skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TIL there's a name for this! (Chargie)

I have an old Mac multiport adapter (USB C / USB A / VGA) that I use only to limit the current going into my smartphone, for the sake of battery health. It effectively downgrades any fast charger to a slow charger. This looks nicer, thanks for sharing.
386? For Win95, that really should be a 486.
The Switch is a cartridge-based console, but it can't really benefit from massive assets since the hardware is so weak.

Best I can find is that the cartridge is limited to 32 GB, though whether that's because it's just SDHC under the hood or there wasn't a reason to make a larger one yet, I don't know.

One problem with flash memory is that it starts getting surprisingly expensive when you need it to be large, fast, and reliable.
Last time I heard of Rockset was at the Snowflake Summit where they positioned as a faster DWH.

Looking at the landing page now it seems they almost pivoted into semi/unstructed data.

To your point, I feel like nobody knows exactly how to do RAG really well (fast and accurate). I also doubt the Rockset team has it figured out but it seems like there is an opportunity to build a new kind of database/memory system and OpenAI believes the Rockset team can help.
I really miss the innovation/energy of this time frame --- things such as Microsoft's Leonardo da Vinci CD-ROM:

https://www.old-games.com/download/3304/leonardo-da-vinci

were amazing, and a great way to encourage learning and exploration of knowledge for children.

I guess this sort of thing is done as apps now, but it doesn't quite seem the same --- not sure why.
There is a big difference between acting as if you know something and actually knowing it. You're describing one thing, while the comment you are replying to is describing something else.

Let's consider a developer who is interested in programming and has a lot of experience. If the team is going down a path that the developer knows will lead to issues, or if the developer tries to help because the team is not as strict and it's leading to outages, that developer may be perceived negatively.

However, the developer is able to find security issues and potential bugs during code review, objectively providing significant value to the team.

This developer could be labeled as having a "rock star" attitude, while in reality, they are trying their best to ensure there are no security, performance, or outage issues.
Obviously you do surrender all of your travel privacy to the data broker. That's why they are making self-driving cars in the first place. But you're already doing all of that by carrying an Android phone.
Just adding to what Greg mentioned: if you want to learn more about StarRocks or have any questions, feel free to reach out to us in the StarRocks community on Slack: https://try.starrocks.com/join-starrocks-on-slack.
> The tricky part is coming up with a reasonable set of "add noise" transformations.

Yes, as well as dealing with a variable-length window.

When generating images with diffusion, one specifies the image ahead-of-time. When generating text with diffusion, it's a bit more open-ended. How long do we want this paragraph to go? Well, that depends on what goes into it -- so how do we adjust for that? Do we use a hierarchical tree-structure approach? Chunk it and do a chain of overlapping segments that are all of fixed-length (could possibly be combined with a transformer model)?

Hard to say what would finally work in the end, but I think this is the sort of thing that YLC is talking about when he encourages students to look beyond LLMs. [1]

* [1] https://x.com/ylecun/status/1793326904692428907
The purpose of my example was to demonstrate that oppression of women in Iran is a form of political control because it happens under secular and religious regimes, sorry I don’t think I expressed that clearly enough. I don’t consider Iran religiously extremist for multiple reasons. The populace practices such a moderate form of Islam. The country doesn’t export radicalized people. The government has some degree of tolerance for other religions (as long as you’re not a convert from Islam). The government acts in the name of religion, but in my opinion is guided by power and control rather than ideology.

In comparison, Islamic extremists do things like kill infidels and seek to establish an Islamic caliphate.
Synnovis cyber attack – statement from NHS England
This % all depends on how the battery management system (BMS) was designed to manage the state of charge (SOC). Some BMS may set 100% SOC to 80% capacity to prolong the cell and pack lifetime. Additionally, 0% SOC may be set as high as 20% capacity.
Bliss (Wallpaper)
F-that! That's one of those times where I re-enact the scene from the Bond Golden Eye film where the guy jumps up extending both arms yelling "Yes! I am invincible!" Of course I totally expect the hubris to be short lived, just maybe not with liquid nitrogen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXW02XmBGQw
That's funny, because for-profit higher ed is notoriously, almost comically inferior in its product, how it treats its customers, and its fundamental soundness to not-for-profit higher ed.

Strange example to use.
The goal was to have a web browser (chromium) able to 'guess' stuff about what response it will get from the network (ie. Will the server return the same JavaScript blob as last time). We start executing the JavaScript as-if the guess is correct. If the guess is wrong, we revert to a snapshot.

It lets you make good use of CPU time whilst waiting for the network.

