skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is surprisingly little storage (or in some better cases, no storage at all) required to balance renewables and studies from 10-15 years ago confirm it, that's a favourite theme of conservatives but no longer brought up in serious circles. We already have all the production capacity (online and in committed, funded projects) for the required amount of batteries and will have many times more in only a few years - batteries will be there even before solar panels themselves will, mainly because installing them is simpler and they immediately make quick money, payback periods are shorter (and getting shorter as more solar is installed).
Make is ideal for trivial, portable projects. For everything else, cmake or something different that is simple, usable, and clearly documented in the project how to build, test, debug, and release.
How to POST documents to validator.w3.org for checking
A lot of you are taking the laws too literal. I guess it’s down to the cultural differences between the EU and the US. We have a lot of privacy laws in place regarding photography and other things in Europe (I guess it should be the full length since the Brits are in on it), but it’s to protect people from abuse more than it’s to limit your rights.

I take pictures of my children casually in public, and I always try to not include strangers. Technically it’s illegal for me to take the pictures if a stranger is on the photo, but I’m trying to avoid it because I don’t want strangers in my picture. I never think about the law while I’m doing it. Similarly if you’re taking a photo of some cultural/historical place you’re not going to want to focus on strangers in it, unless you’re the kind of weirdo the laws are there to target.

The only non-creep people these laws really impact are the photographers who actually do want to take pictures of unaware strangers for artsy reasons. I’m not entirely sure how they handle it, my guess would be that they break the law and then ask for permission afterwards and delete the photos if denied, but it’s just a guess.

Anyway, I don’t think it really enters the mind of any regular person taking pictures. But it’s nice to know that if someone is breaking these laws then you can call the cops on them instead of having to make them stop taking unwanted photographs. Which is really what happened before these laws, you’d have some creep taking pictures of high school girls at their last-exam-party (day where they all go drinking in various parks - very Scandinavian), and the creeps would get beaten up by a bunch of high schoolers. Now the cops can simply arrest people taking photos, and I know some of you may think this means they arrest a lot of high schoolers, but our police officers aren’t… well… assholes.
Predigital libraries offered both these things.

Compression: Microfilm.

Encryption: Well, not encryption exactly, but encryption is just an end to a means, which is privacy of communication. Libraries offer private reading rooms and generally refuse to release lending history to any random person who asks.
Similar idea using GNU chess: http://chess.delorie.com/
When I was a math student, I found the utility of lectures magnified a lot for me when I realized that the lecture isn't the best time for first exposure to material. I got a lot more benefit when I was able to gain access to the lecture notes weeks in advance and begin trying to understand it by myself at a leisurely pace. Then when I attended lectures I was able to do so in a relaxed frame of mind, with understanding of what I found confusing so far, so I could focus on that part of the lecturer's presentation, and be ready with good questions.
Depends on the device. When they take it out of sight they'll plug it into an automated unit that just hoovers up the data and sends it to intel. They want to build a detailed profile on every traveller. Now if you wipe the device and are logged out of your accounts, they're stuck. So they leave a rootkit that relays the login info when you type it in at home later.
If they take your device out of sight or plug it into any of their hardware, then it's a write off. Straight to Craigslist
That's a very old rumour. I first heard it 9 years ago, as a rumour for the upcoming Skylake uarch [0], based on an intel paper from 2012 [1]

For that reason, I'm inclined to dismiss it without too much thought. And the general industry trend seems to be moving away from SMT altogether, because it's hard to justify when you have 8+ physical cores.

[0] https://wccftech.com/intel-preparing-dirsuptive-skylake-micr...

[1] https://hps.ece.utexas.edu/pub/morphcore_micro2012.pdf
And yet tiles have been out for something like a decade and I've never seen a news story about them being used for stalking.

100% indeed...

Stop your screeching that is feeding the asinine moral panic that has resulted in these things becoming worthless for tracking packages and stolen items.
> Two in one week? What are the odds?

Remarkably higher than intuition would suggest. Things happen for reasons, so when something happens there is an unusually good chance that it'll happen again quickly because events aren't happening independently. Like how if somebody is struck by lightening and don't seek shelter, there is a heightened chance it'll happen again shortly.
what is the "dense tome" that the author refers to in this link: http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00346ED1V01Y2... ?

it seems to be coming up kinda 404 for me. thank you !
It's been around for ages.

cmake and ninja, which can both be installed from PyPI. There's also a compiled 1:1 clone of ninja called samurai (samu).
Mixed use zoning and anything that can’t weaken NIMBY legislation. It’s all about increasing supply.

