skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this might be the video you're talking about, in case anyone is also interested in a brief history of quick boot operating systems and UEFI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssob-7sGVWs
I was in a similar situation, and it turns out that setting up new zigbee devices with zigbee2mqtt and a frontend was more work than just detecting the sound pattern with a few lines of Go ! Plus the fire-alarms are compulsory and already installed and managed by my building...
We can't know since history has no ifs and we have no idea what else could have been in place of Facebook.
I’ve been distracted for the past hour by the general selfishness of this comment.
Why is that the real question? Shouldn't the real question be: do we want, as a society, to allow something like arial photography of your roof freely accessible to data brokers so that they can form a shadow profile of you and determine how much you pay for insurance?

That a law against such a practice does or does not exist today is rather besides the point.
Wayne Gretsky is on MGM gambling ads on TV. Putting us image in crypto scams isn't any worse than his "legit" ads.
Building LLM application using RAG
Yeah, I would say it's pretty typical.

I moved to Germany about 10 years ago, and my wife and I bought a house here last year. I think the money went to the seller some time in October, but to this day, we're not just yet the official owner of the property because we're still stuck somewhere in the red tape. We're almost there though though (we hope), it's just that change of ownership of a house is a super complicated multi-step procedure here that must involve a notary! Good stuff. And mind you, I'm not talking about anything special about this purchase, just a young family buying a home from an ordinary person who moved away.

(We're hoping it's only a matter of weeks now, though, wish us luck!)
You misquoted them, quite significantly. I've offered a correction. That's all.
Those are just free-text comments from the ~80 physicians who used this tool. Tables 2-4 show the researchers measured various characteristics like message read/write time, utilization rate, work load, burnout, utility, and message quality.

It's also worth noting that, from the abstract, the study's objective isn't to study the LLM's accuracy. This is a study of the effectiveness of this drafting system's implementation in the hospital. I'm not saying the accuracy isn't an important component of the system's effectiveness, but it's not the question they're answering.
> There are absolutely ways to do emulation that is legal.

That I don't doubt at all. I'm just not sure all emulation is legal considering the DMCA.
It's a benefit for health system C-suit execs because it makes physicians "more efficient," and it's ultimately the health system C-suite who will be signing off on the contracts for five years of AI messenger service or whatever, not the physicians.
Good math, the nickel per hectare target in the field and in the literature through cultivars is around 400 kilograms per hectare (.400 tonnes per Ha).

We are using natural serpentine soils that have previously been farmed and are idle now due to low productivity and the natural presence of metals like nickel, and which is the native habitat of these plants.

However, to keep your wheat analogy, we currently farm 220 million hectares of wheat globally. If you divide run the back of the napkin math on that, you would produce 88 million tonne of nickel per year.

We don't need that scale, because the total global nickel production per year is around 3 million tonnes, meaning you would need "only" around 7.5 million hectares to yield that. However, nickel demand is expected to nearly double over the next 20 years, meaning we would need 15 million hectares, which is somewhere around the land footprint of oats and rye today, and half that of cotton, rapeseed, or sunflowers.
There's already ffmpeg wasm. I've used it in projects. Works great.

https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm
Ok. Now what's the difference between the Fourier transform and the Fourier series?

To me what you described sounds more like the Fourier series.
I sent an article to the NYTimes a few months ago and it hasn’t been printed by them yet.

I’m being oppressed!
Thank you Bryan! That’s a gem! I’ll incorporate it into one of the next blog posts!
They're selling a service that you, under a DDoS attack, want to buy?
From what I've seen so far, some will absolutely notice and complain loudly about the mistakes that AI makes, and some won't --- praising it as another great solution. I suspect this will create another highly divisive issue.
The attempt to claim inevitability or some supreme access truth is an old way to avoid addressing merits, usually because the argument doesn't have many merits.

People have many drives in them, good and bad, violent and peaceful, altruistic and selfish. We are not biologically different than Gandhi or Hitler, than Trump or Biden, than our saintly and truly demonic ancestors. You have all those people in you, all those drives. You have a choice: As ancient texts and very many since will tell you, we have a choice; we have the free will to follow one drive or another.

When people are very afraid, they are more likely to both do desperate things and to not think about them (physiologically being in a traumatic state, without their frontal cortex working well). That's one reason some leaders try to terrify their followers - by making them think things are terrifying and desperate, they can manipulate their followers into choosing evil things.

