skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone remember the Nike one? Where you could shoot a football into the desktop and it would burn it, or the player could slide and it would tear the picture
Web apps can do all those things already without an LLM.
> Apple in their infinite wisdom decided that's too complicated for the average user

It absolutely is too complicated for the average user.

No sarcasm whatsoever. 100% sincere comment. ‘The average user’ has utterly no clue about this sort of thing, and nor should they be expected to.
Your comment repeats what I wrote before but does not explain the key point, which that trucks get bigger and bigger, especially since cars are also getting bigger and bigger (at least here in Europe).

That does not happen because of regulations but because, again, that what consumers freely choose when given the choice.
Terence Tao [pdf]
> Then came the creation of pop up blockers.

There was one brief moment in time when pop up windows were generally seen as shady thing. Now they are back on most sites. Just not as separate window.
Wouldn't that be returned to the place it was stolen from?
I wish I could claim we were that clever! :)

Took us about three months to pick Overleaf, we went for it largely because it was a single word, hard to confuse/mispell when said aloud (unlike writeLaTeX), had a connection with writing "over the page", and probably must importantly, we could get the .com domain.
He's talking about control theory, and other kinds of optimisation systems too. I think AI is a fine blanket term for all of that stuff.
> Brooks explains that this could eventually lead to robots with useful language interfaces for people in care situations.

I've been thinking, in Star Trek terms, what if it's not Lt. Cdr. Data, but just the Ship's Computer?
Well-known paradox of R-squared is still buggin me
POSIX 2024 changes
Found these silly tricks by the author of this blog on twitter first. Switch statement can do loops too https://twitter.com/lcamtuf/status/1807129116980007037
Rodney Brooks is the Godfather of Out of Control Theory.

FAST, CHEAP AND OUT OF CONTROL: A ROBOT INVASION OF THE
SOLAR SYSTEM:

https://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/fast-cheap.pdf
The relevant context, is the essay, "No Silver Bullet—Essence and Accident in Software Engineering" - Fred Brooks, 1986.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet

See also "The Mythical Man-Month" by the same author.

Mr Cooper's point is that these same arguments still apply, and we would do well to revisit them at source.
Figma defaults to train AI models on personal data
> So for example your 600mbps WiFi channel actually beacons and does the handshake at 10mbps (or whatever the negotiation speed is specified to be)

802.11 beacons are sent at the lowest basic rate configured for the network, which in the old days was 1 Mbit/sec, but it's entirely possible to simply not advertise that in the beacon (it's commonly done in larger networks, as you don't want clients to be eating airtime by sending such slow packets), and then the beacon goes out at whatever higher rate. The association can be done at any rate the client wants to, as far as I know, as long as it is listed in the beacon.
It's been a few years since I last watched his stuff. He always had that crazy genius vibe, similar to Terry Davis but but not as unhinged and much more friendly and wholesome. I'm fascinated how these individuals that are clearly immensely gifted with rational thought are also religious fanatics. How do they rationalize it? I can understand believing in a supreme being but it also being the one described in bible seems difficult to rationalize.
Might not qualify, but a few years back, my team started playing diplomacy online. I had never played a game involving so much back channel negotiation, double crossing, and strategy. It had a funny effect on water cooler conversations because folks that I had a great relationship with would approach me with a noticeable air of disappointment as a result of some of my less than honorable decision making. I highly recommend this game to anyone with a group of friends looking for a turn based war game spanning many days.
The fact that you have to wait the end of the 30 seconds before it starts writing the text is a fundamental limitation of the current transformer algorithm because the first and the last bits of speech influence each other so you have to wait until the end.
Any service which is open to EU citizens, such as a DoH server, falls under the claimed jurisdiction of the EU. Whether they could successfully follow that claim depends entirely on geopolitical conaiderations which are hard to predict.

