skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad I'm not the only one.

The buying up of precious housing as investments by non-residents should mostly be banned, starting with institutional and overseas investors.

AirBnb should also be banned. And the people who profited off that startup, who must've known they were creating illegal hotels and destroying rental markets, should be hit with devastating fines, maybe also imprisoned.
Tell me your secrets. I’ll practice it in your voice, your language, whatever.

I get a time about half the time, and then if I immediately ask how much left on the timer, Siri informs me there are no timers. Which then promptly goes off.
There needs to be a new "-flation" term for this (privacyflation?). Where we're also paying in terms of our privacy
But what if the automakers' solution going forward is to not make the feature optional? That the service gets baked into the price? They turn it on. They leave it on. Especially with a lease, won't they have a legal angle to protecting their property?

My concern this might become a "be careful what you wish for"?
They should spend more time reforming the NRC to not sandbag every proposed nuclear plant in the past 50 years.
Yes, that is exactly the case today. There are 43 self-governing first nations communities in Canada where "Canadian" laws mean nothing, and "Canadian" police have no power.

https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1100100032275/1529354547...
> And if you own a car made in the last ~5 years, here's how to request your "Consumer Disclosure Report" from LexisNexis: https://consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/ . According to NYT, LexisNexis receives at least some data from GM, Ford, Kia, Subaru, and Mitsubishi.

Appreciate this link! I don't have one of the listed brands (own a Mazda) but I am curious to see what info data brokers like this have on me in general.

Also, maybe this is a naive thought but I think data brokers like this are so used to operating in the shadows / being forgotten about so I think the more folks who request is at least a small signal to them that folks are paying attention.
SLS flight cost is $2B. Each launch. Did you forget to include the decade prior?
It's so expensive that it can fly no more than once a year. The next flight is scheduled for Sep 2025, three years after the first flight. I bet you think that isn't absurd.

SLS use leftover engines from the Shuttle era. Yet it still cost 160 millions. Each. Thrown away after each flight.

Vulcan is a conservative design with no reuse. It also uses BE-4 engine, which costs them nothing to develop.
Bodily autonomy is very easily defined. Even if we accept that a fetus is a human life, not allowing a woman the right to control her body health by denying her the right to terminate pregnancy is removing bodily autonomy we grant men.

This is obvious: we don't allow the state to pass laws that require men to donate kidneys when the donation would provably save another life. We seem to believe bodily autonomy is a human right which can't be trespassed by the state. The next step in the USA is of course to enshrine bodily autonomy specifically in the constitution.

Until then however you can't argue for only women to not be allowed bodily autonomy without basically arguing that they're subhuman and deserve less human rights than men.

The only way around this is to believe the state should indeed be allowed to compel people to donate their organs. Right now we don't even tolerate corpses being compelled to donate organs. This alone could save many lives.
I'm defaulting to Opus at the moment partly because it's brand new and so I need to spend time with it to get a feel for it - but also because so far it seems to be better than GPT-4 for code stuff. I've had a bunch of examples of it writing mistake-free code that GPT-4 had generated with small bugs in.
The ad cancer was part of my original motivation for downloading dumps. I've now found a a lot of Fandom wikis have links to their dumps you can't actually download because they're on S3 buckets that require keys or have download limits. It's infuriating and I think maybe I'm lucky I grabbed a few dumps when I did.

Fandom is usually the first example I think of whenever I hear the word "enshitification". First Wikia ate all the independent wikis because they offered free/managed MediaWiki hosting. Then slowly started making Wikia worse until the full Fandomization. Now the site is literally unusable without an ad blocker and all of that GFDL content on the site is locked behind obfuscation and incompetence. I desperately miss the old Wookiepedia and MemoryAlpha.
Also the official unofficial time of the Eyre Bird Observatory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyre_Bird_Observatory

https://birdlife.org.au/places/eyre-bird-observatory/

which is a great place to caretake for three months or so if you enjoy isolation and can run on low power.

https://birdlife.org.au/volunteer-opportunities/eyre-bird-ob...
They have rediscovered https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorn ?

