skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm guessing you live in GB. In NI tensions are higher due to it (unionist opposition to the protocol), shipping's often more expensive, or items won't be shipped to us (try putting a BT postcode into displate, or ordering batteries online), and it's more difficult for companies to operate on an all Ireland basis. We also have "only for Northern Ireland" items in shops which are items that can't legally be sold in Ireland or GB despite being identical, in a shop like Tesco that operates in all 3 areas, causing more difficulty to shops than necessary. Here we've only seen negatives, in an area with a complicated relationship with borders, where the single most effective thing we had to deal with that was a set of common laws and trade area (europe), and none of this was even considered by Westminster before the referendum.

Edit: forgot to mention this. Someone in my family has a vehicle in Ireland and in NI, we sort of live between the two countries, pre-brexit that was completely fine as their drivers licence was european so there was no issues, but post-brexit they cannot get insured in Ireland due to insurance companies refusing to give insurance to someone with a non-EU licence.
Anyone here have some ideas how to avoid crony capitalism / regulatory capture while still make new sensible laws to help society?
Even if they do it in a slapdash way, it's still going to be 0 versus "pretty high" and that's a lot easier than gradients of 16ths. Dropping the endurance to match QLC mode would require intentional effort.
Are you talking about artistic styles? No, they're not copyrightable.
> If you’ve ever used a device with a USB or Bluetooth connection, you can thank Intel for that.

Wasn't Apple a serious factor in getting both popular? I 'member Apple was the first one to seriously deploying USB for its keyboards and mice, whereas the rest of the world was stuck with PS/2 (and the fact it wasn't supposed to do hot-plugging) or, even worse, that horrible large DIN plug for keyboards. And I also 'member that Windows' USB stack situation was horrible up until Windows 2000, with USB sticks shipping with tiny little driver CDs that contained the manufacturer's implementation of an USB storage class driver for 98/ME.

And IIRC they were also the first one to have a Bluetooth stack that didn't outright suck (it took Windows until W7 to ship with its own native BT stack, so every chipset vendor shipped their own package, with different feature sets and a host of interoperability issues).
Either Russia is abjectly defeated so they are incapable of fighting, or they are presented with an option which they prefer to continuing the war. The former is extremely difficult (to put it mildly) and the latter is broadly filed under negotiation.
You usually want people who are A) do actually buy something and B) attend in actual social interactions (i.e. talking to each other).

Rent an office or go to one of those shared office spaces, they do offer coffee too.
Better yet, the explanation is given in the title.
Does this add any interframe blur or are you controlling that based on exposure time ? Very important for quality Timelapse's
We wait until we have an actual, real problem. Then we try to fix it.

Right now, AI-induced unemployment just isn’t a problem.

So it’s extremely likely the advocates for regulation are AI corporations, rather than reams of unemployed workers.
I don’t understand what you’re trying to say there.
I don't why it's flagged, it's just a free service for people to play with.
> 1 megawatt of continuously absorbed power would require a lot of mass to dissipate without melting

Hum... I would require a lot of surface area, that's certain. There's no constraint at all at the mass.
Yeah, exactly, this sanctimonious 'no child left behind' politician schtick is always on display whenever people talk about cool space exploration stuff.

