skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
unsurprising. this has been a major reason the Republican house speaker is looking at a recall (yet again.) hardliners are upset the FISA regulations havent been renewed to their liking, and Mike Johnson (current speaker) would likely shore up his chances of making it at least 200 days as speaker if he passed this.

getting moderate or traditional conservatives (let alone democrats or independents) to sign this is another matter entirely. FISA has become a babadook policy the US government would just as soon slowly forget about and expire, similar to GITMO and the more acerbic policies of the Bush administration during the WoT. these types of regulations enjoy pretty unilateral disapproval because they have the potential to bite the hand that feeds.
The Google Cloud CEO's office is in SVL, not NYC (just fyi), so he wasn't there. Additionally, in Google's SVL offices, you can't operate the elevators without a badge (or even get into the elevator lobby without first badging in [or being escorted].

That said, unlike in a lot of companies, the executive office area (for Cloud) is not separated in any way from the offices in the rest of the building. This is not exactly the same as for Alphabet execs (dating back to when Larry & Sergey were running things), with separate private parking, private elevator and partly inaccessible office spaces.
At this point we have decades of dealing with this. Shouldn't the default assumption be that someone promoting a product online is being paid to do it, until they somehow demonstrate that they are not?
Well I think it's ironically mimicking The Exorcist or one of those movies so makes sense.
Quickly solved by inserting “remains embedded” after Neanderthals
CRTs far exceed 60Hz though. This FW900 for example goes up to 160Hz.
> Most modern systems (and computers) are sending digital signals where entire frames need to be constructed and reconstructed in a buffer before they can be displayed.

HDMI and DVI-D are a digital representation of a tv signal --- there's all the blanking and porches and stuff (audio data is often interleaved into the blanking periods). You could process that in realtime, even though most displays don't (including CRT HDTVs; I trust your maybe one doesn't).
Atom interferometer charters Navy's inertial navigation path to reduce drift
They have been on the bleeding edge of autonomous robotics R&D for a very long time now. If they were more focused on commercialization for the past 20 years then they wouldn't have pushed the tech forward as far and as fast as they have.

The whole point of the article is speculating that they are specifically retiring their hydraulic robot because it was never going to be commercially viable. Which makes it look like they are finally ready to pivot from pure R&D to commercial production. Thus they want fully electronic robots instead of hydraulics that are messy and require more (almost constant?) maintenance.

I'm not an engineering guy but I assume the hydraulics were more useful for pushing the boundaries of possible motion with such a heavy, robust, and versatile design. Now that the AI systems controlling vision, motion, proprioception/spatial awareness, etc are more fully developed, they can create more specialized and scaled down versions of the robot for specific applications that are lighter and don't require hydraulics to perform their tasks reliably? Just guessing here, am happy to be corrected or given more a nuanced take.
Anyone will allergies will disagree :D
Design and branding matter a lot more than people realize. Not just in terms of appeal - it sets the stage for everything that follows.

Half the social media apps are the same thing: Feed, like, block people, follow, post (with image/video, etc.), hash tags, etc. but the slightest difference in design and branding sets forth a different content platform.

UI/UX isn't just aesthetics, it's utility and a huge part of what the thing is.
> everywhere the US can't block them

You're talking like countries can't choose not to do business for reasons other than US blocking it. This is a very globalist and US-centric view.

For a random example if PRC consistently violates Philippines integrity then US does not need to block anything, Philippines will just rather not pay money somewhere that directly sponsors PLA
Ask HN: Could you train someone to do your job in a month?
Let's assume this person is college educated and fluent in your native language. They show up to work every day and will do research in their spare time if needed.

Assume no prior programming or domain knowledge.
It's open enough for all practical purposes IMO.
Interesting to see special tokens for tool calling:

"Function calling and special tokens
This tokenizer includes more special tokens, related to function calling :

[TOOL_CALLS]
[AVAILABLE_TOOLS]
[/AVAILABLE_TOOLS]
[TOOL_RESULT]
[/TOOL_RESULTS]"

Is this something new on this model or has it been done already for a while?
> Then Linux started transitioning from a patchwork of loosely coupled replaceable components to integrated stacks in the mid-2000s

I cannot imagine a better sales pitch for Linux as an operating system for people who actually want to use a working, reliable, well integrated, featureful, coherently designed, modern operating system to actually get really cool things done as opposed to people that want to endlessly tinker with a giant pile of glued-together parts.

