skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The disturbing aspect in my mind isn’t even the privacy per se, it’s that we have this fundamentally novel technology and rather than thinking of ways to truly improve people’s lives, their thought is “Okay but how can this be used to sell more coca-cola and designer belts?”
Yeah it's wild to me too, it feels like we are doing alchemy rather than programming, mixing intelligence out of a cauldron.
Why does aphantasia come up so often on Hacker News?

I find it mildly annoying that there is nearly no scientific backing to it, and that we are having the same discussions over and over again.

It seems very similar to the RSI craze, back in the 1990s, when almost everyone who went near a computer couldn't work for months because they thought they had it. And then somehow the condition vanished.

Yes, some people actually have RSI, and some people probably have severe aphantasia and actually suffer from it. But I'm afraid there is a large group of people who think they are missing out on brain candy that simply doesn't exist, (edit: or which they may have not successfully developed access to yet.)
Even in one of the better cities for mass transit (Seattle) when I tried to ignore the worse P50 travel time, I experienced so many negatives that I'm probably never going to do transit again here. P90 travel time is much worse when buses don't show up (usually staffing issues or maintenance issues) or are full. Standing outside in the rain or cold when the buses are nowhere to be seen sucks. Standing for an hour in a crowded bus sucks. The occasional biohazard or violent incident on the bus or at the bus stop sucks.

Point being, it's both the infrastructure and a small number of problematic people that make this untenable for most of us.
I second this recommendation.

In addition to using more sensible and consistent syntax, WixSharp also provides sensible defaults that just work, such as always using "major upgrades" so that you don't have to worry about MSI trying to be clever and sometimes (but sometimes not!) only partially upgrading the app.
Their GitHub repo seems still active though: https://github.com/ecere/ecere-sdk/
As a publicly traded company, isn't lying a risk in terms of shareholder lawsuits or the SEC?
I used to design PID process controllers in industry. In watching this vid I realized one reason that designing a self-driving car is so difficult. Toward the end, in the process control diagram, he has [Vehicle] as the controlled process. This reminds me of the old math joke about "assume a spherical cow". The difficulty with a self-driving car is that it isn't just the vehicle that has to be controlled but [Vehicle + Current Road] so the controlled process is not just difficult to model but that it is changing all the time and sometimes rapidly.
Will the solar eclipse burn out your iPhone camera? Experts weigh in
But what confession hides behind the project name?

"An auto-da-fé (/ˌɔːtoʊdəˈfeɪ, ˌaʊt-/ AW-toh-də-FAY, OW-; from Portuguese auto de fé , meaning 'act of faith'; Spanish: auto de fe [ˈawto ðe ˈfe]) was the ritual of public penance, carried out between the 15th and 19th centuries, of condemned heretics and apostates imposed by the Spanish, Portuguese, or Mexican Inquisition as punishment and enforced by civil authorities. Its most extreme form was death by burning."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-da-f%C3%A9
> Then ask yourself why people can't equivocate between similarly "bad" US / PRC actions without customary muh freedom/democracy/violates are exceptions narrative.

Pretty much nobody on this site (besides particular corporate sycophants) will deny that the US has nightmare-inducing surveillance capabilities. It's not hypocritical to call-out and identify another authoritarian overreach in another country that also threatens it's citizens.

This isn't a slight against Chinese citizens or American citizens, for that matter. We know exactly who to blame - Google, Apple and Microsoft for rolling over when governments asked them to get backdoored. This started a privacy-shattering precedent that undermined trust even further than ever before, but now we accept it and readily spread it to our family in the form of a smartphone. Look at how easily all of us were fooled.

