skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While we had vets put magnets down cows over the years, my parents were too frugal to let me have one!

There are two primary ways steel gets into the feed supply. A silage chopper can pick it up and cut it into fine bits or a hay baler picks up a stray end of wire and running large bales into a tub grinder to more easily mix feed stocks into a total mixed ration will chop the stray wire (and other parts) into moderately short bits.

Many feed wagons have strong magnets under the discharge chute and grinder/mixers (used to grind grain and supplements) have likewise strong magnets just before the material enters the hammer mill. Despite that some bits will slip by due to the volume of material passing over the magnets as it comes out of the feed wagon.

We do have the vets administer magnets to the heifers we keep at around 9 months of age. One has to watch to be sure they don't work them back up and spit them out! A couple of years ago we had some that did that.

Symptoms of hardware is usually a cow "off feed" meaning she is not coming to the bunk to eat with the rest but usually stands apart and in acute cases will become hunched back. A veterinarian can usually diagnose it with a stethoscope as I think the breathing becomes labored in more acute cases.
Chemical Plants Must Curb Ethylene Oxide, Chloroprene Emissions Under EPA Ruling
I'm very skeptical of all of it. Here's the rule that I use - if more than a couple of known partisanly-opposite sources (CNN vs. Fox News, for example) report the same thing, then it's probably true. Otherwise I only believe it if it aligns with what I know to be true or have observed.

This is admittedly dangerous for all the obvious reasons. But given that I have seen nearly all sources seemingly intentionally misreport facts and even contradict themselves multiple, multiple times I don't know who to believe, so I'm left to my own experiences as the ultimate source of truth.

I do find that business news (Bloomberg, Fox Business, CNBC) do a better job of conveying news rather than being pundits. BBC World News and NHK News also do a pretty good job on the international front.
I think the key differentiator here for audiophiles is that they are allowing EQ from their app. I think if Resolve, Crinacle or similar gets their hands on it (though Crin has his own competition in the wired space) and creates a good EQ profile and it's competitive, I think this could carve out an important niche.
> If you just regulate enough then you don't actually need industry or innovation.

I'm not sure if you're sarcastic or not.

>There will never be economic stagnation in a country like Germany.

Why not? People were saying the same about Japan? Or you're sarcastic again?

>Without the massive economic benefits of large and highly productive industry, the massive social security system can not be kept afloat.

The social security system has seen massive cutbacks in Germany, Sweden, France, Finland, Italy, Spain, etc in the last 20 years or so precisely because the costs have gone up due to ageing population and mass immigration, while the economic output needed to fund the welfare system has relatively stagnated.
Table saws, in spite of being used far less than kitchen knives, account for far more digit amputations and more serious ones.

It is pretty uncommon and rather difficult to cause yourself a digit injury that cannot be recovered from with a kitchen knife. Bad technique is most likely to lop off the end of the fingertip which can fully regrow so long as the cut isn’t very deep.

Mandolines and meat slicers (guards are bypassed when cleaning which happens every 4hr, they also tend to be used by 16 year olds) are much much more dangerous but they tend to be dialed in quite shallowly which limits the damage.

Table saws are THE most dangerous thing for your fingers because of where people tend to put their hands when using the tool and how they can go right through your digits and how they’re dialled in to make thick cuts. The logic that well if we accept kitchen knives we shouldn’t have safety regulations on table saws doesn’t make sense because table saws are far more dangerous and unlike with kitchen knives it’s actually possible to enforce the default use of an effective safety mechanism which ensures a cut will usually be shallow enough to be recovered from. Of course some people will disable the brake excessively but the average person will likely keep it on most of the time.

