skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Woohoo. CO got "documentation, parts, embedded software, firmware, [and] tools" for multiple product categories.

More R2R rights are needed:

1. Either the UL or EPA needs to grade devices for repairability and TCO

2. a. Repair parts and b. phone-home cloud features should be disclosed how long they will remain on the market

3. a. When parts are no longer available (NLA), it should be legal to produce compatible replacements including circumventing DRM, b. when cloud features are no longer available officially, API endpoint(s) shall be modifiable to point to other servers

4. Schematics should be made available for electronic products from businesses with 500+ employees

5. It should be illegal to brick parts and devices based on their age, the current time, or by model, or for installing third-party parts
I've seen a ton on here. Startups trying to appear growing when they're not. All part of the game plan.

Sucks for us looking for jobs
For those that aren't familiar, this is exactly what happened with rideshare and delivery companies in California. AB5 was passed in 2019 that reclassified those workers as employees and so Uber, Lyft, Instacart, and others spent over $200m on getting Prop 22 passed in 2020 to give them an exception to AB5. Part of Prob 22 was a requirement that a seven-eighths majority in the legislature would be needed to amend it.
55.4% in the last run, at running temperature
I got caught in such a hail storm on a bright sunny day in Texas. Had to pull my vintage VW Beetle over and hold my hands on the windshield to hopefully keep it from imploding. Noisy too. Like being inside a snare drum. Over in about a minute...
> Google releases smart watch for kids

No.
The smartwatch is for Google, to track your kids.
Never got my verification link. Maybe it’s because I used + notation
You also have to keep them alive. Neurons don't last very long in vitro, particularly once you wire them up to electrical probes to measure them.

This sort of problem is also an issue with things like the Neuralink chip and other brain implant technologies.
> it shouldn’t be possible to derive the formulas for chemical or nuclear weapons.

This information is widely available in textbooks, so...what exactly is the problem? If it's just a lossy-compression parrot "AI" like ChatGPT it won't be able to spit out anything that wasn't somewhere (implicitly or explicitly) in the training data anyway.
Gave my 11 year old an apple watch, not so that I can track him, but just so that he can call me when he needs me ( there are times when he's at practice and am running late to pick him up or sometimes he just plain loses track of time because of his ADHD ).

And, he can set timers and alarms to keep track of his schedule.

My kids are pretty free-range, riding their bikes to/fro from school and hanging out at their friend's places.

I did not want a phone because it's way too distracting
I don't think it will change much, kids have been sorting themselves into pretend hierarchies based on the cool thing since the dawn of time.

We could send them all to school wearing a potato sack and some of the kids with the whole foods sack would make fun of the kids in the food lion sack.
I found this utterly charming. It reminded me how much I like tech people before Silicon Valley gets ahold of them and turns them into egomaniacs.
I don’t understand your example. Theft is complicated to solve because the one stealing gets a benefit from doing it. To solve that you need to change the cost/benefit balance for everyone.

To solve the over anxious parent problem you just need to get up to two people to chill out. It provides an immediate benefit for them (they will be chill) while it also provides them a long term benefit (a well adjusted offspring).

What is the supposed paralel here? Or what should be my takeaway from your comparision be?
Looking forward to it, very happy customer!
> Why is this a point of contention?

It's ok, I guess? It just seems a little odd to go from we'll make AI model creators liable by law directly to effectively "let's expand our prison exercise yards and visitation facilities". Like they're planning on fill up the prisons right away.

On second thought, I guess, exercise yard expansion might not be quite right, I am think more like "this incarcerated population will require espresso machines and yerba mate gourds. We'll have start a commission to study how to source those...".

(One has to laugh when things get ridiculous enough...)
It's nearly useless for me. GPT-4 used to be so good, 3.5 even, but I believe they have nerfed processing power per request, and the OpenAI stack is virtually useless to me, I tend to rely on Claude.
why keep separate postgres instance for this use case?

One could easily have a single small Postgres instance for a few dollars that hosts all these small scale peanut sized toy databases and forget about it.

if your main business critical database is not doing transactions and stays idle, you should be working on bringing more transactions (sales sales sales) - not trying to save pennies on downsized postgres by moving from SSD-fast postgres to S3-slow-postgres.

I get that there are benefits to scaling up/down, but to me: Serverless is a billing model for multi-tenant services, where user is billed by service usage, not the actual underlying resource consumption. Because in multi-tenant SAAS all your tenants share the underlying infrastructure
Networking problems can manifest in odd ways. One of my favorite tech support calls was when an app I supported would consistently fail to load for a specific set of people in Northern Wisconsin who all worked for the same company but worked from home in different towns. They escalated the problem and "proved" that it was our app - every other site on the web worked just fine, but ours would not load. I don't fault their logic, but I knew our site was up and running just fine.

