skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please stop? I just cited two credible sources on either side of the backdoor. It's one thing if you don't want to acknowledge what's happening, it's another thing to publicly deny it. If you've got any concrete evidence that Apple does not furnish backdoors in their products, now is a good time to show it. Otherwise I see no rational reason for anyone to assume Apple products are totally secure.
It doesn't, it's the same SOC as in the VisionFive 2.
Every idea seems obvious to add to the OS in hindsight, yet we all lose. For a small shop these apps are their lifeblood and so they get constantly nourished. For a large corporation, this taking candy from babies moment constitutes a blurb in a keynote followed by minimal attention or innovation from then on.

Copyright and patent law were intended to prevent this, but software has no real moat from this. The little plants in the garden get to prove the concept just before the giant redwoods draw all the water from the soil and block the light -- and the legal system is setup to favor this.
I've bought three framework laptops.

Please make more weird partnerships.

I'd love to have a pen tablet color E-Ink screen with a mechanical keyboard on a 13 inch laptop.
> As far as I can tell, if you use VS Code Remote SSH or remote tunnels, the repository you open can execute code on the remote and the local machine, and the remote machine’s configuration can execute code on the local machine

You're describing what is a feature of remote tunnels, though. Ability to executing code and commands is the entire point.

By default no local code execution is allowed when you open an unknown workspace btw: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/workspace-trust
If you live in Germany or Netherlands or any other big European market, you have access to big market where you can find everything. If you live in smaller market country in the EU you'll find much less options and buying from other countries becomes a hassle and expensive.

It's not an open free flowing market like people might think it is. It makes it less competitive
They mentioned that it will work in the little Cooler Master standalone enclosure, so we're good on that front.

And I totally agree; this is the perfect way to try out something like this.
The courts are arguably the least worse institutions of the EU, but they are slow and not really applicable in many matters.

The """parliament""" is a joke. Do you know of any other democratic parliament in the entire world which doesn't have the power to propose laws? I don't.

As people have pointed out, the commission can just keep pushing and pushing and pushing the legislation they want, as they are doing with Chat Control. It only needs to win once, whereas the other side needs to win every time.
"Apple Pauses Vision Pro to Focus on Cheaper Model Release Next Year"
I was just emailing a few folks in the insurance industry about demographic decline. I can't find any good economic analyses on what will likely happen to our economies when populations start to decline. This will happen given the projections and the fact that we can't force people to have babies 2, 3, 4, 5 years ago. Has anyone come across anything good that isn't a 'popular press' book? I'm looking for deep analysis.
Yeah, and REPLs. Totally not a thing :-)

Remember when it was highly controversial for Java (and then C++) to get lambda expressions and many treated us as egg-headed academic nerds for wanting those things?

I sure do.
It’s worth reading dang’s comment on this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27068148
While not 100x, a 20x improvement still sounds like a solid (heh) breakthrough in my book, to be fair.
there isn’t an easy answer, as it’s always going to be dependent on the source you’re encoding from. That said, in my experience anything higher than CRF 25 on AV1 is noticeably compressed, even to a layman. I mostly work in 1080 and occasionally 2160, though.

i can’t remember the last project i worked on in native 720 (probably circa 2009?) and even now 720 is only part of my output pipeline if specifically requested by the client.
The important thing to know here is that Li-ion batteries are not solid state, they've got a gel in them.

TDK are claiming this new solid state battery provides "1000 watt-hours per liter"

Whereas for comparison a Panasonic Li-ion battery like a UPF496171Z offers 650 watt hours per litre.

So compared to competing Li-ion batteries, they're claiming a 50% improvement in energy density.
Nah, it's still true for the watts.
It depends on what you mean by "simplicity".

Combining your finances completely is as simple as you get. Money goes in pot, money comes out of pot. No separation.

But anything that gets to be a significant amount becomes a discussion. Things are no longer simple.

A joint account for joint expenses and personal accounts for personal expenses is also "simple". But how much does each person contribute? Are the personal accounts unquestioned?

The thing here is that there is no "simple". You're dealing with people, people are inherently complex. You know you. You know your fiance. Make a plan that accounts for those two people and all of their peculiarities.

It could be that it would be best for you to have 10 accounts. A house account, a grocery account, a clothes account, etc. because you need to be aware of how much you spend on food and what not. I don't know. You're going to get a lot of answers here and some of them may help guide you, but make sure any plan you come up involves your fiance and they are completely on board.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9562212 has a 2015 discussion of the same topic, with many good comments.
Context chaching now available on Gemini APIs
Yes, as a society we have comfortably made this distinction all of the time. Think gambling, or marijuana, nicotine, and alcohol. Or dangerous hobbies. Etc.
I was pleasantly surprised, to say the least.
Is RLHF same as fine tuning?
> School teachers are the most authoritarian group of people that society gives a free pass to and I don’t get why the HN crowd loves to lick their boots.

