skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why are we spending tax dollars on something like this?

You arent, hunters are.

For the most part, hunting law enforcement, ecological work, and wildlife science are funded directly from hunting permits.

Whether this is a good law or not is open to debate. There is a vast amount of hunting laws that restrict actions that are not sporting, sustainable, or have potential for abuse.

I imagine the argument is that there is no viable way to discern hunting with drones from recovery with drones, so their use is prohibited entirely.
As a virtual pilot on the network, "Over to UNICOM. Thanks for the ATC. SEEYUH!"
Which allows the drone to flush out the deer. Kind of like using hunting dogs, which is not legal everywhere.
It’s the virtual eyes on the front-facing screen.
Not just "somebody", the original questioner posted that answer. Someone suggested they auto accept and they declined as they felt the answer they accepted answered their original question better (what it does, not where it is from).

So there is no unfairness here. Put your pitch forks down.
.. but maintaining the domestic market for personal data?
I was usually able to get through a human operator on the biggest fintech in my country by starting every conversation on their website chatbox with "I want to talk to a human being". Well, last week I had a problem that needed to be solved, and guess what, my "magic" phrase resulted in "human assistants are only available on business days, 9 to 5... the problem is, it was Monday 10AM. And the same happened on Tuesday. And my problem still isn't solved. So I believe they're phasing out the human part of their customer service. And I'll probably be phasing out the customer part of our relationship very soon if these shenaningans persist.
Garmin didn't buy Pebble's remains, FitBit did (now owned by Google).
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Why are you surprised? Is base64 hard for chatgpt, or am I missing something?
I've often thought planet TrEs-2b [0], the darkest planet ever discovered orbiting a star, would be the best candidate for extra terrestrial life. My theory is that its darkness is down to the fact that the civilisation there has figured out a way to harness solar energy to near 100% capacity, along the lines of a Dyson sphere [1].

[0] https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/exoplanet-catalog/1716/tres-2-b
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere
The C Standard charter [pdf]
As you probably already know, WG14 recently finalized work on C23 and began the cycle for a new revision of the C standard, for now called C2y. Traditionally, that means updating the charter, but this time around we decided to do things a little bit differently and instead of simple update to C23 charter [1], we tried a more substantial rewrite.

Initial version was uploaded on the website as document N3223 [2] and a "live" preview also is available [3].

The plan is to no longer keep charter tied to specific revision, but to have it apply to current and future standardizing efforts as a whole.

What do you think? Do you like it?
Is something not clear enough? Did we miss something?
We would like to hear your opinions and suggestions!

[1]: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2611.htm

[2]: https://open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3223.pdf

[3]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQSNqWYsJPUsyigr...
That worked well in the Bay Area. Definitely a bastion of sane real estate markets.
> That post's points about Mozilla's source of revenue and expenditure on their CEO are good, but the rest is a politically motivated hit job.

I don't dabble in US politics too much because I'm European, but it felt a bit odd to read the article and encounter the way it frames things.

As if donating money to a bunch of organizations that care about trans issues, pro-choice, vaccine acceptance and a bunch of other social justice stuff is somehow a horrible thing to do, especially when the amount of money being donated is equivalent to the salaries of a few qualified engineers.

>> Why does Mozilla give so much money to political speakers that have no relationship to their core business?

What exactly is wrong with a company choosing to support a left political leaning? From what I've read of USA, those might in general be more grounded and regard privacy higher, than the right leaning stuff like needing an ID to watch pornography, banning books and all that other weird stuff, which might lead to some surveillance state.

>> Why does Mozilla seem unconcerned with alienating a large portion of their user base (which is already shrinking)?

I don't get it, who cares about this so much that it'd alienate them? It's akin to me seeing that my KitKat chocolate bar supports planting more trees, going on some charade about climate change and then boycotting their products. Surely nobody gets so worked up over some money going towards initiatives that'd arguably make lives better?

>> Why do some of the recipients of Mozilla money appear to be nothing more than empty shells of companies — not even having a simple website?

This is a better point, as are the other questions in my opinion. But at the same time, if there are corporations that support the far right, I don't mind Mozilla throwing some money in a direction to balance things out, even if it might be a bit performative due to the comparatively small sums.
"the game will simply stop running in a few months"
Pull data from 100s of sources in 1 Python statement with in-memory ELT library
Garmin will also log weight training bouts and auto-detect reps and sets. You can program the entire bout into the phone app and track it as you go with the watch.
The problem is that there usually is consensus that something should be done, especially among the public. But political infighting in congress over the last ~15 years stops any meaningful legislation from ever making it to the President's desk. Congress has been effectively abdicating more and more of their power to the executive branch.
why a web hook though? you can use a git post commit hook and run the deployment steps without adding more moving parts and complexity.
Anyone have an example of a "good" training montage? One that compiles micro-failures and doesn't gloss over the "ugh, raw eggs again" / "i don't wanna get out of bed today..." moments?
Tax isn't the only issue. The parent poster already mentioned another one: employment contracts generally have some provisions against competing with your employer that require you to get clearance for other jobs. Another is a payment is never without strings attached and those strings might not be something you want to deal with unless you can live off of the project.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/vardas-drug-cooking-wi...
They're so excited, and they just can't hide it.
This is the correct answer, and actually addresses the question.

