skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> The lottery picking up the slack so the general fund doesn’t have to do all of it is the whole point.

> That’s identical to the lottery just putting money directly into the general fund.

While that's true, your example upthread seems to obscure the fact rather than illustrate it. Try this one:

1. (19X3) Oregon funds its public school system to the tune of $70 million. This is "not enough".

2. (19X4) Oregon implements a lottery dedicated to funding the school system. In the meantime, it funds the schools to the tune of $70 million.

3. (19X5) The lottery system has been set up; it provides $20 million just for the schools. Oregon makes up the rest by contributing $50 million out of the general fund.

Where did the money from the lottery go? Not to the schools. The cash flow table clearly shows that funding to the schools hasn't increased while the general fund is up $20 million. Inflation isn't relevant. Allocations from the general fund are discretionary.
At soms point I realized people who think noise sensitivity is ridiculous are always either old, partied a lot or are hard of hearing through other means.

Yeah, of course problems you don't have seem silly. At least, for the minimally empathetic.
Does it matter? So long as that (or any non-US) number is larger than zero the argument that "corn syrup is US-only" is patently false.
>but there is little progress in robotics. Replacing "somewhere" work is many years away.

I agree there's little progress in robotics, relative to AI. But "many years away" might mean just 10 years away. You can buy this robot for 16 grand USD:

https://www.unitree.com/images/Unitree%20G1%20EN%201080p%20%...

To me, it feels like the barrier now is more on the software end than the hardware end. Is this your impression too, or do you disagree?
I would like to see how biologists explain the functioning of a computer.
California vs. Big Soda
this data sovereignty issue is almost certainly going to come up with the UK NHS / Palantir Federated Data Platform[0] which is going to be using Microsoft and AWS cloud services.

[0] https://blog.palantir.com/palantir-and-the-nhs-dd1362982fa9
It doesn't have to be all-or-nothing. If research is a tree, and the seeds and trunk are funded by the government, then the branches and leaves are the private sector. The government's strength is providing large and longterm funding for ideas with uncertain outcome. The government's weakness is managing and running an enterprise of any scale - see the DMV, any public housing in America of appreciable size, the VA, the vast majority of public schools, and so on. This is because no one in the enterprise has any motivation at all, other than not getting fired, which is practically impossible in the government sector.

I'm fine with initial research being funded by the government, and entrepreneurs attempting to take that research to commercialize it.
TikTok advertisers prepare contingency plans as US ban looms
Also the use of the words "dropshipping" and "windowshopping"
"We show how to detect confabulations by developing a quantitative measure of when an input is likely to cause an LLM to generate arbitrary and ungrounded answers. ... Intuitively, our method works by sampling several possible answers to each question and clustering them algorithmically into answers that have similar meanings."

That's reasonable for questions with a single objective answer. It probably won't help when multiple, equally valid answers are possible.

However, that's good enough for search engine applications.
Just curious, would writing it in a better language have prevented this?
Wonder how they block the card, my impression was that tokenization was meant to make it harder for card chargers to be able to track a card through multiple taps like that.
> So the solution is the transportation card is writable, and each train station acts like a small data center. They sync the data periodically to the main data center.

That's also how the two subway systems I'm most familiar with do it here in Russia. In both Moscow and St Petersburg, the data stored on the refillable tickets (Troika and Podorozhnik respectively) was thoroughly reverse engineered. People who did it, of course, tried to write them too — for example, you'd make a dump, enter a station, then restore the dump with your old balance. It worked, but only for a day or two, after which the card number was added to a blacklist that all turnstiles check cards against. The conclusion was that there's a server on each station that turnstiles talk to, that syncs with some central server each night (when the subway is closed), where all system-wide transactions for the day are collated, and if anything is off, the card is blacklisted.
There is nothing mysterious about turning off the transponder. This is a hyperbolic headline.