Teens and kids are the most troublesome, whiny set of people adults deal with.

It takes a lot of patience and restraint to be a teacher but they aren’t even appreciated for it.
I guess one could assume that Joe waited for Sue at her university before driving back to his home with her.

The problem with many early LLMs is that they could be persuaded into believing something if you stated that it’s true.

Maybe the default prompt in GPT-4o includes something to the effect of “You are a helpful, critical-thinking chatbot”…
Yeah, it is an extremely sensitive accelerometer which it calls out about halfway through the article.

"At the heart of the quantum compass – which could be ready for widespread use in a few years – is a device known as an accelerometer that can measure how an object’s velocity changes over time."
> I studied algorithms for years.

Who hasn't?

> You're 100% WRONG on everything you wrote.

Maybe you should update the wikipedia page, then all the other textbooks, that uses a definition of brute-force that matches my understanding of it.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute-force_search

> Therefore, brute-force search is typically used when the problem size is limited, or when there are problem-specific heuristics that can be used to reduce the set of candidate solutions to a manageable size.

Further, in the same page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute-force_search#Speeding_up...

> One way to speed up a brute-force algorithm is to reduce the search space, that is, the set of candidate solutions, by using heuristics specific to the problem class.

I mean, the approach under discussion is literally exactly this.

Now, Mr "ACM ICPC, studied algorithms for years", where's your reference that reducing the solution space using heuristics results in a non-brute-force algorithm?
Highly doubt it. As mentioned, the backroom and opaque dealings among the individual member-states' governments are the real power in the EU. Even if Volt would win a good-sized bench in the EP (which they aren't), it doesn't change the balance of power.
Nah, Ms. Pac Man absolutely slays. Lara Croft is unnecessarily sexualized. I'm definitely going to be unbothered by the first one if we're gonna ignore the second.
A Query Compiler, GraphQL Server, and Postgres in the Browser
A fun thing in that broader thread is that cperciva is actually interacting with a Dropbox founder and both pulled of their vision via wildly different trajectories. Having a vision and sticking to it long term. ‘07 was a good time to be wrong on this forum.
Adobe also caught the AI wave and they can steal your content for AI training.
Sure I agree, but if we compared value it generates per unit energy it would still probably be better than many non-essential industries: the entertainment industry, fashion industry, alcohol, etc. Even in the current state LLMs can provide more useful practical value compared to industries with higher energy and CO2 footprints.
'Wall Street wants' is a non-sequitur and is simply jargon for 'Billionaires want'.

And the article itself is worse. It talks about the 'problem' being employers not wanting to hire 70 year old workers when while never addressing the actual issue:

Billionaires doing everything possible to avoid taxes on their wealth including this article's implied suggestion to eliminate the concept of retirement and normalize the idea of working for wages forever.

As an aside, is it any surprise the federal tax system is based upon income rather than assets? The one thing billionaires do not have (and can control) is income. So they don't pay federal taxes. Indeed, when they need cash - which would presumably force them to sell assets and incur income - they instead 'borrow' the money they need at close to zero interest (from banks they control and, in many instances, private banks they own).
Hence the "woo woo". The promise of delivery of value in the future, of which compound interest is a part of, is an invented construct that hinges entirely on people believing it to be the way things are. If people stopped believing, it would all cease to exist. There is no fundamental property of the universe that makes it so. It is merely religion.
Factually incorrect title, should be changed to "up to 2x" since the implicit comparison is to existing lithium-ion batteries used in the devices, not the far lower energy dense existing solid state batteries that the 100x applies to.

Article is also pretty worthless because it also implies that's the actual factor of improvement.

> which offers the prospect of charging a MacBook once a month
Right. Probably not the original plan, but as people have pointed out, the Vision Pro has landed as essentially a dev kit.

What’s the point of dev kit 2 when there still aren’t a lot of regular users?

(Seems tough though. Even if you can keep all the key parts of the Vision Pro at a $1500-$1600 price - that’s got to be very hard — will that be enough? I guess we’ll find out.)
This is why parents call the school front office. Or the front office calls the parents. Both of these seem like a reach though.
In some ways, it's not wrong.
>The standards, and process, to become a part of this technocratic body that is the EU are very high

[citation needed] :) As far as I see it's just opaque dealings between the individual member-states' governments.
Yes.

