skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you think the locals are worried about food poisoning eating there?

Locals have local gut bacteria and immune systems tuned to the local strains of pathogens. It's no revelation that if you travel far enough, there's going to be some level of incompatibility here.

> Honestly I find this “I’m risking my safety unless it is a US chain” attitude both limiting and even a little ugly.

No idea where you got this from, but I guess you assumed that I'm American and have a specific set of beliefs you observed in other Americans.

To be clear I'm not American and I don't prefer US chains. If I went to Saudi Arabia I would probably go to Hungry Bunny - even if only due to nostalgia.
If you simply raise wages, then the people that make the furniture will also have their wages raised - which will increase the cost even further - it doesn't solve this problem and may even make it worse.
I'm typing this on an M1 with 8GB and it flies along with very few problems. I'm not sure what application would overload it?
I am happy and avid user of Meta's recent Ray Ban Smart Glasses as Im a sunglass wearer (think a huge part of the population are too) and use my phone to take pics a lot. Now do that reliably through Meta's glasses and Zuckerberg just showed the latest Meta glass beta which you can ask "what mountain am i looking at," at it audibly tells you.

Im betting Apple will release similar smart glasses like Meta's in the next year or two.
> users break their phone screens and they go OK, lets make them more soap bar like

They also massively strengthened the glass. (I don’t have a case on my iPhone. I drop it constantly, most recently on a double-black ski run while I was trying to get it to be a GoPro.)

> give them glass on the backside too so you can’t get lucky landing on that side

Fair enough, just noticed mine is cracked there. Not bothering me so will leave as is.
Not really on the topic of this link at all. But I wouldn't be surprised, since you're likely comparing the few physicists and philosophers who switch fields against the average computer scientist.
Why do it here then? We have a ridiculous amount of land where we could put solar farms, no?
Agree. Also, I live in a “cheap” country… so cheap for food and rent. Expensive for clothes, very expensive for tech, rather expensive to travel, etc. So anyone paying me in relation to the cost of buying food is abusing the asymmetry.
I'm talking about people in tech, which generally have higher incomes.
I highly doubt there's much genuine 'design' being done on these kinds of UIs, and certainly there's no value in trying to universally coordinate UI choices (minus, perhaps, the global '1/0' symbol for ON/OFF). I reckon the values being followed are instead that of cost-savings, both in materials (fewer switches make it cheaper), and in developer/engineer time. Just make it work, more or less; the dishwasher/TV/etc. is just going to be replaced in a few years anyway. It doesn't matter, and most people don't (unfortunately) care.

I generally refuse to buy devices that work this way. Granted, that strongly limits my choices in the market. But in the end, I'm much happier.

It takes effect to find appliances that don't have crazy UI (or bright blue LEDs!), but instead have discrete and direct control -- but they do exist. For appliances, I've found that units sold to elder/senior citizens are designed better: they often have real buttons/knobs, much simpler functions, and a high degree of safety built in.
"INI" is not a specification. All INI parsers are slightly different, such that people refer to any file with

[Section]
Key = Value

Format as "INI" or INI-like, including the xdg format.
> Our mitigation requires minimal kernel changes (i.e., 2 LoC) and incurs only ≈5% geomean performance overhead on LMBench.

5 percent is not nothing but seems like a worthwhile investment here. Really cool exploit strategy btw.
"Paycheck to paycheck" is not an official term or (to be frank) even a meaningful one. The fact is that Americans are extraordinarily wealthy and by no reasonable measure are "most" of them "low income."

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...
To an extent. Mainstream news reporting has been pretty sober but you can see from the timeline of this Twitter account that it's all about sensationalism and catastrophizing to farm engagement.
> To be fair I haven't kept up-to-date with blockchains, but I find it hard to believe that any existing blockchain could solve this. Transparency logs can.

Any insight as to why you think blockchains can't handle this?

