skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Google Play Service is checking on your location every 30 minutes anyway w/o you having the option to turn that off. They use it to see if there are traffic jams and stuff. So your location is __ALWAYS__ monitored if you want it or not.

And you cannot prevent that from happening because the service is sitting on top of the GPS device providing location services for all other applications. The only way to stop this from happening is to deactivate the google services but then your phone becomes a useless brick that makes every app you open cry about the missing Google services and how it won't work w/o them.

My guess is it's just another ploy to put the Google service on top of the bluetooth device and make it sit there 24/7 w/o the user being able to disable it w/o disabling the service itself.

Just Google being evil as usual.
GraphDev: GraphQL-First API Development Tool
Hey HN,

I use GraphQL daily and I feel like most major API/HTTP development tools treat GraphQL as an afterthought.

GraphDev is a GraphQL-first alternative, think of it like GraphQL Playground with:

Environment variables
Request sharing
Collections
Desktop proxy
Team collaboration (if you need it)

If you’ve been frustrated with other apps like Postman that seem to have just tacked on GraphQL support, give GraphDev a try. I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback!
Pipelines: Stream, Transform, and Route IoT Data Anywhere
I think this is the SOTA

https://s7d9.scene7.com/is/content/quantum/LQ_ErrorCorrectio...

the corrections significantly decrease the error rate but they need to do a lot of preselection, so it isn't quite useful yet.
OpenAI has a new safety team – it's run by Sam Altman
> Why? Strongly suggest updating the README to explain why this is useful, or what kind of workflow makes this useful. Just a list of features isn't that compelling to me because I'm not sure I want it.

I don't mean to speak for the author, but: The 10 seconds it took for the GitHub web UI to load the homepage of this project is a great justification for its existence!
You know what? Fuck that. I dont care if they served their time, I am still going to make judgements about someone for doing something so wicked, until proven otherwise. People can change, yeah, but they usually don't. Seems like he wised up and found a new way to fuck over his fellow man, legally.
You should publish on your own blog, and syndicate to other places (Medium, substack, hackernoon, etc).

This is better than:

a) Publishing only on your own blog

b) Publishing only on the most popular site.

After all, your goal is to spread your message as far as possible. Single-site publications don't make sense in that context.
"As matter expands away from the blast site, it thins out, so by the time the ejecta from a nearby supernova reaches Earth, perhaps a few hundred metric tons might rain upon our planet over a length of time. That might sound like a lot, but about that same amount of meteoric material slams into our atmosphere every day. So supernovas aren’t appreciably adding to Earth’s weight, nor are they a big danger to us in this way."
As Bluestein pointed you already to this, your question is being addressed by research from the begin on. Its called multi-agent AI, or some sort of..

if you mean like asking certain LLMs the same question and pick the best ones, this, too, have been posted here some days/weeks back.

But still, if you're not in the same knowledge domain, even if you get output of 50 different LLMs - how do you know, which one is the preopper/precise answer? No way of finding it out.
Fortunately, I have reached that stage.

OTOH, still figuring out what to do next.

I keep reminding myself of what PG had to say: By compressing the dull but necessary task of making a living into the smallest possible time, you show respect for life, and there is something grand about that.
At least here in the US, we'll need to lose a war on home soil to a more enlightened power before we get land use liberalization.
Which without context that is not given I certainly didn't know, so it isn't safe to expect others to know to. Are we supposed to dig into people's profiles to derive relevant context?
I'm with you. I get that this is akin to asking a human, because we're trying to reason, so we will bring along (assumedly) unavoidable deficiencies of human reasoning. But if I were to ask a human genius this question, ne would grab a calculator and employ it as ne did the rest of ner reasoning.

So it seems like we should probably teach LLMs to "use a calculator", rather than try to get them to be more right when doing math 'in their head'.
I recently visited a Baltic state and was impressed with a refurbished Soviet style brutalist building used as a hotel/ long term stay. It definitely seemed like a good solution.
That's a lot of work to get kicked out of a concert that you paid hundreds of dollars for.
You have to get to page 25 before it starts being honest about the fact quantum computing is a con.

