skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was looking at AL query strategies (including random sampling, which I agree should always be included as a baseline), hyperparameter tuning (and model selection more generally) was definitely performed and optimized on a per-strategy basis. (This is a lot of combinations but it's reasonable to prune things that are clearly dead-ends, and that's how we ended up with a non-linear SVC.) We just didn't do it between iterations due to the practical concerns.

I understand the view that from a scientific perspective it is difficult to quantify the utility of a technique if it is providing multiple benefits at the same time. Not necessarily saying that's what's happening here, but it's worth pointing out that you can also look at this from a practical angle.For any given dataset your chosen model and set of hyperparameters probably isn't optimal, so if indeed AL is compensating for suboptimal choices in model selection, that may still be valuable.

Another potentially interesting angle to consider is label imbalance; because we were constructing binary classification problems out of multiclass problems (as discussed earlier), some evidence shows AL strategies outperform random sampling to a significantly greater degree in imbalanced scenarios [1].

I agree with you that we're moving towards a world in which transformer models are so good that zero-shot or few-shot approaches to classification are going to be the way to go. Stuff I did 3 years ago I probably would not do today.

[1] https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.638.pdf
I can only imagine the medical fees for rebuilding a shredded arm in the US
Xcode cloud isn’t running on Apple silicon, arguably a place where it would make tons of sense.
Hello, I have already responded to you above. Next, I will quickly add a registration and login feature.

This way, user-generated images will by default only be visible to the user themselves and will not be made public by default.
The second hand market for EVs has the problem that the price for a car will never be below the value of the battery.

So unless battery technology significantly improves the cost per performance ratio usable used EVs won't fall below a certain price point.

China is making EVs for ridiculous low prices, which is mainly due to the dramatic race to bankrupt the competition, before you yourself go bankrupt, that is happening on the Chinese domestic market.
Just to add; they do have a cheaper portable for 1100. I think it's a great idea for hobbyists with properly dried wood.

On a jobsite pretty much all your wood is wet, it'll be standard practice to leave the safety off or 150 CAD for a new stop (and time wasted). Not to mention you don't stop working just because of a little rain.
What's really shocking to me is how bad Musk, a self-professed "seeker of truth," is at identifying false information. He consistently promotes theories which can be proven false with just cursory research.
> No one actually buys 2 wheeler EVs - you can save $1-2k more and buy a luxury 2 wheeler like a KTM Super Duke

2 wheeler EV is not a rare sight in Bangalore. Probably 1 in 200 two wheelers is EV in my neighborhood.
It looks like this bill is compatible with what you consensually negotiated anyway. This bill is for workers who haven’t negotiated compensation and limits to on call work they have forced onto them by ownership.
I doubt it's amazing for the bearings, but you can replace those fairly easily(*) on most motors.

(*) for people who have a workshop, anyway
Safety of all passengers certainly is not, just look at it. Easy to trip, roll, break necks, crush folks inside.
This approach is quite interesting.

I have used pgtyped for postgres, and missed not having something similar for sqlite. This library seems to perfectly fill the gap.
Inside the Cultish Dreamworld of Augusta National, Home to the Masters (2019)
Managarm[0] is a microkernel-based but unrelated to seL4 system that aims at being a drop-in replacement for Linux.

0. https://managarm.org/
This is a weird take, as if Apple not capitalizing on the AI craze means somehow their core businesses won't be sustainable. I doubt anyone using a Mac will be scrambling for the Windows Copilot Bloat experience, and that's to say nothing of the iPhone. If canceling the car project this far in didn't severely injure them, I don't think sitting on their hands with the AI craze is much of a risk. And I say this as someone who detests Apple.
Another interesting challenge for intel (and AMD to a lesser extent). Between the share of compute moving to AI accelerator (and NVIDIA), and most cloud provider having in house custom chip, I wonder how intel will positioned themselves in the next 5 to 10 years.

