skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make claims of massive improvements but as an end user I have not experienced such. With the amount of fake and cherrypicked demos in the AI space I dont believe anything until I experience it myself.

>Ironically, Waymo's self-driving taxis were launched in several cities in 2023. Does this count?

No because usage is limited to a tiny fraction of drive-able space. More cherrypicking.
For a clear illustration of how much that ballot screwed Al Gore, look at Pat Buchanan's vote in Palm Beach county, compared to every other county. He clearly got 2000+ votes that were meant for Al Gore. Gore lost by less that 550 votes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidentia...
I know right? What tremendous foolishness. It's incredible, as in just not believable.
Nit: Approval voting (yes/no for each candidate) is easier to implement and also understand. I couldn't rank 82 people, but could yes/no them...
Eyes Wide Shut? Exploring the Visual Shortcomings of Multimodal LLMs
Thanks. I found it.
My wife is a big fan of Euki which is privacy focused and developed by a non-profit.

https://eukiapp.org/
Couldn't agree more, The Bureau had me hooked from start to finish.
After the first episode, I basically binge-watched the entire 5 seasons non-stop.
Subtitles are not an issue for me as I always have them on anyway.
It takes a couple of episodes to get into it as they don't do out of their way to explain things. It's like you've been dropped into a job with an intelligence service with no training.

"Tehran" (Israeli spy thriller) is another really good spy series.
You really get a feel for the oppressive environment in Iran under the thumb of the IRGC.

Also "The Spy" with Sascha Baron Cohen is excellent too.
I would think that a meshnet only over contacts would have too many holes to really be helpful in the hypothetical protest setting that's being described. Definitely a cool way to do it! Do you happen to know if it's XMPP or something, or it's own protocol?
Why would they have needed this in 1970, or 1950?
Russian civil war was not an internal matter from the very beginning considering that multiple foreign forces conspired to make it happen. Also as we have learned it should have not been an internal matter considering the vast humanitarian losses caused by the communist terror that followed.

So perhaps you meant to say that Russian civil war should have been an international matter?

Btw. this is a common Russian propaganda talking point how Russia (a largest remaining imperial and colonist power) has never been aggressive and has only been "defending" itself.

A larger problem is that for some reason American conservatives have been starting to pick up many those Russian propaganda talking points, designed to undermine the American morale.
I've followed indie devs talking about this stuff, and I've been a critical consumer of digital media for decades. That's all fairly anecdotal, to be fair, but I am not aware of any hard data that's public and transparently sourced.

The segment you talk about exists, indeed I've seen it in action, but chasing them down has rapidly diminishing returns. Their loyalty to the product is just as shallow as their loyalty to the author, and they'll just scamper to other media they can get easily if cornered. Indeed, that is actually a fairly good argument for some mitigating measures: it's like a lock on your house, it only stops you from being the lowest-hanging fruit, but that often goes a long way.
Nice! When you say “on the fly” are you literally decompressing assets from disk during gameplay? Can you do asynchronous IO on the Amiga?
Everything is trade-offs. Meeting in person is great, until you're in the middle of a protest and everyone has to scatter because the police are firing tear gas at your skull. At that point, you rather do need to either have had a plan, or you need some way to communicate that isn't face-to-face.
Typically the best television stories are taking an entire organizations stories and distilling it down to just a few people. Easier to develop characters that way and keep the audience from being confused by actors that don't contribute much.
Interesting, latency has always been great for me. If it's going to work, it usually has suggestions within a second or two. I use the neovim plugin though so not on the typical VS-code based path.
This doesn't necessarily confirm that it's 4, though. For example, when I write a new version of a package on some package management system, the code may be updated by 1 major version but it stays the exact same version until I enter the new version into the manifest. Perhaps that's the same here; the training and architecture are improved, but the version number hasn't been ticked up (and perhaps intentionally; they haven't announced this as a new version openly, and calling it GPT-2 doesn't explain anything either).
As Larry Wall said, Perl makes easy things easy and hard things possible. Almost the entire backend of my telecoms employer is written in Perl, and as a result of sticking with it we have a code base which is lean and runs fast and efficiently. Both of these are strong benefits that I'll always defend as far more important than people are willing to admit.