Promote software freedom. Get people off proprietary shitware and bugged hardware. That's what matters to me, and any government that better enables me to do that earns my respect.
I'm glad to hear this.
Up until your comma the comment suited me just fine, but then... let's not get personal about developers' health issues. It isn't helpful, and there has already been an HN discussion on the topic that you've unfortunately exhumed. There has been great progress at solving problems that had come up during a sad time for GrapheneOS and CalyxOS.
Does this imply that some type of decentralized training mechanism is possible? Like an accumulation for ML models. I suspect in the limit
You will just have even more massive models which will require even more demand on the hardware. I also wonder if new capabilities emerge from the merging that are not present in any one model.
Do you know if there is anybody who has made it their mission to shrink models to extremes? It feels like the sorta thing somebody would get really obsessed with doing, akin to those people who make executable out of a few bytes or shrink network payloads.
The flip side of that is that businesses are more than okay with selling their products to organizations for which it’s overkill.

Gyms know that people that sign up on Jan 2 don’t need annual (or any) membership. They take their money anyway. The more honorable ones allow cancellation or something but I don’t think anyone expects them to actively turn these folks away.
To have customers for their consulting business, they first need to convince people WiX is the way to go, and if there are no docs and developers struggle with building the most basic installer, they would probably try looking elsewhere before burning $5000. Speaking of $5000, that’s $500 more than a 3-year InstallShield subscription.
I’m pretty sure I’d die on an e-bike in LA, there aren’t really any protected bike lanes on the route and everyone is on their phone. I do want to get an e-bike for our many trails and coastal bike paths. Any recommendations for something sub-$1000?
Shelved. Stretch goal. Deprioritized. Didn’t make the cut.
A lot more people have played Mario than Kirby, though, and Mario came first.
So I guess next thing we need is someone sueing the fucking banks that do that. Mine luckily doesn't because I explicitly use an old phone with LineageOS, the banking app, and nothing else on it for online banking. It's arguably way more secure than using your main phone with a bazillion other Apps installed and online at all times.
> Are they practical and useful, or still facing significant limitations?

They are. Working on a product using a fine-tuned Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2 model and it's pretty mind-blowing. Works flawlessly on my RTX3090 and serviceable on my M1 MBP as well. I'm building in Rust (using the candle crate), but for personal usage Python is probably the better choice since it's easier to get up and running.
How to get global remote job?
Was your comment (“Original source found at…”) intended to be a reply to some other comment, rather than being a top-level comment? Or did you actually mean to suggest that the original source of the post here (“What I think about when I edit (2019)”) is Strunk and White? The latter seems pretty misleading and inappropriate.
I see it as an incentive problem. How are the maintainers of these projects to receive the support they need? Companies like AWS are incentivized to take all they can take and contribute nothing in return, "it's FOSS, baby".

Redis Inc. is incentivized to continue the development and improvement of Redis, because the success of Redis is directly proportional to the success of their business. Meanwhile, a shit-hot new open-source KV database could come out tomorrow, and AWS would forget their newfound OSS goodwill towards Valkey in a heartbeat.
Yes, like GP said the harvesting and shipping of huge amounts of rock seems iffy on actual sequestering any carbon net.
GDB behaves like any other debugger when it comes to optimized versus unoptimized builds. Debugging an optimized build is possible in any debugger, but your debugging information no longer maps exactly to compiler output, making source-level debugging harder.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36089104

In tech as in all of life, wellness of those in leadership can be ephemeral and is never to be taken for granted or assumed. I wish good health to all involved.
I wonder how many super yachts are actually destroyers.
Okay well I never indicated any sort of urgency for my contributions, just that they be considered at all, not ignored then reimplemented because the maintainer has trust issues. Projects I have contributed to in the past aren’t personal projects. They are public facing software that is expecting to be used by the public. The first one I mentioned was a UI library that made me sign a contributors agreement, others have been desktop applications and desktop vpn management code.