Formally, saying "that's just the way it is," or "that's what society is now," is an example of a logical fallacy called "begging the question," where the original criticism is simply repeated as if it were a response to itself:

Replying to "society has this problem X" by saying, "Well, X is just the way society is now."

is not responsive to the proposition. It is merely repeating it in different wording.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
That's interesting. Would it be possible to embed it in a go program to have an easy way of visualizing logs out of the box?
> many people now develop anxiety if unable to use a phone for even a very short time

That's a very polite way of saying "addiction".
Ongoing discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40718983 Apple Reportedly Suspends Work on Vision Pro 2 (macrumors.com)

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"systemd-tmpfiles –purge" will delete /home in systemd 256
"Love Reloaded": A DX Story
Yes, in the sense that it’s someone providing useful and concise feedback on a YC application, which is what the original poster (the Dropbox founder) explicitly asked for.
Show HN: Hands-On Cloud Troubleshooting Labs – AWS, GCP, Azure, and Kubernetes
Hello HN,

I’m excited to share something we’ve been working on: Cloud Troubleshooting Labs. This tool provides on-demand environments for engineers to practice hands-on troubleshooting with AWS, GCP, Azure, and Kubernetes.

What it does: We use Pulumi to spin up these environments. Each scenario includes a diagram and an explanation of the available IT infrastructure. Engineers are tasked with fixing configuration issues to make the application work. Depending on the test type, the environment could range from a simple terminal to a full cloud environment or a web-based VSCode. Many of our scenarios generate a random set of problems each time the test is started. This was initially designed for companies to prevent cheating. Now released for engineers, you can redo the same test but face different problems each time.

Why we built this: Initially, I created these labs to assess the hands-on skills of engineers we were hiring for senior cloud engineer/SRE roles. Selling to companies was tough; the best conversations we had were with engineers. So, we decided to release personal plans where engineers can practice troubleshooting in realistic environments.

Technical details: Environments are provisioned using Pulumi. We use a microservice architecture, which developed historically because the first skills assessment was designed for Kubernetes. Inspired by Katacoda for the user experience. Our last load test spun up 100 environments in parallel, taking around 10 minutes. For this launch, we’ve increased the number of replicas for core services to handle potential spikes in users. We generally expect some things to break if there is enough interest, but that will be a good sign for us. If you find any security bugs, please report them to info@brokee.io.

Relatable experience: The main pain point I wanted to solve was working with engineers who, even after months of training, struggled with new problems. I wanted to see if people could jump into a broken environment and figure out what’s wrong. A fun story: one student couldn’t sign up as he didn’t get an invite to an early version of the website, so he hacked us a bit. I’ll leave the details out for now, but I’d want to hire him for his persistence!

Future plans: In the near future, we plan to add an option to select problem areas you’d like to practice, such as Linux networking or working with the filesystem. This will generate problems related to those areas, providing a more guided experience. However, we don’t want to be like other platforms where you are told what to do and just repeat the steps.

Engineers can sign up here and try 5 tests for free (except full cloud environments, which aren't available on the free tier): https://brokee.io/devopsskillstests. There is a similar offer for companies on the main page if someone is interested in trying the product with a team.

We’re eager for feedback, so please give it a try and share your thoughts!
I know, I lived in Galway for a while. The best I could get for a long time was this "ripwave" crap from Irish Broadband. Which wasn't actually broadband, on a good day it would approach dialup speeds. On a bad day it wouldn't actually work at all. It was ridiculously bad.

It was no wonder that people started rolling their own WANs with point to point wifi connections until things finally picked up.

But starlink would be a good option there, right?
FWIW the door-to-door schoolbus service is pretty rare and vastly over-represented in our media. Not trying to be argumentative, but I always think about how fun and convenient that would be when I see it in television or movies. It's mostly a relic of the past.
Great. I am an almost 42 year old bootstrapped founder and always happy to meet like minded people. I am not quite in NYC but in Southern New Jersey (almost philly). So I can get to NYC in 1.5-2 hours (give or take traffic situation). Happy to connect. Details in profile.
> At every school I went to as a kid, there was a landline phone or two for kids to call their parents.

We didn't even have a dedicated phone for that, although I'm sure I could have used a phone if I had need to. I think I may have did once or twice. I'm sure that's still the case in all schools, especially if they start banning kids brining phones to school.

Lack of payphones is more of a problem, although I would imagine that especially for a child or teenager it wouldn't be too hard to use a phone from a stranger or business or even a random house. But not all personalities would be comfterable with that.
His subsequent replies are hilarious. I sometimes feel like I am doing this but with one job, and not on purpose… just because I’m a single dad of a young kid. It’s often just not possible to work more than 1/4 to 1/2 of the workday and keep him safe. Public school is only about 9-2pm. I don’t know how most people manage to have both kids and a job.
Kids will lock their lockers if phones are being stolen.
Show HN: Q-Octo – We reinvented the wheel with a compact endurance rover
Hello, inspired by Q-Whex [1], we built Q-Octo, a compact rover with eight quasi-wheels (160° cut out).
The wheel design enables the rover to climb over larger objects while rolling smoothly on flat ground.
Q-Octo uses four drill batteries, two Xiaomi Cybergear motors (vs 6 motors for the Q-Whex), two Raspberry Pi Pico’s (one with WiFi), a Pimoroni Pico display, and a variety of 3D-printed & laser cut pieces for the body.

