skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MHBKD recently made a video on Apple testing lab [1], and one thing he talked about and that was kinda new to me is seeing repairability as a spectrum. I.e. on one side is "indestructible" product and on the other is "perfectly repairable". And that those properties (being hard to damage/destruct and being easy to repair) might be mutually exclusive.

In a hindsight it seems obvious, still this video was the first time I've heard this verbalized so clearly.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8reaJG7z-is
So almost like an optical wheatstone bridge ?
Planned obsolescence is very real, but the reality of incandescent light bulbs means that lifespan, efficiency, and luminosity are not independent.

The 1000 hours limit is in practice a lower bound to a combination of luminosity and efficiency
Humble Tech Book Bundle: Elixir and Phoenix Programming 2024 by Pragmatic
I missed the last Elixir bundle back in 2022, and I'm not missing this one!

Spreading the word about this one since this almost slipped under my radar.
I see! Seems like neither formatter is completely rigid, and both respect some style decisions made by the programmer, so this level of automated reformatting isn't possible.
Sadly, the US doesn't seem to have particularly great consumer guarantees - you just have to rely on warranties given as an extra marketing point by a company.

In more developed countries like Australia, NZ, and the UK, warranties last less time than the guarantee offered by consumer law and only exist to try and confuse consumers into not asking for repairs after the warranty expires (but not necessarily the consumer law guarantee)
LLM go brr and crap out a load of fluffy text that wastes the time of a recipient. Why not go for concise and get your point across quickly and effectively?

Think about it: if people are going to be using AI to condense emails and make them more readable, why send such pointlessly big, fluffy emails in the first place? Just seems like a waste of electricity and water.

If people are struggling from email overload anyway, why pile on with more of it?

Even the idea of asking it to write a "persuasive" email—asking a machine to write something to effectively manipulate someone doesn't sit well with me. Yes, marketing is ultimately targeted manipulation, but this feels like breaking some kind of taboo by encouraging it in the marketing materials.

Marketing materials show Gmail, but doesn't Gmail already write and summarize email too via Gemini?
speaking of LLMs, energy grid is one of the bottlenecks predicted in its progress on the nation level...
bull carts
I recall reading a quasi-debunking of this. I didn't go down the rabbit hole far enough to understand all the details, but it seems the situation was more complicated than just corporate greed. [1]

The topic has been discussed here in the past a few times, including [2] and [3]

1: https://readmedium.com/en/the-phoebus-cartel-was-never-reall...

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21596792

3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17606748
Tbf importing uranium is fairly easy and relatively cheap due to the high energy density.
I believe that MSVC inline asm allows referencing variables in the asm as it can parse and understand the asm (at least before they got rid of inline asm completely for 64 bit code).

AFAIK GCC does not attempt to parse the asm by design, as it is meant to be used for code that the compiler might not understand, so you have to describe input, outputs and side effects with annotations.
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The right windshield is straight as well, you see part of a building behind it
Driving up concrete production, a significant carbon contributor as it stands (low carbon concrete is still in its infancy).
It’s fantastic.

No, I wouldn’t like the extended warranty thanks - I’m covered already.
It's not as good for the environment, though.

Some companies like Apple try to make up for this by replacing broken devices, then refurbishing and reselling the formerly broken device.
> If the license was GPL, I would have the right to see these changes!

if you can afford the lawyers.
Cecconoid release trailer (2024 Amiga game) [video]
Release trailer for official Cecconoid demake for Commodore Amiga 500s and above
We’re automatically logging and summarizing calls. I’m in a regulated industry so it’s not an optional activity and there are quite some requirements to how and what we log.

Interesting thing we learned is that agents tend to log during the calls, not afterwards. We now see (qualitative feedback) that they are less busy logging and therefore have more attention for the client, and (quantitatively) we see the calls are getting shorter and people with the tool are doing more calls per day. We do many millions of calls a year, so it sums out to a good number.

Similarly, we have processes with 100s analysts with very high standards to their outputs. The traditional way is to have QA teams review and provide feedback for a few rounds. We’re introducing AI for the first round(s) of feedback to shorten the cycle time reduces context switches) and have the QA teams focus on final reviews.

But I get your point. RAG knowledge bases for experts are in a hard spot. After a few months of employment, the experts tend to know the general knowledge well. As a result, the RAG-bot mostly gets questions about exceptions and niches, where it doesn’t perform very well, and mistakes might be expensive.
It's not just a byproduct. There's a definite mode it switches into, that can be disabled, that draws additional power in order to heat the dish up. There is no heating element, but the community understanding is that the radio elements are themselves used to do the heating.
How will moving production to low wage countries help? The importer and/or the retailer still have to comply with the law of the country they sell in.

