skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Butter Box (https://likebutter.app/box/) and Internet In a Box are two modern descendants of the concept. Both run on RPis (and, nominally, some other hardware).

Putting together the images isn't terribly difficult. For Butter Box, we just run a script to install all the things we want, then make an .iso of that, which we distribute on our site and in hardware form.

Those onboard network cards are indeed a problem. You can get single-digit # of simultaneous users. But other than that, they tend to be very fast for large files since you're not going out over the Internet and can saturate the WiFi connection.
Touchscreen is great, touchscreen first UIs are not. I use a touchscreen laptop and the number of times I subconsciously try and tap/scroll/pinch the screen when I use macbooks is frustrating. It is such an improvement over trackpad and a nice compliment to keyboard+mouse
I'm excited for this. I've found Kagi to be very useful having widgets like this, in addition to the search results being good. I still have DDG as my search engine for ephemeral searches[1] on my phone and I'm getting sick of it. I don't know if I'd say the result quality has been getting worse, it's just not good and hasn't been for years.

Kagi on the other hand feels like an ideal subscription service. It feels like what Google search wanted to become.

[1] To force me not to leave open tabs I don't really care about, my default browser is FireFox Focus, which is strictly "incognito" mode, which means I'd have to manually log in to Kagi every time I did a search.
Scientists, quite literally, change their theories as more information becomes apparent. Frankly, you're better suited to blame mass media for the alarmism and extremism. "The global temperature increased 1ºC in the past 100 years" is a lot less likely to get those sweet, sweet ad revenue clicks than a headline like "Scientists say the Earth will be uninhabitable in 100 years".

Also, a philosopher cosplaying as a climate scientist may not be the best source for climate information. Until he starts having his statements and information peer-reviewed, it's nothing more than the philosophical musings of a man who, he himself, believes that the pinnacle of life is to feed the machine and consume, consume, consume.
And there is no rule saying these things have to be related. Execs acting like lemmings is as feasible an explanation.
If SpaceX cared, the Starlink fleet (both satellites and ground stations) could be the biggest, most sensitive radio telescope in the world, without compromising its usefulness as a network. It points in all directions at the same time. With such sensitivity, a very short "exposure" time is plenty.

Each node records a few cycles of analog waveform at a certain atomic-clock time determined by its position, and forwards that to a common collection point to correlate with the others.
Thanks for the instructions. I'm going to borrow them but I'll credit you as my source (linking to the webpage.)
The OP touches on the question of "why the focus on plumes and not on tundra or wetlands", and has a quote from Andrew Thorpe hinting at an answer.

>> “These types of emissions are really, really important and very poorly understood,” [Andrew] said. “So I think there’s a heck of a lot of potential to work towards the sectors that have been really hard to do with current technologies.”

I try to keep touch with work in this area. I think it's a combination of SNR and resolution/coverage. The CH4 from a gas leak is very concentrated and so it puts a strong imprint on the spectrum of light passing through it. The natural sources are more diffuse and have less contrast with the surroundings.

(For earlier airborne experiments, the JPL team [which included Andrew] was using a simple matched filter aligned with the methane absorption bands - now they may be using something more complex. This was able to run on a computer on the airplane holding the sensor as it flew over regions of interest.)

Anyway, for sources with a lower CH4 concentration, there will be a much weaker spectral signature. It will be hard to distinguish from other influencers like water, aerosols/dust, etc., or from instrumental effects that may be correlated with location. (E.g., "sometimes high water concentration has spectral effects that appear as high CH4 concentration, so our CH4 values over moist areas are sometimes too high.")

You can improve the effective SNR by accumulating results over a larger area (of space or time). As noted in OP, the ability to get large-area, frequent coverage is quite new.

And also, CH4 moves, so to combine measurements taken at different times, you need to account for transport. This is the difference between measuring "concentration" (a quantity we're more-or-less directly measuring) and "flux" (an emission rate over time, which we don't get to measure directly).

As noted in OP, the plumes were a low-hanging fruit (or as they say, a fruit lying on the ground. ;-)
> old Dos versions of Autocad which had a physical dongle.

