skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honking is literally terrorism, haven't you heard? When lefties protest they're allowed to make huge mess but when right wingers make some noise (literally) that's a heckin war crime.
They are a measure of last resort. They are not something that armies are asking for.
This was a really well-written article. I think for years I had naturally thought that traumatic brain injury as a result of explosives basically caused the brain to rattle so hard that it smashed against the skull causing contusions, but apparently this is something different.

The way it's explained in the article is that this is actually a result of the blast energy wave bouncing off of differently dense brain tissue sections and causing cavitation.

I'm glad that these issues are finally being brought to light, It's truly unfortunate that no matter how highly trained and skilled some of these soldiers are, that blast waves from IEDs or in this case from their own munitions can result in such insidious physiological changes.
I agree with your line on personal conclusions. I think it is fair to come to a personal conclusion on acceptable risk, given the balance between risk and personal enjoyment, but I do not necessarily think that it is equally fair to come to this same conclusion for others.
Presumably it re-encodes a single GOP and inserts it into the video stream.
Somehow I don't agree that it is a good idea to succumb the entire population to a known disease vector and encumber society with the massive administration and physical costs of dealing with cash, just to spite a bogeyman that's "stealing your independence".
I don't know if Dell continued this in newer models, but I was pleasantly surprised by the versatility of the WWAN slot in my circa-2008 Precision workstation laptop.

No BIOS whitelist, antenna connectors that run up into the screen where the front bezel is plastic (allowing good reception), and plenty of room for an adapter. Grabbed a cheap adapter and AX210 card and stuck them in there and it all just works and so now it's equipped with BT and wifi better than is in my 13-years-newer X1 Nano.
> They were peacefully protesting, how were they criminals?

They were protestors until they started living on the streets, at which point they became occupiers (CC §63(1)):

* https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/protesters-build-wooden-structure-...

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-truck-convoy-pr...

* https://pressprogress.ca/photos-show-young-child-with-a-gas-...

When ordered to disperse they did not, which now goes into disobeying lawful police orders.

And if I was a resident of Ottawa, I doubt I would have considered 24/7 honking and the generation of noise "peaceful" (CC §31).

* https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/angela-hewitt-play...

If you want your movement to succeed and goals achieve your goals you need to get the public on your side, not piss them off and consider you inconsiderate jackasses.

Also: is shutting an international border crossing (bridge), which affects the commutes and livelihood (via supply chains) of thousands of people every day, "peaceful"?

* https://ccla.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Know-Your-Rights...
I'm a big fan of lossless cut and use it almost every day. Typical use case for me is to trim or edit screen recordings. Since it's lossless, the saving of the edited videos is almost instantaneous.

It's basically just a GUI for ffmpeg.

I then use Permute if I need to recompress, or Davinci Resolve if I need to add effects or lossy edits.
> Payments Canada, found that a majority of respondents were worried about the prospect of cashless stores and want to maintain the option to use cash — which is free from bank fees

I mean, that is the problem right there. We don't generally have that problem in Europe because we don't rely on credit cards.

Here's there no extra fee for using Apple Pay or Google Wallet. Pay with cash, your card, NFC... it's all the same.

Stop using credit cards might be a good step for the USA. I don't know much about Canada to be honest and how it works over there, and if it's CC centric like the USA.
Not a bad thing. The aquifer will be depleted, existing use cases will die, and solving this can be revisited decades or centuries from now after the electorate and representatives have turned over. The outcome is based on choices made.

Sibling comment mentions returning the land to nature; new expanded national lands would be great. If anything, efforts to accelerate the depletion should be undertaken to speedrun the outcome. This avoids the slow decline of unnecessary intensive farming of the land, and pushes the system to failure more rapidly.
Yikes. You can't post like this to HN, and we ban accounts that do.

I'm not going to ban you right now because you have a sizeable history here and don't seem to have been in the habit of breaking the site guidelines, but please don't do this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't know anything about the legal side of any of this convo but your "Incorrect" followed up by saying in apparent seriousness that there are laws for fish but not THIS PARTICULAR kind of fish made me actually laugh out loud.

Internet comments have the funniest versions of good and bad faith.
> Since they are souring their data from people on social media...

I don't know if that's a typo of 'sourcing', 'scouring' or you meant souring, but all work in this case.
I wouldn’t consider that a conspiracy theory, I would consider it common sense that an intelligence agency has a list of common potential sources of intelligence.

In fact it would be extremely surprising if they didn’t have that list.
Not really.

We have the OpenBB Platform CLI, a command line interface (CLI) that allows users to access a lot of financial data but needs to bring each API key.

The reason why this works is that once you run the CLI, you are running it on your machine and leveraging your own API keys - which, when you subscribe you sign for Terms and Conditions.

