skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was quite bought in into the Alexa eco-system - but that changed over the past.
I removed and sold every screen Alexa device I had in my house since it was such a distraction and did not simplify my day at all or bring value.
Also the non screen devices really degraded in quality. I have the feeling that the speech reco got worse and also asking questions the answers I get are now more often miss than hit. Sometimes I ask something specific for countries and the moment it starts with „this is something I found and translated…“ I know the answer is not going to be relevant.

The only reason I didn’t get rid of it is, that it’s an easy way for my kids to play their music. Otherwise I would have ditched them all
I Don't. I barely use my smartphone and Heavily prefer my fully featured laptop.

https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/chathistory

Plus, again, IT's not necessary to rent a VPS. IrcV3 has a module for backlogging. You just have to actually plug it in and use it.
Magnate's criminal case against Facebook re: fraudulent crypto ads dropped
You are "resulting," i.e. you're judging the correctness of a strategy by how it turned out THIS time.

Read Annie Duke's book.
New quantum material promises up to 190% quantum efficiency in solar cells
>The core problem lies in latency and information bandwidth

I actually think the core problem is that Amazon just isn't competent at deriving insights from consumer behaviour data.

If I buy a vacuum cleaner on Amazon, based on the Amazon web store recommendations I fully and without a shred of sarcasm expect Alexa to think that I've developed a vacuum collecting habit and recommend a vacuum conference if I ask it for events.
Yes, that was the initial hypothesis, which has been proven and shown conclusively to be true. If this was straightforward, then we should be more careful and do more tests when using fine-tuned models.
wikipedia for blockchain gambling resolution
> He and his sons are always the firsts to dose water on the fire when things get close to reaching a critical mass.

That's why I no longer have any respect for him at all. He's a coward with no balls, no convictions and no vision. It's hilarious to me how he's being treated like some ruthless dictator. If only he had been one. He's being treated like Hitler anyway, might as well have tried it just to see what happens. Too cowardly to even do that.
Others have been able to provoke the same prompt, so unfortunately not a joke
On my flight to Punta Arenas from Santiago, two people got on who were supposed to get on the next flight. They just let them fly and had the luggage delivered to the destination.

His friend who gave him the buddy pass is going to get into trouble for no reason now. This seems wholly unnecessary. My wife would fly standby all the time and they'll usually find some way to get on some plane at some time. It just won't be ideal. No reason to be this desperate.
State Encryption was one of those long requested features[0] (I had it on my ideas list for years[1]) that Hashicorp didn't have much incentive to build. I don't think it has to with distancing opentofu as such, but the opentofu team prioritizing the right things that customers actually need.

[0]: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/9556

[1]: https://github.com/captn3m0/ideas#-mars-terraform-remote-htt...
What about condos?

I know US don't appreciate that, but in high density areas, house is not really an option
Next up:

1. X's forced premium users edit their display names to indicate that they didn't opt in to it

2. X edits display names against user will
If you're not already doing this: remove unnecessary indices, partition the table, batch your inserts/updates, or try COPY instead of INSERT.
Security has a cost. Not just with computers but with airports and society as a whole. Making everything trustless and bulletproof encumbers everything and wastes many resources, including the most precious one - time.
IrcV3 is an improvement but it’s very much a too little too late situation. They should have been discussing this in 2005. Now it’s too late since the users have all left.
One question: it is possible for the XOR of two consecutive floating-point numbers to have 32-63 leading zeros; the numbers 32-63 do not fit in 5 bits. I imagine this is treated by Gorilla like 31 leading zeros?
Yes, one could. The problem is most programmers who are not aware of this (probably most), will see the UUID and make assumptions that uniqueidentifier type is the most suited one.

They are less likely to take a ULID and store it in binary(16). (Might store it in char(26), which is less storage efficient but is still sorted.)

Apart from that I happen to LIKE the fact that I can very quickly see the difference between a random identifier and a sorted identifier, they have quite different characteristics after all.. Although I guess people might eventually get used to the initial bytes being 0 on UUIDv7, or just learn to recognize the version bytes..

On that topic, why are the 8 fixed bits of a UUID not concentrated on the same byte. Perhaps the first one. Huge mistake..
The Space Force is planning what could be the first military exercise in orbit
I went through this exercise a while back randomly sitting on my couch wondering how much it would cost to fill my house with $100 bills.

For your purposes, assuming $100 USD bills, 1m cubed is roughly 71 million USD.

A 2000 sqft house with 8 foot ceilings, 42 billion.
It’s important that stolen iPhone parts remains worthless imo. I don’t want my iPhone stolen
> This is really so obvious that it doesn't merit a discussion.