Those didn't go away in the industry, though AutoCAD moved away from them. Resolume (professional VJ software) and Avid (professional video editing software) still have hardware dongles. Arguably so does Davinci, theirs are just much bigger ;). progeCAD (AutoCAD compatible CAD program) also has USB protection dongles available as a license option.
A pricey field upgrade makes sense in 2016, when EVs were seen as a niche & risky proposition. I can see why they're not bothering now.
Why Rust is worse than C for programming low-level hw
Looks clean, and useful but I don’t understand what is the difference between Bitwarden or 1Password. Missing PM? Seems like not
Like Musk is not the guy who came up with the hyperloop in order to redirect public transport infrastructure funds

https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/editorials/article26445107...
I'm not sure unfortunately. I vastly prefer directory-centric SCM over project-centric.
The steve jobs example has a typo, "place of dearth"

(https://kagifeedback.org/assets/files/2024-03-05/1709652268-...)
Why is it so hard to develop a CUDA-like to AMD-opcode compiler?

If it wasn't taking the tech community so long I would imagine it would not be harder than porting GCC to a new architecture.
I would completely agree that people are bad at interpreting Down Detector-type results, but that doesn't mean it isn't providing a very useful signal.
There are open source ports that have a clear license now: https://github.com/Shen-Language/shen-sources/blob/master/LI...

That said, even if I don't use this a lot, I pay for Shen Professional to support development. Like you, I got and read the book and like the ideas, and I decided to support the project because I rather be sold something explicit (a programming language) than who knows what I get sold through a language that is open source but depends on a few or even one big company to pay the devs.
Google kind of does that with pixel phones there are features that are only available on their Hardware that you can't run otherwise even if you put the APK over Etc one is holdforme
Indeed, my guess was Cheech & Chong:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSAOKuO5W8E
When you get right down to the brass tacks of any system, science, philosophy, mathematics, all of them require you to take a leap of faith.

What came before the big bang? And why does it seem that all matter came from one location in space? Seems to break the second law of Thermodynamics even. We don't know. Will you put your faith in the idea that the system of science CAN EVEN know eventually?

Can set theory prove everything? We know that it cannot prove a number of things, thanks Turing. Those things end up being pretty important to proving everything evidently. Science rests on mathematics.

Why should you believe in a particular philosopher's revealed truth? Well it seems consistent with the rules of logic. Seeing as set theory is the most concrete, repeatable form of logic we've ever come up with, see the above for why thats maybe not the best stance to put your faith in.

Maybe believe in nothing? But you will believe in something, even by accident. The nature of human heart is to make idols.

All require leaps of faith at the bottom of them. Either in systems or individuals.
It's "mostly" equity. If a company doesn't exit for anything it's not on the hook for the VC $, there are no monthly interest payments, etc. OTOH if there's a great exit that clears the preference stack, then the liq preference is irrelevant. A bit more debt-like in the middle.
Something I think we're missing the mark on with the EV transition is not taking the opportunity to make EV batteries more generic, which would make them cheaper to replace.

Imagine who's going to take the time and money to replace these batteries when these vehicles are 20 years old. Will there be classic EVs 20 years from now, or will they be disposable because nobody is making replacement batteries?

Yes, of course the economics of repairing classic cars is also an issue with traditional internal combustion vehicles, but isn't the goal of EVs to be greener in the first place? Disposable cars don't seem very green to me.
The application developer has to agree to the terms of the CUDA toolkit. If ZLUDA or other mechanisms require the developer to opt in, that could cause a problem. Perhaps someone more familiar can let us know if that's how it works?
Their job is to convince everyone that everything is OK, and we should all keep going to work, spending money and investing.

If even a small percentage of people stopped doing those things, it would all fall apart.
I like your "pure violence" comparison. As the other guy says, trick is to use it sparsely. Think of it as salt to be used by the pinch rather than sugar to be used by the spoonful.
The article explains this quite early on, as I understand it, it means that every spot has the same chance of being picked.
How many words are spoken onscreen? I was visiting while my friend’s kid learned to talk. The kid watched Toy Story’s Cars on repeat. I watched him day-by-day adding more and more complex turns of phrase directly copied from the film. Did that “Rob him” no it taught him to speak.
i see many startups deeply understanding end-customer-workflows and usecases,
and then experimenting with how LLM may improve that.

customer-service, code-assist, call-center are a few areas which show early promise wherein customers are willing to pay for the added value. outside of these areas, i am yet to see breakthrough applications for which people are willing to pay. let me know if this is mistaken.
lol 'uncensored' models are not mirrors to reality.
Pretty sure it is still true today. Catboost rules the roost!
"Uniform" here indicates that all values have an equal probability of being picked. The distribution is flat.
The second I learned how to write systems unit files was the second I evicted initv/rc.d scripts from my mind. Well, okay, from my search terms at least ;-)

It can even kind of replace cron with timers, and no more mucking with grub. Also, true parallel init tasks. Love it.
You can setup DNS on the box to redirect users and to give a friendly name to your box. That's what we do for butter box (https://likebutter.app/box/). To make it a step easier, we provide a QR code. But even that is a little clumsy since you must first connect to WiFi, then scan the code.

