skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't need or want anyone to ever physically appear at an address I provide, because providing _any_ address for my business is a fiction.

Surely you see how this is also a desirable trait for every scammer out there?

> if my business exists at my home address, my city wants a local business license and zoning compliance permit, so they can inspect the non-existent physical location and be sure the zero traffic it is generating isn't causing a burden on my neighbors.

"this change makes it harder to violate the law" is not a compelling argument
Slightly misleading title. The exemption is not granted to Panera specifically.

> Panera Bread is poised to get a boost from a bizarre clause in the fast-food minimum wage law that exempts "chains that bake bread and sell it as a standalone item

Expect to see lots more franchises offering standalone baked bread...
Same thing with hardware in every company I've worked at. Really, "Sr. Staff Engineer Alice" makes $300k/yr, but only gets a budget of $2k for a laptop that's meant to last four years and is their primary tool? How does this make sense?
See here: https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge/blob/delug...

I just got the OpenSSH client to work last night.

Here's an example of the kinds of changes you have to make: https://github.com/pizlonator/deluded-openssh-portable/commi...

Most of the changes are just using zalloc and friends instead of malloc and friends. If I reaaaallly wanted to, I could have made it automatic (like, `malloc(sizeof(Foo))` could be interpreted by the compiler as being just `zalloc(Foo, 1)` ... I didn't do that because I sorta think it's too magical and C programmers don't like too much magic).
Keep in mind that it's not about winning or losing in court. Most people don't have the money to fight. So they give up as soon as they get a letter from a lawyer.

Justice costs money.
At the time that Cisco was top of the world, there were plenty of other high profile tech companies -- Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Sun, HP, DEC. On the networking side there were 3Com, Nortel etc. They all rose the tide of the dotcom bubble, yet Cisco came out on top. You should wonder why.
Nice, simple service! Well done shipping.

How do you solve for high availability? I wish hetzner would have S3-compatible object storage. Static files off of a running server gives me this weird vibe - although I should know better! It was all fine before the cloud.

It's a tough market, wish you luck!
I haven't seen any indication that they promote it, but I'm guessing that something on the order of 98% of instances of Yuzu currently running on CPUs have pirated content in them. If the tool is used primarily for illegal purposes, it seems it would be good and laudable for the creators of it to do something to counter balance that beyond simply not endorsing said behavior?

Again, not saying they are morally or legally obligated to do anything beyond "not endorse", but I assume the creators like video games and want there to be a market for them, and that they are aware of how the tool they create erodes said market.
Itself dupe of a previously flagged submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39301091
If everybody is following the rules in good faith, it should be pretty rare, right? You only have to track down an injured animal in the dark if you shot it in the light and then it became dark before you got to it. Hunting ends almost everywhere around or a little after sun down.
You know what you doing! Move Zig for great justice.
The VGHF built an archive of gaming history – and is making it available online
>Sort of proving the point here, no?

I don't think so, for the same reason you identified: it only works when the risk isn't safety critical (ie when humans are in the loop). In other words, it's acceptable when risks are low. It's the same reason NASA is more risk-tolerant with non-human-rated missions. But keep in mind CCP is also meant to transport humans. The risk we'd want to bolster against is the human biases that lead us to get complacent. There are some instances that make me wonder about that with SpaceX, but I'm giving them the benefit to the doubt that they've learned from those.
Are there any plans to put this on the Parallax Propeller as well?
To be fair, orbit is also "just falling, basically".
The early years of logic programming (1988) [pdf]
Not hard at all, but you would use a different gun. You want a shotgun not a rifle. (some states only allow shotguns for deer hunting, but you load with a slug not a shot so not the same thing despite being the same gun)
Thank you. Your key point -- that so far all models with the proposed methods may have been only "grossly trained" -- is compelling. If I understand the authors correctly, they trained the compared models on only 100B tokens, all drawn from RedPajama, to make the comparisons apples-to-apples. That seems sensible to me, and makes replication easier, but I agree we need more to see extensive testing, after more extensive pretraining, on models of larger sizes.
A more interesting question is do the cables (size, positioning, tension) vary by aircraft? Can any carrier-capable aircraft land on any carrier in the US fleet?
>> I've asked ChatGPT to write a VBScript function that returns false if the input is true and false if the input is false.