It does merit discussion. This has been demonstrated. The parent shouldn't be downvoted for pointing out the ambiguity to an actual global population that exceeds the United States of America by some margin. It's not about being a "superpower" it's about clarity of communication and eyeballs.

Just like the date 04/10/2024. Is that a few days ago, or in a number of months? Wheras 2024-10-04 makes it explicit (in a sane way that denotes a clear hierarchy of values).
I actually wonder if i could use a 3DConnexion Spacemouse with it?

https://3dconnexion.com/us/spacemouse/
English grammar is not straightforward, from a Ukranian English teacher
It's in the man page[1], you put the file at the filesystem creation:

$ mkdwarfs -i /path/dir -o image.dwarfs

[1]: https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs/blob/main/doc/mkdwarfs.md
This is all because dark-Twitter started elevating paid bluecheck comments. But paid bluecheck comments are far & away Musk kool-aid drinking loons. So comments now prominently feature rabid right wing zealot basement-dweller trolls providing zero useful or interesting content, and still taking over the top dozens or hundreds of comments because of the paid-for algorithm.

It's a mark of shame to pay for blue checks. No one of good mind does so. Being ranked amid these losers & pitiful comments is a scorn on one's name.

Twitter either could go back, & re figure out what to do. But they would never do that. In an attempt to salvage their comments, they have forcibly conscripted good people into being bluechecks, and now rescinded their ability to disassociate themselves from this.

I truly am amazed at Elon's modern Twitter, for it's ability to amplify & enhance shit, and this maligned & sure to fail attempt at press ganging good citizens into covering up this obvious disaster that will almost certainly not work.

Tl;dr: dark-Twitter is trying to forcibly manifest noospheric potpourri to mask the vile they've created.
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Americans need that extra money to cover higher out-of-pocket healthcare costs. That's not necessarily a reliable indicator of wealth.
Could you increase power output through the fibre in response to a loss of signal, or one that falls below a given threshold? Using reasonable bounds to account for errors where attenuation isn’t the cause of no signal being received.
> ...a company entrusted with so many sensitive logins should absolutely be encrypting that information.

> “If they are hosting customer data on a third-party system like Amazon, it better damn well be encrypted,” Weaver said. “If they are telling people to reset credentials, that means it was not encrypted. So mistake number one is leaving Amazon credentials in your Git archive. Mistake number two is using S3 without using encryption on top of it. The former is bad but forgivable, but the latter given their business is unforgivable.”

The penalties for gross negligence are not high enough. These guys should be sued into oblivion; I hope their insurance limits are high enough.
The Echo Wall Clock is also fantastic at being a clock!

Although sadly now discontinued, when mine breaks there doesn't seem to be any comparable replacement from any brand at any price.
X won't let users hide their blue checks anymore
You're right about the extra fuel, though I really don't know what an extra 100-200lbs would cost to transport.

The movie theater example seems similar to the airplane: as long as there's an empty seat then it seems like stealing isn't quite the right word. Freeloading might be more apt.
Apologies if this is OT.

For a very long time (probably more than a year) I have been seeing the same link at the bottom of every single Ars Technica article; it is a link to a video titled "SITREP: F-16 replacement search a signal of F-35 fail?"

Are other readers experiencing the same? If not, what could be the reason for targeting me? I am not involved in military tech or aviation, and I usually block tracking cookies so I don't expect the site to know much about who I am or what my interests are. I just find it odd that the footer of a publication like Ars Technica would remain unchanged for such a long time.
You probably meant "bullish" ;)
Begs the Q: Why is someone using Google when DDG and Startpage exist?

Can't someone !w piratebay and click the link?
Haven't looked into this deeply, but isn't this basically a vernier pattern printed into a hologram?

How would this be better for mass manufacture compared to a vernier pattern capacitive encoder as seen in cheap calipers such as [1] ? I'm pretty sure photodetectors would be more expensive than capacitive sensors.

AFAIK these are also based on an expired patent which i believe to be US4743902 [2], that was mainly used by Mitutoyo.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=fKSSY1gzCEs

[2] https://patents.google.com/patent/US4743902A/en
Does it “make sense” because it's in textbooks, or is it in textbooks because it “makes sense”?

Time and again, “real scientists” act like teenage pop star fans when something is established as “making sense”. I'm not even talking about politically important issues or personal gains from being part of some “school”, just something that is “generally accepted”… until it is not.

For example, mass extinction event after an asteroid impact is such an enormous media icon that a lot of scientists merely work on decorating it. From the very beginning, there was evidence that extinction was neither short nor had a single peak, but it was routinely dismissed as “local variations” or without any reason at all, simply because it made things more complex.

