skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I make my own. There's at least one product out there but it's something like $20 a bottle and you can make it for pennies. Here's a recipe:

For 150ml of (distilled) water:
1.35g of salt
1.8g of iota carrageenan
A drop of polysorbate 20

Heat up the water to close to boiling, add those things, shake it up, and there you go.

Note: That was supposed to be in line with the product that was tested, but I've found adding more water makes it come out of the nose spray bottle thing better. It's still pretty thick, just not a complete gel. Perhaps there's another type of spray bottle that would be better.
The score is not a qualitative measure on how serviceable a product is compared to it’s peers, rather, the score reflects how simple it is to service items that are able to be serviced. If the ram is not swappable, it’s simply not counted in the score as it’s integrated with the main board.
Exactly why piracy is and always has been at the core of historical preservation
> The majority of clients are large institutions.

Well atleast we got you to move the goal posts from pension funds to large institutions but again think about the average hedge fund.

The average hedge fund is 3 people and about $25M in money. What kind of institutional money do you think they'll raise? That's right, about zero and their capital will be their own and friends/ family and one or two anchor clients.

Again with thousands of hedge funds and very few pension funds how could the majority of clients be pensions?

Your assertion doesn't seem to pass a quick sanity test:)
Absolutely. Did you hear Trump recently saying he’d get Dread Pirate Roberts guy released or something like that? The silk road guy?
You’re right, we need more tech support requests on HN.
Wikileaks canary died a long, long time ago. Nothing from them has been trustworthy for a long time.
> why is the OS supposed to do that?

Definition and Purpose of an OS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system#Definition_an...

I am not sure what you are arguing here. The above definition + the previous link to distributed OS where the motivations for the same are listed establish the "reason". If you find other approaches more palatable that is fine (provided you know what you are doing) but the original blanket statement you made viz. "This type of thing always seemed to be in the very cool but pointless basket, to me ... I think a lot of effort was wasted chasing that dragon. Wasted is probably the wrong word because research into cool things is good and probably created useful things along the way. I don't feel there was ever enough justification put into it and it could possibly have been better spent though." is wrong.

> There are many layers and components, and functionality can be implemented in many different ways in different levels of these things.

All implementations are not equivalent w.r.t. all parameters; hence the various tradeoffs in competing designs.
Legionnaires disease risk? Needs warmer water probably.
I'm getting suspicious of the geothermal hype. Is there demonstrated competitiveness on LCOE basis with wind/solar? Lazard's report is basically spitballing the values.

I think there is potential, but the fact that any sort of development basically goes through the oil/gas industry for their drilling makes me think that geothermal is just oil/gas plotting "don't deploy that wind/solar that is dirt cheap, waste money on this geothermal thing, and especially send us money to spin wheels in the dirt".

I get that geothermal won't have intermittency, so that would be good at least.
You're only allowed to believe LLMs are a kind of digital messiah or that they're complete hype garbage, when of course the answer is some point between.

There is obviously a lot of potential here, but there is also a lot of solution looking for a problem.

My current red flag is if an argument hinges on a trademark breathless frisson for the growth potential. Statements like "models are getting smarter every month" that hasn't been true for a year. If your excitement over AI is based not on what we can do today, but a presumed future expansion for which we have no evidence, that's silly.

But what they can do today is cool. We worked for a long time to get computers to understand natural language intent, and LLMs demonstrably solve this problem.
Well, it’s difficult to study books to become senior developer. You have to participate in, experience the problems and solutions, at the end it’s still people that are working with you. Ai assistant is another tool in the box.

Imagine the engineer going oncall for the code this mediocrity generation tool produced. Are they gonna reason with chatgpt “why the duck did you write it this way?” or are they gonna zoom the person whose name git shows on commit during the incident?

The tool is getting better every day, although it will not replace the operator.
what does PK mean?
Very cool project. Wondering what's the next step of this canvas-based workflow product can take us to. Would definitely test it out and recommand to friends.
This makes sense. A lot of the chemicals listed in the reports are those used in chip fabrication, but I'd imagine the same ones are also used in microLED fabrication.
I think Wikileaks stopped being reliable long before this occurred. I can't find and exact date, but their canary died more than a decade ago.
Even by OPs own link, they are wrong.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/108

> it is *not an infringement of copyright* for a library or archives

Emphasis is mine here. The OPs link does not define what an archive is or isn't, it defines constraints on an archive or library such that it doesn't infringe on copyright according to US law.

To conclude that the IA is not operating an archive because they might be infringing on some copyrights according to US law is fallacious thinking.
The reason I'd like to see a smaller system, isn't primarily due to cost, but so that the system could be deployed closer to where it's needed, and in volume.

The Skynex 35 mm cannon is massive, requires a truck to transport, and presumably needs a generator to power.