If you have no intent of accepting contributions you should put that in your README.md or CONTRIBUTING.md. Or even indicate the frequency at which you’re able to consider contributions.
It seems like this court does not have the authority to set ‘legal precedent’, though colloquially it has ‘set a precedent’ in the sense that it did something for the first time.
Yes, there are lawyers who have become experts on these cases and whose tireless work have helped hundreds of people. But that doesn't scale, there are tens of thousands of cases. The real solution will come when doctors fully update their knowledge, which may still take a decade or two.
US Health Dept warns hospitals of hackers targeting IT help desks
This reminds me, I eventually learned that there were two styles of cooperating with others in a lock-based system, each with different advantages and disadvantages:

(1) Lock the file(s) as soon as you start coding. Commit when finished coding.

(2) Do all your coding against unlocked files. When finished coding, then lock the files, and copy over your edits to them. Then commit.

Style 1 is fine if there is low contention for the files, like a team with few members or a part of the codebase that is rarely changed. You never have to manually copy your edits to an updated file. If everyone uses this style, there's no such thing as a conflict. It's not even possible.

You also don't necessarily have to coordinate offline with anyone to prevent situations where people unknowingly proceeding in incompatible directions with the same file. Coordination is still better, but locks naturally prevent this to some extent.

You do need to be responsive to emails to avoid blocking others. And it's possible to forget you have something locked when you don't even need it to be, like if you were just starting to code and paused or abandoned that work.

You may have disagreements about whose work is more important and whether you should release a lock or make the other person wait.

Style 2 is helpful if there is high contention. You need to plan and coordinate more since otherwise it's possible two people could make incompatible changes to the same file without knowing it until the last moment.

If the base version of a file changed (since you started coding against it), you have to manually copy over your changes. This definitely involves tedium and may require resolving conflicts.

This style is a lot like what we're accustomed to today with Git (and Subversion and CVS before that). But updates and merging are totally manual instead of mostly automated. Back in ancient times, codebases were smaller, so although that was definitely a burden, it was doable.
Exactly. LA should be the perfect city for mass transit, heck it was in the 1920s and 30s. Unfortunately it just isn’t now and un-informed Europeans who haven’t even visited just can’t or won’t understand how ridiculous they sound when they say we should just put in mass transit. Show me on the map where we would put the lines without displacing thousands of people Europeans, I’ll wait.
Europe 500 years after the fall of the Roman Empire was well past the Roman peak in just about every respect. Stuff like literacy rates and population density are hard to compare. Yet look at say yields per acre, metallurgy, defensive fortifications, armor, siege weapons, etc and Europe was far more advanced technically. The general population saw a net lifestyle improvement fairly quickly, excluding the direct advantages of being part of a large empire.

We tend to think of Math as not recovering for 1,000 years but ditching Roman numerals was a clear advantage that didn’t take nearly as long. So, objectively it’s more complicated.

Instead, it’s the myth of the Roman Empire which took a long time to surpass.
what? safetynet is absolutely a pain in the ass. i think there are some xposed and magisk modules or whatever that can work around it but that's a cat-and-mouse thing and can break. lot of bank and financial apps, lot of stuff with DRM will break.
The type of consumer buying an ASUS device is the type of consumer that thinks the spec sheet tells them how good something is. Eg, faster CPU and more RAM, or higher screen refresh rate or whatever is good regardless of any other variables or the package as a whole.

This means they are "some of the best Android phones you can buy", as in, they have some of the best specs per $ you can buy. Not that they are actually good phones.

It makes total sense someone could think they are great phones while they also have terrible software support since software support is not a simple hardware number on the spec sheet.

This is very like PC people that hyper-focus on a few metrics like CPU frequency since it is simple and numerical and easily compared, even if it is not actually sufficient to tell you much about full system performance.

Example ASUS phone description from enthusiast: "It's got good speakers, 2 charge ports, 165 refresh rate, optimal cooling, a set of ultra sonic buttons, ip54, crazy good battery, acceptable camera, storage is crazy high 256GB for 1 grand, 512 for 1.1 grand, 12G ram for 1k, 16G ram for 1.1k, can take 2 sim cards."
Increasing speed with slingshot works because you leave vicinity of the planet in the same direction planet travels. Basically this allows you to add planet’s speed to your own.

