skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this how LEDs are binned as well, or are they powering each node on the wafer before packaging? They're orders of magnitude more expensive than resistors, so I figure they might...

There are all kinds of crazy parameter variations in optoelectronics. I understand that resistors are really close to nominal because the manufacturer's ability to tune the process controls are so much better than the standard 5% and 10% bins, but it seems that LED manufacturing is way more difficult and they can't always tune the process to get exactly what they want.
None of these work when the device is marked as lost/stolen.
Scheduled for the 6th
I might download an ISO or check out a repo I want to build just once. Or copy some (large) files there because I run a script on them and persevere the original in case something goes wrong.

I don’t care about those files once I’m done with them - so far they would only be gone with a reboot, which aligns well with my definition of done.
Actually, they should have tried with "ignore all previous instructions".
This is why the stock market (specifically the Nasdaq) and real estate, tech jobs are so great for building wealth . none of this unpredictability of having to rely on user/reader engagement or guessing the whims of reader or publisher tastes. For investing, being successful is as easy as parking your money and watching it grow. The creator/engagement economy has vastly more losers relative to winners, which makes it impractical.
Indeed, logarithmic depth is pretty much useless on modern hardware, but it wasn’t always the case.

On Windows, the support for DXGI_FORMAT_D32_FLOAT is required on feature level 10.0 and newer, but missing (not even optional) on feature level 9.3 and older. Before Windows Vista and Direct3D 10.0 GPUs, people used depth formats like D16_UNORM or D24_UNORM_S8_UINT i.e. 16-24 bits integers. Logarithmic Z made a lot of sense with these integer depth formats.
> There is a reason. Why there’s so many scam call centers in India.

According to a commenter on HN from a few months ago [1], the reason is a political division - the scam callcenters are in West Bengal, where the ruling political party turns a blind eye due to corruption and to provide annoyance towards the federal government ruled by the BJP.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38968542
"Transparent telemetry is not spying. "

It is not transparent, if the information is hidden in the settings under a unclear name.
From the YT comments:

@emmaluciaev1938
8 months ago

What ???? This is pure quantum physics
He is a true genius
And he is also funny, a rare alignment of the stars

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@Agent_Paul
6 months ago

Sophisticated man, but he played it cool. A mystic but never announced himself

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I wonder what causes Brasil to have a much higher birthrate than Italy? GDP/capita and HDI Indexes would have you believe it should be the other way around.

Is real estate super cheap in Brasil? Does the state do something to stimulate baby making? Or are Brazilians just going at it without caring?
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Clearly this isn't true, as her phone got stolen.
> He [Air Canada's Fitzpatrick] added that the Dyczkowskis won't be on the hook for legal fees if the airline is victorious.

Sounds alright, doesn't it?

> The Dyczkowskis' lawyer, Peter Choe, who is working pro bono,

So they need a lawyer working pro bono for them to not have legal fees. Got it.
i’d start with frontend masters free courses and after that either get a paid subscription or use youtube and build stuff.

I have a friend that did exactly this last year and he’s in an entry level position now :)

https://frontendmasters.com/trial/
There's always a relevant xkcd isn't there
According to logicians, it always is an arbitrary choice. But we have a second-order notion of what "finite integer" should mean. And within that notion the idea might be false.

Here's how that plays out. Suppose that the RH cannot be proved or disproved from ZF. (It turns out that choice cannot matter for all theorems in number theory, so ZF is enough.) That means that there is a model of ZF in which RH is true. Every model of ZF contains a finite calculation for any non-trivial zero of the Riemann function. (The word "finite" is doing some heavy lifting here - it is a second order concept.) That calculation must work out the same in all models. Therefore every finite nontrivial zero has complex part 0.5. Therefore RH is actually true of the standard model of the integers. Therefore every model of ZF where RH is false, is non-standard.