Even if they could fab all of those chips, the margin between the fab business and CPU design is pretty drastic.
> Technology is a tool, it can be used to increase your social interactions (e.g. finding like-minded groups online to meet up with in-person) or to decrease your social interactions.

The number one myth about technology is that it is just a tool. It is a society-shaping force. For example, WhatsApp in Brazil: even if you HATE whatsapp and Meta and don't want to use it, you might be forced to use it if you want to get a job, book a hotel, etc, because it's so entrenched.

Sorry to say, but technology works through first being optional, then being adopted because it gives a person marginal advantages in the short-term, and then being mandatory because the majority adopts it.

Many people are forced to use technology even if they would rather not because if this process. That technology is a tool is the greatest misprepresentation of any concept in the history of humanity.

Edit: let me ask you one question, how did you get the idea that technology is just a tool? How many times to people repeat this mantra? Try thinking about it more deeply and over many decades of time and understand the root cause of this thinking.
Almost 20 years of never coming close to losing a finger, I pay attention when I'm doing anything dangerous.
Dude did you read the original article at all? The entire point is that they don't want to accept the VAT ID.
I'm sure amazon and aliexpress is still going to be flooded with non-compliant tools. Hell, it's easy enough to buy a chainsaw conversion kit for your drill
Can recommend this setup as well, it's great.
To get around that annoying message about not being formatted for mobile https://archive.ph/IMj5h
Baily's Beads – explanation for the small red streak beneath yesterday's eclipse
Iin 2023 Mercedes showed a lightweight aero-efficient EV concept with a 620 mile range using a relatively small battery. That kind of thing will eventually feed into a virtuous cycle for EVs: less battery weight means lower cost means more range.
Looking forward to it, when it arrives, and hopefully it's more stable than the Pioneer.
Bangalore =/= India.

Most of Bangalore's case is because of Ola subsidizing it's drivers to buy an Ola Bike [0][1].

For people who don't know, Ola is India's indigenous Uber+Doordash competitor.

If you're price sensitive, you can always buy a used Hero Honda for around $500-1k, so cheaper than a 2 wheeler EV. If you aren't price conscious, you can buy a luxury bike like a KTM or a car.

[0] - https://m.economictimes.com/industry/renewables/electric-two...

[1] - https://yourstory.com/2024/01/ola-electric-two-wheelers-bike...
My issue so far with the various code assistants isn't the quality necessarily, but the ability of them to draw in context from the rest of the code base without breaking the bank or proving so much info that the middle gets ignored. Are there any systems doing that well these days?
Ask HN: Who is hiring interns (April 2024)
Looking to take a year off university so I’m looking for off-cycle internships based in EMEA. USA works too but I’d need visa sponsorship.
Which is a point frequently raised by those not supporting this regulatory action - will this cause the base price of a saw to skyrocket beyond what average individuals can afford?

My guess is probably not. The brake cartridge is roughly a hundred bucks, retail. The sensor system can’t possibly be more than a hundred bucks. And there will have to be some quality improvements to the rest of the saw in order to be better withstand the crazy decceleration forces. The bottom end of saws will proportionally be more expensive, but even this will quickly race to the bottom.
Well, yes. Many airports (and train stations) don't have them for the same reason.

But I don't believe it's concerns over UDF/IRA that pushed them to close the WCs, it's the same reason they hardly fix inner-city potholes.
BBC splits India operations after coming under regulatory scrutiny
Freenginx 1.26.0
Intel 4 is superior to anything Samsung offers, and not nearly as far behind TSMC's 3nm density as people are lead to believe. The "open question" is mostly about fab scaling and the business side of foundary management. Their silicon works just fine in the market as it stands.
Why have explore logs as a separate app instead of bundled with Loki? It would be nice if Loki had the same kind of barebones querying/debugging functionality as Prometheus...
the move to electric should definitely accompany a change in the size of vehicles. because of their increased mass, electric cars are a lot more dangerous than ye olde combustion engine auto.
That's a whole other conversation, sure.