Yes it's a different fungus, but still?
so it is "... Dark Sky Sanctuary in the USA"
You may want to scroll down to the “throughput” section, instead of looking at the theoretical max.

The theoretical max up and download aren’t additive. It’s like saying that an egg carton can hold a max of 12 white eggs or 12 brown eggs. Good luck putting 24 eggs in it.

The DOCSIS standards carve up the available throughput, using some of that for upload and some for download.
IMO, the classical mlops is closer to the genai stack than most people think. E.g. experiment tracking is the same: with classical mlops, you experiment with hyperparams, with genai, you experiment with prompts. Similarly, finetuning is just an extension of training. Even vector databases for RAG is just vector search + databases, both of which have been around forever.

The post-train world is what I find to be the most fun. Techniques like model merging, constrained sampling, and all the new creative techniques for inference optimization and faster decoding are super cool!
> Can you buy and sell shares tax-free if the cash > security > cash conversions all happen inside the IRA?

No taxes on Roth IRAs. Even on distributions/withdrawals at a certain age ( I think it's 58 or 60? ).

Roth IRAs are as good a retirement vehicle as you can have.
Voting with your vote works even better.

If we vote with our dollars then the government just bails them out when they inevitably go bankrupt, again.
it would be great if you be more specific. I checked first one: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/alacrity

tldr, nothing new, everything existing on saturated market, but with "AI" added to the company description. What AI will do exactly is not specified.
Thank you to write this detailed post. It is very helpful.

Do I understand GraalVM correctly: It can run CPython native extensions (C code extensions compiled to run from CPython)? It sounds like you need to recompile the extension for GraalVM, but it should work OK.
I use Siri a lot when driving. It's completely hit or miss if it will provide me with an answer or tell me to open my phone to view web results.

Some of it's rather baffling. Like being able to convert certain common units but not others.
I recently tried out lancedb and it looks great. Allows to directly index vectors into disk and include meta data with them as well
I don't understand your point. Vaccines that don't make it past clinical trails are not used. So there are no vaccines that were used that were net negative bad. Does it make it clear?
Well, yeah, appliances. Even if I order one at my local Lowe's, as I just did, it's not like I'm going to run a bunch of controlled dishwashing tests with it.

Durability of furniture is harder to measure even if you try it out.
> Steam Input is an abstraction layer on top of controllers. It helps you support any type of controller in your game. It also provides remapping support from within the Steam UI. Players can browse for and share their controller configurations too.

And it does this by integrating with XInput and DirectInput. So players who have Steam can use it, and players who don't have Steam can't use it anyways so it's not a loss.

> Peer connections will only ever use relay servers. This will add latency to all connections, but will hide IP Addresses from peers.

https://dev.epicgames.com/docs/en-US/api-ref/enums/eos-e-rel...

You can't have modern P2P without relay servers of some kind for NAT reasons anyways

It feels like you don't really know the tech you're talking about tbh. Steam's inventory system is not something that I'd call a net positive. An unregulated black market that's been tied to gambling and theft is not something most game developers are clamoring for (and that's reflected in how many games actually use the inventory system for anything of note)
May as well learn to eat quickly. In hospitals, a 30-minute lunch break is standard. That's not 30 minutes to eat; it's 30 minutes to leave your post, get food if you didn't bring it, eat it, and be back at your post.

The food is not worth tasting anyway, usually.
I think a lot of it has to do with constant changes that suddenly break phrases people are used to using.

For a personal example, I had a six-month period where Siri stopped understanding the word 'half' (as in, 'Hey Siri, volume to half'), and either ignored or misinterpreted any command that included it.
There was a recent collection of new translations of his stories, many of which had never previously appeared in English. They’re not ideal in that the translations are translations of a German edition of his stories and not the original Czech texts, but they’re still a fun read.

https://paradiseeditions.net/products/the-man-without-a-tran...
If you can do tcp then you can do grpc.
Anyone know where VW sitting on this general topic?
I could see it slowly approaching the open source model - you do it because you care, and maybe some people will donate to you because they want to see your work continue. You can also say you've done it, so if you're a prolific artist it would probably look good.

