skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the one hand I don't love it, on the other hand I can't blame them and have 0 issues with it. As long as they're only recording inside their store, what's the problem? Literally every large store/chain has overhead camera's recording you throughout the store. Putting a camera on an associate isn't really changing the math much. Furthermore, I'm guessing they've got issues with high rates of theft at the stores in question. Your options are either more monitoring to stop/slow down theft, or having the stores close entirely in what I would imagine are lower income areas that don't have a lot of options in the first place. I'm guessing the folks not out to steal stuff that live near these stores would far prefer an associate with a camera to having to drive or ride a bus for an hour+ to go shopping.
Of these, only the first one actually has any real value. And as you've mentioned there are likely less "expensive" ways to do so. By expensive, I mean this is essentially using a sledgehammer to crack a nut (especially the Dall-E call).
My favorite is the weather station consisting of a rock sitting in a dish suspended by a chain. If rock is wet, it is raining. If rock is moving it is windy. If you can't see rock, it is night. If rock casts a shadow, it is sunny
I would say that if it was one of the terms of the sale (we don’t know), that’s even worse. If a buyer makes that request, the seller should be even more conscious of “who the heck am I selling to?”
Yeah, it's pretty bad:

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Isn't this bag of words all over again? Except with positional hints?
I mean, sometimes there are legitimately terrifying people who try to silence their employees by holding their power structure above them. It's not exclusively left wing or right wing, this is a phenomenon throughout history that is fairly apolitical in nature. If you Google "presidential controversy" you'll certainly find damning examples on both sides of the aisle.
Multiple forks, huge blobs of data that someone stuck into a repo for some reason (had issues where someone would git add -A without a good .gitignore and wind up with several ~50-100 MB generated files in a repo)...
Incredible work. Dual BIOS setups seem like they require very little more PCB space and will cut down on returns. I wonder why manufacturers don't do this. Perhaps the numbers just don't pencil out and it's better to handle the risk of failure.
> would have been much easier if I'd had a Bus Pirate and SOP8 adapter to clip onto the IC while it was still on the motherboard.
>I decide to remove it from the motherboard

For those who want to avoid soldering(unavoidable if chip is bad), SOP8 clips are very cheap on ebay.

There are many alternatives to the STM32 dev board used in the article, common ones are raspberry pi's such as the zero w(what I tend to use, requires some config changes), but also SPI to USB adapters for PC. Always read the flash several times to increase the likelihood you got an error free read, and also read it after writing as well.

Having a working setup able to read and write spi flash is very inexpensive and a handy emergency skill to have.
There's nothing wrong with this paper and it's important to understand exactly what LLMs (and related technologies) are capable of and what they aren't, but I do have a problem with the general argument that <ai technology> can't do <some task> and so that means it's useless and won't lead to AGI. I feel like a lot of people think that if a single neural network architecture can't achieve something on it's own that building a system that supplements the AI with other tools is somehow _cheating_. General AI if it ever happens is going to very likely be a system of specialized components working together, and there's not going to be a single piece of it that you can point to and say "that is where the intelligence lives" -- it's sort of liking digging through the brain looking for the homunculus that's piloting the ship. If an LLM can't track state, hook it up to something that can. If it doesn't have long term memory and retrieval, hook it up to something that does.
More details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_rock
When I was a tech I hated their servers so much. It was super easy to damage them when taking them apart, and their raid controllers would cause dban to crash. I did liked the Z400 workstation, though, since it could secure erase drives without having to go to sleep to unfreeze the drives.
>the main difference is the private one can sneak in magic backdoor instructions, lost in the vastness of a 2^bit_depth space

There's nothing keeping an implementation of a public ISA from adding backdoors.
Discussion [1] (68 points, 13 hours ago, 56 comments) [0] (14 points, 17 hours ago, 10 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40603515

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40604997
Is there any realistic way to dissipate the heat from a datacenter in space, even ignoring the transport costs?

