skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is an interesting point when you start taking it to different conclusions.

For example, It’s funny how often that people who claim to believe in free will often adopt the language of determinism when they say things like:

“It was meant to be”

Or, “Everything happens for a reason”

Personally, I think the general population is just confused and not particularly inquisitive when it comes to asking whether they have free will or whether their actions and language reflect their belief or lack of.

I suspect a feeling of determinism probably takes over when one feels like they’re on autopilot and lack a locus of control.

Does it correlate with being susceptible to cults, group think and parroting other people’s ideas like a consumer rather than synthesizing your own?
[*] https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
Well, yes - that’s ISO SQL “Assertions” right there.

I appreciate that eschewing RDBMS-provided data-integrity features makes sense when it makes sense to - especially when it’s your application code, and yours alone, that guards access to the underlying store.

But such-as-it-is, my current industry (think: incredibly unappealing on-prem CRMs) is all about treating the RDBMS as canon; reason 1 is because there’s a dozen companies all offering value-add services and systems that all integrate into each other solely by having an on-prem agent daemon that just logs-in to the first Oracle box it sees on the LAN and execs its raw SQL, not just SELECT, but plenty of UPDATE and ALTER - all without the decency of a TRANSACTION.

So having even only the most rudimentary of FK and CHECK constraints is what keeps hundreds of thousands of small-to-medium-sized business from imploding from a hosed production DB. They pay for themselves.

…but ifs not enough. There’s still plenty of data-anomalies even in the most well-designed aspirational 6th Normal Form DB you could make today simply because the RDBMSs are awkwardly rigid and inflexible in that regard. I wouldn’t be complaining about the lack of (cheap, high-perf!) EXISTS/NOT-EXISTS constraints in MSSQL/Oracle/MariaDb if those RDBMS were feasibly extendible in that regard. Postgres is the exception here, but unfortunately for me absolutely zero of the systems I work with use it; instead they’re more likely to run on Progress AS/400 or some proprietary xBase derivative.
Is there a standard, user-friendly way of generating consistent AI images yet? Or is it just starting to emerge in patches like the tool here? Because DALL-E for example is a complete crapshoot; it has no ability for fine-tuning or persistence across images/iterations.
That would seem to be the case, the device is wiped of any user data. Except for the lock, leaving the device as a useless brick / spare parts.
fine, pair the parts, but also: let the owners unpair them, same as you can lock/unlock your phone. Voila! both repairability and anti-theft gained!

Pairing is just anti-repair atm.

if you want to know how: put the part ids (which are used for pairing) into the apple id account and verify them when switching on the phone.
Forget online tutorials, you want to pick up thick red Wrox SQL books from your local used bookstore or co-op. Nobody selling you anything, densely packed, comprehensive info.

SQL has changed very little over the past 25 years, and while there are some syntax variations across different databases, the most important 80+% is universal. Even if the book is for SQL Server the vast majority will work on Postgres, SQLite, etc.
The best scalability I knew about was JanusGraph running on ScyllaDB. You can also run JanusGraph on Cassandra, which is horizontally scalable. ScyllaDB will be more performant and vertically scalable.

• Docs: https://docs.janusgraph.org/storage-backend/scylladb/

• Detailed use case: https://www.scylladb.com/2019/05/14/powering-a-graph-data-sy...

• Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WZyVUTwYJ4

Note this was a few years ago. I haven't seen a TigerGraph vs. JanusGraph head-to-head. The TigerGraph people are pretty sharp. If anyone has deeper knowledge would love to see comparative benchmarks.

Both JanusGraph and TigerGraph are rated about the same in terms of popularity on DB-engines.com (between 100-150 rankings). Neo4j is still far more popular/well-known, at rank #21 this past month. But there are other options you can explore.
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Aren’t most of the parts tied to the motherboard?
just noticed: re-pair-ability is basically all we want (pun intended)
yeah the false positive problem is huge here. For every legitimate security professional there are probably 10-100 schizos who believe they are “hacked”
CO2 levels are increasing at ~3ppm/year*. In 40 years we're looking at roughly 120ppm. Noticeable but not "we're all going to have headaches and covid" numbers.

I mean we might all have headaches and covid, but not directly because of CO2 at outdoor concentrations.

* 2.8ppm in 2022-2023, the rate at which CO2 is increasing is very slowly increasing but it's close enough to constant for rough calculations, especially after rounding up to 3.
>mathematically justify and therefore imagine logically.

Isn't statistics a lot more of a down-to-earth branch with "theoretically" some of the most well-understood certainty determination?

I'm no expert but my odds are on having it hugely more probable for imagination to be illogical in some way, rather than logical through-and-through.