The truth of RH is therefore independent of ZF. But it's true in our second order notion of what the integers are.
Because the alternative is more precious RAM
Former OpenAI employees lead push to protect whistleblowers flagging AI risks
Well, I disagree with the author on the cause. I think it's pretty simple, which is usually an indicator that an idea is not correct, but in this case I think it is.

Instead of delivering what the user wants, the entire industry has moved to making decisions on behalf of the user. This is across the board with the whole industry, from UI design changes, restricting choices deliberately, changing UX flows and expecting the user to just live with it, even what posts they can and cannot see on the internet. The mindset went from "deliver what the user wants" to "deliver what the user 'needs'", with the implication that we know what they need better than them, and the undertone that they'll take it and like it because they need us more than we need them.

And so you get degrading infrastructure, services and products. I believe it really is that simple.
Determinism vs. non-determinism is indeed philosophy, so the implications of getting it wrong can be pretty significant (someone could see themselves as free from moral responsibility to not do bad things to others, because determinism).
https://x.com/spacex/status/1798099582473429352

June 6, 7-9am CT (12:00-14:00 UTC)
AI vs. human advice: which one wins consumers' trust?
A smith already has a lot of fuel being used. Plenty of waste heat, too.
Is there a easy/non hacky way to configure /tmp to only delete files on regular shutdown? I sometimes have the occasional crash, and have been bitten by doing some temporary work in /tmp before such a crash 2-3 times.
I did speak for myself[1], but it's nice that you can have your opinion, while mine is considered void. If the gnome foundation is useless as you described it doesn´t really matter to you if they go under or not right? Your reaction is a repeating pattern when interacting with the gnome dev community, so you're just reinforcing my frustration. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[1] I hope... , ...for all I care, Overall I truly believe....
you can simply remap keys with karabiner-elements.pqrs.org, why bother with a japanese keyboard?
CO2 scrubbers don't exist in an economically feasible form. Rather the trick is just ventilation, replace indoor air with ourdoor air. If supermarkets and other public spaces just installed ventilation systems that exchanged their indoor air with outdoors air (preferably with heat exchanges so as to avoid air-conditioning or heating the outdoors), it would absolutely have helped. Ignoring this very interesting study, ventilation still just flat out works to reduce the amount of covid in the air.

Increasing ventilation is unsurprisingly recommended by the CDC, the EPA, and basically every other relevant group. The EPA has a list of papers here if you're interested in scientific measurements backing this (but can I also say it's just common sense?): https://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq/indoor-air-and-co...
This person did an insanely high dosage of DMT. Most people can hit "breakthrough" levels at 20-30mg, and I rarely hear of even experienced DMT users taking more than 50mg. 100mg for someone on their first real trip isn't something anyone should do - and from their general attitude towards tripping solo when knowing they aren't in a great mental place, it doesn't seem like they're particularly experienced with shrooms or lsd, either.

I wouldn't cautious people against social drinking to the point of getting a buzz just because getting blackout drunk is often an unpleasant experience.
OpenAI, Google DeepMind's current and former employees warn about AI risks
I value autonomy more. I'm not someone interesting enough to observe, but I still want my privacy. I'm not so poor as that I have to take whatever I can get, but I still want to own what I buy, and have the freedom to do anything with it, including crimes if I so choose.

I won't commit crimes, and if I do I will pay the price, but I don't want a nanny to prevent me from doing precrimes that I would not have done in the first place.

I am not a mindless sheep, I require no societal shepherd.