Important Nuance: the research is real, the science is real, but the narrative being sold about the future of quantum computing to ensnare investors is not a reasonable prediction and is a con.
What Are Fractal Neural Network?
A utopic solution would be to learn, at last, how to have a thriving economy without increasing megalopolis.

Housing prices are unaffordable in big cities, while abandoned properties are rotting in the countryside everywhere. It's time we start spreading the economy rather than concentrating the people.
You can’t be rude ignoring a request that is both dumb and wholly a product of bureaucracy. Such requests are themselves rude, in a kind of weird impersonal way.
> Cloudflare is not "an extortionist firm". It is a large tech company, where occasionally teams employ shitty sales tactics to meet their numbers, but generally provides a valuable service and acts reasonably ethically.

Nice.
lots of functions with horizontal asymptotes look ok on a log scale until they don't.
But why stop at 10 years? If the theoretical bandwidth limit of SM Fiber is above 100 Gbit/s then there is simply no way that a household will need more internal bandwidth than that. Even for the next 20-30 years, because other technologies (like SATA) will be the limiting factor.

I believe this could be a case of future proofing that will actually last 30-40 years, no?
:shrug: Thousand compile errors sounds like Dev Team hasn't buckled down and fixed their build script (Dockerfile). Maybe they should take some time and do that. Other beauty about containers is ability to build in environment Devs control and any changes to build servers shouldn't impact them.
- "by nine orders of magnitude."

They're actually much closer to equal, if you account for the duration of the supernova light curve.

It's a somewhat relevant difference. A supernova 4 light years away, with all the energy released instantaneously like a bomb, should ignite and vaporize everything on one-half of the planet. That's a wrong calculation. The peak rate— the peak luminosity of a type Ia supernova, for example (10^43 erg/s or 10^36 W—a famous standard candle) would be no more than 50 W/m^2, from the distance of Alpha Centauri. That's about a 5% addition to the solar irradiance, sustained over a few weeks—probably just a moderate change in weather patterns.
Especially with non-roman character sets
https://www.oreenergy.com/our-tech

rust apparently??

edit:

https://formenergy.com/technology/battery-technology/
I was at the Tampa concert last year, and I was so distracted by trying to figure out how they controlled the wristbands. They were randomly handed out at the door, and I had no idea what seat I was in. I went through the scenario to flash sectors to see where they were located and build a grid, but when I got home, I was floored at the IR solution. It was so simple.
This is all true, but I think I want to be a parent even if it is heartbreaking.

I think of my own parents' experience. My brother is an addict (thankfully sober for a decade now, but it was a long journey). My sister died suddenly and with no warning when she was only 29, and she was 8 months pregnant. My parents' experience, by any account, has been devastating.

But if you ask them whether they would rather never have had my siblings at all? Not a chance. Not even the flicker of a consideration.

I don't think the actually quite high chance that it will be heartbreaking deters me from wanting it. But I also don't consider keeping my heart unbroken a priority. My heart only manages to break when I love, and I'd rather live a life full of both love and heartbreak than forego the former in hopes of avoiding the latter.
Thanks! If I'm reading that correctly, their best error rate with pre and post selection is 0.03%, but they end the paper with the statement "A significant milestone will be to demonstrate a universal family of quantum circuits with logical error rates approaching 10^−8." Seems like we're still six orders of magnitude off.
>because it's property they bought in good faith and any circumstance where they have paid for something and then being ordered to demolish it, is insane.

That part is actually very reasonable: the buyer having "good faith" means nothing if what you bought was illegally acquired from the seller, or had illegal constructs, or was built without a license, and in many other cases...

You can very easily buy something, and then be ordered to demolish it or part of it, or pay extra to the state to get proper licenses you didn't know it lacked, and many other things besides. It can even be taken away from you in its entirety.