Equations can be confusing, what people really want is to draw a valid conclusion;

>one that fits what we know about the math right now.

What are the odds that right this minute there is actually anyone at all smarter than there ever was in the past? Making it very likely that this is not the highest point in math or very many other things either.

Then again, that could be just my imagination ;)
/tmp/ is the ram-backed version for small files, while /var/tmp/ is the disk-backed version for large files and I also think both should be clean at bootup.

In my personally opinion the reaping period is way too long, especially for /tmp/ as only few people really have an actual uptime that long but it does make somewhat sense for /var/tmp/ as it currently is "persistent".
+1 - I've spent months on some videos—research, testing, sometimes travelling to different places to get better data and video to use. Then I spend a few hours on others. Some of the 'big' ones do well, sure, but it's nowhere near proportional to the amount of time worked.

I still do those projects because personally I don't feel like I'm doing as much good when I whip up a video in less than a day from concept to posting. I try to at least have something interesting/educational in each video, even if it's just a Gist or a new GitHub project someone can fork.

That extra work doesn't result in any extra reward/revenue, but at least it keeps me motivated.
Yes, but. We're talking about Microsoft here, we've known about their embedded rootkits since the NSAKEY[1] days.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
> "What does that say about our universities?"

"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink."

It says barely anything about the universities and everything about the student. If a student just wants to just have a perfunctory gargle at the fountain of knowledge instead of drinking as deeply as they can, that's on them.
>if an iPhone is iCloud locked

but that still leaves the possibility that it isn't locked, and therefore it is worth it for theives to steal it. Even just the chance that it's not locked would make it worth stealing.
+1 - I picked up my first semi-stalker / email harasser recently from blogging and sending out a newsletter about apps I build and open-source. Pretty weird experience.
I'm aware of that belief, but I do not share it.
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This is helpful - thank you for sharing. I've been down a mental rabbit hole lately and reached similar conclusions.
Sorry, but a stub so phrased cannot teach us anything substantial.
> could have used some further explanation

They are not obligated to explain what happened in more detail. Your comment sounds like someone speculating about why a celebrity couple broke up when they release a brief public message announcing their separation.
it depends on your use case, but yes you would probably need to load at least your browser with your own CA. It’s a good hygiene to manage your own keys though
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This is what happening now with NPUs and other co-processors. Just not fully OS managed / directed yet but Microsoft is most likely working on that part at least.

The key part is that now there are far more use cases than there were in the early dozer days and that the current main CPU design does not compromise on vector performance like the original AMD design did (outside of extreme cases of very wide vector instructions).

And they are also targeting new use cases such as edge compute AI rather than trying to push the industry to move traditional applications towards GPU compute with HSA.
I chuckled because I also wrote my own home theater controller controller (in Go) "back in the day"—which in my case means before Rust reached 1.0 much less had nice existing crates for this kind of stuff. But quibbling about that phrase aside, I'm glad to hear about your positive experience doing this.

3 CEC breakout boxes = 1 for the PS3 + 1 for the receiver + 1 for what, given that the TV didn't support CEC? Did the receiver and PS3 have other automation options? In theory I'd like the idea of "just implement CEC and you're done". If that were really viable, I would have released my home theater controller in a form useful to people who don't happen to have the exact same media components I do. But my experience is the proprietary APIs are generally better. Some exceptions. My (ancient by now) Bluray player's REST interface has something like 200 ms latency. As a hint to why: the URLs contain `.cgi`. It's awful.
And, for what it's worth, I also share because I love building things and learning. I taught myself how to code using free resources online, so it felt perfectly natural to publish and open-source everything I figured out.

I also wouldn't mind eventually making some money off delivering reliable value to others.
Try dtach
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There is no way that you can get a 40% reduction in total CPU power consumption, much less system power consumption, just by lowering the voltage of the memory -- the entire contribution of the memory is a tiny fraction of the system's power budget.

Reducing power consumption by an imperceptibly small fraction of a fraction of a percent is just an excuse.
I have worked with a bunch of Russian devs over the last few decades. They really aren't the same group.

Black hats (criminals), Government, and commercial devs are pretty distinct, and dont often over lap on a day to day basis. That having been said the government jobs are available to either group (sometimes not by "choice") and there is a revolving door there.