Captive portals sound nice until you find out how limited they are -- a lot of styling, JS and browser features are simply unavailable. So, you need to tell users "Close this, then go open this site in your real browser"...

Of course, you can't and probably don't want to redirect HTTPS traffic since you don't have the matching cert for e.g. https://google.com
Or staff. Even if they are super efficient they 1) will never be there when the attack starts 2) will most probably not risk their own safety if the attack is violent 3) will call the police at the next station, since it doesn't make sense stopping the train in the middle of nothing.
The best way of being safe is to avoid attacks in the first place. Being in a locked, enclose space (where you and you only control the lock) is much safer than being in a public space that anybody can occupy.
I have a very tangential question to this situation prompted by some conspiracy theories linking the outage to today being Super Tuesday election day in the US.

Why does Facebook need sharing news media or political ad targeting on its platform from a business point of view? Am I being naive or is it really such an important revenue driver to the business or the core experience of the app?

I think it is the source of enormous reputational damage and risk, that if I was running the company I would even happily trade 10% if not more of the market cap to removing any feature that enables news sharing on the platform.

Actually if you remove these two things (political ad targeting and commenting on news media) I struggle to find any other issue that would make facebook a "political" target, they can literally shutdown the fake news division that employs 10,000 people...
North Korea already does that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdollar#North_Korea
You could also not travel and do the meeting virtually .

People billing thousands of dollars an hour are not opening a laptop traveling or not, they have enough executive assistants for that.
> who makes the decision to become a pension fund at Google given their historical focus has been on technology

I don't think anyone said Google has to become pension fund.
They can become some generic investment fund: invest into stocks, other funds, bonds etc, or focus on tech investments.
I use ipe all the time. Perfect for making schematics for research papers.
There may be a bug or change since I left, but I built the app library and authorization logic, and it was explicitly designed to work offline. Of course, using it day-to-day and initial setup are different and I'd imagine if Apple is down it's hard to setup an AVP as well.
No, 'uniform' refers to the distribution, which need not be uniform, e.g.

https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/random/generated/nump...

Or in god's own words (TAOCP section 3.4):

Applications of random numbers often call for other kinds of distributions, however; for example, if we want to make a random choice from among k alternatives, we want a random integer between 1 and k. If some simulation process calls for a random waiting time between occurrences of independent events, a random number with the exponential distribution is desired. Sometimes we don't even want random numbers — we want a random permutation (a random arrangement of n objects) or a random combination (a random choice of k objects from a collection of n).

In principle, any of these other random quantities can be obtained from the uniform deviates U0, U1, U2, ...; people have devised a number of important "random tricks" for the efficient transformation of uniform deviates. A study of these techniques also gives us insight into the proper use of random numbers in any Monte Carlo application.
Only because there's a bug, seems like. Normally you can turn off your wifi entirely and the headset continues to work fine. Tried disconnecting entirely in a non-standalone headset and see how that works out for you.

Standalone just means you don't need to tether to a PC or console.
Linus Torvalds says GPL v3 violates everything that GPLv2 stood for (2014) [video]
Two sources that you might find interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdollar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Hour_2

:)
Use privacy.com for a single use credit card number
I don’t think agreeing or not to EULA has any value in EU. At least in France were consumer rights are codified and so an EULA cannot limit these legal rights.
WSA was literally the only reason I upgraded to Windows 11. What is going on there at Amazon and Microsoft?

They also dropped support for the Audible app for Windows last year, so now the only way to use it will be through the useless website that blasts it at 100% volume with no control.
Can’t vouch for accuracy, but this would indicate it starts at $600 USD a month per collaborator:

https://texas.gs.shi.com/product/39527791/Pivotal-Tracker-En...
Building a demo of the Bleichenbacher RSA attack in Rust
You can use the session link [0] in incognito so you don't have to login each time.

[0] https://kagi.com/settings?p=user_details
Yup same 1 year.
So people who had greater risk of AF from consuming fizzy drinks were already engaging in unhealthful behaviours. This study has a poor methodology, with little to no attempt at reconciling confounding variables.
Upon reading the word "was", be sure to check the page's source...
Wanting to limit what kind of cookie is the purpose of the law. I want some cookies (like user preferences, session tokens) but not the one from advertisers to follow me across domain names.

Not every one is tech-savvy and that is why we have regulations.
> While some Linux purists dislike containerized application installation programs such as Flatpak, Snap, and AppImage, developers love them. Why? They make it simple to write applications for Linux that don't need to be tuned just right for all the numerous Linux distributions.

