skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't be ridiculous. Every metropolitan area has some homes for sale which aren't part of an HOA. If you don't like the price or location or school district or something then that's your problem, not an issue with the concept of HOAs.
I recently went through a period of abysmal performance and had this very adage recounted to me. I was told I had developed a reputation for high productivity over time but that recently it was eroded to more or less zero.*

* my fault for being so insecure that I couldn't share that I was drowning ... could be a culture thing could be me -- it was probably me.
I heard if you use immersion type method like the Hario switch it is very forgiving and consistent even if you screwup grind size and temperature. Vs percolation (flow) v60 you have to deal with a lot more issues such as time/flow rate, channeling etc.
There’s also a mismatch in incentive. Before you would become a webmaster and foster a community with your friends, now even if you try, your community will just be botted, content scraped, and rehosted on bigger platforms that have giant conglomerates behind them. An example of this is that Fandom site which is abhorrent but has ruined many fan sites due to alternatives being squeezed out.

You have to effectively create your own closed off platform to avoid those shortcomings like discord so might as well just use it (or Matrix etc).
FWIU talking to people in hospitality the advantage of the QR menu is it could be changed rapidly with no printing costs. In the wake of the pandemic that meant increasing prices.
Maybe they only showed you the time that Moulder was right; like maybe 90% of the time it actually wasn’t aliens or ghosts but they just don’t make that into an episode :)
I used the support link provided. They tried to give me 3 months of premium instead of a refund. I declined. They replied:

>Thank you for waiting! As I can only suggest you for free Premium in your account. The actual Car Thing refund is done by the specialty advisors, so I'll create a case related to your issue and transfer it and the right team will get back to you through email. Sounds good?

So I am now waiting for an email.
Good, I don't go to a restaurant to sit on my phone, I go to converse with my party. Don't make me stare at the little death screen any more than I have to.

Anyway back to my 10 hours of staring at a bigger death screen all day ;)
70%+ of the web is putting text on screen and responding to user interactions, 25%+ is spyware and advertising, and the last 5% are cool applications. How complicated should that really be?

This is a good example of why I gave up a career as a JavaScript developer after 15 years. I got tired of fighting stupid, but even stupid woefully unqualified people need to make 6 figures spinning their wheels to justify their existence.
>178 points, 145 comments in 2 hours, how did this disappear from the front page ?

Seriously. What's the probability that invisible masters gave the censor order?
In my experience page weight isn't usually the biggest issue. On unreliable connections you'll often get decent bandwidth when you can get through. It's applications that expect to be able to multiple HTTP requests sequentially and don't deal well with some succeeding and failing (or just network failures in general) that are the most problematic.

If I can retry a failed a network request that's fine. If I have to restart the entire flow when I get a failure that's unusable.
I really like the cargo basket on the Muli. I've kind of had my eye on the Omnium (https://omniumcargo.com/de/shop/produkt/cargo-v3-wifi/#frame...), there's a hinge attachment for the rack which can make it a lot narrower. (https://damgood.bike/products/ouch-1-omnium-utter-cargo-hing...)
The real cost of food has steadily decreased for the last 200 years. (Much of the decrease was before 1980, though.) Here in Canada, one hour of labour at minimum wage, will buy you a 10 kilogram bag of flour, or 4 litres of cooking oil. That's enough calories for days. That is insane buying power compared to the historical norm, right into the 20th century.

This is the cost of food as % of household income in the USA over the last century: https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/foodnew.jpg

My grandfather was born in western Europe, in what is today one of the wealthiest countries in the world. He was one of 14 children (of whom 8 survived), born to an illiterate peasant on a rural farm. This was pretty normal. You may have a retroactively gentrified image of what America was like in the 1940s - nearly half of homes didn't have an indoor toilet or electricity at the start of that decade.
I much prefer the QR codes. I can zoom and search and turn up the brightness for my old eyes. It's funny seeing the current generation get up in arms about progress after spending so much time whining about boomers inability to cope with change.
Massachusetts has not widened highways inside of 128 for 50 years now.

And I am so grateful for that.
I was going to say...if you want to repaint a fence in my HOA neighborhood, the board needs to approve it if it's not on the list of pre-approved colors.

This would have never flew with an actual HOA with rules but the gullible internet is sucking it up.
Last time I wanted to try Fedora, it didn't ship some packages I wanted to use that Debian sid shipped, and Debian sid is similarly up-to-date in many stuff (they don't ship plasma 6 yet though, even in sid).

I think Debian sid is underappreciated as a decent rolling release distro. I get that Debian doesn't advertise it that way, but it virtually never breaks for me.
Indeed, Discord is chat, Discourse is forum.

That said, most people use Discord because other people use it and there is much less friction to add a new "server" (i hate how they use that term instead of something like "community" or whatever) alongside those you are already part of than making a new account to yet another site.