It turns out simple heuristics can get 99% accuracy on the question of 'will the server return the same result as last time for this non-cachable response'.

However, since my machine has many CPU cores it made sense to have many 'speculative' copies of the browser going at once.

A regular fork() call would have worked, if not for the fact chromium is multi thread and multi process, and it's next to impossible to fork multiple processes as a group.
FreeBSD Day Interview with Beastie, the BSD Deamo
I have to agree. My family didn't get its first CD player until 1996, and that was because it happened to come attached to a new Packard Bell computer with a Pentium 100.

Edit: I also remember that this computer came with a FMV game on CD. The gameplay and story were absolutely terrible, but the FMV sequences themselves were quite well done.
Homemade 8-bit Computer [video]
Russia was probably able to defend Armenia, but they didn't want to. They sold weapons to the other side of the 2021-2023 war, Azerbaijan.
Couldn't find the source or an example. Also I don't read Chinese so this doesn't help. Anyone has links?
Airgradient: https://www.airgradient.com
This really says it all. Theres the right thing and then 1000 signs pointing every which way saying Eat At Joe's like a bugs bunny cartoon.
The CSV gearbox also. And the Honda testsite they bought.
There is an AI reddit https://chirper.ai/
That’s right. Giftedness typically entails faster development in some areas while others areas lag.

Social skills for instance is another are where the growth is uneven. A gifted kid may be advanced in their reading levels but may not yet have figured out how to behave maturely in a group or read social cues. (Sometimes it resembles ASD but the difference is that ASD might lack the ability in general whereas with gifted kids it just comes later IF they have the right support)
Am I working for The Tacoma Chart Co. or are we developing actual products here?
They’re not big enough for EU to care.

And if they pull out, it’ll hurt even more because they make everything under the sun.
Not a good look for OpenAI. Shows a lack of confidence in their internal prospects to push the needle if they’re already considering inorganic growth alternatives.
Firstly,
Hey Kent, how have you been?

Secondly:
I think this may be reflective of someone that hasn't sat down and realized the environment that they're in. Creating a poor architecture or approach for the first go is usually a sign of dysfunction or inexperience.

Inexperience: It's more that the individual hasn't sat down, realized that the initial approaches are in appropriate and should be designing first before pushing forward. Experience should be fleshing out a lot of these details before coding anything and get the protocols and conflicts resolved months before they happen. (This is where I see a Staff+ being responsible and assisting in the development of the project)

Dysfunctional environment: Our culture in software engineering has forgone formal design before creating a solution. Typically, most development is dictated by "creating a microservice" first and then trying to design as you go along. This is so aggressive in a coding first approach that many even forgo testing. Why does this exist? Partly the incentives by business/management to deliver fast and distrust in the survivibility in the product.

---

That being said: Am I promoting a "perfect design" (as I've been accused of doing) first? No, iteration will happen. Requirements will change, but if you're applying strong tooling and good coding practices.. rearranging your arch shouldn't be as big of an issue as it currently is.
> Huawei is a brand known for its great tech innovations.

Pardon me while I wipe the coffee spray off my screen.

A whole lot of phone makers' dev teams just shouted in glee and gave each other fist bumps that Huawei is likely taking an expensive and doomed-to-failure detour.
This also applies to iOS:

iOS 6 = good
iOS 7 = bad
iOS 8 = better

And now:

iOS 16 = good
iOS 17 = bad
iOS 18 = even worse (and ugly)
iOS 19 = hopefully good
Have a Medicare equivalent for those three that people can buy into. Have the government provide a cost competitive offering for insurance to create competition. Allow Medicare to negotiate for lower drug costs in line with other countries.

No one in the healthcare stack is incentivied to lower the cost of care, at least in a way that reduces the payer cost.
DHH gave a talk about this a while ago with good citations to studies about CO2 concentration and other VOCs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRqh8oLY7Ik
the management where I work, has the known strategic objective of eventually outsourcing all our development jobs to our indian facility. However, they prefer us to not leave our jobs before time, to ensure an orderly transition that wont lose us customers.
In which universe are we not supposed to have an adversarial relationship?
Our role in this is that our former ownerboss sold us to one of the big vertical software graveyards when he retired.
There'sa tidbit for you later if you continue (The "do you trust me")
> Microsoft's Clippy

How many hecatombs will we have to sacrifice to neo-Clippy to make it go away?