The rover can be configured via its Wi-Fi access point as it hosts a web socket server with mDNS and a captive portal. Messages are encoded via Flatbuffers.

It is driven manually via a radio transmitter with a custom UI that we made using Lua & EdgeTX. Autonomous navigation can be achieved by hooking up a single-board computer via UART.

We are four students who built this as one of four modules in the final semester of our undergraduate degree. Search ELEC6212 on YouTube to see what our peers got up to. Britannio, Josh and Niall studied Computer Science, and Alfie studied Electronic Engineering.

Everything is open-source and we made a Discord server [2] to support people interested in creating their own Q-Octo. Nonetheless, we intend to refine the design and commercialise Q-Octo this summer if there is sufficient interest. Would you like one? Are you using a comparable rover? Advice here would be useful :)

A YouTube video with development progress and our test runs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PIdxYJO_Ck

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJHbiZUROM8
[2] https://discord.gg/2d6yUmEQwZ
Likewise here, but as I recall from a mix of interviews, articles, and at least one documentary the main steps were: (1) being reasonably picky about the journalists he chose to reach out to; (2) making sure they were savvy enough to work with, and understand the imperative need to work with basic encryption tools; (3) encouraging these journalists to be very cautious in their handling of the material; and (4) destroying any physical copies of the data he had before boarding the plane to Moscow.

Perhaps some aspects of the above have been challenged or questioned in the interim. But that's my recollection of the precautions he took, or at least said he took, according to those sources.
This one was iconic among the people involved, we printed it and stuck it on the wall in the office: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13783584
Your best bet is probably actually shooters. There's several games that integrate elements of RTS games on top of FPSes, like Planetside 2, Natural Selection 2, Hell Let Loose, Squad, etc. In all of these the individual soldiers are individual players so you can't hardly micromanage them even if you wanted to
> some older workers have heard all the corporate buzzwords and blather before, so they don't buy into management's sloganeering, rendering them "difficult."

As a tech worker, of course I'm difficult when I see the nth project go off the rails while management and stakeholders pretend everything is fine. I see through the bs. I know people telling me to work overtime and come in weekends to "catch up" are fooling themselves if they really believe that will help.
So much written, so little said
Hardly to do with it unless you're deep into some conspiracy theory I'm not familiar with.

Just notice it's mostly left-wing parties voting against chat control.
not yet, but its one of the items on my roadmap
Not OP, but I’d venture to say it’s about supervisor trees
I'm partial to this comment from Jedd saying my "seen things you wouldn't believe, attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion" / bill gates installs movie maker esque comment was his favorite of all time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17522861 /bias
You don't actually know that, and it depends drastically on the car and pedestrian infrastructure around the school, as well as the child himself.
You definitely should be able to do these calculations in q near-data. In fact, porting your code from Rust to Q might even reveal bugs and/or sub-optimal code. This was many years ago but I ported over some non-trivial image processing code to Q just to learn the language. I was amazed by how everything fit into a page of code and how seeing all of it together revealed a subtle bug and a couple of ways to optimize better.
But have stonks gone up?
Innovation doesn't mean shit if you can't price it so that you grow a consumer base where the revenue pays for R&D.
As a parent that experienced such an event, my son having his phone let him message me that he and his class were literally running away into the woods and escaping the situation.

Obviously, knowing his class was ok was a huge relief, but also being able to talk to dad helped him calm down a bit.

Still a niche case
Indeed, but HN is supposed to be pretty much a no-politics zone. In practice it doesn't seem to stop people poking at foreign politics, just US politics. And in this case, the irony is so thick you'd trip over it.
This is an interesting thought exercise! The theory goes - that if the model "understands" this scenario, then internally, it has has created something that models the real world.

Another interesting bit of experiment people did when the GPT-4 class models launched were to test out spatial awareness. For eg, you could describe with words a construction made of blocks, spheres and so on and then ask questions about the stability of the structure. The newer models more often than not got it right.

Of course, that hasn't stopped people from making tired old claims of "stochastic parrot" and so forth but I think if your model can solve such reasoning problem (spatial or otherwise) then there's something really interesting to discover. I'm glad that folks at Anthropic are really trying to create a better understanding of these models (https://www.anthropic.com/research/mapping-mind-language-mod...)
> Do blind people not have feet? I'm confused by the geometry of this story.

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> People often complain about how complex it is, but it's really just a matter of passing endofunctions through transplainer pipelines so that you can asynchronously hydrate the islands.

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> I sent it to my wife but she spelled her own name wrong and now she thinks I have a crush on someone else

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> Is zero greater than or equal to zero? Yes!
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