So, yes, you can trivially buy something in good faith, and still have it confiscated / be orderer to pay to repair it / or whatever.

Not that different to buying a bridge in Brookly "in good faith". Despite your good faith purchase, it wont really be yours, and you'll have to get your money back from the seller, and that's if they catch him or even find him. And if he spent them and has no personal wealth, you wont get anything back, even if the court orders him to pay you.

Buyers beware, as they say.
For example, this article is considered on-topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40492515

Even though it's loosely about Taylor Swift, it's really about hacking some technology used in her concerts.
Agreed. This screams scope creep.

"We've built our own renderer" would make sense to me, perhaps specific handling is needed for the device's display.

However rolling a parser does not without further context, it screams: "I want to encounter some dumb non-specification stuff and crash for no reason"
Both answers are wrong. I didn't look at many files, and not all of them had the reasoning in them, but it was fairly easy to find examples of wrong answers based on the reasoning in the file.
Probably because chroot does not expose some sort of low-level knob that systemd relies on to work. They had to make their own implementation of that in systemd-nspawn, have a look at that.
Is There Anything Untranslatable?
Since we're here. What do people use when they need to test their software installs well on naked Ubuntu Server of some version? To not do manual setup in Virtualbox, can be Linux-only.

I've found Multipass https://multipass.run/ by Canonical and I wonder if anyone recommends it.
Very cool. Coincidentally, I was looking into starting to use Midnight Commander (again). When I run it in a repo, I still see my overall PRs, etc. Is there an option to get it to focus on the current repo?
I've been using Firefox since Chrome forced users to sign in to the browser with their Google account, and I'm quite happy.

The only time it's a problem is when a site detects Firefox and won't display unlocked your using chrome or IE. I've only seen that a couple of times in the years since I switched back
It will obviously deliver more total light if the structutred surface gathers more light than the flat surface.

If that's what's going on then it's no more mysterious than the difference between a cloudy day and a sunny day shining through the same pane of plain glass. When there is more light on one side, there is more light on the other side.

And that does seem to be the mechanism actually. Other commenters have pointed out this article just isn't very good and the original source never says transparent and does descibe explicitly that the surface is simply gathering more light by allowing less of it to reflect away. Light that would have reflected away is instead redirected inwards.
This is a common misconception about EVs. The stated range is for the EPA range, not on open roads at 80MPH (typical speeds on I-10 between Phoenix and LA). Even Tesla’s longest range Model, a Model S, with a 405 mile “range” needs to charge TWICE on the Phoenix to LA drive. This is only a 373 mile drive, and assumes you start completely full. From the 405 mile advertised range, you’d think you could drive Phoenix to LA, and arrive with enough charge to still drive to dinner. One of my most annoying revelations in owning a Tesla.

https://www.tesla.com/trips#/?v=MS_2020_LongRange&o=Phoenix,...
PHP Sucks, but [video]
20% of new car sales globally last year were EVs (very roughly total 2023 new US auto sales). At BYD and other mass market EV manufacturer ramp rates, combined with battery cell manufacturing capacity ramp, light vehicle electric mobility is already solved for.

https://electrek.co/2024/03/02/1-in-5-new-car-sales-globally... | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39575172

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-04-12/china-... | https://archive.today/8Dy4D

> BNEF is tracking 7.9 TWh of annual battery manufacturing capacity announced for the end of 2025. That’s compared to demand projections of 1.6 TWh, and even that assumes steady EV demand growth and very rapid growth in batteries for storage applications. Even half that total announced capacity would be enough to equip almost every car sold in the world next year with a 50 kWh battery pack.

The above assumes no additional battery manufacturing capacity is planned or comes online, which is unlikely as the world continues to electrify everything. It is very likely we continue to build more batteries faster and cheaper.

