.com/en/products/furnace-products/electri... and molybdenum disilicide to 1800° https://zircarceramics.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Design.... while graphite heating elements can go to 2200° https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA329681.pdf but not in air. what are these vanes made of?
My first sw project as a hw engineer- a website to set goals and track progress
Two years ago I started building this project that allows people to document their learnings and progress in real time.

The idea is: if you're learning something new, like playing "Für Elise" on the piano, you can share your experiences, struggles, and eureka moments. Then, someone else wanting to learn the same thing can learn from your journey later. Over time, we get a collection of user experiences about overcoming different challenges.

Each progress you make, the site prompts you to reflect upon things like "if you could go back in time, what do you wish you had known?".

This was my first webdev project and everything was self taught. It's been a great passion and learning experience!

All feedback is welcome, big or small. Hope you enjoy it and find it useful.

Stack: Angular, Python/Postgres, AWS, PWA service workers for notifications.
Drinking is legal, and driving is legal...
Use of drones and use of spotlights to hunt are both illegal. Not sure how this ruling brings the courts into disrepute.

Should the laws on drones be updated? Possibly. But the spotlighting law exists for good reason.

And the defendant was knowingly providing an illegal service (they didn't call him randomly - he advertised this service on Instagram).
I had the same initial reaction as you, but the nuance here is that Mr. Wingenroth runs a commercial company which specifically advertises UAV flights to hunters for the purpose of 'deer recovery'. So this is not merely a case of putting a wild animal out of its misery, but also one in which the UAV pilot was intending to render services to hunters - it just so happened that the hunters in this event were undercover agents. Therefore, as the prosecution's argument went, Mr. Wingenroth should have known the local rules about hunting at night regardless of whether the hunters were agents or not.
The term you are looking for is AGI, never heard of "true ai". And if machine learning failed, why are we using so much it in everyday life?
Oh, so it's counter-protests you don't understand.
They're in the same position they started, at the beginning of the planet 1's 54 orbits.
I don't think many question that open source won't eventually be equivalent or better than Mathematica for computational work. It just isn't for a lot of things in 2024. It might be fully reversed in another 5 years. Agreed everyone's view of "best" is different as I said above.

I will say a really nice thing about Mathematica is consistency.
The Two Types of Indexes in Pgvector
To paraphrase Pratchett: million to one chances happen nine times out of ten.

Space is big, really big, etc. so it's no surprise we've found something like this just through chance alone. One of the planets is probably Bethselamin.
That's a known problem and somewhat mitigated by symengine:

https://github.com/symengine/symengine
I confess I have grown increasingly in favor of how common lisp does this. The basic `/` creates rationals. And "floor" is a multiple value return where the first value is the floor and the second is the remainder.

Granted, getting used to multiple value calls takes getting used to. I think I like it, but I also think I emphatically did not like it initially.
It still doesn't really explain why this is illegal. It's also not illegal everywhere. And using a drone to locate a fallen animal isn't the same as using a light to mesmerize it.

If you try sufficiently hard, you can always find random charges to throw at someone, and if they don't have good enough lawyers, they're fucked. That doesn't mean the laws are just or desirable to begin with. It also doesn't explain why those laws were written in the first place, i.e. what issue they were initially trying to address.
Seems pretty narrow minded to me to be wishing for an economic revolution that will only benefit the wealthy before there are any support systems in place for people displaced.
Pivot to Decimation
Of course it doesn't expect infinite growth. Companies _aim_ for it, but nobody expects them to do it.
Yeah. It's surely rough around the edges UX wise, but people consistently underestimate what you can do with such a low powered processor. If Garmin hired UI designers & worked on getting more companies to make apps for it, it could easily be the best smartwatch.
Redditor Who Self-Immolated, Had Grown Deeply Disillusioned with the Military
Google CEO tells employees Gemini AI blunder 'unacceptable'
Sure, if the game wardens were maliciously trying to arrest a person who does real estate drone footage for kicks, then yes, a jury would probably hold that it was entrapment. Luckily most law enforcement isn't that comically evil or bored, and most of these situations are legitimate law enforcement actions.
That's the thing, though. Nothing will change until realities change for our owners. Until that happens the status quo will carry on. Only until the government and wealth can no longer generate requisite money from labor will anything be done and it will be only the bare minimum.
No. Process size is pure marketing and hasn't represented the size of any physical feature since the 90s.
River is going to be a fully-featured reverse proxy product built on top of Pingora:

https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/introducing-river/

It's mentioned briefly in the Cloudflare blog post. I'd expect that if you're a current nginx or other proxy, River is what you'd want as an alternative.