You can argue we shouldn’t have this safety regulation because it will add costs to consumers, and point out that other safety approaches already exist, the safety paradox, but the comparison to kitchen knives doesn’t really make all that much sense. I’d argue adding saw brakes as a standard feature makes a ton of sense due to the high social cost of digit amputation and the inconvenient and frequently ignored use of other safety approaches.
I'm a fan of Stumpy Nubs but I disagree with his economic analysis here. Saw Stop has effectively had a monopoly on this type of saw, so of course they've been pricing it high. When Bosh came out with their own version it only made sense to price it at a comparable level to their only competitor. For them to massively undercut Saw Stop would leave money on the table.

There will be some cost in re-engineering the cheap saws to handle a sensor and brake. But those costs will be amortized over time and the materials themselves will be incredibly cheap. We're talking about a capacitive sensor and a chunk of sacrificial metal.

There will also probably be some cost saving innovation around the tech. Since Saw Stop is a premium brand coasting on patent-enforced monopoly they haven't had to invest in R&D the way Dewalt, Bosh, and Makita will.
from one of the papers cited in the original article <https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2024/sc/d3sc0...>:

To demonstrate our synthetic approach and its ability to encode the complexity of a logographic writing system, we chose an eight-character proverb from the Analects of confucius: ,38,39 roughly “By nature [people] are near each other; by habitual action they become farther apart”.40 To further probe the versatility and adaptability of the approach, we encoded the proverb in both traditional and simplified Chinese characters (Table 1). The former appear in manuscripts through the centuries, but also find current use in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other diaspora communities; the latter stem in part from earlier informal writing practices but were formalized over the 20th century into a system streamlined for modern writing needs in the People's Republic of China.

endnotes 38,39 quoted above, link to these:
M.Csikszentmihalyi, Confucius, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2020/entries/confuciu..., accessed January 20, 2023.

A. C.Muller, The Analects of Confucius, http://www.acmuller.net/con-dao/analects.html, accessed January 20, 2023.
Google claims SoTA but it appears that, according to Apple, they may already be out of date: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05719
It would have been actually interesting, and something the old Ars would do, to bring on a spectrum of experts to analyze claims like this one. Instead, we get ... The guy who invented UML, and the lady who got fired from Google over ... some sort of drama, neither of whom have ever trained an AI, or done anything AI-related other than write papers about how it might be biased one day. Who shall we listen to next, Gary (Deep Learning hit a wall in 2018) Marcus?

When another article from Ars last week was talking about how Musk's claims from 2018 sounded way less crazy now in 2024 [0], yet they can't seem to quite make the required Bayesian update, it really gets harder and harder to take hit pieces like this seriously.

[0]: Elon Musk just gave another Mars speech—this time the vision seems tangible: https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/elon-musk-just-gave-an...
Thank you sir! I've stopped writing on gafferongames.com and will be writing on mas-bandwidth.com from now on, focusing more on scalable backend techniques fused with multiplayer games. I wrote a post about XDP for games last week as well: https://mas-bandwidth.com/xdp-for-game-programmers/
I miss those days, and this kind of writing (I didn't actually touch a computer until '78 and that was a PDP-10).

Compare the tone and content to Gate's famous "An Open Letter to Hobbyists": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists
is this similar to apple’s Realm?
Additionally, it’s also not yet another “text editor”.

It’s very clear the differentiation of Zed will come in the form of the collaboration functionality it will have.
TheTerrainTutor and BoomerDioramas, whose channels can be found at the following links: (https://www.youtube.com/@TheTerrainTutor) and (https://www.youtube.com/@boomerdioramas), respectively, played significant roles in introducing me to the world of hobbying, dioramas, and wargaming terrain.
Created a prompt library tool for your MacBook
I noticed I used the certain Chat GPT prompts over and over throughout the day specifically when it came to writing - emails or messages to important people, to improving my grammar.

Good chunks of my day was split screening between my current task and chatgpt. So I wondered, for the specific GPT prompts I use frequently, can I automate it to have the output paste directly on the app I am currently using.

So that's topbar ai, where you can save your most used gpt prompts and use it anywhere on your mac. Just highlight text and trigger it on the "top bar" of your computer or with a keyboard shortcut.