A great signal of a bad leader is someone who creates and inflames fear (which also goes back to ancient scriptures [0]). In contrast, even in the most desperate situations, think of how Washington and Jefferson responded, think of Lincoln, of Churchill and FDR, of MLK and Mandela, of Eisenhower - 'the only thing we have to fear is fear itself'. Not even a lieutenant or sergeant of any respect engenders fear in their followers; they are calm under fire.

We lack a prominant leader like that today; many abdicate good leadership and responsibility to society as if the abdication is a fashionable outfit that they simply must have for the party. I'm confident that when such a leader steps forward, people will follow in droves (and they will be much targeted by the evil leaders who will see the true threat to them).

The evidence of other drives is overwhelming: Peace, love for our neighbors, tourism, universal human rights - embraced in cultures all over the world and in the foundation of the United States (and France and many others). it happens every day everywhere. It happens for me in my city every day, with complete strangers. It's a choice. It's my choice and yours.

[0] Matthew 7:15: ""Beware of false prophets .... Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them."
ffmpeg is not a trivial wrapper and handbrake uses very little of ffmpeg.
No, they’re ignoring the medical fact that “tell people to lose weight” has a basically zero percent success rate.

The only intervention known to work reliably was bariatric surgery until stuff like Ozempic showed up recently.
Times nicely with the Armageddon of 2024.
I am not sure if this is an actual issue, all auditors that looked at this so far haven’t mentioned this being a problem. But I will have to investigate what the exact state is.
Big Tech Has a Big Cash Problem
If we don't have the habitat to keep the natural salmon a ton of other things start to decline. Have you been to any of these rivers or tried to fish them yourself? If you did you wouldn't be pro farmed salmon.

https://www.pbs.org/video/the-lost-salmon-8hjf4t/
> Isn't one of the most striking things about the hacker community the extreme amounts of time and effort that are put into things that are not expected to generate any profit?

You're conflating the hacker-as-in-threat-actor community with the hacker-as-in-Linux-maintainer community.
It don't think the aim was to write a piece that people think sucks, it was to write about a person who people think sucks. There is a difference, or at least there used to be: I feel like increasingly people are unable to separate the literary value of a piece from the moral value of its protagonist. This piece reminds me of Charles Bukowski's books about the "lowlife" Hank Chinaski. Another more extreme example of a good book with a shitty protagonist is Lolita, which IMO couldn't be published today or Nabokov would be shunned and ostracised as a paedophile.

(None of this is to say you need to like the blog post, you might hate it on its own merits, but I definitely think there are a lot of people here who think it's a bad piece because they disagree with the choices the protagonist makes, which I think is a very limiting view.)
Like Searle’s Chinese Room argument [0]?

I think a challenge with the simulated-is-real math/calculator argument is that the simulation operates syntactically thru derivation without meaning.

E.g. a simulation of ZF set theory cannot tell you the truth value of the Axiom of Choice - because it’s independent of the ZF axioms (it is undecidable in the Gödel incompleteness sense).

But “Although originally controversial, the axiom of choice is now used without reservation by most mathematicians” [1] - I guess it’s truth is self-evident semantically.

So because of incompleteness, simulated math/calc will always be “missing” something.

Of course a LLM will happily say A of C is true (or not) but is it just parroting from the dataset or hallucinating?

[0]: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_choice
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I’ve been replaying the thing using xemu and it works very well.
I think there is a lack of companies willing to hire for it, and also a lack of qualified people to hire.

I would like to learn it and probably would like to work with it. Only downsides I see is reliance on JVM (which is also a strength) and not as good ways of recursion as other Lisps or Schemes (simply call the function, duh, because it just works and doesn't need extra keywords or syntax).

But I liked the talks and that is seems to have the functional datastructured one needs, if one wants to avoid mutation.
It's exactly the same with EU Funds.
I mean he established a GmbH in Germany so it sounds very much like they do know what they're talking about.
> my wifes family have a number of empty of apartments

Why? Is it just seen as a good investment?
Famously the magic constant in the Quake engine that nobody remembers inventing.

That article does say there’s an SSE instruction rsqrtss that is better.
I would not say it is such a small niche. There are job openings here and there. It is much easier to find a Clojure job than a F# or a Haskell job in my experience. This may be of course different depending on your location.

The problem is that an entire ecosystem is more than just a new language. Clojure has some really interesting libraries, but the rest relies on Java. It is a good ecosystem nonetheless. Julia is having the same issue. It has grown a very respectable ecosystem, but it is hard to grow further to catch up with Python in some fronts without massive corporate funding.