"Planes bought by Iran smuggled into the country with false flight-plan and idle IFF transponder"

More interesting will be which economies they can route to without risk of losing the asset, and who gets the lease money. I don't entirely understand how sanctions-busting plane owners can get their dough, but I am sure they worked that bit out.

Maybe the Lithuanian Saffron harvest will be particularly HUGE this year? Or their dried lime crop? If you like fairy-floss, lithuanian pashmak is now available in rose-water flavour in every corner store...

[obviously Lithuania was only the intermediate stop, the actual money flows lessor/lessee/agent are going to be to other economies and I suspect non-liquid payment is discussed but demands significant premium]
I think semi-persistent internet is not such a big deal for a lot of providers. For Opal here in Sydney AU it uses a connection for some features. Cards can be anonymous or assigned to an account, the account shows all your trips online, so there's some required connectivity for that. The cards have a smart chip, but credit cards or phones can now also just be tapped directly, so it needs to match up when you tap off and determine where you started and how much to charge. This includes buses, which use 3G IIRC, and may drop offline sometimes.

To support the above, they did away with multi-trip tickets like you describe. It instead tracks and discounts once you hit a weekly limit (yes, you have to give up your privacy for this with an account or use your credit card directly). Not great for intermittent travel.

For systems like this the question is: if the internet is down and a few people get a free trip, does it really matter? You don't always need 100% accuracy if it makes everything else simpler, like removing paper tickets, printers, litter, etc.
You should go for an ESP32 C6 which is Matter compatible as a nice side effect and they used it in their demos. Way more fun!
Well, you need to get more sleep, then. You've answered your own question.

The good news is there is probably a lot of low hanging fruit that can help with this. Quit alcohol, for one. Quit caffeine, too, for at least a couple of weeks. Screen your window, and leave it at least a crack open, if you live in a place with clean enough air to allow that - if not, air purifier it up. Try to get used to sleep masks, they're phenomenal for blocking out light, and they're really not so bad if you take your time to test and get used to them.

Past that, physical exercise is also widely known to keep cognition healthy as one ages.
I’d moved to Silicon Valley hoping to make the leap from web dev to working in a startup. Unemployment in web dev hit 35%, startups weren’t hiring, it was very rough.

A couple lessons:

- most of the ideas funded were predictive of the future, many were a decade early so those companies did not survive. Mark Roberge of Stage 2 Capital/Hubspot suggested recently that virtually none of the current AI startups will survive, but join one anyway so you can get into the next wave that will.

- those that survived in any form went on to some great IPOs/exits. Being early suuuuucks, but having a 2-3 year head start on a trend pays off when the market returns. Most of the winners in GenAI today for this pattern. If you can be adjacent to a big winner (which in hindsight were pretty obvious: Google, Amazon, Facebook) you do well.

- general sentiment on tech/internet was super negative, it was better not to talk about it because “fad/fraud” was the general response

- if you could find any revenue generating opportunity, you were better off than everyone who raised capital

By all appearances, we’re trending towards an AI apocalypse/tech down-turn. Much like in 2000, it took a new generation of college grads getting jobs and eventually making into management before buyer behavior started changing.

We forget that tech doesn’t change markets, the buyers of tech do.

One good strategy in a downturn is to go pure play PLG to SMBs and buckle in for 3-5 years.
> This isn't national security, it's a $20 video game that is twenty years old, that you used to be able to play for free through flash in a web browser.

You can still do that.

https://www.thewayoftheninja.org/n.html

https://www.kongregate.com/games/MetanetSoftware/n
The small model/TTF is only 60MB.

The 280GB you saw is the Llama3-70B model which is basically chatgpt level (if not better).
If the QR code is in an app of some kind, any one I've seen maxes out the brightness while it's onscreen. Orientation data is built into QR codes anyway, so that's a problem with the reader.
It doesn't matter if it's good or bad. It is.

In other words you can choose to play the game, or you can choose to fight the rules. I don't recommend the latter, it doesn't work.