But as long as your services are opened to EU citizens, you are, in principle, liable for violating EU laws.
sensor.community is probably the larger CO2 map, as it currently has 12,236 active sensors compared to Airgradient's 500 sensors [1]. They also offer instructions for the construction of sensor kits or the purchase of pre-assembled units. The CCC has an interesting presentation about its mission and approach [2].
How do you differentiate yourself from sensor.community?

/edit: My mistake: sensor.community focuses on PM2.5 µg/m³ while you provide CO2 information. Please excuse my mistake.

[1] https://sensor.community/en/

[2] https://media.ccc.de/v/mch2022-213-sensor-community-global-o...
> These guys don't earn jack shit, even if they win small Futures/Challengers. Taxes, equipment, travel, etc.. adds up quickly. Forget about coaching at that level.

100% agree on this.

I do not know in particular with Tennis but the same is true in MMA also. When I used to do blogging/reporting about MMA I talked with a prominent fighter about the economics of being an UFC fighter.

In a nutshell:He was about to participate of an card event [1] and in case of victory he would take home USD 22-24K and he explained that whole preparation would be USD 29-32K.

The costs were:
- Flights (himself and his team with 2 trainers)
- Sparring (if you need to do the camp in USA, probably we will have at least 3 sparring partners)
- Special Medicine/Supplement (since the Nevada State Athletic Commission had some specific requirements in terms of anti-doping he could not have all normal supplements/medicine)
- His agent
- Pre-Camp / Camp (For instance if you're grappler and you will face a striker you will need to adjust your training accordingly)
- Post-Fight doctors (general scanning and treatment in case of some severe injury)

After that I was so shocked about how that economics did not make any sense, and he explained to me that the whole thing in UFC is just to build his brand and bring more students to his gym, and prepare his own gym for camp to other fighters.

I have absolute respect for the rest of 99% in any sport because its a very tough business and its very different from what we see in TV.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_on_Fox:_Lawler_vs._Brown
Or Bomb 20.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h73PsFKtIck
Ok so how would they have to formulate it if it was true? I really dislike these large corporations and their mechanical way of treating employees like cattle, but Patagonia really isn’t that.

All this “see? They are not the angels they say they are!” I see in the comments here really feels disappointing to me. We should be happy such companies exist, as opposed to H&M for example.
For those who signed up for Figma's AI waitlist, you have to turn the toggle off before August 15th. From FAQ:

Figma won’t begin training on content for accounts with the Content training toggle on until August 15, 2024.
They’re implying that you could trick the model into providing an up to date way to block ads on the page since it’s local and could just inspect the page.

The joke comes across fine even with the wrong AI call, lol
That makes sense from Brooks' perspective. He's done his best work when he didn't try to overreach. The six-legged insect thing was great, but very dumb. Cog was supposed to reach human-level AI and was an embarrassing dud. The Roomba was simple, dumb, and useful. The military iRobot machines were good little remote-controlled tanks. The Rethink Robotics machines were supposed to be intelligent and learn manipulation tasks by imitation. They were not too useful and far too expensive. His new mobile carts are just light-duty AGVs, and compete in an established market.
Yeah, fair point. Sorry. ;)
Just last week google CTF featured a reverse engineering challenge of a neo geo game!

https://capturetheflag.withgoogle.com/challenges/rev-arcade

Also, the neo geo development wiki is an absolute goldmine of technical information about the console.

https://wiki.neogeodev.org
He compares fear of "AI" to fear of calculators. But "AI" cannot do math. Calculators do not "hallucinate". They are not correct "80%" of the time. They are correct 100% of the time. We know how they work. IIRC, in the 1970s someone at Bell Labs wrote a UNIX program that could generate fake academic papers. It might be a fun gag but it does it have much practical utility. No matter how "real" the papers might appear, or even if they are correct "80%" of the time, it is not an "invention", and it is certainly not comparable to a calculator.
How could one study said design? By generating class diagrams or what?
Yeah fair enough. Just really really don’t like the dude. Visceral reaction. I apologize.
I would remove the instructions to install docker: people can see them in the docker documentation, it doesn’t make sense to include them somewhere else.