The ADU legislation is a step in the right direction.
Could restructure your life to not need a car. Or buy a $12000 used Nissan Leaf. Or take the bus.
Interesting any good research studies on this?
The ability to describe a language with useful and concise rules make a language easier to understand and learn. I think this serves as a perfectly reasonable metric for how "crazy" or consistent a natural language is. What other definition of consistency would matter to anyone?
Sigh. The problem is just isn't as portable and doesn't do cached file dependencies. It tries to be better than make but it's a step backwards, more like yet another shell language.
Have you seen some people with technology? =)

They won't "take 1 hour of time", they try it once or twice and give up.
Does it feed your audio directly to gpt4?To test it I said in a very angry tone "WHAT EMOTION DOSE IT SOUND LIKE I FEEL RIGHT NOW?" and it said it didn't know because we are communicating over text
There is a planned line of Xeons with a lot of *mont cores, targeting workloads like web hosting. It makes sense to not use the huge cores we now get from Intel and AMD for most workloads.
Disable browser history to write better internal docs
A Google search for practically any long-tail keywords will reveal that LLMs have already had a very significant impact. DuckDuckGo has suffered even more. Social media is absolutely lousy with AI-powered fraud of varying degrees of sophistication.

It's glib to dismiss safety concerns because we haven't all turned into paperclips yet. LLMs and image gen models are having real effects now.

We're already at a point where AI can generate text and images that will fool a lot of people a lot of the time. For every college-educated young person smugly pointing out that they aren't fooled by an image with six-fingered hands, there are far more people who had marginal media literacy to begin with and are now almost defenceless against a tidal wave of hyper-scaleable deception.

We're already at a point where we're counselling elders to ignore late-night messages from people claiming to be a relative in need of an urgent wire transfer. What defences do we have when an LLM will be able to have a completely fluent, natural-sounding conversation in someone else's voice? I'm not confident that I'd be able to distinguish GPT-4o from a human speaker in the best of circumstances and I'm almost certain that I could be fooled if I'm hurried, distracted, sleep deprived or otherwise impaired.

Regardless of any future impacts on the labour market or any hypothesised X-risks, I think we should be very worried about the immediate risks to trust and social cohesion. An awful lot of people are turning into paranoid weirdos at the moment and I don't particularly blame them, but I can see things getting seriously ugly if we can't abate that trend.
I think stores have become much more welcoming.

The doors automatically open for you, the interior is nicely arranged, everything is brightly lit, and food is chilled, refrigerated and frozen.

Also, cold coca cola.
It will be interesting to see how they compare, years from now, when ChatGPT has been similarly compromised.
Shipping is surprisingly reasonable at under 400.-
> Yeah, but it's an uninteresting test.

On its own, yes, fair, but it was combined with the 64 and 128 bit variants which aren't uninteresting.

> As others point out, 32-bit XXH3 has the same issue.

Yes, me.

> It has nothing to do with the quality of the hash algorithm

The original post asked "I would like to see the collision distribution on /usr/share/dict/words." and that is what they got a demonstration of - some collisions on 32 bit, none on 64 or 128 bit. What else could be done to satisfy their original request in a way that would be interesting to you?
I love seeing new tool changer designs but the space. It truly seems to be the future of printing, rather than filament changers like mmu/ams/ercf. I've been working on my own tool changer for a spare bedslinger I have laying around, I can't wait until I have something to show for it.
I'd mentally change the acronym to Speech to Tokens. Parsing emotion and other non-explicit indicators in speech has been an ongoing part of research for years now. Meta-data of speaker identity, inflection, etc could easily be added and current LLMs already work with it just fine. For instance asking Claude, with 0 context, to parse the meaning of "*laughter* Yeah, I'm sure that's right." instantly yields:

----

The phrase "*laughter* Yeah, I'm sure that's right" appears to be expressing sarcasm or skepticism about whatever was previously said or suggested. Here's a breakdown of its likely meaning:

"*laughter*" - This typically indicates the speaker is laughing, which can signal amusement, but in this context suggests they find whatever was said humorous in an ironic or disbelieving way.

"Yeah," - This interjection sets up the sarcastic tone. It can mean "yes" literally, but here seems to be used facetiously.

"I'm sure that's right." - This statement directly contradicts and casts doubt on whatever was previously stated. The sarcastic laughter coupled with "I'm sure that's right" implies the speaker believes the opposite of what was said is actually true.

So in summary, by laughing and then sarcastically saying "Yeah, I'm sure that's right," the speaker is expressing skepticism, disbelief or finding humor in whatever claim or suggestion was previously made. It's a sarcastic way of implying "I highly doubt that's accurate or true."

----
That's a god function antipattern and rapidly becomes non-portable.

Each lifecycle hook should be a an executable of some sort like "scripts/{{command}}", be it a shell script or something else.
Not for me. It’s cure for forgetfulness.
YouTube CEO: It's Time for the Emmys to Embrace Creators
> There's simply no comparison. Nuclear has already lost.