Also, I feel like the main reason artists have a beef with AI right now is mostly because lots of their published works were used without permission to train models. I think if instead SD/Midjourney et al had used open datasets curated in the way TaylorAlexander described, there would be a lot less pushback, because everyone would know the models were trained with consent of the underlying artists responsible for the training data's existence.

There is still the concern of automation eliminating demand for work done by humans, but I have a hunch that in the long term, artists will embrace these tools in the same way that's been done with Photoshop and every other digital tool. It still might be very different, i.e. AI is much more powerful/enabling than Photoshop, but I'm not sure that'll change the outcome.
The bigger question is can they catch you.
There are a pair of Czech films based on the novels which are delightful to watch. I don’t know if they’re streaming anywhere, I watched them in the days of DVDs in the mail from Netflix.
This has always been one of my go-to fun facts.
I've been there once. It's hard to move around at night without lights (unless there's a power outage)
Can’t forget low bit rate “4k” saves them tons of money on storage and bandwidth costs as well.
What's New on CPAN: February 2024
FoundationDB is really just a set of structures and tools to build any type of database you want on top of a solid foundation.

"FoundationDB decouples its data storage technology from its data model. FoundationDB’s core ordered key-value storage technology can be efficiently adapted and remapped to a broad array of rich data models. Using indexing as an example, FoundationDB’s core provides no indexing and never will. Instead, a layer provides indexing by storing two kinds of key-values, one for the data and one for the index."

https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/layer-concept.html

Then existing standard layers like the Record layer, providing "(very) roughly equivalent to a simple relational database" providing structured types, index, complex types, queries, etc.

https://github.com/FoundationDB/fdb-record-layer

Or one for documents, which speaks the MongoDB wire protocol

https://github.com/FoundationDB/fdb-document-layer
Also, there was a ton of overlap from day 1. Battery tech, attention monitoring, LIDAR, object recognition, hands-free UX research, etc. Basically the only tech with no overlap is the ultra-dense screens and accompanying lenses.
spyflation
Nah, we have very few writing from the Celts, but they did practice marriage and divorce (the woman took back her parents' bride price, and could divorce if her husband talked about their sex life. The husband could divorce if his wife insulted his beard). The also had concubinage contracts, probably with at least one-to-many, maybe many-to-many.

It was purely legal/civil matter, because religious matters weren't written down. So marriage was in fact not religious originally.

I've gotten that from Peter Berresford Ellis' books, which contains much more than that, and paint Celts as a more refined society than the greco-roman one.
Coding Mm to Inches with Python
made some code for calculating mm to inches and also coded with streamlit which was nice and easier to configure into a webapp!
Is there a reason there's comparatively little storage in your machines in relation to RAM or even CPUs?

Do your machines do compute heavy loads or something?

For a DB I'd expect a lot more storage per node
First uranium shipped from enCore's Rosita plant
Personal bubble deflation
After being burned by this many times, finally got a couple Chesterfield style sofas from Costco about 4 years ago and everything about them has been rock solid. And they were about $700 each.

I later wanted something matching for a different room - but the problem is, the Costco furniture changes seemingly every day and you never see the same thing again.
Some lawyer at GM is reading this and saying, "No private right of action FTW, suckaaaaaaa"
Scientists Discovered a 'Fear Switch' in the Brain, and How to Turn It Off
IKEA is highly variable. I’m writing this while sitting on a leather loveseat that’s more than a decade old and holding up great. I also have a chest of drawers that, despite my best efforts during construction, immediately began to sag.