One of the big things I'm excited about in the River plan is the ability to use wasm for scripting, which should make it relatively easy to extend.
I don't really know why I'm getting downvoted here, so in case it's a matter of misunderstanding my meaning — I'm not saying the content aligns with my sensibilities necessarily (the depictions of indigenous people), I'm saying the writing style does.
I mostly nod along to your points. The whole thing about the finite nature of time really hits home. We're all running around with a ticking clock, trying to cram as much as we can into our days. And the idea of just axing tasks to free up space? Genius in its simplicity. I remember Elon Musk's "delete, delete, delete" mantra, and it's pretty spot on.

Bill Gates' take on preferring a lazy person for a tough job because they'll find the easiest way to do it? I'm all for efficiency, but maybe "lazy" isn't the word I'd use. Resourceful, perhaps? It's a minor quibble, but it sticks out to me.

The recency effect is a trap I've fallen into more times than I care to admit. Setting tasks aside to gauge their importance later is a tactic I'll have to try more deliberately. And avoiding rework by getting things clear the first time? Absolutely. Nothing more frustrating than going over the same ground because of a misunderstanding.
It's man made, the drought barely help the people behind this to do it faster.
5:32, Swinging on a Star?
If the badge ever gained traction, every garbage AI site would slap one on.
> Let the awkward silence sit.

I'd argue its far better to say something like, "Good question. I need to think about that for a minute" rather than just sit there saying nothing at all after being asked something. I know a few engineers who do that and while their answer is normally fine, the awkward silence makes me and others question their social skills. Not their intelligence.

I know other engineers who do the same thing but say, "Let me think about that for a minute" and I've never heard of anyone questioning their ability to think quickly or social skills.

What you are suggesting is not wrong, its just a bit.. rude? awkward? Why impose that feeling on others when a clarifying sentence can prevent it?
> can panic at three different places

Remember that some of the point here is that it _will_ reliably kill the program if that happens; in C, you might be silently reading or writing to the wrong address 3 times.
I think Culture style Orbitals are more elegant - no need for shadow squares to create day/night cycles.
"A smartphone-style smooth-scrolling UI usually leads to smartphone-style battery life"

Pebble needs rise from the ashes of Fitbit/Google and reclaim the epaper-with-buttons crown.
It was at this point, that I knew you had no idea what you were talking about.

>The MO of ‘business people’ isn’t inherently ‘quick wins, bleed the company dry’.

It absolutely is the model, because humans gotta human.

I assure you that Engineers with knowledge of the products are rarely included in steering meetings, and when they are, they are window dressing.

I know this because I'm an expert in my field and over 3+ decades, this is pretty much exactly how technical people get handled when it comes to meetings and decisions.

Guess who occupies most of the C-suite. Do you think it's engineers? No, its MBAs.

MBAs are NOT the source of all things bad, but lets not break our arms jerking them off over the "great work" they've done.

smh.
I'm neither a pilot nor even a player of flight simulators, however I have a deep geeky fascination for ATC and radio communication. I would have liked to get into vatsim, but the process seems a bit daunting. For what I could tell, not sure if it changed, you have to contact a local organization, many don't really explain how, etc. I ended up not putting the effort.
> a little accelerationism might be okay in this instance to figure out what we do when 95% of us don't "need" to work...

The vast majority of jobs people do aren't being replaced by AI.

When AI can treat your medical conditions, repair your infrastructure, build new houses, construct renewable energy sources, move your goods, fight your wars, watch your kids while you're gone, cook your food, mow your lawn, entertain you, etc - then we'll need to worry about what everyone's going to do.

That's not happening any time within the next 20 years.
Do you have a link or company/product name? Sounds fascinating.
Shock wave dynamics are observed in the flow of traffic on sufficiently crowded highways.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Fundamentals_of_Transportation...
The thing that killed FirefoxOS, in my opinion, was trying to break into the industry with low-end devices. The mission of providing privacy-respecting, user-empowering phones at low prices is a noble one, but starting at the low end with a physical product makes success much less likely.

By doing that you have to contend with low-to-nonexistent margins, green unoptimized software struggling to run on weak hardware, and the fact that nobody (users and devs alike) really gets excited or talks about entry level devices.

Mozilla might’ve caught some transitory flack for focusing on flagships initially, but it would’ve made for a much more usable product out of the gate and helped to fund R&D to make more affordable models a reality.
You don't get popular, (as popularly defined,) by having radical, or out-of-mainstream opinions, quirks, or other dangerous forms of personality.