Also I would use a .env file to manage the env variables, without requiring the user to modify the docker compose file.
It’s very likely that people will version the yaml file, so it’s not a good idea to keep secrets in plaintext there.

https://docs.docker.com/compose/environment-variables/set-en...
Why do India and China keep fighting over this desolate terrain?
The most interesting things here are disk images for the Master "512", which despite the name was a fairly normal Master 128 only with the addition of an Intel 80186 co-processor, carrying 512k of RAM on its own board.

It could boot "DOS Plus", a DOS clone from Digital Research that included the GEM desktop.

Unfortunately it was compatible with very little DOS software, being system call compatible only up to MS-DOS 2.1, and having a non-standard keyboard and display.

As far as I know Acorn only shifted any significant amount of stock after they slashed the price, and I wonder even then how many buyers thought they were getting a BBC Master with 512k of RAM. I suspect most of the copro cards went unused.

Today, if you have a Master 128 and want to "upgrade" it, you can run PiTubeDirect on a Raspberry Pi which will cause it to emulate the appropriate 80186 (amongst other choices), so you can plug it into the Tube socket on the Master: https://github.com/hoglet67/PiTubeDirect
"This openness allows users to avoid a vendor-lock in for their development tooling, which is tremendously important.."

I would question if you really do have vendor lock-in with an IDE, as usually the hardest thing about switching IDEs is learning the new keystrokes.
Ruby with Rails. Just read the full article about him.

Sure was the creator and I got that. But from what I heard his positions and part of the "community" not liking his ideas, what prevented someone to do a fork, let's say Ruby on Trails, and get a more community driven approach?
Alright, here’s a take I haven’t seen in this thread yet: how could this be used for fingerprinting, beyond an existence check for the API itself?
yeah, and another caveat tends to be with these kinds of cases is that you nearly need the absolute optimum - something that gets a 99% in 1% the time tends to be much more practical
Wouldn't this require Chrome to download models on the fly or pre-package multiple models?

That doesn't really seem possible (mobile data connection) or convenient (Chrome binary size, disk space) for the user.
Binance must face bulk of US SEC crypto lawsuit, judge rules
I can easily empathise with both DHH and you!

> We were resources to be exploited.

This is uncharitable. DHH have you the gift of Rails. He does not want to give you the gift of participating in the community. That is okay!

I don't know much about Rails, but my guess would be that DHH poured insane amounts of time, effort, and caring into Rails. Is that not enough?
Another source of surprise:

4[arr] // same as arr[4]
Checkout heliboard: https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard
Russian spy satellite reportedly continues suspicious maneuvers
I don't know if I'm interpreting this right but it sounds to me like they're working on it too. [0]

[0]: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/share-your-feedba...
Also on the actually social network https://infosec.exchange/@lcamtuf/112701486085621844
Yes. There are many PM maps with a lot more monitors like PurpleAir map but I don't know any for CO2 comparable to what we launched.
> He uses the iPod as an example. For a few iterations, it did in fact double in storage size from 10 all the way to 160GB. If it had continued on that trajectory, he figured out we would have an iPod with 160TB of storage by 2017, but of course we didn’t.

I think Brooks' opinions will age poorly, but if anyone doesn't already know all the arguments for that they aren't interested in learning them now. This quote seems more interesting to me.

Didn't the iPod switch from HDD to SSD at some point, and they focused on shrinking them rather than upping storage size? I think the quality of iPods have been growing exponentially, we've just seen some tech upgrades on other axises that Apple thinks are more important. AFAIK, looking at Wikipedia, they're discontinuing iPods in favour of iPhones where we can get a 1TB model and the disk size trend is still exponential.

The original criticism of the iPod was that it had less disk space than its competitors and it turned out to be because consumers were paying for other things. Overall I don't think this is a fair argument against exponential growth.
Im not familiar with that one. I think he must mean the other Rail Baltica that was scheduled for 2025 but is now delayed until 2030
The relevant context, is the essay, "No Silver Bullet—Essence and Accident in Software Engineering" - Fred Brooks, 1986.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet

See also "The Mythical Man-Month" by the same author.

