skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just like in 1939, ...wait. Maybe blaming social media for fascism is a step too far.

But I'm interested to hear what you have to say about that. Why did social media enable fascism now, and why did fascism exist before it?
The government is passing a law that says only company x make saws, due to various patents making it unrealistic to make your own design. They’re outlawing competition. Unless every relevant patent is opened up, this is extreme regulatory capture and is going to be a price gouging patent licensing circus after it passes
Is the theft problem common there with the heavier ones? i.e. the ones that need a pair of fit people to lift it into a truck and take it away?
Sure, have a pro-nuclear platform, but it would actually be productive it it attempted to improve the field instead of tilting at windmills of political goals.

That's the difference between the success of renewables and the failures of nuclear. The renewable folks went out and built the stuff, made it scale, and fixed the problems. The nuclear folks are star-gazing, hoping and dreaming, without executing at all.
Who do I send the bill to when I'm stuck in traffic for 2 hours waiting for them to mop up the ejected person?
i've been trying to get this on the front page, glad somebody did!

book industry distribution is a wreck. this is so bad for independent literature, and the literary ecosystem as a whole.

fuck ingram. my dream is to compete with them.
Thought this was a great idea until I saw you had to create an account to see details. Seems pretty antithetical to the entire premise.
Google's first Arm-based CPU will challenge Microsoft and Amazon in the AI race
It takes 3 minutes to swap out the normal saw stop cartridge and put the one in for dado blades. Setting up the thickness and putting the dado stack on takes twice as long. If you are doing enough woodworking that you have a dado stack and specialty blades the saw stop cartridge is not that big of a deal.
>I'd love to see other answers.

Workplace democracy is the only answer. Any other system is just some form of private ownership, with all the same problems. If we have a different system for choosing owners, it's either not private ownership or we arrive right back where we started.
> no one trusts EV charging infra in India

Sodium batteries is going to be a boom for India. 2x cheaper (albeit heavier), charges in 5-15 minutes.
Prototype AI Camera Unclothes Its Subjects
I used to feel this way too. I don't care so much about sound quality, as I'm mostly listening to podcasts and audiobooks, but I didn't want to be reliant on teeny little batteries that have to be recharged every couple of hours.

As it turns out, the unexpected benefit of not having wires is that the cord doesn't get caught on everything all the time, and that's good enough to overcome the poor battery life for me.
Math is not just arithmetic and yes better math does help at least some GPT-4 users.
> Before the new laws, manipulating social media with lots of fake accounts spreading fake news was a loophole that was being explored by the far right.

The left also does that. Their goals is to monopolize and not combat fake news.
Also, in general, people are quick to insult others online. Somehow it's easier to degrade someone online than I'm person, and there's less incentive to look for the common ground.

That also can't be healthy.
I'm a woodworker, and i've suffered some injuries over the years (but not on a tablesaw). This seems like more of a political issue, those for and against regulation. I'm surprised to see this on HN and there is too much drama in this thread to otherwise comment.
I agree, I think the vast majority of us are affected, we just don't have anyone watching.

for example, I had found the antsiness I was reading amongst children in classrooms about to be ridiculous. younger people having fidget spinners to pay attention.

then I took a class at community college, I've been out of school for a long time, and I experienced the same thing the first couple of sessions. then I realized that not only was I having the same traits, my ability to adapt was probably due to knowing it was not normal.

in another anecdote, when I go see even older people, baby boomers, their phone etiquette and attentiveness is waaay off. like, the more disconnected someone is, the more these new things adversely affect them.