I don't see Perl going anywhere. Neither back towards popularity, nor further into obscurity.
You can make anything harder. You can't make it impossible. You are also a terrible leader if you treat every mistake as a positive.

No strawman. Just straight up reasonable discipline that has worked for thousands of years.
I think a combination of LoRa, bluetooth, and WiFi might be the alternative. I've seen videos of LoRA functioning below the noise floor (perfect for evading RF triangulation), and at 200km (perfect for reaching past physical borders). The major weakness is line of sight (and availability), but bluetooth and WiFi can help there.
"move fast, break things" not just for software anymore
I know enough, and they do.
I'm going to take that term, Cut Fog, and use it for my own purposes from now on. I'm cutting fog right now as a matter of fact.
A antifa relative does not carry their phone with them when they meet, nor do they carry it in their person when attending a rally - they have a friend/lawyer name/number written in a paper with them, just in case some one has to be contacted.

At rallies, masked, sun glasses, baseball hat and a couple of shirts
> It’s much easier to tell the people with old cassette tapes to rip them

I assume you mean "rip them", as in transcode to a different format?

In that case, you need a tool that takes the old input format(s) and convert them to the new format.

For text files, you'd need a tool that takes the old text files with various encodings and converts them to UTF-8.

Isn't the point of the article to describe how an engineer would create such a tool?
There's a reason this is in ALL CAPS:

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Even with the yelling, some people don't hear it.
this law is out of date and silly. one of the primary purposes of making digital copies is to have infinite copies, and everyone knows that.
[Request to delete that law submitted]
I wasn't meaning that the Twitter/X profile would be the source, rather that the source (e.g. owned domain) could be listed on their official T/X profile for convenience. The digital signature would be tied to their owned domain not T/X.
A revolution is all about subterfuge, intelligence, and trust. If you don't hone those skills, you might not be suited for one. Conversely, technology is an attack vector.
Does the GPL rely on the definition of free? I don't think it does.
You realize that we went from mass illiteracy to over 50 percent in less than 200 years. From town criers to printed papers.

Candidly the current landscape is a drop in a long full bucket, printing press, papers, radio, film, television, music, the internet, video games all of these things were going to "destroy the children" and yet somehow we managed to survive.

You like all those before you a prognosticating our doom because the world is not the one you grew up in.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40171909
Theoretically it can't be below the noise floor right? I don’t know much about radio stuff fwiw that just seems impossible by definition
How does this work? I assumed it was tower triangulation, but the article makes it sound like it really is using GPS location.

Does the SIM card have a program that somehow can access the GPS sensor via the baseband processor?
It didn't quite disappear. AFAICT, the core team is working on NewNode now: https://www.newnode.com/firechat

The text mentions an anodyne "for business reasons", so that should leave the door wide open for any conspiracy theories ;)
Tunnel Try-On: Excavating Spatial-Temporal Tunnels for Virtual Try-On in Videos
Revolutionaries definitely had problems with surveillance and infiltration before electronics.
I've done some charset detection, although it's been a while. Heuristics kind of work for somethings --- I'm a big fan of if it's decodable as utf-8, it's probably utf-8, unless there's zero bytes (in most text). If there's a lot of zero bytes, maybe it's UCS-2 or UTF-16, and you can try to figure out the byte order and if it decodes as utf-16.

