skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also, when you drop a circular saw it stops spinning.

The blade is still moving very fast, it doesn’t stop spinning. The guard is what makes it safe - though maybe there are other types out there?
> how do you keep off YouTube/Netflix in the evening?

not Having Netflix is a start. Realizing that most Netflix shows gets dumped mid-story after 1 or 2 seasons and will leave me without closure is another
Great read - didn't expect to learn that today!
> Are subsidies huge

Yep. If you earn less that $3k a year,

1. You pay no income tax

2. You get heavily subsidized groceries (what would cost $30/mo becomes $10/mo)

3. You can buy a heavily subsidized apartment (PMAY-U)

4. Depending on the state, you can get free electricity, water, etc.

5. If you are in a semi-rural area, you can get psudeo-UBI via the MGNREGA program

With all of this, you can end up netting an additional $700-1.2k a year tax free.

Fundamentally, China and Vietnam were able to succeed at pushing people into factory work because these kinds of subsidies didn't exist, forcing people to choose between working at a factory or starve. Also, factories in China and Vietnam would build dormitories, but in India that falls foul of labor laws.

This is why most migrant workers in India are from the state of Bihar - the government in this state has been incompetent at running welfare programs, so rural poverty has not been alleviated.
I am using Beeper desktop app on Windows for the express purpose of being an iMessage client.

Their press release (https://blog.beeper.com/2024/04/09/beeper-is-now-available/) says "Beeper does not currently support iMessage". Does that refer to the Android client?

I hope they continue to support iMessage on the desktop.
> I would love if someone could chime in with actual statistics here, but I've always heard that table saws are the most dangerous common power tool in the US by raw injury count alone.

I don't have data, but there are various threats with a table saw.

1. Overconfidence / complacency. Things like reaching across the blade, not using push sticks, etc.

2. Kickback. It happens because you pinch the workpiece between the blade and the fence. Knowing how to properly configure a fench, featherboards, and how to use the kerf and ribbing knife is important.

3. Shop clutter. People tripping and/or slipping around their saw.

SawStop style tech vastly improves most of these scenarios. Kickback, though, turns a workpiece into a very large projectile. Where you stand matters a lot.
All new CPUs will have so called NPUs inside them. For helping running models locally.
This is a bit snarky — but will Intel actually keep this product line alive for more than a few years? Having been bitten by building products around some of their non-x86 offerings where they killed good IP off and then failed to support it… I’m skeptical.

I truly do hope it is successful so we can have some alternative accelerators.
It's just the start prices for batteries and evs will keep coming down. So will the electricity prices as solar prices are also falling. The space is moving too fast to hold any concrete opinions economics says electric will price out ice in the next 1p years for a lot of transport
This idea has existed and been implemented for a very long time- Pidgin was the first client I can remember that would try to bridge across various chat networks. You likely are on 14 different chat "networks" already- you might not think of them as chat networks, but as apps with chat functionality.

Just real quick off the top of my head I can name a bunch:
FB
Instagram
Twitter
WhatsApp
Telegram
Signal
Gchat/whatever google calls the chat in gmail these days
kik
sms
Irc
Discord

This is just a matter of keeping all those separate apps, or consolidating them into one single one. Back in the early 2000s when I did indeed have friends across AIM, Yahoo, MSN, etc... I did use an all in one app to consolidate everything.
I can't wear earbuds that stick inside your ear canal. They just don't fit me and are extremely uncomfortable. I have two pair of galaxy buds live for this reason. I've even swapped the batteries on both pair to keep them going as well. I'm not switching until someone comes out with a better alternative.
There are new maintainers: https://feast.dev/blog/the-future-of-feast/
NYP-BOS