I see this as akin to the opium dens. Popular at one point, and a smaller privileged group of people creating a social circle that opted out. We'll probably look back at this dopamine addiction pretty badly.
No, once again, the trouble is that you can't get the logs for a specific execution. If a container in your pod restarts, that is invisible to Loki, you have to look for whatever the container writes on startup and cut there manually. If you want a specific process in your container, it's mixed with the rest.
FWIW, Automatic has bought a few projects I use (PocketCasts, Simplenote) and seem to have been pretty good stewards. For Simplenote they actually reduced the monetization (although a decade after the acquisition they've started remonetizing in a lowkey way which is hopefully sustainable)
This device gathers, stores electricity in remote settings
The brake is like $80-90 and contains a computer that collects telemetry. If it triggers for a reason other than user error you can send it in for a refund.

It doesn't drop the blade, just stops it cold (at least on the model I've used). The Bosch system dropped the blade (thereby avoiding destructive damage to the blade and brake) but they were cease-and-desisted by SawStop and unable to sell it in the US.
> If someone had a real need for this and uses it, it will be interesting to know their reasons.

I need to push this out and go home.
Can you point me to said flamewar?
The buyer is already sharing that information with their bank, so the confidentiality is already broken :)
Haven't seen this in years, love this video
As someone writing this on a pinephone the primary issue with the statement is the lack of context. You 'put linux on it' and get OSS, and control of your own device. But most of the time lose 90% access to the abilities of ios/android installs...
I can sudo pacman -S dub & ldc2 + fav editor of the week. But had to spend hours getting an android emulator working to sign up to use the telegram install that came with most/all of the distros I've tried!

TLDR: you get a pocket laptop instead of a phone, despite owning a "phone"
This is fairly industry standard in Uv coatings: https://www.hoenle.com/products/uv-measuring-technology/uv-m...
NPR is the Rush Limbaugh of the other side.
As an NPR listener this garbage. NPR has covered almost everything he says they didn't.

He just didn't like how they covered them.

Even his stats aren't that great. Washington DC is 75% registered democrats and only 5% registered republicans.
> It's too late for the person to receive any benefit. They won't know or care.

Every human culture ever, afaik, has burial and death rituals. I don't suppose they are useless.
Yeah this needs to be met with invalidation of patents. If the government mandates something, it has to be possible without patent infringement.
Sennheiser's Momentum True Wireless are really, really good. A significant upgrade from AirPods.

The first two generations were notorious for connectivity glitches, but the TW3s appear to have fixed everything by. Great ANC, battery life, ear fit.

They even added multipoint through a free software update that came out about a year after launch.
The boring answer is to bash domain expertise and evals together until your data pipeline seems to be spitting out embeddings that give you acceptable results for whatever you’re trying to do.

I do wonder if there is some additional cleverness that’s possible with fast, long-context LLMs, maybe a summarizing/preprocessing step that can slice up the document into a sensible hierarchy of topics that can be used as the embeddings source. Never seen this in practice though.
This is a great write up! I nodded my head thru the whole post. Very much aligns with our experience over the past year.

I wrote a simple example (overkiLLM) on getting reliable output from many unreliable outputs here[0]. This doesn't employ agents, just an approach I was interested in trying.

I choose writing an H1 as the task, but a similar approach would work for writing any short blob of text. The script generates a ton of variations then uses head-to-head voting to pick the best ones.

This all runs locally / free using ollama.

0 - https://www.definite.app/blog/overkillm
If you had a legitimate point to make you wouldn’t resort to blatantly and intentionally absurd faux-analogies that don’t even pretend to seek to pose a fair comparison. This is childish. Though looking at your profile you seem to wear being unlikeable and hostile as some sort of badge of pride.
With Vitess likely consolidating its runtimes (vtgate, vtctl, vttablet, etc) into a single unified binary: https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/issues/7471#issuecomment-...

... it would be a wild future if Vitess replaced the underlying MySQL engine with this (assuming the performance is good enough for Vitess).
There's an "experimental" option in the app to run the server locally. I don't use signal so not sure if it works as well
Some of these points are very controversial. Having done quite a bit with RAG pipelines, avoiding strongly typing your code is asking for a terrible time. Same with avoiding instructor. LLM's are already stochastic, why make your application even more opaque - it's such a minimal time investment.
I know this might sound crazy but DEI and ESG are revenue driven.
YouTube has a treasure trove of creative, stimulating, enlightening, entertaining, and didactic content. There is more interesting stuff there than you could watch in many lifetimes: science from Veritasium to lectures from Stanford on every topic imaginable, thousands of hours of high-quality content on every topic from WW2 to the most niche retro computer you can thing of, the best orchestras in the world playing at your demand — all at your fingertips.