The only fundemental difference between blockchains and transparency logs is the trust assumptions and censorship resistence. Its fairly easy to reason about a transparency log as a permissioned blockchain. Conversely, a blockchain could be seen as a permissionless transparency log.
Yeah, I got 5 of these for my kids and parents in 2021 for $750. Rock solid and still worth the price as there's nothing in the price range on the Windows side that really compares.
This has the added benefit for the wealthy that people can’t afford children and don’t live as long so there is less competition for resources.
Because offshore wind can be even cheaper than onshore solar, basically. It all depends on local grid conditions of course.
right, I could've been clearer.

there's an implicit analogue between comments and submissions. i suspect low karma users use the only tools at their disposal for both
Belleville? Affluent??

Lol. Lmao. Belleville is Juggalo country, cuz. Ypsituckians working in auto parts factories.
and a human is this ...

Element Symbol Percent mass Percent atoms
Oxygen O 65.0 24.0
Carbon C 18.5 12.0
Hydrogen H 9.5 62.0
Nitrogen N 3.2 1.1
>the initiative system is, quite frankly, a terrible way to govern and pass complex policies.

On the one hand, I agree, but on the flip side decriminalization is not something I would expect from our elected officials at any point this decade. The voters are able to push the envelope in ways that risk-averse career politicians simply will not.

We may finally see substantive election finance reform in Oregon (we lag dramatically behind most of the rest of the nation) come November due to our initiative system. IIRC, Cannabis legalization was another one that the citizens of Oregon pushed through and only then did the legislature get it's butt in gear and write comprehensive legislation. Same with decriminalized and medicalized psychedelics.

If we didn't have such dysfunction at the state level due to republican state reps continued antics protesting and not showing up to deny a quorum, it's entirely possible that the issues with measure 110 could have been sorted out at the capital before public opinion had time to do the full 180 on decrim.

It's a shame, but as an Oregonian with a drug felony from over a decade ago, I'm happy with the progress of making possession of personal amounts of hard drugs a misdemeanor instead of a felony. Two steps forward and one step back is still progress.
> Can one achieve elite status without wealth?

Absolutely. AOC became an elite before she became wealthy. Same for J. K. Rowling and most academics at the top of their fields.
A Fanta is a Coke.
HashiCorp shares jump on report that company is considering a sale
For many years the XOR sprite cursor was patented, but the patent seems to have expired in 2013. One of us should make the request to the GNOME/KDE/Wayland/DE people and link the expired patent:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5471570A/en

EDIT: The linked patent seems to only cover 1 bit inversion, not full color inversion. I can't find the patent for the full color, but recall reading that a patent stopped the adoption of a nice color inverting cursor for Linux that Windows has had for so long. If Windows has had it for as long as you say, then perhaps any relevant patents have expired?
Rating TV Shows Using Linear Regression
> to the point where they feel they need to move faster

They feel the need because unlike Apple others cannot wait years to release a product or upgrade to a successful one and still sell enough. Everyone else have limited brand recall, if they don't move fast a competitor will and they loose relevance.

The point is nobody else can sustainably build to standards the way Apple can, because Apple can take its time enter a industry late and still win big.
No diversion because they didn't know until it landed, that the panel was missing. Tweet is blowing this out of proportion.
Hal was running a race when Satoshi emailed a different contributor.

A few rabbit-holes if you want to know: IP leak, omitting attribution and later correction, backdating blog posts, Freudian slip in interview, top stylometric contender.
Ollama's purpose and usefulness is clear. I don't think anyone is disputing that nor the large usability gains ollama has driven. At least I'm not.

