skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are not citizens (Israel considers them stateless) but they are subject to Israeli law and rule at every turn. Nothing can go into or out of Gaza, not even food, not even collected rainwater, without Israeli permission.

The point is, it's as closed a political system as it gets. No matter what the polity does, their situation cannot change because they have no rights in the government that controls their lives (Israel)
> eventually ChromeOS

I actually forgot about this. have you used chromeos for anything else than just a frontend/terminal ?
StableSemantics: A Synthetic Dataset of Semantic Representations in Images
This was a team of 10 people, so costing the company $2M+ a year. How is halving the timeline on a very major, mission critical project not a good thing?

Some appendage management structure in the organization having charts and reports looking a certain way is secondary to how much value is being produced by a team of expensive engineers.
Just a caveat: gp3 vs gp2 doesn’t have the same automatic 20% cheaper per GB perk on RDS that it does on EBS.
At a fundamental level, all you need to know is:

- Read in the user's input

- Use that to retrieve data that could be useful to an LLM (typically by doing a pretty basic vector search)

- Stuff that data into the prompt (literally insert it at the beginning of the prompt)

- Add a few lines to the prompt that state "hey, there's some data above. Use it if you can."
That should be clear given that animals can explore causality but don't have formal language.
>I would get like, one real person showing up. All the rest were no-shows.

I think that is arguably the absolute single greatest problem that all meetups experience. It's frustrating for the Hosts and the Attendees. If a Meetup-like site could solve that drop-off/no-show rate, that would be the ultimate win.
On my laptop I have a script to set

/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_control_end_threshold

I could imagine automating this to set the threshold to the current battery level, and incrementing the threshold by 1% every N minutes to control charge speed.

Right now I try to keep it at 50% max charge like this while plugged in at home.
Ongoing discussion (45 points, 1 hour ago, 54 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40751339
Except, of course, all of those APIs with cost per token access grants.
>1. It’s ok to keep laptop plugged in, even at 100% battery

It might be "ok" to keep it plugged in at 100%, but if your laptop has a "battery conservation" mode that limits the charge to 80% (or similar), that's even better.
The only thing that resulted in a decline in piracy was an increase in convenience, simplicity, and speed brought by on demand services (cloud game downloads and subscription passes, streaming video and music services, ebook/software subscriptions through app stores). The many billions spent per year in lobbying for deep seated laws like DMCA or equivalents never brought any meaningful change to the problem because the root of the issue was not solved by more restrictions.
Thanks, that clarifies a lot.
So does GPT4o, unless I'm missing something very obvious: https://chatgpt.com/share/0a9d3674-0d79-4891-8045-f70376fbc7...

Events:

A: Ice cream sales
B: Temperature
C: Incidence of sunburn

Correlations:

A and B are correlated: Ice cream sales (A) and temperature (B) are positively correlated. As the temperature increases, ice cream sales tend to increase because people are more likely to buy ice cream to cool down.

B and C are correlated: Temperature (B) and incidence of sunburn (C) are positively correlated. Higher temperatures often mean sunnier weather, which increases the likelihood of people getting sunburned if they spend time outside without proper sun protection.

A and C are uncorrelated: Ice cream sales (A) and incidence of sunburn (C) are uncorrelated directly. While both are influenced by temperature, one does not cause the other. People can buy ice cream without getting sunburned, and people can get sunburned without buying ice cream.
Won't the next version of GPT/whatever know the answer just because somebody will post it here?
They are the only party to have ever fielded a democratically elected leader in all of their home country of Egypt.
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AI Reel Generator
Hey HN, I built aireelgenerator.com, after seeing a couple of similar apps online. I wanted to learn how to use video generation libraries, so I built this. It is an app that fully automates the creation of faceless videos. Simply choose a topic, and it will generate and upload new videos to your Youtube, TikTok, Instagram, or Facebook account every day.
Ideally, I'd like to keep adding features including an editing timeline, etc.

Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback
Really? Most of the time?

I find I spend an enormous amount of time on boring stuff like connecting VCC and ground with appropriate decoupling caps, tying output pins from one IC to the input pins on the other, creating library parts from data sheets, etc.

There's a handful of interesting problems in any good project where the abstraction breaks down and you have to prove your worth. But a ton of time gets spent on the equivalent of boilerplate code.

If I could tell an AI to generate a 100x100 prototype with such-and-such a microcontroller, this sensor and that sensor with those off-board connectors, with USB power, a regulator, a tag-connect header, a couple debug LEDs, and break out unused IO to a header...that would have huge value to my workflow, even if it gave up on anything analog or high-speed. Presumably you'd just take the first pass schematic/board file from the AI and begin work on anything with nuance.