<insert to-be-fair meme here>

You purposefully asked GPT a trick question for which it likely has very little training data. No one would ever go on StackExchange et al. asking how to write a function that always returns false. So GPT had to take its training data on other, realistic questions and fumble something together.

A GPT can only ever be as good as its initial training material. It can not have new ideas or innovations.

There was an excellent post here a couple of days ago to an article, which explains quite well what a GPT can and can not do and why:

https://explainextended.com/2023/12/31/happy-new-year-15/

EDIT. GPT4 was happy to give me a one-liner that meets the conditions and even explains why my request was dumb:

https://chat.openai.com/share/1d949b5b-3c2b-4634-802e-3ea4c2...
I’m not sure Apple is purposefully making things unrepairable. It’s just they have several priorities ahead of repairability like size and packaging, water and dust intrusion, and anti-theft. It does functionally mean Apple devices are very unrepairable, but I don’t think in most cases Apple engineers are sitting around trying to make something hard to repair, it’s just a natural consequence of the choices management directs them to make.

That’s not to excuse Apple; if they want to claim green bonafides they need to make repair and reuse a higher priority.
Agreed. Do you even have to have it in stock?

"We sell exactly one loaf of baked bread per day. And it's a micro loaf. So one person per day gets a mini muffin sized loaf. Oh, weird! No we can ignore the law."

I absolutely love this. But of course I believe any minimum wage policies are terrible.
AI Terms Explained
Sorry! https://archive.is/vbPfD
Open-source is the one place where I actually don't mind the "spam" or self-advertisement.

Pretty much all software projects today use some open-source libraries. These open-source libraries need funding to sustain and thrive, and also remain supported for the long haul and make feature improvements and bug fixes.

But precisely because they are open-source, they get very little funding since people get it for free. What to do then? The only way is to ask for donations.

OpenCollective is just one of the options open-source projects use for fund collection - there are others, but not surprised to see OpenCollective so visible in this aspect of open source funding and outreach.
Show HN: A Chrome Extension I built with ChatGPT in an hour
Hey HN, just wanted to show of something I built with ChatGPT over the weekend.

I'd never built a Chrome extension before, but ChatGPT was able to help me:

- write the entire manifest.json file

- write 90% of the javascript, including hooking into the chrome apis

- navigate around Chrome extensions blocking CDNs by just downloading the entire script I was trying to load (TailwindCSS in this case)

- correctly tweak the behaviour of the extension as prompted

This is the first time I've ever built a Chrome extension and I was surprised at how helpful GPT4 was. I use GPT4 a lot day-to-day at work, but it felt a lot more effective working on this tiny extension. but I guess the small scope of the Chrome extension let it keep almost all of it within its context and it basically nailed everything I asked.

The Chrome extension itself lets you create sharable Amazon cart links, and GPT4 was able to grok the API easily.
On the subject of impressive old missile footage, I recommend the Nike-X program's Sprint interceptor-missile. Not hot glowing plasma on re-entry, but instead going up.

As a short-range interceptor, Sprints were slammed up out of their silos via an explosively-driven piston, then they would ignite and reorient in midair, accelerating at 100g to reach Mach 10. The missile itself couldn't see very much, but would be remotely guided with strong signals from the launch installation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSFIkGfbLxs&t=23m37s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lWDbwmsz9E&t=7m15s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dl9Ovwmnxw&t=2m44s
ModelGPT: Unleashing LLM's Capabilities for Tailored Model Generation
Was it red?
> Once again, Thanks Stripe. It's been real, but it's probably time to move on.