If you could develop a small man-portable battery/solar powered turret, that fires small-arm caliber rounds, you could put them right next to a foxhole, to shoot down incoming drones.

I don't think the electronics should be expensive(by military standards), they have already been developed, it's basically just a timed fuze, that is programed by the gun as it fires.
That last bit is by far the most interesting part. It should be the headline.
I’m curious what this person means by never touched a line of code. They seem to have a lot of familiarity with coding concepts and terms, then they jump into debugging python code and reading API documentation. Maybe I’m below average in the curve but these are things it took me a decent amount of time to learn how to do and I’ve been hands on my whole life.

Their substack bio describes themselves as a developer, was that all after this ChatGPT experience I guess?
Consider that there's still a good amount of work being done on gcc & clang's C++ frontend despite how old these languages are. Wouldn't it stand to reason that Rust, a comparatively very new language, would have new features and compiler improvements added at an even faster pace?

I suspect if you were to look at other reasonably popular languages that are of the same era, you'll see a similar level of changes.
It's the english language tradition. There are style guides and such, but people are mostly working around them these days.
45% are housed, however 12% of the control already had housing compared to 6% of the 1000/mo people before the study started

This means the delta is higher for the people receiving 1000/mo.
What dirt did Assange release on Hillary Clinton?
What? It's true. Wikileaks had a canary to let everyone know if they were compromised. The canary died and so they can't be seen as reliable.
TLDR:

USA should be allowed to use 0 days for their "counter" terrorism operations. This is interesting at the time of USA being complicit in a genocide against a community.
The Department of Defense's AI Gig Work Platform
I’m currently renting a new Ford F-150 ICE truck and all of its UI is controlled through the enormous touch screen. There are physical buttons too, but they’re just remote inputs to the central UI. It also has a video display behind the steering wheel, where half the display is dominated by a menu, and gauges are displayed on either side of the menu. You can barely see the speedometer.

I own a Tesla Model 3, and have ranted about how awful its touchscreen only control is bad for ages, but the Ford is significantly worse. Just today, the truck’s UI bugged out in such a way that half the exterior lights were blinking, while a period bell sound would blast every few seconds. A message on the screen complained that the car “needed to be running to…” with the rest cut off by a nondescript grey square.
> As I've been really interested in computer vision lately, I decided on writing a SIMD-accelerated implementation of the FAST feature detector for the ESP32-S3 [...]

> In the end, I was able to improve the throughput of the FAST feature detector by about 220%, from 5.1MP/s to 11.2MP/s in my testing. This is well within the acceptable range of performance for realtime computer vision tasks, enabling the ESP32-S3 to easily process a 30fps VGA stream.

What are some use cases for FAST?

Features from accelerated segment test:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_from_accelerated_segm...

Is there TPU-like functionality in anything in this price range of chips yet?

Neon is an optional SIMD instruction set extension for ARMv7 and ARMv8; so Pi Zero and larger have SIMD extensions

Orrin Nano have 40 TOPS, which is sufficient for Copilot+ AFAIU. "A PCIe Coral TPU Finally Works on Raspberry Pi 5" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38310063

From
https://phys.org/news/2024-06-infrared-visible-device-2d-mat... :

> Using this method, they were able to up-convert infrared light of wavelength around 1550 nm to 622 nm visible light. The output light wave can be detected using traditional silicon-based cameras.

> "This process is coherent—the properties of the input beam are preserved at the output. This means that if one imprints a particular pattern in the input infrared frequency, it automatically gets transferred to the new output frequency," explains Varun Raghunathan, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering (ECE) and corresponding author of the study published in Laser & Photonics Reviews.

"Show HN: PicoVGA Library – VGA/TV Display on Raspberry Pi Pico" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35117847#35120403
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40275530

"Designing a SIMD Algorithm from Scratch" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38450374
How is that socialism? Workers don't control the means of production in an open market either. Having healthcare and benefits tied to employment is not a smart idea as it essentially traps workers into working forever in order to get good healthcare.
This ruined my night. I mean, I sowed the seeds of this night's destruction, but still.
Does the philosopher know that there’s a bear behind it? If not, it probably depends on your take on the Gettier problem :)
Using LLM is so tiring. If I wanted to chat all day, I would be an extrovert.

I have a genuine query. Are any software engineers getting sane code out of LLM ?

I struggle to conjure good unity or kotlin code from both paid and self hosted solutions.
The biggest contributor to homelessness is unaffordable housing. The best solution for homelessness is... giving people housing. It is a remarkably simple cause-and-effect.

Yet, that's now what we do. Many people view homelessness as some kind of personal moral failure. when, in the US in particular, you'll be surprised how close most Americans are to homelessness. It takes surprisingly little to go wrong to end up there.

