skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree - free and easy digital signing would be excellent. Doubly so if there was a way that I could identify myself to the government and receive some kind of hash that could be verified by the OS maker without exposing my identity. This would be a way of protecting my privacy, while also empowering the OS maker to report to the government if something illegal is happening. Of course, I haven't thought this through - and it's reliant upon a government we can absolutely trust not to abuse this. Looking forward to seeing us evolve as a species though ;-)
Explicit sync
It feels like your change is changing the scene? The author's sentence makes it seem like the laughter was not in the restaurant, while yours makes it seem like it's taking place in the restaurant. Maybe I am overthinking it!
Many Amiga engineers were UNIX heads, and even Amiga DOS /Workbench started as what might be another take into UNIX like systems with multimedia hardware, when they pivoted away from a games machine.

There are some vintage computer club talks where they dive into this.
It's a good one! :)
I can’t seem to find cost information for any of Pragmatic Semi’s parts, even their high volume RFID tags which are supposedly shipping.

The 6502 seems to be a technology demonstrator that has no commercial application, as there’s no corresponding low cost power supply for their parts. Because polymer semiconductors are only about 1% efficient, it takes way more power than an energy harvester could supply.
Not to invent movie plots, one would hope. If the message cave is in any way to be weaponized, it's much more likely than anything else to be used as a place of execution.
In what way do you feel Nix doesn't achieve this? Because software can still ultimately rely on system state?

I'd contend Nix is the best package management system yet, and while its certainly complex, much of that complexity only exists to hack around decades of bodges.
Not while charging.
If this is happening I hope it's actually legitimate and not the big corp throwing its weight around. Certainly feels like money matters more than being right in cases like that.
Or refusing to use anything except Office 2003 because newer versions are too different...
READ COMMITTED is great for applications that need a coherent snapshot of the database but not necessarily the absolutely most recent data, which in my experience is actually most apps.

It allows readers to see valid data (relationships are correct), while not blocking writers. It can be the difference between constant deadlocks and super-high throughput without lock contention.
I've never used RCS; what do you feel like you're getting from that?

My editor can tell me committed-on if I want it to, so it's a bit of a head-scratcher for me.
You're only thinking of the near certainty that a ubiquitous surveillance state would lead to government corruption, mass incarceration, general anxiety, the disruption of norms, and the end of many civil liberties. Try to focus on the upside potential for a small number of investors!
This is funny because I'm actually building (for fun only) a BBS-over-tcp-socket for use with my C64's WiFi modem. Yesterday I got a "search engine" going and transferred some games over XMODEM. It's two files. I came back home and saw this video, I fainted when he mentioned k8s.
It’s rhetoric man. Have a brew and take your own advice before replying to my posts.
Why is it so hard to drill off Earth?
They ignored the CTO on an issue that was 100% tech based. There was no winning, the board decided to ignore the person they hired to make that sort of decision for them.
Where is the best place to watch that outside of China?
I stand refuted. lol
SIGBOVIK 2024
I'm not sure it's 50% of the planet that's living in miserable conditions - we really do live in an age of abundance. The United States supplies 25% of the global food supply - that's a single country.

Human Beings have been forced to survive most of our existence - I believe when we lift ourselves out of the necessity of work, that we finally actually be human for the first time.

We are supposed to exist above it all as we are the only life that we are aware that could ever do that.
Humans are unique because we can imitate behavior well enough that a Darwinian process began.

Just like the gene, human behavior seeks out niches in the environment, eventually becoming the environment. Unlike the gene behavior evolves much faster, can be inherited horizontally and is far more prone to mutation.

Unfortunately we don’t have the equivalent of Mendelian genetics for behavior. We’re left with a unit but no understanding of the forces acting on it.

Before we knew these things in biology the best “research” we could do was classification. An interesting but unpredictive exercise. The social sciences are stuck here right now.

Until we have a the equivalent we’ll be stuck with articles like this. Articles that make a herculean (and valiant) effort to describe our society without a foundation in the physical sciences. Like trying to describe the behavior of a murmuration without knowing about starlings.
>nobody in the whole world cares what “snakeyjake” wants to say about productivity.

You haven’t seen the gilt lettering on the cover of my book and planner yet…
Contributing to OSS is a hobby, not a job. You explicitly work for free on purpose. Whether or not you’re able to pay your bills is unrelated to the OSS contribution, it’s very clear that you’re not going to get paid for writing code that you’re giving away for free.
Unix people can just use Emacspeak for everything.
Look up viterbi algorithm.