It's not so far removed from the university, drug company/reseearch, FDA revolving doors that we have for Drug development in the US.
LinkedIn postings being down might be an indicator but you can’t just use that to indicate the market has collapsed.
we actually removed most of the tracking because they're not necessary, should be updated in a new release
Actual title "Sleep Apnea Hard on the Brain"
There's actually a reimplementation of Binder in Rust, for Linux: https://lwn.net/Articles/953116/
the problem is things like forced updates are low-key good security policy.

users already have the power to defer updates for up to 35 days. What do people do with it? defer it as long as humanly possible and then whine when the timer runs out and they have to run the install.

again: the cure for forced updates has always been simple: run your updates occasionally. the people like GP who are forced into it? those are the people who should not be allowed to defer updates indefinitely, because they obviously can't handle the ability to defer updates which they are already allowed.

selling those users a version of windows intended for enterprise environments with a formalized lifecycle, managed by dedicated users, which is allowed to break the normal rules around updates etc, is like giving a no-limit amex to someone who has repeatedly overdrafted their secured credit card. They literally already have self-identified as not being able to handle even a little bit of a responsibility, they are the last users in the world you want to be able to defer indefinitely

Occasionally, a little user-hostility can be a good thing, in the big picture. Like, laws are fundamentally "citizen-hostile", but we still have to have them, because without fences a significant amount of people will choose not to be good neighbors.
What is the “MSX” the author keeps talking about?
What would “the LLM” tell them? It does not have any memory of what happened after its training. It has no recollection of any interaction with you. The only simulacrum of history it has is a hidden prompt designed to trick you into thinking that it is more than what it actually is.

What the police would do is seize your files. These would betray your secrets, LLM or not.
> we would know how to make a perfectly aligned AGI

Fortunately then, no one has any idea how to make AGI or whether AGI is even a coherent concept.
turns out everyone is their own personal jesus
It doesn't look at all like hentai, but the art does seem uncanny and stilted. It seems more like obvious wish-fulfillment romance, or at least the first one does; that one focuses on how some really rich guy that's relatively attractive is going out of his way to pamper and stand up for this woman.
The original iCloud email address is partially obfuscated “eg. e***@icloud.com”, so it’s unlikely to be useful.

For this, they’re most likely reading the phone number from the physical SIM card left in the device.
The key point of fascism is not "dehumanizing", "classes" or "people". Those are just side effects or by-products, whatever you like.

The key point is "forget yourself, devote all you were to the state".
Can't please everybody. I don't use Helix but I'll take scheme over lua for this. ;)
My favorite contemporary composer.

When you support yourself through odd jobs, you can make bolder artistic statements, and show a middle finger to the art world, if you will. When an artist is a professor/teacher whose job is to teach the tradition in the mainstream way, they end up being immensely conservative. Just look at someone like Schoenberg who is -- of course -- considered an iconoclast by the academic art elite but his music is an extremely conservative extension of Western counterpoint and late German Romanticism in a very predictable way: make it more harmonically adventurous/experimental within the 12EDO framework... It's been everyone's go-to since forever, I mean Chopin made a fortune (and a mountain of novel piano music) off of it. Schoenberg simply refused to see what was right in front of his eyes, even though he clearly had gigantic artistic talent, spirit, and motivation (he is also one of my favorite composers, so I'm biased, granted). I really think teaching is not very compatible for artists who first and foremost want to be artists. Someone who wants to create, first and foremost, something new, profound, and personal... Of course, you'll find countless people who'll disagree with me staunchly...
I had left the tab open, so I checked the console and there weren't any exceptions, just the output generated from the game being set up. I refreshed the page to test again, and selecting "small" brought up the same puzzle that I previously confirmed the bug with. This time, everything worked as expected though!

I'm using Firefox on Linux which could very well be the culprit here -- I recall an issue with drag and drop that was fixed in a recent changelog. I'll reach out if I run into the issue again.
Or, you know, just make all AI religious...
Applied for the Engineering Manager, Web role! Would absolutely love to work with FlightAware since I actually use the service. Any advice for going the process would of course be appreciated, if not, thanks for the post!
> using <script> <style> just inline

These SPA bundles are on the order of megabytes, not kilobytes. You want your users, for their own sake and yours, to be able to cache as much as possible instead of delivering a unique megablob payload for every page they hit.
> I know there was a Black Mirror on this, but imagine this to be safe, private, local, toggleable even.

Wasn't it private by default, local, and erasable in Black Mirror? And what does safe mean?
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Ostensibly huaqiangbei has a few ways of getting around the activation lock.

But a more common scenario is the phone gets used for parts. As for the icloud account. AFAIK you used to be able to get the full account email with GSX. Not sure about now.
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Keep feeding it prompts in a looop to make a stream of thought similar to consciousness

"What are you thinking?"
"What are you thinking?"
"What will you do?"

https://www.infiniteconversation.com/

Give it prompts and biased training and it will present a surface that can be virtually indistinguishable from actual wants and needs.

If I create a robot that on the surface is 1000% identical to you in every possible way on the surface, then we literally cannot tell the difference. Might as well say it's you.