I admit that some use cases will liquid fuels for the foreseeable future (aviation, marine, with methanol or ammonia solving for this, produced using clean energy), but we are already accelerating towards pushing fossil fuels out of majority consumption use cases (electric grid, buildings, light vehicles).
>What is the point of this work? 99% on 100-digit arithmetic means there's a 0% chance anyone will ever use a Transformer as an ALU or anything of the kind. We already know how to hard-code a (literally) infinitely more accurate addition machine.

Nobody's going to be replacing calculators with transformers sure but many are and will be using transformers to solve problems arithmetic is a necessary component of.

>So what is the point of this? Transformers are supposed to be the "sparks of AGI" and they can almost do arithmetic if we try very hard to shove it down their heads? Who cares?

You don't need to shove anything down for transformers to get arithmetic. Just changing how numbers are tokenized works. But that requires an entire retrain so why not explore other techniques?

And what does any of this have to do with AGI ? You know how terrible humans are at arithmetic right ?
Now it makes it worthy of shelling out 3.5k
> Having two almost identical terms that mean completely different things is not a very good idea.

What's the problem of telling apart the task of authenticating users from authorizing their access?

There's already identification and authorization (IAM) which is mostly a backronym.
Well, 99% of day to day life is mundane for much of living beings on earth. A bee is able to get through it's entire life without showing signs that it deeply ponders about anything.

However, humans have the ability to reason about things (whether most people use this ability is a different question). So then we must ask the question: is this ability just a more advanced form of probabilistic pattern matching, or is it a different architecture altogether? Will current AI models be able to develop this ability, or will we need new models?
I used to frown at Toyota for being behind in electric.

But I think they are probably more clever than I.

They realize that there is still a huge chunk of the market with people living in apartments without cheap possibility to charge the EV.

So what matters to them is lowering fuel consumption.

EVs are cool, but when it comes to actually buying a car, most people follow what makes most sense economically.
Isn't that exactly what numpad0 said? You're just agreeing with them.
Not enough building, and also the inequality in ownership of land and houses. May be tax every third or later house owned higher and plug loopholes that allow you to own an extra house under trust or other structure to rent.

But where will this end for a lot of investors (which in Canada seems like a lot of the influential population) ?
Lawyers to Plastics Makers: Prepare for 'Astronomical' PFAS Lawsuits
https://archive.ph/FdOe0
> What do people on HN use

i just remember where the cursor is supposed to be :P
This is cool, but special casing digits is unsatisfying.

It makes me think that the authors have correctly identified an issue (positional embeddings) but don't propose a general solution.

I'm not sure if such a thing is possible, but if it is, it would feel more complete. (Fwiw, positional embeddings have had issues for a long time! So a general solution to this would benefit more than just arithmetic. Helpfully, we now have a really good specific example to serve as a baseline for any generalization we seek)
Or just use podman or any other rootless container runtime
Too bad there are crickets here. Angular 18 is actually pretty cool and may tempt me to come back.
a giant game of tech FOMO.

For me, the most distressing part is how easily tech people drink the FOMO and then go to work promoting it. This happens over and over again.
>> To solve this kind of attack, either allowing open firmware or new legislation is the only to stop this.

Or just randomize every MAC at the client level, blinding everyone up the chain and no doubt causing many false reports as randomized macs collide.
NAT64 is a thing, combined with CGNAT it offers a way for IPv6 only clients to acess the legacy internet. Mobile prividers are doing this, ISPs can as well. It would incentivize IPv4 only sites to upgrade, to avoid the CGNAT.
> and does not suffer from many of the docker shortcomings.

Would you care to elaborate on the shortcomings? I use Docker in my home lab and have taken a couple runs at Podman but have not been highly motivated and reverted to Docker rather than fiddle with things to get my containers working. If I were aware of significant benefits for my usage, I might be inclined to keep trying. If the benefits are more relevant to enterprise or cloud environs, it probably does not matter much to me.

My use cases include Gitea (git server) which opens privileged ports inside the container that get mapped to unprivileged ports on the host and I believe that was a problem area.