It's just a way for people to steal attention away from the topic they don't like and derail the conversation.
In a mobilized command economy like Russia today, monetary costs in terms of currency have mostly become meaningless. They're nominally paying in RUB which is basically "funny money" and no longer fully convertible to USD or UKP. Russian leaders don't really think in terms of monetary cost. It's more about making effective use of stockpiles and deciding how to allocate limited industrial production capacity. Most of the foreign manufacturing experts have left, and not many Russians have the skills necessary to mass produce precision parts anymore.
Scrabble is interesting because average people think about it like a casual game, but it's nearly as strategic as chess despite significant randomness. Most people play with a completely greedy approach. Thinking just one move ahead about rack and board state is enough to beat someone with a great vocabulary but no strategy.
Wonder what made Intel keep its damn paws firmly on Thunderbolt up until the USB4 days. To this day it's still a truckload of issues/hacks to get old PCs upgraded with Thunderbolt 2/3 cards.
Why are we pretending that biodiversity in nature is just the nice part?
But Russia has no reason to do that. To end the war you need one of two things to happen: send enough weapons (and possibly soldiers) to Ukraine to force the Russians to retreat, which West is clearly not capable of doing, or you need the negotiations. I would not count on Putin suddenly getting conscience-stricken and saying: "what I did was wrong, please forgive me, I'm ending the war now".
Apparently they use a jamming-resistant GLONASS receiver module: https://mil.in.ua/en/articles/kometa-challenge-for-ukrainian...
Well, there's your problem right there. Assuming that Tesla's "FSD" mode is actually self-driving, even with an alert driver, is a big and sometimes fatal mistake.

Just another complaint that Tesla's marketing has little relation to reality. Who knew?
Technically they are writing (0,0,0,1) instead of (0.0625).
But you don't need to hit the sails with 100GW to get a few grams of weight up to relativistic speeds right?

1 gram at 0.2c has 1030MWh of energy. So at 1Mw of received power it would take 1030 hours or about 60 days to accelerate 2g to 0.2c.

I believe most plans call for much more than 60 days of acceleration. So less than 1Mw of power needs to be delivered to the solar sail. Realistically the mass will be more than 2g. Lets say they roughly cancel out.

At 99.99% efficiency that would be 100w to dissapate. Seems like a lot, but could be doable.
Certain customers suck and you need to fire them if you want to make money.
Should we have protected the livelihoods of horse carriage manufacturers when cars were created?
Most ATACMS use GPS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM-140_ATACMS#Variants

The UK's hot-shit guided artillery shell uses GPS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M982_Excalibur

Yeah, GPS is seriously unreliable anywhere around the Baltic and Ukraine.
I grew up along US Highway 62 - which I found our recently is the "only east–west United States Numbered Highway that connects Mexico and Canada".[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_62
What passes for "AI regulation" is an attempt to divert attention from the real problem - arbitrary exercise of corporate power.

AIs which just answer questions people pose seem to be mostly harmless. Some people might not like the answers, and some of the answers might be wrong. That's true of web search results now. That's just an extension of the social media controversy.

AIs which have authority over people are scary. "AI says No!" This is a
corporate power problem, not an AI problem. If corporations or landlords have arbitrary
discretionary power to affect people's lives, that's the problem. Not that they delegated that
authority to an AI. The EU regulates decisions against individuals made by algorithms.
The EU has already stopped Uber from "robo-firing", where the app back end fired underperforming drivers.

Few proposed AI laws make this distinction. That's because it would raise the issue of arbitrary exercise of power and collective individual rights. That might lead to political unrest, or even unions.
No, lasers are rather inaccurate over large distances. So it would be very uniformly spread.
No need to go to .nl, anywhere rural scares away the fascists. My neighbors kid started professionally operating heavy construction equipment at age 7, and kids seen in this video would be off riding dirt bikes with their friends down the dirt roads.

In more urban areas of course the real reason people can't let their kids loose is the paranoid collectivists in the city are at the ready at all times to call child services at any hint of freedom.
They're bombs; you're supposed to drop them from a plane. Ukraine isn't doing a lot of military aviation just now.
Some amount of regulation, in particular in regards to reporting biases installed into the systems is probably worth some merits.

What, if, for example, we’ll have a mass information system that would start pushing something that is very beneficial for special interest communities (say community is furries and this increases their dating pool), but tends to result in higher level of depression and suicide in teenagers. And then we also find that overall the system reduces mortality, by providing high quality medical advice.