I know i'm using Discord mainly because the people actually go there. I used IRC since the 90s but for more than a decade it has been channels with 15-20 people all of whom are AFK and idling via some proxy bot or whatever with the occasional chat now and then by a couple of people (Discord also has a lot of idlers but it has 10x more people too so that couple of people becomes 20 people). IRC not having server-side storage of discussions does not help because i can't login to a channel, ask/answer a question and leave later. I know some people like that lack of permanence but personally i find Discord much easier on actually making or even starting discussions (e.g. i might respond to a message someone left 8 hours ago which is seen by someone else right after i post it and starts a discussion - this only happens because i was able to see that 8h old message). I know IRC supposedly added optional support for this recently but i don't know anything that uses it (and even then it wont solve the "people go to Discord" problem since other services like Matrix already supported that for years and people do not go to Matrix).
They won't stop using it. It's simple as that. Should'nt we be doing something to scrape discord servers, push information to a acessible place instead of this? Is that doable?
> When you can check the provided source it's summarising and see that it's a satire website, I think that's materially different than ChatGPT's hallucinations from thin air.

I disagree.

The moment you accept the need to always check the source, there's no fucking point to this anymore.

If you have to check the source ... just provide the links like Google Search does. There's no point in a summary whose full original text you always have to read.

> From what I've seen, it is true that these errors stemmed from uncritically accepting satire/unreliable sources rather than hallucinations.

And so, this is why I don't think this holds up; If we consider this a failure mode of the user, the entire tool is pointless.

It's plainly obvious that the intended benefit of AI Overview is not having to read the pages of the search result. And with that intent, this is not a failure of the user.
I don’t disagree, but challenge is getting other people getting onboard of another system.
I don't understand why you are getting downvoted. Thanks for the info.
I used to work for an AASP. During the pandemic. Getting parts was a hassle and a lot of things had to be mailed in to a repair depot. This is nothing new and non-news
I've used it a couple times to show how the new luxury towers they're building in my neighborhood block the sun to the older/cheaper low-rise homes... :(
Leaf blowers are noise pollution regardless of the time of the day, which has short and long term effects on health.
Phrase of the year: "little death screen." Love it!
New edition!

The book is scheduled to be published by O’Reilly Media in June 2024.
Not all embedding is same and the embedding has to be compatible to the inference model
Hacker confirms access through infostealer infection [withdrawn]
Hand down to parents, children, donate, trade-in or resell.

There's a wide gulf between "singularly dependent on a 5 year old PC" and "just throw it out every year".
I've seen restaurants where there's a QR code at the table to use for payment while ordering. But what if someone replaces the QR codes with fake ones that make you pay elsewhere?
Just how much would carboard menu cost? Ordered at bulk for every seat in restaurant and then maybe 10-20% extra... And how often they are replaced?
Those uploader decides rules are wild. Does that mean someone with a website poorly configured enough can have user content uploaded to, and later served from amazon glacier? (assuming a sufficiently motivated user)
I have a feeling you enjoyed that character set lookup. I know I did seeing it.
Your position seems a bit ideological. Ultimate freedom doesn't exist, since pretty much all societies agree that they want to stop people from murdering one another for instance.

Any legal system always has to balance individual liberties and the tyranny of the majority (or a law-giving minority).

> An HOA that was useful for 50 years and never created any drama could turn bad next year when they elect some new board members.

That's why countries for instance have constitutions, so the system is hard to change even when someone new takes power.

> true freedom includes the freedom to make mistakes, even big mistakes.

That's pretty much the reason why we don't have "true freedom" and we want to stop people from making really terrible and easily avoidable mistakes, like eating food that kills them.

Limiting HOA against petty bullshit requirements (with more freedom for an initial set of bullshit requirements) at least is one of these limitations.
Forums and reddit do not have chat[0] and video calls/streaming. The real alternative to Discord is IRC, Matrix, etc, not Discourse and phpBB or whatever.

[0] hacks aside
It's just a broken HTTP->HTTPS redirect. Try https://maps.google.com ... this works for me.
My grandparents immigrated to the USA and lost all their social ties. They were better off for it.
I wonder if there's licensing issues with them doing so? Like I assume they didn't make all the hardware and firmware involved.

Kind of a shame when companies do this.

I also wonder how long till the hacker community starts hacking these things any way? Seems like a worthy device to hack, though I can't imagine there's millions of these out there. I'd love to buy a 2nd hand one and install custom software on it if someone builds said firmware.

Hell, if Spotify had open sourced this and still sold them, I might have bought a first hand one. I would just be streaming my Apple music to it instead. ;)
I sometimes wish I could spare the time just to tear into something like that Slack number and figure out what it is all doing in there.