Would love to know what gpt chats/prompts you use frequently and if topbar.ai can help save you time copying and pasting and switching over from your task to chatgpt.
Oh, hot boxing is smoking weed in a vehicle or room with the windows closed.

I could see how the rest of my comment would sound a bit tangential without that context.
Rise and fall of Sid Meier's Civ and change in psychology of ruling class
The first wasn't the slightest. He had testified a decade earlier and had both personal problems and several recent deaths in the family, including at least one suicide.

Don't muddy the waters of a serious issue with this conspiracy garbage that doesn't withstand the slightest scrutiny.
Innovative Firmware Update Method to Microcontrollers During Runtime
No matter what, as long as we continue to communicate with each other, messaging will never die. Individual messaging platforms will come and go but the idea of instant messaging has existed for about as long as the internet. $175M might be a steal if Beeper gets more mass market appeal.
> Do you have any more evidence as to why these categorically don't work?

They don't. Loud voices parroting George, with nothing to back it up.

Here are another couple good links:

https://www.evp.cloud/post/diving-deeper-insights-from-our-l...

https://www.databricks.com/blog/training-llms-scale-amd-mi25...
What's the total door-to-door commute time for you, including getting to the airport and going through security?
Hi there, it is up to individual websites whether they require passkeys or passkeys + 2FA etc..

It is also important to note that most attacks are phishing-based, and passkeys are phishing-resistant, and will only work on the originating website.

Proton Sentinel also helps to protect account takeovers, even when an attacker has stolen your password.
Yeah, never had headphone jack issues, it was always the USB port, including with type C now. Sounds like a ridiculous assertion to me, but maybe I use my phone differently.
The dark pattern is claiming that something that shares your information is a privacy feature in order to trick people into turning it on. An actual privacy sandbox (like uBlock origin) just blocks things like malware scripts and tracking pixels with no concession to the people who are trying to track you. An actual privacy sandbox does not have features for publishers, SSPs, or DSPs. It--as part of the user's agent--has features for the user.
The part where they also zeroed the buffer with intentionally random data may have been lawful, but it wasn't good.
100%. There is a class of programmer for whom this would be a toy problem. There is another class of programmer who may be young or not directly experienced in this space, but who is very intelligent and an excellent problem solver and is willing to work hard. The question was designed to find both types of applicants.
Agreed. Godot, Unity, Unreal, etc. all are better options for beginners. Gamemaker Studio even lets you program for free...you have to pay to make an executable though.

If someone is dead-set on making a game for PS1, there are free tutorials out there also: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAQybJIBW2UtXJITyUTJi...

You won't have as intimate knowledge of PS1 hardware as OP's course, but I think thats a better starting point than paying first and then stopping because you didn't already know programming and it turned out more involved than you thought it would be.

Now I DO think that there is a place for a paid course like this. I can see the appeal of getting hyperfixated on extremely specific hardware such as this, and making some cool stuff for it. For that type of person, the 100$ is worth it.
How I recovered the password of an encrypted Mac disk image
>Everyone talks about zoning, but building codes, etc are a big issue too.

In every single place where housing is "unaffordable", a literal empty plot of land is also unaffordable. It has very little to do with what it costs to build a tiny shed. This is also why "tiny houses" and "3D printed houses" are nonsense and have done nothing to improve the situation.

The problem has nothing to do with the fact that the outlet next to the bathroom sink requires a GFCI device, or that you need a separate flue for your pellet stove, and everything to do with a small plot of land being a couple hundred thousand dollars despite literally being a forest.

The homeless aren't being kicked out/arrested because their tents aren't up to code, they are being kicked out/arrested because they do not have a plot of land they are legally allowed to pitch that tent on.
Sure, it's possible to make the battery removable, but why would they do that? It was the manufacturers (e.g. Apple) who decided to make the battery non-removeable in the first place, as it allows for a more compact design and more revenue.