I don't follow. The CTA and BOI things you linked to are from the (US) government, so everybody else has to force you to do the same thing. Are you just shooting the messenger here?
Drawing a Hex Grid in SwiftUI
How do lab mice behave, if you let them be mice?
And that is still impossible to comprehend, so how about this, the Sun's energy output is about 10^10 megatons of tnt per second, so this impact would release 1 million second's worth of the Sun's output, or about 12 days. In other words, it would instantly vaporize the entire planet.
Weird turn at the end of the article: fear-mongering about any minimum wage at all.
Maybe they live on a moon or two.
"At the end of the day, I care about open-source software that doesn't model its business around capturing and manufacturing my data for export -- just the opposite."

Of course, that is exactly the model used by Mozilla. It exports search query data to Google for capture, by default, in return for payment.

"Thank goodness for Mozilla and all its collaborators."

Indeed, thank goodness for long-time Mozilla collaborator Google, LLC. Mozilla employees left to join Google beginning in 2005. They wrote Chrome.

Without Google's payments to Mozilla, who knows what might happen.
Easy loophole for Subway
Perspective is an awesome table library, very powerful and fast. I get the sense it's mostly used for internal finance applications and not for web apps much.
Run WordPress with SQLite
What's missing for it to be real education? Genuine question :)
Ah yeah I wonder why they don't mention that in their docs.
Fun historical fact: as recently as 1987, the NYT advocated against any minimum wage at all: https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/14/opinion/the-right-minimum...

> there's a virtual consensus among economists that the minimum wage is an idea whose time has passed. Raising the minimum wage by a substantial amount would price working poor people out of the job market. A far better way to help them would be to subsidize their wages or - better yet - help them acquire the skills needed to earn more on their own.
If you can't conceive of some adversary being aggressive if they perceive you as weak, then you don't understand geopolitics or history. So yes, credible deterrence by means of a powerful destructive weapon can prevent war and maintain some level of peace particularly in preventing large scale war between large industrial powers.

What else does maintain peace besides power?

The strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must. If you want peace prepare for war. Do you think these are just famous slogans or they really do reflect some hard earned wisdom?
It’s something Jewish people do, and is occasionally adopted by others.
This could be a case where the FAA says what he was doing is federally legal and you states have no jurisdiction so shut up. Will be interesting to see if he plays that angle. (I'm not sure what the FAA rules are on offering drone services are)
Brazil's Fordlandia: Tracing the roots of Amazon deforestation
I assume that this is also how conservation covenants work. A new owner doesn't get to say "just kidding" and develop land that was turned into a property allowing public use with use restrictions.
Is more money being put into the system, or is it being allocated differently?

I can understand that printing more money leads to inflation. I'm having a harder time understanding why taking money from one place and putting it in another does the same thing.
But Yuzu's instructions for getting decryption keys is for the correct, legal, way to do it. They're not linking to the sites where you can grab already-dumped keys - that would be the analogy to your example. The correct analogy would be if Yuzu told you how to dump your own ROMs - which is exactly what it does (and should do).
There is a Churchill quote there somewhere...
This is a scary thought. Not because I think I'm worthy of being targeted, but because I think in the future there'll be enough compute and incentives to automatically scan everyone for out-of-the-ordinary behavior via neural models.
Nope, you're right, I got the table inverted in my head. I'm updating my top comment.
Even better, since larger payloads can fit, the design can be far less complex due to weight and folding limitations.

Rather than spend 10 years designing and building one telescope, they could spend 2-3 years and keep refining the hardware, with multiple types on the same platform
This seems great but is actually quite slow. This will create a new container, with a new postgres server, and a new database in that server, for each test. You'll then need to run migrations in that database. This ends up being a huge pain in the ass.

A better approach is to create a single postgres server one-time before running all of your tests. Then, create a template database on that server, and run your migrations on that template. Now, for each unit test, you can connect to the same server and create a new database from that template. This is not a pain in the ass and it is very fast: you run your migrations one time, and pay a ~20ms cost for each test to get its own database.

