skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How does your manufacturing process look like if someone decides to click the "buy" button and do you have any open orders currently?

I assembled ~120 of these devices beforehand so I just need to package them up and ship them out when I get an order.

> Also do you actively use it currently on your bike or do you know some use cases of someone that bought/has it?

I intended to put the device in the garage to catch the thief, rather than attach it to the bike. But with a good mounting solution (which I should invest some time into!) you could certainly use it on a bike for time-lapses. It should work great for a cross-country road trip.

A friend of mine is using it to do a timelapse of a house construction project, and I mailed out the first orders today so they're in the wild now!
Yes, for example check "gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme" for the gtk apps.
Right. If the printing press were the critical variable, we'd expect to see broader progress towards the Industrial Revolution outside Britain. We don't. That implies something specifically special about Britain.
God, I love Processing. Most beautiful programs I’ve ever written were in Processing. I had this plan to recover from atypical depression by visualizing all of basic linear algebra using Processing but… I couldn’t program a computer for some time. Doh!
The Gothamist page is returning a 500 error now.

There's a version on archive.org tho

https://web.archive.org/web/20240604225617/https://gothamist...
Give It Up: A Strategy for Combating Hedonic Adaptation (2013)
> is tech debt

Or it's useful system behaviour.

To-MAY-to, to-MAH-to.

> […] should exist under a proper /var/{cache,lib} directory.

Are these directories available to regular users like the tmp dirs are?
> Now, I would fully agree if you question what's the benefit of posting this on GH and not on FB, for example, and what's in there to surprise the HN crowd.

The author posted Wired's article about the tool on LinkedIn. Does Facebook host code and render Markdown? Does the author have a Facebook account? Would you bet your Facebook account they wouldn't consider it distributing a hacking tool and lock the account?

Must it be surprising? Some in the HN crowd would want to explore their own databases I think. Some will have family and friends ask them about Recall security.
We use LoRA models with stable diffusion models. They can be trained quickly with minimal 30-50 images of your subject. (https://civitai.com/articles/2099/lora-models-and-how-to-use...)
The big difference between ES and PT is the accent/pronunciation of letters and matching words. Secondarily, is the differing vocabulary. But a lot of these are still understood as archaic/uncommon alternative words.

(see shoen's post below.)

So, if you learn the accent of the other language, all of a sudden a large portion of the language is unlocked. This happened to me, almost like a light switch.

I don't have a lot of experience with Italian but it seems like the pronunciation is closer to Spanish.
You should try it sometime. You might fall in love with it.
If it is a gtk app it will use the gtk mechanism, if it is a qt app it will use the qt mechanism, otherwise your in luck, you get to use the native X11 mechanism.

gtk: hell if I know, the web sez there are css files, and there are probably some gnome tools to set the theme.

qt: no clue. and the web was unhelpful

native X11: now we are talking I know this one, X11 provides a database that applications can use for configuration and design. The main interface is the xrdb command. and all good application should include the pertinent points of their call tree to get you started in theming them. http://man.openbsd.org/xrdb
In math and engineering, in which context this is, he's absolutely right.
> It of course feels highly coordinated, and those new releases absolutely dominate the social media, when the release/drop happens.

The manufacturers have a review embargo in place, and the "influencers" release their reviews as soon as they're able to. So ya, it's coordinated, but not by some crazy influencer cabal.
Anyone have the actual paper? Does it list who (eg Huberman) is receiving the payola?
It's fine to put ~/.cache on tmpfs, but doing it by default for the general case is going to cause a lot of hurt.

My ~/.cache could be rm -rf'd without too much worry right now, but that doesn't mean that persisting it isn't useful. For example on my system right now:

- Browser cache is useful to persist, especially with some larger sites.

- I put my Go module and build cache in ~/.cache, and while that can be deleted it's useful to persist because it make builds shorter, and avoids having to (re)-download the same modules over and over again. Note that at the moment my internet is kind of crappy so this can take quite a while.

- Some other download cache things in there, from luarocks, xlocate, few other things.

- I store psql history per-database in ~/.cache/psql-dbname. It's useful to keep this around.

- Vim backup files, persistent undo files, and swap files are stored in ~/.vim. The swap files especially are important because I want to keep them after an unexpected system crash.

Some of this is solvable by moving stuff to other directories. Others are inherently unsolvable.

I also have just 8G of RAM, which is fine but not fine for storing ~/.cache in RAM.
Some countries could meet total electricity needs from floating solar panels
These things are kind of like landing on the moon. The act of actually walking on the moon is fairly symbolic and ultimately the more important things were the achievements required to get there.