And YouTube et al show the public what's mainstream/popular, or bound to be - not geohot.
I don’t think any part of my comment implied this was happening naturally, but just to clarify: it is a cycle very much driven by human activity. My intent in explaining the cycle wasn’t to say “this is happening anyway without humans starting fires” but to say “not only do fires started burn down trees today but they also make future fires worse”.

Which is why I say it’s a key contributor to the increase in fires, and disagree with it just being a long term consequence, as you say. Because of this cycle, there will be incidences of slash and burn land management that progress to major forest fire that would not have done previously.
So I disabled "Use recommended performance settings" and "Use hardware acceleration" was enabled.

The fan still roars.
That meringue got toasted!

Pretty neat the way it went from crazy hyperspace to a gentle, peaceful floating in the air!
If you're habitually doing crime[0], and someone ask you to do crime for them, and you do, and that person turns out to have been a agent of law enforcement... that's not entrapment, and law enforcement's involvement shouldn't be a defense.

N.B. In no way do I think the conduct here is doing crime, but for the purposes of entrapment take the illegality as given. His site[1] clearly markets his business as doing deer recovery, so the conduct falls into a pattern. It's not like the warden called up his friend with a drone, asked him to look for a deer, and then was like 'Ha I caught you doing crime give me $1500'

[1]: https://www.wingyds.com
Somebody mentioned Google Cloud Functions and I instantly bookmarked the service to check it later. Looks to be a pretty solid deal.
The one thing stopping me from toggling this is the faint concern that it's a vector for fingerprinting. I'm sure it's rare enough that nobody's checking for it though.
It's the year 2200. The world's machines are now all AI-designed, prototyped, refined, produced, and distributed. The supply chain hasn't received human interference in over fifty years, and increasingly-accurate weather and tectonic predictions generated by computer algorithms have made supply chain errors obsolete.

But humanity is dissatisfied. With no existential threats arising, people cannot find value in life. AI-generated entertainment satisfies no one, and because no algorithm can quantify "originality," no machine would ever advise additional human involvement.

There is only one area of human civilization where AI is not involved, and that's designing the CSS specification. "But what if I want to position this element so that the ultraviolet radiation is displayed with variable additional intensity based on the size of the 3d projection on the latest gen virtual assistant, but only on Tuesdays? You can't possibly make me use javascript to account for something that common," bemoans one forum poster.

What follows is chaos. Everyone has an opinion, some thinking that the treatment infrared got in 2190 was unfair to people with unmodified vision, others believing that the accessibility option prefers-visible-spectrum more than makes up for it. Still others want more robustness than simply prefers-visible-spectrum; there should be a native way to specify the exact wavelengths of light that one can see. Minimalists argue that when experiences are delivered directly to your brain, none of this matters, but no one likes that argument.

The world hasn't experienced this large a conflict in hundreds of years, and it is unprepared. As people flock to the Great CSS Debate, they finally find a cause to believe in, even if they have no real opinion on the matter. Tempers escalate and battle lines are drawn. The AI don't possess enough training data to deal with the situation.

In the midst of the final collapse, a package is delivered late. Just one package, and just one hour late, but such a thing is unheard of. Distracted from the CSS Wars, people flock to real-time trackers of all mail delivery. Are the weather models breaking down? Did Moore's Law finally stop, and as a result the AI infrastructure cannot keep up with the power needed in today's world?

This new drama captivates the world's population so deeply that the apocalypse is avoided. And the scientific outpost of the Vrexon goes back to observation mode to await the next crisis.
This month in Servo: gamepad support, font fallback, Space Jam
Avian influenza virus is adapting to spread to marine mammals
I get the why of movies using montages, but I agree with the author in that it can stylize/"sexify" the experience away so that susceptible viewers can think they can just dreamily get from one end to the other, when reality is much more sharp-edged/clunky than smooth most of the time. To me, progress is about consistency above all else- It's all about getting your ass to the gym on those days you REALLY don't want to, it's raining out, and all the music on your playlist is just not hitting for you that day.
Do they really think we're retarded? They said one thing, people didn't like it (been all over the news all morning long), so now they're saying something else.
Also, an 8088 cannot run Linux (but it can ran ELKS, which at least has "Linux" in the acronym), while there were a few Unices for 8086-class CPUs - with SCO Xenix being probably the most functional of them all.
It was entrapment. It might not have have been criminal entrapment under the law.
I mean it definitely looks like it.
I respect that you reserved some room to be surprised.
Tried the ics trick ChatGPT tells me it cannot read or write files
We're under strict instructions to attempt no landing on Europa.
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