I tell people "I don't make decisions on the spot," or "I need to consider it, I'll respond by end of day," etc.
When did you last go to the store?
I will only use a watch that can viably replace a phone. That basically means a small smartphone, including LTE. With this package, I don't need my phone most of the time (leave it at home, or in a bag or coat). I can make payments, take calls and messages, and check my email. No need to carry a big hunk around in my pocket.

Current gen smartphones are basically there, with just a few improvements to UI and battery life. But even now, I don't mind charging every day. I just put the phone on the charger before going to bed, it's not a big deal.
> If you don't need to do bounds checking, and doing it anyway, then that's a step down from C.

The Rust compiler tries to optimize away unnecessary bounds checks.

In practice, it works well. The real-world cost of Rust bounds checking isn't very significant in most benchmarks, aside from some synthetic micro-benchmarks designed to emphasize the issue.

If you come across a hot loop in Rust where bounds checking is an actual overhead, you can manually optimize it out if you so desire. It's important to really check first, though, because it's often surprising that it makes such little difference or has been optimized out already.
No worries, and thanks for the submission!

Lol, only SLIGHTLY disappointed since my initial thought was, "They make deer-shaped ones now? That's interesting, I wonder how they move...".

But still, the legal murkiness of this situation is interesting in and of itself. Thanks for sharing!
+1, fantastic comment. This really resonates. I was recently looking at the app I use to manage my workouts and realized I've done over 150,000 pushups using the app. I'm pretty strong for a middle-aged tech worker, and it's because of the consistency. Same deal w/ guitar - I try hard to play for at least 10m nearly every day (which sometimes expands to a much longer session) and it really pays dividends.
Safeguarding changes using update plans
They cite NeXT (which predates Win95).
Why should they investigate? Its literally impossible to be jailed in the Netherlands. You dig a tunnel into the prison and they will kick you out the next day....

"Rape reports rarely lead to prison; Less than 10% convicted" - https://nltimes.nl/2022/05/06/rape-reports-rarely-lead-priso...

"Dutch free killer of anti-Islam politician Pim Fortuyn" - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27261291

"About 1,800 convicts haven’t been jailed due to staff shortages" - - https://nltimes.nl/2024/02/18/1800-convicts-havent-jailed-du...
> And, my guess is that the reason for it is that nobody really wants to work too hard.

There is certainly a lot of that but it gets even worse: you get actively punished for doing good work in many companies: you end up making other people work like asking managers around for product requirements (that are of course barely written somewhere, if at all) or reminding that sysadmin that they half-arsed the job of the deployment and now must add another k8s resource, or asking another dev why did they do X with the Y library... you want to make sure not to screw something up but you just end up annoying them.

And sadly these things get brought up on meetings. And many over-zealous managers will scold you because they don't like the boat rocked (even if they would actually welcome their initiative; but that assumes they'd have made an effort to understand the situation which is not a given).

It's no surprise that many talented people just end up checking in, doing the bare minimum, and clocking out. The equation is extremely easy to solve: "work X*3, get scolded, don't get promotions, accumulate hostility in colleagues" vs. "work X and have peace and quiet".
See also: No silver bullet https://a16z.com/lead-bullets/
You seem to be mixing documentary and movie. To me at least they are different.

The purpose of a documentary is to educate viewers. If people are not entertained that is okay, but if the don't go away educated in some way it failed.

The purpose of a movie is to entertain, so it if isn't entertaining it also isn't good. It might also be educational, but that isn't the purpose.

What documentary directors know is that if you are not at least somewhat entertaining viewers will not watch and so they put in some entertainment aspects even though that isn't the purpose. Movie directors know that they need not tell the truth, though often they will just because viewers will believe the movie and potentially change behavior despite that not being intended and so morally they sometime feel a need to show someone doing something that works even though it isn't required and some do not.

Of course where the line is, is often blurry. Some movies are intended as documentary except that they are propaganda and so we would call them fiction. Many documentary are primarily entertainment, with the minimum education to claim documentary.