The only exception is when people buy from a foreign retailer online. However that is a problem regardless of where the retailer is as long as they are not in your country. My daughter (in the UK) currently has a problem with Boox (in the EU) refusing to replace a product that was delivered with a faulty screen claiming that she must have damaged it.
In France, the "Repairability Index" was mandatory since 2021 [1, in French], and will be superseded by the "Durability Index" starting on 2025 [2, in French]

[1] https://www.ecologie.gouv.fr/indice-reparabilite
[2] https://www.ecologie.gouv.fr/indice-durabilite
In my view, such skill with painting is largely mis-labelled as creativity. It's pretty much a technical skill. The design and subject matter of the posters are where the creativity lies. The two things often get conflated, perhaps because of their joint use in the creation of great paintings, but they're fairly separable.
The fact that they are building known and tested nuclear designs is rather a good thing in my mind. Less chance of a major fuckup.

It also illustrates that nuclear is not inherently more expensive. We just make it so with over regulation and lack of scale.
It definitely is a "classic" book for a good reason.

I think it really depends on your actual formal education, how valuable this book will be to you. If you have a CS degree basically everything in there should have been covered during your studies, you already know how to operate on trees, recursive algorithms and how to build an interpreter. The main value to you would have been seeing it all come together in one place.

If you don't have that kind of education I believe it is extremely valuable to see programming from a theoretical perspective. The book is very good at laying out a cohesive narrative of how you go from very basic structures to complex programs and how these programs can be executed by a computer. The highlight definitely is the implementation of lisp in lisp.

There were also chapters, mostly towards the end, which I think aged quite poorly and seemed mostly irrelevant. I don't think there is much lost by skipping them.
Well this is just like humans. Totalitarian societies don't produce great creative work.

Conservative societies tend to be formed by conservative thinkers, who are more prone to discarding imperfect or weird ideas, but in the amount of useful output may exceed more liberal thinkers.
2 years is the EU-wide minimum, individual countries can raise that bar. The Netherlands for example has the same reasonable expectation rule as discussed in the article. You absolutely will win a similar court case here (I know people who've done it).
Verifying the integrity of the boot process is irrelevant. Nobody actually cares about this.
Being able to sense timbre has nothing to do with being able to tell the shape of the waveform of a sound.

You're able to recognize red, you're unable to tell me it's wavelength (intuitively)
They're already doing that, so you may as well exercise your rights (and help the environment at the same time).
you wouldn't be installing and forgetting loads of different versions of everything on computer appliances. you'd develop on a normal pc and then push just what's needed to the appliance.

on the dev pc you'd run garbage collection once your new env is acceptable and the old one gets removed.
Yeah, I guess I was/am curious about both.

It seems like we have 2 year legally enforced warranty (which I knew about), and some sort of small claims court (which I did not know about).

I think I would have heard about legally mandated warranties that extended beyond the 2 years I knew about. The Australian system seems quite reasonable, I wonder why we don't have something like that? 2 years for everything seems pretty weird.
The category of sets is a topos and can be expressed/presented with first order classical logic but the general logic of toposes is intuitionistic and non-classical. There is no single topos with a single logic, each topos has its own logic and the common thread is that they're non-classical and higher order.
Yes, if you just turn on the dish with no account there's still limited "internet" access that lets you access Starlink billing services.
I don't know what is more incredible, the fact that she is doing this or the fact that she's funding this project with AAPL.
The article says it’s a midrange oven.
Thin LLM generated "content" that's basically telling people to do affiliate marketing for them.
While I still do run into 2.7 code, even for 3 dependencies are the problem. You always use a library of some kind and that library could use a new python feature. You could pin it but then other scripts that need the new version break. And that is if you could even easily find the module and version. Just this week I helped someone troubleshoot a bug they've been trying to fix for weeks/months and it was just a matter of the library code being too new for 3.6. It's an ever growing planned mess.
Coincidentally, nix flakes is a good way to reduce the flakiness of development environments
Agree it's an awesome build.

FYI there is prior art for this sort of control - google 'motorised fader'. Used for audio tech mixing desks.
This starlink mini dish isn't available yet. So the pricing and exact capabilities are not yet known.
Have you actually seen VVVV? It's nothing like QT or Unity. It's a visual scripting tool, that does not require any real programming knowledge (although it definitely helps if you have some).

One of our animators can't write code, but he made some interesting sketches with it. The program is very experimental in nature.
What do they mean by “inland”? The vast majority of the chinese population and industry is near the coast.
I learned something. :-)
if you’re normal, stimulants make you feel like a god (at first). adrenaline and dopamine pumping through you, you feel on point and like you can take on the world.
I think it is, and if you don't want to take my word for it, John Carmack thinks the same :)

There's an old video [0] where he talks in-depth about his explorations of functional programming. It's perhaps a bit more about Haskell than about SICP, but in it he's also quite enthusiastic about what a veteran programmer can still learn from this book.