Imagine you're watching a trail of animal footprints in the snow, but the snow has covered parts of the trail (noise), so some prints are unclear. You're trying to figure out exactly which path the animal took. The Viterbi algorithm is like a detective method for doing just that, but instead of animal tracks, it's used for decoding messages or signals that got partially scrambled during transmission.
Looks like scale introduced new labor hiring site (other than remotasks.com): https://outlier.ai/
Interesting jobs to train generative AI models. Interesting comments here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linkedin/comments/1989kbz/scale_ai_...

jobs here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/outlier
>So I know that salt water spontaneously exploding is a non-issue

Because the sodium as dissolved in water is already at its lowest chemical energy state. Elemental sodium, very high energy, like a ball on a high shelf. Ionised sodium, like in salt water, is that same ball on the floor. Not going anywhere.

That's the why. And why we also don't worry about table salt spontaneously releasing chlorine ions - unless we introduce something unusual like bleach.
Previous discussion with 34 comments [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39919725
A simple clone of Perplexity AI
Building a simple clone of Perplexity AI using LLMFlow.
a) when you turn on the TV

b) most annoyingly, some android TV devices (e.g., nvidia shield, ccwgtv) use renegotiation instead of VRR for framerate matching. The FO48U supports VRR from 48 to 120Hz, which is more than enough to do framerate matching even with blackframe insertion for all desired framerates, but many android TV devices renegotiate instead. That means pressing play on Netflix takes 7 seconds until it starts. Quite annoying.

Still, it's preferable over TVs with shitty built-in OSes.
> The recent proliferation of studies examining cross-national variation in the association between parenthood and happiness reveal accumulating evidence of lower levels of happiness among parents than nonparents in most advanced industrialized societies.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5222535/

It doesn’t seem all that clear to me that institutional support for parents would actually lead to an increase in fertility though it may at least reduce the happiness gap, and I can’t imagine that would hurt. Sadly I no longer believe these sorts of changes to systems to increase well-being of citizens is possible in the US; I don’t know what the endgame is, but increased parental support (or indeed support for anyone who isn’t wealthy already) seems impossible to imagine.
It’s hardly a difficult skill. I have a spreadsheet with the date , credit limit, money needed to spend to get the reward and a date to cancel the card. Wall Street better get ready for me
Asking seriously, so that they can become the de-facto internet?

I run into CAPTCHAS everywhere (not sure of their origin), and error messages from Cloudflare.
Jebediah out shooting line-skaters with his double-barrel was not in any dystopian sci-fi book I read.
Here dies hashicorp.
> If you need to resort to RTFM to use the tool, you've already lost.

Git is a power tool aimed at professional-level software developers. If they tried to make it idiot-proof, it would probably stop being useful. It would at the very least bring considerable restrictions.
The most succinct and intuitive explanation I’ve found on PID is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y7zG48uHRo
It seems like you're suggesting that people should return to their hometowns and spend the rest of their lives fishing leisurely. While that might be a good option for some, it may not be the option for many regardless of their financial status.
Anyone still making “Apple overpriced” comments hasn’t really looked at prices in a long time.

Starting prices of the normal phones:

iPhone 15 - $799

iPhone 15+ - $899

Samsung S24 - $859

Samsung S24+ - $999
If you're unaware of what features/functionality are part of the M365 suite, why are you commenting that it is stagnant?

It seems like you're discussing a subject you're objectively unfamiliar with. And no, of course the couple things I mentioned aren't all that's happened in the M365/M365 Apps space. They're what came to top of mind. It doesn't mean they're the biggest or best features.
While researching which SCS to use at Honeywell in early 2000’s, I read the RCS thesis and it was short concise and a fantastic read. I recommend any SCS N00b’s to read it first.

Thankfully at the time, I chose SVN over CVS and although SVN was only at v0.8 my small team never lost any data. I never regretted my decision.
It doesn't need to make anybody rich, but it should support its development in a fashion where the authors aren't worse off.
Definitely looks like a new idea that will have some fetching about for a reason for it to be illegal.
It's a f*ing addictive making drug. You don't have experience with that it seems and thinking it's romantic or something? The addicts suffer a lot, they can't work high but can't be not be high. And that kills. First it kills your social life. Then it kills you. If it's not the cancer it might cause, then it's not necessary the overdoses of other drugs which you take instead. All addictive making stuff should be banned.

https://monographs.iarc.who.int/news-events/volume-126-opium...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9159125/

Just YouTube a little bit around and take a look at your "that's not true". Look how addicts living a wonderful life. Picture you living sich a wonderful life :)

Drugs are bad. Whatever makes you addicted, should be banned and highly regulated. Not the opposite.

When you take weed as example - that's not a problem because it doesn't make your body addicted to (but your brain, which is really not that big problem). I'm consuming that since 25y (in average daily) and comparable lot with 5-10J per day. If I'm about to be empty, I start to get nervous because I don't want not to smoke. But if I decide to stop it, I have 2 weeks where I'm really not a good guy. But that's all. It's more the nicotine. If I can't smoke, I search for a solution so I can.