If generative AI can do equivalent work for PCBs as it can do for text programming languages, people wouldn't use it for transmission line design. They'd use it for the equivalent of parsing some JSON or making a new class with some imports, fields, and method templates.
Indeed this is very confusing! The program implements a pretty standard state machine (ok), but there is nothing apparently async here. The auth alludes to combining the state machine with async IO in this paper (https://github.com/angea/pocorgtfo/blob/master/contents/arti...), but this implementation is just using fread to (synchronously) read a chunk of bytes.

Furthermore, given disk caching and memory mapping, I'm not convinced async IO would really be that astonishingly different, as individual reads are going to be amortized over pretty much the same bulk reads that the sample program is doing.

As the author says themselves, it seems the main win is hand implementing the incremental utf8 parsing instead of calling a library/os function.
What did you expect from an autocratic monarchy? It's sunny and the people are nice but that doesn't mean the ruling elite is nice too.
Always appreciate the GET LAMP shoutouts. - Jason Scott
> The ancient Greeks wanted to believe that the universe could be described in its entirety using only whole numbers and the ratios between them — fractions, or what we now call rational numbers. But this aspiration was undermined when they considered a square with sides of length 1, only to find that the length of its diagonal couldn’t possibly be written as a fraction.

Let me try it! If I make a square with sides 1 inch long, then measure the diagonal with a tape measure I get... 1 and 6/16ths! Only whole numbers and the ratios between them involved there, so I guess that's all the Greeks needed after all.
It's really hard to see the history of the sciences especially in the last couple of centuries as anything but a resounding success of modern mathematics. Whatever qualms some people may have about classical mathematics, nobody has shown it to entail a contradiction, nor has any practical result obtained in physics, engineering or anywhere else been shown to be erroneous for mathematical reasons (modelling errors, of course, happen all the time, no matter what mathematics you use).

All the issues such as Banach-Tarski disappear once you apply mathematics to real-world things. Meanwhile, classical mathematics remains insanely practical.

People like you, who call Cantor's work "hot garbage", are giving constructive mathematics, which by itself can be a very useful additional way of doing maths, a bad name. Cantor's diagonal argument, for example, doesn't just disappear in a constructive framework.
Thank you for your public service.
having worked in the IRS, they could easily be a lot more efficient if they weren't unionized. the IRS is easily by far the most mismanaged organization i've ever had the displeasure of working at
I used to think there were useful ads. But really, even a useful add is an unsolicited derailing of your thoughtspace. You might need a hammer, but did you really have to think about it right then? I think back to how my parents and grandparents got their goods before the internet. If they needed something they went to the store. If they were interested in new stuff that might be useful thats coming out, they'd get a product catalog from some store mailed to them. Is a product catalog an ad? Maybe, depending on how you argue the semantics, but its much more of a situation like going to a restaurant and browsing the menu and choosing best for yourself, vs being shown a picture of a big mac on a billboard every time you leave your home.
I'm assuming it's Sherlock Holmes and the case of the rose tattoo! What a brilliant game.

Believe it or not, thanks to ScummVM being in the iOS/iPad OS App Store now, I have actually played that game on my iPad. You'd be amazed at how well it's held up. It looks really good on an iPad, and the point and click nature of it fits touchscreens perfectly.
> 3. Avoid fast chargers

Isn't this primarily due to heat produced? Aka cool fast charging is better than warm slow charging.

I seem to remember a tweet I think by Mishaal Rahman (or another android journalist) on this.
> In the early days of AIDS (wasn't called HIV back then)

You might be thinking of “GRID” (gay related immuno deficiency), the original name of AIDS when it was believed it only affects gay people. Once the virus causing the illness was identified it was called HIV.
I would look at a UV index chart for your area and act accordingly - e.g. deliberate sun exposure soon after sunrise and soon before sunset. But you might just be SOL, it sounds like you have skin type I on the Fitzpatrick scale which is no ability to tan or extremely difficult to tan. Something I considered is considered personally is moving somewhere further north and probably cloudier, just reality. Where I live now our max UV today is extreme - nearly 12.

There is also supplementation you can look into but the science for isn’t concrete. I know there’s a thread on the tanning subreddit near the top of all time with a list of them and how they might help.
Good old fashioned server wrangling, since the pendulum will be back in full swing from “cloud” back to “on-prem”.
Surprisingly, none of the replies here in the HN thread pass the test either. They all confuse correlation with causation.

A reply that would pass the test:

The siblings Ana, Berta and Charles live together and get random calls from mom and dad.
Ana and Berta get angry when mom calls. So their anger is correlated.
Berta and Charles get angry when dad calls. So their anger is correlated.
The anger of Ana and Charles is not correlated though.
Oh great, the one way to make reflection even more unpredictable than it already is...

So instead of "only" finding that my choice of method names, class structure and presence or absence of ostensibly unused class members can change programs behaviour in arbitrary ways, now that property will extend to the implementation code itself?