Mr Cooper's point is that these same arguments still apply, we still need to distinguish accidental complexity from essential complexity, and understanding the problem from solving the problem with code, and authorship from ownership and maintenance.

And we would do well to revisit these arguments at source.
I would not remove them, but place them elsewhere, linked from the point you should run them at the install process.

It's very useful to have a complete 'getting started' page that get you from zero to working, without assuming that the reader understands what every intermediate step means. But as you said, the parts that are dependencies for other products can be encapsulated so that savvy users can skip them easily.
I agree with you, especially regarding children and anyone who hasn’t explicitly made this choice, which is why I asked the question. The only thing is, I suspect we get scared by certain words, like “radar” and “microwaves”, and then we might spend all day with our heads next to a Wi-Fi router or a phone constantly downloading files on 4G.

For example: maybe the ESP32 transmitting the bed weight exposes us to more danger than the radar sensor (that can also be placed very far from the bed)? Maybe with our smartphones charging on the nightstand too.

I’m not a big fan of fear-based, illogical decisions. But, again, I understand perfectly.
I can’t read the paywalled article but this just isn’t true (I work in this area).

Financial services is taking a thoughtful approach to where and how to apply AI, yes. “Shunning” it? Not at all.
last time I remember I spent 1h trying to install latex on my mac, then decided to use overleaf.
A rational answer would be 100% staff resign suddenly, not only for them but for all enterprises mandating RTO. Aside new website listing "anti-progress enslaving firms" with a "hall of shame": guys do not even send a CV to them.

If this happen for real RTO disappear, if not... You know that the sole purpose of the office is keeping people in dense cities to keep financial capitalism alive on the shoulders of all. Choose.
It's a bit hidden but you can actually display the arrows keys while typing. You have to press the upper left arrow button to show extra menus
It looks like the beginning state is random, but I’m sure it’s possible to create starting conditions that will eventually leave detritus that spells something.
"Out-of-Control Theory" is a great name, love it =) thanks for the link, although I guess the idea never really took off.
> Beacon is more PaaS than SaaS from what I've seen

You are correct. (Full disclosure: I work at Beacon.)

Financial institutions are extremely sensitive about where their data is held, processed, stored and/or sent to. Some of it is just basic corporate governance ("we do not like the additional risk"). Some you could lump in with secrecy and competitive edge ("this is our secret sauce, no way are we going to let anyone else get it"). Some is driven by regulations ("we hold/process highly sensitive financial and personal data on individuals, sending it to a third party is a huge no-no"). And some is just garden variety contract obligations.

[Note that I intentionally chose to omit any consideration for "plain" security. In this industry that can get political.]

Where data governance/sovereignity is concerned, the term "SaaS" is commonly understood as: "send data to a third party, get results back". You can imagine how well that plays with any data an institution considers precious.
So if I have a recursive nameserver then it will just get the correct answers from the TLD nameservers.

Unless the courts start legislating what people can run in their homes that will ignore any of these rulings.
Overreach leads to withdrawal of consent by the governed.

https://wordhistories.net/2023/12/20/iron-hand-velvet-glove/
Between the vs-only extensions, vs-only Live share, and vs-only adapters to AIs, we're actually in the age of pretty strong vendor lock in, if you're invested in some features. Add some less common task management integration or review system, and the vendor lock in may be close to company-wide.
> huge opportunity to put an AI layer in front of staff to guide and prioritize their work

Glean is an example of this and they charge $$$/seat which means it is being selectively targeted at specific teams rather than enterprise-wide.

The problem is that companies don't have their data in a state that can accomodate such a layer. And with the death of EDWs and trend to siloed SaaS apps the problem just gets worse every day.