I had a phase when I wanted to use minimal Linux distros and cobble together the individual components of my system of myself, with only what I needed and nothing more and making sure I understood how everything fit together, but I quickly realized that that's just not the way to produce a system that's actually nice to use and useful.

> ironically more and more of a corporate commodity rather than a playground for software freedom

Having an actually integrated set of system components and software stacks may make the system less modular, and so less free in some sense, but I don't think it takes away software freedom in a way that really substantially matters. FLOSS software can be tightly integrated and remain free. Especially when there is still so much modularity, and the trade-off is a much better system, which is worth it in my opinion. Also, I don't see why integrated software stocks are inherently corporate, although it is true that Linux is getting a lot of corporate funding.

> This is an entirely dependable, simple, hackable, grokable system and that's the way I want it to stay.

This desire to be able to understand absolutely everything on your system seems kind of absurd to me.

It is the primitivism, the going to live in a log cabin in the woods completely off grid using 1800s technology, of the software world — both in that the impulse to give up the benefits of the division of labor and modern society and economies, the ability to have people specialize in understanding and building things that you don't have the time to specialize in or build yourself, is just patently absurd and essentially reactionary, born out of a fear of the unknown, and because even such people find themselves inevitably depending on things that they don't fully understand or didn't fully do themselves. I guarantee you that you wouldn't be able to understand the full intricacies of all of the components on your system, including the compilers and the entirety of the kernel and all of the drivers and everything else, and that's not to mention your processor architecture or whatever.

And if your argument is that you understand the high level components and how they fit together, that is precisely as true for a system with larger components. My point is that any system beyond Forth running on bare metal is probably beyond the ability of any single person to actually understand fully and if you are okay with a certain level of abstraction that I don't see the difference.
I think the only thing I have found really missing from HTML forms (for me) is the combo box, which is a combination dropdown and input field.
CRTs are still unmatched for gaming. Aside from input lag, they don't degrade low resolutions the same way that LCDs do. For the longest time I stuck with a 19" flatscreen 4:3 CRT that did 170Hz at 800x600, an absolute beast. As a kid I'd lug it around to QuakeWorld and Counter-Strike LAN tournaments.

I've gone through a bunch of high refresh rate LCDs since, but nothing has matched the perfect hand-eye sync of a CRT running at high FPS and high refresh rate with a 1000 Hz mouse, zooming around dm3 in a complete state of flow.
Strictly speaking, because the signal is continuous, analog video doesn't really have horizontal resolution, does it?
Reddit on Mobile web has become a nightmare because of this.
The back button works about 50% of the time and often just triggers a full refresh.
I'm a veteran and my experiences with the VA have been great! I fully recognize that many others don't necessarily have the same experience, but I am consistently impressed by the quality of care that I receive.

The other veterans in my area (that I know and talk to) also seem to have good experiences with our VA healthcare. Just chipping in to say that while there is a lot to criticize about the VA, there are things to praise too.
Looks like androidarts illustrations.
If "no big deal, it happens all time" is your answer, then you can just say "yes, I am trivializing it" -- that's what the term means.
At what quantization? 4-bit is 80GB. Less than 4-bit is rarely good enough at this point.
I think you would be surprised about how much of a performance hit that would be over existing state of the art. The thing you are missing is that the human visual system evaluates existence of spaces in parallel, a single threaded algorithm would need to check every character to see if it's a space, in addition to checking the letters of the search string. Also that fails to generalize to languages without spaces, search strings with spaces, etc.

Also if you look at algorithms like Boyer-Moore, they effectively DO skip spaces, but do so in a manner that is language / content agnostic. (https://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~lecroq/string/node14.html)
That's a valid theory, a priori, but if you actually follow up you'll find that the vast majority of these benchmark results don't end up matching anyone's subjective experience with the models. The churn at the top is not nearly as fast as the press releases make it out to be.
He didn’t attribute it to malice.
Every party has its more anarchistic advocacy points and I can't say when the scales tipped in the abstract. But for my own judgement it was when the longstanding issue of police escaping the rule of law finally got attention, and then the Republican party staked out its position in support of the lawlessness.
If a robot were to pilot a analog aircraft, it would need to be roughly human shape or specifically designed.

If a robot were to reach an AED without frying it with magnets, it would need to be tall enough and have fingers.