I've implemented this for golang here — considering also implementing this for Django and for Typescript if there is enough interest. https://github.com/peterldowns/pgtestdb
Russia's Space Agency Forced to Sell Off Assets as Sanctions Take Toll
This is answered on their blog:

https://blog.runreveal.com/introducing-pql/
> a) Why would aliens expend the enormous energy required to engineer this?

Maybe they built the system, and being lazy like we are they chose some simple numbers

> b) Isn't it vastly more likely to occur naturally as some sort of resonance effect?

Alien intelligence may be less likely than a natural effect, but alien intelligence in this system is much more likely than in a random system.
Update - I'm still cautious about this paper, but I had the table numbers inverted in my head while thinking about it. The paper shows better perplexity results than competing models at larger parameter sizes, so I was wrong.
Nobody ever explained in school that the reason the numbers in the names of September, October, November, and December (7, 8, 9, 10) don't match up to their actual month number (9, 10, 11, 12) is because the Roman calendar began in March, not January. If you start from March, they line up perfectly. It also explains why the seemingly arbitrary choice of storing the extra leap day in February makes sense--just tack it onto the end!
It matters to people who live in Muslim-majority countries.
My favorite part was how this politician-bribing, crooked, lobbying business owner is just looking out for his business. Can't blame him. Nope, no blame on these guys modifying the law for their own profit... No, it's all the Governor's fault. It's not as though they were working together on this or anything.
Both of those things are lies though. Per the British medical journal Lancet, approximately 600000 civilians were killed in Iraq. Per the UN estimates fewer than 11k civilians were killed so far in Ukraine.
Why you need an app for the weather, what's wrong with websites?
Yes, and it makes sense that we take a closer look at the improbable stuff in case it's aliens.
Show HN: Bezelify – Render product screenshots in Apple device form factors
Happy Wednesday HackerNews!

For another one of my projects, I needed a way to quickly render app screenshots / product images inside of different device form factors, specifically a Macbook and iPhone.

I don't love having to fire up Photoshop/GIMP/(insert your image editing software of choice) each time, so I quickly put together this app that allows users to switch between different mobile device bezels (currently only supports the Macbook Air, iPad Pro, and iPhone 15), upload an image, and download the combined bezel+image as a single, highres PNG.

It's definitely not perfect, but I've already found it as a quick way to fire off any designs I want to show folks. Some top of mind features that I'd love to get to in the future: stitch devices together side by side (e.g. show a Macbook Air, iPad, and iPhone all together), use a URL to render a realtime screenshot, among others!

Please feel free to give it a shot, would appreciate any and all feedback! Have a good one!
Just wanted to mention PilotEdge which is a more realistic but paid option. Been using it for years including getting my instrument rating last year.
It's from Reason. I tend to enjoy their articles as interesting and generally well thought out, as long as I keep in mind that they're pretty far down the Libertarian path.

That's how you get articles like this: "this Big Government law is poorly written", and "the government shouldn't interfere with someone's negotiated pay rate" are quite compatible.

(NB: I'm not speaking for or against either of those stances here, just describing what I suspect would be Reason's rationale.)
Weird for Reason?
Ejabberd 24.02 has now Matrix support in more Jabber/XMPP
Because you can brute force multiplication by doing a LOT of addition. The test is to show that you know multiplication.
Only a handful of minutes from a position in space where you can see the whole earth to a small spot in the desert of Utah. Where you see the feet of a human walking towards you.

Amazing what is achievable with the tech of today. Space is not that far away after all. Still very odd to see the two scenes described above in a short video on YouTube.

Having the human walk towards the camera has a tremendous effect. It's something everyone can relate to and it puts a great context to all the scenes that are shown in the video before that.
I was hoping the "reason" wasn't political corruption, but it appears that there just isn't any other good reason.
What is the "unfair advantage?" Seems legitimate to me (or no less legitimate than whatever the 'fair' method is).
The mixed elements are the important ones!

A quaternion with w=1, x,y,z=0 is just the identity.