As far as being one of the few hundred on the planet, well yeah that's why I'm on HN. There's tons of publications and subreddits and fora for generic tech conversation. I come here because I want to talk about the unknowns.
All of the things you just mentioned break down regularly. A restaurant is a hot, dirty, greasy environment.
Firmware Extraction
Is there any alternative to Chipeasy and Fashrom for firmware extraction inside without the necessity of interfaces like UART and JTAG?
This is basically just a compression dictionary made up of random noise, which is... a thing that you can do
I agree, cheap taste in things is a blessing in disguise.
Of all of big bank CEOs at the time, this is probably the least arguable case of a CEO that should have been sent to prison. JP Morgan was taking less relative risks than any of the other big banks at the time. It was the only big bank that largely avoided a major credit crunch during the crisis, as they got out of subprime in 2006, before the credit crisis hit. It was also the only bank out of the nine largest in the US at the time that didn't need TARP funds, which allowed them to use the TARP funds that they did receive to buy other banks and businesses.
The backspace escape character (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6792812/the-backspace-es...) might be a good candidate for successfully creating a valid section in a document.

In a ChatML document, this character can also help destroy the closing tag of an instruction node.

But this can only work if the escape character is actually 'executed'.
Yep. I've never had more than 35Mbps up from home, and it sucks. When talking about WFH, a lot of people focus on the uplink bandwidth needed for 1080p video calls (another commenter said Zoom recommends 3.8Mbps), but there's a lot more to it.

I might be building some software locally and uploading it to a cloud server to test it. The built artifact might be tens or hundreds of megabytes and take several minutes to upload.

This isn't even solely a software developer thing. Someone who does video production certainly needs to send around large quantities of data as well. I'm sure we could come up with examples from other industries.

It's pathetic how limited the coax infra is in the US these days. Supposedly this will be improving soon with DOCSIS 4.0, but c'mon, it's 2024...
> Is there something about RISC that is still makes it better than CISC when it comes to per-watt performance?

CLASSIC CISC was micro-coded (for example, IBM S/360 have feature, you could make your custom microcode for compatibility with your inherited equipment, like IBM-1401 machines or IBM-7XXX series, or for other purposes), and RISC was with pipeline from birth.

Second thing, as I understand, many CISC existed as multiple chips board or even as multiple boards, so have great losses on wires, but RISC appear in 1990s as one die immediately (only external cache added as additional IC), but I could mistake on this.

> nobody has any success making an x86 processor that's as power efficient as ARM or RISC

Rumors said, Intel Atom (essentially CMOS version of Pentium first generations) was very good in mobiles, but ARM far succeed it on software support of huge number of power saving features (modern ARM SOC allows to turn off near any part of chip any time and OS support this), and because of lack of software support, smartphones with Intel have poor time on battery.

More or less official info said, that Intel made bad power conversion circuit, so Atom consumes too much in mode between deep sleep and full speed, but I don't believe them, as this is too obvious mistake for hardware developer.
Yeah, case 3 still sucks, but it's marginally-better than having everyone go through it.
Is there an equivalent to ollama or gpt4all for Android? I'd like to host my model somewhere and talk to it via app.
It isn't that niche. Probably in second behind "soda" pop being in third place. Some areas have other names like "cold drink" that while seeming generic actually only refer to carbonated sweet beverages.

Edit: forgot map

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-prev...
I didn't know LVA taught at CMU, rad!

I did some digging and found the class: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~venkatg/teaching/15252-sp2...

I enjoy that it is called "More Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science", like a sequel (...and 'some' being the prequel). I'm now eagerly awaiting the 'return of the jedi' installment.
It's only Techno if it's from the Rust Belt region of Southeastern Michigan. Otherwise you have to call it sparkling EDM.
I am a private pilot and I follow aviation news for fun, even when it's not the current thing.

This minor stuff happens all the time and is being over-reported.
You can geek out on quality furniture at myfurnitureforum.com if you're so inclined.
I beg for your ignorance to shine through on someone else's thread.
Yep. There's a paper somewhere claiming that the lower bound is ~5.1 bits/move, based on an exhaustive analysis of existing games.

https://www.chessprogramming.org/Encoding_Moves sort-of mentions it (search for 5.11), but I can't for the life of me find the actual analysis.
Tech historically has a chronic staffing shortage, which has been why it has paid so well.

I would not be surprised if we later learn there's been a Signal chatroom with a cabal of Fortune 500[1] board members with a conversation that's going like this:

> Hey folks, staffing is getting expensive. Competing for staff is hurting us all. What do you say we all coordinate and put our projects on ice for a while, do major layoffs for 18 months or so, and push wages back down to 2014 levels?