Frankly I recommend the former - if you don't like the game, don't play. There are lots of other markets to play - enterprise software is just one of them. Other markets have different rules and you should find a market that suits your strengths.

While it frankly doesn't matter, I will point out that your comment that "its bad" should have the phrase "from my point of view" tacked on. You might even suggest it's bad from the "users point of view". But the "business point of view" is a different view, and also important. The ability to understand that point of view - and to best address those needs as well, are critical if you want to enter the Enterprise space. The business writes yhe check, not the user. The business is the customer not yhd user.

Or, to reference back to the original article, if you want to play in the Hospital Admin space you need to understand what hospital admin is, and what it needs. Are hospital admins asking for free unsupported, open source software, with funding models based on "hope"?

As software people we are seldom trained to understand business needs. Our career is in writing software for end users. We focus on technical things, complain about bloat or speed, are UI focused and think "user" when someone talks about "customer experience".

Google is the poster child for this. They push the technical boundaries, have really good products, do technical things really well, spend lots of yikes on UI etc. But I wouldn't depend on them for my business, because, frankly they're not dependable. They don't offer me customer (much less user) support. Their pricing is erratic and subject to change. And the service they provide may be gone tomorrow. They serve "me the user" but not "me the business". They're not "bad" - they just don't serve the needs I have.
> People don't like a*holes.

And yet they manage to get elected to office and hired as CEOs.
It doesn't seem like you are describing formal methods. You seem to be describing plain old bureaucracy.
Oh yeah, on one laptop there is a DOS app written in Dataflex[0] from the early '80's.

I don't really use it myself, it's leftover from an IT project.

This was from an industrial facility where I had done field training back in 1982. Their mainframe had a "public" terminal where contractors had access to their inventory control system, so whoever was on-site had to wait for their turn at the green monochrome dumb terminal, then continue to wait for our printouts to appear afterward.

Apparently sometime between then and 2019, I would imagine they might have replaced the mainframe with a PC-based server, but it would be difficult to be sure. Expected steps could have included first simply replacing the dumb terminal with a PC on the desk for contractor use instead, no differently than the rest of their office people would want.

But for all I know they very well could have had the latest modern server gear back there in a rack somewhere. You would never know the difference.

Regardless, by 2019 there had been no more public terminal for a while. Each contractor had their own laptop to access the facility system, still running the same desktop Dataflex program since 1983 on a DOS platform. Laptops weren't around back then, so that's a clue.

Without that, a contractor was useless, so the incentive had always been there since the first person figured this out in the 21st century.

At this employer, when we wanted to get in there, our IT guys had no luck at all. The plant couldn't help much, they cloned their own systems in a convoluted way rather than revive from decades-old files and that was it. I was provided with a Windows 7 laptop that successfully ran Dataflex to work from, but more than one person had probably never known how to prepare these to begin with. You definitely had to be able to take your data with you and print it later on a non-DOS printer.

First made it run on bare metal, then hammered away until it ran self-contained on a Windows 10 laptop and connected properly to the system when on-site, just like everybody else had who treated the old laptops having Dataflex like gold, since it was like their ticket in through the gate of the facility.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataFlex
I can easily believe that it's gotten better, but I've hit it within the last 6 months; Microsoft Azure DevOps git[0] has a web editor that defaults to Windows-style EOL, and if you use it to deploy files to boxes running a Linux distro then some tools will completely break on config files that aren't using unix-style EOL. Ask me how I know. That was fun to fix. For bonus points, some programs on Linux are compatible with either line ending-_-

[0] I expect this isn't its real name, but it's MS so that's a lost cause.
Yup! I had 2 x SUN GDM-20E20 hooked up to my desktop in 1990-something. They were Sony screens and they were so clear & bright. They weighed a ton however and even broke a cheap desk I had.
Helps when you're willing to bank Nazis gold while the rest of the continent was being conquered or trying to resist. Also helps to have US led NATO provide cover against the Soviets.
Default PATH minus ~/bin.
They are trained to predict next word that is similar to the text they have seen, I call that what they "try" to do here. A chess AI tries to win since that is what it was encouraged to do during training, current LLM try to predict the next word since that is what they are trained to do, there is nothing wrong using that word.