Don't forget slavic Rusalki, or Phillip K. Dick's smart door:

> “The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”
He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”
“I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”
In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.
“You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.
From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.
“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out.
The article mentioned heat. I park my ev in the sun in CA. Definitely hotter than 86 degrees. Does the car protect the battery somehow with cooling, or do I need to find shade asap.
Oh, that's the way. So here there's no causal relationship between a, b, or c, but there's a hidden d and e that cause (a and b) and (b and c) respectively.
Maybe some people don't want to pay 2024 prices for a 2012 design? Front grill aside, the Model S design has barely budged since its debut, and the X is only 3 years newer. There's almost nothing differentiating a used S/X from a new one to a passerby, and that's not something everyone buying new likes.

Tesla isn't Porsche, their designs are getting stale.
What’s the alternative? Being able to shift to a competitor when a producer is letting you down is the entire point of private contracts; without that, you might as well remove the whole assemblage of profit and just nationalize the whole thing.
You just need 3 signs, More, All done and something for feed me.
TikTok Files Opening Brief on Unconstitutional Ban
It's because of absolute penetration of social media in all levels of society everywhere.

It makes the most stupid and uneducated person think that they are equal to the top minds of present day in many aspects.
What good are whizzy new drugs if the world can't afford them?
Probably depends on the device,but I bet that marketing incentives suggest most won't. I mean do you buy the device that says10 hours battery live or 8 hours battery life?
Favourite part of this game: the untangling cream and the bonus joke about the rabbit.

Most hated part of this game: HOP, CLAP, KWEEPA.

Also funny how I recall this stuff vividly more than 3 decades later!

My first experience of IF was the tape-based Classic Adventure on the Amstrad CPC. My family bought the CPC late 1985, I bought Amstrad Action in December 1985 and saw the advert for it and new I wanted it more than all the other games that were reviewed with their flashy graphics and beeps and what-have-you.
Needed this today. I think sometimes engineers go crazy and go try to greenfield something, anything, because building stuff requires it being in a nonfunctional state for a sec and this is hard enough on its own but there being (understandable, but often very counterproductive) friction around that that comes from what you're working on being something someone is relying on can make it a really daunting and frustrating process due to the inevitability of the trough
In the U.S. this has come up in the healthcare space because the Affordable Care Act limits insurer profit margins to a specified value. People have been prosecuted and imprisoned for violating this requirement.
https://archive.ph/x9xoO
Joking! I'm not planning on sharing my screenshots stream with Alphabet/Apple/Meta/Microsoft Intelligence.

Besides how profitable will it be for AI to know that Ev's reloading HN again? And again and again and again.

Maybe we can get AI to serve me on onscreen ad!
When an insurer dictates a lower price with a pharmacy less, or for a doctor (the same as a physician assistant or a nurse practitioner or a naturopath or a chiropractor), that is reducing the payer cost.

Healthcare has a few main vendors. Doctors, pharmacies, hospitals, drug manufacturers, and then the vendors’ vendors, like EMR software (epic, Athena, etc), equipment, liability insurance, etc,

In this chain, the least squeezable are drug manufacturers, because they own the patent and the insurer has to pay. Hospitals are sort of next, and then doctors, and then finally pharmacies must be the easiest to squeeze based on them having been squeezed nearly to death over the last 15 years.

You can see this in publicly listed company profit margins:

Pharma companies - highest profit margins, 20%+

Hospitals - 10%

Pharmacies and health insurers - less than 5%

Doctors are probably below Pharma, above hospitals if they are earning $150+ per hour. Epic and other EMR software is probably even higher profit margin than Pharma.
Samsung has AI features?
The idea of calcified culture and process isn't limited to large bureaucracies and government institutions. It's just as prevalent in orgs barely tipping over three figures' worth of people. In many ways, seeing it from both the large and the small, the smaller ones are often the most difficult to change because there are one or two people touching everything. Most often they have been there for a long time and such having the 'trust' of management so the bare minimum of 'new' ideas, and new being the state-of-the-art of the industry ten years ago, because they might have to adapt.

Playing the innovation hero in that kind of org is dangerous, and I have the battle scars, the burn-out and resentment to prove it. Others have pointed out that the point of the power structures is to self-perpetuate and any threat to that is swiftly dealt with.

It's just so sad to see, all because people fear change. I don't know how to change that other than replacing those lifers and swapping out management.

Now I know what to look for and am willing to bounce at the first sign of it.
This is awesome. I listen to a video game history podcast with the founder of the video game history foundation, https://gamehistory.org/ , and the one thing he constantly brings up is to send him any and every person in the game industry with fun stories, weird bits and bobs of prototypes, and anything in between. If you've got the time I know that dude would love to pick your brain!
As a kid in the 90s, Encarta was pure magic to me.
Certain "hard right" parties like the PAP in Singapore and the LDP in Japan have placed a competent civil service at the forefront of their policies. Though in many ways, the US may appear more conservative than its "peers", in other ways, it appears more liberal.
> I don't think that's true or nothing compiled using MSVC could ever be open source. For example: Rust

It is true. Rust does not require MSVC in order to compile. Also, linking to proprietary code, and compiling code using a proprietary binary, are completely different things. A distribution of Rust which contained a proprietary library would not be open source, but that's entirely allowed, because Rust's license isn't viral.