Unfortunately, it has 1000x more utter filthy trash.

Seriously, I dare you: open the default YouTube homepage on incognito. It's terrifying. The dystopia is already here.

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My advice for parents: curate a few channels or playlists yourself, manually, but UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES give them unsupervised unfiltered access to YouTube. So-called "YouTube Kids" included. Those turbo-consumerist hellscape videos make my stomach churn.
I can totally see some uninformed staff member contributing what they're paying for things, and landing their employer in deep, deep, trouble with their suppliers.

I've found in competitive price analysis there's some companies that do very, very, well at hiding their pricing. If they've worked that hard, that long, to protect/hide pricing they're not going to take it lying down.
The commonly cited number refers to when the brain structures stop/slow development, not the halting of skills or knowledge growth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_brain_development_timeli...
I would be surprised if you see a moderately popular woodworker on YouTube that has removed the riving knife. Are you assuming that no blade guard implies that the riving knife is also not present? Yes a lot of people remove the blade guard but they then insert the riving knife. If they would make the safety pawls slightly better I think more people might leave the blade guard on.
> Sure, have a pro-nuclear platform, but it would actually be productive it it attempted to improve the field instead of tilting at windmills of political goals.

If there are factual issues with what they say, feel free to post a comment correcting them. Just because something is (allegedly) "biased" does not make it wrong.

> That's the difference between the success of renewables and the failures of nuclear.

There's also a difference between the failures (and inadequacies) of renewables and the success of nuclear:

* https://www.ieso.ca/power-data § Supply

When wind goes to zero at night (which it has done in Ontario), what are the options for keeping people warm in January and cool in July?
This is nice!
I was using the Arrays.asList trick but I like your syntax better
If parents really want to set a good example, they ought to also quit their smartphones and Social Media--or at least hide it better. Kids are really good at identifying hypocrisy. When they see their parents glued to their phones and scrolling Instagram all day, after being told "Oh, don't do that, it's not good for you" they know their parents are full of shit.

And, the trouble is: Most of these adults are addicted to their smartphones and social media, too. Everyone is. I go to birthday parties with my kid, and sporting events, indoors and outdoors, and other kid activities, and the kids are for the most part jumping around having a ball, while the adults are huddled up by themselves, bathed in smartphone light, scrolling through their feeds getting their fix. Don't think this doesn't leave an impression on kids--it does.
Helicopter parents and PTA Karens that just have to be able to connect to their kids at all hours.

But also, 80s/90s stranger danger and all the school shootings.
I have an old g3 tower that has 10.4 on it. Haven't powered it on in years. I got it in the mid 2000s to port code I'd written for gnustep to cocoa. Later I wrote a bit of ppc asm. It was a cool instruction set.
Direct democracy at a company would be a fun experiment that I'd love to be a part of.
Great idea, great site. I signed up. But post-sign up on the modal explaining how it works I was unable to scroll below “Upgrade”, in order to reach the continue button.

iPhone SE2.

Keen to use this. Having just been through the dance to obtain Drata, I’d love to just know the price ahead of time.

I know there was a YC company many years ago that “negotiated saas pricing as a service”.

The pain is not just knowing the price, it’s also:
- what features and versions of features are included in why I’m paying for??

- what is the value of the extra bs that’s being packaged in, and can I negotiate it away? Or how can I make use of it?