Have fun getting reliable static analysis working on this stuff...
As others have mentioned, many phones do this in software, but I find the easiest solution is simply to use a charger incapable of fast charging.
Is it possible to reach out to the manufacturer, or the place you;re buying your batteries from?
I was the 10th employee at my current company, hired roughly four years ago. I joined during Covid, but it was a fully-remote, geographically distributed company from the beginning before Covid happened (founded about nine months before I joined). I think we're up close to 100 now but I'm not even sure.

I can't say we faced any particular or abnormal challenges around cohesion and productivity. Truth be told, I have often felt I barely knew most other people in the company, but it really didn't matter. I knew the software and I knew the customer I was working with. There typically might be 2-3 fellow employees I'm working with on any given project and I get to know them reasonably well for the duration of the project, but there aren't permanent teams and we're not doing something like playing a team sport that requires careful orchestration and practice. As long as work can be split up into discrete tasks with relatively minimal cross-dependencies, you can mostly work alone and only schedule touch points where those dependencies become blockers.

The tools and practices are Git, e-mail, channel-based chat servers, possibly video calls but only if you need to screenshare. I've never really seen the value in being able to see someone's face, frankly. It's a distraction more often than not. Yeah, body language, but I can still understand and use Linux perfectly well even though I don't know what Linus's face looked like when he wrote it.

Obviously, there was no transition, but as it stands, our customers have often wanted us to hire people who were near them rather than near some arbitrary city we chose to put an office in, so being able to hire from anywhere has always been helpful in actually being able to do that.

Ironically, the last time I had an office-based job, which to be fair, had to be office-based no matter what because the work was classified, much of my team was still geographically distributed anyway and I never met them, either.
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I'm happy to see this studied and published. Still, if you have to explain a joke, you kill it.

I'm an office clown but I've learned to keep it all in the chatrooms and ticket descriptions. Cross the wit/work barrier at your org's peril!

Case in point: at my first job, I got bored with a stock image that displayed when the app ran, so I replaced it with a photo of Obama laughing. Handsome devil! And then I committed it by mistake. It could have easily reached production.

The right approach would have been to edit my hosts file, or to use a proxy like Charles to map the image URL to a local Obama. It's a great technique for replacing the Jenkins butler with a rage face. Just, keep it away from the repo!
I don't suppose you've heard of the Paul Krugman quote? "Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run, it’s almost everything." Without productivity improvements you are in peril of replaying the ant and the grasshopper as the grasshopper.
> Many games and apps were distributed on CDs but connected to online services or multiplayer peers over the internet

Or just for straight-up copy protection, up to requiring the CD even though everything’s installed locally (or just for large data assets that technically weren’t required like background music or pre-mission story videos).

I’m impressed that gamecopyworld is still around letting you play some of these legacy games as single-player and/or with no-CD cracks.

Lots of adult themed ads that seem locally hosted (and bypass my DNS-based ad blocker…):

https://gamecopyworld.com/games/gcw_index.shtml
I'm late to the party, but I work as a NASA contractor and have just recently been reading "Truth, Lies, and O-Rings" by Mr. McDonald.

Something that I find really frustrating is that it seems that there's an international "caste" of honest engineers who are ready, and have been ready for centuries if not millenia, to pull the metaphorical trigger on advancing human society to the next level. International rail systems, replacing all electrical generation with nuclear, creating safe and well-inspected commercial airplanes, etc.

Blocking that "caste" from uniting with each other and coordinating these projects are the Old Guard; the "local area warlords", although these days they may have different titles than they would have a thousand years ago. These people do not speak a language of technical accuracy, but rather their primary guiding principles are personal loyalty, as was common in old honor societies. They introduce graft, violence, corruption, dishonesty, and personal asset capture into these projects and keep them from coming to fruition. They would not sacrifice their lifestyles in order to introduce technical excellence into the system they're charged with managing, but instead think more about their workload, their salary, their personal obligations to their other (often dishonest) friends, and their career tracks.

It wouldn't even occur to me to worry more about a promotion than than the technical merit of a machine or system I was engaged with. I would never lie about something myself a colleague of mine said or did. For those reasons I will never be particularly competitive with the people who do become VPs and executive managers.

How many different people around the world, and especially that are on HackerNews, are in my exact situation? With the right funding and leadership could all quit our stupid fucking jobs building adtech or joining customer databases together or generating glorified Excel spreadsheets and instead be the International Railway Corps, or the International Nuclear Corps. And yet since we can't generate the cashflow necessary to satisfy the Local Area Warlords that own all the tooling facilities and the markets and the land, it will never be.
>Marx once said...