If you smoke opium, try to do that:) if you take fentanyl, try to do it. So you basically have no experience and talking about "it should be allowed because it's just obstipation and a little addiction" in my eyes.. to naive look. The same I see with the young people who are against prohibition by the state but for self decisions.. LOL. they're the first one getting hooked on it.
Yes, BUT... that's also sort of twisted.

If we punished individuals in corporations more for corporate malfeasance, the corporation (as a whole) would likely get away with it.

Also, that's not to get into the entire "corporate hierarchy makes sure only the bottom rung person is guilty of doing the thing they ordered done."

In fact, there's 3 consequences that need parallel address in corporate cases:

- Corporate (including death)
- Management (incl. informed)
- IC

The major gaps in our current corporate justice system seem to be (1) tail risk penalties to corporations aren't frequent of severe enough (i.e. fine on % of worldwide revenue, until redressed; corporate dissolution), (2) informed management aren't held responsible (RICO standards would be better here -- if you could have done something, and you had an association, you're at fault).
Imagine how good the cameras will be in the 2140s the next time that alignment happens.
They said software support, not hardware support.

You can take a win 95 gui app and run it on windows 10 without issue. You can’t do the same on Linux.
No mention of the loss of albedo. Harvesting and shipping rock flour from Greenland to sequester carbon in ag fields in Denmark sounds a little far-fetched in terms of how that would add up to a net reduction of CO2.
I wasn't aware they stopped publishing them so I didn't back it up, but I can't say I really care for my use case. The only reason I'd need it is to resell the phone, but my plan is to use it until it's either broken beyond repair or backporting new Android versions becomes impossible, at which point nobody would buy it anyways.

I agree the OP6 is great (my girlfriend is still using hers), but I was still on my OP 3 like a year ago, until future ROM updates were deemed impossible thanks to Qualcomm binary blobs.

It's a real shame it's all over now. The OP 9 Pro was the last OnePlus phone made in their old way (or close to it) - not too expensive, well built, close to stock ROM, easy to reflash, decently repairable. Hopefully it lasts me as long as the 3 did because currently I don't see anything else like that on the market.
Are these not largely the same rules education seeks to inculcate?
Guessing a magnetic torque would be applied while flying that said drone would have to counter.
> You're spreading misinformation. See other comments about RSAL/SSPL.

I think you are commenting on things you know nothing about.

Take the time you need to read through the license you are quoting.

Here's a link to the Redis Source Available License 2.0 (RSALv2):

https://redis.com/legal/rsalv2-agreement/

With RSALv2 you do not need to reach very far in the licensing terms to read the part where it explicitly prohibits users from providing Redis as a service, or even a modified version of it.

With Server Side Public License (SSPL) it's an even bigger shit show, as it forces any business that uses the software to release under the very same license all software and systems and even user interfaces (?!) that directly or indirectly interact with their project. As it is very easy to understand, this prohibits any company from adopting any software released under that license.

And of course it's so very convenient and an incredible coincidence that the same company that tries to force-feed these licenses to the world just so happens to sell proprietary "enterprise" versions of the same project.
Do note though that they are both very different from s/360.

Complexity-wise, 1401 and PDP/1 are a bit closer to home computers of the 80s, in that they usually just execute code in a single thread and context and without any protection. They represent an earlier and simpler era of computing.

The s/360 lineage, on the other hand, is an ancestor of our modern computing environment with virtual memory, privilege separation, virtual machines, dynamic linking, and so on.

It’s really quite striking how much of our “modern” computing concepts IBM already did at the time with the s/360 and successors, up to the still alive IBM z.

That does not diminish from the awesomeness of the 1401 and PDP-1 exhibits at all, I highly recommend them!
For some people, the ability to use wired headphones/earphones while charging has a lot of value. Additionally, some invest in quality earphones or IEM's and replacing those with the lower-quality limited selection of USB-C earphones is not desirable. Likewise with Bluetooth.

The 3.5mm audio connection is nowhere near dead yet.
It’s remarkable both that the alignment managed fall in a period in which we had the technology to take advantage of it and that someone recognized the opportunity and acted on it. A slightly different course of history could’ve prevented the Voyager missions from happening, causing the opportunity to be missed.

It’s so hard to imagine. As a 90s kid the photos the Voyagers sent back were prominent in my childhood.
Clearcase. Ugh. Only had to use it on one job in the 2000’s, man was it terrible to use. Very slow, required weird file system drivers and access. Horrific GUI. Semantic model was simply broken.