In the 1980s wind & solar had already lost; and by a substantially bigger margin. Yet here we are. The potential for nuclear energy is still substantially greater than that of renewable power and eventually one of these companies will find a way to exploit that potential if we let them look.
Been There, Done That, Bought The T-Shirt and leads to unmaintainable shit. One script per action. The end.
Lufthanasa, like other airlines, was pissed that customers were routinely catching their employees claiming their luggage was "lost" when it was sometimes even sitting a few dozen feet from the person who was claiming the luggage was lost, so they made up some obvious nonsense about them being hazardous.

Unless you think a huge, high-end airline "got confused"? It wouldn't have been against regs even if ti was a lithium ion battery because it's so tiny. What do you think they do about the millions of electric toothbrushes and shavers people travel with that have much larger lithium ion batteries?

They retracted it because it ended up causing a Striesand Effect, putting a lot of sunlight on how airlines do a very brisk business selling "lost" luggage.
What benchmark is this? Geekbench?

Geekbench is notoriously inconsistent across platforms. Not saying the iPad chip isn't faster, but I wouldn't judge by Geekbench scores alone...
3. Hmm. I think the biggest issue then might be the inability to extend the protocol then, not the lack if TLS.

Http(s) had at least some back and forth that allowed clients/servers to do protocol negotiation, not perfect, but workable such that normally crashes do not occur...

Although speaking of crashes, if your app is as poorly written to easily crash, perhaps it should be re-written - if e.g. gopher were to come back in a meaningful way, that sounds like ripe pickings for security folk.
Are they direct driving most of the joints?

It looks like they have a direct-drive motor that can operate joints with no gears.[1] Is that right? If they use all direct drive motors, these robots are mechanically simple. No gears, no strings, no pulleys, maybe no separate bearings.

A production line for a custom motor is expensive to set up, but once production is running, each motor is cheap. An encoder is cheap if designed into the motor.
This is the route to volume production.

Machine learning has made the control problem much easier. The classic approach was to work out the dynamics analytically. (I used to struggle with that in the 1990s). That's the old Boston Dynamics approach. Now that's obsolete. BD must be using some machine learning by now. The video of Atlas doing a flip showed the planning process briefly. It was very pre-planned. They must be beyond that by now.

[1] https://shop.unitree.com/products/go1-motor
They call pytest --collect-only and parse the output before distributing it to the Github Action python matrix. I'm a little surprised pytest doesn't offer the ability to cache collection. Though a slow collection time may be an issue that should be addressed since developers must suffer it locally!
Most unethical things are also illegal. I think the ethical code is reinforcing the idea of personal responsibility. If you're an engineer and you're asked to build a bridge and cut corners that's unethical behavior, and it's illegal and you will actually be punished in the event the bridge collapses. Being an ethical engineer in this context is pointing out the bridge is not designed properly and might collapse, refusing to sign that plan, and making a complaint with the right authorities. Bribery or other similar conducts are also illegal and unethical. I guess there may be some gray areas that are not illegal but are unethical by some morals. I guess an example might be a gambling company or a tobacco company. Tricky.
Unless I missed a memo, Linux LTS is 2 years of support these days. Many distributions offer 10 year LTS releases, but I’m not sure of any off the top of my head that currently offer more.
> The warranty on the base model is only 8 months, and for the higher end model only a year. This is not good!

They are also almost impossible to self-repair & service beyond changing motors & batteries. And spare parts are not sold, at least not through the web store: https://shop.unitree.com/collections/accessories

It could change in the future, but for now, it's best to think of Unitree products as very advanced toys & prototypes.
Show HN: I made a QR code API as a service
Hi, I'm Liam - the creator of QR-API.com that just launched on PH: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/qr-api-com.

Looking at existing QR code API solutions, I see that either they are too expensive - subscription plan only give you a few thousands requests per month, or too simple - no advanced styling for QR code.
So, I decided to enhance the experience of QR code API to the next level: most powerful features and keep building, with 5-50x better price, no monthly subscription - pay credits for what you need.

Currently, the bellow features are working:

- API for static QR code

- Log, track and export report for API requests

- Upload and manage logos

- Multiple API keys, set specific limit quota for each key

- Save QR code config as preset (template), make endpoint cleaner

And I plan to bring more features:

- Bulk QR codes generate

- More advanced templates: QR code embeded in vCard, WiFi sticker,...

- QR code reader

- Nocode platforms integration

This is my first public indie product (actually the first is a bitly clone, but I don't think I will public it), I hope you can try it and give me feedback with free 1000 quota. Love to hear from you all.

PS: I have some discount for you, too: PH50OFF (first 10 purchases) and PH30OFF (first 50 purchases).
It's a moot point if they can't get access to the chips.
PgTAP: Unit Testing for PostgreSQL
Piece Chains (2006)
Google is an ad company. Ad prices are on an auction and most companies believe that they need ads. Less customers don't necessarily mean that the earnings go down, as when the clicks go down the prices might go up (without ad competitors). Ergo, they don't compete (yet at least).

