skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
holy shit I thought I was kidding but this thing doesn't have an off button, from pg 72 in the owners manual (note that shifting into park is also a touchscreen button that displays when stopped)[0]:

When you finish driving and shift into Park, simply exit the vehicle. When you leave Cybertruck with your phone key, it powers off automatically, turning off the touchscreen.

Cybertruck also powers off automatically after being in Park for 30 minutes, even if you are sitting in the driver's seat.

Although usually not needed, you can power off Cybertruck while sitting in the driver's seat, provided the vehicle is not moving. Touch Controls > Safety > Power Off. Cybertruck automatically powers back on after a short period if you press the brake pedal or touch the touchscreen.

[0] https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/cybertruck/en_us/Owners_M...
It's irresponsible to say the model is simulating physics from video training data.
AI is probably going to end Zoom auth calls. They'll almost become so trivial to fake as to be useless.
> Delorme Earthmate Hyperformance GPS receiver, the RS-232 version

I have one of these, but don’t really know how useful it is or what I can do with it, but like all of my random antique hardware, I don’t really have any good reason to part with it either.

Do you have any ideas for what to do with it?

For that matter, what is a good GPS unit in modern times?
For infrastructure it’s the opposite. You have to buy a food truck big enough to feed everyone on the worst day of the year. And at that point you may as well use it every day because you already paid for it.
»For z = 1, the polylogarithm reduces to the Riemann zeta function«
Well that could really depend.

If your phone number being stolen causes your savings to get drained for long enough that you run into problems making important payments like rent, taxes, car payments; That can pretty quickly spiral into even worse situations. In a world/country where many people have too few savings to go even a month without being paid, losing even that can get extremely dangerous. Not to mention the stress of such a situation alone will probably take quite a bit of your life expectancy off.
Is he checking in with the dog through the sister?
>The second law is just a straightforward neutering of citizen review boards.

It says reestablished. How are they neutering something that doesn't exist?
WOW! They really streamlined their operation. Last time I looked at their site you had to send an e-mail to a certain address, with the subject line "REQUEST COPY" (had to be exact) and the body containing your phone number. You'd then get an SMS with the URL of a WEBP image of a QR code, which resolved to a Gemini address of a document (formatted in the HP Printer Command Language (PCL)) describing detailed instructions on how to construct an Excel spreadsheet in the correct format to form a request to get the Simplified Technical English document, along with the address where to send it.

Now it looks like they just give you the Excel spreadsheet. What a good idea! And you might not even have to print it any more.

I hope they are putting all the saved time to a good cause.
I ended decades of hayfever crises by breathing in deeply and repeating a mantra that I accept the cosmos. Used to get annual steroid shots since childhood, then tried antihistamines tablets for a few more years, but both had nasty side effects.
pcb2blender: KiCad to Blender 3D model workflow
I could see how writing code a low power console could be fun. I enjoy optimizing code just for the fun of the exercise.

Also, I believe Atari carts could be written with standard off the shelf EEPROM hardware. My dad told stories of trading floppy disks full of ROM dumps through the inner office mail system with work friends, and then burning the them to carts.
Yep. Them saying it may be recorded for quality purposes should be enough, your complaint using the recording is to improve the quality of service you receive.
A lot of sites have this security flaw, turning SMS 2FA into 1FA: all you need is the phone number. Although allowing it even if you use non-sms 2FA is even worse, 100% defeating the purposes of using an alternate form of 2FA.
Economically and politically, according to the foreword, though not in a transparent way: http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~20...
Thanks for the link. Note which was posted first.
Rhode Island is just a couple of spots below Montana on the list of places with the highest British ancestry. Massachusetts is a good example of how mass immigration can make a place very different: https://www.grunge.com/1199030/chilling-details-about-the-bo...
You probably know this, but in Google Maps at least, you can use browser zoom (ctrl/cmd +/-) to change the size of labels without zooming into the actual map.

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Speaking of maps, I got to work a fun zoom project a few years ago: https://map.fieldmuseum.org/

We used https://openlayers.org/ and thought long and hard about how to best handle zooming and variable levels of information density & visual hierarchy. If you zoom all the way out, we just highlight where the building is relative to the surroundings. As you start to zoom in, we start to highlight major exhibitions and entrances. Then as you zoom in more, we start showing recommended paths, smaller exhibitions, etc. The label sizes try to scale up and down at each level, smoothly, in order to balance readability and density.

Eventually you can reach the max zoom level and the labels will just grow bigger and bigger, but the SVGs dynamically shrink so they remain pictograms and not just contextless-lines.