Within solar system you cannot increase speed by slingshotting around the sun.

Total energy within system stays the same, some energy is transferred from the planet to the spacecraft.
we use elastic beanstalk which is functionally not that different than elastic container service/Fargate. It’s basically Heroku when all is said and done.

Everything sits behind application load balancer and API gateway, all basic stuff

We have about 100 boxes, but basically only 3 “environments” for our distributed monolith. Every box in a distinct environment is provisioned and configured in exactly the same way.

need to change some config? It’s at most a few extra clicks to do it in multiple environments. Then EB handles the rolling deployments and health check failover stuff. It’s very hands off, with another small benefit of not needing to bother with fudging around with terraform state, wasting compute on building containers and paying for registry storage.
Frankly, that's stupid advice. Typically you have at least two build modes, debug and release. Debugging without optimization is easier because the source code maps to the compiler output, also a program without optimizations behaves the same as with optimizations, unless you put undefined behaviour into your code (should be a rare thing for an experienced programmer) or hit a compiler bug (also quite rare).
None; modern super yachts are usually on the order of hundreds of tons, while destroyers displace nearly ten thousand tons.
Seriously sad. I am such an Asus fan after their insanely good gaming laptops.. $500-900 and you can run AI Art and LLMs.

I didn't expect their laptop dominance to exactly extend to Androids. I was hopeful.

I should have probably known better, apparently they don't do native linux support. I had to use some Fedora fanboy stuff to get my peripherals to work. It was easy, but still couldn't use most distros.
Some of the phrasing is ambiguous, since "halt" can mean different things.

That said, I wonder if it matters. It took 4 years to deliver the Cybertruck, something they were working on. I imagine a "paused" Model 2 is several years away.
... and run to cool them
It’s a good thing we have tons of server cattle to feed all that straw to
> Bugs tend to disappear on me when I change the optimiser flags or run the thing under gdb though

A lot of that shouts UB or compiler bug to me. I don't get this in my code unless there is some UB I missed. Unfortunately there are places where UB is unintuitive and may not even be present in newer versions of the language.
So 'big crane does big jobs for anyone willing to pay for it, including government' is news?
Zep AI (YC W24) is hiring a founding Go engineer
Click-bait title that doesn't match the actual title pointing to the real just of the article (it's not the flavors melting but three ground up rocks left behind)
Not sure how anyone is getting a response. This thing doesn't return anything.
Doctors warned to stop telling obese patients 'eat less, move more'
The others are much further along than Tesla because they aren't making hardware decisions to sell profitable cars. Waymo and Cruise both use radars, lidars, and more cameras than Tesla.
Flybys to boost speed take a tiny tiny tiny part of a planet’s orbital kinetic energy and exchange it with a spacecraft.

The silliest way to describe it is kind of like stepping in front of a bus, but instead of actually getting hit you just get close enough for gravity to pull you along with the planet. Orbital mechanics is really just not intuitive so you can’t get an easy explanation as one doesn’t exist, your life experience with momentum and gravity is just too different for it to make sense easily.
LA is putting a lot of investment into mass transit in the run up to the Olympics, it’s just not going to work for my commute. Still worth doing.
Mice in the wild have a lifespan of roughly 365 days. Divide by ten to get life expectancy for humans “in the wild”. Mice living in a sheltered vivarium (but with pathogen exposure) make it out to 600 to 700 days. Mice in a specific-pathogen free vivarium routinely get to 700 to 900 days. Divide by ten again to get life expectancy of humans in a supportive “healthy” environment with some medical support.

From this point of view, mice live roughly 2.5X their reproductive lifespan; very similar to human post-reproductive lifespan.

There is nothing unusual or special about human lifespan, or even maximal longevity. Some normal mice (not growth hormone mutants) make it out to 1400 days.