And, in it, it usually states that you cannot use the data for any commercial purpose.

This is what most data vendors do. Not only because they are trying to upsell you but because giving you access to data costs them money.

So, most of the APIs that you find that are free and have the rights to distribute that data are usually from governments (e.g. FRED or Companies House https://developer.company-information.service.gov.uk/get-sta...)
I believe there are API-level emulation products for AS/400 and its descendants. Any company wishing to migrate off these machines (as off mainframes) can do so, as long as they manage the risks of porting and reimplementing the applications.

These lines are still popular because they offer something a rack of Dells can't - a nicely packaged solution of extremely reliable (and powerful, no pun intended in the case of i) hardware and software, exquisitely refined over many decades.
It’s not a solution because it doesn’t solve the problem of excessive water use.
You can map most actions in an IDE to a key combination.

And IDEs have integrated terminal panes as well.
> Stuffing things in a browser is not good for anybody…

Food for thought:

Have you ever considered that the demand for this functionality in the browser only exists because it is forbidden natively? I've got no use for cross-platform 3D APIs, game streaming functionality or even WebRTC in my browser when it comes down to it; but it makes plain sense that people want to push this functionality to the browser because Apple resists it natively. That's just supply/demand at work.
Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful
I see them in small towns all over that absolutely do not have 10k in daily people foot traffic, including the town that I grew up in. So that cannot be accurate
Sounds like a perfectly cromulent solution to me. It's an upgrade from Excel!
Their actions were Charter-protected freedom of expression and the freeze was a Charter-breaching unreasonable seizure.

>Justice Mosley ruled that “the decision to issue the Proclamation does not bear the hallmarks of reasonableness – justification, transparency and intelligibility – and was not justified in relation to the relevant factual and legal constraints that were required to be taken into consideration” [0]

[0] https://www.aclrc.com/blog/2024/2/1/federal-court-rules-that...
> r: Following this guide will require modifying internal files on your Sleep Number hub. This will void your warranty

People, stop spreading this BS.

Just like those stickers that say "warranty void if removed" are not legally enforceable, nothing "automatically" invalidates your product's warranty except misuse or poor maintenance.

If your Smart Bed stops working, you having poked around in the controller does not relieve the manufacturer from their warranty obligations (including implied warranty.) The onus is on them to prove that you damaged it, subjected it to "unreasonable" use, or did not properly maintain it.

You fry the bed's brain trying to hook up a JTAG when you accidentally bridge 5V to a 3.3V logic circuit? That's on you.

The controller fails because the power supply blows? The fact that you installed a JTAG header, googly eyes, and painted it pink is irrelevant. They need to fix your shit.

Even if you modify the firmware, it's on them to prove your modifications caused the failure.

Would you expect to have your laptop's warranty invalidated because you use it to game (which generates lot of heat)? Of course not. How about if you install Firefox? Or install Linux? Again, of course not. So why do you think the rules change just because a device is "dumber"?
There is a difference between "the local store won't do business with you" and "the big banks won't do business with you".
We don't need western Kansas agriculture's production from a national supply perspective. All of those row crops can be grown in other rainfed places.
Would you mind linking me to their efforts? ^^
The next characters to enter the public domain
> I don't need my bed to transmit measurements to a server. I need my bed to be comfortable to sleep on. I need exactly zero interactions with a server for that.

Then don’t buy this specific bed?

These features are part of why people buy this product. Nobody is accidentally purchasing this as “just a bed” and then discovering that it has an app and smart controls as a surprise later.

> And why does my bed need that? It's a bed.

This is a very dishonest take. If you don’t understand or don’t want the product, then don’t buy it. But the smart controls exist because people (other than you) want them.
oh believe me, american manufacturers are absolutely no better
Can be downloaded for free for all platforms too.
I spent a lot of time at Barnes & Nobles with a pen and notebook (most of them had a starbucks and newer book editions than my local library). I miss the consolidation of the information and explained what was going on and why while working in a linear fashion. I ended up using the same SQL book for almost a decade (1998/9-ish), kept finding something new in there. I don't miss the 1500+ pages and lack of cmd-F; on the other hand, I gained mad index parsing skills I never got in school.
The iPod didn't stop growing. It turned into an iPhone - a much more complex system which happened to include iPod features, almost as a trivial add-on.

If you consider LLMs as the iPod of ML, what would the iPhone equivalent be?
I don't see how this is "distroless".

Clearaly, this is a Canonical distribution.

Someone has to choose the exact combination of userland s/w to include with the kernel. Whoever/whatever chooses this s/w is creating a distribution.