Then if you keep going, you eventually find microscopic easter eggs :)

The code is pretty jank (and abandoned), but it's FOSS vanilla JS/HTML/CSS, and the only dependency is on OpenLayers: https://github.com/arcataroger/openlayers_indoor_map
This is not a very good use of rhetorical questions or the Socratic method
The idea that LLMs "know much more than we do" is utterly ridiculous and entirely based on a techno-capitalist valuation of knowledge.

- LLMs don't know personal details about your friends and family members

- LLMs don't have your personal memories from age 2 to age 63

- LLMs don't know what things feel like

- LLMs don't know what things smell like

- LLMs don't know what it's like to experience sexuality

The list goes on and on. It's particularly Hinton ignoring individual knowledge about individual social circumstances that drives me crazy. Human brains are not actually designed to store textual trivia! Why on earth would any rational AI researcher claim "knowledge about the war of 1812" means the LLM is very impressive compared to a human, but "knowledge about how my cat likes to be pet" is irrelevant?

A ton of AI researchers do not seem to care about the problems human brains actually need to solve.
Presumably Efani accomplishes that additional protection by maintaining a human support staff they put more resources into training than the average carrier. That's expensive, especially when you consider that it's a relatively niche service (so small user base to amortize that cost over) and presumably only used by people that really care about sim swaps, likely because they are frequently targeted for sim swaps, and thus the training needs to really work. They also have no other lines of business like device sales/financing that could help cover those human operational costs.

That, plus the fact that it's a premium service that is mostly only useful to higher net worth / higher income people, makes it seem reasonable that it would be quite expensive relative to a regular provider.
To make sure everything passes the citizen's review board.
Oh, I didn't realize passkeys and totp aren't the same thing. Totp secrets go into the CSV. Don't think I even have any passkeys to test with. And supposedly 1Password doesn't let you export either.

This seems bogus. I'd rather simply use a random per-site password; looks like passkeys are the same except non-interoperable.
Where does it say it is creating an entity that doesn't already exist?
> Almost nobody in the US earns minimum wage at this point, it's less than 1/2 of 1% of labor.

Almost nobody makes federal minimum wage.

It's gotta be at 2%+ making state minimum wage though.

CA for example has a minimum wage somewhere north of $15, and like 10% of the population makes minimum wage or less. That right there pulls the number for the whole country up to at least 1% making minimum wage, because CA is >10% of the population. (Extreme example, since CA also has the highest real poverty rate in the US (SPM, not the hilariously undercounting OPM)).
Fun times, try telling those same corporations that you're recording the call. I've yet to have any proceed other than (politely, but promptly) disconnecting the call.
I use Google voice as my main number on my Pixel, but also on a burner phone to harass overly aggressive recruiters. When I set up Google voice in the burner it made me load it with credit but surprisingly all the calls and texts I've made with it are free.
if you use an AOSP based ROM, give Seedvault another look since they merged device2device-transfer in the beginning of the year https://github.com/seedvault-app/seedvault/pull/562
Stewart Lee's impression of Ricky Gervais ("the Boris Johnson of stand up") literally saying what cannot be said because of political correctness and the woke brigade:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIHY5cFXqQk

Watch the whole thing -- it's worth it! ;)
I think there's something here. Discoverability of open source projects is not great, at least in the domains I spend time in. Github does a moderate job of telling me which projects have a lot of attention which sort of correlates with things of interest, but loads of people/projects use name-elided (and it has ~6.4k stars), and that's awful software I wouldn't wish on anyone.

It's not particularly search that I'm interested in, more some semi-objective indication of whether a given project is competently put together or not. Broadly, would adding it as a dependency be a good idea. Does it work for other people, do developers already using it like it, do said developers vaguely correlate with things I care about.

E.g. adding sqlite to a project is likely to make it better. C libraries are not all like that.
Wouldn't you still need to provide an amount of power to the laser that's not currently feasible for a watch?
Shrug maybe. In general I think you can get a decent front end webdev cheaper than a comparable iOS dev. Even as an iOS dev, I think most iOS apps should be mobile web first or instead. I've seen a few that are nearly abandoned for webapps.
>Funnily, the phrasing "may be recorded" is not interpreted by the corporations as "the customer may be recording as well"

IANAL but AFAIK the "this call is recorded ..." warning that they automatically play gives license for both sides to record, even in a 2 party consent state.
And if she had taken the govt route, she would have gone on to invenst quantitative easing.
> Vigiles come up a lot in this conversation, however, they were a military unit

Source?

They certainly weren't organised under the Roman military. Until the 2nd century, Roman citizens weren't even allowed to serve as vigiles. We could argue they were a paramilitary, but then almost every contemporary police force would qualify as well.