My point was that you can (and many people do) use technology to increase their social interaction. You seem to suggest it can only possibly decrease it.

>The number one myth about technology is that it is just a tool.

I didn't say it was _just_ a tool.

It is _a_ tool, which can be used to help increase social interaction.

>Edit: let me ask you one question, how did you get the idea that technology is just a tool?

I didn't.
Intel killed that board ("Horsecreek") although I don't have any inside information about why.
no fancy words needed -- when the switch to electronic common fare (Clipper) was initiated, agencies including BART dragged their feet. After a few months (quarters?) of this, a BART finance officer said bluntly on the record "the cash flow we control at BART is part of our planning and stability" and flatly refused to switch completely to Clipper.
I'm one of the developers working on Grafana Alloy. Happy to answer any questions people may have!
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Is there a way to view the lat/lon coords of each stop? Be really interesting to open it up on Google streetview and see where he spent the night.
Living in Calgary we still had days of -30 degrees celsius and plenty of snowfall this past winter

I think we will all have boiled alive before we stop getting snow in winter here
Yes, that is expressly what caste entails.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10764522/

>The Indian caste system is one of the oldest systematized and institutionalized forms of oppression, having been in existence for over 3,000 years (Thapa et al., 2021).

https://www.hrw.org/reports/pdfs/g/general/caste0801.pdf

>In much of Asia and parts of Africa, caste is the basis for the definition and exclusion of distinct population groups by reason of their descent.

Using one's status as a person of color to legitimize carrying water for racism doesn't work if someone is upper caste. They've essentially seen all the benefits of their ancestral form of racism; their arguing for it carries no moral weight. I would say the same of someone from a noble lineage in Europe if they were to make the same statements.
How to limit Russia's and China's e/environment impact?
If you find graphics studies interesting, you can find a few more at http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2020/12/29/graphics-stud...
Kirby's Avalanche
https://16colo.rs/pack/mist1022/ATONALOSPREY-RAVEN_AND_SKULL... for a more extreme example
> becoming wholly dependent on China

Becoming? Like that isn't already the case?

This is a special purpose carve out to reward a voting block. The rest of us get globalism.
My main concern would be that the company systems are being updated to catch AI generated applications / letters, because things like this are a dime-a-dozen, and companies are getting flooded with "artificial" applications

What are your thoughts on this thorny issue?
Yeah, I absolutely agree. The problem is that DEI programs are actually just hiring speakers 40 grand a pop to come tell me about all the ways I am racist without even realizing it just for being white. Literally skipping a meeting about microaggressions as we speak.

It is useless marketing bullshit that serves only to enrich the race grifters that plague our society.

(I will say this is a bit of an extreme take, there are definitely genuine DEI people, probably some effective DEI programs, etc, but by and large, as an industry [which it is] it is completely shiesty)
To be frank, I don't think you are.
> as long as the rest of the traffic is also similarly light weight.

This. I'd love to use an electric bakfiets to move my kids and myself around, but I'd be doing it on roads where people are moving around 1-2 tonne pieces of steel inches from the bike... The safety engineering of these bikes (and rickshaws) are just nowhere near a car, and unfortunately in my environment I cannot ensure sufficient distance.
It’s fundamentally a regressive tax. Increasing it would just exacerbate this inequality.
>Brands like Akko, Drop, Ducky, Epomaker and Keychron became household names

lolwhat.
In Communication Systems Engineering studies we implemented ethernet signalling, then the TCP/IP stack including ARP and switching in Motorola 68k QUIC assembly.

Longest 18 months of my life.
Wouldn't that require me to keep the source code for that particular version lying around?
Apples and oranges. The people aren't attempting to do climate science in this case.

Would I buy stock in a company that uses biochemistry products, but did not have a biochemist? Yes, of course.
> ... CP/M for the in-development Vector 4. Switching would potentially mean redesigning the next line of machines.