Also the batteries would have to be ordered as a spare part years after the product launched, and most cheap manufacturers are horrible with sustained support.
China is even more densely packed behind the Heihe–Tengchong Line. Oh, don't misunderstand, China has it even harder than we do, if you look at eastern China...where people live, a lot of it is not flat and they are tunneling through lots of mountains to make these HSR lines work. Actually, that might make it easier for them, since their population is much more focused (no room for huge suburbs), and their only real challenge is building tunnels and viaducts.
I don't think the article portrays the decision as disrespectful or disregarding of Lore's opinion, just that they took the wrong bet on the future.

While she says later on that she made a mistake not "forcing" that route following her instinct, I read that as a classic leadership dilemma where your gut says go one way but plenty of data disagrees. She is the visionary in this story, and visionaries often struggle with the hard routes their visions suggest and don't always follow them.

IBM made the opposite bet, against CP/M. This was a bold and risky decision at the time because CP/M was massively dominant in business. It was anything but assured that DOS would win.
> planes don’t have to maintain track!

Well, they have to maintain airports, but there's a lot of federal funding that goes into that too. It's always interesting to see where the costs of infrastructure are borne. Rail seems to be one of the few where the carriers (and consumers) are almost entirely directly responsible for the infrastructure. (Admittedly, citation needed.)
I want to like BAR because it is so obviously made with passion and attention to detail but I can't get over how wonky the units look. I don't mean the quality, but the design. They don't look at all cool and I can't get the power fantasy of leading an army of killer robots. I feel like leading some random hodgepodge of guns mounted on trash cans.
Microsoft lobbying and running pols aligned with copyright reform to protect their GenAI interests was not on my 2020s bingo card, but would be welcome if that's what it takes.
As a reddit mod of a tiny community I've very recently started to suggest users use ChatGPT to re-word their comments and submissions when their phrasing is inflammatory. Any point worth making is worth making well. It is still early stages, so I'm not sure how effective it will be.

I've noticed that ChatGPT can do a decent job rewording an angry message to be less toxic while drawing out the salient points. The output it produces a little stiff or stuffy, but I find that preferable to "authentic" toxic messages.

As a mod I find that removals have less sting when you provide the user with an alternative path forward to get what they want. When a removal isn't just a "wall of no", it feels less like a personal rejection. ChatGPT offers a path around that "wall of no" for users by a) showing them what the right way to make their comment is and b) gives them a path/tool to getting there nearly every time.
Oh undoubtedly they'll make a nice editor; I just think it's a tough thing to monetize when there's so many 'good enough' free editors around.
> you will be denied whole market

That's the point. It's not really much of a big deal to be denied the brazilian market. Brazil is just the world's farm and most of the produce goes to China anyway. And things are only going to get worse now that communists are in power. He wouldn't be talking so big if it was China at the other end.

Still, I'm not about to argue with a good thing. He stared the judge down and that instantly made him my hero. I don't even care why he did it. He's probably not such free speech extremist when profits are on the line but that doesn't matter to me right now. I'll never forget the fact he challenged this judge. It needed to be done and he did it.

There's a saying here in Brazil. "Doctors think they are gods... Judges know it." You have no idea how good it feels to see someone defy these so called "gods".
> these people need to roll up their sleeves and just learn the damn language

You really have no choice but to do that. But the critique here is that some languages make this hard. And some languages, like Python, appear deceptively simple and consistent, when they are anything but. And as I pointed out, these decisions were not really required or designed to solve certain problems. They just kind of came about in Python's development, one historically and intentionally ignorant of pre-existing languages and their good ideas.

When everybody just says "learn the language" or "there's list comprehensions" or "there's for loops", then why does the [...]*n syntax exist? What problems is it solving that require the confusion that it generates?
Can you run Cuda on it?
Reuters and Associated Press maybe?
Oh dear, Q6600 was so bad, I regret ever owning it
Admittedly I do not know much about drones, but the point was just that any telemetry that goes out of the drone, is relatively easy to pick up - and is how the military track drones.