Too many people solve the problem actually stated as “What if everything we believe is true, which models should we invent to support it?” It is important to think whether you are studying something, or just gathering the pieces in a pre-defined manner.
> Postgres is still way ahead of ClickHouse in terms of operational simplicity

Having served as both ClickHouse and Postgres SRE, I don't agree with this statement.

- Minimal downtime major version upgrades in PostgreSQL is very challenging.

- glibc version upgrade breaks postgres indices. This basically prevents from upgrading linux OS.

And there are other things which makes postgres operationally difficult.

Any database with primary-replica architecture is operationally difficult IMO.
See my response to a sibling of the comment you're responding to. The library had shocking code quality issues. It's unlikely that they're all peachy now.

The other side of this is that while Pieter's writing was marketing genius, it was also woefully understating the complexity of any practical use case. The way I tried to summarize that to folks who were keen to try zeromq then was that they should start at the back of the book with the most complex example, and that's by far the simplest setup that they could hope to end up with once they start thinking about putting something into production. And everything leading up to that - a book no less - was exclusively educational/toy use cases.
HBO watch party. If relays a fake costumer support chat if you visit a site like united airlines, that puts you in touch with scammers (probably does other malwary stuff too). A friend almost got scammed by this, they reported it to someone they know who works at Google and a couple months later the extension is still up.

Tbh that is the only actual example I know, but after poking around a bit, ppl who actually know about security say that's the state of things with these extension and app store apps, and nobody at google seems to think fixing it is their job.

Funny thing is, they were asking this google friend for advice about getting rid of the malicious chat before they realized it was this chrome extension. The advice the google employee gave was to format the computer (it wouldn't have fixed it because once they logged into chrome again all the extensions would come back).

Hard sell that people running this clown show could be doing PQC in any meaningful sense (other than publishing papers. The papers are fine).
So did I, but Macintosh people looked at it from an angle of "Why would you not put spaces in file names? They're meant to be human readable, and you will click on files more than you will type them in anyway." They were right, in the end. The future was less evenly distributed in the 80s.
Was that a fundamental problem with TerraForm or just an implementation issue?
Hemomorphic encryption is not the same thing as post quantum crypto?
Yeah, I might use “googling” to mean generic web search in everyday language, but I wouldn’t use it to refer to a site’s internal search function, and I wouldn’t use it at all in a technical description of some software.
It is just a matter of how flexibility you want to expose through your API. Sometimes a rigid and stricter API is the right choice where you want the API itself as the guardrail against non-standard patterns.
What about someone whose phone died? Not an irregular occurrence with transfers, missing foreign adapters etc.
A CSP can be configured to disallow external stylesheets too. I don't see how that's particularly relevant. But obviously if for some reason a CSP was configured as such, and I had no power to change it, I'd work around it.
You're comparing a person recommending a single event versus an AI providing a list. In other words, proving OP's point.

GUIs provide information in 2D, letting eyes skim and bypass information that's not useful.

VUIs provide information in 1D, forcing you to take information in a linear stream and providing weak at best controls for skipping around without losing context or place.

Not coincidentally, this is why I absolutely hate watching videos for programming and news. If it's an article or post or thread, I can quickly evaluate if it has what I want and bypass the fluff. Videos simply suck at being usable, unless it's for something physical like how to work on a particular motor or carve a particular pattern into wood.
I'v never experienced that actually working, despite several attempts. Or when it does work, the overhead makes it not worth it.
The framing and cut scenes in GTA may be satire but the gameplay where you actually immerse yourself in the game in get into the character's shoes mostly aren't. Those parts are largely just shooting people.

I guess you could argue that it's some other kind of satire than being anti violence.
Boarding time is a big factor in the cost structure of airlines. If they have to check ID of everyone who boards, it’s a lot slower. And in fact European airlines have a much slower turnaround time than Southwest. There’s already an ID check before you get airside, so another check during boarding is not needed for security. If all it accomplishes is revealing this edge case, which can be deterred by detection and enforcement after the fact, is it really worth making everyone wait and increasing costs?
It's not an "oversight from the crew". Checking ID at the gate is not a thing in the US for domestic flights, and that is a very good thing for boarding time overhead.
Yes, that would be a good idea™ but I don't think that's conflict. Apple had uses all sorts of excuses and technical limitations to prevent repairs including parts pairing.

The solution is there need to be parts available for reasonable prices in the first place. There are no reasonably priced parts for iPhone Pro 13 and onwards. My friend's cell phone repair chain has lost a lot of business because they can't fix many types of Google Pixel, Samsung, or Apple devices for reasonable prices.
There are smog masks from Asia where it's almost needed to be outside in many major metro areas; they use a cloth carrier with a laminated inlay of N95-like particle and activated carbon VOC filtering.
Is there any better word in your mind instead of "research"?
I don’t think it’s a systematic problem nor do I think it really negatively affects society substantially.