Their expensive furniture is good mid-range stuff, the cheap stuff is cheap.
Used to be that way, they decided to give it out for free for the time being. [1]

[1] - https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-is-now-free
The tracking module uses this speaker for Emergency Communications in the event of a crash.
Could you give an example? It would have to be something that doesn’t contain Peano numbers, due to Gödel’s incompleteness theorem…
I'm also curious about that, but we should recognize that whether it's fraud and whether it should be prosecuted as fraud are different questions. For a conviction you need proof beyond a reasonable doubt, where disbarment seems (from a cursory search) to merely require preponderance of the evidence. If that's right, some people will rightly be disbarred for crimes they cannot be convicted of.
Sounds cool, but how you define success for something like that? I can copy a prokaryotic genome mutated based as some non-zero rate and it would probably be viable. Is that synthetic enough to count? Are they going for a minimal genome?

How about something more useful, lucrative, and easy to define success for like engineering a morphine synthesis pathway into E. coli or something.

Imo, if you are talking about synthetic biology, then their training data is insufficient. Synthetic bio explores a lot of design space that is far outside of anything you would see in nature. There the secret sauce would not be in the generative pretraining, but in the RL. Unfortunately bio experiments are noisy, slow, and expensive so good luck getting enough data before the heat death of the universe.
I found the list on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_formats_by_countr....

So some of Eastern Europe and Scandinavia.
Part of Liebowitz's problem was that he did ~0 research before filing a lawsuit. Often the only thing he did was send the photographer a list of URLs and ask for "GO" or "NO GO" for each one. In at least some cases there was a license that he or probably should have known about, but he didn't even bother to check. He probably would've been fine with that though if he hadn't lied to the judge(s) so, so much.
The input field at the top of bing.com says "ask me anything". Would you also call that a question box, because of what it literally says inside it? Or would you call it a search box, based on our existing context of what bing.com is?
Will the new Beeper app gain support for Fitbit as the "Messaging" app? Before I could select Beeper, Google Messages, or WhatsApp. The new app isn't recognized by Fitbit as an SMS messaging app.

Is there still plans for supporting multiple G Apps accounts?
If the previous comments are to be believed (I don't know I didn't read the law), then individual repairperson will need many certs in practice. If I put myself out there as able to repair phones and there are a dozen popular phone manufacturers and each requires a different cert then I need to make them all happy to be able accept whatever customers walk in the front door with.
I own a Bolt (bought used) and have never activated OnStar, and I'm extremely unhappy to learn that it might be spying on me.

I did some reading when the NYT article came out, and found this, which explains how to install a terminator on the antenna to disable the cell connection:
https://imgur.com/gallery/n00QKnH. If you go that route, it's probably prudent to make sure your car isn't connected to wifi, either. (Edit: looks like that guide came from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/BoltEV/comments/16h91a6/i_made_a_st...)

Apparently some Bolts newer than mine have a different fuse configuration that puts Bluetooth and OnStar on separate fuses: https://www.chevybolt.org/threads/remove-mobile-data-chip.33...

^ that Bolt forum thread also talks about some of the downsides of disabling the antenna (e.g. GPS won't work so your home/away charging settings don't work anymore).
I got the same email. I was kinda assuming it was spam.
Show HN: Greasemonkey script to get Perplexity answers in Google
I recently bought a Toyota because I was able to push the "SOS" button in the car and request that they disable telematics right after I bought it. I don't know whether they've actually stopped collecting my location information or if they can arbitrarily re-enable telematics at some time in the future for whatever reason, so I've additionally pulled a fuse that powers the transmitter. I'm mulling wrapping some components in a Faraday cage just for good measure.

The ability to prevent the car from spying on me was near the top of my list of desired features when I was shopping for a new car. This is one of the main things keeping me from buying another EV. So far as I'm aware there is nothing on the market where I live that won't constantly spy on you with no option to disable.