It is interesting to note that, at some point circa 2010, it looked like Clojure could revive Lisp-Stat with Incanter. But, eventually, the project declined in popularity and died. Reaching mainstream relies on getting a critical mass of developers at the right time and for the right domain.
Yeah, it’s there, it’s secureable, already installed, and connects to Sharepoint, which I also hate but people love to use.
Given the long, unfortunate history of computerisation of medicine, I don’t think there should be a presumption that they necessarily know what they’re doing. If this is a disaster, it won’t be the first, and some previous medical-technical disasters have involved human factors; the operator either becoming too trusting of the machine, or too casual with its use.
I don't fully understand the comment you've made. Why do you believe it to be bonkers or a scam to allow no-capital limited liability firms?

It effectively puts the entire country into a position where unless a citizen is born relatively wealthy, they have to perform labour for someone else for several years while they save up enough to start their own business. Who does the system benefit? What is it preventing? Why has the sky not fallen in on the UK with a near identical economy, but near-zero cost ltd company startup fees?
If you wanted to expand the definition of “processor” to electromechanical contraptions, the Friden SRQ could perform square roots using just additions and shifts, with not a single electronic component other than a motor. And since you had to position the decimal points manually, it would _technically_ be an integer operation…

Video: https://youtu.be/o44a1ao5h8w
Sure, that's absolutely your right.

I just want spaces for me and others where this isn't the default imposed upon everyone. I don't want to subscribe to [x filtering] unless I choose.

House rules and filtering should be opt-in and not the default for the public commons.

The legislators are going to make rules that enforce these technological straddles, and the defaults will slowly change in directions you neither anticipate nor enjoy.

We shouldn't accept ActivityPub as the end state solution to these problems. If anything, large instances (and thus their owners) will win out, and this just entrenches the status quo of tiny cabals in power censoring things that displease them.
Hackwithinfy Question
You are given a set A containing N integers.

An array B is called good if it satisfies the following condition.
• All elements of B are distinct
• The size of the array B is N.

You are allowed to perform the following operations on elements of B.
• In one operation you can select any index i of B and replace B[i] with either 2B[i] or 2B[i]+1.
It must be possible that after some operations on B, it becomes an anagram of set A. Let K denote the maximum value present in such a good array B. Find the minimum possible value of K for the given set A.
Notes:
• Elements in B are not required to be distinct after each operation.
• An array B is said to be an anagram of A, if A can be obtained by rearranging the elements of B.

Input Format
The first line contains an integer, N, denoting the number of elements in A.
Each line i of the N subsequent lines (where 0 ≤ i < N) contains an integer describing A[i].
Constraints
1<=N<=10^5
1<=A［i］<= 10^9

Sample Test Cases
Case 1
Input:1 3
Output:1

Explanation:
N= 1
A = [3]
Let B=[1], now after operation of type 2B[0]+1, we get 21+1=3 => B becomes , B = [3]
Hence, We can form anagram of A from B using the given operations.
Hence, minimum possible value of K is 1.

Case 2
Input:
3
1
2
3
Output:
3
Explanation:
N = 3
A = [1, 2, 3]
Let B=[1,2,3] no operation is required it is already equal to A.
Note that no maximum value less than 3 is possible here.
> The bulk of that — $2 billion — is going into a fund that will aim to provide access to computing capabilities and technical infrastructure.

What else should the Canadian government do? How do other more successful countries use such money to jumpstart some industrial sector?
According to `git blame`, this was introduced June 2023, i.e. after your audit in 2019. But maybe it was moved from an older piece of the codebase, I didn't dig too deep.

(Looks like the IncludeSec folks did a decent job in 2019. Hi Eric!)
Sanremo Handbook on Rules of Engagement (2017) [pdf]
> The distinctive feature of cyberspace is that it is a notional environment and beyond
the jurisdiction of any single nation. Computer network operations (CNO) are the
principle form of operations in cyberspace and are often non-kinetic, making the
determination of hostile act and hostile intent difficult.
Because American apartments are so shittily constructed that SFH is the only way to get better living conditions (note: not actually better constructed housing, just better living conditions, except for the commute.) Even if you don't mind living that densely aka don't need/want the luxury of a lawn, it's impossible to ignore the neighbors if the building is so shittily constructed that you can hear your neighbors coughing at night.
We find ourselves, in 2024, with unemployment levels (at least in the US) at near all-time lows. This is after centuries of mechanization and automation, decades of the computer and internet revolutions (which have barely any steam left, compared to the previuous ~70 years of rapid improvement), and with a global demographic shift that will actually require significant productivity improvements (as in "more output per worker") just to maintain existing quality of life with an increasingly aged population. China is probably losing 1M+ workers a year for the foreseeable future (their workforce actually peaked in 2015!). LLM-style AI is going to cause such a tidal wave of garbage that it's not even obvious to me that it will be a net increase to productivity at all, let alone make us all so productive that there will be a massive unemployment crisis. It's definitely going to affect some specific jobs, just the way other jobs have come and gone for centuries now, but I'm not convinced it will improve productivity as much as we actually need it to.
Why no line:col info?
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artificial aging an instrument is a personal perception thing
The Hakko felt like a super power when I got it. One of those tools that does one thing really well. Needs a good clean quite often but I felt like it paid for itself pretty quickly.
"Impossible" GPT Challenge Beaten in Hours
That's a risk, but really in Europe the alternative often isn't to find private investment somewhere else, but to continue working for some big company or university or whatever. The EU runs the programs it does because otherwise no one would be funding innovation.
Author here! Thanks, though the kudos really goes to the friend who followed up on the idea of doing it and asked me to pop round in the afternoon and make some.