Surely shutting down the system would not be a good idea. And requiring private enterprise to change their messaging infringes on free speech. But at least requiring to properly disclose biases is likely a good idea.
How is JK Rowling terrible, exactly?
Traefik with SSL: Understanding Acme
> GPS is almost never used for military guidance systems compared to inertial dead reckoning

GPS is lighter, cheaper, and more accurate (when it works) than inertial navigation systems (which are more reliable to work at all) and is widely used alone or alongside inertial navigation on weapons systems.
The irony being that probably some regulation is a good idea - but the only people with sufficient influence to enact top-down regulation are also the ones who hold the purse strings.

This is where capitalism breaks down, when it comes to technology that is powerful enough to erode liberty and undermine civilizations.
The glide bombs are very hard to track for directing anti-air fire, as they have no heat signature to speak of, emit no appreciable RF, and have relatively small radar cross sections. They're also moving very fast by the time they are near target.
PERMA Theory - From Burnout to Thriving: 5 Key Components
Unless it's very "public common", otherwise, the numbers can be used for trustworthy work. In general, I think this is just for "fun play" most of the time.
And before somebody says “we should address problems before they happen” the challenge with AI is we don’t know exactly what problems will happen or what effective regulation would be.

It makes sense to say new buildings have to meet fire safety regulations that are based on learnings from past fires. AI is too new; everyone is either guessing or lobbying for personal benefit.

We should be vigilant, but I don’t for a second believe the “any regulation is better than nothing” rhetoric from those who stand to gain.
I’m no artist, but I’m not sure I agree. As an example, Cubism (Picasso) or stuff by Pollack (arguably another ‘great’) seems quite distinct and therefore reproducible – at least visually if not physically (paint texture, etc.).
To the credit of Elon Musk and his minions ; you can clearly see what's happening (via the video recording), so obviously vision-only FSD could work, just the AI tech isn't developed yet.

So it's not really a vision-only FSD issue.
If you mean windows, it has been so many years since .NET has been able to run on many different platforms; and by now, most of the ecosystem supports majority of platforms too..

You get an amazing runtime with near native performance, access to value types, no type erasure, access to low-level operations when utmost performance is needed, very good cross platform and architecture SIMD support, three different great IDEs with two of them being cross-platform, AoT compilation that keeps getting better, WASM target with a good framework (Blazor), and so on.

Modern .NET is truly amazing and highly undervalued IMO.
A libertarian magazine thinks regulations are bad? I'm shocked!
Been making timelapses with ffmpeg since forever, such a great tool. I try to always have a cam pointed at the sky and upload a snapshot every minute. A telegram command triggers the creation of a timelapse with a similar cli command like the OP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GvaFBzOu2c
This comment for some reason made me think of some very long things that looked like card slots sorta but I believe took very long ribbon cables. Might be that ?

No idea what they were
Maybe overly cynical but "risks" of "AI" going to Congress seems mostly to be a submarine hype thing
Back then most of the trucks were made by IVECO, hence FIAT. This is the same reason highways are quite developed across Italy, while Milan is the only place with proper infrastructure in place for commuters. It's the same reason Turin had to wait until early 2000s (before the Olympics) to get an underground rail.

The biggest issue with Sicily infrastructure is that most of the rail lines are single tracks, plus southern of Salerno you don't have high speed trains. Therefore the bridge itself cannot make much of an impact without fixing the infrastructure at both sides of the (hypothetical) bridge.
This is just one fatal assumption that western had on Russia: they don’t know how to innovate and adapt to modern warfare. In fact it gave the western such impression only because it was not in a serious war for a long time.
A topic tagging system could potentialy help people filter stuff.

"Hacking" is a mindset that can still be applied in interesting ways to social problems and assumptions. The standard political discourse does not generally operate with such a mindset (ideally intelligent, thoughtful, humble regarding uncertainties or alternative views etc.)

The audience here and moderation structure creates somewhat different takes on things even if comments are too limiting to have "debates".

These are fuzzy topics where it is difficult to objectively prove arguments, difficult to agree on philosophical scoring/ranking of various social states or end goals. The academic background is lacking in rigor and apparently ignores or suppresses large swathes of potential investigative topics.