If it doesn't fit in those categories, you've got a much harder guessing game. But usually you can't actually ask the source what it is, because they probably don't know and might not understand the question or might not be contactable. Usually, you have to guess something, so you may as well take someone else's work to guess, if you don't have better information.
Elon Musk's 'Twitter sitter' appeal over Tesla posts rejected by Supreme Court
I used to build small clusters and use supercomputers and I can't imagine it's fun to build a super computer. It requires a massive infrastructure and significant employee base, and individual component failures can take down entire jobs. Finding enough jobs to keep the system loaded 24/7 while also keeping the interconnect (which was 15-20% of the total system cost) busy, and finding the folks who can write such jobs, is not easy. Even then, other systems will be constantly nipping at your heels with newer/cheaper/smaller/faster/cooler hardware.
Like I said, if you own the game in your library you will always be able to download it. And I don't think there have been any instances where Steam has allowed a developer to purposely corrupt their game.

So if you've bought Firefall[1] or Dead Island[2] I am sure you can still play them. The store listings might've been removed but they'll never leave your library and they'll never leave the servers.

Even if the developers did intentionally worsen a game with an update, you could still search steamdb for the older version and attempt to manually download it.[3]

As for Steam pulling their own games, they're notorious for not doing so. For most of Valve's games you can download older versions as a beta. With CS2 you can play the original CS:GO on the csgo_legacy[4] branch. Just right-click the game and go to "Betas".

[1]: https://steamdb.info/app/227700/depots/

[2]: https://steamdb.info/app/91310/

[3]: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=88962...

[4]: https://steamdb.info/app/730/depots/?branch=csgo_legacy
GPS signals are below the noise floor when they arrive at your phone.
If folks want to see what Copilot Workspace looks like, here’s a sample session where I addressed a feature request in an OSS VS Code extension I maintain: https://copilot-workspace.githubnext.com/lostintangent/gitdo....

You can see the originating issue and the resulting PR from there. And note that while the initial spec/plan/code was mostly good, I iterated on a couple parts of the plan, and then made a minor tweak to the code manually (everything in CW is editable). Which is a key part of our goal with CW: to help bootstrap you with a task (or think out loud with AI), and then provide the iteration primitives to explore further.
This is a great fear of mine as a (neo)vim user. I've repeatedly encountered situations already where it was assumed everyone was using VS code, and I only see that getting worse as more and more integrations get built into IDEs.
I think it's terrible that the Internet Archive is very likely destroyed, or at best, we have to donate a large sum of money to pay off Hachette.

But I think it was reckless to engage in uncontrolled ebook lending. Controlled lending (one copy lent for one copy on the shelf) is not a legal right (in the US), but it's got a much better chance of avoiding a lawsuit.

Uncontrolled lending was foolish. It was inviting a lawsuit, and it has far less chance of popular support than the intuitively more reasonable model of controlled lending.

I agree with the sentiment behind the NEL program: it's a lovely gesture. But to invite destruction of the Archive like that was a terrible mistake, in my view.
One of my favorite comments ever on HN. I’m big into photography and yet learned something on nearly every bullet. Thank you!
a single zfs drive will not be enough to resolve bit rot
China ready to launch lunar far side sample return mission
Flutter was my goto mobile framework for a good while.

It's like I can't win as a high level developer. Learn Unity, the company starts to implode.

Now Google is going to deprioritize Flutter. Is anything safe?

Do I have to start writing games and mobile apps in C++?
Not extremely unlikely. Many charsets decode fine as UTF-8 as long as the message happens to fit in ASCII.
filetype:php3
Apology accepted, and I appreciate the thoughtful clarification.

I'd pick up on the other topic (the Nation-State law, etc), but apparently there's a very insecure person out there right now who is vindictively flagging nearly all of my recent posts -- including the one just above your, just now.

Okay, it seems in one post I was quick to misread someone, so I can see an issue there. But definitely not in all of them).
Try Linkwarden - https://linkwarden.app

- Preserve bookmarks by capturing a screenshot of the saved page.

- Open-source and fully self-hostable.

- Support for collaborative bookmarking.