A quaternion with w=0, x=1, or perhaps w=0, x=y=0.7, those would only ever be rotations by 180 degrees.

If you want arbitrary rotations, you need some combination of the two: "a little bit of 180 around this line, and a little bit of 0deg rotation/identity". That's what it means to have scalar and bivector.

If you "being careful" with wedge and inner to avoid mixtures you are doing it wrong. Geometric product is the boss, and makes excellent mixtures!
Caffeine.wiki
This is someone’s personal website I stumbled on. It has an interesting style and structure.
> The best result for humanity is if we get off this rock asap and improve our technology. The quicker we do this the better. If we have to ruin earth and its beautiful climate in the process, so be it.

This is completely delusional; even if we nuked our planet with our complete arsenal as "efficiently" as possible, earth would STILL be more human-habitable than Mars.
> Actually kids on college campuses do this for zombies-vs-humans, smart zombies will blind humans at night with spotlights to make it hard for them to fire their nerf guns back at the zombies.

Also the mechanic behind all the strobing lights during police traffic stops. You can't see through them enough to know where to shoot at the officer.
> less the non-heat work.

Doesn't all the non-heat work eventually just become heat? Or am I misunderstanding your usage? Like a car with a solar panel still ends up radiating work as heat, by either air resistance (heat) or brake friction (heat).
Yeah, but the original commenter's objection was it seems weird to, e.g. use a 6-dimensional space to represent 3-dimensional quantities.

Doing it by using vectors and covectors still requires you to keep track of 6 degrees of freedom, i.e, 6 dimensions. Eventually everybody has to pay the piper :-)
Given how many new programming languages have become widely used in the time since SQL's creation, it seems many others do se some value. For a mostly direct parallel to PQL, see CoffeeScript and TypeScript.
Not just a boom or booms, a continuous boom along its travel.
>Imagine getting mad at your computer because it drew you a picture you didn’t like!

Gemini produces the output that it does because people already got mad at the words and pictures unfiltered LLMs produced.

It's bizarre to throw out this jab at critics of Gemini, while simultaneously thinking it is unremarkable or even good that AI "Ethicists" spent a lot of time and resources making sure it drew pictures they did like because there is a "well-documented bias in training data" (and earning salaries for it to boot).

But all of a sudden...

>I’m not sure that “how did this happen?” or “why did this happen?” are all that interesting or enlightening questions compared to something like “well, what did you want the computer to do?”

...OP thinks it's dumb people care. Yeah it's not like there is a very clear pattern of ideological capture, doublethink, motte-and-bailey tactics and character assassination of Damore-like figures behind all this. Unless...

>while I’m sympathetic on a visceral level to the concern that Gemini or ChatGPT might be spewing thousands of words of hate on command

...it involves something classified as "hate" in which case a "visceral" response would be perfectly understandable.

So which is it?

>I can’t really even come up with situation where Gemini’s refusal to say that Hitler is worse than Elon Musk has some terrible downstream effect.

It's very simple. AI systems are already being used for official and non-official purposes. Cameras installed for explicitly limited purposes are already being used outside their original mandate. Police authorities have been caught multiple times using facial recognition like Clearview even if it's explicitly disallowed.

In such a world, having naked ideological bias in general models is very dangerous. It's so dangerous that it turns into an immediate PR nightmare for the company involved, because there is no more fig leaf to hide behind. Their AI proudly and openly says the quiet part out loud, colors it in, and adds lovely sparkles to boot.

The proper response isn't to go "lol u caremad", it's to take a step back and ask exactly the question OP claims is irrelevant: how the fuck did it get to this point, who is responsible, and why are the people who are supposed to guard against exactly this sort of thing excusing it or endorsing it?
iOS/Apple Watch has a built in weather app.
To add to this, in a work setting, you can request that the deck being presenting is sent in advance to give time for people who think like this time to think and make the real time meeting much more productive.
Calories are so cheap, easy and tasty nowadays though.

Eating more is easier than eating less.

What a weird paradox.