The heritability of life expectancy increases with age in both mice and humans. Or crudely put—bad luck kills you in youth; bad alleles kill you in old age.
What is a reorg? Implications and Future Directions
In blockchain technology, chain reorganizations, or "reorgs," are a significant challenge for decentralized networks. Stemming from simultaneous block production and network latency, reorgs disrupt ecosystems and introduce uncertainty into transaction confirmations. This article explores the complexities of blockchain reorgs, addressing their implications and potential solutions.

Reorg - Causes and Consequences
Blockchain reorganizations, often referred to as "reorgs," represent a critical phenomenon within decentralized networks. These reorgs happen when validators within the blockchain ecosystem disagree on the most accurate version of the chain, typically due to factors such as simultaneous block production, network latency, bugs, or malicious attacks. The consequences of reorgs extend beyond technicalities, impacting user experience, network costs, and security vulnerabilities.
No aux port though.

From Electrical Engineering apps to my various current/normal/legacy hardware that uses aux... I don't want to carry around a dongle. Ever. I don't want to attach them to things. I just want my phone to have the $3 peripheral.
Why? I wish people would put their projects in something like https://www.codeshelter.co so anyone who's interested can maintain them, instead of just killing them.
It could still be put behind a "posixly correct" flag nowdays. Other tools do that, too, where the standard makes no sense (in today's world).
My first thought, Megaman would be my choice. Maybe Kirby, but he can only have one power at a time.
I have an old Huawei P20 Pro floating around. When it was new, you could contact Huawei and get a code for unlocking the bootloader after providing your phone's serial number. Great I thought, I'll do that later when it stops receiving updates. Stupid me, at some point those arseholes stopped giving out the unlock codes. I wonder if one could sue, but from googling around a bit I can't find a trace of them ever making this a selling point explicitly.
The mass transit experience in 1920 was better than in 2020 here, and those electric rail lines have long since been paved over.
The weights need to be connected to something interesting. Pre-training is how they get them all connected up, and fine-tuning is how they find which weights it would be useful to change.
Sorry but this is the least people will be talking about AI for the rest of human history
How would that stick? You can just sign into the bank via your web browser in the case of a nonfunctional app. The apps just give you added security assurances beyond using the web.

"The app can't function in a low security environment, but complainant is free to use the web client in such event." case dismissed

(obviously an oversimplification, but the point stands)
Heathrow: British Airways and Virgin Atlantic planes collide
The slingshots used to deorbit were around Venus, so it slightly gained velocity while the Parker probe lost it to get closer to the sun without expending as much fuel.

As for its velocity around the sun, it’s intuitively like pendulum. When far away, it’s like the raised pendulum, and when near the sun, it’s like the pendulum at the bottom of its swing. Its a strained metaphor, but if you look at the orbit, it’s a very deep swing and a very large object it’s swinging towards, so it ends up quite fast at the bottom.
My solution

* use bank website for the one bank that requires it, otherwise I got a new bank account without silly fake security.

* thepiratebay has everything Netflix and Disney does and it works anywhere
Progress isn't as linear as you'd think. A lot of times one small improvement can make many more problems appear that people never had to deal with before. But compounded over many years it looks great. In fact, the longer a time period over which progress is assessed the better it looks.

Then you suddenly have a mismatch between what you thought you learnt from history, about how wonderful progress is, and how bad things can get from things that are said to be improvements in your lifetime.

If you look at some really terrible things like asbestos poisoning, that was only possible because of progress. But it took further progress to realize how dangerous a substance that is to human health, and then to take steps to correct the mistakes that were made.
I just looked it up... they actually sell Factory 5a... what? No...

Maybe I misunderstand the posting.
Crap, i’ve been running pivpn as a LXC since its so light weight
Feedback on the example gif: at the moment it's almost comically useless. First you're bored watching the beginning 90% while commands are slowly being typed, and then the bit that's actually interesting and worth reading scrolls too fast and then resets to the beginning of the gif before there's a chance to read it.