P.S. I’m the maintainer of the project.
Meta: This isn't meant to imply that any of the sites in the results are actually still running PHP3 since Cool URIs Don't Change and they could be powered by pretty much anything. I just thought it was interesting to see which sites have some sort of lineage from software that old.

There's a roughly three-year period of time when it was most likely for sites to adopt a `.php3` URI scheme:

— 1998-06: First appearance of PHP 3.0 https://www.php.net/manual/en/history.php.php#history.php3

— 1999-01-04: Zend Engine (PHP 4) announced https://web.archive.org/web/19990421025151/http://www.zend.c... “Development on Zend will be completed in the first quarter of 1999, and a final release is expected on the second quarter that year.”

— 1999-10: First of several PHP4 public beta releases: https://web.archive.org/web/19991012225049/http://php.net/ve...

— 2000-05-22: PHP 4.0.0 https://web.archive.org/web/20000621094131/http://www.php.ne...

— 2000-10-20: Final PHP3 release, version 3.0.18 https://www.php.net/manual/php3.php

Compare mod_php (Apache) installation docs from before and from after the release of PHP 4:

https://web.archive.org/web/19990508133533/http://www.php.ne... sez “`AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3` — You can choose any extension you wish here. `.php3` is simply the one we suggest.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20001110084900/http://www.php.ne... sez “For PHP 3: `AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3`. For PHP 4: `AddType application/x-httpd-php .php`. — You can choose any extension you wish here. `.php` is simply the one we suggest. You can even include `.html`.”
In a more consumer friendly architecture, the bank would send the consumer a list of the current organizations that have a recurring charge 'relationship' and ask the consumer which ones should be transferred to the new card. It takes it from automatic, to semi-automatic, but much more consumer friendly. Needs lots of security around it, of course.
Also, why would you risk a kinetic response, when it's so far proven perfectly safe to donate equipment to Ukraine?
>scope creep

I think this is the fundamental point where people like you who didn't enjoy the books and people like me who deeply did depart. I thought the unfolding scope of the trilogy felt like a logical, justified progression, in the manner of an escalating conflict. Yes it does escalate quickly, but there is a good reason at each scope level that it needs to expand to the next as the conflict spirals out of control and the technology involved improves. And in general I enjoy when things sort of escalate in scope like that, like Akira for instance. Maybe you prefer books that stay at the same scope the entire time but that's a personal preference.

Also I really don't see how the nature of the ending is at all akin to the "it was all a dream" type ending, because it doesn't fundamentally undercut that the things that happened actually did happen, and had consequences. Yes our assumptions about the nature of the fabric of reality are undercut, but not in a way that means that anything that we thought happened didn't actually happen or anything like that, and not in a way that undercuts stakes, if anything the stakes are far greater. And the choice to restart the universe so it can be better again is actually a deeply consequential action with a lot of seeks to it. Likewise I don't see how the larger scope of the later books makes the smaller scope of the earlier ones not meaningful? That's how we got here.

And I think more than enough interesting and unique speculative fiction ideas are introduced, and I think they are explored enough, in a grand and stunning enough fashion, to justify the book, even if they aren't perhaps looked into as deeply as you think they should be, despite the paper thin characters with nonsensical motivations. Especially since the actual political chess/information game between the trisolarans and humans is so interesting.
The fact the final answer is close to the initial answer is surprising: the fact it's not the same is unsurprising. 2.67 was decided (plucked out of thin air) before any of the other numbers were invented.
I mention Japanese because I deal with Japanese text daily. I could mention some Chinese documents and sites using GBK to save space (since such encodings use exactly 2 bytes per character whereas the average size in UTF-8 is strictly larger than 2 bytes). But I am not very familiar with it. Overall, I would not say these are "strange reasons".
Does 1/64" precision really mean anything in wood, where small fluctuations in air moisture can cause > 1/64" distortion? I guess it's OK if you stay within a climate controlled area.
> As we say in Russia, "and what are the downsides"?