The good thing is that for end users, Guix and Nix (as package managers) do cover exactly the same set of features - but both are much friendlier to developers than containerized apps. And of course they are truly FLOSS and "open source" in that stuff is built from source and that sources are readily available to the users. This matters, since this makes the software more friendly: It is user-friendly because it is written by the users, in difference to a party which has other things as their top priority.
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Offline gaming should never have been destroyed.

Wonder what data they collect from gamers.
Some of these statistical shifts can be explained by fewer men graduating colleges entirely.
Electric control systems were bound to happen, planes can be safe without them as well. The Concorde cost a huge amount and getting a electric control system out of it isn't actually a good deal.

> It's the natural by-product of relentless pursuit of borderline impossible goals.

No it isn't. Its a direct product of the choice to develop it, and funding it.

Increasing electric support had been going into aircraft for a while and any new development of a major air plane would consider it.

At best it might have slightly push forward adoption of that technology.
In practice, this sounds no different than most engineering manager roles outside of very tech-savvy organizations.
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> whether that be decreased salary levels

Who can afford to be taking smaller salaries when everything is getting more expensive?
Just use US index ETFs. However, my brother worked in that space. In case you are wondering, you are missing some things that you might want:

1. preferred rates in mortgage space and others. These rates can sometimes be 0.25-0.5% lower than your best open market rate.

2. borrow against your portfolio. Your pay some points over SOFR rate. This way, you don't trigger tax event or liquidate your portfolio.

3. access to structured products that have upside and downside protection. this is something you most likely don't care about.

#1 & #2 are very useful when you have decent assets. #3 is very useful when you have sizeable assets.
Were you still connected to your local network? Next time it happens, try completely disconnecting from your local network before starting Steam, it seems to use the presence of a local network connection to decide whether to enable offline mode or not.
While I agree great engineers will continue to grow in scarcity and demand higher and higher compensation, the shift to armies of prompt specialists is not just an overstatement. It's wrong.

Why?

The same was said again and again again about the offshoring programmers. Reality? Here we are with countless unfilled jobs hiring for senior enginners in NYC for over 200k per year.

The gap, at least cultural, between a coder in Bengalore and San Francisco is significant. Imagine compared to an outsourced "consultant" behind a prompt .

Plus, coding is about 10% of the work. If that. What matters in the end is the thinking, design and solutioning.

Putting a WordPress standard looking and doing template together? Sure gpt4 would do and help udemy self taught "programmer" do it just fine. Innovation and building fit for purpose systems? Humans. Even with quantum computers and 7 trillion parameters models, still humans.
> So, this is the second time a "run your Android apps on Windows" initiative fizzles out: before WSA (which was Amazon-centric), there was a late-2020 "Your Phone" feature that (briefly) allowed Samsung apps on Windows desktops.

This feature still exists and it works. It's partly developed by Samsung, so that's why it works.
I actually needed this at work once! We needed to fuzz peoples address in a mapped view for analytics, without revealing PII. It ended up never being shipped, but we needed to fuzz geographic data and the thinking was like:

1. Truncate your lat longs to some arbitrary decimal place (this is very very stupid, you end up with grid lines [1])

2. The above method ^^ but everyone tries basically doing like random angle + random length along angle, which doesn't generate uniform results in a circle as the article mentions[2]. So then you try generating points in a box that encloses your circle, and rejecting anything outside the circle, but that smells bad. So you do some googling and find method 6 listed in the article (Good! and Fast!)

3. Realize that fuzzing points is stupid, what you really want is to view points in aggregate anyways, so you try heat maps

[1]: Ok you always end up with grid lines, but truncating to like 1-6 decimal places produces very obvious grid lines to the human eye

[2]: Try this in pyplot! You'll see right away with ~100 points its not uniform in the way you expect
That's a lot of FUD. Look at the commit log of vim.
As alive as ever.
Capable hands took over when Bram passed away.

I'm sticking with vim, neovim doesn't offer anything of value to me since I don't want to use Lua, treesitter or lsp, and it takes away things I appreciate (gvim, stability).
Happened already with the SDXL 0.9 weights leak. People started training off of that and it quickly became wasted effort.
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Via license contracts, very much so (if you assume devices = their software as well as hardware).
Is it perhaps because they want people to use HIP?

> HIP is very thin and has little or no performance impact over coding directly in CUDA mode.

> The HIPIFY tools automatically convert source from CUDA to HIP.

1. https://github.com/ROCm/HIP