There should be more attention given to the meta level of these topics. Having a more precise language and names for concepts would help have higher-level discussion without repeating basics all the time, and without the "appeal to emotion" type of anecdotal/moral/rage-filled discussion.
You won't recognize him, as he is not in a familiar sleeve.
My reply is an attempt to address the original comment with precision. To diagram its intended meaning:

> alternative theories of consciousness

"Any body of academic thought" [I accede the scientific legitimacy of the domain of discourse, rather than dismissing it.]

> know where to go to find well-argued positions on the topic.

"whose paradigmatic communication medium" [This is the beginning of my challenge to the Original Commenter, by granting the information provided authoritative status, which they perhaps cannot fully defend.]

> On YouTube you can find plenty of discussions

"is video rather than text"

> it’s particularly important to explore these discussions as dispassionately as possible if you regard materialism as the only theory of mind that has any scientific credibility or validity.

"is prima facie suspect" [The Original Commenter has asserted that discourse and engagement are important, yet provided only time consuming, low signal-to-noise sources of information.]

> As Christopher Hitchens reminds us in his legendary oration on John Stuart Mill and free speech [2]

"Might you please link a written statement of the salient position(s) of any one of these gentlemen?" [The only written citations are 1) generic and 2) ancillary to the core topic. I invite the Original Commenter to further his argument more substantively, without demanding exhaustive citations.]
> Other works that have made similar arguments: [1] Allegory of the Cave, Plato, c. 375 BC [2] Three Kinds of Scientific Realism, Putnam, The Philosophical Quarterly, 1982 ..

Looking for Putnam vs Popper, found this:
According to Hilary Putnam, who first championed metaphysical realism and later challenged it, metaphysical realism involves adopting a so-called “God’s point of view.” https://www.telework.ro/en/contemporary-realism-karl-popper-...

AI and “God’s point of view” ?! - what can go right ?
That's common enough that there's a name for it [0]. "Stealing the style" is not so much a problem as commoditization, which may find some measure of defense in terms of trademark (not copyright). In this case, for example, the model is named hollieMengert_v1, and we are referring to the style as "Hollie Mengert's art style".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design
> I view it as a lost war. The war against human meaning.

If "human meaning" goes, all else goes with it;

Social media, search, education, ambition, creation, innovation...

And along with that goes Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Apple, Meta,
Amazon...

There's nothing that exists outside that "bubble" of human meaning,

Technology must preserve it, or technology dies.

Unless you are confirming what many have already said.. that digital
technology has become death cult?
this is what I saw, https://columns.ai/chatgpt/jMTu9QXU9nbeCs
"no fact check", not sure if LLM would give source cite while giving those numbers.
Where I live now there are a few East-West roads and due to the topography, no North-South roads connecting them. All the side roads off these E-W roads were lettered. Problem is, there is an e.g. "I" road off of each E-W road which makes giving people directions or emergency response complicated. So, at some point, some of the side-roads were re-named to be numbers. So now one of the "I"s is 19, etc. Problem is, in AT&Ts system the mappings from landline number to address still uses the old lettering system and apparently cannot be changed - and this feeds into the emergency dispatch system. So, if you live on one of these roads and call 911 on your home phone, they'll have a difficult time finding you and there's a chance they'll go to the right address on the wrong road first... Ugh.
Why are you spending your time and money posting here? Focus on providing every human with access to clean drinking water, you can worry about social media after that.
I did try math but math found me unworthy of its secrets.
There are plenty of good board games out now that are cooperative in nature, rather than competitive. Maybe start with those if there are anger issues? I really enjoy this one in particular with my younger relatives https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/209778/magic-maze
The 2022 predictions of Russia's imminent collapse are looking pretty bad as well. Do you call the people who were predicting that trolls? This was has already lasted longer than early-war internet commenters on both sides said it would.