The Vector 4 and 4-S did receive MS-DOS 2.0 support at some point. I have a working Vector 4 with MS-DOS, and this floppy[1] looks to be for the 4-S. Although larger changes would have been needed to become more "IBM compatible" (of which 4-S was a step).

> They rejected her plan to develop a new machine that would focus on networking and telecommunications, which she saw as the future of computing.

Vector was one of the first shipping a product using twisted-pair networking[2]. It seems that didn't make much of a splash; very little information is available. It was a S-100 board, which maybe limited market appeal by that time.

1. https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29115
2. https://groups.google.com/g/s100computers/c/Q8BUj8xHp5E/ (my post)
I'm all for safer equipment, but the tech is expensive. I am hesistant if a gov't mandate wipes out cheaper alternatives.
Could we take matters into own hands and incorporate a new city somewhere from scratch? Or coordinate moving into an existing almost-willing city and take over the government?
I have caps remapped to crtl on press and esc on release, space mapped to alt on press and space on release and the two shift keys mapped to parens on release and shifts on press.

It's quite common to do at least of one of these if you're using vim or emacs on linux.
Where would you put physically separate routes?

With kids attitudes are more of a problem.When I a kid a lot of kid used to come to school by public transport, but parents are a lot more protective these days.

My teenager does quite a lot by public transport and walking. The main problem is services are not frequent enough between towns (in Warwickshire).

IMO we should tax cars by weight and size, and restrict parking spaces for larger cars.
Show HN: Portable, dependency-free binaries of software packages for Linux
Hey everyone,

Linux software packaging is usually somewhat of a shitshow, with binaries linked to specific libraries that need to be installed at specific locations to work.

In the usual case, it all kinda works since people pull files from package managers or ship their software in Docker, but I've often felt the need for statically built software that I can just copy anywhere and run it without any kind of setup.

I've felt that not only would that simplify deployment (your Docker image contains binaries for just that software instead of zillions of files and crap of all sorts), you can also use these for recovering servers with borked internet connectivity, or for other kinds of interesting use cases like the one I'll describe right below this paragraph. This is not just some kind of hypothetical, pie in the sky thing -- Golang already has this, and its binary compilation and deployment story is appreciated by most who use the language.

Most recently, I was working on some CI configuration for a personal project, and I was quite tired of having to pull in utilities like curl, wget and ssh as part of these CI jobs. I could automatically install these utilities but my projects use various images, and some of them don't even have a package manager! And even if they had, I had to do the whole dance of detecting distributions and invoking specific package managers.

So, instead, I worked on building these packages statically. My CI jobs have become very simple nowadays: I just configured my CI runner to mount these binaries in the CI container, and I can just invoke these commands right away.

Currently, there are only three packages (the ones I needed for the above project). I intend to expand upon the list of available packages if there is any interest in this.

Thanks!
Thank you for this, had no idea it existed
Ask HN: What are the best practises to make GPT API to digest different data?
Hi people!

I am a novice regarding AI and I am currently looking for a way to analyse the content of web links, pdfs, slides or youtube videos using the GPT api to have it interact with users.

What are the current best practises regarding this? Should i use embeddings or use some libraries that can extract text from those different data sources?

Thanks for you time!
Why should "broadband" get an exemption? Why does POTS get a USF but not the pipes for VoIP?

Imposing similar assessments on broadband could increase the Universal Service Fund's size and/or reduce the charges on phone service, spreading the burden more evenly across different types of telecommunications services.
Well, it was published today, so you'll have to wait a little while to find out.
With the described setup:

> I always just used `--prefix="$HOME"` so that everything went into `~/bin`, `~/lib`, `~/man`, etc...

You can't just use rm as a blunt instrument. ~/bin will contain lots of binaries from lots of packages. You want to uninstall only one package. How do you know which files correspond to that package?
> you only get M* chips if you buy Apple hardware.