All AI needs to do is reach a point where the difference cannot be ascertained and that is enough. And we're already here. Can you absolutely prove to me that LLMs do not feel a shred of "wants" or "needs" in any way similar to humans when it is generating an answer to a prompt? No. you can't. We understand LLMs as blackboxes and we talk about LLMs in qualitative terms like we're dealing with people rather then computers. The LLM hallucinates, The LLM is deceptive... etc.
Entirely anecdotal point here, but I learned to type in 6th grade, at a time when manual typewriters where more prevalent than computer keyboards. I've never experienced RSI. My hands only get tired after about 10 hours of work and after a full night of sleep they're entirely fine.

Probably the same reason I love keyboards with "cherry blue" type switches in them.
> FireFox's

It's just "Firefox".
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I always buy Macbooks with JIS layout, not because underscores are convenient to type. It's convenient to push the かな button to start writing in Japanese then 英数 when finished. On an ASCII keyboard, Mac OS requires either C-<RET> or pushing the Fn key, both of which waste an entire second to display a modal, then another second to actually switch keyboard layout.

I will admit, JIS layout makes writing Clojure a bit easier, though it also makes quoting tedious. Escaping is even more tedious. Push M-¥ is one option. Another option is to configure Mac OS to output backslash, but then you can't input ¥.

When coding with an ASCII keyboard, I frequently make typos due to muscle memory. If you work in the US, that is another major disadvantage. Your work computers will have ASCII keyboards, not JIS keyboards.
At this rate, we will have a paper about every single psychological aspect discovered in LLMs. This could have been just a reddit post.

Every phenomenon found massively in training set will eventually pop up in LLMs. I just don't find the discoveries made in these papers very meaningful.

Edit: May be I am being too short sighted. The researchers probably start from "Humans are good at X and the training data had many examples of X. How good is LLM at X?" and X happens to be deception this time.
Resistor for an LED: 100 ohm

Yeah, that's why I can read a book by the blue LEDs on my alarm clock...
Thanks, great examples and wonderful website. It’s crazy how this site is handled with ease, yet most static news sites I visit constantly crash my browser.
iCloud removal seems extra hard nowadays. I gave my dad a new ipad and took his old one and signed out of his account and put mine instead. A few months later i had it sitting dead and turned it back on a million icloud login messages popped up with his account then mine then his a bunch of times. His account was back on! I took it back to him to try and remove it from his phone and it took a lot of tries. I think the end combo i had to wipe the ipad and then it appeared back on his icloud list and remove it again. Something similar happened to another friend who i was trying to repair.
India seems like the much more obvious comparison than those countries
My favorite is https://youtu.be/n-43Uje-OuQ
The world you describe is much worse for the environment.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40579531
As others have kinda alluded to, it could be useful for testing TUI applications. I develop a logfile viewer for the terminal (https://lnav.org) and have a similar application[1] for testing, but it's a bit flaky. It produces/checks snapshots like [2]. I think the problems I run into are more around different versions of ncurses producing slightly different outputs.

[1] - https://github.com/tstack/lnav/blob/master/test/scripty.cc
[2] - https://github.com/tstack/lnav/blob/master/test/tui-captures...
Lithium ion is a bad choice for a UPS. You ideally want your battery at 100% charge all the time so you have full backup capacity when you need it. Lithium ion cells hate this and will quickly lose most of their capacity, rendering the UPS useless.

Lithium iron phosphate cells would hold up much better in a UPS application, but the price is still too high.

For now, Lead is still the most good enough solution for standby backup power.

As far as innovation goes, there's not really any to be had. This problem is already solved: you just can't do any better than a true-sine inverter and a battery that lasts a number of years. The only variable left is price, which is what most consumer products come down to in the end.
good instinct. for content-based things, though, it's really hard to get good information about usage if there's not enough to round out a MVP, so I'd recommend fleshing this out if you want to track more than just initial downloads/clicks. in the early days of reddit, I think for the whole first year, the top posters were the founders, and they created spoof accounts to make it seem like it was more than two people posting. just so readers would have something to see. in your case this is more evergreen content so you probably don't have to go to quite these lengths, but point remains that a media platform is only as useful as the value of the media on it
We use indexed-views in MSSQL for this and they’re great for many kinds of things - but they also kinda become almost like TRIGGERs and might ruin your day if the execution-plan-generation gods feel like it.

…and the lack of a LEFT OUTER JOIN also kills it for a lot of things too.

One problem is that a Txn won’t commit until all secondary indexes are updated, but I’d prefer it if there was a way for a Txn to unblock its caller once the base-table update is saved; updates to secondary indexes could then continue asynchronously. (I know this is hardly an original idea, but I haven’t read why this can’t be done)