Also, the limitations of being in an extreme hostile environment make it completely impossible to get cruise ship levels of comfort in outer space, at least with currently known technologies. The huge amounts of radiation and the bone density loss from being in low-g for any weight of time, coupled with the extreme acceleration on the way up and the way down, will also severely limit space tourism regardless of transport costs.
I think DJs were meant to monetize "live" – that was the whole point.

I'm now imagining a Netflix of the best DJ sets of all time.
It doesn't make any money.

Musicians similarly have to "perform their best material live where they can monetize it". DJing really is part of a party, without the party, there's really next to nothing left, particularly now the technical aspect has been as good as automated thanks to CDJs.

We're also more than 40 years now since this was a skilled task:
https://youtu.be/uapn-mknXVU?si=3Ulv9NMoil7kMRR6
DJs weren't on big money then either.
What happens when the maintainer of a popular library goes to prison? (2020)
Sabatier reaction is an equilibrium reaction, so it can only remove a part of carbon. You need to somehow continuously remove the generated carbon to keep the reaction from transforming it back into CO2.

The second issue is sourcing H2, water ice is common, you "just" need to redirect enough comets. Comets can be also used to build a solar shade, by placing them into a polar orbit around Venus inside the Roche limit. They'll naturally fall apart and form a cloud around the planet.
Not to mention there realistically aren’t any alternatives. For what it’s worth, their products are unfortunately still best in class in most categories.
Corporations are getting more and more liberal with what rights to other people’s stuff they grant themselves
Adding one can of soda to your diet, and changing nothing else, will see you gain 10lbs in a year, or 50 in five. Sugar alone explains a substantial portion of the obesity epidemic. A sugar tax, were there political will for it, would go a long way and be far and away the simplest approach. Our political system is just so dysfunctional right now, it shard to imagine it happening anytime soon at scale.
There is generally no requirement for consent for Meta to engage in these activities in the USA, unless they promise in some document like their privacy policy to honor the presence or absence of consent for US users.

The situation is very different in Europe, for example, where they very much do need consent or one of a few other legal grounds that probably don’t apply to most of their AI training purposes.
This is such an odd comment given that this is literally how the US has always and still does work, and also how passports will continue to work.

You can present your out-of-state id, birth certificate, license plates and have them accepted anywhere. Universal != centralized, we build systems like this every day -- DNS, TLS, GPG, hell UUIDs.
The Energy Footprint of Humans and Large Language Models
'git clone'

Fuck
Show HN: Easy bug reporting for web apps
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I built out a chrome extension to make it easy to share bug reports with your teams. It's a super simple and easy to use product. Would be grateful for feedback if you use it.

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This thing can run all the necessary app. You gotta hand it to Android: without it, we'd have a lot less innovative products (or they'd be dead in the water)
Apparently its 5000 repos, somehow.
Except that was never the purpose of TPMs unlike HDCP
Im diagonsed Adhd and I definitely had years of great success before being medicated. Theres advantages to all the things you're saying under the right circumstances.

Also quite frankly just about everyone suffers in one way or another. How do you know your issues were more than average?
That’s some drama.
It seems like, if someone has the ability to slip an evil instruction into a proprietary ISA, they could also slip an evil instruction into their implementation of an open ISA and just not document it. RISC-V leaves room for proprietary extensions, right? Why not use that?

I think RISC-V is very cool and the future, but I don’t really see how it helps here.
If you care to research further, the search term for aviation information would be "density altitude"
Wow, these have come a long way.
God bless 4chan.
I only read the original source provided by /skilled below.
Very interesting read.

Future Shock by Alvin Toffler predicted this exact thing. The theme of his book is that the pace of change had reached an inflection point where society changed so rapidly that the elders in society no longer possessed knowledge relevant to surviving in the society faced by the younger generation, leaving them adrift.
One node_modules directory?
Not that they'd use airplanes as an alternative to rescue lost hikers, but just in general does the same issue affect airplanes?
I remember watching a nature TV show as a kid in which the presenter waxed lyrical about the way a group of dolphins took one dolphin's vocalization and repeated it and riffed on it, claiming that they were improvising musically together like a jazz group. I remember thinking that it was a very optimistic assumption, and it was just as likely that the rest of the dolphin were mocking and bullying the first dolphin.