Javascript should even generally be fairly efficient in terms of bytes/capability. Run a basic minimizer on it and compress it and you should be looking at something approaching optimal for what is being done. For instance, a variable reference can amortize down to less than one byte, unlike compiled code where it ends up 8 bytes (64 bits) at the drop of a hat. Imagine how much assembler "a.b=c.d(e)" can compile into to, in what is likely represented in less compressed space than a single 64-bit integer in a compiled language.

Yet it still seems like we need 3 megabytes of minified, compressed Javascript on the modern web just to clear our throats. It's kind of bizarre, really.
The point of a wake word is that it's using low power hardware, so everything can sleep, that's why it's a wake word.

Though tbf much more powerful arm processors are indeed still very low power.
This sounds like you're using a support chatbot. Of course they're not going to allow the chatbot to authorize refunds.
Jimmy Koppel wrote about this 6 years ago [1]. It's one of the first exercises in his software design course [2].

Two identical pieces of code can have different specifications.

# x is an age of a person; the code checks if the person is past the retirement age in the US
def is_of_retirement_age(x):
return x >= 65;

# x is an ASCII character which is already known to be alphanumeric; this code checks if it’s a letter.
def is_ascii_letter(x):
return x >= 65;

[1] https://www.pathsensitive.com/2018/01/the-design-of-software...

[2] https://www.mirdin.com
> Their argument is that Grok should not be given a trademark beforehand due to this potential confusion.

Groq says no such thing. Their two public things so far include

1) a company that rebranded to Groq Healthcare < 2 year after Groq launched (their trademark at the time had nothing to do with health, they then added it to their trdemark and tried to trademark the competitors name)

2) a C&D to twitter over the name
OStree describes itself as "Git for binaries".

Git is a Lovecraftian horror.

QED.

I mean, this is the stuff of jokes:

https://xkcd.com/1597/

Or

https://x.com/agnoster/status/44636629423497217

"git gets easier once you get the basic idea that branches are homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space."
Don't worry, it will get back to 75k again in just a few months.
Well, this isn't just going to keep inert matter cold, this will do massive amounts of computation, so it makes sense that it would need to dump a lot of heat.
It’s also true for biological research (bioxriv)
All of Google Search was down for me for a couple minutes, but seems to be working now.
Likewise the felt marker on DVDs during the DRM Wars.
As an American with a strong general preference for the metric system, "eagles per square burger" is my new favorite sarcastic unit.
This is so useful when buying a house in the country that sun is as valuable as gold and you want to maximise it in the backyard. Great tool.
The count down to an HN post of Car Thing runs Doom has now started
When the Fitbit Ionic had a recall, I applied for a refund 2 years later, sent in the watch (you have to mail it), and it took months to get my cash. I wouldn't hold my breath, it might take a while, which I think is fine, so long as they get it done.
I thought that if they're different glyphs they're different characters.

Surely the fact that they're represented differently in ASCII means ASCII regards them as different characters?

Whether they're different glyphs or not depends on the font.
Related, "regexr" is my favorite tool for building regexes.

Is your project's name inspired from it ?
Can only read the first paragraph, but even that seems wrong, so I guess the rest of the article would be the same...

> Not that long ago, QR code menus were the go-to fix for restaurants looking to speed up service without hiring more servers. Then the diners staged a revolt.

No, QR codes is one possible solution to the problem of changing menus, and having to reprint all the time. Also, QR code menus (at least where I am) became mandatory during the pandemic together with mandated contact-less payments, and that's when it really became popular around here.

Besides, thinking that QR codes can replace servers seems to indicate to me that the article author has literally no idea what they're writing about, if they don't even understand the basic function of servers...
My expectation is for a restaurant to have paper menus locally, and a website that has the menu electronically (which I use to check their menu beforehand).

So: why not both (though at least I don't need a QR to go to the website, it's normally easy to find based on the restaurant name and on Maps)
Looks a lot like Brave's overall strategy (not just this announcement but the whole gist of the company) is to try and tap in to a part of Google's revenue stream by innovating in the web browser space. It is a bold one if so and I wish them every success.

It is a pity the managers over at Mozilla don't think Google is worth challenging. If someone ever succeeds at dragging AdSense into the OSS world / a big free market the world would be very different. There might finally find a use case for crypto. I suppose the fraud might be too much, but there must be an interesting commercial model in there somewhere.
> I'm surprised the comments here are so negative / cynical.

And by "the comments" I'm assuming you mean the top comment [0] (and maybe its replies)? The rest don't really come off as negative at all, and you quoted directly from that top comment.