What the current state of the problem demonstrates is there's some unknown quantity of cutting edge work required that has yet to be done; maybe there's a cunning conceptual error in some field that has somehow missed everyone's eye or maybe there's an entirely new mathematical concept or tool which makes the problem straight-forward, but nobody has "invented it" yet.

One day, the time we are in right now will be "150 years ago". Contemporaries of any time think all fundamental things have been exhausted and discovered for whatever reason. It was as true in 1874 as 2024.

And they've always been wrong. Doesn't mean you or I can get there. It'll take some brilliant individual or team years of sweat equity, skill and profound luck but one day, right now too will be 150 years ago and people will look back on us as we look back on 1874 mathematics.

Problems like Riemann is how we forge ahead.
Icosphere would unwrap a lot more smoothly, and has regular vertex positons and element sizes.
Not trival to unwrap, but doable
No, this is a side effect of Apple striving to design the world's most unrepairable devices, or more accurately, earn more money with overpriced repairs by creating an artifical monopoly on Apple device repairs using part pairing. Why else would there be no option to pair parts for repairs if you can prove that you are the owner of the device?
I mean, yea, radians are used often, arguably more than degrees when it comes to math and physics.
I got so lucky with that, still can't believe I could work around it!
Yeah, that is some grade A PR spin-doctoring.

"They won't be on the hook for OUR legal fees". Props to Peter Choe, because otherwise... federal court cases are not cheap[1].

[1] My brother's ex's new partner sold a house to fight a decision to euthanize her dog for biting incidents in federal court. Leaving aside the wisdom of this choice, it's ... "not cheap".
It only stays the same if you have the worst luck.

> You can't use population statistics for low sample sizes with any meaning

Yes you can. I can say a die roll should not be 2, but at the same time I had better not depend on that. Or more practically, I can make plans that depend on a dry day as long as I properly consider the chance of rain.

> In my career, I’ve seen this exact misunderstanding cause many millions of dollars in loss, in single production runs.

Sounds like they calculated the probabilities incorrectly. Especially because more precise electrical components are cheap. Pretending probability doesn't exist is one way to avoid that mistake, but it's not more correct like you seem to think.
You can specify the size of the tmpfs and keep it well below the size of RAM, which will greatly reduce the likelihood of a long-lived tmpfs from causing swapping.

But more importantly, don't write large files to /tmp/. Back in the day we gave /tmp/ its own partition just so those files didn't fill up the root mount. Write big files there and it would fill up. Plus, big files benefit more from a faster drive, and back in the day we used to put the root mount on a slow disk, and have a fast big data disk which is better for large files.

I think an option to prevent tmpfs from getting shifted to swap (or disk) at all would be great.
Seems like a good pitch for ai
"The more general uncertainty principle, regarding Fourier transforms" by 3blue1brown https://youtube.com/watch?v=MBnnXbOM5S4

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25190770#25194040 :

> Convolution is in fact multiplication in Fourier space (this is the convolution theorem [1]) which says that Fourier transforms convert convolutions to products. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolution_theorem :

>> In mathematics, the convolution theorem states that under suitable conditions the Fourier transform of a convolution of two functions (or signals) is the pointwise product of their Fourier transforms. More generally, convolution in one domain (e.g., time domain) equals point-wise multiplication in the other domain (e.g., frequency domain). Other versions of the convolution theorem are applicable to various Fourier-related transforms.

"QFT and iQFT; Inverted Quantum Fourier Transform" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Fourier_transform
Sure, but you're comparing apples and oranges. It's like comparing a sports car to a boat. A ground-based telescope can never do what the JWST can do, because of the atmosphere (namely, do IR photography).
> I think the bigger issue is that CEOs will lay off employees to save $10M/year on wages...

... and often spend another $5M in layoff expenses and severance...
Can you give an example of where that happened?
Definitely, the HN crowd has been kind.
LLMs are becoming a glorified StackOverflow.

They're nice to have around.

But, more and more, I'm discovering the limits of their capabilities.

And, at some point, you're better off just coding yourself, rather than finding more and more convoluted ways of asking for the LLM to code.
Languages like Malloy or PRQL require some upfront investment to learn and setup. Additionally, I think both Malloy and PRQL are query oriented, so you still need to learn a decent amount of SQL to interact with your database (for updates).

I'm guessing most people would rather spend effort in solving their immediate problems with SQL rather than bet on a newer and less known technology, even if has a lot of promise.
Sorry, no. What you write makes absolutely no sense to a religious person. A religion (any religion) is, by definition, correct, and doesn't have any problems. It's not a thing based on any kind of rational thought, but rather pure fantastical belief. You can't "fix" that, when its believers don't think there's anything to fix.