This is an accurate usage of try, ML models at their core tries to maximize a score, so what that score represents is what they try to do. And there is no concept of truth in LLM training, just sequences of words, they have no score for true or false.

Edit: Humans are punished as kids for being wrong all throughout school and in most homes, that makes human try to be right. That is very different from these models that are just rewarded for mimicking regardless if it is right or wrong.
Show HN: Just Launched Chart2Media – Turn Your Stats into Chart Videos or Images
>Provide universal access to contraception and give people the choice to not have babies. Evidence shows that works.

Not realistically achievable within my kid's lifetimes.
got my vote! Except maybe the jail part, but I know you're probably being a little bit hyperbolic
You could have used RoCE for reliability over UDP
> Just accept that they got busted messing up and move on. Don't try to play it off and minimize stuff.

I'm actually not minimizing it. I'm simply pointing out that if this is the industry at its best, then yeesh, what is it at its worst?
Nice, the exact framing Apple wants.

Too bad the EU isn't going to pick the poor billion dollar corporation over their market watchdogs in a popularity contest. That's more of a tactic for the US market.
I found Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making, by Hastie & Dawes, useful.
> tooling to run model checkers in a ci pipeline

Helpful to escape the alloy UI:

https://github.com/elo-enterprises/docker-alloy-cli
...and now I want one.
Mostly build tools. I also have a custom script called ip way before Linux made theirs and caused some problems.
I remember reading a kids science section in the Sunday newspaper that explained the internet like our circulatory system, but instead of moving blood around it moved information around. (This was mid 90s)

A decade+ later I randomly picked up a Sunday paper and they were explaining the circulatory system "as if it was a computer network, but instead of moving data around, it moves blood around".

I thought it was funny that going from 95 to 2005, the expectation for innate understanding of biology vs digital technology had flipped.
Plan? Or implement?
Tomorrow I'm going to ask my scrum master if this is really true.
Cool as hell. It's kind of a shame the pins live in different places, so you can't put the board into the DIP slot on an actual uno. Not that there'd be a serious reason to do that.
I have build something similar as an entry for the Hackaday prize in 2016:

https://hackaday.io/project/12384-autofan-automated-control-...

I used Viola-Jones for face detection on a Raspberry Pi 2 and built a fan with servo-actuated lamellae from plywood using my CNC-Router. It almost landed me a job at a local engineering company but chose to stay in academia back then. I still have the hardware somewhere in a drawer in my workshop. It definitely was a fun project.
The Power of FOSS
Asciinema(v2): cross-platform, terminal session recorder
I couldn't agree more. Here's a hack to do it without any change in legislation. Scientific journals should require the standard boiler-plate of an affidavit form to be added to the article itself and signed and witnessed as part of the publication process. In this manner, every submitted article is also a valid affidavit admissible in court, and knowingly making a statement which is false or misleading in a material particular while under oath is the crime of perjury.

As I once said:

"Perjury must be a crime. There is only one sin in science, and that sin is faking data, and faking evidence is faking data. Perjury is surely a crime."

I'll leave out the unfortunate context in which this needed saying.
Wish there was visuals
For some reason when reading the title, I thought infrared instead of intermediate representation.

It also still made a tiny bit of sense in that context since you can easily set stuff on fire with IR laser
there’s a classic paper “Can a biologist fix a radio?” that argues that biology’s tools are insufficient to understand even relatively simple machines
Ha, I read it as Incident Response and was about to read the gory details.
> So the minute a 'Small Nuke' is used, we should just respond with the biggest nuke. No point dilly dallying, if we are all going to die we might as well get it over with faster and in a way that is to our advantage.

Yeah, it's one of those crazy nuclear doctrines. Another is Launch on Warning, or the idea you can use nukes tactically without escalation.