Why anyone, reads, or cares at all about Marx, is beyond me. The guy was the biggest fucking loser bum to ever exist. He was constantly hitting up family for money, never had a real fucking job, was an absolute slob of a human being, treated is children like dog shit, and in general was too impressed by his own "intelligence".
Probably depends greatly on the expanded configuration and what equipment is inside.
There are even engineers with such concerns working in these firms. They might figure that the missile is getting built no matter if they work there or not, so they might as well take the job offer.
> The sum of MIT licensed code which requires linking to proprietary code to function is not an open source project.

I don't think that's true or nothing compiled using MSVC could ever be open source. For example: Rust.

> For now. The EULA clearly reserves my right to change the terms at any time, so if that risk is acceptable to you, you have my temporary permission to do so, subject to revocation at any time and without notice.

Terms can be changed at any time, but you do not have to accept them. From the EULA:

> 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.
Huawei unveils its own programming language the "Cangjie"
I was told that LFP is difficult because the battery management system (BMS) cannot reliably guess the state of charge using the voltage. The voltage is a mess on LFP.

Even though a lower voltage prolongs the battery, you have to charge to 100% regularly to help the BMS. Thankfully the LFP chemistry doesn’t seem to mind high state of charge as much.

As a popular source, Tesla recommends to daily charge the LFP batteries to 100%.
Sponge filters do this same task as bog filtration as well, at a much smaller scale. A sponge is shaped like a cylinder, then a 1cm hole is punched through the center. An air tube goes down the middle, and a 4cm "chimney" sticks up from the hole to improve flow characteristics. The whole contraption is immersed in water. The result is that the bubbles travel upwards, pulling some water with them, and exits the top of the chimney. This water is replaced by water outside the sponge. The sponge acts as both a mechanical filter, but also as a high surface area for microbes to live and process waste.

Bog filters work on a much larger scale, but sponge filters have been replacing "hang on back" filters in the aquarium hobby pretty rapidly over the last couple of years. It also helps that sponge filters only cost about $10 and have no moving parts
Building a Multimodal Data Pipeline with Kafka, Airflow, and SageMaker
Yes that's absolutely the case. So it just depends on how good the cooling system is. For a phone, it has no active cooling system. For an electric vehicle, almost all manufacturers (except Nissan Leaf) have adopted active cooling and you can expect them to do a good job activating adequate cooling for the battery.
Or, written even less kind, the intersection of sets of:

- people with interesting lives

- people who meticulously archive and backup all their personal data

is close to 0. You're either doing or you're preserving, so if you preserve what you do, you aren't doing anything worth preserving.
The only 'democracy breaking' I see with social media is all of the incumbents not wanting to deal with opposition and tossing around preposterous rhetoric like it was water in the ocean.
Every natural Intelligence knows that you need to reach out to a 2N3055 for heavy duty. ;)
Self-driving cars are a solution to a problem we already fixed a hundred years ago: we fixed transit with trains.

PS: I'm not claiming that every single transport need can be solved by trains, but they do dramatically reduce the cost in human life. Yes, they have to be part of a mix of other solutions, such as denser housing. Yes, you can have bad actors that don't maintain their rail and underpay/understaff their engineers which leads to derailments, etc. I say this because the utopia of not having to drive, not caring about sleepiness, ill health, or intoxication, not having to finance or repair a vehicle or buy insurance, not renting parking spots, all that is available today without having to invent new lidar sensors or machine vision. You can just live in London or Tokyo.
Einstein's Time Dilation Calculated More Precisely Than Ever with Exploding Star
The funny thing is I’m almost certain everyone here has been exposed to the term “jerk”, in the exact technical meaning, but didn’t make the relation that the colloquial meaning and the technical meaning are the same.

Acceleration feels like a constant force (because… it is). When that force changes, you feel “jerked”.
Good thing Apple Intelligence isn't the most cutting edge technology
> I never let JS guys work on backend code, because they are lost if they cannot find a module online that does what they are asked to do, or is missing half of the features from the spec it promised to implement (always the hard ones).

Stop self-aggrandizing. A huge percentage of backend devs would be lost without their giant MVC frameworks holding their hands throughout the dev process. Many of them do nothing more than write little controller functions while they lean on their frameworks, authentication modules, routing libraries, ORMs, and templating engines to do the hard work. You're not sending rockets to Mars after learning how to spin up a Django c.r.u.d. app.
They “approve” the ads… they are complicit! Maybe I’ll write my Senator.
If the purpose of ice cream and air conditioning is to make the user feel cooler, then wouldn't it be logical to say the more ice cream they eat the less air conditioning they'd use and vice versa? That seems like a causal relationship to me that's being glossed over, but maybe I'm missing something.
Good article. I, too, am fascinated by calculators and how they work, especially the HP scientific RPN calculators. So much so, that I ended up developing this:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.limpidfox....