I feels there’s a lot of value in a community of recent buyers of a product being able to communicate openly. Any company that takes actions against their own customers for trying to make the most of their product should be replaced.
MIT license too (getting rare)! mad respects, thank you.
Yeah but in 2017 TTS (the parent company of Festool) acquired SawStop.

https://www.sawstop.com/news/sawstop-to-be-acquired-by-tts-t...

TTS is a magnitude bigger than SawStop and they might have different ideas than a narrow minded patent attorney.
…except there is now also a light rail, the REM, which goes above ground including in Winter
The MPA has big plans to crack down on movie piracy again
I've noticed petrol autos marketing themselves as not CNG/LPG as an advantage, what's that about - refuelling time should it be needed? Or safety? Just curious where EVs sit in that regard because I don't remember noticing any the couple of times I've been to Delhi, and AIUI they'd have been the previous environmental step forward.
Seems like they're ready to do anything. Except, you know, improve services.
It is hard to say if something works or not without defining a goal.

Federalism would probably work fine for the country in general. Lots of human suffering would occur in states that elect dumbasses, but the high-productivity parts of the country would continue along just fine, and probably actually benefit without the need to keep sending money.

In some case, voters might change their tune as they actually have to face the consequences of electing unhinged ideologues.

But, it would also involve lots of pain and suffering falling on vulnerable people, so it isn’t worth it.
It's explained in the video. Keying algorithms are getting better thanks to AI image techniques. However the training data they use is based on green screen technique so has the same issues at times. Using the sodium vapor method to film training data that looks correct to start with would improve these AI algorithms.
I always brought my gameboy to school, just never in class obviously (and the times I did it and got caught it obviously got confiscated for a while).
Yeah, you can, as you have connectors which allow USB-C pass-through on top of the 3.5 mm.

Another alternative is 3.5 mm to Bluetooth adapter from your headset. Though those are usually (?) male, and hence only work on a female 3.5 mm.

You can buy these for a couple of EUR/USD on Amazon from any Chinese brand. Fairphone themselves also sell a 3.5 mm to USB-C adapter. But this does not have USB-C pass-through.

These all do have a disadvantage: physical bloat / potentially making device less comfortable.
Sure. The flamewar is this thread. And it starts with things like "you’ll see Firefox diehards froth at the mouth" which is not an invitation to curious conversation (the aspirational goal of the site) but a call for other flamewarriors to come out and play. You can't talk to people or really about most people like that on HN, which I'm sure you've seen in the guidelines. Same goes for the grumpsneer edit you tacked on after getting downvoted and flagged.
It’s mostly head trauma is both cases, the kidneys should be fine
A bit tangential, but this was one of the main ways that the Jesuits were able to gain access to the Imperial Court in Ming Era China. Predicting solar eclipses was one of the most important functions of the royal astronomers. However from the late Song Dynasty and into the Ming Dynasty there was some bureaucratic decay in the Astronomical Bureau and the quality of eclipse predictions declined. When the Jesuits arrived they were able to make superior eclipse predictions and leveraged that to gain appointments to the astronomical bureau. (And they were so successful at this that the Bureau was run by a Jesuit for a century and a half.)

Incidentally, this didn't work everywhere Europeans went. When Guillaume Le Gentil arrived in southern India in the 18th century he found that Tamil eclipse prediction techniques were superior to the Western methods. (His own prediction was off by 68 seconds whereas the Tamil prediction was off by 41 seconds.)
As per Steven Heidel’s tweet this version will be released to chatGPT soon.
I too am predisposed against regulation. Knowing nothing about the issue, I actually expected to support the regulation.

Reading on, it basically seems to give Saw Stop defacto monopoly over the table saw industry, shifting the value capture entirely to them. And seeing that swings me against it. Unless they commit to releasing their full patent portfolio in favor of this effort, it seems like the legislation vastly favors an economically motivated actor, which rubs me the wrong way.