Now, think about what's the point of publishing such strategic information? Isn't it a huge disadvantage when the enemy can anticipate how you will respond? In reality, you declassify information which you want that your enemy knows. These mentioned policies are meant as a deterrence, they're a bit of "playing madman" captured as a policy, because they're thought to provide an advantage when the enemy believes them.

I believe that the US has war game scenarios where one side uses a nuke, without the situation escalating into an all-out war, but these are extremely sensitive and thus highly secret. You don't want your enemy to believe there is some way where they can get away with using nukes, so in public you only mention the doomsday scenarios.

So, overall, I believe that the actual nuclear doctrine differs from the one published and should be less crazy. Note also that the head of states are not bound by the doctrine.

> The issue is that Russia or China may not see it that way. They might see the small nukes as a different thing that doesn't deserve the response of the larger nuke.

Part of it is again the deterrence aspect. Russia has a clear conventional disadvantage in comparison to US / NATO, so threatening with tactical nukes is a way to deter NATO from directly engaging Russia. It is in Russia's advantage to at least pretend that they think that tactical nukes can be used without major escalation. Just like US wants others to think there's no way to win a nuclear exchange, Russia wants you to think there's no way to win a conventional conflict (because it will soon escalate to nukes).

I'm not saying it means they're completely bullshi*ing, but there can be again a gap between what they think and what position they're trying to project.

> Also note: we stopped making larger nukes for political reasons. There seemed to be no end to the size of 'Large' nukes. The H-Bomb seemed to scale as large as we ever wanted.

Nukes become impractically large / heavy in that size, and as you mention, more numerous smaller nukes do more damage.

10 * 10 Mt is more destructive than 1 * 100 Mt, but 1000 * 100 Kt is much more destructive still.
I'm curious about how the unique ID is programmed into each chip. Presumably all the chips on the wafer come out identical - at which point in the process are they individually selected and given a unique personality? Is it done with direct electrical contact that is then fused off, or using the near field link?
>but we’re talking about a few hundred extra milliseconds. Not something that bothers you once you’re accustomed to it.

Wrong. With the traffic volumes normally seen in Tokyo, those few hundred extra milliseconds will cause huge delays at the fare gates. There's a reason the systems here use the Felica card which processes in 100ms: it's really needed for this kind of pedestrian volume.
Man I wrote a long comment and that's a point I didn't address.

Of course non of those cul-de-sacs pay their own taxes, they are all subsidized by the often poorer people who live in denser neighborhoods.
So:
1. Russia begins a war of aggression in a neighbouring state
2. Other nearby states join a defensive pact in response
3. Russia begins jamming civilian satellites in reprisal

But somehow this is Russia defending itself? Something doesn't add up here.
The FTP topsite scene is extremely competitive and anyone doing multiple rips to splice together would lose the race to leak the show.
>Hong Kong's Octopus card uses Felica, as far as I know.

Yes: Felica was developed by Sony in Japan, but was actually first adopted in Hong Kong, then later in Japan. It's far better than other standards, because it's so fast.
Thinking? No.

Sophisticated thinking? Yes.
Does UDP suffer from buffer bloat? I thought it was only TCP?

Oh, it looks like UDP packages are also buffered?

Update: it looks like I learned something new today. UDP can also suffer from bufferbloat. (I thought UDP was done without buffers for some reason..)
Sure, I suppose this is where I find umbrage with the claim. Instead of “most” maybe try “a comparable quantity of”? (I’d cut to the chase by clarifying tyres and brakes are the principle source of particulate matter, a pollutant with proven harms.)
> I actually think I'm going to rush out and buy a Windows ARM computer right now.

If you have an Apple Silicon machine you can run a Windows Insider build via UTM in a VM.
I invite you to try it yourself to see if it is difficult or not.
In 2020, I nearly died from mysterious industrial chemical exposure
How many inspectors use Apple devices?