Rocky was clearly intended as an entertaining movie. The directors put enough effort into finding truth about boxing training that you won't go too wrong treating it as a documentary - but if you really want to be a boxer there are better sources to learn how and you will discover some things they got wrong for plot reasons.
This is about as exciting as the Face on Mars, and for the same reasons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydonia_(Mars)
I unfortunately do not have a running list. The one that made me drop Firefox last time was the mermaid.js docs site. None of the sidebar navigation was clickable but only on Firefox, the same issue did not appear on Safari or Chrome. It appears they have since fixed that issue as I retested and it appears fine.

The "give me examples" is sort of a moving target, anecdotally I have run into many more completely or partially broken sites when using Firefox as compared to Chrome and Safari. It is likely that some or all of those examples are now fixed but the pain in the moment is enough to keep me from using the browser long term.
Eventually.

Shkadov thruster:

> After a period of one million years this would yield an imparted speed of 20 m/s, with a displacement from the original position of 0.03 light-years. After one billion years, the speed would be 20 km/s and the displacement 34,000 light-years, a little over a third of the estimated width of the Milky Way galaxy.

Caplan thruster:

> Caplan estimates that the Bussard engine would use 10^12 kg of solar material per second to produce a maximum acceleration of 10^−9 m/s2, yielding a velocity of 200 km/s after 5 million years.

Svoronos Star Tug:

> The Svoronos Star Tug can, in principle (assuming perfect efficiency), accelerate the Sun to ~27% the speed of light (after burning enough of the Sun's mass to transition it to a brown dwarf).
The Github action is probably good enough if one is happy/willing for Github to hold the SSH private key to access their site.

I see your point about not wanting to add extra tools; can I ask what you use for serving the sites? I've used things like Caddy server in the past to do things like generating the static site from my Markdown with Hugo, but I currently use "Apps" on Digital Ocean which uses web hooks to detect commits and deploy my Hugo static sites.
yeah kinda true. But if you had a whitelist (i know this would be very hard to maintain etc) instead of a blacklist, you could have the most secure network blocker ever created for consumers. Malware could still leak from some of the "safe" domains but it would definitely be A LOT safer than any conventional ip or dns blocking.
It would definitely be a very good thing to restore real contract law.
The "click through EULA" was a fork in the road where our legal system
went wrong and slid into a ditch and things have been spiralling
downwards ever since. Tech companies relying on unjust methods
absolutely should go bust, and good riddance,

> instantly swamped with just cases dealing

That's interesting. It's almost tempting to see that as an argument
against justice :) Right now in the UK we've potentially 4k - 5k
pending cases for about £600,000 compensation each against the Post
Office. It is already technically bankrupt on paper and will have to
be dissolved and re-nationalised under the next government.

So in many places in the world, the backlog of cases that courts
cannot deal with is the only thing keeping some large criminal
enterprises alive. In other words the sheer scale of their
injustice is what protects them. What did Stalin say, "A single death
is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic"?
Thanks for the feedback! We deployed a change to support avif: https://github.com/picosh/pico/commit/570514201d926a664c88cb...
I like that userland is kept separate from base as much as possible, but agree it could be even better. I do think the BSDs have more coherency than Linux on the whole. Would be nice if we could simplify things down even further, but I suspect it just becomes one giant bikeshedding exercise, which is probably why it's easier to just cling on to hier https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?hier
Base64 encoding is a common way of jailbreaking LLMS. The llm just deals with vectorspaces so to it, base64 is just another language for the encoding/tokenization layer to learn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_and_Crafts_movement
What's the reasoning to suspect aliens here?

Are we hypothesising Aliens could be anal for mathematical perfection, or is it that there's some utility in having a mathematically perfect star system such that an advanced alien civilisation might decide to engineer their star system in this way?
I wonder what other code you could get it to execute for free.
Yup, you also need Chrome if you are using Google Meet, otherwise our experience will be significantly degraded.
We make a lot of observations, doesn't it make sense that we would see some improbable stuff?
So, why would a video game "simply stop running" if it had no microtransactions (add-on purchases)?

"

Tekken series boss Katsuhiro Harada says rising development costs have necessitated the inclusion of microtransactions in the series' latest outing

The comment comes from Harada, who was responding to a social media user lamenting the inclusion of items such as paid costumes in the fighter.

"If we simply do nothing as he suggests, the game will simply stop running in a few months…He wants us to stop economic activity and stop updating and supporting the game."

"
It turns out that Odysseus landed on the Moon without any altimetry data
I am desperately trying to find the third book as a borrowable e-book at a library, but I'm coming up blank :/
I absolutely am, because the thought it inspires is: "can I make this easier to use / harder to use wrong?"

UI/UX/HCI matters, and sometimes the people who build the tools know them so well they can't even see the rough edges.