Well, days of troubleshooting later and we found a common network segment they all hit somewhere in Wisconsin, and the owner of that physical network found a bad piece of hardware on a telephone pole. I forget the details of what the hardware was or why it threw a fit with our site but not others... but the bigger point is that there are many layers in a network, so while software might be the problem... it also might not.

So my approach has always been that if it makes no sense for software to be causing an observed problem - investigate the other layers.
I'm sorry. I genuinely thought you might be watching DVD disks.
At a very abstract level there isn't much difference between dropping a disk cache and writing anonymous memory to swap. Obviously the actual step of writing to swap is more expensive but once the data is out of memory they will both require a read to get the data back. So if you imagine that you are occasionally reading a file and an anonymous page you can thrash on either if your system doesn't have enough memory. After the initial write to swap it is effectively identical to keep reading either back in.

It is much better to swap out anonymous memory that isn't being used than to flush file data that is being used. Or another way of looking at it if you run out of memory you will thrash with or without swap enabled. The difference is that with swap the kernel can evict the most rarely accessed memory whether file-backed or anonymous. Without swap the kernel is forced to only consider file-backed memory, even if it is being used more frequently than the anonymous memory.
I thought you were talking about the lecture theaters where there were 6-8 giant boards arranged on the wall with pulley systems so the lecturer can raise/lower them and access them independently, kind of like in [0]. Some of the setups are have enough writable area that it's not even really practical to fill them all up in a 2-hour lecture period. Using the available space in a smart way is definitely a learned skill; it's far too easy to start in the "wrong" place and end up needing to write "board via"s / "goto"s.

Do companies still do whiteboard interviews anymore for engineers? Whiteboard management in that context was also a learnable skill, though easier than managing multiple movable boards.

[0] https://www.quora.com/Why-do-awesome-schools-like-MIT-UCs-an...
> Just have the CoT as a field in the schema too.

Love the idea of adding CoT as a field in the expected structured output as it also makes it easier from a UX perspective to show/hide internal vs external outputs.

> Structuring your inputs with XML is very good. Even if you're trying to get JSON output, XML input seems to work better. (Haven't extensively tested this because eval is hard).

Would be neat to see LLM-specific adapters that can be used to swap out different formats within the prompt.
Every tech is like this.

I was practically screaming at the "NFT" discourse that NFT is a protocol not a product. No one wants an NFT. Some people might want an online property trading platform that might be powered by NFTs or maybe a better protocol. Certainly not going to be useful for stupid monkey images. The best use case so far is still the first, CryptoKitties. A stupid pokemon style cat eugenics simulator.

Literally all the end user cares about is whether the product works and does what it needs. The technologies/protocols/labels are for everyone else. If you brand yourself as the technology people arent going to give a shit in a few years. Look at "General Electric" or "Telecom" now "GE" and "Telstra"
This has been the status quo. Soldered SSDs, ram, keyboards that die from a speck of dust. It's the lack of oversight that's allowed companies to do as they please.
It’s like the popcorn button on a microwave. For it to work properly your microwave needs a humidity sensor. Cheap microwaves don’t, but they still include a popcorn button.

As a result, no one trusts the popcorn button, even if it works.
Sun waited till Solaris and SPARC were no longer relevant before releasing anything. It smelled of desperation.
Furthermore more, demonstrating your deep knowledge of Ottawa.

Federal government workers generally live in Kanata and Orleans. Some work downtown, but generally it is a lot of private sector.
> Common fallacy is to imagine that the exact same deal at the same price would have happened without a broker.

> Without a broker you may not find a buyer at all.

This only applies if your business isn't super profitable and you're looking to get rid of it.

If you have a wildly successful business and you enjoy running it, you don't need to find a buyer, you can wait until one comes along.
The problem, as I understand it, is that the wavelength of sound is very big relative to the microphone spacing.
I think you nailed it. The voting population generally disapproves of 'car culture'. Foolish trends like removing catalytic converters and running super loud exhausts for single digit horsepower gains or hooning on public roads don't do its image any favors. But the most basic reason is just that the industry lobby that wants to lock down cars is much stronger than the independent/shade tree mechanic lobby that doesn't.
Inkeep
Kaplay – a JavaScript library that helps you make games fast and fun
From TFA:

> The massive uptick in Fedora/EPEL activity puts additional pressure on Fedora web proxies for mirror data and then the mirrors themselves that tend to be volunteer run. Much of this new traffic is coming from the Amazon/AWS cloud.
I have used both for many years, and now, I see little difference in practice. I am leaning more towards Firefox these days. Main change is that I now use Firefox as my main mobile browser for ad blocking reasons. A few websites don't work on Firefox, I use Chrome for these few.