To this boomer yelling at the cloud, this is just more nonsensical hype, equivalent to "serverless".
I thought the main problem was that it's made with the same chemicals used to do dry cleaning.
Yes, the word "only" is causing the confusion.
> Why does my bed have an SSH server?

because you bought it. sitting across the show room floor or one of the other pics on the sales website were other beds that did not have these features. instead, you let the sales person push you into a sale of a product you weren't happy with or you did not pay attention to the product listing. or your spouse bought it. none of these says anything positive about your situation though, so some inner reflecting on why you're such a bad consumer is warranted
In general I understand and agree with your point. With respect to recharging aquifers, climate change can have an effect in two ways:

1) Some plants are far better at recharging aquifers than others (indeed, some will basically prevent aquifer recharge). Climate change, along with probably the more significant human element here, will affect what plants grow here.

2) Rainfall. https://climate.k-state.edu/precip/county/ I'm not seeing huge changes over the last 129 years, so maybe this really isn't affecting recharge of the aquifer from Kansas at least.

Some parts of the aquifer seem to be recharging well. I know that Texas has some recharge locations, but I wonder what Nebraska is doing right. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/nation...
This is the milquetoast approach of most Canadians - a major factor in why Canada, in it's current state, is rather cooked.
A little context for Americans: Canada implemented chip and pin debit cards across the country in the 90s. Pretty much overnight, paying by check(cheque) disappeared and nearly all businesses took debit cards. So Canadians have been used to paying by card for decades now.

COVID put the nail in the coffin of any remaining cash-only businesses.
Ask HN: Japanese peeps, what is with the flesh eating bacteria outbreak in Japan
like running a ship aground on the rocks of a riff,coffein provides a few waves that get you further inland before the wreck comes to an halt
I’m embedded every night for 6 to 8 hours.
I wonder who will win when the people wanting government protection for cash will collide with the desire to avoid tax evasion by restricting cash.
The know how and ability to manufacture condensed milk is another famous example from the civil war.
And where this is no hydro for grid services, batteries are taking over as they’re deployed (providing synthetic inertia vs that from spinning thermal generation).
There's a difference between law on paper and law in practice. If the manufacturer refuses to honor the warranty, there's very little customers can do.
If it is a read-only database, I don't fully understand where all the latency is coming from. Is it complex SQL queries?
It’s a good thing that SFDC and Slack are both well known for being a repository of high quality data.

/sarc
Show HN: Chunavilal – An AI Assisted Election Result Analysis App
I was looking to do some slicing and dicing of the Results of the Indian Parliamentary Elections 2024. I wrote an app. It is a proof of concept using AI and Analytics together. The libraries involved are Streamlit, Plotly, Langchain and Selenium. I am looking for collaborators as I know it is an election year in many countries. In theory, this app can be modified to allow analysis of other data sets as well. The link (https://levelup.gitconnected.com/results-election-2024-india...) has more details about the app, its source, purpose etc.

Looking forward to feedback, suggestions and comments.
Yes, 100%.

Proactive and preventative punishments are a powerful tool for something like speeding tickets. They take the position that you are guilty until proven innocent , versus innocent until proven guilty. But those are limited in scope and clear cut.

The DMA by comparison is very far reaching and very loosely scoped by design. However it employs the same guilty until proven innocent model, because it too is trying to prevent the crime before it happens.

To bring this back to speeding tickets. Imagine if instead of fixed speed postings, you just had slow/fast etc. but those applied differently based on the vehicle you were in and you can’t ask about it first. Without clear guidelines, everyone would drive slow to avoid fines, making traffic slow to a crawl.

That’s the goal of the DMA, but it’s also why I think it will reduce innovation in the EU.

To be clear, I think the DMA is well intentioned and I’m personally very pro regulations. I just think it’s poorly implemented and Commission has already used its ability to interpret it as they wish multiple times.

A stricter set of rules, better consultation processes and better third party oversight would rectify it in my opinion.

Contrast this to the way the DoJ operates against Microsoft/Apple. They make the assertion based on the loose anti-competitive definitions, and have to bring it to a judiciary to prove it. It’s innocent until proven guilty.

However for cases like flagrant violation of well specified rules (like the EPA has), the government can bring direct charges. But again, those are well specified.
wind, is that that hard to guess?
ChatGPT vs. Math Riddle
I'm not sure how to phrase this better than saying it's the bound set by the obvious method. Are you familiar with the obvious method of multiplying a matrix? It's n operations for each cell, and you have n^2 cells.

Being worse on purpose is always possible, but it doesn't change that bound.

It's the "obvious" upper bound, not the "how did you even get here without noticing the obvious method" upper bound.
I wonder how it compares to Handbrake
I’m not arguing your shifted goalposts because it’s pointless and subjective to argue perceived value.

The person claimed it was just payment processing fees and I corrected them objectively .
> It's often pretty hard to do public protest without breaking some kind of law, even if you do everything you're supposed to.