We would rather spend money on things like policing homeless people, even incarcerating them, which is objectively more expensive than simply housing such people.
I think that's overblown as a concern. It's acceptable to have some degree is misuse if it's still a net positive. Some degree of fraud is baked in to any human endeavor.
> because the country whose war crimes you exposed is trying to lock you in a dungeon for life and/or assassinate you

Maybe the plea deal should be an opportunity to reevaluate these hyperbolic claims regarding the potential punishment that awaited Assange.

>Our government has been the bad guy every step of the way in this whole affair.

And that was the exact lack of nuance I was criticizing. One side being a bad guy does not make the other side a good guy. There is no excuse for the way Assange eventually abandoned any form of journalistic ethics.
The quartiles are defined by doing the sorting and splitting algorithm. So if you want quartiles (or any other quantile generally) you need to calculate it that way. The mean and standard deviation (sigma) are fundamentally different, which is why the image you linked shows them to contrast against the quantiles.

If you want to represent the standard deviation with your box plot, you can calculate it using standard formulas, many maths libraries have them built in. I don't know how to plot it using any graphing package though. ggplot, plotly and matlab all use the quantiles (the ones I have experience with). Perhaps where ever you learned to read them as mean and standard devation has a reference you could use?

> They are too random to be meaningful. It does not make sense to draw a box plot from that.

This can be a problem. In practice, the distributions I see don't go too crazy and are bounded (production rates can't be negative and can't be infinite). I prefer to use the 10th and 90th percentiles which are well defined and better behaved for most distributions. I do make sure it's very clearly marked on each plot though as it's not standard. Using the 1.5 x IQR cutoff is no better though as when you have enough samples you find that the whiskers just travel out to the cutoff.
I didn't include it in this version of the post, but I do view dancing as a language and I think it's useful to do so. Every dance is a conversation between two people, with cues and signals following back and forth the whole time. I explicitly don't think about this choreographed dancing, I am primarily interested in analyzing improvised social dancing between two people. I've found a lot of stuff that I'll try to write about soon via way of metaphor by just applying the tools of linguistics and semiotics to social dancing. For example, the idea of a phonetic inventory composed of the ways that people move during the various social dances and styles makes a lot of sense. The small ways that people move their bodies in Cuban Salsa are different are different from LA Salsa, but they are more similar to each other than the way that people move when dancing Zouk or Tango. The tilted head in Zouk and the torsion in Tango feel like the rolled R of some Spanish dialects. Once I have something more concrete I'll try and post about it.
> a big chunk of his “years of torment” were a legal tactic on his part

One man (and a bunch of supporters) against several governments with limitless resources. If something didn't stick, there would be another. Let's not judge his legal tactics looking back.
Totally anecdotal, but my wife and I visited Denver last year, there are certainly plenty of people still homeless.
Average says little about the minimums. At my first job one of my coworkers was splitting a cheap 2 bedroom apartment among 8 working adults.

Hardly ideal, but it fit his goals.
Can I ask a daring question? Are all of them men? What about their spouses? Do they still work and how do they spend their husband's money?

One thing that I have noticed about the new rich: They might not buy Hermes bags (yet), but they overspend on everything -- groceries, dining, housing, cars, schools, vacations. It adds up fast, and their net worth is surprisingly small.
Your comment has no substance and is against house rules:

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Leave the moderating to dang, it's his job and he gets paid for it. If you have nothing to say, don't reply at all.
I've appreciated https://github.com/cthulahoops/chatcli which is simple and straightforward.
Everybody keeps repeating this without actually knowing specifically what his "crime" was.

Here it is: He was sent a Windows NT password hash, he ran hashcat over it, couldn't successfully reverse it, and gave up.

That's it.

Prosecuting him for this "heinous crime against the state" has cost US and UK taxpayers tens of millions of dollars.

At the time of this "crime" occurring he was not physically in the USA, not a citizen of the USA, and hence not subject to its laws.

Unless you think the USA is the world government and can police anyone, anywhere, for anything?

A link to the "tools of the crime": https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat
I would have to dig up a decade old computer or scour the web for years. THis is nonsense. It's 100% true that Wikileaks has a cryptographic canary that expired sometime after Julian Assange was incarcerated.
It doesn't list any of the overt acts, because it's a plea agreement, and the defense stipulates to the conspiracy; there's nothing to prove, except that the prosecution and defense agree.
There is a big overlap between political organizations and organized crime.
The story was interesting but the title is misleading. This wasn't the first hedge fund. Benjamin Graham started his first fund in the 1920s which would be what we call a hedge fund today. Graham's fund might not be the first hedge fund but it came before Jones'.
This doesn't mean anything without also counting how many people were hired over the past 5 years. Covid hiring was frenetic and these layoffs could merely be a reversion to the mean.
The first years of his persecution, according to the legal system of various countries, was for a sex crime.