I agree with you that there are more efficient shapes out there (like the robot from interstellar) but a humanoid at slightly shorter than the average adult (for fear related reasons) shape is the best general purpose shape because it is so backward compatible in all sorts of not yet imagined emergency scenarios.
Thanks for bringing those to my attention, that does sound like something that interests me. The "where can I buy" was notably absent from their website, but some further searching found a comment of someone who did find prices <https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/10/06/residential-flow-batt...> but it wasn't especially the price that made me pause as much as the assertion that the batteries have fluid pumps that must be kept running

Since I apparently couldn't buy one then it doesn't matter but I would need to further understand what happens 
if
when those pumps fail
I... don't remember butter boards? I'm growing convinced that the worst thing with regards to how effectively targeted social media is, is in how it convinces journalists that they know what people are talking about and doing.
They spray x-rays into anyone behind them too. The leased glass only protects the immediate user.
The Tallest Treehouse in the Amazon
They also don't get revoked if just 51% agree
It’s true you’re not famous. But the rest of this is pretty bad advice. If you’re an indie app developer and you don’t care about design, nobody will use your app—not just the people who care about design. If you’re a blogger and you don’t care about grammar, some people will be turned off by your terrible writing. I assume anything you do you want to do well. If that’s not the case then definitely take the advice in the original post.
Of course. Not to mention the NSA is famous for having their tooling leak to malicious 3rd parties, so, once they backdoor everything, nothing will be secure.

That means your bank will be hacked, your medical records captured, all of your DM's on every platform, your advertising ID's, your browser fingerprints, all of your PII exposed, on the internet, for anyone to see.

This is truly the beginning of the end, the inflection point that has long been talked about.
FaableQL is a query syntax with MongoDB support
This is why I said to stuff the UDP requests into SQS and have the backend read off the queue.

If the requirements are impossible, change the requirements.
It wasn't clear but how much hardware does it take to run Mixtral 8x22B (mistral.ai) next to me locally?
Snowden had a simple and good one.

"Ultimately, arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."
Unsurprisingly, you will find people who argue even Lambdas went to far, and others who are willing to endure Lombok, multiple annotation processors, or precompilers to work with more advanced features.
Not familiar with this take. Is the idea that curved space time is a semi-intuitive model or output of something more fundamental?
"Sound support was non-existent by default."

I don't know what years you are talking about, but in the early 00s I found audio in FreeBSD with OSS to just work (if you had supported hw), especially compared to the mess that was Alsa, and the ever bigger mess that was Pulseaudio.

It took years for audio in linux to become decent.
> Every purchase you have ever made is likely influenced by marketing.

Which is why it's so important for it to be as transparent as possible.

Marketers can't brag about being able to brainwash people and then get mad when people take offence to it.
Everything is soldered in these days.

It's complete garbage. And most of the other vendors just copy Apple so even things like Lenovo have the same problems.

The current state of laptops is such trash
The data just doesn't bear this out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_third-party_and_indepe...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_third-party_and_indepe...

It's more than the ability to put your name on a ballot, between the media control the main parties have, their purposeful entrenchment and anticompetitive setup, and the necessary financial burden; your biggest problem is that simply nobody will know who you are.
I run Mistral-7B on an old laptop. It's not very fast and it's not very good, but it's just good enough to be useful.

My use case is that I'm more productive working with a LLM but being online is a constant temptation and distraction.

Most of the time I'll reach for offline docs to verify. So the LLM just points me in the right direction.

I also miss Google offline, so I'm working on a search engine. I thought I could skip crawling by just downloading common crawl, but unfortnately it's enormous and mostly junk or unsuitable for my needs. So my next project is how to data-mine common crawl to extract just the interesting (to me) bits...

When I have a search engine and a LLM I'll be able to run my own Phind, which will be really cool.
And socks with sandals.
It's also interesting that this is where they draw the line for some reason. While I agree that the entire situation in Gaza is a catastrophe, some people seem to react "violently" (Not with violence, they just have a lot of feeling tied up in the conflict). I know of companies where people got professional help and had to take time off work due to the war, but most of them don't know anyone in the area, nor are they themselves neither Jewish nor Palestinian.

Anyway, I think it's weird that Google employees will react like this over the sale of a service. In it self GCP is pretty harmless and its sold to a democratic government. It's also the Israel government, not just the IDF, so most of the services would presumably be used for peaceful purposes. At the same time these employees are apparently completely fine with Googles invasion of peoples privacy, manipulation, sale of data to shady advertisers with little oversight, collaboration with the US military, collaboration with China and a number of other issues... But no, this is apparently where Google crosses the line.