Which is why AI is going to be more like a mini-assistant inside every app you use instead of some god-like agent.
This can be used to implement coroutines in C. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24202890/switch-based-co...
Anecdotally I’m using Kapi trained on our docs to help answer customer questions and its amazing at getting answers to level 1 support. We still need to edit the answers but editing something 90% right is much faster then searching the docs ourselves.
I actually saw this done in a cryptocurrency price chart IRC bot. It works surprisingly well.
Ffox mobile absolutely sucks as well.
In theory, yes, it really can, but as you stated, in practice, no. This is basically the equivalent thing on digital TV between the US and Canada: most US broadcasters tried to pack as much channels as possible (that sometimes digital broadcasts are objectively worse than analog ones because of bitrate starvation) while Canada usually only have a 1:1 correspondence between virtual and physical channels (sometimes 2:1 but there isn't really much more than that).

This is not Switzerland, but the BBC apparently uses 192 kbps only at Radio 3 (their classical music station), while other BBC stations are either 128 kbps or 64 kbps only.
Yes, but entirely unrelated to Scandinavia.
The reason these consoles were so expensive was precisely because of the cost of hardware required to produce those amazing graphics.
I think what the OP is trying to get across is that storing text documents in which you're live-editing, will cause a lot of updates, and that these updates may be relatively big in the database (the size of the whole document) compared to the actual edit (a few characters at a time), and can also get quite large in number quickly even as a small number of people are live-editing. I don't know this for any kind of fact, but I could see how this is a fundamental architectural problem, rather than a (premature) optimization. I get that we don't need to build for infinite scale right out the gate, but I could see that the OP is possibly onto something here worth verifying at the very least.
What $2500 laptops that people buy for watching YouTube are you referring to?
Maybe, but that would be a different research project.

The constant factors are currently so large that even multiple orders of magnitude speedups would not make this practical.
Alphatab is a cross platform library for the parsing, interpreting and drawing of guitar tabs (such as Guitar Pro format files).

I'm a long time fan of Alphatab, which a labor of love for Guitar Tab in general from Daniel Kuschny. If you ever need to build a piece of software that shows guitar tab then this is basically the library to use (across multiple platforms). It's very much not just a javascript thing.

Long may it continue!

What's really important is that formats like Guitar Pro have become the defacto standard for guitar tab but their implementation is closed source. Tools like
I can tell you I absolutely could not get my fancy Sony WH-1000XM5 to connect reliably for more than a few seconds to desktop Linux, so not those ones. (They work fine for Android)
Not actually an advert, it's satirical. ;)
As well as being able to connect reliably. Bluetooth on Linux is a disaster.
How can it exponentially grow ever? It is a small device that plays music
There are people in Fiverr who specialise in it. (But a lot of them will just run basic tools, so watch out) A shout-out on mastodon may give you some good leads too.
I could be wrong but I think many times the researchers don't care about the exact function. It could be something like 1/log(log(n)) .
I was hoping for some kind of evolutionary algorithm. Giving up optimality in exchange for being able to solve problem instances with billions of items would be worth it.
What would be the repercussions of everyone switching to per-site/customer caching, recursive resolvers instead of per ISP resolvers?

On the one hand if we assume the customer to ISP ratio to be about a million to one then the volume of traffic on popular nameservers is going to go up a huge amount.

On the other hand thoughif your nameserver is now required to handle millions more queries per second then either you are a central piece of infrastructure like .com or a high traffic service like cat.videos.example.com. With the latter, you’ve been handling millions of HTTP queries per second anyway. You’ll just have to handle massive traffic volumes for DNS now, too.

The end user is accustomed to the DNS part taking 10ms and tbd HTTP part taking 1000ms. They would probably now have to suffer the DNS part taking 100ms to 1000ms as well.
On Android, iOS and MacOS, the 3D viewport is just a widget just like any other in the Flutter hierarchy (so has access to gestures/filtering/etc).

Doing that on Windows is more difficult (as there’s no D3D backend for Filament), so it’s actually an HWND that sits behind the Flutter app. On web, it’s similar (HTML5 canvas), but this can actually be imported into the Flutter app as a widget, I haven’t wired that up yet (there are performance implications on certain browsers too).
I mean nobody is stopping me from writing an exponential time algorithm.