I don't consider it a problem to use two browsers at the same time, I usually don't to the same thing with them, so having separate profiles can be an advantage.

Note that privacy is not the reason why I am using Firefox. It is just that I think that knowing both is a good thing, and they are both good browsers, so why not? In some case, Firefox is better, in others Chrome is better, most of the times, they are interchangeable.
A vanilla Postgres or MySQL instance, when properly tuned, will take you EXTREMELY far. People forget how much latency network hops add compared to native disks.

Even improperly tuned, it’ll take you much further than one would be led to believe from the SaaS shills.
Design For Manufacturing + Design For Obsolescence

!=

Design For Durability + Design For Repair + Design For Low TCO

Recall how the GDR's unbreakable beer mugs failed to sell in the West and became lost to time because restaurant vendors insisted on selling "cheap", inferior, fragile products breaking regularly to ensure profits.
It isn't an Android watch, fitbit has their own OS that works with both iOS and Android phones.

Only the Pixel watch uses android.
At risk of being a bit unempathetic, your comment seems a bit obtuse.

It’s pretty clear that it’s referring to the diameter of the hail. Other flat objects are commonly used to indicate diameter. Mostly coins.
I think the big problem with historical anarchist discourse is that it ignores bad actors, edge cases and economics and where it does deal with those things its solutions usually look a lot more like totalitarianism or mob rule than some anarchist ideal.

The reason I think classically liberal economic and political values push us towards greater freedom is because I believe the following two things to be evident:
1. Freedom is related to wealth.
2. In the US we are for the most part more free than any other society in history.

Obviously there are exceptions to these but I think they are generally true. The reason I dont see statelessness and large democratic governments to be opposite ideals is because I see statelessness as an idealized result of freedom and democracy as the means to get ever closer to that ideal. This isnt really a unique perspective save for the fact that I think the idealized form of a free society doesnt have people forcing other people to do things.
I've heard people call the old approach "outdated" and even "wrong" before.

It's honestly the dumbest situation, where people eagerly use extremely complex databases as if they were indexed KV stores. Completely ignoring about 97% of the features in the process.

What's especially funny is that half the time a basic KV store would perform better given all the nonsense layered on top.

And then there's this whole mentality of "we can't interface with this database unless we insert a translation layer which converts between relationships between sets of tuples and a graph structure".

It's like people have unearthed an ancient technology and have no idea how it's intended to be used.
Alex Jones will have a field day with that one.
For questions about current events it could be very helpful. I mean, suppose {Biden|Trump} wins the 2024 US Presidential election. You want the model to know who the winner is the next day, as part of its background knowledge, not wait 6 months for a new version to be released whose background knowledge includes that fact.

It is right that humans don’t try to remember everything, but if one only did this for a random sample of conversations, you wouldn’t remember everything - you’d probably remember key developments because they’d come up a lot (in many questions hence high probability of being sampled). You’d likely also remember some obscure trivia just because it got sampled (just like humans do too)

Another option would be to have the model evaluate each conversation and have it decide whether to include it in the fine-tune (e.g. did the web search reveal important new developments the model didn’t know about?)

One could also do some kind of clustering to find common gaps in the model’s background knowledge and use that to guide sampling for fine-tuning
I didn't listen to the audio, but I know many insurers are pulling out of California. However, I think for CA, the bigger issues construction costs and regulations on how much they can charge.

The fires were definitely a huge loss, but there is a reason they can't just raise their rates to cover the risk
I'm not a mechanic, but they can see the brand and model on the part and call the manufacture or just google it. If it's the same as the car's brand, or if they don't give any information, you can check forums to get that information, otherwise sometimes they can find this information in their AutoData service.

Checking that state of the fluid isn't difficult, as is bright red when it's new, and turns more and more brown when it's used, and it's mostly used normally between 50k and 100l AFAIK.

Buying the required fluid, and filter if needed, is as easy as looking it in the internet or going your local AutoZone, O'Reillys, AAP, or whatever you have near btw
Generally the inline assembly is hand-written and must follow the platform rules, see "Architecture-specific details" in https://go.dev/doc/asm

The few tools that generate that asm, such as https://github.com/mmcloughlin/avo
, would also have follow the rules.

You're not meant to take C source, crank it through GCC, and slurp that in as inline asm in Go.

Background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KINIAgRpkDA
Well, my parents could track my location by just asking other people in our village where I was, but that’s not quite the same.
This is full time only, but it sort of clearly shows earnings outpacing CPI.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
Because they were utter charlatans, and for such egregious behavior, an example must be set. And now they have to go all-electric, so everybody wins - including them.
Megacorp feudalism + a lack of coordinated customer pushback through "customer unions"
This would be great at work, but most orgs would never allow some terminal app to connect out to an LLM we've never heard of and have no understanding of the privacy of, especially for difficult to quantify efficiency gains.