But ChatGPT has really hurt Google's brand image.
I'm not really sure your self-driving analogy is apt here. Waymo has cars on the road right now that are totally autonomous, and just expanded its footprint. It has been longer and more difficult than we all thought, and those early tech demos were a glimmer of what was to come; then we had to grind to get there, with a lot of engineering.

I think what maybe seems not obvious amidst the hype is that there is a hell of a lot of engineering left to do. The fact that you can squash the weights of a neural net down to 3 bits per param and it still works -- is evidence that we have quite a way to go with maturing this technology. Multimodality, improvements to the UX of it, the human-computer interface part of it. Those are fundamental tech things, but they are foremost engineering problems. Getting latency down. Getting efficiency up. Designing the experience, then building it out.

25 years ago, early tech demos on the internet were promising that everyone would do their shopping, entertainment, socializing, etc... online. Breathless hype. 5 years after that, the whole thing crashed, but it never went away. People just needed time to figure out how to use it and what it was useful for, and discover its limitations. 10 years after that, engineering efforts were systematized and applied against the difficult problems that still remained. And now: look at where we are. It just took time.
To no one's shock, the police departments are giving poor advice
I don't know where you live but that isn't at all true anywhere I've lived.

I've had two reasons to need to "find" things with AirTags where I specifically didn't know where they were:

- airline bungle, so luggage was left at a transit airport.

- forgetting where something had been put down.

But the most common usage is the opposite, positive confirmation: we've just left for the airport, check if everything says "with you" once you're a few hundred meters down the road.

If the most likely reason for something to be "lost" is that it was stolen, maybe you should move somewhere with a less than apocalyptic level of petty crime.
No. You're wrong. The proliferation risk exists where significant enrichment fuel is used or the design is feasibly adaptable to breeding. These conditions are entirely avoidable by design, or by simply eliminating the entire category of risk by doing something else more profitable.
Interesting. Intuitively makes sense. Got something to read up on that more?
> Then the displaced factory workers flood remaining jobs driving down labor costs and shutting down any prospect of a humanoid machine.

I think the market for consumer humanoid robots would be similar to that of the consumer automotive market. I’d certainly pay the cost of a midrange car to never have to do housework/yardwork again.

And that’s not including industrial use cases.
I wish the presentation had included an example of integration with a simple tool like a timer. Being able to set and dismiss a timer in casual conversation while multitasking would be a really great demo of integrated capabilities.
Show HN: First Free HRMS Just Launched
Armano is an All-In-One HRMS with free plan!
From the article maybe someone with a specific uuid? :D
How much power does their microreactors generate?
Show HN: Forit.ai–Discover 715 AI Tools Across 100 Categories to Solve Problems
I believe that company is called Recall.ai
This does seem like the pretty obvious and inevitable outcome. Determining if a bug fix has security implications and if so how severe they are is often very difficult and all that you can confidently say is that you don’t know how to exploit it. Downstream consumers have tried to pressure the kernel maintainers into deciding which fixes need to be backported by demanding CVEs, but now they’re running into the problem of that they didn’t actually ask for the thing they really wanted since they knew that request would be (and has been) denied.
Google is experimenting with running Chrome OS on Android
If there APM dashboard is anything like Log Insights, hard pass. There's a reason no one uses Amazon's observability platforms. They're terrible to use.
W-what? Lad, have you used chat-gpt? It can instantly give you intelligent feedback on anything (usually better than any expert community like 90% of the time.) On extremely detailed, specific tasks (like writing algorithms or refactoring) its able to spit out either working code or code so close to working that its still faster than what you could have done yourself. It can explain things better than probably 99.999% of teachers.

It will give you detailed examples that are much easier to follow than vague, error-prone spec docs. That's scratching the surface. Other people are far more creative than me and have used chat-gpt for mind-blowing stuff already. Whatever its doing passes for 'reasoning' and 'intelligence' in my book. To me it doesn't matter whether its the same kind of intelligence as a human or if there's any amount of awareness as those are both philosophical questions of no consequence to my work.

For what these pieces of tech can do I feel that they're drastically under-utilized.
I'm working on a tiny saas that is moving in this direction. It's based on laravel in the backend.

I'm using different implementations of interfaces for self-hosted vs commercially (my variant) hosted.

What implementations get chosen depends on environment variables.

The code is available as GPL
Why are you giving me a ChatGPT-like wikipedia summary?

I used it to actually do shit like ace the SAT-I.
Walmart to Lay Off and Relocate Workers
Having worked on a browser engine for a decade I feel confident saying that it mostly just hurts
Walmart is cutting hundreds of corporate jobs and asking most remote workers to move to offices

Tide against remote work is turning slowly.