No fair picking on the predictions of others without exposing myself to the same, so here is my prediction: eventually cease fire terms will be agreed upon when both sides become too weary to continue and the war will "end" in a frozen conflict that won't see a satisfactorily conclusion for generations. Think Korea.
No one is going to give you an essay on what exactly they should do when they no one here even has all the intel. You can at best guess and present some technobabble that sounds plausible. But the current trajectory of the war and the perpetual cycle of asking for more should speak volumes on the current leadership.
> t's not impossible that even an LLM, which totally isn't designed with the goal of having it, might nevertheless have it.

I was referring to the idea that a brain scan of a human could be copied into an LLM.
What did they think was going to happen? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As an math educator, I think there's a huge flaw in this study. The investigators failed to follow up to see why the mistake was made. They leap to assuming the player is trying to "deny the antecedent", but I think there's a much simpler explanation: the players aren't reading the instructions carefully.

There's two reading errors I would expect someone to make given this experiment:

1. The instructions that each card has exactly one letter and exactly one number are before the big cards. I bet many players just skipped that instruction.

2. Mistaking the P→Q as P←→Q smacks more of a reading comprehension error than a logical error.

Disclosure: I made both mistakes. (-:
>All that is needed is for Russia to stop murdering Ukrainians and retreat from all Ukrainian territory

That would be nice, but what are the chances of that happening in your opinion without the US and Europe's promising that Ukraine will never become a member of NATO and the US and Europe's promising to stop supplying weapons to Ukraine?
Show HN: Checkpoint 401 – forward auth server in TypeScript / Deno
I wrote a forward auth server in TypeScript and Deno.

I've written several forward auth servers before but they have always been specifically written for that application. I wanted something more generalised that I could re-use.

What is forward auth? Web servers likes Nginx and Caddy and Traefik have a configuration option in which inbound requests are sent to another server before they are allowed. A 200 response from that server means the request is authorised, anything else results in the web server rejecting the request.

This is a good thing because it means you can put all your auth code in one place, and that the auth code can focus purely on the job of authing inbound requests.

Checkpoint 401 aims to be extremely simple - you define a route.json which contains 3 things, the method, the URL pattern to match against and the filename of a TypeScript function to execute against that request. Checkpoint 401 requires that your URL pattern comply with the URL pattern API here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URLPattern/...

Your TypeScript function must return a boolean to pass/fail the auth request.

That's all there is to it. It is brand new and completely untested so it's really only for skilled TypeScript developers at the moment - and I suggest that if you're going to use it then first read through the code and satisify yourself that it is good - it's only 500 lines: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crowdwave/checkpoint401/ma...
If I click the `Y-axis`, then set the low-range to 0, then it looks better https://columns.ai/chatgpt/WoGchDeDpKNKWl
Where FFMPEG really shines is stabilising video.

Unfortunately not all versions have "vidstab".

ffmpeg -i "$1" -vf vidstabdetect=shakiness=5:show=1 dummy.avi

ffmpeg -i "$1" -vf yadif, format=yuv420p, vidstabtransform=zoom=2:optzoom=0:crop=black -c:v libx264 -b:a 32k stabilized264.mp4

Yesterweek's shaky video shot from a kayak: https://youtu.be/4pM0VeH4NE0?si=H2qTJfcvis3QmFlj
If you have a scenario where Optane makes sense today, in 10 years it'll be cost effective to use at least that much DRAM, backed by whatever storage is mainstream then and whatever capacitors or batteries you need to safely flush that DRAM to storage.

A dead-end product on clearance sale isn't the right choice for projects where you need to keep a specific mission-critical machine running for a decade straight. But for a lot of projects, all that really matters is that in a few years you can set up a new system with equal or better performance characteristics and not need to re-write your application to work well on the new hardware. I think all of the (vanishingly few) scenarios where Optane NVMe SSDs make sense fall into the latter category. (I feel sorry for anyone who invested significant effort into writing software to use Optane DIMMs.)
Llama3 implemented from scratch
How do you disarm corporations from having this power without giving it to the government?