So I’m not going to be a Karen.

I applaud him for the creativity.

Plus him breaking the rules has led to improved security for you.
I don't have a twitter account, so I don't see the whole thread. I suppose the thread is itself interesting ; Is there a way for people like me to understand the context?
> ...of how long dozens or hundreds of millions of years are.

"Hundreds of millions" is less than 30 bits of information. That's a miniscule, infinitesimal amount compared to what we're typically used to dealing with. (If you choose a random number every year, that's less that 1 gigabyte of numbers, not enough for a 30 minutes of an HD Marvel blockbuster.)
probably more so, they only kill poor people
I see it too. Seems to just be an article they like. Perhaps they condition advertisements on referrers.

Edit: I see now it's a video, meaning it's really just a flashy headline that gets you to click and immediately watch though an ad. They probably make quite a pretty penny off of that.
Signal doesn’t have this problem.

By your terminology, all iOS devices are “compromised” by default from having non-e2ee iCloud Backup enabled by default.

Signal chats on iOS are stored in a storage class that cannot be backed up or exported from the device.
I've been there.

Can't you just 404 the bot in your reverse proxy, optionally setting logging to /dev/null?

Still annoying, but a smaller AWS bill. And maybe the requester will eventually get the point.
There is sublevel zero, also. It's a similar experience, but made for VR and has a procedurally generated map system that makes the playthroughs a bit different from time to time.

Gabbagabbahey
Thanks for investigating the threads federation. With reddit and twitter charging large fees for api access it has felt like one chapter of the web was closing. Now with the federation of threads there are even more people to interact with via a medium we have control over.

I'm glad to see someone find value in the open api nature of mastodon(and others). Thank you mastodon and ActivityPub for exposing the internet tubes.
Why hardware not software?
Telegram is not end to end encrypted. The service provider can read the messages.
I have a question. Why has it taken this long for a replacement for Alexa to show up? All we need is something hooked up to, say, ChatGPT that lets me control my house stuff, set timers, add to a shopping list etc... And it can generate JSON for all that which can then get picked up and relayed over the wire.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/11/asia/pacific-castaways-pikelo...

Seems to be the original article.
I think it's all about the controls...

When I played this in the 90's, I had a sidewinder joystick, and then used the keyboard for strafing. Once you master circle-strafing, the ai enemies don't really stand a chance.
But it's important to prevent theft..
> Which is a reasonable assumption to make, for example, if the language in question is also used by system utilities in a traditional Linux distribution. You really don't want yum invoking the wrong version of python.

Yep, this is the core reason: there needs to be a "system" distribution of Python, Ruby, etc. for packages written in those languages, and that distribution fundamentally needs to prioritize the interests of the package manager over "external" uses. This is particularly painful in the Python world, since using a "system" Python distribution for local development can break the system itself in all kinds of fun and exciting ways (usually beginning with a well-intentioned `sudo pip install ...`).

Homebrew suffers from this like other system package managers do, with the added pain that many macOS users expect Homebrew to do everything (whereas Linux users typically understand that they need `pyenv` or similar). PEP 668[1] helps a bit here by clarifying the responsibilities/expected behavior of system Python distributions, but at the cost of heartburn for some user scenarios (i.e. ones that depend on `pip install -U` and similar).

[1]: https://peps.python.org/pep-0668/
We use BigQuery a lot for internal analytics and we've been super happy. I don't see a lot of love for BigQuery on HN and I wonder why. Tons of features, no hassle and easy to throw a bunch of TB at it.

I guess maybe the cost?
The First Major AI Gadget Launch in History Is a Dumpster Fire
mlx: a mix between numpy and cuda/hip for metal
I have the Rockfire RM-203.

Only downside is that it is self-calibrating, so if you have a joystick pot that sometimes jumps to very high (or very low I suppose) resistance, it will scale the axis to that very high value; calibration on the PC in that case will give you terrible resolution (since it is quantized before being sent to the PC). I suggest cleaning the pots with DeoxIT if that happens.
Good time to remind everyone that an open source E2EE decentralized alternative exists for Discord in the form of https://revolt.chat/
SecureCRT: Cross platform client provides rock-solid terminal emulation
Platform-based, such as Squeak and Etoys (not eToys) or like with VMs such as JVM or BEAM.

The problem you describe is solved by introducing capabilities such as in seL4. Without beginning with a capability, something cannot do something else.