May 7, 7:50pm-12:15am

$20

[X] Weeks in advance
[ ] Middle of the night
Agreed re stewardship & hope for long-term viability. Operation + updates ~3x / year for the iOS, macos and Linux clients I use daily and also for Android and Windows. Freemium and paywalling hasn’t infringed on utility yet and they’ve kept the source code available and GPLv2

https://github.com/Automattic/simplenote-electron
Interestingly they are using HBME2 memory which is a few years old at this point. The price might end up being surprisingly good because of this.
This would be really cool if it wasn't a thinly disguised Wolfram sales pitch.
Yeah that's a fair point. As an early career scientist myself now and as someone not that interested in current social media trends, I certainly do risk being in the same spot as those 'hardcore' scientists.
Most of the building codes were written in blood - either that of the construction crew (in the case of site safety regulations) or that of the eventual owner (in the case of fire standards and suchlike). In both cases, long term costs should be reduced - lower insurance for developer and owner, less rebuilding burnt out shells, less earthquake damage, etc.

The regulations that weren't written in blood generally fall into the "zoning" discussion. Stuff like parking minimums, set-backs, etc.

The only thing I can think of off the top of my head that straddles the line is the requirement to have two staircases in low-rise apartment buildings. This is a uniquely (US)American code. Nominally to manage fire risk. But much of Europe and Canada manage with one staircase and improvements in building materials that reduce the risk of a fire starting before fast egress is necessary.
Unless you are doing heavy parsing of the payload and payloads are large you will be bound by i/o with basically any language (maybe with the exception of python) and will have 0 issues supporting 1M clients even on old hardware
> "A separate thread featured a “WTF moment” in which the owner said his Cybertruck’s auto-pilot feature seemingly malfunctioned as another truck approached in the other lane while both were driving on a highway."

Autopilot isn't even enabled for cybertruck customers yet (yep, one of the flagship Tesla features, simply not there yet - not even the "basic" lane keep version that comes standard on all their other cars), so this definately seems like nonsense?

Lots of threads moaning about the not-yet enabled autopilot on the owner forums, trying to guess when it will actually ship:

> https://www.cybertruckownersclub.com/forum/threads/some-reas...

Reading the article, sounds like the owner tripped the AEB (Automatic Emergency Brake).
> Thanks to HUAWEI Ascend NPU Team for supporting us.

They acknowledge they currently don't have enough hardware access to achieve what they want. They are currently training on 8x A100-80G, and the input size is 8 frames * 128 * 128. It takes about a week to train enough to generate ucf-like videos.

I think there's a lot of room in FLOSS AI for "@home" style distributed training incorporating some features of federated learning. The limiting factor at the moment is that large models have a minimum VRAM requirement which is often higher than the 16-24GB that home users would be expected to have.
See http://www.eenzameuitvaart.nl -- there are contact details for various regions
I was wondering/hoping someone would raise this point.

Wireless earbuds being repairable is great, but you don't need to remove the jack for that.
If you could leave SF in the evening and have a comfortable bed to have a solid night sleep and arrive in LA in the morning, it would totally be worth more than a flight.

As someone who did a lot of SF / LA travel for sales and marketing events the only way to get there early and be fresh for the presentations was to leave the night before on a flight ($100), stay at the airport hotel ($100-200) and then uber to the meeting / conference in the morning (always far away from LAX $50).

So $350 is not crazy if you have high quality accommodations and I'm sure it could be much cheaper making this a very compelling option for both business and leisure travel even if it's slow!
1835 tflops fp8. you have to look for it, but they posted it. The link in the op is just an announcement. the white paper has more info. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/content-details/8174...
Tigris Data [1] seems like a promising open-source solution [2] in this space.

[1] https://www.tigrisdata.com/
[2] https://github.com/tigrisdata-archive/tigris
So cost, energy usage (weird to lump fossil fuels and nuclear together), and soil from tunneling are opposition reasons? Benefit is faster trip and potential to export the tech? Imagine if these environmentalists existed during Industrial Revolution. Please build it and then do it here.
I mean, we have effectively outlawed cheaper vehicles that could probably have worked for a lot of needs. And... that largely seems like a fine thing?

I think it is fair that a holistic analysis of the legislation would make a lot of sense. I would be surprised to know that changing a saw from 150 to 450 would be a major change in its use. But, I could be convinced that it is not worth it.