The irony here is that the same government wonders why manufacturing doesn't come back to the United States and this case is a microcosm of something the issue of a whole.
I think instructor is great! And most of our Python code is typed too :)

My point is just that you should care a lot about preserving optionality at the start because you're likely to have to significantly change things as you learn. In my experience going a bit cowboy at the start is worth it so you're less hesitant to rework everything when needed - as long as you have the discipline to clean things up later, when things settle.
Honestly, that future sounds like a total nightmare to me. I think this comes down to that different people are better with different kinds of media.

I don't do well with video at all. I do best with the written word.
Normally PhD programs have a timeline of progress. If you don't make regular progress toward those very generous deadlines, you are kicked out.

Neil did not make sufficient progress at Texas. Then he did something weird, where he wasn't ready to defend yet got a postdoc at (iirc) Princeton. Princeton had to rescind the offer because you (ahem) need a doctorate to be post doctorate. Then he got into Columbia's program and finally finished.

He had a lot of hobbies and interests other than astronomy, and he is actually a very smart guy, but it took him a bit longer to get his shit together. I think he's found his calling and is quite good at he does.
lol like blazing saddles
Scrabble: Mattel launches new version of game which is 'less competitive'
Anger and the basest, most thoughtless of emotional responses are those that drive the most """engagement""". Fuck whomever invented and promoted this crap.
Great idea, congrats on the launch - valuable to learn where pricing deals end.

SaaS sales can be guilty of drive-by sales, where the implementation fails to reach promises.

It puts a black eye too often on good products.
As a 5-10 year old, the books I remember liking the most were on the outer planets, with high quality full page photos of the planets and their moons. Closer to photobooks than books on the solar system targeted at children. One book was just images of the moons, mainly focusing on Saturn, I used to just look at the images and admire them even if initially I didn't quite understand the details. Most of my physics reading came from random sources on the early internet.

As a 12-13 year old, Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time and The Grand Design were by far my most memorable reads, although I already had my developing interest in physics by then.
kinda surprised they had money left to try this again after buying and trying with MIPs
I think that they are both to blame. The algorithms increase the desire and portable electronics increase the availability. More powerful together.
Even if kids watch only quality educational stuff on YouTube and plays non-addictive games, if that ends up being a lot of time and it replaces social interaction, it'll come at a cost (though they'll also learn a lot).
Aren't the backdoors gonna be in the baseband firmware that no phone allows you to modify?

I always felt that we basically "lost" with open source: Intel did the Management Engine and phones stuck everything in the baseband.

There's no real possibility of having fully software-hackable hardware. Someone else ultimately has control of all hardware, if they want to exercise that control.
Oof, thank you for telling us about the modal and the iphone model - we're on it.
Good idea. It needs to be clearly global though.
This has got me curious. I don't really understand how binary labels could give us embeddings that are well-ordered by distance. For a training pair where (Q, D) are highly similar and a pair where (Q, D) are just barely related, the model is being trained that they're the same distance apart. Is there something I'm not seeing here?
I have been working on an x86 emulator[1] so I have x86 on the mind. As I read the post I was thinking to myself "there's no way you can iterate the instruction stream without a massive amount of effort to parse through all different instruction types"... and then remembered MIPS has constant-sized instructions. So nice!

But also I glanced at some MIPS docs and it seems there there could be additional instructions that modify these registers as outputs, which the code doesn't address. Maybe they just don't occur in practice?

[1] https://github.com/evmar/retrowin32
Why isn't AMD part of the UXL Foundation? What does AMD gain from not working together with other companies do make an open alternative to Cuda?

Please make SYCL a priority, cross platform code would make AMD GPUs a viable alternative in the future.
This sounds like the likely explanation. Crop rows and greenhouses are generally aligned North-South for the same reason: to maximize direct sun exposure.
Yes we looked at panels for our home but I believe community (off site) solar is the way to go. You essentially buy panels as part of a large farm and the energy they produce is subtracted from your utility bill.

No maintenance, no worry about roof angles or which way your house faces. Usually the investment is financed but you still come out ahead each month.

Of course need to have a local program and participating power company.