That train of thought probably says something about what I was going through at the time, but given other things we've learned about dolphins, I wouldn't discount my idea.
Instruction set baselines should ideally be well-regulated open standards. They should also be good, and not moronic academic projects running of 32B opcode space because of religious dedication to silly extensions and the uniformity of an ISA for saving pennies on microcontrollers to high performance CPUs.

RISC-V in principle is a great idea. Hopefully we’ll get something that’s at the caliber of a well-oiled machine backed by real experience and practical high performance use like Arm V8 and V9 someday that’s a bit more open, but as of right now RISC-V not only isn’t that on a technical level but is fighting some serious fragmentation.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/29/riscv_messsaging_stru...

And here’s David Chisnall on ISAs, which do matter:

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3639445
> There are only so many JWST 2.0s that you can and will build, launch and deploy.

I remember reading about building a virtual mirror out of hundreds telescopes, scattered around Solar system. It will allow getting kilometer-resolution images of Alfa Centaur system planets.

Building and launching that with Superheavy can become viable in the next 30-50 years.
My first thought was: Security Theatrics, and the article discusses exactly that:

> Although retailers say they’re looking to cut down on costly merchandise loss and keep stores safe, outfitting workers with body cameras may do little to stop shoplifting, some criminologists say. Worker advocates say improved training, better staffing levels in stores and other safety investments will go further to protect frontline workers and reduce shoplifting.

> The job of these security workers “was to just stand there with the tactical vest labeled ‘security,’ and the camera mounted on the vest,” said the employee, who spoke under the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters.

> “It feels like the implementation of this program with the cameras isn’t meant to achieve anything, but rather just something the company can point to” to say it is improving security.
To make a bold analogy, claiming that squatters should be allowed to seize unoccupied buildings is like claiming that hackers should be allowed to seize inactive servers.
Yeah that's a really interesting take. To me, whether it has an end really depends on how you define progress and what the goals are.

In the common sense where progress is little more than moving our feet, there's no end unless civilization collapses.

If one goes at it from the angle of the goal bring "enough", the end really is just getting to a point of maintaining what we already have. Wanting to secure the basics like shelter and reliable access to food and water is met with much less than what we have today. Surely there's some level of convenience and enjoyment that make sense beyond just the basics, but are we not there yet? And if we are, would progress best be focused on the goal of maintaining what we have that gives the most people an enjoyable life while minimizing our impact on the rest of the environment and everything that allowed humans to be here in the first place?
Not yet, some models in that direction are LTU-AS
Discussion [0] (24 points, 17 hours ago, 6 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40603362
Being brutally commercial about it though, DJs on Twitch produce content wholly dependent on other people's content – pre-recorded music. It's only reasonable that if the DJs are getting paid, the content creators they depend on should get paid alongside. Nobody is going to pay to watch a DJ tweak a CDJ over and over without the tunes that someone else made.
I think that's an overly simplistic view that itself stems from a lack of empathy. While the "left" may look at a right-leaning rally and see a crowd of MAGA zealots in a blind rage trying to destroy all that is good, so may the right see a crowd of devil-worshipping child-abusers trying to corrupt all good God-fearing Americans.

The divide results from *both* sides lacking emotional intelligence. If either side were able to understand and empathise with the other, they'd be able to connect and the divide would collapse.

Rather than focusing on the bad, you might be able to understand better if you look at the *good*. If your mental image starts with someone unreasonable and enraged, it's going to be hard to move past that. Instead, try thinking of your "enemy" at a barbecue, happy and surrounded by friends, family and community. Try to think what might cause *that* person to hold the positions you oppose so strongly.

For the record, I'm not American so don't belong to either camp.
This isn't specific to the "left". People abusing power is a story as old as time, no matter whether it's the media or something else used.
Fixing my iPhone 13 Pro cameras at -18C
There is nothing terrifying about a CEO controlling what his or her company does. The level of personal attacks and gaslighting coming from left wing employees is undeniable. Once you let them into an organization, they will destroy it. Many companies are now acting to rectify the situation. I'm certainly rooting for WaPo to shed its reputation as an activist-controlled organization.