I will note that is also taking at face value the cost of implementing the tech. In ways I don't know that I grant. I remember when adding a camera to a car's license plate was several hundred dollars of added cost. And I greatly regret not having one on my older vehicle. Mandating those was absolutely the correct choice. My hunch is when all saws have the tech, the cost of implementing will surprisingly shrink.
There is none. The industry is being flooded with DS and "AI" majors (and other generally non-technical people) that have zero historical context on storage and database systems - and so everything needs to be reinvented (but in Python this time) and rebranded. At the end of the day you're simply looking at different mixtures of relational databases, key-value stores, graph databases, caches, time-series databases, column stores, etc. The same stuff we've had for 50+ years.
nice, there is an overlap with culture war matters here too

> TSMC to address talent shortages through new partnership with Japanese university

this is how DEI and “pipeline problems” should be done. Why does it take a foreign company and foreign university to figure that out better than US companies and beyond the imagination of frustrated residents
Exactly that, "keep people in connection." I love how you framed it. When we suppress the conflict, we distance more and more from each other and from ourselves, disconnecting more and more.
Actually feast does support transformations depending upon the source. It supports transferring data on demand and via streaming. It does not support batch transformation only because technically it should just be an upload but we can revisit that decision.
As our ability to store data has increased, our generation of data has vastly increased to exceeded that.
It wasn't, they genuinely believe in Beeper, and the long term plan was rather to become the leading chat app in their own right, with users communicating over the Beeper protocol.
If it's a company with non-techies, you're doomed, and crap like this is necessary if security is a priority. You're oil in water, and the only miscible solution (ha-ha) is to get out of water.
"to be able to cat and grep"

Admitably I learned how to use basic tools 25 years ago, but that's an investment that can be used for decades.

cat *web*log | "grep 34.5.22.4" | sort -n | less

is hardly a complex thing to learn. Sure you can then build on that pipeline -- "cut -b -10|uniq -c" and if you want something really complex then you can use awk, or perl, or python, and do all sorts of things with the data.

Will whatever today's favoured log query/filter/etc be around in 25 years? Last time I looked at this people were going on about logstash and elasticsearch. Nobody could show me how to to the above command without touching the mouse.

Now sure, cat and grep can be sluggish on millions of lines (which is the main reason I'm tempted by loki or similar), and there's always some twat that comes along with "useless use of cat" [0], but the kind of pipeline processing serves me well and it seems a very different way to think about things when you need to access things from a database. Maybe I'm in a local maximum, but it's good-enough for me to find out what's going on.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11710552/useless-use-of-...
Symbolica hopes to head off the AI arms race by betting on symbolic models
Has there been any significant progress on symbolic models in a way thats pushed the needle in any way?
I agree, just wanted to point that out.

If the californian high speed railway would be the right thing to build, it'd have been built 60 years ago. Maybe it will be viable one day, but apparently it has not been so far.
> Garlic Festival

Oh no, the festival is permanently cancelled [1].

[1] https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Gilroy-Garlic-Festival-n...
One essentially pushes the rate limiting token bucket and session management up the ISO/OSI stack.

Things like iodine tunnels can trip IDS/smart-routers/firewalls to flag hardware for malformed traffic.

Seen people try this before, and it ends rather predictably unreliable/slow.
Lessons learned in building a tax AI that outperforms industry incumbents
I'm actually for this change, though normally I'm not a fan of trying to mandate the use of technology to solve social problems (like vehicles installing distraction sensors). The table saw manufactures are caught in a stalemate legally speaking, where adding a massive safety feature like this can be seen as a tacit admission that previous generations of saws are unsafe. This could lead to a massive (expensive) recall, like what happened with radial saws. This seems like the perfect example of when a government should step in and brake the local maxima to ensure better safety for its citizens.