Would you ever consider a version that allows redirecting to a locally hosted LLM server?
>Privacy Protecting

Words have meanings. And I don't think you know what they are.
Google absolutely will be selling this location data to "improve the advertising experience".
In the sense of a chat bot that people are interacting with, it doesn't remember. That's an important distinction, regardless of what OpenAI does to save your interactions somewhere for whatever purposes they may have in mind.
Yeah I guess it could interfere with the image, but that's solved by turning down the gain (or using a less sensitive tube etc) and using brighter lights.
Not sure how taking off all the safety and exploring "the best model" freely without considering ethics is a "scientific" approach. Computer scientists like us should think about the ethical and societal impacts of what they are building. At many universities, it is part of the curriculum.
Compare the director in theatre/cinema or show runner in episodic work: maybe AI will eventually change these tradeoffs, but for wetware Conway's Law strongly suggests that "creative vision" be kept in a single head.

> "I'd spell creat(2) with an e." —KLT
No I don't use it. LinkedIn is a waste of time, I deleted my account years ago when it started becoming a spam mill.
> I like this twist. Almost "the aliens were in us all along".

That reminds me of "Blood Music", a short story by Greg Bear that was later expanded into a novel. The basic premise is what happens when your cells get smarter and start making a tiny civilization.
How to grow your LinkedIn company profile

- Post a fake job, fully remote, 6 figure salary

- Get legitimately thousands of job applicants on LinkedIn to apply

- When they apply, auto select the "Follow <companyName> on LinkedIn?"?

- 90% of applicants don't notice, and auto follow

No joke. That is the playbook. Do we really think 97,000 people are following DuckDuckGo because they're interested in hearing their marketing and culture posts? (no offense to DuckDuckGo, they're not the only one to do this)
Well, they tried to legally prohibit it, but as people in that thread pointed out, it's legally irrelevant in most developed countries ... so another hardware maker can fund a (legally) independent team in say France (most favorable reverse engineering laws) to break it / copy it / do whatever they like ... and then open source the output for the rest of the world.

It's even dubiously legal in the US ... but there it would be a war of legal fund attrition and Nvidia has deep pockets.

Still - break it in France, give it away ... US laws go poof.

It's really just the ongoing development of the software ecosystem that gives them their moat ... but it's a good technical moat because they steer future dev and others play catch up.
> A lifetime fee of $1, sold to a huge audience of 100k paid users, will pay for ~1 year of a single dev in the US, perhaps 2-3 years of a developer in a low-cost country. And then where does the money come from for updates in year 4 and beyond?

I challenge you to demonstrate the Pomodoro app that has a full time dev effort for a year, and then requires anything more than piecemeal bug fixes or maybe a recompile in that four years of support...
The fatal flaw in this analysis is that ChatGPT, Google, Meta, Microsoft have way more mindshare on AI - nobody outside of tech circles has even heard of Anthropic.

Painting this as the beginning of the end for OpenAI is quite ridiculous really.
It's less about the children and more about the adults.

Most parents that I know are scared that their children will be victims of violent crime. They may trust their kids explicitly and implicitly, but do not trust the world.

I blame 24 hour news, to be honest.
USMCA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Mexico%E...
No judgement here. If I was dating, that would be my dating pool...

In all seriousness, since this topic comes around every couple years, I've always wondered if we tested different populations of people based on career if we'd see some correlation. Cats are fairly ubiquitous across populations (but knowing if there's a higher prevalence in some would be important), so there's at least a chance for most people to be exposed I think.
The rebuild titles are almost always 20% to 40% cheaper in my area.
> 1984 is now literally becoming possible!

I assume you are refering to the automatic music writing machine the proles are fed with? LLMs seem to be capable of that now.

(1984 is a low tech society and have been possible since the 50s, except for that machine.)
Show HN: Brisk a complete CI system is now Open Source
Brisk is a complete CI system that runs your test suite in seconds.

The main speedup over standard CI systems (think CircleCI or Github Actions) is that we maintain your test environments and don't rebuild them on each test run. This allows you to scale up your workers without just scaling up the build time on each test run.

Brisk can be run from your local dev environment (the command line or VS Code) allowing your to access the speed of many servers from your local machine or it can be run as part of a traditional CI/CD pipeline (in Github actions etc).

I've been working on Brisk for the last few years and I've decided to open source the project. You can now run your own super fast CI service on your own hardware or in your own cloud.

https://github.com/brisktest/brisk