Re process, the linked video talks about using a centrifuge to separate the yeast and liquid, and in fact improvised a home-made centrifuge using a washing machine. It’s possible that simply skimming the top of a settled mixture is not nearly as effective and yeast contamination led to some of poor flavor notes.

As for stouts: noted, thanks, looks like I need another approach. The main reason was not just bitterness but colour: to start with a dark liquid to get a black end product. Any thoughts on how both Vegemite and Marmite end up so black?
And what’s in the content that would trigger phishing? Among what you’ll find in the piece:

- Criticism of Facebook’s ad policies and functions

- Discussion of climate change issues

- Links to Vox, government sources, and a bunch of PBS sites

https://kansasreflector.com/2024/04/04/when-facebook-fails-l...

This gets blocked, yet I see significantly spammier links on Facebook by accident. To me, the real issue is likely that their filters aren’t very good.
When the original Xbox was released (2001), its specs were comparable to a low-end PC of the time, but with a somewhat better GPU.
Despite the eloquent speech, the world hasn't been like that. The free world has gained incredible wealth over generations; the xenophobic, hateful dictatorhips are moribund. Trump's hyper-reactionary politics are very different from most of the centuries of American history, and much European history too. Where was all this in 2015?
Cutting losses to spend time with other patients isn't ignoring that little medical fact. It's an acknowledgement of it; all the effort spent treating the symptoms of obesity is basically wasted, squandering the resources (time particularly) of the medical system.
You could write a memoire with more details in 10-20 years and publish it.

It would be nice who pushed for this, why, didnt they understand that it will be a disaster? Didnt they understand power users?
Even moderation issues, but (as far as I remember) digg was less brigaded politically than what happens nowadays that internet matured (state actor level).

Was digg even a startup at that point? It was a full mature website? Or at least gave such impression.

Maybe the money was "low" - as far as I remember Google wanted to buy it for 90M, but come on, those billion websties were mostly written off, since they are impossible to monetize.
Can a Total Solar Eclipse Trigger an Earthquake?
registering on this site is somewhat complex
Ask HN: Is your company using ChatGPT Enterprise/Teams?
If not, what is the main obstacle to using it?
The key thing to note is that anti-poisoning countermeasures deployed at major authority servers scale to provide value without incurring cost for every (serverside) Internet "user", and DNSSEC doesn't. A lot of these thing seem like (really, are) half-measures, but their cost/benefit ratio is drastically different, which is why they get rolled out so quickly compared to DNSSEC, which is more akin to a forklift upgrade.
Who is going to "slow down this progress"? Some mythical world government? The Illuminati? You can't legislate human thought and human ingenuity. Progress is happening, whether you like it or not. You either embrace it or get left behind.
… Doctors have, of course, been doing that for about a century. It isn’t particularly effective.

Ozempic actually is effective, and will likely lead to significant improvements.
Remember arrivecan. Canada's attempt to make a crud app
That depends how they defined self-employed. It could vary widely based on which vehicle was used, LLC, LTD, sole-proprietor. And LLC and LTD is ambiguous, yet easy to attain outside Germany.
> after due process

Were they afforded an opportunity to appeal the decision?

> January 8th is Brazil's January 6th.

Which means two countries had two very similar incidents that are somehow entirely unrelated, or this is being used as a narrative device for the purposes of disenfranchising literally half these countries voters.

> so bizarre.

Or just a manipulated outcome.
No, because I want to be able to choose to interact with people who are fine with there being barriers to similar types of content.

If some feel they have a compelling reason to straddle both, they still can, so it denies them nothing, but sometimes even small extra barriers helps set a tone for communities.
Some proponents of artificial aging claim that it can improve the tone or resonance of an instrument over time, simulating the effects of natural aging on wood and other materials.