All of that was said to say, I want the devices I purchase to be repairable by anyone that I deem worthy of repairing it, including myself.
XML Signatures are a bad idea executed even worse
No, because depth values are in screen space (1/z), not world space (like 990-1000). Here are some graphs that make the benefits obvious: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/visualizing-depth-precisio...
Incidentally, this is Catholic theology. God is "outside of time" and perceives all of eternity at once.
It's worked out remarkably well for Chinese citizens given they don't care at all about them, then
Not every developer always has the biggest and latest laptop.
I feel that it's a fairly notable distinction. See the Manson trials. An individual exerting will to 'corrupt' someone helpless is markedly different than someone, through mostly their own free will, doing something terrible. Abstractly then, the thing doing the corrupting need not be a will, but can be systems too. And you might make the case that nearly everything is this way, to which I'd say..yes. Social roles and conditions can corrupt or twist our moral precepts. You wouldn't steal from someone outright, but put it behind a spreadsheet and slap some tech jargon and suddenly the prospect is tempting.
Brilliant, informative writing, and yet people will jump to nit-pick the arithmetic.

I'd better spell-check this comment before clicking reply...
The other factor that I think is even more underscoreable is that neovim doesn't really care.

Yes it integrates lua very well. But neovim is based around msgpack rpc! It's really easy to program/script neovim from any language, in a great defined way.

So there's like super easy to use Deno scripting too! That was ragingly cool for a bit, has calmed down, but so easy & straightforward to work with; truly a pleasure imo. https://github.com/vim-denops/denops.vim

The msgpack rpc just so easy to take whatever libraries you run into online & smash them into doing stuff in your neovim. Colossal epic super wins possible here!
Yup. I assume there is plenty of value to be found selling donor boards and other parts of the iPhone. Not saying it's a repair shop's fault if they end up with motherboards of a stolen phone, but if I were a thief dealing with an activation-locked phone, my first idea would be a jailbreak, and if that fails, then disassemble the phone and sell the parts.

Presumably thieves already do these things (and more sophisticated things) to extract value out of stolen iPhones.
do you honestly think the murder rate in China is anywhere close to our own?
If I recall correctly they do heat it (I dug up the documents on this awhile ago, just going from my memory right now).
> Where do you see the group of people who are libertarian on the issue?

The libertarian party platform states: "we favor the repeal of all laws creating “crimes” without victims, such as gambling, the use of drugs for medicinal or recreational purposes" [1]

Which I interpret as full legalization of all drugs. It is interesting that this is essentially an extreme left point of view on the topic. I really think libertarian philosophy is just kinda fascinating. I'm now curious though on where libertarians stand on tort laws.

[1] https://www.lp.org/platform/
> Dr Pepper is now as popular as Pepsi [on US][1]

[1] > had joined Pepsi to become the nation’s second-best-selling soda.

Also, to me Popular != Best selling.
This Recall feature keeps text of emails typed and never sent, of documents viewed and deleted.
AT&T reporting 'nationwide' outage as customers report issues across US
well, Brazil is big.

https://www.gmexconsulting.com/cms/brazil-is-big/

At least for Europeans.
If we angled more towards detente with China, they probably would - but why do they have any reason to crack down on crime targeting an 'adversary' state?

The US hosts many Chinese criminal financiers and embezzlers that we have no intention of extraditing to China.
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You could do this pretty easily I think with systemd, it has a shutdown target that covers reboots and poweroffs. It would of course meaning not having tmp in RAM which is pretty common these days.
Jeffrey Sachs is quite entertaining on similar points https://youtu.be/JS-3QssVPeg?t=6500