If all this legislation does is push more people to use low-end track saws on foam, I think that's a huge safety win. In the shop, the only woodworking tool I'm more weary of than a table saw is a jointer. Interestingly both have large spinning blades on the surface of a large flat surface. I wonder if that design in general needs to go by the wayside?
"The great thing is to prevent his doing anything. As long as he does not convert it [his purpose] into action [...]"

"Let him, if he has any bent that way, write a book about it; that is often an excellent way of sterilizing the seeds which the Enemy plants in a human soul..." - Screwtape
> have meetings next to people who are also in meetings. Even if they are in the same meeting.

I know what you mean, but still had to laugh :)
The "dual point" they advertise is identical to "multipoint" offered by other earbuds on the market. Pretty much all earbuds that advertise "multipoint" only support max 2 devices.
Batteries are just one of the many issues when headphone jacks are removed. (Also you can totally use wireless/usb-c headphones with phones with jacks, but that's something hopefully people realize.)
Evaluating faithfulness and content selection of LLMs in book-length summaries
Most cheap lumber I see these days has a lot of moisture in it, treated or not. I’m surprised this works at all for anything short of quite-nice stock.
What makes Swedish pensions a better system?
Churches aren't even in the story? These funerals are completely secular, and nobody from any church is showing up to them.

Maybe churches should start doing this rather than leaving it to some poets.
Toxic 'forever' chemicals found in excessive levels in global groundwater: study
They’re really light and last a long time, but are not rechargeable.
Why would I commute from NYC to Boston at 8pm on a Tuesday? The fact that this is one of the few counters you could find only proves my point.
Love to see your work, Daniel -- thank you, as always! Playing with the Colab now =). Go Unsloth, and thanks from the Gemma team!
Oh right, that document with confirmed information that Trump and Putin have close ties and Putin's Russia actively attempted to influence the 2016 election, backed by US Intelligence and various legal investigations/cases.
> While I'm confident that an experienced senior engineer could find a solution over a weekend

Over weekend? Either I'm misunderstanding it (are you supposed to write your own NAT-pinning solution? TURN?) or this sholudn't take more than couple of hours.
The general layout and terrain of the line probably make it incredibly difficult to "speed up" regardless of how much money you dump into it. While it does go through some population centers it has to meander through mountains and follow rough/barren coast lines that don't really offer great opportunities for future growth and ridership.

The high speed line through the central valley makes more sense when you consider these limitations. If they're able to speed things up enough then it does become competitive with air travel - but this is definitely a case of "time = money". It's much easier for higher-paid individuals to just take a a short flight for day trips to LA/SF than sit in a train or traffic.
I’m not utterly opposed to this regulation, but I do think SawStop stands to benefit. Even if the patents are open, it will take competitors a long time to develop new products. Meanwhile, SawStop will get the distribution that they don’t currently have. Just glancing at the HomeDepot website, I see that they sell SawStop but they are not stocked at my local store. I imagine that if this goes through, every Physical store in the country will need to stock their saws, at least until their competitors put out products. in the meantime, they can get much better economies of scale, and then try to compete on price
Narrow band amber LED would probably not be terrible for this application.

Or even magenta ones with different filters.
AI Visionary Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Singularity
Czochralski's Creative Mistake: A Milestone on the Way to the Gigabit Era [pdf]
In 2007 I put together a bunch of servers running openSUSE 10.2. They run some specialized application software that's version-dependent and is unlikely to ever be upgraded. The working network is not connected to the internet, so there's no reason to upgrade the OS.

They're full KDE installs, and openSUSE 10.2 wasn't a lightweight distribution in its day. But now, even running in VMs, UI and network response are noticeablly snappy, and are sparing of resources by modern standards.
> I never understood the fascination with Unit Tests.

Me neither. The legacy forms of testing that "unit" was trying to differentiate from have died out. All tests are unit tests today, which is why most developers just say "tests". "Unit" is already implied and adds no additional information not already understood by "test" alone.