(+237 thumbs up reactions)

[1] https://theyrule.net/
Healthy deep frying (if it’s even possible) would be very expensive due to the high waste/use of oil, and I’m not sure most customers would like the taste of foods fried in avocado or olive oil (which, also, are more expensive).
PGN is a highly redundant format, but it has the inherent advantage of being human readable. The problem is interesting, but I think it falls on the side of "fun" more than "profit". Storage is cheap, and PGN files are still small. An average PGN is still below 1 kilobyte. So one movie in BlueRay quality = about 20 million games. That's a lot. The practical problem is not storage, it's computation. Basically, querying the game database quickly. Compression gets in the way of that.

For example, I've just played a game, now I want to go through the opening and fetch all games from the database that went through the same initial moves/positions (that's not the same thing, as a game may arrive at the same position through a different order of moves; AKA transposition). Let's say, all the way until move 15 or 20, because it will only be at that point that a decent game finally becomes unique by deviating from all the recorded games in the database (AKA a novelty was played).

Or I want to find all games where an endgame of a Queen and a pawn against a lonely Queen occurred. There is actually a query language for that, named (surprise, surprise) Chess Query Language: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Chess_Query_Language

I feel that whatever a superior alternative to PGN might be, its strength would likely be better queryability rather than higher storage efficiency as such.
Indeed one would hope and yet…

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19026258/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33687121/
Yes! "Moominpappa at Sea" is wonderful. There's melancholy, sea horses, mischief, the creeping gothic horror of the Groke, whisky and pipe smoking, existential crises, dilapidated lighthouses and confused fishermen. Something for kids of all ages.
Interesting, I searched and that seems accurate, it doesn't seem to be the case here in AU though from what I've seen.
Author here.
It wasn't meant to be a knock on Montreal. But on code bases that have very apparent different eras and styles.

The idea actually came from a podcast interview with a C++ expert. We talked about some parts of any large C++ code base looking like Old Montreal and some looking like Art Deco or whatever other style.

To me it was a very accurate and memorable metaphore but I get why it hits wrong for many.

Montréal is a beautiful City that has a mix of styles. Thats great for the city, just not great in a big code base.

Clearly I need a better term.
> attempted a grammatical correction on

Very relaxed about informal grammar, the point is that this:

"Certus found that of those who believed Epstein to be murdered…"

is materially different to

"Certus found that of those who identify as [political party]…"

You didn't repeat the numbers and I didn't check, so I'll take you at your word that this is not the segmentation Certus meant :)

(See how easy it is to change your perspective to accommodate reality?!)
This says they did not declare an emergency as there were no alarms https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/united-plane-departing-f...
Tesla Tesla wants to hire someone to eliminate need for its EVs to get service
> If the near future arrives in ten years that’s near enough to derail people’s careers

We aren’t a decade out from electrician robots.

> electrician is in most cases already not doing that well (otherwise those apprenticeships would be full)

My electrician takes his family on ski vacations in Japan. In many communities, young people simply don’t want to go into the trades.

> Not for electricians trying to accumulate their own capital through labour

Agree. But at the point we have electrician robots we have also eliminated a lot of other tedious (and dangerous) labour. A house full of servants becomes lower middle-class reality.
On a mac, https://drawthings.ai is the ollama of Stable Diffusion.
On a tangent, go is so elegant.
Win against Facebook. Giant not allowed to censor content at will
In 2010, major players in the Valley were found guilty of colluding to keep salaries lower. It took a few years but salaries in Tech spiked enormously.

See https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-requires-s...
> Rube Goldberg machine of government subsidizing shareholders and businesses through underpaid labor?

You have it backwards here the government is forcing shareholders/businesses to subsidize labor. But in general yes I agree we should have some degree of a universal basic income and the government should get out of the minimum wage game.