FWIW, I don't find that comment either negative or cynical. It starts out with that sentence you quoted, but it goes on to make a very interesting point about quantization most likely working best for models which are undertrained—models which store less information than their architecture size would suggest. That's a very valid point that I found insightful and interesting, not cynical.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40531638
I'm not sure having the LLM as the top level piece is the right approach though. Async is the direction we want to go, and LLMS are inherently synchronous. Additionally, LLMs are cumbersome to train and tune, having an agent that calls smaller models would unlock the power of the community to build customized models for specific needs.
We know how to use the apps, we just don’t want to. Not all change is for the better.
Trump is trending on Chinese social media, and many are rejoicing
> The data from these companies was put up for sale on the Russian-speaking cybercrime forum

Just russia being russia, as usual.
Paying through the QR-code often has fees, at least in Paris (France).
This makes me think of monkeys cheerfully building their own cage.

Sorry, but I can’t just ‘cool-project-bro’ this one. Does nobody else have the faintest misgivings about where we’re at right now: human surveillance as just scratching a technical itch?

Apologies if this comes over all grumpy, but wow. Seriously.
I read "total power" to be total power, including cooling.
I would usually agree with you that pro choice is the best way and people should be able to prioritise whatever they want in a product.

But in this modern age of extreme levels of e-waste and resource mining, companies should definitely be forced to prioritise repairability and sustainability over things like cost, weight, and thickness.

I dont mean to offend anybody but IMO if you think that having a thinner laptop is more important than reducing electronic and plastic waste on the planet then yes, you are wrong.
This reminds me of the olden days (1990s) when people would fill in laser cuts on hobbled CPUs with solder to boost...something. I'm old so l forget.
https://news.google.com/ is having trouble for me. Sections aren't loading, with the error "Uh-oh, something went wrong. Please try again." On Android, the Google News app says "No recent articles".
That was my impression too. Better to have 500 highly enriched items with facets or tags to aid exploration and discovery.

There are more than a few Commercial tools flagged as Free, unless it means “free tier available” and not FOSS.

A tool usually fits into more than one category, so a 1:1 mapping increases the probability of not finding those tools.
Are they just banking on people not caring enough or knowing about the refund process? Clearly it can't be better off for them to refund hundreds of thousands maybe even 1m+ people.

We need laws that step in to make this impossible. Hardware should be designed so that it can be reused. Make it so that people can just reflash the memory at a minimum. There's no reason for something like this to become e-waste. And the excuse being Spotify wanting to protect their brand should not stand.
That's not at all what extrovert or introvert means or is related to.
Let's say I sell you a basketball with some restrictions. For instance, you are never allowed to kick the ball. If you ever kick the ball, some pre-defined penalty is imposed.

You might say that I didn't sell the ball. I sold a bundle of rights regarding the ball, but I retained some other bundle of rights.

Your gym membership accords you some rights, but not all rights to the gym equipment. Do you think that should be illegal?

As long as a contract clearly delineates which rights are included and excluded I don't understand why you would want this to be illegal.

You might question why somebody would buy a car that contains a radio but the purchase of the car doesn't include the radio and the new owner is not allowed to manipulate the radio. It may not make sense to you. But that doesn't make the arrangement illegal.
I've seen enough inspections to know building standards don't mean much.
In my younger days, I always felt pressured to use ProductX especially when it is praised and/or considered the next big thing. You can refer to javascript frameworks, libraries, even "cool, new" programming language.

I remember working on a Rest API and thinking about (things like) GraphQL... the typical "would it make life easier" and all that.

In the end, as the years have passed, I just stick to the minimum. If there is a tried-and-tested library or something.. I use it. When there is something new, I question it.

Never tried GraphQL. It looks like it can improve my data on one end, but cumbersome when it is hard to reason the data, or get generally complicated, which this article demonstrates.
If people aren't speed of light perfect (and they're not), why could a computer be? What does perfection even mean?
It doesn't take much to slow down RDP over TCP (especially when port forwarding through SSH).

I did find mention of increasing the cache¹ and lowering the refresh rate to 4 fps² (avoiding unnecessary animations), but I still feel the need for a server-side QUIC proxy that is less pushy based on network conditions. There is a red team project that has the protocol parsed out in Python³ instead of all the ActiveX control clients.

¹ https://superuser.com/questions/13487/how-to-increase-perfor...

² https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-serve...

³ https://github.com/GoSecure/pyrdp
In what way best?
Even if people want to / are allowed to, I'm trying to imagine how well starlink could plausibly function if 2 billion people switched from their sketchy terrestrial service to starlink.

As a luxury product used by a few people, maybe it "solves" the problem, but I don't think this is a very scalable solution.
I'm sorry, but 100% meetings is incredibly unproductive. There is plenty of work to do as a manager in a business. Most involves a spreadsheet for doing time-tracking, resource management, cost analysis, ie, managerial accounting. A healthy administration is aware of how the money flows through a business and this depends on having eyes and ears on the ground.

You'll see this approach to running a business everywhere other than the tech industry.