> there have been a couple historic examples of the military being used to police people in uniform

This was the status quo. The exceptions were the civilisations which invested into legal systems and the investigation of crimes, and even then generally only for a minority. One could argue that industrialisation increased the value of a human life enough that a lord dealing with crimes by murdering random peasants (or a nightwatch "cleansing" its community by beating up a pariah) became untenable.
You can read clearance hearing/appeal decisions for contractors[1] to see some of what goes into it. On the money part specifically it’s less the raw status of your bank account and more how you’re handling debt and delinquency if at all.

On a topical note, a not-uncommon issue is failing to pay income tax or file a tax return :p the result of those appeals depended on if and how the appellant tried to resolve that.

[1] https://doha.ogc.osd.mil/Industrial-Security-Program/Industr...
Here the bank CEO was being scammed and allegedly embezzled: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-13/-pig-butc...

Prospect theory predicts people are more likely to gamble to prevent a sure loss.
We are losing a lot of trees in the UK. There are the headline diseases - Ash die-back is just one. On top of that we have had some stressfully hot summers recently and extended wet periods in other seasons. Throw in some strong winds and you get trees snapping or simply being uprooted - rotting roots in soft earth.

I live next door to a park with a lot of trees in it and there is a lot of "survival of the fittest" going on. Its not all bad because the park was partly overrun with some quite anti social non-natives (we call them laurels - they are from South America, can't remember the formal name). The laurels caused spindly growth - thin trunks, few branches in species that could escape vertically. Also there was a density problem which is being sorted out gradually.

Sadly a 700+ year old oak keeled over recently. It was responding really well to a major trim done five or so years ago but it turns out that our current weather is worse than a mini ice age.

Dormice are/were an iconic rodent in the UK that nearly no one has ever seen these days. My mum (so think 1940-60s, Devon farm girl) recalled seeing them everywhere. She also recalled beaches covered in mackerel fish in the morning after a night with a full moon or something similar. You don't see that now that the seas are fished out. However, I recently visited Chesil beach in Dorset and there were loads of cuttlefish bones on the beach. Hopefully that means there are loads of cuttlefish living and dying out at sea and I'll tentatively take that as a positive sign.

Do dormice need rope bridges? I think it does help to patch over a particular situation, quickly and quite cheaply but its not exactly a panacea for the real woes of the world.

Dormice are possibly the cutest rodent ever - call me out and submit your favourite rodent!
And birds don’t have ailerons.

Sure, a bird can soar and hover and doesn’t need jet fuel.

But a plane isn’t trying to be a bird. It’s just trying to fly through the air, which it does, and at much faster speeds.
Would it make sense to make some disclosure of "it's not coming back and no PRs adding similar functionality will be entertained for this reason?"

Additionally, it seemed like this page[1] (discussed previously[2]) details some reasons why some publicly visible source code projects should be able to include code that implements things otherwise under export control.

[1] https://www.unr.edu/sponsored-projects/compliance/export-con...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40041198
I’ll vote for whoever is pro capitalism, pro nation, pro border security, pro military, and pro education and health.
I think you're trying to draw a hard line distinction where only a blurry evolution exists. While antisemitism in the 19th and 20th centuries had some unique characteristics that co-evolved with other forms of racism, antisemitism existed before the 19th century and there are clear evolutionary roots e.g. "Jewish badges" [1] that date back to the 1100s, which the famous "Jude" badge from the Nazi era was a continuation of.

I don't know of many mainstream Jewish historians who would agree that antisemitism didn't exist prior to the 19th century. They would agree that racial antisemitism developed largely during the 19th century alongside pseudoscience about race in general, but that religious and economic antisemitism has existed for over a thousand years, and that the latter two also informed the development of the racial version. [2] For example, the Rhineland massacres in 1096 are generally considered to be antisemitic [3] and part of a sequence of historical mass murders of Jews that lead to the Holocaust, despite Europe not then having a clear concept of race.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_badge

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhineland_massacres
> I don't approve of working multiple jobs simultaneous like this without your employers knowing, I think it's unethical.

Why is that unethical? I don't think it's my employer's business what I do with my time outside of work hours. Where "work hours" should be a flexible thing, especially for knowledge work, outside of required meeting attendance.

Ultimately as long as I get my job done to my employer's satisfaction, that should be all that matters. Seems like that was the real problem with the guy who got fired upthread; the discovery of the multiple-jobs thing was a convenient way to fire him without having to deal with documenting the low performance, a PIP, etc.

What I think is unethical is companies making employees sign a "I won't work anywhere else while employed here" thing when they start work.
I can’t emphasize enough how important a technical English standard is. I’ve been reading these manuals for a high end industrial document and it looks like it was written by a ten year old. No conceptual information, no continuity, and various street talk style instructive sentences.
> That certainly might be the case for the first couple of generations.