This article from Mozilla is worth a read: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/article...
Gentle reminder that Mozilla Monitor is just OneRep, albeit marked up for Mozilla Corporation’s profits (yes Mozilla is a for profit, its foundation is not).
Some do. A lot depends on the library’s resources, but the Library of Congress has a lot of free imagery available, and I think a number of other large public libraries with art collections also do the same.
So an image uploaded by a random person (not necessarily the copyright owner) to twitter and it automatically is added to this public set? Not sure legally it would be any different.
I bought a Toyota last year and the app clearly showed me a bunch of opt in/out options and I felt relatively confident they were either outright lying or I had opted out.

I'll have to request my info to see for sure
Okay well respectfully I looked at the number you provided for the closest comparison rocket, SLS, and it was 6x too charitable.
What you describe doesn't seem "enormous" at least as bedrooms are normally used in descriptions. I have a den/living room which is what we normally use with company as we don't really watch TV so there isn't one there. That has a sofa from my brother. A couple other good futons elsewhere (guest bedroom and a very small TV room) but just futons. And that's about it.
Yeah, it was open but I didn't take the time for a soak. This was during the week in late summer and there was no one around at the time.
3.8Mbps 1080p is an atrocious bitrate. You'd want at least 6Mbps.
Is there always a cheaper wheel to replace cheap non-squeaky wheels ? Asking for a (n-already-too-)cheap(-to-their-liking) non-squeaky wheel friend of mine.
I used this book as a primary reference for OS design (along with The Dinosaur Book) when designing my hobby OS.

The FreeBSD kernel/world is almost exquisite in it's engineering simplicity. Compared to the sometimes chaotic world of GNU/Linux (in my experience).
That was also with a rush order on it due to the Shuttle's retirement.
A 2.5 million-acre swath of southern Oregon has been named the largest Dark Sky Sanctuary in the world.

It's smaller than the inner 70 km radius of the Murchison Quiet Zone which is 15,394 sq km or 3.8 million acres.

The Radio Quiet Zone, centred on Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, comprises:

* A 70km radius Inner Zone; other radiocommunications services within the Inner Zone are taken to be secondary services in relation to radio astronomy; and

* An Outer Zone from a 70km to 150km radius; and

* Coordination zones from 70km up to 260km radius (depending on frequency).

https://www.atnf.csiro.au/projects/askap/ARQZWA.html

Given the absence of townsites and infrastructure (aside from unmanned radio telescopes and cosmic microwave detectors, etc) it is pretty "dark" at night (aside from the overwhelming glare of the milky way in the southern hemisphere) - it's just not an "official Dark Sky Sanctuary".

For those interested: a global Light Pollution Map

https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/
Basically, a bunch of insecure ass-backward Abrahamic followers taking a badly translated saying to the extreme.

Even Sodom was about raping angels, who appears as children. Note that rape is definitely not consensual sex.
When I was publishing a typography magazine in the 90s, most of my covers were non-typographic images. I used an image of a statue of Venus from the Getty for one cover. They not only provided the transparency free of charge, but offered to take a picture from a different angle if I needed a different image of the statue (also for no charge). The Getty does a lot to share their collections. (In contrast, I paid a couple hundred dollars to LACMA for the use of a transparency of a 17th century painting in their collection.)
I stopped reading at the oxymoron: "credible, mainstream sources"
I mean that the side winning a civil war probably needs to have a sufficient degree of public support. If enough people went as far as fighting voluntarily, then there was also a significant number who supported this side more passively.

I am not a historian, but I think the society turned this way, in a sense. It's not like some external force coerced them, when everyone was against it.

Hashek is an example. He was not forcefully conscripted, it was his choice.

I've just recently listened to Kerensky's interview (the chairman of the Provisional Government that was ousted by the October Revolution in 1917). He was unable to gather any forces, no-one defended him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA225DBywU4&t=4842s
(the interview is in Russian)
Unless I am missing the distinction, Oregon outback us being protected as a sanctuary whereas Central Australia, Kazakhstan plains, Hokkaido in Japan etc. are larger but without any guarantees of dark sky protection (?). Please correct me if this understanding is wrong, because I saw some other HNers raising this point.