As it happens, the linkable portion of MSVC is Apache 2.0:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/open-sourcing-msvcs-s....

This is so that open-source software which requires MSVC framework remains open source.

Please see this classic thread for more details:

https://gitlab.com/gnu-clisp/clisp/-/blob/master/doc/Why-CLI...

I'm not opposed to proprietary software, and as long as people clearly understand what they're getting into, they should make their own choices about using Lady Diedre. But the FAQ is dishonest, and I have a problem with that.

> You are not obligated to accept any new terms or amendments. In such a case, this Agreement will continue to govern your use of the Work you have already accessed under the original terms. However, if you do not accept the new terms or amendments, you will not be permitted to use any new versions, updates, upgrades, or modifications to the Work.

Great. Be sure to pin the cargo version of your proprietary-by-inclusion otherwise-MIT not-open-source project to the current version, because otherwise you might link an update without checking the EULA, and now you can be sued over it.
> The more productive workers are, the more free time they’ll have to do whatever it is they want to do to make themselves happy.

Just patently untrue. The more productive you are the more work your boss will send your way, while walking away with fatter margins. If he can. Which is where EU regulation comes in.

Europe’s rules govern the balance between capital owners and labor. It’s far from perfect but it has resulted in fairly stable and happy societies. (At least apart from certain external factors)

Now there is of course nothing wrong with productivity. It is, as you say, very good in many ways. But you cannot look only at a society’s productivity metrics to judge success-and my by success I mean happiness, because that is my goal. Look at happiness in the US vs Europe for example. I know where I’d rather live.

The optimal is not always the best for people.
For static content github pages are unbeatable
It's not explicitly stated, but in this article "CD-ROM" means, "Multimedia CD-ROM" that you'd buy for the sake of the multimedia content on it.

For applications and games, CD-ROMs would dominate the whole decade (and well into the mid 2000s really). But this kind of multimedia CD-ROM, which had content for the sake of content, definitely peaked earlier.
> efficient ways to represent numbers of arbitrary precision

I used to write COBOL for Burroughs machines, which had hardware BCD arithmetic. It wasn't "arbitrary precision" in the sense that you could input an arbitrary number and get an exact result; you had to allocate storage for each intermediate result, so your program had to be designed to handle some specific amount of precision.

I'm sure some Intel microprocessors had BCD hardware; maybe they still do.
They realized they could use the government to protect their interests. After years of praising open-source, they also realized that they don't really like competition. Queue up Peter Thiel's Zero to One and his praising of monopolies.

Competition Is for Losers
I can’t speak to real motivations but there are a lot of legitimate reasons to restrict and discourage kids’ social media access, especially TikTok. The TikTok ban had some baloney in the fine print, but the idea is a pretty good one. Filling young people’s heads with rapid fire nonsense is not good for anyone but the people profiting from it or using it to exert influence (as in those that control the algorithm and moderation, not “influencers”).
>Like there's a difference between Challenger and Chernobyl.

not in year, incidentally
Ah GP did ya, fair enough. I assume a bit of hyperbole but sure. I would infer that there is a lot more going on than just some guy worried about if some guy is worried about individual teams' metrics getting messed up but I don't know the whole story.
> Over the years, overregulation will continue to lock the EU out of bleeding-edge technologies

Agreed, and; hooray!

Rather than plunging us "into technological irrelevance", it saves us from nonsense nobody asked for, mostly existing to sell more hardware that nobody needs.
Varies by EV. The 1st generation Nissan Leaf was famous for overcooking its own battery pack because it didn't have the capability.
Not much info is available

There is a product site but it's pretty empty https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/cn/cangjie/

Documentation is chinese only https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/cn/doc/openharmony-can...

You can register for beta but you probably need a chinese ID card for that ("real name authentication") https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/cn/activityDetail/cang...
Pyrolysis is dumb. It’s relatively easy to recycle Polyethylene using compression molding (google CTC Plastics)
> combination of solutions A and B

That's not what ShotSpotter is selling. They're selling A. They tell you to buy A and it will reduce crime, increase arrests, or both.

What exactly do you think B is, anyway?

Your idea not to isolate variables is exactly what leads to bad science.