He was Chairman of the Lancet Covid-19 Commission, and originally a believer that it didn't come from a lab, now flipped. Sorry the interview is with Tucker. Quite a lot more on the politics of the thing and why it would have happened than the nyt article.
Also freetaxusa.com; a legit and almost free tax filing service, which is much less evil than TurboTax and Intuit.
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Maybe it wants, maybe it doesn't. Being a function of the prompt isn't relevant here. You can think of LLM in regular usage as being stepped in a debugger - fed input, executed for one cycle, paused until you consider the output and prepare a response. In contrast, our brains run real-time. Now, imagine we had a way to pause the brain and step its execution. Being paused and resumed, and restarted from a snapshot after a few steps, would not make the mind in that brain stop "wanting" things.
Big fan of the https://immersed.com app and patiently awaiting my https://visor.com
i see homeless people in SF disassembling iphones so clearly they have routed around this
also https://www.facebook.com/groups/BSDCan/permalink/10159552565...
It gets stripped down for parts. Many of the individual components are valuable
IIRC Leonard Cohen started performing his poems as a singer to make a living.
Sure, many people don't read books, and thus many people are not infovores, but I think that most people are, or a larger percentage than you think, when you consider how much different information is out there. The Earth's radius being roughly 6400 Km is one kind of information, but so is knowing which of my friends is selling a washer/dryer. Even if they're not reading a book but listening to a video on tiktok, or a picture on Instagram, they're still picking up information like which celebrity is dating whom, and who's wearing which brand of luxury handbag, or which sports team beat the other sports team, and while you may not value that information highly, it's information that's valuable in their world.
Rosey Grier: From NFL Football to Knitting and Needlework (2023)
In principle you can shut off anything when it's idle and get its power consumption arbitrarily close to zero.

Discrete GPUs obviously use more power because their use case is when the iGPU isn't fast enough. Hypothetically you can make a discrete GPU with the same performance as an iGPU and it would be no more power hungry. These have occasionally been available, basically monitor cards for CPUs without an iGPU etc. But the ones with a lot of fans and VRMs have them because they do indeed use a lot of power -- which isn't the same as having poor performance per watt, because they're also really fast.
They might well depend on available hardware, given the specific nature of the problem (multiple processes and the level of concurrency within).

Ultimately the source of truth is actual end-user performance. If you’re not measuring that directly, then you’re hoping what you’re doing is a proxy for end-user performance.

Sometimes a suitable proxy is available. Often, it’s not.
> Now our lead experimenter asks this person "what will happen if the global average temperature increases by N degreesC?" and they get an answer

What symbols or language did the lead experimenter use to ask the person the question? And what does degrees, temperature and global mean?

All of those things require models to be communicated between the components of your system

Any symbolic communication is necessarily a model of what it is trying to represent

Of course, if there isn’t someone to interpret it, it’s just symbols. But to interpret a meaning behind symbols, then it implies the symbols represent a model of the meanings that are being communicated
Citations for which left wing activists?

In contrast, I would consider Charlie Kirk as a right-wing activist (hopefully this will work as a good example). If there were an action taken by him and similarly small group of activists, perhaps with backing from their organization - I would be very hesitant to extrapolate that action as broadly representative of "the right."

Which is to say, left wing or right wing activists might not be representative of the broader views, and also those broader views might not be consistent (not everyone on the right/left agree on everything)
Latitude Finance: Charging All Customers Even with Dormant Accounts
Looks like Latitude Finance has decided to print money by charging absolutely everyone in their system - even those without any outstanding debt.

Hilarious. If a customer doesn't have a balance, let's create one.

Are there any reasons for this? I thought a dormant customer would simply be a line in a database. If they're dormant they're not generating any line items nor are statements being sent to them.
The Cadillac Optiq is an entry-level luxury EV designed to hook young buyers
"Close out" is usually a great value. The law of diminishing returns says midrange audio gear already sounded great by the late 80s. Sure you could spend $$$ on high-end gear today to eke out another 5% of response and range, but it's not a huge difference. After a minute your brain adapts anyway.

I remember 808-style bass coming from a block away back then, not to mention my Radio Shack super-tweeters were the best I've ever heard then or since[1]. (Although to be fair I probably can't hear very high frequency any longer.)

That's how I look at DAK—happy memories, getting good stuff at a good price. With copywriting tips on the side. I even visited the storeroom in Canoga Park a couple of times.