Former M* team members are now at Qualcomm and HP/Dell/Lenovo will ship their Arm laptops later this year, including Windows 11 and upstream Linux support.
Here’s what you couldn’t find

> The annual analysis shows how individual income taxes—the portion withheld from workers' paychecks—were spent ... It does not include corporate or individual payroll taxes that fund Social Security and Medicare. To determine what constitutes the average tax bill, NPP divided the total amount of federal income tax collected by the number of applicable returns filed.

Average here means total collected divided by returns filed ie number of taxpayers. So it is literal - the average paid by each taxpayer.
> which my NHS working family hated

Why?
TLS libraries by default don't have this behavior.

It's been years since I read the TLS spec, but a host wildcard like this isn't normally possible, since it bypasses host verification completely.

And the CA verification bypass is also out of line with normal behavior. CA verification is another TLS bedrock behavior.

Together, these basically disable TLS verification. I'm surprised they didn't disable date checking too, because why not go for it at this point.

This isn't a bug, this is designed.
The German car makers oppose proposed tariffs, they believe that they can compete with the Chinese and in fact are already doing so in China, with variable success.
Louisiana was pretty smothered by clouds during eclipse time yesterday which likely had an impact.
I agree, but investing in separated infrastructure will soon pay for itself - it's easily the best value for money for improving traffic flow whilst also improving people's health (if they choose active travel) and reducing NHS costs.

However, I don't think e-rickshaws will take off in the UK as our roads are already too crammed. Two wheelers (e-scooters and e-bikes) make more sense as they can avoid getting caught up in the four-wheeler congestion.

Also, there's some kind of fake culture war in the UK against any non-car-shaped transport option.
> You seem to suggest it can only possibly decrease it.

Well, I think it can increase it, but that the increases in time form a sequence of local maxima that themselves are strictly decreasing. (Edit: I meant in terms of overall societal health, like adding up the social happiness of everyone).
Never having used one of these before, is there anything (ideally conveniently built in) that you can use to know before you cut a particular material whether it'll trigger the stop? Touch it against the blade while it's not running and see whether an LED lights up, or similar?

(I think it's unambiguously a good thing to mandate, but I'd also prefer not to have to memorize a table of materials and their interactions with the stopping device...)
Because people LOOOOOOVE waitlists /s
Dunno, I was looking for a mini ITX NAS board with ECC and all boards from the US/Taiwan (Supermicro/ASRock) were underwhelming and overpriced, yet CWWK boards had so much tech stuffed inside (4-6x 2.5GBit, 6x SATA, 2xNVMe, ECC on Ryzen 7735HS etc.) that there are simply no functional equivalents anywhere else. I also bought Unitree Go2 robotics dog which does about what the Boston Dynamics one does but 20x cheaper. If somebody is doing a better job, are we supposed to ignore it until it's too late for us to catch up based on some dubious higher moral stance?
Thanks. Yeah I know it's a bit weird to define that way but that's the best I could think about.
Luciano in these lines sounds like he just generated lots of keys and then started to wonder why he got more collisions than expected.

Thanks for sharing.
You hear a lot from long-time woodworkers that this is unnecessary, as they are perfectly capable of using a table saw safely with just the riving knife/splitter and proper technique. Which is anecdotally true, but hard to accept with the actual data of 30k injuries a year. So it's not a question of _if_ there's a cost to society here, it's a question of _where_ we put the cost: up-front on prevention, or in response to injury in the healthcare system. Is the trade-off worth it to force all consumers to spend a few hundred dollars more for a job-site table-saw, if it means the insurance market won't have to bear several thousand for an injury? I'd say yes.
Wouldn't the method of detection be a trade item to obfuscate until it's reverse engineered?

Seems like you're asking them to give up the farm for some PR.
When I was into this I 3d printer some quite interesting compliant mechanics as switches since you can engineer whatever response you want. It's possibly to have a fully mechanical keyboard that's also completely waterproof with these.
The imprisonment of children might be the worst thing about auto dependence. We have British friends who moved to the Netherlands for this very reason, actually, though Brexit makes it tougher.
Civil forfeiture is a related example that comes to mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...