Same goes for integration tests. Integration tests, as it was historically defined, died out. It seems anyone still trying to use the term today is using it to also just mean "testing", or what was historically known as unit testing. Like unit, a pointless qualification.
> $250-300/mo but 5% income tax and not eligible for subsidies

300 USD per month means ₹3,00,000 per year; remember then to take into account the Section 87A rebate, which amounts to you paying no tax if your total income is less than ₹7,00,000 (5 lakh in previous years).
it's crazy that Intel can't manufacture its own chips atm, but it looks like that might change in the coming years as new fabs come online.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/295122032671

For your enjoyment.
In addition, there is no pedestrian walkway between san francisco and either marin (north bay) or oakland (east bay) depite both being major commuter hubs. 7 miles is a long ways to walk, but it's only about 30 min by bike, and even less by electric bike. You need a car or to find a bus that will take you to a rail line.
On the other hand, if these become common, will people be more cavalier about letting kids or poorly trained users use them? And will malfunctioning or disabled brakes consequently lead to more accidents instead of less?
You may want to take a look at Starrocks [1]. It is an open-source DB [2] that competes with Clickhouse [3] and claims to scale well – even with joins – to handle use cases like real-time and user-facing analytics, where most queries should run in a fraction of a second.

[1] https://www.starrocks.io/
[2] https://github.com/StarRocks/starrocks
[3] https://www.starrocks.io/blog/starrocks-vs-clickhouse-the-qu...
Its extremely unlikely they would offer to open up the patent and then say "haha, fooled you!" once the law takes effect. It would do them more harm than good in the long run to lie to lawmakers & everyone else.
Same. In my case I’m very happy that airpods are a thing, I’m not considering airpods pro for that reason.
Thanks! :) Appreciate it a lot! :)
In theory a logfile could contain privileged information (indeed it almost certainly will - IP addresses etc), putting that on a laptop increases risk of losing it.
Usually these types of laws come with a date in the future that they will actually be implemented giving such competitors time to figure these things out.
Minor tangent- I view patents and especially physical invention as requiring more work yet patents last 20 years while copyright can last up to 120 years!

https://www.copyright.gov/history/copyright-exhibit/lifecycl...
we do have Wind in Europe. and regional transport. and rapid transport, too. no cross wind fences. simply not needed.
It's impossible to give you advice on performance improvement without knowing why your performance sucks, and that's not a conversation that's reasonably going to happen here. I can't even tell from what you've posted if migrating to GraphQL degraded your perf and you're looking for a solution to get it back, or if GraphQL improved your perf but not as much as you wanted.

Ultimately if your app performance sucks and you need help, then hire people who can help.
Cool. Show me
Hell's Gate [pdf]
Yes you can. Download LM studio and then search for a model such as Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2. LM studio will suggest variants of that model that suit your hardware to download.
Here's a demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXHryjPu52k
> Maybe that is a bit safer

Isn’t that the entire point? Weekend warriors and small operators are going to be those getting injuries. Those with massive operations are likely using high spec gear already.

I live in a country (NZ) with fairly aggressive workplace safety legislation. We also have a single payer for accidental injuries and time off work (The Accident Compensation Corporation). It helps keep the courts clear but also means they have a lot of visibility into injury types and help work to prevent common accident methods.

Don’t delve too deep into the dark side of their work, its grim.
Amtrak only has primacy when on schedule.

That actually makes some sense. The railroad plans a scheduled hole in the flow of freight trains that they can put a passenger train in. (Passenger trains are faster than many freight trains, so it takes some juggling to make it work.)

If the passenger train is late, the planned spot to put it in isn't there. Now they have to create a spot for it on the fly. That isn't always possible (or possible at an acceptable cost) to the freight railroad.
Primarily traffic cost, CDN services were much more important during the early days... and punching through NAT came with its own liabilities.
There's nothing dishonest about it. If you want to measure something, you need to pick a unit. For many people with serious injuries, and especially disfiguring or life-altering injuries, the hospital bill is an afterthought in terms of impact.

You're not point out a lie, you're pointing out that there's no direct conversion between dollars and happiness.