[0] https://youtu.be/1PhArSujR_A?si=OD8pGYsoGC7RXPVG&t=125
I've read a lot of Asimov, from Foundation to the Black Widowers. But never Susan Calvin. Thanks for the recommendation.
It's kinda same here in Thailand; with much more bureaucrat issue though.

Although we didn't explicitly have a consumer court, we have a court department in both municipal and Provincial Courts. (ศาลจังหวัด/ศาลแขวง... แผนกคดีผู้บริโภค)

People can file a complaint themselves both in-person or via e-Filing system. Although very tedious to do so, at least in my opinion, it still workable.

Same as the blog's author, any plaintiff I've help with, need some patient and times on both evidence collecting and consulting with the court's appointed lawyer to draft the complaint. But, for the case against big company at least, it mostly worked out for them.
Thanks for speaking up. At this point no one is really presenting any evidence so it’s a necessary evil to offset the Lisp slander even if it is, like the parent comment, not much more than an appeal to authority / popularity.

Syntax is absolutely neither natural nor unnatural, by nature, to humans, but it’s a fact that fewer symbols to memorize is easier than more symbols to memorize. The problem is a failure to launch. Some people never truly understand that it’s not just syntax, it’s semantics. Data is code, code is data. That’s why it all looks the same. This artificial distinction in “C-like languages” is more harmful for the enlightened programmer than it is helpful. Unfortunately not everyone that reads SICP experiences enlightenment the first time (or ever, I guess?)
the article illustrates the low level of achievement in cognitive science (particularly in the light of the investment being poured into so called AGI / FSD right now) … we clearly need a scientific definition of consciousness that can capture what (birds(cats(dogs(humans)))) have in common and the incremental distinctions … literacy, spoken language, non verbal modelling, predictive ability, causation/reasoning, dimensions (physical, emotional), pain, emotions, empathy, initiation and so on. with a research framework that can hypothesize and test the neuronal services and mapping.
If they stuck to binary libraries that would have been nice but since you have to build deps locally and match up the right versions, go and rust programs have been a constant headache for me similar to python. The version from debian repos never seems to be good enough, I have to install it from upstream and maintain it.
Is it an offence to photograph a seahorse?
I'm not sure what to think of this.................

if it's 100% private (e.g.: users are not at all identifiable) then it's probably ok... but i'm not sure it will be 100% private...
You raise a valid point that digital signatures and HTTPS alone cannot guarantee the authenticity of a recording. However, modern smartphones and other mobile devices have the capability to provide stronger assurances about the originality of recordings through the use of tamper-proof secure hardware.

Many high-end smartphones, such as iPhones and some Android devices, incorporate secure enclaves or trusted execution environments (TEEs). These are isolated, tamper-resistant hardware components that can securely store and process sensitive data. When a recording is made on such a device, the secure hardware can associate the recording with additional metadata, including the specific date, time, GPS coordinates, and user account information. This metadata is cryptographically bound to the recording itself.

Furthermore, the device can digitally sign the recording and its associated metadata using a unique key stored within the secure hardware. This digital signature serves as a testament to the recording's originality. Companies like Apple or Google, who manage the secure hardware and signing keys, can then vouch for the authenticity of the recording.

While this approach doesn't completely eliminate the possibility of fake recordings, it significantly raises the bar for creating convincing forgeries. Modifying the recording or its metadata would invalidate the digital signature, making it evident that tampering has occurred.

Of course, as you mentioned, trust in the entity verifying the signatures (e.g., Apple or Google) is still required. However, this trust is based on their reputation and the security measures they employ, rather than on the content of the recording itself.
It used to be like that, back in the days. It was... normal. If you get a chance, play with some old school hifi at a thrift shop. Many have at least a powered volume knob, for control via the remote.

To this day, sound and light control in the entertainment industry and recording studios have 100s of motorized sliders.

Modern consumer devices are the worst.
If you ever feel the need to do this in production, use linux_syscall_support.h (LSS) https://chromium.googlesource.com/linux-syscall-support

No need to remember syscall numbers or calling conventions, or the correct way to annotate your __asm__ directives, and it's even cross-architecture.
I haven't watched the video (intend to, because it looks really cool) but my first thought is to repurpose a motorized fader from a mixing desk.
Synesthesia!

I had the biggest conundrum as a child. I remembered my grandmother had two dolls on her shelf, one pink and one blue. One tall and thin, one short and fat.

I also remembered that the colors "matched" the body types.