Edit: Flagged again. The left cannot stand being called out directly for their bad behavior. Accountability is what they fear the most -- and they will face it in spades!
Change something, it's bad. Don't change something, still bad. What's the solution?
I don't understand how I would get a unique but accurate prompt that makes Dall-E produce an image that besides the weather/lighting conditions also has a randomly picked iconic scene for the location, people in the picture that have the correct clothing and doing reasonable activities, etc.

I'm trying to understand the criticism here, so please give the GPT a shot with a few different locations (you can also do neighborhoods or fictional locations) and describe how this is a nut that can be cracked with non-LLM solutions:

https://chatgpt.com/g/g-QIydQSFRm-sol-mate
The quote is,

> Access is needed for Adobe applications and services to perform the functions they are designed and used for.

...which boils down to, 'we need access to your stuff to do what we want'... which is not very reassuring.

The thumbnail example was just 1 example. Another example would be an adobe service designed for training AI on your content.

As long as the service designed for training AI on your content only accesses and uses your data for training AI on your content, it would be in compliance with these terms.
I'm continually amazed by the (lack of) quality of their laptops and the scenario described really reinforced my opinion of HP.

At work, I've used a ProBook, a ZBook, and two EliteBooks, all of which had major issues. Sleep mode never worked on any of them (immediately turning back on again with powercfg /lastwake showing no reason), and my current EliteBook frequently shuts off without warning and then won't turn on for five minutes. The ProBook and one EliteBook failed randomly and needed to be replaced.

The ZBook's workstation CPU overheated even at light usage, making it unbearably slow. Despite IT saying nothing could (and should) be done, I disassembled it and found it was missing thermal paste, or what little there was had hardened into a brittle, useless mess. Reapplying thermal paste about tripled the Cinebench score.

Given all this ridiculousness, I can't imagine how much worse their consumer laptops must be. It's baffling how anyone but the most naive non-tech people still buys from them.
On a "Knife's edge"?

Looks like I'm back building the nuclear fallout shelter in the garden this weekend.

last time I only got half of it done.

Thank my lucky stars there was no thermo nuclear war or I would not have survived.

Those muppets have been watching WarGames on repeat again.

Hopefully a better game than tic-tac-toe will decide the destruction of the human race
> Velocity in a gas is a distribution; raise temperature and increasing fraction exceeds escape velocity.

It's not going to be a significant fraction to matter, except of truly geological timeframes.

> "Realistic" for values including "let's build a mirror the size of a planet, in space, and keep it together for centuries".

Probably thousands of years. But not hundreds of thousands.
What a short-sighted outlook

1) "homegrown systems are expensive to engineer, but cheap to run" misses the most important part - how much does it cost to maintain, and how much of a RISK is it?

Homegrown probably means you're depending on tribal knowledge from a few core people who if they leave you're hosed. That's a risk. You also have to train EVERYONE you hire to learn the homegrown systems, instead of hiring people with externally transferrable skills that can come in and hit the ground running.

2) all of the on-prem folks had to additionally take on that responsibility

Most transitions/migrations always end up with a period where you have both systems running. It's not surprising that at first everyone has additional responsibilities. It sounds like the "on-prem folks" either didn't have the skills to work in the cloud or refused to learn, and needed external hires. Well, that's one way to put themselves out of a job, and that would be the next step once the homegrown system is deprecated.

Obviously there's a reason why "not invented here" syndrome exists. There's a reason "build vs buy" is a complex discussion because of more than just buy costs. People always prefer the home-grown thing, DIY. Engineers especially. On this site, particularly. And, also, plenty of successful businesses exist by cutting out layers and going on a shallower stack ("your margin is my opportunity").

But at the end of the day, for the vast majority of businesses, companies, and software shops, managing their own in-house infrastructure is a worse decision than paying a cloud vendor.
I used one of those clips and a raspberry pi to reflash an HP all-in-one that was bricked. I was super proud of it, but then it was destroyed in shipping on its way to the customer.