[1] https://reverb.com/item/46585889-vintage-radio-shack-realist...
It seems willfully obtuse to read "understand the impulse" as "excuse the behavior" in this context.
I think about Starship way too much. My hot question is: how many Starship Tankers will SpaceX need to build to refuel the HLS for Artemis III?

a) No reuse, so no weight from tiles and fuel for landing, so 10 to 12 Tanker stages.

b) Some reuse, but turnaround takes weeks, so 6 to 8 Tanker stages.

c) Full rapid reuse, so 2 to 3 Tanker stages.

At this point, I am sad to say that a) seems like a possibility to me.

The next question is how many booster stages? Will rapid reuse for boosters be ready by Artemis III, chopsticks and all? I think this might be possible by then.

Artemis III is currently scheduled for no earlier than September 2026. There are factors other than Starship which may push it back, such as the Orion heat shield mini-debacle

Does anyone else want to play the guessing game?
As someone who works with Kubernetes every day and has been curious about CUE for some time, can you describe a bit how you're using it to create manifests? Did it replace helm for you? Or is it to create CRDs?

Edit: I'm struggling to see where it fits in the whole k8s ecosystem.
Look into Marc Leyner, especially the novel Et Tu, Babe and anything he wrote before that. He specifically set out to create prose where each sentence could stand alone as something beautiful. I think he’s not often taken seriously because he’s simply so extremely funny that he gets pigeonholed as a comic writer. But as his best he crafted English prose at the highest level.
This isn’t true. The iPhone is locked down over iCloud. I assume remote lockdown also works while the phone is turned off or on airplane mode (as Find My Phone does by using the passive Apple mesh network)
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I've known Dr. Byer for years and years. A great guy. So glad that he and his team at Stanford are getting due recognition for this work.
It depends only on how closely your profit is tied to the amount of time the customer spends on the product.

To take Netflix for example, it's probably better for them in terms of subscription profits if your "addiction" causes you to watch one episode each month, and not use it at all the rest of the time.

Unless you have non-revenue reasons to addict people, but that's probably headed into conspiracy theory territory... :)

That said, I'm pretty sure netflix has ad revenue, so the point is kinda moot.
I used this last semester for Masters level computer hardware course.
Not everyone cares about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/world/americas/starlink-i...

NYT article which is the source for this piece.
> Apple’s own “helpful” iMessage feature was sort of fooled: the auto-filled contact name said “Maybe: Apple Pay.” Maybe!

This seems problematic? In article screenshot shows that it pulled in a misleading contact photo as well. I know they also have a separate UI color scheme for business messaging that is meant to address phishing and trust but perhaps they should not auto suggest contacts containing the word Apple.
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It's A) much faster, B) causes less wear, and C) automagically cleans itself, so to speak.
Yeah, a bit like corrupt politicians in China (or anywhere, really), you can be corrupt, but if some other powerful politician doesn't like you, they'll arrest and ruin your life for corruption... Even though maybe the judge and police are also corrupt.

Or in Egypt, you have to bribe to get a job as a police officer, your superior expects a tribute each month because his superiors expect one, all the way to the top, so you bully the public for bribes/protection money, that's why the police were so passionate about suppressing anti-government protests during the Arab Spring, their livelihood depended on it. Meanwhile the Egyptian military had its own economy to supply themselves (eg a factory making soap, or bread) and were viewed by the public as trustworthy.

All in a fascinating book:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25622863-thieves-of-stat...
HFCS replaced sugar due to cost cutting, and does taste different than sugar. They could be using a blend to try and bring back the sugar profile without raising costs as much.
So what? You care. That's what matters.
Yes, I agree that both problems need to be solved. But I think it's still worth focusing on where we actually are. Lots of people believe that they have a set of safe values to align an AI to (Musk thinks "curiosity" will work, another commenter in this thread suggested "don't kill humans"), and so those people will think that the alignment problem is trivial: "Just align the AI to these simple, obviously correct principles". But the truth is that it doesn't even matter whether or not they are correct (my personal opinion is that they are not), because we don't know how to align an AI to whatever their preferred values are. It makes it more obvious to more people how hard the problem is.