But in that couple of generations, they’ve already massively changed the country, e.g., with Italian immigration to the US in the 20th century. Mass immigration completely changed northern Virginia where I grew up. Maybe 100 years from now those people will mix and form a new amalgam. But the place I liked doesn’t exist anymore, and the place it is now I don’t like so much—just as a matter of cultural preference. Why isn’t that a perfectly reasonable basis for opposing immigration?

> Entropy presupposes no external input of energy or information, doesn't it? Immigration can provide both.

If the energy input is used to organize rather than disorganize, sure. But immigration is like applying heat to an ice sculpture. Taking something organized and subjecting it to random forces.
There’s some interesting work replacing scaled dot product attention and position embeddings with fixed format MLPs [0] - so I tend to lean towards thinking of classic transformers as having a reasonable enough inductive bias and the scalability to actually realize the amount of compute that’s needed

0: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.08050
> People don't lose their minds when we look at a transformer like Sora modeling fluid dynamics for ships battling in a coffee cup and say "it's irresponsible to say the model is simulating physics from video training data."

It's completely irresponsible and a ton of people pointed it out! You ignoring the critics doesn't mean they don't exist.

OpenAI just straight up lied when they said Sora was able to accurately emulate physics. Sora is literally dumber than a bee! Unlike bees, it doesn't even understand object permanence! Things fade in and out of existence, change sizes arbitrarily, etc. The fact that it occasionally makes plausible-looking solid deformations and fluid motions is because ANNs are natural interpolators, and much of physics can be blindly interpolated, at least in short intervals. The idea that any of this constitutes a "simulation of physics" is childish.
To my knowledge, you can't really use a laser cutter interchangeably on different materials. Metal cutting is done with fiber lasers, which have very small beam sizes and have a wavelength of about 1 micrometer. However, you can't use them reliably to cut wood, because they penetrate much deeper into it and can burn material below the surface before the surface has vaporized. It also is highly variable in how much gets absorbed, so engraving does not produce consistent results either.

On the other hand, wood cutting is done with CO2 lasers which have a significantly longer wavelength of around 10 micrometers. This wavelength is absorbed very well by wood and most plastics, but is mostly reflected by metals. Additionally, the longer wavelength means that it cannot be focused to as small of a point, which reduces the maximum power.

Chip lasers would still be bound to the same wavelength limitations, so you couldn't cut both materials with the same laser. What you could do, though, is have a machine with two lasers - especially if they are very compact - and select which one to use depending on what material needs to be cut.
Not even joking: there is probably a market for starting a mobile provider company that actually requires a DNA sample to change. The DNA could be collected from multiple sources simultaneously (blood, saliva, and randomly chosen fingernails) and run through a hash so that the provider never stores the DNA string itself. Some level of innovation may be required here, I know DNA itself isn't exactly a UUID, but I'm certain it could be done. VIPs would pay for this service and you could offer limited insurance for hackage.

Edit to add: there was an episode of "Forensic Files" where a suspect injected someone else's blood sample (at great personal risk) to evade a DNA test for a sexual assault charge. So just acknowledging that DNA methods can be attacked too. Hence the necessity of multiple random samples.
For cross-framework usage it'd be great if instead of being a render callback, this was distributed as an HTML custom element. Then you could easily use it in any declarative template system, even React/JSX.

I tried to make a web components here:
https://lit.dev/playground/#gist=8cf935c3869bf4790653cd6fadf...

But the webgpu-waveform module isn't loading. Looks like you have a hard-coded import of "../../react@18.2.0/index.js", which isn't going to be a portable import even for the React users. For the non-React users, they shouldn't have to install React to get the module loading.

Could you make two entrypoints, one for React, the other for plain JS?
Why was this flagged? It looks like people are using flags to suppress stories they don't want others to know about.
Look at this chart of Productivity Change in the Nonfarm Business Sector 1947-2023.

https://www.bls.gov/productivity/images/pfei.png

What you would expect if you read all the media hype about new technology is that there would have been massive increases in productivity in the last 15 years compared to earlier years. Instead productivity increases were significantly greater before then.

I expect AI will be similar. I expect there will be some areas where it will have major impacts, but most areas will continue on about the same.
I use pyinstaller to create executables for a few python programs that my coworkers want to use
My main problem with google fi is that I also use gmail heavily, and if the algorithm decides to cut me off one day for some reason, I don't want to lose access to my primary phone number and primary email address at the same time.
If you are already using LaTeXML, it is also easy to get the ar5iv rendering (example article: https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/1910.06709)

You can either copy the CSS asset from:
https://github.com/dginev/ar5iv-css

and add "--css=ar5iv.css --nodefaultresources" to the command line options for latexmlpost (or latexmlc).

Or alternatively, for people not interested in learning how to install and configure latexml, they can try the self-contained Dockerfile at:

https://github.com/dginev/ar5ivist/
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