Thanks!
Turkish switched to the Latin alphabet and thereby cut itself off from over a thousand years of history and interaction with the Islamic world via Persian and Arabic. This decision was made more for political reasons, as Ätaturk wanted to Westernize the country, than for strictly linguistic ones.

Atatürk also commented on one occasion that the symbolic meaning of the reform was for the Turkish nation to "show with its script and mentality that it is on the side of world civilisation".[26] The second president of Turkey, İsmet İnönü further elaborated the reason behind adopting a Latin alphabet: "The alphabet reform cannot be attributed to ease of reading and writing. That was the motive of Enver Pasha. For us, the big impact and the benefit of an alphabet reform was that it eased the way to cultural reform. We inevitably lost our connection with Arabic culture."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_alphabet#History
There is no such thing as apolitical art under communism. All forms of expression are meant to serve the state and to further spread the ideology.

So you get these highly ironic situations where openly pro-communist artists were excluded, just because their particular brand of art was not considered communist enough.
Raise property taxes? Those are usually a rounding error in a rental P&L (and it’s tax deductible)

The only way I see out of this mess is to ban ownership of SFH by anyone other than…single families as primary owners. Corporations, foreign owners, secondary homes, etc.

But we need to address other issues too: zoning (make Houston’s approach nationwide) and construction costs.
That does not really describe what’s happening. The fix for asylum laws being abused is legislative, and in the last year fixes have been scuttled by Republican legislators.

Sanctuary city laws are pretty reasonable policy statements about when a city cooperates in deporting illegal immigrants who may otherwise be law abiding. This makes perfect sense as a policy when you operate in an immigration regime that makes legal immigration infeasible for all kinds of necessary labor, from farm workers to domestic help and even high skilled IT.

If Texas wanted to call California’s bluff on housing policy, it would also reject the middle and high income households moving to the Triangle from high housing cost California suburbs. But it’s not principled when it comes to that — their money is welcomed! Heck, even the Florida model where they check if businesses are indeed employing legal workers in labor intensive industries like construction would be a more faithful enactment of law and order values with respect to immigration. Anything short of that is its own form of sheltering.
From NOAA:

https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-predicts-above-normal...

Tropical Tidbits also has a good explanation of the factors that are at play:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFID_jfNId4
Let's see you write a non-shitty language.
I think for the most part that's true, but obviously there are things people want to use LLMs for that do require planning/reasoning, and it makes for unexpected failure modes if LLMs don't have this ability.
You don't just get to do human rights abuse because someone was born into poverty or conflict. [1][2][3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treatment_of_South_Asian_labou...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50228549

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMh-vlQwrmU
The footprint to charge all these electric vehicles would be equal to the parking lot for the mall of America. Much larger than a single gas station.
What about synthesizing an answer that takes elements from some of the chatbot AIs?
> The old C compilers did not do that, ever, because K&R's "behaviour is undefined" did not give that sort of licence.

This extrapolation of yours is not warranted! The first compilers were simpler, and optimizations came later. The fact that people got used to simple compilers does not make their code correct with respect to the standard, sorry!
Does gaming the shit out of recruitment process counts as "rudimentary effort into creating a CV" these days? Because I can't imagine how the two would otherwise be related from the job-seeker point of view. It's a backend-side system.

If anything, my closest encounter with something like this (but without learning the acronym, until today) would be those companies that told me to take the CV I put so much effort in, and copy-paste it into a textbox on some website. Or, even worse, copy-paste pieces of it into couple dozen different fields across several pages of their shitty webform. I stay away from companies doing that.
b) I am!
> I’m consistently impressed with how seriously this stuff is taken and the amount of work that goes into making sure that things like this sharing can’t happen accidentally

I believe the law is violated when it's sufficiently profitable -- it just requires VP permission.

No public sources for this except Jedi Blue, the old anti-poaching case, etc.