All movements start small, and if you want to have your movement be a success it involves bringing more and more people over to your point of view / side.

One can be disruptive in that you hold a rally or march to raise awareness, and be seen (in numbers) by folks on the street. Marches / parades are disruptive to traffic but if you've planned it and told people about it then they can plan around it. One can also go in, cause some trouble, and then disperse so that you get in the news but also do not piss of non-involved people.

But being disruptive so that you piss people off is a way to not get more people onto your side of your movement. It is a way to inhibit further involvement of the public towards your side.

A movement must be aware of how its actions are perceived by non-members of the movement. Just because you interpret things a certain way does not mean that the general public won't view you as a jackass:

> “It’s a sign of independence,” he said. “I look at it as a rebel sign. In the biker community, a lot of people have the Confederate flag because we’re rebels.”

> But to many, the flag is a racist symbol and a disturbing reminder of the U.S. Confederacy’s fight to preserve slavery. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau denounced their display at the Ottawa protest, saying his government wouldn’t give in to “racist flags.”

* https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/freedom-convoy-supporter-says-...

I don't know which "biker community" this guy is talking about, but as a motorcyclist I don't view the Confederate flag positively.
I encountered the same mpcie card whitelist nuisance on the Lenovo m73 Tiny. Turns out there that you can just update the serial and model number to "INVALID" and it will then let you boot with a non-whitelisted device, albeit with an angry beep and warning message.

https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/lx7d8f/pfsense_len...

Apparently it's possible to add the pcie device identifier to the whitelist, but it looks like a very fiddly process and I didn't really care about the minor issues resulting from the cruder approach:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Lenovo/comments/dcf0lw/comment/fbpy...

No idea if any of that works on the X1 Nano, but you never know.
You're hand-waving away all the complexity in the "nitty gritty."

Enqueue absolutely requires coordination, if not via leader then at least amongst multiple nodes, if you want to guarantee at least once delivery

If you don't guarantee that, cool, but you're not competing with sqs
> Which means there is a 0% chance of a usable product. No manufacturer will ever use it and it will be all around terrible.

Xerox PARC products actually have had no formal commercial success, but the entire modern IT was born on them. To be more precise 80-90% of anything we have in any sector is born out of public research... Yes, the public does not produce nor sell products, that's a private sector thing, the public do research.

> If VW is bad at software, the German government is at a totally new level.

The public is not the government. German government have much more resources than VW and have all German public universities and research centers, who actually are much more skillful than VW, in essentially any fields.

> Wtf are you talking about. No, that is not true at all.

That's what I see from various Chinese EVs, well, three manufacturer at least, but that's is.

> You know that cars are different, right? [...] Do you think you can run the same software on a rear wheel drive ICE with active suspension as on a all wheel EV with torque vectoring?

Yes. As we have GNU/Linux on embedded systems, servers and desktop, the codebase is one, the compiled/configured final binary of course differ. Consider a thing: today it's cheaper putting an ESP32 in a roller shutter remote control than create from scratch a far simpler one. As I said specific devices have to be tied to the iron, but they can be managed with a common system and many functionalities can be put in the common system.

Something actually happening with ADAS typically handled by the infotainment system simply because they need much more computational horsepower than classic ABS, SRS and so on.

Stellantis actually try to do that concentrating in a SoC running QNX most of the car functionalities.
If I was getting spam from devs to fix a thing in a library like this, my response would be "sure, here's my rate $/h". This seems like a pretty fair put up or shut up response.

The underlying issue here is that there are many libraries that a supported by solo devs like this. An idea I just had is that it would be reasonable to calculate a risk metric for every package in the various eco-systems that takes repo maintainer count (and other things) into consideration. Publishing this metric into the package metadata / package page on npmjs would probably gamify not having single points of failure in widely used libraries, and make it clear when this is happening at some point in your dependency chain (averting a future left-pad style debacle).
"He says the trouble with generative AI is that, while it’s perfectly capable of performing a certain set of tasks, it can’t do everything a human can"

This kind of strawman "limitations of LLMs" is a bit silly. EVERYONE knows it can't do everything a human can, but the boundaries are very unclear. We definitely don't know what the limitations are. Many people looked at computers in the 70s and saw that they could only do math, suitable to be fancy mechanical accountants. But it turns out you can do a lot with math.

If we never got a model better than the current batch then we still would have a tremendous amount of work to do to really understand its full capabilities.

If you come with a defined problem in hand, a problem selected based on the (very reasonable!) premise that computers cannot understand or operate meaningfully on language or general knowledge, then LLMs might not help that much. Robot warehouse pickers don't have a lot of need for LLMs, but that's the kind of industrial use case where the environment is readily modified to make the task feasible, just like warehouses are designed for forklifts.