If Google employees where constantly applying internal pressure to management and shareholders to do better it would make more sense, but right now it seems pretty random.
This thing is just such a manifestly bad idea. You'd have a much more functional solution if you added a camera to a Jawbone, with all the AI stuff running as an app on your phone. The laser projector is such nonsense that it can easily be deleted.
What SaaS company discloses their Enterprise prices?
Maybe? I'm a software architect and while 20 years of programming experience cannot be communicated in a month a sufficiently acceptable job of "How to draw technical pictures and write documents" could probably be communicated. Of course, lacking experience it won't be long before designs are created which are digital houses of cards waiting for a stiff breeze...
If you settle for randomized, Karger's algorithm is amazing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karger%27s_algorithm
Their own systems might be an entire country. You can't hide patching on that scale.
> Most of these robots will be used in factories that have very nice flat concrete floors

Are you sure? We had robots in factories for more than 50 years, and they don't usually move.
A DSL that we use to parse the queries that we expose on our endpoints. Please send feedback via Issues or PRs if you try it. Github stars are welcome
Is that normal ram of GPU ram?
Unix and Multics History
A Multics-side view on history of Multics-Unix relationship, which is often left unsaid and misrepresented.
Check if your password manager has a "perform auto-type" (or similar) function, where it can send keyboard events to another window. That way your browser (or whatever app) doesn't have to support paste to work.
Related:

Tell the U.S. Senate: Stop Risaa, the FISA Mass Surveillance Expansion

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-the-u-s-senate-stop-risaa-th...

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40064755)
Curious as to what Signal will say about this, or does money need to change hands with users before an organization is subject to this?
Sad to think it has happened in America.
I shall call, though doubt anything will come of it.
I’ve loved Varnish so much when I’ve used it. I worked for a gaming company where players competed to guess the next play in a live sports game. The simplest and most resilient architecture is to have those client apps run a GET every 5 seconds to see if there’s a new opportunity to guess. Easy, but now scale that up to the Super Bowl or World Cup.

We were looking at a ferocious front-end web server horizontal scaling bill until we plopped Varnish in front of it, made sure the backend was setting caching headers correctly for .5 seconds, and let it rip.

Our backend traffic dropped from a potential 20,000,000 requests per second to… 2.

Side lesson there: it’s amazing how much easier it is to scale the machine that doesn’t exist. Computer science is your friend when engineering throws you to the wolves.
They were probably in an income based repayment plan where the payments are capped versus income, and it is very common for the balance to grow if your income is low.
How much do you need/typically eat to feel its effects?

I've never felt anything despite hoping for some benefits from them, I wonder if I'm not eating enough of it.
Why should we "engage" with people who are "active in public life"? What does this mean?
I didn't mean to imply no other "worlds" -- sorry if I did! I was just using that "both worlds" metaphor to refer to the two particular forces I perceived to be referenced in the parent comment and the article, ostensibly at odds with each other: the benefits of having many devices with which to test the product, and the benefits (not that this produces exclusively benefits) of limiting the scope of workstation device management. In other words, I'm just suggesting a way to avoid a narrow testbed given a narrow workstation issuance policy.

I happen to struggle with the trackpad on non-Mac laptops to an extreme degree, and while I don't put that in the same category as reasonable accommodations required by the ADA of course (probably just lack of practice), it does help me (along with web UI a11y training and formal job responsibility) empathize with the point you are making to some extent. Glad to hear it eventually worked out with the CEO.
Trump openly asked for Russia to hack the DNC. And they did so. Cleary Russia interfered in our election. I don’t blame them for doing so. We interfere in other nations’ elections but one should not deny the obvious.
most of the ones I go to :shrug:
The pendulum swings back: colocation as a cost control strategy
Speed... OK, maybe, with a small/slow enough injection machine. Quality, maybe, especially for parts that aren't structural. Price? No fucking way.
Stated another way: most of us don't care about panopticon censorship.

As long as I can still post my lunch on Instagram and explain to LinkedIn how I organize my inbox, I don't mind if the NSA is watching.
I really really like my Macbook Pro. But dammit, you can't upgrade the thing (Mac laptops aren't upgrade-able anymore). I got M1 Max in 2021 with 32GB of RAM. I did not anticipate needing more than 32GB for anything I'd be doing on it. Turns out, a couple of years later, I like to run local LLMs that max out my available memory.
You don't remember the dumb social media trend that was popular for 2 weeks with .1% of the population a year ago?