Of course, you're looking at this as an outsider who doesn't believe the religion, so you don't see it this way, and you have entirely different goals in mind. You're probably thinking about people living together in a pluralistic world or something like that, but that's not a concern to a True Believer in a religion, where anyone who disagrees with the religion either needs to stay out of the way or be killed if necessary.
Understanding the process and workflows to being a productive open source contributor is useful. But perhaps find an open source project where the stewards are actively hiring and pay well.
To be fair, everytime a privacy leak is reported we may be looking at old code or careless devs that may have used m5d or things like length as a hash function.

But yeah, a big goal here was to be as clickbaity as possible.
The stock market is far larger than crypto, and RoaringKitty is proving that it is the greatest casino ever.
Isn’t it just automated channel flipping, but instead of isolated display space per channel, instead the channels are conglomerated together into an endless feed? A never ending loop isn’t intended to bring joy and happiness and that’s why it fails. It is however intended to remove control from the controller.
It kind of depends on what you mean by there being enough information to solve it.

There's a guarantee that at least one solution exists, but not that it's unique.
There's no guarantee on exactly what kind of process you can use to find that solution.

Sometimes it leans more into logic, sometimes into pattern matching, sometimes into reasoning about what kind of n-grams appear in English, and some times playing the odds a little bit. I've played hundreds of levels of this, and not yet seen a level that felt like brute force was the only option.

This is the kind of thing I meant when saying in the description that the puzzle generation isn't as elaborate as normal. It'd be easy enough to for example guarantee unique solutions (assuming the dictionary is static), or to make guarantees about exactly how many positions the first word can be in, but that also reduces the variety, and I don't know for sure yet what kind of levels end up being the most fun.

The hints are really there to allow players to self-balance the difficulty, and to allow for an escape valve if the puzzle is/feels unfair.
Actually no, even nondeterministic tests won't work, because you can just generate the answers assuming the changed source, but submit it for the change you actually wanted. Unless you DRM the whole machine successfully (good luck), there's no way to do it.
Serbo-Croatian is a special case. We all know that we speak the same language, but ‘the others’ are naming it wrongly.

Also, Slavic languages are very difficult for non-Slavs to learn, but very easy for other Slavs. And many are mutually intelligible.
LLMs don't have self-perception, egos, etc. right?
They promise free (domain) email hosting, that's kind of interesting... Anybody see a catch (other than, it's ByteDance?)
Yes, but that would also be awful for all the people around your phone when it may not have been stolen and could have just been actually lost.
Sure. Trust it blindly and see the fireworks.
I really dislike people using the "I have an inflexible scientific code that needs /var/tmp to be disk and persisted forever" argument to keep things the way they are. Debian's user base is far larger than a few inflexible codes, and it's straightforward to change the default.
Not Just Scale – Why thinking in distributed systems is important
Send me an email (support@toaster.llc) and I can make a custom Stripe invoice / shipping label. Still need to figure out how to automate international shipping!
> The repo overall makes it sound like it's a way bigger issue than that.

The repo overall contains a tool the author said 3x was simple or not rocket science, an explanation of what the tool does, and someone else's FAQ about the context.
Maiming is OK?
"Whatever the word “pepper” means to you, whether it’s the black powder you put on your eggs, a classic green taco-topping jalapeño, or the red hot chili ones that take you on a Californication..."

Does the author think peppercorns are related to capsicum peppers in any way beyond the common name?
If someone in China starts harassing you or threatening you, just start sending messages that the two of you are conspiring to overthrow the Chinese government and the messages will stop real quick.
These Chinese mafia types talk tough until you start sending anti-Chinese government copy-pasta to them and they shut up real quick.
Oceans face 'triple threat' of extreme heat, oxygen loss and acidification
I used Balsamiq for years and loved it.

It finally became too bloated and now we just use draw.io.
It sounds like by default the slag is in the form of ash. That's actually the main advantage I was thinking of; current long tunnels require mixing it with water to make muck and transporting it all the way back out. I don't know if they ever lift it out via vertical or angled dumping tubes? Seems like a pain. And then getting the muck out interferes with getting the tunnel lining in. The muck is far from homogeneous, so it's difficult to deal with.
Mars' Moon Phobos Captures Imaginations
Firefox is a direct competitor to Chrome. They fund Firefox.
When we perceive something, anything, it comes to us strictly as a mental (or emotional or sensational if you like) projection.

In other words, our perception is inevitably subjective and personalized.

Now most of us can agree on many things, but this is because we have the same frames of reference (as modern humans etc). Under normal circumstances we have similar mental models and similar perceptive facilities which given similar phenomena produce agreement.