Let's use C compilers as an example: look at the improvement in error messages over the years. Look at how much effort Rust has put into high quality error identification. It's pretty easy to write a basic C compiler that just spits out "error"; it's quite hard to make one that precisely identifies the error and even offers actually helpful pointers to how to fix it. And yet that's a very worthy goal to aim for! It's more fun and easier to program in 2024 than it was in 1994.
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There is crazy housebuilding and development in the UK. An entire housing estate was built where I used to live on land that is known to flood. They built pumps to offset it.

Nonetheless, very few places are affected with a decade. The vast majority of people live in places that will not be badly enough to need rebuilding any time soon.

I am hoping that this is a UK problem and the rest of the world is mostly not as crazy. Not that I have high hopes of that.

> Yes, yes they can be, but also they also are not the cheapest way to save carbon.

Cost effective solutions are not profitable, so are not backed by lobbying and marketing.
None of those are that novel, but I gave the answer in base64 elsewhere in the thread!

That particular novel isn't the author's best work, but it's decent - his other stuff is much, much better imo.
193: developer blogs, photography blogs, GitHub releases, YouTube channels, a few monitored keywords (like the "RSS" keyword that got me to this very thread ;) )
I use Firefox as my daily driver. There are in fact some websites that don't work on it, but it is rarely anything mainstream. My example is the website 3M provides for doing medical code grouping. Probably less than 0.01% of the internet uses it, but it only works on Chrome and then just barely.
That's not consistent with what a lot of my friends have done (people bought two and returned one, or a lot returned their only one, including long-time apple devs/new product folks with >$200k/yr income, such that a $3500 device isn't a major purchase.

I kept mine, but I haven't found anything compelling other than watching video; I'm hoping cool apps happen over the next 6-12 mo.
Do the whole test in a transaction and roll it back at the end.
As male labor force participation falls, nothing good follows.
ImageToMindMap analyzes and extracts textual information from your images. Customize your mind map nodes and edit them online. It can export XMind PDF files.
As someone who previously used an Apple Watch and now uses a Garmin, my takeaway is that the Garmin is significantly better for sports, and enough so that I'll keep the Garmin, but there are a lot of things that I really miss about the Apple Watch:

- Easy volume/media control of whatever happens to be playing on my HomePods
- Instant access to Siri for setting timers, conversions, etc, without having to pick up my phone
- Feeling like I don't have to constantly carry my phone around the house with me, because I can send/receive texts and even calls on the watch
- Interactive HomeAssistant notifications - e.g. receive a notification on the watch when arriving home and being able to unlock my door with a tap.
- Better notification support in general
> So I'm not sure

Then sit back and watch others try it out. Let's see what comes out of it, the Rust code can always be discarded if it turns out to be inferior to the current implementation. It's not like breaking a glass, we can reverse it.
Yeah, sorry, needed a much bigger canvas than a comment to explain. Let me try again. The example I took was to show mapping from one space to another space and it may have just come across as not learning anything. Yes. You are right it was someone else's pretrained LLM. But this new space learnt the latent representations of the original embedding space. Now, instead of the original embedding space it could also have been some image representation or some audio representation. Even neural networks take input in X space and learn a representation in Y space. The paper shows that any layer of a neural network can in fact be replaced with a set of planes and we can represent a space using those planes and that those planes can be created in a non iterative way.
Not sure if I am being clear, but have written a small blog post to show for MNIST how an NN creates the planes(https://gpt3experiments.substack.com/p/understanding-neural-...). Will write more on how once these planes are written, how we can use a bit representation instead of floating point values to get similar accuracy in prediction and next how we can draw those planes without the iterative training process.
seems like it'd be a primitive way (in one way, obviously not in the tech sense) of displaying power
No.

Surge pricing = increase price in response to demand with a goal of increasing profit margin

Happy Hour = decrease price of specified items at specified times to drive demand and increase sales volume
Have you seen the new robots openai has? They're already pretty jetson-like, and they're fast, not slow like google's demo with Palm2.

Embodied AI systems will be able to complete a multitude of tasks before long, it's being emodied that gives them that edge and maybe even pushes towards true AGI, as we learn through all our senses, and different perceptions of the world, it's easier to learn from a full body experience, I'd imagine than a more dumbed down single-modality way.

The top researchers at OpenAI and Google who've made claims and expressed their own fears about AI, aren't doing it for publicity, they know better than we could possibly know what's coming -they already have seen the next generation, like gpt5 or maybe even gpt6..

I'm not a Sam Altman fan boy, but I think he's legit when he says society needs to prepare, because changes are coming we can't rollback, and that will affect us world-wide.. I'd bet my left nut that immortality tech is solved 1-2 years following the first generation of AGI, and probably all cancers, and a myriad of other medical issues.
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That’s an interesting exoplanet, though not sure how someone would live on a gas giant.
Every megastructure is an invisible dot compared to the next size up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvKSRKT0nzM