He had sex in Sweden with a woman who consented to having sex, but not without a condom, and at some point he took off the condom.

As I remember, that led to England seeking his arrest to be extradited to Sweden for this sex crime. Since he was stuck in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, Britain stationed officers outside it for years in case he stepped out. Ostensibly, for justice in this sex crime.

Everyone knew the real reasons were to extradite him to the US, but the US was totally silent on him, until minutes before the statue of limitations would have run out.

The US' charge was that Assange offered to run John the Ripper on a hash Bradley Manning gave him. Which, I mean, who among us have never run a hash in john the ripper?

It's been astounding to see such incongruity between the heft with which the US can use its muscle against a target, and the thin veil of weak crimes the legal systems would admit to investigating.

If Sweden, the UK, and the US would have been transparent that they were colluding to imprison him for publishing, I wouldn't have become so cynical.
As a first pass definition it does well to explain the concept. Even if you're interpolating you will need to rank the samples and find the two nearest neighbours to interpolate between.

It serves to distance it from the moment-based statistics like mean and variance at least.
> There are thousands of cities and towns all over the world, where short term rentals – accelerated by AirBnB – has made it impossible for young workers to afford to live where they were born.

That has very little to do with short term rentals, and even less to do with AirBnB specifically. Much like "foreign investors", it's just a convenient scapegoat when the real problem is basic supply and demand: there simply isn't enough housing to go around.

> A normal worker today in the US or Europe could if they want afford to buy all top Apple devices or equivalent PC devices, as well as every paid app on the App store. That same normal worker in the US or Europe today can never afford to buy a home, unless he/she goes into lifelong debt, or gets help from family that owns real estate.

And yet Apple's annual revenue is about 30x AirBnB's, and the numbers are similar for profit. That should tell you something about how much of the device/app market Apple controls compared to how much of the housing market AirBnB controls.
Probability of kill
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/886185-pe-123
Unproven. At best unproven and denied.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/julian-assange-drone-strik...
as if they have backup hahaha (indonesian here)
I was reminded of this joke:

> A city slicker shoots a duck out in the country. As he's retrieving it, a farmer walks up and stops him, claiming that since the duck is on his farm, it technically belongs to him. After minutes of arguing, the farmer proposes they settle the matter "country style."

> "What's country style?" asks the city boy.

> "Out here in the country," the farmer says: "when two fellers have a dispute, one feller kicks the other one in the balls as hard as he can. Then that feller, why, he kicks the first one as hard as he can. And so forth. Last man standin' wins the dispute."

> Warily the city boy agrees and prepares himself. The farmer hauls off and kicks him in the groin with all his might. The city boy falls to the ground in the most intense pain he's ever felt, crying like a baby and rolling around on the ground. Finally he staggers to his feet and says: "All right, n-now it's–it's m-my turn."

> The farmer grins: "Forget it, you win. Keep the duck."
This was a pilot program with only 800 participants.
A large system like the Skyshield, is vulnerable to artillery, you can't really deploy it near trenches and fox holes.

FPV drones can fly low, at tree level, it's not going to have line of sight to be able to shoot them down.

If you had a smaller man-portable cheap short-range system, you could deploy it along side your entrenched troops.
To quote the article: "“This was an independent decision made by the Department of Justice and there was no White House involvement in the plea deal decision,” National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in a statement Monday evening."
Could a hardware product be turned around that quickly? Sep 18 2023. Honest question.
I thought the Russians relied more on military gas powered drones (like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlan-10 ) and were not using cheaper fpvs. Certainly in the earlier days there was a lot of footage of Ukranians dropping grenades and mortars via improvised drones and I think the Russians were more spotting with Orlans and then using artillery.

Most if not all the random videos I've seen of cheaper FPV drones were Ukraninian but that could totally be my social media bubble.
I thought there was some story about Wikileaks receiving a bunch of stuff regarding Russian gov't officials and there was internal debate in the org and it ended up not being published. Was that just a made up story?
A SNOBOL4 implementation that Charles Simonyi and I did during 1968-1969, and a revised version, 1971-1972.
Tesla in 2020[0]:

>Likewise, applying the brake pedal simultaneously with the accelerator pedal will override the accelerator pedal input and cut off motor torque, and regardless of the torque, sustained braking will stop the car.

This is quite a stronger statement than: "the accelerator may or may not disengage when the brake is depressed". The former statement is true in my experience with my Model 3: if you press the brake and the accelerator at once, you get a notice on the screen saying that it's not going to let you be an idiot. I wonder why the Cybertruck (seemingly) doesn't behave the same way.

[0] https://www.tesla.com/blog/no-unintended-acceleration-tesla-...