But this agreement doesn't doesn't necessarily tell us what a phenomena actually "is" in objective fact, nor give us all available information about the phenomena. It only means we agree on a picture of objective reality (which is important for our species) and that our mental models more or less work to guide us around. But that in no way implies we are, nor are necessarily capable of being, in full possession of actual objective reality.

If we were an gnat 1/2 mm in length with a 3 day lifespan and many less neurons we would probably perceive things very differently. Or (as a thought experiment) if we were Lord God of the universe, immortal creator of time and space.

Point being, all reality we experience goes through our minds, our experiences, our filters and the picture at the end corresponds roughly with something we call "objective reality".

This isn't to bash on objective science nor promote superstition or argue for the objective physical existence of machine elves either. Some models and perceptional frameworks work better then others when you are trying to survive as a species and rational measurable science is pretty powerful tool. But sometimes, maybe especially with therapy issues it could be useful to back up and remember we have a frame of reference. It can be changed to some extent.

When someone sees a "machine elf" yes they are hallucinating, we can agree on that and we sober people don't see the elf nor can we measure it with instruments so it's reasonable to say it's simply a mirage or a mental trick.

But is there perhaps some underlying "reality" to machine elves that is translated as a "machine elf" because what the hell else could you call it? Maybe not an external sentient being, but part of a collective unconscious we share as humans? Or maybe (less probably imo) there is more sentience in the universe then we currently understand? I don't really know, but that so many people have similar experiences is interesting and perhaps worth exploring to better understand what we as humans are underneath this superficial top floor of consciousness.
It comes across as a rebuttal to any and all claims of security, not just the phrase "physical access".
Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome - Munger
What happens when you do this? Does the old device just stay on your account listed as a device forever?
This not being Like to like != I think America is Okay.
The comparison was between the recent campus arrests and this.
Most of the rest of your comment is just baseless speculation on my views
> Maybe they are moving towards alternate sources of revenue, since google makes up "only" 80% now, whereas it used to be over 90%.

Yes. Pocket, ads, Mozilla VPN, Firefox Relay.
Stable sperm counts in Denmark cast doubt on 'spermageddon' fears
Those are language-specific, the common way to write an ordinal (outside of English) is with a dot - 2. = 2nd.
> Something is off when support people aren't writing up the anomalies and escalating them.

What is described in the article is a fantastic hack. Given my organization's structure and skills, you'd need to send it straight past three layers of support and several layers of engineering before you find someone who'd be able to assemble a team to analyze the claims. We'd spend four figures an hour just to confirm the problem actually exists - then we'd all go "oh shit, how do we get in touch with the FBI, because this is miles above our paygrade."

An average cable internet user walks into a retail ISP location, sets a cable modem on the counter, and says "this is hacked". What is the probability you'd assign to them being correct? How much of your budget are you willing to spend to prove/disprove their theory? How often are you willing to spend that - remembering Cox has 3.5 million subscribers.

Friction is good. Hell, it's underrated! Introduce it to filter out fantastic claims: the stupid and paranoid are ignored quickly, leaving the ones that make it through as more likely to be real.
Isn't it illegal to knowingly buy stolen property? (I'm referring to the youtuber that bought the stolen phones).
I 1000% agree with the sentiment, I hate that we throw so many electronics away.

I need to make a blog post showing how to replace the battery.
They don’t. I have tried this and other similar things such as sending images banned in China (but otherwise totally fine). Perhaps they weren’t in China I suppose.
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2025 will surely be the year of desktop Linux.
I haven't met him personally, but Tao's writing is very humble and very kind. He talks openly about trying things and not having them work out. And he writes in general a lot about tools and their limitations. I definitely recommend reading his blog.
Thank you for providing a musl binary.

https://github.com/andyk/ht/releases/expanded_assets/v0.1.1
You don't need a perfect account to have a reasonable account. You've set up an absurd standard which essentially no knowledge could reasonably meet. I'm not a distinguished neuroscientist, but I've published papers in neuroscience and while we certainly can't provide a full account of the precise details of these brain states, the balance of the physical sciences, including neuroscience, leads me to strongly favor the "machine elves aren't real" hypothesis.
The stock market is too tied to reality. Where other than crypto can you stick a dog meme on a joke coin and have a $23bn market cap out of it?
From related stories on TFA page:

> Doctors received approximately $12.1 billion from drug and device makers between 2013–2022, study reveals

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-doctors-approximately...
They used LoRa. Alternatively you can use IP-Adapter and ControlNet, there are models for face, style, composition, lighting, etc... Search for "ComfyUI IP-Adapter workflow".