Systems like Clearcase is where “release manager” type roles were born. One poor guy would become the expert trying to bang a release out of it over weeks or months.
> Why not go for something that has 5-7 years of SW updates like a Pixel or a S-series?

Or an iPhone. People love to hate on Apple, but they actually support their devices.
https://archive.is/SSXdN
Kind of reminds me of how my brother built a website for playing scrabble online, but because of the obvious trademark/copyright issues, he made it a private site behind an invite-only login. I don’t know if it’s still running, but because he was working on and off writing for TV at the time and doing tech support for a lot of Hollywood types, a lot of the users were Hollywood folks including a number of names of people that you’d recognize.
what good is SW updates on a pixel that can't even get cellular connectivity
https://www.fastmail.com/

https://posteo.de/en

https://tutanota.com/

https://www.pobox.com/

Protonmail
LLM's ability to find needles in a haystack signifies the death of RAG?
Most of even all of my work for a product design agency.

I’m gladly out now but it’s a hell I don’t with anyone to go through, even just for experience, it’s exhausting and at the end of the day you can’t even mention that you worked for that X project

May not be every agency but in general how design agencies work is pretty awful compared to freelancing, productized agency concept etc.

Spend hundreds of hours on our own projects also to end up semi dead, due to directors lack of time and willingness to delegate, share ownership.

For those startup projects also it’s not super valuable, they just want you to deliver something they can throw back to their investors and get another round, to eventually sell it and start over, while you as a design contractor - done most of the product thinking, brand and marketing.

Could’ve as well put our own product out like that
They'll just shoot the power station: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack
It’s really surprising how well this works. Intuitively this illustrates how over-parameterized many LLMs are, or conversely how under-trained they might be.

The drop and rescale method outlined in the paper makes the latent space increasingly sparse, which in turn allows weights to merged without much interference or degradation.

My instinct is that while merging models will have some use cases, ultimately these insights will lead to innovations in training and architecture that have the same result but with better computational efficiency.

For example instead of training an 8x7b mixture of experts then merging, just incorporate the sparsity constraint while pre-training a single 7b model (somehow).
A novice question.

430K miles per hour is obviously a big number. And I have previously heard of this slingshot approach to increase speed so I am familiar with it.

However, I believe energy is constant (it can be transformed but unlikely to be created or destroyed). For some object to gain a speed of 430K miles per hour, it must come from elsewhere, obviously it did not burn its own fuel (and I am assuming the slingshot theory). So the Sun transferred it a bunch of energy. I presume that is gravitational energy and to my mind it implies Sun gave away that energy. However, isn't that based on mass? But I do not think the mass would have changed.

ELI5 please in terms of energy exchange. Who gained and lost and how?
It doesn't need a name change. You would write wank in a completely different way only the spelling sounds the same.
In my mind the arguments for it are
- by helping your neighbor you strengthen your own community, hopefully benefitting yourself and your family

- you don’t have the same understanding of the needs of a community further away. You won’t be able to directly observe the impact of your actions (positive or negative)
You totally misunderstood my comment. I never meant that all 12 patients had spontaneous remission. I understand why people think that- my statement was ambiguous. What I did mean was that it's possible that some of the patients cancers went into remission for a reason that was not specific to this drug.
It could be 11 people got better because of the drug- and 1 got better because they were being treated in a world-class hospital with a number of other factors that affect disease progression.

THat's how it works in clinical trials. I didn't make my statement out of ignorance- I worked adjacent to trials for decades and have seen all sorts of claims of results that didn't hold up to scrutiny.
My friend’s startup: https://factiverse.ai/
They know that because it was designed to increase civilian casualties by unprecedented civilian:"combatant" ratios and confidence levels. These were design requirements, not faults.

The notable element of this news is not that the decision-making was automated. It's that they set the civilian collateral death ratio to ~100 (and other details such as considering children to be valid combatant targets), regardless of whether the process that arrives at that was automated or not.
It is poorly written, with some atrocious dialog. I watched it all because the story intrigued me, but all I kept thinking was, "The last season of GoT was shit for THIS?"
You only had to read the title to know that the author of the post was paid for 503 days to work on OSS. It was literally his job.
Geometrically (not physically), time is isomorphic to a Euclidian space dimension. This is how movies work.
Is your script available somewhere?
USB C to 3.5mm Headphone and Charger Adapter, 2-in-1 USB Type C to Aux Jack Dongle Cable with PD 60W Fast Charging

$8.99

I like headphone jacks too but I’m not going to pretend that this isn’t a solved problem.
You have a better chance of knowing what would actually help the neighbor. That is, the odds of help actually helping are higher.

I am not saying "don't help those who are far away". But you can make a case for giving greater emphasis to helping those who are closer to you purely on effectiveness grounds.
WebAssembly Is Finally Usable, Almost