At least today the vast, vast majority of combat drones are operated - and the video feed is one of the first things that get picked up from them.
This will kill off the cheap table saw. It will be interesting to see how the hobby and industry adapt to $700 being the bar to entry — and that would be RYOBI grade stuff. The added cost isn’t from the mechanism, the cost is from needing to build a real frame around the blade instead of plastic and thin aluminum. The SawStop trigger is incredibly violent, the braking force will sheer the carbide tips off the saw blade from inertia alone. Cheap saws are almost all plastic and would be horribly deformed after a trigger.

I anticipate a return of something that used to be more common, the upside-down circular saw bolted to a table top.
> So who's buying all the MI300s?

We are. Just closed additional funding and getting quotes now.
> Dunno why some people decide they get to nanny everyone else. There's plenty of other dangerous tools (when misused) to come after next if you go down this path.

We mandate safety features on plenty of dangerous machinery, most importantly cars - seatbelts, airbags, brake anti-locks, lane-keeper assists... or we ban stuff entirely, even if it is completely safe to use when one has the proper equipment and knowledge like asbestos.

The key thing is 30.000 accidents a year. Each of these probably costs society around 50k, and that's just the medical cost, not to account for (permanent) loss or reduction of income.

I agree that some will rig up completely unsafe "alternatives" but honestly, doing that rather than renting a safe saw for a dozen bucks... those people at least know of the danger.
> I'm talking about creating a key from seed 0, then 1, then 2, etc. etc., until you have an index of every possible key.

The cracking algorithm talked about earlier is that you create a key from seed 0, 1, 2, etc. until you find a match, and then you can keep going to look for more matches if you so desire. Or you can go in a different order, because the outcome is the same.

The only change in your version is that you don't look for matches until you've finished going through every seed.

That makes your version strictly slower.

It's not invalid, it's just worse, for the use case of cracking existing keys.

And for the use case of cracking keys made after you do most of your computing, you still wouldn't use the "one giant index" method for precomputing things. It's not efficient.
Why is it raining so much?
Though not mentioned in the paper, Lincoln was famously aware of this technique.

> "Whenever Abraham Lincoln felt the urge to tell someone off, he would compose what he called a “hot letter.” He’d pile all of his anger into a note, “put it aside until his emotions cooled down,” Doris Kearns Goodwin once explained on NPR, “and then write [on the rear side of the sheet of paper]: ‘Never sent. Never signed.’ ” Which meant that Gen. George G. Meade, for one, would never hear from his commander in chief that Lincoln blamed him for letting Robert E. Lee escape after Gettysburg."

From: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/opinion/sunday/the-lost-a...
No, this means Intel has woken up and trying. There's no guarantee in anything. I'm more of an AMD person, but I want to see fierce competition, not monopoly, even if it's "my team's monopoly".
Uhhh, no they don't? They see the results of RAG but there's very little to distinguish what is context you gathered vs. what isn't. On top of that, there's nothing in the prompt that indicates what decision was made before inserting something into a prompt. Let's say my retrieval pipeline used a mix of semantic search and keyword-based search, and I used some mechanism to decide which results from which search to include for this specific request. Nothing in the prompt will say that, and so the differentiating behavior is still kept "secret" if you will.

But I think this line of thinking is a bit ridiculous. Yes, if you send your data to a database service, that provider has your data and theoretically use it to run you out of business. Except they kinda can't, both as a matter of practicality and legality. OpenAI, Anthropic, and others have SOC II compliance. The easiest way to ensure you run yourself out of the market is to start violating that stuff.
Thousands of people, including a few friends and dozens of acquaintances, including those who have retired, emigrated, and changed citizenship, are all successfully keeping silent about this.

That’s by definition a conspiracy