Tremendous wasted potential. You could be living the kind of life Norwegians are enjoying, but you are unable to climb out of the self-destructive pattern that leads to low development, lack of freedoms, retarded economy and general despair that makes 1 in 4 men to drink themselves to death before the age of 55. As much as you like to shake fists at the "rotting West", in the end it's you who are living shorter, unhappier and less productive lives. It's true now, it was true in Soviet days, and it was true during czars and empresses.

The rest of us would happily leave you alone in that misery if only you stopped trying to drag us down with you.
Yes, because "Google Trends" is sufficient data. Not disagreeing/agreeing but I expected more data.
https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/docs/lorawan/rssi-and-snr/

> If the RSSI is below the noise floor, it is impossible to demodulate the signal. However, LoRa can demodulate signals that are below the noise floor.
The website doesn't function well on mobile and the blog is broken, links click to example.org.
I can understand the reflex. To me she was "that actress from that show Felicity that I never watched". The Diplomat turned me around real quick.
[dupe]

Actual article: https://security.googleblog.com/2024/04/how-we-fought-bad-ap...

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40204259)
Show HN: Define and implement any function on the fly with LLMs
It's not a serious library, but I figured it could be something fun to make.
I wonder if that's because there's an assumption that validation has to occur via the Luhn Algorithm (or Modulus 10)[1] on the input-side?

Edit: I'd just let BankID handle the validation and store the two-digit year.[2]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identity_number_(Swed...

[2] - https://www.bankid.com/en/
oops, I meant "million tons" not "billion tons"!
True, I guess they’re not making a concrete claim about which was which.
To be clear, FireChat was a proprietary and closed source app which went away for reasons that only the people controlling it truly understand. That immediately suggests to me more of a "the money ran out" situation vs the more salacious "the CIA had a word" style implication at the end of the parent.
Also on your phone/tablet.

I use dvorak so the first thing I have to do when I get a new phone is to install an alternative keyboard.
Has it?! That's distressing...
yes, but apparently the law hasn't been updated to allow for that, and legal people get confused by it. what is it that triggers the process of reviewing and revising/removing an outdated law when an entity breaks it? it's obvious that there could be thousands of laws that were made, that are now out of date because of advances in technology or scientific understanding. so isn't there some regular procedure for, when someone sues someone, allowing for the opportunity to consider if the particular violated law is still applicable? maybe if it hasn't been applied in a while and/or was made a long time ago?
If you find the python specific tooling too weird just use OCI containers. The packaging and runtime is isolated enough you shouldn't run into dependency or installation issues.
I don't know about the rest of the developers in the world but my dream come true would be a computer that can write all the code for me. I have piles of notebooks and files absolutely stuffed with ideas I'd like to try out but being a single, measly human programmer I can only work on one at a time and it takes a long time to see each through. If I could get a prototype in 30 seconds that I could play with and then have the machine iterate on it if it showed promise I could ship a dozen projects a month. It's like Frank Zappa said "So many books, so little time."
Perl has a very strong documentation culture. One of the things I miss in Common Lisp is the ability to just do 'perldoc List::Util' and get an overview of all subroutines in that module, with examples and clear explanations of how it all works.
Perfectly valid method, IMO. I always put some vias in the thermal pad and expose the copper on the other side. That way the vias don't get plugged with solder mask and wick away excess solder. It also lets you heat the thermal pad with an iron from the other side for real low-budget SMD work.

Squishing the chip down is fine, you just have to be careful to align it with the pads properly. I don't think I've ever seen a solder bridge on a QFN other than a big ball on the outside edge. Modern solder alloys and solder masks are really good at preventing bridges. The solder really doesn't want to stay between the package body and the solder mask, it will try very hard to only stick to metal.
Isn't the current discussion prompted by lawyers looking at everything the FSF says about that?
Will Americans Ever Get Sick of Cheap Junk?
But it doesn’t actually say that in the article
Benchmarking Mobile Device Control Agents Across Diverse Configurations