But I can't for the life of me remember if it was "pink = tall and slim" and "blue = short and fat" or the other way round. Both make sense! It's like a synesthesia blue/gold dress, all happening inside my head!
Google US Open 2024 Search Omits DeChambeau
On Sunday evening Google search results for "US Open 2024" was showing a table with DeChambeau omitted from 1st place and had him T58 lower in the table. Later early on Monday the table was moved below the fold but still shows incorrect results.
Mesh is a mess because the government, mobile device manufacturers and cellular carriers all want you on a centralized cellular system. Money is made selling cellular plans, cellular data, cellular carrier based device distribution (especially in the US, where most devices are carrier-acquired IIRC). Google in particular don't want to encourage non-centralized models, because their whole Android-shall-prevent-Apple-from-taking-the-mobicake play ("commoditize your complement"[0]) was to preserve their cloud kingdom. They're using lawyers and doublespeak to lock down what they've got, for example through ensuring no app can be distributed on Google Play that supports non Google Play store based payments (eg. carrier payments), and no app can be sideloaded without great effort (and there you were thinking it was your device!) At certain levels of their organization they are actively refusing to make mesh work in new Android versions as a first-line use case in Android, even though the hardware has supported it for eons (since ~2011[1]), as well as fiddling with the Android security model enough to make it a pain to use even if it theoretically works. This seems to be a dual layer strategy to frustrate any non-edgecase popularity of mesh. They do claim to support it in home networking products but probably only because they want to take over, monitor and surveil the rest of your house to understand more about your family's behavior, presence and so on. People even leave the bloody microphones on all the time, knowing it's spying on them. It's insane. This is why we need open devices.

To be fair, the security model for mesh is hard. Even FirefoxOS couldn't get mesh working properly. I think someone needs to just bring out an open device with mesh as the default use case. If anyone wants to pile on and do it, I'm down to contribute.

[0] https://gwern.net/complement [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11s
From what I understood the dog can go beserk like elephants do, no need to blame it on the victim. I mean, what can an infant do except make noise?
A fair amount of actual malware is written in Go. One important reasons is probably because being statically compiled by default simplifies the whole deployment story, which matters even more for malware than many other things.

Go binaries share a lot of the same code: the Go runtime, stdlib. And the heuristics malware scanners use seem to have trouble with that.

Or at least: that's always been my assumption why so many legit Go binaries get flagged, but I don't really work in this space so what do I know...
You mean like the CEOs of Intel, Nvidia, TSMC, ASML, Micron etc?
So are you saying that "T is a topos" cannot be expressed via first-order classical logic? Unlike something such as "G is a group", or "T is a topology" or "C is a category"?
Fair point, if the one with the most energy wins LLM-s battle then China looks like it will do even better

At least West has chairs, chairs are like people :)
Maybe it depends on what the state actually does..
Or just

int main(void) {
asm volatile("syscall" : : "a"(1), "d"(14), "D"(1), "S"("hello world!\n"));
return 0;
}

Though the clobber list is weak spot, I don't know exactly what it should have in this case.
Modular reactors supported by ideology alone (2023)
Shuttleworth and Canonical have done so much good for linux, but I cringe a bit when he misrepresents why people dislike Snaps.
Also he totally glossed over the amazon lens and Unity situation, which I would have loved to hear about.
There are startups building solutions like PCC. They all leverage confidential computing to do so. Decentriq, Opaque, Anjuna, Edgeless Systems (multiple OSS projects) come to mind.

disclaimer: I work for one.
just want to say thanks for spore - my son's favourite for a long time.
That was more than 10 years ago though. Back then, the Uyghurs in Xinjiang could still live in relative freedom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_Chin...), people in Hong Kong could still protest etc. etc.
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No. OP misread it. It’s fine to take the photo. It’s posting it to social media that is bad. Because that would encourage others to come look for the seahorse, and they want the seahorses to be left in peace and out of harms way.
Writing a book with content you know to be false for political reasons is morally wrong. Even if nobody reads it.

It'd be bad if I manipulated climate change statistics in my metrology textbook to satisfy the political preferences of the oil industry donors to my university, for example.

Viewing the current generation of LLMs as 'intelligent books' is perhaps more accurate than viewing them as pupils.

It's easy to extend my example of a professor writing a metrology textbook to a professor fine tuning an metrology LLM.
Absolutely blows my mind how many people have fallen into the trap that is "SMART" devices and "POWER EFFICIENT" appliances. Only to find out just after the warranty runs out that they ultimately invested in a hawt piece of trash. There is no pride in manufactured goods anymore, imho there's not much pride in anything nowadays. Not surprising when a burger engineer at McDonald's makes more money than even an entry level machinist.