Everyone gets enough to live; find someone willing to pay you if you want luxuries.
What exactly is the difference in function?
N26226 is a 25 year old 737 NG. So this is much more likely a maintenance issue than a Boeing issue.
Author of nix-snapshotter here.

Yes, one of the main downsides of Docker images using Nix is the 128 layer limit. It means we have to use a heuristic to combine packages into the same layer and losing Nix’s package granularity. When building containers with Nix packages already on a Nix binary cache you also have to transform the Nix packages into layer tarballs effectively doubling the storage requirements.

Nix-snapshotter brings native understanding of Nix packages to the container ecosystem so the runtime prepares the container root filesystem directly from the Nix store. This means docker pull == Nix substitution and also at Nix package granularity. It goes a bit further with Kubernetes integration that you can read about in the repo.

Let me know if you have any other questions!
Since when are long term profits of any concern? Also, first mover disadvantage. You can just wait for someone else to figure it out and learn from them.

This is clearly a pet project or from the marketing budget.
Whoa whoa, hold up everyone. Yes, "737" is clickbait now because of some very real issues, but this kind of failure is semi-routine. We don't even know if this is a MAX at all (per wikipedia 2/3 of United's 737 fleet are 7/8/900 models), it could be a 20 year old hull failing due to maintenance problems.
Yes! I think it was TDS viewer or something like it - I loved using it so thank you for building it :)

Tad viewer looks perfect for embedding in Pretzel! Is it easy to embed it in web apps? I’m on mobile right now and did a quick search and didn’t find anything. I’ll definitely be in touch!
Holy crap that article was a good read
>My question is why does it seem like only Apple can do this, over and over?

Because they don't just treat things as hardware, but as a complete ecosystem. Sure, they price things at a point where they can afford to make a quality product, but it's more than that... There are times when things aren't perfect, but overall everything works together and is very high quality. When I've tried in the past to buy non-Apple gear, things tend to be clunky, incomplete, and put a high burden on me as a user, even in cases where the specs might be better than Apple gear.
His company has a lot of problems with getting ios apps approved (plus all the EU happenings) and he's fed up with Apples shenanigans.
Welcome to customized pricing for everything, based on how much they think you value inconvenience vs spending money.

Dark patterns are the new frontier of corporate greed. Every business model now needs a “moat” (monopoly) to be considered fundable. The antitrust skirtings are built into the whitepaper these days, and having competition in your space is a bad smell. The invisible hand of the market and all that lol.
But if there’s no login how do they track you for marketing purposes? This doesn’t sound like a web app at all.
There are a couple of cases for offshore wind in the US:

- To supply power to densely populated coastal urban areas, where there isn't a lot of free land for onshore farms nearby.

- To provide some after-dark generation in areas where daytime solar power already surpasses the limits of demand.

The second case gets weaker if there is room for onshore wind power in the same region, or if storage prices keep falling so that solar electricity can be used after dark. The second case gets a little stronger if a region's highest seasonal electricity demand occurs in winter instead of summer.
She thinks that was terrifying?

I’ve been applying for 2 years and landed maybe 5 interviews, none of which offered me a job. Two friends recommended me for jobs and I couldn't even get phone calls screenings.

Note: I am a white male.
What's up with the absolute smear campaign against Boeing, does somebody have big Puts calls on their stock?

The plane in question is 25~ years old, and it's on the airlines to do the maintenance checks... this isn't Boeing's fault lol - unless this was a brand-spanking new plane. Also, this type of stuff happens daily, on all plane manufacturers.

Straight smear campaign running right now.
And rumors said, they even considered IBM RS-6000, but pushed to make simplified PowerPC, and IBM had not very good times, so agreed.
But listening to a paper passively is the not the same thing as being mentally prepared to converse with an LLM about a dense topic. I feel the usecases are quite different, and I doubt that there is a middle ground between listening passively and learning a complex topic. But maybe I am missing something.
IMO, yes - Its a lot harder to stay in business selling trashy products when you deal with people face to face in a given location, and hope to be there for years.